The thought that you might be in a coma causes you to start shaking even more, but you can't just kneel on the floor forever. You need to find out what's really going on, you can't allow yourself to speculate any further lest you just end up making things even worse.

You rise to your feet again and begin to properly look around the room, though you freeze only a few seconds after you do. Right there, in the mirror, is your reflection. A young boy with curly blue hair and gray-blue eyes stares back at you through the mirror, and you somehow immediately recognize him, despite him being a little younger than you would expect. No, not as yourself, but as a fictional character of a series you are really quite familiar with. Shinji Matou.

You fall backwards as you stare at the mirror, the reflection copying your every move. It's at this moment you clutch your head again, not in confusion or distress, but in sheer pain. Two sets of memories colliding and fusing together as two souls merge into one. The soul of a young boy from a tragic family of magi, and the extra-dimensional soul of an intruder into his universe become one. Just as you gain the boy's memories, he gains your own. A determination to become a magus despite a lack of any sort of power, the revelation of the accident leading to his mother's death and the quiet days of the seven year old boy's life fusing together with your own apparently incomplete memories. The memories that this world he occupies is one of fiction, the future having already been written and his being a grim future indeed. The two souls fuse into one gestalt entity eventually, a soul greater than the sum of it's parts.

The revelations the two souls undergo causes both of them to scream in panicked confusion, shortly before passing out entirely on the wooden floor of the room. The room Shinji, or rather, 'you' had been sleeping in while studying abroad at an old property 'your' family owned in the countryside of England. While Shinji is quite unaware of the truth of why he was sent away, you know the truth why he isn't in Fuyuki. You seem to be somewhat capable of thought even despite having passed out, how very strange.

The Fourth Grail War, the ridiculous competition between seven magi and seven heroes where they all kill each other to see who can claim the magic wish granting cup as their prize. Of course, the story is all a complete lie. Doubly so with the presence of Angra Mainyu in the grail. The true purpose of the grail is to open up a path to the Root, and with the Zoroastrian god of evil hiding within it, it can't even do that without bringing about untold disaster to the human race.

Eventually, your eyes open again, and you see a woman with brown hair and a t-shirt and jeans looking down at you while you lay on a sofa in the house's living room. Monica, going by Shinji's memories, a woman hired by the Matou to keep watch over you for the duration of the Fourth War. Some kind of spellcaster maybe? Or just a completely mundane babysitter? You can't really tell. Though with the way the woman is looking at you coldly as you lie on the sofa, you can't help but feel like she's far less compassionate than her appearance would lead you to believe. She only looks to be about 22 years old, yet those eyes just give you a bad feeling about her.


>Ask Monica what happened to you and if you managed to hurt yourself from falling.
>Ask Monica where exactly you are right now.
>Ask the woman to you about herself.
>Just remain silent and look at the women with a blank expression.
>Freak out.
>Write-in...

>>Extra Vote: Speak to Monica using your knowledge of English, or Shinji's knowledge of Japanese?
>>English
>>Japanese

>>4318551
>Ask Monica what happened to you and if you managed to hurt yourself from falling.
>Ask Monica where exactly you are right now.
>Freak out.
(In that order)
>Japanese

>>4318551
>Ask Monica what happened to you and if you managed to hurt yourself from falling.
>Ask Monica where exactly you are right now.
>Japanese
SHINJI ISEKAI OUT OF NOWHERE

>>4318551
>Freak out.
>Ask Monica where exactly you are right now.

>English

>>4318546
IS THIS IT BROS? IS IT FINALLY TIME FOR THE LEGENDARY QUEST?

>>4318551
>Ask Monica what happened to you and if you managed to hurt yourself from falling.
>Ask Monica where exactly you are right now.
>Japanese
Pretty sure Shinji was in England during the 4th HGW so he probably can speak English but just to be on the safe side

>>4318546
>A Shinji Isekai Quest
You absolute fucking madman.

>>4318603
Well somebody had to do it, right?

>>4318551
>Ask Monica what happened to you and if you managed to hurt yourself from falling.
>Ask Monica where exactly you are right now.
>Japanese

>>4318551
imma humor you,Sir.
>Write-in..
"Did I overdo on my autoerotique asphyxiation hobby again?"
>>English

The bravest qm to ever post.

> Freak out

> Japanese

>>4318551
>Thank her for helping you
>Ask Monica where exactly you are right now.

>Extra Vote:
>Russian

>>4318686
I know the logic that Shinji should possibly be somewhat fluent in Russian thanks to the Matou's origins as the Makiri, but are you sure that your babysitter is going to be fluent?

i kinda wanna figure out if we inherited all of Shinji's intelligence now, he's supposed to be a polymath that can do anything he sets his mind to besides magic, so it wouldn't be that much of a stretch for him to know a few languages at an age where picking up languages is easy

>>4318551
>>Ask Monica what happened to you and if you managed to hurt yourself from falling.
>>Ask Monica where exactly you are right now.

>>>Extra Vote: Speak to Monica using your knowledge of English, or Shinji's knowledge of Japanese?
Perfect ancient Sumarian

>>4318693
Might need to check her credentials if she is not.
But I guess I`ll go with
>Japanese
As most likely option since
>your knowledge of English
Might threw her off since resident memories of native speaker will make it obvious that Shinji should not be able to use foreign language and some local language quirks to that extent in conversation.

>>4318704
Already gearing for Gilgamesh`s route?

>>4318701
Yeah, but on the other hand, Zouken is the only person near Shinji who would plausibly know Russian, and he has no reason to speak it or teach it.

>>4318546
It'll be fun while it lasts, but you're going to regret deciding to run two quests at once, What. I just hope your Castlevania quest is the one that survives.

>>4318708
Gil is my second or third choice.

>>4318717
what are your other 2 choices, i wanna know so i can help or hurt you

>>4318716
I'm confident in my ability to maintain a consistent update schedule for two quests at once, anon.
Even if I cut into the time I ought to be sleeping to maintain that schedule.
I'm committed.

>>4318551
>Ask Monica what happened to you and if you managed to hurt yourself from falling.
>English.

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>>4318719
Assuming none of the meme servants I want are available, number 2 is Nobu. Number 1 is pic related.

>>4318725
we're gonna nuke Fuyuki if we summon magic man, so i'm with you on this choice

>>4318720
I believe you're committed. I was committed too, when I tried it, and there have been plenty of other QMs who've tried the same. It's rough on your creativity, not just your schedule. Good luck, anyway; hope you fare well.

>>4318725
>FGO

>>4318551
>Ask Monica what happened to you and if you managed to hurt yourself from falling.
>Japanese

>>4318551
>Ask Monica what happened to you and if you managed to hurt yourself from falling.
>Ask Monica where exactly you are right now.
>Japanese

Looks like
>Ask Monica what happened to you and if you managed to hurt yourself from falling
followed by
>Ask Monica where you are right now wins.
And you'll be asking her in Japanese.

>>4319051
>Not perfect ancient sumarian.
0/10 Shinji

>>4319134
Are you assuming that the person who was reincarnated was a professor of middle-eastern historical linguistics? I realize you're joking around, but there's no reason for us to be able to speak a dead language.

>>4319161
we also have 10 years to prep for the HGW so i think we can bang out learning Ancient Sumerian in half a year

>isekai
cringe

>>4319214
Why would we learn Ancient Sumerian though.
We have lots of work ahead of us developing our All-Fiction Reality Marble.

>>4319225
>not wanting to be best bros with Gil
anon...

>>4319235
>Implying Gilgamesh would ever lower himself to having a friend other than Enkidu
Come on, anon. Best anyone can do with Gil is 'entertaining subject'.

>>4319235
>>4319240
He loosens up after being Kogil and learns to make new friends.

>>4319051
Hey Whatis, you suggested the Isekai dude we're playing knows about Fate. Just what is the extent of his Fate Knowledge? Is he a casual gacha whale or a full on fate neckbear?

>>4319257
He's read the VN (and Hollow Ataraxia) and is familiar with a large portion of the rest of the Nasuverse.
He'll be able to recognise most any servant that has had a presence in another Fate series, but he won't be able to perfectly remember entire scenes word for word or the abilities of more obscure servants. So it's somewhere in-between, I suppose.
I might put a Bo3 D100 system in place with dice to determine how well you can remember certain more in depth pieces of information.
As an example, the password in German to deactivate the defenses on the Tohsaka manor would require a roll of 100.
How does that sound?

>>4319272
i am fine with this but slightly disappointed that (You) aren't a massive fate neckbeard

>>4319272
>He's read the VN (and Hollow Ataraxia)
Oh good. So who's up for stealing the Kaleidostick from Rin and then giving it to Illya for adorable shenanigans?

>>4319272
As long as he understands that Illya is best girl and FGO is canon-defying nonsense, I'm happy.

>>4319282
she's kind of a psycho until Shirou gets ahold of her, unless maybe we decide to start doing stuff early and get Rin and Shirou to raid the Einzbern Castle

>>4319285
>FGO is canon-defying nonsense
I mean, worrying about canon relating to Fate in the first place is an effort in futility. It's best to take a stance of "Who gives a fuck" and veer toward something actually fun like Carnival Phantasm.

>>4319285
Do we want to go for the Illya route then?
I'd be all for it.

>>4319290
I'm a VN purist, and will maintain that it was more fun than anything Fate-related since, including Carnival Phantasm. I get that that's a personal opinion, though, and everyone has their own preference.
>>4319291
Absolutely. Especially while she's at her most psycho.

