Let's Play Fate/Stay Night! Updated March 2nd

[Aralonia]

gogogo option two

[Lizzie]

I pick 2.

[FIREST0RM000]

I vote 1.

[Cycerin]

Go with the first option.

[AidanAdv]

I vote for option #2.

[Hades]

Go for option 2.

[Siber]

TIEBREAKER: Go with #1 I guess.

[Anna]

[Music: In the Sunlight]

Yes, that's right, I have to go and help Sakura. I'd feel bad, both for letting my junior do all the work, and for Sakura coming here so early in the morning.





Awww... don't she look so cute in that apron?

"Not 'already'. We're usually eating by ten past six, so I certainly slept in."

"I don't think so. You're not in any clubs, so this is still early for you."

"Clubs have nothing to do with this. When you bring clubs into it, the problem is that you come here when you have morning practice to go to."

"Ah... no, I'm doing this because I want to, so please don't worry about my club."



"Yeah, you always say that. That's why I wake up early, clubs or not. It's rude for me to sleep in if you're going to be here."

For me, waking up early is waking up before Sakura gets here, and sleeping in is making Sakura prepare breakfast on her own... like today. The, this has only been a habit for a year and a half or so.

"Anyways, you take a rest. We only have to set the table, so at least let me do that."

I stand next to Sakura and take out the dishes. Sakura is stubborn at times, and in situations like this, she won't rest unless she's forced to.

"Oh, then I'll help too. I'll load the plates and you can take them out."

"No, I'm saying I'll do it all myself."



"That won't do. You're head of this household, so you should just sit contentedly in the mornings."

Not only is he a lucky bastard, he's an ungrateful bastard!

"Sit contentedly? A head of household who leaves you to do the work by yourself is a failure. It's okay, so go to the living room."



"That's right, please be a failure. This is repayment for letting me eat good food all the time. So if it's possible, I'd like for you to rest."

"Hey. We're going fifty-fifty on the groceries, so you shouldn't worry about it. I should be the one thanking you. Since you've started coming here, our meals have improved."



"Oh, I knew it. You don't get it, do you Senpai? That's not why the meals here are good."

"Huh? What do you mean that's not why?"



"No, it's nothing. But please take responsibility because I can't eat a pleasant meal anywhere else any more."

Jesus Christ. How have these two not just DONE IT already in the last year and a half? She's laying it on so thick he'll DROWN.

Sakura smiles while blushing.

"I-Idiot, don't say such weird things. What if Fuji-Nee hears that? She doesn't understand jokes."

"You're right. It would be a big problem if Fujimura-Sensei overheard that."

"Right. Don't say so much weird stuff."



Yes, damnit, I am capturing as many screens of Sakura as I can justify to myself, because she too is adorable.

"Yes, I won't. I won't say anything. So I can help you, right Senpai?"

"......"

Sakura looks up at me, naturally and calmly.

"Fine, do what you want. If you want to help so much, go right ahead."

"Yes, I'll do as I please."

"Geez... you really don't listen to anything I tell you anymore, do you Sakura?"

"That's true. Maybe I'm becoming more like Fujimura-Sensei."

Speaking softly, Sakura reaches up for the cupboard. Her silky hair and smooth skin catch my eye.

"-------------"

... How can I put this? It's troubling. She must be maturing as she seems really feminine these days. Her casual movement and her figure are so beautiful that I instinctively look away.

Your instincts should be telling you to do things other than look away...

"Senpai? Is something wrong?"

"No, it's nothing. Don't worry."

"Hm?"

Honestly... Why am I feeling tense around my friend's sister?

More importantly, how can you consider her jackass brother your friend?

After all, Sakura's not like that. She's a good underclassman, and a junior I need to take care of. First of all, the relationship between me and Matou Sakura is just that of a Senpai and a junior. She's the sister of a close friend of mine, but since she's a grade below me, we weren't that close. It all changed a year and a half ago into this cooperative kind of relationship. Sakura came to cook when I was injured, and after that, I think we just ended up like this... I think we intended to do it until my injury healed, but some trivial thing came up to make her stay with it.

