Unlike my integrity, the Servant Sheets in the Phantasm Corner are actually real. They apply to the main story.

Unlike anything said by the characters in general in here, if you are interested in the sheets, you can safely believe this info.

Phantasm Corner Part 2:

Again our eyes are drawn to this most anomalous space, beyond reason and common sense. A place that has been declared a Phantasm of its own: The Phantasmal Maze!

GG-sensei: "UNFORGIVABLE!"

Isao: "Huh?! What-? No; I swear I was awake!"

He pulled himself up from the hedge he had been stuck in and anxiously looked around for the source of the yelling.

Isao: "Oh no, how did I end up here again? I'm even wearing this scratchy track suit again."

GG-sensei: "This is a travesty! An affront to justice!"

Isao: "Calm down already Caster-"

GG-sensei: *glare*

Isao: "I mean… sensei?"

He sighed. At least she seemed to be satisfied by his reply.

Isao: "What's the big deal? Why are you throwing a tantrum this time?"

GG-sensei: "Isn't it obvious Assistant #2? We were forgotten!"

Isao: "Pardon?"

GG-sensei: "We were pushed aside like some second rate TV-show. This is worse than cancellation! Do you know just how long it has been since the last Phantasm Corner?!"

Isao: "I had kinda hoped this was a one-time thing."

GG-sensei: "If I wasn't such a kind and forgiving soul, this would mean war."

She huffed and slapped her cricket bat inside her hand repeatedly before finally calming down.

Isao: "How gracious of you…"

GG-sensei: "Indeed. Just imagine what would happen to those poor lost souls that wander the maze if I was not here to guide them."

Isao: "I still don't get why there is a hedge maze around this cricket field, but are there really any people here, other than us anyway?"

GG-sensei: "Hmmmm. Let me check!"

She extended her arms into air as if she was asking for energy, but nothing happened. After a few second a bolt of light passed her head and she looked delighted.

GG-sensei: "We have some wandering phantoms this time. Rejoice Assistant #2!"

Isao: "Those poor bastards."

GG-sensei: "If they make it out of the maze they will be worthy of my advice. This shall be their test fufufu~"

Sensei looked at the maze's exit with a wide smile and lots of expectations. Isao just squatted down on the grass and put his face into his hand.

Minutes passed.

Hours passed.

And undefined time passed, due to the fact that this world lacked any kind of sun or clocks to measure it.

Isao: "They aren't coming."

GG-sensei: "I noticed!"

She squinted at the exit as if she wanted to burn it down to ashes. But as the master of this strange realm she had other options available to her. She flicked her hand and in response the hedge rumbled and shifted!

In mere moments the entire layout had changed and now the thing was one long straight line.

Isao: "Isn't that cheating?"

He remarked dryly.

GG-sensei: "I never said they had to be outstandingly worthy."

Isao: "You could just be honest for once."

His muttering was ignored as two silhouettes appeared in the distance. They were walking down the incredibly direct line to the exit with cautious steps. The woman took helm and walked in front of the boy. She was wearing full armor and exceptionally beautiful.

Shige: "Rider-san, I think we reached the exit."

Rider: "Stay right behind me Shige. This place is very wrong."

GG-sensei: "How rude. This space is as far from being wrong as you are from being a shy village maiden."

Rider: "!"

She drew her lance the moment she noticed Sensei and Isao. Shige peeked out from her side and looked on curiously.

GG-sensei: "There is no need for hostility! I welcome you into my world, the Phantasm Corner! This is a peaceful land created for the sake of understanding and education!"

Isao: "That's news to me."

GG-sensei: "Do not mind my grumpy Assistant. He has been lacking in screen time lately, so he feels inadequate a lot."

Isao: "Hey!"

Rider: "What foul sorcery have you devised this time Caster?"

GG-sensei: "Ixnay on the Class stuff! Over here I'm simply Great Great Sensei!"

Shige: "Wow, you must be really great."

He smiled vaguely and stepped past defensive Rider. She let her lance sink, but didn't seem convinced.

GG-sensei: "Incidentally there is a special role for everyone here. From here on I shall call you… ahem… Great Minor!"

