Yeah, it doesn't translate very well, unfortunately.
[ She laughs a little hollowly with a strained smile. ]
I mean, yeah, I enjoy this kind of thing, but of course it isn't where my true interests lie. Visual novels are just minor entertainment. . . and it helps me calm down. But right now, I was just double checking to see if I was right about something.
[ She'll make a save file right here first and then reload from a different save file. ]
The story of this game series is about a boy, named Emiya Shirou. When he was young, the area where he lived was burned down. He saw this happen right in front of him, and while he tried to escape, all he could see were just blocks and blocks upon of dead bodies. People who he, as a child, could not save. They were just dying with no reason or rhyme to it. But he was saved by a man named Emiya Kiritsugu, who then adopted him and told him his secret: that he as a magus. So the two of them lived together. Sure, you'd think that maybe that's it, right? That's the end of the story, they lived happily ever after, shit like that? No, of course not. That'd be too easy, too simple of a story.
It doesn't make it interesting. Anyway, Kiritsugu is found out to be sick. And dying. He tells the young Shirou, just moments before his death that his dream was to become a superhero. An impossible dream where he could save every single life. He said that he wouldn't be able to do it now, not when he was so sick. But Shirou? He decided to take on that dream. He'd become the superhero that his father could not become. And after that, he died.
Timeskip to age seventeen. This is where shit gets complicated, so I'm going to have to explain a few things here. Since Shirou was an adopted son, he wasn't a magus. But he tried to be. He had learned a few magic, but he sucked at it. He could barely do reinforcement. He practiced day in and day out and... nothing. Things were as normal as they could be in the city of Fuyuki, 2006. Ten years had passed since that fire. And yet - nobody had built over its ruins. Maybe because they thought it would be bad luck.
So, Shirou attends school like normal. He has friends - a complete douchebag named Matou Shinji, his sister, the kind Matou Sakura, and the student council president, Ryudou Issei. Shirou lives alone in his big Japanese style house, although his guardian, Fujimura Taiga comes to visit every morning. Along with Sakura. So, yeah. Things seem normal, life goes on. A day passes. Because of Shirou's ideals of "superheroism", he tends to attempt to help everyone he can. No matter who asks. So he's told to help clean the dojo and he stays late. But it's a bad day for him. Very bad. He sees two people fighting and just because he sees them - well.
He's killed, stabbed in the chest. Game over, right? Of course not. Someone else decides to save him. A girl who our protagonist will come to know in the next coming days. Her name is Tohsaka Rin. She revives him with a very powerful pendant, and she leaves it by his side, which Shirou keeps. Shirou goes home, realizes that "well, shit, I'm going to die again" but he then ends up stumbling into a magic circle and summons a person. A beautiful woman dressed in blue armor, who saves him with her invisible sword. He gains a marking on his hand because of this summoning called a Command Seal and Saber beats the shit out of the intruder in his house, who then fucks off.
This mysterious armored woman then notices more intruders outside of his house and tells him, "hey, I'm gonna kill them." Shirou hates death, so he runs out to stop her. He notices who's outside immediately - Tohsaka Rin, the girl he admires, the girl from his school - and a tall, dark man in red. Depending on what route you want to take, he either stops her with the Command Seal or by other means. In any case, nobody dies. Rin then tells Shirou that he has no idea what the hell he's getting into so they go to a church - yeah, that's right a church to learn exactly that. He finds out he's being sent into a war. A war where seven people - magi, known as Masters - have to fight each other using the familiars they summoned, known as Servants. These Servants are heroic spirits from the past. Ones you've heard in stories.
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[ She laughs a little hollowly with a strained smile. ]
I mean, yeah, I enjoy this kind of thing, but of course it isn't where my true interests lie. Visual novels are just minor entertainment. . . and it helps me calm down. But right now, I was just double checking to see if I was right about something.
[ She'll make a save file right here first and then reload from a different save file. ]
The story of this game series is about a boy, named Emiya Shirou. When he was young, the area where he lived was burned down. He saw this happen right in front of him, and while he tried to escape, all he could see were just blocks and blocks upon of dead bodies. People who he, as a child, could not save. They were just dying with no reason or rhyme to it. But he was saved by a man named Emiya Kiritsugu, who then adopted him and told him his secret: that he as a magus. So the two of them lived together. Sure, you'd think that maybe that's it, right? That's the end of the story, they lived happily ever after, shit like that? No, of course not. That'd be too easy, too simple of a story.
It doesn't make it interesting. Anyway, Kiritsugu is found out to be sick. And dying. He tells the young Shirou, just moments before his death that his dream was to become a superhero. An impossible dream where he could save every single life. He said that he wouldn't be able to do it now, not when he was so sick. But Shirou? He decided to take on that dream. He'd become the superhero that his father could not become. And after that, he died.
Timeskip to age seventeen. This is where shit gets complicated, so I'm going to have to explain a few things here. Since Shirou was an adopted son, he wasn't a magus. But he tried to be. He had learned a few magic, but he sucked at it. He could barely do reinforcement. He practiced day in and day out and... nothing. Things were as normal as they could be in the city of Fuyuki, 2006. Ten years had passed since that fire. And yet - nobody had built over its ruins. Maybe because they thought it would be bad luck.
So, Shirou attends school like normal. He has friends - a complete douchebag named Matou Shinji, his sister, the kind Matou Sakura, and the student council president, Ryudou Issei. Shirou lives alone in his big Japanese style house, although his guardian, Fujimura Taiga comes to visit every morning. Along with Sakura. So, yeah. Things seem normal, life goes on. A day passes. Because of Shirou's ideals of "superheroism", he tends to attempt to help everyone he can. No matter who asks. So he's told to help clean the dojo and he stays late. But it's a bad day for him. Very bad. He sees two people fighting and just because he sees them - well.
He's killed, stabbed in the chest. Game over, right? Of course not. Someone else decides to save him. A girl who our protagonist will come to know in the next coming days. Her name is Tohsaka Rin. She revives him with a very powerful pendant, and she leaves it by his side, which Shirou keeps. Shirou goes home, realizes that "well, shit, I'm going to die again" but he then ends up stumbling into a magic circle and summons a person. A beautiful woman dressed in blue armor, who saves him with her invisible sword. He gains a marking on his hand because of this summoning called a Command Seal and Saber beats the shit out of the intruder in his house, who then fucks off.
This mysterious armored woman then notices more intruders outside of his house and tells him, "hey, I'm gonna kill them." Shirou hates death, so he runs out to stop her. He notices who's outside immediately - Tohsaka Rin, the girl he admires, the girl from his school - and a tall, dark man in red. Depending on what route you want to take, he either stops her with the Command Seal or by other means. In any case, nobody dies. Rin then tells Shirou that he has no idea what the hell he's getting into so they go to a church - yeah, that's right a church to learn exactly that. He finds out he's being sent into a war. A war where seven people - magi, known as Masters - have to fight each other using the familiars they summoned, known as Servants. These Servants are heroic spirits from the past. Ones you've heard in stories.
Follow me so far?