At last, he had finished sorting through and removing the records from before the First Holy Grail War. Still, Adelson took note of one thing: Lawrence had actually been summoned by the Einzbern Family more than seven hundred times.
Selim. Just how many of Father's relics did you hand over?
You'd better pray there's no chance of us being summoned into the same place.
The veins on his forehead throbbed, but he still reined in his emotions and stabilized the magecraft.
"The year is 1814. It matches!"
After checking how long ago this record had been made, Matou Shinji nodded, finally showing a faint smile.
The First Holy Grail War had taken place in 1814, the Second in 1874, the Third in 1934, the Fourth in 1994, and the Fifth in 2004. The date of this record matched the time when the First Holy Grail War had occurred.
"Seven times. Then there shouldn't have been any issues with the First Holy Grail War. Though we can't make out exactly who was summoned, at least there were no irregularities in the summoning."
Mm, at least back then, everyone had still followed the "rules."
They then continued sorting things out by time. The Holy Grail War system needed sixty years to absorb enough magical energy before it could activate again.
Nothing had gone wrong in the Second Holy Grail War, either.
But—
Something had gone wrong in the Third.
". . . The eighth Servant summoning."
Looking at the summoning record from 1934, Kirei Kotomine narrowed his eyes.
Generally speaking, a Holy Grail War only had seven Servants.
Saber, Lancer, Archer, Rider, Caster, Assassin, and Berserker.
In a Holy Grail War, only Servants of these seven classes would normally be summoned, with one Servant for each class. That was the fundamental logic