Did it really have to come to an event involving Da Vinci-chan and seven False Heroic Spirits?
—Screw you, you crooked merchant!
164, that was exactly what I was waiting to hear!
Lianye had no intention of gambling on whether Jeanne d'Arc Alter would change her identity after disappearing here, take on the Avenger class, and be born again from the Hall of Heroes.
In the Orleans Singularity, Jeanne d'Arc Alter's rampant destruction had confirmed her existence. The "result" came first, then the "cause" was retroactively derived from it. Thus, Jeanne d'Arc Alter became someone who could be recorded in the Hall of Heroes.
Yet that possibility was not very high, nor was it logically self-consistent. Rather than saying that Jeanne d'Arc Alter had become a true Heroic Spirit because causality had been reversed, it was better to say that Jeanne d'Arc Alter was an immensely popular Servant, so she simply could not be allowed to stay dead.
—So rather than considering the possibility of Jeanne d'Arc Alter being reborn after destroying herself, then going through every possible hardship to rescue her from the cold gacha pool, it was better to find a way to preserve her current self intact.
"Is there no other way? It isn't as though I never considered the possibility that Jeanne d'Arc Alter might become a Heroic Spirit through the reversal of causality, but isn't that possibility too small to be worth gambling on?"
Lianye spoke with a bitter smile. Masters who had participated in the False Heroic Spirit event would probably say that, despite the low odds, Jeanne d'Arc Alter had still appeared as an entirely new Servant. But that was merely reasoning backward from a predetermined result, where any explanation could be made to work. At least for Lianye and Da Vinci, whether