Chaldea and staff: Chapter 1 (Patreon)

Serenity moved through the corridors, trying to occupy as little space as possible in the space available to her. Of course, she was not shy - but it would be problematic if she accidentally left a little sweat on the wall and some unfortunate person - or even a Servant, as if the distinction changes something - would lean on it would die in terrible agony a couple of days later.

“That's it for the ‘official wife’”, - Serenity also tried not to think about Kiyohime moving beside her.

Serenity silently continued to move forward, pampering herself with the thought that the girl chasing her could get lost at the next corner and finally stop bothering Assassin.

“Why do you think he did not take you into the Singularity?” Kiyohime covered her face with her fan, and then looked away, as if she had not looked at Serenity’s reaction at all. However, she didn’t plan to lag behind Assassin, so her feigned thoughtfulness on the issue only made Serenity sigh, “Maybe because he doesn’t really like you that much?”

Serenity did not like to cause conflict for no reason. In the end, if someone really was her enemy - she would rather finish it off quickly, by poison or dagger, doesn’t matter - than wasting time and energy on meaningless conversations. However, due to the fact that Kiyohime was a Servant of her Master, and therefore could not simply be killed while she slept - and because she also was not lagging behind Assassin, she was forced to reply - “Because of my death in the Singularity, Master preferred not to expose me to the excessive risks.”

“Oh, is that all?” Kiyohime grinned at her open fan. “I have heard such a boring answer a hundred times already — and for a hundred times my faith in such an answer has not grown. Do you really think so - or do you still can’t understand that it was a ruse?”

Serenity only stopped her movement at this, then sighed - shortly, but still a tired sigh - and turned to Kiyohime, who, catching Serenity's eyes, smiled into her open fan, hiding the satisfied expression on her face.

“You also remained in Chaldea, despite the fact that you did not die in the previous Singularity,” Serenity looked at the girl intently, “Unlike me, you don’t even have an excuse for why you stayed here.”

“Hmm,” it seems that this topic nevertheless also bothered Kiyohime, because of which her smile faded a little - but after a second returned to its previous state, “Unlike you, Anchin and I share the eternal love that has existed for hundreds of years. Such a trifle is not able to interfere with our love.”

“Really?” Serenity glanced uninterestedly at Kiyohime. “You declare this — but I still have not seen the evidence. Master did not even talk with you after your summoning.”

“Like you,” Kiyohime parried back, but this answer did not have the ridicule that she now held on her face.

“You did not answer the first part of my question,” Serenity calmly pointed out this fact, “I feel your reluctance to answer it. Can't even say why?”

“It's not something that someone like you will understand,” Kiyohime blurted out a grin, but that grin lacked any real smugness and sense of superiority. Rather, Kiyohime attempted to display a smirk as if she truly spoke with confidence - “Our connection with Anchin does not need such petty confirmation.”

“Do you really think so - or do you still can’t understand that it was a ruse?” Serenity, with a slight sense of satisfaction, replied back using the words of Kiyohime, after which she saw how slowly the smile slid from Berserker’s face.

“You speak too confidently for someone who is not ready to know the anger of a dragon,” Kiyohime answered calmly, but her usual smile was not on her face. Even more than that, the girl closed her fan, after which she looked into Assassin's eyes.

“You speak too confidently for someone who is not ready to die from poison,” retorted Serenity, responding to the calm threat of Kiyohime with her own calm threat.

In the end, both girls were alike. They were similar in their desires, similar in their actions and even in their current situation. However, Serenity remained an Assassin - one for whom control of her own emotions was necessary for survival - while Kiyohime was a Berserker, for whom control of emotions when it came to her subject of adoration was unthinkable.

“Perhaps you want to be eaten?” Kiyohime raised her head again in mock thoughtfulness.

“Be careful in your eating habits,” Serenity replied calmly, “Who knows, maybe you’ll come across something poisonous.”

Kiyohime returned her gaze to Serenity, but this time her voice, albeit calm, contained a bit of anger - there was, rather, annoyance at how someone daring enough to call herself the “legal wife” of her Anchina refused to back down from her errors even in front of her, - “My patience is not endless, girl.”

“Likewise mine is the same,” this time Serenity also let a little annoyance slip through her voice.

Two girls stood opposite each other, eye to eye, seeing enemies in each other - and even worse. Rivals.

