Chapter 523


    <strong>Sky Dragon World Arc Avenst Tour End</strong>


    「That’s Aby-san nano! One of Myuu’s teacher nano!」


    It was Myuu who answered the voices of Roze and co that ought to be described as all-out tsukkomi.


    「Abyy, san?」


    「Yes, to be more urate he’s the abyss lord aka Kousuke E Abyssgate nano. He’s the earth’s hero and papa’s right-hand man nano!」


    「! Demon god-sama’s!? No wonder I can feel atmosphere that’s a bit of stran──defy epted norms from him!」


    「Oi, your majesty. If you have something you want to say to me then how I about I hear you out.」


    <em>Eh? Roze-san idolizes Nagumo, doesn’t she……? </em>Yuuka-chan thought while looking like she didn’t know what to say but, thinking really carefully she could sympathize with those words so she immediately became understanding.


    Hajime himself sent her a fixed stare because it seemed he hadpletely caught that series of expression change on her face. And so, she dodged the stare by making a show of picking out one of the vehicles lined up before them.And then, <em>Come to think of it, Shia looks really cool when she’s riding bike isn’t she……</em>she thought and her eyes stopped on a bike. She then tried getting on that sport type bike as a test.


    Still wearing the shrine maiden outfit with armpit exposed.


    The twin hills that obeyed gravity. Naturally, the cor was pulled and the exposed sides widened. Luscious thighs became exposed from the lifted up skirt……


    「Sonobe. You’re hindering the exnation so just stand still.」


    「Eh? I’m not making noise……」


    「You look pointlessly erotic riding on bike like that. The dragon kingdom’s males can’t focus.」


    「!!? I-I’m not erotic-」


    Yuuka reflexively objected even while blushing crimson and getting off the bike in hurry. She hurried too much that the bottom of her dress got caught and she tripped.


    She fell into a posture like she was doing dogeza. Of course, her butt that was pointed up high was only covered by underwear. Furthermore, it must be a piece that Great Teacher Taeko had selected with great care. It looked like loincloth.


    At least she fell right beside the bike so it wasn’t fully exposed, only the side but……


    In respond to that Yue and co reacted <em>Hohou? </em>in admiration.


    「……Sly-. As expected from Yuuka! Sly!」


    「That’s a bit improper!」


    「My my, everyone. Please don’t stare over there okay? ──If you’re a gentleman」


    Aiko and Remia quickly walked between the people of dragon kingdom and Yuuka.


    Remia’s smiling but not smiling atmosphere and troubled smile made the gentlemen of dragon kingdom averted their gazes all at once with sharp movement like trained soldiers. ???оΒ??


    「Yuuka-chi, it’s fine~」


    「……uu」


    「Look, you can change outfit freely in this space. Let’s change to other outfit that you like for now? Okay?」


    「……yes」


    Yuuka kept crouching down without moving from embarrassment. As expected her two best friends didn’t tease her and gave a helping hand──


    「How about this outfit that’s like the main character of Atelier R*za? I think it’ll make Yuuka’s lewd thighs shine the brightest! And riding a bike will make it even more──unngiih!?」


    Taeko-sensei’s passion had abandoned any prudence. It costed her an elbow to her side.


    Putting aside such exchange.


    「Aa~, getting back on topic, that guy just now isn’t the actual person. It’s a reproduction from this space’s function. Originally I asked his assistance with the training program and then I incorporated it into Avenst’s activity too.」


    「It’s a secret from the actual person nano!」


    Kousuke-kun still didn’t know anything. If he was here then the first thing he did would definitely be giving his all to prevent Abyssgate from being witnessed by many passengers in the future.


    「Reproduction by the space’s function? In other words, an artificial existence? Like video recording? Aa, that mysterious scene was also something like that……there were around a hundred of him was also just special effect then?」


    Roze was bewildered because she couldn’t even imagine the principle behind how virtual reality worked, but she somehow digested the information. But, as though the world itself wouldn’t allow it, additional information got wielded like a club that smacked her brain and mind.


    「It wasn’t special effect nano! Aby can normally multiply nano!」


    「He can multiply!? That’s not normal you know!?」


    「He can split!」


    「Split!?」


    「The split Aby can also split until there’re ten thousand of him nano!」


    「That’s absolutely not a human anymore!」


    「What’s more, they can revive no matter how many times you erase them! Congrattions! It’s a healthy Abyssgate-chan! The sight of them self-congratting like that is really funny!」


    「That’s not funny-. That’s absolutely-, “something” wearing human skin–」


    Aby-san received designation as inhuman even here. Coincidentally around this time he was meeting an agent of USA at earth and greeted with dread 「You’re the shikigami of that princess of Fujiwara……」.


    Of course, Kousuke-kun was sad. 「I’m, human……」 he said. At the same time, he felt extremely dubious, why was he being perceived as something inhuman, why he wasn’t recognized as a “returnee” but “the shikigami of the strongest Onmyouji──Fujiwara Hinata” instead. He turned a suspecting gaze at Hinata-chan beside him.


    It went without saying that Hinata-chan wordlessly averted her face.


    「By the way, his behavior was chuuni because of the abyss lord mode nano. It made him constantly in high tension andughing FUHAHAH while pointlessly putting on sunsses and pushing it up over and over, and pointlessly turning with pointless sharp movement nano! Or rather ny percent of his conduct is pointless nano!」


    「What’s that scary……」


    「Then, his heart break when he return to his senses nano.」


    「He’s too emotionally unstable-. Too scary-」


    Roze-sama’s tsukkomis were executed precisely. Her eyes were saying, <em>Why did such person appear suddenly……what was he going to do to us……? </em>She looked uneasy.


    「Really sorry. It must be hard to suddenly see that. In various senses.」


    Hajime scratched his head guiltily. Ryuutarou, Atsushi, and Noboru covered their face with their hands.


    「Endoo……you’re getting badmouthed horribly in various senses here……」


    「I feel like crying just from listening.」


    「I’m going to bring back a lot of souvenirs for Endou……」


    They said such things while thinking of their friend. 「Thanks, you guys……」 The image of Kousuke giving a thumb up while saying that with a smile that was oozing out sadness formed at the empty sky……


    Putting that aside.


    「Please allow me to exin about this space first. This is a facility for experiencing full-dive VR.」


    G10 started giving exnation about the basic premise in order to settle down the mini chaos.


    「VR──virtual reality, it’s referring to technology that originally can allow one to experience virtual environment or situation that was made inputer like it’s reality.」


    「……I-I see? Hm, but……originally?」


    「If I have to exin it in a concise manner, this is a space that reproduce VR system using captain’s absurd magic technology……yes, it’ll help if you think of it like seeing a “dream” that feels extremely real.」


    「I see. If it’s a dream then it won’t be strange no matter what happened there. Don’t think, feel! It’s something like that isn’t it!」


    Roze’s understanding was quick. She praised good job to G10 for the very easy to understand exnation. <em>We get it now!</em> Bovid and others were also nodding with easy smile.