Anyways, Sakura is a good cook, and perfect at cleaning and doing the laundry.

Shit, she cleans and does the laundry too? Goddamn, you're one lucky cunt Emiya Shirou.

It's a big help to have her helping around here in the mornings, but it's been a bit troubling recently. The problem is not in Sakura, but me.



"---------------"

Frankly, Sakura is beautiful. She's one of the best looking first years, and I'm sure there are lots of guys who want to date her. And on top of that, she's been growing in certain places recently and some of her casual gestures have started to catch my eye... That's what I mean by a small problem.

Well if we're talking about cup-size, the "problem" is quite large compared to Rin or Saber... hehe...

Maybe I'm just feeling guilty about being attracted to my friend's sister. Usually, I'm fine, but when I'm caught off guard like just now, I blush... does this make me an unsuitable Senpai?

[Music Stop]

Breakfast is placed on the table. A perfect breakfast consisting of chicken salad, cooked salmon, spinach, radish and carrot miso soup, and yam soup.



Itadakimasu is something the japanese say before each meal. It's usually translated as "Let's eat", but a literal translation is something like "I recieve". The phrase is similar to the phrase "bon appétit," or grace, used in the case of some individuals, at every meal. It is said to express gratitude for all who had a part in preparing the food, and in cultivating, ranching or hunting edible food of plants and animals.

Sakura and I bow and start our meal quietly. The sounds of our chopsticks echo. Sakura isn't the talkative type, and I'm not versatile enough to talk while eating. Naturally, mealtimes are quiet. Usually it's louder, but today, the loud person is...



She must have been watching spy movies last night, as she's eyeing us while hiding behind a newspaper.

"Fujimura-Sensei, don't you think you shouldn't read the newspaper during meals?"

"......"

Fuji-Nee ignores Sakura's question. She's acting weird, but Fuji-Nee always acts in suspicious ways during breakfast. Sakura must be used to it, as she continues to eat with no particular care. Sakura prefers to make Western foods. She learned to cook Japanese food after she started coming here to help. Fuji-Nee and I preferred Japanese, so Sakura learned to make Japanese food for breakfast. Now she's so good that she's almost surpassed me, her teacher. The salmon is especially good as it's cooked to perfection. Her miso soup is tasty, and she has shown some capacity even for making yam soup by grinding yams. Actually, I think this is the first time she's made it.

"Sorry, Sakura, can you pass me the soy sauce?"

"There you... oh wait, Senpai. Your soy sauce is empty."

"Fuji-Nee's will do then. Can you get it?"

"May I, Fujimura-Sensei?"

Fuji-Nee nods. Her newspaper trembles.

"There you go, Senpai. Are y going to use it on the yam soup?"

"Yeah, you usually put soy sauce on yam soup, right?"

I put the soy sauce onto the white yam soup. After stirring it, I put it on hte rice and take a bite. Mm, the stickiness of the yam and the taste of the soy sau---------

"Ugh...! This is terrible! This is oyster sauce!"

I almost throw it back up. And then,

"Haha, ahahahahahaha!"



Fuji-Nee throws her newspaper away.

[Music: Gentle Everyday]

"How's that? It was my plan to switch the labels earlier this morning!"

The female spy throws up her arms to show her happiness.

"W-What are you thinking!? You're always like this, even though you'll be turning twenty-five this year!"





"Haha! Did it teach you a lesson for what you did yesterday? It's divine just for picking on me with everyone else."

"Divine justice doesn't come from people! I thought you were calm, but this is what you were thinking about!?"

"That's right. That's why I have to go and start grading the exams now. Yup, I should hurry up."

Fuji-Nee sits back down and finishes her breakfast quickly.

"Thank you. Breakfast was lovely as always, Sakura-chan."

"Ah... thank you, Sensei."



"I'm going on ahead then, I'll get mad if you two are late."

And she runs off... There's something wrong with a world in which that thing is a teacher.

"Um... Senpai?"

