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Attention, all staff members of Chaldea.

Today's working hours will end at 17:00.

You could consider it a small gift from the deputy commander.

You won't be able to quite call it Christmas break,

but please make sure that you all get enough rest.

Also, concerning the Inquiry Board whose arrival has been delayed,

it's been determined that they will arrive as soon as the weather improves.

They are scheduled to arrive at 12:00 tomorrow.

We expect you to act with moderation and pride as current staff members of Chaldea.

Our work will be passed onto the new staff at the end of 2017,

but until then, please continue your work responsibly.

I guess the inquiry's starting now.

What are you guys going to do?

You guys were sent here from the Clock Tower, right?

We're going back to London.

We're not super happy about it all, but we can't stay in our current situation forever.

After all, this organization belongs to the United Nations.

I wish I could stay here.

They have great equipment,

and I've grown attached to this place after protecting it for a year.

Not to mention,

I'm not sure the new staff will be able to properly keep Chaldea running!

Thank you for your hard work!

Duston, um, do you have a moment?

Of course. Is something the matter, Kyrielight?

I'm looking for Senpai—

I meant, Cadet Fujimaru Ritsuka. I have a message for him, but I can't find him.

It seems that our comms have been disconnected.

Fujimaru?

Come to think of it, I didn't see him at the cafeteria.

He wasn't in the medical office or the simulator, either.

I locked them both up myself.

Oh, maybe I wasn't imagining it then...

You know the warehouse area behind the command room, right?

The one that used to be a break room or a salon, and got renovated?

I think I got a glimpse of someone there who looked like Ritsuka.

Thank you for the information.

But, um,

is there a problem with the back warehouse?

No, it's just that most staff don't go near that place.

It's because the Lostroom is located there.

Lostroom?

Yeah, it's somewhat of a ghost story.

There's been a bunch of reports about people entering the place at midnight

and finding things that were lost, or those who lost.

It's a relic from the days of the previous director,

now long lost as a warehouse.

I won't allow for a reorganization of humanity controlled by the caste system!

A society where a person's fate is determined as they're born...

will never happen!

Go forth, Berserker!

You did it, Director!

Naturally!

Who do you think I am?

I'm the director of Chaldea, and the current head of Astromancy,

Olga Marie Animusphere!

With the aptitude to be a Master, I can do anything!

You're not the only one who can look high and mighty!

Look out!

Behind you!

Heroic Spirits from the Age of Gods are no longer needed.

This planet belongs to humans now.

A ruler who claims to be a deity is way too out-of-date!

Archer! Caster!

Jeez. You guys can't win without me.

Mash? Fujimaru?

Where did you go?

Wasn't I doing a good job as a Master just now?

Hey! What's the meaning of all this?

Have I been asleep?

I feel like I was having a strange dream.

Olga, can we continue the conversation?

Lev?

S-Sure.

Go ahead. What were you talking about?

It was about the unknown point observed by Chaldeas the other day, Director.

Oh, that's right.

This is a serious situation we have here.

It may end up becoming a Singularity that disrupts human history as we know it.

How am I going to report this to the Association and the UN?

I think it's too early to make a report.

This may have been a malfunction of Chaldeas.

It's already been 11 years since it was officially activated in 2004.

Perhaps we should give it some thorough maintenance?

We can't do that.

Chaldeas is a pseudo-heavenly body that copied and re-outputted the soul of Earth.

Now that we got it running, stopping it is as good as killing it.

Besides, my Chaldeas wouldn't have any imperfections.

If there's an issue, it has to be due to some external factor.

External factor...

If Chaldeas has no issues,

does that mean the malfunction is with Sheba, the lens that observes it?

Oh, does that mean it's my fault?

Indeed, my Sheba has been running for ten years, as well.

Perhaps the logic within it has become antiquated here and there.

I didn't blame you, Lev!

Fatigue of staff members in the control room, or harassment from the Association...

Possibilities of that nature exist, as well!

The health of the staff has been well-maintained.

But I personally would like you to rest as much as the others do, Director.

Agreed.

Ever since Chaldeas showed abnormalities a week ago,

you haven't been sleeping much, have you Olga?

You should have the doctor take a look at you.

The Rayshift experiment report

and the accompanying request for selecting the Master candidates have been approved.

