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[charaSet B 1098165300 1 M]
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@Soldier
There are more ghosts over that way!
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@M
Oho, it seems that fighting alongside those soldiers won us their trust. Perfect. Let's slip inside while no one is looking!
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@Reines
Hm? This is...[bgm BGM_EVENT_48 0.1]
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@M
Do you feel that?
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@Reines
This doesn't look anything like the Bloody Tower[sr]I know, but it has that exact same cloud of death lingering over it...
[k]

@Reines
Now I see why those ghosts were hanging around here.
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@M
Well, this is the Tower of London. No doubt there are countless souls who went to their deaths cursing it.
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@Reines
...I'm sorry, I think the ghosts must have gotten[sr]to me. Would you mind going on without us?
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@M
Oh, I'm sorry to hear that. Will you be all right?
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@Reines
I'll be fine. I just need a few minutes.
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@M
I see. Very well then, I'll go on ahead.
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@Reines
Is he gone? Good.[sr]This mask was really getting on my last nerve.
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@Reines
Phew, finally, a chance to catch our breath. While we're at it, let me ask you something: What do you make of all this?
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?1:You mean the old guy?
?2:You mean the pianist?

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@Reines
I mean both the old guy and the pianist, of course.[bgm BGM_EVENT_90 0.1][sr]But it's not just them. It's us, too.
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@Reines
Remember when you were talking with Mash? We might have recovered some of our memories, but we still don't know what we could be missing even now.
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@Reines
With all these things we've forgotten, it's almost[sr]like we've taken a drink from the River Lethe.
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?1:The River Lethe?

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@Reines
One of the rivers of the underworld in Greek myth.[sr]Any pupil of mine should be familiar with the name.
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@Reines
Dead souls would drink from it before they could be reborn. The waters would wash away all memory of their earthy lives...
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@Reines
...much the way I forgot mine while I was going around convinced I was El-Melloi II. Like an idiot.
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?2:You mean the river of forgetfulness from The Aeneid?

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@Reines
So you do know your way around a textbook. That's right. The Roman poet Virgil said its waters would make any dead soul that drank from it forget everything that happened while they lived.
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@Reines
...Much the way I forgot mine while I was going around convinced I was El-Melloi II. Like an idiot.
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@Reines
There's also a myth about a river of knowledge called Mnemosyne that was like Lethe's opposite, where anyone who drank from it would gain omniscience.
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?1:Mnemosyne...
?2:That was written on the scrap of paper we found earlier...

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@Reines
At times, Mnemosyne has referred to a goddess of memory, a river, and a spring. At this point, I'd say we could use any one of them!
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@Reines
...By the way, Lady Reines,[sr]what do you make of my question?
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?1:Uh... What question? And aren't you Lady Reines?
?2:Um... Did you just refer to yourself in the third person?

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@Reines
Oh, sorry, that wasn't me. That was Sima Yi,[bgm BGM_EVENT_70 0.1][sr]the Heroic Spirit possessing me.
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@Reines
He's one of the heroes of China's Three Kingdoms period. I guess he's also why I was able to turn my head all the way around like that.
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@Reines
It looks like I'm aware of him again[sr]now that I've got some of my memory back.
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@Reines
Apparently, most Pseudo-Servants fuse together into more of a single entity, but Sima Yi doesn't like that. Says it's inefficient.
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?1:Inefficient?
?2:He sounds...um...animated?

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@Reines
He says that with humanity at stake, he's willing to help as a Heroic Spirit. But, he finds fusing inefficient, and also doesn't want to bother taking over my consciousness...
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@Reines
...so he says he's going to let me handle things most of the time. Certainly fits a Three Kingdoms tactician known for moving slowly and steadily.
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?1:That sounds like something Zhuge Liang would say...
?2:That's just like what happened with El-Melloi...

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@Reines
Hmm, so my brother was possessed by Zhuge Liang in your world, huh. Maybe it's fate that I'd end up in a similar position.
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@Reines
It sounds like Sima Yi strongly objects to that idea, but I'm just going to ignore him and get back to his original question.
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@Reines
Namely, why was he summoned here?
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?1:Another whydunit...
?2:Maybe it was a Holy Grail or something...?

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@Reines
Hmm. So Holy Grail fragments would frequently summon Rogue Servants in the worlds you visited, huh.
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@Reines
True, that could be the case here as well. I do have a strong connection to London, and a not insignificant connection to the Holy Grail, too.
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@Reines
I'd say I easily meet the minimum requirements for becoming a Pseudo-Servant.
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@Reines
But what sort of connection could I possibly have to a Chinese Heroic Spirit from the Three Kingdoms period?
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?1:Good question...
?2:I was wondering about that myself!

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@Reines
Of course, there's no telling how far the sphere of humanity's influence truly goes, or how any one person might be related to another. Anything is possible.
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@Reines
Those whack jobs at the Atlas Institute aside, any mage worth their circuits has to come to terms with that fact sooner or later.
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@Reines
Who knows? Sima Yi and I might have something[sr]in common neither of us would have ever guessed.
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@Reines
Maybe it even has something to do[sr]with why my brother was murdered...
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@???
O[messageShake 0.05 4 4 0.2]ooooohhh!
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@Reines
I don't know who that was,[bgm BGM_EVENT_80 0.1][sr]but it didn't sound like M!
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@Reines
Another automaton! And now it's wearing a mask too![sr]How nice of it!
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@E:???
Ahh, this is truly manna from heaven![sr]God has not forsaken me after all!
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@M
Oh, you're here. Excellent timing.
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@M
Haha, I'm afraid the old back is acting up again! As you can see, I'm having more trouble standing than a newborn fawn!
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@Reines
Dammit! All right, let's get it!
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