[She decides at that point that if he gives another vague answer, then she will punch the truth out of him. Both of them are humans at this point, and as far as she can see, she would have the advantage in a fight.]
My world is far from ideal.
[In her world, she had not been a mage who had spent her life preparing for the Grail War that she might never participate in just so she could summon her childhood her. She had not been the lonely, reserved young woman who finally let her soft side show around her Servant. Instead, without even that sliver of hope provided to her, the only thing she focused on was fighting.]
[So she mastered Fragarach, she trained her physical and magical skills to the point that she could be called one of the top Enforcers, and she buried her soft side deep within herself and became such a grim and implacable warrior that her superior had even joked about her being his Berserker Class Heroic Spirit.]
[But from what Lancer had told her about the War, she could see how one of the participants could see her world as the ideal one.]
For example, in my world, there exist certain things called Class Cards, which can call up twisted copies of past heroes. I was sent to apprehend those cards, which is how I know you are Archer.
As for your world, I just want to know whether or not Kotomine Kirei was a Master during your version of the Grail War. I have heard at least one version of the Grail War where he killed one of the Masters he was supposed to protect and stole their Command Spells.
[How strange that the man who had been her superior in one world would be her murderer in another.]
Perhaps, but in comparison to mine, I would say it is. Any world where the Grail War does not exist is ideal. [ Because then, there would not be the fire. Because then, he would not have become what he is. Because then... maybe Kiritsugu would have died happier and lives happier. And so many people would have had their lives spared.
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... I see. In that case, in my world... you are Lancer's original Master. [ Though he does not hold the memory of the War in his timeline, he knows what happened in it, and knows for a fact that he did at some point find out that Lancer was Kotomine Kirei's Servant, but that he was not his real one. So it doesn't take too much effort for him to put two and two together. ] But yes, you are correct.
[She sighs. It seems that in all worlds that she is able to summon Lancer, Kotomine Kirei steals her Command Spells. Perhaps this is just the world's way of telling her that her infatuation with him is stupid.]
[This knowledge also makes her wary of the Kotomine back in her world. There was never chance nor reason for him to turn on her, but what if there was? As his subordinate, she was bound to be loyal to him and follow his orders without question, but as a person who knew about the alternate worlds, would she ever completely trust him again? What's more, was it really fair to doubt him based on actions of versions of him who, because of their different backgrounds, had essentially been different people?]
I suppose my world is the anomaly then. As you can tell, I never summoned Lancer or any other hero. Kotomine Kirei never murdered me or stole my command seals. Instead, he is my partner and superior. I owe him my loyalty both as a subordinate and as a person whose life he has saved more than once.
I hope this information will not affect our alliance. After all, the Kotomine Kirei I remember is different than the one in your world. Also, neither version is present in Mayfield right now.
Perhaps, you should consider yourself lucky, in some ways. Though I don't know if it could be considered lucky to owe loyalty to Kotomine. But at least you're alive and not involved in pointlessly risky things.
Heh, of course not. To let such a thing to affect our alliance would be stupid. So he's not present here at all? Well, that's a relief.
I suppose. As far as I know, Father Kotomine is a trustworthy partner and superior. I have yet to have any reason to question his orders. And my line of work regularly throws me into risky situations, so I never worry about something like that.
I am glad you, at least, can be reasonable about this. It seems that Father Kotomine's alternate versions delighted in making enemies of everyone he knew. It has been troublesome for me to become allies with people from one of these worlds in this town because of my connection with the Father Kotomine of my world.
It might be a relief to you, but I still wish that my version of Kotomine was here. He was always the one making the decisions--I just carried them out. It is troublesome for me to judge who to ally with and what choice to make without his guidance.
