Chapter 10

(Lancelot)

[Accompanied by flashes of lightning, the scene shifts to under the bridge.]

[Iskandar is seen sprinting on the water's surface in his Chariot, and as if he has seen something worth getting excited about, he reveals a brilliant smile.]

[The perspective shifts; in front of Iskandar's Chariot, a pitch-black monster is crawling.]

[The other party looks at Iskandar and also reveals a mouth full of gold teeth.]

Waver: "What the, who is this pitch-black guy!"

Rin Tohsaka: "Father, this is definitely a Heroic Spirit, right?"

Tokiomi Tohsaka: "..."

He couldn't refute it; after all, the black man in the video didn't look like a normal person at all.

Kayneth: "Could it be a Heroic Spirit from Africa?"

Conqueror King: "Hahaha, so it's him."

Iskandar had already recognized the identity of this black man, but he was a bit puzzled as to how he appeared in this Holy Grail War, given that he was not among the seven riders at all.

[The scene shifts again to the other Reverse Reverse Reverse Reverse Side of the bridge, where Irisviel and Artoria are watching the battle taking place there.]

[Just then, a man wearing a red cloak and wrapped in bandages jumps out of the woods behind them and stabs at the lady with a knife.]

[The video ends here.]

"Who is it!"

Seeing someone actually trying to assassinate Irisviel, Emiya Kiritsugu immediately became vigilant.

Holding a dagger and using sneak attacks and assassinations, that person should be an Assassin.

However, why does he feel so familiar?

[May I ask, how many Masters and how many Servants appeared in the video in total?]

Waver: "Why is it this kind of analytical question again?"

Kayneth: "What are you whining about? Compared to the last question, this one is already much simpler."

Tokiomi Tohsaka: "Indeed, the Masters and Servants in the video are actually quite obvious."

"Simple? Heh..." Feng Xi almost laughed out loud.

This question has two big traps, guaranteed to make everyone in the group fall for them.

[Time is up, the quiz has ended.]

[Now beginning to announce the answers.]

Subsequently, the characters who appeared in the video began to emerge on the screen, along with introductions.

[The three people who appeared in the first scene, from left to right: Waver Velvet, Master; Lord El-Melloi II (Zhuge Zhuge Liang), Pseudo-Servant; Kayneth El-Melloi Archibald, Master.]

Kayneth: "Wait! Lord El-Melloi II? What the hell!"

You have to know that he is the current head of the El-Melloi family, so how did a Lord El-Melloi II suddenly pop up?

And what the hell is that Zhuge Zhuge Liang and Pseudo-Servant thing after his name?

Zhuge Zhuge Liang, isn't that the famous Prime Minister of the Shu Kingdom during the Three Kingdoms period?

Not just Kayneth, the other group members were also confused by this Lord El-Melloi II.

[The three people who appeared in the second scene: Mash Kyrielight, Demi-Servant; Lancelot, Servant; Gilgamesh, Servant.]

Waver: "Demi-Servant? How did a Demi-Servant suddenly pop up!"

They hadn't even figured out the Pseudo-Servant from just now, so how did another Demi-Servant come out?

Artoria: "Mash Kyrielight, did I guess wrong? No!"

No, she absolutely could not have misidentified the shield in Mash's hand.

[The two people who appeared in the third scene: Iskandar, Servant; Darius III, Servant.]

Conqueror King: "Hahaha, it really is that guy."

Waver: "Darius III, I remember he was..."

Conqueror King: "That's right, he was a formidable opponent on my path of conquest."

Tokiomi Tohsaka: "Darius III, the last king of the Persian Achaemenid Empire, but how did he get so black?"

Conqueror King: "I don't know about that either; he wasn't this black when I defeated him back then."

Feng Xi: "Could it be that he got tanned like this in the Throne of Heroes?"

Waver: "Do you think the Throne of Heroes is Hawaii?"

[The three people who appeared in the fourth scene: Irisviel von Einzbern, Master; Artoria Pendragon, Servant; Emiya (Assassin), Servant.]

"Emiya (Assassin)!"

Emiya Kiritsugu's brain jolted violently.

He had just felt that the red figure looked very familiar, and now he finally realized it.

Isn't that himself?

Although that person's face was wrapped in bandages, he wouldn't misidentify that figure and those techniques.

But why would he want to kill Irisviel?

Wait, no, that "himself" is a Heroic Spirit?

Have I actually become a Heroic Spirit!

But even if he became a Heroic Spirit, why would he want to kill Irisviel?

He could see that the "him" in the video wasn't acting; he was truly trying to put Irisviel to death.

Wait, it seems he ignored something again.

The Irisviel in the video is a Master!

That's impossible; although he had Irisviel pretend to be King Arthur's Master, the true Master of King Arthur was still him; the system shouldn't have gotten that wrong.

After all, the seven Masters of this Fourth Holy Grail War had already been announced in the previous question, and now that the Master had suddenly changed, isn't that self-contradictory?

Or could it be that the Servant Irisviel contracted is someone else?

[In this video, a total of 4 Masters and 8 Servants appeared.]

Waver: "Four Masters?"

Waver: "That's not right, wasn't it three?"

[Lord El-Melloi II is both a Master and a Servant.]

Kayneth: "What does this mean? Explain it clearly."

Kayneth: "And who exactly is this Lord El-Melloi II?"

[A so-called Pseudo-Servant is when a Heroic Spirit uses a human body as a vessel, possessing it to act, and the possessed person also gains the Heroic Spirit's power.]

[Pseudo-Servants are generally dominated by the consciousness of the Heroic Spirit, and the possessed human is usually in a sleeping state, but Lord El-Melloi II is special; it is dominated by the consciousness of Lord El-Melloi II as a human, and Zhuge Zhuge Liang, as the Heroic Spirit, entered a sleeping state on his own after leaving behind his Spirit Origin.]

[Therefore, Lord El-Melloi II is both a Master and a Servant.]

Everyone was shocked after hearing the system's narration.

Waver: "Can it really be like this!"

Tokiomi Tohsaka: "Can a human really gain the power of a Heroic Spirit?"