1st Floor, Room No.4

This sure is a strange-looking apartment... Its corridors are much longer than they appear to be.

...its elevator has a "Forever Out of Order" sign, and it's always empty.

There's a sign that points to the stairs going up, but we'll never reach it.

Ryougi, was this building always like this? Or is it just this time?

Yeah. It was always a creepy apartment, but this time it's even worse.

The width of the corridors, the number of rooms... Stuff like that doesn't really make a difference.

But this temperature... I can't deal with this cold. Now this really feels like a haunted house.

You mentioned this as a place that collects death. It doesn't collect ghosts?

Indeed. It's more like it traps them here. It didn't collect them endlessly like this.

Now this place is like a whirlpool. It pulls in unrelated stuff and turns it into evil.

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Big swirl! Hole, gap, black hole! I got it! It's easier to understand this way!

I thought this place was like a magnetic field that attracted grudges like a lightning rod...

But a big tree's hollow trunk is more suitable. Once you take a peek, if you're unlucky, you will fall into the eternal abyss.

Hehe... A trap hole that opened in reality? Make sure you don't push me!

Mephisto, you're saying it, but stop pushing Senpai, please!

...You guys sure get along. Was he like this back in Chaldea, too?

He is, without a doubt, the exact same Servant! No doubt about it!

Is that so!? I'm really troublesome!

Ah, putting that aside, Miss Ryougi? I'm worried about that thing you have there.

Mystic Eyes of Death Perception, right? I heard they can cut down anything regardless of strength.

They sever the very activity of living. They bring instant death, yet it's different than brain death or heart attack.

I understand. I do understand... but they work on living things, right?

Yet you're killing zombies who are not living. How is that possible?

That's my doubt! To kill dead people... It's complete nonsense!

Hell if I know. It might look the same to humans, but ceasing to live and dying are two different things.

Doesn't matter if it's zombies or ghosts, they're moving... If they are moving, that means they are "living."

If it's alive, no matter what, death will come. May it be oblivion or disintegration.

My eyes don't make any distinctions between those things.

That is... Painful! You have gone through much, Miss Ryougi!

Not really. It's better than becoming a demon in order to continue living, isn't it?

Oh. You're right.

Stop Fujimaru! Watch your front and not just your back!

I'm detecting a Servant! Not in the room, it's in the corridor

There's someone at the end of it!

Hey, good evening, Mephisto. Are these the new tenants?

Welcome to the grudge garden. Nice to meet you. I've met you before, haven't I?

I'm Jekyll from Room 4. I'm the manager of this corridor, too.

You just arrived, so you haven't mutated, right? You're not ready to go upstairs.

It is better to stay on the first floor a little longer. It's a little cold, but you'll get used to it.

Do you want to rest a little in my room? It is a bit untidy right now, but you can use it.

...Master... That Jekyll... is scary... I can't explain it, but he's very

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Whaaat? Mephisto don't wanna go! Me don't like dirty room.

Dirty room? Is that a dirty room? It's no good. It's no good at all!

I like to expose people's fetishes, but I don't like looking at them.

So, please, Master, decline Jekyll's invitation. He's not suitable as a Servant in the first place.

If you know it's dirty, clean it up! Or perhaps...

Scrupulous Jekyll is sleeping? You're someone who can't clean up?

Uh... Well, to tell you the truth, you're right. I'm bad at cleaning up, and besides...

It gets dirty and red instantly! I can't clean it up every single time, right?!

Shiki!

I see, someone here totally gets it!

But that was a perfect surprise attack! Why the hell would you block that!?

Anyway, I see that you're the same as me!

Pretending to be normal, but you're just a mass murderer who's craving to cut people's heads off!

...Tch, what was that? Disappointing... And here I was looking forward to this fated encounter.

Before I knew it, I was at Ogawa Heim. I was already a Servant.

Facing countless ghosts and their grudges, running into a strange Master.

Ah, yes... Fujimaru and Mash are good. It's not that bad yet.

But I wasn't satisfied. That much I know.

The only reason I could remain motivated was because I had a hunch! That I might run into the real thing.

The one who came before. The world famous mass murderer with dual personalities!

But what's this? Are you kidding me? Why did you transform? I thought we could enjoy some time together. I'm shocked.

Hey, please turn back to that kind-looking guy. That one is probably stronger, and I prefer him.

What? Do you prefer that moron over me? Why? Are you sure? This is the real me!

From that weak Jekyll, I become the strong Hyde! The one who's good with the knife is me, you know?!

...Hah. That's enough, tell him, Scissors. I think you can understand me.

...What?

Okay, okay. I understand you completely! Yes, I do, I understand you, miss!

