Fate/Prototype Argent Fragments
Little Lady Act 4 Summary
The strategy of life never comes out of darkness――――
[START OF PART ONE]
Student A: “Hey hey, do you know? About that rumour.”
Student B: “I know I know, about that, Ms Mary…..”
Student A: “That’s right. Ms Mary.”
Student B: “I’ve heard the exact same story but in cram school. It’s becoming a rumour even in other schools.”
Student A: “Is that so?”
Student B: “It’s a true story, because it happened in Tokyo.”
Student A: “But, I haven’t seen it on TV.”
Student B: “It just hasn’t been shown on TV.”
While these two girls are talking, Ayaka is wondering what story they are talking about. Realising that it’s a rumour only in Tokyo about Ms. Mary. But she doesn’t know enough about it. The girls were chatting with their desks facing and joined together.
Ayaka is eating a bread roll. She then starts talking about her meal which is the bread roll, a dark coloured stew and a fresh vegetable salad. She is disappointed because it’s the same old bread roll and the same old taste.
But then she thinks that it is also a bit pleasing because it has Marmalade Jam on it. She then talks about how she likes marmalade more than margarine and that she didn’t hate sweet things before biting it again.
She notes how the taste was always different because of the marmalade. But she doesn’t hate it because it’s her favourite food group.
The girls continue talking, one of them asks the other if she had heard her real name and she wonders if Ms. Mary was the name of the rumour. The other girl doesn’t know. The other girl then says that Mary will say something to you at 11 pm and then your companions will die without fail.
Student A: “So, they say, Death Mary comes to do it at 11:00 pm.”
Ayaka thinks to herself Death Mary and wonders what is it? She then talks about how the two girls were always talking at lunchtime and a bit about them. One of the girls goes to cram school 3 days a week, and the other watches a lot of TV.
But Ayaka also says that she doesn’t know how accurate the rumour because she didn’t play with outside of school or after school. But she also doesn’t think they would like about it.
Ayaka notes that they are talking about a rumour as she tries to listen to their story, but she can’t quite hear it clearly because she was concentrating on the marmalade.
Ayaka begins to feel fuzzy because she felt that she wouldn’t mix well with them, because she only gets one shoujo manga magazine per month and barely watches TV or she would say something.
Ayaka says that it was a rumour of a foreign girl who calls out to adults with a soft voice who would reveal her body at night and bring death, as Ayaka thought it was a dangerous story.
She then repeats that it was rumour that a friend of a friend, or a friend of a friend’s father would sat and that they probably hadn’t met her. Ayaka then calls up an example of a human face dog which was popular the previous year in the second semester.
Ayaka notes that it was the same as that story, a dark rumour or a school ghost story. She then talks about the seven wonders of the school and lists them, namely Something like, the girl in the toilet, or the portrait of the musician in the music room with eyes that move, or the anatomy model in the cooking preparation room that can walk by itself, and the many and not too few flights of stairs.
She then lists some other famous mysteries like he purple mirror which brings death.
She then talks about table turning which she did with the two girls where they used a coin on a sheet of paper that was like an imitation Ouija board and push the coin with their finger. They asked about stuff like, who did they like, or who they hate, or what are they scared of, or what they hate.
Ayaka then notes that both of the girls liked to gossip but were very cowardly.
Student B: “Everyone will die……”
Student A: “That’s right. Everyone, who meets that person, dies. No one was able to save them.”
Student B: “No way, I’m scared.”
The two girls then start talking about how someone saw the purple mirror and died and that many policemen have also died. The girl who watches too much TV goes “How Scary.” Though Ayaka thinks it was strange as the story was filled with horribly dangerous things.
She then goes further into the rumour of a foreigner “Ms. Mary” who went to a hotel and called out to a guy returning from his job. After she committed the deed she wrote on a mirror in red lipstick with a message in English that said: Welcome to the world of death!
The girl had disappeared the next morning with the same red kiss mark next to the exclamation point on the mirror. Though it says that the man died of unknown causes on top of his bed and there were no signs of wounds. (NOTE: I think this may be Berserker’s Master not sure).
Ayaka then talks about how his murder became news and that her friend’s father had also died the same way. Ayaka then realises that it wasn’t a school ghost story and then she starts talking about how she was scared but she can’t say because she doesn’t know what to do.
Ayaka then talks about how the rumours were lacking something and that her father wouldn’t say that the human faced dog was real, besides her father was safe. She thinks while drinking milk as there wouldn’t be too many people going out late at night and that it’ll be fine.
And, even if there were several people who lived, it still wouldn’t stop a rumour of a pseudo-mystery of a case where “Ms. Mary was rumoured to be a female elementary girl” from going around.
Ayaka then thinks that there would be no way that she could do it and that’s the reason she wasn’t scared. Although she can’t say it about her classmates as her father was a Magus, someone who could handle real mysteries.
Ayaka then thinks to herself that she won’t lose against some gossip or a phantasmal beast before biting into her bread again.
It then cuts to a journal entry about Phantasmal Beasts and gives a general description of them. Saying that they exist in old legends and they are divided into divine beasts, phantasmal beasts and monstrous beasts and that it is possible for a magus to control a monstrous beast.
Magi can also use their bodies as a Mystic Code and then it starts talking about Servants about how they can destroy common sense and they have surpassed magical mysteries and are illusions of people’s dreams. Magi can also use magical mysteries through their Servants and that it has to be kept confidential. The Holy Grail War must be carried out in darkness.
[END OF PART ONE]