Other Dimension's Knight

While the mysterious woman clad in a beautiful armor was fighting against the man that killed him nearly twice, Shirou couldn't help but question what was going on. The two persons in front of him were trading blows at a speed he couldn't understand and with the strength of a thousand. But this exchange only lasted for a minute. The blue-haired man launched a red beam at the swords-woman who parried it with difficulty. After that, he ran away and the blonde-haired woman tried to chase after him. Shirou tried to stop her but suddenly his c.h.e.s.t felt hot, and a light beam that seemed to pierce through the heavens illuminated the area. After the light dimmed, he heard a question that was also asked to him a few minutes ago.

"I ask you. Are you my master? "

A white-haired man just appeared in front of Shirou. He was quite tall and he was quite handsome as well. He had deep golden eyes that seemed almost inhuman and he was wearing an exquisite looking armor that was colored white and golden, with what seemed to be a small lion crest. On his waist, one could see two one-handed swords wrapped in two identical scabbards, one blue and silver, and the other red and gold. Overall, he looked like what one could expect from a knight, which made Shirou shocked because he just apparently summoned another knight-looking woman no less than 10 minutes ago.

"Master, I sense two beings fighting dangerously near us. Should I take care of them? " asked the man to Shirou.

After looking dumbfounded for a while, Shirou answered: "We need to go, there is a woman that said that I was her master as well fighting I think. "

Shirou didn't see the glint that passed through the knight's eyes for a moment, so he preferred to run towards the fight. The mysterious man followed him soon after.

Saber sensed the arrival of a powerful enemy near her master, but she couldn't turn her back to the one she's facing right now, so she could only hope that the servant wouldn't cowardly attack her master. But what happened next wasn't part of her prevision. She looked at her master running towards her with the same person she sensed earlier, while she scrutinized his face for a moment she felt something inside her, like an old memory suddenly resurging. As she was ready to engage the man clad in red clothing in front of her, her master suddenly shouted:

"Saber stop! "

At this moment she felt the magic invade her body and force her to stop her movement. She was thankful for the enemy servant to not attack her in this state, but she was worried that the white-haired one might not show the same decency.

"Are you sane Shirou?! I could have taken down the enemy! " "Wait, I'm your master so at least fill me in on what is happening " answered Shirou.

"You're asking this in the middle of a fight?! "

"I agree with the blonde girl, disturbing a fight is one of the most disrespecting moves and also one of the most dangerous, especially if you're using a command seal for it. " said the white-haired knight.

"And you, what are you doing here? Do you think of threatening me with Shirou's life?? " said Saber.

"Wait why would I use my master's life to threaten you? "

At his words, everyone fell silent, not believing what he just said. It was known that each master could only summon one servant per holy grail, so someone, a beginner in magecraft even, summoning two was impossible. Before Saber could ask what was happening, a twin-tailed girl said:

"Well, first things first, good evening, Emiya. "

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After calming down, everyone sat around the table in the Emiya residence while Archer was scouting the surrounding.

"Now, can you explain to me how did you manage to summon not one, but two servants, also to add salt to the injury, two sabers?? " nearly shouted Rin at Shirou.

"Well I don't know Tohsaka, the first one saved my life from that blue-haired lancer and the other just appeared out of nowhere," said Shirou, looking nervous under the glare of the black-haired magus.

Rin opened her eyes wide at the notion of a servant being summoned without a summoning ritual.

"Wait so there was no summoning ceremony or anything? " asked Rin to the fidgeting boy in front of her.

"What is that? "answered Shirou while looking seriously confused

Rin paused for a moment, looking both angry and desperate.

"Well, this is going to be a long night.... " muttered Rin under her breath.

"To be honest, you've been chosen to be a master, I can assume that you have no idea what is it? " she added.

Shirou simply nodded.

"The Holy Grail War is a ceremony that summons 7... or what should have been 7 servants to fight each other to death under 7 masters to obtain the Holy Grail, a device that can fulfill any of the winner's wishes," said Rin while drinking her tea.

"So.... this is a battle royale between 7 people that you call 'masters' " said Shirou while frowning at the idea.

"Exactly, I'm sure some sort of tattoo appeared somewhere on your body? " asked Rin.

"Tattoo? " said Shirou looking confused.

"Shirou, she's talking about your command seals. " suddenly said the blond-haired knight who presented herself as 'Saber'.