    Yes, them getting instantly teleported to a race track like this with its fancy castle, huge mushroom, and overflowing nature with super-deform style like this, all these things were easy to understand if they just thought of it as a “dream” that the demon god was showing to them. Such exnation also had dream in it.


    Hajime-san looked a bit vexed by G10’s superb exnation. He looked like he wanted to give additional exnation sooo much.


    「……Hajime. I forgot a bit about the specific detail of this space. Can you tell me secretly?」


    「!」


    Yue-sama was a lovely first wife too today. Her loving gaze told about her hidden consideration to Hajime more eloquently than any words.


    Hajime blinked. A beatter, he cleared his throat a bit happily. Then he started his lengthy exnation.


    「Is that so, it can’t be helped then. Got it. I’ll exin. ……Cough. This ce’s basic system is the same with the RPG that Yue and Kaori experienced and Myuu’s training program. The basic is soul magic for a kind of out-of-body experience, and reproduction of space, environment, and people using regeneration magic. But, in the end they are just reproduction. There need to be the data in reality. It was hard at the beginning. I asked Tou-san for data to be the game’s foundation, I put program together by myself and adjusting it……」


    He talked in high spirit. He looked like he was enjoying it so much. But he had no intention of taking away G10’s exining role so he whispered into Yue’s ear with small voice so to not stand out.


    Perhaps his breath felt ticklish on the ear. Yue was blushing and fidgeting even while nodding <em>Yep yep</em>. Sometimes she was even twitching.


    <em>Flirting at the open like this……</em>gazes that were saying that came from who knew where toward the two.


    Also, the exnation right now was mostly the same with the exnation at the machine world. The first wife move that gave consideration to the husband made Shia and co went 「As expected……」 while looking half-impressed and half-wry. They all looked at each other and chuckled. Then they approached closer in order to listen closely to the husband’s talk too.


    「Then, let me give a little presentation of what kind of dream you can watch here.」


    G10 said that and her mono eye shined. Several floating disys appeared in the air right away. Introduction videos that looked like game or moviemercial started ying.


    Shia and Kaori were hugging Hajime from behind, Shizuku and Aiko on his right arm, Myuu and Liliana at his front, and even Tio and Remia were behind Yue hugging his left arm. They were all listening to Hajime’s exnation that they already heard before with cheerful smile. And most of all Hajime himself looked like he was having fun, so it seemed G10 thought to extend the time for a bit to wait for them to finish.


    As expected from the expert of mankind support. A mechanical intelligence of great capability.


    But, it seemed the next word from Roze and others who were watching the introduction movies with eyes full of curiosity was something that Hajime couldn’t possibly ignore.


    「Every one of them looked very well crafted……and also the many varieties that are avable……」


    『As expected from demon god-sama. His creativity is in different level……』


    「Wait right thereeeee!! That’s not my original!」


    A sharp statement. From the person in question. Tremendous seriousness was conveyed from his face and attitude. The pressure from him even felt a bit scary.


    Roze and co also jumped in surprise, wondering what happened to his good mood until just a moment ago.


    「Know this. All of those works are the crystallization of effort and talent of the godly creators from my world. They aren’t my work by all means!!」


    「I-is that so?」


    「That so. No matter how hard I worked I couldn’t create multiple fictional setting from zero on my own, and I also want to spread earth’s amazing work to other worlds too……」


    Demon god-sama was staring at the introduction videos ying in the air with a gaze of something like a worship. The jaws of Roze and co fell open in speechlessness.


    But, it couldn’t be helped even if Hajime became like that.


    Because, the stage they were in right now, and also the videos in the disys were showing characters and worlds that even Suzu or Nana and others who didn’t really like game knew very well.


    Yes, like the game where a certain Mamma mia main character making various parties, or the game where a certain bomber character went bombing, or a certain FPS game that Hajime got engrossed in his middle school era, or the zombie panic game where a certain bio disaster urred in the world, or a robot action game of famouspany where yers die frequently, or game where certain ace pilot go tobat. All of them were the most famous of famous works.


    There were also RPG games and love simtion games made by the gamepany of his father Shuu.


    It was a new system that Hajime put special effort in exining even in the machine world. Bybining sublimation magic’s information interference and machine world’s technology, it was possible to create activity by taking in the data of existing game or film.


    In other words, it was the realization of the dream that any gamer surely had dreamed of at least once. Entering inside the game they loved and admired and aimed to clear it together with the characters inside!


    But, that was exactly why.


    「To make it like these godly works are my own works, it’s unforgivable.」


    Apparently that was the only line he wouldn’t cross as a fellow creator.


    「Umm……captain. Isn’t that why you put the caption at the end of the videos stating just that?」


    「……ah」


    Yes, there was no way that skipped Hajime’s mind when making the introduction videos. Of course, the caption also properly introduced the work’s origin.


    Hajime averted his gaze with a bit of embarrassment. Nobody knew what to say.


    「Love. It’s love, everyone. Captain especially love these works and the people who created them. That’s why, I hope everyone can also enjoy these works in their original medium. There is a yroom for disying the games in the real world, so if anyone is interested please give that ce a visit by all means.」


    G10-san, nice follow-up.


    「Also, currently there are only twenty titles, but we expect to update this facility with various titles and genres from now on too. Theoretically there’s nothing impossible in this space, so in the future original works or works that take stage in each other world will surely be added too. Please look forward to it.」


    Honest sigh of admiration truly came out from some people this time after G10 finished exining about the VR facility in general.


    They could travel even to different world while inside this space. They could experience anything.


    It was truly the technology of dream.


    「It feels like, you don’t need anything more than this facility in this ship.」


    Roze unconsciously said that with a wry smile. Hajime shook his head to that.


    「Certainly, this space also has the effect of regting your physical condition, so it won’t harm your health no matter how much you use it. But, this VR facility, it’s provisionally named MEVR because it’s VR for magical entertainment but, I don’t n to increase its seating capacity anymore than this, and I’m also thinking to set a limit to its usage time.」


    「My……why is that……ah, no. I somehow understand why.」


    MEVR was a shocking system. It wouldn’t be an exaggeration to call its versatility as reaching the realm of all-purpose already.


    But, however. Try to imagine it. A huge luxury liner that was still as death inside with only BGM ying. A ship where all the passengers did nothing but sleeping.


    A trip where everyone only woke up for eating before going to sleep again.


    There was no problem with that. But, yes,


    「It’s not tasteful, right?」


    「Yes.」


    Roze nodded with a troubled face. It seemed that everyone also felt the same. Certainly anyone would like to touch, see, hear, and share reality with their important people for their memory of the trip.


