Corrupted Love (EN) , Dark Road part 1

He's no longer a master.

(You have been waiting for a long time, right? Finally chapter 5 has been translated and updated.If you want more chapter, go and read the French version: https://www.wattpad.com/story/203539702-corrupted-love-fr-partie-1-dark-road on basykail. The translation tools are useful enough to appreciate the history.
I am currently working on chapter 10-11-12)

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Night quickly came. The sun was setting over the horizon, ready to disappear and leave the night in its place.

Shirou was wearily walking, his gaze turned to the ground, desperate. He had run all day long, searching Fuyuki from top to bottom, closely followed by Rin. The young woman tried to reason with him from time to time, to prevent him from going past his limits, in vain.

The two teenagers decided to skip class in order to find the lost servant... Archer had to go his separate way in order to find even the tiniest clue. But all their efforts were met with silence.

The young black haired woman was walking some steps behind her partner. She observed him while they were returning to the Emiya residence. She dared not say a word...she didn't know what to say. Her heart shared his sadness, as she very much liked Saber, considering her a friend.

Saber...where was she ?

She had been missing since the previous night, disappearing in front of Shirou. To see Gilgamesh kidnapping her in front of his eyes had almost made him lose his mind. His instinct encouraged him to go after them without a second thought. But all of this had been useless, he had lost their trace in a matter of minutes, all along recalling the distressed calls of the knight lost at the hands of the golden man after their merciless fight. Archer took over the chase, but he too quickly lost their trail.

Shirou knew he was useless, a mediocre mage... Saber couldn't count on him to give her enough magic and so had to rely only on her natural abilities. He felt that it was his fault... that she deserved another Master, then perhaps she could have fight against him without any trouble.

Refusing to give up, he asked Tohsaka to tell him what she knew of the previous war. However, the young woman had few informations on the subject. Her father, who died at that time, made sure that she was far from it all. As for her mother, she went insane during that time. The only thing she knew was about the presence of the priest, Kotomine, who won this war and became the current supervisor.

Yet she wasn't sure that he would answer to Shirou's questions. Never had she managed to make him say anything about the war, apart from its rules and what was at stakes.

The young red haired boy still persisted and finally went to the church, the neutral ground of the war, in the afternoon. He pressured the priest to answer.

Kotomine welcomed them with a smile, faking to be surprised. As Rin suspected, he did not give any more information, only confirming the presence of Shirou's adoptive father and their respective servant. He took a malicious delight in detailing how he betrayed Saber by ordering her to destroy the Grail, even if he knew of her desire to obtain it.

But Shirou knew about it already, and hearing it again from his father's old enemy was like a kick to the guts.

« Look upon your right hand and tell me that you still have the commanding seals. If they are no more, then so is the Servant of the Saber Class and you are therefore not considered a Master anymore. The rules of the war allow you to take refuge here in order to protect yourself from the others participants. The choice is yours.»