"Sorry about that, Sakura. Fuji-Nee didn't really take the time to enjoy your breakfast."

"No, it's not that. Um... did you do something to her yesterday? It's not like Fujimura-Sensei to play around when it comes to food."

"Uh... well, yeah. I accidently called her by her nickname."

"I guess it can't be helped in that case. You didn't apologise to her, did you, Senpai?"

"Sorry. I forgot since it happens all the time."

Sakura looks mad.

"You mustn't. Fujimura-Sensei doesn't like you calling her that, Senpai. You made her cry again, didn't you?"

"... I made her run away, too. Yesterday's English lesson was a self-study because of it."

And I was awarded a student honor from the other students written on note paper, but I threw it away.

"Geez. It was all your fault, then."

Fuji-Nee is like a big sister for Sakura, so she's basically on Fuji-Nee's side. That's good in its own way, but I wish she'd consider my situation where I have to deal with Fuji-Nee 24-7. Fuji-Nee was originally an acquaintance of Father's, and she's been coming to the house a lot since I was adopted. She started to show up even more after Father died, and now she's almost a dependent, eating breakfast and dinner here.

Well... maybe she's why I was able to make it on my own even after father died. Fuji-Nee, Sakura, and I are now the residents of the Emiya household. But I'm the only one who knows that my father was a magus. It's said that magi must hide their identities. That's why I've been hiding the fact that I'm learning magic ever since I became my father's student. I say I'm learning, but I can't even cast a single magic spell properly. With this kind of skill, it wouldn't make much difference whether I hide it or not. But because it was how my father wanted things, I've trained secretly since then.

[Music Stop]

I finish breakfast and prepare for school. I clean the dishes with Sakura while listening to the news on TV.



"......"

Sakura is staring at the TV screen. Over the screen runs an exaggerated teletype reading "Gas Leak Accidents Continue". It seems there was a big accident in the neighboring town of Shinto. It happened in a building in the business district. It seems a whole floor of people ran out of oxygen and fell unconscious. They've called it a gas leak, but this kind of accident is happening often recently.

"Are you worried about the news, Sakura?"

"Eh? No, not really. I just thought it's near... Senpai, your workplace is in the Shinto area, right?"

"Yeah, but it's not really a big place. I don't think an accident like that would happen there."

But it's not a risk I can completely igore. Gas leaks can happen in any building, and on top of that, it hurts to think that hundreds of people are suffering. It's said that the accidents are happening often because of defective construction work during the rapid development of Shinto. Whether that's true or not, I certainly don't want any more victims--------

"... It is dangerous. We'll have to be careful here, too."

"Oh, don't worry, Senpai. I check the gas twice every time."

Sakura boasts with pride.

"No, that's not the point."

Yeah, I've thought so before, but Sakura is a bit off too...

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[Music: In the Sunlight]



"I did. I bolted it. Is there a problem?"

"Not at all. Then I'll lock the front door now. When will you be home today, Senpai?"

"I think I'll be a bit late. What about you, Sakura?"

"I'll be back at the usual time. I'll probably be here earlier, so I'll start getting dinner ready."

"... Yeah, that'll help. I'll try to come home early too."

We lock the gate. Sakura and Fuji-Nee also have keys to my house, and the rule is that the last person out locks up.

"Let's go. You won't make it to morning practice unless we hurry."

"Yes, let's hurry then, Senpai."



Going down the hill takes us to the residential district, and beyond that... We reach the crossroads at the center of this town.



Oh for crying out loud, Rin already told us all about the damn city!





"......"

But today, Sakura doesn't go.

"Sakura? Are you not feeling well?"

"... No, that's not it, but... um, would you like to come to the dojo?"

"No, I've no business there. Anyways, Issei asked for me, so I have to go to the student council room today."

"... I- I see. Sorry for troubling you then."

Sakura bows.

"Hm?"

"I'll be going now. Please look forward to dinner tonight."

Sakura runs off like she's ashamed of something.

"...?"

Hm? I wonder what that was all about...?

