In the end, the matter still reached Kal'tsit. The entire incident ultimately concluded with Warfarin being hung from the deck alone as punishnt.
After all, a group of people in white lab coats carrying soone while running across Rhodes Island was simply too eye-catching. Quite a few people had even started worrying whether another major incident had occurred.
Of course, those people were only a minority. After all, all sorts of strange things happened on Rhodes Island every day. A group of doctors carrying soone while running around was honestly nothing remarkable.
"I already dealt with that situation. In the future, stop indulging them. Otherwise, next ti they will carry you away while you are asleep."
Inside the office, Kal'tsit spoke while sipping hot coffee.
On the other side of the desk sat Shirou along with the four mbers of Penguin Logistics.
Compared to Shirou's relatively calm expression, the four mbers of Penguin Logistics looked visibly uneasy.
They seed sowhat afraid of Kal'tsit, resembling children reacting to the sight of a doctor.
"I was not indulging them. By the ti I realized what was happening, I was already being carried away..."
Hearing Kal'tsit's words, Shirou quietly muttered a complaint.
Imdiately afterward, he received a silent stare from Kal'tsit, causing his voice to grow softer and softer until it vanished entirely.
"Ahem... next ti I will definitely run."
Feeling her gaze upon him, Shirou coughed awkwardly before speaking.
"That is exactly what indulging them ans. You are making them think everyone else is easy to talk to as well."
After staring at Shirou for quite a while, Kal'tsit finally let out a sigh.
They were already a group of troubleso people to begin with, and now there was one more person spoiling those troubleso individuals, doubling the severity of her headaches.
The worst part was that the person in question did not even realize it himself, which made the situation even more troubleso.
"Understood."
Shirou imdiately straightened his posture and repeatedly nodded to show that he understood what Kal'tsit ant.
"I hope so. In any case, I will block them for you over the next few days. After the operation is over, you can handle things however you want. They do know their limits, so it will not beco excessively outrageous."
Kal'tsit remained skeptical regarding Shirou's claim that he understood.
Still, this was about all she could do. After all, Shirou himself seed to genuinely enjoy the situation.
It was not that Shirou enjoyed being researched or carried around everywhere. Rather, he genuinely enjoyed the idea that his blood could help other people.
Warfarin had ntioned this point earlier.
At the mont, it was not causing any major problems, but based on the psychological evaluation conducted on Shirou previously, this aspect of his personality was indeed sowhat severe.
Here on Rhodes Island, there was still her and several other people with proper moral boundaries keeping watch over things.
But if Shirou behaved this way elsewhere, then the situation could beco very dangerous.
Though she herself was not exactly a good person either. After all, morality alone could not solve the crises plaguing this land.
Still, since Shirou himself had already made corresponding promises, then at the very least, she would do everything within her power to properly handle matters on this front as well.
"Definitely, I will definitely prioritize this operation first. Do not worry!"
After hearing Kal'tsit's words, Shirou nodded and responded.
He simply assud that Kal'tsit placed great importance on this operation and did not want him making mistakes over small matters like these.
"...Fine. Let us leave this matter here for now. Handle the rest yourself later. I did not call all of you here just to discuss this."
Feeling that successfully convincing Shirou would require an enormous amount of ti and effort, Kal'tsit decisively chose to skip the topic altogether.
Just as she said, the original reason for summoning Shirou and the Penguin Logistics group was not to discuss such matters.
Kal'tsit stood up and walked over to a nearby cabinet, taking out a briefcase. She then placed it in front of Shirou and the others before opening it.
Inside were five black rings.
"What are these?"
Shirou felt as though he had seen them sowhere before, but he could not rember where.
"Infection monitoring devices. Every Rhodes Island operator wears one regardless of whether they are infected with Oripathy or not. They can effectively monitor the wearer's physical condition."
As she explained, Kal'tsit picked up one of the infection monitoring devices and activated it.
A cyan-blue light briefly flashed from the device, causing Shirou to finally rember where he had seen them before.
Many Rhodes Island operators wore these devices around their necks, wrists, or legs.
He had originally assud they were simply part of Rhodes Island's fashion style. He never expected them to actually be infection monitoring devices.
