

＄04-00-02-03-1-0

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＠Rani-XII
On that note, allow me to officially welcome you to our world, visitors from the outside.
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＠Rani-XII
Good of you to come as well, Āyus, prime AI of the Type Rs. And your Servant, Berserker.
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＠Duryodhana
So you're the central governing AI, huh? Hmm...
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＠Āyus
Hey, stop staring at her! Don't you know that's rude?
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＠Āyus
...Ahem. Thank you, Governor.
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＠Āyus
Um, I didn't really know what to do after these people saved us...
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＠Āyus
...so I thought I'd bring them here and ask you, well, everything I didn't have an answer for... Is that okay?
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＠Rani-XII
You made the right call. Part of my job is dealing with unexpected problems whenever they[line 2]
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＠Rani-XII
Hrm!?
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＠Rani-XII
Warning. Any attempts to forcibly access my inner workings...
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＠Rani-XII
...could put every function under my supervision at critical risk.
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＠Rani-XII
I do not recommend this course of action; I certainly don't approve of it.
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＠Rani-XII
Were I to abandon the nomenclature associated with the systems I govern, I might simply say...
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＠Rani-XII
What the hell do you think you're doing?
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＠Sion
Pardon me. Before we go any further, I thought I should verify what kind of being you are.
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＠Sion
Since you have introduced yourself, I will do the same.
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＠Sion
My name is Sion Eltnam Sokaris. I used to be the Paper Moon's caretaker.
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＠Sion
Could you search my name to see if I have administrator access?
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＠Rani-XII
Searching... No results.
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＠Rani-XII
But even if you were once the Paper Moon's caretaker, I have no way of determining that.
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＠Rani-XII
All I can say in response is, “Is that so?”
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＠Kama
Hold up. If you really did design and manage this world, wouldn't that make you its god or something?
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＠Kama
So why the hell do you apparently not even have the authority to tell this living doll what to do?
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＠Sion
...I only had custody over the Paper Moon as a device.
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＠Sion
But this world, and the AIs that spawned inside it, are that device's contents.
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＠Sion
So when you think about it, it makes sense that I would not have direct administrative access over them.
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＠Rani-XII
Our god... I see. That's certainly a fascinating idea.
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＠Rani-XII
Then in accordance with the basic information I have on the outside world, let me ask you this:
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＠Rani-XII
If a being you had never seen before were to suddenly appear and declare themself your world's god...
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＠Rani-XII
...how would humans typically react?
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＠Duryodhana
Well...I guess all we could do is say, “Is that so?”
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＠Rani-XII
I see.
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＠Rani-XII
Then it seems my reaction was correct, since these circumstances are essentially the same as my hypothetical.
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＠Sion
...Well, I suppose it is no big deal.
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＠Sion
For my part, I do not intend to declare myself the god of a bunch of AIs I have no recollection of making.
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＠Sion
Besides, I was able to learn some things from the brief moment I touched you with my Etherlite.
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？1：Like what?
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＠Sion
Her disposition and mass.
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＠Sion
If I really had created her, then just like a programmer reading their own code...
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＠Sion
...I should have been able to read and modify any and all information about her.
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＠Sion
But I was unable to learn anything more than I would if I had examined another human.
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＠Sion
Remember what I said about perceiving this world via the paradigm with which we are familiar?
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＠Sion
In this case, it means that I can only relate to her as a person, not as a creation I can manipulate however I like.
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＠Rani-XII
If I were to guess...
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＠Rani-XII
...the fact that you have tangible bodies here means that, componentwise, you are the same kind of being as us.
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＠Sion
Even so, I can say that Rani-XII here is indeed an AI.
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＠Sion
I felt the same reaction from her as I did when I touched Āyus with Etherlite.
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＠Āyus
Huh? When did you do that? Don't touch me without at least saying something. It's embarrassing...
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＠Rani-XII
There are some things I can say about you as well.
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＠Rani-XII
I searched you using my full authority as the central governing AI, and it's clear you are not AI yourselves.
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＠Rani-XII
In fact, you weren't created inside the Paper Moon at all. Which means you must be visitors from the outside.
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＠Rani-XII
This means you are not of this world but possess the same structural integrity as AIs like us, though you are yourselves not AIs.
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＠Āyus
Hm? So...they're outsiders who just happened to end up here?
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＠Rani-XII
Unfortunately, their presence here may not be entirely coincidental. Since two of them are Master and Servant...
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＠Rani-XII
...I would guess that they've also been selected to take part in the System Grail War.
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＠Rani-XII
Normally, all Masters would be chosen from among this world's AIs...
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＠Rani-XII
...and given a set of randomized modifications.
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？1：Why randomized?
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＠Rani-XII
The prime AIs that are chosen to become Masters may be of different types but they're all still R.A.N.I. Series at their core.
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＠Rani-XII
We thought that, were they to all become Masters under identical conditions...
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＠Rani-XII
...they would all end up using the same strategies and taking the same actions.
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＠Rani-XII
That wouldn't work for the System Grail War, which expects a certain degree of active, irregular resource allocation.
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＠Rani-XII
So we arranged things to ensure each AI would be assigned a set of random individual traits when they became a Master.
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＠Rani-XII
In summary, the Master AIs are prime AIs who were randomly transformed in both appearance and personality.
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＠Rani-XII
Now, with that in mind, let's turn the subject back to you.
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＠Rani-XII
Since you possess a similar structural integrity to the Master AIs...
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＠Rani-XII
...I would guess you've been caught up in the System Grail War for reasons that are still not clear to me.
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＠Sion
We have no desire to participate either, of course.
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＠Sion
Is it possible for you to sever our connection to that system and return us to the outside world?
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＠Rani-XII
Unfortunately, no.
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＠Rani-XII
The Grail War is executed by the world itself.
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＠Rani-XII
As the central governing AI, part of my job is to oversee the war...
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＠Rani-XII
...but I can't intervene in the actual system.
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＠Rani-XII
The most I can do is run add-ons or mods based on the existing rules.
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＠Rani-XII
There's nothing I can do to change the rules themselves.
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？1：Then, how CAN we get back to the outside?
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＠Rani-XII
You showed up here right when the System Grail War was starting...
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＠Rani-XII
...in a form that ties you directly to it.
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＠Rani-XII
This would seem to indicate that the system, for whatever reason...
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＠Rani-XII
...elected to reach into the outside world to bring the three of you here during its initial execution.
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＠Rani-XII
In which case, I think completing or ending the System Grail War may trigger your return to the outside.
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？1：I see...

