[Fate Extra/CCC Special Event] Chapter 4 Summaries

Chapter 4: Beauty of the Sunken Forest (1/4)

• You continue defeating the SE.RA.PH-summoned Servants that get in your way. Lip admires Cat's intricate and elegant claw-work, and Cat boasts that she can even cook with these paws. To demonstrate, you order Cat to: "Saint Graph 2, Chaaaaaaaange!" Cat goes "Maid UP!" and transforms into her 2nd ascension. Lip is even more impressed by Cat's ability to perform housework now and asks to be made her disciple.

• Melt is enjoying this. It's rare to see Lip raise her voice, not minding the gaze of others. Though Melt initially thought it was meaningless for you to defeat and recruit Cat, she's changed her mind. At the very least, she's grateful, since she can't make Lip laugh like that.

• Cat detects a 'happy aura' and wants to be let in on the chat. Of course, it's a conversation only between fellow Alter-Egoes, so Demiya can scoot off. You can stay though. Melt asks about that "fellow Alter-Egoes" thing, to which Cat replies that she's one of the Tamamo Nine that split off from Tamamo-no-Mae, so she's an Alter-Ego. Though her class is Berserker. Melt didn't really want to hear something like that. Lip giggles, saying that Melt didn't notice Cat was fundamentally the same as them after all.

• You, on the other hand, are wondering just what the Tamamo Nine are. Cat explains that it was originally a concept conceived to stand against the Sakura Five, but explaining it would take too long - it'd be about the length of a single RPG, text-wise. You should find out the details with other methods.

• Cat changes the topic to ask bout Melt and Lip, since she notices certain opposing symmetries in their design; Lip's upper half and Melt's lower half being weapons, their personalities, and so on. Melt talks at length about how they were formed from different aspects of BB and are opposites in many ways. Sadism & masochism, Lip's hypersensitivity vs Melt's dullness of sensation.

• Demiya tells them to cut the chatter. This area should be under Suzuka Gozen's watch. You'll need to defeat her to open up a way to the center of SE.RA.PH, the spinal area. Demiya reminds you of the Key to the Heart which you can use to subdue the KP and defeat Suzuka. Cat thinks it'll be great if you can defeat Suzuka without killing her, and that it'll be the best way to humiliate the faker. Lip asks if Cat knows Suzuka somehow but she vehemently denies it. Anyway, Cat tells you to take care of the battle in the inner heart, and she'll finish up somehow afterwards

(2/4)

• Your progress is barred by having to purchase another Gate Key. You ask about the Sakurament that you are gathering for the purchase, only to be told by Lip that it's actually QP in SE.RA.PH, BB just decided to change its name. When asked what the Sakurament is going to be used for, Lip says that it could be used as reserve energy if it becomes difficult to maintain SE.RA.PH, but normally it'd disappear on its own. Emiya says you're basically collecting garbage, though he privately thinks that it is more like a secret savings fund kept by BB, as the resources aren't being put into the operation of SE.RA.PH.

• You receive a transmission from Arnold, who got Tristan to move some comms equipment from the control room to the church. He chews you out for being slow and not getting things done. You may be a Master, but you are still young. You lack both life experience and knowledge of Seraphix. That's why he's now taking on the burden of being a leader to give you directions. If he does not, it would be hard for you to resolve the situation by yourself. Marble apologizes, but Arnold tells her to shut up and begins telling you where you should go next.

• It looks like despite disavowing the existence of the observatory earlier, he is now able to tell you where it can likely be found. There is an empty, unmarked space at the center of the map of Seraphix which he thinks is the place. Arnold tells you to go beat the Sentinel and return, as you'll have a bit of time for some rest before departing for the observatory.

• Melt says that despite Arnold's problematic attitude, his orders are sound. Lip on the other hand is getting very mad on your behalf for Arnold treating you like a child. This prompts a conversation between you, Melt and Lip about how the Alter-Egos have been maturing mentally and spiritually. At the end of it, you figure that Melt is still hiding something. She jokes about how she's told you before that she's just using you and at the end plans to fight humans anyway. Melt asks if you'll still believe in her till the end anyway.

