Mysterious Heroine X Alter
XXXX. Mysterious Heroines
Heroine XX:
It's time...for the XXth Servantverse Servant Assembly!
X Alter:
Yaaay.
(Clap, clap, clap, clap)
X:
What the hell are you talking about, you piece of junk?
Heroine XX:
...Hmph. I am not junk. I am a robot.
A killer machine that neither bleeds nor cries.
Heroine XX:
...At least for today, if you all don't mind.
Narration:
(Cocks head to side) (Nods falteringly)
Fujimaru 1:
You got it.
Fujimaru 2:
(Sounds like she's got her reasons.)
X:
Huh???
X:
Oh come on, you're obviously just disguising your voice! I can literally see you wobbling your throat with your hand to do it!
X:
There's no way a weird robot like that would exist in the Servantverse!
X Alter:
I don't have a problem with it.
We already have Professor Babbagen and Evil Wind 2B.
X Alter:
This is my room, by the way. It's got a kotatsu and everything. Hehehe. I've also got plenty of sweets to go with our tea.
Heroine XX:
(...)
X:
Oh please. As if a robot would ever want to go in a kotatsu.
X:
You're weirdly nice to the walking scrap heap, Ex...
I don't know why, but I don't like it!
X Alter:
Oh... Really?
X Alter:
She seems like a much better robot than my Black Knight Voloid. My Voloid can't even walk on two legs.
X:
I swear, just how low IS your opinion of your Voloid?
X:
And apparently, you're not even interested in trading that old bucket in for a newer model?
X Alter:
What can I say? That Black Knight and I have been through a lot together.
Heroine XX:
The Du Stallion II has seen better days, too...
X:
What was that!?
X:
Did you just throw shade at my beloved spaceship that's practically in factory new condition!?
Heroine XX:
BEEEP. That was. A memory bug. Don't worry about it.
X:
Grrr, oh forget it! I'm just gonna help myself to ALL the sweets on the kotatsu then!
X Alter:
By all means.
Go ahead, Robot, you can have some too.
X Alter:
As a Servantverse robot, you should at least be able to digest sweet beans.
Heroine XX:
...(Eyes welling up with tears)
Aw, Ex, you're the bes–(Cough, hack, cough)!
Heroine XX:
Thank you. Alter.
X Alter:
Hm? Sure, no problem.
X Alter:
Everyone else, please feel free to help yourselves to the sweets, too.
X Alter:
What would you like, Master?
I also have some piping hot green tea.
Fujimaru 1:
A chestnut cake and chestnut dumpling, please.
X Alter:
You have excellent taste, Master.
Chestnuts go great with all sorts of sweets.
X Alter:
This chestnut cake not only has delicious chestnut adzuki beans, its crisp, crunchy shell is a work of art on its own.
Mash:
This chestnut jelly is really soft and scrumptious too!
Mecha Eli-chan:
...I see. I now understand everything.
Today is a day for evaluating different kinds of sweets.
Mash:
(Munch, munch) That's, um, probably not quite right.
At least, I don't think it is.
Fujimaru 2:
Give me everything you've got, please.
X Alter:
...Oho...
(Clatter)
Mash:
W-wait! X Alter, please put away your twin blades!
Mash:
I'm sure Senpai only meant [♂ he /♀️ she} wanted to have one of every TYPE of sweet. Right, Senpai?
Mash:
...Right?
X Alter:
Hmm...
All right, I suppose that is acceptable.
X Alter:
And I do want you to have a firm grasp on the kinds of sweets I like.
Mecha Eli-chan:
... (Venting exhaust in lieu of sighing)
Mash:
So, um... Now that we've all had some lovely tea and a chance to relax, maybe we should get down to business...?
Mecha Eli-chan:
I agree.
What is this all about?
Heroine XX:
This is the XXth Servantverse Servant Assem–
Mecha Eli-chan:
You have already said as much.
What I want to know is, who chose these members?