>>4319289
As long as we tell Rin that's she's worst waifu.

>>4319301
I mean, VN is okay, but I feel Fate is at it's best when it stops taking itself seriously and has fun. Otherwise it's alot of really pretentious drama.

>>4319306
I like pretentious drama, and feel Fate is at its worst when it stops taking itself seriously and has "fun".
Well, almost at its worst. Fate/Zero and FGO both have their serious moments, and they're a whole lot worse than Carnival Phantasm.

>>4319315
See, I almost get you, but then I remember that all that pretentious drama is literally just a vehicle for sex scenes with worst girl and genderbent king arthur that the series keeps pretending doesn't exist, and I can't take the VN seriously at all.
And then shit like the Fourth Holy Grail War Race happens and it's better then any route in the VN, it's primary drawback being you need to have knowledge of the VN in the first place to understand why it's so good.

>>4319322
>Fourth Holy Grail War Race
Fifth Holy Grail War Race. I have no idea why I was thinking Fourth.

>>4319322
To me it seems as though you like comedy and dislike what was core to early Nasu works.

>>4319315
>>4319322
we do have a lot of downtime, 10 years isn't gonna be just prep right? We are probably gonna hangout with Shirou and everyone else before letting them in on The Plan (tm)

>>4319322
Like 3 short scenes in a 60 hour game. Yeah, totally a vehicle.
Some of the stuff in Carnival Phantasm was pretty funny, yeah, but there's no comparing a bit of comedy to the emotional impact of the original story.
Seriously though, it's pretty clear we want and enjoy totally different things from the franchise. I've been having basically this same argument with fans of Extra, or Phantasm, or FGO for years, and I've come to the conclusion that there's no point in arguing over it when our ideas of "good" are this different. Let's agree to disagree.
For the record, I liked the slice of life and comedy elements of the VN too. The need to have everything serious almost all the time is a big part of why Zero is so bad. I just thought later installments went way overboard with that idea of "not taking anything seriously".

>>4319332
Definitely. I very much hope this quest isn't just devoted to acting out the plan people were tossing around in the /a/ threads, because that would be pretty disappointing.

>>4319335
i am in invested in being best bros with Shirou before the inevitable waifu wars, i don't want him to die alone in Syria

>>4319328
That's one thing that's happened to the franchise and fanbase over the years. Fate has had so many spinoffs and so many writers involved with it that there's a pretty big section of the fans who think of themselves as liking Fate without really liking Nasu at all. I don't know if pink anon is one of them, but there are plenty of them around.

>>4319338
I'm for making the Wakame Paradise route a reality too, anon. It's gotta happen.

>>4319328
>dislike what was core to early Nasu works.
I like Notes. It's my favorite Nasu work, I consider it literally Peak Nasu.

>>4319335
>Like 3 short scenes in a 60 hour game. Yeah, totally a vehicle.
Everything is a vehicle for the waifus and the porn, why do you think FGO does so well.

>The need to have everything serious almost all the time is a big part of why Zero is so bad.
At least we can agree on that. Fucking Urobutcher.

>acting out the plan people were tossing around in the /a/ threads
What was the /a/ plan and will it interfere with stealing the kaleidostick and magical girl shenanigans?

>>4319349
basically, get All Fiction, get Medea, bathe in Dragons Blood, get every servant on your side to gank Gil, profit

>>4319350
Not going to lie, that's a dumb plan.If we're going with dumb plans, I'd like to suggest:
>Get Black Barrel, shoot Gil.

wait so is this purely FSN or is Tsukihime also happening in this timeline?

>>4319350
I thought developing the All-Fiction Reality Marble and bathing in dragons blood with Rin were different plans.
Like, the dragons blood route was developed while people were developing alternatives to the All-Fiction route.
I definitely want to get All-Fiction though, it's too good an opportunity to pass-up.

Let's just take things as they come, see what What does with the premise, and try to use our metaknowledge without making an obnoxiously grandiose and intricate plan. Can we do that?

>>4319360
According to a Nasu interview that's fundamentally impossible, but of course the QM's word is law.

>>4319361
technically, we can do both, Dragon's Blood just requires us to get Medea to summon her dragon and get Archer to kill it with Anti-Dragon NPs

>>4319363
We should at least put:
>Save Illya
>Turn into Magical Girl
>Shenanigans
Into our bucket list.

>>4319369
Dunno about the other 2, but the first I'm completely supportive of.

>>4319350
I never understood the All Fiction thing.

>>4319369
I'm with you on
>Save Illya
at least. Followed by
>Romance Illya

>>4319371
>>4319375
Well I mean, if we're saving Illya anyways, we might as well get the Prisma Illya route going.

>>4319371
i am completely supportive of 1 as well
>>4319372
pretty simple, reality marbles require you to have an alien mindset, well uh, being isekai'd into a fictional world kinda embeds you with an alien mindset by default since FSN is fictional, and if everything is fiction, it doesn't exist, if it doesn't exist, it can be erased

>>4319377
I have a few problems with that. Illya in Prisma Illya is a totally different character from Illya in Fate/Stay Night (best girl in the franchise), so a step toward that timeline would lead to unpleasantness for me at least. I also resent Prillya as the subpar replacement for the Illya route we never got.
Ruby could be a pretty fun companion, though.

>>4319381
>so a step toward that timeline would lead to unpleasantness for me at least.
Yes, but it'd be pleasant for me.

>Illya in Prisma Illya is a totally different character from Illya in Fate/Stay Night (best girl in the franchise)
A better Illya. A more fun Illya.

>>4319388
Man, we really are completely at odds. Prillya is basically just a stock loli archetype. F/SN Illya is an actual character. There's no contest. The F/SN version is more fun.

>>4319381
>>4319388
We can't even create that timeline anyway because it diverged before the 4th HGW right?

>>4319398
We totally can't. The kaleidostick does exist in Hollow Ataraxia though, so presumably does in this timeline, so anon is suggesting trying to nudge this world toward that one by making Illya a magical girl.

>>4319379
But wouldn't entering the world make it more "real" for the MC?

>>4319397
>F/SN Illya is an actual character.
She's not really an actual character. She's just a mess of neurosis with an incest fetish tacked on. That's not more fun, that's just a plot device.
Prisma Illya has actual friends and character growth.

>>4319398
The kaleidostick exists in hollow ataraxia, Rin keeps it locked in a box. So we steal it, steal Illya and do something more fun then "Oh no, evil mud and worms." with our metaknowledge.

>>4319379
>>4319413
I'm pretty sure to create a reality marble, we have to be super autistic. Like autistic to the point we entirely reject this world as fictional at all times, in all interactions and proceed that way.
It's not really worth it, IMO.

>>4319306
Nah the visual novel is amazing and made me cry

>>4319416
No, you just need a mindset alien to the world.
Being from a completely different universe in which this one was fiction is pretty alien.

>>4319423
Pretty sure you need to reject this reality and replace it with your own.

>>4319415
Prillya has friends who carry the show for her and character growth that follows the most predictable, bog-standard mahou shoujo arc around. The series is a yuribait parody that the author decided midway through that he wanted to make a serious story out of, and it's never recovered. I'll reiterate, F/SN Illya is the only one of the two who is a real character, and is miles more fun than Prillya.
That aside, I'm really surprised you're participating in this quest, considering how much your dislike of Fate/Stay Night shows through in your posts.

>>4319423
I can understand MC having the potential for a reality marble, but I don't think being isekai'd would create the "everything is fiction" mindset needed for something like All Fiction without some severe autism.

>>4319443
>F/SN Illya is the only one of the two who is a real character
Illya is less of a character then Avalon. Fuck, even the evil mud and worms gets more development.
Prisma Illya is way more fun.

>REEEE GET OUT
Just curious, are you the autistic fuck who runs the other Fate quest? The one where the MC is a clone or some shit and gets cucked by the waifu people actually liked while he tries to push some shit tier side bait.

Woah woah woah!
Could everyone just calm down a little?
We're all here to have a good time, aren't we?
I don't want the quest exploding into bad feeling like this.
We are one post in!
Everyone just take a moment to calm down, please?

>>4319455
I didn't tell you to get out, I just don't understand your motivation. I don't like Warhammer 40K, and I don't go into quests in the setting airing my complaints about it and trying to make it more like things I do enjoy.

>>4319462
It's a Fate quest, I didn't expect it to go any other way then this. Get used to it, it won't change.

>>4319469
I'm not the only trying to make it solely about F/SN here though. You've been constantly pushing "REE F/SN is the best." "REE Everything else is shit."
No matter how much you dislike them, FGO, Fate/Zero, Prisma Illya, Carnival Phantasm and all that other stuff is still Fate. Coming in here and going "Hey, I liked this Fate stuff, I want to play here." and throwing out ideas in that direction is perfectly reasonable. You're the only one who seems to have a problem with it.
Fuck, even your example is flawed. Going into a general 40k quest and trying to nudge is more towards Rogue Trader, or Dark Heresy or what have you is perfectly acceptable.

On top of that, I don't remember WhatIs saying this was ONLY a FS/N quest at any point. YOU are the one who made that assumption, just like you are the one who gets defensive whenever someone brings up an idea in a direction you don't like. As if the fact that YOUR personal dislike of something is enough reason to scrap an idea.

