thenearshore | Wandering King's Rock and Roll

Who: Richard the Lion-nerd and OPEN
When: Dec. 4
Where: around Tokyo, back home at his temple
What: Saber has an electric guitar and he's not afraid to use it

[A - Near Shore, Tokyo, evening]

[By nature, gods tend to escape the notice of mortals. This is probably how Saber has managed to set himself up on a street corner with his electric guitar and an amplifier without getting chased off by the police for making himself a nuisance. He has his guitar case open in front of him and it doesn't seem to be deterring him in the slightest that no one has put any money in it.

To his credit, he does actually look and sound like a professional. He's wearing his usual leather jacket with its rhinestone cross on the back, but he (mercifully) is wearing a T-shirt with a stylized anime robot on it instead of the horrible Hawaiian shirt Caster gave him as a present. Add that to boots and ripped jeans and the fact that he actually knows his way around an electric guitar and you might actually believe that he's about to pull this whole thing off.]

Who'd like to hear a song about King Arthur?

[Except this is Saber we're talking about.]

[B - Near Shore, Tokyo, early morning]

[There are supposed to be bear ayakashi in this park and Saber is supposed to be staking the place out to try to find them. However, no bears are immediately evident, so he has his phone out and is watching something intently on it.

He is, at least, being polite and wearing headphones.

This, however, is not going to help him notice incoming bears.

This could be a problem.]

[C - Far Shore, near Michael's Temple]

[If you happen to be walking past the stately medieval castle that this dork resides in, you might want to dodge because Saber is running out of his own gates, laughing delightedly while being chased by several irate geese.

God only knows what started this one...]

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My repertoire is ever growing, my friend!

[New hobby: writing rock ballads about giant robot anime, movie musicals, Godzilla, and...well, basically anything else on Netflix.]

But what do you mean by "flashback?"

[Because no matter how much he watches, reads, or listens to, nothing is ever going to replace his number one obsession.]

[ Godzilla is badass, he deserves a whole rock opera, you go guy ]

Eh, I don't like remembering how my head almost rolled after meeting that blade. [ And who knows, maybe it even happened more than just once. In another time, in another "life" ] Surely they must have made songs about you or that friend of yours.

[There's a discordant twang from the guitar as Saber reels in shock.]

You've met King Arthur?!!

[His heart is going to stop. It's going to stop right now. Right here. This is too much to take in.]

Yeah, joys of the Grail Wars, right?

[ Ooops, there it goes. Caster rocks on his feet as he answers. ]

No Heroic Spirit would mistake that sword for something else.

[Saber feels kind of numb as he carefully takes his guitar off and sets it aside. He's still in kind of a fog as he steps over the guitar case and walks over to Caster.

But that all fades as soon as he grabs Caster by the arms and practically shakes him.]

You have to tell me everything! Everything!

[ Okay, he had a suspicion there might be a... lively reaction. Given it's not the first time Saber is singing about Arthur. This level of liveliness is kind of above that expectations, oops. So he's trying to scramble out of that shake, Strenght rank E, plz help ]

Aah- [ Shake ] sure- [ Shake ] sure but- [ Shake ] I've got bad news for ya, she was a Saber.

[ You're taking the same spots guys, might be hard to run into each other. Unless you can occupy different classes, which is possible, he's the best example of that. ]

I was the only Saber summoned! There could be another!

[While he and Ayaka didn't exactly do a lot of intelligence gathering, he knows there are two Lancers and two Archers, so it stands to reason that there should be another Saber.]

And certainly in other wars there are other classes we both could be summoned as!

[The fact that Caster referred to Arthur as "she" didn't even register, apparently.]

So there could be more of your class?

[ Multiple classes? Well, Chaldea had no limits aside from the energy capacity, and everyone were on the same side. Stuff is weird and everything is possible. ]

If that's so, then I'll keep fingers crossed for your meeting. The one I had with her didn't went well- [ Corrupted Grail destroys all the fun ] But I get the feeling our previous ones were much more entertaining.

[ And weird Chaldea system Servant weirdness, who vaguely are aware of previous summonings. Including the fact it's his first time as Caster ]

[Saber looks pained.]

Previous ones?

[Everything is terrible. Nothing is fair.]

Yeah, it's my first time as a Caster- so anything that happened earlier must have been with me as a Lancer!

[ And thus much, much more fun. ]

A tough opponent like this is a joy to fight with!

[Saber droops forward, his head falling to Caster's shoulder as if it's too heavy to hold up anymore.]

You've fought King Arthur...many times...

[Is this what it feels like to lose your will to live?]

I've fought but one Servant...a Lancer who didn't name himself...certainly not a Knight of the Round Table...

[ Okay now it's getting dark, or just a bit depressive. Shit, he knew he should have kept his tongue from waggling too much. ]

You know, there might be no Grail here. But we do have a plenty of Servants if a fight is what you seek

[ How famous exactly they are is a good question. Many of them are a shinki so asking for their name is not a good idea. ]

But not King Arthur...

[He's a dead weight at this point. But that's to be expected of a die hard fanboy who's just found out how bad his luck is when it comes to his celebrity crush.]

Who knows? People keep showing up, so maybe it's just a matter of time?

[ Should he mention that the other Saber resembles Arthur a lot? Or would that make everything worse? The mouth is indeed the source of all disaster ]

You'll let me know, won't you? Or if there are any other Knights of the Round Table? Or Merlin?

[He clings, sounding a bit pathetic and defeated.]

I would even be willing to swear a vow not to fight them if I meant I could speak with them...

Now you're assuming I know them all- I don't.

[ He's not comfortable making such a promise. Even if he happens to run into one of them - doubtful but possible - and they want to keep their identity a secret? Mess of promises again ]

Not to mention, what would happen if they got here as a shinki? The less they'd know the better.

[ He think Richard could be able to keep his mouth shut, it's a serious situation after all- buuut it's still the case of the less is out the better. ]

[Richard absolutely isn't able to keep his mouth shut.]

Maybe just touch them? A little?

Richard, you're not helping your case.

[ If there is anyone who can figure out why the other Saber is so similar to King Arthur it's probably Richard. But wouldn't that end bad for her?

On the other touching her a little might end bad for Richard... ]

But sure. If anyone from the roundtable of stuck-up armor-clanking-appears here, you will be the first one to know.

Wandering King's Rock and Roll

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