Kayneth: "Idiot. Clearly, you haven't been studying properly. The concept of parallel worlds was discovered ages ago."
The Mage's Association had actually been researching parallel worlds for a long time.
It was said that the Wandering Sea possessed the ability to observe parallel worlds, and the old monsters there spent their days watching other worlds develop for amusement.
[All right, the group members' answers will now be revealed.] [Congratulations to Waver, Kayneth, Kiritsugu Emiya, Kariya Matou, Sakura Tohsaka, and Feng Xi for correctly answering the number of Servants. Each receives 2 Saint Quartz.] [Bluebeard forfeited this question.] [All remaining group members answered incorrectly. Deducting 2 Saint Quartz.]
Feng Xi had deliberately gotten half of this question wrong to avoid standing out too much.
After all, this question was a huge trap. They were bound to get only half of it right; it would have been abnormal if he had gotten everything right.
As for the Tohsaka Family, Tokiomi had clearly had his daughter choose a different answer from his own, and Sakura had been lucky enough to get it right.
[The second question has ended. Now, today's final question will begin.] [This question allows multiple selections. Please view the following images and select the ones depicting King Arthur.]
Waver: "Huh? What's this question supposed to mean?"
They were supposed to guess who King Arthur was? But hadn't the first question already revealed what King Arthur looked like?
Everyone in the group was baffled by this, and even Artoria herself was no exception.
[A: The image showed someone wearing heavy silver armor. At a glance, the face looked almost identical to Artoria's, but the expression seemed somewhat wild and defiant.]
Artoria: "Sir Mordred, sigh..."
Seeing the person in the image gave Artoria a headache.
After all, this person was her "son." Naturally, she couldn't have been more familiar with her.
Waver: "This one probably isn't her..."
Although she looked a lot like Artoria, there was still an obvious difference in their bearing.
Of course, they couldn't rule out the possibility that the system had deliberately included her to mislead them.
[B: This image showed a girl in a gorgeous red gown. She looked exactly like Artoria, but lacked the signature ahoge on her head, and her chest was also well developed.] [More importantly, the lower part of her skirt was actually transparent, leaving everything beneath it in full view.]
Waver: "???"
Kayneth: "They look exactly alike! What the hell?"
Although A and B had almost identical faces, they could still tell that these were not the same person.
Rin Tohsaka: "Now I understand what this question means."
Waver: "I never imagined King Arthur had such a common face."
King of Conquerors: "Hahaha, this question is pretty interesting."
Artoria: "..."
She wanted to argue, but had no way to refute it.
Mordred was one thing, but this person who had appeared out of nowhere also looked exactly like her. How was she supposed to argue against that?
Of course, that was only if they looked at their faces and not their figures.
[C: This time, the image showed a woman in gleaming silver armor with long, slender legs. A slender sword hung at her waist, and she held a large white flag aloft in one hand.] [Her face went without saying: it was Artoria's face again.]
Bluebeard: "Ah! My saint! At last, I see you again!"
Feng Xi: "Damn, this guy's going crazy again. Scared the hell out of me."
Waver: "And we'd finally had some peace and quiet for a while."
Tokiomi Tohsaka: "Bluebeard, do you know the person in this image?"
Bluebeard: "Of course! I will never forget the face of my saint!"
Feng Xi: "Then do you recognize the ones in the previous two images?"
Bluebeard: "Naturally, they are both my saint as well!"
Tokiomi Tohsaka: "..."
Feng Xi: "He was already crazy. Now we can add face blindness to the list. Diagnosis complete."
Bluebeard: "Ah! Feng Xi! I swear I'll kill you!"
[D: This image was comparatively simple. It showed an 'Artoria' wearing a blue tracksuit and a baseball cap, just like a young person of the present day.]
Kayneth: "They're looking more and more like her, but this outfit..."
Waver: "Maybe it's deliberate misdirection."
[E: This image was finally different. Although she still had Artoria's face, the image showed a mature woman wearing a crown. In particular, that pair of hearts on her chest was truly accommodating.]
Rin Tohsaka: "This one's going a little too far. The difference is way too big."
King of Conquerors: "This one really is far too different from King Arthur. She probably isn't her."
After all, Artoria's girlish figure really had nothing in common with this mature woman's.
[F: The final image actually showed a man this time.] [Although traces of Artoria's appearance were still visible in that face, his sex was unquestionably male.] [The man in the image wore a white suit. Coupled with that incredibly handsome face, there was no telling how many young girls he could sweep off their feet.]
"Hey, hey, this one's really going too far!" The group members erupted.
They had put up with the mature woman in the previous image, but what was the deal with giving them an outright man this time?
If they hadn't known King Arthur was a woman, they might not have found it strange. But now that they knew King Arthur was a young girl, was it really okay to give them a man?
"Pfft..." Feng Xi, meanwhile, was snickering to himself.
This system really was too wicked.
Once they finished answering this question, everyone's mentality was guaranteed to crumble.
Chapter 13: The differences between King Arthurs
(Kariya Matou)
[You have five minutes to answer. Begin answering now.]
Of the six images in this question, only D looked like a suitable answer. But since multiple selections were allowed, there should have been other answers as well.
Yet all the other images differed somewhat from the Artoria who had appeared in the previous two questions.
Especially those last two. Weren't they completely different people?
But Waver, Kayneth, and the others also had their doubts.
After all, wasn't this too obvious?
[Time is up. Answering has ended.]
And so, as everyone analyzed and speculated, five minutes quickly passed.
[The answers will now be revealed.]
The images appeared again, but this time, descriptions had been added beneath them.
[A: King Arthur's child, the last of the Knights of the Round Table, the Rebellious Knight, Mordred.]
Waver: "So she's King Arthur's child. No wonder they look so alike."
Fortunately, he hadn't selected A. After all, the difference between Little Mo and our king was still quite obvious.
[B: The fifth emperor of Ancient Rome, the Flower of Olympia, Nero Claudius Caesar Augustus Germanicus.]
Kayneth: "What! That's the tyrant Nero!"
Tokiomi Tohsaka: "To think there's another emperor whose sex differs from the records."
Waver: "I can no longer trust the history books I've read."
Kayneth: "But why does an emperor of Ancient Rome look exactly like King Arthur?"
Rome and Britain had a longstanding feud, and Nero had even suppressed Queen Boudica's uprising.
So what was the deal with Britain's King Arthur looking exactly like an emperor who had once been a bitter enemy of her country? (PS: Nero's era was several decades before King Arthur's.)
Even Artoria was a little dumbfounded by this.
[C: The legendary FG heroine, the saint, Jeanne d'Arc.]
Bluebeard: "Ah! My saint! I told you I couldn't possibly mistake her!"
Waver: "So the saint you were talking about was Jeanne d'Arc?"
Kayneth: "I see. I think I know who you are now, Bluebeard."
He had looked up the name Bluebeard and discovered that it belonged to a deranged nobleman who had appeared in the first edition of Grimms' Fairy Tales, which had struck him as rather strange.