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[bluescreenwhitedragon]

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[sancrimony]

What about memory altering?

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[bluescreenwhitedragon]

[Flashbacks going back to Joker telling him about something going on with a ZRAEL and a SensitIV!






Oh.

Well. Fuck.

Could it be?

Could it?]

[bluescreenwhitedragon]

Not to my knowledge.

[sancrimony]

[ COULD IT BE???? ]

. . . That's good. It's disorienting enough to feel this way, so if other people had to experience such an unfortunate thing as well, I'd be sad about that.

[bluescreenwhitedragon]

But not sad about yourself? What am I saying? Of course not.

...

Do you want me to look into it?

[sancrimony]

It's hardly more than an inconvenience. Moreover, I'm sure you have a lot on your plate, and I have little desire to unnecessarily add to your undoubtedly full itinerary.

[bluescreenwhitedragon]

If it inconveniences you, it inconveniences me. I don't like people touching my things.

[sancrimony]

[ oh that

oh. ]

. . . It -

[ quieter ]

It does bother me, then. So - if you could, please . . .

[bluescreenwhitedragon]

Excellent.

What good is being the information hub if I can't abuse executive privilege every now and then?

[sancrimony]

I'm sure you could think of something - thank you.

[bluescreenwhitedragon]

Anything else I should be looking into?

[sancrimony]

. . .

Avenger has some sort of mental ailment as well - that is, he's compelled to grant any wish he can to those who would ask one of bim.

. . . It isn't quite related, but I thought it best to inform you.

[bluescreenwhitedragon]

[What?!]

... What?

How the fuck did that happen?

[sancrimony]

It occurred when we arrived in Liar Hell. So, I assume it's the same as the changes to my body and my memory.

[ contemplative, now ]

. . . It isn't contrary to his nature. He used to be the Holy Grail itself, after all - I do wonder if there is some pattern to how these oddities manifest, in correlation to the people they manifest in.

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[bluescreenwhitedragon]

Yes. Yes. I am fully aware of the whole tool business.

That's not---

[bluescreenwhitedragon]

[He used to be the what now...?]

[bluescreenwhitedragon]

The more I learn about your world, the less it makes sense.

You realize that, right?

Congrats on dueling with a holy artifact that spans the multiverse, I guess.

[sancrimony]

No no no, to be clear, his existence specifically is an outlier among outliers. He's definitely the most unique and unprecedented of us all, and everyone else is more like Rider or myself in terms of coherence.

Besides that, Avenger was only one of many Holy Grails. Rather, that term is used specifically in regards to a certain kind of large energy reservoir that has the programming of a Grail, and the one that he had become part of was the one in Fuyuki. My own Grail in my world has no trace of his corruption.

[bluescreenwhitedragon]

[Sorry, Lucifel. You definitely said words. Words that had meaning individually but Intensity is going to have to sit and think about what they mean when they are strung together.

For now, his only retort is:]

This is why it's always a cup metaphor with all of you, isn't it?

I can't believe I didn't see this coming.

[sancrimony]

For him at least . . . Like I said, he's an outlier among outliers.

[bluescreenwhitedragon]

What's his excuse?

Yours was your former Master trying to cheat summoning rules, wasn't it?

[sancrimony]

Right. For myself, I'm someone capable of being summoned even if my own legend isn't powerful. I'd just be a weak Servant, in regards to my parameters. However, he isn't a "hero" - he isn't "a person who brought about good in the world by doing good things", but "a person who brought about good in the world by doing evil things".

Ordinarily, the Holy Grail does not allow for this "Anti-Hero" type of Heroic Spirit to manifest. However . . .

[ shifting in his spot, tilting his head up ]

My former Master is the one responsible for his existence as well.

With the state of this place, this world that exists in-between worlds, you surely don't need an explanation on what parallel worlds are, right?

[bluescreenwhitedragon]

No. I do not need an explanation of the multiverse.

But I do need one of how being the Holy Grail works with what you told me earlier. About his existence starting by taking someone else's existence and personality as a base. If what you're telling me now seems to indicate he does have his own character. Or at least did once before.

[sancrimony]

. . . Are you familiar with Zoroastrianism, and the figure Ahriman - Angra Mainyu?

[bluescreenwhitedragon]

[Seeing how much interest Intensity has in history and that he hasn't taken enough memories to remember the breadth of his education]

No.

Enlighten me.