Lancer died

Tohsaka said in surprise, "Are you Lord El-Melloi II from the Clock Tower? I thought I'd misheard."

She looked genuinely taken aback. Shirou Emiya had told her about Chaldea, but he hadn't gone into enough detail to introduce every Servant there.

Still...

Rin Tohsaka glanced at the two goddesses. She knew about those two.

"I originally planned to study at the Clock Tower after this Holy Grail War ended and I graduated from high school. Your classroom was my goal."

The two groups traveled together. Though they could hardly be called harmonious, their deliberate attempts at conversation had at least opened a line of communication.

"I know. Before Zhuge Kongming chose me, my timeline was further ahead than yours is now." Lord El-Melloi II surveyed their surroundings. Unidentifiable mystical runes covered the dark stone cavern, along with circuits surging with some sort of spiritual power.

Being inside allowed him to observe them directly, yet even so, neither modern occult knowledge nor that of the Age of Gods could explain how they operated.

This was a first.

They weren't runes, Demon Script, or magecraft incantations. They seemed to belong to an undocumented system.

"In my time, you studied in the classroom where I taught." Lord El-Melloi II considered for a moment, then deliberately added:

"So did Shirou Emiya, though he studied alongside you as your apprentice. Honestly, the fact that he defeated Gilgamesh in this timeline gave me quite a shock."

"I see. So that's how things went in another parallel world." Rin Tohsaka nodded without pursuing his remark.

She stole a casual glance at Shirou Emiya. If she remembered correctly, there were two routes in that book where he went to London with her. She wondered which future the Lord El-Melloi II before her meant.

Still, none of them had