gandrdere | Ｅｉｎｓ [Action/Video for New Bark Town]

[ The moment the feed starts, the camera is pointing at the far horizon. It’s a nice sunset, with orange colored skies and the sun slowly sinking below some mountains far ahead… ]

WHAT THE HELL IS GOING ON!?

[ Well, there goes the mood. The PokeConnect is quickly retrieved, but it points erratically at everything around whoever is holding it. Trees, the ground, that awesome sunset, a couple of legs, back to the sunset and finally to a particularly angry, and terribly confused girl with piercing blue eyes. ]

Hello, hello? IS THIS THING ON??

[ She fiddles with the device, turning the video and audio on and off a couple of times before setting it back like it was originally. It better be working! ]

I don’t know what this is about, but if whoever you are have any value over your life you will give me the answers I seek immediately, lets you want to suffer extreme punishment fit of those that dare to mistreat a member of the Tohsaka family.

Well? Speak! I don’t have all the time of the world.

[ Yes, this is going to go well. ]

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[ It surely has nothing to do with the way they think of each other, no. ]

Very well, I shall meet you there.

[ And soon enough, Rin is waiting by the laboratory, arms crossed trying to look cool. ]

[Sakura arrives not long after! The first thing Rin will notice about her, obviously, is her hair; it's longer now, reaching down to her waist. There's also just something... different in the way she carries herself.]

I hope I didn't keep you waiting... [She smiles.] It's good to see you again, nee-san.

[ It's like she's looking at a total stranger that looks like Sakura. Where there was a shadow of a person now stands someone who has apparently found a new sense of self worth. Just what is going on. ]

There you go again, calling me like that. What has happened? Is this some sort of joke?

[... Yeah, totally confused now.] W-What are you talking about? I've been calling you that for a while now... I wouldn't joke about that.

No, you haven't. Not since we...were little.

[ And now Rin is slowly falling into despair. Shirou did say she didn't remember things. Was she going insane? ]

Why would you now? I've barely seen you as of late.

[Something... is definitely wrong here.]

That... that's not true. You just came back from London right before we were dragged here.

I- what?

School hasn't even finished! Emiya-kun and I were to go to London, yes, but that's not until we finish school, what with it just being Spring Break.

...and I don't recall telling you this.

[ There's still a good deal of surprise in her voice, but she's getting a little wary. ]

[Wait, what?] He was... going with you?

[There's no question that Rin would know a lot more about magic than she does, so maybe this won't be so confusing once things get cleared up.] For me, senpai stayed in Fuyuki [with me] while you studied abroad. I was there to see you off, and I was there when you came back.

I- how do you know so much? I don't understand what's going on. Shirou had been busy all this time, so I don't really know how you two could have become so close he would throw away his chance to become a proper magus and succeed his father so quickly.

I think I understand... [There's a pause as Sakura thinks. It's strange, but... at the same time, she's not too shocked? There's a different Saber here along with the one she's familiar with, and just this world in general...]

Maybe this has something to do with the Second Magic.

[That comment about her and Shirou not being so close hurts, but she ignores it. For now.]

So you mean to say, a different outcome? Did you get involved on the Grail War, Sakura?

[ That was her role, of course. Rin had feared it, but she saw nothing related to Sakura, seeing how Shinji had been the Matou family's Master. ]

I need to know more.

... I did. [Very involved. But she doesn't want to mention what exactly happened. Not yet. This may still be her sister, and things ended well for them... but she was still a little afraid.]

I was Rider's original Master. [That, at least, was something she wasn't ashamed of.] But when I heard I would be fighting you and Senpai, I... I couldn't do it. So I gave control over to nii-san.

Well, he did needed a book to keep control over Rider...I wonder how much passes unnoticed.

[ Rin is racking her brain trying to see things she might have missed. Which is weird, considering she and Shinji seemed to get along better once everything was said and done, or at least for the time being. ]

Sakura...if you and I...well, I am not that person. A-and...

I can't ask you to treat me like that, not after what I've done to you.

[If only Rin knew how much her words could be appropriate for Sakura's timeline. But things worked out then, so... maybe they can work out now.]

You're still my sister. Even if we both have different memories, that fact still remains. And... no matter what you try to say to change it, it's still true that I love you.

But I don't want to make you uncomfortable. If you... don't want me treating you like that, then I won't. [It'll hurt, but Sakura could deal with that. Probably.]

I don't mind.

[ She looks away, half irritated, half embarrassed. Totally tsun. ]

As this place is not Fuyuki, and magic doesn't rule our lives, I have no reason to abide to whatever was keeping me from relating to you back there right now. We can sort things when we go back, but for the time being it only seems logical to me if try to treat each other naturally.

[That... was definitely an answer Sakura wanted to hear, but tried not to bring herself to hope for. A smile crosses her face again, and she nods.]

Okay. Sounds like a good idea to me.

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