Fate: The Transfer Student from the East, Marked for Sealing

Shen Zhibai is an exchange student sent from the Spiral Pavilion to the Clock Tower. His résumé is as blank as a sheet of paper: no prestigious bloodline, no powerful circuits, and no record of aggression. The Clock Tower's aristocrats assume he's a pushover who came to polish his résumé. But Shen Zhibai has a bad habit: he likes taking apart anything he can't understand. In his first public lecture, he dismantles a noble student's curse formula. In his second practical class, he takes apart the summoning array of a spirit evocation instructor. On his third day, he submits a report to El-Melloi II detailing the weakness in the secret art of a millennium-old prestigious family. The Twelve Lords are furious: this student isn't a genius, he's a disaster for their monopoly on inherited knowledge. The night his Sealing Designation is issued, Shen Zhibai asks just one question: "Are you afraid I'll steal your knowledge, or that everyone will learn it?"