[Stray soul located.]
[Proceeding with assimilation…]
Sora looked towards the red threads that had entered his body, but only he seemed to see them.
Then, foreign memories appeared in his mind. Memories of a young girl with two sisters, how they were made, how they became the "perfect idol," how she, Medusa, rampaged and became the Gorgon, and her eventual death.
Sora opened his tightly shut eyes, an unknown sight appearing before him. It was a place of constant rain, heavy mist, and a low buzzing sound.
Standing before him was a woman with a height slightly shorter than his own. She was the Servant Artoria had killed, and the Servant he had experienced the life of.
Yet, why was she standing here, looking healthy and alive?
{Everything has a source; something can't be made out of nothing.}
"Indeed."
Medusa (?) spoke, a confused "mortal" looking for anyone she might've replied to.
"I would've preferred the fate of the other two, but I guess this'll do."
Sora knew that she was talking about Rin and Artoria, but he hadn't even "absorbed" them as he had done with her. Maybe about the "synch" thing? He didn't know.
"Uhm, hey?"
Sora had many questions to ask, and a part of him wanted to console her. However, before he could approach her–
"Mmgh!"
A surprised young man looked at the purple-haired woman's face. She was so close to him, causing his lungs to stop breathing.
No, that wasn't it. A new object was in his mouth. Not only that, two hands wrapped themselves around his neck.
'I wish you returned after freeing us.'
'Maybe we could've lived happily ever after.'
'But it's useless to dwell in the past.'
'Good luck, dear. I will be cheering for you, even if you don't remember me anymore.'
She was Medusa, the original one. The one he had saved from "Heaven." The one that was currently inhabiting Rider's body.
The one that seemed to know him from the past.
Sora looked at the motes of purple light around gathering onto the top of his hand. After, a purple snake tattoo appeared on it, disappearing shortly after.
[God "Medusa" has been assimilated.]
[Servant "Medusa" has been assimilated.]
The young man didn't know what to do. He didn't remember doing anything remotely sexual with a "Medusa," even though he had saved one each time he completed his objective.
Was it so irrelevant to him that he forgot, even with his perfect memory? He wouldn't know.
He appeared back at reality once again, the terrified face of Shinji with burned clothing forcing him out of his thoughts. The "magus" was spitting some nonsense that he couldn't bother to care about.
He also didn't seem to have the grimoire anymore, but that didn't matter. Sora wanted to beat this piece of shit badly.
Their family's relationship with the Matous didn't matter. How much worth could a guy like him have, anyway?
Cash could solve anything, the seaweed being included in that list.
"Go away, go away, go away!"
Shinji shouted, but the protagonist couldn't care less. Picking him up, Sora smiled.
It was going to be uncharacteristic of him to do so, but he wanted to torture this bastard.
Maybe having the Gorgon fused with him wasn't a good thing. Even if Reason kept most of the personality changes away, it wasn't perfect.
The fact that it could keep him mostly normal was a miracle, to begin with.
…
Far away, a certain man with blue hair watched the horrible things Sora's snakes did to Shinji while the trio had long left the area.
'Come back, Lancer.'
He heard the voice of his "Master" and frowned. He hated the man with everything he had, and wouldn't hesitate to kill him if he could do so.
If only the Command Spells didn't exist.
Sighing, the man jumped somewhere else.
…
At Sora's house, the siblings made more magical jewels while Artoria watched.
Artoria wondered if she should tell Sora about her origins, but chose not to do so.
With his unique ability, he probably knew about it already.
He had told her about the dreams he had, and now that she thought about it clearly, it was creepy.
However, she couldn't dislike him for it. Who could hate their best friend?
"Hey, Sora."
She spoke before sitting next to him.
"I'm hungry."
Her stomach made a loud noise, causing the siblings to look at her.
She blushed.
"Erm…"
That was not intended. She only wanted to annoy him a little, but had gotten embarrassed as a result.
How shameful.
Sora, who was trying his best to not pat her head after seeing the face she was making, smiled.
"Let's go, Rin. The King must be fed."
"Indeed."
They got up from their rather close position and nodded their heads.
"Don't treat me like an animal!"
"What a cute lion you are."
Poor Artoria was about to die from embarrassment.
…
After feeding the King and themselves, the siblings could be seen laying next to each other.
Her head rested on his arm, the Command Spells on it taking her attention.
She also had them, but they were transferred to Sora after the summoning "accident."
Eventually, their positions were switched. Now, she was giving the young man a lap pillow while examining his Command Spells thoroughly.
"This reminds me about that incident."
Hearing Sora caused the girl to look at him.
"What?"
"Y'know, where you learned what couples do first-hand."
Her movements stopped.
.
[FLASHBACK START]
.
A family of three could be seen watching a movie together.
It was relatively peaceful until the main characters in the movie kissed.
Sora and Jin didn't seem surprised. Young Rin, however…
"What're they doing?"
"They're doing what two people that really love each other do, sweetie."
Rin, with her genius IQ, looked at Sora right beside herself.
The rest was history.
Rin had learned that kissing her sibling wasn't a good thing, and Sora had gotten his first kiss in this lifetime.
.
[FLASHBACK END]
.
After remembering an embarrassing moment, Rin completely forgot about the Command Spells.
She was madly blushing, barely holding herself back from committing a hate crime.
Her hands covered her face as she mumbled something that went along the lines of: I will have my revenge.
It seems the tsundere was angry… and embarrassed.
"You remember it now?"
Sora grinned. His plan had succeeded.
However, there was one more thing to do.
"Bro-con."
Critical Hit!
The tsundere was barely holding herself back now, so Sora applied the greatest tactic to calm tsunderes down out there.
He switched positions, getting behind her.
"Sorry."
Then, he hugged her tightly, transmitting his body heat into her.
He could feel her annoyed face but knew too much about her to stop.
She was enjoying this, that was for sure.
In fact, she would gladly get called a bro-con if she could feel it again.
Maybe having 100% synch had made her more docile.
…
[Outside Fuyuki, Japan]
"I wonder if they're okay," Jin said as he looked out of the hotel room's window.
It might've seemed like he didn't care about them, but that was the polar opposite of his true feelings.
After his wife's death, the man was protecting his children with all he had, making sure no one discovered their talents.
Even if the Tohsakas had a great reputation among the magi, even if they were extremely powerful thanks to Sora's ability to make stuff out of nothing—
"Even if he was a God?"
Hearing a voice coming from behind, Jin quickly dodged an attack of light.
Along with technomancy, his family could manipulate gravity as well.
A purple aura spread out, his body being the center.
However, it was all for naught.
A being made out of silver energy easily absorbed the purple aura, and with it, Jin's powers.
"Who are you!?"
The silver being descended down, "wings" appearing on its back.
"Father named me Gabriel."
"My objective is to kill the previous Gabriel, the sister of your son."
It extended its hand, touching Jin's forehead.
"I need an anchor to stay in this realm, and you are the best option."
Jin's blue eyes widened, his body thrashing around. However, it was useless.
The being became one with him, his previously blue eyes becoming silver.
Jin's mortal body could barely handle the passive power of Gabriel, causing it to frown.
"I will have to hold myself so this body does not break."
"How weak."
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It's 2022 now. Yay, I guess.
Happy New Year.
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