Third || Video

[hyphenated]

I suppose it is time I introduced myself. It has been long enough.

[The woman in front of the camera looks prim and proper; a true lady with a massive ribbon on her chest. She's doing her best to look neat for the video. To hell with camping. Apt people might notice a leaf in her hair.]

After all, it seems we're going to have to put up with each other for a long while. My name is-

[The camera turns.]

No, Derry! Don't you dare-

[SMOOCH. That's bright pink lips right on the screen there.]

Derry! I told you to hold it up to me! How useless...

[She tugs it out of the Smoochum's hands (paws?) with a sigh.]

Ahem. As I was saying. My name is Sola-Ui. Sola-Ui Nuada-Re Sophia-Ri, to be precise. I suppose we will see whether it is a pleasure or not in times to come.

...if a man named 'Lancer' appears here, please inform me.

[Nope, no idea about other Lancers. Too busy not dying of OH MY GOD SO MUCH WALKING AND WHY DOES THE WEATHER HATE ME, etc, etc.]

Comments

[hyphenated]

How in the world could something like that even happen? Something as powerful as that could not be corrupted, surely.

...not that I doubt your statement. But perhaps that was not the true grail?

[wontdieifkilled]

It wasn't. No one knows where the true Grail is. That was just an imitation. And someone got it filled with all the evils of the world.

[hyphenated]

Then how can you consider the War to be over? If that was just a mimicry, then must it wait for the next Holy Grail War to be claimed?

[wontdieifkilled]

I have to wonder if the real thing was ever involved. Anyway, I saw the Holy Grail collapse in on itself. It tried to use a Servant as a host, and...that didn't turn out pretty.

[hyphenated]

Even the Einzberns wouldn't do anything so foolish as to create a false Grail.

...a Servant? Truly? [That earned a tittering laugh.]

[wontdieifkilled]

And if someone killed the Einzbern representative, ripped her heart out, and stuck it in the body of another Master?

[He's got a look on his face as if he swallowed something unbelievably sour. It's clear he's mentioning a detested memory.]

Yep. A hole appeared on his body and sucked him in.

[hyphenated]

...if truth must be told, I have absolutely no idea why in the world they would do that or what the consequences would be.

That must have been a sight to see.

[Her tact seemed to have gone out of the window.]

[wontdieifkilled]

...

It was the most vile thing I've ever seen.

[hyphenated]

I almost feel sorry for the Einzbern family now. Really, there is something odd about the Grail's choices lately, to cause them to summon not only that foolish monster but now one who would be so... pointlessly and brashly brutal.