Mecha Eli-chan:
I can understand why my pilot candidate and Mash might be here...
Mecha Eli-chan:
...but why would you ask me to attend a “Servantverse Servant Assembly”?
Mecha Eli-chan:
As you all surely know, I am the proud steel guardian of Castle Csejte!
Mecha Eli-chan:
I want no part of any world as slapdash and ill-defined as this “Servantverse.”
X:
Huh?
X:
You come from a world with a Japanese castle stacked on a pyramid stacked on a European castle. You have a giant steel demoness robot, Elisa Particles... How is that different than the Servantverse?
Mecha Eli-chan:
Blasphemy! Now be quiet and let me speak.
Hmph...
Mecha Eli-chan:
I hope whoever invited me here didn't do so solely because I'm a robot...did they?
Heroine XX:
(Hack, cough, cough)
Heroine XX:
(There's no way I can say I just asked her to come so I'd have some extra camouflage for my cover story now!)
Heroine XX:
Uh, beep boop, of course not.
Heroine XX:
(Monotone) I invited you here as an...honorary Servantverse Servant.
Mecha Eli-chan:
Oh...
X Alter:
That's weird. I could have sworn you were a full-fledged member of the Servantverse, Mecha Eli-chan.
X Alter:
I remember the demoness of the demon castle played a huge part in the CEO of Amazones' autobiographical movie.
X Alter:
There was the scene where you went diving in the liquid hydrogen oceans on a gas giant planet... Your trip to the Bermuda Triangle...
X Alter:
Your trip to that neutron star with the ultramagnetic field that's impossible to escape... And then there was–
Mecha Eli-chan:
What... What are you talking about? I've never done anything like that in all my operational history.
X Alter:
I was also told you're exceedingly knowledgeable when it comes to Western sweets.
X Alter:
You can fight, you can sing, you can bake...
You're the perfect robot come to life.
X Alter:
They also said you make amazing Halloween-themed pies! I do know chestnuts and pumpkin are a sublime combination in sweets, so I can believe it.
Mecha Eli-chan:
I-it's really just a hobby. Anyway, I still don't fully understand, but, all right.
Mecha Eli-chan:
If this is basically just a tea party for proper ladies,
then I have no objection.
Mecha Eli-chan:
(Besides, I've been invited to oil parties courtesy of Danzo, but I've never been to a tea party before.)
Mecha Eli-chan:
Very well. An opportunity like this doesn't come around every day.
Mecha Eli-chan:
As the guardian of Csejte with an understanding of Halloween, it's my duty to allow for elegant, stylish times like–
Heroine XX:
Do you have any curry cake?
Or maybe cutlet cake?
Mecha Eli-chan:
(Twitch)
Mecha Eli-chan:
...Anyway, this is essentially a meeting, yes?
So what's our agenda for today's proceedings?
Mash:
(Mecha Eli-chan's pretty much running the show now.)
X Alter:
Hmm. I don't have any of the junky cake X likes...
X Alter:
But since it's not every day that all of us Servantverse Servants are gathered together like this, we probably should do something special...
X:
I know! We can have a one-on-one-on-one battle to see which of us is the strongest X of all!
Fujimaru 1:
Well someone's a little too fired up for their own good.
X Alter:
You said it. That is hardly the sort of thing to suit a meeting.
Heroine XX:
(Nodding vigorously in assent)
Fujimaru 2:
I'd rather hear more about the Servantverse.
Mecha Eli-chan:
I completely agree with my pilot candidate.
Mecha Eli-chan:
Wouldn't it be much more productive to acquire verifiable intel on any possible Servantverse threats, so we can come up with appropriate means to counter them before they pose a threat?
Mecha Eli-chan:
Especially when it comes to Foreigner-class entities!
Heroine XX:
I concur! (Venting exhaust)
Mash:
Um... I don't think that's a threat we need to be overly concerned with...
Mash:
That aside, I'd love to learn more about the world all you Xs come from!
