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The sounds of something breaking. Unknown of what it was, the boy looked up and saw only an overflowing death. The boy had no clue why it had happened the way it did, and why this was going the way it was. He only remembered the struggle, and now even that he felt was fading away as he put his hand to his head, and found blood. And so as everything went wrong, though he did not know whether it was his or another's, he heard a wish be given...and thought of one of his own...

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Akira Romji: Caster

Akira woke up gasping for air. No, his breathing was actually just fine, but it felt like just a moment ago it was not. However, all it was had been a nightmare that he had after having fallen asleep on the bus for a minute...but no, he knew that was not right. He remembered...something. A previous life, but not a fantasy or a delusion. He knew it was real, but specifics such as names seemed to escape him, and what he did remember was fragmented and often unclear.

He remembered trickery and deception, betrayal and adventures. Lazy days and days full of action. He remembered surviving, and his youthful form...no, he still had that same form, but it felt as if this happened a thousand years ago.

But now, he also remembered his present life. Akira Romji. He was a boy who lived in a shared apartment with a group of others. He was a brilliant student, who had skipped a few grades into high school though right now it was summer. They were normal people, but uninvolved with what he had been involved with before. He lost his parents in a horrible incident a year, no, two years ago. As such, those people were his only family, otherwise he was independent. He had more then enough money from their inheritance, and he was a great student with a promising future.

And secretly, he was an even more promising mage.

All of that was real, yet Akira...he knew it was all fake. But it was not the memories that were fake somehow...rather, it was as if reality itself got twisted to make this real. But even with all of this, he did understand so far what was going on.

"A Holy Grail War...but, I feel like something is missing...no connection to the Grail, and also...no Master..."

Indeed, Akira was the Heroic Spirit of the Caster Class, but there was no one here that was his Master. In fact, he felt no Master-Servant connection at all. Normally, from what he remembered, it was Seven Masters and Seven Servants against each other, and the winning pair got a wish from the Holy Grail. Well, sometimes things went to hell, but this was different.

However, Akira had an issue. Although he felt no injury, he felt like his head was in pain just a moment ago, and he could not remember his old name or life clearly. It felt like it was just out of reach, but out of reach all the same. But what he did remember...seemed fragmented...he knew he was actually 37, at least, but it might be older. It seemed he had interacted with the Fountain of Youth though, and discovered its secret.

That the Fountain of Youth was quite literal. It gave you eternal youth...but as in, it made you a child for all eternity. But Akira actually remembered not minding it much, finding it convienent. And to be honest, he could see why. He was jsut old enough to be independent, but young enough for people not to pay close attention to him as a person. For a mage, this could be the ideal appearance.

"But then...why cant I sense a link with the Grail...though, honestly if I don't have to deal with it I would be happy, I do still get a strange feeling it is out there somewhere....but this feels far weaker then it should be. I wonder what...oh shit..."

But as Akira looked outside, while he first saw a normal blue sky with rainclouds rolling in that changed the moment he focused mana into his eyes. At that point, he saw the truth...over the entire island was an invisible, magical vortex...and an insane amount of magic power that made it difficult to sense where this trace of the Grail was.

Actually, because he is Caster, the combination of his Magic Resistance that blocked the Vortex's jamming from full effect on himself and Magical Talent that let him sense magical things easier was the only reason he could even get a trace.

However, while he was curious Akira did not feel an overwhelming press to find the Grail.

Because he felt no real connection to Grail or Master, in a way his wish was already granted. He didn't remember who he was, but he remembered his wish. A second chance at life, and to be able to enjoy it to the fullest.

If only things went as well for the rest of this situation as Akira had hoped for though from this beginning...if he knew exactly what he would end up getting sucked into, maybe he would have taken a different path at first...