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[Throughout the day on Monday, everyone still left in the building will find a handwritten invitation delivered to them at some point or another, along with a bonus sheet of paper.
There aren't any decorations upstairs, but there will be food and drink as promised, and lots of variety. Curry, soup and sandwiches, parfaits, homemade potato chips, a cheese plate; Rin went all out. For sweets, there's chocolate chip cookies and a lemon meringue pie, with milk or juice (that looks like it was made from scratch) to wash it down with. Alcohol too, if that's your thing. There's even a bloody mary for Elda, somehow.
As you might guess from the invitation, the bonus piece of paper delivered with the invites is a blank bingo sheet! Whether it's when the invites are delivered or when they come to the party, Rin will give everyone instructions on how to fill it out, and how the game is played.
HUMAN GET TO KNOW EACH OTHER BINGO
That should about cover it. But yeah, it's a game designed for the group to maybe get to know each other a little better. Discussion is encouraged, not just for what you have in common, but what you don't! What's most important is everyone have fun.]
WHO: You!
WHAT: Fun and games!
WHERE: The roof
WHEN: 6 o'clock
Hey, everyone. It's been quiet around here lately, so let's keep our spirits up and have some fun! The sun might not be shining, but we still have a great view of the stars, and somewhere warm to watch them from. Food and drink will be provided, so just bring yourself (and your bingo sheet!), and we'll enjoy each other's company.
- Rin Tohsaka
There aren't any decorations upstairs, but there will be food and drink as promised, and lots of variety. Curry, soup and sandwiches, parfaits, homemade potato chips, a cheese plate; Rin went all out. For sweets, there's chocolate chip cookies and a lemon meringue pie, with milk or juice (that looks like it was made from scratch) to wash it down with. Alcohol too, if that's your thing. There's even a bloody mary for Elda, somehow.
As you might guess from the invitation, the bonus piece of paper delivered with the invites is a blank bingo sheet! Whether it's when the invites are delivered or when they come to the party, Rin will give everyone instructions on how to fill it out, and how the game is played.
- Fill out the sheet with 24 simple facts about yourself! They should be anything you're comfortable sharing with others, and most importantly they must be true
- Share sheets with one another! If you have something in common with what's on another person's sheet, you can sign off on that square.
- Players may sign up to two squares on one another's sheets, but only two! Normally you'd only collect a single signature, but this is a small group.
- When one row has five signatures horizontally, vertically, or diagonally, that's a BINGO!
- Whoever has the most BINGOs at the end of the night wins!
That should about cover it. But yeah, it's a game designed for the group to maybe get to know each other a little better. Discussion is encouraged, not just for what you have in common, but what you don't! What's most important is everyone have fun.]
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...But even he knew it was impossible. He knew nothing would change that, but he kept trying. It was as if he believed the effort was all that mattered.
[Lacing her fingers around her empty cup, her voice becomes softer.]
I can't do such a thing. If I know it's impossible for me, I quickly give up. I don't try what I can't do, and I never regret it or think I'm powerless because of it.
But watching him, I felt like I lost. I was jealous of this guy who kept running like an idiot, and couldn't help but think how pure it'd be to just keep trying without a thought for whether it's possible.
I'd never stopped to think there was such a person in the world. And even though he was the exact opposite of me...
[Looking out the window, her expression seems to have turned dreamy at some point. Like it's not the snow she's seeing, but that sunset.]
...He was someone I was happy to know existed.
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No, that actually makes sense.
It's why she, Elda, is Indomitable. It's why Rin writes those letters every time and why she's backed off sometimes when Elda has bounded forward. It's why she's precise at all the best and worst times.
... Hah. ]
You got captivated early there.
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Somehow I knew who he was right away; I was angry I'd remembered him for so long. I never told him any of this, of course. Even when we started attending the same high school, I just watched from afar. I was rooting for Sakura honestly.
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And then her look becomes more serious.]
But then the Holy Grail War started. Way after all of the students and teachers should have gone home, I was at school investigating a disturbance with Archer when another Servant showed up. They engaged in the first battle of the Fifth Holy Grail War, but it ended prematurely. There was a witness.
