Kaineth El-Melloi Archibald, Lancer's Master in the Fourth Holy Grail War, had been betrayed by his fiancée. Combined with his own arrogance being hard-countered by Kiritsugu, he was struck by an Origin Bullet, leaving ninety percent of his Magic Crest damaged.
Yet his talent and ability were beyond doubt.
As one of the Twelve Lords of the Clock Tower, the Lord of the El-Melloi Faction, the ninth head of the Archibald Family, and a Brand-rank Magus destined to attain Grand rank, he stood among the very best of Magi in every regard.
In the future, Waver, who inherited the El-Melloi School, would use his talent for reinterpreting theory and systematic classification to organize some of Kaineth's scattered notes and materials, laying the foundation for a book titled Lord Kaineth's Compendium of Secret Arts.
But no matter how talented or capable he had been, death was death. More importantly, only ten percent of his Magic Crest remained, and the person most compatible with it was merely a seven- or eight-year-old girl from a branch family.
Under such circumstances, the El-Melloi Faction and the Archibald Family, which had collapsed overnight, immediately came under attack from within and without. Most of their interests were carved up, leaving them with only massive debts and the hollow title of Lord.
As well as the largely disregarded remaining tenth of the Magic Crest and scattered magecraft materials.
Kaineth's records and notes were steeped in his personal style. Without someone like Waver, with the talent to reinterpret and classify theory, other Magi would find them headache-inducing. Rather than study a dead man's work, they would rather study their own, which was why those things had all been preserved...
"A new tuner? And a young combat-oriented Magus with top-tier fighting ability..."
A little blonde girl with a