Ex-Machina on a Dimensional Journey

Roman's gaze swiftly swept over the people who had returned, and he immediately noticed a serious problem.

"Um, didn't Xiu Er come back with you?"

He asked the young man somewhat uncertainly.

"Huh?"

Upon hearing that question, Fujimaru Ritsuka immediately turned to look at his companions.

One, two, three, four... she really wasn't there?!

"Alright, I understand."

Seeing his reaction, Roman immediately grasped the situation.

He patted the young man on the shoulder, then handed him the strawberry cake he was holding.

"Don't worry. That Xiu Er will probably come back the same way."

The doctor softly reassured him.

"Normally, I'd recommend that you all get some proper rest first."

"But considering how especially fast you were this time, I imagine you didn't expend too much energy."

As he spoke, Roman pointed at the cake he had placed in the young man's hands.

"So before resting, how about having a strawberry cake?"

"It's delicious, trust me."

Dr. Roman blinked, then let go of the young man and looked toward Da Vinci, who had emerged from another compartment.

Compared to the still somewhat dazed Fujimaru Ritsuka and Mashu, the genius was clearly in the same state she had been in before leaving.

Her eyes were filled with a desire to explore something new.

It was known that there should have been nothing in Chaldea capable of exciting this genius so much.

Then the answer was obvious. These people had clearly encountered something before returning.

Roman did not know what they had seen, but it was not as though he could not simply ask those involved.

"So, did you see something before coming back?"

"A massive inverted pyramid that fell from the sky?"

"Question, where is this?"

Xiu Er blinked, looking doubtfully at the forest around her.

Night had