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"NO LEV, STOP THIS!" Olga Marie yells as she is swallowed by CHALDEAS.
"You have no aptitude as a Magus, you cannot even form a contract with Servant." Lev states. "A failure such as yourself should not even exist, and I will take great pleasure in erasing your worthless existence."
"NO, NO, NO!" Olga's body breaks down more and more. "I JUST WANTED RECOGNITION! I JUST WANTED TO BE SOMETHING!"
A girl who tried her hardest to live up to her father's achievements, who tried to maintain the legacy he left behind yet no matter what she did, no one seemed to care.
"NO ONE EVEN ACKNOWLEDGE ME!" Her feet cross the first protective contour. "NO ONE EVER LOVED ME!" Scenes play out of the staff in Chaldea barely batting an eye on her presence and openly gossip behind her back. No matter how much she tried to live up to their expectations, there was always something that was holding her back. "EVERYONE HATED ME! I NEVER ACHIEVED ANYTHING IN MY LIFE!"
Suddenly, something shines above and a hand made of light extends out. Olga Marie tries to reach for the hand as her body is rapidly being consumed by CHALDEAS. She uses all the strength she musters as her hand draws closer and closer to the other, to the being that will save her.
Everything goes white.
Olga Marie's eyes snap wide open and are greeted by the white metallic ceiling. "Where… am I?"
"Look who finally decided to wake up."
Olga Marie turns her head to see Romani alongside another person sitting next to her. He has dark black spiky hair and a tanned complexion. His eyes are black with no visible pupils and felt akin to staring at the void. He is wearing a black overcoat along with a black t-shirt underneath. She also notices an emerald ring on his left hand.
"W-who…?" Suddenly her eyes widen as she starts to remember everything and snaps upwards. "LEV!"
"Woah, calm down chief. Save your strength." Romani said.
"Romani…?" Olga Marie mutters.
"Lev's been dealt with, he won't hurt you anymore." I assured her.
"Y-You… what did you…" Olga Marie struggles to ask.
"I saved you, of course." I stated.
Olga Marie stares at me with sadness and downcast. "I… I don't understand… I tried so hard to be the best…" She tightens her grip on the sheets.
Romani gives her a sympathetic look. "Chief…"
"And… and Lev, he was always there to help me. I don't understand why he did this." She breaks into sobs. "Why Lev…?"
"Lev likely planned for this to happen from the start. He wanted to get closer to the inner workings of the organization so he took advantage of your inferiority complex to get closer to his goal while killing any obstacles." I theorized." He may have wanted to stop Chaldea from trying to fix the singularity by taking out all threats."
Olga Marie's head snaps up and sends me a glare. "You don't know that! Lev must have been hypnotized by an enemy magus! He would never try to kill me!"
"Do you honestly believe that?" I asked. "Lev wanted to kill you and seemed furious that we stood in his way." My expression hardens as I lean closer to her face. "You saw it in his eyes, that look of sadistic glee as he forced you into the core. That was not the result of magecraft, that was pure genuine emotion. He really wanted you and the rest of Chaldea dead and gone."
"I'm afraid Frank has a point, Chief. There was no possible way Doctor Lev was controlled." Romani added.
Tears fall from her face as she begins to cry. The one person she cared about betrayed and tried to kill her. "Why? Why would he do such a thing?"
I move in closer and wrap my arms around her and she clings onto me. "It's going to be alright, Marie."
Olga Marie takes a few deep breaths. "I… just don't know. What do I do now?"
"For now, rest." I gently push her down to bed. "You have gone through a lot today, so get some sleep." I stand up and move towards the door until I feel something tugging my sleeve. "Hm?"
"Please…" Olga Marie began. "Don't leave…"
"I'll leave you two alone. I have to go back and finish the repairs." He looks at me. "Watch over the chief for me, she needs a friend now more than ever." With that, Romani walks towards the door and leaves.
Without a second thought, I sit back on my chair and watch over Olga as she slowly drifts into the land of dreams. At that moment, the door opens revealing Mashu in a completely different outfit. Instead of her purple armor, she is wearing rectangular frame glasses, a grey hoodie over a black shirt over a white-collar shirt, a red tie bearing the Chaldea insignia, a black skirt and tights, and brown shoes.
"Mashu?" I said.
Mashu smiles. "Oh Frank! Good morning!" She lightly bows. "Da Vinci wants to see you. She's in her workshop right now."
"Do you know where it is?" I asked.
"Just head down the hall and turn right. It is the door at the end of the hall." Mashu said.
I nod. "By the way, can you keep Marie company while I'm gone? She could use the sight of a familiar face when she wakes up." Mashu nods as I stand up and make my way towards the door while Mashu takes a seat in the chair and looks after the chief.
I made my way through the empty halls of the facility until I arrived at a plain-looking door. "This is it." The door opens and I walk inside, the moment I do I am in awe. Da Vinci's workshop was bigger than I expected, the floors and walls are littered with sketches of all sorts of gadgets with half-finished mechanical creations everywhere. Crystals brimming with magical energy are here as well likely for the purpose of powering her inventions as well as an assortment of books that range from theoretical physics to cooking. I look up to see all sorts of flying contraptions hanging by ropes, some of them looking like modern-day aircrafts but with a "steampunk" look to them.
"Oh you're here!" Da Vinci's body suddenly sprouts from a pile of books and papers she was buried in. She begins to dust herself as she walks forward. "I'm sorry about the mess. I would have cleaned up but I am just so, so busy."
Moving through the cluttered workshop, I can't help but shake my head. No one would expect that such a decent, neat and well-groomed person can make such a mess like this. A contradiction to how most people would view a genius. But then again, chaos is a sign of a creative mind.
"You really are a genius, da Vinci." I said.
"Of course I am! Where do you think Chaldea would be without me?" Da Vinci smuggly said.
"So what do you want from me? A medical check up?" I quipped.
Da Vinci moves her hand left and right. "Oh no, I leave that sort of tedious work to Romani. I just have a few questions for you." She searches through the mess and pulls out a notepad and a pen.
"Ask away." I said.
"Well for starters, can you tell me your name?" Da Vinci asked.
"My name is Frank and I was summoned as a Servant in the Fifth Holy Grail War." I said.
"Fifth Holy Grail War?" Da Vinci asked.
"In my timeline, there have been five wars taking place in Fuyuki while here there's only been one. I was summoned in the fifth under the moniker of Foreigner, replacing the Saber class." I state.
"In other words, you're from an alternate timeline." Da Vinci said.
I nod. "Pretty much. Though I still don't understand how I got here or why I woke up in that post-apocalyptic Fuyuki."
'So he doesn't know why he was there.' Da Vinci thought. "Do you think you can explain how you revived the chief?
"Oh that? I merely resurrected her with what Magi these days call True Magic, though there were other methods that would have caused the same effect." I stated.
If Da Vinci was drinking something, she would have violently spit it out after hearing those words. "What did you say!?"
"I used Heaven's Feel to bring her back, but I think I might have overreacted a little when I was trying to revive her." I sheepishly said. "Though I don't really think it's a big deal especially for someone who's considered 'Omnipotent'."
Da Vinci cannot believe what she is hearing. Throughout her life, she has been able to perceive and understand things no normal Magus could ever do. Yet this person was able to do the one thing even she couldn't do in her life… and fascinated her.
She must learn more!
"What else can you do!?" Da Vinci asks, excitement visible in her voice.
I laugh. "The better question is what can't I do?" I remarked. I raised my hand and summoned da Vinci's staff, much to her shock. "I can create Noble Phantasms or items that can be classified as Noble Phantasms, though I can also create other things as well like clothes, food, and many other miscellaneous things."
Da Vinci is writing so fast the notepad may catch on fire. If what he says is true, then he can create anything he wishes so long as he has an idea of what he wants. This person might be the strongest being in the world! A living wish-granting device!
"There is one thing I don't understand," She began. "How did you end up in Singularity F?"
I sigh. "I wish I knew but I'm drawing a total blank." I begin to tap my head. "It's weird, I feel like I know something but there's some kind of block that's preventing me from remembering. All I know is that it has something to do with the word 'Grand Order'."
Da Vinci stops writing and her eyes widen in shock. "Did you say Grand Order?"
I raise an eyebrow. "Yeah? Why? You know something?"
Da Vinci cups her chin as she is deep in thought. "This is worse than I realized…"
"?"
"Well look at that, it seems that's all the time we have for today!" She stands up and begins to drag me out of her workshop. "Thanks for stopping by, have a beautiful day, bye!" The door slams shut leaving me completely stunned.
[...the hell just happened?]
"I have absolutely no idea…" I said as I turned around and walked away. "I wonder how Ritsuka's doing, I haven't seen her since we got back." I wandered around until I found what looks to be the cafeteria, a spacious area with a fully functional kitchen with rows and rows of tables for a large group of people to sit on.
"Kya!"
I turn to the voice to see Ritsuka massaging her reddened hand. "Ow, ow, ow, ow, ow!"
"You okay?" I asked.
Rituska jumps and snaps around to look at me. "Frank! What are you doing here!?"
"I was walking down the hall when I heard you screaming." I glance at the fallen bowl on the ground. "What were you doing?"
