Fate/Absolute War

Chapter 4: O Caster, awake from the depths

I heard about my father. He was allegedly murdered on his way to work, found lifeless around an abstract circle surely the work of a bound lunatic in a stranger's flat.

I am called to the police station to testify about his actions this morning.Why did this happen? Why did this happen? Probably because the problem is metaphysical and according to certain quantum laws is being ceased to exist, I, I...

NO, I have to stop with the philosophy, it's not true, there's no logical reason behind his murder, it's a coincidence. I have to stop questioning myself, it's too late. I'll never see him again.What will I do to see him again and tell him not to go?

DRING DRING DRING

"Ryota? I'm Thomas, a colleague of your father's, I can't reach him anymore. Could you tell him that everything is ready in his basement and that all he needs is the key to make it work? It's normal that you don't understand. It's a scientific dialect that we have between us." - Scientist Thomas

Kudo Ryota : "I have to tell you. To my father, he's -"

"The professor? He's- seriously?" - Scientist Thomas

Kudo Ryota :  "Yes."

"Forget what I said, my sincere condolences." - Scientist Thomas

What was he talking about, what's in the basement. Is it so important that he didn't see it on TV? I have to go and check. What is he hiding in his workshop?

*Once in the basement*

And I've still got that bloody book, I've got to stop it, it's useless. Why am I so passionate about it? It doesn't bring my father back. Fuck, fuck.

Kudo Ryota :  "What is this?"

As I threw the book away, I came across a giant circle on the floor like the one I found on the ground. The ground began to shake, the circle lit up and a flash of light came out.

"Servant Caster. Are you the master who summoned me into this world?" - Caster

Kudo Ryota : "Who, who are you ????!"

"You look very, very surprised for someone who has deliberately summoned me. How come?"  - Caster

Kudo Ryota : "You just stepped out of that circle, what, am I dreaming I'm in the middle of a nightmare?"

"Is this a trap, are you really ignorant?

Don't you know what you're getting into?"  - Caster

Kudo Ryota : "I don't know."

"You are a master, haven't you seen the seal of command on your left hand? By summoning me, a servant, you have just signed your participation in the war of the holy grail."  - Caster

Kudo Ryota : "The holy grail war?"

"You don't even know that? When the famous Holy Grail manifests, he chooses 7 humans with magical abilities to become masters who will have the luxury of summoning a servant, i.e. a heroic spirit of old, in order to obtain the Holy Grail. 

Once you have obtained the Holy Grail, you can grant any wish."   - Caster

Kudo Ryota : "All the wishes? So I can revive my father? But who are you?"  

"Even I don't know. I don't know anything about it. Who am I? 

I have my own personality, but I don't know my own identity, I don't know if I will be able to manifest my noble phantasm."  - Caster

Kudo Ryota : "Your noble phantasm?"

"Look, it will be easier if I teach you all this directly. Ámesi gnósi (Immediate knowledge)!" - Caster

Kudo Ryota : "I didn't know that, so my father was a magician? And this from the beginning? He had to participate in the Grail War, but for what purpose did he wish to do so? And I find myself in this?Especially since you don't know your identity so you can't use your noble phantasm"

"That's it. So we're going to fix one thing, knowing my identity, since you didn't know anything you didn't have to use a catalyst to summon me, the answer must be somewhere else.
Wait a minute. I sense magical movement outside.

 A fight! There are mages and a-

A servant!" - Caster

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