What's the harm in introducing yourself to Shirou, anyway? It's not like he'll ever betray somebody. "I'm Shinji Matou, I feel like we ought to be friends, Emiya-san." The gold eyed boy looks like he's thinking about something as you suggest being friends, before eventually he gives you a smile. Did he have second thoughts about being the friend of somebody who could attack somebody without any hesitation? Does he even understand that the other boy was going to attack him?

"Alright then, Matou-san. I hope we get along well. But umm... We don't go to the same school, do we? I... don't actually normally walk to school this way. In fact, I don't really know why I came this way...

"Then why don't we meet each other again at this park after school, Emiya-san? I'm sure we could be friends, even if we don't go to the same school." It's not an ideal suggestion, but you don't exactly know the boy well enough to actually ask him where he lives in order to show up to his house. Well, that's not true at all. You probably know the boy better than he knows himself as of right now, and you also know where he lives. But he doesn't know you well enough that suddenly appearing at his house and asking to play wouldn't look... weird. Kiritsugu might be dying, but you aren't about to act suspicious around a man who practically lived his life being wary of others, and having a Matou suddenly show up to his house for very little reason is really just tempting fate in a way you don't want to risk. Though you suppose now is as good a time as any for Sakura to meet Shirou too. "Oi! Sakura! What are you waiting over there for?" Honestly, you have no idea why the girl has just stood gawking at you.

"O-oh! Coming, Onii-chan!" Sakura seems to have been jolted out of some sort of trance as you call her over to you. Seems like she was pretty focused on watching your performance against the bullies, to the point where she was somehow so engrossed in your actions she simply observed even long after the conflict had reached it's end. You're a little concerned by her reaction to watching you beat up those bullies, actually. You might've managed to make her a little too attached to you.

She quickly runs up to you and Shirou, greeting the slightly older boy politely, but otherwise showing no other interest in him. Her eyes fixate only on you throughout the entire conversation. Oh. You've definitely changed something here. Of course you weren't expecting Sakura to just immediately fall in love with Shirou, and a part of you is actually hoping she doesn't end up falling with him to save her the heartbreak when Shirou ends up falling in love with Saber. But to see her almost completely ignore the boy? It feels almost unreal! For the two who had such a touching romance to not even care about the other!

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Even Shirou seems far more interested in talking to you than he does talking with Sakura too! Conversing with you for a while about the meaningless things children talk about until eventually, you are reminded by the time when a fourth voice joins into the conversation. "Shirou-kun! There you are! Why did you run away like that? Now we're both going to be late! Kiritsugu is going to be upset, you know." The Tiger of Fuyuki, Taiga Fujimura, bursts onto the scene! The teenager is dressed in a Homurahara school uniform and would be about sixteen years old or so right now, if your memory serves. She's scolding Shirou pretty badly though, looks like he ran off to try and resolve some injustice going on. What, did his superhero sense kick in or something? It's amazing, you've actually read exactly how Shirou thinks, and the inner workings of his mind are still a complete mystery! How on earth does he even do it?

Taiga squints at you and Sakura, the two of you awkwardly shuffling about as you try to back away from the older woman. You can't win against this woman, she's simply too much. The only option for you is to retreat! "Hey! You two kids! You better not try skipping school again, and you'd especially not try to drag my Shirou into it!" The teenager gives you a stern warning, her serious side shining through a moment. This woman does end up becoming a teacher, after all.

"A-ah. Please, accept my apologies, I was just helping Emiya-san to scare away some bullies!" You tell the woman the complete truth as you make your escape from the playground and head to school. Thankfully, Taiga instead chooses to question Shirou and his own actions than focus any further on you. Allowing you to take Sakura by the hand and make a swift getaway.

Hours later, you find yourself sitting at your desk, having already completely every piece of work set out for you to do and absentmindedly scribbling on a piece of paper. Thinking of what you ought to do next, you begin to start thinking about potential plans and things to get up to before your deadline of the Fifth Holy Grail War. Of course, you're much too young to actually leave the country, at least by yourself. Waver could probably hypnotize anyone asking questions and allow for your escape. But what would you even get up to if you left the country? Try to contact the Einzbern? Try to join the Clock Tower? Simply have Waver tutor you? At such a young age, your options are really quite limited.

Then you remember that you might not even need to leave the country at all. Misaki Town is only ever a train ride away, and while you haven't actually found out what sort of timeline you are in right now, there's almost a guarantee that something interesting is happening in Misaki Town. In fact, if your calculations are correct, about this time should be when Shiki Tohno would have his 'accident' and would end up meeting Aoko Aozaki, the Fifth. If there was an ally that you could possibly want on your side, it would be Aoko. Well, Aoko or Arcueid, but somehow you doubt that convincing Arcueid to come help you out in beating up an Ancient Sumerian asshole is going to be easy. That is if she even exists. Timeline rules really started getting flimsy as the series went along. As of Requiem, you're pretty sure that pretty much anything goes, too.

Of course, you suppose you could always work on meeting Rin, you're going to have to get to know her at some point. You don't know how Sakura might take you going to go and see Rin privately would go down though, so maybe that's not the best idea...

Then of course, you could just work on getting to know Shirou better. You feel like you could be really great friends with the future hero of justice. All you need to do is make sure he doesn't ever get himself into too much trouble.

>See about leaving the country with Waver for a while (Destination?)
>Visit Misaki Town, the chance to meet Aoko is just too big to miss out on!
>Meet Rin. Against your better judgement.
>Continue as you normally would and attempt to befriend Shirou and by extension, Taiga, before focusing on any of these grander plans.
>Write-in...

>>4329870
>Continue as you normally would and attempt to befriend Shirou and by extension, Taiga, before focusing on any of these grander plans.

>>4329870
>>Visit Misaki Town, the chance to meet Aoko is just too big to miss out on!
>>Write-in...
Ask if Waver wants to come. It's less suspicious if we have an older guardian with us.

>>4329870
>Visit Misaki Town, the chance to meet Aoko is just too big to miss out on!
Well fuck, I was thinking of getting Monica to check up on hospital records to see if Shiki had his accident yet, but if we did the calculations, guess this wouldn't hurt

>>4329870
>>See about leaving the country with Waver for a while (Destination?)
my instinct says shirou but i want to see how this turns out

>>4329870
Aoko and work on sakura romance

>>4329863
>You might've managed to make her a little too attached to you
Idk about you guys but I don't wanna leave her for too long now

>>4329912
Too late, worm girl isn't as good as time shotacon.

>>4329915
I know you're right and i voted for Aoko too but goddamn it I don't know if i wanna leave her alone for years at a time now

>>4329870
>Visit Misaki Town, the chance to meet Aoko is just too big to miss out on!
Hopefully our Rosie Cheek lookin ass will draw Aoko out so we won't have to be looking around too long.
Also hot damn I guess Sakura's affections are ours. It's to be expected, but it's also incredibly dangerous.

>>4329920
It's a good think.
We can't have her getting any more attached than she is now, lest her affections get used against us both.

>>4329870
>>Continue as you normally would and attempt to befriend Shirou and by extension, Taiga, before focusing on any of these grander plans.
Just this once, forgo power, acquire Taiga.

Honestly, even if we manage to convince Doctor Who to take us along for the ride, I think we should hold off for a little while and just keep her as a contact same as Waver and Monica. Kerry dies in 3 years, Shirou needs to start learning magic now so he isn't a total burden to Saber and we need to meet with Rin now so if worst case scenario happens, she takes over Shirou's training. Better to cultivate the abilities and relationships of allies that we know will take part in the HGW than try to solve all their problems ourselves

>>4329951
Honestly, since we're here I don't want to leave Fuyuki until I absolutely have to. I'm expecting about 3 to 5 years before the grail war happens zouken will catch on.
Maybe sooner with how Sakura is clinging and getting all yandere.

>>4329962
well meeting Aoko is time sensitive (she's wandering the Earth and this is the only location that we're halfway sure she'll be at) and Misaki town is apparently a train ride away. We don't have to completely leave Fuyuki just yet but if we ever want to meet Aoko and take part in Tsukihime, we have to go now and make a good first impression. And I expected Zouken to use Sakura's affection for us in a more demented way than just holding our life over her

>>4329962
Speaking of not leaving Fuyuki, how long until the next Carnival Moment? It happens every 10 years, so would it be 2000?

>>4329870
>Visit Misaki Town, the chance to meet Aoko is just too big to miss out on!
It's really the only option. Although I'd like it to be a brief visit rather than a long-term thing; abandoning Sakura at this point would be just incredibly cruel.
>>4329943
She's in love with Kiritsugu already. Sorry.
>>4329962
You voted to leave Fuyuki, but you don't want to leave Fuyuki?

