"A mission?"
Rin Tohsaka spotted the blind spot.
She furrowed her brows and eyed the Servant who had been working for her throughout this Holy Grail War, always quiet and reserved, with some suspicion.
"What mission?"
She had never heard of this.
"Ah, that."
Archer seemed to realize that he had misspoken as well.
He had just been focused entirely on Saber, Anno, and Shirou Emiya. He had not paid attention to what he was being asked and answered instinctively.
"A Servant materialized with a mission?"
Anno and Xiang An raised their heads together and glanced at Archer.
Hmm.
If Servants materialized with missions, then that description actually applied to every Servant.
After all, no Servant was summoned for no reason. Servants summoned by magi needed to assist those magi in completing tasks, including the Holy Grail War, while Servants summoned within Singularities all carried orders from the Counter Force.
Now that the Holy Grail War had been abolished, the mission Archer carried was worth pondering over.
The two exchanged a look. After a moment of silence, Xiang An shrugged, indicating that he had no clue and did not want to get involved, while Anno fell into thought.
The Counter Force did not hand out missions casually, nor would it send just any Heroic Spirit recorded on the Throne of Heroes to carry them out. Otherwise, it could lead to plenty of ridiculous situations. For instance, if a Singularity appeared in Britain, would the Counter Force send King Arthur to personally destroy his own country?
That possibility truly existed, which made it seem somewhat absurd.
Therefore, the Counter Force needed a group of people capable of working for it to deal with different situations.
As differentiated entities of the Thread of the Root, although they had long since merged into