Rin is a Pervert "Am Not!" "Are too!" "Am not!"
Rin stopped and stared as she took in the look of the new Servant.
A quick check along her link to her Servant confirmed it.
Who would have ever expected the school brownie to become a Heroic Spirit?
"Shirou Emiya?" She asked in startlement.
At Archer's nod, Rin dropped back onto the couch.
"I'm going to need to sit here for a bit," she declared, mind reeling with shock over Sakura's (and maybe her own teeny tiny) crush being her Servant. "Go do something useful like fix the house."
"All right," the red-head said calmly before astralizing. "I'll make a snack for you as well. If you're going to have an early morning, you should have a good meal to start it off with."
As he left, Rin's frantic thoughts started to sort themselves.
And first to come to mind was-
"Archer," Rin asked through the link as he moved through her door. "Why didn't you tell me that you were Shirou Emiya?"
Her voice was deceptively calm.
"Because it would have interfered in my older self's plans," Archer Lily replied. "But now that it painfully obvious who I am, it makes no sense to keep it secret. Also, I don't have the same goal he did. I like being a Hero of Justice. He can't stand it anymore. For a stupid reason, to tell the truth, but what else would you expect of him? However, he was serious in serving you."
"You mean, you were going to fight without telling me you knew who you were?" Rin asked with false honey in her mental voice.
"He was going to give you the victory and survival," he said defensively. "And he never lied to you. You summoned a multi-century old Counter Guardian version of myself. He had genuinely started to forget his original life, completely forgetting life from before the Fuyuki Fire. And most of his mortal life too."
"The Fuyuki Fire? Wait, THE FUYUKI FIRE! You're a survivor of that!" Rin bolted up straight as that fact penetrated her mind.
"Yes, my father saved me from those flames," Archer Lily calmly told her, like how he would tell her that it was dark out at night rather than what had to have been a traumatic experience. "He also accidentally set me on the course to fight in this, the Fifth Grail War. I still have some confused and conflicting memories about this War and from what I remember, those memories are now out-dated but I can tell you this, you have a very good chance of winning now."
Rin smugly smiled. She might have wanted Saber but a Servant who knew what the war would have was almost worth his weight in gemstones.
"Unfortunately," Archer continued, his voice becoming somber. "All my memories agree on this. There are some things you need to know before you start celebrating."
"What are they?" Rin asked trying to figure out how to use a Servant who had probably won the Fifth War.
"First, you will want to eat," Archer said, the change in topic causing Rin's eyebrow to twitch. "You don't want to learn these things on an empty stomach. You might also want to take the next day off in order to allow yourself time to adjust."
"I am a full fledged magus," Rin said confidently. "I can handle whatever you throw at me."
"Even if it included the murderer of your father? About what really happened to Sakura?" Archer asked, the questions penetrating through Rin's confidence like arrows through cloth. "And the truth about the Holy Grail?"
Rin froze.
The murderer of her father? How would Archer know about that!? Did he kill him?!
No, of course not, Rin scolded herself. Shirou Emiya would have only been around her age at the time. No way a child could have killed her father inside his own study.
But what was that about Sakura? What really happened? What didn't she know about her own sister?
And what was the truth about the Holy Grail? Was part of what she had been told a lie? Who had lied to her?
"You're going to have explain things to me, Archer," Rin said clearly over the link after she got control of her confusion and emotions again.
"In a bit," her Archer said from her kitchen. "You're going to want to eat first and be ready. I'll tell you all I know to be true after you finish breakfast."
Rin ground her teeth but let him continue.
She really wanted to know. No, she needed to know. After Archer told her the three things that most mattered to her, she had to know.
But apparently Archer thought she would experience shock from what he was going to tell her.
She could wait. No, she would wait.
And if Archer didn't live up to her expectations and instead told her some mundane stuff that didn't shock her, she was going to command seal him into a punishment so dire that his Heroic Spirit self would never forget it.
But first, she could try to piece together ideas.
Something about the murderer of her father. What she had been told had happened to Sakura wasn't true. And the Grail had a secret.
They could be related. Or they could be unrelated.
But it would be something that Archer, True Name Shirou Emiya, would know but she wouldn't.
Wait, she knows his True Name. She could actually find out what his Noble Phantasm and skills were now!
Rin hurriedly used her connection to the Grail to get a look at Archer's information.
There it was.
Class: Archer Lily
True Name: Shirou Emiya
Master: Rin Tohsaka.
Blah, blah… Different and slightly weaker stats with a higher Luck parameter and -
EX RANK NOBLE PHANTASM!
Rin felt her mind be blown into the stratosphere.
EX rank meant it was out of comparison. Somehow, Shirou Emiya's Noble Phantasm wasn't only not unknown anymore but instead was a Noble Phantasm so powerful that it couldn't even be compared to other Noble Phantasms.
How did a modern person acquire an EX rank Noble Phantasm?!
Rin scrolled through the information, eager to see what could be his Noble Phantasm.
Class Skills: Magic Resistance: D
Independent Action: B
Clairvoyance: C
Eroge Protagonist: C
Magecraft: D-
Noble Phantasms:
Wait. What was that?
Rin backtracked to Archer's skills.
Magecraft D-! Emiya was a magus! On her land, without even telling her?
Rin gripped her skirt vowing to go and …'talk' with Shirou Emiya about not letting her know about him studying magecraft in her city.
But how much did he know? How skilled was he? He was on the Throne of Heroes so he had to be impressive in some way. Yet he had been summoned as Archer rather than Caster. D- could mean that he was decent or that he was poor at magecraft. She would have to-
Rin's attention suddenly fell onto his newest and fourth skill.
Eroge Protagonist.
Rin narrowed her eyes at the skill sitting innocuously among the others.
Hidden among Archer's skills, this skill was …dangerous.
Was Shirou Emiya a player? A seducer? A lady's man?
Was he playing with Sakura' heart (and her own)?
If so, he was going to regret it.
But first, Rin found herself hesitating as she raised a finger to have the system explain more about his skill, she needed to know what it meant. And how it affected him. Maybe also how good of a lay he would be-
Rin's awareness sharpened as she caught onto the direction in which her thoughts were changing. Was that a product of his skill?
She needed to know. Certainly before she did anything like take him into her bed or anything like that.
Eroge Protagonist: C
This skill represents a person with a high compatibility in aspects of love. She read. Shirou Emiya could fall in love with many different girls, some human, some magus, some Servants. In some instances, he could even end up either with a harem or him being in one. At rank C, Eroge Protagonist allows him three simultaneous loves with three different women and increases the chance of partners being willing to share with one another and form into a polyamory relationship. A bit of warning, this skill combines a degree of romantic density too.
Rin leaned back into the cushions, her mind working furiously.
Three separate loves.
Was she one of them? And who were his other women? Were they pretty?
Wait, no, that wasn't what was important!
How was this skill going to help her win the Grail War?
So the man had high compatibility in love, big deal.
Rin ignored the blush on her face.
So what if he could potentially act as a stalking horse for her to bring in some beautiful women for 'tantric ritual experiments'. She wasn't interested!
Not too much.
Not that much.
Not enough to think about it.
Only enough for her to think a little about it.
She was only barely interested.
More curious than anything.
How would this skill work?
And she wouldn't be dreaming about it. Not at all.
By the time Archer Lily finished breakfast, Rin had forgotten to go and see what Shirou Emiya's two Noble Phantasms were, her thoughts focused on how she could end up with the result of either her Servant or the living boy or both being in her harem rather than her being in his.
And if anyone ever found out about Rin had been thinking about the whole time, she would have blamed hormones and the stupid skill faster than they could have opened their mouth.
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