“Oh, oh, oh!” A third voice sounded, distracting both girls, forcing them to turn on the third man who just appeared, “Keep calm, keep calm, we are all friends here, do not fight...”

“Romani, hmm,” the voice of Kiyohime expressed the obvious. A man in his mid-twenties appeared from around the next corner with a perfectly clean, smooth-shaven face and apricot hair tied in a high tail - the person known as the right hand of the Chief of Chaldea, the chief technician, in the current conditions, and the chief doctor - always - of Chaldea.

“I’m not sure I understand what’s causing the conflict here,” the man smiled, trying to smooth out the quarrel, “But I’m quite sure that it can be resolved without resorting to such extreme measures.”

For a second, Serenity and Kiyohime froze, pondering what was just said. None of them wanted to continue the fight - however, none of them wanted to admit defeat either, which is why the appearance of Roman was positively received by both of them.

“I think I’ll find things more interesting to do than chatting with this annoying little thing,” despite the fact that Kiyohime was the first to start the fight, she pretended that it was Serenity that had bothered the Berserker, after which she turned around and opened her fan, fanning herself, then slowly walked away.

“Hm,” was the only reaction of Serenity, who immediately turned away and slowly wandered on.

“Oh, it was easier than I expected,” Roman smiled immediately, after which he turned towards Serenity, “Oh, Serenity. Not busy?”

The Assassin pondered what was said for several moments, trying to determine the purpose of the question, “No.”

“Good,” Roman smiled immediately, after which he yawned out as if he had just woken up. No, Serenity took a closer look - judging by the fact that his hair was still not combed and there was a small mark on his cheek from a pillow - he really just woke up not so long ago, - “then, can you keep me company?”

“Hm?” Serenity looked around at the man “Is there some kind of activity I should take part in?”

“No, no, not anything like that,” Roman shook his head several times in the negative, after which he looked at Assassin, “It just that something really rare and unusual happened today — the chief didn’t need me for something today. And since the last time I got something like a vacation was - well, never — this morning I found myself in a somewhat unusual position, completely without any idea of what I should do in my free time. So I thought that if you weren’t busy right now, then we could keep each other company.”

“Hm,” Serenity looked at Roman once more, carefully examining the man from head to toe. His white coat also lay on his shoulders, covering his white shirt and trousers - however, nothing on the man looked suspicious, so Serenity, who also did not know what she should be doing at the moment, nodded, “Okay.”

“Excellent,” Romani smiled, after which he nodded toward the passage from which he appeared from, “Then let's go, it’s not far from my office.”

Serenity nodded in response and followed after Roman.

Apparently, the chief really recently made Roman carry out many of her instructions... Unlike the Assassin’s Master himself.

This line of thinking did not greatly cause any particular emotion in the heart of Serenity. But still the thought bothered Serenity a bit.

The distance to Roman’s office was short - therefore, after only a couple of turns, the man reached for the door of the medical office combined with his modest dwelling and opened the door, entering inside. Serenity came in then started to examine the room.

Although it is in fact a medical office, so it is no surprise that it also contained all the necessary things a doctor would need, like the usual table used for checking the acuity of a patient’s eyesight and several cabinets full of medicines, the patient’s couch was converted into the doctor’s sleeping cot, currently empty, and at the table instead of medical documents, a laptop was resting, invitingly flashing a large banner window. Looking at the window, the girl was able to see that this notification was talking about a new video of a certain virtual idol.

“Oops!” - immediately seeing the same thing as the girl, the man rushed to the computer and instantly clicked the close button using the mouse, closing the pop-up banner, then turned to Serenity, trying to maintain an awkward smile, “Haha, it was awkward... Serenity, you won’t close the door?”

“No,” Serenity answered unequivocally.

Roman froze for a second, pondering the answer, trying to determine if for some reason the Assassin was angered before she slowly raised her hand and waved it in the air, making Roman remember, “Yeah, that...”

Roman sighed, after which he took a few steps and closed the door, glancing at Serenity for a second. If she couldn’t even close the door without risking possibly poisoning anyone...

“My room is marked with a warning,” Serenity calmly answered an unspoken question, “So that no one would go inside and touch anything by mistake.”

“Ha-ha,” Roman forcefully tried to squeeze out a laugh, not sure how he should react to what was just said, and then looked at his bed. Of course, he planned to tell the girl something like “sit down,” but in the current conditions...