>>4329870
>>Visit Misaki Town, the chance to meet Aoko is just too big to miss out on!

>>4329981
>>4329991
Nah, when I say leaving Fuyuki, I mean like apprenticing under Waver or Monica, or going to the Clock Tower. Where we fuck off completely and only return for the Holy Grail War and Tsukihime.

>>4330007
Oh yeah I completely agree with you, I honestly don't want to leave Fuyuki at all but I know we're gonna have to eventually so i'd want to do it until absolutely necessary, there's just way too much to do in Fuyuki

>>4330007
Ah. I definitely agree with you there, then; it seems like it'd be a waste.

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>>4329870
>Visit Misaki Town, the chance to meet Aoko is just too big to miss out on!
Aoko's fine and all, but we should really be aiming for pic related.

>>4329870
>Visit Misaki Town, the chance to meet Aoko is just too big to miss out on!
Keep her as a contact, same as Waver. Maybe a weird magic thing could be used to be able to do so at a 100% success rate? It might come in handy years later when the 5th HGW begins.

>>4329870
>Visit Misaki Town, the chance to meet Aoko is just too big to miss out on!

I hope Aoko can help us activate our magic circuits in such a way as to keep them secret from Zouken. That'd definitely be help on par with giving Shiki his mystic eye killers.

>>4330080
If she helps us in any way, it's probably going to be in relation to being an outsider, or our developing Reality Marble.

do you guys wanna be a Dead Apostle? I feel like I can be convinced but idk yet

>>4330090
For me it would depend on how strong our Reality Marble becomes.
All-Fiction should give us immortality, but I'm not sure how it would effect aging.

Real talk people, when do you guys want to go full monologuing madman and spill the isekai shit to the cast of Fate/Stay Night? During the final days? Facing Gilgamesh and Kirei? Caster and EMIYA?

>>4330090
No

>>4330112
The time will come and we will know it

>>4330112
Spill the beans? Idk, go full monologue? Probably the final fight or to EMIYA

>>4330112
My plan is to wait for the exact moment EMIYA tries his brooding and mysterious shit with his identity, then just go "Sup Shirou" and move on.

>>4330126
I second this that’s a great idea

You think the isekai is ever gonna get explained or will it just be a thing that somehow happened?

>>4330090
Immortality is always good. Not sure if DA is the way to do it, but if we get Sacchin in our camp we'll have a method open. We can be reality marble buddies with her too.
>>4330112
For me the when on that would be never.
>>4330131
Zelretch. There's your explanation.

>>4330120
>>4330121
>>4330126
>>4330137
OK but the question now is what theme will WhatIs make play during the climactic segment?
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL3BF80736D5207A83
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLVnxnKg9Uia9KFrz8Ul4wKNzHtvs4mIsI
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLVnxnKg9Uia_RqUjZqXDx_3AEDwydP-Xu
I can just imagine Shinji doing the laughs during that scenario. Despite being Isekai Bro + Shinji together, he's still Shinji in the end, and Isekai Bro knows it. Maybe in-character he'll go "I've been waiting YEARS for this moment! Its only fair I grandstand a little bit, right?" and give in to the Shinji ranting? Not sure how out of character that would be for this quest though. I just want a big crazy absolute madman monologue while WhatIs describes the sheer shock and horror of every character in the vicinity in a way Nasu would approve of.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s91hCOxDkUk

>>4330158
In the sunlight

>>4329870
>See about leaving the country with Waver for a while (Destination?)
Clocktower
>>4330090
I'm pretty sure that would mean shirou would have a moral obligation to kill us, and he already kind of doesn't like us that much so far, and we don't have tits to seduce him with

>>4330176
>he already kind of doesn't like us that much so far
He was literally hanging on to our every word, same as Sakura

How funny will it be if Sakura ends up resenting Shirou for 'taking Onii-chan away' because we hang out with him too much over the next few years?

>>4329870
>Visit Misaki Town, the chance to meet Aoko is just too big to miss out on!

>>4329870
>Visit Misaki Town, the chance to meet Aoko is just too big to miss out on!

>>4330206
I swear, if that one anon's sakura rape predictions comes true then I'll scream with laughter.
That said let's try to avoid that as much as possible, yes?

>>4330158
I personally like the Fates/City method of theme acquisition where we find songs that aren't in the og soundtrack and aren't being used by other media.
I feel it's best we wait on that though. Get a feel for this stories true tone before we commit to anything.

>>4329870
>Visit Misaki Town, the chance to meet Aoko is just too big to miss out on!
Shotaconwizard please!
>>4329928
Rosy Cheeks vs Tohno Gland
The ultimate battle for dominance over women. Ganbatte, Shinji!
>>4329991
>She's in love with Kiritsugu
Yeah but he dies in three years. Taiga route shall not be locked!
>>4330080
Maybe some sort of magical gizmo that hides all the magical energy produced by somebody? That would be super useful, actually.
>>4330112
>Caster
I kinda want to save Caster.
Imagine bringing her along to Tsukihime to shit on everyone with no Magic Resistance. As for the monologue, meh. I'd rather not reveal our Threat to Humanity status to Alaya. We're practically a Foreigner and I'd rather not be GRAND'd
>>4330158
Knowing WhatIs, probably Castlevania music.
>>4330090
We'd need to research a method to become one. Or have Atari Dumbledore drink our blood after putting down Roa to make us a Super Dead Apostle.
But yeah, Arc would try to kill us for going the Apostle route.
Let's just hope our All Fiction works like Kumagawa's to give us immunity to aging.

>>4330899
>Yeah but he dies in three years. Taiga route shall not be locked!
If Aoko wasn't so vital I'd go for hanging out with Taiga.
Sexy Teacher Route would be amazing.

Guys, now that we have functioning Magic Circuits, since we're a Matou by bloodline won't we get the command seals instead of Sakura?

>>4330899
If we got something that could mask Magical Energy that would be seriously nice, we'd be able to experiment with our Magic Circuits freely.

I'd like to Caster too, if she gets summoned again.
If we have Kuzuki mentor us in the snake style, we could introduce them too.

I'm not concerned by having to research how to become a DA, since it took 8 year old Shinji a few days to figure out how to create bounded fields, I'm sure he can figure it out if he has time.
Becoming a target and losing the ability to go out during the day would suck alot though.

I hope our All-Fiction will include the ability Kumagawa had to erase anything, including concepts, that would be so useful.

>>4330916
>Taiga the sexy teacher route.
Did we read the same VN?

>>4330923
Taiga Fujimura is an English teacher, or will be soon enough.
She is also damn sexy.
Sexy Teacher Route.

>>4330930
She's more cute than sexy to me.

>>4330934
>She's more cute than sexy
That distinction doesn't stop Illyafags god bless their souls, so it's not gonna stop me either!
Taiga. Can. Get. This. Dick!
End of story.

>>4330937
But Illya is both cute AND sexy.

I will FUCK Taiga

>>4330940
True, but so is Taiga if you ask me.
It's Fates damn it! What girl isn't cute and sexy?
Have you seen Saber eat a burger?
It's all semantics at the end of the day.

>>4330948
Sexiness tends to be displayed by maturity, while cuteness tends to be displayed by childishness.
It's not semantics at all.

>>4330950
You know what, fair.
That aside, as far as I'm concerned and like I've been trying to say, fates girls are all a bit cute and a bit sexy. The ratio may vary. And while you may disagree, I think Taiga is sexy enough to make the Sexy Teacher name valid.

>>4330957
Sexy:
Rin>Rider>taiga>Kotomine kirei>everyone else
Cute:
Saber>illyasviel>Mitsuzuri>Makidera gang>Makidera >Sakura

>>4330968
Putting Sakura at the bottom is a very brave move seeing how this quest has been going.

>>4330968
Sakura imo has that perfect mix of cute and sexy

>>4330968
I feel that this tier list is almost a transgression against humanity.

>>4330972
I want her to be happy doesn’t mean I think she’s hot.

>>4330976
I want to pin Makidera down before she can run away

So... this... is the power of autism...

>>4331001
You have seen NOTHING

>Continue as you normally would
>>4329885
>>4329943

>Visit Misaki and ask Waver if he wants to come
>>4329886
>Visit Misaki
>>4329891
>>4329910 (I think?)
>>4329928
>>4329991
>>4330000
>>4330064
>>4330075
>>4330077
>>4330422
>>4330534
>>4330899

>Leave the country
>>4329895
>>4330176

We have a very clear winner.
Seems Aoko is quite popular.

Would suddenly going to another town set up a miniscule red flag for Shitty Worm Grandpa? Or is he just eternally off in "I don't give a shit" land?

