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["Remember to this up."]
After a while, the middle-aged man cpped his hands a, leaving behind Chihiro, who was bruised and battered.
The video ehere.
Seeing Chihiro gettien like a practice dummy in the video left everyoh a refreshed perspective on what stituted magecraft training.
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[Chihiro: "System, what is this nonsense? How you fabricate something like that and tarnish my reputation?"]
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[This video serves to firm the host's identity. After all, everyone in the group is ected to the Fourth Holy Grail War in some way, except for the host. This could easily raise suspis.]
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"Well, that makes sense."
The system had a point, and he had overlooked this aspect. After all, the people in this group were quite sharp. If there was a silier, it wouldn't take long for them to notice.
At that moment, everyone else in the group seemed to e to their senses.
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Waver: "Chihiro, does your teacher usually treat you like this?"
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Chihiro: "Not a teacher—he's my master."
Chihiro: "There's a signifit differeween a teacher and a master. When you bee someone's disciple, it's a deeper bond. 'Once a master, always a father,' as they say."
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Tohsaka Rin: "Even if that's true, isn't that a bit excessive?"
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Chihiro: "It might lh, but it's not as bad as it seems."
He spoke from experience. Although the video had been exaggerated, the i itself had genuinely happened. Chihiro had once fallen asleep during his master's training session, and just like in the video, he ended up getting "disciplined" with a series of Aikido teiques.
Bruised though he had been, the injuries were superficial and didn't impede his training. His master's strikes were alrecisely trolled.
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Waver: "Well, that still looks painful!"
The bruises on Chihiro's face didn't look like mere scratches; it seemed hard to believe that such rough treatment would be "fine."
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Artoria: "It's alright. The gentleman demonstrated remarkable trol over his strength. The injuries appeared severe, but they were only on the surface."
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Diarmuid: "Ihe man must be a master of martial arts."
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Waver: "Anyway, there's a bigger issue here."
Two sets of images appeared on the s. One row featured the Masters: Emiya Kiritsugu, Tohsaka Tokiomi, Waver Velvet, Keh, Matou Kariya, Kotomine Kirei, Uryuu Ryuunosuke, and Chihiro. The other row showed the Heroic Spirits introduced in the earlier video.
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[You have five mio match the Masters with their respective Servants. Answer quickly.]
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The group members immediately began their analysis. The fact that there were eight Masters but only seven Heroic Spirits suggested that one of the Masters did not summon a Servant, serving as a red herring.
Two pairings were obvious: Waver and Iskandar, and Uryuu Ryuunosuke with Bluebeard. Keh had already revealed that Waver had stolen Iskandar's relid Ryuunosuke's e with Bluebeard was made clear from the video.
That left five other Masters whose es o be determined.
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"This one…"
Emiya Kiritsugu's gaze lingered on Kotomine Kirei. Although he didn't know Kirei personally, he had a gut feeling that the man was dangerous.
In the video, Kirei was shown as a mere observer beside Tohsaka Tokiomi, which could be a red herring. However, another possibility occurred to him.
The st se showed Chihiro standing before a summoning circle without a Servant appearing. If the system hadn't iionally misled them, then Chihiro was likely the extraneous option.
But what if that se was deliberately misleading?
Others had simir thoughts as well. Tohsaka Tokiomi and Kotomine Kirei, in particur, had their suspis.
Tokiomi silently cursed his luck. He had pnned for Kirei's Servant to operate i ohe Holy Grail War enced, but non was useless. Kirei would be exposed sooner or ter, especially if ahered to iigate and discovered that he was Tokiomi's apprentice.
Still, Tokiomi saw a slight advantage here. Besides the known pairs of Waver-Iskandar and Uryuu-Bluebeard, both he and Kirei had already determihe identities of their intended Servants.
The Servant listed as "Troupe of Acrobats" was undoubtedly Kirei's, specifically the Assassin, Hassan-i-Sabbah. The exact identity of this Hassan, however, was ierminate, as there were multiple versions throughout history.
This left four choices for the group to analyze: Artoria (King Arthur), Diarmuid, and the Knight of the Lake.
Keh, being the head of a distinguished magecraft family at the Clock Tower, could pusibly summon King Arthur, as relics associated with the legendary figure weren't difficult to acquire in London.
The remaining two knights posed a greater challenge. Diarmuid, a figure from Irish mythology, was clearly a knight. But the other armored figure, whose identity was cealed, was impossible to deduce without further clues.
Tokiomi made a mental o py the odds and guess betweewo.
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Chihiro chuckled to himself. "The system really knows how to keep things iing."
Including him as an option was bound to mislead the others. Without a straightforward seven-on-seven match, the ces of accurately dedug each Master-Servant pair were siderably lower.
Moreover, the system's choiit Kotomine Kirei's summoning se was no ce. It was bait to lure people into doubting whether Chihiro or Kirei was the true "misleading" choice.
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King of querors: "Little Master, what are your thoughts on the es?"
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Waver: "Hey, hey, how you discuss something like this in the group?"
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King of querors: "Hahaha, it seems you're irely hopeless, after all."
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Waver: "…"
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[Time's up. The quiz is now over.]
The s immediately froze, being unrespoo any further attempts to i with it.
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[Now, let's begin announg the answers.]
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[Bluebeard did not submit an answer.]
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"What?!"
Everyone nearly spat out their drinks.
At the very least, he could have matched the two obvious answers he had provided. What was the point of not answering at all?
Chihiro chuckled to himself. Bluebeard's thought process truly was different from that of ordinary people.
