As Shirou headed to the place of high-school education in Fuyuki city themagic-user let his mind wonder for a bitabout the true events surrounding Fuyuki while getting quick glances towards his right hand that was coveredin bandages in order to hide a mark thatappeared on his hand a few days ago. When he showed the mark to Rin when he came round her house the next day, she was both shocked and worried as she recognized it and decided to tell Shirou the shocking truth she heard about from Kirei last week.

That the 5th Holy Grail war was starting 50 years early.This of course caused the heir of Emiya to have a minor panic attack as he still remembered the Fuyuki city fire that was a direct aftermath of the last war and was horrified that such a conflict was happening again. At first Rin was confused at the red head's actions before he confessed thathe was a survivor of the Fuyuki city fire 10 years ago that left him an orphan and led to him being adopted by Kiritsugu Emiya, naturally the black haired girl felt sorry for him after hearingthat. Which was why she was surprised to hear him declare that he was going to participate in the war in order to make sure that the disaster that happened 10 years ago never happened again, naturally Rin tried to convince him not to go along with it but he said that he was insistent.

     After hearing Shirou's declaration Rin could only sigh at his antics and decided that she might as well tell him what she knew about the war. The holy grail war summons heroic spirits from across time and space in order to compete for the holy grail, however not even the grail could fully incarnate a heroic spirit so they were instead put into pre-made servant containers that reflect the skills they had in life:

Saber, knight of the sword and possesses the most outstanding stats of the seven classes.

Archer, knight of the bow who is a marksman specalising in mid-range and long-range combat, as well as possessing the skillIndependent action.

Lancer, knight of the spear and the most agile of the seven (as well as the most unlucky).

Rider, hero of the mount who usually possesses the most destructive of noble phantasms.

Berserker, the servant of madnesswho is traditionally weak heroes who trade in their sanity in exchange for power.

Assassin, the masters of silent killing who usePresence Concealmentto kill their prey with ease.

Caster, the hero of magic, a magus possessing thaumaturgy lost to the modern era.

She then talked about the command seals, marks distributed by the grail to prove their rights as masters and to serve as a way for masters to control their servants, when Shirou heard about these he was disgusted with them as it was no better then slavery. When she heard this Rin was forced to agree with him but said that it was a necessary precaution to prevent the summoned servants from turning against their masters as the pairs would sometimes have conflicting personalities, especially if the magus used a catalyst linked to a specific hero. She then said that the chosen magi only get three command seals each andonce they use them up that's it, however they can be used for more than controlling their familiars as they can also be used to allow their servants to perform feats on par with true magic if used right.

     After explaining all she can about the war she asked the red head if he had a summoning area ready, however the puzzled look on Shirou's face was proof enough, she then written one down for him on a piece of paper and told him to memorize it while suggesting he add a few changes to make it unique to him.  She then told him to wait before summoning his servant as the only two classes left to summon were Saber and Archer, and since Rin wanted Saber she told him to wait until she summoned first before he did, Shirou didn't mind ashe was okay with an Archer class servant. However there was no guarantee that Rin would get the class that she wantedsince she told him she didn't have a summoning catalyst in her families vaults, she could have asked Kirei for one but decided against it as she didn't want to rely the fake priest anymore then necessary.

Which brought us back to the present time as Shirou was assaulted by a nauseating feeling that made him want to throw up as soon as he stepped through the front gates.  Fortunately he managed to keep his breakfast down and decided that he needed to know what that was and headed for the nearest prana signature linked to the feeling during break after he managed to sniff it out. See Magi in particular have the ability tosense prana through one of their 5 senses like taste, touch, smell, sight and hearing, Shirou in particular is able use his nose to sniff out prana signatures which he can reinforce by reinforcing his nose.

     In fact Rin once jokingly compared him to a bloodhound when he demonstratedthis to her. When Shirou managed to find the source of the disturbance he was greeted to an invisible array inscribed behind the 2nd year school building, deciding to useStructural Analysisin order to find out what the bounded field around the school was he was shocked to discover what he had found. From the various bits and pieces of information he gleamed from the sigil he managed to roughly guess that the what was set up at the school was a containment type bounded field called

Blood Fort Andromeda: Blood seal, Blood Temple, which to Shirou's surprise is a B rank Anti-army noble phantasm designed to trap its victims and drain them of their Od, once they lost a specific amount the victims are then melted them down into blood which is then absorbed by the user and converted into mana. Based on the fact that the field is a noble phantasm it was clear to the magic-user what it was for, it seemed that one of the students or teachers in the school was a master in the Holy Grail war and was planning to sacrifice the students and faculty on the school grounds in order to power-up their servant and gain an advantage in the conflict. As both a student at this school who has friends and family here and a hero of justice (in-training) Shirou Emiya could not let this stand so he decided to do everything in his power to prevent the bounded field from being activated and he knew just how to do it.It was when he usedStructural Analysisthat he saw a flaw in the construction ofthe field as it seemed that it needed to have a set number of sigils created around the area of effect in order to be used at full power, so if he managed to destroy as many of them as he could hewould be able to stall theBlood Fortlong enough for he or Rin to find the master responsible get him to stop the field by any means nessesary.

So with that settled Shirou proceeded to Trace one of his special rune blades and drive the hilt into the sigil as the magical array strangle got both burned and frozen at the same time. What shirou used was one of his first offensive mystic codes called a IceFire blade, a blade with the Runes Sowilo, Perthro, and Isa etched into the metal in order to surround the blade with conflicting forces of Fire and ice when prana is fed into the letters that strangely don't cancel each over out. He also made bladed arrows embodyingEarth, Water, Wind, Ice, Lightning, and Fire that he wanted to shoot from a bow at long-range, but unfortunately couldn't find a bow strong enough to withstand the recoil of firing a sharpened lump of materialized metal so he had to make due with using them as mid-range projectiles.

    When the sigil collapsed from the damage it was receiving Shirou dismissed his weapon and proceeded to find the next sigil before the bell rang and was forced to wait till lunchtime before starting again when he found one near the side entrance. After that was taken care off he decided to head for the next one he could sniff out which was on the roof of the 2nd year school building, as he climbed the stairs he was greeted with the scent of a bounded field that had the School idolTohsaka Rin's hands all over it. It was then that Shirou remembered that he was supposed to meet the blackhaired girl on the roof when lunch started in order to discuss details aboutthe war, deciding he might as well face the music he opened the door to the roof and was greeted with the sight of an irritated magus in twin pony tails telling him that he was late. Seeing that he had a perfectly good reason why he didn't show up until now Shirou told Rin about what he found out about the bounded field and that he had been going around campus destroying the fields sigils in order to stall its activation. At first the master of Archer was surprised that Shirou managed to find out so much about the bounded field set around the school in so little time and was already doing what he could to slow down the bounded field from activating, but desided that she should had expected this from Shirou since his version of Structual analysis is practically broken.

"So how did you're summoning go, did you get the servant you wanted?" the heir of Emiya asked before noticing that she had a slight frown on her face. At this Shirou realized that something must have happened during the summoning and decided to see if his suspicions were right

"You did remember to set your clocks back 1 hour before the summoning right?"

What he was talking about was something that Ayako told him yesterday during Club practice.

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