"Spare me, spare me!"
"Please, goo!" Merlin let out a strange verbal tic.
"Even if I'm useless, at least I can fire a shot for Master, right? Don't just make me kill myself like this!"
Merlin protested indignantly.
"But I don't need a useless piece of eye candy, you know."
Sora turned around, his gaze merciless.
"Yes, yes, I understand!" Faced with someone like Sora who didn't play by the rules, Merlin felt somewhat helpless. "Alright, I'm also good at buffing, Hero Creation, forging Excalibur, and such!"
"So, Master, please don't make me kill myself! I'm useful!"
Merlin looked pitifully at Sora.
Sora stared intently at Merlin. "You better be as useful as you claim."
"First question: can you sever the Servant contract binding me?"
Although Sora's own power was enough to forcibly break his Servant contract with Kirei, since he wasn't part of this system, forcibly doing so would cause major problems.
So, for specialized matters, it was better to have a Grand Servant candidate like Merlin handle contract severance.
"You can handle a modern Holy Grail system, right?"
Sora asked again, his tone carrying a threat.
Hearing Sora's words, Merlin quickly nodded. "Yes, yes, I can do it! I just need a little time, Master."
"Time? I'll give you time then."
"But since you can't break my contract right now, do another thing for me."
Sora pointed to the summoning circle from which Merlin had just emerged. "Summon another Servant. Use your position as Caster to perform an irregular summoning."
"Ha!!?" Hearing Sora's words, Merlin's eyes widened. "Can that be done?"
"Wait, it actually can!" After sensing carefully, Merlin was shocked.
She looked at Sora in surprise. "To even know about such a thing, Master, who exactly are you?"
"You don't need to worry about that," Sora waved his hand.
"Get to work."
"Yes, Master~!" Merlin nodded in agreement.
Facing Sora, whose background she didn't know, at least for now, Merlin dared not be duplicitous.
So, under Sora's command, Merlin had to get moving quickly.
And very soon, a Servant summoning circle was drawn by Merlin.
This time, Sora didn't need to provide the summoning incantation.
Merlin spoke, chanting at high speed: "Fill. Fill. Fill. Fill. Fill."
"Let each be turned over five times, simply breaking asunder the fulfilled time."
"Let silver and steel be the essence. Let stone and the archduke of contracts be the foundation. Let my great master be the ancestor. Raise a wall, against the wind that shall fall. Close the four cardinal gates. Come out from the crown. Rotate the three-branched road reaching the Kingdom."
"I shall declare here. Your body shall serve under me. My fate shall be with your sword. Submit to the beckoning of the Holy Grail. If you will submit to this will and this reason... then answer."
"An oath shall be sworn here!"
"I shall attain all virtues of all of Heaven. I shall have dominion over all evils of all of Hell!"
"From the Seventh Heaven, attended to by three great words of power, come forth from the ring of restraint, Protector of the Balance!"
"Answer me!"
Accompanied by Merlin's powerful chanting, a girl with cherry-blossom pink hair, wearing a very revealing swimsuit, stepped out of the summoning circle.
"Servant, Assassin, answering the summons. I ask of you, are you my Master?" Okita Soji greeted Merlin.
Seeing Soji in this swimsuit form, Merlin narrowed her eyes. "Ah, you've summoned quite a surprising existence."
"But, Miss Assassin, I am not your Master."
"This gentleman is!" Merlin looked towards Sora.
"Oh, is that so?" Soji was a bit confused, but since Merlin said so, she greeted Sora: "Master, Assassin Okita Soji, reporting!"
"Good!" Looking at Soji in her refreshing outfit, Sora nodded with satisfaction.
He hadn't summoned a Servant for combat strength, but rather for research purposes.
Summoning Okita Soji gave him both aesthetic appeal and combat capability, which was excellent.
At the same time, looking at Soji, Sora asked: "By the way, in this form, you don't have the Weak Constitution trait, right?"
"Since the clothing is more revealing but the star rating is lower, it would be unreasonable if the Weak Constitution remained," Sora said.
"That... indeed so!" Hearing Sora's words, Soji was shocked. "But Master, how do you know these things?"
"Heh, you don't need to worry about that, though!" Merlin stepped forward, smiling mischievously. "Our Master is full of secrets, you know!"