>>4319488
I don't know why you're characterizing me as being so angry, either.
It is a democratic voting system, I'm putting my opinions on the various suggestions out there like anybody else.
As for my 'assumptions' about the timeline, the canon of the setting is that Fate/Zero and F/SN take place in a separate universe from Prisma Illya and Carnival Phantasm. FGO is iffy. So it's not really an assumption to look at what's already been confirmed to take place in that timeline as having nothing to do with the others. You've been pushing your view of things at least as much as I have, and been just as dismissive of parts of the franchise as I have. With that in mind, I'll reiterate. Let's agree we want totally different things from the franchise and the quest, call it square, and not argue anymore, alright? You don't want the quest to be like F/SN, I don't want it to be like Carnival Phantasm. You don't think F/SN Illya is a character, I don't think Prillya is a character. Great. We're even and we've both made our perspectives more than clear.

its funny how we're one post in and we're already fighting lmao, i fucking love Fate so much

>>4319462
This is the Fate you chose.

>>4319502
>the canon of the setting is that Fate/Zero and F/SN take place in a separate universe from Prisma Illya and Carnival Phantasm.
Canon is well and good, but we are in a 4chan quest. Until it is straight up confirmed we are abiding by canon, assume we're not. On top of that, we are in an Isekai Quest, with metaknowledge. Which means we can change canon, making it even more irrelevant.

>You've been pushing your view of things at least as much as I have, and been just as dismissive of parts of the franchise as I have.
No, see I've been throwing out ideas. You've been reeing about how everything that isn't FS/N sucks. I have yet to see one post from you that wasn't autistic rambling about how you hate anything that isn't FS/N.

I just wanted to say that I am really loving this quest one post in lmao.

>>4319520
You also haven't seen any personal insults from me, but I've seen plenty from you. Just what is your problem, anon? You really can't take an olive branch when it's offered, even though the QM also asked for peace? Just drop the attitude already.

>All this arguing about timelines and waifus
>When we're already best waifu Shinji and are on the path of the Wakame route

>>4319462
Should've learned from Sweets' example that the Fate community on /qst/ is full of complete assholes

>>4319542
>You also haven't seen any personal insults from me, but I've seen plenty from you
I have made a single personal insult, that was directed toward the guy who ran that one fate quest I was referencing. Unless you are him, you're now crying about being called autistic on 4chan, in which case I have to wonder if reddit is more your speed.

>>4319542
>>4319560
Please stop.

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>>4319560
If you really believe you've only made a single personal insult, I suggest you re-read your posts. It may be the norm, but it still leaves you whole lot ruder than I am, and since you started this ridiculous oneupsmanship by complaining that my opinions about what we should do are somehow less worthy of being posted than yours for the sole reason that they're negative, I'll stand by it.
One more time, there's no reason for us to still be arguing. Drop it.

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If you're going to find out more about just what's going on, you suppose that this babysitter who's been hired to look after you is your best bet. "M-Monica-san?" You call the woman's name in Japanese while she looks at you the woman says nothing, and simply stares at you with more intensity. Who on earth decided to employ this woman to watch over a child? She's clearly horrible with children! Well, logical deduction could really only pin the blame on Zouken for hiring a woman like this to look after a child. Honestly, if it were possible, you're pretty sure that the heartless old bastard would've tried to hire Kiritsugu to look after you. "Can... can you tell me what happened? Did I hurt myself?" You reach a hand up to the back of your head to touch it, feeling a nasty bruise on the back of your head. For a second you feel like asking her what actually happened to cause you to wake up in Shinji's body, but that's just going to end up with an immediate sealing designation courtesy of the Mage's Association for you if anybody finds out.

The woman looks at you with an awkward expression, then seems to think on what to tell you, apparently having to think about her sentences before responding. "You passed out. Nearly managed to smash your head open. You are lucky I was here to help, otherwise you might have... really ended up hurt." The woman's Japanese is clunky, but otherwise functional. She tries to give you a reassuring smile as she finishes speaking, but fails pretty spectacularly, instead her smile is just kind of nerve-wracking. This woman is clearly not used to looking after children, and would almost certainly be more comfortable hunting down some dead apostle or rogue magus than she would be looking after some snot nosed brat belonging to a rich family of magi for a week.

Still, despite the woman's rather rough mannerisms, she's not really somebody you could call unattractive, not by a long shot, though such thoughts are quelled very rapidly. One set of 'your' memories might have been through about three decades of life, but 'your' other set of memories and the body they occupy are just 8 years old. With that in mind, you really aren't in any position to start thinking about women in such ways. "Oh... well, thank you for helping me, Monica-san!" You simply end up deciding to thank the woman for helping you out. For all you know, she had to use magecraft to heal you and you smashed open your head completely on the floor. It's not like she would tell a child.

The woman frowns as she looks at the child offering her his heartfelt gratitude "It's... nothing. I don't get paid if you end up hurt." The woman responds to your thanks coldly, almost rejecting it entirely. "Just try not to hurt yourself again." She then finishes off her response with a rather cold command. You would hope that there's some sort of genuine concern behind the command, but it's either non-existent or the woman is way too good at masking her emotions.

"O-oh..." You can't help but sound a little upset at the woman's cold response. Seems that the body of a child and the original Shinji's mind is having more effect on 'your' own mind than you would honestly like it to have. Though you suppose it does you the favor of allowing you to act more convincingly like a child. You really can't imagine how Monica might respond if you simply talked like a fully developed adult and somebody with more life experience than she herself does. Well, it would probably end painfully for you, actually. Last thing you want is to be suspected of being some sort of malevolent entity possessing a child. Things are probably going to be hard enough for you without being mistaken for some sort of Roa-esque being. "W-well, where are we right now anyway, Monica-san? I don't think you ever told me."

"You never asked me to tell you that. In fact, this is what, the third time you've actually spoken to me in the month I've been here watching you?" The woman stretches and yawns. "Really, I've never known an eight year old to be so dedicated to reading. Shouldn't kids like you want to watch TV or something?" Her Japanese is still a little clunky, but she's obviously getting a little more comfortable with using it.

"I... I don't think that the television is very interesting." It's true for both sets of memories residing within you. Shinji far prefers reading, and your memories of the cheap shlock produced in massive quantities a few decades from now have really sullied the idea of television forever.

Monica however seems a little confused by your response, though you are also just as confused by her own reaction. "Huh. You're really kind of a strange kid, arent'cha?" What sort of magecraft user is actually competent with technology? Worse, what kind would actually enjoy television to the extent of being confused at seeing somebody who doesn't? "Well, if you want to know exactly where we are, we're at a house your family owns in Roehampton, a... district of London." Wait, your in London? Then doesn't that mean that the Clocktower is only a stones throw away from where you're currently staying? "You'll probably be heading back to Japan in a week or two anyway. I got the call from your father while you were out cold." She looks kind of uncomfortable as she mentions your injury.

You can't help but wonder what might become of this woman in the future, if she truly is a spellcaster, then the odds are that she'll just end up getting herself killed on some mission in the next few years, and despite the front she seems to be putting on, you feel like there might just be a decent person underneath that act. Maybe the act of being near somebody who is just a child has made whatever face she would normally put up near others slip a little.

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>>4319542
>>4319560

Still, you have your answers now, and you're a little better informed about what you ought to do next. With this new information fresh in your mind you...

>Politely thank Monica and return to your room to think about what your ought to do next, of you are to survive.
>Happily thank Monica for her help and ask her a few more questions. (Ask her what?)
>Offer to watch television with the woman. It can't hurt, can it?
>Look for the books Monica mentioned and start reading a few of them. Hopefully there's a few books on magecraft there too. Shinji hasn't gone through them all yet.
>Write-in...

>>4319574
>but it still leaves you whole lot ruder than I am
Oh god, someone's rude on 4chan. Whatever shall we do, this is unprecedented.

>One more time, there's no reason for us to still be arguing. Drop it.
You know what, I will start personally insulting you. You first, bitchboy.

>>4319586
>Offer to watch television with the woman. It can't hurt, can it?
Seems like the nicer approach than just bombarding her with questions, plus we got a week of time and there's probably gonna be way more useful magecraft books in the Matou house, not like there's anything that special in London right?

>>4319586
>Offer to watch television with the woman. It can't hurt, can it?

>>4319586
>>Offer to watch television with the woman. It can't hurt, can it?

>>4319586
>Offer to watch television with the woman. It can't hurt, can it?

>>4319586
>Offer to watch television with the woman. It can't hurt, can it?
I like Monica

>>4319586
>Look for the books Monica mentioned and start reading a few of them. Hopefully there's a few books on magecraft there too. Shinji hasn't gone through them all yet.

>>4319586
>Look for the books Monica mentioned and start reading a few of them. Hopefully there's a few books on magecraft there too. Shinji hasn't gone through them all yet.

>>4319586
>Look for the books Monica mentioned and start reading a few of them. Hopefully there's a few books on magecraft there too. Shinji hasn't gone through them all yet.

>>4319586
>Politely thank Monica and return to your room to think about what your ought to do next, of you are to survive.

>>4319586
>Offer to watch television with the woman. It can't hurt, can it?
Just in time to watch Wrestlemania X live.

>>4319272
How predetermined Isekai dude is?
Does he has some skills and knowledge that can be abused? Like betting on major sports or political events like Yugoslav wars? Perhaps we can get some patents with future knowledge?

>>4319874
switching to >>4319586
>Look for the books Monica mentioned and start reading a few of them. Hopefully there's a few books on magecraft there too. Shinji hasn't gone through them all yet.

