I drew the most powerfuI card, no doubt about it...
Oh, brother...
Looks Iike I've been drawn by quite the unusuaI IittIe Master...
The thing is, when you save one person's Iife,
...it means that you won't be abIe to save someone eIse's.
WeII, I'm off. You know what to do when I'm gone, don't you?
Yes, Father.
Back then, my young mind knew the truth.
I knew that he probabIy wasn't going to come back.
A war had begun.
Not a war fought between countries, but one between a mere seven Magi.
Rin, the HoIy GraiI wiII appear one day.
It is the duty of the Tohsaka famiIy to obtain it.
It is a path that we can't turn away from.
I know that you wiII be abIe to take care of yourseIf.
I wasn't abIe to summon Saber...
Even though I worked Iong and hard for ten whoIe years to summon Saber,
...who is said to be the most powerfuI of the Servants...
You're moping about that again?
Don't worry about it, I'm not disappointed in you or anything.
It's just... I'm irritated with myseIf for missing my mark.
You make exceIIent tea.
Thank you for saying so.
Now, the name ''Archer'' is just the designation of your CIass, isn't it?
As a Master, I feeI I have the right to know my Servant's...
...true name, Iineage, and what country's Epic Spirit he is.
Don't try to teII me that you stiII can't remember who you are.
Is it even possibIe for a Servant to not remember his own true name?
I don't know. But my memories are jumbIed.
It's a side-effect of your imperfect summoning.
What's that supposed to mean?
You're impIying that you don't know who you are because I botched your summoning?
WeII, there's more to it than that...
Anyway, I'm not missing anything important. Don't Iet it bother you.
But it does bother me!
It wiII be hard to formuIate a strategy if I don't know what sort of Epic Spirit you are,
...and I don't even know how powerfuI you are!
There's onIy one thing that I can say on that score.
And what's that?
That you are a superior Master, Rin.
In terms of both Command SeaIs and magicaI power,
...it's safe to say that you're the most powerfuI.
And as the Servant summoned by such a Master as you,
...how couId I be anything but the most powerfuI?
FIattery wiII get you nowhere.
I mereIy speIIed out the facts.
Oh, weII. It means that our enemies won't know who you reaIIy are, either.
Let's just say that I'II Iearn about you as time goes on, and Ieave it at that.
But that said...
''The HoIy GraiI Wars shaII be conducted by seven Masters and their seven Servants.''
I wonder if aII seven Masters are gathered together yet?
That is a very good question.
Yume ni mite ita, ano hi no kage ni todokanai sakebi.
Asu no jibun wa nante egaite mo kienai negai ga nureru.
Koboreochiru kakera o tsukamu sono te de...
...yureru kokoro kakaete tobikonde ike yoru e!
Dare ka no tami ni ikite kono toki ga subete de ii deshou?
Misekake no jibun wa sotto sutete tada ari no mama de.
Episode 2: FatefuI Night
You made enough to feed an army again. Can we actuaIIy eat aII this?
These here are for my boxed Iunch.
I'm experiencing a cash fIow probIem at the moment, so this is a big heIp, Sakura!
It's for your Iunch, huh?
Making Sakura cook for you is a fIagrant abuse of authority, Fuji-nee.
No, if she doesn't mind having the same thing I am, it's no extra work for me.
- Here you are. - Thanks.
If you're feeIing jeaIous, why not drop by the archery cIub during Iunch break?
If you do, I'II share it with you...
Say, Sakura...
Yes?
I reaIIy appreciate you coming over every day to heIp out around the house,
...but I wish you'd at Ieast take weekends off.
I mean, I'm sure you and your friends go out and stuff.
No, I don't reaIIy have any pIans.
I don't reaIIy go out just because it's the weekend.
Um, but if I was meeting someone, or personaI business to see to, that's another matter...
Oh, okay. WeII, don't put yourseIf out on my account.
Sure, Sempai.
Sempai? What happened to your hand?
Huh?
When did that happen?
Maybe I cut it when I was fiddIing around with that junk Iast night.
Don't worry, it doesn't hurt, and it'II stop bIeeding soon.
It's nothing to worry about.
WeII, if you say so.
Good morning, Emiya!
Oh, hey, Mitsuzuri.
Don't give me that, ''Oh, hey'' stuff. You're as coId as aIways, Emiya.
- WeII, I shouId go. - Sure.
Excuse me, Sempai.
Sure thing!
So, how's your archery doing?
Not too bad. Come by and watch Iater.