Director, you need to have your mandatory rest of 12 hours.

Please take care of yourself.

We no longer have anyone to take your place.

Very well. I'll take that as word of advice.

Speaking of, Professor Lev, you've been getting a good amount of sleep.

I hear that you're an early riser and early sleeper, and thus very healthy.

Indeed. I was a workaholic before coming to Chaldea, though.

But since Sheba has been completed, I haven't had any dreams.

Thanks to that, I've been a sound sleeper at night.

Romani, how about you?

I'm the opposite.

I've been having nonstop dreams since I got here.

It's always the same one,

though it's really not much of a dream.

The Chaldea Security Organization.

An organization built by my father to secure our future.

Since ancient times, my family, the Animuspheres,

has been a Mage family that studies and presides over the movements of heavenly bodies.

The Animusphere mission— our duty that we must fulfill—

is the Grand Order.

That is, none other than the security of this planet and of human history.

My family watches over human history,

and ensures that the future continues with certainty.

We don't talk big, like asserting that we create the future.

However, our mission was to relay to the other Mages that a future exists,

and to guarantee that it is so.

The Animuspheres, as a result, created this Mystic Code.

Chaldeas, a pseudo-heavenly body.

Hypothesizing that a planet has a soul,

we copied that soul and outputted it as a microscopic model case.

We can't meddle with this other Earth at all,

as it's in a different phase.

But we can still analyze and observe it.

My father set Chaldeas to be 100 years in the future.

If Chaldeas is lit with the lights of civilization,

we can prove that humanity still exists 100 years in the future.

Simultaneously, Chaldeas has functioned as a library for Earth.

One cannot observe the exact details of 100 years in the future,

because the future is always changing.

However, you can draw out the details of the past that have already been determined.

In other words, it's a compass for when you head toward the past events of human history.

Rayshifting, which disintegrates the human body into Spiritrons and outputs them into the past,

will show a dramatic increase in its success rate with Chaldeas to assist.

My father built Chaldeas and operated it,

creating Chaldea as an organization to observe it.

He was a noble researcher and a great Mage.

And he passed from this realm three years ago, leaving me behind.

His body was found in the director's office in 2012.

It's still unknown whether he died from illness or an accident.

I'm just a naïve girl who took over Chaldea after my father's death.

My father didn't leave me anything behind,

but I was handed down the beliefs as a Mage of Animusphere.

It's been almost two years since I took over as the director.

I started as only a lost little girl,

but just when I thought I'd figured it out...

But why is it 100 years in the future?

What do you mean by that, Mash?

Well...

if you just want to observe that there's still a civilization tomorrow,

I think it can be simply one day or one year in the future.

Because we need enough time to respond, Mash.

If the light of civilization for tomorrow has been extinguished,

you have a dire situation you can no longer do anything about.

However, if the ruin comes a year or ten years down the line,

you get all that much more time to set up countermeasures.

The reason why the previous director set it up for 100 years

is to give enough time for humanity to prepare countermeasures, I believe.

I see. So, the previous director thought far in advance.

O-Of course!

My father was a thoughtful and very careful person.

He wasn't the type to move things along simply from conjectures or wishful thinking.

I'm sure.

He probably also developed the Heroic Spirit summoning system to prepare for situations like this.

If some abnormality were to occur in the past,

we in present time can't extract the lesion in the past.

If so, we must head directly to that time in the past and resolve the situation on the spot.

Even if the Rayshift is a success,

the only things we can take with us are the physical bodies of the Mages.

They have no weapons to rely on once there.

That's the reason we require Heroic Spirits, the Servants.

No matter how mutated it is,

as long as it's an extension of human history, Heroic Spirits will exist.

And if you can get their help,

you can fight no matter what era you are in.

I see.

Heroic Spirits are spiritual phenomena of a higher order.

The Throne of Heroes is in a dimension higher than the one we're in after all.

They transcend time itself.

There can be no companion better suited for the methodology of securing humanity that Chaldea uses,

because they'll appear in any era once you make a contract with them.

That Heroic Spirit summoning system is not stable yet.

Securing Master candidates who are suitable for Rayshifts is important,

but we must somehow further test things on that end, as well.

It would be nice if Da Vinci was a bit more cooperative with us.

Olga, how about you give him— I mean her—a Workshop to use?

