-930- Still have time?

The long journey through the Singularities officially came to an end on the day the fifth Singularity was repaired.

Next, Chaldea needed to prioritize repairing the faulty instruments and then fully observe the sixth Singularity. If possible, Olga Marie even wanted to speculate on the seventh Singularity, preparing for Spiritron transfer and planning to conquer the remaining Singularities in one go.

However, this task was clearly not easy.

At least, without several months, it was impossible to complete, possibly even longer.

Therefore, Chaldea really needed to exert all its efforts. Not only did they have to prioritize the observation of the Singularities, but they also had to invest all their resources into this work.

Unlike before, there would be no extensive simulated battles, and several functions maintaining Chaldea's operations would be declared suspended, with resources concentrated.

It was inevitable that this would lead to a busy situation, and Olga Marie had no intention of giving the staff and technicians any extra rest time.

Thus, until the observation of the seventh Singularity concluded, everyone in Chaldea would spend their time in intense overtime and work.

Naturally, this work had nothing to do with Rozen and Mash.

Just like before, everyone in Chaldea was fully responsible for all the support tasks related to Singularity repairs, while Rozen and Mash only needed to execute missions.

In addition to this time, they used it to adjust their bodies, train themselves, enhance their combat capabilities, and take sufficient rest.

If this could be considered a job, then Rozen and Mash would spend the next few months in such work.

In other words, Rozen would be completely free, and the same went for Mash.

Given Rozen's mysterious disappearance before, no one considered how to arrange something for him.

"Or, you can continue to disappear. When you come back again, let us be pleasantly surprised again."

Da Vinci nonchalantly suggested, causing Rozen to roll his eyes.

On the contrary, Roman seemed to have been in a bad state recently. He was either hiding in his room or appeared absent-minded even during work. It really made people feel that he was not in good shape.

If it were in the past, Olga Marie would have definitely erupted, scolding Roman severely.

However, for some reason, the current Olga Marie not only kept silent about Roman's situation but also seemed inclined to exclude him from work, not allowing him to access Chaldea's secrets.

"What exactly is going on?"

Rozen had thought about it more than once, and even tried to extract information indirectly from others.

However, for some reason, everyone in Chaldea seemed evasive, avoiding mentioning the matter as if they didn't want to bring it up, leaving Rozen repeatedly empty-handed.

With no other option, Rozen could only personally approach Roman, intending to coax information from him.

Unfortunately, just before that, something happened that Rozen could not have expected.

...

"—Mash has collapsed and is currently unconscious—"

When such a message reached Rozen's communicator, and Rozen saw it, his head first shook, becoming blank.

Following closely...

"Kinu!"

Rozen shouted loudly as he dashed out of the room, calling the Shikigami and familiar inside the room.

"-!"

The golden crow, Kinu, who was feigning sleep on the bedside, instantly opened its eyes. With a flap of its wings, amidst a shower of fire powder and black feathers, its entire form turned into a released arrow, shooting towards Rozen's direction.

At the same time, lying on the bed, Gyokuto also opened her eyes. Her entire body transformed into light, soaring towards Rozen who was heading towards the door.

In this situation, as Rozen rushed out of the room, the black coat had already formed on him, and the exquisite ring adorned his finger. He was fully equipped.

Rozen floated up directly, propelled by the Kinu's coat, speeding away at an astonishing pace.

His target was Chaldea's medical department.

Rozen didn't take long to reach his destination.

It was a completely isolated sterile room.

Rozen almost appeared as a streak of light, soaring in from the outside and landing just outside the sterile room.

"Mash!"

The next moment, Rozen saw his contracted junior.

Currently, Mash was wearing a medical gown, lying on a pure white bed inside the sterile room. Wires from various instruments were connected all over her body, and she wore an oxygen mask on her face. There was also a glowing scanner on her head, making her look fragile and pitiful.

Rozen's breath stopped.

The reason was simple.

Lying in the sterile room, pale-faced, undergoing adjustments from various instruments, that scene deeply triggered Rozen's psychological trauma.

He still remembered, back when he was still a child, he had faced a similar situation.

Rozen, in a rare loss of composure, almost without thinking, was about to open the door of the sterile room and enter.

Someone stopped him.

"Stop, you can't go in now."

A hand pressed down on Rozen's shoulder, halting him.

Rozen turned sharply and looked behind him.

There, Roman tightly grasped Rozen's shoulder, staring at him with an extremely serious expression.

Besides Roman, Olga Marie and Da Vinci were also present, with equally serious expressions, a subtle weightiness in their demeanor.

Especially Olga Marie, as if witnessing a nightmare, her gaze and expression were both extremely unpleasant.

Presumably, if she still had her original body, Olga Marie would have tightly bitten her pale lips, perhaps even to the point of bleeding.

After all, if you really had to consider it, Mash's current condition was inevitably linked to Olga Marie.

Rozen, as if expecting all of this, clenched his fists, took a deep breath, and tried hard to calm himself down.

"How is she?"

Rozen asked in a low voice.

In response, as the head of the medical department, Roman naturally provided an answer.

"She's stabilizing now, but we can't say it's good. It still needs observation."

Roman gave this answer with a tense expression.

"Observation?" Rozen looked at Roman and said, "So, you mean, she might not recover, and there's a chance she might not be cured in the end?"

Rozen almost uttered these words as a question.

Faced with Rozen's words, Da Vinci lowered her eyelids, Olga Marie's gaze trembled, and Roman closed his eyes, reopening them after a while.

"Don't worry."

Roman suppressed his emotions and said these words.

"Mash still has time."

Such ominous words came from Roman's mouth.