[h2][center]Kumozaki Keisuke[/center][/h2]

Keisuke's body immediately tensed up as he saw Nobunaga hunched over the circle, the soy sauce from her meal dripping onto the summoning circle. If there was anything that could have possibly interfered with the ritual bar actually destroying the circle, this was it. With a few beads of sweat forming on his brow, Keisuke steeled himself for the possible backlash of the summon failing.

What he didn't expect, though, was that it would succeed, and even less so that it would bring a Caster forth. The name 'Tamamo-no-Mae' coupled with the outfit that the Servant was wearing didn't quite match up in his head, but what caught Keisuke's attention was his Servants' remarks.

"Okay, both of you, hold on. I think we're misunderstanding something here," he said glancing between Atalanta and Tamamo before deciding to address the latter first. "Firstly: Tamamo, I am indeed your Master. As for the situation at hand... I'm not sure where the matter of 'infidelity' factors into this, but it is as Atalanta says; these two are also my Servants, and we are currently travelling towards Crete in order to... Well, I assume it involves the Minotaur, given current trends. There is a decent amount of explanation to be had while the ship travels, but I'll fill you in after our meal."

With that, Keisuke turned to Atalanta with a slight smirk forced out of irritation as he addressed her comment about his 'tastes'.

"Secondly... I will agree that more close combat oriented Servants might help with our group composition, but that sort of thing cannot be handled without a catalyst. But that aside, what do you mean by 'those types'?" he asked rhetorically. He knew just as well as she did what was being referred to, and while he had no particular reason to defer her claims and cause an argument that would damn him one way or another, with things as they were right now, it wasn't exactly the easiest thing in the world to shoot that down.

"In any case... Medea was different from how she is now? Guess time really does change people, huh?" he asked, stepping back as he looked at what spices and goods that they had brought out on board. The wine and spices gave him a bit of an idea on what to cook, but this would end up some of the most experimental cuisine that he had even prepared. Granted, he wasn't exactly the best person for that job, either, but...

"I'm going to go back down to grab some pans and... Something to set up a cooking fire in. One moment, please," he said, starting to make his way back down below deck before being met with a somewhat-irate Medea looking him straight in the eye.

"You're lucky that I managed to notice what you were doing and stabilized the mana flow in this room, or else we might be missing a large chunk of this ship's hull right about now. Though I'm not sure how your body can maintain three Servants, I will warn you right now that you should think more of the time and place before attempting things like this," she said, glaring at him before slipping back into her workshop. The Enforcer let out a sigh and rubbed the back of his head nervously, fairly certain of Medea's displeasure at his actions as he went back to where he obtained the spices from earlier and grabbed a few pans and... A metal box and grate of some sort. While there were still a lot of questions about the ship itself, he couldn't help but be grateful that they had oddities like this lying around. If anything, it made his life easier.

Returning to the ship's deck, Keisuke placed the box down in an empty section of the ship's deck and, tossing a few pieces of wood into it, lit it with a single bolt of electricity from his fingertips. It felt bad using his magic as a glorified lighter, but a situation like this wasn't something he could exactly help doing that in; the serpent meat was on a timer, anyhow. With that in mind, the Enforcer grabbed a piece of meat and, after quickly tossing some salt on and rubbing some spices in, placed it on a pan to start cooking over a fire. The smell of the cooking sea serpent was a bit tantalizing to him, if only because he hadn't eaten anything in the last while.

With that in mind, Keisuke left the pan for a moment to swipe some of Nobunaga's soy sauce before returning to the fire and continue cooking. Seared sea serpent with a red wine and soy sauce... Well, sauce. Weird fusion cuisine, prepared by someone who never really experimented with food in the last decade of his life and only cooked from the same subset of Japanese-based recipes...

Yeah. This couldn't end badly, right?

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[h2][center]Ozymandias[/center][/h2]
Ozymandias frowned as his lasers seemed to be petering out as they reached the whale-like create, with a very slight inkling that it was the fault of the petite blonde in red (that was confirmed to be the truth not long after). With a slight laugh, the pharaoh spun his staff and began to fire twice as many lasers to make up for the lack of strength of the ones he was using at the moment. He could apologize to his Master for burning her out and recharge what he was using at the moment after the fight was over, but Nero had issued his a challenge he simply could not back down from.

The water that had been flying about fell to the ground as Arturia's blade met its mark, cleanly cleaving into the monster's body and causing it to thrash about wildly—even more than it had been before. The follow-up attack from Nero, too, seemed to cause the thing pain that it looked to not be used to.

With the lasers constantly chipping away at its health and the three Servants proving too difficult to hit head-on, the creature gave off an ear-shattering roar and rose up in the air for a moment dramatically before slamming its body on the ground and causing a miniature earthquake. This, in turn, cause the water around it to spike with the shockwaves as they traveled about. Though the fire seemed to not be extinguished just by that, the water seemed to be sharper now—if that was even possible, of course.

"The head! You two, with weapons that can actually pierce the body—aim for it's head! That or its heart, though I doubt you can reach the latter with as much ease. In any case, I shall keep it's attention!" Ozymandias said, the intent of showing up Nero (however indirectly) still present in his words as he began to focus his barrage at the beast's eyes and underbelly. The monster reacted in turn, staring at him in rage as it slowly slammed up and down to turn its body towards him. A glowing white light was beginning to form within the beast's maw, however, which made Ozymandias quite wary. A giant magical blast was not something he'd like to deal with after the last time.

No, most certainly not.

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