Mash:
I think you two said you were roommates there, right, X and Alter?
Heroine XX:
That is right. It really takes me back.
X:
Nobody asked you, you hunk of junk!
X:
That said, it's true that we were forced to share a dorm room back at Cosmo-Chaldea High School.
X:
Grrr, just thinking about it pisses me off all over again!
X Alter:
I didn't mind sharing a room in theory, but X was the worst possible roommate I could have imagined.
X Alter:
Now that I think about it...
X Alter:
...our teacher, Nameless Red, might have set that up to try and improve X's behavior, even just a little...
X:
Trust me, it was no picnic for me either, sister!
X:
We didn't just have to share our room. We were even forced to complete an assignment together...
Fujimaru 1:
An assignment? You mean, at Cosmo-Chaldea High?
X:
Yup. Killing villains, basically.
X:
I'm sure it was supposed to be Nameless Red's mission, but he pawned it off on his students!
X Alter:
I think it was on Planet Totooine.
That was a seriously brutal case...
Heroine XX:
This was back in the start of season one.
X Alter:
That's right.
X Alter:
This was when our ratings were in the gutter, when viewers thought we were just another weird series.
Mash:
...Season? Ratings?
Fujimaru 1:
You've got to tell us more now!
X Alter:
Sure, no problem.
So, Planet Totooine is...
Narration:
– Planet Totooine –
X:
Gaah! Ugh, blech! I'm gonna be washing sand out of everywhere for days!
X:
How the hell does a planet RAIN sand!?
Everywhere we go, it's just sand, sand, sand!
X:
What's next? Maybe a sand squall followed by a sand rainbow!?
X Alter:
A sand rainbow. What a lovely concept.
How very unrealistic, yet sublime.
X Alter:
But, unfortunately, this sandstorm is so cosmically big it's enveloping everything in Totooine's orbit.
X Alter:
Dammit... We don't have time for this.
We need to hurry!
X Alter:
Getting Du Stallion II get shot down and having to make an emergency landing on this planet was not part of the plan.
X Alter:
I guess those reports that this area was getting unruly were true.
X:
Maybe we just should've waited for Black Bucket to finish repairing the ship!?
X Alter:
First of all, he's not a black bucket.
He's my Black Knight.
X Alter:
Second, we can't wait that long.
Not with...my precious...
X Alter:
...sweet bean buns at stake!
X Alter:
I have to get to the Spacebucks that just opened on Totooine before they sell out of their special commemorative buns!
X:
Huh? Commemorative buns?
What about our mission to dispatch that villain?
X Alter:
The special Spacebucks version of Totooine's famous Zero Buns comes first.
X:
What!? You never said anything about some stupid mission like that before!
X:
...(Sigh) This explains why you were so excited about researching our destination...
X:
If only you worked half as hard to preserve peace in the Servantverse as you did on acquiring sweets...
X:
Huh!?
Ex, get down!
X Alter:
Yikes.
Narration:
...
X:
Damn, I can't believe how accurate they are! Looks like we're up against more enemies than we thought!
X Alter:
That shadow over there... Is that a sand raider?
One of Totooine's mythical desert people?
X Alter:
Now I see... So that's how it is.
X Alter:
These sand raider extremists are trying to stop Spacebucks' galactic expansion by any means necessary!
X:
Seriously!? Oh, hell no! I am NOT getting killed over freaking coffee milk!!!
X:
Good thing we can totally take these guys if we can just get in close! Let's get 'em, Ex!
X Alter:
Right. I won't let them stand in the way of peace...or of my sweet bean buns!
--BATTLE--:
???:
...
???:
These two weren't part of the plan.
Guess I've got no other choice...
X Alter:
We didn't learn this until much later...
X Alter:
...but the incident on Totooine was just the opening act of a huge conspiracy.
X Alter:
I still find it hard to believe that the legendary bounty hunter, Edgy Fett, was masterminding the whole thing...