>>4331054
Guess we'll find out.

>>4331050
yeah really shocked that the time traveling shotacon in vampire land is popular

>>4331054
Depends how long we stay, if its for like a day, i doubt he gives a shit, if its longer, then he might be turning his head

>>4331054
If we're gone for too long he'll notice our omega circuits and then we'll probably have to run for good

>>4331054
Work grandpa does not give a shit about us at all.

>>4331054
>Or is he just eternally off in "I don't give a shit" land?
Right now, he's eternally off in "I don't give a shit" land, because he still thinks we're useless trash. Doesn't mean we should let our guard down, but it gives us leeway to do things like a trip to Misaki Town without anyone caring.

>>4331050
>Nobody else wanted a brotrip with Waver.
Can we at least bring Shirou?

>>4331095
Tfw nobody wants to be friends with waver

>>4331095
Shirou still has a dad that's alive and cares about him

>>4331098
It's fine, we'll call it an extended learning expedition as we go and learn about our neighboring town.

>>4330916
>Taiga
>Sexy
Anon, I... I don't understand. Like the other guy said, did we read the same VN? She's a great character, and I've always liked her, but she's definitely written to have a purely platonic, comedy relief appeal.
>>4330940
Cute and funny, and sexy. Don't forget.
>>4330968
This is a travesty and I'll say no more to you, sir.
>>4331095
>Can we at least bring Shirou?
Can we not?

>>4331122
>Can we not?
No. Justice Buddies forever.

>>4331123
Buddies, fine, but this justice thing has me worried. We're not an obsessive wannabe hero with a holy sheath in our chest. Let's leave the justice to the guy who builds his whole life around it and just focus on getting our happy end.
For the record, I wouldn't want to take Shiki back to Fuyuki either. Bringing the canon protagonists out of their towns just feels wrong.

>>4331128
>just focus on getting our happy end
No, everyone gets their happy ending, Shirou doesn't die alone in Syria

>>4331132
He doesn't need our help not to, anon. I'd like to know just why you think it's even a risk. The only timeline where that happens is the Archer timeline, so if EMIYA gets summoned he's fine.
He got like 6 different happy endings with Shinji as his concerted enemy, remember?

>>4331128
Do we not want justice? We may not be as autistically obsessed with the idea as Shirou is, but we want justice for the friends who had bad ends and to bring about good ends for them.
Justice Buddies fits us just fine.

>I wouldn't want to take Shiki back to Fuyuki either.
Speaking of, anyone opposed to a Justice Buddies anime night? We can invite Shirou, Waver, Shiki and Arc. Just like shit so we can hang out and get people who'd never interact to interact.

>>4331134
there's still a chance and i don't want that to happen

>>4331135
We can be magic boys and wear embarrassing outfits

>>4331138
Nah man, magical boys wear cool outfits, magical girls wear embarrassing outfits. Unless there's some genderswapping shit going on, then we'll end up in the tiny miniskirt.

>>4331148
and we'lll ROCK THAT MINISKIRT

>>4331135
Jesus Christ. I really don't get your thinking. Trying to take care of your friends is just normal human behavior. No ridiculous nickname or justice-labeling required.
And no, I'm not in favor of getting Shirou, Waver, Shiki, and Arcueid in a room just for the sake of having them watch TV and recreating Carnival Phantasm shenanigans.

>>4331152
>And no, I'm not in favor of getting Shirou, Waver, Shiki, and Arcueid in a room just for the sake of having them watch TV and recreating Carnival Phantasm shenanigans.
coward

>>4331149
We can always pick up that magic stick and see what happens.

>>4331152
>And no, I'm not in favor of getting Shirou, Waver, Shiki, and Arcueid in a room just for the sake of having them watch TV and recreating Carnival Phantasm shenanigans
Who gave you the funectomy.

>>4331162
I'd say it was the guy calling us justice buddies, because aside from the whole Shijou/justice thing I've been having plenty of fun with the quest.
Derailing Tsukihime as well as Waver's life to have a get-together would be a colossal waste of time and effort, though, and I bet Shirou considers anime to be for the insufficiently heroic. Just like alarm clocks.

>>4331170
>Derailing Tsukihime as well as Waver's life to have a get-together would be a colossal waste of time and effort
Get off the canon rails anon. We've already started to blow them apart, there's no reason to stick to them.
Until Waver leaves Fuyuki he's not doing anything important enough that an anime night will disrupt and Tsukihime doesn't actually start until right before the fifth and after the fifth, tsukihime will be over so who gives a shit and Lord El-Melloi II would probably enjoy an anime/game night.
Or are you worried about violently disrupting that good long stretch of years between now and the fifth where nothing happens with an anime night?

>I'd say it was the guy calling us justice buddies
Multiple anons are having fun with the idea and using that name. You are literally the only person sperging about it.

Of course, your best option would be to try finding Aoko in Misaki town. Even if it's a doomed effort brought about by separate timelines, the potential payoff is such that simply looking into things couldn't hurt. Annoyingly, the internet just isn't at a point where you can really look up the information you want, even after you saved up and purchased quite an expensive PC, you haven't really managed to get much use out of it yet, you couldn't even confirm if the Tohno existed!

You suppose it doesn't hurt to have a computer though, at some point, the internet is going to become a vital source of information for you, even if it's currently over two decades out of date compared to what you're used to. A smirk comes to your face as you consider the possibility of recreating some of the most important and popular sites on the internet before they are actually created. You could practically monopolize social media! Those thoughts should really come for later though. Personal wealth will be immensely easy for you to amass anyway, even if all you did was just buy thousands of bitcoins while they were still worthless and sold them at their peak, you could still effortlessly become a billionaire. Hell, you could even exploit the upcoming financial crash to make serious cash too, but that's after the Fifth War anyway and if things have a positive conclusion after that war, then the rest of your life would be completely effortless.

Still, thoughts on how to gain huge amounts of money aren't all that relevant anyway, not unless you can bribe Zouken to death. Well, that's not entirely true... You suppose you could hire quite a powerful hit-squad of elite freelancers to take out the worm if you had enough money. Maybe it would even be possible to find somebody capable of extracting the heart worm from Sakura in a way that doesn't put her life in danger! Though the biggest problem with gaining money is that... well... you're ten years old, and most avenues for actually making money are sealed off to you unless you were to somehow rope Waver into a money making scheme.

You bring your mind back to Misaki Town, and of the possible prospect of meeting Aoko Aozaki and the young Shiki Tohno. Shiki would be a great ally to have on your side, whether he could kill Servants or not. The Mystic Eyes of Death Perception are just completely broken, even if Shiki's physical abilities aren't exactly the most consistent. Chalk it up to Nasu making martial arts and 'assassin training' overpowered. Saber would attest to that, you're sure.

>>4331178
I want every character to be happy and be friends because I genuinely care about these characters. Backing up what you’re saying basically

Eventually, you finish the school day, getting perfect marks as usual despite not actually paying any attention to your teacher or the lesson. Your very existence is beginning to make your teacher seethe, especially when you smirk at her upon handing in whatever work it is that needed doing after spending only a few minutes actually filling it out or working on it. Some people just can't stand those more naturally talented than they are, and if there's one thing in Shinji's credit, it's that he was indeed very intelligent when it came to matters not related to magic. That intelligence seems to have interacted really quite strangely with your own and you feel like even if you didn't already know the answers to the vast majority of questions you are asked, actually figuring them out would be a nearly effortless task.

Now that you've decided on heading to Misaki town, you really ought to decide on just how you want to go about heading to the town. Of course, you'll probably end up getting the train, but there's always the chance that you'll get stopped by an adult for trying to travel without supervision, and you might not be able to just talk your way out of it either. But then again, the only adult you can trust to help you out is Waver, well, you suppose you could ask Monica if she could act as your guardian for a couple of days. You do have about two million yen saved up, after all.

Then there's also the question of how long you should actually spend in Misaki Town. You don't really want to leave Sakura alone for too long, but it really might be for the best to give her something of a break from you. You've noticed that she does seem to be getting really attached to you recently, and that's the sort of thing that would allow Zouken to gain an advantage over her mentally. Though Sakura isn't stupid, and neither are you. You've tried to keep your positive relationship less obvious in appearance whenever Zouken might've been watching the two of you. It's really some sort of unspoken thing between the two of you. You're glad that Sakura understands, at least.

Even so, you don't want to leave her alone for too long. If you've truly become the only light in the girl's life, then leaving her in the dark at Zouken's mercy isn't something you really want to do for a very long time. She's counting on you, after all. But it's because she's counting on you that you need to actually do this. If Aoko is truly there, then she can provide you with some true guidance as to what you ought to do. Especially if she's as much of a shotacon as she appears to be, if that truly does turn out to be the case then your well-refined boyish charms will once again serve you incredibly well. If there's one thing that you would like for Aoko to do for you though, it's to give you a way to begin actively practicing magic without the possibility of Zouken finding out what you are up to.

