FATE/Probability

As with most forms of meditation iaido is considered boring and shirou felt that too but more pronounced because for him what he was currently doing was like putting force into your hands and abruptly stopping before extension. His body had made putting mana into a blade into a muscle memory by now, whenever he used a real blade there was always a steady flow of mana into it and he received feedback of information from it in return.

With his progress in magecraft, he discovered that once he had completely grasped the basic structure of a blade, it stuck with him as if it were stored in a library. What a swordsman had to train for years, he could achieve in days: an understanding of the blade`s capacity and reach. So his projections are not as useless as before rather he can now make mundane blades in an instant and they disappear after some time. Discovering this he had mussed. 

The dojo had scattered patterns of classes and they were forced to only practise drawing of blades and holding them in position for now. The following weekend he took Taiga with him saying that they needed to visit a friend of his. When they found the emaciated-looking Aoi in the hospital bed and the little girl sitting behind her dazed with clear tear marks on her face taiga didn't say anything and pulled her into a hug. This kind of pure kindness and clear personality is the kryptonite rin hence she was hugged till she shed the remaining tears in the tigress`s bosom.

Scenes like this displayed that Tiga beyond all her carelessness and roughness was a proper guardian a parent figure to children thrown into worlds way beyond someone their age should be. Time passed by and shirou figured out a way out of his problems as his ability was enhanced further by a small breakthrough, like what happened during the ritual of Phosphoric Fang`s creation he firmly entered the level of uniqueness in his magecraft. 

Now he could get a rough estimate of the weapon and hence judge the concept of the creation of the blade, this slotted like a groove into his already present ability to store information allowing him to Hypothesise the basic structure of the sword. As he himself was the smith and knew all the material needed by heart he tried to create a copy of phosphoric fang but it resulted in an explosion on his face.

Finally, when he didn't try to reproduce the blade but made a copy of it a counterfeit he succeeded. He used the metal from his body but diluted it with soft steel and made the blade core with it. Due to his increase in skill and experience, he made these into 4 layered blades with medium steel for the sides of the blade. Finally, he could produce passable cursed blades rather than a blade that applies a curse.

This marked him putting the cornerstone of the plan kiritsugu had prepared for him, he could sell his mass-produced mystic codes and get a secure source of money rather than falling onto plan B and hunting targets using the magus killer`s connections. Finally, in school, the end of term was near and the exams were declared making the school a buzz of activity. Even Sakura talked about it when she came by in the morning. Before the exam, there was a school festival hence the administration arranged for demonstration clubs in groups for example the music and dance were put together similarly, kyūdō and iaido clubs were grouped together due to striking similarity.

Finally, he found Rin in a school one day and approached her, she talked to him in a hurry but he found out that she was taking a leave from school for a month and hence needed a guardian`s presence. When he tried to meet whoever she came with she put him off and tried to divert the topic and after so many excuses even someone slow like shirou went away thinking she realy was busy.

Looking at him leave, she breathed a sigh of relief. For some reason, she wanted to keep her life private from the fake priest who was her guardian, except for her basic training in magecraft, which she had already completed about a year back, and her Bajiquan training, whose frequency was slowly decreasing as of late. The priest said that she already had sufficient foundation; the rest that was needed was training by herself. Following her guts she kept shirou and Kirei apart and it saved them from major trouble.

As Shirou went back sakura followed him along and after she put forward her wish, they both went back together. On the road, he reminisced of the time a few months back when Sakura 1st came to the emiya residence and had tensed at the entrance and took a step in after so much deliberation that he found her shyness to be crippling. After that when Taiga found her later it was a show, to say the least.

After grilling her with questions till she was in verse of tears due to confusion the tigress of fuyuki surprisingly adopted her as an ostrich adopts any chick they spot from the nest they sit on. So Sakura`s addition to the emiya family table had become common rather her learning ability for housework even surprised shirou. Taiga had numerous times witnessed the 2 kids softly argue over who would do the cleaning while holding mops larger than themselves.

