Zhang Jue: "Using human sacrifices to summon evil creatures? This is a wicked, unorthodox path."
Waver: "I'm sorry, Feng Xi."
Feng Xi: "Huh? What are you apologizing to me for?"
Waver: "When you killed that Ryunosuke Uryu earlier, I thought you had gone a little too far, but now that I've seen this..."
Waver: "I should thank you for keeping this bastard from being summoned. Otherwise, who knows how many people would have died."
Diarmuid: "Indeed. To think a villain like this could become a Heroic Spirit. It's truly..."
["I believe I told you I would make the necessary preparations before returning."]
[Bluebeard held a book in his hand and spoke gleefully.]
["Very well. I will no longer consider this a contest for the Holy Grail."]
[Artoria activated Invisible Air, shattering the black octopus wrapped around her. The fury in her eyes was plain to see.]
["Ah, Jeanne, how noble you are, how valiant."]
[Yet Bluebeard still said with a grin, "O holy maiden, even God pales before you."]
["Silence, Caster!"]
[Artoria angrily interrupted Bluebeard and declared, "Now, I wield this sword solely to slay you!"]
King of Conquerors: "What exactly are these monsters?"
Waver: "They look a bit like sea monsters along the lines of the Kraken."
Feng Xi: "Then let's call them Sea Demons for now."
Rin Tohsaka: "You actually gave them a name?"
Feng Xi: "It's just a designation. Otherwise, we could just call them octopuses."
Rin Tohsaka: "Let's stick with Sea Demons."
[Artoria charged at Bluebeard, cutting down every Sea Demon in her way with a single slash.]
[But there were simply too many Sea Demons, and Artoria could not break through their encirclement for the moment.]
King of Conquerors: "Strange. Your movements look a little uncoordinated, King of Knights."
Diarmuid: "It should be because of the injury to her left hand."
Diarmuid: "This video should be from the same world as yesterday's. The King of Knights should currently be unable to move her left hand because of my Gáe Buidhe's curse."
["Damn it, if only I could still move my left arm..."]
[Artoria launched another furious assault, but the Sea Demons seemed endless. No matter how many she killed, their numbers did not diminish in the slightest.]
["Damn it. Is that man's magical energy infinite?"]
[Artoria had already realized that Bluebeard was constantly summoning new Sea Demons.]
[But summoning such a large swarm of Sea Demons should have consumed an enormous amount of energy. Yet Bluebeard still wore that same smile, as though nothing were happening.]
["Could it be?!"]
[Artoria suddenly discovered the source of the problem: the book in Bluebeard's hand.]
Waver: "Looks like that book is Bluebeard's Noble Phantasm. Its ability must be summoning Sea Demons."
King of Conquerors: "Does anyone know what that book is?"
El-Melloi II: "That book is called Prelati's Spellbook. It's both a Noble Phantasm and that man's magical energy core."
El-Melloi II: "Since Gilles de Rais isn't a proper mage himself and has no grounding in magecraft whatsoever, he can only use magecraft through that grimoire. The book itself supplies the magical energy, too."
Kayneth: "No wonder his magical energy seems inexhaustible."
Tokiomi Tohsaka: "He can't use any magecraft himself, and yet he can still be Caster."
Chapter 33: Kayneth gets two questions right in a row
"Teacher, have you ever heard of the R'lyeh Text?"
Feng Xi asked Zhang Jue outside the chat.
"The R'lyeh Text? I've never heard of it."
Zhang Jue shook his head and asked, "What is it?"
"Ah, nothing."
Feng Xi waved a hand. "I'll explain once the quiz is over."
According to the setting, the grimoire Bluebeard possessed was originally called the R'lyeh Text. The mage François Prelati had translated it from a translated edition from China's Xia dynasty.
Feng Xi really wanted to know how something connected to Cthulhu had found its way to China back then.
["That's right. This is the spellbook my ally Prelati left behind."]
[Bluebeard explained, "Through it, I learned how to command an army of demons."]
[Then he continued showering Jeanne with extravagant praise, completely failing to notice Artoria's teeth-gritting expression.]
[Artoria charged again, but this time she failed to fend off the Sea Demons' attacks. Several of them bound her tightly with their tentacles.]
["Aah!"]
[Artoria tried to use Invisible Air, but the Sea Demons tightened their tentacles, making her cry out in pain and leaving her unable to concentrate enough to activate her ability.]
[The video paused on this frame.]
[Question: What happens next?]
Feng Xi: "..."
Feng Xi's face darkened. This system really knew how to play.
With an image like this and such a suggestive question, wasn't it inviting people to get the wrong idea?
Artoria: "Why did it have to stop on this frame?! Couldn't it pick another one?!"
Gilgamesh: "Hahaha, that's quite a nice pose."
Knight of the Lake: "Aaargh..."
Gilgamesh: "Shut up, mad dog. Stop barking in the group."
Rin Tohsaka: "How are we supposed to answer this?"
Feng Xi: "Answer however you like. Just open your mind."
Feng Xi: "For example, someone comes and saves the Ahoge King."
[Ding! Congratulations to Feng Xi for answering part of the question correctly. Awarded 1 Saint Quartz.]
Waver: "Huh? So we don't have to get the whole answer right?"
Madam: "Saber gets rescued? Thank goodness."
Artoria: "Don't worry, Irisviel. This won't happen again."
Kayneth: "Part of the answer was correct, so the other part must be naming the person who saves King Arthur."
Tokiomi Tohsaka: "It should be Kiritsugu Emiya. He is King Arthur's Master, after all."
Kariya Matou: "Kiritsugu Emiya saves King Arthur."
[Ding! Kariya Matou answered incorrectly. Deducting 1 Saint Quartz.]
Kariya Matou: "???"
Kariya Matou: "Tokiomi Tohsaka, you set me up!"
Tokiomi Tohsaka: "I was merely making a rational analysis based on the information available. You were the one who chose to rush to answer."
Waver: "But if it isn't Kiritsugu Emiya, who else could it be?"
Feng Xi: "Who knows? There are too many possibilities."
Feng Xi did not intend to answer the remaining part.
After all, it would be far too obvious if he named Diarmuid outright.
"Could it be..."
Kayneth seemed to think of something and answered, "Diarmuid saves King Arthur."
[Ding! Congratulations to Kayneth for answering this question correctly. Awarded 3 Saint Quartz.]
"As I thought..."
A faint smile appeared on Kayneth's face.
Just now, he had extrapolated from the video's events based on his own habits, deducing that he would probably go after the Einzberns first and thus arriving at this conclusion.
After all, if he encountered a situation like this, he would definitely have Diarmuid intervene and hold King Arthur back, while he himself...
Diarmuid: "Congratulations, my lord."
Kayneth: "Hmph, this is nothing. I've only answered one question correctly."
[On the screen, the video resumed.]