Shige: "Seriously?! I'll be 18 soon!"

He didn't seem to mind the 'Great' part though.

GG-sensei: "Compared to everyone else here you are naught but a chick! My decrees are absolute boy!"

Her finger spun a few times and made him float up. She grinned as he let his head sink submissively.

Rider: "Let him go or you will taste my steel."

GG-sensei: "I did not forget about you! If he is the Great Minor then you are… uh… Great Senior I guess!"

Rider: "You jest?"

GG-sensei: "Not at all~"

She flicked her fingers and the lance pointed at her throat turned into a bouquet of wild flowers. Rider watched this happen with a poker face, but eventually let go of the pretty plants and coughed. Shige fell on his butt as Sensei released him.

GG-sensei: "Wonderful. The world would be so nice if everyone would just be peaceful and submit to me."

Shige: "I don't like this dream. Can someone wake me up?"

Isao: "I wish that was an option too, kiddo."

GG-sensei: "Enough out of you naysayers! Great Senior and Minor have come here to ask for advice and to talk about themselves, so I will grant them this opportunity. Please speak up Great Senior and Minor - or Great S&M for short!"

Isao: "What's your obsession with that stuff…?"

Rider: "You will grant us advice? Why should we need anything like that from you?"

Rider was giving her a doubtful look.

GG-sensei: "Come oooon, you can't tell me you never had thought of asking a higher being for sage advice."

Rider: "I had quite enough of those 'higher beings' telling me what to do."

GG-sensei: "Your rejecting attitude is so not attractive."

Rider: "…!"

She grabbed her elbow and twitched slightly in response to that accusation. Sensei noticed it of course.

GG-sensei: "Oho~? Did I hit a nerve? Could it be that our stalwart Valkyrie is actually self-conscious?"

Rider: "H-hold your tongue witch."

Rider blushed slightly and glared daggers at her. That was already a victory to the all-powerful girl in a cricket uniform.

Shige: "…"

GG-sensei: "Look, even the boy is stunned by your blush. This is much better already."

Rider: "Shige…"

Shige: "I didn't do anything!"

GG-sensei: "Don't be shy Great Minor! We can all tell how much you look at her all the time, especially in that other world. Oh to be young again~"

Isao: "How old are you exactly?"

GG-sensei: "Hush. I thought we finished that topic last time Assistant."

Remembering the not so peaceful turn of events, Isao quietly backed off.

Rider: "Shige is my Master, nothing more, nothing less. Your crude implications besmirch both him and me."

Shige: "L-let's not get too hung up on that-"

Rider: "Shige would rather lay down his life right now than to dishonor me by looking at me as a woman!"

Shige: "Rider-san?!"

GG-sensei: "Is that true, young man?"

Sensei was getting her fill of amusement out of this for sure. She barely contained a snicker.

Shige: "Uhm…. I mean… I wouldn't go that far…"

He was sweating profusely.

Rider: "You do not need to feign modesty. Shige has become a man that I can trust with my entire soul. He is a comrade and truly honorable."

Shige: "Please stop…"

GG-sensei: "Such high praise! Maybe you are correct. Although he is a hormone filled teenager with an attention complex, he still did jump in front of a Noble Phantasm to protect you. That was truly foolish, just as much as it was romantic~"

Shige covered his face with both hands.

Rider: "I regret that it had to come to that, but the tides of battle are unpredictable."

Apparently the second part of Sensei's comment went in on one ear and out the other. Or did it? She turned towards her protégé and crossed her arms.

Rider: "I am certain that he had no ulterior motives. Right Shige?"

Shige: "Sensei!"

He suddenly called out to the master of this realm.

GG-sensei: "Yes my lost lamb?"

Shige: "I want advice on how to get out of this situation."

He whispered to the lilac haired girl with one hand shielding his mouth.

Sensei grinned like the Cheshire cat. Isao watched things unfold with sympathy.

GG-sensei: "That is easy indeed! To wind yourself out of a difficult query of a strong woman, you merely need to distract her with a new goal!"

She clapped her hand and in the next moment Shige disappeared inside a purple smoke cloud.

