-She sees a house made of crayon where Mary is inside, humming while serving tea to what seems to be, rag dolls of the Chaldea children she met, plus a brown haired doll-
Are you enjoying your tea, Ib~?
-Doll obviously doesn't responds-
Mary: "I knew you'd love it, I'm so glad you all are here~" -Mary's eyes seemed hollow-
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Eleonora: "I am an experiment of the adult Leonardo da Vinci, a backup body for her in case she died...Or well, the closest she could do to it......."
-The next thing that she tells them is what will appear on the following flashback-
-After thinking it for long, da Vinci has come to realize that Chaldea depends quite a lot on her. She is not a Ruler, but being in charge of the scientists in general and in charge of the largest amounts of projects around meant that if she's gone...Things would probably get into panic-
da Vinci: "It is a big act of selfishness, but...I really need to preserve myself somehow...I can't afford things spiraling into chaos without me......."
-That is when she took inspiration from Bison along how many Heroic Spirits in Chaldea have more than one version of themselves of themselves walking around, she attempted to forcibly summon another Leonardo da Vinci-
-One night when everyone was in deep, she approached the summoning chamber, and forced modifications on it-
da Vinci:
This is unethical on everything I may have done as a scientist...But for the suvival of this organization and for the greater good, sometimes, horrible decisions have to be made....
-The modifications were set to bring a Heroic Spirit in a young body, an inconspicous form that could be easily hidden from her peers. And the catalyst to bring it? Herself-
da Vinci: "Please work, please work, please work..." -The Caster poured a special kind of jewel, a Saint Quartz, into the chamber, a extremely rare stone from the Age of the Gods with unbelievable amounts of stored mana that she only managed to get by infiltrating into a black market. Part of her hated herself for those decisions, but this is probably needed-
-The Saint Quartz dissolved to create an artificial Blank Saint Graph, which quickly rolled, and from it....Emerged a child version of what looked to be the Mona Lisa-
Eleonora: "What was....Where am I....?"
da Vinci: "Success..."
-The child turned to look at the adult-
da Vinci: "It was a success, thanks, goodness!"
Eleonora: "Mona Lisa.....?"
da Vinci: -Sighs- "Come, we have so much to talk about..."
-In the present-
Eleonora: "That is the story of my summoning....."
Shirou: "You were summoned...since when?"
Eleonora: "Hmm...I don't know the current date. However, I spent months with my adult self, learning my purpose and being educated..."
-Flashback again-
-2 hours after her summoning, the two female versions of Leonardo da Vinci were inside the latter's workshop-
Eleonora: "So, you want me to be your backup?"
da Vinci: "Correct...I want you to be around if can't be anymore. That's the reason why I forced you to be here..."
Eleonora: "You know how bad of a person you are being, right? Forget me being the greatest genius in history, you forced the creation of a child, to be a backup body in case you die, knowing fully well I'd be a full-fledged Servant, sentient and with a mentality still different from yours, right?"
da Vinci: "You don't think I know? I don't like doing any of this, for once I can't look at the mirror and look at my beautiful figure without having doubts..."
Eleonora: "Then why?"
da Vinci: "Because I don't want my home or people I've known dead, so I want to rescue as much of them as I can if anything was meant to happen! That's why...That's why I made you be, so there can be a guiding light if I'm gone"
Eleonora: "But what about those Rulers?"
da Vinci: "What if they were at loss too? They could become one's primary target as our leaders....To weaken us and then attack, they need someone, and when it's not any of those five, all eyes always end falling on me. It's the disadvantage of our genius, sometimes, people can look up to you too much...."
-da Vinci is now showing a side rarely seen under her usually perky and slightly narcissistic persona, she hasn't said it, but being just behind the Rulers in the position of power has generated quite the amounts of stress under the Italian Pioneer of the Stars, which her child version can see-
Eleonora: "....I never though I'd see myself helpless..."
da Vinci: "I have stood in front of two Dead Apostle Ancestors, a Dream Demon from another dimension, partook in order to not let a void to erase all of existence, resisted the temptation of an all powerful succubus and once I was kidnapped along every woman and brainwashed by a magical girl.
After that...Some stress has began to build up..."
Eleonora: "....It can't be helped then. Tell, what do I need to do?"
da Vinci: "You'll willingly help me?"
Eleonora: "Only because you are beautiful, of course, you are me"
da Vinci: "...." -Chuckles- "You are still a perverted old man inside, right?"
Eleonora: "Can say the same of you, since we've met you've only been using that half-buttoned shirt"
da Vinci: "It was the middle of the night, but I'll admit I have a perk of exposing myself"
Eleonora: "Because our beauty is too much to hide to the world?"
da Vinci: "Woah, wait until you are 18, you little Miss"
-They both had a chuckle-
da Vinci/Eleonora: "Pervert. Who, me? I'm you, silly~!"
-In the present-
Eleonora: "It was then that I agreed to go along her plan"