fairytale curse: the princess who never smiled choice

[rejoicing]

Don't be foolish, child! Though you may do as you please with me in this 'fairytale princess' role you have chosen, there is a limit to what I will tolerate from you!

How could something as foul as that give me pleasure? As far as I am aware, only demons would enjoy the pain of those who are only trying to help them. I am simply a man of God who would not seek such thing as perverse entertainment. Do not mistake me for the King of Heroes.

[ We believe you, Kotomine. We believe you. ]

If possible, change the fable to excuse that behavior. The Scorpion and the Frog and similar versions would be more suitable for your obstinate schemes. It would not be of my own will that this would happen.

Comments

[answerer_sword]

That does indeed seem to be a strange choice to make. Are you sure she did not mean to choose something else?

[rejoicing]

I have interrogated her and indeed, she seems enamoured with the idea to 'develop me' using this trick. How foolish! I fail to understand how something as vile as a treacherous strangulation would bring me closer to my answer.

[answerer_sword]

To my knowledge, you are a priest and a perfectly respectable man. If anything, that would seem to be out of character for you. I believe the term they use is "character derailment".

[rejoicing]

You are correct. [ He wants to believe it is. ] It hardly seems proper to attempt to push me into the direction of sin. However, this is not unprecedented. Someone else has attempted the same.

[answerer_sword]

I am sure as priest, you should be able to resist the temptation, as slight as it is.

[A pause.]

Who?

[rejoicing]

I can resist temptation when I am given the choice to do so.

[He pauses and looks uncertain to divulge his name.]

Someone who is not present in the island. For this... I feel slightly relieved. As if I am spared of a great burden.

[answerer_sword]

Would she really not even allow you a free choice depending on the situation? I do not believe that would be appropriate behavior from a mun.

[Speak for yourself, Bazett.]

[rejoicing]

How troublesome. But it seems that I do not count with that privilege.

[answerer_sword]

...Do you wish for me to take it up with your mun? I am sure if others concurred with your opinion, she could be brought to change her mind.

[rejoicing]

If such plan would be fruitful, I would encourage you to try until she is dissuaded. However, she has already set plans with her peers and has written half of the prose that she needs to begin. Waste not. She will never discard the time spent for it.

[answerer_sword]

I wonder why she settled on such a story in the first place. Would not one of the medieval lives of the Saints worked better?

[rejoicing]

Impossible. Yet, I wish that would happen even if it would be too pretentious for me to compare to the holy Saints of the Church. The curse of this month had the 'fairytale' theme.

[answerer_sword]

Can you not resist it with your magecraft?

[Such a strange game, to deal only in curses.]

[prototypic]

King of...? [Ayaka looks puzzled for a second or two.]

You're being tormented by your mun? But that's... that's horrible. They should stop that right away.

[rejoicing]

An Archer Class Servant. [You know, the King of Harassment.]

Yes, she is quite an inept and obstinate one. This could not end well and she is aware of it. However, she will not stop.

[prototypic]

Then you're a Master! [Aah crap, where's Saber when you need him?] I-I don't want to fight.

They're like that. ...Mine is. She's very odd.

[rejoicing]

You are half-correct. I was chosen as a Master, but my Servant was the first to fall. [He shows no remorse on the fact. What command seals under his sleeve? He doesn't see any.] In any case, I have neither the right nor the desire to seize the Grail for myself. You have nothing to fear, child.

[She is not one of the Masters of his Holy Grail, anyway. His mentor wouldn't be benefited from her death.]

It is unfortunate we are not able to escape them.

[prototypic]

Oh. ...I'm sorry. It's hard to- to lose a Servant. [Hooray for Command Seals being hidden out of sight!] If I lost Saber... I don't know what I'd do.

[Please to note, however, that her Saber would probably Excali-pwn Gil if he tried anything.]

It's not so bad. And she likes someone as b-boring as me... so that's nice, I guess.

[rejoicing]

Do not presume we are the same. With the death of Assassin, I have finally been released from a heavy burden. If my circumstances would not have been complicated, I would have forfeited my rights as Master sooner.

[He is just a tool to aid the Tohsaka faction after all.]

Perhaps you had something special that caught her attention. I am an ill-fit choice for mine. She should have chosen Archer if she wished to make me a pawn for sadistic plots. This is outrageous.

[prototypic]

...oh.

[Does not compute. Sure, she thinks of herself as the worst Master in history. But giving up such a huge gift like that? How odd.]

...this Archer. Is he- he's not blonde, is he?

[rejoicing]

Blond hair and red eyes that do not seem to belong to a human being.

[They are very distinctive.]

Why are you asking about Archer? Do you know him? It would not surprise me to learn that he frequents this place. He enjoys being unproductive and idle even if he still has many duties as a Servant.

[ransaa]

Obviously your mundane isn't fooled by your "respectable priest" act, Kotomine.

[rejoicing]

[Blank face. Act?]

By the familiarity in your voice, it implies that you know me. Curious. I cannot say the same.

[ransaa]

Not yet. You'll just be my stupid master in the fifth war.

[rejoicing]

[Derisively.]

How could that be possible? I would be a feeble old man when the Fifth Heaven's Feel takes place.

[If it does. With his teacher's nearly assured victory, there wouldn't be a need for that ritual.]

[ransaa]

Not if it came 50 years early you wouldn't be.

[Lancer's tone suggests that this indeed is exactly what happens.]

[rejoicing]

[...

Of course what Emiya Shirou said was true, then.

You savor his genuine surprise while it lasts, Lancer.]

How could I be a Master again? I don't have any wish for the Grail or interest to engage myself in a battle between magi.

[ransaa]

[He'll savor anything not in the realm of YUETSU and hideous troll smirks from Kirei, tbh.]
Well you weren't supposed to be.

I ain't got any interest in trying to figure out the intentions of a twisted guy like you, but you wanted to be in the war bad enough to steal me away from my rightful master.

1/2

[rejoicing]

[His confusion only deepens. It tears something inside of him. An uncomfortable reminder for the last conversation he has had with certain hedonist King.

The Grail beckons him? How absurd. He will never believe that!]

How...

[rejoicing]

[His expression hardens.]

How do I know you are not lying? You are a stranger. Even if you are a Servant and a hero, I will not allow anyone play mindgames with me!

[ransaa]

Hah! It'd serve you right if I was trying to mess with your head, considering how much of it you end up doing.

But I ain't that kind of guy. Besides, what would I possibly have to gain by lying to you if you hadn't screwed me over?

[rejoicing]

The kind of person you are is none of my business. If you leave me out of your tale, I could not care less.

[ He knows he is present as overseer thanks to Shirou. He will treat this carefully. Perhaps this Servant's true Master was an enemy to the Emiya boy he seems to have sided with for a reason that escapes him. ]

Most likely there has to be a mistake. I have nothing to do with the Grail or the land of Fuyuki beyond what is requested from me by the Holy Church.

[ransaa]

I don't know whether you really believe that now or not, but the shitty priest I know'd make the same claim to anyone who asked.

But he's just a wolf in sheep's clothing, he is. A pretty unsettling sheep but a sheep nonetheless. Can't trust a word that comes out of his mouth.

[rejoicing]

I suppose that we have that much in common. I do not believe anything you say either, Servant.

[ His disgust is clear in his features and voice. Like the remnants of the anger Lancer has sparked. ]

[ransaa]

If you're so sure that's not your true nature then you shouldn't be so bothered by it. That'd make it baseless slander, after all.

[rejoicing]

I am tired to hear your insinuations.