| ID | 243 |
| Rarity | ★★★★ |
| Class | Assassin |
| True Name | Gray |
| Gender | Female |
| Source | “Lord El-Melloi II Case Files” |
| Region | England |
| Alignment | Lawful Good |
| Height | 154cm |
| Weight | 42kg |
| Strength | B |
| Endurance | C |
| Agility | B |
| Magic | C |
| Luck | C |
| Noble Phantasm | A+ |
| Character Setting | Sanda Makoto |
| Illustrator | Sakamoto Mineji |
| Character Voice | Ueda Reina, Ono Daisuke |
The ability to act without a Master.
Nullifies any magecraft with less than two incantations.
She is unable to defend against greater magecraft and rituals.
A skill that symbolizes her as being the vessel of the once and future king.
Because of this, she’s able to exhibit stats that would be impossible to have for a modern human.
The sealing mystic code Add that Gray possesses can do more than just seal the holy spear. In certain situations the seal can be released in certain ways that allow Add to take many forms.
Gray was raised to be a gravekeeper for one of the most peculiar cemeteries in the British Empire, the Blackmore Cemetery. Due to this, she possesses the skills to fight off all kinds of ferocious spirits, Servants being no exception.
A skill automatically given to the wielder of the holy spear.
However, since the spear is something that has only been given to her temporarily, its rank has been decreased.
| Rank | A+ (It would usually be A++, but since Gray can’t use it properly, its rank has been reduced) |
| Type | Anti-Fortress Noble Phantasm |
| Range | 1~99 |
| Maximum Number of Targets | 100 people |
Rhongomyniad.
The holy spear.
The holy spear is the anchor that secures the front and reverse sides of the world, but the spear wielded by Gray is but a mere shadow of it.
However, since even a shadow of the holy spear would normally be too much for a human like Gray to handle, it is usually sealed inside Add, and only released when necessary. The fact Add can transform into many different weapons is also because of the power contained within the spear.
Even when the holy spear’s power has been sealed behind the two barriers of Add and the 13 restrictions, it still has not lost it’s radiance.
| First-person pronoun | tsutana |
| Second-person pronoun | anata |
| Third-person pronoun | kare / kanojo / ano hito |
She’s usually very shy and introverted.
She was raised in the country and isn’t used to cities, so she tends to just look at things from afar. But since her real nature is also gentle, persistent, and surprisingly caring of others, she tends to just get accustomed to any place if she spends enough time there…Well, as long as you don’t mention her face.
She makes a good pair with the outspoken and sarcastic Add.
Since she had been brought to an unfamiliar place from the country, she feels a sort of affinity with her Master due to their similar positions.
She has been summoned as a Servant due to the special circumstances that shake the world, but her own self-consciousness is still that of a human. Unlike many other Servants, the thing that sustains her are her natural sense of values. Thanks to this, she can be of help for her Master with a different point of view and way of thinking from other Servants.
“I am Gray the gravekeeper. I’m a bit different from other Servants, and I may end up causing you trouble, but I hope we can work together…”
“Gray…Rave…Crave…Deprave…”
“Grave…Me…”
“Grave…For you…”
“Yes, I may not be as good as my teacher, but I’ll do my best!”
The vessel for King Arthur that one family once tried to create.
They tried to faithfully recreate the body of the ancient king and it exhibits abilities impossible for regular humans. But from Gray’s point of view, these were all changes that suddenly started happening to her, and even know she still can’t accept her new face as her own. Due to this she seems to want to distance herself from her own face, and has now created a relationship of deep trust with Lord El-Melloi II, who took her away from her hometown.
Gray frequently carries a birdcage with a talking box, Add.
At Gray’s command, Add is able to transform into all sorts of weapons, like a scythe or even a hammer to aid her. Combined with her training as a gravekeeper, Gray’s combat abilities have reached a level far beyond that of normal humans.
This is kind of a big secret, but the holy spear given to King Arthur, Rhongomyniad, is currently sealed within Add. This is to prevent the mystery of this Noble Phantasm from decaying from reacting to the current texture of human order, and also to allow them to unleash Rhongomyniad when necessary.
Seeing as the current circumstances put human order at stake, Gray would not hesitate to use the spear.
Scythe: This is Add’s usual form. It is the best one at absorbing mana, while it is second best in attack power.