    A virtual reality was in the end just one of the ways to have fun. To do everything in it……felt a bit wearisome.


    The one who exuded happiness the most to that reaction was G10. She was watching over them with a gentle gaze, as though to say that this was how human should be.


    She alluded to the answer of the first question with such gentleness still wrapped around her.


    「So, about him」


    「……Him?」


    『Him?』


    「Him……?」


    「I mean about Endou Kousuke aka Abyss Lord Abyssgate.」


    「「「「「?????」」」」」


    A lot of “?” floated up above Roze and others. They looked at each other and went <em>Who?</em> while tilting their head.


    『HALLOOOOOO!! NEWBIEEEEESSS!! I praise you all for daring to step into mine──』


    「「「「「A, ah!」」」」」


    “Him” was reyed just for a moment in order to joke everyone’s memory. Roze and co finally remembered in astonishment. Even though he should be the impetus of this talk, he had vanished from their memory before they realized it.


    「Yes, that’s a fragment of the abyss nano……」


    Myuu looked back over her shoulder and grinned even while clinging on papa. Her atmosphere was a bit like a storyteller of urban legend. Perhaps she was intentionally doing that.


    Roze and others gulped without even making any tsukkomi.


    Even though he was definitely there, or rather even though he should be nothing more than a program, they couldn’t even remember him unless he got actually shown. What an unnatural phenomenon……the abyss, how terrifying……!


    「Cough. About him just now, that was a part of the training program. It’s something like warmup before doing thebat simtion.」


    「Is it necessary to warmup even though it’s a dream world?」


    Commander Olga somehow pulled herself together even while looking a bit pale and asked with a confused tilt of her head. Certainly it was just as she said. Even the other royal guards who held particr interest tobat simtion were also looking dubious.


    「Olga-san, Olga-san. It’s warmup for the mind desu. For the mind, see?」


    「S-Shia-dono? What do you mean by that……」


    「My family……Hauria-n is involved with many of thebat simtions. About that, my family’s behavior is a bit chuuni should I say, they will affect your mind watching them……well, that’s why that is a warmup to gain resistance against that. Aby is my n’s next n head after all.」


    「Behavior that caused abnormality to the mind? ……As I thought that really isn’t a human then?」


    <em>Here ites! Brace for impact! Hold on to your sanity!!</em>


    <em>Yeah, even though I’m the one saying it just what is it I’m saying here? </em>Shia thought while quietly averting her gaze. At the same time, she was looking at the far distance, perhaps remembering her experience at the machine world. Even Aiko and Liliana got the same distant look in their eyes.


    「Going against Hauria, was actually that terrifying wasn’t it……」


    「Run away if you see rabbit ears in the sea of trees……. It’s already amon sense in Tortus but, I only felt it keenly from that yesterday……」


    They recalled the experience of gueri battle ~Mode Hauria~ in the sea of trees and shivered.


    The madughing voices echoing from all directions inside the sea of trees……


    nts dyed with blood that made them thought whether there had been cult ritual being held there, great number of monsters dying in gruesome ways.


    Tons of heinous traps, flood of words and actions that couldn’t beprehended……


    <em>Aah, at the tree’s shadow! Just now the tree’s shadow-.</em>


    <em>Deep inside the sea of trees where you don’t even know which direction is which, everything is driving your mind to the wall!</em>


    <em>Together with chuuni behaviors!</em>


    「The ghost town stage was also amazing……Shizuku-chan screaming NO NO while shaking like chihuahua was a bit cute though.」


    「She clung tightly on Goshujin-sama and wouldst not let go for a while. The way she forcefully plunged her face into his shirt……it was like a cat fawning on her owner.」


    「I- I couldn’t help it! The residents of the abandoned city were all Abyssgate you know!? They crept out from all nooks and corners like creepy crawly you know!? That, that-, that just made you remember! Of <em>that </em>in Great Dungeon Haltina!」


    The ck fuckers that fully covered the field of vision. Shizuku tried to maintain her sanity by thinking of them as ck sesame, but her mind had already gotten done in at that point. In other words, it seemed her trauma button got pushed.


    「Hey, Hajime. Why did you create that kind of terrifying program? Why didn’t you tell me about it beforehand? Hey, why?」


    Yesterday too the moment she returned to her senses, Shizukuined 「That was scary-」 whilerge drops of tears spilled out from her eyes. It went without saying that Hajime’s heart went *Kyun* the way sheined while gazing up at his face and clinging on his chest. To the degree that he lifted her in princess carry for around an hour during the tour after that.


    Hajime didn’t let her go even when she returned to her senses in the middle of that and asked to be let down. Sure enough Shziuku activated her ponytail guard in respond. The way she curled into herself to make herself as small as possible while staying quiet truly looked like a cat getting carried by her owner.


    Getting back on topic.


    「Myuu pestered me for it……but well, look, it’s nothing more than one of the training programs. Like a nightmare difficulty level.」


    「Fighting a lot of abyss lords is good training for fighting against many because of their amazing teamwork nano! It’s also easy to see how much stronger you have be based on how many you can face!」


    Apparently the cause was Myuu’s pestering. It was the original training program, so Hajime apparently decided that he might as well install it as an activity of Avenst too.


    「There’re also normal program for martial art training and fighting, and also training for guns and the like right?」


    「I guess. Kaori and I also helped with the sword training.」


    Incidentally, Hattori-san and Director Magdanese also helped with thebat simtion for gunfight indoor and outdoor. The special forces under the two’smands were reproduced in that simtion.


    The condition was the loan of MEVR artifact that was restricted only forbat simtion. Apparently they could have good training with that. They heard thatbat versus Aby was especially popr with the security bureau’s assault department.


    In any case,


    「But, strange……I should have properly put the entertainment program andbat program in different category……」


    「My apologies, captain. It’s my blunder with the checking.」


    「No, it’s impossible for you to do any blunder when ites to program. Or rather you double checked it together with me right? Then how did this get mixed in……」


    Hajime and G10 looked at each other.


    ──<em>FUHAHAHAH, for you to try putting the abyss into neat little box! That’spletely absurd my sworn friends!!</em>


    「「!!?」」


    Hajime and G10 jerked and looked around. For an instant there, it felt like they heard something. Of course, there wasn’t anybody. Yue and others also looked confused. They didn’t look they had heard anything. ……Apparently it was just their auditory hallucination.


    Even though this was virtual space.


    The two shivered at the same time.


    「A-anyway forget about that. Try ying already!」


    「That’s right! Everyone, please have fun!」


    They mustn’t think too deeply about it. That was the only proven method for getting along well with the abyss lord.


    Perhaps their feeling was conveyed. Roze and others epted it as other world’s mystery that was beyond theirprehension. Urged by Hajime, they hesitantly chose their own vehicle.