• In what seems to be clearly a flashback scene by now, Melt is talking about having defeated 40 out of 128 Servants. It has been a hard journey but she is glad that you have been here for her. Alter-Egos are born empty on the inside, as they are artifical creations of an artificial creation. Even so, you have infused her with a new meaning of existence. Even if your meeting with her was coincidental, the fact that she is together with you right now is enough for Melt. Melt will try her best to answer your expectations, though defeating the remaining Servants seems a hopeless task. But well, she'll be counting on your help there. When you display a lack of self-confidence, Melt assures you that you are suitable to be her Master.

(3/4)

• Before battling Suzuka, your Servants give a bit of an infodump about her history. Though she's now immersed in JK culture, she is still a top-notch Servant. Melt thinks that as far as Suzuka is concerned, she sees no difference between BB or demon pillars. She seems to place more importance on her Master instead. And on that topic, Emiya says that he's not seen any of the Masters who're supposed to be summoning these large amounts of Servants. Lip tells you to talk later, as you're approaching the location of your fight with Suzuka.

• Facing Suzuka, you ask her a question before battle: where is her Master? Suzuka says that she does not know her Master's face, has not met her Master, and has never even received a single order from them. But she has been summoned, and so she must have a Master and her Master's wish must be for their Servant to win. So it doesn't matter.

• At any rate, including herself and the long-haired Archer, there are only 4 Servants left. Two, if you don't count the Chaldea Servants. When either she or Long-Hair dies, the Holy Grail War will end, and a wish will be granted. So she wants to quickly finish you off and go kill Tristan. One against four sounds like good odds to her, at that.

• The fight wears on with Suzuka still going strong thanks to her KP. Lip is unable to capture Suzuka with her Trash due to the latter's speed. Melt is pissed that the Key to the Heart needs you to directly come into contact with the target to work, and complains that it's a defective product.

• Arnold contacts you again from the church, saying that the whole of SE.RA.PH is quaking. He tells you off for being so incompetent as to be unable to finish off a single Servant. Suzuka is still confident, so you ask her if it's alright to be following a demon pillar's orders. This gives her pause, as she asks just what you mean. Cat tells Suzuka that she's just BB's puppet. Suzuka has no Master, has no wish of her own, and no proper plan for a future happy family. Of course Cat's Master would feel sorry for her.

• Suzuka says that she does have one, and this has nothing to do with BB or demon pillars. She heard it, a small voice, when she was being summoned. "I want to win", and "I don't want to die in vain". Those were the only words she heard, no more than a single, tearful lament. But she will make that wish come true. Though she does not know her Master's face, or indeed if they are still alive, those were words that left her filled with strength. They were the last wishes of a human entrusted to her by an unknown Master who did not even know her name or face. That is why she has no choice but to win this Holy Grail War.

• With that, Suzuka's heart is laid bare. And it's also time for Cat to show her true power. She uses one of the nine great secrets of the Tamamo Nine, the Cat Witchcraft: Jusou Kuuretsu Daimitsuten. The air around Suzuka thickens and seems to turn to jelly. Though the spell seems to hurt Cat to cast physically, Suzuka is now immobilized and you can start her Otome-Coaster. Suzuka gets all shy and defensive as it's far too soon for you to peek into her heart, especially when you're not even her Master. But it's too late, you're already touching her breasts and entering her heart.

• After you beat her, Suzuka is so embarassed by her total defeat and your exposing of her heart that she decides that the only way out is to kill herself by jumping off a nearby cliff. You order Cat to stop her, which she does. Cat then attempts to recruit Suzuka, because if the party doesn't have a Saber, poor Gawain in heaven would be sad. The two of you convince Suzuka, and she joins your party, if only to spite the organizer of this event.