From the way Kal'tsit described them, they sounded extrely practical... at least for people like Penguin Logistics.
Simply being able to monitor the Originium condition inside one's body in real ti was already more than enough value.
After all, Penguin Logistics frequently transported cargo related to Originium, and they occasionally encountered attacks involving Originium Arts as well.
If there were any abnormalities in their bodily data, treatnt could begin imdiately to prevent the worst possible outco.
"These four are for all of you. And this one is for Shirou."
After briefly explaining the function of the infection monitoring devices, Kal'tsit took out one that looked slightly more specialized before pushing the briefcase toward the four mbers of Penguin Logistics.
"What is different about it?"
Seeing that Shirou's device looked sowhat special, the four mbers of Penguin Logistics imdiately ignored the devices in front of them and questioned Kal'tsit instead.
Part of it was simple curiosity. The other part was concern that Shirou might have so unique physical condition, which was why he had been given a different model.
"This version was adjusted specifically for Shirou's unique condition. You should already know about that condition from what he told you before. Although the data differences are not especially large, there are still so subtle distinctions. This modified monitoring device can better reflect Shirou's physical condition and provide us with more accurate information."
Without trying to keep it mysterious, Kal'tsit simply explained the purpose of the specially customized infection monitoring device in her hand.
Overall, everything she said was true. This particular model had been designed specifically for Shirou alone.
What Kal'tsit did not ntion, however, was that this device could monitor the degree of cellular fusion between Shirou's body and Originium in real ti.
Shirou's physical condition was sowhat complicated. Originium could not directly infect his body, but if magecraft, or rather magical energy, was used as a dium, then Shirou could still beco infected.
The symptoms of his infection differed from ordinary infected individuals. Instead, they manifested in the form of red patterns, and they would gradually disappear over ti.
Rather than calling it Oripathy infection, it was more accurate to say that the magical energy within Shirou's body had beco contaminated.
All of these conclusions were results Kal'tsit had personally analyzed from the previous research reports. At present, she was the only one who knew about them.
The adjustnt process itself had not been difficult. It was mainly based on the infection monitoring device previously designed for Naless.
Although it could not monitor the so-called magical energy directly, whenever the red patterns appeared, Shirou's physical data would also undergo noticeable changes. Those changes could be used as baseline values for judgnt.
This was also the primary reason why Shirou's dical examination reports differed sowhat from everyone else's.
At present, aside from Kal'tsit herself, nobody else knew about these matters.
There were simply too many things involved, and Shirou's identity as soone from another world was also extrely unique. The fewer people who knew, the better.
"Ooh, that sounds amazing! Shirou really needs sothing like this!"
After hearing Kal'tsit's explanation, Exusiai let out an impressed exclamation.
"It really does suit Shirou perfectly!"
Nearby, Croissant crossed her arms and nodded with a serious expression.
"Mm."
Texas did not say much, but from the way she nodded, it was obvious that she agreed as well.
Shirou: "?"
Why had everyone suddenly beco so enthusiastic?
And what did they an by saying he really needed this thing?
Why was everyone unusually united at a ti like this?
At least Sora was better. She had not joined in with the others.
"Shirou, where are you going to wear it? Left hand? Right hand? Or around your ankle?"
Just as Shirou was thinking that, Sora had already taken the infection monitoring device from Kal'tsit's hand and was looking eager to try it on him herself.
"...I will put it on myself."
Seeing her expression, Shirou silently abandoned the thoughts in his mind and directly took the infection monitoring device from Sora's hands.
Under Kal'tsit's gaze as she calmly sipped her coffee, together with the attentive stares of the four Penguin Logistics mbers, the problem Shirou was currently pondering was...
Where should he wear it?
Around his neck? On his wrist? Around his ankle?
The first option could be eliminated imdiately. With this size, wearing it around his neck might actually strangle him.
As for the ankle... it still seed slightly too small there, which ant the wrist was probably the best option.
"Can this thing be removed whenever I want?"
To be safe, Shirou asked first.
If it could not be removed freely, then where he wore it would beco extrely important.
This thing was ultimately an external object. If worn in a poor position, it could interfere with combat.
"It can, but it is not recomnded. Otherwise, the monitoring results will beco inaccurate."