    And then, Yuuka had dressed like a certain thigh alchemist before anyone noticed. Apparently she had once again got persuaded by Taeko-sensei’s masterful talk-no-jutsu.


    Of course, it went without saying that the outfit was like a vacuum for the males’ gazes. Though the person who should be the most affected by it had gotten her mood in high spirits just by two words 「Looks good」 from Hajime and didn’t notice.


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    Like that, several hours passed.


    「Fumu, it’s truly a delicacy. As expected from Hajime-sama’s wives. Their cooking skill is also first ss……the scale has fallen from my eyes.」


    Sabas was nodding several times while handling the tableware with refined movement.


    Currently everyone was taking a break while also having a lunch using a bar lounge located at a corner of the amusement facility in Avenst.


    The menu was sd with olive oil, pasta with tomato sauce, and consommé soup. They all could be made quickly and in great number at once in the kitchen of the nearby restaurant facility.


    It wasn’t just Sabas. All the people of dragon kingdom were eating with relish and satisfaction.


    The ce was originally a bar lounge, so the shelves behind the counter were filled with various bottles from earth. Because of that, some of the group especially Bovid had been looking longingly at there, but Sabas-san’s sharp gaze wouldn’t allow them.


    Just in case, a gate that would sober up anyone who passed it no matter how drunk they were had been setup, so Hajime said he didn’t mind if they wanted to drink but……


    Apparently no means no. Originally it should be they the dragon kingdom who entertained the visitors, so them drinking alcohol in this case would be simply preposterous. Apparently that was the argument.


    「Ahaha, these aren’t something that exaggerated desu. Everyone too must have eaten something at this level daily.」


    「If we knew beforehand that there would be something like this, we would prepare something a bit more sophisticated though……」


    The cooks today Shia and Remia smiled widely despite their modesty.


    Sabas stood up without even making any sound. Then he bowed with another refined gesture.


    「No no, that’s simply not true. These dishes are truly delicious. In the first ce, originally it should be our side who prepared something like these. To be the side who are treated to a meal instead……I can’t express enough gratitude for these.」


    「Yep yep, you two. We’re fed with tasty home cooking of beauties like these. Comining will just give us divine puni-ouch!?」


    A cold gaze and a finger flick flew at the same time with Bovid’s frivolous talk. Was that toothpick? It was lodged neatly between Bovid’s eyebrows.


    「Well, it was us who deviated from the visit schedule. Or rather it was Amanogawa’s fault so don’t mind it. Besides, this too is a part of the tour.」@@novelbin@@


    「After this preceding tour is over, you also n to invite the people of dragon kingdom when the timing allows, correct? At that time allow me to disy my skill too.」


    「It would be different story if the restaurants inside the ship are already running but, as expected……that’s still far in the future.」


    「……Nn. Securing manpower is the only factor that cannot be solved right away. This is a passenger boat, so educating the staffs is essential.」


    Aiko smiled wryly, while Yue added. Just as they said, the entertainment area was nned to be filled with various restaurants not only from various countries, but also various worlds.


    But, it was only in this aspect where manpower meant everything. Or rather, it decided everything. Just in case, there was also a food court-like ce where there would be automatic cooking machine, but that was that, this was this.


    Therefore the introduction used possible recement──which was home cooking of Shia and Remia using ingredients grown right inside the luxury liner Avenst.


    「100% food self-sufficiency, was it? We only saw it through the screen but, that farnd was stunning.」


    「Originally you guys also did the same on the deck right?」


    「You jest. The scale is simply too different. Here not only there is farnd, there’s also livestock industry……furthermore, the flow of time inside the area can be adjusted to freely decide the supply quantity. In addition for the whole operation to be done automatically……it’s truly a work in a divine realm.」


    Sabas showed a wholehearted feeling of admiration, no, veneration. All the other civil officials were also nodding enthusiastically.


    The sky dragon world used the power of sky core so crops could grow well and give abundant harvest. Even so the space was limited. Now they could expand to the surface too but their food supply still wasn’t sufficient by all means. Naturally they also limited the variety of crops to prioritize the type that was necessary for living.


    Because of that too, Avenst’s “food production area” that could supply practically endless food seemed to be truly a dream-like system for them.


    In fact, here when they tried eating the dishes that were made using crops that were grown inside the ship, they could see that the ingredients weren’t just the average things that could be found everywhere. The condensed deliciousness of nature, the taste of the ingredients were conveyed clearly.


    By the way, the vending machines that were ced at various ces inside the ship──not only vending machine for drink, but also for sweets, cup noodle, and even snacks like onigiri or fried potato and the like──excited the people of dragon kingdom even more than the food production area in a sense.


    Especially the cup noodle that they were asked to try. Its simplicity, technological finesse, and then deliciousness apparently made them felt excitement that kept going to be shock. To the degree that it caused many of them to be in a stupor mumbling 「It’s technology revolution……」, until they saw the food production area.


    「Heiligh also want the manufacture factory for instant foods. At least if trade can be formed with my country……」


    Liliana kept ncing at Hajime with a pleading gaze. Atsushi and Noboru secretly whispered to each other.


    「The way she didn’t mention Tortus there really show her personality.」


    「It’spletely the ck-hearted Lili.」


    「You two there! I can hear you!」


    <em>This vegetable is tastyy……</em>Atsushi and Noboru concentrated on their meal.


    「By the way, Aiko was the one who adjusted the soil.」


    「Aiko-dono did? If I remember correctly, I believe she was introduced as a teacher in a ce of learning……」


    「Yeah, but she has innate talent for magic and skill rted to agrarian reform. How to exin it……if I say that she can improvend without sky core to a level of soil with rich sky core by herself, can you understand just how amazing she is?」


    「Wha-, that’s……」


    *Clunk* Some of the officials stood up so suddenly that their chairs fell down. Most likely they were people with upation rted to agriculture. Their eyes were staring at Aiko fixedly with scary seriousness in them.


    Aiko called out 「W-wait Hajime-kun?」 while looking flustered but……


    Hajime smirked.


    「After all she even got worshipped as “goddess of good harvest” in other world. Though it’s only natural seeing that she can drastically change a world’s food situation by herself.」


    「Hajime-kuuuunn!?」


    「How shocking-. Not only there is the demon god-sama and dragon god-sama, to think there is also a goddess presiding over good harvest among us……」


    The officials who got on their feet fell on their knees altogether. They must have felt that this was the one person who they had to show their reverence toward the most.


    <em>I don’t need even more people worshipping meee! </em>Aiko protested. However, even that onlysted for a moment.


    「Yeah. She’s our lovely goddess.」


    After all that was said toward her with pride and loving gaze.


    「Aiko-oneechan’s face is crimson nano~?」


    「My my, really Aiko-san. Your lips are going funya funya like jelly you know?」


    Aiko who was hiding her face with her hands muttered out 「Stupid Hajime-kunn」 from her lips. The tone was exuding so much happiness.


