"Is this how you do things, Black Berserker?" Shirou stepped out of Rokudou Reika's residence and happened to run into Jeanne, who had come to deal with Black Assassin.
"That's right. As you can see, this is how I do things," Shirou said calmly to Jeanne. "Although what Assassin did was wrong, I don't think she herself is wrong."
"Do you know what you're saying, Black Berserker?" Jeanne looked at Shirou with some hostility.
She could not agree with Shirou's words right now. If Shirou could not give her an answer that satisfied her, he would undoubtedly receive a serious lesson from this Saintess. As for the method of instruction... please refer to the tale of Saintess Martha subduing a dragon.
"Then do you know the truth about Jack the Ripper?" Shirou shot back, leaving Jeanne speechless for a moment.
"Looks like you don't," Shirou said flatly. The Holy Grail only granted Servants some modern common knowledge; even a Ruler would not be handed a whole setting collection on the spot.
Just as Jeanne was basically an academic failure right now, Jack the Ripper was famous throughout the world precisely because of her mystery. Thus, Jeanne did not know about something as unconventional as "Jack the Ripper's secret."
There had been tens of thousands of prostitutes in London in 1888. Abortion techniques at the time had been crude and underdeveloped, and children who could have been born normally were disposed of like garbage.
The infants' corpses were thrown into the rivers near the East End, and resentment continuously accumulated within those chaotic waters. The resentment of tens of thousands of babies who had been denied even the chance to be born gradually took the form of a young girl.
After coming into being, this collective of vengeful spirits did not