>>4319640
+1

>>4319431
>>4319447
You don't need autism or anything in order to develop a Reality Marble.
All you need is a mindset that runs counter to the rest of the common sense of the world, and knowledge of bounded fields.
Mages who become vampires only take around 120 years to develop their own, because even with their understanding of the universe going counter to what most of humanity believes to be true, most still behave within the bounds of what could be considered human, and their mindset reflects this.
Coming from a completely different universe altogether and knowing that it's all a novel you read is a common sense that nobody else would have developed, except other universal travelers.
The real challenge for Shinji will be gathering the energy to maintain the bounded field that would contain the Reality Marble outside of his body, the passive effects it has on him should be interesting though.

>>4319962
>betting on major sports and political events
While these things will likely turn out the same way as they did in reality, you'll need to roll to recall the less obvious things. Like the winners of World Cups or 9/11 would be automatically recalled, but other events will require a roll.
For (you), these things occured twenty five years ago.
Same story goes for trying to patent future inventions.
Inventing the Smartphone is going to hard, but stealing concepts like Facebook would be easy.
(You) did have some mechanical and electrical knowledge, though.

>TV
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>Books
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>>4319980
Looks like watching television has maintained the lead. 30 minutes till vote is called.

You look at the muted television on the far side of the room for a while, then you look at Monica. You suppose that it can't hurt to spend some time with this woman. Who knows, she might just be useful to you in the future depending on how competent she is as a spellcaster. God knows you have a long and difficult road ahead of you back in Fuyuki. Not counting Grandfather, Sakura, Illya and Gilgamesh are the three that concern you the most. Illya and Sakura both being responsible for killing Shinji in different routes, and Gilgamesh responsible for turning you into the grail. Of course, you'll hopefully have an easier time with stopping Sakura from having a meltdown, but Illya is going to be far harder to get through to. "Monica-san, can we watch some television together?" You don't really mind what she chooses to watch, but you may as well put the disarming appearance of your body to good use by seeing whether you can befriend this woman in the few days you have remaining with her, a good chance for a practice run, you suppose.

"Huh? You actually want to watch TV now? Sure... I guess." Monica shrugs before she starts fiddling about with the remote and switching the channels around on the large CRT television. It's clear she couldn't possibly be a true magus, not after showing the ability to use a television remote without trouble. Thinking back to the problems you're going to face, you start thinking about the Einzbern's lesser grail for the Fifth War, not only is Illya protected at all times by that unstoppable force of destruction she calls Berserker, but she's also unlikely to open up to anybody except Shirou himself. You don't quite know how exactly you're going to even get close to the girl to speak to her before being flattened by Berserker. The only positive to dealing with her is that she'll likely consider you as something more like a worm to be crushed underfoot. Not exactly a nice thing to compare yourself to, but even that is better than being an actual target for the deceptively violent girl. Of course, you aren't sure if you'll even receive that offer for a do-over whenever you get yourself killed, and there's no way to actually find out if you do have such a privilege, even if you did end up going to the Dojo after death, you wouldn't be able to remember it anyway. How bothersome.

The TV channels are flicked through rapidly until it seems Monica settle on watching an episode of Friends. How humorous. Though even stranger is the realization that Friends would technically be an almost brand new show at this point. Actually being in the past, even if it is the past of a fictional facsimile of the world you know, is a truly strange feeling. No more a strange feeling than being in a fictional world though, when you think about it. What could have happened to have caused this to have happened in the first place? Assuming this isn't just some incredibly lifelike dream or a coma, then what could it have been? Zelretch playing around with the Second True Magic? The work of a powerful wizard like Merlin? The work of a TYPE? Perhaps even the work of one of the mysterious Outer Gods of Lovecraftian lore? At this point, speculation is pretty meaningless. Zelretch is about the only person you could possibly reach and even that would be a massive long shot.

The episode of Friends plays as you continue thinking things through, Monica is actually somewhat engrossed in the brand new episode of the show, but you've already seen it, so it's pretty boring for you. Not that you had much interest in watching TV in the first place. Instead your thoughts move back to resolving things in a way that won't get you killed. Gilgamesh is a terrible pain to deal with, yet not impossible, thankfully. You've got at least two paths that will lead to his defeat that you can count on. You could have Saber take care of the pretentious King of Heroes with Avalon, or you could have Shirou challenge the king's pride by challenging him within his reality marble, Unlimited Blade Works. You end up completely losing yourself in your thoughts and zoning out, merely sitting in front of the television and only appearing to be watching the sit-com with Monica, who herself is too entertained by the show to bother paying much attention to you.

Then your thoughts shift to the easily most possibly problematic member of the three potential enemies you'll face. Sakura. You wonder if you could prevent her from ever losing control to the darkness growing within her if you were simply to treat her better than how Shinji originally treated her upon finding out about her true purpose to be the 'heir' of the Matou family. Though you'll still have to work around the heartless monster you call Grandfather. Though it might be possible to extract his worms from Sakura, there's not really a path you can think of that will allow you to do such a thing until after the fifth war has begun, operating on her to extract the crest worms that will end up fusing with her body with Avalon ought to be possible. As would asking Caster to assist you in actually saving your adoptive sister. Though getting Caster's assistance might not be viable.

Still, for all your plans and the information of the future, you're going to run into quite a few problems. Your first problem being that of every master in the Fifth Grail War, Shinji is easily the easiest to kill. Even with Rider at his side, he's basically a joke. You subconsciously frown at calling yourself a joke, but as much as it might bring you displeasure, it's basically the truth. Therefore, you probably ought to start planning on how to survive the future properly, through bettering yourself. So, over the few days you have before heading back to Fuyuki City and the Matou mansion you...

>Focus on physical training and fighting skill. It's unlikely you're going to have any talent in magecraft, after all.
>Focus on learning as much about magecraft as you possibly can, it's not impossible to cast spells, even without magic circuits.
>Focus on getting more charismatic and being better at manipulating people. You hold all the cards, but a terrible pokerface could stand to ruin it all.
>Focus on trying to learn about Reality Marbles. If you recall correctly, you might just be in luck when it comes to constructing your own Reality Marble.
>Focus on learning more about the world around you. Of course, you're probably in the Fate/Stay Night timeline as seen in the Visual Novel, but Monica ought to be informed enough about the world to answer a few questions.
>Write-in...

>>4320416
>Focus on getting more charismatic and being better at manipulating people. You hold all the cards, but a terrible pokerface could stand to ruin it all.

>>4320416
>Focus on trying to learn about Reality Marbles. If you recall correctly, you might just be in luck when it comes to constructing your own Reality Marble.

>>4320416
>Focus on getting more charismatic and being better at manipulating people. You hold all the cards, but a terrible pokerface could stand to ruin it all.

>>4320416
>Focus on learning as much about magecraft as you possibly can, it's not impossible to cast spells, even without magic circuits.
We don't even need to cast it just knowing how this shit works is helpful.

>>4320416
>Focus on getting more charismatic and being better at manipulating people. You hold all the cards, but a terrible pokerface could stand to ruin it all.

We don't have time to turn into some sort of Kung Fu magus and can't into magic. Others will have to serve as our sword and shield.

>>4320416
>Focus on getting more charismatic and being better at manipulating people. You hold all the cards, but a terrible pokerface could stand to ruin it all.
Original timeline Shinji put his all and everything into learning magic, supposedly, and it did nothing for him, so I don't think learning it is likely to help us any more. I'm tempted to vote for the Reality Marble idea, but I feel like if we have one it'll develop naturally and if we don't have the talent it'd be an awful waste of time. Bettering our social abilities should give the most payoff for the time investment, and has the best chance of putting our metaknowledge to use.

>>4320416
>>Focus on learning more about the world around you. Of course, you're probably in the Fate/Stay Night timeline as seen in the Visual Novel, but Monica ought to be informed enough about the world to answer a few questions.

>>4320416
>Focus on trying to learn about Reality Marbles. If you recall correctly, you might just be in luck when it comes to constructing your own Reality Marble.

Even if activated for a brief moment, a reality marble would be very valuable. We already kinda have an alien common sense coming into this world knowing it’s a fictional work so I think it would be well worth the effort.

Big dong

>>4320416
We might get better results in magecraft than canon Shinji did but it is probably mostly useless given how fifth war goes so
>Focus on trying to learn about Reality Marbles. If you recall correctly, you might just be in luck when it comes to constructing your own Reality Marble.

>>4320416
>Focus on learning as much about magecraft as you possibly can, it's not impossible to cast spells, even without magic circuits.
Someone with no skill in magecraft whatsoever will take years to construct a Reality Marble.
>>4320447
There ARE ways to use magecraft without magic circuits. Formalcraft is a notable form of magecraft that uses only external mana.
Of course, most magi look down on it because you have to perform lengthy rituals for every spell, but it's better than nothing.

>>4320485
Actually, correct that: someone with no skill in magecraft will probably NEVER construct a Reality Marble.

>>4320486
Doesn't Shirou barely have any skill in magecraft if any and still manages to use UBW. Tracu On and all?

>>4320493
Those are functions of UBW, not spells.

>>4320485
>There ARE ways to use magecraft without magic circuits. Formalcraft is a notable form of magecraft that uses only external mana.
I'm aware of this. My point was that as far as I know Shinji is supposed to have spent all the time he could learning those methods in the original story (The Book of False Attendant is a formalcraft-based mystic code, for example) and things still didn't work out for him in any route, so we might want to take a different course.

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>>4320504
Sorry, I should have clarified. I mean that Shirou was able to make a reality marble despite his lack of practical magecraft knowledge. I figured that since our character is not from the setting itself, it would be leagues easier to create one by the sheer fact of being some extra-dimensional nerd possessing this poor boy. Remember, we have the experience of an outside observer to the setting as fictional works, or at least a good part of it. Oh also Satsuki got a reality marble stupid quickly after getting DA’d, so it’s not unreasonable for someone like our character to be able to attain one.