>>Double Vote
>Go to Misaki Town
>>Alone
>>With Waver
>>With Monica
>Write-in...
and
>Plan your trip to Misaki Town for
>One day
>Three days
>One week
>Two weeks
>Write-in...

>>4331178
Since your idea assumes Shiki and Arcueid will be together, and they won't be during that "good long stretch of years," we can toss that out first of all.
I have no idea what Lord El-Melloi II would enjoy, but considering he'll presumably be living in England at that point, calling him back to Japan for a dinner and TV night seems more than a little insane. If he's still living in Fuyuki, sure! Do whatever.
As for after the 5th, I really don't care what we do then. It's the end of the VN, so I'd expect it to be the end of this quest. If it isn't, we can waste all the time we want, naturally. After the 5th is the best time for Carnival Phantasm-like shenanigans to happen, after all.

>>4331178
Also, drop the "you just want to ride the canon rails!" crap. It's nonsense. I voted for going to Misaki Town, I was the first person in the last thread to suggest learning from Aoko, and I've been suggesting we make our own story separate from any of the FSN routes. I'm not trying to keep us constrained within canon. But these people have their own lives, live in different countries or parts of the country, and have no actual reason to be friends with each other except for fan sentiments like >>4331190.

>>4331196
>Go to Misaki Town
>>Alone
>Plan your trip to Misaki Town for
>>Three Days

>>4331196
>>>With Waver
>three days

>>4331196
ah fuck this vote is actually hard uh
>Alone
>Three Days
I feel like if we go any longer then we're gonna cause some problems and make Zouken actually pay attention to us, and I feel like its gonna be suspicious as fuck if we show up with a magic hitman or a Magus

>>4331205
Might be better to switch to With Monica, actually. This is a bit uncertain.

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>>4331196
>>>With Waver
>>Write-in...
With Shirou

>>Three days

>>4331197
>It's the end of the VN, so I'd expect it to be the end of this quest.
Goddamn, the egotistical audacity of this sentence. I bet WhatIs is happy you're here to decide when his quest ends for him.

Even if we don't have Arc yet, we can still invite Shiki over. We're at the perfect opportunity to meet him and try and spark a friendship before tsukihime starts.

>I have no idea what Lord El-Melloi II would enjoy
I can see that. Pic related.
He is so stressed, his sole hobby is video games. To the point he buys them, plays through and then send surveys. Dude would probably embrace a hang out night.

>and have no actual reason to be friends with each other except for fan sentiments
Not in canon because they never met. This is why I keep saying you're riding the canon rails.
But we're here, we can literally connect and introduce all these people and get a friendship going that would have never happened in game. That's part of fun of an isekai quest.

>>4331202
Shut the fuck up nerd

>>4331217
The amount of bad personal qualities you're willing to ascribe to me just because we disagree is staggering. Expecting one team or another to win a baseball game doesn't mean I believe I'm controlling it. Expecting the quest to end when the original story doesn't mean I'm deciding how anything should go. All it means is that I'll be surprised if it turns out differently.

>>4331229
Shut the fuck up nerd

>>4331239
Both of you, why are you so angry about this? Disagreeing with another player on where you want a quest to go isn't just a total non-issue, it's pretty much an inevitability. Why not try dialing back the investment a little bit?

>>4331242
You invite it. Watch how you squirm

>>4331196
>Go to Misaki Town
>With Waver
We need backup, and Waver IS that backup.
>Three days
Any longer and Zouken will notice and Sakura will get even sadder.

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This quest keeps making me want to give Sakura a happy life, this must be what Shirou felt

>>4331229
>Expecting the quest to end when the original story doesn't mean I'm deciding how anything should go.
The original story doesn't end there and we've already potentially got Tsukihime involved, which possibly involves Kara no Kyoukai. Assuming we're going to end at the end of FSN is kind of silly.

>>4331196
>With Monica
>One week

>>4331245
Now that's just funny.
>>4331252
Can't say I disagree.
>>4331254
We'll see. To my knowledge Tsukihime takes place before FSN, so I hadn't really factored that in; unless you were hoping to follow Shiki and Arc on their vampire hunting adventures from the abortive Tsukihime 2 plot. I haven't read the Kara no Kyoukai books, so I'll take your word that they're inextricably tied to the events of Tsukihime and continue on after that game's timeframe.

>>4331265
>unless you were hoping to follow Shiki and Arc on their vampire hunting adventures from the abortive Tsukihime 2 plot
I would not mind being bros with Dante from Devil May Cry personally

>>4331265
Kara no Kyoukai is before Tsukihime. It's already happened, but still.
There's still the events of Melty Blood however that we could get involved in. We could also get involved in the Lord El-Melloi II Case Files but I think that happens concurrently with Tsukihime so we'd have to pick.

I wouldn't mind vampire hunter adventures with Shiki and Arc though.

>>4331284
Here's an idea. After the War we move to England, join the Clock Tower, and try to start the Matou up again as a less horrible magus family. See how well we can do in the Mages' Association. That'd also give us more of a chance to continue the friendship with Waver we've started now, and keep tabs on Rin and Shirou if they end up in a UBW-esque ending there, without riding anyone else's plot coattails. Thoughts?
Bonus points for merging the Einzbern and Makiri if we've married Illya by this time.

>>4331284
>Taking place 10 years after the events of Fourth Holy Grail War and 2 months before the events of Fate/stay night
depending on how WhatIsA handles the timeline, we'd basically be able to do all of these adventures in quick succession, kinda like a boss rush

>>4331287
>Bonus points for merging the Einzbern and Makiri if we've married Illya by this time.
doing this actually in some weird fucked up way honors Zouken who had the hots for Justeaze

>>4331290
See? We'd even be being a good grandson. It's the perfect plan.

Hot take: kill all Mages

>>4331296
You, Gilgamesh, and Kirei

>>4331287
What if we marry Luvia Edelfelt instead and agree to each take one child to carry on the family name.

>>4331288
I'm up for Case Files/Tsukihime/FGW boss rush.
Anyone else feel like going to beat up ORT while we're at it?

>>4331300
>marry Luvia Edelfel
Bleh. I'd rather leave her to get into catfights over Shirou with Rin.
Seriously, though, what do you think of joining the Clock Tower after the the fifth HGW? I think it's probably the best life path for Shinji.

Okay so I'm researching the timeline, Tsukihime takes place in mid October until November, FSN begins on January 31st (Though it might begin a little earlier as we're likely to teach Shirou how to be a proper Magus and he'll summon Saber on his own) and Case Files takes place 2 months before the events of FSN. So basically, we go to Misaki town to do our vampire stuff, Case Files to help Waver do his magic crime solving and FSN a little before it begins. This is fucking hard mode guys

>>4331196
>With Monica
>One week

>>4331304
>Shirou with Rin
first off, Shirou is for Saber

>>4331304
>not liking Blonde Rin.
Disgusting.

>>4331314
Are we going to try and introduce Waver and Kerry to Gray early to try and cure Kerry?

>>4331196
>alone
>with Monica
I'm interested in what her abilities are. We can also flex our shota charm and circuits on her.
Also, why don't we just take Arc for ourselves? It's not like a Shirou-Saber situation where they complete eachother at all, and All-Fiction ought to be enough to catch Arc's Eye. She's also one of the heroines who are happy to share the protagonist.
Akiha is a better match for Shiki anyway.
>>4331252
She's heading straight down the path of brocon yandere.
The best path.
>>4331287
I wouldn't mind creating the most powerful magus family of all. Shouldn't we also have that sorcerous trait from Shinji's mother?
>>4331288
Overworked Shinji's life is suffering.
>>4331290
Zolgen was a cool dude, he's just turned evil because immortality in Nasuverse makes you act like a dick except when it doesn't.
>>4331296
Suicide is a sin.

>>4331196
>With Monica
>Three days

>>4331322
Its worth a shot, chances seem kinda low but we gotta try even if its a longshot. Its the right thing to do to try our best to save Kerry

>>4331314
I feel like if we do that we'll be so broken by the time we actually get to the Grail War that it'll have no danger at all. To quote somebody from the last threat, it'll be a playground, not a battlefield. Just throwing that out there.

>>4331320
UBW Good, my man.

>>4331322
>Blonde Rin
What does Extra have to do with this?
>cure Kerry
Please, God, no.

>>4331323
You need to vote for a timeframe, you've got alone and with monica.
>Also, why don't we just take Arc for ourselves?
Could be fun, although Satsuki is still Tsukihime's best girl.

