Fate's Wild Card

Prologue: Two Servants!? (Reload)

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Six months have passed since my life as Theodore von Einzbern began.

It's been - what's the right word here - a roller coaster.

And it's been one hell of a roller coaster.

Irisviel has been incredibly clingy. Everyday she wastes no moment to express her unconditional motherly love. She gives me hugs, kisses, plays games, reads stories, and every other thing that mothers do with their children. She even makes me bathe together with her and Illya.

It would be nice except for the fact that I am a 24-year-old inside the body of an 8-year-old and she's an incredibly hot MILF! And that gives me a severe case of the Y boner.

Ugh, fucking pre-teen hormones!

Super awkwardness aside, there's never a dull day with those two around. Illya's pretty much a carbon copy of her mother except more exaggerated. The girl's in–as best as I can describe it–a perpetual state of sugar rush. She never stays still. She always wants to play and would sneak in books out of the library for me to read to her.

She also has one heck of a sweet tooth. I swear, the only things she eats in the compound are cake, ice cream, cookies, and Oreo Cheesecake. Why Oreo Cheesecake specifically? Well, Kiritsugu bought Oreo Cheesecake to compound after one of his "trips" months prior and the two snow fairies became addicted to it instantly.

I guess that's one thing my past family has in common with this one.

One night, Illya sneaked out of our shared room to steal cookies from the cookie jar... until Kiritsugu caught her red-handed (he probably erected a Bounded Field on the jar so that he knows when Illya is taking the cookies). Afterwards, she was sent back and forbidden from eating snacks for a week.

It was funny seeing her running around the castle desperate for her fix. Irisviel tried to sneak in some sweets for her but the old man was always one step ahead.

However, there was one revelation during my stay that turned my world upside down.

For a while now, I've wanted to learn magecraft. Since I am an Einzbern homunculus, it would make sense for me to perform the art despite the fact that I will never have the Emiya Magic Crest because I'm the youngest child, though I doubt Kiritsugu actually gives a damn about tradition given the fact he uses technology which is essentially heresy in the mage world.

Normally, a homunculus has the knowledge the moment they are born thanks to being branded with a "standardized reverse-type" Magic Crest(1), which essentially means that the concept and foundation of Einzbern magecraft is grafted onto their very being during the creation process.

Yet strangely, this knowledge is absent from my mind, and when I tried to apply the knowledge I did know there was no reaction.

At first I thought this was because I didn't know how to activate my Magic Circuit properly. After all, the Einzberns aren't a "normal" magus family given how backwards their methods are. However, when I asked Irisviel how to activate my Magic Circuits, her posture became stiff and said she had no idea before running off.

It was obvious that something was wrong.

So without much choice, I had to go with the only other magus in the compound, and I was honestly anxious about it.

See, the thing about pre-war Kiritsugu is that the guy is almost unapproachable. The man is blunt and straight to the point, even straight-up rude at times. His mind is wired so differently from others that you can barely say that he has emotions or is even human. He avoids human interaction on instinct, possibly to minimize the amount of attachments he can have in order to do his job more efficiently.