"Please never do something so disgusting like that around me again." Nobu said with a groan as we watched the magic circle before Sakura started to glow with a white light.
"I… can not truly promise that." I said with a sigh while Nobu huffed at me. It wasn't like I had liked 'eating' Matou Zouken but when I realized that he was registering as a cursed spirit to my powers, I just couldn't help but take the disgusting but useful man into my 'collection'.
The day after that I had, with some difficulty, managed to convince Sakura to summon a servant. At first she hadn't wanted to, or me to, be involved with the event that had killed her uncle ten years ago. Fortunately I had managed to convince her that I had a way to make sure that the war would not end up in a disaster like every other Grail War before and that her summoning a servant was for her own protection.
"Hmm, at least you are honest." Nobu said with a sigh.
"Though, did you even end up getting anything from that worm?" She asked with a tilt of her head and I nodded.
"Yup. I learned that certain beings in this world can be counted as cursed spirits by my power. I will have to see how much of his knowledge in magecraft he can use as a familiar spirit, if he can't I'll just use him as fuel for my maximum technique and see if I'll get anything from him." I said with a shrug. The maximum technique of cursed spirit manipulation, Uzumaki, was a technique that turned cursed spirits into raw cursed energy and then use that energy as a canon. Put enough spirits into it, I could very well go against attacks similar to even Excalibur for a few seconds.
The downside of the technique was that the cursed spirits used as fuels were no longer a part of my arsenal. So, Uzumaki tended to be a technique that turned the quantity of low level cursed spirits into one attack of quality. But if one used a cursed spirit that had its own innate technique, then I would be able to use it at least once. A real ace in the hole in a way.
"I also got to see the power level of a magus in this world, which allowed me to know that any spirit lower than a special grade will only buy a few seconds in a battle against servants." I said with a shrug.
"Hmm, and how many special grades do you have?" Nobu asked with a raised eyebrow and I smiled at her.
"A few, though not all of them would be useful against our enemies." She looked like she wanted to know more but before she could ask anything else, the light coming from the magic circle reached to it's maximum and then there was a new resident in the basement.
A woman whose beauty rivaled even the beauty of Nobu even though she was beautiful in a different way. If Nobu's beauty was a raging inferno, unruly and ready to destroy; her's was that of a poisonous flower. Unassuming and beautiful in a serene way that was just as deadly.
Purple hair that reached to her ankles and a curvaceous in her dress that barely reached her thighs over thigh high boots and finally a blindfold over her eyes that completed her look.
"Servant Rider. I ask you, are you my master." Medusa of gorgon sisters was here.
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"Are we really just going to wait like this?" Nobu asked while laying down on one of the beds in our room that Sakura was so gracious to give us.
"Don't complain, patience is a part of our strategy." I said with a sigh, my servant was rather restless wasn't she.
"Didn't we have one more master to target? Someone you wanted off the board before they could summon their servant?" She asked with a grumble.
"She'll be at school tomorrow, that way I can check if she has summoned her servant yet. If she hasn't we'll get her after school." I said with a sigh.
"Why do you want this master off the board anyway? Is her servant supposed to be stronger than me?" She asked with a glare and even a blind man could see that landmine from a mile away.
"Nope, you could likely take care of her servant no problem, and that is without the fame boost you are getting."
"Then why?" She asked, this time actually curious.
"Her servant is from the future. Meaning that he doesn't actually have the mystery weight that your skill makes you strong against or divinity that you can turn into poison with you noble phantasm." I said with a sigh.
"His master is also somewhat competent so I do not want to take the risk of him getting a lucky shot or something. Not to mention getting them off the board might cause a very hot magus to summon a very hot archer too!" I said with a laugh and even if she was glaring, I could feel Nobu's amusement too.
"Ok, what about that bitch boy we got in the other room kept unconscious? What will we do about him?"
"Haven't decided yet. I'll probably just let Sakura kill him after she is fully captured and wants to have some payback for all these years of torment." I shrugged and Nobu snickered.
"Heh, shame that you can't just turn him into a girl and have that purple cinnamon roll take revenge on her body right?" I did not answer, Nobu didn't seem to like that.
"...right?"
"Well..."
"By the useless ass of Amaterasu, you can?!" She yelled at me before starting to laugh like a maniac so I waited for a moment for her to calm down before answering.
"I can't... but I do have a cursed spirit that can control the bodies of those he touches." I said with a shrug, as if saying 'what can you do', I had never actually thought about using Mahito like that. Guess I don't even need the worlds to have gender bents, I can just do it myself.
"Hah, please do it! Please turn that bitch boy into a proper bitch! I am actually begging you here!" Nobu said between her laughs. And those laughs were my cure that I wasn't gonna get any sleep or action tonight.