X:
Even in my wildest dreams, I never would've thought a guy that strong would be hiding out among the sand raiders...
X:
So we ended up letting him get away, failing the assignment, and having to stay behind for special training, AGAIN!
Mash:
The legendary bounty hunter...
Mecha Eli-chan:
Edgy Fett...
Fujimaru 1:
Short for Edgemiya Fett...
X Alter:
That's right. They say he'll only work for enormous cash bounties, and that even the League of Villains fears him.
X Alter:
There are also rumors that say he's the Alter of a certain hero, and that Edgy Fett is just a codename.
X:
It still burns me that we let him get away.
If only Mr. Dual Pistols had been a Saber...
X Alter:
Anyway, our assignment might not have gone at all well...
X Alter:
...but the important thing is that I managed to get my hands on the sweet buns in the end.
Mecha Eli-chan:
I see... At first, I thought this Cosmo-Chaldea High School was a place for raising defenders of justice...
Mecha Eli-chan:
...but it's actually a charity designed to try and give completely hopeless Servants a chance to be useful somehow.
X:
Nrghhh...
X:
Y-yes, I might not have had top grades, but so what!
X:
Their methods were never a good fit for my learning style anyway!
X:
Especially when it came to those smug-ass teachers!
Mecha Eli-chan:
What a terrible tragedy for you.
Mecha Eli-chan:
So with your combined 2.0 GPA and your complete inability to work as a team, you were dispatched to different planets around the universe?
X:
That's right! Stupid Principal Lionhead made us go just to piss us off!
Fujimaru 1:
What sort of planets were you two sent to?
X Alter:
They were all very dangerous,
but the one I'll never forget...
X Alter:
...is Planet Guntama... I could never forget it after what happened there.
Mash:
Guntama? That name sounds familiar.
Isn't that your home planet, X?
X:
Hehehe. You got it, Mash!
X Alter:
That's right. I latched on to X to mooch off her when she went back there during spring break.
X:
Not that I wanted to go back to my home planet or anything. Or for Ex to come with me in the first place.
X:
I would've muuuch rather hung out at a different planet.
X Alter:
But Guntama was the only place we were allowed to go after all the detentions we'd incurred at school.
X:
Can you believe that!?
Just thinking about it still makes me sooo angry!
Heroine XX:
Ha ha ha ha. At least you still got to go on break.
Heroine XX:
I'd say that's better than nothing.
X:
It's not funny!
X:
Because of all that, I had to bring Ex along on a trip back home I never wanted to take to begin with.
--ARROW--:
– Planet Guntama –
X Alter:
Oogh... What is this strange sensation...?
X Alter:
Is this Planet Guntama undulating?
Is it some kind of curse?
X Alter:
I can't even think straight with all this watery stuff running down my skin. I feel gross.
X:
Pretty sure that's just sweat.
X:
That's the thing about Guntama: it's goddamn hot here!
We're talking Red Ring of Death hot!
X:
The humidity in this season averages five thousand percent, and that's on a good day!
X:
This is exactly why I didn't want to come home!
X Alter:
I don't think I'm going to make it, X.
It was a good life...while it lasted...
X:
Ex! Wake up!
Argh, now I have even MORE crap to carry!
X:
Why don't you just take off some clothes if you're that hot!?
X:
It's not like swimsuit Servants ever go out of style, after all!
X:
Not that you'd ever catch ME dead in a swimsuit, though! No way, no how!
X:
All that aside...
X:
Guntama was never the most happening place, but I don't remember there being absolutely no trace of civilization here...
X:
Last I checked, it at least had a breezy summer resort area going for it...
X:
What happened here while I was gone...
Huh!?
Narration:
Mewhehehehe...
Narration:
Your food, or your life...
X:
Wake up already, Ex!
We've got savages popping up every which way!
X Alter:
I'm never taking these off...
I don't want to freeze to death...
--BATTLE--:
X Alter:
Everything happened very quickly...
