The light blue vortex was followed by a slight dizziness and a feeling of vomiting caused by the simultaneous confusion of the concept of time and space.
After all, time travel should be something that violates the rules.
If she had to save humanity, I'm afraid she wouldn't choose to travel through time and transfer to a singularity that happened in the past.
Fujimaru Ritsuka was thinking while adapting to the environment in the spirit box.
Save humanity...?
As a human being, of course we should save ourselves, there is no doubt about this.
However, the world does not revolve around human beings. Can we really play with time in the palm of our hands just for the sake of saving humanity?
The self-righteous determines how the past should develop, and the self-righteous determines how the future should develop.
Although as a human being, she would definitely say the words "I don't want to die" without hesitation.
But is the future of mankind really supposed to last forever?
Does the existence of Chaldea itself change the future?
"well----"
The red-haired girl sighed helplessly.
"Do not understand......"
She had just transferred the spirit child from the singularity, as if she had stayed up all night but only slept for an hour before being woken up. Her brain was so confused that she couldn't even completely sort out the order of the words.
If someone were to talk to me now, it would be difficult for me to reply, and I would only be able to say a few ridiculously ambiguous words.
Fortunately, the spirit box is for single use.
Speaking of which, the process of spirit son transfer is also quite complicated. It seems that the body and mind of the spirit son transferer must be broken up into quantum level spirit sons, and then reappeared in the singularity.
The original version of her in the spirit child's box was like the cat in Schrödinger's box, trapped in a superposition of life and death.
The most important job Chaldea does is to ensure that the masters of the spirit son transfer can always receive observations from Chaldea, so that the masters in the spirit son box will not be directly judged as "dead". ” Or simply disappear from this world.
It is precisely because of this that Group A, who were supposed to be the elite of the elite who could easily attack many unique points, was easily and seriously injured, and is still frozen in the medical room to this day, continuing to live.
Once attacked in the spirit child box, even a powerful magician defeated by one against a hundred will lose all combat effectiveness and even life in an instant.
Otherwise, they should be carrying out this arduous task now.
But is the self who is reproduced in the singularity based on the information in the spirit child box the real self?
And now that he has reorganized the spirit son, is he his former self?
Maybe the real Fujimaru Ritsuka had died during the first spiritual transfer.
And in every singularity, she will eventually face death. The person she is here now is just a copied person with the same consciousness and memory——————————
So, is this feeling just something inherited?
Holding tightly the dagger given to him by Animusfia, Fujimaru Ritsuka walked out of the spirit child box.
well! It was all the fault of the director, that I started to think of these questions every day. So what if I finally knew the answer?
Can she change anything?
It just adds to the worries...
"Director~~~~~~~"
Calling Animusfia a little coquettishly, the red-haired girl tried to find him.
From the way she looked around, it was easy to tell that if Animusfia appeared, the girl would fall into his arms the next moment.
Matthew could even imagine the scene of Animusfia being swooped by her master and then groaning.
but------
"Senior, it seems that Director Animusfia is not here..."
After exchanging glances with Roman and Da Vinci, Matthew spoke hesitantly as if he had something to hide.
In fact, she later realized that the possibility of Animusfiya returning here without going through Chaldea's spiritual son transfer was almost zero.
But neither Mashu nor Roman knew how to speak to Fujimaru Ritsuka.
Although Mashu learned from Roman that Animusfia had vowed to return here, there was no guarantee at all when exactly he would come back here.
How to explain to her now...
"Hey——————! Isn't the director here!!!... Could it be that you secretly summoned Nero or Elizabeth behind my back? ?! Matthew, you traitor————”
After looking around and discovering that there was indeed no Animusfia around, Fujimaru Ritsuka fell into confusion.
"Senior, please calm down——I have just been transferred back from the singularity point!"
Looking at the red-haired girl who was gradually becoming strange, as if she was shrinking into a three-headed body, Mashu quickly tried to dissuade her as she was caught and shaken.
"Master, there are indeed only three of us who have just been transferred back from the singularity."
Arturia Alter, who had been watching silently, suddenly spoke.
"Is that so!?"
The girl who was about to transform into a three-headed body suddenly returned to normal and asked the black-armored Saber behind her.
Arturia nodded calmly.
"Really... Since even Saber said that, it must be true..."
Arturia, who seemed to be taciturn and focused on saving magic power for battle, won her trust.
But after experiencing the last bathing incident, Matthew always felt that this reverse King Arthur, who looked upright and not that upright, was as innocent as he appeared.
She must have chosen the right time to say it now, otherwise Miss Artoria Alter would have had the chance to stop her senior before she became strange...
"snort--"
Matthew, who was speculating like this, once again caught the imperceptible smile on Artoria Alt's face.
