"An ancestor of the Matou Family? So, Sakura, you succeeded?"
Clearly, Rin Tohsaka had not done her homework seriously at all.
"I don't know if this counts as success."
Sakura lowered her head and spoke somewhat helplessly.
If it was only a matter of summoning an ancestor, then she had indeed succeeded. After all, Adelson was an ancestor of the Matou Family—that much was true, but...
What the Matou Family had wanted to summon was Adelson's father, not Adelson himself.
Yet after Adelson had been summoned, his explanation had practically extinguished the Matou Family's hopes of summoning Lawrence.
"Rest easy, child. I understand your obsession, because the source of your obsession is precisely my own obsession."
Adelson sighed softly once more.
This doubt had flowed through this bloodline for far too long. Adelson could not bear it, but...
Since this doubt had begun with him, perhaps it was fate that he should be the one to snuff it out.
Otherwise, he would not have been summoned by a child named Sakura.
"That said."
Adelson set aside the book about the Matou Family that he had been holding, rose from his seat, and looked at Rin Tohsaka.
"You should be Sakura's older sister, correct? Your magical energy tells me that you are also one of the Masters in this Holy Grail War."
"Walking into Caster's attack range so defenselessly could lead to something very frightening, you know."
"Huh?"
Rin Tohsaka froze for a moment.
What... did that mean?
"Ancestor?"
Sakura was startled as well and abruptly rose from her seat.
"Now, now, don't worry."
Adelson smiled and raised one hand.
"The war has not officially begun yet, so this is merely a reminder. Besides, you are Sakura's older sister, and I am one of the origins of the Matou bloodline. In