The next morning was okay but it also served as a way for Rin to find out two important facts about her servant, first was that when she came down she found that her living room was spotless as if the servant had been up all night cleaning her house. Second was that he made great tea as he not only brewed it perfectly but he somehow knew the brand she liked (his pancakes weren't bad either) in fact if she didn't know it already she could have swore that his class was Butler instead of Archer.

      From there she had Archer follow her to school in spirit form in the unlikely case that one of the other masters attacked her in broad daylight however when she got to the front gates she felt a slight case of nausea like the entire school had less air then the rest of the world. Her senses as a magus instantly told her that it was a bounded field and a powerful one at that (Archer confirmed her theory as he was more sensitive to these type of things being a spirit and all) so after some careful analysis of one of the focal points of the field she managed to get a rough estimate of the field. It seemed that the bounded field was a containment type that was designed to trap its victims and then melt them down into blood in order to be absorbed by its user, based on this fact it was easy to deduce that it was a servants doing as the bounded field was way too powerful for a magus of the modern era to achieve.

     Which means that there was another master or two attending Homurahara high and he/she was planning to sacrifice the whole school in order to power their servant, as both a master in the holy grail war and the second owner of Fuyuki charged with protecting the secrecy of mage craft she cannot allow this to happen. Which was why she told Archer that she was planning to meet her associate at school in order exchange information and work together in order to delay the fields activation by destroying sigils scattered around campus and hopefully give them enough time to find the rogue servants master and force him/her to disable the field. Archer of course was confused as to the identity of this mysterious benefactor of Rin when she headed for the rooftop of the 2nd year school building and decided to set up a bounded field in order to keep the mundane students and teachers away so that they can have their conversationin private.

      It was 10 minutes after the agreed upon time for the mysterious student to meet her when she felt her field being breeched meaning that the idiot had finally decided to show up. So it was unexpected for her to notice Archer stare at Emiya Shirou in shock as he opened the door leading to the roof, when she told him that he was late he apologized saying that he noticed that there was a bounded field around the school grounds this morning and he had been using his spare time outside club activities destroying the sigils around campus necessary to stall the fields activation. This served to calm Rin down as she was glad he was already doing what he could to foil the hidden master at the school rather then waste time like she thought he was. Shirou then proceeded to ask if Rin's summoning went well while asking if she remembered to set her clocks back before attempting the ritual

"Of course I did Emiya what kind of idiot do you thinkI am."

"The kind who tends to mess up at the most important times when she's not paying attention such as when the 'Rune gem incident'happened" the boy deadpanned much to Rin's embarrassment.

"Th..Th.. That was an accident and I made sure to be extra careful when modifying my artificial gems since then, besides you didn't suffer any permanent injuries thanks to Kirei" Rin said while Archer made a snicker at his master's expense.

This slight chuckle seemed to catch Rin's eye as she eyed the servant's invisible form suspiciously while he whistled innocently, this seemed suspicious to Shirou as he saw her looking at no one visible to his eyes.

"Tohsaka-san, who is it that you are talking to"

This seemed to snap Rin out of what she was doing as she concentrated on Shirou.

"I was talking to my smartass servant Emiya-kun he's in spirit form right now so its natural you can't see him" she then turned to her invisible familiar and said.

"Archer you can materialize now"

As if on cue a brown tanned man with White hair wearing black armor and a red overcoat appeared next to the black haired magus, his face natural as it was hard to tell what he was thinking at the moment. For Shirou in particular it was the first time he had come face to face with a heroic spirit (despite being degraded in order to fit into the class containers provided by the grail) but he could already tell that the man in front of him as an existence far above regular humans and not to be trifled with, however there was also something about the servant eying him that set him on edge. It was the first time that they had ever met, but Shirou could already tell right away that if the two of them were to talk with each over they will not get along at all, it was the same kind of feeling he got from Kotomine but different, while the priest exuded a feeling a malice that set the Emiya on edge the servant standing by Rin seemed to irritate him at his very core as if he was a blight to everything he stood for as a hero of justice.

     But he pushed that feeling aside as he couldn't afford to antagonize a servant this early in the conflict and decided to ask Rin about him.

"So Rin do you know what class he is?" At this question Rin sighed a bit and said.

"Unfortunately I failed to get Saber but I suppose that Archer will do since its one of the three knight classes"  this had surprised Shirou as he was sure she was going to get Saber since it she was a much better magus then he was but the Emiya supposed that it was a bit of a gamble. There were two ways to summon a servant to the grail war, the first was to use a catalyst that links to a specific heroic spirit like King Arthur or Alexander the great, however this way has a high chance of summoning a servant that was not compatible with the summoned especially since the caller would be a stereotypical magus (who are usually assholes at best).

      The other way was not to use a catalyst at all and instead summon a hero that possesses similar traits to the master, however heroes called this way have a high change of being low to average heroic spirits since the high tear heroes usually have personalities incompatible with the modern era. The reason that Rin didn't use a catalystin her summoning ritual is because while she had regained her families landthanks to Shirou, she lacked the necessary connections her father forged during his time that allowed him to procure rare artifacts necessary for potential summoning catalysts. Which was why she used the huge red gem she inherited from her father after decoding his will, too bad her efforts landed her with a nameless Archer who doesn't even remember who he was in life. But despite this fact her summoning of the 6th of the 7 classes needed to start the Holy Grail war meant that if Shirou wanted to claim the last spot by summoning Saber he needed to do it tonight.  Fortunately he had a suitable catalyst in his body in order to call the final servant.

"Well Rin I'd like to stay but think that I should get going, I need to check that the equipment in the Archery club is in working order before this afternoon so if you have something to say then please say it now"  Shirou said as he waved Rin goodbye before he stopped as if he had forgotten something important.

"What is it Emiya-kun?" Rin questioned as she saw him walk towards the edge of the rooftop and kneeled down placing his hand on the floor, she was then shocked as he traced one of his projected weapons that were covered in three runes and watched astonished along with her servant as both fire and frost covered the blade from head to toe and plunged it to the floor, only to blink as a array appeared where he struck before dissipating.

"Whew, almost forgot about that one fora sec" the Emiya said before turning to the red clad servant and his master who were to him sporting weird faces.

"Oh that was just one of the sigils I managed to sniff out around campus, I came up here to destroy it when I remembered that I was supposed to meet you up here, sorry about that Tohsaka-san"

As he finished apologizing Rin could only say.

"I….see well then good work Emiya-kun" as she realized that there was a sigil up here on the roof and neither her or Archer managed to sense it at all, but then again she guessed she should have expected this from Mr bloodhound.

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