“I will stand,” Serenity answered calmly to the unspoken question, saving Roman from another awkward moment, after which she added something else just in case, “I’m also wearing shoes, so there are no poisonous residue on the floor.”

“Haha, you’ve thought everything over, right?” Roman smiled, squeezing an awkward compliment, “Why not use gloves?”

“I have one, but I did not take it with me,” Serenity answered, “I didn’t expect to go somewhere.”

“Ahem.” Romani froze. Did not plan to go somewhere? And what, then, did Serenity plan to do all this time?

“Wandering around Chaldea, watching people,” the girl answered the unspoken question question.

“Everything is written on my face, right?” Roman asked with a sigh, glancing at Serenity.

“You are easy to read,” Assassin replied, looking at Romani carefully, “Besides, I’m used to these questions.”

“Hm, are you used to it?” Roman looked at the girl, after which he sighed and closed his eyes, shaking his head. “From what I saw, you cannot really be called as someone who is very sociable.”

“I'm indeed quite used to being alone,” Serenity confirmed the man’s words, “But this list of questions comes from my previous life.”

“Ah,” Roman sighed, after which he made his way to the chair behind the desk and sat on it, twisting his body slightly to look in Assassin's direction.

An awkward silence reigned in the room for a second.

“You know, I do have a spare mug, so I can give you one to use,” sighed Romani, “And you need to eat the pastry with your hand anyway, so you don’t need to put them back on the plate... So, you don’t really have a reason to refuse a little tea time with me will you?”

Serenity examined Roman for a few seconds before she sighed. “I guess not.”

“Excellent!” The man clapped his hands in joy, after which he got up, “Then I will put the kettle on and bring the croissants. I swear I never tried anything tastier than Archer's cooking!”

Serenity did not respond to these words, allowing the man to rise from his seat and go about his business.

She would like to get tea with Ainz.

She would not have had to stand, he would not have been opposed to having her sit next to her. Although, perhaps he would still be worried about his other Servants - her Master was extremely kind and courteous to the Servants - so she would have to sit where her poisonous footprint was not at all terrible.

Perhaps on the lap of the Master?

Serenity froze at the thought. For some reason, she had a vivid picture of herself, while sitting on Ainz’s lap, Serenity suddenly swayed awkwardly, but before falling Ainz grabbed her... With his own hands. Touching her. Not at all afraid of her poison. Then he hugged her - just so that she would not fall...

Of course, Serenity would not be able to use the cutlery either - but her Master was not at all afraid of her poison. Perhaps Ainz would have agreed... To feed her himself?

Serenity peered at this imagined picture and smiled. A kind of warm feeling spread in her chest from the imaginary picture.

“That's all,” Serenity was pulled out from her fantasies by Roman's voice . The girl looked toward the source of the voice to find several croissants lying on a plate, and a cup of tea set aside for Serenity. In addition, she had to stand. Not at all like in the picture in her head.

The girl sighed. For some reason, from these thoughts, her warm feeling in her chest gave way to a nagging feeling of loneliness.

Serenity sighed and brought the tea to her lips, taking a sip. Hot, but not scorching. Tolerant.

After that, the girl picked up a croissant and bit off a small piece. Suddenly, the croissants turned out to be very good ... Very, very... Even delicious...

The girl once again bit off a piece and looked at the croissant with a slight bit of surprise. Strange, the simple piece of pastry was really delicious ...

“I knew that Archer’s cooking will help you unwind,” the Doctor smiled, after which he took another croissant and bit off a bite, smiling, “I don’t know where he learned how to cook like that - but I’m definitely grateful to him for that.”

For a couple of minutes, silence reigned in the office, interrupted only by the sound of two people eating breakfast, before Romani set aside an empty cup and sighed, calmly, “Well, that’s better. After food, any conversation is easier.”

“A conversation?” Serenity, finally having finished her tea, set the mug to the farthest edge of the table so that the doctor could not confuse it with his , “So you still found me for a reason.”

“Oops, haha,” Roman smiled a little regretful smile, “I was caught...”

“Hm,” Serenity looked at the man. “Did something happen?”

“No, nothing like that,” the man answered with a shake of his head in denial, “I just wanted to talk. You know, it's pretty hard to catch you in Chaldea.”

“I suppose it has something to do with my class,” Assassin answered calmly.

“Yes, perhaps,” Romani nodded, and then sighed, gathering his thoughts, “I just wanted to find out what is worrying you.”

