A few days have passed since I self-summoned as Kariya Matou's Servant in the Fourth Holy Grail War.
I took the position that originally belonged to Lancelot as Berserker.
In those days, nothing happened besides the official start of the Holy Grail War two days ago, announced by the priest at the church when Caster, the last Servant, was summoned.
Since the day I was summoned, I haven't done much besides wandering around the Matou mansion. A mansion that's gloomy in some corners and quite normal in others, like Sakura's room, which is surprisingly a normal room.
Although I avoided exploring outside the Matou Residence because I was being watched by some Familiars of the other Masters.
I still explored inside the Matou Residence.
I also took another look at the Worm storage during one of Sakura's sexual sessions with the Lust Worms that were mercilessly devouring and violating her womb.
The sight of Sakura being violated by Worms wasn't pretty. Especially when those Worms looked like penises with teeth before maturing and reaching adulthood.
Forget the Worms in the storage. In a pit inside the storage, there are some Worms the size of cars.
Seeing giant gray penises with teeth wasn't something I expected to witness with my own eyes someday.
But what should I expect from a Nasuverse villain whose sole goal is to save humanity?
"What's wrong, Master? You seem agitated."
Kariya, who could barely walk properly with just one leg, quickly descended the stairs with heavy breathing and a fiery expression of rage on his face.
Kariya looked like he wanted to kill someone with all his strength.
"Tohsaka! Tohsaka! Tohsaka's Servant!"
"What about Tohsaka's Servant, Master?"
"Let's kill him!"
"Hmm?…"
He wants me to kill Gilgamesh?
"Now?"
"Yes. Let's go, Berserker. Kill Tohsaka's Servant!"
What happened? Kariya is extremely agitated and full of rage, and now he wants to kill Gilgamesh out of nowhere without any explanation.
"Calm down, Master."
There's no way I can face Gilgamesh head-on without first knowing how strong I am compared to the other Servants. Going straight against the final boss without leveling up first is madness.
"First, tell me what happened. We can't win the Holy Grail War by acting so recklessly."
It seems things are finally getting more interesting after so many days of nothing happening. But I can't move rashly without knowing what's going on.
"Think a little before making such sudden decisions, Master."
Kariya's anger seems to have subsided for now.
That's better. I can't have Kariya out of control now and wasting his Command Seals on stupid, senseless orders.
A Command Seal is a trump card for a Servant. With one order, a Servant can be healed quickly, and it can also grant a massive power-up that can make the weakest Servant become the strongest for a moment.
"Tohsaka's Servant…"
Clenching the fist with his Command Seals, Kariya took a breath, calming the anger rising within him as he spoke about Tohsaka.
"…He killed Assassin."
"…"
Hmm. So the Holy Grail War has officially begun.
I'll be able to test my Power Level as a regular Servant against the other Servants.
I've been eagerly awaiting this day since my summoning.
"I see. It seems the Holy Grail War is finally about to start."
"That's why we're going after Tohsaka and his Servant, Berserker."
"I already told you to calm down, Master. For now, just tell me what you saw through the Familiar's eyes. What was Tohsaka's Servant like?"
Although I don-to need to know what I already know. It's good to make sure nothing has changed in this timeline because of me.
Having the Servants changed in this timeline would be problematic for me, as I'd no longer have prior knowledge of the anime's events.
Although the timeline will shift a bit after the first confrontation because of my existence. It'd be good if nothing else changed beyond what's necessary.
"Tohsaka's Servant… he was radiant. Golden and radiant. He killed Assassin very quickly, so I couldn't see much of what happened."
It seems there were no changes with Gilgamesh and Assassin.
"Is that all?"
"Hmm, well, Tohsaka's Servant seems to possess many… swords? It's strange, very strange, the swords of Tohsaka's Servant seemed to have different amounts of Magical Energy, and they were all swords with different appearances too."
"What's strange about that, Master?"
"I, I learned that a Servant can have up to three Noble Phantasms, but having more than twenty… For a Servant to casually unleash more than twenty Noble Phantasms like that. It's abnormal, Berserker."
"Master, there are many Servants who don't seem normal compared to other Servants. Especially Archers, most of them don't even have a bow and arrow. They're quite strange and outside the norm for the Archer Class. To qualify for the Archer Class, a Heroic Spirit only needs a projectile weapon or a skill related to projectile weapons, Master, even a firearm can indicate that a Servant is an Archer."
"Eh… Archers are that strange?"
"They are."
"Hmm… I think I understand. So Tohsaka's Servant is an Archer?"
"Probably. Nikola Tesla, David from the Bible, Billy The Kid, Tomoe Gozen who usually fights with a katana and a naginata, they're all from the Archer Class, Master."
"S-seriously? Even without a bow?"
