After all that has happened, the Servants just sat by the table, while staring at the meal that both Liam and Arthur prepared. "What are you all doing?" Liam asked with a smile. "Eat up." He cleaned his hands up with the towel.
"What about you?" Scáthach asked, Liam shrugged.
"I can fend for myself, all I need to know is that everyone's well." Liam gave out a wide smile.
"W-Well...itadakimasu." Jeanne said first handedly before she dug in. The others followed suit, giving Liam gave up a satisfied and content smile before he got to his couch and laid down. His stomach began to growl, Liam merely tapped it a few times before he stared at the ceiling.
The living room does need some work to clean it up after all…
'Tomorrow…' His mind was set in a stalemate against the word. He yawned before he pat his stomach.
"Liam." The Lady of the Shadows came into the living room before settling by the couch. "You need to eat." She handed him a plate of rice with curry.
"You know that you should-"
"Liam, as your partner, I want you to eat the curry." Scáthach gave him a stern look, in which Liam flinched upon seeing.
"...W-Well, I guess I could…" Liam took the plate before he ate it. "...I never knew my cooking this time is so different than any other time…"
"It's because I cooked it." Scáthach gave out an embarrassed look.
"You...cooked this?" Liam blinked. "I...never knew you were a great cook."
"I learnt it from Arthur." The Lancer admitted. "I...just hoped you liked it." Liam admonished her with a smile before he shook his head in amusement.
"You don't need to hope. It's great that I could taste your cooking once in a while, I could learn from a few individuals..." Liam gave out a wide smile at the wine-haired beauty, who reddened in embarrassment, but smiled nonetheless.
"Thank you." The woman smiled.
"I should be thanking you...for all you've done for me…" Liam then took another spoon.
"Can…" Liam blinked as Scáthach begins to move uncomfortably. "I feed you?"
Liam blinked before he reddened from the heat. "Well, I-I don't know. I wanna say yes, but it doesn't feel-Umph!?" Scáthach took a spooning and fed the man when he was talking.
"Hush, Liam. It's best you try learning about having relationships." The woman merely gave out a smile. Liam slowly nodded before he shook his head to get rid of some thoughts.
"...Y-Yeah, I...guess so…" Liam had a deflated look as if he remembered something important, which he did. "...I miss her…" He muttered silently.
"Did you say something, Liam?" Scáthach gave out a concerned look, Liam waved it off with a reassuring smile.
"No, just something that popped up in my mind, nothing to worry about, Scáthach-san. You should get some rest, tomorrow's another big day. Just...be careful…" Scáthach seemed to realize something was wrong with her Master, a depressed look on his face wasn't...that common, nor was it rare. It was...never, she never saw him frown or have a depressed look on his face from now and then.
"...I understand, Liam...good night." Liam smiled as his Lancer Servant, who merely got up and got his plate on her hands before putting it into the dishwasher by the kitchen, Liam smiled at his Servant before he shut his eyes closed on the couch.
Dreamscape
Liam opened his eyes, but widened them as he didn't find himself in the dreadful lucid dream realm, that he always woke up in and mourned all his choices in his own life in. It was drastically different, it was not even the same place.
He found himself by a similar room, a room walled with steel, reinforcement marks all over the walls. He remembered this place...he remembered it well, it was his so-called home, a prison cell. He did the same thing in how he escaped. He turned his electrical sensory system, the room was tight, a good use of a thick steel manual vertical lift-up door. But...he felt that his movements...were forced…
This was more of a memory of his...former self...probably...
He used his infrared vision, apparently...Black Mamba genomes have them, multiple heat signatures popped up, men guarding the door, probably some high-ranking guards. He reinforced his hand, he overcharged it with prana. The Mana in the locked room and his Od began to mix into prana as his circuits began to glow excessively. Electricity pumped through his veins before it caused some electronics to short circuit with the genome of an Electric Eel, but in this place...nothing to short circuit, it was used to electrocute people, not to deactivate utilities, he only found that out after a few years of freedom and his own mission to save people.
He threw a punch on the door. The door in return cracked, a loud thump sounding out. Wasting no time, he balled both his fists together and reinforced them, his enhanced strength and enhanced durability to withstand hits were used to make sure that the strength would broke the door open and the durability of his hands would hold their shape and not break the bones, after all, it was a steel door with reinforcements placed on it, and he doubt it would be a fifty millimeter pure steel door.
His fists came down before they broke the door open from its former position, Liam readied his leg and reinforced it before in a swift motion, broke the door off and sent it off flying. The two guards didn't panic from the display of power, indeed he was treated as a prisoner, they were both fairly trained…
But they weren't prepared for the man, who has killed a lot of people. He knew this wasn't his usual self, it was...probably his Prototype Self, his Alter self...not possible in any way. He was forced to smirk at the two guards before he raised both hands and fired. Gandr, empowered by a lot more force. It would be a Finn Shot, but...he remade it into what he calls...an Aegis Shot. Far more dreadful and far more powerful than the Finn Shot.
The Aegis Shot pierced through both guards' heart and their reaction time wasn't that impressive whatnot. But Liam knew what this memory was...this is when he broke out to free him and his pseudo-sister that he fought for, for years and years. Both were cursed with the genomes to never age, so it was more of a torment…
He looked at both guards, his Aegis Shot merely passed through the mortal body and broke the insides, while leaving no wounds whatsoever. It was perfected to make it seem like it was an organ failure instead of an assassination, the perfect scheme to make an assassination.
He took the clothes of one guard. "Let's...get this over with." He placed on the guard's robes before he re-styled his hair, his left eye's scar began to rewound itself to make a temporary fix, it was unfixable, but with a temporary fixture, he would be able to make it through. His eyes began to glow before turning brown and his hair turned a bit of a greyish brown. Truly...using a chameleon's and a cuttlefish's genome to be able to change appearances, even if it was supposed to be used only on skins, it was useful that the mages reused it for his eyes and hair, maybe his skin? But no, he'd rather have this skin color, just for the sake of it... 'No racism.' He thought. 'But sometimes, being white has its privileges...it was disgusting, he had to admit that. Skin color being used as some sort of creditability.
He walked out of the room before he looked out into the halls. Finding no one in the vicinity, he began to cruise through the halls, lit up by torches. He can't remember what day it was. How long he has been there...how long his own sister has been here. How many people he has killed.
"...Leah...I'm coming." He turned off his camouflage as it no longer would be useful in this situation. His infrared eyes began to search for the girl. He looked around as he ran through the halls. He remembered his time when he was sacked, his electrical sensory system had traced the whole blueprint of this place in his brain, his infrared vision has helped seen her heat signature, her aura was like none other, but it was hard when everything here is...proofed from sensing aura. He'll have to make do with his electrical memory blueprint and his heat sensory systems. His sensing systems were already put to high response to make sure he didn't miss anything.