[Hand trailing down her skirt, she pulls something from her pockets. A red jewel, on a silver chain.]
By the time I made it to where he'd ran off to, the Servant had already stabbed him in the heart. And when I turned over the body, it was that same boy. I don't know how, but somehow he was still alive.
It was pretty impulsive on my part, but I couldn't bring myself so see Sakura's face the next morning if I left him to die. So I blew my biggest trump card in that moment to save him.
If I hadn't, it's strange to think how things might have gone. If Emiya-kun died that night, would anyone have summoned Saber?
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But more than that- ]
So is that your heart transplant? A trinket to revive the dead...
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It wouldn't have worked if he'd already been dead; miracles like that can only benefit the living.
[You know what? She wants more juice. She keeps talking as she refills her cup; they were probably near a table anyways to be writing this.]
It was something father prepared for me as my inheritance. Ten years' worth of my own magical energy, stored up in this one gem. It was a lot of work, but without that magical energy, I'd only have been able to heal his injuries a quarter of the way before he died.
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[ . . . Sips her "bloody" mary again. ]
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Anyways, he became the Master of Saber, and that's when I learned that all along he was a mage too. A complete amateur of one, mind. He had no idea what he'd just gotten into, so I gave him a crash course.
When he decided to fight, we should have become enemies. I tried to enforce that, but he wouldn't treat me like one even when I legitimately tried to kill him. So he became my ally after that.
After Archer betrayed me, he was my only one to stay by my side, actually.
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[ She nods though. Did she know that already? Maybe? she's not sure, she's learned a lot about Rin at a disjointed rate. ]
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They can, yes, though I'll admit that in the moment I was completely blindsided.
[Rin sips at her juice, and looks back out the window, hand clasped loosely around her pendant.]
Knowing all the facts now, it's probably because he didn't mean me ill will. It was just that I had him under a Command Spell not to hurt Shirou Emiya, and so long as I was his Master, he couldn't go against that.
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[ Like.
Really.
What a dumb love triangle. ]
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Oh, no way! I'd never date Archer. It was Shirou and Saber actually. I was just intending on taking Emiya-kun out for a good time, but I didn't mind treating Saber too. She looked too lonesome and hungry standing away from us, playing bodyguard.
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[ She has no idea what her name was, but. ]
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[Oh man, she feels so light remembering that day. Sure it ended poorly, but looking back on it? That might have been the last time they were together and happy, or as happy as Shirou would let himself be.
Still, she shakes her head.]
But that's another story. Archer's reasons for wanting to kill Emiya-kun were more personal than that.
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Well, we've already come off from your romance. Golly, what a convoluted love story.
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I didn't really see Shirou as more than a temporary partner until that moment we were both stuck without Servants, though.
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...No, that's not right either. I didn't want to, because I was afraid of what path that might lead to.
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[And that it was hell. A guardian who came to resent humanity, that hill of swords was his world.]
There was enough from that that I could piece together some things, and once I had the final clue it became glaringly obvious.
[Rin brushes a lock of hair over his shoulder, watching her reflection. When did she realize it? They were so similar, she's sure she had suspicions even before then. But if she did, she foolishly denied them.]
Servants are heroes summoned from the past, but there's no rule that it can't be from any age. There's nothing to say a hero from the future couldn't be summoned backwards into the past, to the very town he grew up in. A stone's throw away from his family home.
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[A deep sigh, but she'll spell it out clearly as she turns away from her reflection in the window.] The Servant I summoned, Archer. He's been a guardian for so long he'd nearly forgotten himself, but when he was alive his name was Shirou Emiya.
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...I don't think I can make it simpler than that.
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Technically, he was the Shirou Emiya of a close, but still divergent timeline. That's why I told him killing Shirou wouldn't create the paradox he'd hoped it would; it wasn't really him.
[...SHE'S NOT SURE IF THAT MAKES IT CRAZIER OR WORSE.]
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