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Chapter 52

It dawned on me when we were sitting at a cafe across the road from Central Park that really, we either looked like a couple of nutjobs, or the most indiscrete duo ever to exist, maybe even both at the same time.

Caren in her nun's habit, and me with my dark aviators, jeans and turtleneck. ...

Chapter 51

No bounded fields. No traps. No hidden security.

This 'capo' person we were supposed to meet was either very confident, or very naive. I was inclined towards the former. As an organisation with magi among their ranks, I doubted he or she became a head without any strength to boast.

Th...

Chapter 50

"Give me your phone."

Caren held out her hand.

I stared at her, and then at the mobsters occupying the front seats. Stupefied, I even forgot about making sweet love to their ugly faces with my fists in this cramped cab. By the time the thought came back, a better idea had struck me. 2025-08-09 17:11:23 +0000 UTC View Post

Chapter 49

A/N: Honestly, I didn't much like how the last chap turned out, but it was necessary so... yeah.

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"So, where is he?"

Waver put his cigar to his mouth and took a long drag, eying the window. His hope of escaping the situation before him dwindled with each passing second, and rig...

Chapter 48

Edit: No like this chapter? Should I rewrite?

Travelling to a different nation after spending your whole life in your homeland was certainly an experience, terrible for some, incredible for others, but an experience nonetheless. There came culture shocks, the difference in architecture and ...

Chapter 47

I was going to write another but I feel terrible. I've been sick for the last two days, apologies.

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Caren, or, Caren Hortensia as she introduced herself, was a genuine menace to society, a public enemy, that became apparent within the first hour of getting acquainted with her.

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Chapter 46

Setting a meeting up with a Church representative really was as easy as sending a message to Heine... via mail, because magi refused to even have phones for some awful reason. No, I knew that awful reason now. They were people who fundamentally chased the glory of magecraft in an age long ended, ...

Chapter 45

"Oh c'mon, aren't we buddies? And you even skimped on my pay last time. I think you owe me for that if nothing else." I shamelessly harassed the unremarkable fellow sitting at the reception in the Department of Policy, the same one responsible for handing me an 'easy' job that ended with me havin...

Chapter 44

I quietly stared at the white ceiling of the apartment that had become my new home, hands crossed under my head and one leg folded up over the other. Weak sunlight filtered through the open blinds of the window opposite the bed along with the chill early winter air. The two combined were a rather...

Chapter 43

It'd been a couple of days since my 'promotion'.

I leaned on the seminar table, resting my chin in my palm as Flat screamed into my ear... like usual from one side and Caules rigorously typed away at his laptop, only stopping to fix his thick glasses every once in a while. Svin was just sno...

Acknowledgement for July

In the previous month, I've written and posted a total of approximately 65k+ words. This might not be really impressive compared to some others but I'm rather proud of myself for it. Thank you for supporting me through the journey. I hope I can manage this, or ideally, cross this mark this month ...

Chapter 42

"Well, it turned out to be quite the ordeal, didn't it? It must have been a learning experience."

I pondered in silence.

Lord Valualeta, Inorai, sat beside me on the bench. She was leaning back like some kind of delinquent with her arms splayed on the headrest, even behind my head, wi...

Chapter 41

A/N: We reached +50 celsius today and I think I had something of a heat stroke since I straight up passed out while sitting. Still, I wasn't going to just not write so I said fuck you to my body and wrote two chapters instead of one out of spite. I only hope the spite hasn't messed with the quali...

Chapter 40

(Sorry guys, it took a bit longer than I expected to get it fixed.)

Expectedly, there was a fail-safe built into the workshop, designed to blow back in the face of anyone who dared to hijack it in spectacular fashion... Unfortunately, it wasn't designed to account for someone like me. It wo...

Chapter 39

Edit: I take it y'all didn't like this chapter? Should I rewrite it?

It was a quiet night. Moonlight faintly shimmered through dark clouds that masked the starry night sky I'd become used to in this castle in the middle of nowhere. A chill wind crept through the garden we were all gathered ...

