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The fourth night of Holy Grail War's release was a sleepless night across the industry.
Small streamers who normally pulled three or four hundred viewers found their rooms nearly empty. The bigger ones — usually fifty to a hundred thousand — were sitting at five to eight thousand. Platform staff across every major short video service filed the same baffled report upward: viewers were bleeding into Shark Platform, and they were bleeding fast.
The post-mortem was clear. Shark had organized a Streamer League around a VR title with genuine AI depth and strong entertainment value — the kind of game that played better for an audience than it did solo. The other platforms had run standard content. Their planning departments would be having difficult conversations the next morning.
Downloads hit 67 million. Roughly one-third of all VR headset owners clicked install. New viewers poured in through the trending tags and found seven streamers who could not accurately be described as "close to gods" but had definitively moved past the category of "human."
The trending topics told the full story:
[Pirate Ship Collides with Golden Theater — Distortion of Human Nature or Degradation of Morality?]
[Two Streamers, One Male One Female, Running Loose in a Coastal Castle — Caught Cheating?]
[Twelve Arrows Scatter Heroic Spirits — General Lü Bu, I Am a Foreigner.]
[Teacher Pu and the Exciting Black Chief's Unforgettable Story.]
[Peerless Demonic Sound — The Two Servants in Holy Grail War Everyone Should Avoid.]
[A Shocking Shot — Monkey Suspected of Being Unfaithful to His Own Assassin.]
[Bathroom Encounter — Maverick and Dai's Love-Hate Relationship.]
[Famous Streamer Enters Factory to Tighten Bolts — On Capital's Exploitation of Ordinary People.]
[Chat]: USE YOUR COMMAND SEAL. COMMAND SEAL. CALL FOR HELP.
[Veteran]: you can tell at a glance you don't watch this stream. calling Nero right now sends her to her death and gives the opponent a double kill. Maverick is already carrying an injured Servant. please think before typing.
[Newcomer]: I just clicked in from the trending link — does this streamer have a special thing about his outfit, or is something happening?
[Veteran]: yes.
[Club_President]: I am the president of Maverick's Running Club. membership is open.
[Mod_Action]: [User "Maverick's Club — Everyone Who Joins Knows" detected for inappropriate remarks. Banned 12 hours. The internet is not outside the law.]
[Responding]: Maverick belongs to everyone.
[Summary_Viewer]: I spent three hours tonight watching a man run around a flooded city. I am at peace with this decision.
[Counter]: you haven't been to Wei's stream. three hours of bolt-tightening. Teacher Pu is there now. they're tightening bolts together.
[Development_1]: Dai's stream: she's actively raising Nero's favorability. if Maverick doesn't move soon, his Servant defects.
[Development_2]: Little Cat's stream: flirting with Lü Bu. with Emiya Kiritsugu's face. Lü Bu has not attacked her. this is medically notable.
[Chat]: WHAT KIND OF STRANGE SERVANT-SWAPPING SITUATION IS THIS
When the flood had receded, it distributed people with the indifference of physics. Maverick had not been swept — he'd been pinned under debris from Lü Bu's Prison Castle bombardment. As the water drained, Monkey's sniper position on the distant tower came back into range immediately.
Bullets chased Maverick the moment he surfaced.
Nowhere to go. One injured Servant next to him, fallen near the ruins. He grabbed Elizabeth and ran.
He thought he'd cleared the immediate threat.
A throwing knife buried itself in his backside.
The sound he made was the sound of a man discovering an entirely new category of pain.
"OH HO HO HO HO—"
[Chat]: ...
[Chat]: HE MADE THAT SOUND
[Sympathy_Faction]: I feel bad. I'm also laughing. both are true simultaneously.
[Hundred_Personas_Update]: one clone is still active. it threw the knife. between Elizabeth's castle battle and Monkey's accidental friendly fire, 84 of 88 clones are gone.
[Monkey_Chat]: MONKEY. YOUR PERFORMANCE TONIGHT IS NOT DEFENSIBLE.
Maverick ran. The knife was in him. He ran anyway, carrying Elizabeth, through the post-flood streets of Fuyuki toward whatever came next.
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