Strange Fake 4 Summary Spoilers

Strange Fake 4 Summary Spoilers

Flat's parents think their son is a monster and have tried to kill him multiple times. There aren't any details on how, but he matter-of-factly recounts how his parents tried to kill him for the Nth time and it's implied that he casually dodged all the attempts. The current people of the Escardos clan have no idea, but Flat is actually the culmination of a forgotten ancient project that Zelretch and his friend know about.

Sigma fools everyone into thinking that his servant is a Lancer Charlie Chaplin. To elaborate: It's a feint when Fake Assassin comes after him- He yells "Get her, Chaplin!". It turns out that he's a fan of comedies (though he doesn't actually laugh at them). When asked if he ever heard of King Arthur and the Holy Grail by one of the Watcher's shadows, a knight, he says "Yeah, it's that Monty Python movie, right?". Later when reporting to Faldeus on the phone he's asked if he knows the true name of his servant yet, but one of Watcher's shadows warns him that Fake Assassin is listening so he runs with the Charlie Chaplin thing.

Sigma allies with Richard/Ayaka and Fake Assassin. Fake Assassin sympathises with his past.

Enkidu spends the entire book chilling in the forest with the wolf.

Harli was nearly killed by the Berserker she summoned (giant robot spider with a lion face who may or may not have something to do with Edison) but was saved by Philia, the Einzbern homunculus. But while that's Philia's body, it's Ishtar in control.

Philia brings Harli and robot Berserker over to Bazdilot's place and they fight. The robot Berserker has the ability to absorb electricity from cables in the ground, absorb rubble to make itself bigger, and has some sort of optic camouflage (that also silences it entirely) skill. It surprises and puzzles everyone including Francesca.

The masterminds behind the war (Faldeus calls up a general in Washington) have measures put into place to wipe the entire city clean, if things get out of control. The Berserker/Alkeides fight gets close so Francesca sends Prelati over to stop them with his NP, Grand Illusion, which has the power to make an illusion strong enough to fool the world itself (the damage done by the fight looks like it's undone and is physically undone, but this is because he fooled the texture of the world itself and it will be wrecked again after several days; Faldeus has to use this time to prepare to handle the damage). Both sides in the fight strike a deal with Prelati, but no further details are given.

>Wasn't the prevailing theory [that Philia] was Ahura Mazda?
She literally calls on the bull which takes on the form of a giant typhoon in the last line in the novel and Narita says in the afterword that she was the real reason why he waited for chapter 7 (Ishtar was always going to be in SF from the beginning, then he heard about FGO and waited)

Ayaka has a dream where she sees Richard's past, in which Saint Germain shows up in front of Richard in a time-traveling automobile, and he addresses her directly in the dream even though it's Richard's memory.

Jester is sleeping under Tsubaki's bed, and infiltrates her dream in the form of a little boy, in order to manipulate her to use Pale Rider to fuck up more people: For example he tells her about a "fire" where the Berserker fight is happening in order to make her hope the people who live near there are okay, and that results in Pale Rider brainwashing everyone in that area.

Dumas asks Orlando to send over some of the police officers including the guy who lost his arm fighting Jester. He seems to be using a new NP which turns people themselves into heroes or something, but nothing about that's been actually revealed yet.

Flat notices Pale Rider and heads to the police station and tells Orlando everything, They team up to do something about Pale Rider and save Tsubaki, but there's a spy within the police and Alkeides shows up too trying to kill Tsubaki. Alkeides has the NP King's Order which lets him summon stuff from his legends (it's suggested that there are twelve), including Cerberus. Jack fights him and combines his two NPs: From Hell (from the idea that Jack the Ripper was a literal demon, which turns the area around him into the popular image of hell with fire and brimstone, and transforms him into a FGO demon) and Natural Born Killers (from the idea that Jack the Ripper was not one person but a bunch of unrelated people: Which lets him multiply. The max number  depends on the master's mana and, with Flat's, he can get up to over 500 clones) which results in 200 demons wailing on Alkeides at the same time (200+ is the max number of clones he can get while using both NPs at the same time).

