Daisuke didn't feel this girl's clarification really justified the threat of shooting him. He understood that this was a war, but he was trying to be a neutral party here! At least there was good news - he knew what she looked like, and she didn't know what he looked like. Well, probably didn't. You never knew with mages. After she released the pigeon from its chains, the creature immediately took flight and headed straight for the stairs, going to its master. As soon as it reached him, Daisuke immediately put the familiar back into his Mystic Code - it got captured once, and Daisuke didn't want to risk losing two friends in a single night.

The parrot familiar remained on the first floor with the Enemy Master, until she left through the front door. How the hell she had the courage to do something like that, when there were Servants fighting outside, Daisuke had no idea. Maybe some magecraft to hide her presence? For once, Daisuke actually acknowledged the use of magecraft other than familiars - if only because of how dire his situation was. If he had something that let him hide from Servants than he would have been safe for the rest of the war and could just hideaway.

He couldn't though - no sense in dwelling on what-ifs. Daisuke decided that his big goal at the moment was to recall and store every one of his active familiars in his mystic code - leaving any active would just be inviting trouble like what happened with that one master, and Daisuke didn't want to risk any of his birds dying on guard duty. No - he would just rely on his two most powerful familiars, Edward and Survivor. Besides, minimizing his mana expenditure was smart, since running our of mana was the fastest route to dying in any mage conflict, let alone the Holy Grail War.

Ironically enough, the thought that his familiar was tracked never crossed Daisuke's mind once - he was too busy worried about being nearly defenseless in a building while his Servant fought outside. Clearly, a nearby servant wasn't nearly as off-putting as he thought they would be for enemy Masters - that girl simply waltzed into his hiding spot and wasn't deterred in the slightest. Luckily, even if he didn't realize it at the time, he wouldn't need to worry about the tracking spell. His mystic code put his familiars into stasis, a state where they were placed inside of imaginary number space. Most tracking spells wouldn't continue to function while he stored his familiar inside his mystic code because of this. The tracking spell would come back as soon as he released Tromar again, but at least for now, it didn't pose too much of a problem.

Of course, this was just as much a blessing as it was a hindrance - even though he never questioned his Familiar's status, he also didn't think that Assassin would follow him when he left. Daisuke was too focused on the familiars he could still sense via his connection with Edward, and he definitely didn't feel Assassin, a class specialized in hiding their presence. Maybe he would think about it when he had time to calm down, but given the situation, it would be lucky if he was thinking clearly an hour from now.

[color=a36209][i]Edward, can you escape your fight? I-I managed to scare away an enemy Master, but I'm pretty defenseless right now... Heading back home seems like the best strategy if you can manage it.[/i][/color]

Daisuke was doing his best to at least seem calm to his Servant. A lord had to keep appearances in front of his subjects, and the last thing Daisuke wanted, other than dying, was to seem pathetic in front of his sole defense in this war.

[@KoL][@SSW]