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I have two things to speak of today, starting with the one directed to the residents of this Tower as a whole.

[She holds up a striped billiard ball from the bar on the 88th Floor.]

I wish to learn to play this game. Who can teach me?

[She then idly rolls the ball in her fingers as she continues.]

As for the other matter, it is directed to those from my world or a variation of it where a specific war takes place involving magi. With Rider gone, his ridiculous idea of a conclave amongst us to discuss the War and those of us involved in it should also disappear.

Though I understand why the King of Conquerors wished for the gathering, it was folly to believe such a thing could ever happen and remain peaceful. There are worst fates than a death that does not take here. I know that there was one that had been planning to use Rider's conclave as means to gaining power with all gathered in one location. Had Rider carried his meeting out before his disappearance, I would have seen to neutralizing that threat.

Should another of you be foolish enough to pursue this idea, I will not and you will reap what you sow.

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I see.

[She's silent again for a moment. The guilt is still there, but at the same time... it would be unfair. She can't play favorites. She wasn't even planning to protect Gilles when he was briefly in the tower not long ago. She can't play favorites here either.]

Though there is no war here, I still have rules I must follow. I cannot rightfully give my protection to one that has found someone else to protect him.

As I believed. Lancer believes Matou should still be allotted your protection as they are not contracted. Please inform him otherwise.

...regardless, I have decided not to see Kariya Matou dead any longer.

Why would he think that? If Kariya Matou is now under his protection, it would be unfair to seek protection from the overseer. [She understands that Lancer is a man of honor and thus wouldn't want anything to happen to one he has sworn himself to, but even so...

Her eyebrows raise a bit in curiosity. She... certainly wasn't expecting Saber to admit that.] Might I ask what caused this change of heart?

Lancer is not the brightest of men. I believe he thinks since he is not formally contracted to Matou that it does not matter.

[Saber then gets quiet, looking to the side a moment before looking back.]

I cannot remember exactly because of the latest experiment, but I do recall knowing there was another that held more responsibility than Kariya Matou. I just no longer retain the knowledge of who that one is.

So, unless Matou makes a move against me or mine, I will let him live.

[Ah...]

I'm glad to see that the latest experiment did some sort of good. [Is that bitterness in her voice? Maybe. She may not have been directly affected by it, but it certainly made interacting with a dear friend... unpleasant.]

Very well. I have faith in your word as a knight, so I will trust you when you say that. As he has found himself under the care of another Servant, I can no longer keep Kariya Matou under my own care. From this point on, until he becomes Servantless once more and seeks me out, he has lost the protection off the overseer.

Thank you.

I would like you to inform the two of them of that so there is no confusion.

[She nods.] Of course. I was planning to do so.

[Little does she know that she'll have to wait on that, what with the impending network war...]

[So many stupid people.]

[Saber nods.] Until we speak again.

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