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"Hey, is that how you greet a friend after so long?" Haruka said as HART's troops took Setsuna and the others into their ship. "Also, yeah, I guess we can't do that right now. Not that I feel pity for that one or something like this. But we have no way of knowing what will happen if we let her go."

The extra passenger following them didn't escape Haruka's perception either. It was only natural that the Diva would have a better hearing than most at the very least. Nevertheless, she chose not to do anything about that for now. She had more pressing matters to take care of at the moment.

Even so, she made a point of telling Tomoko about their stowaway as soon as they were all aboard the ship. She supposed the blonde could deal with that on her own.

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"Well, sometimes I would like if my own sister were a little sweeter like that," Haruka said as she entered the infirmary, wearing an all-too-conspicuous outfit. "All she does is come and go and barely stops to say hello, even a fish can get sad sometimes, you know?" she added in a melodramatic voice.

"You guys should get some new names of your own. It makes you feel like a spy or something like this," Haruka said after Setsuna complained about her pseudonym. They couldn't do a secret mission if they wore their true identities on their sleeves, could they? "I don't know about that like-minded part. It was hard to convince Tomoko to not throw her into a cell despite her injuries, but I guess having the two of you here was enough to change her mind for now."

"By the way, I wouldn't try anything funny if I were you," she said as she walked to Utena's bed. "Without those toys of yours, you probably can't even break these, but even if you could, it would be better not," Haruka said as she pointed to the restraints keeping Utena pinned to the bed. "You aren't in your best condition now, overexerting yourself will probably be bad for your health."


"Hey, you should really fix the floorboards here, KitKat. This place is beginning to sound like it might fall apart at any moment," Clair said to Cait once she noticed the creaks and cranks coming from the other side of the tavern. Sure she was joking, but this wasn't the first time today when people walking by—or doing some less pronounceable things—made the floorboards creak like that. "Money can't be the problem with how much you charge for stuff around here," the blonde thief pointed at the phone the cat confiscated.

"Anyway, it's just like she said, kid! This place is our hangout while we go around, farm loot, and try to reach the top to get our one true wish fulfilled. You may be new 'round here, but you'll get used to it in no time," Clair said as she spun around on the bar stool to face the newcomer kid after Akiko did so first.

"Oho~ It's been a long while since I've seen one like you 'round these parts. Name's Clair by the way. Clair, the thief. If there's anything ya wanna, be it money or a heart, don't let me know or I'm gonna get it from ya," she added, finishing her introduction with a finger gun—complete with a "Bang!"—once she noticed that the newcomer was in fact a boy around their age. A rare sight outside of the floors of this tower.

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At the same time, another person... being, also took notice of Thomas' arrival. Even though, it couldn't be said that she was part of the group that gathered around the bar.

"At last, another adventurer has crossed the threshold into this land of wonders," the mysterious looking girl said from her place behind a desk in a room adjacent to the tavern marked with the name 'Magic Shop'. "You should be glad for the chance you were given. Many would die—or kill—to be in your place right now. Even so, if you choose to pursue the path that leads to your heart's purest dream, you'll need companions to help you along the way or power to seize your own fate. It's up to you to decide," she said in a smooth, yet ominous voice as she pulled three cards from a sealed spellbook.

"Consider these to be a gift, from a seeker to another." As the witch-like girl spoke, the cards disappeared from her hand in a flash of light. If Thomas bothered to look, he would find them resting on his pocket, where there was nothing until a moment ago.

—Andromeda Hardt—

"Ugh—" Andromeda controlled the urge to facepalm after bearing witness to the others' introduction, if that could be even called that. How in the world could they think that demanding help in return would work? If nothing else, it only made them sound even more desperate and shady.

At least M3—shorthand for Mr. Magic Man—tried to save face right after Graham's incredibly ill-thought answer. "I wouldn't say humble is the right word but let's leave it at that," Andromeda said after a deep sigh. "Just as my friend here said, we might have come across the place on our way here. I just didn't want to give an uninformed guess. That's why I offered to help earlier. But I understand if you aren't interested, after our friends'... prank, I guess?"

The only thing Andromeda could hope for now is that these knight-like strangers wouldn't feel like reporting them to the authorities. A night on the slums was bad, but who knows what could happen if they had to spend it behind bars.
You didn't need to be this rude, but ok, I guess.

Just don't ban anyone you think may be one of my alts. I don't need to do something as low as that.
Interesting.

I have a few ideas I could use for this.
@Sonnambula He's fine on my end.

Now, all that's left to see is how he'll react to the group he ended up being slotted into.