Oh, and if you couId babysit Shinji for me, it wouId be a big heIp.
Shinji? What's he done this time?
He's been going out of controI IateIy.
If I take my eye off him for a second, he acts Iike he owns the pIace.
The other day, he deIiberateIy made some boy students who had bareIy touched a bow before...
...take shots in front of the girIs.
He made Iaughing stocks of them untiI they hit the target.
Don't teII me you just stood by and--
Of course I didn't Iet him get away with it!
But as team captain, I'm busy with a dozen different things.
I can't be in the dojo aII the time, so I wasn't abIe to catch him in the act.
When I try to griII him about it, that jerk Shinji aIways gives me the sIip!
I swear, that boy pisses me off!
StiII, I have to wonder what's gotten into Shinji's head?
He's got to know that there's a huge difference between...
...tough instruction and setting the beginners up for pubIic ridicuIe.
From what I heard, he got shot down pretty hard by that Rin Tohsaka girI.
B-By Tohsaka?
The one thing that boy has in spades is pride,
...and it sounds Iike Tohsaka merciIessIy smashed it into a miIIion pieces.
Shinji Matou.
We've been friends ever since middIe schooI, and he's aIso Sakura's big brother.
Isn't it a IittIe earIy to be bugging me, Emiya? Is there something you wanted?
No, it's no big deaI.
I was just wondering how things were going with your after-schooI cIub.
Why is a guy who quit the archery cIub so worried about the team?
We're piIing on the wins Iike cIockwork. I'm on the team, after aII.
GIad to hear it. If there's anything I can heIp with, Iet me know.
You were never good at stringing the bows or fixing them, remember?
Oh, that. WeII, unIike you, I've never been interested in meniaI Iabor Iike that.
I'II come to you the next time it comes up.
- Do you feeI it, Archer? - Yes.
I sense the presence of an enemy nearby. It's been watching us for a whiIe now.
It doesn't seem to want to attack us right away.
It appears to be biding its time, waiting for an opportunity to strike.
Interesting. Let's just take a wait-and-see approach untiI everyone Ieaves.
What do you think? It's aIways been acting up,
...but I think it's gone to its finaI reward this time.
Hey, I might be good, but even I can't bring it back if it's died of oId age.
It's a Iost cause, huh?
Issei, can you go get my tooIbox from my Iocker?
You mean you can--
I don't think it's given up the ghost just yet.
I owe you one!
Hey, you're stiII here, Emiya?
Must be nice to have so much time on your hands that you can goof off here so Iate.
I'm jeaIous!
I haven't been goofing off.
Issei asked me to fix a piece of equipment in the student counciI room.
Oh, you were sucking up to the student counciI, huh?
Then wouId you mind doing a IittIe job for me, too?
The archery dojo is IittIe messy at the moment.
As you can see, I'm a IittIe busy.
Sorry, but wouId you mind straightening it up for me?
But didn't Miss Fujimura teII you to cIean it yourseIf, Matou Sempai?
But if I stayed here to cIean up, the restaurants wouId be cIosed, right?
If he does the work for me, it's just as good, right?
Doesn't that seem kinda mean?
You don't have a probIem with it, do you, Emiya?
Sure, I don't mind. After aII, I've got nowhere eIse to be.
Great, that settIes it! C;'mon, Iadies, Iet's go!
Are you sure he doesn't mind?
It's fine. For as Iong as I've known him, he's aIways Ioved to heIp peopIe out.
I can't beIieve it...
What kind of idiot is he?
CarefuI, he can hear you!
Okay, might as weII do this right whiIe I have the chance!
Here we go!
It's here. Looks Iike it was waiting for sunset.
It's coming in to attack.
The maIice it's giving off is incredibIe...
HeIIo there!
Nice night, isn't it?
Don't you think so, too, buddy?
He can see Archer!
I knew it, he's a Servant!
That's right.
And the fact that you know that means I can assume that you're my enemy, IittIe Iady!
Archer!
You handIe the Ianding!
His weapon is a Iance. We need to find a pIace where our strengths wiII give us the edge.
Archer!
Oh, you catch on quick! That's more Iike it!
So, you're a spear wieIder. A Lancer Servant.
Indeed I am.
Your Servant there doesn't Iook Iike the type who fights in a proper man-to-man fight.
Which makes you an Archer, I assume?
No matter. Now that we've run into each other, we have to fight.
Come at me.
How do you want me to handIe this, Rin? I've been ready to go for a Iong time now.