“Nothing,” Serenity answered calmly and looked at Roman.

“Erm, yes, exactly,” the man sighed, “I completely forgot... It's just that you are very distant from other people.”

“This is usually what happens after becoming an Assassin,” Serenity replied calmly.

“Yes, but you are even more distant than Hassan,” Roman sighed. “And some people in Chaldea still don’t even know that he was summoned again. He has a strange habit of using his invisibility everytime…”

Serenity looked at Roman with a particular gaze, because of which he was not able to finish his line of thought, “Yes, for sure. Comes with being an Assassin, huh?”

The attempt at a joke did not provoke any reaction from Serenity, because of which Roman sighed again, - “In general, all the Servants are distant from each other and from normal people, but this is different. Archer has taken over the kitchen and is now constantly cooking there... Arthuria... People are afraid to approach her - but she often appears in the kitchen, especially now, when Archer began to cook there. Mozart is easy to find in the relaxation room - if he does not play the piano installed there, then at least he tries to beat someone in the fighting game on the console. Kiyohime disappears all day in the place that used to be a beauty salon...

“Why is there a beauty salon in Chaldea?” Serenity glanced at Roman, raising one eyebrow.

“Don’t ask,” Roman sighed. He still remembered how Olga-Marie a year ago forced Lev to find all the necessary equipment to open it, only when the salon was ready - to completely forget about it forever - “Hassan was sometimes seen in the library - or on the outskirts of Chaldea, examining the barrier or the ventilation holes... In general, all the Servants of Ainz can be found doing something in Chaldea, one way or another.”

“Besides me,” Serenity finished the logical chain.

“Besides you,” Romani confirmed. It sounded somehow accusatory and Roman did not want it to sound that way - but he had little choice in this regard. In fact, Serenity was really not to blame for anything - just for her, interacting with any people or Servants was fraught with additional difficulties.

“I think I’ve already explained the reason for this,” Serenity once again expressively raised her hand and waved it in the air.

Romani was silent. She really did explained.

Of course, Roman is not educated as a psychologist - but even if he were a certified specialist, he would hardly be able to answer such a conundrum. In the end, it was not a psychological problem that could be solved by conversation - but a limitation of the physical body, which the man could not change.

“Is it hard for you?” But he couldn’t just keep silent as well, without even trying to help, so he asked a question, looking directly at Serenity.

Serenity was silent for a few seconds before she could give out her answer. “It is indeed inconvenient and it limits my usefulness...”

After these words, Serenity was silent. Indeed, limited usefulness. Ainz clearly noticed this.

“No, I'm talking about something else,” Romani, not sure what the girl was thinking about, tried to clarify, “I mean, not its effect on your abilities as a Servant, but... More, psychologically? Forgive me if I go into your own personal business - I’m actually not certified as a psychologist.”

“It's all right,” Serenity, distracted from her thought, looked at Roman, “I understand.”

After that, Serenity was silent, thinking that she was supposed to answer Roman's question.

She did not love her poisonous body. Really, she did not. Everything that touched her would inevitably die, people, animals, even plants. What is it like to live seeing the beauty of life in front of you - and be afraid to touch it, knowing that it will die?

But still…

“No,” Serenity finally said, after which a slight smile appeared on her face, “Not when I’m next to Master.”

In the end, she found something that even her damned touch was not able to kill.

However, now her Master was not here.

Serenity frowned instantly, feeling her smile fade. Indeed, now, without her Master, there was no one else who could touch her. There was no one whom she could touch.

Serenity sighed.

‘This is the same problem as with Medusa, right?’ Roman looked at Serenity, thoughtfully, ‘However, in the end, Ainz solved the problem of Medusa with one wave of his hand... I wonder if he can also solve Serenity’s problem just as easily?’

This question was very complicated - perhaps some ancient ritual could cleanse Serenity of her poison - but at the same time - what would happen to the Servant, Hassan of Serenity, the one for which her poison was part of her essence?

‘On the other hand…’ - Roman sighed. ‘We are talking about Ainz here.’

“Ainz is an amazing person, though,” Roman smiled. Yes, they knew only little about Ainz... No, perhaps, they knew quite a lot from Cainabel - and what they knew did not speak so positively about the magician himself - however, at the same time, his actions very eloquently spoke about his true nature. If any of the information they acquired was true - it was impossible to truly know.

“Yes,” at that moment, for the first time in a long time, Serenity smiled a full smile, “He is indeed amazing.”