"Yes. Even I could be an Archer, Master. All I need to do is create a projectile attack with my Skill."
Although I already have projectile attacks. Sorath Teu. But that wasn't enough to qualify me as an Archer since it's not a projectile-specific Skill or Noble Phantasm. Although I'm almost certain that if I improve Sorath Teu, I'll definitely qualify for the Archer Class too.
"I-I see. Archers seem strange."
Archers are almost never true archers in the Nasuverse, as one would expect from the Class name. Few actually fight with a bow as the Class suggests.
"Good, Master. We can scout the city tonight, and with a bit of luck, we might encounter an enemy Servant, or… Tohsaka's Servant, as you wish."
Since Kariya seemed eager to kill Gilgamesh, Tohsaka's Servant, I decided to invite him to roam the city and search for an enemy Servant.
"Y-yes. I-I'll… I'll say goodbye to Sakura before we leave."
Kariya's voice was weak and lacked strength when it came to Sakura. Kariya could do nothing but lament what Sakura was going through at the hands of Zouken Matou over the past year.
"Okay, Master. Little Sakura must be in the storage for her special training. Let's see her and leave right after through the back of the mansion so we aren't seen by the other Masters' Familiars."
I got up from the couch in the living room and followed Kariya to the Worm storage where Sakura was every day, being violated by Lust Worms.
It didn't take long to reach the storage door. As we passed through the door, we walked through a passageway overlooking the storage below, with Worms scattered throughout.
Zouken was on the passageway, watching Sakura being raped by hundreds of Worms in the foul-smelling storage.
One Worm came out of Sakura's vagina, and a new Worm penetrated her immediately afterward, reaching her womb and devouring it along with other Worms feasting on Sakura's naked body lying in the storage.
The Worm that had come out of Sakura's vagina was covered in blood, and Sakura's vagina was bleeding too. The result of having her womb devoured by Worms for hours to days constantly and then healed by Zouken.
It was a constant cycle that repeated for more than a day until Sakura reached the limit of her endurance.
It's not the first time I've seen Sakura being raped by Worms.
But seeing Sakura being raped by Worms always reminds me of the first time I saw her being raped by Worms, the day after my summoning.
I remember the thought I had at that moment: "Can I save Sakura?" I thought about it for the first time after seeing Sakura being raped by Worms.
But the answer to that is… No. I can't save Sakura.
Maybe it's Fate. But I'm incapable of saving Sakura.
First. I'm not sure if I can completely kill Zouken. Zouken at his peak over two hundred years ago could fight another Servant, according to Nasu himself. Zouken is a Pride Rank mage at Level 70… though I have no idea what the hell that Level Nasu mentioned means. Although Zouken is no longer at his peak, he's still a troublesome opponent who can match a weak Servant like Assassin or Caster even past his prime.
Even if I destroy Zouken's body and the Worms in the storage, Zouken Matou might have other Blood Worms in his house or somewhere in Fuyuki, maybe even Blood Worms inside the bodies of some ordinary people in a dormant state for emergencies.
All Zouken would need is one Blood Worm to devour a person and rebuild his destroyed body, fully recovering his vitality.
And second. I can't remove the Worms from Sakura's or Kariya's bodies without my "Divine Doctor" and "Anatomy Comprehension" Skills from my main body, which is currently in a cave in a mountain range on the Reverse Side of the World. Although Sakura doesn't yet have Worms implanted in her like Kariya, removing the ones already inside her would be difficult without those two specific Skills.
Third. I don't have the Assassin Class to manifest in the world with those two Skills. But even then, I'd still need a Skill to have two Classes at once, as I'd be extremely weakened as an Assassin without my Vibrations and my Staff that amplifies the Vibrations.
And so, even if I completely destroyed Zouken until not a single one of his Worms remained, both Sakura and Kariya would still have Worms in their bodies that would devour them to death since they'd no longer be under Zouken's control.
There are also other interesting things about these Worms.
These Worms can exist without a host. The Worms don't need Zouken to live. Perhaps because the Worms are also Familiars. Familiars in the Nasuverse are created with the souls of recently deceased humans.
Anyone from the outside, like me, who sees these Worms doesn't see simple Worms but sees how many ordinary people were sacrificed to create each of the hundreds of Worms in the storage.
This World really is one of the worst a person could Reincarnate or Transmigrate into, like I did. I was lucky to become someone strong. I don't want to think about what could've happened to me if I were an ordinary person. Hmm… that's kind of ironic. My Luck is Rank E, but I literally had EX Luck by Transmigrating into the body of a powerful being.
The Worms need Magical Energy; if they don't have enough Magical Energy to feed on, they end up devouring the host. As is happening with Sakura and Kariya. The Worms they have are Lust Worms; they eat men's brains, and for women, they eat the womb.