It's too early for that!

I can't trust a Servant with no Master.

Besides, I don't get along with that Heroic Spirit to begin with.

When we have our next successful summons, I'll have her depart right away!

That sounds pretty harsh.

Da Vinci might say she thinks of the director like a little sister.

Just leave the Heroic Spirit summons to Da Vinci.

We need to select the Masters.

Was the selection of the A-team final, Olga?

Yes.

Besides, my father left instructions to choose those seven in case of an emergency.

Though, my father called them "Crypters" instead of "Master candidates."

Director.

What is this?

It doesn't look like something created in Chaldea.

Oh, that's...

How strange.

That's supposed to be stored under lock and key.

Oh, I'm sorry. Is it something quite important?

It's fine! It won't be used anymore.

It's one of the gifts from the Atlas Academy.

Atlas Academy?

The same Atlas Academy as the one that provided the blueprints for Trismegistus,

the heart of Chaldea?

Right.

The weapons armory of the Magecraft world.

The Pit of Taboo,

the Atlas Academy.

My father had a contract from Atlas.

He asked them for their technology in exchange for the contract.

One of them was the Spiritron Calculation Engine, Trismegistus.

The other was that thing.

Void-Reality Observation Device, Paper Moon.

Paper Moon...

A two-dimensional moon, perhaps?

That's something I haven't heard before.

So, how do you actually use it?

It's a compass for observing and substantiating Void Space.

I heard it was prepared in order to overcome the phase differential with Chaldeas.

That said, it's useless now.

Now that Sheba has been completed, we can perform Rayshift.

This is a surprise.

Was there another way to access Singularities besides Rayshifts?

Yes. It was a way to transport by diving into Void Space, then floating up into the destination.

It was called "Zero Sail."

And the ship that made it all possible was...

"Shadow Border."

That's what we secretly named it.

So I see.

There was a machine that was no longer put to use because I had completed Sheba.

That was something I overlooked.

No wonder why I was insulted as being blind.

L-Lev?

Oh, I'm just being sentimental.

Excuse the sudden questioning, but this is my last chance.

I'll just chalk this up to a sudden whimsy.

Olga,

I completed the Near-Future Observation Lens: Sheba, in 1999 by Marisbury's request.

At that point, my destiny had been set in stone.

Saving humanity...

No, that's not it.

Making this planet better.

That was the goal of my life.

Before and after this happened.

The future that humanity builds is varied and full of change.

That's why it's so unstable.

Humanity is wonderful, but it carries a large burden.

It all goes back to square one if it trips on a pebble, right?

I had been hoping to get rid of such risk.

There's not much I can do.

However, I thought I could at least move the pebble.

What about you?

Do you want to become part of that burden?

Do you want to become the person carrying it?

Or do you want to be someone that moves the pebble away?

I...

I don't want any of that.

The only thing I feel towards the onerous duty of securing the future is anxiety.

I don't actually care about the meaning or value of the future.

All I have is an obsessive compulsion with proving how competent I am.

Each day of my life is difficult.

Each day of my life feels like it has no future.

What do I have to do to end this?

What do I have to do to be happy?

I don't have the slightest idea of how to answer that, so how could I ever know my own goal?

It's this late already?

I have to excuse myself.

I'm going to be very busy from now on.

So you're Olga Marie?

I'm Lev Lainur. Nice to meet you.

Oh, no handshake?

Then I have something to work toward.

Trust is something that takes time to gain.

You say my outfit is strange? I stand out?

But of course. I'm the only anachronistic one here.

But this is my pride as a Mage,

and my way of respecting the history of your Animusphere Family.

Even though this is a modern facility, it's still an Animusphere Workshop.

As such, you should have at least one traditional, typical Mage like me.

Yes.

Farewell, Lev Lainur.

Good morning! Are you on break as well, Senpai?

Ah, this is where everyone was.

I'll get you something to drink. What would you like?

Tea, please.

I'll sit here if you don't mind.

It's not like I'm worried about you or anything,

but you look surprisingly glum.

What's on your mind?

Everything's just so hard for me.

Of course it is!

You were brought here as a reserve to make up the numbers.

You're not a Mage nor a soldier! Just an ordinary citizen.

You'd normally never be given the chance to fight;

you're simply the last remaining candidate.