    <em>So cute……</em>some of the dragon people kingdom also muttered. The officials before this stared entrancedly at Aiko for several moments before putting their hands over each other shoulders and nodding together for some reason.


    It looked like the faith of “goddess of good harvest” was going to be born in the sky dragon world too. What would happen if they were also told that she was also the “goddess of victory”?


    ──<em>Oh goddess of victory! Please smile at me right at this momenttt-</em>


    ──<em>Stop that alreadyyy-, I’m begging youuu-</em>


    It felt like they could hear the voice of a girl who felt like she would be believer right away at this moment.


    That voice that sounded like delirious with fever, or like in the middle of rolling down the hill of madness was none other than the reason why they were going out of their way to eat in this bar lounge rather than a nearby restaurant but……


    Sabas-san and others all ignored it as though to say that it was absolutely just their imagination.


    「Umm, Sabas-san. It’ll be better to stop her soon──」


    Kaori couldn’t bear to watch anymore and kept sending nces to outside the bar lounge, Sabas changed the topic with a slightly fast talking as though to say that he didn’t want to see the reality.


    「Even so, that MEVR is really an amazing thing.」


    「Sabas-sama, I haven’t forgotten about the shell that you sniped me with.」


    「Even though that should be your first time ying, how did you manage to hit other yer with item that isn’t even a homing type……what’s more at the timing when you were in the middle of a jump」


    The green shell user Sabas. Even Hajime when 「T-this person, unbelievable-」 and shivered from witnessing his feat. Just from that it could be understood just how outrageous his performance was.


    Also, due to a strong request from Sabas-san, battle using concealed weapon between royal guards VS Hauria, and Sabas VS Karm were also held but……


    Perhaps it should be said, as expected from the elite among elites. Although they didn’t have any hope when it was inside the sea of trees, they disyed an even battle when fighting face-to-face or inside abandoned building. The Sabas VS Karm battle was also a really worthwhile show which ended in a draw.


    It was a good practice, so the program unexpectedly received favorable reception despite Hauria’s behavior. It was a happy miscalction for Hajime and Shia but……


    They couldn’t say anything when thinking of when the two would run to each other in real life.


    「Surely he will hit it off with my family too……」


    Shizuku-chan had a distant look in her eyes. Someone being able to hit it off with Hauria also meant something like that.


    Hauria’s circle was spreading out……


    Though there would be zero peace, so nobody knew what to say as expected.


    By the way, several of the royal guards were asking for more details about the reproduced Mina Hauria……or rather, one of them was Jean but……


    It went without saying it caused Hajime and Shia to go 「Oo?」.


    Though, it felt like there was something good going on between Mina and Mr. Kiyotake the heir of Tsuchimikado n but, this was her long-awaited popr period. Both Hajime and Shia disclosed her information without reservation.


    <em>──</em><em>N-no way……even though I think I can do it for sure this time……why……</em>


    <em>──</em><em>It’s enough already right? Right? Let’s end it with this?</em>


    <em>──</em><em>Not, yet. It’s not over yet-</em>


    <em>──</em><em>It’s over already! In various senses!</em>


    <em>──</em><em>I’m a warrior queen! I will never lose heart-, until I win!!</em>


    <em>──</em><em>Aa……it’s no good already, it’s oveeer</em>


    「As for meee, as expected that ce where you can get on fighter jet was great! Other world’s fighter jet was also really fun. But, well……」


    Bovid spoke his impression with louder voice than usual as though gloss over something, but his expression immediately clouded. Or rather, the expressions of all the pilots were dry for some reason. Dry like desert. Their gazes were all focused to a single point with awe and dread.


    「Myu?」


    「「「「「Tsuu!!」」」」」


    Several of them grasped their chest tightly. There was even one of them whose face was somewhat red. All of them looked terribly vexed.


    「Captain, I’m, frustrated-」


    「We also got called “Smaall fry? Smaa~ll fry?”. It’s humiliating-」


    「I’m sorry that I’m a super weak pilot-」


    「Myuu isn’t saying anything nano!?」


    In the end it was just a full dive game inside a dream space. And so, even Myuu could pilot an aircraft. Using her favorite F14 Super Tomcat – Myuu Custom──alias, Myuu’s personal airne “Tom Neko-tan”.


    She had already experienced the game many times for the system’s trial run, and the airne was put together especially for Myuu by the serious papa so its movement and specs were different from the mass produced version. But still.


    Myuu was strong. To the level where she made Bovid and his men got quite serious.


    The frustration of these men who got shot down despite being professional pilot was immeasurable. It must be making them heard auditory hallucination too.


    Not to mention at a different amusement facility that took ce in reality──a facility where visitor could enjoy controlling drone of various airnes, although the control waspletely different from actual fighter aircraft, they still got curbstomped by “Tom Neko-tan” that was a tenth of the size of the actual article.


    The adult men whose pride got torn apart by seven years old girl and fell on their hands and knees……


    The more Myuu got concerned and tried to console them, the more they took it as provocation for some reason. The way they got frustrated and argued childishly was a really horrible sight.


    <em>──</em><em>Now is the moment of my awakening-. If I focus……I see it-, even I can see it!!</em>


    <em>──</em><em>Didn’t you also say the same thing just now……</em>


    <em>──</em><em>This is thest time! After all I’ll finish it with this!</em>


    <em>──</em><em>Didn’t you also say the same thing just now!!</em>


    「A-as for me it’s definitely that! The “magic experience”! That experience was like a dream……」


    The one who yelled out as though to drown out something was Commander Olga.


    It felt a bit desperate but, she who never stopped using politenguage was now talking with her natural personality, so it must be true that she really had fun. And it seemed her little brother Jean was also the same.


    「Aa, that was great wasn’t it. It felt like I became like an existence from fairytale, besides……to think that it’s also possible to experience the feeling of animal. It was truly magic.」


    He clenched and opened his hands repeatedly, as though to enjoy the feeling that was still remaining inside his body.


    One of the amusement facilities. It wasn’t MEVR, but a real “magic experience” using artifact, and “animalization experience” using capsule artifact that was enchanted with metamorphosis magic.


    Like Tio’s “dragon transformation”, they could transform to any animal they liked.


    「Yuuka-chi though, you’ve been quiet this whole time since then. What’s wrong?」


    It was nice timing that the animalization experience topic came out, so Nana worriedly talked to Yuuka who for some reason almost hadn’t talking at all since she transformed into cat. However, her eyes lookedpletely joyful though.


    「It’s nothing at all.」


    「I see. That’s good then.」


    Taeko-san drank a cup of after meal drink with a nonchnt look. And then, she spoke with a relieved expression.