The last time Matthew saw the same smile in the bathhouse.
Sure enough it was intentional!
Recalling the experience at that time, Matthew still blushed.
Sure enough, this Miss Alt is far more humane than she appears...
Even though he was the one being teased, Mashu was actually happy that Artoria Alter could show more emotions than just being a servant of the Master.
In this way, it seemed as if she and Artoria had become familiar with each other.
However, after experiencing something like that, people who are not familiar with each other should have become familiar with each other.
Thinking of this, Matthew's face once again became as hot as fire.
"Then where is the director? Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh..."
But there was no time to recall such shy things. After learning that Animusfia had lost contact again, the girl was once again thrown into chaos.
In Matthew’s words:
Senior is acting weird again!
"Are you looking for me? Ritsuka."
A sudden sound came from the door of the control room, where Animusfia was standing there patting the snowflakes off her shoulders.
However, he didn't seem to realize that the top of his head was already sparsely covered with many snowflakes that had not yet melted.
"Director!"
The girl who had transformed into a three-headed body one second and tried to lift the Chaldea ground had transformed back into the slim and graceful look that Mashu had when he first saw her in the next second.
To this day, Matthew can still assert that his master is definitely a beautiful woman with a noble temperament——if you don’t take into account his words and deeds.
Xiao Bu ran closer to Animusfia, the tip of her nose twitched slightly, and Fujimaru Ritsuka began to mysteriously smell the scent of Animusfia.
Animusfia had no choice but to let the girl do whatever she wanted to her.
From Mash's point of view, he had to admit that Animusfia did seem to be a person worthy of his senior.
But in this case, the person will definitely play some old tricks. I guess most likely he will say: "Want to try it? It tastes like lying."
"I'm sorry, Ritsuka...for making you worry about various things."
Look, it happened, but it’s a pity that the director is also a person who needs to consider his words and deeds————————Huh?
Mash looked at Animusfiya in disbelief as she apologized to Ritsuka honestly.
What happened?
Fujimaru Ritsuka, who was sniffing Animusfia's scent, also stopped abruptly after smelling something, and did not show the lively expression that everyone expected.
"Yeah....."
The red-haired girl closed her eyes, and her body that was originally bowing in front of Animusfia gradually straightened up.
"There's nothing we can do about it."
Animusfia wanted to reach out and touch Ritsuka's red hair, but she withdrew her hand a second before she touched it.
He probably shouldn't have done this to anyone in the first place.
"Director?"
The unexpected estrangement not only puzzled Ritsuka, but also surprised everyone else present.
"I'm sorry... Let's stay here for now. Ritsuka, you guys should rest early. You just came back from the singularity."
As she spoke, Animusfia left the control room in embarrassment as if fleeing.
Ritsuka also kept silent about the method Animusfia used to return to Chaldea.
It was only then that Roman, Leonardo da Vinci and others in the control room discovered that what appeared on Animusfia's head was not snowflakes at all, but mottled white hair.
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After resting for a whole week since returning to the Singularity and celebrating Mid-Autumn, Ritsuka and Mashu walked side by side in the aisles of Chaldea, holding their stomachs and burping contentedly.
"It's so delicious, so are the dumplings and the mooncakes."
"That's right, senior. I also - it seems I ate too many dumplings."
Mashu blushed and echoed Ritsuka's words.
"If you keep doing that, be careful of getting fat, eggplant junior."
"But the relationship between the senior and the director must be very happy. They haven't been like that for a long time."
"Well, although that's true, it's only a week, not a long time."
After Ritsuka waved her hand like this, her conversation with Mashu fell into silence.
The two continued to move forward, and only the sound of their heels on the ground and their breathing echoed in the corridor.
"Hey, senior."
Matthew suddenly spoke up and broke the silence.
"What's wrong, Matthew?"
"What kind of smell did you smell from Director Animusfia's body that day?"
"Are you actually going to say this... I actually didn't smell anything at all."
Fujimaru Ritsuka said somewhat helplessly.
"Huh? But why——" "It's the expression, the expression..."
The red-haired girl lowered her head and looked at the steps of herself and Mashu walking side by side, and then said:
"You may not have seen it, Mashu. However, the director's expression was really bad at that time... He was obviously smiling, but it was worse than crying."
She looked up again at the incandescent ceiling lights embedded in the Chaldean ceiling.
The strong light made Fujimaru Ritsuka's vision slightly dizzy.
"I just think so. He must have been very sad at that time."
"senior........."
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"Speaking of which, how did you come back from the singularity?"
"How did I end up in Chaldea in the first place?"
Animusfia sat opposite Roman and asked him.
"I asked this from the beginning."
"That's what happened... Tsk, it's been so long, let me tell you, I came here."
"Walk.......?"