[Music: Tender Scenery]



"Just you, Issei? Where are the others? Shouldn't they be here now as well?"

"No. Unfortunately, our members are very businesslike. They have their set work hours, and they don't want to come in early or stay late."

"That's why the student council president is doing all the routine duties himself, huh? I guess this place has its own problems."



"Huh? Uh, no, I wasn't pitying you or anything."

"Hm. I'm not happy about that either, but I'll pretend I didn't hear it. It still means that you care."

Emiya Shirou doesn't give a FUCK, man.

Issei, who is organizing the papers he was reading, is the big boss of this student council room. He's the guy trying his best to reform this lax student council, and he's been a friend of mine since the first year. His full name is Ryudou Issei. Despite his old-fashioned name, he has elegant features and he's really popular with the girls. And he's also the student council president, so you'd think he'd take to it like a duck to water, but...

"Hm. Hot tea is certainly a good way to start a morning."

He's just sipping tea like this, so he's not that firm. As you can see, Issei has a plain personality. It's easily misunderstood, but he doesn't involve himself in love affairs nor engage in normal student recreations. It's because he's the successor to the Ryudou Temple, up in the mountains. He's fine with that idea, so there's a good chance he'll shave his head when he graduates.

"So, what am I doing today?"

"Hm? Well, I'd like to let you sit down and take a rest first... but I guess we don't have time. I'll explain as we go, so bring your usual tools and follow me."



"I see. Oh, can you hand me the torque screwdriver? The biggest one. And the conductive wire too. Yeah, I should be able to fix this."

"Conductive wire? Uh... is this it? Sorry, I don't know exactly. Tell me if I'm wrong."

"You're right. So, what was that about the shortage of heaters? Are there other broken ones?"

"Yes. In the 2nd AV room and the art club. The petitions requesting new heaters are multiplying."

"But there's not enough budget to meet the demand, huh? Ah... as I thought, it's just getting old. Good thing it's not broken on the inside."

"... Hm. You think it can be fixed, Emiya?"

"Yup. In cases like this, old things are nice because they're easy to understand. It's just a shorted connection, so it should last the whole year if we replace that."



"I see! Good job, Emiya. I'm always so pleased when you're reliable."

"You're wording it weirdly, Issei... Oh, I'll be finished soon, so could you wait outside for a bit?"

"All right, I'll be out of your way."

Issei leaves the room quietly. It seems he assumes that I'm going to do something delicate.

[Music Stop]

"... Well, it is delicate, but..."

I place my hand on the old electric heater. Usually, even if you're used to fixing things, it's hard for figure out what's wrong with it just by looking at it. So the fact that I figured it out means that what I'm doing is not ordinary. I block off my vision and look inside the heater with my sense of touch.

In that moment, an image appears in my head.



"There are two places where the wire's about to break... The pipe should last a bit longer... Insulation tape should be enough for the power cord..."

Good, I can fix this with the tools I have with me. If the pipe were broken, it couldn't be fixed by an amateur. If that had been the case, I would have had to "strengthen" it in a very unamatuerish way. But in this case, just looking at it will suffice. This is the "magic" Emiya Shirou learned from Kiritsugu.



That's right. Emiya Shirou has no talent for magic. Though it doesn't make up for it, I think I'm quite skilled at visualizing structures like I did just now. In fact, when I first figured out a structure and reproduced it, my father looked surprised and said "what a useless ability". I guess my strong point isn't a useful ability. According to my father, it's already a waste of effort to perceive the structure with my eyes. For a real magus, there's no need to understand every corner of a structure like I just did. They say that the battle of the magus comes in reading the center, the core of things instantaneously, and changing it faster than anything else. That's why reading the structure is a wasted effort, as even if you do understand the structure, all you can do is determine where magical energy could be more easily transmitted.

So all in all, it turns out that my strong point is just in fixing things like this. I don't have to open them up to look for damage. If I can quickly search for broken parts and have the skills to repair them, most things can be fixed. Though, that's only the case for simple things that can be fixed with "amateur knowledge".

