Section 16: The Name To Call (Night)

Raaahhh!

Wisdom of Atlas!

I see... If this keeps up, I have no chance of escaping unscathed. It seems Chaldea's fearsome reputation is well deserved.

Your orders are timely and clever. Your time spent working with your Servants has paid off in spades.

Each Heroic Spirit is their own person, and spectacularly unsuited to working together as a coordinated unit.

And yet, you're able to command your motley crew with aplomb. Though this skill seems less to rise from innate talent than it does from broad experience.

Oh? You still refuse to reveal who you are, yet you believe you have us all figured out?

If I were to stay in this form, I expect you and I would have a very good match indeed after a few back-and-forths.

But, now that I have better adjusted to this vessel, I no longer need to remain in this form.

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No way. Was that

Chaos Tide!?

Now it's a woman!?

Chaos Tide. So that is what you call the primordial soup of dynamic life-forms.

I cannot say I appreciate being named for, of all things, chaos.

I hate to shoot a woman, or something that looks like one, but I guess I got no choice!

It's no use! Projectile attacks won't work on her in that form! In fact, it looks like her real body isn't even here!

An excellent analysis. But analysis alone will not help you.

Ghh!

More shadow knights! Stay close to me, Master!

Whoa, nice one, old man! But we're gonna run out of magical energy sooner or later!

We can't even hurt the enemy general, so if we stick around, it's just a matter of time before the shadow knights cut us off!

G-good point! What are you going to do!?

...Its real body isn't here. Then, where could it be?

Is there anywhere left in this Singularity it could hide?

Hey, old man, look out! They're headed your way!

It's here, yet not here... Not here, yet, here...

Whoa, whoa. You're telling me you can fire that beam of yours automatically!?

This Singularity's unique properties... A land of only day and night... Three castles... Tears of the Holy Grail... Two versions of me...

...Two versions of me?

Then, that data must be...

Hey! Old man! This really feel like a good time to break out a damned book!?

Lady Da Vinci! Can you send me the data from Chaldea's instruments!?

Huh? Right now?

Yes, right now! I'm going to have my library analyze it as well!

Okay, got it. Sending you the data now!

When it comes to gathering information on Singularities, Chaldea's instruments and database are unrivaled.

So, if we add the computational power of my Library of Alexandria to that...

Wait. The hell!? If this is right, that would mean...there are two Ptolemaîos signals there!?

This is bizarre. The other signal is coming from the same coordinates as you, only not the same.

It's almost like there are two of you, each straddling separate space-times!

I knew it...

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I'm sorry, but there's no time to explain. The question is, how can we use this to our advantage?

I may have figured out the trick, but it doesn't change the fact that we're separated. We still need a way to break through the Bounded Field.

If only I could use magecraft like Taigong Wang's...

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Oh, right. The situation in the labyrinth was similar, wasn't it? If we only had a method of teleporting, then...

...Fujimaru!

Use a Command Spell to call me!

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Not THIS me! The other me!

You want to use a Command Spell to teleport? But Chaldea's Command Spells aren't capable of that!

For that matter, I don't even know what you're talking about! What do you mean, call your other self!?

Just do it!

It might be impossible in other Singularities, but right here, right now, I'm sure it'll work!

...What are you up to?

Hey! You wanna talk to them? You go through me!

So that wasn't enough to so much as make you flinch! Even so!

Out of my way.

Ptoley!

You're not going anywhere.

You Heroic Spirits and your Master are all going to die here.

We can do this the easy way, or the hard

Hurry, Fujimaru! Call the other me!

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I told you, you're not going anywhere.

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None of you are getting away. Neither you Heroic Spirits nor your Master.

You will all repeat this day-night cycle for eternity, fighting an unending battle.

You're going to keep fighting until your very souls are twisted apart by all the sins staining them...

No, I don't think we will.

You!

Yes, I figured you'd come here eventually. So I've been biding my time, waiting for this very moment.

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Now, I think it's time you gave me back my Master!

You're Tai

By divine decree, let a hundred evils be cut down, and a thousand spirits driven forth!

It can't be!

How!? How did you get here!?

Haha! I wasn't just tooting my own horn when I said I qualified as a Grand Servant! A little time was all I needed!

Now, let's go again!

By divine decree!

Ghh...!

No... My dimensional locks...!

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