Alkeides uses a new NP, Reincarnation Pandora, which lets him steal someone else's NP. He steals From Hell and grows demon horns and wings and beats Jack.

Gilgamesh, and Richard and Fake Assassin show up at the very end after Jack retreats.

And Hippolyta and Enkidu do literally nothing in the whole book.

Dumas comes out of hiding (his workshop was underground) babbling about how it's time for his heroes' (the police officers') to shine, while activating an NP, Musketeers' Masquerade.

In the epilogue: Faldeus is questioned by the general from Washington about a bunch of mysterious deaths of VIPs in the government. He looks it up, and finds that the deaths are spreading outwards from the location of the mafia boss (Bazdilot's boss) he sent Hassan to kill; he thinks this is Hassan's doing (it's not his orders though).

Philia is standing on top of Francesca's workshop (a zeppelin), calling upon Gugalanna which is taking on the form of a typhoon 800 km in diameter.

Novel ends here.

Narita's afterword also says that he only managed to do half of what he originally planned for volume 4 (he just started writing and then realised at the halfway point that he'd already had an entire novel worth of text).

In here, Watcher is just shown as having the ability to see and hear literally everything (though it can't read thoughts). Also, the shadows refer to Watcher in the third person, so they aren't actually Watcher themselves.

Flat can see things nobody else can that's all true, but it's not really said what exactly it is he can do, and he WAS checked for having mystic eyes and he doesn't have any.

>Can you give specifics on Reincarnation Pandora? Like, what the exact limitations are?'
His profile's not in, only Prelati and Jack, so all we know is that it "steals" NPs.

Also, Prelati can't use his spellbook (which is listed as EX rank) because he gave it to Gilles. It has to be returned to him by Gilles "on the soul level" for him to be able to use it again.

According to Narita: FGO Ishtar is Ishtar mixed with Rin. Philia is an empty vessel, so SF Ishtar is 100% Ishtar in personality.

Other people like Alkeides say that she's not the actual Ishtar, but "the broken code of a goddess" or "remaining echoes". Alkeides does go straight for her at the first encounter because he hates gods and all but by the latter part of the book he's just going "eh she's not even the real thing".

Forgot to mention: The Ygddmillenia spec ops team that got killed by Jack in Apocrypha show up here too, having been hired to kill Flat. Jack disables all of them and leaves them tied up in a motel room, along with a few other assassins who'd previously been sent after Flat, including Sagara (Jack's summoner in Apocrypha).

>Tell us about the rumor that he got assmad when Baz shit talked Jason
This is true, to Alkeides Jason was the only person to really treat him like a human and he regards him as a friend.

>They forgot about his wife though
Shit I do remember his wife and child being mentioned at some point, might have been that Jason was the only one aside from them who treated him like a human. Can't remember where in the book it was so can't check.


Francesca knows what Harli used as a catalyst (she's the one who got Harli in on this in the first place) and is puzzled by what she summoned, so True Berserker might actually not be Edison.

Yggdmillenia's power was lost over half a century ago and their lineage in the present day has been completely dismantled in the SF world, and the spec ops guys are now guns for hire who take jobs from both magicians and regular people.

>Does Jack die?
No, Flat uses a command spell to teleport him away just as Alkeides was about to deal the final blow.

Narita says in the afterword that Jack and Harli's group were supposed to end early in his initial plans, but as he went on he wanted to write more about them.

Also, Fake Assassin is now getting mana from one of Richard's companions, the mage; and Jester notices that she's not being corrupted by his mana and rages.

>Someone said there were conditions that need to be met for Reincarnation Pandora to activate, are there any?
Unknown. It's stated that he only got it because of being warped by the Avenger class, though, and he does say before using it that he finds Jack worthy of it.