To provide Medea with more mana crystals, making it easier for her to build a Magic Workshop and use Item Construction to create "Dragon Tooth Soldiers," Atram began recklessly targeting children. When there were not enough of them, he occasionally started abducting vagrants and streetwalkers as well.
As everyone knew, someone displaying such classic villain behavior as Atram generally did not live long in a hot-blooded series.
Sure enough, he was soon targeted by a righteous team of two men and two women.
Of those two men and two women, one man and one woman were Heroic Spirits, while the other man and woman still looked like students. They were a sharp-tongued young lady from a prestigious family that had gone bankrupt, and a hot-blooded boy whose magecraft was mediocre but who had always wanted to become a Partner of Justice.
A few days earlier, Shirou Emiya had helped a classmate and, while alone at school, witnessed a battle between Heroic Spirits.
Just as Lancer Cú Chulainn was about to silence him, he somehow summoned the Heroic Spirit Saber.
When the female knight appeared before him—with her cowlick, golden hair shining as brilliantly as sunlight, and gallant bearing—and asked whether he was her Master, Shirou Emiya was completely dumbfounded.
When his classmate Rin Tohsaka arrived afterward and saw Saber and the bewildered Shirou Emiya, she thought of how weak the Archer she had summoned was. Her chances of winning the Holy Grail War were practically nonexistent.
Saber, on the other hand, belonged to the strongest class, with the most balanced abilities of all the classes. And her Master was a clueless rookie, so Rin Tohsaka proposed an alliance.
The other party had saved his life, and he himself knew nothing about the so-called Holy Grail War. Naturally, Shirou Emiya did