Ritsuka nervously chuckles. "W-Well, I was hungry and I wanted to eat ramen but when I was getting it some of the hot broth spilled on my hand and…" She glanced at her irritated hand.
"Let me take a look." I gently take her hand and I begin to heal it. Ritsuka's eyes widened as the pain quickly vanished. "That should do it."
Ritsuka stares at her hand and looks at me. "Thank you!" She gives me a cute smile.
"No problem kid. Say, are you still hungry?" I asked.
Ritsuka nods.
I look at the fallen bowl and point to it with my hand. In an instant, the bowl begins to rise from the floor along with its contents and sits on top of the counter where it originally was.
Ritsuka's eyes are as wide as dinner plates because of what she saw. One moment her ramen bowl was broken on the floor and the next it was back to where it was before it fell. "How-?"
"Time magic is a really convenient tool to have when you want to clean up unwanted messes." I said. "My wife told me to stop relying so much on it otherwise I would become too dependent on it, though that still didn't stop me from doing it again."
Ritsuka isn't listening, she is in some kind of trance as she stares at the delicious masterpiece in front of her. Her mouth is letting out a waterfall of drool at the sight of the bowl. She takes the ramen and dashes towards one of the nearby tables. "Thanks for the meal~" She proceeds to eat it at breakneck speeds.
[Yikes, she's almost like Artoria when she's hungry]
"So good~" Ritsuka moans as she continues eating.
I walk towards the table and pull up a chair to sit on. "You really like ramen, don't you?"
Ritsuka abruptly stops eating, the noodles dangling in her mouth. "Y-Yeah…" She blushes in embarrassment. "I just haven't had a chance to eat since I got here and after we got back from the Singularity my hunger came back in full swing." Ritsuka goes back to eating as I stare blankly at her. "Is there something wrong?"
"No, not really. Just watching you eat." I said. "Say, why did you decide to join Chaldea exactly?"
Ritsuka blinks at the question. "Wow, I think you're the first person here to ever ask me that question." She admits. "Honestly, I didn't know what happened. I was looking for a part-time job when I ran into this old man who gave a flyer for a job and when I saw how much they were going to pay I immediately applied and got accepted. Next thing I knew, I was shipped to the arctic and was given a day-long lecture on magecraft." She sighs. "It all happened so suddenly that I didn't get a wink of sleep."
I look at her skeptically. "Wait, wait, wait a minute. Are you saying a super secret organization took in a civilian with no training or combat experience who hadn't even awakened her magic circuits just like that?"
"You know when you say it like that, it makes it sound like it's a bad thing." Ritsuka remarks.
[That's because it is]
"And this old man, do you know who he is?" I asked.
Ritsuka shakes her head. "Nope. He gave me a flyer and next thing I knew, he was gone. He didn't even give me his name."
"I see…"
"Say, how is the chief doing?" Ritsuka asks as she drinks the broth.
"Oh, she's fine. A bit shaken up but who isn't after going through that." I replied. "I left her with Mashu while I met up with da Vinci."
"What's she like?" Ritsuka asks as she hasn't met the Heroic Spirit yet.
"Well, aside from being incredibly beautiful, she is pretty eccentric and asked me a ton of questions about my powers... and then she kicked me out." I said.
"Kicked out? Why?" Rituska asked.
I shrug. "Who knows. She'll probably tell me later."
Ritsuka finishes her meal. "Man, I totally needed that~" She takes her bowl and walks up to the faucet and washes it.
I stand up and make my way towards the exit.
Ritsuka notices me leaving. "Are you going back to see the chief?"
"Yeah, I don't want her to panic when she wakes up and sees that I'm not there." I said. "I'll see you later."
"Hey, can you call me Gudako from now on?" Ritsuka asked.
"Gudako?"
"It's my nickname from my childhood, a lot of my friends call me that back home. I used to hate it but now I love it." Ritsuka giggles. "You're my friend so I think you should use it too."
"Um, sure?" I said.
Ritsuka smiles. "Great, see ya later."
The door slides open and I walk out of the cafeteria. So far, the people of Chaldea seem to be pretty cool though they are very quirky.
Olga Marie is a tsundere with self esteem issues.
da Vinci is an eccentric genius.
Romani is the overprotective big brother.
Ritsuka's a bit of an airhead.
And Mashu is really nice.
Overall, my stay in Chaldea will be very interesting.
Author Notes
Finally done with this. Yes, this chapter is shorter than the last one and its pretty much filler but considering the circumstances, I'm surprised I got this finished. Anyways, I have finally finished packing and my family and I will move out next week. If you guys don't see any updates it's likely because I don't have internet in my new house.
I'll try to upload the next chapter for the Eva story before I leave, I don't wanna leave you guys hanging.
Peace~
