After reviewing this portion of Matou Shinji's memories and listening to him explain the whole sequence of events, the room in the Emiya residence fell silent.
Without a word, Bazett stood up, intending to leave.
"Stop."
Kirei Kotomine called out to Bazett expressionlessly.
"What are you going to do?"
Turning his head, Kirei Kotomine looked at Bazett with a slight frown.
"Isn't it obvious what needs to be done by now?"
"We destroy that Greater Grail—wouldn't that settle everything?"
Bazett tugged at her gloves.
"I suggest you do no such thing, you impatient little one."
Adelson glanced at Bazett.
"I know what the Sealing Designation Enforcement Bureau does, but before you fully understand the workings of something, you'd best not assume the problem can be solved so easily."
"I'll put it plainly. Right now, both the Greater Grail and the Lesser Grail are containers for that thing. If you destroy the containers without first eliminating those things, what do you think will happen—"
Adelson took a paper cup, filled it with water, and showed it to everyone. Then—
He punctured the bottom of the cup.
The water flowed out through the hole he had made, all of it dripping onto the table.
"Understand?"
"The Fuyuki Fire that occurred in Fuyuki City ten years ago happened because the Lesser Grail was destroyed without understanding this beforehand—does anyone here want to see such a thing happen again?"
Adelson swept his gaze around the room, looking at every face that had turned grave, and sighed.
"Other than the Servants present here, heroes from history, to you Masters, I am both a senior from the Clock Tower and an ancestor of the Matou Family. However you put it, I am your elder."
"Before doing something, unless the situation is so urgent that there is