Chaldea, Your Chief Is Back!

"Have you ever been a Master?"

The unscrupulous merchant Da Vinci asked.

"No!"

"Come here, let me tell you. If you want to be a Master, you need to prepare embers, Craft Essences, and Ascension materials first. Once your Servants arrive, you have to care for them, wait on them, and ask after them every day. Then you need to sweet-talk them properly, so the Heroic Spirits will be willing to work for you."

"If that's how it is, doesn't that make me a simp?"

"If you put it that way, being a Master really is just being a simp. And plenty of people can't even get that far!"

"But why does it look like Fujimaru Ritsuka treats the great heroes, Zhuge Liang, and Nitocris like dogs and orders them around?"

Da Vinci fell silent and pushed a mirror toward him.

"What for?" Toba took it.

"Why don't you take a good look at your own face, you unlucky bastard!"