"How much do you really know about Chaldea?"
"I heard you were recruited straight from Tokyo, Japan, and brought to Chaldea by a headhunter. Are you an idiot? You actually followed someone onto a plane without knowing where it would take you."
After entering an ordinary employee dormitory, Fujimaru Ritsuka held Fou in his arms and nervously watched Koyanskaya as she questioned him.
"By all appearances, you're just a kid from an ordinary family. No knowledge of magecraft, no magecraft background... well, at least you don't have that bluish pallor."
She sat down in a chair and lowered her head, seemingly examining the ankle Jefferson Hyde had grabbed earlier.
"What exactly are you trying to say?"
Even though the conversation sounded perfectly ordinary, Fujimaru Ritsuka did not lower his guard around Koyanskaya.
"I was just curious why someone like you was recruited into Chaldea. Ah, I think I understand now."
Koyanskaya stood and walked over to Fujimaru Ritsuka, looking him over as though admiring her prey.
"An extremely high compatibility with Spiritron Transfer, huh."
"You came all the way here just because of that?"
"Hehe."
She let out a couple of involuntary laughs, though Fujimaru Ritsuka had no idea why she was laughing.
"You really have no idea what kind of place this is, do you?"
"The headhunter who found you probably didn't even tell you where on Earth Chaldea is located, did they?"
Faced with Koyanskaya's mockery—if it could even be called mockery—even Fujimaru Ritsuka froze for a moment.
"...I only know this place is on a mountain over six thousand meters above sea level. Other than that..."
Fujimaru Ritsuka knew nothing else.
At least, he had never taken the initiative to ask.
And since he had not asked, naturally, he did not know.
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