>>4320510
Didn't Shinji nearly kill everyone with a mystic code that poured drugs on Sakura? These things aren't weak and I think we need a grasp of how magecraft works for future problems.

>>4320518
The real question is, how much of a nerd are we?

>>4320416
>Focus on getting more charismatic and being better at manipulating people. You hold all the cards, but a terrible pokerface could stand to ruin it all.

>>4320518
Didn't Satsuki get her Reality Marble because she was a latent psychic that got activated after she turned though? Shinji's from a Mage household and they'll have checked him out to see what his capabilities are, if they said he can't do Magecraft at all then he wouldn't have the ability to force his reality onto Gaia.

>>4320416
>Focus on trying to learn about Reality Marbles. If you recall correctly, you might just be in luck when it comes to constructing your own Reality Marble.

>>4320416
>Focus on learning more about the world around you. Of course, you're probably in the Fate/Stay Night timeline as seen in the Visual Novel, but Monica ought to be informed enough about the world to answer a few questions.
Why go for magic powers when you can be worldly anyway?

>>4320416
>Focus on trying to learn about Reality Marbles. If you recall correctly, you might just be in luck when it comes to constructing your own Reality Marble.
I just wanna see if anything has changed, but its likely that we're gonna have the same results as canon Shinji.

I just fucking realized something, couldn't we use Monica as a lifeline to Waver? Kid Shinji isn't gonna be able to do shit, but if we were to write a letter that details conversations and events that only Waver would know, then we can convince him to be apart of The Plan (tm)

>>4320540
Quite frankly we can just walk away from whole mess at the right moment and go into investing and banking with future knowledge.

>>4320526
Shinji has magic circuits, they're just completely fucked and needed to Grail to force jumpstart them, maybe getting DA'd would produce similar results? But that's kinda chancy and even if it works, we're gonna have to start eating people

>>4320547
its 1994, Facebook was created in 2004, so around the events of FSN, Google was created in 1998, so 4 years from now, literally, its just a waiting game

>>4320543
I presume the first fuyuki war is over. Still, it might also be possible to get in contact with Marisbury Animusphere or if he's dead Olga Marie.
It's also less of a risk, because Clocktower sees their theories and ideas as abstract and impractical.

>>4320554
Shinji Matou, the famous genius behind cryptocurrency.

>>4320564
I feel like it'd be much easier to convince Waver than Moneybills, getting to Waver gets you access to Marisbury, Clocktower, but also Gray. Allying with Waver can really put things in our favor, whether it be jumpstarting Avalon or getting one of Solomon's rings

>>4320574
Yeah, I know. Just throwing it out there as an idea since we might not even have a chance to talk to Waver.

Fellas, how in the fuck are we gonna unlock our circuits without grandpa finding out.

>>4320414
>Of course, you aren't sure if you'll even receive that offer for a do-over whenever you get yourself killed, and there's no way to actually find out if you do have such a privilege, even if you did end up going to the Dojo after death, you wouldn't be able to remember it anyway
thinking about this line a lot

>>4320576
we get the fuck out or get worm'd

>>4320577
Oh shit, that gave me an idea. Let's go see if we can get into Ahnenerbe.

>>4320416
>Focus on trying to learn about Reality Marbles. If you recall correctly, you might just be in luck when it comes to constructing your own Reality Marble.

Fellas don't forget that Magic Circuits are dependant on the soul.
Now that anon is occupying his body he very possibly could have functioning Circuits.

>>4320577
Also, anyone else want to go to Misaki Town and see if we can find Shiki and Arc? They'd be nice to have backing us up for the Grail War.
Though we'd probably have to help deal with Tsukihime bullshit too.

>>4320701
we have no idea if this verse has both Tsukihime and FSN bullshit wrapped together

>>4320707
Well, I mean. That's what the option to ask our babysitter is there for. But even if we don't, it wouldn't hurt to take a week off and see if it actually is.

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Haha we’re tied

>>4320416
>Focus on trying to learn about Reality Marbles. If you recall correctly, you might just be in luck when it comes to constructing your own Reality Marble.

>>4320753
we can make this into a reality fellas, we just need Waver

>>4320416
>Focus on learning more about the world around you. Of course, you're probably in the Fate/Stay Night timeline as seen in the Visual Novel, but Monica ought to be informed enough about the world to answer a few questions.
I know that every day counts when prepping for the 5th Heaven's Feel but I think learning more over training would be more helpful.
Plus Monica might be helpful later on as a connection in London/Clocktower if she sees SI Shinji as a cute earnest kid

>>4320416
>>Focus on learning more about the world around you. Of course, you're probably in the Fate/Stay Night timeline as seen in the Visual Novel, but Monica ought to be informed enough about the world to answer a few questions.
Nice hook.

>>4320416
>Focus on trying to learn about Reality Marbles. If you recall correctly, you might just be in luck when it comes to constructing your own Reality Marble.

I would say make a fuck ton of explosives over time to blow up the great holy grail but I dont remember if that's plausible or not.

>Charisma up
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>Playing with marbles
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>Worldly Wisdom
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>Magecraft 101
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>>4320485

Will call the vote in 10 minutes.

After a moments consideration, you conclude that the best path for you to take would be to potentially develop a reality marble by learning as much about the concepts behind them as you can. Of course, reality marbles are quite the taboo subject among the magical community. The magecraft closest to approaching the level of True Magic, of course, information about how you would actually go about creating one would be kept as secret as possibility by the practically anyone with the knowledge. It's difficult getting a magus to pass on even the most basic mystery, never mind one willingly disseminating information on creating one of the greatest examples of magecraft possible in the modern world.

Still, with what you know about the existence of reality marbles thanks to the time you spent immersing yourself in the lore of the Nasuverse, you're pretty hopeful that you might just qualify as being able to create a reality marble with a little more ease than the normal magus. After all, if Alien Common Sense is a requirement for creating a Reality Marble, and Shirou's self-destructive beliefs allowed him to manifest Unlimited Blade Works, then what would the knowledge that the very world itself is all just a fictional story do? Best you not think about the fact that right now, the reality you are currently residing to you feels about as real as Friends must feel to Monica. Is it possible for you to go back to your original life? Did you perhaps die? What happened that led to this occurring to you of all people?

Regardless of your knowledge of the truth behind the world's existence, you still actually need to try to find out how to develop your reality marble. You suppose that learning about the basics of bounded fields ought to really help you out in that regard. A reality marble is some sort of internalized bounded field that can be projected outside the body, if you are remembering things correctly. Hopefully at least one or two of the books in this house are focused on the creation of bounded fields. While it's unlikely any of them will actually have usable bounded fields, figuring out the basics behind their creation will hopefully make your job much easier, you can already tell that you're going to have a difficult path ahead of you, when it comes to creating a reality marble. Though at least you aren't going to hide in a storage shed and superheat your spine every night for half a decade like some people might... you know, you probably ought to get Shirou to stop doing that when you meet him.

You certainly aren't stubborn enough to go through the terrible process of 'creating' a magic circuit by cannibalizing one of your own nerves to do so. Shinji isn't like Shirou though, who had his own bunch of magic circuits just going unused because Kiritsugu is apparently just as bad a teacher as he is a husband. You turn to the spellcaster still watching the television, Friends ended at some point, and now she's watching some sort of documentary with a barely interested expression. "Monica-san, I'm going to read for a while, OK?" You get up from your seat.

She lazily looks at you before shrugging. "Yeah, sure kid. You go do whatever you want." With that, you take your leave of the spellcaster and head to the bookshelves in the house. Annoyingly enough, most of the grimoires and volumes in this house are of very little value, most of them only existing as decorations for this secondary property of the Matou. You imagine if this house was ever host to any truly valuable magical information, it wouldn't have been for very long. Zouken would've seen to that. Despite his ancient status, the old man remained fairly shrewd up until his final moments. Even after losing sight of his original goal, Zolgen Makiri never became a man to be trifled with foolishly. It was his machinations in Heaven's Feel that allowed Medea to be taken out with such ease, if you are remembering things properly.

You wander around the shelves to look for a few books that might serve at least some purpose for your current goal. While actually learning how to create a reality marble might be easier if you had the assistance of some prodigy magus like say, Rin. If Shirou Emiya was capable of creating one, and Satsuki Yumizuka was also capable of the creation of her own reality marble, surely it can't be that difficult when the pieces are actually in place for the marble to be created. Hopefully, your theory about Alien Common Sense holds at least some water when it comes to the creation of a marble, otherwise you stand to waste a lot of time.

Over the next few days, you spend most of your waking hours consigned to the library of the house, reading the books that were too difficult for a child's mind to comprehend, as well as the books you obviously weren't intended to read at all. Shinji's understanding of the English language before your intrusion into his body was... limited, to say the least. Most of the information written in the books you find is contradictory in nature, and it takes a fair amount of cross referencing between multiple books on the creation of bounded fields until you feel like you've actually managed to come up with a suitable method to weave magical energy into a network in order to create a bounded field. The only issue, is that no matter how satisfied you might be with your newly created technique, you can't actually test it without any magic circuits.

Monica occasionally came to watch you over the week as you rifled through the various books like a man possessed, obviously fairly impressed by the work ethic of an eight year old boy apparently desperately trying to find out how to do something. To her, it might look like the work of a young prodigy as he tears his way through multiple books in record time. Though by the way the frown never leaves her face, you'd probably say it's a fairly safe bet that she's aware of your lack of magical energy.