Shige: "Eh?"

He stood in an unfamiliar place all of a sudden. Maybe standing was a bit of a misnomer. He actually was floating. Above a deep pit full of slithering things. Gravity seemed to have taken a short break for him, but that was only an ephemeral lag in space-time.

Shige: "GYAAAAAH!"

Rider: "What did you do to him?! Where has he gone?"

GG-sensei: "Ahaha, my apologies. My spell must have been off. Witchcraft is so complex; I must have accidentally sent him back into the maze. Right around the pit of horrors."

Rider: "Shiiiige!"

Rider pulled up her flute and summoned Gyllir from a portal. The winged steed seemed confused for a moment, but immediately took off with her rider. They flew over the hedge maze to search for the unfortunate high school boy.

Isao: "Was that really necessary?"

GG-sensei: "She called me a witch, so I had to fulfill her expectations."

She shrugged benignly.

Isao: "Talk about vengeful."

GG-sensei: "Non non, I actually saved that boy's hide. Now his beautiful knight in shining armor will be too distracted with saving him to inquire deeply about his true feelings."

Isao: "That's a deal with the devil if I ever heard of one. Hopefully not all of your advice is that mean-spirited."

GG-sensei: "You hurt me Assistant #2. All I do is for the sake of those wandering phantoms."

She put her hands on her hips and smiled satisfied.

Isao: "What's the 'pit of horrors' anyway?"

GG-sensei: "It's a place where you face your greatest fears as illusions that seem ultra-realistic."

Shige: "NOOOO! Why is the spaghetti alive!? The sauce is in my eyes…. It buuurns!"

Isao: "…."

GG-sensei: "We do not question the pit."

Isao rubbed his unkempt hair and sighed. There was no helping it; they were all at the mercy of a nutjob. Not the first time for him sadly.

Isao: "Now that you scared off our guests we can't discuss their Servant status screen though."

Sensei's smile broke like cracking bedrock.

GG-sensei: "I forgooooot!"

Isao: "Seriously?!"

GG-sensei: "D-do not panic Assistant! I readied some random Servant sheet for today! This is info on that monstrous ruffian with the bad teeth hygiene!"

Class: Berserker

Name: Thanatos

Master: Naoka Ootori

Gender: Male

Age: Unknown

Alignment: Evil Mad

Personality:

With the Mad Enhancement activated, he has become a complete killing machine. Cannot think and speak properly.

At times the mad enhancement weakens by itself, due to his divine origins. His master bound him to the mad enhancement, but she left it loose enough for him to use his Noble Phantasms. She also left him with the ability to deactivate it at will. In those instances he is actually able to talk. But even with a somewhat clear state of mind he doesn't think of anything besides killing, because of his blood rush.

Despite his inherent madness and hatred, he always respects his promises and contracts. He will not break a vow, even if it would mean to end his rampage for good.

He has a tendency to devour people to replenish his prana.

Background:

Thanatos is the personification of death and mortality in Greek Mythology. In the Greek Poem, Theogony, Thanatos (Greek: θάνατος - Death) is one of the sons of Nyx, goddess of the Night and Erebos, the primordial god of Darkness. He is the elder twin brother of Hypnos, god of Sleep. In the earliest mythological accounts, Thanatos is the harbinger of peaceful death, bringing eternal sleep to the world alongside his brother.

As the ages progressed and humans became bolder in their actions, defying the gods, Thanatos character changed in response to the mortals' arrogance and the Olympians' folly and disrespect.

It is said that Thanatos was never graced by the sun's light, no matter where he went, be it Tartarus or the heavens above. He was always clad in the shadow of his parents.

Characterized as indiscriminate and merciless, Thanatos is detested by all and he hates them in return, all too happy to bring mortals to their fated end. Thanatos is perceived by Greek poets as a fearsome, sword-wielding, shaggy bearded specter and fierce of countenance. He is a harbinger of suffering and grief, and his coming was marked by pain, a sign that he preferred to work with his devious siblings Oizys (goddess of Suffering), Moros (personification of Doom) and Keres (embodiment of Violent Death).

