EMIYA SHIROU
And so it was revealed that this woman had no connection to Saber, despite their extremely similar appearance. It was quite eerie, but stranger things happened in the Nexus. At least Mitsuba hadn’t taken offense.
“Ahh, no worries, it was just a coincidence after all,” Shirou said with a relieved smile, thankful that she understood Japanese. “But since I’m already here, would you two mind if I asked you a strange question?”
LANCELOT
The Knight of the Lake awoke slowly, an old hill of swords and red voices gradually fading away as he gained awareness. Right. He was in Arturia’s apartment, sleeping off the horrors he had endured last night. He sat upright on the sofa, only then realizing that someone had covered him in a blanket.
“Arturia?” He called out softly, not wanting to wake her if she happened to be asleep like he had been.
BRIGIDA DOENCA
“‘It’s a big one,’ he said,” the portuguese woman grunted, drawing out the word “big” in an irritated drawl. Her cropped salt-and-pepper hair was just barely long enough for her bangs to get in her eyes as she dashed through the old woods near the Nexus city at reckless speeds. For a language instructor now in her fifties, this would normally be far outside of her comfort zone.
“Sustained phenomenon dashing around at the speed of sound, yeah right. Either the equipment is severely malfunctioning or the man’s hallucinating.” And yet here she was, chasing an impossible lead instead of regaining her strength. Since when had she become this foolhardy?
My sister is trapped somewhere back home, with no one to save her. I can’t afford to ignore any possibility.
It was only after an hour of fruitless searching that she finally found her quarry - or more accurately, it found her. Something burst from the trees and was upon her in an instant. She barely had time to brace her feet on the ground as best she could before it slammed into her with the force of an eighteen wheeler. Brigida was blown clear off her feet and rolled through the foliage several meters before flipping back to her feet. The anomaly, for its part, careened through the forest at insane speeds before eventually coming to a halt somewhere out of her line of sight.
Brigida grit her teeth in pain and rage, but even those feelings took a backseat to her elation. Perhaps this really would be worthwhile. Her lips twitching up to form a grim smile, she ran after the anomaly.
“Whatever you are, you better be worth getting run over.”