The Case Files of Lord El-Melloi II

We don't know all the details about Flat yet. All we know is that he is a super magic genius because he is his family's experiment Gone Horribly Right. His parents grew afraid of their results and often targetted Flat for assassinations. Also, he's stuck in Waver's class because he was already kicked out of every other class. His smile is held up with magecraft.

even worse, he's a Narita character.

I remember Narita tweeting something about Flat's appearance in the latest episode, but I haven't gotten clear translation what he is talking about.

Irc Flats mage raft is basically hacking. You throw fireball on him and he will make it turn around and blow in your own face.

Well that's just small part how he can use it probably.

He said that if villain of the week guy hadn't interrupted Flat's talking, he would have gotten into F/sF spoiler territory.

I asked because I remember it was mentioned in SF that Flat caused trouble on a "grand scale" when he decoded the Voynicht Manuscript and apparently that version of Ayaka Saiyjou got dragged along for the ride. I was hoping more info of that came to light.

Poor Svin. The only way that could suck more is if his magecraft also makes chocolate toxic for him.

I wonder if anyone ever served him dog food as a joke.

Man, Flat is the nightmare of many Magi. All that ability to push the craft forward, but nothing he does can ever be explained. Must be a pain.

More like giving him chew toys as birthday presents.

Now I can't take the image of Reines throwing dog biscuits at Svin like Vegeta in DBZA:

Possibly Flat.

Thinking about it now, I'm kind of sad that for all the cameos all around the nasuverse from strange/fake to Apocrypha to even kara no kyoukai, Ayaka isn't a character in case files. I don't think there's even any prototype reference there which depresses me

Finally got around to watching episode 3, Flat came off as way more competent and suave than he normally is.

still don't like Mystics or Policies as the official translation for their terms but ehh

Love that Waver can't function well when his favorite tearoom's shut down because honestly that's basically me when it comes to parts of my university.

Caules still gives me the vibe of being like a few years older than his Apoc counterpart even though he's the same age.

I still don't get why 12 year old Gordolf is the one arresting Gueldoa but okay

Catching up to the fourth episode now.

Episode 4 sumarised. It's a two parter. Reines continues to be Reines, we get to meet Waver's Inspector Lestrade and the best master from the Greater Grail War appears! (Sorry Caules, you and Fran made a cute couple but Kairi's just out and out cooler than you, even without the murder-gremlin in tow).

Do you think Waver remembers that Iskandar wanted to take over the world?

How could he not? The man never shut up about it.

Sure wouldn't think so from the way Waver was going on at the start of the episode, though. Rider's dream wasn't something you should want, dumbass

Yay, Kairi's back! And we have a multi-parter case this time, which is good because mysteries usually need some time to breath.

Man, Reines is such a mess. He wouldn't have this problem if he just settled down.

It's good to see Kairi again. Wonder what's he's up to in this timeline.

A fairy! How nice, we never saw them before!

Hope Kairi has some steel shot on hand.

New key visual

I can't help but feel that some aspects of this episode will become relevant for the events, dangers and nature of the sixth Lostbelt.

In this series the answer is always "some old mage doing an stupid, evil ritual". Always.

Wild Hunt, huh? Good on Arturia for picking up a hobby while in Avalon. Funny how Waver describes the whole thing like it was some kind of metaphorical legend, when we know that it is literally true.

The battle scene was pretty cool, especially Rhongomyniad reveal. I like how it punched a hole in the cloud cover.

It would be hilarious if Arturia looked through the portal to see what the ruckus is about. "Huh, so that where my spear is! I couldn't find it anywhere."

The mystic eyes train... I think it was mentioned somewhere before. Something to do with Touko, I think.

Kairi last words are interesting, especially linking this case to Waver's own attachment to the dead. Will be interesting to see how it plays out

The basic premise of the fate franchise is some mages doing an stupid evil ritual and then everything goes wrong, so one can't blame them. Though from what I've heard, the Gray Zepplin case is probably more Sherlock-Holmes/Jack the Ripper-esque.

Anyway, if the portal had been open for longer, wouldn't that mean that all the being residing in Avalon would come out? Since many of them would want to bring back the age of gods and would have brought out end of the age of man, it means they just prevented a Lost Belt from happening.

Edited by bandersnitch on Aug 3rd 2019 at 1:48:03 AM

Damn, Wills walks FAST. It took him 3 seconds to calmly walk the distance Waver ran a lot longer and didn't get half the way.

Touko is part of a case in the series and is Back for the Finale, but it's not Rail Zeppelin. The main guest in this is Olga-Marie. Touko did mention it in Mahoyo, saying its a Mystic Eye collecting train owned by Dead Apostle Ancestor Rita Rozay-en.

Rail Zeppelin is also the name of one of the battle Skills used by Berserker Arcueid but we don't know how this connects to anything.