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“Hey Kanata. That woman, Kyrian, is takin’ her partner to the med bay and people are spreadin’ word ’bout the Black Gods appearance in and around the castle… What else can we do?” I asked Kanta, after Rir had her fill of head pats.

It was currently just us in here.

“True enough. We might be able to fix the spear… Sakura, is it possible?”
“Hm~, I think it is!”

Come to think of it, Sakura’s magic can also restore things. Guess that’s one problem solved. That whole evil god business was over a bit too quickly.

Kanata and Sakura left to repair Gungnir. In here, we sages still couldn’t use magic.
Now it was just Rir, I, and the frozen king in this room.

“Woof, woof, that was over surprisingly fast!”
“Right, all thanks to your hard work, Rir! I didn’t do a damn thing…”
“You’re wrong. You gave instructions to all those people, didn’t you?”

We sat down where we stood and gazed at the king trapped in ice.

…Although we’ll thaw him out later, we did cut off his arm, so I doubt he’ll just obediently send us back to Japan. Well, no point worryin’ ’bout that now. The power of skills is crazy, so we might manage to get home, if we brainwash him with Illusion Magic. Though us sages can’t do that, so we’ll have to rely on someone else, like Rir.

Once this is over, we’ll go home.
…Will I be goin’ home?

Come to think of it, while it did feel long, it only has been a short time since I came here. Somewhere between one… and two months, that’s how much time I’ve spent in this world.

Well, it was a series of shocking events, right? Impossible stuff, like a ball of fire coming from my hands.

There’s a lot to consider, but the most important part is ’bout Rir, after all. What do I do with her? Like I thought this mornin’, can’t there be some way to take her with me to Earth or to come and go between there and here? Even if we went back over there, we’ll keep our skills, so Kanata might be able to teleport between Earth and Anazumu… and take me with him.

…I’m positive it won’t take long for me to want to see her again. There’ll be longing, terrible awful longing.

Some time ago, I was talking to Mika… scolding her. After that idiot got himself killed, Mika became weird. Well, she started acting and talking strangely, it was terrible. Pretending Ayumu was still alive.

I feel like words don’t do it justice… all I can say is, she became weird.

She locked herself in her room and ate barely anything, at least that was what Sakura told me. I got worried about Mika and visited her at home, and then went there to talk to her every day for about five days. Maybe since Sakura, her mom and dad, and I finally got through to her, Mika’s mood gradually improved. I thought that was a good thing, but…

…Well, at any rate, I was the one lecturin’ Mika, but now I can’t say a thing, y’know. Maybe that’s what it means to love someone. Right now… I feel like I understand Mika’s feelings a bit better.

“Woof~, Shuu, you’re looking so serious,” Rir commented as she peered at my face.

Her eyes were opened widely, and she looked at me in apparent worry. It was rather adorable.

“Ah, well, the Black God is still here… Even though we made him powerless, we can’t be careless now…”
“Yeah, you’re right.”

She stared at the evil god. As she did that, I hugged her tightly from behind.

“Woof~? Our friends Kanata and Sakura are working hard to fix the spear right now, so this isn’t the time, you know.”
“Ah, right, my bad… I just…”

I let go of her.

Hang on, when did Rir get so close with those two¹? Well, I’m sure it’s fine.

It sounded like someone was coming, so I turned my head. On the other side of the open door to the throne room, I could see Kanata and Sakura, who’d likely immediately finished their repairs.

“Shuu, we fixed it!” Kanata exclaimed with a smile, holding Gungnir, which looked prettier than before, in his hand.
“Oh! Then we’ll first-”

I was trying to get up to meet the boy, when my vision flickered.
The hell? Am I gettin’ lightheaded? I thought I was doin’ enough trainin’ to avoid that kinda stuff, but… maybe I’m just tired?

“Sorry, just got a bit dizzy…” I explained to Kanata and Sakura who were looking at me in silence.

Sure enough, this is the first time in my life I got lightheaded, but that ain’t no reason to be that shocked, right?

“Ah… Sh-Shuu… b-behind… you…” Kanata stammered.

What’s behind me…? Did that damn king manage to get out of the ice?

I turned my head to check. The king was still on ice, as he should be. However, I couldn’t see Rir where she was previously.
Come to think of it, I just saw something off in my field of vision… was it at my feet? Oh…

TL notes:
Some more musings and self-reflection about Shuu’s possible future with or without Rir, and a rather ominous end. What did Kanata and Sakura see that Shuu still hasn’t noticed?

In other news, when reading ahead, I came across an instance of Rir’s name being written in roman letters and turns out it’s supposed to be “Lil”. Fu̲ck me, I guess?
Now, you could argue this is on me, since I never checked for roman writings of her name in the novel, but the author never used roman letters except for game terms, mainly in stat screens, up to this point, so I didn’t expect them to exist in the first place. Same as with the Shuu/Shou mix-up, I’d prefer not to change everything at this point, especially with the current name being a reference to Fenrir, but feel free to comment if you think it should be changed.

1. In the original, he comments that Rir started to call Sakura “Sakura-chan”, something that isn’t reflected in my translation, since I usually don’t localize that suffix.

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