After looking at Saber for a moment, Shirou averted his eyes with a somehow bashful expression.

"Oh.... these " said Shirou showing his 3 command seals.

"Yes those are the signs that you've become a master in this war.... but I'm surprised there aren't 6 command seals... " said Rin, as her brows curved a little bit at the sight of Shirou's command seals.

She fixed the mysterious knight for a moment, and suddenly her eyes shone with a blue glint but she suddenly backed off while her eyes were wide open as if she was looking at a monster.

"This is an interesting ability that you've got, young lady. " said the mysterious knight with a deep voice that showed both power and elegance.

The mysterious knight now looked at Rin with a stoic expression, but she in return sweated as she felt that the person with golden eyes could see completely through her, these eyes looked inhuman and managed to provoke fear deep within her. She managed to regain her composure when the person finally looked away.

She turned away to see both Saber and Shirou looking at the mysterious knight as if demanding answers but the man himself simply seemed to not care about their gazes.

"Ahem... You get 3 command seals per servant that symbolizes three absolute orders that your servant cannot go against. Of course, you'd better save them because your servant can disobey your words once you've got none left. " said Rin, still slightly under fear of the mysterious knight's eyes.

Rin tried to see the strength of the knightly second servant that Shirou managed to summon and she was terrified by the result. That monster wasn't human. She had never heard of a servant which had such physical stats, even among the berserker class, and that magic stat wasn't something a Saber should possess. Even a Caster wouldn't have such a thing.

On the other hand, what frightened her was that a servant with such abilities isn't recognizable just by sight. From what she deduced, the man in front of her must have been as strong if not stronger than actual servants when he was alive. Yet she couldn't get his identity meaning his noble phantasms were still unknown, and that frightened her.

"But... I don't want to kill anyone " said Shirou getting Rin out of her thoughts.

"Then... give me your command seals and forfeit the war, Emiya Shirou " said Rin now looking slightly irritated.

"No! Saber pledged her allegiance to me, I can't.... " said Shirou with a voice that was becoming lower and lower.

As he said those words, Shirou noticed the questioning look that the mysterious knight threw at Saber. While she only responded with another questioning look.

"What is it, Saber..... 2? " said Shirou looking slightly uncomfortable with the name 'Saber 2'.

The mysterious knight frowned at his word and Rin chuckled for a moment while Saber didn't react.

"You may call me by my name, Alexander Cyneric, master. " said the mysterious knight.

"Look I feel quite uncomfortable being called master, so can you just call me Shirou, like Saber " answered Shirou.

"Understood Shirou." said Alexander.

"Wait, wait, wait, did you just revealed your true name??? " nearly shouted Rin, clearly not believing that the servant said his real name.

"Exactly, what knight would hide his name? " said Alexander.

Alexander sent a smirk towards Saber. At his words, Saber winced a bit and looked quite angry as well. Alexander simply sneered.

"But it's quite strange, considering your strength you should be quite well known but I don't remember any myths with a knight named Alexander... " said Rin looking thoughtful.

"Of course, nobody in this dimension should know about it. " said Alexander.

At this moment there was dead silence in the room with only the noise of water being boiled for tea.

"You... you come from another dimension? " said Rin with wide-opened eyes.

"Exactly, that is why I have no idea how I was summoned here " said Alexander looking slightly lost.

"Since when the Grail has the power to summon people from other dimensions..." said Rin.

Meanwhile, Shirou still hasn't recovered from the shock Alexander just gave him. As someone not well versed in the matter of magecraft and magic, it was something that seemed completely impossible for him contrary to Rin that knew of the second true magic. Saber herself was also quite shocked but didn't let it be shown. Also, she was sure that Alexander was related to her, and the fact that he came from another dimension answered her question which was why she couldn't remember him. She wanted to ask the question when the other master wouldn't be here.

"Anyway, Emiya, you need to understand that it's either kill or be killed if you're not willing to fight, then you'd better give up your command seals right now." said Rin focusing back on the matter at hands.

"No. And I don't even understand everything about this Holy Grail War so... " said Shirou

"Uhmmm, well we can go to a man that knows everything about the war. " answered Rin

"Who? " asked Shirou

"The overseer of the Holy Grail War, my master in magecraft. " said Rin with a slight frown.