[color=a36209][h3][center]Daisuke Nakahara[/center][/h3][/color]
Daisuke didn't think his distraction worked - despite calling Edward a Rider, he could sense through his connection with his servant that the Saber class servant simply attacked him directly. Maybe she would have done that no matter what class Edward was? In the end, it didn't matter - the Rider class servant has yet to reveal themselves to Daisuke, so that would make a good disguise for Edward to take for the first night or two of the war. If he was lucky, they would be much more careful around Edward and think that he had more Noble Phantasms than he really did. The more intimidating they found Edward, the more likely they would simply leave him and Daisuke alone - which was all that the young master really wanted.

After what felt like an agonizingly slow amount of time, Daisuke finally managed to make it into the building he was walking towards, and he immediately took cover inside. Here, he could finally relax. Daisuke slammed the door of the building shut, and quickly began hyperventilating, before falling to the ground. He was exhausted - not from mana drain, since the ritual hadn't really been all that stressful on him, and it seemed Edward was not too mana intensive for some reason. Daisuke was exhausted from fear - he had been within a few dozen feet of a hostile Servant, one of the most dangerous things that he could possibly confront in this city. And he turned his back on it. Walking away rather than running hadn't been too bad though - it didn't matter whether he walked or ran since any Servant would catch him in seconds either way.

After freaking out for a few seconds, Daisuke immediately lunged for the stairs headed towards the roof of the building. He needed a vantage point, and while it wasn't the best protection from a Servant, the vertical distance was a much larger deterrent than horizontal distance or physical obstacles. Daisuke's body slammed against the door to the roof, but he didn't open it. It took some time for his mind to realize that going into the open air, even if it was on a roof, was a bad idea - Survivor still hadn't found the Saber's Master, so being anywhere outside was a horrible idea. The enemy could snipe him with a rifle, or use a command seal to kill him instantly.

Instead, he stayed on the top floor of the building, hiding in one of the corner rooms. No one was inside for some reason - clearly the work of the Saber's Master. Whatever they did that caused the usual large crowds of people near Tokyo Tower to disappear seemed to affect those inside buildings as well. It was times like this that Daisuke wished he studied things other than Familiar-craft, even if it was just to know what other Magi were doing. The fighting outside could be heard clearly, as Berserker and the Saber were fighting. Daisuke wished he could watch the battle with his own eyes, if only to know what they were really up against. He set down his duffel bag before pulling out the large, tattered Tome from earlier. He opened its pages, and after reading some of the small scripts on the index of the Tome, decided on who he wished to summon.

[color=a36209]"You're my sacrifice, Lamora..."[/color]

Lamora of the Cobblestone - the 11th Pidgeon that Survivor caught, and the 1st he didn't immediately eat. Having passed that trial, Lamora earned the right to join Daisuke's ranks of familiars. He never spent much time with her, but even he thought what he was about to do was exceedingly cruel. Daisuke walked over to the door to the roof, opened it very slightly, and pushed the Pidgeon through the crack.

It only took some slight mental coaxing to convince Lamora to begin her flight. Just as Daisuke was about to take over her senses, his connection to the pidgeon immediately snapped. He was about to question how something like that could happen when he heard a sickening splat outside the building on the ground. Lamora must have seen Edward and that... killed her? 

Daisuke didn't know if he should have been excited or terrified of Edward at that point. On the one hand, he was an extremely powerful being, able to kill a familiar that just looked at him. On the other hand, it seemed like Daisuke was not immune to this ability, seeing as Edward told him to look away. Even if Lamora was just a Pidgeon, it was still a familiar - one that died as soon as it saw Edward. What would happen if Daisuke accidentally saw Edward during the fight?