I don't think you would want to be part of the Grail War though, if you were really after the Grail. You'd be quite disappointed and probably regret getting involved a little. [ Not ominous at all... ]
Well, I can't stand that guy. He talks too much, he's more intolerable than Rin, and he has a terrible haircut. But you're obviously pretty smart, reasonable, and someone who is good to have as an ally and who's not good to make an enemy of. I don't care whether you're connected to him or not. It's stupid to make enemies unnecessarily in this place. Unlike the Grail War, where you could only afford to cooperate with clear advantages for your side and only a select number of people because everyone was your enemy, we all have a common goal here for the most part.
Hm. It seems your version of him was far more trustworthy.
Perhaps, but then again, I do not think I would be seeking the Grail, at least, not for myself. The Grail War seems no more and no less troublesome than the Class Cards of my universe. At least in your world, you Heroic Spirits actually have minds of your own. In my world, the copies called by the Cards are no more than killing machines.
[She hesitates and blushes a little. This is the first time he, or any one else in this town, for that matter, has so complimented her so openly. It feels especially embarrassing because he was being such a jerk but minutes ago.]
You are right, we all have a common goal here. I just wish other people were as reasonable as you. For all your confusing answers and less personable demeanor, you seem to be a rational person and I have no doubt that you would be a good partner to work with. In a way, you remind me of the Father Kotomine of my world.
Yes. As far as my mission goes, I know I can trust him. Even if I cannot, I would still do my best to follow his orders because he is my superior.
This deal with Class Cards sounds pretty interesting, I'd admit. Your world in general is very curious. But I agree, it sounds like these are both incredibly troublesome.
[ He chuckles a little at the blush, but it's a more good-natured and lighthearted sort of laugh. ] I don't know if I like knowing that I remind someone of Kotomine, but I think I'll take that as a compliment anyway, since I doubt that was meant as an insult.
I am not sure of the power levels of the Masters and Servants in your universe, but in my universe, the Class Cards were pretty easy to defeat after I detected their locations. I would have apprehended all seven if I had not been recalled.
[Well, the Archer Card had been easy, at least. Even without the emotional element, the Hero summoned had still be surprisingly weak. All it did was stand around and throw swords at her. In the end, it had been pretty fragile as well, crumbling like a sack of potatos after she made a hole in its stomach.]
[She almost pouts just a little bit when he laughs, but does her best to keep a straight face.]
Take it however you like. Like you, Father Kotomine is a reasonable person, but he tends to give vague answers and veiled insults. He's also twisted in certain aspects.
Well, that's one difference. The only thing that can defeat a Servant is another Servant, with perhaps very special exceptions.
[ His expression is amused. ] Yeah, that sounds about right. That describes me quite well. I've been called twisted before, though probably not in the same way as him. [ ...Not entirely, anyway. It took him a long time to realize that even as Shirou Emiya, they were surprisingly similar people, him and Kotomine-- and that's why he disliked him so much. Besides the obvious. People who could only gain happiness through others-- twisted indeed. ]
I guess circumstances are different in our worlds. Heroic Spirits either fight against Enforcers like me or Magical Girls.
[She is rather amused by all this too, even if her expression is more subtle than his.]
Well, it depends on how you've been described as twisted. As far as Father Kotomine goes, he finds cruel ironies amusing and has a tendency to make people uncomfortable. It is like he enjoys seeing people cringe...And he likes to pulls pranks sometimes...at least on me. Though I am sure he never means too badly.
[She will never look at mapo tofu the same way again. Not since he bought it as takeout on her first night in Fuyuki and then convinced her to eat it.]
I do wish he would stop calling me his Heroic Spirit. It is...distubring to hear him go "Go, Berserker!" before my battles.
I am not sure I would have called the "welcome" he gave to me when I first arrived in Fuyuki harmless...
[At least, it had not been on her Irish food adjusted taste buds!]