>>4331287
>>4331300
>>4331304
If we were to play magical Crusader Kings Reines is probably the best bet from a political standpoint.

>>4331336
well i'm greedy and want Rin too, also i'm morbidly interested in the drama with her and Sakura

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>>4331336
>I feel like if we do that we'll be so broken by the time we actually get to the Grail War that it'll have no danger at all.
Potentially, but I trust WhatIs to not make it that easy for us. Elegy of Inheritance has shown he can handle a powerful protag well.

>What does Extra have to do with this?
What? I'm confused as to where Extra comes in on this.
Luvia is Blonde Rin. Because she is literally a blonde Rin appearance wise and is used as a mirror to Rin in alot of fate shit.

>Please, God, no.
Please, god, yes.

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>>4331343
>He doesn't know about blonde rin
Anon...I

>>4331343
Tohsaka Rin is shown to be blonde in the ending of Fate/Extra. It's a joke.

>>4331344
>>4331345
Oh, I actually didn't know about those. Gotta tick off another Rin for the Rin box then.

Also guys, can we please bring Waver? I'd really like to get him some connections with the Fifth.

>>4331347
>can we please bring Waver?
It's Monica or nobody for my money. Sorry. I like the idea of young Shinji doing all his work by manipulating older women with peculiar interests, and I think the most practical choice is to go alone.

>>4331347
It's a tough choice, but I'd like to know more about what's up with Monica. We'll have time to chill with Waver soon enough I'm sure.

>>4331196
>>4331205
Changing my vote to:
>Go to Misaki Town
>>With Monica
>Plan your trip to Misaki Town for
>>Three Days
There just aren't enough others voting to go alone.

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>>4331337
But the legendary Illya route, anon! The only better match we could find than the Holy Grail personified would be a girl with some kind of direct connection to the Root!

>>4331196
>With Waver
>Three days
Intorducing Waver to the really weird shit of the Nasuverse'll give him a leg up in his Case Files days plus I think if we bring Monica we'll fall into the classic Tsukihime situation of "I'm a badass waifu, you're a badass waifu, now we fight to the death"

You know what I'm gonna say it.
Fuck Rin. Fuck Saber. And yes Fuck Sakura.
I love them all to bits n back. I want them to be as happy as possible. But why are we out here trying to go for Main Route girls anyway?
Illyafags are on the right track, we need to be out here carving out new ground!
Let's get Satsuki in here, let's get Luvia in here, and I'm already on that Taigai train!
New Pussy Only!

>>4331196
>Go to Misaki Town
>With Waver
>Three days

>>4331367
Talk like that will make the sakura rape prophecy come true

>>4331367
That's how you get Yandere Sakura anon, she's gonna do to you what Canon!Shinji did to her with that talk

>>4331367
We just want her to be happy

>>4331383
>>4331390
Hush, it'll be fine!
What's wrong with having a normal brother and sister relationship? Can't we be the one anime related thing that gets that right? A pair of siblings that have a proper sibling bond?
Is that too much to asks for?
If not, then fine. I'm just saying not to pussy out of fresh new romantic routes because you're afraid of a little rape.

>>4331196
With Monica and three days

>>4331196
>With Monica
>Three days

I'm going to laugh 'til I bust a gut if after all this hype and buildup by players we get to Misaki Town and the Tohno family doesn't exist because Fate/Stay Night and Tsukihime are different timelines after all. It'd be incredible.
Aoko should still be there regardless of whether the rest are, though, so it won't be a wasted trip.

>>4331367
Admirable sentiment, anon. Even if I don't see the appeal of Taiga, I like the way you think.
It's too late to dodge the quasi-incestuous relationship with Sakura, though, that thing's cast and set up.

>>4331409
It'd build character at least

>>4331196
With Monica 3 days

>>4331323
>>4331196
Oops I am dumb.
>With Monica
>Three Days
>>4331337
I'd argue that breeding with Arc would create the strongest offspring.
Well Manaka too I guess. Her circuits are astronomically high quality.
>>4331344
Ereshkigal is just possessing SN Rin with ancient sumerian hair dye.
>>4331357
I wonder if Manaka and Isekai Shinji would get along. A girl connected to the Root and a boy originating from outside of the Root. Like starcrossed lovers.
>>4331409
Time to buy a chastity belt.

>>4331424
>Like starcrossed lovers.
Exactly! Now we just need to figure out how to use our marble to pull her out of Prototype.

>>4331409
lets get taiga instead. If ten year old us can get kendo taiga then we can do anything

You know what, I'm willing to switch to Monica if we bring Shirou along.
Also, if we do end up bringing Monica, we need to impress upon her the secrecy of this mission.
She is not to tell anyone. I don't care if Zouken is putting dick worms up her butt. NOT A WORD.

>>4331465
I see no reason to bring Shirou along because we're not gonna be there for long anyway, plus we literally JUST met him, Kerry isn't gonna fucking let his 10 year old son randomly leave for a few days

Fuck Shirou this is our story. We can be friends but he doesn't have to a part of everything we do.

>>4331470
Especially with a Matou

>>4331465
Why would kiri knowingly let his son wander around with a fucking matou
Does he want shirou to get the pit?

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>>4331473
>this is our story

>>4331196
>Go to Misaki Town
>>With Waver
>Three days

>>4331473
Thanks.

>>4331196
> with monica
> three days

Winds blowing this way and I think we could use a better relationship with Monica, as shes an outside context player when it comes to Fuyuki.

>bitcoin
>financial crash

financial crash upcoming is the tech bubble, Asian currency crash, and 9/11. buttcoins isnt a thing until 2008 or so, which is 4 years after canon 5th, and online investing isn’t really a thing in the late 90s early 2000s. Good luck buying into American stonks as a kid living in Japan

>>4331520
Sports betting through an adult proxy it is!

>>4331520
Yes, the crash he mentioned as well as Bitcoins were referring to just how many options he has for making some huge amounts of money.
Half tempted to give you Golden Rule (Investment): A

>>4331520
You can fuck around with patents.

>>4331531
I meant to specify those are the two biggest that come to mind. He is aware generally of what can make money.

>>4331525
The Fujimuras are literally yakuza, I’m sure you can offer service in money laundering and investment while keeping everything in the downlow

>>4331582
So I guess taking taiga by force isn’t an option

>>4331593

Why was that on the table you sick bastard, we are trying to make our boy less of a rapist not more

>>4331598
I would do anything for taiga, even things she doesn’t want

>>4331617
So what you're saying is we dress her up in a set of full body hoodie tiger pajamas and make her say
>GAO~!

>>4331624
Yes

>>4331189
>waiting until 2008
>not investing in the early dot coms
the adventures of day-trader Shinji.

>>4331196
>Three Days
>Monicake

>>4331630
Extra timeline did have him as an 1337 haxxorz, so computer literacy to do day trading is probably a thing even if he doesn’t have isekai power

>>4331531
I feel like we should deserve Golden Rule

>>4331582
Taiga is literally a Yakuza princess, pretty sure her Grandpa is how Kerry has so many fucking guns and bombs

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>>4331727
Yakuza or no yakuza she’s a princess. Who could say no to her?

>>4331687
>>4331727
So begins the legend of The Boy With Far Too Much Money.
>>4331741
Truth.

>>4331741
>Those eyes
That reminds me.

Neco-Arc Chaos when?

>>4331748
When we meet Luvia, we should invite her over so we can have money fights.

>>4331758
>I’ll pick you up on my gold plates Rolls Royce
>oh good, I reserved us a Private room on this exclusive 3 Michelin star restaurant
>what a coincidence, I was just in the process of buying out its parent company
>Let me make a call to Tsukiji, they just caught an S grade Bluefin tuna this morning that they can fly here for the main course
>Funny you say that, my Russian supplier mentioned that this year’s Beluga caviar harvest is fantastic, I’ll have them fly them in too
>Let me call my vault, I’m sure they have some 19th century vintage to pair it with

Dinner Date of one-upmanship that ends the night with bills that can bankrupt most small nations, with Rin just watching in the sidelines

We should invest in Google, its 1996 and Google is created 2 years from now

>>4331888
Unless you are a potential investor in Silicon Valley, you’re not gonna get opportunity in investing in Google until its IPO in 2004

Shit like this is the reason why you will never have Golden Rule stat

If you're going to go to Misaki Town, then you'll definitely need somebody to act as your guardian, if only for the sake of getting there and booking a hotel. Well, and for the fact that Misaki town is a very dangerous place. There's always something magical or dangerous happening in Misaki.