    「I was worried because you almost ascended to heaven after getting petted a lot by Nagumo-gufuuh!?」


    「Y-Yuuka-chi, it feels like your tsukkomi has gottenpletely merciless……」


    Seeing Taeko holding her side while trembling made Nana got cold sweat while thinking that perhaps she should be a bit more prudent.


    ──<em>!? The lights! IT’S HERE! This stage effect this time for sure……why doesn’t iteeeee-</em>


    <em>──</em><em>Ummm, dear guest? If I can ask you to refrain from hitting the stand……</em>


    <em>──</em><em>I-I’m sorryyy, my partner is just like this so……</em>


    <em>──</em><em>Come outtt! Come ouuttt!!</em>


    <em>──</em><em>Dear guest!? Aaah, this is troubling-, dear guest! Aaaaah!?</em>


    「O-others like the zero gravity experience and, the midair ball game using that, they are all really precious experience!」


    「The great library also charmed my heart! The staggering number of book collections there, it’s truly a depository of knowledge!」


    「What’s more, the environment where you can rx while reading was simply wonderful. You can also freely drink dozens of types of drinks, and the ce is also equipped with shower room and bedroom. And to hear that in the future it’ll also be possible to order food with just a single push of button. I want to move in and live there forever.」


    「I’m curious with the multiple number of stadiums. Other worlds really have abundant amount of entertainment. To think that there are that many types of sports」


    「As a soldier thepleteness of the training gym really makes me envious. If only dragon kingdom also has that kind of facility」


    「Training in a room where you can change the gravity is interesting! On top of that, was it called bouldering? That was really hard.」


    「And the realbyrinth and puzzle solving, next time I want to take my time slowly to try solving them.」


    「The profound mystery of the fish pond is the best for an old bag like me. Did you call it Mine*raft style? Not only you can fish so many types of fish there, you can even fish out mysterious items……」


    What was going on here? Even though they absolutely should be able to hear the voices, the government officials were getting increasingly excited as though they were doing it on purpose.


    No, their minds were genuinely tired from the culture shock. And the more tired they became, the more they felt moved by the numerous facilities they had observed. In fact, they were having fun as though their childlike innocence wasing back.


    ──<em>Jiiten, it’s fine already. It’s time for forced termination!</em>


    <em>──</em><em>Understood. Dear guest, it’s the closing time for this ce</em>


    <em>──</em><em>Five more minutes</em>


    <em>──</em><em>It’s the closing time!</em>


    <em>──</em><em>But the light effect is heating up like crazy right now! And you’re asking me to stop here, are you demon!?</em>


    <em>──</em><em>I’ll blow you up if you don’t stop you know!?</em>


    <em>──</em><em>Taking back what you’ve lost-. That is the pride of the royal family!</em>


    <em>──</em><em>Just throw away that kind of prideee!</em>


    <em>──</em><em>Aaah, dear guest! Doing breath here will trouble the others! Dear guest!? Aaah!</em>


    It felt like everyone could see the figure of G10 making eye that asked for help from the captain, but the captain the situation had be something that he didn’t want to get involved with and got into the swing of the dragon kingdom people’s mood.


    「This time we’re excluding the general facilities from the tour but, I’ll allow public ess for those too so enjoy them together with the dragon kingdom’s citizens by all means.」


    General facilities──movie theater, various kinds of sport courts, darts game and billiard, karaoke, etc. Ryuutarou and Suzu recalled those standard amusement facilities and smiled wryly.


    「You definitely used Roun*1 as reference for those.」 (TN: Round1 is a Japan-based amusement store chain)


    「They got mixed among the other absurd facilities. That one game center made me felt real nostalgic for some reason.」


    「Those art Chichiue-dono’s hobby. I’m told that he apparently used his various connections to order various nostalgic used arcade games.」


    「Putting that aside, Hajime-kun. I won’t forgive you for ying the live I did at Ur Town during the Tortus trip without permission.」


    Avenst was also equipped with everything needed for live stage. When the beautiful performance of the magical girls got yed using past rey, it went without saying that light of “Soul Repose” got fired recklessly among the dazzling light effect on the stage.


    <em>I won’t forgive you even if you keep calling me cute! </em>Aiko sent a protesting gaze with an atmosphere that felt like she would forgive him sooner orter.


    Hajime smiled vaguely to gloss it over and told Sabas.


    「Also, it goes without saying that this ship is also fully equipped with medical office. It’s at the level where even the dead can be revived so please have no worry.」


    「I believe that is already something that surpass the realm of medical treatment though?」


    <em>Rather, is there facility in here that might kill you? </em>Everyone from dragon kingdom thought fearfully.


    <em>Or rather, with that this ship can also be a lifesaving ship rushing all over the world for rescue isn’t it……</em>they even thought that.


    This ship wasn’t a mere amusement facility, but could also save many lives……


    It wouldn’t be an exaggeration to call this ship as the ship of the god. Sighs of admiration slipped out from here and there even while they enjoyed the after-meal tea.


    「There is also the n of addingplete beautification facilities on board the ship, and also the n to open outfit lending facility so you can wear outfit from various worlds and countries in real life.」


    「「「「「It’s really the ship of the god!!」」」」」


    The tension of the dragon kingdom females rose up explosively because they had seen the beauty of Yue and co too.


    Yue and co exined to them specifically what kind of facilities would be opened, and what kind of development was nned for the future. The more they exined, the more the bar lounge was filled with the excited voices of the females──


    ──<em>Money, please lend me money……</em>


    The mood dropped down heavily.


    The wild enthusiasm until just a moment ago felt like a lie. That voice was sad and overflowing with tragic resolve.


    And so, they finally turned their gazes to over there.


    And then, they saw. The reality that they didn’t want to see. Its eventual final form.


    Yes, they saw the figure of the queen performing a very beautiful dogeza in front of the flustered G10.


    Sabas-san pressed his hands on his face. The Crow siblings looked up to the ceiling. Bovid and others looked at each other and sighed deeply.


    「Please stop-, dear guest. No, Roze-sama! Don’t lower your head to me!」


    「The next one-, the next one will be the winner for sure, I think!! I’ll pay you back double, no, triple!」


    「What a splendid slot machine addict.」


    An existence who had offered their soul to the slot machine and became stuck in a bog that covered them until the crown of their head. That was slot machine addict. And this, was the exemr move of such existence.


    In the end this time was just an observation tour, so although she was asked to gamble actual money which also served as exnation about the money exchange and the conversion system to chip, that money would be simply returnedter. And yet, for her to be this desperate……this was what was so scary about gambling.


    「Bringing her to casino, no, making her trying it out was a real blunder huh……this, I don’t know what else to say but, I’m sorry. This is my responsibility.」


    Hajime looked toward Sabas and others with an expression of guilt.


