[The correswer to this question is C.]

  [gratutions to Waver, Chihiro, Emiya Kiritsugu, Tohsaka Tokiomi, Tohsaka Rin, Tohsaka Sakura, El-Melloi II, Achilles, Ishtar, So-ui, Fiore, and Chiron for obtaining 3 Saint Quartz and advang to the round.]

  [roup members will lose 1 Saint Quartz if they answered incorrectly.]

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  Darnic: "So I guessed wrong. I didn't expect this oute."

  Sisigou: "Is this what Servant battles are like?"

  Leaticia: "Kotomine Shirou, why did you attack us? you expin yourself?"

  Kotomine Shirou: "My apologies, everyone has their ows, and I have my reasons."

  Darnic: "Ruler, it seems this man intends to act against the rules. If necessary, we are willing to assist you in eliminating him."

  Jeanne: "No, thank you. I ha myself."

  Darnic: "If you say so."

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  [Video tinues.]

  ["The fight betweewo was impressive."]

  [Seeing Karna leave, Jeanne could only praise Siegfried to cover her embarrassment.]

  [Siegfried, however, remained silent.]

  [Gordes quickly interjected: "Ruler, will you e to the castle of the Yggdmillennia ?"]

  [Jeanne replied firmly: "No, that would promise fairness."]

  [Gordes: "But our castle is the best ponitor the Holy Grail lease resider."]

  [Jeanne: "My perception ability allows me to observe the ey of Trifas. There's no need for that."]

  [Trifas is the administrative region trolled by the Yggdmillennia Romania. The city is simir to Sighi?oara, but without notable tourist attras. Few people outside of the association know of it.]

  [The Holy Grail War would unfold here.]

  ["I see."]

  [Realizing Jeanne wouldn't budge, Gordes suppressed his frustration, turned around, and anded Siegfried: "Let's go, Saber."]

  [Siegfried immediately shifted into spiritual form and vanished.]

  [On the highway, a car from the Yggdmillennia arrived to pick up Gordes. He entered aed.]

  ["Something seems strange about this Holy Grail War,"] Jeanne mused silently. ["But first, I o get to Trifas."]

  [She g the side of the road, notig her suitcase had beeroyed during the fight. Clothes were scattered across the ground, promptio let out a heavy sigh.]

  Leaticia: "My clothes!!!"

  These were all her belongings, and many of them were expensive.

  Jeanne: "Uh... sorry about that."

  Tohsaka Rin: "Jeanne seems rather unfeeling."

  Jeanne: "Rules bind me. I ot interfere in the Holy Grail War."

  Tohsaka Rin: "But aren't you already deeply involved by the time of the video?"

  Jeanne: "..."

  Indeed, ever sihe Red Team sent Karna to eliminate her, she was forced into the ter of this war.

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  [The se shifts to the basement of a castle.]

  [The area is lined with culture tanks, each taining male or female homunculi.]

  [Avicebron and Roche were iing the area. Their versation revealed these homunculi served as the Yggdmillennia 's primary souragical energy.]

  [The draihe homunculi's magic to power Avicebron's teology, produg a variety of golems in all shapes and sizes.]

  [Most of the golems resembled stone giants and came in three sizes: rge, medium, and small. Some were modeled after is like spiders and dragonflies.]

  [Those homunculi who perished from overuse were carelessly discarded by the Yggdmillennia , piled like trash before being processed.]

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  Irisviel: "Darnic, you…!"

  This homunculus teology was clearly adapted from Einzbern research.

  These beings were Irisviel's kin, and seeing Darnic waste their lives enraged her.

  Darnic: "Oh to success, sacrifices must be made."

  Darnic: "These homunculi ck true sciousness. They are tools by design. Their magic is their only value."

  Irisviel: "You monster!"

  Illya: "This uncle is a bad guy!"

  Emiya Kiritsugu: "...Hmph!"

  Though his anger simmered, Kiritsugu knew he could do nothing to front Darnic, separated as they were across worlds.

  Kayh: "To think you devised a way to turn homunculi into magical batteries. How innovative."

  Darnic: "The Mage Association is overly cautious."

  Waver: "Your as are dangerous. This sets a pret that others—evil magis, for instance—might exploit. What happens if they capture living mages to use as batteries instead?"

  Darnic: "That's not my ."

  Darnic: "You wouldn't bme the ior of a knife if someone used it to kill, would you?"

  Waver: "You...!"

  Kayh: "As expected of someone who mastered manipution, his arguments are as sharp as his ambitions."

  Darnic: "I'll take that as a pliment."

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  [After Avicebron and Roche left, a homunculus within one of the tanks, a figure meant to remain unscious suddenly opened his eyes.]

  [Seeing the world for the first time, he was overwhelmed with fear.]

  [The sight of his fellow homunculi dying, discarded as garbage by the magis w nearby, only deepened his terror.]

  ["Escape…"]

  [His magic circuits activated instinctively, shattering the gss of his culture tank. He stumbled free and began asding the nearby stairs.]

  [Video paused.]

  [Question: What will happen to this homunculus iure?]

  [A: He is captured by the Yggdmillennia d executed for being untrolble.]

  [B: He is captured by the Yggdmillennia but kept by Avicebron as experimental material due to his self-awareness.]

  [C: He meets a kied Bck Master who rescues and hides him.]

  [D: He meets a kied Bck Servant who rescues and hides him.]

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  Darnic: "A homunculus born with self-awareness?!"

  Darnic: "Caster, you determine whiunculus this is?"

  Avicebron: "The video moved too quickly for me to tell, but it seems he exit. We iigate ter."

  He was intrigued. Could this homunculus be the core he'd been searg for?

  Waver: "A homunculus with self-awareness... could it be…"

  Irisviel: "It's very simir to me."

  Illya: "I wish I could help him…"

  Tohsaka Rin: "Doesn't this homunculus look familiar?"

  Waver: "Now that you mention it…"

  Kayh: "Idiots. Look at yesterday's answer."

  Tohsaka Rin: "Ah! This looks like Sieg, the heroic spirit from yesterday's Q&A!"

  Sisigou: "Now that you say it, there's a resembnce."

  Tohsaka Tokiomi: "It must be a ce."

  Gordes: "A ce. How could a mere homunculus asd to bee a heroic spirit?"

  Illya: "Fatty, are you discriminating against homunculi?"

  Gordes: "F-Fatty!?"

  Illya: "If you eat too much, aren't you basically a pig?"

  Gordes: "…(╯‵□′)╯︵┴─┴"

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  [Ding! The time for answering questions is over.]

  [Video tinues.]

  [Sieg dragged his exhausted body through a long corridor before colpsing at a er.]

  ["Really, what does Master think of me…?"]

  [Meanwhile, Astolfo, adjusting his outfit, walked through the area, grumbling about his Master.]

  [Theiced the colpsed homunculus.]

  ["Hey! What's wrong with you?"]

  [Astolfo hurriedly approached, lifting the homunculus off the ground.]

  ["Save me…"]

  [The homunculus whispered before falling unscious.]

  ["Don't worry, I've got this."]

  [With a cheerful expression, Astolfo hoisted the homunculus onto his bad started walking toward his room.]

  ["But where I hide him…?"]

  ["My room? No, no, Master will definitely find him."]

  [Two magus ehe hallway, bowing respectfully. "Sir Rider, Sir Caster is trag a missing homunculus. Have you seen—"]

  ["A homunculus?"]

  [Astolfo stood up straight and replied, "Nope, haven't seen one."]