Though that does beg the question, what was Aoko actually doing in Misaki Town at the time anyway? You remember her telling Shiki she had some sort of business she needed to attend to, but you haven't really much of an idea as to what she could've been referring to. Hopefully she wasn't dealing with some dangerous entity that had popped up in the town. You shiver at the thought of somehow managing to run into some sort of Dead Apostle Ancestor just wandering the streets of Misaki.

Well, only Roa should be around anyway, and he should be safely locked in the Tohno basement right now... Hold on, if you do meet Shiki, couldn't you just tell him to go into the basement and stab SHIKI in a death point? No, no. It's incredibly unlikely that the ten year old Shiki would so willingly murder SHIKI on your words alone. Not to mention how much scrutiny you would be under from revealing that knowledge. It pains you that you can't really help the maids at the Tohno mansion as you are right now. You can sympathize with Hisui after living two years in the Matou household, with Sakura undergoing the same sort of terrible mistreatment as Kohaku. Again, assuming that anyone is around at all. This is all basically just built about a hunch anyway. You do remember something about how the Human Order allowing Servants to be summoned and Arcueid being created were somehow fundamentally incompatible. But hey, stranger things have happened than the timeline being some sort of paradoxical impossibility according to the author. After all, you exist here, don't you?

You spend some time wandering around the streets of Fuyuki after school, with Sakura following your every footstep like she's some kind of obedient puppy. She was never like this before, so what could've caused her to have suddenly started acting so bizarrely around you? Whatever, you hope whatever is going on with her right now isn't any indication of what Zouken is doing to her. You know that Sakura has the willpower to last at least ten years under the mental torture of that old worm bastard, but you can't help but think that your actions may have caused some sort of divergence in the timeline, changing the future you are familiar with to something else entirely. Damn butterfly effect. You suppose that changing the future is really going to be an inevitable consequence of well, existing.

You eventually find your target, a phone booth. It's time for you to make a call, you think. You've got somebody that is in her own words quite willing to help you out, you only hope that your savings are enough to lure the freelancer over to Japan. It's not like you're asking her to go hunt some rogue magus or a dead apostle though, so really, you hope she's not planning on charging your thousands of dollars for basically just acting as your guardian for a few days. "Hold on just a moment Sakura. I need to make a call to somebody." You quickly enter the phone-booth before allowing her to ask you any questions on what exactly you're doing.

You keep putting 100 yen coins into the booth until you're satisfied that you aren't about to get cut off mid call with Monica. Sakura looks a bit annoyed that you've ducked into the phone booth and she's forced to wait around outside for you to make your call, especially considering that you haven't actually given her a reason for suddenly needing to make a phone call. You'll have to make one up, you suppose. You can't exactly tell Sakura that you're contacting a magical freelancer to hire for the sole purpose of accompanying you to a nearby town so that you can meet the Fifth True Magician and also confirm whether or not the events of Tsukihime occur in this timeline. Very few people in this universe wouldn't simply write you off as insane for uttering such things, and even they would be a little confused by your terminology.

The phone dials a few times before a familiar voice picks up. "You've reached Monica, do you have an appointment or are you looking to book an appointment?" She's really quite cheerful as she greets the unknown speaker, seems she knows the potential danger that phones represent to the secrecy of magic in general. Also, just introducing yourself as a killer for hire to anybody that calls you would just be careless.

"Hello again Monica, it's me, Shinji. Shinji Matou. You remember me, right?" You answer Monica in perfect English. You don't want there to be any chance for there to be any misunderstandings over the line, and for a genius like yourself, it wouldn't have been impossible to have taught yourself to be fluent in English in two years anyway.

"Oh! Shinji? You can speak English now? You sound almost fluent!" Monica seems happy to hear from you. "But... what are you calling about? You don't actually want me to... get rid of somebody for you, do you?" Seems that she's immediately going to get down to business, even when the person calling her is only a child. You suppose that in the world she lives in, a child wanting to hire somebody like her to get rid of somebody isn't that unusual. Goodness, it occurs to you what a bloodthirsty world the world of magical politics must be, when you think about it.

"No... No, it's nothing like that, Miss Monica. I just wanted to know when the earliest you could get to Japan is, are you free?" There's no sense in continuing the conversation if she's occupied with other missions and contracts, after all.

"I mean, I'm not busy, so I could probably get there by tomorrow if it was urgent, why?" Now that's a relief, looks like you were right to see if Monica was able to help you after all.

"I find myself in need of... a guardian." You hesitate at the end there, it's really quite embarrassing to need somebody to look after you, even if you have almost no need for somebody to look after you at all. Society at large doesn't exactly take into account hyper-intelligent children. Or people with the appearances of children and the minds of adults. You wish you had maids like Sella and Leysritt that you could just have act as your guardians. But alas, such creations like near-perfect homunculi are restricted to the Einzbern family and them alone. Oh, and those Yggdmillennia thieves have somewhat decent skills at creating homunculi in timelines where they are relevant... Which certainly doesn't include this one. That's one thing you're certain of.

"A guardian? Why, is there somebody after your life? Why didn't you say so earlier, Shinji? I've half the mind to give you an even bigger discount than I was intending to!" Why is she planning on giving you a discount anyway? It's not exactly good business practice to give discounts to everyone.

"N-no. Not that kind of guardian, Miss Monica. I need somebody to help me leave my city for a few days... say three, without arousing suspicion. It's quite difficult to move about freely and I'm likely going to be having something of a... disagreement about the future of my family with my father and... grandfather, soon."

"Oh! Say no more, Shinji. I think I understand what you're getting at now. So, you just need me to act as your official guardian for a few days then? Is there any danger involved, do you know?" She quickly corrects herself, probably just a little embarrassed about her assumption.

"There shouldn't be. I'm just planning on meeting somebody in a nearby city who'll be able to help me out, yet it's really a calculated gamble on my part. The person I'm hoping will be able to aid me might not even be there." It's true. Aoko might simply be absent and the Tohno family for all you know might just not exist at all.

"I see, you've sure grown up quite a bit since two years ago, haven't you, Shinji? But it's not like I'm going to denounce you for trying to do something about your family. I probably never would've accepted to work for them two years ago if the contract I was offered wasn't so easy and risk free." Man, the Matou really must have a poor reputation, huh? You suppose that it's really a well earned one. It's not like worm-based magecraft is something anybody with any sense of decency would approve of. Especially Zouken's particular brand of it. Whatever goodwill that the Makiri may once have earned thanks to the prodigal magus Zolgen has now likely been utterly obliterated by the actions of the worm who just won't die Zouken. Honestly, you've half a mind to discard the name Matou and take up the mantle of Makiri for yourself, once you've dealt with your grandfather.

"I don't really have a lot of time to keep talking freely Monica, and we can talk when you arrive, can't we? How much are you planning on charging me, anyway?" As much as you enjoy talking with Monica, you can see that Sakura has now begun to impatiently tap her foot as she waits for you to finish on the phone. Well, at least she's being polite and waiting?

"I was thinking of say... five hundred thousand yen? That ought to cover my running expenses." It seems a little steep, but you suppose that for her it must be incredibly cheap. After all, this woman is likely used to dealing with hundreds of thousands to millions of dollars per contract, depending on the danger.

"Deal. Can you meet me at the park close to my house at... say 7:30AM tomorrow morning?"

"Mein gott... You really are plotting something, aren't you, Shinji?" The woman laughs a little and slips into German as you give her an incredibly tight deadline. "Alright I'll be there. See you soon, Shinji-kun~." She hangs up. Oh man, that -kun sounded a little too affectionate for you to be comfortable with. You hope that Monica is just being friendly.

There's no more reason to stay in the phone booth, so you'll have to go and explain what you were doing to Sakura. Hopefully she'll not pry too deeply into your plans. You decide not to lie to your younger sister though, and turning to her, all you say is "You'll have to keep what I just did as a secret. I'm going to be heading out of the city for three days soon and I'm gonna need you to keep it a secret from grandfather. I can't tell you what I'm up to, but one day I'll be able to. Trust me." Sakura gives you a scrutinizing look, but eventually she acknowledges your sincerity, and gives a small nod. "Thanks, Sakura. Now, lets go see Emiya-kun, shall we?"

You spend about an hour in the park getting to know Shirou a little better and playing on the swings, Taiga is there too, but she keeps complaining about wanting to go and see Kiritsugu, so it's difficult to really connect with her. Especially as you're busy trying to befriend the future hero of justice.

Eventually though, your time with Shirou comes to an end and you go back home. You spend the rest of the day going through your usual workout routine as well as practicing your martial arts strikes on some exercise equipment you had bought for you. You spend almost all of your remaining time in the day improving your body.

