“It's about time, isn't it?” It was an empty church, one where the young man’s voice reverberated as if he was the singer of s great choir. He spoke to no one in particular, just the deaf ears of the saints that surrounded him.

He stood up from the pew that he was sitting in. Once his face was bathed in the moonlight, it became clear that he was beautiful, so ethereal in degree that any who looked at him would wonder if he was even real, or even if he was even a man at all- as young as he looked.

“Very well, then let this bloodsport begin.” He snapped his fingers, causing a sudden change in the atmosphere in the room. It seemed like the church was filled with several individuals, all directly facing the man.

The spell was granted to him by the grail, a testament to his authority as the overseer. The church’s unlit candles sparked with flames, and the rest of the building’s interior became clear.

A humble church was what it was, barely even worthy of being in the center of a grail war of this magnitude, but the house of God had many protections that made it nearly impossible to breach for modern mages, and in the case of servants, the Fujiwaras had agreed to the Holy Church bringing in some of the best in the organization to protect the humble building.

Once the spell was completed, the golden-haired figure of the overseer became clear, standing tall in front of the cross at the end of the church.

“This moment marks the beginning of the Holy Grail War, the first in Kyoto’s long history under the rule of the Fujiwaras.” He smiled, an expression that conveyed an unusual amount of anticipation from a neutral party.

“This is the last, desperate attempt of a family that gave in to the inevitable, a group that was so esteemed in the past, yet is nothing in the present. And so, with this epitaph, I declare: let the games begin.” All over Kyoto different masters and servants would feel the call of the Grail, some not even tuning in to listen to the priest’s words, yet all knew deep inside that the city would never be the same again.

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