    Sabas removed his hands from his face and turned his gaze toward the casino. The casino had a dazzling appearance. The shy chandelier, the numerous game tables although there was nobody to staff them right now, the grand view of slot machines in orderly lineup.


    The casino had been constructed with great attention to every single detail as though to proim that, truly when people spoke of luxury liner they were referring to this!


    He could imagine it. Great number of visitors holding chips in one hand while enjoying the games each in their own way. They would be drinking alcohol while having pleasant chat with each other, alternating between happiness and anxiety while waiting for victory or defeat.


    「Sabaaas! Sabaaas!! Prepare more money──」


    *Tototo-* The slot addict queen Roze came running. Sabas-san’s expression fell down heavily.


    「No, Hajime-sama. This is wholly <em>gramps </em>responsibility. The act of gambling itself is not evil. Everyone here has enjoyed such thing although in moderation. Even Bovid.」


    「Ummm, Sabas? It feels like I’ll win big with just a bit more……」


    「This is when I want to ask just what kinda person do you think I am but, more importantly your majesty. Seriously, shut up for a bit.」


    Perhaps they all felt the atmosphere of the demon inside Sabas-san awakening, Bovid and others were starting to retreat. While asking Shia and Remia, <em>how about we clear away the tableware to somewhere?</em>


    Also, Kuwaibel wouldn’t even get closer. His atmosphere was like he was seeing off his partner walking toward the gallows.


    「I was na?ve, thinking that if we simply left her alone, she would surely return back after seeing the sight of everyone having delicious meal at a distant ce from her. This child is in the wrong for losing to her greed and abandoning her self-control.」


    Before the meal he had more or less tried stopping her several times. <em>Let’s stop here already, </em>he said.


    But, Roze-chan who gotpletely crazy about slot machine pleaded, <em>Just a bit more! It’s just a bit more! I’ll go there right away after this round is over! So leave this ce to me and go ahead!</em>


    For these one and half year. Roze had done her best as the queen of the reborn Dragon Kingdom Avenst without anyin, exerting herself even if it was to the detriment of her own health. No, she had been fighting for her whole life ever since she was born without even any time to have fun sufficiently.


    And so the way she unusually acted selfishly made gramps felt a bit happy instead.


    He thought that it should be fine for her to cut loose too sometimes. But,


    「U-umm, Sabas……? Money……」


    *nk* Sabas-san’s chair made a sound as he stood up. It felt like there was aura around him. The aura of great pressure.


    As expected Roze-chan was returning to her senses seeing that. Cold sweat trickled down her forehead.


    「As one of her majesty’s subjects, and most of all as one of the parents who’ve raised her, I will give it my utmost to admonish her here, and so, Hajime-sama」


    「O-ou」


    「I ask you to give us a little bit of time.」


    「P-please take your time」


    He gave a beautiful bow.


    Roze who returned to her senses due to the sense of danger started running like a startled rabbit!


    However! Her path had been cutoff beforehand! There was no way she could run away from the strongest old butler! ……Was it just their imagination that there was afterimage left behind?


    「Y-you misunderstand, Sabas! Listen to me!」


    「……What is it, Roze-sama.」


    「……Umm, that………」


    「Yes」


    「……The super heated up light show from the super low probability made my brain juice pour out like river so I think it couldn’t be helped」


    <em>Our queen is hopeless now, it’s oveeer……</em>such atmosphere radiated from the people of dragon kingdom.


    <em>We’ve taught her, a forbidden game</em>……embarrassed gazes came from Yue and others.


    Hajime wordlessly averted his gaze.


    「Actually」


    「H-hm?」


    「Actually it feels really nostalgic isn’t it. How long it has been since I scolded Roze-sama with spanking」


    「!!?」


    Roze-chan started running like a startled rabbit! However, she instantly got put on the shoulder like a rice sack!


    「Noooooo, I’m sorry! I won’t do it anymore-. I don’t wanna spanking at this ageeeee-」


    「No talking back」


    <em>Someoeneeee, Kuwaibeel! Save meeee!?</em>


    Such scream that sounded like begging for one;s life vanished deep inside the corridor. Perhaps it was the smallest mercy gramps could spare by changing the ce. Of course, Kuwaibel didn’t follow.


    『Haha-ue, I’m hungry.』


    「U-umu. I hath set aside a portion for thee. I wouldst reheat it now.」


    Kuwaibel lied down on Tio’sp looking like fatigue had flooded his body all at once.


    Remia went <em>My my</em> while asking 「Everyone, how about more after-meal tea?」. Everyone of dragon kingdom simrly made a vague smile that looked somewhat tired and,


    「「「「「Please do」」」」」


    They all nodded honestly.


    The slightly hot tea that Remia brewed greatly soothed the heart of everyone, including Hajime and co.


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    Now, at present.


    The pressure from <em>gramps</em> scolding her as a parent for the first time after so long, and how she was given an embarrassing punishment while the person she had feeling for was present made Roze becamepletely despondent and gloomy. But,


    「Aa……」


    She was now wearing an expression that was filled with deep emotion that couldn’t be described. It instantly blew away something trivial like a dejected heart.


    Sabas and others, no, even Yue and others were also in the same state.


    Everyone was looking down below as though their heart had been stolen.


    They were at the viewing area of the front part of the ship’s bottom. The whole floor was transparent like they were standing on the sky. From there they could enjoy the great panorama. Right now there was a jewel there floating inside a vast world of darkness.


    Yes, it was the. It was the sky dragon world seen from the space.


    The was aquamarine blue like earth. There, they could see numerous glitters sprinkled everywhere like small jewels. Were they the fine sky cores drifting in the air? Or perhaps, they were pure energy itself flowing through the world following the revival of the Dragon Tree?


    They didn’t know but, before the that was tinged with faint radiance, even Hajime could only watch in fascination.


    Who knew how long they spent the time just staring like that. Before long,


    『……Just how beautiful it is, the where we were born』


    Kuwaibel’s small muttering came out half unconsciously. It dragged Hajime and Roze and others back to their senses just for a bit.


    「……Hajime-sama. Thank you so much. This is……This is just too……too beautiful of a present. I will never forget this sight for my whole life.」


    Roze finally lifted up her gaze and turned toward Hajime with eyes that were misty from emotion.


    Even though they were preparing various things for hospitality in order to convey their gratitude, he showed them the lovely figure of the reborn Avenst instead. And he didn’t stop there. He also showed them the figure of their reborn world……


    What should they do to repay such kindness?


    Roze even felt troubled like that.


    「Rather than calling it a present, this is more like just me showing off and bragging on my own but……it doesn’t feel bad being told that.」


    Roze narrowed her eyes toward Hajime’s gentle smile as though it was something dazzling. A small sigh slipped out. A sigh that was filled with heated feeling.


    Her body staggered, swaying toward Hajime’s side as though being pulled by a maic force.