The rest of the day passes relatively peacefully, and come the morning, you get dressed, but not for school. Instead opting for a more casual set of clothing for your meeting with Monica. You end up getting out of the house before anyone else is even up and about. Well, Zouken might be, but he keeps to himself thankfully. You also aren't even sure if Zouken actually sleeps.

Sneaking out of the house and with a backed bag full of a few changes of clothes and some other essentials, as well as all of your savings (just in case), you leave the house and head for the park. It's really quiet this early in the morning, and you arrive in the park at about 7AM to find a woman in a dress face down on the park bench, sleeping. Looks like Monica kept her promise, but it also looks like she did so at the expense of her own sleeping. "M-Monica-san?" You call out to the woman on the bench, who begins to shift a little. "A-ah, Monica-san!" You shout this time, and it's enough to wake the woman from her slumber on the park bench.

"Oh! Shinji-kun! You're a little early, aren't you?"

You ignore her question and instead ask your own. "How long have you been asleep on that bench, Monica-san?"

"Oh, this thing? Yeah. Since about the time I arrived in the city. I didn't feel like booking a room for a few hours of sleep at best, so I figured I would just catch some sleep here." She did what...? why!? Couldn't she have just slept on the plane trip over to Japan? Before you can let your complete confusion at the confusing antics of the freelance spellcaster. "Right. Well, Misaki Town, right? Train or car? I can take us either way."

>Go to the station and take the train to Misaki Town.
Or
>Have Monica drive and...
>Have her stop at the hospital.
>Have her stop at the Tohno Residence, if it exists.
>Have her stop on the outskirts of the town, Aoko met Shiki in a field outside the town after all.
>Write-in...

>>4331984
>Have Monica drive
>Have her stop at card shop
>Have her stop at the hospital
We can say we're a friend of Shiki's, confirm he actually exists and minimise the chance of us meeting him in the hospital itself causing him to never meet Aoko by just dropping a card off first.

>>4331984
>Have Monica drive and...
>Have her stop on the outskirts of the town, Aoko met Shiki in a field outside the town after all.
This is the best choice imo. We'll fuck things up if we somehow meet Shiki as he runs away from the hospital and knocking on his front door is even weirder. If Shiki isn't there yet then we can just get Monica to check up on the hospital to see if a Shiki Tohno checked in or if the Tohno Residence exists while we just wait and take in the surroundings

>>4331984
>Have Monica drive and...
>Have her stop on the outskirts of the town, Aoko met Shiki in a field outside the town after all.

>>4331984
>Go to the station and take the train to Misaki Town.
Having a car is WAY too convenient, so there must be something to going by train.

>>4331984
Have her drive and stop on outskirts.

I mean unless she jacks a car, renting leaves paper trail

Also, Mystic Eye Killer mystic code was supposedly stolen from Touko, so inb4 Rakkyo timeline happening instead of Tsukihime

>>4331984
>>Have Monica drive and...
>>Have her stop at the hospital.
>>Have her stop on the outskirts of the town, Aoko met Shiki in a field outside the town after all.

>>4332049
Also as an add on
>Stop at Garan no Dou

I'm gonna be not voting for htis part because I know nothing about this town

>>4331984
>>4332002
changing my vote to
>Go to the station and take the train to Misaki Town.
Anon is right, its way too convenient to have a car, something is going on in that train or train station, i swear to God, Aoko might either be arriving or staying and I honestly can't chance leaving her even if we have to walk everywhere

>>4331984
>>Go to the station and take the train to Misaki Town.
Lots of potential benefits to a train ride.

>>4331984
>Go to the station and take the train to Misaki Town.
Admire scenery, plan ahead, contemplate your gestalt souled self

>>4332101
>Not contemplating navel.
Get on my spiritual level.

>>4331984
>Go to the station and take the train to Misaki Town.


Only because I have driven a bit in grorius nippon and its a fucking nightmare despite less traffic.

Oh also, I like Monica. Hope she doesnt try to eat or rape us.

>>4331981
>Oh man, that -kun sounded a little too affectionate for you to be comfortable with. You hope that Monica is just being friendly.
I can't believe it's taken me this long to realize that Monica is Fate universe Misato.

>>4332134
>Spending time with 2 shotacons as a 10 year old
oh god oh fuck

>>4331984
>Go to the station and take the train to Misaki Town
It's the *only* way to travel.

>>4332141
See, this is why I suggested bringing Shirou. So we could distract them while we ran away.

>>4332141
Ara ara time?

stop being cringy just play it cool and run away when their backs are turned

I am playing hollow atraxia and I have an insatiable lust towards Caren

>>4332167
She's a peach, no doubt.
I'd rank her third out of all Fate girls, behind Manaka and Illya.

>>4332141
This is a Fate quest. I fully expect this Shinji to get laid at least once.

>>4332182
>Manaka
Shill her to me, knowing that I have not played her game or read her VN. What's her deal? Why is she so good, supposedly?

>>4332193
Of we don’t get laid under dubious circumstances this isn’t a fate quest. I’m hoping for the most contrived circumstance ever

>>4332193
I will be shocked if we don't get laid in less than ideal circumstances if you get what I mean

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>>4332193
First of all, she's not in a game or a VN. So I might as well clear that up at the beginning.
She was the main villain of the original concept for Fate/Stay Night, Fate Prototype, and has been called the prototype for Illyasviel. This was the version of Fate where the main character was a girl who looked a bit like Rin and Saber was the male King Arthur.
Manaka was the protagonist's older sister, who sort of something like died ten years prior to the events, in the previous grail war, causing her aging to stop. She has a direct connection to the Root and insanely high quality circuits, making her a magus even more powerful than Illya at her strongest. She's also a top-grade yandere. Arthur was her servant in the previous war, and she's still obsessed with him. This is the driving force for most of what she does. She killed her father as a sacrifice to the Holy Grail, which worked a bit differently in Prototype, and attempted to do the same to the protagonist. She attempts to use the grail to summon the Beast of Revelations, the prototype version of Angra Manyu, because she's twisted Arthur's wish in such a way as to interpret it as being fulfilled if the apocalypse ensues. I don't remember the exact details. Generally speaking, in terms of mixing cutesy and psychotic evil, she outdoes Illya at her best in F/SN.
Also, her character design is adorable, Just look at it.

>>4332211
Oh, one other charm point I should mention. Her insane obsession with Arthur is based on a prior fixation on the ideal of a 'fairytale romance', and that's something I find incredibly endearing.

>>4332214
problem is how are we even going to try to romance her considering that we'd probably have to reach the root first to even find her

>>4332231
Love will find a way Anon.
Or it won't. I'm always down for Yanderes but i'm not all that commited to the idea.

>>4332231
perhaps achieving Heaven's Feel is good afterall

>>4332231
No idea, honestly. It's a bit of a pipe dream, and my main goal is still to marry Illya. The only way I can think we might be able to get a chance with Manaka would be by buttering up Zelretch, and I kind of doubt we'll get the chance to have him do us any more favors after he already went out of his way to put our soul here in the first place.

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>>4332211
>4
>33
>22
>11
>powerful
>evil
>cute
>nice smile
>nice outfit
>pale skin
>nice hair
>older sister character
>crazy
Your incredible post numbers have only served to make me more convinced that you are in the right, anon. Manaka is up there on my waifus list now. Thank you kindly for this. Posting one that is farther up than Manaka though.

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> Waifu wars at ten years old

Sasuga /qst/

>>4332272
You gotta plan these things early.

>>4332272
This entire quest hinges on our meta knowledge.

>>4332243
What if Sakura ends up so crazy in love with us that she actually
pulls Manaka out of the grail. She was said to basically be as good or if not better than the old mages so she'd at least qualify as a caster
it would probably end up with us dead tho

>>4332310
I dont think the guys pushing for yandere routes or interdimensional Zel matchmade crossovers are really in it for just the most advantageous match

>>4332324
The golden timeline.

Just saw the Rin cellphone scene in HA. Post UBW Shirou has it good.

>>4332325
Im here for taiga.

>>4332355
Based.

Im not shipping yet. Holding out for the swing vote has ever been my strategy.

>>4332378
I’m just doing this to get other people on my side. Most people wouldn’t even think about taking the tiger of Fuyuki

Played an hour or two of Baldr Sky. Rain is fucking great am I doomed to first girl yet again?

>>4332539
Wrong thread me dumb pls ignore

>>4331981
>Taiga is there too, but she keeps complaining about wanting to go and see Kiritsugu
what now Taigabros?

>>4332636
You probably are not getting much out of her till old Kerry kicks it.

>>4332646
I don't want him to die either, I would forsake Taiga route for Kerry's life

>>4332636
One of the times we're hanging out with Shirou and Taiga complained, we need to go "Fine, let's go see Kerry."
Gives us a good excuse to show up at his house, since we can blame Taiga.

