Chapter 099

When the evening bell rang, all the remaining people gathered in front of the banquet hall door again - the only one who was eliminated today was the seventh puppet group of the Red Camp; strictly speaking, except for the Rose Girls of the Red Camp who fought a battle at an unknown time, everyone else was still in the early preparation process of familiarizing themselves with the environment and did not have the energy to fight.

After the members of the new Group A returned safely to the rest area of ​​the White Camp, Mashu was the first to speak at the meeting tonight. The girl, who had hardly left the meeting table all day, integrated the stories she had heard today and shared them with her companions to fulfill the requirement of telling stories in front of the mirror every night before going to bed in the rules.

"...I've been sitting here all day without moving around much, so this is probably all the information I can gather that will help us." Marsh cleared her throat and glanced at the notebook being passed around by other members. "The current observations and conclusions of the two groups are all written in Mr. Kirshtalia's notebook."

"Thank you for your hard work, Mashu." Peperoncino, who worked with the Black Faction's Assassin Team during the day, smiled and nodded to Mashu, and continued the meeting. "Then let me briefly explain the situation of the Black Faction's Assassin Team - the leader Aoki Reika fits the traditional Oriental fantasy of a perfect woman very well..."

"Yamato Nadeshiko?" As the only member of the new A team who was born in the Far East island country, Fujimaru Ritsuka quickly understood what Peperoncino was talking about. "But, her Servant is the Phantom of the Opera, right? Considering the compatibility, she can't be an ordinary, gentle Yamato Nadeshiko-type girl who meets the male fantasy."

"Well... Actually, if you want me to make an analogy..." Peperoncino thought for a moment and mentioned the heroic spirit data of the Phantom of the Opera. "You should all remember that it is written in the Phantom of the Opera's data that he is just acting as his 'very gentleman self' - and Aoki Reika is obviously not acting as her 'Yamato Nadeshiko-like self'."

"If I were to speak of a more intuitive feeling... the deepest part is probably a shining soul like Ms. Okita's."

"So who should speak first, Kadoc who went to the Rose Labyrinth, or should we who went to the croquet field speak first?" Kirshtalia took back the notebook that everyone had passed around from Peperoncino, looked at Kadoc who was emitting a gloomy aura, and then looked at Fujimaru Ritsuka who was sitting on the right, "Okay, it seems we should speak first."

"Senior Kirshtalia, have you paid attention to the third puppet group of the Crimson Camp during the day?" Fujimaru Ritsuka turned his head to look at Kirshtalia, reminding him that Charlemagne did go directly to the Rose Labyrinth after delivering the notebook during the day. "Irene Adler, I think everyone should have read the report records of the White Chapel Anomaly, as well as the information on the members of the Moriarty Project provided by Professor William, who has just arrived at the Seat of Valor."

"Face him as James Bond described in the set. Apart from that, there's nothing else to note about this set. Mash and I have memorized Knight Dion's information by heart." Fujimaru Ritsuka tapped the armrest of the sofa and summarized the situation of the second set of Crimson Dolls. "We haven't made any progress in collecting detailed information about the different Rose Girl dolls yet."

"So let's skip the second puppet, Canary, for now. I'm going to mainly talk about her medium - Iwanaga Kotoko." Fujimaru Ritsuka pounded his palm, "I think everyone should know that in the previous Shibuya Anomaly, Iwanaga Kotoko appeared in front of us in Chaldea as a guide, assistant, and collaborator."

In the information about Iwanaga Kotoko registered in Chaldea, the first identity written down was "the one who maintains balance". Then the god of wisdom of monsters, the princess of youkai, and the holder of the composite divinity of Kuenbiko and Ishinagaki were added - and finally the personal information registration in the true sense came.

And now, in the cognition of the new group A, there is one more thing to add -

"Although I don't want to exaggerate, maybe she is the Sherlock Holmes "I" who walks between humans and non-humans."

"…Just as I mentioned Professor William." Fujimaru Ritsuka exhaled slowly, and once again the advice that the English gentleman had given her at that time echoed in her ears. "When I just came back from the Shibuya Anomaly, in addition to the deputy director taking the time to explain to me the similarities between Traum and Shibuya, I also visited 221B Baker Street in the Sea of ​​Heroes to seek answers."

"Although I think the question itself was asked to satisfy my personal curiosity, what is important is the answer and advice given by Mr. Holmes in the end -" Fujimaru Ritsuka lowered his head and solemnly repeated the advice he received at that time, "'So, I will give you a small reminder, Miss. Ritsuka - if you meet Miss. Iwanaga again, please be careful.'"

