Finally, all the records before the First Holy Grail War were sorted out and eliminated... However, Adrosson still noticed that Lawrence was summoned by the Einzbern family as many as 700 times.
...
Selim...how many of your father's relics did you hand over...
You'd better not have the possibility of being summoned on the same occasion as me...
The veins on his forehead were twitching, but he still controlled his emotions and stabilized the magic.
"The time is... 1814, so it's right!"
After checking the time of this record, Matou Shinji nodded and finally showed a smile.
The first Holy Grail War was in 1814, the second was in 1874, the third was in 1934, the fourth was in 1994, and the fifth was in 2004... This recorded time is correct
The time when the First Holy Grail War took place.
"Seven times... Then there should be no problem in the first Holy Grail War. Although it is not clear who is summoned, at least there are no exceptions in the summoning."
Well, at least at that time, everyone still had "rules".
Then sorting it out over time, it will take sixty years for the system of the Holy Grail War to absorb enough magic power and start again...
There were no problems in the Second Holy Grail War.
but......
The third time, something went wrong.
"...The eighth Servant Summoning."
Looking at the summoning record from 1934, Kotomine Kirei narrowed his eyes.
Generally speaking, there are only seven Servants in the Holy Grail War.
In the Holy Grail War, usually only servants from these seven professions are summoned, and one servant from each profession... This is the basic logic of the Holy Grail War.
But this does not mean that there are only these seven job agencies available for calling.
"The so-called EX job agency does exist."
Matou Shinji remembered what he saw in the books at home.
That thing should be considered a record...
"But apart from the regular Seven Riders servants, no one knows how many jobs there are and what they are... at least our Matou family doesn't know."
As he spoke, he shook his head.
At this time, an unexpected person spoke.
"Actually, in addition to the regular seven knights, there are quite a lot of EX job agency servants you mentioned."
It was Xiang An, who had been standing on the outside, who spoke.
"Mr. Xiang An?"
Matou Shinji showed a somewhat surprised expression.
"The Ruler who serves as the judge of the Holy Grail War, the Avenger who was born with resentment and desire for revenge, and the Shielder who is not conventional but still has a rare existence..."
Also, Beast...this is also a unique job agency.
Even Xiang An doesn't understand the rest.
But he could name at least three.
Alterego, Foreigner, MoonCancer, Pretender...these jobs are not servants that can appear under normal circumstances. In many cases, there is a problem with the summoning system or something else.
They only appear under special circumstances, there are too few examples, and they are all too magical. Even Xiang An has no idea about these weird job agencies.
After all, his summoning conditions are somewhat harsh. This is the first time he has been summoned from the Throne of Heroes in a serious way, and the one who summoned him is his sister-in-law...
The only holy relic he left behind is the original Huaigui Fu which was left for collection by Liu Bang, the emperor of the Han Dynasty. It is now kept in a museum. The rest... have basically been lost with the passage of time.
Disappeared.
"Ruler, Avenger, Shielder..."
Adjudicator, Avenger, Shield Soldier...
I can also understand the definition of a shield soldier, a servant who uses a shield, a judge and an avenger...
Matou Shinji fell into deep thought.
"This summons of servants is different from other summons. It doesn't seem to be a regular seven-horse summons."
"Did the eighth Servant participate in the Holy Grail War?"
Sakura frowned and looked at her brother.
"...It seems that, according to family records, there is no such thing."
Shinji shook his head.
Among the remaining records, the Third Holy Grail War was a "normal" Holy Grail War except for the ending.
In other words, except for the unexpected ending, the rest of the previous plots were very normal and they were attacking each other until the end.
But what happened at the end...no one knows.
The Matou family was eliminated early in the Third Holy Grail War, so the records are not complete at all.
"...This eighth Servant, has his soul returned to the Holy Grail?"
Kotomine Kirei pondered for a while and suddenly thought of this, so he asked Adroson.
"Let me see."
Adroson closed his eyes and felt it carefully.
"...back."
After a moment, he opened his eyes again, looked at Kotomine Kirei and nodded.
"Before the Fifth Holy Grail War, the souls of all the servants who were summoned returned to the Holy Grail."
"Um......"
"That shouldn't be right?"
Matou Shinji frowned and pinched his chin.
"If there is an eighth Servant, there should be corresponding records anyway... Mr. Kotomine Kirei, where are you?"
Matou Shinji glanced at Kotomine Kirei, who was looking through the incomplete records.
"I don't have any relevant records here."
Closing the notebook, Kotomine Kirei shook his head.
"Things are getting weird..."
Matou Shinji sighed.
Could it be that the eighth Servant who was extra summoned in violation of regulations died inexplicably after being summoned?
Isn't this guess a bit... too...?
"Although I can't see the more specific time, in general, the summoning time and exit time of this riding servant are very close."
Sakura continued to divide the data and said to the others behind her.
"If you look at this place, you can see that the summoning time of this Servant is different from that of the regular Seven Servants... This time stamp is later than the normal summoned Seven Servants.
Comparing the time when the Servants disappeared, this time should have been in the middle of the Third Holy Grail War, or even in the later stages."
"And the appearance time is very close to the death event... Although I don't know what happened specifically, this is definitely abnormal."
It’s not like the early days of the Holy Grail War, where servants would be killed as soon as they were summoned. It has already progressed to the middle and late stages...
"There was nothing wrong with the Fourth Holy Grail War and this time... If this is the case, we should be able to determine——"
Sakura said seriously.
"The anomalies in the third, fourth, and this Holy Grail War are most likely caused by the [Eighth Servant] that appeared in the Third Holy Grail War."