Fate/Fragmentary Tales

Chapter 14: Surprises in the Mighty Night

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3rd Person PoV

Thursday / Nosora's Shop / Morning

Takashi left early from her house to go visit Nanashi, just as she said she would the night prior. She was slightly anxious knowing how he faced another Master of the Holy Grail War before retiring from it, so she was hoping that he would be alright and back to his job

After a while of walking with that feeling in her chest, Takashi got to the front door of the shop and opened it, a familiar voice speaking up from behind the counter before she could see the shop's insides

Nosora: "Be welcomed fellow doll lover, as you see we have many goods here, all handmade by-..."

He stopped after seeing Takashi looking at him, she had a shocked expression at the fact that he was actually alive, for him to kill the Master of Assassin to survive and make it out...

Takashi: "Nana- i mean, Nosora...you're alive!" She didn't take more than two seconds to rush at him and jump over the counter, trapping him in a hug and lifting him as she started laughing

Nosora: "H-hey hey careful! You'll break something!"

Takashi: "Whoops! Sorry!" Takashi put Nosora down again, taking a step back to give him space

Nosora: "I'm glad to see you too, thought something happened for the night to be so quiet..." He accommodated his clothes again, then returned the smile at her

Takashi: "Nope! But i thought something did happen to you, you didn't say or send anything yesterday..."

Nosora looked away to a room at the shop's side, sighing loud enough for it to be noticed before turning again to her

Nosora: "Grandpa may have only existed to mock me, but he was still a good company...so i spent the last day doing something after the fight i had with Lokhan"

He walked towards the room and entered, searching through the room for something to then walk back again into the shop and show Takashi something, a black spear of a singular shape that seemed all too familiar

Takashi: "Isn't that-?"

Nosora: "My grandpa's spear, the true spear that he used in life..." Nosora placed the spear over the counter "Or at least that's what it's meant to be, it somehow managed to stay into the material world even after he died, my father gave me this and said that i should treasure it, that it is something that belonged to an old hero of our bloodline...and now i believe that"

Takashi: "The true spear that he used in life...does this mean it's cursed?" She reached to touch the spear, not feeling anything from it nor even any kind of Magecraft or thing near the curse that he used

Nosora: "Well, not after he released the true name of Nosora- our God i mean. So did you come to ask me something like Liviana did?"

Takashi: "Liv came to see you?"

Nosora: "Yesterday she did yeah, we had a small talk about something, but that's about it" He took the spear and went into the other room to save it again, returning after a second with a Black Key in his hand

Takashi: "...i did come to ask, what did you say you wanted to speak about with the Master of Assassin?" Even if she had a more important question to ask, her curiosity overcame her, she wanted to know more about why he stayed behind that night

Much to her surprise, Nosora stopped walking and looked up at her, taking a second to process her question or to think a clear answer to give her...

Nosora: "What i asked him...it had to do with the Holy Grail" He placed the needle down over the counter, reaching to take a glass of water that had been on Takashi's side for a while now, luckily it hadn't been knocked down