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＠Kama
I guess that's the only clue we have to go on.
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＠Kama
Well, fine.
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＠Kama
Then can you tell us more about this System Grail War?
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？2：Can you tell us more about this System Grail War?
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＠Rani-XII
Of course. To begin...
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＠Rani-XII
...the System Grail War is meant to repair and stabilize the Paper Moon's world whenever an irregularity of some kind occurs.
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＠Rani-XII
You could think of it as an optimization or defragmentation routine which is executed at a worldwide scale.
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＠Sion
Now that you mention it, before this happened to us, the Paper Moon was malfunctioning for reasons we could not determine.
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＠Sion
And you say this system is designed to correct those kinds of malfunctions?
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＠Rani-XII
Correct.
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＠Rani-XII
We don't know what caused the malfunction either. All the AIs remained fully functional as normal.
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＠Rani-XII
It may be that the world chose to execute its most powerful stabilization routine specifically because nobody knows why this happened.
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＠Rani-XII
However, the Paper Moon is also very unlikely to return to normal form so long as the System Grail War is ongoing.
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＠Rani-XII
If we ignore it, the strain could continue to increase until the Paper Moon is no longer able to function normally again.
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＠Rani-XII
I cannot say what such a situation might be like, as I've never experienced anything like it.
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＠Rani-XII
I'm not able to simulate one, either.
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＠Rani-XII
At worst, it is possible the entire world could quite literally shatter.
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？1：We can't let that happen![csr]The Paper Moon is way too important!
？2：We definitely don't want that![csr]We'd be lost without the Paper Moon!
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＠Kama
Good grief.
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＠Kama
Shouldn't you be more worried about what would happen to US if things came to that?
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＠Rani-XII
Let me tell you the AI Holy Grail War[line 2]that is, the System Grail War's rules.
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＠Rani-XII
As you can tell from the name, this Grail War's Masters are usually all AIs; five of them, specifically.
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＠Rani-XII
I believe you already know this, but those AIs are the prime AIs based on the respective AI type of each of this world's partitions.
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＠Rani-XII
These include Keep, Transfer, Build, Grow, and Repair.
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＠Rani-XII
In order to ensure individuality among Masters...
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＠Rani-XII
...each prime AI is given a randomized personality and a single Command Spell.
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＠Rani-XII
One of those Masters is right over there.
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＠Āyus
That's me. Like I said before, I'm the Master representing the Repair partition!
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＠Sion
Five AIs? In the Holy Grail Wars we know, there are usually seven Masters. It is only five here?
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＠Rani-XII
That's right. It's because we only have five usable[sr]areas[line 2]the partitions.
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＠Rani-XII
The Defend area's Type D AIs need to focus on dealing with the bugs that naturally occur in this world, so they never get involved in the Grail War.
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＠Rani-XII
Furthermore, as the central area, Defend is also the only partition with a neutral zone.
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＠Rani-XII
This church is under my jurisdiction as the Grail War's overseer. Combat of any sort is prohibited here.
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＠Rani-XII
And any nonpeaceful interference with regular AIs, including Defend's Type Ds, is prohibited in all the other areas as well.
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＠Sion
...[sr]...
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＠Rani-XII
Once the Master AIs are sufficiently diversified, they each summon a Servant and fight to determine the victor.
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＠Rani-XII
Once the last Master AI remaining is determined...
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＠Rani-XII
...the system takes all the energy that was accumulated via combat...
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＠Rani-XII
...and uses it to restore the Paper Moon to working order.
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＠Rani-XII
So my guess is that a sixth team won't have any adverse effects on the system.
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＠Sion
I see. So we[line 2]or rather, [&he:she] and Kama, are a[sr]sixth Master and Servant pair that do not correspond to any of the districts.
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＠Āyus
So that really is what this means? Nnn, that's going to be a problem...right?
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＠Duryodhana
Exactly. Now do you see? I knew I was right to atta[line 2]
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＠Duryodhana
Ahem. I mean, ambush them earlier to see how strong they were. Purely for training reasons, of course.
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＠Duryodhana
But, a Holy Grail War can only have one victor.
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＠Duryodhana
If you're given a chance to thin out the competition, it only makes sense to take that opportunity.
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＠Duryodhana
After all, both Master and Servant alike have a reason for wanting to win.
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？1：They do?
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＠Duryodhana
Oh come on, you really don't get it?
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＠Duryodhana
The winner is granted any wish they like.
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＠Duryodhana
That's why Masters and Servants fight together to try and achieve victory.
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＠Duryodhana
Hell, that's the whole reason the Holy Grail War exists in the first place, right?
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