Chapter Two: The Fate of a Bedchamber Attendant

Chapter 2: A Certain Servant's FATE

"Warning: Sub-personality Lolita's soul is incomplete and cannot fully integrate with the body. Please consume her soul immediately or have her fuse with another soul."

"System, how do I fuse with someone else's soul?" Shuster asked hurriedly.

"Ding. The system will randomly teleport her to any space and fuse her soul with that of a random character. Her own soul will remain the core, inheriting all the memories of the fused individual. Do you wish to initiate the teleportation? Teleportation costs ×× Soul Crystals."

"Warning: Thirty seconds remaining. If no choice is made, the sub-personality soul will collapse, and the master personality will also suffer damage. Countdown: 00:25..."

"System, teleport quickly!" Shuster roared.

(PS: From this point on, this volume will focus entirely on Lolita and her adventure.)

In a hazy state, Lolita felt dizzy, but the next moment she felt as if she had been plunged into freezing water, instantly snapping her awake.

"Where is this?" Lolita looked into the surrounding darkness and said, "I remember fainting... Right, System, where am I?"

"Ding. Due to your incomplete soul, the host has fused your soul with another, and you have inherited all of that person's memories. Your next task is to fulfill the duties the fused person was meant to carry out in this world. 1. Kill Shirou Emiya. 2. Help Rin Tohsaka obtain the Holy Grail. 3. Hidden tasks..."

"I see. So, I am now an individual entity. Archer? How amusing. Speaking of the current 'mongrel'... I should really remove the otaku memories of my 'brother'; calling someone that is inappropriate. Is the current Shirou Emiya a man or a woman?" Lolita looked at her red windbreaker, the black shirt underneath, her silver hair, and her unchanged measurements. She was wearing a black pleated skirt and black thigh-high socks.

"Soni gin to tetsu..." (Silver and iron to the origin...)

"Huh? What is that sound?" Suddenly, a female voice speaking Japanese reached Lolita's ears.

"Soni ishi to keiyaku no taikou..." (Stone and the archduke of contract to the foundation...)

"Ding. Do you wish to activate the language translation system?"

"Activate."

"Listen well!"

"Declaration—"

"I have summoned you, and you must obey me! Whether I live depends on how sharp your blade is!" (Thou shalt be under my command, and my fate shall be with thy sword.)

"You poor souls dragged here by that tragedy, if you are willing to sign a contract with me and become a Heroic Spirit, answer me!" (Submit to the summon of the Holy Grail, and if you will follow this will and this reason, then answer!)

"Let's get this straight—" (I hereby swear.)

"Summoning you might involve helping an old lady cross the street." (I shall be all the good in the world.)

"Or it might involve stealing candy from a kid." (I shall be all the evil in the world.)

"But you, you scoundrel, are just someone with blind eyes here to serve me." (Yet, you shall serve me with your eyes clouded by chaos.)

"You are the one locked in the asylum's isolation ward." (Thou art he who is trapped in the cage of madness.)

"And I am the one holding the key to your hospital bed!" (And I am he who holds the chains!)

"The remote control in my hand can be used three times in seven days." (Thou art he who is bound by the three great spirits for seven days.)

"So, behave yourself during this time. Once it expires, go wherever you like; neither of us will have any control over the other. I'm not covering your travel expenses to get here; figure it out yourself." (From the cycle of restraint—)

"Witnessed by this tragedy— Come, sign the contract with me and become a Heroic Spirit of this world!!!!!!" (Guardian of the Scales!)

What is this? Hey, coffee table, the system is broken; go and rebuild it immediately.

Coffee Table: "Ahem, apologies everyone. The system was broken; I will rebuild it right away."

(The above was an incorrect activation method.)

"Huh? The environment has changed." Looking at the starry night sky and the modern city landscape beneath her feet, it was truly nostalgic.

Wait? Under my feet... this isn't scientific! How can I stand in the sky without using energy or wings? There are no memories in the red Archer's experience of standing in the sky without any support.

"This isn't scien—ahhhhh!" Before she could finish, Lolita felt the ground vanish beneath her, and she plummeted headfirst toward a Western-style house below...

"Boom!" Wrapped in the wings of a fallen angel, Lolita crashed into the house...

"?" An explosion upstairs? What's going on? A beautiful girl with black twin-tails sat up on the floor and thought.

"Sigh." It seems the summoning failed this time, but I should go up and see what happened.

"The door... is broken!?" What happened? The door to the living room was crooked; turning the handle was useless, so...