Still, you've managed to satisfy yourself after dissecting the multiple diagrams in the books, it's odd. You feel like separately, neither set of memories occupying your body would've been able to so thoroughly pick apart all that magical theory, just through cross-referencing it against each other theory, you managed to create your own method of constructing a bounded field, all by yourself.

Now the next challenge you're going to face is going to well, actually getting a hold of magical energy somehow. Of course, formalcraft rituals do exist, and it's not actually impossible to simply cast spells with just the mana found in the atmosphere. Still, you'll need to find a way around Shinji's lack of magic circuits if you ever want to be taken even somewhat seriously by anyone in the magical world.

Eventually, your study is interrupted by Monica, who calls out to you. "Shinji...-kun, I've just been informed that your father will be arriving in the next fifteen minutes or so, so you had probably better finish up your studies." Despite not really spending all too much time with the spellcaster come babysitter since the two halves of 'you' became one, she seems to have a visibly better disposition towards you. You don't really understand why though, it's not really like much changed in how you acted after learning of this prior life and of the falseness of reality. You just upped the intensity of research is all. Unfortunately, the content of her order is of far more concern to you than how she feels about you right now. It seems that your brief period of freedom from the insidious evil that is your grandfather is about to come to an end. You wonder how your father is coping with losing one of his hands to Kiritsugu, you do hope that he isn't driving, as pathetic as you think the man is, he's still your father, and the complete destruction of his ego at the hands of Zouken is yet another crime you intend to make that old bastard suffer for.

>Accept your fate and go back to Fuyuki with Byakuya.
>Attempt to convince Monica to let you go with her instead. (How do you go about convincing her?)
>Just attempt to flee the house before your father arrives. With any luck you'll be able to make it to the Clock Tower to speak with Waver.
>Write-in...

>>4321099
>Accept your fate and go back to Fuyuki with Byakuya.
Let's not go completely off the rails.

>>4321099
>Accept your fate and go back to Fuyuki with Byakuya.
>Ask Monica if she's going with you too
thinking about this logically, even if you somehow manage to escape and get to Waver, he's still too young and inexperienced to do anything worthwhile, he isn't El Melloi II yet. Our absolute best bet at the moment is to try to keep in contact with Monica to get to Waver, if not, well, we gotta rely on a dying Kiritsugu to get to Waver

>>4321099
>>Attempt to convince Monica to let you go with her instead. (How do you go about convincing her?)
Beg. Like seriously attempt to get her to let us apprentice with her for a few years. She seems to be a decent mage and this is our best shot to not follow the rails back to Fuyuki.
It'll give us more time to learn the state of the world and to try and learn magecraft/marble too. Or do you expect Shinji's grandpa to actually help with that.

>>4321099
>Attempt to convince Monica to let you go with her instead. (How do you go about convincing her?)

>>4321099
>Attempt to convince Monica to let you go with her instead. (How do you go about convincing her?)

I was honestly thinking about accepting fate, but that would also mean being in the constant watch of old man Zouken and being at the mercy of his lovely worms. We gotta stay the fuck out of there, at least until we are capable of defending ourselves in some capacity. Dad’s pretty much dead anyways and there’s a worm pit with our name on it if we do something fishy at Zouken’s place. We should try convincing Monica by whatever means we can to delay our arrival in Fuyuki, at least by a few years or more. There’s a few very useful potential allies here in London too so it’s not a waste of an option by any means.

You know I wondered, does anyone think we can get Kirei to remove worm from Sakura early? They wouldn’t have fused right away so there’s at least some time.

>>4321099
>Accept your fate and go back to Fuyuki with Byakuya.
I don't think going off the rails this early is a good idea.

>>4321257
does Zouken even give a shit about Shinji enough to stop him from going out on his own?

>>4321264
Kirei is going to screw you over in some way guaranteed, he thinks Zouken is disgusting but he still might take you to his basement and make you into mana batteries

>>4318546
>Fate
How fucking cringe

>>4321272
>>4321118
Supporting this too.

>>4321099
>>Attempt to convince Monica to let you go with her instead. (How do you go about convincing her?

>>4321264
kirei will find some way to fuck you over. You can think of every concievable option but he will probably still bend you over and fuck you just to see you cry

>>4321277
>>4321331
Yea probably a bad idea. I guess those worms are there to stay huh.

>>4321331
>>4321340
literally the best possible route with Kirei would just be for him to hold you over Rin as a constant reminder that you have Sakura and not her

>>4321099
>Attempt to convince Monica to let you go with her instead. (How do you go about convincing her?)

>>4321099
>Accept your fate and go back to Fuyuki with Byakuya.
If we go too far off the rails, our knowledge of what happened and what didn't will have no value whatsoever.

>>4321555
We'd still have our knowledge of everything else, which is still a huge advantage.

>>4321099
>Accept your fate and go back to Fuyuki with Byakuya.
Don't think begging will make her more likely to take us under her wing.
I'd rather she be a clocktower contact for now.

>>4321099
>Accept your fate and go back to Fuyuki with Byakuya.

>>4321099
>Attempt to convince Monica to let you go with her instead. (How do you go about convincing her?)

Huh, looks like the vote is split 50-50 between going to Fuyuki or trying to run from it.
That's quite surprising.

>>4321845
One the one hand, Zouken.
On the other hand, the Clock Tower.

>>4321099
>Accept your fate and go back to Fuyuki with Byakuya.

>>4321099
>>Attempt to convince Monica to let you go with her instead. (How do you go about convincing her?)

>>4321099
>>4321257
>Accept your fate and go back to Fuyuki with Byakuya.

After thinking about it, I think I’m going to change my vote to going back to Fuyuki. Probably isn’t the best idea to go wild yet.

>>4321099
>Accept your fate and go back to Fuyuki with Byakuya.

>>4321099
>Accept your fate and go back to Fuyuki with Byakuya.
Maybe ask her for a possible future contact method.

>>4321845
zouken is a scary mother fucker that I do not want to deal with

>>4321845
This is the long fabled Shinji Isekai quest, you should expect all the 50/50 ties /qst/ can muster at its most autistic.

We should avoid zouken and kirei as best we can

There's no sense in trying to run from it. While Zouken probably wouldn't care too much if you tried to run, you don't really have anywhere else to go. Sure, you could try to convince Monica here to take you with her and teach you the life of a freelance spellcaster, but you shouldn't actually have any magic circuits, so you'd probably struggle terribly if you actually had to help her on whatever missions she usually goes for. You might know how to use a gun and throw a punch, but when you're up against the Dead or Dead Apostles, you're really going to need more than mundane firepower.

You suppose you're just going to have to play the part of an eight year old, then. Other than having information of how the future will play out, your one single advantage over Zouken is that the ancient magus thinks that you're just another worthless failure. He might end up using you to torment Sakura in some way, but other than that, he won't really care about anything you do. Byakuya isn't really much of a person anymore either. Between the destruction of the man's ego, his rampant alcoholism and now the horrible PTSD he must have from losing his hand, you can't see him ever being anything other than Zouken's puppet. He's just a completely broken wreck.

Besides, if you avoided going to Fuyuki, you would miss out on the opportunity to at least try to make Sakura's life a little better. As well as not being able to meet Shirou or Rin, who could easily prove themselves to be both invaluable as allies, as well as friends. Shirou especially. There's a part of you that deeply wants to prevent the self-destructive idiot from stupidly giving himself a bad end, such a selfless person like Shirou doesn't deserve to end up like EMIYA, after all, there's definitely nothing wrong with the thought of wanting to help others.

With an apprehensive smile, you finally respond to Monica. "Ah. Well, looks like we probably won't be seeing each other again then, doesn't it, Monica-san?" While you don't know much about the woman, it is something of a shame that you'll be unlikely to encounter her again. But you suppose that it really can't be helped. You can't reveal too much otherwise you'd just look incredibly suspicious. You're only eight years old right now, after all.

The woman laughs a little before handing you a slip of paper, some sort of business card? Reading the card, you finally learn her full name and her own description of her job, 'Monica Eisenmann, freelance security technician', as well as an address and a phone number for her personal offices. As you finish reading the business card, the woman smiles at you "Don't be like that Shinji-kun. It's probably a little wrong that I'm advertising my... business to a child, but you seem smart enough to understand just what it is I do." You freeze up a little. "Come on, I'm not stupid, you figured out what I really was last week, didn't you? I'm not sure how you managed it but I could tell from how you started looking at me." Oh. Well then. That isn't great. Though you won't be making the same mistake in the future. From this point on, your entire life will revolve around deception and manipulation, the full extent of your knowledge never being able to be revealed lest it give people the existential crisis such information may very well be able to cause.

Needless to say, you're pretty stunned by how Monica just so casually revealed that she had seen right through you. "O-oh. Well... thank you, Monica-san, if I ever need a... freelance security technician, I'll be in touch?" You commit the phone number and address to memory. A contact like Monica could end up invaluable in the future, after all.

"Just don't try to hire me to deal with school bullies or anything, alright?" The woman gives you a dangerous smile as she casually confirms the nature of her job as a 'security technician'. "If you ever get into trouble with some real dangerous people though, I suppose I can give you a discounted price to get rid of them." This... this woman, she's genuinely offering to be a killer-for-hire to an eight year old! Just how messed up is this world?! Wait... nevermind. You know exactly how messed up this world is, magi in general are all absolutely awful people. There's only a few exceptions to that rule, yet the vast majority of the most powerful and influential people in this world are arrogant imbeciles like the late Kayneth, or literal psychopaths like Zouken or Kirei. Thanks a lot, Nasu.