“Although I don’t want to exaggerate, perhaps she is the ‘I’ of Sherlock Holmes who walks between humans and non-humans.”

The new A team members followed Fujimaru Ritsuka and repeated this judgment from Sherlock Holmes.

"Also, I sent Charlemagne to the Rose Labyrinth." Fujimaru Ritsuka looked up at Cadoc with a subtle expression, "According to what Charlemagne told me, most of the participants in the Rose Labyrinth are in a state of master-servant confrontation - the more powerful ones are like Ransu Amura and Asclepius, whom I mentioned to you last night, but they can't be seen on the surface..."

"For example, the fifth puppet group of the Red Camp."

"Don't be fooled by that guy's smiling face, that's fake."

——This is the reminder about the medium of the fifth doll that Kirshtalia wrote to Fujimaru Ritsuka when they were exchanging information in the library yesterday afternoon.

"If we only consider the brief self-introductions at yesterday's roundtable meeting, I think this group can even be considered to get along well..." Mash blinked and quickly reviewed her memories of the other two camps in her mind, "But except for the Caster group in the Black Camp, the other groups don't seem to have that tendency!?"

"The other groups' problems are mainly lone rangers or people who are hard to understand. In short, they are mainly fighting against a master and a servant. Of course, most of the problems are caused by poor communication." Fujimaru Ritsuka shrugged helplessly and threw out the heavyweight intelligence that he had confirmed today as the main axis of his report. "In addition, the Holy Grail and the Rose Mother are linked, and the fifth puppet, Shinku, is confirmed to be the holder of the Holy Grail."

"During yesterday's roundtable meeting, Shinku didn't act like she knew anything about it." Kirshtalia instantly realized the existence of two possible nodes of change. "Is it because of the change in time... or because of the sudden departure of the Seventh Doll Group this morning?"

"Whether from the perspective of the Holy Grail War or Alice's Game, I think the change in the status of Shinkuru should be due to the departure of the Seventh Doll Group." Ophelia glanced at Kirshtalia and summarized the similarities between the Holy Grail War and Alice's Game for everyone. "The Holy Grail War requires the souls of the seven Servants to gather together to get the real prize, and according to the information we know-"

"The Alice game is essentially a battle between rose girls for each other's souls. The rose girl who obtains all the souls, the 'Rose Mother', will become the true Alice 'Perfect Girl'."

"Well, since we've got Ritsuka's confirmation, the whole process of the ceremony is obviously very clear." Mustard Hinami said, "Although it is said that there is only one winner in the end, in fact, this ceremony is just a rough splicing of the Holy Grail War system and Alice's game - although it is divided into three camps, the actual camp battle part is only the Black Camp and the White Camp."

"The Red Camp is a combination of internal warfare from the beginning - defeat the remaining Rose Girls, become Alice, and then the winner of the Red Camp can join the battle for the Holy Grail."

"Then the Black and White camps continue to fill the Holy Grail with the souls of the dead Servants during the battle. Only when the Holy Grail has appeared but not yet fully appeared, that is, before Alice is crowned as the Queen, will we have a chance to seize the Holy Grail." Kirshtalia concluded calmly, "By the way, I think the third puppet group of the Red Camp can be ignored as a random group of passers-by in the Holy Grail War."

"Then it's my turn at last." Kadoc sighed and briefly mentioned the other groups that were not noticed by Fujimaru Ritsuka. "Although I hardly met any of them after entering the maze, we went together when we went there, so I can talk a little bit - I personally suggest that you focus on the Berserker group of the Black Faction in the Rose Maze area."

"That's Vlad III of Berserker. He's more like the world-famous vampire Dracula than the Grand Duke of Romania." Kadoc looked at Fujimaru Ritsuka and slowly said his judgment, "Although if I'm not mistaken, they are also a typical group that can't communicate well - but they are different from the Caster group in the same camp."

"They only need an opportunity to change from a state of non-cooperation to a pair of lord and servant who understand each other."

"Yes. For example, the dream exchange that would obviously cause the relationship between the Caster team in the Black Faction to continue to deteriorate is actually a powerful tool for promoting the relationship between the Berserker team."

The celestial phenomena in the anomaly seemed to remain unchanged—the moon tonight was the same as last night, an illusory and huge full moon.

The silvery moonlight filtered through the narrow diamond-shaped window that blocked half of the room, and fell into the Gothic room, which seemed dark due to the reduced lighting area. On the large bed covered with black velvet, there was no figure of the occupant of this room, but instead, there lay a cold, hard black coffin with a cross engraved on it.

——It's like a room with a real vampire living in it.