"In the Third Holy Grail War, the Einzbern Family should have been the last to summon a Servant."
"While the other Servants had already begun fighting to the death, they summoned this Servant midway through the Holy Grail War—the eighth Servant. Then, just four short days later, this late-arriving Servant was sent back to the Throne of Heroes."
"That is what the Clock Tower's records show. Though in truth, it was said to be the seventh Servant—but according to your information, this was the eighth, not the seventh."
That afternoon, Kirei Kotomine returned to the Great Cavern with the materials he had newly investigated.
"So this is Justeaze. Looking at her like this, there's not much difference between her and a corpse, is there?"
Standing beside Kirei Kotomine was Bazett. Looking at Justeaze Lizrich von Einzbern, who sat suspended in the center of the Greater Grail's thaumaturgical formation with her eyes closed, eternally wearing that serene and beautiful expression, she frowned.
Though people from the Sealing Designation Enforcement Bureau were generally regarded as "inhuman bastards," and Bazett was clearly a workaholic herself, even she found the scene before her unsettling.
Especially since she knew that Justeaze had volunteered for this sacrifice.
"In other words, during the Third Holy Grail War, someone else got ahead of the Einzbern Family and took their Master slot, which was why they broke the rules and summoned an eighth Servant. ...No, that doesn't make sense."
With his brows tightly furrowed, Matou Shinji paced back and forth.
"To begin with, the very idea of the Einzbern Family's Master seat being taken by someone else is illogical."
"...But there's no way to verify what happened back then. All we know is that the Third Holy Grail War proceeded normally, and that something ultimately went wrong during it.