"... Done. On to the next one..."

I pack away the conducting wire that I used and go out into the hallway with screwdriver and wrench in hand.

"Issei, the repairs are done."

But... in the hallway is someone apart from Issei, a girl.

[Music: Tender Scenery]



It's Rin!

"---------------------"

I'm a bit surprised. The person talking to Issei is Tohsaka Rin, from class 2-A. She's a lady who lives in a big mansion on top of the hill, a perfect honor student. Good looking, smart, atheletic and faultless. She's intelligent, well mannered, and modest about her looks. People say she's the ideal woman. So it hardly needs to be said that the guys at my school treat her like an idol. Though in Tohsaka's case, she's so perfect that she's considered unreachable. It's commonly believed that only teachers and guys like Issei can even talk to her.

Well to be honest, I'm a guy too, so I'm obviously one of Tohsaka Rin's admirers.



"....."

Tohsaka looks at us as if she's in a bad mood. It seems to be true that she and Issei don't get along.



"Don't worry about it. So, where next? There's not much time left."

"Yeah, the AV room is next. It seems it's been working badly for a while, but now it finally died."

"It can't be fixed if it's dead. It would be quicker to just buy a new one."

"... True, but it'd help if you could take a look at it. It might be dead to my eyes, but only faking it to yours."

"I see. Well, let's take a look."

There's only about 30 minutes left until homeroom. I'll have to hurry if I'm going to fix it. I start for the AV room with Issei. But it's impolite to ignore her completely when we've met like this. I turn back to Tohsaka, who's standing in a daze.



"You're up early, Tohsaka."

I make an honest comment, then follow Issei.

[Music Stop]

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It's exactly eight o'clock. The first homeroom bell has rung, so Fuji-Nee should be here in about five minutes.

"Phew..."

I'm a bit out of breath since we ran here from the AV room. Taking a deep breath, I head to my seat.



"You're so noisy in the mornings, Emiya. I was wondering what you'd been doing since quitting the Archery club, but all you've been doing is helping out Ryudou? It's not my conern, but don't do anything to bring the club into disrepute, okay? You're pretty uncommitted after all."

Matou Shinji is such a cunt.

Matou Shinji, a friend of mine from middle school, is standing in front of my desk. As you can tell from his last name, he's Sakura's brother who's one year older than her.

Erm... I couldn't really tell the age bit from his name, Emiya.

"Yo. Is the archery club doing well, Shinji?"



"O-Of course! There's no point in telling an outsider, but it's been peaceful since a certain attention-hog left. We'll do well in the next competition!"

That's his way of whining about the fact that Shirou was much better than him at archery. Sore loser.

"I see. Mitsuzuri must be working hard."

"Huh? You're talking rubbish. The archery club is doing well because of me. You're just an outsider, Emiya, so you'll just embarrass yourself if you talk like you know about it."

God damn, don't you just wanna punch him in the face?

"I see. I'll be careful. But I won't have any concerns with the archery club since I don't have any business there."

I put my bag on the desk and pull out the chair.



"Oh, thanks. I'll call you if there's any work to be done. Though I don't think that'll happen."

"Yeah, that's good. You're not captain material if you leave work that needs to be done. Don't give Fujimura-Sensei too much trouble. She's scary when you piss her off."

"...! Huh, mind your own business. You're an outsider, so keep away from the dojo!"

This soon could not be over soon enough.

Shinji returns to his seat in his usual manner. Hm, he seemed even more irritated than usual today.



"Hm? Why would you do that? I'm not doing anything that should make you worry about me."

"Idiot. Of course I'll worry about you. You're the sort to lose your temper easily. Some people would cheer if you beat Shinji up, but all the girls would condemn you. It's not good to let a friend get into a situation like that."



"Hm, I see."

"Yeah. If you understand now, go back to your seat. Fujimura-Sensei will fly in here any second now."

"Haha. It's more like her to come floating in than flying in."

The homeroom bell rings. A homeroom teacher would usually come five minutes early, but our homeroom teacher isn't like that. For class 2-C, homeroom starts one minutes after the bell right. Right when we hear...

