-and that was what your Azoth Dagger's history is. Shirou Lily finished the first of his reveals.
Rin was staring in horror at the inherited Mystic Code now laying on the table in front of her.
This, this-
This was outrageous! She had been carrying the very weapon that murdered her father with her for years!
And it had been given to her by her guardian, her father's apprentice.
The man who had killed him!
The one who claimed to search for the murderer but that it might be difficult since it happened in a Grail War.
Hogwash!
He knew all along! He was the very murderer he lied about searching for!
Rin felt her anger stoke, her rage flare up in her chest.
She was going to kill him!
Supervisor or not, she was going to kill him if it was the last thing she did!
No, she wasn't going to kill him.
She was going to make. Him. Suffer.
Suffer like he had never suffered before. Suffer until he wished that she would give him the same death he had given her father.
While Rin dwelt on her anger, fuming and laying malicious plans for the priest of Fuyuki, a knock sounded from the front door.
"Go see who it is," Rin ordered her Servant. She was busy. Too busy to answer a door-to-door salesman. She needed to have a plan for how to best get revenge.
She was going to be emancipated. One way or another.
Coincidentally, Rin forgot that it was past midnight and that salesmen, or anyone else for that matter, did not go around knocking on doors at that hour.
Archer Lily nodded and left, heading towards the door.
Leaving Rin to start pacing, putting together some of her nastier curses into an experimental spell that she would need a test subject for.
Hmmm, wonder who that test subject could be…
"Rin!" Shirou Lily's voice called out in obvious amusement from the front door. "It's for you!"
"I'm busy!" She called back.
"You're going to want to see this," the mirth was audible in her Servant's voice. "It's about Kotomine!"
Rin paused even as two distant voices laughed.
About Kotomine? Was someone going to help her get her hands on the soon-to-be-suffering priest?
Rin decided that for a potential alliance like that, she could answer the door herself.
Marching across the room, Rin took a second to straighten her appearance. No sense in looking disreputable.
Finally arriving at the front door, Rin stopped and waited for Archer Lily to move aside so she could see.
And blinked at what she saw.
Before she smiled. A very, very, very malicious and delighted smile.
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"Hello," Gilgamesh Lily said to the Faker who answered the door. "Is Rin in? I've got someone for her that she might appreciate. She is the Second Owner of this town, right?"
"Yes," the second Archer replied as he looked in interest at the man tied up and hanging from the chains that were behind Gilgamesh Lily. "She is. And I think she was about to start looking for him."
The older man turned around and yelled into the house. "Rin! It's for you!"
"I'm busy!" the answering voice came back.
"You're going to want to see this. It's about Kotomine!" the fifth war's Archer replied.
Both Servants could easily hear the pause in her footsteps before she started walking toward them.
"We were just talking about him," Shirou Lily said conversationally, turning back to Gilgamesh. "I think it was along the lines of 'how badly he messed up'."
Gilgamesh and Shirou chuckled.
"Yeah," Gilgamesh Lily said. "I mean, he's a bad guy. I don't know why my older self thought it would be funny to be around him. I mean, he's repulsive, not entertaining. And what he did-"
Gilgamesh shook his head in displeasure.
Shirou Lily nodded in agreement.
"I know," he sympathized. "He went completely out of control and decided to stop improving himself. To just wallow in being evil. Once that happens, you have to lock him up. He can't be cured until he wants to stop being evil."
"Or kill them," Gilgamesh shrugged. Back in his day, they didn't have prisons.
As the Archers finished talking, Rin finally arrived and tapped her feet, waiting for the Archer inside the house to move aside.
Which he did, revealing the captured man to them.
Rin's eyes went wide in surprised delight at the sight of Kotomine chained up and gagged to keep his tongue from wagging.
Then she smiled.
A malicious, evil smile that reminded Gilgamesh of some of the goddesses he had seen back in his day.
"Why, hello there, Kotomine," Rin purred. "I was just about to go looking for you. There is a new lead on the case of 'who murdered my father' that I wanted to talk to you about."
Gilgamesh Lily stepped back from the mortal who was reminding him of an angry Ishtar right now who was about to 'play' with you.
Opposite him, Archer Lily was also stepping back.
Hell hath no fury as that of a woman scorned.
But some things are even deeper and worse than hell.
"I had other business with the Second Owner. Permission to do some cleaning up since this is her territory and also to tell her something," Gilgamesh Lily slowly said, warily eying the Master who was slowly stalking towards Kotomine like a cat savoring its prey's fear. Except the priest was a master of controlling himself and had no fear to be seen. "But I can wait until tomorrow."
"Yes, I think that will be for the best," Shirou Lily said as he also stepped away from Rin, eying her like any sane man would eye a hissing cobra. "She might be busy for a while."
"And I had some new experiments that I needed a victim—I mean, a willing volunteer for." Rin continued as she moved towards the captured priest, hands opening and closing repetitively.
Gilgamesh was just glad that he hadn't used Enkidu for capturing his former Master. He didn't think he would get his chains back if he had.
She really did look just like Ishtar.
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We now take a pause in our showing of Rin's reactions to the Fifth Grail War's secrets. Please be aware that in Rin's delight of her new experiments and subject, the material has exceeded the rating that may be shown.
See you again next chapter.
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A.N. Psss. Can you guys figure out what didn't happen in the last two chapters?
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Lancer scratched his head as he stared at the empty church.
"So, uh, what am I supposed to do now?" he wondered.
His Master was gone after a brief communication of Lancer-!
Which was funny as it sounded like he had been attacked or something.
Only the church was completely intact but he didn't feel a connection to his Master anymore.
"Welp," he shrugged and turned around, materializing his spear even as he laid it against his shoulder. "No helping it. Guess I'll need to find a third Master. Man, this Grail War is sure hard on them. Maybe I should actually stick near them so that they don't get offed so often while I'm away."
The Irish Servant stopped to consider it.
"Nah," he decided. "Escorting jobs suck from what I hear."
Emerging from the church door, the currently Master-less Servant stopped to look over the town, wondering if there was someone who could be his Master.
Not Caster, being led by a woman like her didn't sit right with his gut. Not the little homunculus girl, she probably had her mana full with Berserker.
But Berserker would be an awesome fight…
No, fight later, get a Master now so you can fight later.
The red-head was interesting but he didn't think the Saber Servant would appreciate sharing her Master. And Rider's Master was too weak to provide enough mana for a good fight. Archer's Master could probably be fun.
But then again, nobody took two Servants in.
Was there another person who could be his Master?
Cu Chulainn shrugged.
"Better just wander around and see if I get lucky," he decided and astralized to conserve mana.
At least he had greater amounts of Mana, Strength, and Agility.
And also Luck! It went up an entire rank! Practically doubled!
Hey, there was some movement over there!
Maybe he would be lucky!