Despite his important task he had taken a background role for most of Greek mythology, only occasionally mingling with the other gods' schemes and sophistry. His iron-hearted will and nature made him cold to any bribery or foolishness, as befitting of someone with such an important role. This nature was also the reason he was disliked by mortals and the gods alike. He had no love for his fellow deities who regarded him with ridicule. Indeed the only one who might have seen him as an equal was mild mannered Hypnos.

Perhaps his most famous appearance was when he was humiliated by King Sisyphus of Korinth. When it came time for Sisyphus to die, Zeus ordered Thanatos to chain Sisyphus up in Tartarus. Sisyphus cheated death by tricking Thanatos into his own shackles, thereby prohibiting the demise of any mortal while Thanatos was so enchained. Eventually Ares, the bloodthirsty god of war, grew frustrated with the battles he incited since neither side suffered any casualties. He released Thanatos and handed his captor over to the god.

Sisyphus would evade Death a second time by convincing Persephone to allow him to return to his wife stating that she never gave him a proper funeral. This time, Sisyphus was forcefully dragged back to the Underworld by Hermes when Sisyphus refused to accept his death. Sisyphus was sentenced to an eternity of frustration in Tartarus where he rolled a boulder up a hill and it would roll back down when he got close to the top.

The flames of Thanatos' hatred were fanned yet again when the greatest hero, Heracles, defied him as well and wrestled him into submission to prevent him from reaping the life of Queen Alkestis. Defeated and cheated, Thanatos retreated without his quarry. The demi-god was just one more mistake the high and mighty Zeus had committed.

These were the two times mortals had managed to cheat death itself, a legendary feat, as Thanatos was perceived as the ultimate inescapable fate. Without him the world would be thrown into chaos, lacking true death as the reaper of their souls was absent. It was a thankless task, but he never wavered in his duty.

Ambition: To undo the humiliations he suffered by the hands of mortals.

Weapons/Treasures:

Thanatos' sword, Black Torch, Armor of Mors and Hades Chains

Class Abilities:

Mad Enhancement:

Rank C: Rank up for all parameters except Luck and Mana, but in exchange one can no longer think and speak properly. Due to special circumstances this ability can be turned on and off.

Individual Skills:

Divinity:

Rank A+: Divinity is the measure of whether one has Divine Spirit aptitude or not. At high levels one is treated as a mixed race of a Divine Spirit, and the level declines when the Heroic Spirit's own rank as a Monster or Demonic Beast raises. It can also decrease due to one's dislike for the gods. It also has an effect which reduces special defensive values called "purge defense" in proportion to the Divinity's Rank. It can break through Skills such as Protection of the Faith.

While being a true Greek god in concept he is summoned closer to the existence of a vengeful monster. His hatred for mortals is only trumped by his disgust for the gods. Thus his divinity is lowered below the level of a deity.

Disengage:

Rank B: Is the ability to break away from combat. Bonus effect of returning battle conditions to what they were at the beginning of the match.

Noble Phantasms:

Chains of Hades – All life is chained to a common End –

The chains handed to Thanatos to bind special victims to Tartarus, which were also used to bind him once. Chains the target to stop their movement. They may emerge from any shadows near Berserker. Those with high Magic Resistance can break the chains quite easily, but this also applies to Servants with light based powers, as they are entirely reliant on the shadows from which they spawn.

Rank: C

Type: Anti-Army

Range: 20

Maximum Targets: 100

Soul Reaper/Ο Χάρος– Equalizer of the End –

His sword may inflict cursed damage to the soul. The parts injured cannot be healed by normal means. Due to the class-related downgrade of Berserkers it only affects the target for a certain amount of time instead of permanently. This is a passive ability of his Noble Phantasm and requires no Prana investment.

The ability to phase through anything - barring a strong defensive Noble Phantasm - or 'reaper state' has to be consciously activated however.

Rank: A (C due to downgrade)

Type: Anti-Unit

Range: 2

Maximum Targets: 1

Armor of Mors – Entwined Fate Overlap Paradox –

Mors, the Roman counterpart to Thanatos, was the same and yet different from the Greek mythology. All that stuck to Thanatos from the entwined myths was the essence of this armor. It is a Noble Phantasm that has divine protection and is nigh unbreakable. The source of its unyielding defense is the amount of souls absorbed into it. If its tormented fuel runs out, the armor will lose quite some durability, but it is still beyond anything of human craft.

