Fate/Gamer Alternative

Chapter 20

To be honest, I was expecting Shirou to tear his ass off fighting Iliya

A monster whose body has been forcefully modified beyonds the confine of her Homunculus vessel which disabled their Mana limit, her Magecraft prowess is on another level when compared to your average Clock Tower Magus

The according plan was for Rin to join Shirou like in canon and fend off the little girl with their combined effort in my absence, therefore fostering comradery between them

And yet, what the fuck is this?

"Twenty eight. Twenty nine. Thirty" I could hear her ribs cranking as I pushed my palm down on her chest. "Damn it. Someone mind explaining to me why the little Einzbern girl got cardiac arrest? Her heart ain't fucking beating!"

Shirou sheepishly raised his hand

"I employed the Spinebuster, Elbow Drop and RKO combo on her"

"And you didn't think using legitimate WWE techniques that cost dozens of hours from trained professionals to make them non-lethal can't harm this kid?"

"in my defense sis is already tearing off parts of the school in her rampage. I didn't think she is...you know...as durable as a normal human"

Rin coughed behind him. The two of them stood awkwardly to the side while I was busy fixing the damage to the girl

Because Shinji fucking Matou is the most reliable person they can think of. Yeah, he's your little fix-it-all bitch that can take care of everything at command

I only sighed and inspect the girl beneath me

Usually, a strong blow on a chest can temporarily stop a person's heartbeat. Further repeated injury can cripple their pulmonary valve to the point of being unable to breathe properly

"Even if she is using powerful Magecraft, the snapback on her body must have left the girl especially fragile to physical impact. So we can't fix this the normal way"

I had half the mind to call forth Shirou's Avalon and let the cheat regeneration Noble Phantasm instantaneously restore her to peak condition like the hax tool it is. That same consideration is thrown out the window when one remember what Iliya von Einzbern is

Her body is, to succintly put it, a vessel of the Holy Grail.

Fate lore dump session: The Einzbern head anticipated a scenario where Kiritsugu didn't win the Grail War and made modification to his child that will enable her to serve as the Grail vessel for the Fifth War

These motherfuckers was actually so focused on doping up their Einzbern treasure that they manually grafted Magic Circuits into every inch of her body, causing her mental agony and pain everytime they overloaded

Threre's no telling of what the consequences might be when you put a Servant's existing Noble Phantasm into the Lesser Grail. Worst case scenario, it becomes an empowered shard that will awaken Angra Mainyu once enough Servants are killed

And even if that's not the case, what will happen when Iliya regained full consciousness? Without even hearing us, she can mentally summon Berserker instantaneously to our location and end the game before it begins

"How about you transfer Mana to her?"

Shirou and I look at Rin, who just have the audacity to voice that fucking thought

"Judging from her singlehanded attack on a school with a Servant and wasting potential resource playing with our Emiya here, she must have expended too much energy and sustained grave wounds from Shirou's takedown"

"Mana is the essence of the soul, and I suspect the problem lies therein her failure of capacity to support such enormous drain that her anatomical function had all but basically shutdown"