"I'm late, I'm late, I'm late...!"

And Fuji-Nee runs into the classroom.



Wham! Fujinee falls over with a terrible sound.

[Music: Nightmare]



[Music: Tender Scenery]



"... Hey. Front row. Wake her up."

"... What? I don't want to. I'm scared she'll bite me if I go near her..."

"... She's not a Mimic or anything. She won't go that far."

"Hey, if you're saying that, why don't you do it?"

"Uh, I'll pass, I'm not used to this."

"Me neither! And why would you make a girl do it? A guy should do it!"

The entire front row is getting noisy. As we're in the middle rows, we can't tell what sort of state Fuji-Nee is in. We can't tell, so we all stand up to look.

"Hey, she's not moving. Has she passed out?"

Someone asks. If so, the problem would be how to get her to the nurse's office. Everyone here is a warrior who has been with Fuji-Nee for the past year. They probably want to get out of the habit of taking their teacher to the nurse's office.

"Fujimura-Sensei...? Um, are you all right?"

A brave female student calls out to her. Fuji-Nee doesn't even twitch. A sense of worry runs through the room.

"... That was a bad fall. She hit her head right on the platform. She'd have to be invincible to come out of that without a scratch."

"Hm. How about getting her for our baseball club?"

"D-Don't even joke about that! The day she's in charge of us, we'd get into the regionals!"

"Fujimura-Sensei! Fujimura-Sensei...! It's no good, there's no response...!"

Everyone's making so much noise.

"Hey, why don't you wake her up since you're in front of her?"

"What!? No way! If she's really dead, I'll be killed!"

That's perfectly sound reasoning.

"But things could get bad later if we leave her like that."

"But no one wants to go near her."

"... I guess it can't be helped. We'll have to do... that."

"Yeah, that."

"All right."

All our hearts become one... Well, not Shinji and I, because we're too scared.



"Whoa, she moved!? It's working, everyone!"

"All right! Continue the punishment!"

Everyone must be stressed from the impending exams. Even though they shouldn't, they repeat Fuji-Nee's nickname while waving their arms.

"Wake up Tiger, it's morning!"

"Sensei, you're a tiger if you don't wake up!"

"Don't give up, Tiger! Stand up, Tiger!"

"Yeah, wake up, Sensei! Then you'll be a true Tiger!"

"TIGER! TIGER!"

[Music Stop]







A roar of lightning. She stands bravely as if the fall has done nothing at all.

[Music: Tender Scenery]



"... Hey, it seems Tiger doesn't remember what happened."

"... Lucky. We're really fortunate this morning."

"... Well, I don't know if we can call it 'lucky'..."

Everyone returns to their seats, chatting.



Fuji-Nee starts homeroom slowly. She chats in between the announcements, so we don't get through it very fast.

"So everyone, please note the curfew. It's at six o'clock, so people with club activities shouldn't stay too late either."

"What? Six o'clock is too early, Taiga-Sensei. Can't the athletic clubs be exempted?"

"Nope. And please address your teacher as 'Fujimura-Sensei'. I'll get mad if you call me that again."

"All right, I'll be careful."

The student sits down again, not showing any signs of listening to her... how stupid of him. Fuji-Nee gets mad when she says she will. It makes no difference that he's a student and she's a teacher. He doesn't realize that she just gave him a final warning.

"Well, that's it for today's homeroom. Let's meet again in English class in third period, everyone!"

Fuji-Nee leaves, waving her hand. She's the teacher responsible for class 2-C, Fujimura Taiga. Her nickname is Tiger. You might doubt it, but it really is her nickname. People like calling her so since she has a name like "Taiga" even though she's a woman. But Fuji-Nee herself hates the nickname. According to her, it's unfeminine. But she's that kind of person, so I think it's her own fault she has an unfeminine nickname.



[Music Stop]

I was planning to keep going until the next choice, but this is getting pretty long, so I'll end it here. I'll make another update later today or tomorrow with the rest.