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And as the white light faded into sunlight shining through a pane of clear glass into a wood-panelled compartment, and the noise ebbed to the slow, rhythmic pulsing of a locomotive, he began to get a glimmer as to why that might be.īecause he now remembered being Shirou Einzbern, raised by the Muggle-born wizard Kiritsugu Einzbern and his wife Irisviel, and now on his way to his first year at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry. He should be dead, but he didn’t seem to be. And in the end, the intermixture of energies - demonic, divine, and dimensional - had led to a volatile reaction. The clash had been epic in scale and power. And in using the body of one of its Servants, Illyria had merited the Mediator’s judgment. They had joined forces against Illyria, along with the Slayer’s Servant in the old reality, now the newly-anointed Mediator of the Holy Grail, its guardian and judge. He remembered battling on their behalf against Illyria, a primordial demon which had possessed the body of his lost love as a host, and nearly dying, before encountering a Slayer and his old partner - who had explained his existence as a lie, forced on reality by the overwhelming power of Illyria’s presence and the energies of the Holy Grail summoned in the Sixth War. They had granted him that power - but as their tool, he’d granted Arturia release in the form of death, and been bound to the demons’ servitude forevermore.
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He remembered battling alongside her, falling in love with her, and bargaining with the multidimensional demons known as the Wolf, the Ram, and the Hart for the power to release her from her duties. He remembered encountering Arturia Pendragon, ancient champion of the Powers That Be, in a world of demons and vampires. He’d been battling his onetime partner, Rin Tohsaka, and fully intended to kill her, before the last scion of the Nanaya clan had cut him down. His actions as this Shirou Emiya, a Master in the Sixth Grail War had led to the betrayal and near-deaths of everyone he knew and held dear. He remembered being resurrected as a homunculus by the Einzbern family, to serve as the core of a new Grail, and rebelling.
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He had eventually given up that path, and as a part fused to his younger self, destroyed the Shadow that corrupted the Grand Holy Grail. Dissatisfied, he’d made a further pact with the Grail system, to become the Servant Archer, and when summoned by the magus Rin Tohsaka, sought to end his existence by creating a paradox of killing his younger self. He’d fought in the Grail War, and other wars besides, eventually making a pact with the world for the power to save lives.
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He remembered being raised by Kiritsugu Emiya, and resolving to become a hero who could save everyone. He was Shirou Emiya, but which Shirou Emiya? The identity attached to the name, however, was a different story. Had he another name, ever, it was long ago forgotten and ultimately unimportant. His name, he remembered, was Shirou Emiya - and this had always been true. With the shaping of his surroundings came thoughts. After an eternity - or perhaps only seconds - the world gradually began to reform itself into something recognisable. Coherent thought was all but impossible in the face of the sensory overload, and his sense of time, to say nothing of self, had all but disintegrated under the onslaught. His mind was a cacophony of white noise, appropriate for the blinding white light that had overwhelmed his sight. Writer's Note: Certain dialogue sequences in this story are lifted from Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone, but I trust in the intelligence of my readers (and the availability of the books) to make them recognisable when seen. No monies are generated, or intended to be, from this unauthorised use of said properties. Rowling, along with Raincoast Publishing, and Warner Brothers for the movies. Harry Potter and all related characters and concepts are the creation of J.K. DISCLAIMER: Lunar Legend Tsukihime, Fate/Stay Night, and all related characters and concepts are the creation and property of Kinoko Nasu and Type-Moon.