A friend proficient with computers. The moment Roman mentioned it, someone sprang to Shirou's mind.
"Why do we need someone proficient with computers?" Shirou asked. Hadn't they just been discussing the depletion of the Greater Source?
"Computers are useful things. The Modern Magecraft Department should have quite a demand for them too, right?" Roman gestured vaguely, unwilling to reveal the real reason.
"Perhaps. That would be Lord El-Melloi II's field."
"Mhm, mhm. The Modern Magecraft Department has brought in a lot of computers now, all to combine them with magecraft. The analysis required before Projection Magic also relies heavily on computers..." The moment Lord El-Melloi II began discussing this topic, he launched into an endless discourse about his Modern Magecraft Department, and seemed quite intent on recruiting Shirou.
Probably because Shirou's Projection Magic was simply too terrifying.
But Shirou did not want to hear any of that. He only wanted to know why Roman had asked about friends proficient with computers.
Roman was far too skilled at changing the subject. Shirou understood that he had to use something drastic to steer Roman back to the original topic.
"Doctor Roman, I'm rather curious. Gudako mentioned before that you seemed to have died. After Gudako saw you die, she got so angry that she beat Goetia to death with her junior's shield. She was terribly sad when she told me about it, and kept saying that you had died, that even your coffin had been nailed shut. How did you come back to life?"
Roman's expression immediately turned awkward.
"That... cannot be spoken of. Cannot be spoken of."
Cannot be spoken of?
Could there be something suspicious here?
But Merlin's sealed advice seemed to have already confirmed that the man standing before Shirou was indeed Solomon. In his returned human form, he