"Well, this is getting rather crazy." Siegfried had to roll his eyes at the comnt Georg made of the situation. It was rather typical of the wizard to downplay the missions they were on. In this case though, 'crazy' was perhaps the biggest understatent of the year.
As instructed by Cao Cao, they had arrived to Kuoh Town to survey the area and keep a lookout for their surveillance target, Shirou Emiya. Evidently they arrived at a rather peculiar timing, as a renegade group consisting of Stray Exorcists, a banished priest and a Higher Fallen Angel ca to the sa town with four of the Excalibur Shards, followed shortly by a trio of exorcists wielding the other two shards. Then everything literally went downhill from there with the apprentice exorcists going after the rogue exorcists with a ragtag group of devils, with the end result of a few skirmishes that spread around town and resulting in one devil getting captured by them. That was followed up by the group of devils and exorcists coming to the academy where the ritual was taking place, upon which they split into different groups to deal with the attackers with very explosive results.
Honestly speaking, Siegfried had to find the architect who made this place. He wanted to know how to fortify their base considering the amount of damage that academy was withstanding.
"So, what is your opinion?" His thoughts on getting a reinforced room of his own got interrupted by Georg who was still surveying the area.
"You an our target?" Georg nodded to Siegfried's query. "So far, he has proven to be quite interesting to say the least. He is quite capable in combat, tactics seed sufficient enough, and as his style of magic is rather unusual. Have you seen it before?"
"Nope, it resembles what so schools practice, but this is a level of control I have not seen before. The manner in which this Shirou Emiya is utilizing it is very baffling. And to use it solely for close combat? I can see Cao Cao's interest in him." Georg remarked as he alternated his sights on the group dealing with the mind-controlled knight and the group dealing with Kokabiel.
"Correct if I'm wrong, but those spears he used in his fight, so of them were similar to those of Regeis Cornelius, the Stray Devil?" Siegfried asked as he tried to find their target.
"More like they are the sa. If our intelligence is correct, Shirou Emiya has so unusual ability to attract Sacred Gears to him." Georg replied as he winced lightly at the thrashing one of the devils was receiving from the animated armors. "We don't know what the conditions are or for that matter, what type of gears would be attracted to him. For all we know, it may be a one-ti deal or perhaps it affects only those with combative abilities."
"…" Siegfried stayed silent as he tried to locate the subject of their discussion, but his mind was going to other bits thanks to that reply. It did explain sothing that was sowhat bugging him for a while; his Sacred Gear [Twice Critical] started having reactions every ti they laid eyes on the magician, and he could have sworn the feeling was like so child being happy to see his father again after a long ti, and it was at tis straining to leave his body.
The part that slightly worried him was the fact that at such a distance, the target was able to bring out such a reaction. What would happen if he were closer, say face-to-face? Would the gear 'jump ship' and just go to him without any warning?
Not to ntion the fact that those things were in front of him…
"Hello~ Earth to Siegfried. Anyone ho?" His thoughts were thankfully interrupted in the form of Georg waving his hand in front of him. "You okay there?"
"Hmm, yeah…" Siegfried tried to play it off, but Georg did not look convinced.
"… It's about those shards, isn't it?" Georg looked at him with a soft expression. Siegfried rely kept silent as he tried to find sothing to divert the conversation. Thankfully for him, that ca in the form of an explosion from the gym.
"Looks like we found our target again."
...
"Well, this just plain sucks." I grumbled as I shook my head lightly and got off the ground I crashed into. I took a quick glance around , noting that I was now in the portion of the gymnasium that did not get wrecked, not too far from where I was previously, but far enough to not be able to provide backup for the others.
For now at least.
"Are you okay, Shirou Emiya?" I turned my head to find Lyle cradling his head lightly with one hand.
"I think I should ask you that question." I remarked while noting his injuries. "Pardon the language, but you looked like shit."
"I'll live." Lyle winced slightly as he shook his head. "I'm going to be feeling that in the morning." I was about to reply when I saw so movent in the background. With a quick grab of his collar and a push of my leg, we barely managed to avoid having extra holes in our bodies from beams of light.
"Oh man~ I was hoping that would work…" Creed stepped out of his hiding place and looked at us mockingly. "Well better luck next ti."
"You were being too obvious with your attacks." I turned my head lightly to find Galilei watching on from one of the relatively less destroyed benches. "You should have turned yourself invisible before making the attack."
"Yeah! But that ain't any fun in that." Creed said as he used his hand to signal his attack in the form of lasers raining down on us. With a grimace, I called out Rho Aias to block them before calling out my own set of swords to fire back at him and whatever was shooting at us.
"Hmm~ Interesting." Galilei looked at with a deeply analytical eye, his voice echoing in the empty area. "Another concept, this ti on defense. If I am not mistaken, that na you uttered was that of the shield of Ajax, the Greek Hero whose shield was reputed to be the strongest defense around. So you are wielding weapons that revolve around concepts of different properties like elental sets or even shadows. How intriguing indeed."
Well since he liked my stuff so much, let's see how he like these.
I motioned with my hand to create a bunch of weapons to appear around him, creating a cage that could hurt him if he attempted to force his way out. Rather than being frightened at the suddenness of his imprisonnt, Galilei got more intrigued at the weapons around him.
"Ah~ how nice of you to provide so solid samples." Galilei peered at one of the weapons and prodded it lightly, not caring that brief mont of contact was enough to cut his skin and drew blood. "Such a diverse group of weaponry, each from different cultures. Oh the amount of data that could be retrieved from this!"
Okay, really not liking the way he was saying that while looking at my projections. And it seed the weapons agreed with sowhat, if the shuddering they made was of any indication. It seed the sight of my weaponry was enough to knock him out of his funk from earlier.
Bumr.
"Well, that is nice of you. At least old man Galilei is getting so fun." Creed shrugged, not caring the slightest that his boss was currently in a make-shift cage of weapons. "Now then." Creed raised his hand as six balls of light glowed around the ceiling. "Think it is ti we have our proper fight." The balls of light ca down to our level and gathered around his hand, combining and forming a general shape of a sword that was misshaped and…
What?
What the heck?
What in the Root's Na was that abomination in his hand?!
"Whoa there, that is so intense expression on your face." Creed remarked as he idly twirled the Excalibur in his hands. "You got a problem with my weapon?"
'You think?' I was practically growling at the sight of that weapon that was before , and I could tell that practically all of the weapons in my Reality Marble were going ballistic at the sight of this thing in front of . This was not so holy weapon made to protect people; this was made out of so twisted magecraft that got enhanced from the mad desires of the people around it, and it was wreaking havoc on its structure and purpose. And worse were the voices ringing from it.
[MAKE IT STOP!]
[UNWORTHY! FREE US FROM HIS CLUTCHES!]
[WE WISH TO BE MADE WHOLE IN THE HANDS OF A WORTHY ONE! NOT IN THIS MANNER AND BY THIS HEATHEN!]
[SAVE US!]
[RELEASE US FROM THIS PRISON!]
[GET THIS HERETIC AWAY FROM US!]
"So you too can hear it." A soft voice cut through the screams in my head and I turned to face Lyle, only to note the paleness and the odd amount of grimacing he had. "You can feel the pain of the shards in his possession. They want to be freed from his clutches."
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