That is a sigh that Lord El-Melloi II recognized. He had been on the other side of this so many times, and while he felt no particular guilt about putting Roman in this position - it was one of the things Roman was there to do - he did understand that it was an additional issue for the man to deal with.
It always came back to circuits, didn't it? He cringed at the thought, well and truly hating the fact that even with the power of a goddamn Heroic Spirit, the fact he was still just a crappy third generation mage created barriers.
"It...I have been trying to reroute the mana," he said after a few moments of silence while he processed the information. "But it splits between whatever the Graph's shape is and the more known route of my magic circuits. Or at least that's what's going on as far as I can tell."
He had only been able to confirm this off the battlefield, practicing alone in one of the training rooms when no one else was around. It was tiring, but easier to stop too. Having to stop halfway through a real mission was unacceptable, and would invite the raw mom energy of some of the Servants.
"Let's say that your theory is correct," he said, trying to back away from no longer going on field missions period. That wasn't an option, it'd just raise suspicions and out him for the actual crappy mage he was. "There should be options for retraining the flow of mana."
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It always came back to circuits, didn't it? He cringed at the thought, well and truly hating the fact that even with the power of a goddamn Heroic Spirit, the fact he was still just a crappy third generation mage created barriers.
"It...I have been trying to reroute the mana," he said after a few moments of silence while he processed the information. "But it splits between whatever the Graph's shape is and the more known route of my magic circuits. Or at least that's what's going on as far as I can tell."
He had only been able to confirm this off the battlefield, practicing alone in one of the training rooms when no one else was around. It was tiring, but easier to stop too. Having to stop halfway through a real mission was unacceptable, and would invite the raw mom energy of some of the Servants.
"Let's say that your theory is correct," he said, trying to back away from no longer going on field missions period. That wasn't an option, it'd just raise suspicions and out him for the actual crappy mage he was. "There should be options for retraining the flow of mana."