Grand Foreigner (Chapters 1- 200)

Chapter 13

Roman once again looked at the panel, after which, taking note of one of the indicators, called his superior.

"Chief," Roman instantly whispered to the communicator, "The power consumption of the Main Core is above normal..."

"THEN FIX IT!" - instantly the communicator yelled back, forcing the guy to wince and crouch a little, as if waiting for a strike that didn't follow, - "Do I really need to tell you to do this? Why then, tell me please, do I even need you here?"

There were so many problems with this statement that Roman did not even know where to start. Was it worth it to mention that his field of expertise was medicine and now he was conducting the test of the Main Core solely because there was no one more qualified in the technical team, or should she remind her that she was the one who organized the Core's check up, or he should tell her about her declaration "I want to become a worthy chief for Chaldea", she should not have to shout at...

"You - did you die there or what?!" - interrupting the thought process of Romani, there was an angry voice of the chief from the speakers, - "Romani!"

'If I can only tell her something like,' Hey, chief, don't you think that Ainz would not like a girl who constantly swears at her subordinates?', then she would instantly stop yelling at me and the others' - such were the thoughts of Roman .

For a second, he even thought about putting them into execution — at least that way he could get some moral compensation for what was happening to him — but instead he only shook his head and exhaled.

"Well, chief," he said into the communicator, then rose from his seat and headed for the exit from the control cabin. Most likely, the increased energy consumption was due to the loss of power connections and its loss was most likely due to the fact that they could not repair all the cables damaged during the explosion.

Explosion, hmm...

The explosion happened a whole week ago, but its effects were still felt - and it was not only expressed in the empty Chaldea or the bodies of the other Masters that is kept in their cryocapsules - even if it was a terrible and disgusting thing, the human psyche is such that, it quickly forgets about what it does not interact with daily. No, Romani was thinking about other things, like the central transfer room, which was still covered with black soot to this day, and with the pieces of metal still stuck in its walls all around it. Or on what he's doing right now, checking the central core, only to discover, quite by chance, that somewhere, in Chaldea, there was a broken cable which they had not found before.

With a quiet click, the door opened, leading the doctor away from the control center, after which Romani took a step out of it and headed for the nearby staircase to descend to the Main Core. Unfortunately, a closer control center, located very close to it, was also closed from access - another reminder of the explosion.

Having gone down several flights down, Roman sighed again, and advanced to the door leading into the room, then took a step inside.

"If you think about it..." - he wondered - "Why am I doing this? We have the technicians to personally change the cables... "

"Although, maybe they are busy right now?" - he instantly tried to find an answer for his own self-posed question and shook his head - "What if they are?"

Perhaps if now, going down to the core, he would meet several drunken or bored technicians - he could justify to himself his anger, or rather even disappointment, but without proof of any... laziness- all he could do was shake his head.

"This is an unworthy behavior for a servant of the Lord, to condemn one, about the life of whom you know nothing..." - Roman shook his head. Although he had not been a servant of the Lord for years, old habits were indeed very difficult to forget.