Fujimaru Ritsuka abruptly snapped back to her senses. She glanced at Mash beside her, then at Lord El-Melloi II, who had completely sunk into his own world.
In the end, she steeled herself and stepped forward. "Um—Mr. Kenneth, do you remember what happened in Fuyuki City?"
"Fuyuki? Of course I remember—"
Kenneth nodded in reply.
"Hm? Wait, that Fuyuki Singularity hasn't disappeared?"
Those words were like an electric current, instantly striking Lord El-Melloi II, who had been standing frozen nearby.
He had never imagined that this Kenneth would still retain memories of the Fuyuki Singularity—
"The Singularity... continued?"
At those words, the man who had remained silent until now, merely observing everything with hawk-sharp eyes, finally spoke.
Sherlock Holmes, the great detective, pushed up his glasses and looked at Little da Vinci. "What an interesting way to put it. Da Vinci, does Chaldea's records contain a precedent like this?"
"According to the memories of my other self, about a year ago, we did indeed observe a miniature Singularity. Its coordinates were Fuyuki City in 1994—the Fourth Holy Grail War.
"After Fujimaru handled that aberrant Holy Grail, normally, that distorted point in time should have immediately been smoothed over by humanity's self-correcting force and returned to the proper course of history—"
Little da Vinci thought for a moment before answering, "But that Singularity was quite unusual. At first, it even displayed a certain degree of continuity, extending backward from a single point—"
"You mean... it was the embryo of a Lostbelt?"
Holmes replied.
At the mention of Lostbelts, everyone present changed expression and turned to look at Kenneth.
"Oh?"
Kenneth ignored their gazes, instead pondering the information Little da Vinci had provided.
"No, it wasn't, because that world had no Fantasy Tree. And the phenomenon only lasted for a very short