>>4331984
>Go to the station and take the train to Misaki Town.

>>4331984
>Have Monica drive and...
>Have her stop at the hospital.

>>4332129
>Hope she doesnt try to eat or rape us.
Well it is Fate, so expect at least one person to try to rape and/or eat you by the time the quest is done. Probably more than one, honestly.

>>4332134
No comment.

>>4332158
Do you really think you have the speed required to run from not only a powerful freelance spellcaster, but also the Fifth Magician herself?
Retreat was never an option.

>>4332211
>>4332214
>>4332231
>>4332243
Manaka, huh? Well, we'll see if you can convince Old Zel to mess up the timeline for you when you actually get around to meeting him. Not that I'd really say it's a wise choice to try getting Manaka to fall for you. Yanderes are dangerous after all, and she's the most dangerous Yandere in Fate.
You're wrong about one thing though, she's summoning the Beast of Revelations not to bring about the apocalypse, even though that would be a side-effect of summoning it, and is in reality intending to use Beast as a magical energy boost for herself so she can use her connection to the Root to truly actualize Saber's wish of an Eternal Britain.
The only thing stopping her from doing so is a lack of mana, as even if she did alter the past to bring about Saber's wish, she doesn't have enough magical energy to maintain it through Gaia's corrective impulse.
She truly does want to bring about Saber's wish.

>>4332272
It's Fate. Waifuwars are ingrained into the DNA of the series.

>>4332352
I will say that it has been an in-character thought of Shinji's to try prank-calling people across timelines from that box.

>>4332658
Well, that's certainly one way of going about things.

>>4331486
what does final fantasy have to do with the fate series?

>>4332847
Is this post blank for everyone else? It was supposed to say, “heard you prayed for a hot boyfriend, Fujimura-Sensei,” if that is the case.

>>4329861
Looks like I'm not the only one on the board running a Fate/Stay Night quest anymore. I'm glad to see it. Good luck with this one, What. I know you're running a good story with Elegy, and it looks like you're off to a good start here. I'll be rooting for you.
To the anon in the last thread who blessed my heart, thank you. I always appreciate a kind word.

>>4331984
>Go to the station and take the train to Misaki Town.
Probably best to arrive in the ordinary way and get the whole town in front of you before making any decisions about where to go in particular.

>>4332896
Oh! Hello Sweets.
Y'know I really ought to get around with catching up with Awakening now that I've found myself with some more free time. I fell behind at some point and have been meaning to get back up to date with it, but I was pretty busy up until recently. I did enjoy reading your quest quite a bit but even updating Elegy once a day was getting stressful and I found myself with barely any time to myself.

Have Monica Drive...
>To Card shop + Hospital
>>4331997
>To outskirts
>>4332006
>>4332015
>To hospital + outskirts
>>4332049
>To hospital
>>4332739

>Take the train
>>4332014
>>4332071
>>4332082
>>4332101
>>4332121
>>4332146
>>4332735
>>4332898

>>4332052
Wrong town.

Train is winning.

>>4332913
Yeah, a lot of people have fallen behind or dropped out of Fate/Awakening Mirror over it's run. I guess that's just what happens with a long-running quest, though. If you do have the time now it'd certainly be good to have you with us, but I'll certainly understand if you don't. Running two simultaneous quests is already impressive enough without putting reading anyone else's into the bargain.

>>4332926
If you’re is still going after this one is over I will happily join. Right now I’m just trying to catch a tiger

>>4332926
>it's run
Gah. I hate that.

>>4332818
>expect at least one person to try to rape and/or eat you by the time the quest is done. Probably more than one, honestly.
ITS NOT RAPE IF WE ENJOY AND LIKE IT AND WANT IT, OKAY?

>>4332939
>tfw no “we are running out of mana we need to fuck RIGHT NOW” gf

If Shinji becomes notorious for charming older women, how will Sakura feel about summoning Rider?

>>4332818
>is in reality intending to use Beast as a magical energy boost for herself so she can use her connection to the Root to truly actualize Saber's wish of an Eternal Britain
Color me shocked. Is this from the Fragments prequel, or a part of the original Prototype that I'd forgotten? I know Fragments did change a lot.
>>4332939
Maybe in the future, but right now we're ten. Enjoying it isn't a possibility. There's a reason it's called child molestation at this age.
>>4332958
Bad, anon. She'll feel bad. Then again, with this version of Sakura I get the strong impression she'll be real unhappy about summoning any female servant around us.

>>4332960
Who said Sakura has to summon rider. Medusa was summoned because they were similar right? What if her personality is different enough because of our influence

>>4332965
Hopefully she summons Caster Manaka and we get the golden route, but I won't hold my breath.

>>4332965
If she ends up as yandere or at very least obsessed Sakura because of us I would say a similar summon might be somebody like Kiyohime or Raikou.

>>4332982
Medusa was summoned because she and Sakura were destined to become monsters, and the Matou used a catalyst for Perseus iirc.

>>4332986
inb4 Perseus gets summoned because we're "a successful Shinji".

>>4332988
I’m down. Clash of the titans is a top 5 movie

>>4332991
Problem is, Fate Perseus is just as much of a scumbag as canon Shinji. Imagine having to deal with a Servant version of the original jerk while we're hard at work to surpass him.

>>4332993
What fate thing is Perseus from

>>4332986
>a catalyst for Perseus
I see.
Its been very long since I last played original VN. So I must have forgotten that part.
>>4332988
Medusa might not be out of picture yet given her relationship with her sisters.

>>4332995
Medusa reminisces about him in Hollow Ataraxia, talking about how worthless he is as a hero, how terrible his personality is, and how he was carried by the Noble Phantasms the gods gave him. The calls him "a successful Shinji", which is where my joke came from.

>>4332993
Perseus did nothing wrong and Shinji is closer to jason in both personality and looks
Which reminds me, the medea plan would blow up in our face and she would probably try to kill us on the principle of looking like jason

>>4333004
>and looks
How the hell do we look anything like Jason?

>>4333004
>Perseus did nothing wrong
The only character in the nasuverse who new him and spoke about him disagrees with you.
>Shinji is closer to Jason in looks
I don't usually like to use Grand Order as a reference since it's awful garbage, but it is the only place we've seen art of Jason as far as I know. He looks like Gilgamesh with green eyes. How is that close to Shinji?

>>4333001
Oh. Well I’m sure I’d say someone was a jerk too if they killed me

>>4333013
Medusa is fairly impartial when she forms opinions on people though.

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>>4332958
Probably something like how she feels when she sees Shirou with Saber in the Fate route.
Probably not as bad as she feels when she sees him with Rin though.
>>4332960
>Is this from the Fragments prequel
I believe so yes. Still, it speaks magnitudes of just how much power that Manaka holds, to really only be held back in what she's capable of doing by how much magical energy she has available.
It's really quite unfortunate that we'll never get to see the original Prototype, honestly.
>>4332968
I'm fairly certain that Manaka's Connection to the Root would prevent her from being summoned by the Holy Grail. There's not much point of a ritual to reach the Root if the Grail can facilitate the summoning of somebody with a direct connection to it.
Unfortunately.
You'd need something close to the level or at the level of True Magic to occur if you genuinely do want to meet Manaka.
>>4332995
He's from Prototype too, or was at least intended to be.
Honestly though, I wouldn't say he's a scumbag at all. If anything he's one of the nicer servants you could summon.
>"I don’t have a wish for the Grail.
>As this body had already been filled.
>I always believed.
>In the world’s warmth.
>In the goodness of people."
>>4333001
I wouldn't know if calling him a successful Shinji is really suitable for him given what we know of him from Prototype, where he is summoned by a terminally ill master who later dies. His only motivation after his master uses all three of his command spells to give him a physical body and dies (which can apparently be done in the Prototype Universe) is to win the Holy Grail War and resurrect his previous Master with the wish, devoting himself to the war completely.
This doesn't sound like a Shinji move at all.
>>4333004
You could always try growing out your hair a little to try to make yourself less Jason-like in appearance.

>>4333011
>>4333012
I think it's really more a mannerisms thing. I can totally see canon Shinji and Jason acting very similarly.
Could you imagine how horribly smug that canon Shinji would act if he had a full power Heracles backing him up?
That's basically Jason.

>>4333015
I've always had the impression that the Perseus Medusa described in Hollow Ataraxia was a pretty different character from the one who appears in Prototype, because the descriptions don't really line up aside from him being a lady-killer. Maybe he matured after becoming a confirmed hero by cheating his way to a victory over the gorgon.

>>4332993
So like saber and Shirou?