[center] [h1][color=a187be]Nenet Isis Titania[/color][/h1] [h3]Bellagio[/h3] [hr] [/center] Hm? Nenet frowned slightly at Nakano's dismissal of her explanation. Hadn't she just asked for Nenet to try and explain more esoteric stuff to her? And the current topic was both more relevant and easier to digest, at that! Ah well, she'd just have to break it down a bit further. [color=a187be]"No, no, it's very useful information to know. It's important to understand who we're up against, Saber."[/color] Her eyes sparkled slightly as she chided her Servant, turning on her heel to face the swordswoman. [color=a187be]"You see, the Church is the enemy of magi, the enemy of mystery as a whole. For about seventeen hundred years, the Mage's Association and the Church have been at odds. Magecraft itself is a heresy to them, something they swear to eliminate, so the fact that a woman from the Church summoned a Caster and seems to be following the Caster's tune without issue tells us quite a lot about her." "It means, in other words, that [i]she is from a part of the Church that does not condemn the practice of mysteries[/i]. There are very few divisions within the Church like that, so knowing this, we can start to piece together more about her. That, in turn, lets us start theorizing about what she knows, what she's capable of, and what she's outfitted with. That feeds into our planning, and so on~"[/color] Ah, she had to hold herself back from Nakano asking if she'd 'miscalculated'. As if something like that was possible, especially on such a basic problem. Troublesome, the Saber really needed to be properly educated, if this was all of the information she was working off of. [color=a187be]"Oh, the information from the summoning system told you about that? No, that's not quite right. This summoning system is based off of one that was made by a cabal of magi in the East- your home country, as a matter of fact. That one was capable of summoning seven Servants, allegedly. A little over half a century ago, information started to get disseminated about it, and people started making their own summoning systems based off of that information. Some of them can only summon two Servants, some of them can summon as many as five, but there aren't records of one matching the seven that the original ritual in Japan could muster. Well, until now." "It's curious, maybe that marketing campaign wasn't all hot air. This Second Owner's done some interesting things, to make land this poor support something of this magnitude. I wonder what his goal is?"[/color] Of course, after business came pleasure. Nakano's words caused a grin to blossom across the alchemist's face, the woman letting out a low laugh that shook the air. [color=a187be]"Heh~ Of course I can teach you! You Servants might be absurdities with a force of providence like nothing else, but when it comes to card counting, you won't find someone who's my match in this hemisphere."[/color] A calamity was about to befall Las Vegas.