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*Just what kind of education did future-me and Shiori give Rin-chan?*

It’s fine that she likes yuri. I’m not going to comment on anyone’s sexual orientation. Being denied for who you are just hurts and changes nothing. That’s something Shiori and I know all too well. That’s why it’s up to the parents, more than anyone, to fully affirm their child. Even if her love of yuri goes so far she becomes a yuri pig¹, well, I suppose that’s still acceptable.
But this time, she’s gone too far.
Exiling two guys she found to be in the way of her ideal yuri ship to a remote, potentially deadly location isn’t yuri pig behavior—it’s the act of a yuri orc.

Shiori pressed a hand to her forehead and sighed.

“Rin. It’s good to be honest with yourself, but honesty that causes suffering to others is called tyranny. Were you trying to kill them?”
“Ehh!? No way! They’d die if I kill them! It’s fine, really! I gave Takahashi-san a backpack with a compass, food, and a survival manual, and Hazama-san enough money to last him about three days locally.”
“How? You didn’t have time to prepare all that.”
“I dunno. I sold a bit of future info to Sound On Lee… the informant, you’ve met him already, right? I used that money to buy data on a trustworthy black-market operator and just threw money at them to handle everything.”

*U-ugh…!*
Efficiently earning money, making skillful use of people, doing outrageous things while still minding the details—this is clearly the fruit of me and Shiori’s parenting. For a schoolgirl who jumped across time to pull all this off under our noses in just a few days, she’s worthy of admiration. Even putting parental bias aside, she’s incredibly competent.

*Competent, but still a yuri orc.*
Shiori and I always make sure to get consent before setting up a scheme. We don’t force extraordinary onto people who love the ordinary and peaceful, and we always leave an escape route. If they get tired of fighting the World Shadow, they can give up their powers and return to being a regular civilian.
Rin doesn’t do that. She just dumped obstacles to God knows where. She doesn’t seem to have any thorough plans for unforeseen circumstances, and no preparations for emergencies either.
She did give them enough equipment that they’re not completely helpless, even if not able to call for rescue and return immediately. So she probably really didn’t intend to kill them—just wanted to get them far away. But there’s no denying she forced a one-sided danger onto them.
*Hmm.*

I gave my opinion as Chief Justice of the Sago Family Court:

“What she did is nothing short of problematic, but Rin did put some thought into it. I believe there’s room for leniency.”

Rin-chan’s face lit up with joy.

“I love you, Daddy!”
“Gwah!”

*S-stop that! Don’t shake my heart like that! You’re making me want to declare you innocent!*

“I love you too, Mommy!”
“I know. Then, considering the circumstances, I will now deliver my verdict.”

Without so much as a twitch of her brow, Shiori struck the table with the wooden gavel she had somehow obtained.

“Rin’s crimes are grave, but due to her early confession and the defense’s plea, the sentence is reduced. An eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth. She shall be exiled to the Sahara Desert for three days with water and emergency medical supplies.”
“Th-the desert!?”
“Oh? Would you have preferred outer space?”
“I’ll take the desert!!!”

And so, half-crying Rin-chan was sentenced to desert exile. The Code of Hammurabi²
is scary, isn’t it?

The Sago Family Court is swift from sentencing to execution.
With water, emergency medical supplies, a beacon with vitals monitoring, and sunscreen (a secret gift from Daddy), Rin-chan was express-shipped via telekinesis straight into the heart of the Sahara Desert. *Farewell, Rin-chan, until we meet again.*
We’ll be keeping track of her vitals so she won’t die, but being thrown into the desert is brutal. