"Huh—I'm not—" The boy looked at Roland in confusion. "I—no, Mom, Dad, and my sister, they were—"
"They're all fine," Roland said, then glared at Jeanne d'Arc. "I kept him here because he wasn't dead in the first place, okay?"
"I'm not dead?" As the boy recalled what had happened, his breathing quickened. He looked pleadingly at Roland. "I—I—I want to go home first—"
"—Then just go. Why are you looking at me like that?" Roland was taken aback. "It's not like I'm anyone to you. Do you need my permission to go home?"
"He figured you'd kidnapped him," Jeanne d'Arc said, unable to hold back a laugh. "So he was planning to say goodbye to his family and then come back."
"—How the hell did he get that idea?" Roland's face twitched. "Do I not look like a good person?"
"Correct." Jeanne d'Arc nodded.
"But I think I look pretty holy." Roland glanced at the holy light surrounding him, puzzled.
"Heh..." Jeanne d'Arc merely chuckled.
"Tch, what's that laugh supposed to mean?" Roland said irritably. "Whatever. I'm not wasting my breath on you. I'll go see how my double's doing."
"Things should be fine on BB's end, right?"
On Fuyuki Bridge.
"Ritsuka! Something's appeared! It's an unidentified phenomenon, different from a Servant manifestation!" Da Vinci shouted a warning to Ritsuka. "Unidentified? No, it's more like a Rayshift. Impossible. Who besides Chaldea could possess this technology—"
"The words 'Beast of Humanity: Manifestation' are practically staring me in the face—what's going on?" Ritsuka stared at the enormous Demon God Pillar, her scalp prickling.
"So it was Chaldea? Separated from the timeline and transformed into a base no one could find." The Demon God Pillar took on Solomon's appearance and addressed Ritsuka. "Even these eyes of mine, which see every future and