As amusing as it was, the bluehead`s presence brought about a liveliness into the hollow feeling of the emiya mansion but also an underlying sense of helplessness. Still, all the laughter couldn't mask the smell of ichor in the air as well as the smouldering coal. The clanging of metal late into the night or the sight of a boy no older than 11 holding a red blade performing katas in the starlit dojo. The blade of phosphoric fang glimmered like an omen of doom as its welder moved along a set path. After a final swing shirou sheathed the sword in the Saya and the magical energy trapped in his iris frizzled out as he stopped the night vision magecraft.

(image of phosphoric fang when being fed mana)

Time passed by and a few days later when shirou was leaving school he was accompanied by Shinji who was bragging about how good he was in archery and was the ace of the club. He was throwing sentences like 

"Keep up the work emiya, you could also imitate me if you try enough."

Well, raising delusional children was the plan of the old man of the family and it has worked splendidly. Well, Iliya could probably straighten and make Shinji a lot better if his history was something to go by. But moving on the problem came when they passed by Sakura who was waiting for shirou was greeted by him and when he turned to bid the seaweed goodbye, he paused.

Shinji`s face was twisted into a mask of rage but there was a hint of fear behind all this but when Sakura lowered her gaze as soon her brothers met her, Shinji was injected with chicken blood and took stomping steps towards her. As Sakura lowered her head with guilt he pulled her towards a corner and started a conversation that looked intense, to say the least.

Well, he was lucky that the only one he considered an equal in this place was not here or else she might pull out some gems and pelt him with the curses or rather that may not be it and she would just grit her teeth and turn around. Among all this, the lone one who thought this was fine was shirou, as even Issei who had at some time stood beside him squinted his eyes at this behaviour by the siblings.

The only meeting you had in any form with your only sibling ending in your brutal murder is a way to shatter common sense. Being repeatedly murdered by Iliya in his possible future multiple times was one hell of a way to twist the perception of the relationship siblings must share. Healthy relationships and magi are not something that go well together. Shifting your guilt of not noticing the signs of your father`s upcoming death or the pain of being killed off multiple times and the obsession to make it all correct to such an extent that deluding yourself to forget your body is flesh and its limits exists for a reason, and projection it all over your remaining bonds in form of family and friends was pretty in line with behaviour magus show but they wished that they didn't.

There are various examples like a person who spent their life and success just to have a chance to revive their offspring without knowing that they were wearing a green hat the size of a boulder and the son he sacrificed so much was not even his own or someone being lost in passion so much that when their object of adoration doesn't confront their mental standard they kill the person and latter go into shock and dismantle their psyche to just function as a human to mask the loss they inflicted onto themselves.

(A/N: and guys can you guess who the 2 people in the example are? The hint is they are characters from the coming arcs. And I thought that after giving ways to make money we could elaborate on the progress between Shinji and Sakura.

Next chapter we will have his thoughts in brief and then move on to the funeral parts and the archery part. Plus I describe how it's better than guns for some situations here as I have come across people considering the make-up of kiritsugu as some op built that any Tom, dick and Hary could replicate with just the "freedom magecraft ".

Plus I have seen people complaining about visions, I am saying that MC is receiving them in the background, you people have to imagine that he is receiving random tidbits about stuff that are triggered so I would only show important things like deaths or the upcoming one in the next chapter.

Flus if I feed him all the information it will become one of the "I know everything in nasuverse and the restriction conveniently doesn't apply to me" fic, and pure wish fulfilment slope. So he will be exposed to things organically by himself rather than have visions of them. 

Merlin`s clairvoyance is only present-focused, Solomon`s and Gil`s also have their quirks. Similarly, Shirou's one is random as it can be present, pastor even a different timeline but it mostly feeds small tidbits that are not mentioned or sometimes is done in passing. In the story.

As this is not an original that level of detail is not necessary and will bore you people out.

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THANKS FOR READING:)