"Bang!" After strengthening her body, she kicked the door open...

"Well, well, it seems I've been summoned by an extraordinary master this time." Looking at the sixteen-year-old girl with tsundere traits and twin-tails who had just burst through the door, Lolita, who was sitting amidst the wreckage of the sofa, said.

"..." Rin Tohsaka looked at Lolita with fury... mostly directed at the destruction around her: the hole in the roof, the rubble-strewn floor, the entire room in a mess from the impact of Lolita's landing...

Following Rin Tohsaka's gaze, Lolita felt a bit embarrassed. Although she had used her fallen angel wings to minimize the impact, the room was still quite a disaster...

"Snap!" A snap of fingers drew Lolita's gaze and attention back to Rin Tohsaka.

"Let's confirm: you are my Servant, correct?" Rin Tohsaka said.

"That's what I wanted to ask. Are you my Master? This is the first time I've been summoned so rudely. Honestly, I can't really make sense of the situation!" For some reason, Lolita felt the urge to retort.

"It's my first time too. I take back the question." Rin Tohsaka was somewhat at a loss, as she had made a huge mistake—the summoning was incomplete...

"Fine, then you are my Master. You have Command Spells, right?" Lolita didn't want to drag it out and went straight to the point.

"O-of course! This is the proof of a Master!" Hearing this, Rin Tohsaka raised her hand, which bore a red Command Spell shaped like an incomplete fan.

"Very well. Servant, Archer, has come in response to your summons—from this moment on, my sword shall be with you, and your fate shall be mine. The contract is complete." Lolita performed a gesture of the Magic Sword Knight Order and said.

Is this a Heroic Spirit? It's a pity it's not a Saber.

After all, Heroic Spirits are the limits that humans cannot reach, existences that only exist in fantasies. But Rin Tohsaka had never imagined that she would meet her own Heroic Spirit under such circumstances.

Falling from the sky, smashing through the roof of your house, and the other party looking completely unharmed...

She had thought that since Heroic Spirits are called "spirits," they would be some sort of intangible entity, but the one before her was clearly human.

No, perhaps that was wrong. Even if one were not a magus, even if one possessed no knowledge of magic, even as an ordinary human, one could immediately grasp the extraordinary nature of the existence before them. Eyes more radiant than the most beautiful gems she had ever collected, a delicate face waiting with a smile for her answer, silver hair that outshone the moonlight, and a perfect, curvaceous figure—this was a goddess who existed only in fairy tales!

And as an accomplished magus, Rin Tohsaka could better understand the abyss-like magic power of the girl before her. This is a Heroic Spirit! An existence that transcends human limits! It was unimaginable. Rin Tohsaka considered herself a talented magus, but looking at the girl before her, even just in terms of raw magical energy, if she herself were a 90, the other party was far beyond 100—a hundred or a thousand times greater, measurable only in astronomical units!

"Since you admit that I am your Master, can you tell me your true name?" Rin Tohsaka asked after the contract was finalized.

A true name is vital for a Heroic Spirit. As long as they are a hero, there are legends about them. If the true name is known, it is not difficult to find corresponding weaknesses in the legends.

[A Heroic Spirit who becomes a Servant will never reveal their true identity. Only the Master knows the Servant's true identity. The Master must hide the Servant's identity while uncovering the true identities of other Servants.] This is an unspoken rule. A Servant's identity cannot be known by outsiders, but the Master must know who their Servant is to better formulate combat plans.

"..." At this, Lolita fell silent. After all, was she Shirou Emiya, Lolita, or Shuster now?

"What's wrong?" Rin Tohsaka looked at the silent girl in surprise, wondering who wouldn't know their own name.

"Um, Master, can I not say it?" Although she knew asking was useless, Lolita decided to try.

"Ding. System prompt: In this world, you will use your own name, as you are now a newborn individual, an existence that is **."

"Uh... if you insist, Master." Lolita said, "My true name is Lolita, Redona Lolita." Saying this, Shuster even wrote it on the floor in Japanese: レドナータ・ロリータ.

"Eh... that's a name I've never heard of... A nameless hero? What about your origins and Noble Phantasms?" Rin recalled, but she could not find any hero by that name in history.

"This... Master, can't you see that for yourself?" Lolita said.

(PS: The editor of a certain platform wouldn't allow so much Japanese text, so I deleted it. The effect of the distorted translation might not be visible; please forgive me! Thank you!)