> continue: iteration 9, day 1, early night
> run out the back door
On it! Grab my coat, jump the back railing -- don't quite make it, graze my leg, ouch -- then run up the back alley. I stop short when I see Emiya running around the corner of his house in the same direction.
> take cover
I jump behind a nearby lamp post and peer past him. At the very end of the alleyway, there's that blonde woman. She's dressed in some kind of... armored blue dress? She's fighting this guy wearing a red longcoat. And beyond them -- shit, is that Rin?!
> keep your distance
Anyway, Shirou shouts something. The woman in blue stops attacking and shouts something back. (Another weird thing -- the way she was fighting, it seemed like she had some kind of weapon, but I can't actually see anything in her hands? Like she's a... mime or something, I guess?)
> or a force wielder
You can use the Force like that? Well, guess there's no reason you couldn't... anyway, looks like everyone's heading into Emiya's house. Except for the red dude, who just straight-up fucking vanishes into thin air! How the shit does that work?! Some kind of active camouflage? Military-grade tech?
> keep an eye on things
I run back to the house long enough to grab my dad's binoculars. (Dammit, why couldn't he have gotten the night vision model like I suggested?) About an hour passes before the lights in Emiya's house turn off. He, Rin, and the blonde woman -- wearing this big yellow poncho over her armor -- go out into the street.
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> stay on them
They walk across the whole dang city to the church on the hill. Never been there before myself, just seen it at a distance. Shirou and Rin go inside. The blonde woman stays out by the front gate. I sneak around the side and hide in some trees across the road from the cemetery.
> is that a good idea
I don't know! I'm just playing it by ear here. Anyway, they're in there for about a half hour. Shirou and Rin come out. They talk to the blonde for a moment, then they start walking down the street towards me.
> keep very still
No doy! I try my best not to breathe as they pass by me. They stop again a little further down the hill. Still can't quite hear what they're saying... that red jacket guy appears out of nowhere behind Rin. I guess he's just been hanging around this whole time?
The fog suddenly picks up. Red guy starts shouting and vanishes again.
> look up the street
Okay, item one: there's this tiny little white girl in a purple dress standing in the fog. And I mean white -- we're talking, like, Rei-Ayanami-style albino. And next to her is this guy who -- well. He's the Incredible fucking Hulk. That's what it comes down to. Gunmetal gray skin. Has to be around three meters tall. Just packed with muscle, like some kind of steroid nightmare. Long hair. Wears nothing except this sort of iron miniskirt.
> ... miniskirt?
Kilt. Kilt's a better word for it. I should've said kilt. Armored kilt, in fact. Covered with iron plates.
And now the little girl's talking... Rin is saying something... okay, what the hell is up with this. I'm sitting in between them / closer to both of them than they are to each other, and yet I still can't hear what they're saying. But they just seem to be talking to each other normally. Something's going on here.
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FanfictionAn eccentric nerd finds himself stuck in a time loop after something weird happens down the street at Shirou Emiya's place. Tom Tomonaga doesn't know why he's repeating the same two weeks over and over again. He doesn't know anything about magic, th...