Yes, I did. Because of my combat capablities, I was sent to apprehend the Cards that were threatening Fuyuki. However a dispute between factions in the Association meant that I was to be replaced with two apprentice mages, Tohsaka Rin and Luviagelita Edelfelt. To compensate for their relative lack of power, they were granted contracts with two Kaleidosticks created by Zelretch--Ruby and Sapphire. As Magical Girls, they were granted near infinite prana supplies as well as the ability to use even complex spells with a simple thought by the kaleidosticks. Later, they took on three apprentices, one of whom was Ilyasviel Von Einzbern. The other two were a girl who was related to Edelfelt and another girl who resembled Einzbern in all aspects except for her darker skin. Eizbern and the younger Edelfelt were Magical Girls who had contracts with the kaleidosticks despite the pre-existing contracts with Tohsaka and Edelfelt. I am unsure how to classify the last girl because she was construct of magical energy bound to the Archer Card. She could use her body to channel the card's form and abilities, but was not technically a magical girl.
My world is far from ideal.
[In her world, she had not been a mage who had spent her life preparing for the Grail War that she might never participate in just so she could summon her childhood her. She had not been the lonely, reserved young woman who finally let her soft side show around her Servant. Instead, without even that sliver of hope provided to her, the only thing she focused on was fighting.]
[So she mastered Fragarach, she trained her physical and magical skills to the point that she could be called one of the top Enforcers, and she buried her soft side deep within herself and became such a grim and implacable warrior that her superior had even joked about her being his Berserker Class Heroic Spirit.]
[But from what Lancer had told her about the War, she could see how one of the participants could see her world as the ideal one.]
For example, in my world, there exist certain things called Class Cards, which can call up twisted copies of past heroes. I was sent to apprehend those cards, which is how I know you are Archer.
As for your world, I just want to know whether or not Kotomine Kirei was a Master during your version of the Grail War. I have heard at least one version of the Grail War where he killed one of the Masters he was supposed to protect and stole their Command Spells.
[How strange that the man who had been her superior in one world would be her murderer in another.]
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He listens carefully, and eyes for for a moment, his expression a thoughtful one ]
... I see. In that case, in my world... you are Lancer's original Master. [ Though he does not hold the memory of the War in his timeline, he knows what happened in it, and knows for a fact that he did at some point find out that Lancer was Kotomine Kirei's Servant, but that he was not his real one. So it doesn't take too much effort for him to put two and two together. ] But yes, you are correct.
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[She sighs. It seems that in all worlds that she is able to summon Lancer, Kotomine Kirei steals her Command Spells. Perhaps this is just the world's way of telling her that her infatuation with him is stupid.]
[This knowledge also makes her wary of the Kotomine back in her world. There was never chance nor reason for him to turn on her, but what if there was? As his subordinate, she was bound to be loyal to him and follow his orders without question, but as a person who knew about the alternate worlds, would she ever completely trust him again? What's more, was it really fair to doubt him based on actions of versions of him who, because of their different backgrounds, had essentially been different people?]
I suppose my world is the anomaly then. As you can tell, I never summoned Lancer or any other hero. Kotomine Kirei never murdered me or stole my command seals. Instead, he is my partner and superior. I owe him my loyalty both as a subordinate and as a person whose life he has saved more than once.
I hope this information will not affect our alliance. After all, the Kotomine Kirei I remember is different than the one in your world. Also, neither version is present in Mayfield right now.
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Heh, of course not. To let such a thing to affect our alliance would be stupid. So he's not present here at all? Well, that's a relief.
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I am glad you, at least, can be reasonable about this. It seems that Father Kotomine's alternate versions delighted in making enemies of everyone he knew. It has been troublesome for me to become allies with people from one of these worlds in this town because of my connection with the Father Kotomine of my world.
It might be a relief to you, but I still wish that my version of Kotomine was here. He was always the one making the decisions--I just carried them out. It is troublesome for me to judge who to ally with and what choice to make without his guidance.