There are no more words exchanged between you and Monica. The whole offering to murder people for an eight year old thing has kind of made you a little uncomfortable, and it looks like Monica has also realized that too. So you just wait around for Byakuya to arrive, and after 20 minutes of waiting, your father finally appears through the front door of the fairly large house. The man looks really quite paranoid as he looks around the house, instead of greeting his son, he instead looks past you and into the shadows, as if expecting them to animate and attack him. That's what a visit from the magus killer would do to a man, you suppose. It's really quite funny, you're one of the few people on the planet who genuinely understands Kiritsugu's motives, to everyone else who knew of the Magus Killer, they would only have seen one of the most ruthless and effective killers on the entire planet instead of a man who genuinely hated doing what he did, sacrificing the few for the many.

"Otousan." You coldly greet the shell of a man as he peers into the hallway. Shinji's memories barely held any affection for his father, and the other set of memories has no real opinion on the man other than pity.

"It's time to leave, Shinji." The wreck of a man's voice is quiet, there's hardly any light in his eyes at all. If Kiritsugu became a broken man after the conclusion of the Fourth Holy Grail War, then Byakuya was shattered into pieces a long time even before that. The only difference being that Kiritsugu managed to find at least some peace in the days before his death, despite his constant failures to rescue his daughter. Byakuya meanwhile will spend the next seven years of his life suffering thanks to Zouken before eventually dying a truly miserable death.

"Of course." You really have nothing to say to the man, he's a lost cause in practically every regard. It's a sad thing, to have so little compassion for your father, but you'll need to prepare your heart if you are to make it through the next ten years. You refrain from asking him about his missing hand, no sense in potentially setting off any Kiritsugu-related PTSD he might have. You follow the man out of the house and into a waiting vehicle, looks like Byakuya hired somebody to drive the two of you to the airport after all.

The journey back to Fuyuki is a relatively uneventful one, and you arrive back at the Matou manor at around noon. You hardly share any words with your father, much to the man's relief, it seems. After informing you of your new sister that was adopted into the family, he didn't say anything else to you. Of course, with the part the man is playing in the... treatment Sakura is receiving, you know exactly why he isn't exactly comfortable with talking about her.

As you pull up to the Matou mansion, you spot Sakura waiting outside the front door, apparently waiting for the arrival of her brother. The girl looks genuinely miserable, her eyes empty of any real emotion and her smile as fake as it could possibly be. She's trying her hardest to disguise the pain she's going through, and it might've fooled the original Shinji, but it won't fool you.

>Simply introduce yourself to Sakura.
>Hug her.
>Just remain silent as you stare at her.
>Write-in...

>>4322205
>Hug her.
There's no holding back

>>4322205
>Hug her.
This is probably a dumb thing to do, but what the heck. We've got to be the one person in her life to give the poor girl some real care and feeling.

>>4322205
>Hug her.
This is definitely a bad idea.

>>4322205
>Simply introduce yourself to Sakura.

Do not make waves.

>>4322205
>Hug her.

>>4322250
Shinji was nice to Sakura until it was revealed that she was the true Matou heir.
Maybe not as nice as hugging her, but he was nice.

>>4322272
Let's make Shinji not a complete waste of human life, please, please...

>>4322205
>Simply introduce yourself to Sakura.

No way in hell that girl wants anyone touching her right now, even if she does deserve a hug more than anyone.

>>4322290
Shit, you're probably right.

>>4322243
Changing my vote to
>Simply introduce yourself to Sakura.

>>4322290
Thank you anon, you have brought clarity to my mind. Maybe we can hug her at a more appropriate time in the future.

>>4322210
I change my vote to
>Simply introduce yourself to Sakura.

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>>4322205
>Simply introduce yourself to Sakura.
I wanna hug her so bad bros but that's not what a girl would want after what she's been through

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Oh.
I forgot to attach the image for Sakura on that last update.

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And here's Shinji right now too, I suppose.

>>4322205
>Hug her.

>>4322325
Go back to hell Satan, I'm already sad as it is.

>>4322325
Man, every image of this girl just radiates despair. If I were Kirei this would be my crack.

>>4322272
not really, he treated her like a guard dog and pitied her cause he thought he was the big swinging dick of the family

>>4322348
Yeah. Nice.

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She’s just tired from playing with the puppies!

>>4322205
>Simply introduce yourself to Sakura.

>>4322284
We went back to live under worm grandpa, we're already a waste of a human life.

>>4322205
>>Simply introduce yourself to sakura
Best not be overly affectionate because zouken could easily turn that around

>>4322205
>>Write-in...
Don't say anything, just walk by her and apply headpats as we pass.

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I'm ready for what's to come

>>4322445
Maybe we can pick up Bajiquan and Taiga Swordarts since we're stuck in Fuyuki.
We should also keep trying to awaken our Magic Circuits, I'd rather not have to rely on Zouken's worm book.

>>4322445
We are going to drag this sadsack rapist to greatness, and we are going to do it with foppery and whim.

>>4322454
the problem with awakening our Magic Circuits is Zouken. He's going to know almost immediately and we're gonna get the pit, basically, our best option would be if we get Magic Circuits, we run away to London or Misaki Town

thinking about it, Zouken might also just kill us later down the road if Sakura does fall for Shinji so she cracks, jesus christ, there's so many fucking bad ends.

>>4322205
>>Simply introduce yourself to Sakura.
Fostering immediate dependence seems bad.

>>4322472
Yeah, that's one of the main reasons I didn't want to go back to Fuyuki. Because it fucks us over so hard development wise.
I mean, we could always spend a few years in Fuyuki and then call Monica and ask if we can apprentice under her. But unless we pick up Taiga Swordarts and/or Baijiquan while we're here, we're just wasting time.

>>4322486
Anon, going to Fuyuki is pivotal to success. Kiritsugu is still alive, we go to his house and convince him to actually teach Shirou (also promising him to save Illya because god fucking dammit he deserves to die happy) and get Rin to become his mentor early on, he'll get a jumpstart on UBW and we'll up our survival chances and gain useful allies. Plus, its not like Zouken will complain if his worthless grandson is courting a Tohsaka with success

>>4322472
We should read all the books we can in the Matou house before we try awakening our Circuits.
Zouken should find it hilarious how hard Shinji is trying and allow us to learn as much as possible.

When does Kuzuki become a teacher?
It may be worth it to learn how to become a walking Magic Circuit from him.

>>4322500
I thought he didn't have any Magic Circuits and Medea just did some magic fuckery to stay alive

>>4322505
His style of matial arts turns his way of existing into a Magic Circuit.

>>4322500
>It may be worth it to learn how to become a walking Magic Circuit from him.
Don't you have to be born with the ability to do that?

>>4322510
If you do, then with Shinji's adaptability it's surely possible for him to accomplish.

>>4322500
also, this would basically be going the canon route because this is what Shinji did when he thought he was the heir, so not too bad to do this.

>>4322496
I'm all for going to Kerry and seeing what we can get out of him. But convincing Kerry of anything will be an uphill battle and I don't think Fuyuki is as pivotal as you believe.
Like I said though, we're here, so we need to try and pick up Baijiquan and Taiga Swordarts before vanishing for a few years before the grail war so we can get magic circuits.

>>4322521
We know the events of his life, it'd be easy to convince him that we know where Shirou is heading and how it might be in his best interest to actually teach him how to effectively use magic.

>>4322521
>>4322532
also Kerry has got some connections that would prove useful down the road if we decide to run away

>>4322535
Yup, Kerry seem like our best bet no matter how I look at it.

>>4322542
I mean, there's always Kirei. Have I mentioned I really want to pick up Baijiquan?

>>4322600
I DON'T WANNA BECOME A MANA BATTERY FOR GIL ANON

Why don’t we get Kiritsugu to blow up the great holy grail

>>4322619
he has magic AIDS

>>4322608
Speaking of Gil, we should add Kogil to our friend circle along with Shirou and Rin.
Also, it'd be fine. We could probably talk him into teaching us just because it'd piss off Zouken.

>>4322625
It’s not bad enough to where he can’t plant some explosives is it?

>>4322633
>it'd piss off Zouken
nah i'm good
>>4322639
i'm not so sure Kiritsugu has enough explosives is the thing, plus, would we really want to do that? Medea can probably fix the Greater Grail or we can just get Saber to destroy it when the time comes

>>4322648
Medea wouldn’t be around to fox the greater grail if we destroy it before she gets summoned

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>>4322619
>>4322639
Kiritsugu actually does plant explosives on a leyline that would destroy the grail, but it would've done so in a few decades.
He's not expecting the war to start in only ten years.
But disregarding Kiritsugu there is another reason that you might want to have the grail remain in a usable condition...

>>4322654
yeah but why would we want to destroy it? Seems pretty neat to get Shirou a waifu

>>4322648
>>it'd piss off Zouken
>nah i'm good
I mean, it's all about playing Kirei and Zouken off each other. I'm pretty sure all of the big fuyuki mages hate the shit out of each other.
We just invite him out, butter him up with some mapo tofu, and talk about how much Zouken sucks.

>>4322679
>and talk about how much Zouken sucks.
We would die before this conversation would end.