• There is a sudden earthquake, and a demon pillar attacks. Melt falls into the depths of SE.RA.PH, the waste disposal site, while saving you.

• After you defeat the pillar, Arnold contacts you again, saying that there's not much time left before SE.RA.PH hits the bottom. When you brief him about what happened, he tells you to come back immediately. Of course, you refuse. You still have to save Melt. After he asks and you refuse for the second time, Arnold asks you to consider this: when everything is over, he will be the one writing the report, which will determine whether or not your accomplishments will be recognized. Surely you don't want your career affected by a single mistake. Arnold says he'll pretend you never said what you did, and to come back quickly. Before he can finish his sentence, however, you cut the line.

• You ask Suzuka if there's any way to get down there. There are wires you can use, it seems, which can extend with magical energy up to 5 km in length. Suzuka says she'll go down with you. Lip can't because, well, of her weight.

• At the bottom of the waste disposal, Melt is conscious. She knows where she is, the trashcan of SE.RA.PH. Thinking that she has no time to waste here, that she must return to your side, Melt attempts to move but fails. Her hands are useless. Her legs can't be seen. In despair, she recites: "Albrecht, Albrecht. My beloved. This time, do not let go of my hand---"

• Melt begins having a flashback to when she met you for the first time, when you had shifted from Chaldea without bringing any Servants, all by yourself. When you made a contract with her at the church, and she vowed to dance for you till the very end, you who had found her. When she admitted that she thought humans were scary and laughed at the Alter-Egos for being monsters, which is why hand-holding like this was a first for her. When she finally recovered her original strength, and started getting more sadistic and teasing in the control room: "But... who I fundamentally am has not changed, my Guda. The weak Meltlilith, the ugly Meltlilith, I'll always remember those parts of me. My experiences together with you won't be erased. For a swan that has realized that it is different to fly away from the muddy lake is unthinkable, right?"

• Recalling those memories blurs Melt's vision. At that time she could do nothing but be frightened and in despair, crying alone at night, afraid that she would not have the strength to protect that person. But that person always supported her when she was weak, cried from having too much fun, laughed from encountering too many difficulties. No matter the situation, they were always so dazzling to Melt. As long as she was with them she could go anywhere, fight anyone. They were the best thing that ever happened to her.

• "Even should these hands crumble, I will return to your side in flight." Melt recalled saying such words, though now they are only words, and everything is over for her. The mountain of garbage will crush her body when it collapses. This is the continuation of that time, where scheduled for disposal, she was but an unfunctioning doll at the church, in the chapel where no one would have reason to visit. That person offered a hand to the broken doll. Such a miracle would never happen twice.

• You ask Melt if she's alright. She's stunned to see you, but immediately tells you she doesn't really want to hear how you came to help, but wants you to hold her hand. Tightly, as if to break it. Her sensation in her hand is dull, after all, and she wants to really feel your touch. Suzuka shouts at you that you should've reported immediately upon finding Melt. But there's no time to talk now, you're being surrounded by enemies and should enjoy your reunion later.

• You plan to escape with the wire, but it was cut. Luckily, Tristan appears to bail you out. He laments having to use his harp to deal with such opponents at the bottom of such a place, for this way his eternal tone will become that of death metal. A very saddening thing for him. You thank him, but he tells you to think nothing of it, since Arnold was the one who ordered Tristan to drag you back.

• Suzuka asks how he got down here, but it seems that this sort of height is just a stroll in the park for him, and he can descend even without using a safety line. Something like leaping off a spire to glide to the ground is a perfectly normal and common matter for a Knight of the Round Table. But as he is not a bird, he is unable to fly upwards. He asks if you have prepared any methods to return above, as he'll have to tag along with you there.

• Melt says that you can probably count on BB to get you out, now that the way to the observatory is open. As she said, BB appears just a second later to send you out.

• Back at the church, Arnold is getting angry and throwing things around because you hung up on him. Your attitude and lack of manners pissed him off. Everyone else, like the director and the vice-director, are dead, so he should be the highest ranking person here. Marble is trying to calm him down to no avail. Arnold begins plotting his next move.