Mr. Hyde, this is what she's saying. Don't show the ace up your sleeve too quickly. If you do that, it's basically saying, "This is my limit."

It's more fun to watch a good human fight while suppressing his own demons, as we still don't know what will happen!

The catharsis of collapse, was it?

I serve under the Master because I want to witness that explosive moment!

If you want to play with a beast that is aggressive from the start you can go to a savannah!

That's what she wants to see! It's not the mass murders committed by Hyde.

...But the immoral crimes committed by the good Jekyll as he cries tears of regret. Now that's ecstasy!

...I'm an idiot to have let you talk. You're completely wrong. Get out of my way.

Mephy, shocked!

But I do prefer the goodie-goodie looking one. It's like the difference between fighting for fun and fighting for your life.

If you have to kill, it's more enthralling to fight desperately, right?

In other words, you are not enough. Come back again another time...

HAH! I see, I see! You can't enjoy it if it's not serious!?

You're one crazy lady! Then, let's have fun with this little dance!

Ugh... Hyde came out again... Sorry... Hyde and I were manipulated...

Fujimaru, be careful with Mephisto... He cannot be trusted...

Oh? Me? No, no. Don't you know I'm a changed man?

Wait, I can't change! I mean, I am already the good Mephy!

If I change, I will become the evil one! Nope, not changing, not ever going to chaaaaaaannnge.

Ugh... What is this, I can't maintain my body... My eyes... It's all dark...

Fujimaru, give me your hand, please... I have something that I have to give you...

Good... You have the heart to trust people... You are the Master I've always hoped for.

...Master?!

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Come on, take this key. Use it to go to the upper floor

But before you go... Dieeeee!

Ggg!

Thanks. I will gladly accept this key.

Y-Yooouu! Twice! You ruined my surprise attack twice!

I'm amazed that you can't even fulfill a dying pretty boy's wish! Don't you have the heart to trust people?!

If you were your normal self, I would've been deceived, or rather moved, by your kindness.

But neither happened to me this time. I mean... You've been one personality the whole time.

Ugh. Don't tell me, you already knew?!

I wanted to meet the famous Doctor Jekyll, but he is not here.

Instead of having a split personality, you were acting like someone with dual personalities.

As a fan, you can't blame me for being disappointed, can you?

Ah... Dammit that's embarrassing. It's even more embarrassing than me losing in a knife fight.

I'd bury my head in the sand if I could. But looks like I don't need to do that, right?

Considering there's a dangerous fan here, I guess I shall take my leave.

See ya, mass murderer of the present. Just be careful and make sure you don't become a knock-off.

...Enemy Servant eliminated. Um... What was that just now?

I don't know. Hey Scissors, say something.

Hehehe! Not that it's important, so I will keep it in two lines!

Dr. Jekyll fully mutated when he arrived at this apartment. Both his body and soul rotted away, so he died!

Doctor Jekyll is a Servant with a split personality... So what you're saying is that his main personality is gone already?

So Hyde, who survived, was acting like Doctor Jekyll... Just like how his story ended... So sad.

Fou...

But what do you mean by mutated?

Jekyll was a Servant who transformed into Hyde with drugs, but it seems you're not talking about those...

Ah, I forgot to mention it. It is what makes this apartment special.

Certain characteristics? Past history? Criminal record? Hmmmmm, well, let's just keep that vague.

Anyway, if certain Servants stay here, their alignment will change, and become more resentful.

I myself was changed that way! Even if I want to fight, I took an arrow to the shin! Ow!

Changing Heroic Spirits' alignment?! Is that like a new way of tampering with parameters?!

Yes. Well, they get angry easily so it's more like stress level? Like lowering the boiling point?

So it's not really that harmful. However

For the people that ended their life full of resentment and sadness, this place will work wonders!

Heroic Spirits ending up as evil ghosts due to their own resentment for humans... Isn't that ironic?

Yes, even the evil me used that and asked those kinds of Servants to come here.

As you can see, all the Servants that moved here went crazy, right?

Th-That's not very nice! Bad Mephisto! You're guilty!

Hehe, I was just doing my job as a real estate agent! The guilty ones are this land, this building, and the mastermind!

I can't believe it... You have a contract with a Servant who was a judge?

Will the jury be full of homunculi? I mean, human trials can be tough, you know?

Oops, I was caught by Mash's beauty and said too much. Zipping my mouth now.

You will find out yourselves when you go to the upper floors! I think!

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Oh. Did you smile? Why?

It's fun with Fujimaru around, clown. When we have fun guests, my tension blows up!

Is it possible? I'm always hyper like this, hyahoo!

I can see that. Fine, now we can go upstairs, right?

Let's move forward, Fujimaru. It seems the real fight starts now.