"The Matou residence is quite large. Mr. Manlio, please feel free to choose any room you like."
Inside the Matou residence, Matou Shinji and Matou Sakura were showing the Matou Family's temporary new member around, helping this ancestor's student familiarize himself with the place where he would be staying for the time being.
"Mm-hmm, Shinji and little Sakura are both good children."
Manlio was only slightly taller than Matou Shinji and Matou Sakura. He looked like nothing more than a half-grown child, with an eternally youthful smile on his face. As he spoke, he rubbed both Shinji and Sakura's heads.
Neither of the children particularly disliked the feeling.
"Mr. Manlio, how old were you when you were summoned?"
As he led the way in front, Matou Shinji turned back and asked Manlio.
"Hmm, this appearance of mine does make it easy for people to misunderstand."
Manlio paused briefly, then lowered his head with a wry smile to look himself over.
"Though I look like a half-grown child, and sound like one too, this appearance is from when I was around thirty years old—the peak of my craft."
"Before I grew old, I spent most of my life looking like this. So Mr. Manlio is an adult."
Manlio said solemnly.
"If this room is vacant, I'll stay here."
Returning to the matter at hand, Manlio pointed to a bedroom on the third floor of the Matou residence, next to Matou Kariya's room.
"Though I am not a particularly powerful Servant, I still harbor some overambitious hopes for that Holy Grail."
The Matou Family's primary goal in participating in the Holy Grail War was to summon their ancestor Lawrence and learn the secrets surrounding him, but that was not their only objective.
Their ancestor had to be summoned, and the Holy Grail