X Alter:
...but once we got the attackers to stop hunting our Spirit Origins, we somehow managed to reconcile with them.
X Alter:
The leopard-tiger-jaguar-panther lady would go on to become a surprisingly popular Servant later.
Heroine XX:
That was the midseason episode that was absurdly popular among children.
Heroine XX:
It led to all sorts of spin-off series that took place on the mysterious planet of Guntama.
X:
Yup! I even became pretty popular myself...
Hey! What's with all the spoilers!?
Heroine XX:
Oops.
Heroine XX:
Uh, no, it is nothing. I am just a devout fan.
I cannot help but share my wealth of trivia.
X Alter:
Makes sense.
X Alter:
You must be a huge fan of X's then.
X Alter:
Is that why you dress kind of like her?
Heroine XX:
(...Ugh. I know she's just from season one, but I still can't believe how clueless she is about a fellow X...)
Heroine XX:
Uh, yes, I think that might be the case now. Beep boop.
X Alter:
I couldn't remember much about my past before I came to the academy.
X Alter:
It wasn't until I came to Guntama that I learned these glasses were the secret key to restoring my memories.
X Alter:
It also lead directly into “The Final Battle!
Destroy the Bridge on Twin Planet Esaba”...
X Alter:
...the climactic episode of our first season.
Heroine XX:
...Huh? Esaba? Climactic episode?
Heroine XX:
(Esaba... I've never even heard of that planet before.)
Mash:
Is this Esaba another world you and X infiltrated?
X Alter:
Do sweet beans go well with buns?
X Alter:
Right around the time that episode aired, X and I were known as agents capable of single-handedly destroying entire planets in the course of our missions.
X Alter:
So when the two of us worked together, we could limit the collateral damage to a single planet.
X:
Oogh.
Mecha Eli-chan:
(Giggle) Do sweet beans go well with buns... I never would have thought to phrase a rhetorical question like that...
Mecha Eli-chan:
...Uh, a-ahem. In the future, try not to go around casually destroying planets.
Mecha Eli-chan:
Now, what happened next? I thought I heard you mention a final battle earlier?
X Alter:
Oh yes. It was a huge ordeal.
That's why it wasn't just X and me there.
X Alter:
There were also other students from the academy, and even some teachers who were also active hero Servants.
X Alter:
By that point, it was no longer just a school assignment, but an important military operation.
X:
Esaba...
X:
For some reason, just hearing that name makes my chest go tight...
X Alter:
...
Heroine XX:
...? (What's going on?)
Heroine XX:
I have no record of any such episode...
In fact, I do not even remember seeing it.
X Alter:
Oh? I guess even robots can overlook things then.
X Alter:
...Esaba is an artificial planet that is in reality two planets connected by an interstellar bridge.
X Alter:
It's home to an enormous factory that was targeted and occupied by the League of Villains.
X Alter:
The villains repurposed the factory's incredible technology to create a huge army of military robots.
X Alter:
While the individual units were no match for a Servant, the danger they posed came from their sheer, overwhelming numbers.
X Alter:
Our mission was to recover the manufacturing base in order to break the deadlock.
--ARROW--:
– Artificial Planet Esaba –
– Underpole Base Occupied by League of Villains –
– Heated Defensive Line Battle Underway –
X:
...
X Alter:
X? X? Are you alive? Can you hear me?
X:
(Huff...huff...) This is nothing...
It's just a flesh wound...
X:
It'll take more than just a little battle to the death against the Savage Queen...
X:
...and a brawl with the squid legions of Tentacle General Sanity Gilles to take me down...
X Alter:
Don't forget Herc The Superhuman's baryon ax that Nameless Red deflected, causing it to pierce straight through your side.
X:
Oooh, right. Seriously, who IS that guy? Ow ow ow...
X:
If not for my Saber Ninja Art where I make afterimages with Spirit Origins, this could've been real bad for me.
X Alter:
...You almost certainly would have died instantly.
