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"I'd originally planned to wait and see—see whether the envoy Gerda mentioned could be approached normally, whether we could build a good relationship with them. But if it's really as Da Vinci said, and these so-called envoys are those Valkyries..."
Fujimaru Ritsuka spoke with a deep frown.
The Valkyries had been one of the three troop types involved in Chaldea's extermination.
That day in Chaldea, they had encountered three types of troops and one Servant.
The pure-white female warriors known as Valkyries, wielding spears of light and shields.
The strange-shaped autonomous mechanical soldiers with bronze-colored bodies.
And the Slaughter Hunter Soldiers, clad in black robes and masks.
Other than the autonomous mechanical soldiers, the origins of the other two troop types could be traced.
The Valkyries undoubtedly came from this Scandinavian Lostbelt, while the Slaughter Hunter Soldiers were from the Russian Lostbelt.
As for the Servant they had managed to catch sight of—the one who had cut off one of Leonardo da Vinci's arms in Chaldea's corridors—they had encountered that Servant again in this Lostbelt. That person had also stolen the Imaginary Number Observation Device they possessed: Paper Moon.
"If that's the case, then the situation is going to be very bad."
"But honestly, it isn't realistic for us not to try contacting the envoys."
Da Vinci scratched her head in frustration.
It really wasn't realistic.
They had never known whether the other side would treat them normally in the first place, and now the suspicion that they were Valkyries made things even worse, but...
Chaldea was already in this village, and the envoys would be coming tomorrow—what if they weren't Valkyries?
That possibility did exist.
It wasn't wishful thinking or anything. Objectively speaking, the possibility was there, however slim it might be.
All right—
In any case, they