Chapter 1048: Returning to Queen's Calendar 2018
Queen's Calendar 2018.
Norwich Port City, East Coast.
An azure passage opened by the coastline, from which two figures emerged. One of them carried an unconscious girl under their arm while still wearing the standard three-piece disguise ensemble.
By all appearances, it looked like the prelude to some indescribable R-rated scene.
"Are we back?"
Eiji turned to watch the distant waves continuously crashing against the shore, countless emotions surging in his heart.
"What's the current time? How many days have passed since we left?"
"Don't know, check yourself."
"...Do you actually intend for me to resolve the Collapse?"
Eiji was utterly speechless.
Goetia remained as emotionally detached as ever, seeming to care about nothing.
There wasn't the slightest urgency in his words either, making one truly doubt how concerned he actually was about this so-called "Collapse"!
"Take this."
He suddenly tossed something over.
It was identical to the ring Eiji had crushed earlier.
"Crush this one only after truly resolving the Collapse. I won't always have time to help you."
After speaking, Goetia turned to leave.
"Wait, I have a question!"
Eiji quickly called out to stop him.
"Can I bring people with me when I leave?"
"What?"
"I mean, after everything's over, could I take some people back to our Singularity?"
"..."
Goetia turned back.
He studied Eiji carefully for a long moment.
"Are you planning to help residents of this Lostbelt emigrate?"
"Is that not allowed?"
Eiji countered.
"That's a Singularity you created, so of course you have the final say. I just want to know your opinion."
After all, if he wanted to leave this place, he'd still need to ride the Goetia-brand Spiritron Transfer Machine.
Hmm.
Though that might not be the only way.
Perhaps leaving with Chaldea would work too?
Maybe he could even visit Chaldea?
But if he did that, he'd inevitably miss the UO selection tournament in that Singularity, which would be gaining a small advantage at the cost of a bigger one.
Better forget that idea.
He could always visit Chaldea after the UO selection battles were over.
Assuming he was still alive by then, that is.
"What do you take me for? Some convenient transportation at your beck and call?"
Goetia looked at him coldly.
Though his eyes showed no particular displeasure, they still made one's heart tremble.
So it's not possible after all.
Eiji couldn't help but feel a headache coming on.
If that's how it was, then he'd have to take a roundabout approach - have her visit Chaldea first, then find a way to bring her over afterward.
Eiji suddenly thought of Arcueid, Aoko Aozaki, Nero, Mrs. Pendragon... Hmm, having her stay at Chaldea for a while would actually be the better choice!
"Limit it to ten people or fewer."
But Goetia's next words surprised him.
"You're willing to help?"
"Hmph, consider it repayment for gathering so many high-level participants for me."
Goetia sneered.
His words carried no trace of politeness or gratitude whatsoever.
To be fair, someone of Arcueid's caliber wouldn't find it difficult to leave a Singularity. If Aoko completely mastered the Fifth Magic, she might be even more formidable.
The only reason they were staying now was because Eiji had formed connections with them all.
For Goetia, the higher the participants' skill levels, the better.
In this regard, the Counter Force would help send people over, but he still had to work hard to keep them here.
Eiji keeping them here had indeed saved him a lot of effort.
"I must remind you of one thing—the people you take away must be fairies."
"What do you mean? Can humans not be taken?"
"...How much do you know about the humans in this Lostbelt?"
Goetia looked at him speechlessly, as if pondering something.
"Only a little."
As he said this, Eiji laid out all the information he had gathered during his investigation.
Regarding the humans, he only knew that they were created like homunculi, could live at most thirty years, currently could only leave the human farms as slaves to fairies, and their ecological situation was extremely dire.
"I see, you haven't learned about the root part yet."
Goetia understood.
"The root part?"
"This world was destroyed by the White Titan fourteen thousand years ago. Only a sea of nothingness remained, and humanity went extinct at that time. Only one shrine maiden, beloved by a god, was taken into the Inner Sea of the Planet by the deity and survived. She is the last human of this world."
Goetia recounted his understanding.
Even though he had hardly visited this Lostbelt, he could describe the state of affairs at that time in great detail.
Clairvoyance really allows one to do whatever they want!
Fourteen thousand years ago, this world was destroyed by the White Titan.
Eiji knew about this as well.
He had revisited his knowledge about Type-Moon on Kazuma Satou's Earth and was thoroughly familiar with Type-Moon's major timeline.
Fourteen thousand years ago, the spearhead of the Velber, the White Titan Sefar that destroys civilizations, descended upon the Earth at that time and was defeated by the Holy Sword of the Planet—that was the earliest story.
It was also the story of Pan-Human History.
When he learned that this Lostbelt had only a sea of nothingness left fourteen thousand years ago, Eiji speculated that Sefar in this parallel world might have successfully destroyed the Earth's continents, leaving only an endless ocean.
However, the story of the genesis remained unclear.
There was no helping it.
In Kazuma's world, Type-Moon hadn't even released the game FGO yet!
The author Nasu himself might not have even conceived the plot for the Singularities, let alone the later Lostbelts!
"Then, let me ask you."
A malicious smile appeared on Goetia's face.
As if all malice was the most delightful object of mockery to him.
"Since humanity had been reduced to just one person, where did the current humans come from?"
After leaving these words,
Goetia opened a spiritual particle channel and departed.
Leaving only Eiji standing there, his mind exploding!
Yes!
Since humanity had been reduced to just one person, how did humans come about afterward?
Why had I never thought about this question!
The humans afterward couldn't possibly have re-evolved; the completion of humanity is a miracle that took billions of years on Earth, and it took hundreds of thousands, even millions of years from primitive humans to the birth of civilization!
There is only one answer!
That was taking the last human as material, peeling tissue samples from her body over and over, using her body repeatedly, and after countless attempts finally creating humans!
And the ones who did this could only be the six original Great Fairies from back then!
Yes.
This is why the humans in this world had to be manufactured in human ranches, and why their lifespans were only thirty years!
Genetically speaking, that shrine maiden offered to the god is the common ancestor of all humans in this Britain!
He suddenly thought of something.
"What about Cernunnos?"
Why did He die?
And why did He accumulate such terrifying curses?
In that instant, the nursery rhyme suddenly surfaced in his mind.
"Because He was a god, the fairies offered their wishes."
"They missed the land of old terribly."
"And so, the god fell asleep."
"The fairies worshipped the god, carefully using what remained, and Britain was born."
"May the six fairies find salvation."
A horrifying speculation suddenly surged into Eiji's mind.
The god fell asleep?
Used what remained?
He covered his face, goosebumps rising all over his body.
"What on earth is going on with the fairies in this Lostbelt..."