Waver: "Hey, hey, how can you say something like that in the group chat?!"
King of Conquerors: "Hahaha, looks like you're not that stupid after all."
Waver: "..."
[Time is up. Answers are now closed.]
The screen immediately froze, and pressing it again did nothing.
[The results will now be announced.] [Bluebeard forfeited.]
"Pfft!"
Everyone nearly spat out a mouthful of water.
He could at least have matched the two answers they had been given for free. What was he doing, not answering a single one?
Even Feng Xi laughed. Bluebeard really did think on a completely different wavelength from ordinary people.
Chapter 10: Luck
(Sola, Director Kayneth, Diarmuid)
[Diarmuid, Knight of the Lake, Gymnastics Troupe, and Kariya Matou matched three pairs correctly and each received 3 Saint Quartz.]
Fair enough. The three Heroic Spirits really were at a disadvantage on this question.
After all, the Masters all knew which Servant they would summon, effectively giving them one extra answer, while the Heroic Spirits had no idea who would summon them.
But Kariya Matou was a Master in the Fourth Holy Grail War. How had he only gotten three pairs right too?
Didn't that mean he hadn't guessed a single one of the other pairs correctly?
Kariya Matou, meanwhile, felt quite helpless.
He had only just returned to Fuyuki. After learning that Sakura was safe, he hadn't even gone back to the Matou Family, so he had no idea which Heroic Spirit he would summon.
So he had actually guessed one correctly.
[King of Heroes, Artoria, King of Conquerors, Tokiomi Tohsaka, Kayneth, Priest Mapo, Rin Tohsaka, and Sakura Tohsaka matched five pairs correctly and each received 5 Saint Quartz.]
"I actually got two pairs wrong?" Tokiomi Tohsaka frowned.
Since the answers had yet to be revealed, he didn't know where he had gone wrong.
[Waver matched six pairs correctly and received 6 Saint Quartz.]
King of Conquerors: "Well, well, you're pretty good, little Master."
Waver: "Not really. I did rely on a bit of luck."
[Magus Killer and Feng Xi matched every pair correctly and each received 7 Saint Quartz, plus 1 additional Saint Quartz as a bonus.]
Kayneth: "All correct! How did you do it?!"
Getting all seven pairs right wasn't something one could accomplish just by relying on luck.
Feng Xi: "Hehe, I just guessed blindly based on instinct."
What could he say? That he had watched the anime about the Fourth Holy Grail War and knew it inside out?
Kiritsugu Emiya's result, however, surprised him quite a bit.
He himself knew the answers, but Kiritsugu Emiya had relied entirely on his own guesses.
He hadn't expected him to get every single one right.
In truth, there had also been some luck involved in Kiritsugu Emiya getting them all right.
Waver and the King of Conquerors, the pair of perverts, and King Arthur, whom he himself had summoned, went without saying.
As for Gilgamesh and Tokiomi Tohsaka, he had guessed that pairing after noticing that Tokiomi Tohsaka's attitude toward Gilgamesh in the group chat had changed after Gilgamesh changed his name.
Of the three remaining Heroic Spirits, aside from Diarmuid, whose true name was already known, the Gymnastics Troupe was obviously Assassin, which meant the remaining armored knight had to be Berserker.
Surely Diarmuid couldn't be Berserker.
Based on his observations of Kayneth, Kiritsugu Emiya felt that someone as proud as Kayneth probably wouldn't choose either the Assassin or Berserker class, making Diarmuid very likely to be his Servant.
As for the remaining two, those had been complete shots in the dark.
He kept feeling that Kirei Kotomine was dangerous, so he thought the man had probably summoned Assassin.
That naturally left Berserker as Kariya Matou's Servant.
At that moment, the system also revealed the correct answers.
[The Servant summoned by Waver was Iskandar, Rider.] [The Servant summoned by Tokiomi Tohsaka was Gilgamesh, Archer.] [The Servant summoned by Magus Killer was Artoria, Saber.] [The Servant summoned by Kayneth was Diarmuid, Lancer.] [The Servant summoned by Kariya Matou was Knight of the Lake, Berserker.] [The Servant summoned by Priest Mapo was Gymnastics Troupe, Assassin.] [The Servant summoned by Ryunosuke Uryu was Bluebeard, Caster.] [Feng Xi was one step too late with his summoning and failed to summon a Servant.]
Feng Xi's face darkened.
So that's why you named me Extra Xi earlier. I really was just an extra.
Tokiomi Tohsaka: "So Kayneth wasn't the one who summoned King Arthur."
Now he knew where he had gone wrong. He had swapped the Servants summoned by Kiritsugu Emiya and Kayneth.
Waver: "Oh dear, I didn't expect to have overthought it."
He had thought the video of Feng Xi failing to summon a Servant was a misdirection, so he had matched the Gymnastics Troupe with him in the end. Who would have thought he had simply been overthinking it?
Still, there was one benefit to this question: they now knew the identities of the Servants the others had summoned.
Kiritsugu Emiya and Kayneth, for instance, had already begun considering whether to change Servants.
Kiritsugu Emiya had originally planned to have Irisviel pose as King Arthur's Master while he hid in the shadows, waiting for a chance to launch a surprise attack. But now that he had been exposed too, his plan would have to change.
[The first question has ended. The second question will now begin.]
Waver: "Huh? So soon! We don't even get a break?"
Kayneth: "Hmph. Do you need a break after answering a single question in the middle of an exam?"
Waver: "Well..."
Kayneth was now at odds with Waver and took every opportunity to put him down.
[Open-ended question. Please watch the following video carefully, then answer the question.]
The video began.
[At Fuyuki City's docks, three people stood atop a shipping container, gazing toward the distant bridge.]
[Of the three, Kayneth and Waver stood on either side, while the person in the middle was a tall man with long hair.]
Waver: "Huh? Who is this guy?"
Kayneth: "I don't know him, but why does he look somewhat familiar...?"
Tokiomi Tohsaka: "Are unrelated people interfering in this Holy Grail War too?"
Feng Xi, meanwhile, already knew what this video was.
Isn't this the promotional animation for Fate/Grand Order-Fate/Accel Zero Order?
[The scene shifted to the sky above the bridge. A purple-haired girl holding a shield fell from the sky as countless Noble Phantasms glowing with golden light shot toward her. It was Gilgamesh's Gate of Babylon.]
[A series of explosions followed on-screen, then a red object burst out of the smoke.]
[It was the Knight of the Lake, and that red object was actually a fighter jet.]
[The Knight of the Lake successfully rescued the girl, but Gilgamesh pursued relentlessly aboard the Vimana.]
Kayneth: "Heroic Spirits can actually pilot fighter jets!"
Waver: "I feel like my whole worldview just got rewritten."
King of Heroes: "Hahaha, see that, mongrels? This is your king's power!"
By now, everyone in the group couldn't be bothered to pay attention to this chuunibyou Gilgamesh.
Magus Killer: "Another unfamiliar participant?"
Waver: "That girl should be a Servant, right?"
Rin Tohsaka: "Dressed like that, there's no way she's an ordinary person."
Tokiomi Tohsaka: "Impossible. That girl wasn't among the seven Servants revealed in the previous question."
Artoria: "That shield in the girl's hands, could it be...?"
She couldn't have been more familiar with that shield, but its wielder was completely different from the person in her memories.