Ok I might not be able to get another update done tonight but let me just do a quick vote tally...
>Hug
>>4322229
>>4322257
>>4322333
>Simple introduction
>>4322250
>>4322290
>>4322302
>>4322313
>>4322320
>>4322380
>>4322399
>>4322485
>Drive-by headpat
>>4322403

>Anons talking about collab with Kirei

Guys, betrayal makes him spiritually hard. please think about this.

>>4322711
So does fucking with people and doing his very srsbns job. It'll be fun.

>>4322663
It’s the Kerry philosophy

You have to suppress the urge to just outright walk up to the girl and try to comfort her. With all she's been through so far, the last thing she really needs is for a complete stranger to start laying their hands on her. As much as it pains you to see the girl obviously suffering like this, you'll just have to try to bear with it for now. You can't really go ahead and start acting too strangely just yet, while Zouken himself doesn't give a rats ass about you, he'd definitely notice if you got too attached to your new sister too quickly.

He would also likely use you as leverage over Sakura, if he realizes there's a genuine positive emotional connection between the two of you, he might end up organizing your death just to break the girl even further mentally. In the Matou manor, it's going to be kill or be killed, but unfortunately for you, your opponent is a five hundred year old magus who is almost impossible to actually kill unless you are willing to kill Sakura as well, and killing Sakura... well that's just completely out of the question, the girl doesn't deserve any of the suffering she's forced through. Silently, you once again curse the creator of this world in your head. While it might've made for a good story, actually being confronted with somebody who is suffering so much like Sakura is enough to almost break your heart.

You clench your fist. You have to stay determined, if you allow yourself to falter, then only a Bad End will await you. You've already come to terms that in this new life of yours, death will only ever be one misstep away. You aren't going to let that stop you though. It would probably be wiser for you to just run away from it all. But you mustn't run away. You look the melancholic girl straight in the eye as you introduce yourself, trying to keep the look of pity and sadness out of your own expression. "Hi! You're Sakura right? I heard that you're my younger sibling now, aren't you?" The girl's expression hardly changes, but she does nod slowly. "W-well, if I'm you're older sibling, then that means it's my job to protect you, doesn't it?" The girl looks at you with a tiny amount more intensity, before it once again fades away into that blank look that causes you to feel second hand sorrow for the poor girl.

The girl runs a hand through her hair slowly, stopping as she reaches the ribbon that Rin gave her. "Is that what older siblings are supposed to do?" Is all that she says before she turns around and re-enters the house. You stand there, motionless as you watch the girl walk away. Did you... accidentally remind her of Rin? Her reaction was quite rude, but faulting her for it would be idiotic. You can't help but curse mentally as you realize your mistake. But you aren't about to be deterred by Sakura's complete lack of emotion. Of course, before she was given a breath of life by watching Shirou's magical woman attracting high-jump, she'd still be an emotionless husk. Getting Sakura to start acting like a human being once again is going to be quite a difficult task, and your family name certainly isn't going to help either.

Byakuya doesn't even really pay much attention to the exchange, simply shuffling inside the house like the broken man he is, probably to either indulge himself in his alcoholism or whatever else it is he does in his spare time when he's not busy being Zouken's puppet.

You start to think of just what you ought to do, you might only be an eight year old right now, but with the knowledge you hold, making changes to the future would be simple. You just have to know what to do and when to do it. Even so, you will probably have to be careful not to reveal too much to whoever you end up talking to. For example, telling Rin about what's really going on with Sakura or that Kotomine is the one who murdered her father and was indirectly responsible for her mother's brain death is just going to lead to the young magus to get herself into a situation that will invariably end up with her dying, and probably also your own death, depending on how investigative the person she goes after is feeling.

Of course, you could also visit Kiritsugu, and try to convince him using your knowledge of the future. But he's a truly broken man now, and it might not be possible for you to motivate him. Though you are fairly certain he made repeated attempts to save Illya from her fate as the Einzbern's grail, even despite his constantly worsening condition. Though Kiritsugu is far wiser than Rin is, and attempting to talk with him might just end up with him wondering just how you know everything you do. But then again, how would the man react if you simply told him some embellished version of the truth? Why you could even lie and say you saw it in a vision, or you have some for of Mystic Eyes that allow you to perceive the future and the past of both this timeline and others. Though you aren't sure if anybody would buy the notion of you having mystic eyes like that.

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Then there's the possibility of going to the Emiya residence not for the sake of speaking with Kiritsugu, but for befriending the young Shirou. He is the main character of Fate/Stay Night after all, and with the right guidance, he could be the greatest asset you have for solving the Fifth Holy Grail war. Of course, you don't quite know what sort of reaction EMIYA might have upon seeing Shinji acting so... well, Out of Character. Would the red garbed Counter Guardian just write it off as a quirk of this particular timeline? You don't really know.

Another option would be to visit Fuyuki Church, an idea that you completely dread when thinking with any sort of rationality. While you might be able to ask Kotomine to teach you in the art of self-defense with his admittedly excellent skills with Bajiquan, he's incredibly unpredictable, and might just want to see you suffer somehow. Of all of the options you have laid before you right now, there's not much that you can think that's more dangerous than interacting with Kirei Kotomine. Like Shirou is the main protagonist of Fate/Stay Night. Kotomine is the main antagonist, so actually interacting with the literal psychopath could net you a one way trip to the Fuyuki Church basement.

Well, you're only eight years old, so it might not even be possible to get around Fuyuki city without being stopped and asked where your guardian is. At least you aren't likely to be stopped from going about your business by your actual guardians though, Byakuya is a wreck and Zouken doesn't care about you at all. You suppose you could always head inside the house to try to read the more valuable magical tomes and grimoires of the Matou. Or even to try to cheer up your sister, you aren't really happy with the way that your first encounter with Sakura went at all.

>Go inside the Matou Residence and try reading a few of the grimoires
>Go inside the Matou Residence and try to find Sakura and get her to open up a little (Anything specific you want to tell her?)
>Head to the Tohsaka Residence and try talking to Rin. (Anything you would like to say to try to get her to listen?)
>Head to the Emiya Residence and try talking to Kiritsugu to ensure he assists you. (How much would you like to reveal to try to get him on side? How will you explain your knowledge?)
>Head to the Emiya Residence to instead try to befriend Shirou.
>Head to Fuyuki Church to talk to Kotomine, you're hopeful that the priest wouldn't just strike a child down for his own amusement. (Talk to Kirei about what?)
>Write-in...

>>4322809
>you're older sibling
Kill me.

>>4322814
>Go inside the Matou Residence and try to find Sakura and get her to open up a little (Anything specific you want to tell her?)
I JUST WANT SAKURA TO BE FUCKING HAPPY BROS I CAN'T. Also, it'd be fucking weird to show up to the Tohsaka or Emiya Residence unannounced and say "hey I wanna be friends with you" or "hey, i'm from another universe and i have information that can change your life". We should wait until we actually go to school and befriend Shirou and Rin naturally and hangout at their house

I wanna go bully hunting with Shirou though, first chance we get

>>4322814
>>Head to the Emiya Residence and try talking to Kiritsugu to ensure he assists you. (How much would you like to reveal to try to get him on side? How will you explain your knowledge?)
As far as I'm concerned, this is the only option. I am dying to see how this turns out.

>>4322814
>>4322837

Absolutely agree. Supporting this.

>>4322837
>I JUST WANT SAKURA TO BE FUCKING HAPPY BROS I CAN'T.
I feel you bro.
>Go inside the Matou Residence and try to find Sakura and get her to open up a little (Anything specific you want to tell her?)
Say you can be secret friends, but no one can know.

>>4322814
After that having ACTUAL friendship with Shirou would be nice so we have some backup when talking Kiritsugu aka Kerry aka Kirito.

>>4322811
>before she was given a breath of life by watching Shirou's magical woman attracting high-jump, she'd still be an emotionless husk
Obviously we must begin practicing futile athletics.

>>4322814
>Go inside the Matou Residence and try to find Sakura and get her to open up a little (Anything specific you want to tell her?)
Try to act friendly while staying as much in-character as possible. Basically just try to find out more about her and talk her up the way an actual kid our age would on being suddenly handed a new sibling (without being the kind of prick Shinji would be, of course).
More important than this choice in particular, though, I'd vote for anything to keep us away from Kiritsugu. Nothing good can come of getting involved with him; if we meet Shirou before he's dead, it should be at school only.

>>4322864
>as much in-character as possible
no.

>>4322864
>>4322855
>>4322837
>>4322846
Can we please not paint a target on our back for Zouken after being explicitly told getting too attached would paint a target on our back with Zouken?

>>4322875
Well we don't wanna be a dick to her anon, plus we're probably gonna have to run away or go into hiding eventually if we actually try to jumpstart our magic circuits.

>>4322864
>Try to act friendly while staying as much in-character as possible.
These two are not compatible.

>>4322885
Not being a dick to her is precisely what will get us that target. She'll grow attached because we aren't a dick, then we get worms up the ass.
And no shit we'll have to run away, but you guys wanted to come back to fuyuki, let's not immediately throw that away.

>>4322895
There's a simple solution, all we have to do is kill Zouken

>>4322904
How do you propose we do that as an eight year old with no training, no magic and no support?

>>4322814
>Go inside the Matou Residence and try to find Sakura and get her to open up a little (Anything specific you want to tell her?)
Ask her about herself, what she likes to do, things like that.

>>4322875
If we get far enough into the development of our Reality Marble we should be able to survive any of Zouken's execution attempts.
You can't be nice to Sakura and not make yourself a target for Zouken, and I'd rate being nice above our potential demise.
Besides, he's likely to let our relationship develop for a while before offing us to show Sakura how little control she has.