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"Exactly right," Liliesviel beams. "I'm sure there's a Master from the Yggdmillennia family out wandering Tokyo right now, looking for you and feeling wonderfully frustrated!"
You shoot a questioning look at Caster. She's been silent through the whole exchange, but it's ultimately she who's in the best position to understand the nature of a magical lifeform. Is it all true? Or is this business of your being a vessel for the energy of the Holy Grail a continuation of Liliesviel's theorizing about your origins?
"I wanted to wait until Liliesviel-chan had explained how this Holy Grail War functions, so you would understand the rest of my analysis," Caster offers by way of explanation for her silence. "You are the same type of homunculus she is, created to hold and process the mystic energy of slain Heroic Spirits. It does seem as if those who worked on you made some modifications to the Einzbern design. You aren't connected to the Greater Grail as she is; your Magic Circuits turn inward, instead. I expect the Yggdmillennia have prepared some way of changing that at the crucial moment, to keep anyone else from using their Grail. Otherwise your design is the same. Even your lifespan is,"
"Caster," Liliesviel cuts in. Suddenly, she isn't meeting your eyes. The cheer at finding a 'brother' has gone out of her face. She looks sorrowful. "This will be the hardest part for you to hear, but I think it would be crueler not to tell you. Homunculi are created for a purpose, quickly grown, used, and disposed of. We learn quickly, have physical or magical abilities beyond human limits, and can do things impossible for a human being, but we don't have their lifespan. Although it seems the Yggdmillennia prolonged your development, you and I were created for this Holy Grail War. When it has ended, so will we."
Caster nods silently. Somehow, this news doesn't have the same impact that the notion of yourself as a tool did. Perhaps it's because you already felt running out of magical energy to be a death sentence. You look at the two girls numbly, trying to think of what it is you would do with the time left to you. You can't return to your human life. You have no intention of serving the people who apparently made you. What goal worth striving for could be accomplished in the short span of the Holy Grail War? How long do you even have? Ten days, the span of the War in the Akeldama? Two weeks? A month? It can't be long.
"You don't have any objection to serving in the Einzbern ritual and then dying?" In the absence of a rational plan of action, what you end up voicing is the basic curiosity at Liliesviel's attitude you've felt all along.
"I do," comes the answer, with surprising defiance. Her expression is anything but resigned; perhaps you had been misunderstanding the girl's attitude.
"What, then? If this expiration date is built into your body, do you plan to find another?"
You shoot a questioning look at Caster. She's been silent through the whole exchange, but it's ultimately she who's in the best position to understand the nature of a magical lifeform. Is it all true? Or is this business of your being a vessel for the energy of the Holy Grail a continuation of Liliesviel's theorizing about your origins?
"I wanted to wait until Liliesviel-chan had explained how this Holy Grail War functions, so you would understand the rest of my analysis," Caster offers by way of explanation for her silence. "You are the same type of homunculus she is, created to hold and process the mystic energy of slain Heroic Spirits. It does seem as if those who worked on you made some modifications to the Einzbern design. You aren't connected to the Greater Grail as she is; your Magic Circuits turn inward, instead. I expect the Yggdmillennia have prepared some way of changing that at the crucial moment, to keep anyone else from using their Grail. Otherwise your design is the same. Even your lifespan is,"
"Caster," Liliesviel cuts in. Suddenly, she isn't meeting your eyes. The cheer at finding a 'brother' has gone out of her face. She looks sorrowful. "This will be the hardest part for you to hear, but I think it would be crueler not to tell you. Homunculi are created for a purpose, quickly grown, used, and disposed of. We learn quickly, have physical or magical abilities beyond human limits, and can do things impossible for a human being, but we don't have their lifespan. Although it seems the Yggdmillennia prolonged your development, you and I were created for this Holy Grail War. When it has ended, so will we."
Caster nods silently. Somehow, this news doesn't have the same impact that the notion of yourself as a tool did. Perhaps it's because you already felt running out of magical energy to be a death sentence. You look at the two girls numbly, trying to think of what it is you would do with the time left to you. You can't return to your human life. You have no intention of serving the people who apparently made you. What goal worth striving for could be accomplished in the short span of the Holy Grail War? How long do you even have? Ten days, the span of the War in the Akeldama? Two weeks? A month? It can't be long.
"You don't have any objection to serving in the Einzbern ritual and then dying?" In the absence of a rational plan of action, what you end up voicing is the basic curiosity at Liliesviel's attitude you've felt all along.
"I do," comes the answer, with surprising defiance. Her expression is anything but resigned; perhaps you had been misunderstanding the girl's attitude.
"What, then? If this expiration date is built into your body, do you plan to find another?"
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