Chapter 107

                                    

                                          

Ainz shook his head and took a slow shuddering breath, with a slow surety he dispelled the nostalgia that had consumed him. It was like surfacing from a deep slumber, Ainz is slowly becoming aware of his surroundings again.
Hmm, he was still in Leo's workshop...
Ainz looked around him to look for the Servant he had shared food with, but Arthuria was no longer around. Apparently, she has already managed to shake herself from her memories and go about her business...
Ainz shook his head and looked at the empty workshop around him.
Da Vinci's workshop... A place where, it would seem, there was everything except for Da Vinci herself.
Although - Ainz thought about it for a second - indeed, if he were to think logically, then Leo was probably looking for him all over Chaldea right now... Considering that Ainz did his best to avoid her, Da Vinci would not have thinked to look for him in her own workshop.
Ironically, the best place to hide from Da Vinci was inside her abode.
Ainz sighed and shook his head.
It would be even more ironic now for him, in that case, to go in search of Da Vinci in Chaldea only to find that he himself could not find her...
Ainz ended up thinking about his future plan of action. Should he go look for Da Vinci, even though it is more likely than not that he would just be lost instead of finding her? Or was it simply better and easier to just wait here? Or maybe ask Olga to call Da Vinci...
Ainz imagined how that conversation with Olga would go for a second and shook his head.
Okay, that last option is clearly not viable. In that case... Well, speak of the Devil...
"What an extraordinary bad luck", - Leo's voice full of some real childish resentment, could be heard behind the door to the corridor. - "How could he?! I tried so hard, and he..."
A second later, the door that leads into Da Vinci's workshop opened slowly. After which the owner of the workshop herself appeared on the threshold of the room.
Leo's gaze immediately rested on Ainz, who blinked, surprised, in response and slowly raised his hand in greeting.
"Oh my! My mood just suddenly improved at a rapid pace!" Da Vinci, who a moment ago looked like a kid who just missed the ice cream truck, instantly cheered up as soon as she saw Ainz. She was all smiles as she approached her target. "Ainz, what a fortuitous meeting!"
"Yes, indeed... how fortuitous." Ainz exhaled, "So... I assume you wanted to ask me some questions?"
"Absolutely, yes." Leo immediately nodded vigorously. She then started moving closer to where Ainz was sitting, as if to box him away from the door. Satisfied, Da Vinci then carefully analyzed the seating Necromancer, as if fearing that he was about to disappear, - "I admit... I even started to think that you were avoiding me..."
"What?" Ainz instantly feigned surprise, and judging by the way Da Vinci calmed down, was successful in his deception. "No, no, perish the thought! It was simply happenstance that made us miss each other!"
Unlike the two Servants he just met before, Ainz has perfected his ability to convincingly lie even to the most perceptive of Servants. So, Da Vinci, even if she could find something suspicious about Ainz's excuse, she could not trace a drop of lies in Ainz's answer.
"Hmm, it seems so, apparently", - Da Vinci smiled, - "Those are some coincidences..."
"Definitely," Ainz smiled back.