[The video starts, showing a previously seen clip.]
[It's the se where La pilots a fighter jet to save Mash.]
[The video is very brief, pying for only a few seds before stopping.]
[Question: What is the retionship between La and Mash?]
Kayh: "This question is pletely unfamiliar to me."
Waver: "Is there some unique e between them?"
Tohsaka Tokiomi: "Could it be a Master and Servaionship? But that doesn't quite fit... isn't Mash a Demi-Servant?"
"Chihiro, who exactly is this Mash?"
Zhang Jiao and the other heroic spirits turo Chihiro, seeking crification.
Sihey had joihe group chat ter, they were unfamiliar with Mash.
Chihiro expined Mash's identity and her role as a Demi-Servant.
Zhang Jiao: "A Demi-Servant? That sounds somewhat simir to your css card."
Chihiro: "The css card is just something the system assigned me. There's nothing like that in this world."
Sigurd: "But still, other than Master and Servant, I 't think of what else might link them."
Chihiro: "Don't just foash; remember that the Demi-Servant actually carries the spiritual foundation of a particur Heroic Spirit."
Zhang Jiao: "You're saying that Mash's e with La might be lio the Heroic Spirit she embodies?"
Artoria: "They're father and daughter."
[Ding! Incorreswer. 1 Saint Quartz has beeed.]
Artoria: "What? But…"
This didn't make seo her. Mash's shield was unmistakably Gahad's. Given that, the retionship between her and La should be one of father and daughter.
Iskandar: "Saber, how did you arrive at that clusion?"
Waver: "They're not even from the same era, so how could they be reted as father and daughter?"
Artoria: "Because Mash's shield is Gahad's, La's son."
With the answer marked incorreyway, she felt o hold back her reasoning.
Kayh: "I uand. That certainly expins why you guessed that."
Waver: "But clearly, it's the wrong answer."
The Sed: "Then… could it be a father and soionship?"
Iskandar: "That's possible too."
Iskandar: "Waver, go on. Give it a try."
Waver: "Alright then, I'll answer."
Waver: "Father and son."
[Ding! Incorreswer. 1 Saint Quartz has beeed.]
Waver: "…"
Iskandar: "Well, it appears that wasn't correct either."
Tohsaka Rin: "What about the idea that they're Master and Servant?"
[Ding! Incorreswer. 1 Saint Quartz has beeed.]
Tohsaka Rin: "(┬┬﹏┬┬)"
Kayh: "I see now. The question might have been crafted to mislead us. Perhaps the answer is that they're pletely ued."
[Ding! Incorreswer. 1 Saint Quartz has beeed.]
Kayh: "Wait, that's wrong too?"
Everyone was stumped at this point.
Chihiro: "I think Iskandar was on the right track, but the phrasing was off."
Artoria: "The phrasing?"
Chihiro: "Yes. La and Mash aren't reted by blood, but spiritually, they share a bond akin to father and daughter."
[Ding! gratutions to Chihiro for answering the question correctly. Reward: 5 Saint Quartz.]
Everyone: "!!!"
Waver: "That's… that's so specific!"
El-Melloi II: "We were all too caught up in their familial ties and overlooked Mash's uatus as a Demi-Servant."
Kayh: "We all got sidetracked by Saber's initial assumption."
Irisviel: "It's hardly Saber's fault."
Artoria: "It's alright, Irisviel."
[In this quiz round, Chihiro holds the highest score, followed by Tohsaka Tokiomi, with Gilgamesh, Hassan of the Hundred Faces, Kotomine Kirei, Matou Kariya, Zhang Jiao, Red Hare, the First Emperor, and Sigurd tying for third pce. They each receive one gold, silver, and broreasure chest respectively.]
[The question session ends for today and will resume tomorrow.]
After the quiz ereasure chests appeared in the hands of each partit who had ranked.
Among them, Matou Kariya was visibly the most excited.
This was the first treasure chest he had earned.
It had taken five days and five attempts to make it onto the leaderboard even once, which had been no small feat for him.
Uo tain his excitement, Matou Kariya opehe bronze chest immediately, and a card fell into his hands.
