02 ✘ TEXT. ACTION.

[emaiya]

[ Investigation is key in everything, but not with a phone that has her name attached to it. After an inevitable struggle with many prepaid phones, she's discovered that there's no way to do what she needs with an ordinary phone. Therefore she must acquire one from any of the other non-natives.

It doesn't take her long to track an extremely dumb and loud-mouthed captive. One that's stupid enough to leave his phone laying around without second thought. Since he's young, she knows he might notice his phone's gone missing, but maybe most of his effort would be spent pitching a fit instead of searching for it.

Once she's made it far enough from the boy, she'll send out a message or two with his phone. Those who are on top of things will recognize it as Eridan Ampora's phone. ]

I'm kinda curious about something. [ 'Kinda' seemed like a kid thing to type. Little does Maiya realize how far off she is. ] There's a lot of people here with the same name - Saber, Lancer, Archer, etc. What does that mean? Do these individuals have any other names? I wonder where I can find them just to ask myself even.

[ After fooling around with this person's phone for a few hours, she's considerate enough to dump it back where the boy would find it. Only after thoroughly wiping it free of her evidence right down to disinfectant and mass deletion of details that day. ]

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[voice]

[hellburner]

What the hell, Eridork, don't you ever listen? I thought we'd been over this. And why are you typing all normal and shit?

[forever text on her end]

[emaiya]

Guess I'm kinda dumb at times. Have we gone over this already?

[ 'Typing normal and shit'? That doesn't bode well since Maiya's unable to come up with an excuse. ]

[forever voice because fuck her typing]

[hellburner]

I thought I'd at least told you. I'm Rider because I ride stuff. Sabers are Sabers because they use swords. From there it's really not hard to figure out, even if you are a fishfaced moron.

[Reaction, not here]

[truthsnomiracle]

[While Edgeworth didn't personally know Eridan Ampora, between that shade of purple and his way of typing, his text posts stuck out like a sore thumb... and this post of "his" stuck out just as much for having the former but not the latter. Clearly, someone else -- someone with an interest in Servants -- was using Eridan's phone in an attempt to remain anonymous. Given Diarmuid's suspicions that Arturia was in trouble and that other Servants might become targets too, there was a good chance of this being related...]

[Suspicious Text Post address jotted down in Organizer.]

[wweh]

[He knew he was missing something... Eridan returns to the scene of the crime, catching her placing the phone back where it was found]

An' just what do you think you're doin' over there?

[emaiya]

[ Calmly placing the phone down, she'll spare him a look. ]

This was left behind, so I looked for a place to turn it into. There was none, so I thought if I returned here, I could make sure the proper owner could find it.

[wweh]

[Staaare.]

You couldn't a' been lookin' too good because I know I've been searchin' for my phone shortly after I left this place...

Which probably was an hour or so ago.

I don't like people touchin' my things, nevermind them playin' on my phone.

Hand it over.

[voice]

[emptysword]

[Unlike the prosecutor above him, Shirou has completely no clue on how this person with the totally non-suspicious purple text is another person entirely.]

...Oh, uh... Well, they're just titles, I guess.

[also forever text on her end]

[emaiya]

Titles? I understand that, but how many of them are there? I thought there was only supposed to be one per war, so how come there's so many more?

[text] /why do I not have Nepeta anymore /why am I about to go off hiatus anyway

[unknownrival]

Have you gotten the 'who are you and what are you doing with Eridan Ampora's phone' lecture yet?

Because you love tagging me EVIL_GRIN

[emaiya]

Not really in lecture form. I don't care to discuss that though. His phone will be returned when I'm done.

[breatheinthefog]

This is entirely pointless.

They're warriors summoned to fight each other, though here none have a reason to fight, nor to hide their identities, which they did back home. Everybody in Prospero knows this. Yourself especially.

You are the most pathetic impostor I've ever seen. Not that I care.

[emaiya]

If you don't care, then humor me a bit. Have you met any of these warriors personally?

[ Maiya's not even offended. She's come to realize she's hit a pretty bad point with this phone, but some information is better than none. ]

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[lyres]

It's a matter of secrecy, of course. No need to worry about it.

[ She hasn't talked much to Eridan but she knows the dude tends to be really obtuse about some stuff. Saber has't caught up with the writing quirk just yet. ]

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[emaiya]

[ Well, Maiya has to worry about it. Kind of hard to kill Servants if she can't find them. ]

So we have a lot of people who are hiding something?

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[spinoff]

[ Here have Minako looking like she hadn't been on island for a while now. She has been busy being a schoolgirl and beating Shadows. ]

I think I saw this...and met this Lancer guy once. Weird.

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[emaiya]

Lancer guy? I'm curious. Did he have dark hair?

[theheirofbreath]

hahahahahaha!
man, he is gonna be pissed when he finds out you took his phone.
sweet prank though.

[emaiya]

[ By this time Maiya's started to realize that this boy may have been more popular than he appeared to be. ]

I plan on returning it. Don't worry.

[Text]

[yewbow]

[Ttly not giving Kiritsugu's vibe. Nope. Also text because he doesn't actually trust anyone anyway.]

Titles, perhaps?

[Time to act stupid.]

[Text]

[emaiya]

[ Of course not. ]

Titles for what though?

[hereticals]

If there are multiple people with words like those for names, I honestly might pity them.

[emaiya]

You can see their names in the phone's contact list. There's a lot of them.

You haven't met any, have you?

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[kitsunemimi]

Ara. Haven't you been around long enough to figure this out? Especially with how candid most of us are about this.

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[emaiya]

I'm afraid not. It's an inconvenience, isn't it?