The mont she heard Shirou's question, Kal'tsit imdiately understood what he was thinking.
"Alright then... left hand it is."
After hearing that switching positions was not recomnded, Shirou decided to wear the infection monitoring device on his left hand.
The main reason was naturally because it was his non-dominant hand. Secondly, he simply felt that wearing sothing on his left hand might feel more appropriate sohow.
He did not know the reason himself, but things like this were usually fine as long as he followed his instincts.
"The left hand, huh? Then I will wear mine on the left hand too."
After seeing Shirou place the infection monitoring device onto his left wrist and activate it, the others imdiately followed suit and also wore theirs on their left hands.
Because this was Penguin Logistics. Everything had to match neatly together.
"It is going to take so ti getting used to this."
Shirou did not think too much about everyone else wearing theirs on the left hand as well. Right now, he simply found the foreign sensation on his wrist rather noticeable.
He probably needed so ti to adapt, though one or two days should be enough.
"It definitely has a bit of weight to it."
Compared to Shirou, the others seed even less accustod to the extra object on their wrists, especially Texas.
Still, just as Shirou had said, they would get used to it after so ti.
Compared to a slight difference in feeling, being able to monitor their physical conditions at all tis was far more important.
"Now that you have decided, sit down. Once I finish teaching you how to use them, I still have work to do."
Seeing how curious everyone was about the devices, Kal'tsit gestured for them to sit down.
What Kal'tsit taught them was fairly simple. She rely explained how to connect the devices to their terminals so they could monitor a few important data readings.
As for more detailed examinations, those would have to be conducted aboard Rhodes Island's landship itself, so there was no need to explain that part to them in detail.
Everything was quite straightforward. The mbers of Penguin Logistics understood it almost imdiately, and Kal'tsit promptly sent them outside afterward.
She still needed to explain the hidden functions of Shirou's device to him.
"Your device is sowhat special. These are so theories I have co up with myself, so take a look when you have ti. I also installed a special function into your device. Specifically, the device will gradually turn red as your infection level rises."
Once only Kal'tsit and Shirou remained in the office, Kal'tsit imdiately got to the main topic.
"Turn red?"
Hearing that, Shirou first looked confused before his expression turned sowhat subtle.
After all, hearing about things on his body turning red reminded him of a certain red individual.
Still, red was a warning color by nature, so there was nothing strange about that.
"Yes. It will gradually shift from cyan-blue to red according to the level of infection. That was originally part of the design, but it created too many problems, which is why the current versions no longer use it."
"Under normal circumstances, your body will not beco infected. However, if magical energy is used as a dium, Originium residue will still remain behind. Therefore, the primary purpose of this device is to monitor how much Originium residue exists inside your body."
"Ten percent. That is the safety threshold I have established for you. Once you exceed that limit, you will beco infected as well, and it will not be the kind that naturally recovers over ti. This conclusion is based on the condition of Operator Naless, so you absolutely must not exceed this percentage. Ideally, you should remain below five percent."
As she spoke, Kal'tsit picked up the monitoring terminal ant for Shirou and opened a rather hidden window, causing a string of data to appear on the screen.
Although Shirou could not fully understand the information displayed, he could at least recognize the "1%" shown on it.
In simple terms, it was a very useful device. However, regarding that so-called safety threshold... he felt that Doctor Kal'tsit had definitely reported a lower number than the true limit.
As for what the actual limit was, he had no idea.
"Has anyone ever told you that your facial expressions are very easy to read?"
While Shirou was still thinking about the actual limit, Kal'tsit tapped the desk in front of her and stared at him with an unfriendly look.
"Are you currently thinking that I intentionally gave you a lower number? I can responsibly tell you that your thought process is correct. Ten percent is not the absolute limit. It is a safety threshold. You do understand the aning of the words 'safety threshold,' correct?"
"All data is recorded and preserved. If I discover your readings have exceeded seven percent, then you can go hang beside Warfarin for a few days as well."
Kal'tsit spoke to Shirou with a completely serious expression.
Shirou: "..."
Was he really that kind of person?
Yes. Yes, he was.
"Understood. I will keep it in mind."
With an awkward yet still polite smile, Shirou accepted Kal'tsit's warning.
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