Grand Foreigner (Chapters 1- 200)

Chapter 7

The four who had gathered at the table probably should have plunged into a discussion of the problem that had fallen to their lot. But instead they only continued to sit silently, periodically exchanging glances with each other.

The click of a flip-off lighter cap brought Mashu out of a strange trance, forcing her to turn to the source of the sound. It turned out to be Animusphere, lighting a cigarette.

"You smoke?" Mashu asked. However in spite of the question asked, there was no interest in either of her tone or gaze.

"Hm?" Only after having made a couple of puffs in silence, did Animusphere realized that she was asked a question. She turned her gaze to Kyrielight, then shrugged. "Yes... I tried to stop... But it seems to have been in vain, huh..."

Her voice sounded hoarse, as if she was tormented by thirst. But other than that, Mashu did not see any other consequences from the resurrection used on the Chief.

Resurrection, ha...

"So..." Da Vinci tried to start speaking. But like several times before, only beginning her narration with an introductory word, she stopped as if unable to determine the topic of conversation, after which she became silent.

Dr. Roman continued to look at the table thoughtfully, watching the ashtray slowly fill up with cigarette butts produced by Animusphere. As Mashu noticed the ashtray was already half filled and yet she herself had not paid attention to this even when Animusphere, with the persistence of a smoking locomotive, continued to smoke one cigarette after another.

'I wonder, how long have we been sitting like this?' Noticing many cigarette butts lying in the ashtray , the girl thought.

"Resurrection means..." After several attempts to start a full-fledged dialogue, Da Vinci managed to gather her strength and utter a complete sentence "Hmm... Are you sure that Lev did not lie?"

"I don't know" Almost in melancholy, taking another puff Animusphere shrugged. "No idea. And it's all the same to me, to be honest."

Such a load from knowledge turned out to be excessive for a girl - even Mashu herself did not fully understand how she was still conscious. First, the explosion, then the death of her friends, colleagues and subordinates, the battles in the Singularity and then the man who was like her father tried to kill her - not just kill but to torture her with a fate worse than death - only to be killed by her subordinate and savior all at once, who turned out to be a powerful mage, if not a god, who ressurected her. Breaking all the known laws of magic in the universe after it turned out that she had already died long ago.

To be honest it was more surprising that Animusphere could still react to the world around her and not that she continued to smoke cigarettes after another, as if drilling one point in space with her gaze.

"Hm, the resurrection..." Da Vinci repeated again. She looked at all the people in the room, which is composed of their newly assembled company of four sitting together, planning to discuss the situation that had arisen with her senpai... With Momon... With Ainz Ooal Gown?...

"Technically if your body was destroyed but your soul managed to reyshift, then you did not actually die. It's just that your physical shell was destroyed." Da Vinci, thinking about the resurrection , tried to come to a logical explanation of what had happened. "Recreating the body and bringing the soul back into it ... I think it is possible."

Mashu understood why the Da Vinci was so desperately trying to rationalize what had happened.

Even gods and True Magics did not have the ability to resurrect the dead. Gods and Magicians who stood above Servants just as much as Servants stood above ordinary magi. The very thought of a being whose abilities allowed him to wield a power superior to the power of the gods was unthinkable.