>>6130834>>6130938A bit of split-focus, let's see how things go.
For now, here's an interlude that I've been sitting on for a while.
Girl-talk
<span class="mu-i"> Outdoor dining at a cafe in the Sumida ward </span>
Leaning back in her chair, Nijou Kaguya said, “Now that we’re almost finished with lunch we can move on the Senso-Ji temple next. There should a pretty strong… Spirit Font was it, Kokutou-san?”
“Yes.” Kokutou Mizuri replied, sipping her iced tea before continuing, “It’s one of the strongest ones in the city, so visiting it should make our coins able to pump a lot more magical energy to our Servants.”
“Your knowledge of the city’s leylines is impressive, Master. Is it a specialty of yours?” Roland asked, as earlier that day the two girls and their Saber-class Servants had discovered several Spirit Fonts with Mizuri’s guidance, augmenting the effectiveness of the coins that Mizuri and Kaguya found on themselves when they became Masters in the Holy Grail War.
“You could say that.” Mizuri puffed with pride, explaining, “The leylines here are about the same as they are in the real Tokyo. I’ve done surveys of them in the past, so I’m familiar with the area.”
“Part of a ‘magical internship’?” Kaguya asked jokingly.
“Yeah, but I’ll get in trouble if I go into much detail, sorry.” Mizuri answered apologetically. She knew she’d need to share some of her knowledge of how magecraft works to lend credibility to the advice she gave her ally, but it still nagged at her to reveal more to Kaguya, who had been an ordinary, albeit rich and well-educated, girl before the Akeldama Holy Grail War began. Preserving secrecy was of paramount importance to mages, and it shocked Mizuri to this day that whoever organized this Holy Grail War indiscriminately pulled people with no knowledge of the magical world into it.
“Fine, keep your secrets.” Kaguya replied with a dismissive wave of her hand. “It astonishes me that in spite of my upbringing, a new side of the world could surface out of nowhere like this. It’s frustrating to be caught unprepared and out of the loop.”
“I think just about everyone that was brought here was unprepared and out of the loop.” Mizuri gently retorts, mollifying Kaguya a little before shifting the subject, “Like Yatsu-kun said, he met three other guys who didn’t know what was going on either, and Roland’s first Master was in the same boat.”
“I wonder if we’ll run into them.” Kaguya thought aloud, “I take it you’ll be ready to wipe their Servants out when we meet them?”
“Just like that?” Mizuri asked, a bit surprised at her ally’s intention to resort to violence immediately.