It didn't matter - all that was important was finding the enemy Master. That was Daisuke's role in any battle. Find the enemy Master, and throw as many familiars as necessary at them until they finally succumbed to the weight of bodies and minor injuries. Daisuke released five more birds from his Tome - two crows, a parrot, and two more pigeons. All five flew out of the roof's door, and Daisuke was extra cautious in informing them where not to look in order to avoid Edward's aura. Reconnaissance was everything, and while Daisuke had far, far more flying familiars at his disposal, he wanted to keep his mana-consumption somewhat limited while Edward was fighting. The Parrot was especially nice - if he was lucky, he could distract the enemy Master with words while he informed Edward of the position of the Master.

Daisuke felt far from safe in his small building, but he was not going to waste the energy needed to summon and maintain one of his larger familiars. Even a caster would be able to smack them aside with ease, and they lacked the versatility and stealth that Survivor possessed. Reluctantly, Daisuke called Survivor back to his location, and after opening the roof door once more, allowed the creature to enter his body once again.

"Fai... lure..."

[color=a36209]"I-it's okay, Survivor - I sent some of my winged scouts to survey for the Master. Your objective now is to keep me safe."[/color]

Survivor was nowhere near strong enough to harm a Servant, but he could probably tank a weak blow or two. That would give Daisuke enough time to use a Command Seal and summon Edward to his position.

Five birds weren't going to attract too much attention, but they would definitely help to scout. Daisuke didn't share his senses with any of them, fearful of Berzerker's aura, but they informed him via a mental connection of every interesting thing they saw. It was only a matter of time before they found someone, and when they did, Daisuke only needed to let the hordes loose.

One of the Pigeons found something first - sigils layered on the walls of an alleyway, which could only be a Bounded Field. Of course, Daisuke, being unknowledgeable about anything unrelated to Familiars, had no clue what it was. He only knew that whatever it was, it was magical. The Pigeon, Tromar the Gregarious, was quickly instructed to roost nearby, and keep an eye out for any Masters wandering in the area. Daisuke didn't know this, but this field was indeed set up by another Master - although, it was a fake merely meant to distract any Masters who discovered it. Tromar (and Daisuke by extension) would almost never find the Master responsible for it - she was hidden behind an actual Bounded Field, meant to hide her presence from people like Daisuke.

Daisuke deemed Tromar's station important enough to warrant permanent roosting, and he released another Parrot into the battlefield to replace the pigeon's prior duty. Good thing he did so as well since as soon as he released the second Parrot, the first managed to find something interesting as well - some kind of massive spider. Daisuke, unlike with the field, knew what this was. It was a Puppet, designed to look similar to a Spider. Daisuke had always wanted to try creating Puppets and Golems, which had intrigued him and he believed might be similarly obedient to him as his familiars were, but he always lacked the resources and knowledge necessary to experiment with them. In the end, animal familiars were something he was far more experienced with, and something that was much easier to procure.

He sent the Parrot to fly a dozen feet above the spider a few times, testing the creature. It was obviously connected to a Master, but Daisuke really doubted that his Parrot familiar (Morama, Devourer of Pota-Yaki) could even lightly damage the construct. The best thing to do was to try communicating, or at the very least try to distract the enemy Master. That would give the other familiars time to actually find the damn person.

Daisuke got jolted back to reality by a sudden, uneasy feeling. Unaware of the cause at first, he focused on the various connections he had at the moment, before honing in on the one he had with Edward. Someone had joined the fray between the two Servants. It couldn't have been a Master - no Master would be suicidal enough to fight a Servant. That could only mean one thing - another Servant had joined the fray. Three Servants... A loud sound resounded through the battlefield, and Daisuke had to restrain himself from looking out the mirror. Even an accidental look at Edward might have meant his death... Although, the fact that it seemed like [i]another[/i] Servant had joined the conflict may as well have meant the same thing. 

FOUR SERVANTS!? How did they find Edward so quickly? Did a tall foreigner really stand out so much that nearly all the Servants in the war could find them? Even worse, Daisuke hadn't even found a single Master yet. Daisuke messaged his Servant, extremely distressed.

[color=a36209][i]I'm sensing more Servants through our connection! What's happening?![/i][/color]

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