Too many F/SN crossovers? Heh....
To the end of her days, Rin would maintain that the whole mess was entirely Ilya's fault.
The whole thing started when Ilya browbeat her brother into mainlining her favorite anime du jour, featuring a loudmouthed orange-wearing "ninja" (whose personality bore some rather dangerous parallels to Shirou's in exactly the wrong places, in Rin's opinion). After a marathon of increasingly silly uses of the protagonist's "shadow clone" spell, Ilya had turned to her brother with an inquisitive expression.
"Ne, Oniichan. Couldn't you do that? Trace copies of yourself?"
"That only really works for me with swords, Ilya."
"Yes, but, you're made of swords, right? So it should work!"
Shirou's expression had gone from puzzlement to dawning wonder. Rin, seeing probably exactly the same mental image as Shirou, felt her own heart plummet in inverse response. But before she could think of a way to derail this dangerous train of thought, Shirou was upright, with the thousand-meter stare of a man undergoing a religious experience. And then he said The Words Which Heralded The End Of The World:
"I could save everyone."
Years later, after Shirou mastered his version of the Suicide Clone and Clones-Transforming-Into-Weapons techniques, Ilya would admit (privately) that Rin was right, and it really was her fault. But by then, the Clock Tower lay in ruins and the Pax Saggitarius was well on its way to establishing global domination....
Excerpted from Unlimited Shirou Works.
To the end of her days, Rin would maintain that the whole mess was entirely Ilya's fault.
The whole thing started when Ilya browbeat her brother into mainlining her favorite anime du jour, featuring a loudmouthed orange-wearing "ninja" (whose personality bore some rather dangerous parallels to Shirou's in exactly the wrong places, in Rin's opinion). After a marathon of increasingly silly uses of the protagonist's "shadow clone" spell, Ilya had turned to her brother with an inquisitive expression.
"Ne, Oniichan. Couldn't you do that? Trace copies of yourself?"
"That only really works for me with swords, Ilya."
"Yes, but, you're made of swords, right? So it should work!"
Shirou's expression had gone from puzzlement to dawning wonder. Rin, seeing probably exactly the same mental image as Shirou, felt her own heart plummet in inverse response. But before she could think of a way to derail this dangerous train of thought, Shirou was upright, with the thousand-meter stare of a man undergoing a religious experience. And then he said The Words Which Heralded The End Of The World:
"I could save everyone."
Years later, after Shirou mastered his version of the Suicide Clone and Clones-Transforming-Into-Weapons techniques, Ilya would admit (privately) that Rin was right, and it really was her fault. But by then, the Clock Tower lay in ruins and the Pax Saggitarius was well on its way to establishing global domination....
Excerpted from Unlimited Shirou Works.