Chapter 38

Waver immediately took to deciphering the contents of Geryon Ashborn's journal as I stepped past him, the bloody mess that was Orlocke. My first thoughts? This wasn't the work of that thing, no matter how similar it was made to look.

It was too deliberate. Too nasty. Too desperate.

My...

Chapter 37

Reinforcement.

The Istari Living Stone.

Gurdoa's Lightning Barrier.

Even though I stacked those spells gathered from exceptional magi atop one another multiple times, the damn thing still managed to push me back. Its claws rasped along stone, lightning singed its sinewy flesh, a...

Chapter 36

Sorry for missing a few updates, there was a flood in my city. It caused no harm whatsoever to me personally but it did knock out the power grid so I've been in the darkness for the past couple days.

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Both of us chose to enter the dark, decrepit corridor without even having to look a...

Chapter 35

The next morning couldn't have come sooner... for everyone else, that was. I slept like a baby, cuddling one of Luvia's thick thighs while everyone went about their own personal investigations into just what had transpired last night.

This became evident when we all gathered for breakfast a...

Chapter 34

Sometimes, you just woke up in the middle of the night, feeling so terribly parched it felt like you were about to die. That was what happened to me that night. It was still dark out, and I could tell that we were nowhere NEAR morning just by looking out the window from the bed, and the moon stil...

Chapter 33

"Add..."

Waver's attention was drawn to those hushed words that left his 'shy' apprentice's lips when they were alone in his room. Attempting to explain his theories regarding Miss Hishiri's death only ended with him gaining scrutiny instead, as someone trying to wash away their own sins wi...

Chapter 32

(A/N: I wanted to ask. It's been well over 60k words and I haven't used a single mainstream fate character yet. Well, unless you count Luviagelita or Waver but even there you could argue neither is really a 'main' character for the average reader. So the question is, what keeps you reading?

Chapter 31

I woke up really early the next day, at the very break of dawn even, when the first wisps of warm morning sunlight broke through the window, inviting in the cool September air that carried with it the scent of roses and lilies from the castle's garden.

Luviagelita was softly snoring then, s...

Chapter 30

(A/N: It's been a long time coming and I REALLY hope I did it well. Around 60k words lol. It isn't grand or with much flair. But I think it's what best matches the way they are and the nature of their relation. It's sudden, simple explosiveness.)

I put my aviators back on.

There were ...

Chapter 29

'Ask for the Angel's names.

Those who are asked and unable to answer shall, in all cases, be torn apart by Angels.

Those who can take hold of the Angels will be granted my inheritance.'

...These were the words Hishiri Adashino left to the people gathered in the lobby. To me, the...

Chapter 28

The main lobby was... muddling, cluttered with statues of unrecognisable angels thrown in with no particular care for placement. From Cherubs, Thrones, to Seraphim, to even Cupid with the little arrows, there were statues of everything that could even remotely be related to the word 'angel'. They...

Chapter 27

After such a grand invitation, and that over-the-top build-up to it, I was expecting something refined, majestic not... not this.

"Why are there so many damn insects?!"

As we treaded up the dirt path, my impotent protest was carried away by the cool September wind, echoing through the...

Chapter 26

I loved magic. I loved magecraft.

Those were my persistent and earnest feelings from the very moment I learnt of its existence. It was to the point where someone as scatter-brained and easily distracted as myself took two hours from every day simply mixing-and-matching whatever I'd learnt.<...

Chapter 25

A few days later, I was having pancakes for breakfast and just generally enjoying the beginning of my day when Ellie climbed onto the chair across from me. The little one was glaring at me for some reason.

"Uh... what happened?"

Admittedly, most of my narciss-... confidence, went up i...

Chapter 24

"Oh wow, a guy from an organisation that hates magi betrayed me. This has to be the plot twist of the century." I spoke with a deadpan. "My heart seriously can't handle this level of shock."

Mark seemed oddly surprised when his sword barely went half an inch deep before it struck something ...