Because even for a Servant, those were severe wounds.
X Alter:
But at least your questionable Saber Ninja Arts came in handy for once.
X:
Huh!? What do you mean, “questionable”!?
...Ow, ow...
X Alter:
Our comms are being jammed...
X Alter:
Deep in the heart of enemy territory as we are, I guess it's no surprise. Plus, we got separated from our team.
X Alter:
Your injuries are very serious too. We need to hurry and find you somewhere safe to recover.
X Alter:
There's no telling when more battle Voloids might show up.
X:
What!? There's no way I'm taking a break in the middle of this final batt–Guh.
X Alter:
There, you see?
X Alter:
I'll stand watch and see if I can find anything useful. Black Knight, help me carry X somewhere safe.
X Alter:
Who else would I be talking to, Voloid K6-X4?
Don't space out on me now.
Fujimaru 1:
...!?
Fujimaru 2:
Uh, g-got it!
--BATTLE--:
X Alter:
...There. We got past the enemy's automated defenses and made it inside their base.
X Alter:
Though I'm afraid X isn't going to have any opportunities to recover in here.
X Alter:
Huh? What is it, Black Knight?
...There's still a hostile here!?
X Alter:
...! Who are you?
???:
Looks like your friend's out of commission.
Good. That'll make this easier.
X Alter:
No way...!
Edgy Fett...!!!
Edgy Fett:
Whoa, easy there.
I'm not about to waste any bullets in here.
Edgy Fett:
Killing your friend while she's already got one foot in the grave won't earn me a single credit.
Edgy Fett:
The League of Villains has much bigger fish to fry.
Edgy Fett:
No, I'm more interested in you...Heroine X Alter.
X Alter:
X...Alter...!? What are you...
S-stop that... Please, stop.
X Alter:
M-my name is...Ex...
I don't...go by that... Ngh...
Fujimaru 1:
Ex? Are you okay?
Edgy Fett:
I see. Looks like the brainwashing's stronger than I thought.
Edgy Fett:
But you still must have noticed how unstable you've been since you came to this planet.
Edgy Fett:
That vision correction device you're wearing was made here on Esaba. I'm sure you've already figured that out.
Edgy Fett:
But it was also illegally modified to maintain and reinforce your brainwashing.
Edgy Fett:
Since you got here, an identical frequency emitted from the planet's automated factory has been canceling out their modifications.
X Alter:
Huh!? Reinforced brainwashing...?
How do you know about this?
Edgy Fett:
My last client told me to be careful around you.
Fujimaru 2:
X Alter? Did you just remember something?
X Alter:
That's right... I... I wandered around space...before I came to Cosmo-Chaldea High School... Ngh...
X Alter:
Black Knight...some of your memories have been encrypted, right?
X Alter:
Maybe my memories have something to do with...
(Gasp...gasp...)
X Alter:
Ahh... I'm glad X isn't awake...to see me like this...
Edgy Fett:
I'm afraid I don't have time for idle chatter.
Edgy Fett:
The League of Villains might have Lionhead's heroes in a tight spot right now...
Edgy Fett:
...but it won't be long before the busybodies at the Galactic Police catch wind of this and stick their noses in.
Edgy Fett:
Sooner or later, Esaba's going down. I was just planning my escape route when you showed up.
Edgy Fett:
So, I've got a proposal for you.
Edgy Fett:
Come with me, and I'll take you to see the League of Villains' higher-ups.
X Alter:
N-no...I won't!
I'm a student at...Cosmo-Chaldea High School...!
X:
...
X:
(Ex's been acting weird ever since we landed on this planet. Going off on her own, being weirdly belligerent...)
X:
(At first I thought she just got up on the wrong side of the bed. But this explains what's been happening with her...)
X:
(...I don't get it one bit.)
Fujimaru 1:
(Heroine X...?)
Fujimaru 2:
(When did you wake up?)