For you to play the onerous role of protecting humanity's future—

Even so...

I can't keep getting saved by everyone else.

I need to be able to do something myself.

I've been trying my best, but...

What are you...

The more time passes,

the more I realize my mediocrity.

It doesn't matter how much I train,

nor how much I study Magecraft.

Sometimes, when I'm alone,

I think, "Why me?"

"Surely there was someone more qualified."

Those sorts of negative thoughts.

Are you saying that you becoming a Master was a mistake?

You're just reluctantly doing this because no one else can?

You know what?

I might as well crush him right here.

In spite of that...

No matter how much I struggle,

it's true that I can't do anything.

And if I can't escape from that fact,

I have to at least act tough.

Even if I'm mediocre,

I'd really be useless if I didn't demonstrate just how average I am.

I want to answer to everyone's trust in me as Fujimaru Ritsuka,

not as someone else's substitute.

I'm disappointed!

To think the future of humanity relies on someone who whines like that!

Restoring humanity is too big a burden for your shoulders!

It appears my judgment was wrong.

But we were able to come this far because of you, Director.

You're the reason we were able to complete the Order at Fuyuki.

We were able to erase Singularities in France, Rome and Okeanos

thanks to your navigation.

I... worked with you?

Mash, what year is it?

It's May 1st, 2016.

Director? Are you not feeling well again?

It's nothing.

Thank you, Mash.

I wish we could've chatted like this earlier.

Fujimaru.

You're that scared, yet you're not giving up?

Well, I'm not quite discouraged enough to give up yet.

I see.

There's nothing more I can do for you, but do know I'm cheering you on.

Even if your future has been swapped...

with something completely futile.

By the way,

who was that?

That was nobody. She was someone who couldn't reach this future.

Give up.

There's no humanity for you to protect.

You, drifter from a distant future... Or rather, from the correct version of history.

You have no chance of victory.

The human world will perish.

That's how the future has been fixed.

I know someone who once said the same.

But it was nothing more than an empty fantasy!

As long as there are humans with the will to fight,

the future remains a white canvas!

It's never too late!

Exactly.

The future has literally become a white canvas like you said.

If only there was anything left to burn,

or better yet, anything left at all.

But this planet has forsaken any such remnants altogether.

Humanity is at a dead end.

This is one year in the future.

This is what Earth is destined to look like...

after you stop the Incineration of Humanity.

The King of Mages once said,

"Your happiness lies in doing nothing."

I'll repeat those words once more.

Our history will not continue into the future.

Because...

we restored humanity.

Wake up, Fujimaru.

Sorry, I must've fallen asleep!

Huh?

I just came here to drop some stuff off, but I fell asleep.

Even while everyone else in Chaldea is busy cleaning up.

Senpai!

I was getting worried because I couldn't find you in your room or the cafeteria!

Were you in the warehouse?

Yeah.

I bundled up the sheets and tableware I'd been using. I didn't want to throw them away.

New staff from the Association are arriving soon, right?

Yes. As soon as the weather improves, they'll be flying in by helicopter.

The boat is already docked on the shoreline.

I see.

So much has happened in the past year,

but it was fun.

Thank you, Mash,

for continually supporting a mediocre Master like me.

Oh no.

I'm the one who should be giving my thanks!

I'm sure I've been supported by you way more than I've supported you!

The Inquiry Board's intent is clear.

The old Chaldea will be dismantled, and the entire staff will be replaced.

I'm not sure if I'll be able to stay in the same department as you.

Will you be able to remain at Chaldea to begin with?

If you're returning to your home in Japan, would you give me your address?

I would like to send you new year greetings and such!

The Board will be here soon.

The incredible days I spent here in Chaldea will come to an end.

I don't know what'll happen from now on.

Even if I'm no longer a Master,

I'd be happy if I could be employed as a staff member of Chaldea.

Although I don't think it'll be that easy.

But no matter what happens,

no matter how uncertain the future looks,

I don't think I'll ever be afraid.

Humans are fundamentally powerless,

and things rarely go well.

It's often all in vain,

but it's normal to just laugh it off,

saying, "These things happen."

I now understand that side of human nature and its strength.

It saved me in my short yet long journey.

For now, there are still things that I can do.

Holding that belief in my heart,

I'll start the new year.