Goldistar

“Well, it’s not that I wouldn’t like to dive into the heat of battle riding with you, but we have to avoid attracting unwanted attention,” Shelk answered after Lancer proposed that they drop the cab idea and go for a horseback ride instead. It was a tempting proposition to be true—a gallant one indeed—but it would be just a little too conspicuous to pull that stunt in the position they were now.

Even though Shelk was glad that her Servant didn’t decide to press the issue, what came next wasn’t exactly a smooth ride either. Well, to say it wasn’t smooth wouldn’t be right, but certainly it was like riding a roller coaster with a faulty seatbelt. Every time they made a turn Shelk was prepared for the worst, but at least Lancer seemed to have enjoyed her new toy? Only god could tell what would happen if they picked a motorcycle instead.

“I think we should get going to that bamboo forest after all. Scouting around didn’t yield anything so it seems like the enemy decided to entrench themselves. I guess we weren’t that lucky after all!”


Saber of Black

“I won’t deny those are creations of one of my ‘allies’ for this war. If you want to judge me for that, so be it. However, I have nothing to do with how they are deployed and they know very well—or so do I hope—to not interfere while we Servants do our job,” Saber said as she stepped forward, taking the opportunity to get a good look at her opponent and gauge her.

Saber took a deep breath as she drew her sword, holding it with both hands, blade parallel to the ground at shoulder-height. “If that’s decided, then, allow me to begin,” she said as she charged forward with a resolute step, aiming a thrust at her opponent’s throat, followed by a second step pushing her weight forward, trying to throw the other swordswoman out of balance with a tackle.
—Andromeda Hardt—

"Don’t worry about that. Now that we know that silver and gold are valuable here as well some idea of how valuable things are, I have a plan," Andromeda said, answering the common doubts of more than one of the others. "By the way, we may not be able to call one another without a network, but we can send things over bluetooth if need be."

"At any rate, we should get going before—" An unknown duo approached the group before Andromeda could finish her sentence.

The swords were the first thing to call her attention, but it wasn’t long before Andromeda’s gaze was focused on the girl named Seraphine. It’s not every day you’d see that kind of beauty, but then again, it’s not every day you’d be taken to another world with not even a clue of what’s happening. Maybe this was their lucky day. The problem, however, was how to approach the question without making them seem suspicious.

"Don’t worry, you aren’t bothering us at all. I’m Andromeda, it’s a pleasure meeting you," Andromeda said, leading up in a friendly tone. She abstained from introducing the others, since they weren’t acquainted enough for that yet. "Sadly, we are travelers from far away, so we don’t know the city very well. However, I don’t see any harm in helping you look for it. If you want it, of course."

"That’s theft right there," Clair called in an, at least a little ironic, statement once Cait confiscated her phone. "You can’t just go around taking a pure-hearted maiden’s phone like that. I didn’t even get to delete the browser history," she added as she moved back to the bar.

"Anyway, I guess I’ll let it slide if you make me a strawberry sundae on the house. That’s the least you can do, right?" The blonde thief smiled, trying to convince the cat to get a bigger discount from the bartender feline.

"There’s no need for more courtesy on my part. I believe they’ll have the chance to get more than they wish for from the next set of floors. Especially, if they play their cards right," Emilia replied to Cait’s laidback comment. A mysterious smile followed the comment of the solo traveler.

"Hey, you again? Why don’t you come with us this time? I bet it gets boring goin’ around this place on your own," Clair said as she ate her dessert while the others were away doing god-knows-what. Judging by the noises and creaks coming from upstairs, it couldn’t be many things, though.

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"Anything is fine by me! I don’t think I’ve been to any of those floors before, so it’s gonna be a fresh start either way," Clair said after they, or rather Kanbaru, seemed to have settled on their next destination. "If that’s the best option we have, I don’t see why not take it," she said as she licked her spoon clean, almost being done with her sundae.

"By the way, what happened to you up there? You look kinda… different, I guess?" Clair said, looking at Kanbaru’s rather unique new looks, the not least important of them being the sudden change of hair and eye hues.

Quick question:

Are Servants allowed to remember the past Grail Wars they've been in? Or, at the very least, feel like they've seen certain Servants way before they were summoned to Fusang?


With the possible exception of Gilgamesh it's less whether or not they are allowed to remember and more whether or not they want to remember something and in how much detail they chose to do so.

Some Servant pick and choose their memories (usually only the things that leave a strong impression) while others simply ignore them all together since they don't feel like they are the same person who potentially might have been summoned a nigh infinite number of times in Grail Wars/etc. throughout all the versions of the Proper Human History.
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