...What is the summoning ritual of a servant?
It isn't summoning a servant, that's for sure. It sounds simple, right? The idea that you can summon up a Great Hero from years passed with a simple chant and a small magic circle. But upon thinking about it, it makes little sense, does it not?
In the first place, don't you think summoning a Heroic Spirit would cost extremely high amounts of prana? Even with "The Holy Grail" backing one up, the costs should be beyond what a normal magus could ever aspire to do.
...Yet, what do normal magi do easily and trivially?
They summon servants without much trouble. Doesn't that seem a tad bit off?
That's because the ritual isn't to summon a servant. No, not at all. The ritual is to bind you to a servant.
...Of course, Magi never assume this. They simply blindly charge into the Grail War, expecting results to show. After all "The Holy Grail" is omnipotent, right? But know this, you who seek great power. Do not rise up what ye cannot put down yourself. Do not seek an artifact that can overwhelm you. Or perhaps...
An artifact that can be overwhelmed? Yes. The Holy Grail is certainly not a miracle wishing device. That's because _______.
Ah, aren't all artificial miracles like that?
Don't fret though. Just for this little game, I'll be nice, okay? So don't give me that look. See, I even did something embarrassing for you "like that".
Wow, humans are greedy.
Fine. I'll lend you just a bit of my power. Take that and be satisfied. This should be more than enough to reach [ ].
The world contorts under a spell that reached into the ritual class. Blinding light illuminates the skies as an inhuman being is summoned forth into the world. In the light, a spirit contorts and forms into the world like any other. If the signal to announce the start of the Holy Grail War is a sun, then this is a quasar.
Head, eyes, ears, nose, hair, torso, arms, legs, fingers, toes,
Come into existence.
But at the same time, something overruns all these things. There's a smile on the face of the thing that was brought forth into this world from the second its mouth existed.
And from the second its mouth existed, a beautiful sound emerged from all directions at once. It is certainly the doing of this servant. It is a beautiful song, but no voice is its cause, nor instrument.
It is just a sound. But it is an answer. It's a response to the Overseers deceleration of the Grail Wars beginning. Certainly, it is beautiful, but...
If one could put words to it, just like the smile on this servants face right now, there is something "wrong" with it. Something in that melody is wrong, but that is why it is a melody.
As the light fades, the song fades, and a girl steps forward. Just a girl, nothing more and nothing less.
The figure leans down, and squeezes its masters chest as it leans toward her and smiles.
"Hi,"
"Are you my servant?"