    Yue’s face silently peeked out from Hajime’s side. Her nce made Roze’s feet stopped.


    It was like she was keeping her in check, or perhaps provoking her.


    Like she was kindly epting her, and yet strictly standing on her way.


    That gaze was because she noticed the change in Roze’s feeling, that what was faint before was starting to take shape.


    The bewitching but beautifully shining crimson eyes made Roze held her breath.


    Even with no words said, there were also something that got conveyed from a single nce. At the very least, Roze felt like she was being informed this.


    ──<em>Want to try making me recognize you if you think you can?</em> Those eyes said.


    「Fufu, first wife-sama of our family art kind, but she art not lenient just so thee know.」


    「Tio-sama……」


    The eyes weren’t so overbearing that it made her felt like a frog being red by a snake, but Roze was definitely pressured and froze when Tio’s helping hand reached her.


    Roze blinked from the words that were softly whispered into her ear. She gazed at her home once more, and then, her gaze ran over Shia and others who apparently had also ovee the strict wall just like Tio.


    「I’m, still not there yet. I need to work even harder, as the queen.」


    She muttered so with tension leaving her shoulders.


    Most likely, those weren’t words of resignation. Rather, there were strength in those words from fire being lit under her. It was just something faint and smoldering, but there was definitely heat in there.


    Behind her Sabas was making a very conflicted expression. But, he didn’t offer any opinion.


    Bovid patted his shoulder and he shrugged in resignation.


    「Yuuka-chi gotta work hard too ~kay?」


    「Muu……」


    「Fufu, leave it to me for the gentleman killer outfit, Yuuka」


    「TSK」


    「Aren’t you too scathing with just me!?」


    <em>Did I get too carried away? I told you I’m sorry! </em>Taeko cried and hugged Yuuka. Yuuka said 「I’m just joking」 while hugging her back. And not only that, she even asked 「After this, there’ll be a festival at the dragon kingdom right? Taeko……I’m counting on you for the battle outfit」 while looking like she was somewhat fired up.


    Great Teacher Taeko trembled. Like a fanshion designer who witnessed the genius model who possessed talent butcked seriousness, had finally awakened right before her very eyes.


    「Cough. It’ll be evening soon. We should make contact to check, how much the festival preparation has progressed.」


    Hajime forcefully ignored the suggestive gazes from Yue and others toward him and turned his gaze toward Sabas.


    The queen was away from her pce even if it was only temporarily, so he handed Sabas a direct linemunicator.


    Sabas bowed while saying 「Certainly」 and moved to a corner of the room.


    「Hajime-sama. I wish to show my people this sight too no matter what, but……」


    「Yeah, I don’t mind. Just like I had you guys experienced it before this, going to space isn’t that hard using gravity magic. If you want, we can even stay at space right from the start when inviting your people to have fun in this ship.」


    As expected at that time the number of people would be iparable with right now. Hajime jokingly said that they should have them boarded the ship abduction style.


    Roze and others imagined what if a giant ship moored at the sky above the capital and sucked up the citizens with pirs of light and they smiled wryly.


    It was then.


    「What? Is that true?」


    Sabas’s tense voice suddenly came from the corner. Hajime and others turned toward him wondering what was going on.


    Sabas focused his hearing to the report whilementing back several times. Then he turned toward Roze with a grim expression.


    「Your majesty, it seems there is an emergency call from the unit stationed at the temple. They reported arge mud beast approaching.」


    「What did you say?」


    Roze’s eyes widened. Bovid alsomented 「Oi oi, that area should have been cleaned up thoroughly with Kouki’s help too right?」 without being able to hide his surprise.


    「It will arrive in approximately thirty more minutes.」


    「Impossible. How could the troops there not notice its approach until that close? Didn’t they patrol the area?」


    「They did but, they mentioned how it was like it appeared suddenly from nowhere.」


    Roze shook her head. Right now wasn’t the time to think about the hole in the patrol. She switched focus.


    「What about intercepting it?」


    「It’s not impossible, is what I’m told.」


    In other words the troops would receive considerable damage doing it.


    「Should I issue the withdrawal order?」


    Reinforcement wouldn’t make it in time. It would take an hour even if they sent an aircraft unit ahead until the temple. And the time needed would be even longer if they wanted to send unit of suitable size.


    Roze’s decision was quick. She was about tomand the troops to retreat immediately.


    There, Hajime asked her to wait.


    「That temple you mentioned, is it that one?」


    「Eh? Ah, yes, that’s true.」


    It was the ruins of old era where records from the mythological era was left behind. It was also the ce where materials that could help with hypothesizing the rtionship between the Dragon Tree and the world were discovered.


    Hajime nodded when he heard that.


    「G10」


    「Yes, captain」


    「We’ll go to deal with it. Use teleport……no, this is a good time to gather data of atmosphere entry. I’ll send you the coordinate so head there. Full speed ahead without using godspeed.」


    「Aye aye, captain. Coordinate designated. Changing course. Normal movement, max speed.」


    The moment he sent G10 the information that he obtained with thepass, his order w3as carried out swiftly without any dy. The ship’s prow was rotated with smoothness like flowing water.


    「Is it okay?」


    A suitablepensation was required to have the demon god granted their wish. That was what she had learned in the past when asking for the salvation of her country. That was why, Roze asked because this felt a bit unexpected. Hajime shrugged.


    「I can’t just stay quiet watching a precious heritage be lost.」


    Apparently that was why. However, Kouki had already reported the important information from the temple to him. Certainly, there might still be more things to learn from investigating the ce but……


    In the end, was that the only reason?


    「Fufuhn, papa is papa after all!」


    The daughter’s boasting <em>Mufufuhn </em>face seemed to show the answer to that.


    Yue and others were watching him with very warm gazes. Roze and others were also looking at him with gratitude and trust radiating from their eyes. Meanwhile,


    「Kuku, this is the perfect chance to unveil that……」


    Hajime himself was making a suspicious smile that was scheming something.


    AN: Thank you very much for reading this every time.


    Thank you very much too for the thoughts, opinions, and reports about misspelling and omitted words.


    Actually there are still other ideas I’m thinking for the activity in the ship but, there really would be no end to it so I held back. I n to bring out the hot spring facility and thest nature areater. In any case, thank you very much for going along with this story that is just my personal tastes going full st, and also for giving so many ideas and opinions! It was fun!


    Also, the anime 3^rd season had reached the final episode. My thanks for those who had watched it. For those who haven’t watched, please check it out by all means.


    ※Material introduction


    – Love, it’s love


    From Bondrewd of [Made in Abyss].


    – However her path of escape was cut off


    From [Dragon Quest Series].


    – It’s hopeless now, it’s oveeer


    From Vegeta of [Dragon Ball Z: Broly – The Legendary Super Saiyan].


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