The card depicted La and Mash holding hands.
"Magic Garment: Linked Hands?"
Kariya looked utterly puzzled.
The garment's effect wasn't detailed. It only indicated that it was a single-use item, usable only when La and Mash were together, and effective solely for them.
An exclusive, one-off garment, essentially.
Matou Kariya sighed and hahe card over to La, as it was of no use to him.
"…"
La looked at the card in silence for a moment, then tucked it into his armor.
Elsewhere, at the Tohsaka household.
"Tokiomi, what did you get?"
Gilgamesh g the card in Tokiomi's hand.
"Just a simple enha garment, Your Majesty," Tohsaka Tokiomi said without revealing much, pg the card away.
Gilgamesh only gave a dismissive smirk at Tohsaka Tokiomi's dispy.
Their retionship had grown noticeably strained.
Ign Tokiomi, Gilgamesh turned his attention to a gleaming handheld devi his hands.
This was the item he had drawn from his own broreasure chest—a magical "game sole" gift set.
It tained every video game produced to date, with an ability to automatically update with new releases.
As long as the gift card remained intact, the sole was iructible.
It even allowed the user to ge the sole's color as desired.
Surprisingly, Gilgamesh seemed thhly eained by this device.
"Chocote?"
Meanwhile, Kotomine Kirei was staring bnkly at the bag of chocotes that Hassan of the Hundred Faces had handed him.
Hassan the Hundred Faces was holding a unique bag of chocotes, each with a "Hundred Faces" design printed on the er.
This was the reward from the bronze chest he had opened—"Hundred Chocote Pack," a Valentine's Day-exclusive.
It was simply a bag of chocotes without any special effects, though they presumably tasted quite good.
The pack would refresh daily, ensuring an endless supply.
It was hard to say if Hassan's luck was good or bad.
"Kirei, what did you receive?"
Kotomine Kirei haokiomi a blue vial of potion.
It was a high-grade magic restoration potion that could instantly replenish a person's mana.
Of course, it was effective only for living beings and not for Heroic Spirits.
Tohsaka Tokiomi didn't seem disappointed. For a bronze chest, getting a high-grade potion was already quite a good oute.
Especially in parison to Hassan's "chocotes."
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Chihiro looked at the item he'd received from his golden treasure chest, baffled.
The Noble Phantasm: "Twed Formation." (T/N: Friends are ammo hehehe)
Oh, you've got to be kiddihis system wanted him to use his allies as projectiles?
This k anti-army on was the Noble Phantasm of Gong.
Its effect was to turn one's own allies into an arrow and unch them, causing widespread destru.
Was this some kind of twisted reward for having multiple Servants?
Zhang Jiao and the other three Servants exged bewildered gnces as they processed the purpose of this Noble Phantasm.
Gong's iion was truly something else.
Chihiro sighed, pg the Noble Phantasm card away.
While he'd had no qualms using it in the game, this was reality.
He wasn't callous enough to use his allies in such a manner.
For now, he resolved to seal it away and hoped he'd never .
"Are you prepared, Chihiro?" Zhang Jiao asked after they had rested for a while.
Chihiro smiled, "Of course. Do you think I'd back out now?"
"This operation will be extremely dangerous," Zhang Jiao said seriously. "It may be wiser for you to stay hidden."
"Haha, I'm not the type to sit on the sidelines."
Chihiro cpped Zhang Jiao's shoulder, grinning. "Besides, I've got you and everyone else here. I'm not worried."
Zhang Jue sighed. "You really are stubborn about this."
"Don't worry, I'll look after myself," Chihiro assured. "Besides, I'm hardly the main attacker here. With you all around, I feel safe."
Sigurd stepped forward, saying, "Rest assured, Master. With us by your side, we won't let any harm e to you."
"I'll fight with all I've got as well." Red Hare added.
"Alright then. I'll be ting on you all tonight."
The fourth night of the Holy Grail War roag. By this point, the war had already reached its halfway mark.
In this battle for the Holy Grail, it was time for someoo be eliminated.
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