Everyone: "..."
Well, talk about a bombshell right off the bat!
[Met the village girl Jeanne on the road, signed a Master-Servant contract. Relying on the power of Revelation, we traveled the next day to find Siegfried.]
[As long as we can find Siegfried, everything will be fine!]
***
[Found him. But Siegfried wasn't fine, and consequently, neither was I.]
[Eroded by a terrifying curse, Siegfried was on the verge of fading away. However, he pointed out my unique trait—the ability to safely harbor a Servant's power.]
[It's fundamentally different from Mash's Demi-Servant physiology, and different from being a Pseudo-Servant vessel. It's more like... a form of borrowing their power?]
[The advantage is that I can utilize the Servant's full power, and after the borrowing period ends, I can permanently retain a portion of their abilities, just like I did with Cu Chulainn's power.]
[The downside is that I inherit whatever status effects the Servant is currently suffering from. Plus, the more injured the Servant is, the shorter the time limit I have to use their power.]
[Siegfried lent his power to me, along with the terrifying curse ravaging his body...]
[—Trust me, absolutely no normal person would ever want to experience that feeling a second time.]
***
"Ah, so that's how it works!"
A middle-aged man with short hair stroked his chin, nodding with a look of profound realization.
"Wait, you actually understand his condition?"
Seeing his confident expression, a coworker standing next to him couldn't help but ask.
"Of course not! How could I possibly know? This is completely outside the realm of established Magecraft!"
The short-haired man threw his hands up, instantly delivering a rapid-fire triple denial.
His coworker: "..."
Then what the hell was with that "I get it now" expression?!
In truth, the only partially successful Demi-Servant they had ever seen was Mash, and she was the result of the previous Director's highly unethical, inhumane experiments. As for Pseudo-Servants—or more accurately, Divine Spirit possession—that was a concept they only knew existed in theory. None of them had ever witnessed it firsthand.
So it went without saying that Takumi's inexplicable physiology was completely beyond their comprehension. They could rack their brains all day and still have no idea how such a bizarre constitution came to be.
[We won. Not only did I gain a portion of Siegfried's power, but I also acquired fragments of Jeanne and Jeanne Alter's power...]
[But... I'm so weak. Why am I still so incredibly weak?]
[If this is all I amount to, I don't wanna live anymore...]
In reality, having survived the First Singularity, Takumi had already reached a level where no one in the entirety of Chaldea—save for those possessing Servant powers—could even act as his sparring partner.
Da Vinci continued reading downward in silence.
Although the entries detailing who faded away and his final, self-deprecating thoughts were written rather plainly, one could clearly read between the lines and feel the sheer frustration and powerlessness weighing heavily on the boy's heart.
It seemed this youth's emotional attachment to the Servants he met in the Singularities was far deeper than she had initially imagined.
Below that.
Aside from the classic blank spaces heavily censored by Runes, there was a pencil sketch. It was a drawing of the back of a young girl holding a flag. It looked like it had been added to the page much later.
"This drawing... it has to be Jeanne d'Arc, right?" someone guessed.
A female figure wielding a battle standard—the only person mentioned in the diary who matched that description was Jeanne.
[Second Singularity Intelligence]
[Lev will likely appear in this Singularity as well. He summoned Romulus to create a "New Rome" in order to destroy and distort the era that should have been ruled by Nero.]
[I don't know if Romulus will hold back—he probably will, right? If he fights seriously, who could actually beat him...]
[Allies: ... (Omitted) ...]
[Enemies: ... (Omitted) ...]
[No overarching plan. Just find Nero, protect her well, and follow her lead.]