"I have the feeling Fou has become even more carefree lately."
On a night in Chaldea, Mash picked up the slightly drowsy Fou and placed him on her lap, gently stroking his soft fur with a relieved smile on her face.
"Now that the Mage's Association people have left, the situation is still grim." Lawrence rubbed his brow, looking troubled.
Fujimaru Ritsuka had defeated Goetia in the Temple of Time, and everything had returned to normal. Under ordinary circumstances, that certainly would have been a good thing.
But once the world returned to normal, it immediately descended into tremendous chaos.
Goetia had been destroyed, and the Incineration of Humanity had been undone. To ordinary people around the world, it was as if they had closed and opened their eyes, only to find that an entire year had passed and everything around them had changed. Such an extraordinary anomaly was already a terrifying situation.
As for Chaldea's circumstances—
The Mage's Association did not trust the current Chaldea.
They had even placed Chaldea on their list of suspects.
Director Olga Marie Animusphere, Senior Advisor Lev Lainur, and acting director Romani Archaman, who had been listed in the reports—over two hundred registered magi, including the people above, had all died. Thirty-seven Masters had been frozen. Such circumstances were horrifying, and every surviving employee was a potential culprit—at least, that was how the Mage's Association saw it.
Furthermore, in order to save the world, Chaldea had violated over a hundred regulations during this [Grand Order]. Simply allowing Fujimaru Ritsuka, an outsider Master, access to the Servant Summoning System was already a serious violation, let alone—
The number of Servants Fujimaru Ritsuka had formed contracts with during that journey was far beyond mere dozens.
"To the Mage's Association, that is... enough of a crime to