Great Shield: It is capable of absorbing mana and releasing it along with a reversal curse.
Hammer: Its mana absorption is D rank, but it has the highest attack. Gray does rely on it when she really needs to.
Boomerang: A giant boomerang swung using both hands. If it’s for a short distance, they can even be used as gliding wings. She used it this way in volume 7.
Halberd: This form shares part of its design with Rhongomyniad. This one has the highest speed and sharpness. Using this one reminds Gray the most of her trance-like state when using Rhongomyniad, so she doesn’t like it very much.
Bow: This has not been used in the story. It’s a bow that shoots arrows of mana.
Greatsword: This has not been used in the story. A form rarely taken by Add. An imitation of Excalibur. To begin with there’s no real reason to have Rhongomyniad imitate Excalibur, but this form was something set up by the Arthur cultists from Gray’s hometown.
Oh, umm…I feel greatly honored to get to meet my teacher in his younger days.
If you’d like, it would make me happy if we could have tea together again…?
Miss Olgamarie is here? Huh? She’s Chaldea’s director?
Please, if you could all just listen to our teacher a little more.
I…I think she’s a truly great hero.
The hero(ine) of the story. The closest disciple of El-Melloi II.
Taking the detective novel role of Watson, she was pretty much the first character designed for the series. Case Files changed dramatically over the course of its early development, but she alone survived the process mostly unchanged. “A girl who excelled as a gravekeeper, but was afraid of ghosts. And the Noble Phantasm she holds is King Arthur’s…” Such was her catch copy.
While there was originally some distance between her and El-Melloi II, the decision to have their relationship gradually deepen was decided at the same time it was decided to make Case Files a series. Making El-Melloi II an important person for her, not as a romantic partner but as a teacher, was also decided at that time. She certainly came a long way since calling him nasty in the first volume.
Furthermore, while El-Melloi II proposed that she was “likely a descendant of a distant relative of King Arthur” in the first volume, while that wasn’t just a handwave explanation at all, it would be more correct to say she belonged to a family which was imprinted with the essence of King Arthur. Gray’s family possessed the essence of King Arthur’s physical body, while the Corpse King had the essence of King Arthur’s spirit planted within it, sleeping until the time when the Corpse King should come.
Ten years prior, her appearance suddenly transformed, at the same time that Saber (Artoria) was summoned in the Fourth Holy Grail War. At that time, in response to the awakening of that essence, Add’s personality also activated, but in exchange Gray lost her other friends. To the people of her hometown, she had become an object of worship. For that reason, when El-Melloi II was scared by seeing her face for the first time, she took an interest in him, deciding to accompany him.
Gray most definitely doesn’t hate her current face. But, the idea of it changing scares her. Her lone friend is one that awoke due to her transformation. In that case, did that mean her existence had any value? Shouldn’t she just allow herself to completely become that past hero?
And in the Grand Roll case, as the Servant Saber was summoned once more in the Far East, her body would transform once again.
As a disciple, Gray is extremely devote.
Though saying that, for someone used to the austere lifestyle of a gravekeeper, her current life feels rather lax to her. Being left entirely to her own devices when she wasn’t doing work for El-Melloi II, the first two months had her in a state of bewilderment. Of course she had effectively none of the basic knowledge expected of a magus, so her adaptation to the El-Melloi Classroom has been largely a result of cooperation from Flat and Reines. Svin was basically like that from the moment he first met her, so there was no cooperation there.
“You’re always taking care of my brother, so isn’t there something we can do for you in return?”
“Not really, but…”
“But?”
“If…if it’s okay, just for a little longer, if I could keep things like this…”
Standing in front of the fireplace, with a sad smile, Reines suddenly offered her a new kind of sweet to try. Or something like that.
By the way, as far as English spelling, her name could be spelled either “Gray” as in American English, or “Grey” as in British English, and I struggled for a time to decide which would be appropriate. Since she wasn’t born in either country, and I heard that “gray” is perceived in both countries as being halfway between black and white, while “grey” is a paler color, I decided on the American spelling (to emphasize being in the middle of black and white).
Comment from Illustrator #
I didn’t have to draw different ascensions for her, so I went all out with her expressions and Add’s weapon forms. (Sakamoto Mineji)