Chapter 19: ·Two Big Traps

(Knight of the Lake)

【Accompanied by flashing lightning, the scene moved to under the bridge.】

【Iskandar was seen driving his Gordius Wheel, sprinting across the water, and he seemed to have seen something worth getting excited about, revealing a brilliant smile.】

【The perspective shifted; in front of Iskandar's Gordius Wheel, a pitch-black freak was crawling.】

【The other party looked at Iskandar and also revealed a mouth full of gold teeth.】

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

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

Tohsaka Tokiomi: "..."

He couldn't refute it; after all, the black man in the video didn't look like a normal person no matter how you looked at him.

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

Conqueror: "Hahaha, so it was him."

Iskandar had already recognized the identity of this black man, but he was somewhat puzzled as to why he would appear in this Holy Grail War, as he was completely absent from the seven Servants.

【The scene shifted again to the other side of the bridge, where Irisviel and Artoria were watching the battle taking place there.】

【Just then, a man wearing a red cloak and wrapped in bandages jumped out of the woods behind them and stabbed at the Lady with a knife.】

【The video ended here.】

"Who is it!"

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

Using a dagger, plus a sneak attack and assassination—that person should be an Assassin.

However, why did he feel so familiar?

【Please ask, how many Masters and how many Servants appeared in the video in total?】

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

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

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

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

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

【Time is up, answering has ended.】

【Now beginning to announce the answers.】

Subsequently, the characters who had 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, are: Waver Velvet, Master; El-Melloi II (Zhuge Liang), Pseudo-Servant; Kayneth El-Melloi Archibald, Master.】

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

You have to know that he is the current head of the El-Melloi family; how did an El-Melloi II suddenly pop up?

And what the hell is that Zhuge Liang and Pseudo-Servant behind the other party?

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

It wasn't just Kayneth; the other group members were also confused by this El-Melloi II.

【The three people who appeared in the second scene are: Mash Kyrielight, Demi-Servant; Knight of the Lake, 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 a Demi-Servant come out?

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

No, it was absolutely impossible for her to misidentify that shield in Mash's hand.

【The two people who appeared in the third scene are: Iskandar, Servant; Darius III, Servant.】

Conqueror: "Hahaha, it really was that guy."

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

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

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

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

Extra 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 are: Irisviel von Einzbern, Master; Artoria Pendragon, Servant; Emiya (Assassin), Servant.】

"Emiya (Assassin)!"

Emiya Kiritsugu's brain jolted violently.

He had just felt that red figure was very familiar, and now he finally thought of it.

Isn't that himself?

Although that person had his face wrapped in bandages, he wouldn't misidentify that figure and technique.

But why would he want to kill Irisviel?

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

Did he 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 "himself" in the video wasn't acting; he really wanted to put Irisviel to death.

Wait, he seemed to have 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 be wrong about this.

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, wasn't this self-contradictory?

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

【There were 4 Masters and 8 Servants in the video for this question.】

Waver: "Four Masters?"

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

【El-Melloi II is both a Master and a Servant.】

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

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

【The so-called Pseudo-Servant is a Heroic Spirit using a human body as a container, possessing it to act, and the possessed person will also gain the power of the Heroic Spirit.】

【Pseudo-Servants are generally dominated by the consciousness of the Heroic Spirit, and the possessed human is generally in a sleeping state, but El-Melloi II is relatively special; it is dominated by the consciousness of El-Melloi II as a human, and Zhuge Liang as a Heroic Spirit enters a sleeping state on his own after leaving his Spirit Origin.】

【Therefore, El-Melloi II is both a Master and a Servant.】

Everyone was shocked after hearing the system's narration.

Waver: "Can it still be like this!"

Tohsaka Tokiomi: "A human gaining the power of a Heroic Spirit—is that really possible?" ===== CHAPTER 21 =====