In Bucharest, inside a private residence.
A woman dressed like an aristocratic lady stood in the hall.
Her name was Rokudo Rinkai.
She was an ordinary person born in an island nation in the Far East.
Her profession was that of a kept prostitute.
As for her life, it would not have been an exaggeration to call the days she had lived until now those of a walking corpse.
She generally possessed the normal ethical values of a human being.
Yet those ethics contained a fatal flaw.
Like a walking corpse, this woman could not see the value of other people's lives, nor even her own.
As a result, although she had absolutely no talent as a Magus or a Master capable of commanding a Servant, she had an extremely high affinity with Assassin.
Rokudo Rinkai had been captured by a Magus of the Yggdmillennia clan as a sacrifice for summoning Assassin, and she had been intended for sacrifice.
However, because she had such an extraordinary affinity with the Assassin named Jack the Ripper, and because the Assassin-class Servant had cut off the Yggdmillennia Magus's jaw and the hand bearing the Command Spells before directly killing him after being summoned, Rokudo Rinkai had copied the Command Spells onto herself with Jack's help and become one of the Masters officially participating in the Holy Grail War.
Naturally, every member of the Yggdmillennia clan sent to receive Assassin had gone missing.
Because the instant they saw Assassin, Rokudo Rinkai and Jack the Ripper killed them.
Now, this Master, who like Fang Li was an ordinary person rather than a Magus participating in the Holy Grail War, raised the hand bearing Command Spells.
Then she gave an order.
"—By my Command Spells, Jack the Ripper, return to my side—"
In that instant, that