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Et Tu, Brute? [Noble Phantasm]
My Brother, Do You Betray Me As Well?

According to Shakespeare, the last words Gaius Julius Caesar said as the assassin’s blade took his life.

Embodying that bond of trust, this Noble Phantasm is a sort of stealth Noble Phantasm similar in nature to the Presence Concealment of the Assassin class. However, different from simply disguising one’s presence as a Servant, it instead utilizes a form of mental interference to convince the targets that the wielder is a trusted confidant.

By tricking those around him into believing he is someone to trust, an ally who can be relied upon, a brother who has stood at one’s side through thick and thin, Brutus can take any position in any organization as he pleases, so long as his targets do not possess any form of mental pollution or protection that guards their minds. He can insert himself as though he has always belonged, because to those affected by this Noble Phantasm, he has.

With this, he can acquire the perfect positioning to attack and assassinate his chosen target, and because he is trusted implicitly, his target will never see the fatal blow coming. It is, in effect, the ultimate assassin’s tool.

However, if he is caught in an act of betrayal, this Noble Phantasm reverses, and his targets immediately recognize him as “an enemy who has betrayed us.” Like this, he will be permanently marked as a traitor, and this Noble Phantasm will lose all effectiveness against those he has betrayed. In other words, he will only have a single chance to get close enough to his target to land a killing blow, so if he fails, he won’t get a second chance.