"What do you think?" Ishtar curled her lip.
"He just happens to look like me," Senji Muramasa said calmly.
"That goes way beyond just happening to look like someone else, Grandpa," Ritsuka quipped.
"Hmm... Muramasa? Nothing to do with me," Emiya Assassin said.
"Nobody asked you." Kiritsugu Emiya shot Emiya Assassin a sidelong glance.
"So what did Shirou Emiya do?" Lord El-Melloi II asked.
"He had Saber Alter use Avalon to protect the entire Fuyuki Singularity. Saber Alter trusted his instincts, too, and realized that this Singularity was the starting point of the collapse."
"Why did Marisbury send Team A's Crypters to repair Singularities and excise Lostbelts? To turn the murder of every living thing across 13.8 billion light-years into the perfect crime."
"The reason a murder can't be a perfect crime is that the victim's body exists. You can hide the weapon and fabricate an alibi, but the body is the one thing you can't conceal, because once it's hidden, you can't even establish that a murder took place. Shirou Emiya and Saber Alter successfully preserved that evidence."
"Wait." Ritsuka suddenly realized something was wrong. "So what I'm supposed to do... is help the former director destroy the evidence?"
"Yep. That was originally a job for Team A's Crypters, but Lev took them all out with one bomb." Roland shrugged. "If Lev hadn't blown them up, Marisbury would've simulated seven Lostbelts for Team A to visit, then used their Grand Command Spells to turn them into human bombs and wipe out Proper Human History, completely destroying the foundation of human history. Because although he loves humanity, he only loves their bodies. He thinks people's thoughts are what cause all that bullshit, so he decided to delete everyone's inner selves and turn them into living specimens."
"...Kinoko Nasu, fuck your