X:
(Whoa there. Keep it cool, Black Bucket,
or you're gonna set off my ninja arts.)
X:
(I noticed someone was following us, so I was getting ready to fight back the moment they dropped their guard...)
X:
(But now, I don't know what's going on.)
X:
(I was all set to punch Chief Red's fast and furious looking relative here in the face if he laid a hand on Ex...)
X:
(...but as much as it sucks, I'm gonna have to wait and see how this plays out, thanks to these injuries.)
Edgy Fett:
...Suit yourself. I've done what I need to,
so I'm getting out of here.
Edgy Fett:
I just thought I might be able to cash in on a League of Villains reward. That's all.
X Alter:
...That's enough, bounty hunter.
Please leave. Before X wakes up.
Edgy Fett:
...Heh. Just don't go dying on me.
Be a waste of a good bounty.
Edgy Fett:
...Oh, I almost forgot.
Edgy Fett:
Since I lost my shot at an easy payday, I guess I might as well drop a little tidbit here...
Edgy Fett:
...I wouldn't count on a wound from a Savage Queen's heavy spear getting better anytime soon.
Edgy Fett:
Not unless you've got a way of undoing an anti-healing curse.
X Alter:
What...? That can't be right!
Edgy Fett:
This passage leads to the center of the factory. Maybe it'll have something that can help a Servant heal faster.
Edgy Fett:
Assuming the defender Voloids don't get you first, of course.
X Alter:
...You're quite the busybody yourself, Edgy Fett.
X:
(I'll say!)
X Alter:
That's it...!
X Alter:
I can use this device to heal X.
X Alter:
...Huh? No, wait. This is...
X Alter:
...
X:
(What? What is it? Now I really wanna know!)
Fujimaru 1:
Maybe it's about time you woke up?
X Alter:
Dammit. They did see us coming in...!
???:
Who dares disturb my factory's harmony?
X:
Damn, doesn't look like we'll be able to talk our way out of this one!
X:
But that's fine with me!
If they want to fight, I'll take them all on!
X Alter:
X...!
X Alter:
You don't have to do this. That guy is probably this factory planet's manager, and he's really strong.
X Alter:
Besides...I can't let your injuries get any worse.
X:
Don't be ridiculous, Ex!
That's all the more reason to fight back!
X:
If I can beat this guy, I'll have academy credits for daaays! Then I'll be able to live it up and pig out every night until I graduate!
X Alter:
(Sigh)... I swear, you never change...
X Alter:
You might not have a lot going for you, X, but if nothing else, you don't want for bluster.
X:
Now you're talking trash about me!?
X:
I see. So you're planning to turn traitor!
Well not on my watch, you aren't!
???:
If you wish to plead for your lives, intruders,
you may do so in the depths of hell!
X Alter:
We weren't talking to you!
Just shut up and give us a moment!
???:
You underestimate me at your own... Hm?
Is that...?
X Alter:
Thank you, X.
X Alter:
You once shared a freshly baked red bean bun with me.
X Alter:
Now that I think of it, you've always been giving me things, and you never once asked for anything in return.
X Alter:
I've always wanted to pay you back somehow.
X:
Huh? I forgot all about that, but...okay?
X:
H-hey, why so close? This...uh...this isn't really the time to hug it out, I don't think...
X Alter:
Got you.
X Alter:
Black Knight, would you might dunking her, please?
Fujimaru 1:
Did you say dunk!? W-well, okay.
Fujimaru 2:
(Stuff Heroine X into the machine)
X:
Huh? What're you–Ow!
Hey, quit shoving me... Gaaah!
X:
What's the big idea!? What's all this freezing cold slimy stuff!? Aah, I'm gonna die, I'm gonna die, I'm gonna die!!!
X:
Ex, you traitor! You too, you overgrown bucket!
H：X (Frozen):
...
X Alter:
I can tell you're upset about this.
I'm sorry, X.
X Alter:
I wish I'd found something that could have healed you, but I couldn't.