Rank: A

Type: Defensive

Range: 1

Maximum Targets: 1

Torch of the Netherworld – Undying Flame of Tartarus –

Instead of using a torch to set an enemy aflame, Thanatos actually catches on fire himself. It is a protective-offensive hybrid Noble Phantasm that burns anything that touches him or its radius with a dark fire that cannot be quenched. The flames will burn everything they touch and actually live from the inherent Prana of the object/life form. In other words they will burn until the being is burned out either physically or Prana wise. It emits from the gaps in his armor. The Mad enhancement doesn't reduce this NP's quality. It essentially works like a Prana burst, but on a whole different level. It takes gigantic amounts of Prana, so it can't be used often. The intensity and range of the flames can be adjusted.

The only weakness to this Noble Phantasm is that the fires will be extinguished if Thanatos leaves a certain range.

Rank: A

Type: Anti-Unit to Anti-Castle Noble Phantasm.

Range: 1 - 10

Maximum Target: 1000 people

Servant Stats (without Mad Enhancement in parenthesis):

Strength: A+ (B)

Endurance: A++ (B+)

Agility: B (C)

Magic: B

Luck: D

GG-sensei: "What a fearsome creature."

Isao: "I honestly expected more from a real god."

Rider: "The mad hound of Olympus is not what he seems."

Isao: "W-when did you return?!"

Rider: "Gyllir is trying to pull Shige out of the pit. There is nothing in it, so I do not have to worry anymore."

GG-sensei: "How truly fearless. I wonder what that Pegasus will see once it enters?"

Isao: "What exactly do you mean by 'he is not what he seems'?"

Rider: "It is simply a hunch, but he is a mere shadow of himself. I have seen many gods in my time, but none were quite so consumed by worldly desire."

GG-sensei: "Yup, he sure is a rabid mutt, but even so he gave you quite some trouble."

Rider: "I will not pretend otherwise. His Noble Phantasms make up for his degenerate appearance."

GG-sensei: "Some trinkets can hardly make up for that ugly muzzle and lack of dental flossing."

Isao: "Anything that can take on 3 Servants at once is not good in my book."

GG-sensei: "That is why you will always be a mere Assistant. If three is not enough, just throw four at him!"

Rider and Isao exchanged a short glance and then smiled wryly.

Shige: "NUOOOO! Why are you trying to eat me now?! Bad horsy! I knew I should have taken riding lessons with mom! Aiiieee, nwot mah nwose!"

Rider: "…"

Isao: "Are Norse horses carnivores?"

GG-sensei: "Only if they think that the person is a big carrot. Incidentally I forgot that the pit of horrors has different effects on animals. Oopsie daisy?"

She stretched out her tongue cutely and tapped her head.

Rider: "You will pay for this. Maybe not today. Maybe not tomorrow. Maybe not even the day after tomorrow. But one day you will wake up with my lance in your flat chest, you evil witch."

She sprinted into the hedge maze with complete abandon.

Isao whistled and barely contained his laughter.

GG-sensei: "How would I wake up if I was impaled to death?"

She shrugged and exhaled with a sardonic expression.

Isao: "Huh. You reacted more mature than I expected. Maybe I improved my opinion of you a little."

GG-sensei: "Of course dear Assistant #2. If the taunts of an ant could incite rage from me I would be no better than a despot."

Isao: "While that's true, I simply can't imagine you really are that forgiving…"

Rider: "What in the name of Odin's beard?! My… my chest! It has shrunken to such a pitiful state!?"

Isao squinted his eyes while looking at Caster's devious smile. She was coolly swiping her hair aside in the sudden breeze.

Isao: "That flat chest comment bothered you a lot, didn't it?"

GG-sensei: "Silence is golden. That is some free advice from Sensei to Assistant."

Isao: "Duly noted."

He pretended not to feel the cricket bat pocking into his spleen.

(To be continued)