For a second both people were silent. Serenity is thinking about her Master. Roman also is also thinking about Ainz - but he is also thinking about Serenity.

In general, he could not do anything. Serenity did not have any kind of psychological problem that was bothering her, which he could help solve by talking. Roman also could not cure her physical source of sadness.

But, in the end, there was still some small matter he could do to help, by doing what he was already doing which he could help Serenity a little.

“You smiled for the first time in the whole conversation,” Roman smiled back, “When it came to Ainz. You know, you can say that I have some regret when this happens to beautiful girls and the cause was not me.”

Serenity looked at Roman seriously, - “My heart belongs to Ainz.”

“Oh, oh!” Roman immediately started waving his hands when he realized that his innocent half-joke was perceived by the girl in the wrong way, “I’m not talking about that at all! Believe me, I don’t want to fight for the Ainz’s spot at all!”

“I hope so,” Serenity glanced carefully at Roman once again, “I wouldn’t want to kill you because you are getting into my business.”

“Gulp,” Roman swallowed suddenly, when Serenity touched on the topic of murder, “You know, it’s not very nice when someone talks about your murder so calmly...”

Serenity did not react to this, only looking at Roman without emotion.

“Eh, it's hard to talk to you,” Roman sighed, after which he thought, scratching his head. So, for sure, he wanted to help Serenity, - “But you know, Ainz is really an amazing person.”

“Yes,” Serenity confirmed it calmly, as if speaking of something that was natural, “Cainabel talked about this. I think all those who should have heard about it have already heard about it.”

“Cainabel, yeah,” Romani sighed. That girl sent a herd of goosebumps on his back by simply mentioning her name. Romani had seen really strong, terrifying and monstrously strong creatures in his life... Perhaps the strongest Servant that Roman knew of was Da Vinci. Of course, there was another exception, but... Romani did not want to think about it. Da Vinci was the strongest Servant in Chaldea - and it would not be an exaggeration to say that she was one of the strongest Servants... of all? Probably. If Roman needed to determine the level of power of all the Servants he knew about, Da Vinci would take a high place... One of the highest.

Roman was even convinced that the King of Heroes could not have so easily defeated Da Vinci. Perhaps she was still a little weaker - but not by much. However, thinking about Cainabel - Romani shuddered. Da Vinci was one of the strongest Servants that Romani knew, but... He was sure that in the event of a battle, Cainabel would have turned her into a bloody mess. Not immediately, not without resistance, but Cainabel, even if, on the orders of Ainz, concealed her strength, seemed to Roman as a monster. Not a monster in the sense of a "creature", but in the sense of power.

‘I'm not sure that even this guy could destroy her…’ - Romani shuddered, ‘Although he has the greatest chances of all I know…’

“And Ainz was able to defeat such a creature,” Romani sighed, then grunted. “You know, I heard from the chief that he called the battle with her “disappointing”. Something like that she "was not as strong as I expected."

“This is expected, in the light of what Cainabel told us,” Serenity glanced at Roman, “He is a godslayer.”

“I already understood that,” Romani scratched the back of his head with a sigh. As soon as they came to the conclusion that Ainz was not dangerous, Cainabel came and destroyed their harmonious theory to hell. Judging by her stories, Ainz should have been, if not the cause, then at least a participant in something like the destruction of humanity in the past - and yet he is currently helping with the resolution of a similar problem. Perhaps this could have been done just to alleviate all suspicions from himself - but Roman did not think so. Perhaps, in the end, he was just a gullible idiot - but this time he was ready to trust Ainz, - “And yet, in understanding who he really is, we have not progressed in any way.”

“Although,” after that, finally, Roman felt like he reached the desired topic, “Perhaps Da Vinci and I managed to find something about Ainz...”

Serenity did not change the expression in her face - however, Romani noticed how her gaze became focused on him.

“You know, not so long ago Ainz was in the library,” Romani nodded, “After which Medusa managed to read one of Ainz’s books...”

“So what?” Serenity tilted her head slightly. It was a minor reaction - however, Serenity usually refrained from showing any reaction, so Romani could congratulated himself on the fact that he had a subject that interested the girl, - “And what did she find out?”

“Not so much,” Romani sighed. “However, it was a book about deization.”

“Oh, deization is…”- Romani immediately tried to explain to girl.

