[Chapter 3: The Grail War(part.1)]

"Senpai! Wake up Senpai! It's morning already."

  I opened my eyes, but had to closed them again because of the light, I couldn't see who the person who woke me up was but I recalled both the situation and the voice already, I laid up and opened my eyes again, as the view became less blurry, I was able to see a silhouette, then it became more and more clear by the second and I see who the person was.

"Thank you for waking me up again Sakura"

  I said while patting her head, I started doing it a while back since I notice she likes when I do that. I always thank her when she wakes me up, on her part I thank her for waking me up every morning.

  On my part, I thank her for ending my nightmares, the curse placed on me by the gods in my previous life is able to jump into action every time I sleep.

  Sometimes I find myself standing stuck in a single place and scenes flashing in front of me, the scenes of the carnage, but still, that one is not that bad, there are worst ones, like one where I am experiencing everything in a first person perspective, it feels so real that sometimes I can't differentiate reality and dream, sometimes its all of my wives and children hunting me for revenge, and the worst of all that happens once a year, that day …. that day and that day only the dream stops being a dream, I can feel their heat, I can hear their cries, taste the blood in my mouth, feel the pain from the attacks, that day of the year I can go back in time in my dreams and experience that hell again.

  I could have broken the curse in my previous life, but I didn't want to since that is the sin I decided to carry. I will keep living like I promised them, but I will do so while carrying that burden in my shoulders. I have to get stronger, I know that if I lose someone like them again, even a single one, then I won't be able to recover, my shoulders will be unable to bear the weight and …. I will be broken forever.

  It's being more than a year since that day with Sakura, since then, she comes and takes care of me every day, breakfast, dinner, and some other chores. I asked her for the reason why she was doing all of that for me but I wasn't able to get an answer out of her, the only response was a stubborn shake of head, well, not like it bothers me anyways. The only problem, well, she keeps getting cuter by the day and that makes it harder for me not to eat her up, honestly, her defenses against me are too low.

*sigh*

  A sigh of regret escapes my mouth, I was going to wait till she was a bit older but it looks like that was a mistake, looks like she found a boyfriend, she doesn't want to tell me anything about it when I try to ask indirectly, and she hasn't specifically talk about it but I know, since one day, that smell disappeared from her body. The smell of a virgin, it's something I became sensitive to because of my succubus wife. I thought about reading the memories from her soul but the idea it's kind of tasteless so I'll just let it go for now.

  The morning goes by like usual, a quick shower and then eating breakfast with Taiga and Sakura.

"If you don't hurry and eat faster then you'll be late again, Taiga" I said while eating my breakfast slowly.

"I TOLD YOU TO CALL ME FU-JI-MU-RA SENSEI, AT LEAST CALL ME TAIGA SENSEI!" taiga roars which leaves my ears ringing.

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"Ugh- come on Taiga, I told you not to be so loud in the mornings" I answered while covering my ringing ears.

  She knew she wasn't getting what she wanted so she growled, finished her breakfast and stomped out of the house while yelling "idiot, dummy, stupid Shirou".

  After seeing the angry taiga off, Sakura was smiling and giggling as she finished watching our occasional morning routine. After we both finished breakfast, we made our way to the school. We spoke about trivial stuff as usual, and me being me I took every opportunity to get closer to sakura, that's a bad habit I made in my second life, if I want something, I take it. Meaning, I don't care if sakura has a boyfriend, I want her, so I'll take her. This was going through my mind as Sakura had the brightest smile on her face, that actually made me feel guilty, but not enough for me to stop wanting to rip her boyfriend to pieces.

                    #School Yard

"Senpai, won't you come back to the archery club?" Sakura asked me with hopeful eyes.

"Sorry but I think is better if I don't, not after punching Shinji's two front teeth out" I said with an awkward smile pasted on my face. One day I found a bruise on Sakura, I asked her about it but she didn't answer so I asked Shinji about it instead, his answer was "I did it, so what" with an annoyed look on his face, after that, People tried to rip me off him but I didn't stop until Sakura herself got involve.

  The only reason I stopped was because if I kept going Sakura might have gotten hurt. It was a work of art, his face had 5 different colors when I was done with him, after that day our relationship change from dislike to hate which made it somewhat weird between me and Sakura.

"umm… yeah, that's true" she said with sad expression which made me feel guilty again.

"Sorry Sakura" I said as I patted her head and turned around to head towards the school building.

                  #StudentCouncilRoom

"Do you think you can fix it Emiya?" That was Ryudo Issei, the student council president, I started helping him with some broken stuff after I found him being troubled about the budget to buy new equipment.

"Well, let me check it first and then I'll get back to you on that." I said that while taking the heater apart, while I was doing that, I was tracing the heater and checking its structure to see if it can be fix, after a couple of minutes of faking looking for the problem, I "found it" and fixed it.

"Hoh! As impressive as always, there is nothing you can't fix"

"heh! I wish that was true, I can't fix something that is completely damaged so try to be gentle with it"

*sigh*

"I wish the other students would listen to me when I ask them to"

"haha, well try your best" I said while patting his shoulder and heading out.

  I was heading to the classroom when I saw Sakura, I was about to call out to her but didn't when I saw the person next to her, there was a girl helping Sakura pick a pile of papers in the floor. After they were done and the girl left, I approached Sakura.

"Hey Sakura!"

"Senpai!"

  I looked to the direction the girl left with curiosity showing in my face,"That person just now?"

"huh? That was-" she was about to answer but I cut her off.

"Rin Tohsaka, right?" Sakura had a surprise expression on her face when I said that

"umm… you know her Senpai?"

"oh, not really, there is not a single person who doesn't know THE Tohsaka Rin"

"right, of course Senpai knows her, Tohsaka-Senpai is cool and beautiful" Sakura said while touching the ribbon on her hair and looking away from me.

"Humm" seeing her like that kind of flipped a switch in me, wanting to tease her I got my mouth close to her ear even if nobody was around to hear what I was going to say and whispered "well, it's true that Tohsaka is cool and beautiful, but you are cute and adorable right?"

  After I backed off a bit, I saw Sakura's skin turn from her usual tone to pink and then to red in less than a second,

"ah! She ran away, looks like it was too much" I left with a smile on my face, I like teasing Sakura, her reactions are the best.

  After that was just the usual day, class, lunch, then class again, and then time to head home. Like every other day I waited for Sakura to be finished with the club and headed home together.

  Looks like this I grew accustomed to this peaceful life after a while. At first, I was wary, I might grow dull if I get too use to this but I don't really care anymore, it would be a lie if I say that there was nothing missing but there is nothing, I can do but keep living my peaceful life.

  Just as if I jinx it, my peaceful life ended that night.