Fate/Grand Order story · Events, Tokugawa Restoration Labyrinth, Ooku
Interlude: The Truth of Materials, Part One
Tokugawa Restoration Labyrinth, Ooku. Butterfly Room
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1. Before the battle
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Huh? There's something on the floor here. What is it?
It looks like a hanafuda card. I don't really know anything about them myself, though.
It's a peony.
It's a butterfly.
Is that anything like karuta? I've seen the Ooku's residents and attendants playing that before.
It's no surprise that they might have dropped one of their cards.
Wait. Sion is cocking her head.
Is there something strange about the card?
No, it is just an ordinary card. It has nothing to do with the expedition. But, its parameters are also not stable. They are constantly shifting around.
It is as if there is some sort of black box component to this card that makes it impossible to analyze...
You mean...it's the same?
Hm? What are you talking about?
I mean it is behaving the same as everything over your heads and beneath your feet: the very Ooku labyrinth you are currently traversing.
Obviously, the fact that it is giving off the same readings as the Ooku means that card is also part of the Ooku.
Unfortunately, I do not have any more information to go on at this moment.
Still, I do not think it poses any danger, and it is very intriguing that it would behave this way, so please hang on to it.
If you find any similar samples, then I should be able to conduct a more thorough analysis.
Roger that.
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Hmm. Well, I can't complain too much as long as they're getting their work done, but it's still only right that they pick up after themselves when they're done!
I can understand if they didn't realize they dropped it, or they just forgot to pick it up...
...but once I find the culprit, they're still going to get an earful.
Oh yes, I'm happy to be the bad guy if it will keep the Ooku dignified.
All that aside, I'm a little surprised. I never would have pictured the Ooku's residents playing card games before.
Well of course they did. If they could never leave or have any fun, that would make it a prison, not a home.
The women who lived in the Ooku were free to keep dogs, cats, and birds, sing songs, play the koto, have tea, hold hanami and tsukimi parties... There was plenty of entertainment to go around.
Of course, in this fake, gloomy, underground Ooku, there wouldn't be any way to hold a hanami or tsukimi party, would there...
...Grr, now I am absolutely livid all over again!
Come on, everyone. The sooner we get to the bottom of this accursed fake Ooku and save the shogun, the better!