But there's something curious about these Worms. The Worms don't need to eat for nutrients instead of Magical Energy; they can stimulate the Desire for Intimacy. Thinking about it… I start to suspect Sakura's feelings for Shirou ten years from now. The likelihood that the Worms are the cause of her strong love for Shirou is high if I start thinking logically.
After all… the Worms implanted in Sakura after the Holy Grail War remained dormant for ten years without feeding on Magical Energy. I know Sakura has an OD of at least 500 ten years from now, but I'm sure it wasn't enough Magical Energy to feed special Worms that have fragments of the Holy Grail.
It would be interesting to stay here after the Holy Grail War ends and see if the Worms end up making her have Desires for Intimacy with me.
Knowing how dark this World truly is, the possibility that the love Sakura develops for Shirou is false is very high.
Even without official confirmation from Nasu, I have my doubts now.
For now, it's better not to think too much about it.
There's a fourth reason I'm unable to save Sakura too.
This isn't a Singularity, where a normal human doctor could remove those Worms from Kariya's brain and let Kariya live alongside Sakura away from Fuyuki for the rest of his short life. Besides… that kind of surgery was banned over ten years ago because of the consequences it caused. Even two decades in the future, it's rarely used.
That was a Singularity where the Human Order was incinerated by Goetia. Because of the incineration of the Human Order, things impossible for normal humans to do are possible. You could say that in Singularities, the Laws of Physics or the Magic of the Modern World don't exist.
Like Ritsuka beating Goetia in a fistfight and winning that way.
Even though Goetia was weakened and without Solomon's Rings when he and Ritsuka fought hand-to-hand, Goetia was still a Planetary-Class Second Beast with unimaginable power for a regular Servant, who could still lose a battle to a human mage if not careful.
It would take someone like Zelretch, with his Infinite Magical Energy drawn from infinite parallel worlds, to defeat a Planetary-Class Second Beast like Goetia.
In the end, a simple hospital in the nineties can't do anything to remove Zouken's Familiars from Kariya's brain.
"Oh, Kariya, came to say goodbye to Sakura?"
"I did. I'll leave soon with Berserker, so I want to say goodbye to Sakura before we go."
"Ho ho. Don't take long. Sakura is only at the beginning of her training today."
"I won't. The sooner I win the Heaven's Feel, the sooner I'll save Sakura from your filthy hands."
"Of course. With a Servant with three EX Skills, your chances of victory are indeed high, Kariya. If you bring me the Holy Grail, I'll free Sakura as promised."
What a lie. Even if Kariya won the Holy Grail War, he'd have little time leftლ
left to live. Even if the Worms were removed from his body, he wouldn't have more than a few years left. Not to mention all the mental issues from having part of his brain devoured before the end of the Holy Grail War.
Besides, the corrupted Holy Grail is useless and incapable of granting wishes.
And also… I can't forget that before the end of the Holy Grail War, Kariya would already be on the verge of death after having part of his brain devoured by Zouken's Worms.
Zouken probably planned for Kariya to die right at the end of the Holy Grail War. Since I'm not consuming Kariya's Magical Energy due to my Independent Action, Kariya has a bit more time, maybe a few years.
But that has nothing to do with me. I'm only here to test my power against the Servants in a safe way. Although I'm in the form of a Servant too, just much more limited than a Servant at their peak. Though… regular Servants can still approach their peak if enough Magical Energy is supplied by their Master.
Kariya exchanged a few words with Sakura, who was being raped by the Worms, before limping back up the storage stairs.
"Bring me the Holy Grail, Kariya."
"I will. And when I deliver the Grail to you, you'll free Sakura, Zouken Matou."
After exchanging a few more words with Zouken, Kariya came to me, who was waiting near the storage door.
"Let's go, Berserker."
"Right, Master."
After saying goodbye to Sakura and leaving the storage, Kariya and I exited through the back of the Matou Residence.
The front of the Matou Residence was under surveillance by some Familiars. Though I wonder why they're only watching the front and not the back of the Matou Residence too.
As we stepped outside the Matou Residence, I looked at the Moon.
"What's the matter, Berserker?"
"It's nothing, Master. And call me Bel now that we're outside the mansion. Servants can still hide among ordinary people by suppressing their Magical Energy."
"Right, Bel."
But as I expected, not a single Servant appeared that night. The night of the death of one of Assassin's clones wasn't the same night as the confrontation at the docks.
Although, the Moon tonight… well, that's not my problem.
But it kind of made me suspicious about the World I'm in.
Fate/Strange Fake takes place in a World where the events of Fate/Zero, Fate/Stay Night, and Tsukihime occurred in the past.
I suspect… I might have gotten the World wrong in my self-manifestation.
I hope I don't run into her in this World.