Two Problematic Pairs

At two in the morning, inside the Magecraft Workshop in the basement of the Tohsaka family's ancestral home.

Rin had finished all her preparations. Standing before the summoning circle once used by her father, she held a snake skin and a gemstone, took a deep breath, and began chanting softly.

"Let silver and iron be the foundation!

Let stone and the Archduke of Contracts be the foundation!

Let my master Shibaingu be the ancestor!

Let the four cardinal gates be shut!

Come forth from the crown, and cycle through the forked path leading to the kingdom!

Fill, fill, fill, fill, fill!

Repeat five times.

Yet when each is filled, let it be discarded.

I declare!

Let your body heed my command!

Let my fate reside within your sword!

If you heed the Holy Grail's summons, if you submit to this will and this reason, then answer!

I hereby swear!

I shall be one who accomplishes all the good deeds in this world. I shall be one who eradicates all the evil deeds in this world..."

Accompanied by the Tohsaka family's unique incantation, the light of the magic circle grew brighter and brighter.

The instant the ritual was completed, a blinding golden light illuminated the entire basement.

When the radiance faded, the figure of King of Heroes Gilgamesh appeared once more in the somewhat aged basement.

However, he no longer remembered anything that had happened in the previous Holy Grail War. He merely looked around with intense curiosity before finally asking the girl before him after a full minute, "Are you the Master who summoned me?"

"That's right! I am!" Rin hurriedly nodded hard.

Although a full ten years had passed since the last Holy Grail War, she vaguely remembered that the Heroic Spirit before her had been the Servant by