"Pseudo-Servant..."
A few minutes later, after Mash told her the whole story, Olga Marie groaned while biting her nails, as if she had expected this yet was inexplicably anxious.
"Why did this only happen now...?"
Olga Marie's mutter was filled with frustration.
No one knew whether she was frustrated that Chaldea's Number Six experiment had been completed too soon, or that it had been completed too late.
But both Luo Zhen and Mash could still notice the fact that Olga Marie's delicate body was trembling slightly.
The only thing was, no one knew what Olga Marie was feeling at that moment.
Was the girl angry at the reappearance of this inhuman experiment, or was she afraid of something else? Only she herself knew.
Of course, Olga Marie was not the only one with a problem. Luo Zhen had one as well.
"I was certainly surprised for quite a while by the fact that Mash became a Pseudo-Servant, but I'm just as surprised that you appeared here." Luo Zhen glanced at Olga Marie and said bluntly, "Why did this happen? You shouldn't be able to appear here, should you?"
Those words struck Olga Marie exactly where it hurt.
But that was the truth.
By all rights, Olga Marie should not have been able to appear here.
"Although you're a first-rate Magus with excellent magical aptitude, you possess neither the aptitude to be a Master nor the aptitude for Spiritron Transfer."
Luo Zhen exposed the problem.
That was precisely the issue.
Olga Marie did not possess the aptitude for Spiritron Transfer.
That was why Olga Marie was not a qualified Master and had not been scheduled to participate in the Spiritron Transfer experiment.
Under those circumstances, Olga Marie's appearance here made no sense at all.
Not only did she lack the aptitude, making Spiritron Transfer impossible to begin with, but even if it had succeeded, if Olga Marie had not been included on Chaldea's Spiritron Transfer list, then even if the system had switched to automatic operation, it would not have transferred her to Fuyuki City.
So why had Olga Marie appeared in Fuyuki City in 2004?
That was Luo Zhen's question.
But...
"How would I know what happened?" Olga Marie said irritably. "I was planning to stay in Chaldea properly. I had no desire to come to a place like this at all. But then the Control Room suddenly exploded for no reason, everything in front of me was swallowed by flames, and I almost immediately lost consciousness. By the time I woke up again, I was already here!"
In other words, Olga Marie herself had no idea what was going on.
"Did something go wrong with the Spiritron Transfer experiment? Or did some unknown cause lead to all of this? Someone tell me what happened!"
Olga Marie groaned as if she had a headache.
"Where did Leff go at a time like this?"
If it was that professor, he should have been able to provide a reasonable explanation for the situation, right?
Unfortunately...
(Maybe the reason lies with that professor, you idiot.)
As Luo Zhen watched Olga Marie clutching her head and groaning, he thought that to himself, while feeling extremely uncomfortable, as if a thorn had been driven into him.
(When you get right down to it, the mystery of why Chaldea's Control Room exploded, and why the professor disappeared before the operation began, still hasn't been solved.)
Recalling the bone-chilling sensation he had felt from Leff, Luo Zhen wanted nothing more than to drag that man out.
His instincts told him that Leff was definitely hiding some enormous secret.
If that had not been the case, Luo Zhen would not have rashly left the Control Room just because Leff had disappeared before such an important operation.
The reason was to solve that unbearable feeling of something being stuck in his throat.
That being said, Luo Zhen already had some idea where the professor was now.
Thus, Luo Zhen could not help turning his head and looking in one direction through the shattered window.
There was a deep mountain in that direction.
(If I'm not mistaken...)
Thinking that, Luo Zhen turned his head and looked at Olga Marie.
"By the way, you idiot director."
"Id... idiot director...!?"
The address that slipped out of Luo Zhen's mouth made veins bulge on Olga Marie's forehead.
But Luo Zhen completely ignored her reaction and continued speaking as if nothing had happened.
"Since you're Chaldea's director, you should know some way to contact Chaldea in an emergency, right?"
That was why Luo Zhen had brought Mash over and found Olga Marie.
Otherwise, Luo Zhen really would have preferred to let this arrogant director suffer a little longer and only appear once she could no longer hold out.
Unaware of Luo Zhen's malicious intentions, Olga Marie snorted and still answered his question.
"I can directly connect to Chaldea's communications channel using my authority as director, but I need a communicator to do that."
Hearing that, Luo Zhen shifted his gaze to Olga Marie's wrist.
There was no communicator customized by Chaldea there.
(Did it malfunction after being caught in the Control Room's explosion? Or did it disappear during the abnormal Spiritron Transfer?)
Whatever the reason, it seemed this was why Olga Marie had been unable to contact Chaldea and had ended up fleeing with Fou.
"My communicator also disappeared after I became a Pseudo-Servant."
Holding her shield and letting Fou stand on her shoulder, Mash looked at Luo Zhen.
"It seems that, among us, only you, Senior, still have a communicator."
Mash's words drew everyone's gaze toward Luo Zhen's wrist.
A communicator specially made by Chaldea was indeed strapped around it.
In fact, Luo Zhen had been trying to contact Chaldea through the communicator ever since earlier, but every attempt had failed.
"Since you have a dedicated way to communicate, you can use the communicator."
As he spoke, Luo Zhen very simply removed the watch-like communicator from his wrist and tossed it to Olga Marie.
"Be careful! That's the only means of communication we have right now!"
Olga Marie hurriedly caught the communicator. While complaining, she quickly began operating it.
After a while, Olga Marie gave up.
"No good. I can't get through." Olga Marie shook her head and said, "I entered the communications channel, but no one on Chaldea's end is answering."
Thinking about it carefully, that was only natural.
The Control Room had suffered such a huge fire, and even the central area had been sealed off. Until the abnormal disaster was eliminated and the lockdown lifted, no one could enter the Central Control Room to answer the communication from this side.
(I wonder how Big Brother is doing...)
Thinking of that, Luo Zhen began to feel somewhat worried.
However, this was not the time to worry about other people.
"Chirp, chirp, chirp...!"
A small bird suddenly flew in through the window and circled above Luo Zhen's head, crying out as if sounding an alarm.
"What is this...!?"
Luo Zhen's expression changed.
"Wuu!"
At the same time, Fou let out a warning growl from Mash's back.
"W-What's wrong...!?"
Olga Marie began to panic.
Mash, meanwhile, had already raised her shield and stood in front of everyone.
At that very instant...
"ROOOOOOOOOOOOOAR----!"
A terrifying roar rang out.
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