• Emiya walks into the church. Arnold says he has good timing, and asks Emiya to head for the medical room located at central control and retrieve some poison for him. Without warning, Emiya shoots Arnold, saying that time is short and that he should give his speech in hell. He promptly shoots Marble too. And with that, all Seraphix staff have been terminated. Animusphere's experiments will not be repeated again. All that is left to do for him is to destroy the observatory, even if what happened there is none of his business.

• A voice tells Emiya that indeed, he was such a person. Even at that time, he killed many people just to achieve his goals. Emiya fires a couple of shots reflexively. He recognizes the Saint Graph pattern, and she wonders if he has forgotten, or if it was a memory lost when he became a Heroic Spirit. She talks about a cult that arose in a certain country, which attracted devotees that were people in power or scientists. The cult grew, and there was not one evil person in that cult, except perhaps for its founding mother, who created it on a whim.

• An angered Emiya fires more shots, though nothing comes of it. The voice points out that he killed everyone in the building in order to kill the cult's leader. Because the cultists did not want to lose their leader, they had no choice but to try and kill Emiya. Emiya crushed them all, and finally reached and killed her. Her body, at least. Her heart remained unharmed. The voice thinks that if she were in Emiya's world, she'd be a little happy, but get bored very quickly and jump off the roof. Emiya's actions as an ally of justice were amusing, but he himself is a comical and insignificant man.

• She tells him not to commit any thoughtless violence. Emiya can never escape her - he killed innocent civilians, and has to bear that sin. Someone like him would fall into hell even without ever encountering a poisonous moth like her. A mind of steel is not something a human can have. She asks him to please melt away like the Saber she devoured. But with this her doubts about being in Emiya's world have been cleared up. Why did Emiya twist his own beliefs all in order to kill her? It was because in that world, only he saw the ending of the path that she would take after being transformed.

(4/4)

• You find yourself dropped in a place by BB along with your other Servants like Lip and Cat. The area you're in right now is the one given to BB when she was a Sentinel. Seraphix had a special facility apparently used to monitor the leylines, or in simpler terms, investigating the brain waves of the planet.

• Melt cuts the chase and tells you to go inside her, shocking Cat and prompting Lip to call Melt gutsy for daring to suggest such a thing. Melt teases you, asking if you're perfectly willing to go inside other girls but can't get it up if your partner is her. Suzuka knows what you mean, which is the same treatment she was subjected to. Meanwhile, Tristan is still confused about what's going on. Melt warns you to be careful as though her current self is weakening, she is as strong as ever in her mental space.

• After you complete the battle against Melt, she feels satisfied as she hasn't been able to perform so freely to her heart's desire lately. Now that she's been defeated and the last vestiges of KP inside her eradicated, the way is open to the core. It looks like she's still in no shape to walk, so she asks that you leave her here, as her role has already ended once the core is open. So you carry her piggy-back style while she lectures you for being an idiot and to be careful of the spikes on her knees.

• Back at the church, Arnold, Marble and Emiya are nowhere to be seen. Before you can begin to investigate, BB makes a sudden announcement that the Holy Grail War is over and that the game has ended. There are no winning Servants since there are 3 left alive, so it doesn't count. But BB'll give you a great big fanservice instead. She's offering a special chance for you to fight her personally. Any complaints, suggestions or requests you have can be directed to her there. With that, BB signs off.

• You decide to go to the observatory. Melt will stay behind to rest and repair her saint graph. As she is unable to go, she tasks Lip with looking after you in her stead. Once you have left, Melt thinks to herself that last time only she and Lip were around, but right now she's working on a survival route, and she'll hope for Tristan, Tamamo Cat and Suzuka Gozen to be enough.

Prologue & Chapter 1 (1/6)

Chapter 1 (2/6 - 6/6)

Chapter 2

Chapter 3