"Hello, I'm a traveler passing through the village. Mr. Li Shuwen!?"
Fujimaru Ritsuka approached the village with Oda Nobu, but after greeting him, his eyes widened.
Li Shuwen, who had vanished from Chaldea.
"Hm? Who are you? Do you know me?"
Li Shuwen had been making tea. When he saw two strange people run over, his expression turned somewhat peculiar. Then he saw what was behind Fujimaru Ritsuka.
"Village Chief!?"
He shot to his feet, spilling his tea.
"...If I said it wasn't me, would you believe me?"
Fujimaru Ritsuka felt strange.
Very strange.
Everything had developed far beyond his expectations.
First, the Spiritron Transfer had succeeded, but communication with Chaldea had been cut off. Miss Lawrence had vanished somewhere too. Then he had encountered the headless Miss Nobunaga.
He had brought the head-connecting tyrant Oda Nobu to make contact with the village, only to discover that the old man at the village entrance was Li Shuwen. And then—
He had been arrested.
Because Miss Oda Nobunaga apparently was this village's chief, and she seemed to have been missing for several days.
"Big Sister, Big Sister, what happened to you!? Say something!"
Oda Nobukatsu stared at this strange Big Sister with a face full of grief.
"I merely found the headless Miss Nobunaga outside the village. She was still alive despite not having a head, so I casually put a head on her."
Faced with Hijikata Toshizo's questioning, Fujimaru Ritsuka chose to answer honestly.
Although the Servants here were all Servants who had disappeared from Chaldea, they seemed to have lost all memories of him. Though the sense of their contracts still remained.
"Nobu?"
Nobu cried out in confused Nobu-speak.
"How do I know what you're saying is true?"
Hijikata Toshizo wore a stern expression.
Fujimaru Ritsuka: ...
This was