Roman's expression looked very funny after getting Animusfia's answer.
"Do you have any question?"
“No, no, no—————I seem a lot happier today, Mr. Director.”
Animsfia, who had a separate appointment with Roman in the medical room not long ago, received teasing from Roman.
"After all, Ritsuka did that, so it's too disappointing for me to keep a cold face."
"If you feel that you are disappointed, why don't you just give the child a passionate and deep kiss?"
While preparing medical instruments, Roman said to Animusfia.
"...Did Leonardo teach you this?"
"No, why did the topic come to her? This is what I want to say, myself."
Animusfia curled her lips and then replied:
"Then you really live up to your name, Doctor Romance."
"Oh——————! Finally someone got the pun on my name!"
Roman said with an excited expression.
"...I can't do it. I am such a despicable and selfish person that I am not worthy of that child. I was too naive in the past. I will try my best to keep the distance between me and her in the future."
"But it's too late. If you stay away from her now, you will hurt the child."
"But I already have E————————"
"Didn't you say before that there was a king who had a thousand and one wives? That's not a reason at all."
Roman shook his head decisively and denied.
"That's why I hate that king----"
"..."
Roman was speechless for a moment.
"Hate myself too."
"Sentimental...?"
Roman frowned and looked at his inspection report while listening to Animusfia's words.
"That's already a compliment. I'm just carefree and greedy."
"No matter who you are, you want to give happiness, no matter who you are, and you don't want to hurt anyone. If you understand it this way, aren't you still very gentle? Speaking of which, don't you know the magic of that clone? Just use that to solve the problem, right? ?”
Animusfia sighed deeply, then followed Roman's instructions and stood on the designated instrument and said:
"That's not the problem at all, Romani. Just imagine that while your wife is lingering with you, she separates herself and has intimate contact with another man. Do you think it's acceptable?"
"this......."
"I just did such a bad thing...I did something that I can't forgive myself."
"It would be better for you to be a little bit more bad. Bad people never have this kind of trouble."
Roman said rather helplessly.
"Ah, by the way, I finished your strawberry cake again, sorry, Romani."
"Don't be bad in a place like this!"
"whispering sound."
"However, it turns out to be the companion of the vampire Camilla and Emperor Nero... The person in front of me can be considered an extremely important person."
Roman said with some teasing.
"You're the real big deal, Jackie."
"I'm not dead yet."
"So you don't deny it to the big shot?"
Animusfia asked with a raised eyebrow.
"............"
"Besides, whether it's Nero or Eliza... in the end it's all because I failed to take responsibility."
"Nero too?"
"Do you think the emperor you came into contact with would be like the tyrant in historical records?"
"hard to imagine."
At this point, Roman nodded honestly.
He could never imagine that Emperor Nero who appeared in the second singularity would eventually burn down Rome and do so many ridiculous things.
"Nero was never that kind of person from the beginning...I was too stupid. I told her the historical records...Although she forgot about the singularity, she even forgot But she still remembers the story I told her——————”
Animusfia raised her head and looked directly at Roman.
"I was the one who put her on this road of no return."
Do people always do stupid things? But Animusfia felt that she had done too many stupid things.
"............"
This was the first time Roman had been unable to answer questions from Animusfia.
Even King Solomon, who was known for his wisdom, could not solve the problem of Animusfia for a while.
...........
"If you really want to be responsible again, try to use magic as little as possible. At least the big magic will stop - your body has been stretched to the limit."
After the final result came out, Roman continued to talk to Animusfia.
"How many more months?"
"...If this continues, no more than six months."
Animusfia frowned slightly, then let it go.
"There are five more singularities...enough."
While calculating, Animusfiya also silently made up her mind.
"Hello----!"
"Don't look at Ritsuka's attitude towards you. In fact, she still relies on you very much, Romani. Tomorrow we will start the strategy for the third singularity point. I will do my best to speed up the strategy for the singularity———— —But after the Singularity is over, I hope you can take care of her for me, but before that, keep her a secret."
Animusfia, who had been sitting aside and waiting, stood up straight, then walked to the door of the medical room, ready to leave.
"Thank you very much for your medical assistance, doctor."
"etc--!"
Roman stopped Animusfia who was about to leave.
"What's wrong? Do you have anything else to arrange, Romani?"
"Who are you?"
"Is this issue still important now?"
Animusfia asked Roman in return.
"Of course, even if you don't know the real name of the benefactor who helped you, you should know his identity, right?"
"Since you want to know anyway, well, that's fine. If it's you - John Tito, just understand me like this. As for my real name? It doesn't matter at all, Solomon. King."
Animusfia waved her hands and left the medical room without looking back.
"Sigh... Do you really know, John Tito... a time traveler..."