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Well, I can't stand that guy. He talks too much, he's more intolerable than Rin, and he has a terrible haircut. But you're obviously pretty smart, reasonable, and someone who is good to have as an ally and who's not good to make an enemy of. I don't care whether you're connected to him or not. It's stupid to make enemies unnecessarily in this place. Unlike the Grail War, where you could only afford to cooperate with clear advantages for your side and only a select number of people because everyone was your enemy, we all have a common goal here for the most part.
Hm. It seems your version of him was far more trustworthy.
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[She hesitates and blushes a little. This is the first time he, or any one else in this town, for that matter, has so complimented her so openly. It feels especially embarrassing because he was being such a jerk but minutes ago.]
You are right, we all have a common goal here. I just wish other people were as reasonable as you. For all your confusing answers and less personable demeanor, you seem to be a rational person and I have no doubt that you would be a good partner to work with. In a way, you remind me of the Father Kotomine of my world.
Yes. As far as my mission goes, I know I can trust him. Even if I cannot, I would still do my best to follow his orders because he is my superior.
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[ He chuckles a little at the blush, but it's a more good-natured and lighthearted sort of laugh. ] I don't know if I like knowing that I remind someone of Kotomine, but I think I'll take that as a compliment anyway, since I doubt that was meant as an insult.
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I am not sure of the power levels of the Masters and Servants in your universe, but in my universe, the Class Cards were pretty easy to defeat after I detected their locations. I would have apprehended all seven if I had not been recalled.
[Well, the Archer Card had been easy, at least. Even without the emotional element, the Hero summoned had still be surprisingly weak. All it did was stand around and throw swords at her. In the end, it had been pretty fragile as well, crumbling like a sack of potatos after she made a hole in its stomach.]
[She almost pouts just a little bit when he laughs, but does her best to keep a straight face.]
Take it however you like. Like you, Father Kotomine is a reasonable person, but he tends to give vague answers and veiled insults. He's also twisted in certain aspects.
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[ His expression is amused. ] Yeah, that sounds about right. That describes me quite well. I've been called twisted before, though probably not in the same way as him. [ ...Not entirely, anyway. It took him a long time to realize that even as Shirou Emiya, they were surprisingly similar people, him and Kotomine-- and that's why he disliked him so much. Besides the obvious. People who could only gain happiness through others-- twisted indeed. ]
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[She is rather amused by all this too, even if her expression is more subtle than his.]
Well, it depends on how you've been described as twisted. As far as Father Kotomine goes, he finds cruel ironies amusing and has a tendency to make people uncomfortable. It is like he enjoys seeing people cringe...And he likes to pulls pranks sometimes...at least on me. Though I am sure he never means too badly.
[She will never look at mapo tofu the same way again. Not since he bought it as takeout on her first night in Fuyuki and then convinced her to eat it.]
I do wish he would stop calling me his Heroic Spirit. It is...distubring to hear him go "Go, Berserker!" before my battles.
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wait wait wait wait wait.
something doesn't sound right.
not right at all. ]
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Did you say Magical Girls?
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[At least, it had not been on her Irish food adjusted taste buds!]
Yes, I did. Because of my combat capablities, I was sent to apprehend the Cards that were threatening Fuyuki. However a dispute between factions in the Association meant that I was to be replaced with two apprentice mages, Tohsaka Rin and Luviagelita Edelfelt. To compensate for their relative lack of power, they were granted contracts with two Kaleidosticks created by Zelretch--Ruby and Sapphire. As Magical Girls, they were granted near infinite prana supplies as well as the ability to use even complex spells with a simple thought by the kaleidosticks. Later, they took on three apprentices, one of whom was Ilyasviel Von Einzbern. The other two were a girl who was related to Edelfelt and another girl who resembled Einzbern in all aspects except for her darker skin. Eizbern and the younger Edelfelt were Magical Girls who had contracts with the kaleidosticks despite the pre-existing contracts with Tohsaka and Edelfelt. I am unsure how to classify the last girl because she was construct of magical energy bound to the Archer Card. She could use her body to channel the card's form and abilities, but was not technically a magical girl.
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...I see. Right.
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