-61- [ Truth ] and [ Death ]

The sudden voice made the two girls present momentarily lose their reactions. When they recovered, they showed completely different expressions.

"What is this...?" Mash was surprised.

"This voice... could it be...!?" Olga Marie recognized something and first showed shock, then extreme joy, almost to the point of tears.

And that was Olga Marie's final reaction.

The next moment...

"Bang!"

With a gunshot-like sound, a black-red magical bullet suddenly surged behind Olga Marie and penetrated her body.

"Ugh...!"

Olga Marie let out a scream and immediately lost consciousness, falling backward.

The perpetrator behind this attack was none other than Rozen, extending his hand to catch Olga Marie and laying her down on the ground.

Witnessing this shocking event, Mash was completely stunned.

"Senpai...!?"

The person who attacked Olga Marie was Rozen, using the only magic he had learned besides "Summoning Ritual" – "Gandr"

Olga Marie never expected Rozen would turn against her, thus she took the full impact of the attack.

However...

"Don't worry, I adjusted the power. She's just unconscious," Rozen said, laying Olga Marie on the ground, then facing Mash's perplexed expression with a wry smile.

"What happens next is better if this person with limited mental resilience doesn't know," Rozen thought, and that's why he knocked Olga Marie unconscious.

At this moment, the voice that had interrupted before took on a sarcastic tone.

"Such tenderness, Rozen. I thought you would relish seeing that woman's despair and agony when she faces the truth, after all, you should hate her the most."

The voice ceased, and its owner appeared as if walking out of a twisted space. He emerged from the shadows, using a cane, stepping on the scorched ground, and arrived before the suspended crystal.

He wore a green coat, a high-brimmed round hat, held a decorated cane, and had an intellectual yet candid face.

The person before Rozen and Mash undoubtedly belonged to the most familiar category.

"Professor..." Mash murmured, revealing the person's identity.

Who else could it be if not Lev?

"It's been tough for you, Mash. I never expected you'd end up like this," Lev addressed Mash, looking at the shield in her hand. His expression remained candid and refreshing.

However, behind that candor and freshness, there was a chilling ferocity.

"...!?"

Sensing the chilling ferocity, Mash almost instinctively raised her shield.

Sweat dripped from her cheeks.

Mash must have realized it by now, right?

She realized how terrifying the person before her was.

Even though Lev didn't emit magic like Saber, it was precisely due to this that his hidden ferocity and malice appeared so dreadful.

Thus, Mash understood.

"I can't win..."

Yes.

She couldn't win.

Even now, with the power of her Noble Phantasm, she had no chance of defeating the man before her.

"Who... who are you?" Mash gathered her courage, gritting her teeth as she questioned.

In response, Lev maintained his usual smiling face.

However, his words spoken with that smile were chilling.

"A mere Servant like you has no qualification to converse with us without my permission."

Only those involved could truly comprehend how much contempt and disdain filled that statement.

"Compared to you, the Master over there is much smarter," Lev continued, shifting his gaze towards Rozen.

It was just a simple change of focus, but it felt like it could freeze time and space.

While maintaining his smile, Lev posed a question without a hint of amusement.

"Looks like you already guessed that I'm the mastermind behind all this, Rozen," Lev said, and in response, Rozen smiled back, seemingly composed, though his back was damp with sweat.

No other choice.

"Since the past, I've gradually been getting a eerie feeling from you. It intensified over time, reaching its peak yesterday at Chaldea. The unexpected explosion in the control room, your mysterious disappearance, and that familiar eerie feeling that followed us to this singularity... How could I not guess that you were the mastermind?" Rozen replied, pretending to remain calm.

His answer earned him no sincere admiration from Lev.

"You truly live up to your reputation. Even though you never take things seriously, you show exceptional abilities and agility in simulated battles. Your talents as a mage and your sharp mind have been astonishing. I always had a feeling that you could somehow sense my anomalies, so I kept an eye on you. Yet, I underestimated you in the end, allowing you to escape the control room," Lev nodded, speaking in a way he never would have before.

"Unpleasant, indeed," words that would never have come out of Lev's mouth in the past kept flowing from him.

Mash had yet to grasp what was happening, but at least she understood one thing.

"Did you... cause the explosion in the control room, Professor?" Mash asked, her face tensed.

And the answer was undoubtedly yes.

"I did set the bomb in the control room," Lev admitted straightforwardly, looking at the unconscious Olga Marie on the ground as if observing an insect.

"Right beneath her feet."

This revelation made Mash's hand, holding the shield, tremble slightly.

Rozen's expression darkened.

"As I suspected..." Rozen looked at the fallen Olga Marie with a complex gaze.

When Rozen saw Olga Marie appear in Fuyuki City, he already had suspicions about how she, who was originally not suitable for spiritron transfer, managed to undergo the process.

When he summoned the Evil Spirit and used it to attack Servants, Rozen made an astounding discovery.

Olga Marie was also a target of the Evil Spirit.

In other words...

"Is she already dead...?" Olga Marie's physical body was completely destroyed in the explosion at the control room, leaving only her consciousness forming her spiritual body.

That's why Olga Marie was able to undergo spiritron transfer.