“The process of becoming a god,” Serenity nodded, after which she looked expectantly at Roman. “Do you think he is trying to become a god?”

“No, no,” Roman shook his head, “We don’t have much evidence of this, but Da Vinci believes that he is already a Divine Spirit... Or something like that.”

“That's how it is,” Serenity looked at the man, “And why, then, does he need a book about deization? Especially now?”

This was the first time that Serenity had asked two questions in a row in all the conversation - so Romani could say that she really was interested in the answer, - “Oh, this is the most interesting part. Da Vinci thought about this before, but there is one more point that interested her - and me a little later.”

“Do you know about data crystals?” Romani asked a somewhat non-sequitur question and receiving an affirmative nod from Serenity, continued, “Da Vinci tried to create a data crystal with her own hands - and although I and she were ready to call it a success - in the end both Cainabel and Ainz confirmed that she, in fact, did not succeed. Although from the point of view of Da Vinci herself, she followed the required steps perfectly - the result in the end was similar to a data crystal, but not exactly the same.”

“Medusa, in turn, spoke about what she read in the book,” Roman grimaced at the reminder. He didn’t catch much from the words spoken then, unlike Da Vinci, - “And then Da Vinci locked herself in her laboratory for a day. Honestly, Medusa did not give any rules or equations and did not show any graphs, but Da Vinci still tried to recreate... Some of those steps.”

“Honestly, she sometimes scares me,” after these words Serenity tried to imagine a frightening Da Vinci, however, even in her imagination, Da Vinci only raised her arms bombastically, saying “This is natural for a natural-born genius like me!”

“I can't imagine it,” Serenity expressed her thoughts.

“Oh, don't underestimate Da Vinci,” Roman sighed. “She... She knows how to be dangerous when it is necessary.”

“But in any case,” Romani interrupted the thought, “Da Vinci tried to deduce something from Medusa’s story, and she even got a certain formula written down. But still - it was an unfinished formula, even for a genius if she didn’t have enough basic facts to draw up a complete picture she could not come to the right conclusion.”

“However,” Romani continued the thought, “Before he entered Singularity, Ainz gave Da Vinci the opportunity to look at the Grail... The pseudo-Grail ... It doesn’t matter. And she found several similarities between the data crystals and from the Grail…”

“Dr. Roman,” Serenity interrupted the man’s tirade, looking at him carefully, “I don’t understand where you are going with this conversation and how it relates to Master.”

“Ah, um, I'm sorry,” Roman sighed, trying to hide his gaze from Serenity, “I digress... So, what I'm talking about is that what if... These things are connected?”

“Which ones?” Serenity looked at Roman carefully.

“All of it,” the man answered shortly, “It's just that it’s so strange... All these Singularities - we still can’t thoroughly answer why they arose, but we can more or less determine that they are connected with these pseudo- Grails. We can also determine that these pseudo-Grails are associated with data crystals. And the book that Ainz read... I can’t vouch for her, but Da Vinci said that what was described in the book could also be related to this.”

“What comes of this?” Serenity looked at the man, waiting for him to summarize his story.

“What I'm saying is that Ainz is trying to find some information about why these Singularities arose,” Roman sighed, “No, even, rather, he knows something about the reason for their occurrence and their connection with the pseudo-Grails... And with what was written in the book?”

“Do you think that someone created the Singularities in order to undergo deization?” Serenity looked at Roman, asking the most logical question.

“In a sense,” Roman sighed and finished his thought, “And apparently Ainz knows something about this. And he gave us information about this through Medusa.”

“Really?” For the first time, Serenity looked really surprised at Roman's words.

“Well, you are not thinking that Ainz by chance entered the library, the only place where you can find Medusa, the only person who may be interested in which book he reads and the only one who can remember this information and deems it necessary to tell someone about it,” Roman smiled, “After which, quite by accident, for some reason decided to open a random book on a random page that accidentally described information that correlated with what is currently a mystery to us now, after which he accidentally helped Da Vinci pointed out a completely random resemblance, and quite by accident gave her a completely coincidentally similar object that accidentally helped solve an equation for a process that Da Vinci deduced quite by accident…”

Somewhere far in the Singularity, Ainz sneezed.

“I understand what you're leading to,” Serenity smiled. Did Ainz really by accident, by the simple chance that it would lead into a series of unbelievable consequences that he did not foresee? - “This is absolutely impossible.”

Ainz sneezed again.

