"What do you mean by winning head-on? Isn't my method straightforward enough?"
The Reality Marble dissipated, and Caelus withdrew the pitch-black longsword from his hand, asking with some confusion.
"Perhaps she wanted Partner to win using a method she could understand?"
Because the Reality Marble had dissipated, Mem, who had turned back into the pink puppy form from before, looked at her two little paws with some dejection. She had just been that cute young girl a moment ago, so why had she turned back now?!
Caelus looked not far away at the Holy Grail that had appeared due to Artoria's defeat. He did not care about it at all, pointing at the Holy Grail and shouting to the Chaldea group, "Collect the Holy Grail."
"...Oh!"
Recovering from the beautiful scene just now, Olga Marie took Fujimaru and walked forward to collect the Holy Grail.
After the Holy Grail was collected by Mash and Fujimaru, communication from Chaldea finally returned to normal, and Dr. Roman's voice came through.
"Oh! Communication has finally returned to normal. How is the situation on your end? We have already detected that Singularity F has been corrected!"
"How should I put it? The situation is a bit complicated for the moment."
Fujimaru looked at Caelus and the cute little pink animal floating beside him, feeling that it would probably be impossible to explain it clearly for the time being.
"Hmph! Why must an outsider like you interfere in the affairs of Earth's humans!"
Accompanied by a cold snort, everyone's attention was drawn to it. Then Olga Marie's eyes widened, and she looked at the figure with great joy. She was blinded by joy, causing her to fail to react for a moment to whether there was anything wrong, and she rushed over directly.
"Lev! They all said something happened to you, but I knew it, you couldn't possibly have any trouble!"
The gentleman dressed entirely in green watched with a smile as Olga Marie ran toward him. He said in an extremely regretful tone, "What a pity. The bombs I set were already numerous enough and close enough. Under such circumstances, the fact that you were still able to save half your life is truly unbelievable to me, Olga Marie."
"Lev?"
Even with her mind in chaos, Olga Marie realized at this moment that something was wrong with Lev. She hesitated and stopped, stepping back half a step.
"Haven't you ever wondered? Why are you here when you clearly don't have the aptitude for Spiritron Transfer? Why are you standing here completely unscathed when such a violent explosion occurred? Even Mash is only able to stand here because she became a Demi-Servant."
"There is only one answer, Olga Marie. You are already dead. What is standing here is nothing more than a lingering soul that refuses to dissipate from this world!"
Lev's face no longer held that elegant and proper smile from before, in its place was a hideous and terrifying grin.
"No! That's impossible! I... I am already dead?"
Olga Marie widened her eyes and looked at her own hands. She was clearly existing here in reality at this moment, so how could it be? How could she already be dead?!
"I can't be bothered to explain much more to you. You, with the blood of Animusphere flowing through you, should just hurry up and die."
Perhaps because Caelus was an exception and a variable, Lev was unwilling to explain further. Instead, he grabbed Olga Marie's spirit body and threw it into the Great Hollow, into the Chaldeas that he had summoned, which was as scalding as magma.
"No! I don't want to die! I haven't completed my father's dying wish yet. There are still many things I haven't done, many things I want to do! I haven't received recognition from others yet!"
Seeing that the Director was about to die, Mash said anxiously to Caelus, who had been standing to the side without saying a word since just now, "Senpai! Please save the Director!"
Caelus stood there indifferently.
"Partner?"
Mem asked.
"No, I've helped Chaldea enough. If I become their nanny and help with everything, then this story would be pointless. After witnessing the sacrifice of a companion, perhaps they will gain more growth, realize the cruelty of this journey, and it will lead to a better story."
Caelus said this calmly, and then together with Fujimaru and Mash, he witnessed the departure of Director Olga Marie.
"I thought you would come to stop me, Foreigner."
Lev looked at Caelus with some surprise. In his original plan, this powerful Foreigner who was helping Chaldea would come to stop him, he did not expect that he would just watch him kill Olga Marie.
"I harbor all the world's evils within me. From the moment I stepped into Chaldea, I could feel the evil that filled that place."
Having said that, Caelus looked at Mash, who was standing there.
Noticing Caelus's gaze, Lev's eyes, which had been open, narrowed once again, and the ferocious smile on his face vanished.
"Indeed, humanity is such a hopeless thing. That is why we must execute the plan known as the Incineration of Humanity, to overturn everything and reverse humanity, this creature full of inherent flaws, from the very beginning."
"Spiritron transfer is ready, the Singularity is collapsing!"
Dr. Roman's shout brought the dazed Mash and Fujimaru back to their senses, while Lev had no intention of attacking or stopping them, merely watching calmly as the two left this Singularity.
He then looked at Caelus, who was still standing there, and asked, "Then, in this journey of the Incineration of Humanity, Foreigner, what role do you intend to play?"
"The world is on the verge of destruction, and a hero, as if fated, has stepped forward to embark on the path of saving the world. How can a story about a hero saving the world be without a chronicler? I wish to record this story, regardless of who emerges victorious in the end."
"Hahaha! Very well, then let you witness this duel with your own eyes. Whether Chaldea wins and faces an even greater crisis, or we succeed in incinerating humanity and overturning everything, it all requires a chronicler to witness the beginning and the end of the story."
"Listen well, outsider chronicler. My name is Lev Lainur Flauros, one of the 72 Demon God Pillars. We shall follow the command of our king, King Solomon, to incinerate existing humanity and unfold a brand new chapter!"
After quickly sketching the appearance of the person before him and noting down what he said, Caelus, with the help of the system, left the collapsing Singularity together with Mem and returned to Chaldea.
Inside Chaldea, Dr. Roman's eyes widened as he watched Caelus walk out of the frame. The Spiritron transfer had not targeted Caelus just now, so he had assumed there was a glitch in the program and that he would have to bid farewell to this powerful Master. He had not expected this guy to somehow return to Chaldea on his own, looking completely unharmed.
Caelus looked at the name above the doctor's head, and after a moment of silence, said, "Dr. Roman, that Professor Lev just now claimed to be Flauros from the 72 Demon Gods, and that he was carrying out the Incineration of Humanity on the orders of King Solomon."
"...Ah!?"
Dr. Roman's expression was one of complete bewilderment and disbelief.
It seems this person is not the true mastermind, but regardless, he must be connected to it.
Following typical plot tropes, perhaps the King Solomon who wants to destroy the world is the divine side of King Solomon, while this one symbolizes the human side, and in the end, to defeat the divine King Solomon, this human incarnation will have to sacrifice himself to secure victory.
Caelus thought to himself, while simultaneously recalling, for no apparent reason, the chaotic name that had flashed by when Olga Marie was being disintegrated by Chaldeas earlier.
[■■■■■■ (Foreign God)]
It was obvious that there were more unknown secrets hidden behind this story.
(To be continued.)
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