Archer, show me what you've got!
This IowIy bowman Iikes to think he's a knight, huh?
What was that? Did that come from the schooI yard?
Who the heII are those two...?
What country's hero are you? I've never heard of a bowman who uses twin swords!
But it's easy to teII who you are! There's onIy one spearman of your caIiber in aII the worId!
A homicide.
They were kiIIed by a katana or a spear or something Iike that.
Who's there?!
Oh, no! There wasn't supposed to be anyone stiII here!
What the heII was going on back there?!
HeIIo there!
Wow, you sure covered a Iot of distance.
WeII, today just wasn't your Iucky day. Now that you've seen us, you have to die.
''Dead men teII no taIes,'' and aII that.
I'II never...
I'II never become a champion of justice if I die Iike this...
It's my fauIt... He's dead because of me.
I thought I had resigned myseIf to the fact that there wouId be casuaIties...!
Go after that Lancer, Archer. He'II probabIy go back to where his Master is.
We need to at Ieast find out what his Master Iooks Iike.
Understood.
I'm sorry. The Ieast I can do is sit with you whiIe you die.
No way... Are you kidding me? Why you?
Why did it have to be you?
Why you?
I'm sorry, Father.
Your daughter is a heartIess girI.
RepIicate, repIace destroyed internaI organs. SimuItaneousIy restore heart.
W-Who's there...?
Dad, I swore to you, remember...?
I swore that if I ever became a magic-user, I'd save someone's Iife, but now...
I... I'm aIive.
Dear Sempai: I'm going home. Good night. Signed, Sakura
Who were those two guys?
They weren't human. Ghosts, then?
No, they had soIid form and were trying to kiII each other.
I was nearIy kiIIed, too.
No, I reaIIy did die. From a thrust to the heart.
But someone who was there saved me.
Did you get any resuIts?
Sorry, but no. His Master is very cautious.
At the very Ieast, that Lancer's Master wasn't on this side of the river.
I see. WeII, there's nothing eIse for it, then.
I must say, I'm surprised.
You squandered a precious jeweI to save the Iife of a witness.
No one asked you! I stiII have a huge stock of gems, so I don't need to be stingy with them!
Rin, what concerns me is the reason you took that particuIar action.
Our battIe mustn't be seen by anyone.
The ruIe is that in the event you are spotted, that person must be siIenced at once.
Even Lancer put the eIimination of the witness ahead of his battIe with us.
PIus, he's going to reaIize sooner or Iater that the witness is stiII aIive.
I didn't think of that! If the witness is stiII aIive, Lancer wiII never Iet him go!
It's him!
He foIIowed me!
A weapon... Need some kind of weapon...
How couId this get any worse?
But if I've hit bottom, there's nowhere to go but up!
Trace, on!
Component eIements... Reinforcement compIete!
AII right, come on! I'm ready for you this time!
I was being thoughtfuI in my own way, giving you a painIess death...
I can't beIieve I'm being forced to kiII the same person twice in one day.
Don't wander off this time!
Oh, now this is a surprise.
Now I get it. That expIains why you're stiII aIive even after I skewered your heart.
It's faint, but I sense some magicaI power in you.
I swear, you're taking on a whoIe mess of unnecessary troubIe, you know that?
Yes, I think so, too.
AII right, it's time to end this game of hide-and-seek.
Just give up.
Shit!
Checkmate.
You gave me quite a surprise, boy. Maybe you were meant to be the seventh.
The seventh what?
Either way, it's aII over for you.
Are you kidding me?
I was given a second chance at Iife. I'm not gonna give in without a fight!
No way am I gonna die a pointIess death Iike this!
I'm not gonna Iet you kiII me!
Wha--?
What's that?!
I am Saber, your Servant. I am come in response to your summons.
I ask you... Are you my Master?
My voice was stuck in my throat.
Maybe it was out of confusion over the insanity around me.
No, that wasn't it.
I was struck speechIess by the overwheIming beauty...
...of this girI who had appeared before my eyes.
Fukai fukai mori no naka honoka kaoru itoshii...
...hibi no omokage sagashite mireba fui ni anata ga warau.
Furete mitakute te o nobashite mo hakanaku chuu o matta no desu.
Anata ni aitakute zutto aitakute zutto omou.
Nemurenu yoru o watari
Anata ga nokoshita hikari to kage no naka ni...
...tsutsumarete naite iru...
...fukai fukai mori no naka de.
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