X Alter:
This is a flash-freezing device.
It's called a Carbon Coffin.
X Alter:
Even if I don't make it, I'm sure someone from the school will find you, thaw you, and heal you.
X Alter:
Even if the whole planet blows up,
you should still be fine...I think.
X Alter:
...Okay, Black Knight. Send me my battle suit.
Fujimaru 1:
On it!
Fujimaru 2:
Don't you need to take off your glasses?
???:
These undulations... I knew it! It's Alternium!
???:
So you're the lost Dark R.O.U.N.D.S. successor.
X Alter:
I might be destined to join the League of Villains one day.
X Alter:
But that day...is not today.
???:
...How dull. To think the Black Knight of the Round Table would be reduced to this.
???:
Any pride you had in infiltrating the enemy side is gone. Now you are ruled entirely by fleeting emotion.
???:
You are a traitor to our cause.
???:
Not even the notorious League of Villains would take someone who threw everything into such disorder back.
???:
You must be returned to them so that they can remind you of your place and put you back in it!
???:
You can start by becoming one of the parts that makes up the mechanisms of my factory, like a drive shaft, or a heat source, or a distributor.
???:
If you can't even do that...then die!
--BATTLE--:
Mecha Eli-chan:
(Sniffle)... I see.
Mecha Eli-chan:
So the hero Servants were successful at bringing down Esaba and dealing a critical blow to the League of Villains.
Mecha Eli-chan:
There are few things worse than a factory that makes evil robots. You did the right thing. The heroic thing.
Mash:
So Planet Esaba was destroyed in an explosion caused by the gravity fields colliding.
Mash:
And X and Ex were saved by freezing themselves in a Carbon Coffin.
Mash:
Phew... Talk about a close call!
X Alter:
Yes, it was. Oh, but we still wouldn't have made it back without Black Knight.
X Alter:
If it wasn't for his distress beacon, we would have been forever lost in the vacuum of space like so much debris.
X:
I guess the reason I can't remember all that must be a side effect of the Coffin's freezing process...
Heroine XX:
Beep boop...
(I'm pretty sure that's not how it works...)
Fujimaru 1:
Hmm... Hm?
Mash:
What is it, Senpai?
Is there something strange about what she said?
Fujimaru 1:
It almost feels like my own memories don't quite match what we just heard...
Mash:
Really? That must be a very odd sensation.
Maybe it's a kind of déjà vu?
Fujimaru 2:
What makes you say that?
Mash:
I, um, I guess it's just my Shielder Sense...?
X Alter:
(Staaare)
Fujimaru 1:
(...Ex is looking at me veeery intently.)
Mash:
Are you sure everything is okay, Senpai?
Mecha Eli-chan:
Perhaps all this Servantverse information is memetically corrupting [♂ his /♀️ her} mind...?
X:
You were definitely nodding off a bit there, Master.
Get it together, will you?
Heroine XX:
Yeah, for real, Mas–
I mean, yes, you must do better.
X:
I knew there was something suspicious about her!
X Alter:
Heh heh.
...Shh. Let's just keep it our little secret.
--FLASHBACK--:
X Alter:
This place won't hold much longer.
X Alter:
But the battle seems to be going well.
I guess the principal's team must have handled it.
X Alter:
Huh? You found another Carbon Coffin?
Great job, Black Knight.
X Alter:
Although... The thing is, that device needs a lot of careful adjustments.
X Alter:
There wasn't any time for this with X, but someone's usually supposed to stay behind and operate it from the outside.
X Alter:
If it's not handled properly, it can also lead to issues with memory retention....
X Alter:
Huh? You can handle those adjustments no problem?
And you can even do it from inside the Coffin?
X Alter:
...Hmm, I see. That would be perfect.
X Alter:
...Yeah, you're right.
X Alter:
I'm sure we don't have much time left...
X Alter:
...but I hope fate allows me just a little more.
X Alter:
May the Alternium be with you...