“Here I am talking about the same thing,” Romani smiled, and then returned to his usual expression, “In general... Da Vinci and I believe that Ainz specifically gave us some kind of clue about what is happening in the Singularities. And that he obviously knows something about it.”

“So how?” Serenity thought, “But in that case... Why not say it openly?”

Romani frowned. “I would also like to know about this. But the chain of random coincidences is too large to still be considered to be just a “chain of random coincidences”. No one can create such a sequence of factors coinciding together to turn a group of random events into such a coherent theory.”

Ainz sneezed again, after which he thought for a second about whether a Servant or even the undead could catch a cold.

“I thought about it,” Romani sighed, “And I came to the conclusion... What if he himself wants us to come to this answer?”

“So that’s how?” Serenity looked at Romani with a question.

“Yes,” Roman nodded. “I know that it may sound strange, but what if Ainz wants to give us a task that we must solve for ourselves?”

“You think that he acts as a teacher?” Serenity looked at Roman.

“I have no other ideas,” Roman shrugged. However, another fact appeared in his mind, - “However... Do you know that Ainz spoke of a Third World War?”

“Third World War?” Serenity looked at Roman. The Third World War has so far remained one of the most famous ideas of the so-called “doomsday” prediction, an idea extremely popular in popular culture and, unfortunately, in the minds of many analysts.

“Yes,” Roman nodded. He didn’t hear the conversation with Ainz, only from Olga-Marie’s retelling - but nevertheless this fact was enough for him - “And I thought... What if all this is interconnected. The summoning of Ainz, the Third World War, his clues - all this is connected with each other?”

Serenity was silent for a second.

The chain of random coincidences was so great that it could hardly be called “random” even in the mind. The theory sounded so harmonious that it was more like the truth than a theory.

Ainz, an unknown creature that knows about a possible Third World War, has unknown but enormous powers, has been engaged in unimaginable things for so long that any person could just use the word “forever”, on a scale beyond imagination, tried to help people with the resolution of their crisis, the destruction of mankind, at the same time giving them a hint about how they themselves could come to a solution to the issue that has arisen... So as to prevent the destruction of the world in the future, in the flame of the Third World War.

The theory was so harmonious that Serenity thought for a second how she might not have noticed all this before.

“So you think Ainz came here to help humanity?” Serenity smiled.

“Well, he already helps it with dealing with the Singularities,” Roman shrugged, “So it's not so hard to imagine that he wants to help us with anything else...”

Serenity was silent for a few seconds.

And so she, all this time, was thinking that Ainz found her so useless that he left her in Chaldea. While he himself fought for the sake of humanity. Even more - at the forefront of the conflict - even when he was not here, he still managed to help humanity as a whole with only a couple of “accidents”, in which only the blind could not discern a subtle plan...

Somewhere far away, Ainz sneezed loudly, after which he blinked a couple of times, thinking about the possibility of an allergy for a Servant.

“He's really a wonderful person,” Serenity smiled with a kind, warm smile.

“Well, apparently - yes,” Roman shrugged.

“Roman, fuck you, Akkiman,” came the voice of the speakers. Apparently, the chief said this - however, instead of the usual hatred, the voice from the speakers sounded rather tired - “If you don’t go up to the central point of contact right now and make this damn device, which, by your assurances, should start working in this Singularity, work, then I'll throw you into the core of Chaldea. Or even worse, I'll throw out your damn collection of idol discs.”

“Not my idols!” Romani sighed in horror, jumping from his seat, after which he looked at Serenity with an apology in his eyes, “I apologize, but apparently, Chief really needs me.”

“Yes, I already understood that,” Serenity sighed, and then looked at Roman, “But still... Thank you.”

“Not at all,” Roman shrugged and turned away. “I'm still the chief psychologist of Chaldea... For the lack of other candidates.”

After that, Romani made a small smile.

In the end, he could still do a little good thing. And that in itself was wonderful. Why else would Romani live?

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Name: Hassan of Serenity (Serenity)

Race: Human

Title: Poisonous Flower of Serenity

Occupation: Ainz’s Servant \ Ainz's Official Wife (self-nominated)

Residence: Chaldea, Serenity Room in the residential wing

Karma: -100 (Neutral-Evil)

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Okay, so the new (additional) chapters will be written in this format in this format. Without Ainz per se, concentrating on Servants and other characters, once every 2 weeks. I hope you are satisfied - nevertheless, you voted for this option.