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"Your Majesty, the answer should be B."
Tohsaka Tokiomi spoke deferentially to Gilgamesh, subtly hinting at Kotomine Kirei and the others standing nearby as well.
"Tokiomi, are y to instruct me on what to do?"
Gilgamesh's gaze turned cold, his tone full of displeasure.
"Please five me, Your Majesty…"
Tohsaka Tokiomi quickly bowed his head.
"Hmph!"
The King of Heroes was clearly bored. Tokiomi's meek behavior did little to amuse him. He o find some eai on his own.
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"Irisviel, are you alright?"
On Irisviel's side, Artoria noticed the troubled expression on her fad asked with .
"Ah, it's nothing."
Irisviel forced a smile, trying to shake off her unease.
Though she wasn't certain about the ao this question, ohing was clear in her mind: Shirou Emiya couldn't be the child of her and Emiya Kiritsugu. She knew all too well that by the time this Holy Grail War ended, she might no longer be alive.
"Could Shirou really be Kiritsugu and Maiya's child?"
Looking at option B, Irisviel felt a strange mix of emotions—disfort, but also a hint of relief.
"Well, that wouldn't be so bad," she thought. "At least Kiritsugu would have someoo stay by his side after I'm gone. Shirou seems like a good child. He and Illya could get along."
Artoria remained silent for a moment before speaking again. "Irisviel, what should we choose?"
Irisviel snapped out of her thoughts and said, "Let's go with B and D, one each."
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[Time's up. The answers will now be announced.]
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[A s fills with fmes, and the camera zooms out to show the source: a city abze.]
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Waver: "This is Fuyuki City! What happened here?"
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The se of the burning city was all too familiar to the partits; it was indeed Fuyuki, the city where they currently resided.
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Keh: "Could this have been caused by a Servant?"
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Tohsaka Tokiomi: "What kind of recklessness led to such massive destru?"
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[The camera then shifts to a man wandering in the ruins—Emiya Kiritsugu.]
[He clutched Avalon in his hand, his eyes hollow, his movements meical.]
[Suddenly, he noticed something amidst the debris and frantically began digging.]
[After a moment, he uhed a red-haired boy from the rubble.]
[It was Shirou Emiya.]
[The child showed araordinary will to survive, which was likely why he had mao g to life.]
[Emiya Kiritsugu then pressed Avalon into the boy's body, using its healing power to save him.]
[As the boy's breathing steadied, Kiritsugu hugged him tightly and began to sob, his tears flowing freely.]
[The hardened "Magus Killer" was g like a heartbroken child.]
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"What is going on?"
Kiritsugu erplexed, struggling to piece together the events unfolding in the video.
"In the video, I'm still holding Avalon. That means it's after the Holy Grail War."
"And if I'm alive, does that mean I somehow won?"
"No, something's off. Why is Fuyuki City like that…"
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Tohsaka Tokiomi: "So, in the end, it was you who found Shirou, Emiya Kiritsugu."
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Keh: "I never would've imagined seeing you cry like that. It's a real eye-opener."
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Waver: "Professor, shouldn't we be more ed about Fuyuki's dition in the video?"
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Waver: "The scale of that fire doesn't look like something caused by an ordinary i."
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Keh: "You're right. This is a matter of grave ."
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The reminder shifted Keh's focus away from bantering with Waver. The severity of the situation in the video demanded his full attention. After all, the Holy Grail War was meant to be kept secret from the general publid rge-scale destru could lead to its exposure.
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Irisviel: "Kiritsugu, are you alright?"
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Irisviel's voice was ced with worry, but Emiya Kiritsugu didn't respond. His mind was too preoccupied with trying to uand what had transpired by the end of the Holy Grail War. He had no attention to spare.
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[The se shifts to show a grown-up Shirou Emiya.]
[He's standing outside an office door, with a young woman beside him. She has twin ponytails—it's the older Tohsaka Rin.]
[The way they held hands suggested a close retionship.]
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Tohsaka Tokiomi: "???!!!"
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Tohsaka Rin: "???!!!"
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Keh: "Well, it seems that your families have gotten quite close, Emiya Kiritsugu and Tohsaka Tokiomi."
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Chihiro: "gratutions."
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Tohsaka Rin: "gratutions?!"
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Tohsaka Tokiomi: "..."
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Tokiomi was caught off guard by the implications. The thought of his daughter being involved with the Emiya family left him with plicated feelings.
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["Knock, knock…"]
[Shirou Emiya rapped on the office door.]
["e in."]
[A deep voiswered from within.]
[As the two ehe camera pao reveal a middle-aged man with long hair, dressed in a red coat, seated at a desk.]
[It was Lord El-Melloi II.]
["You must be the udents joining the Modern Magecraft Theory department—Shirou Emiya and Tohsaka Rin, correct?"]
[A glimmer of nostalgia fshed in El-Melloi II's eyes as he stood to greet them.]
["Wele to the El-Melloi ."]
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[The correswer is D: Shirou Emiya is a student of Waver Velvet.]
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[gratutions to Waver, Chihiro, Artoria, the King of querors, and General Tiangong for obtaining 5 Saint Quartz.]
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[Bluebeard did not submit an answer.]
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[Everyone else who answered incorrectly will lose 1 Saint Quartz.]
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"Well done, you guessed it right again."
Zhang Jiao looked at Chihiro, a hint of surprise in his expression.
This young man was sharper than he'd expected, managing to awo difficult questions correctly in a row.
Chihiro grinned. "Didn't I tell you? When faced with tricky multiple-choice questions, it's ofteo go with the option that seems the least likely."
Zhang Jiao chuckled. "Yic is unorthodox, but it seems to work."
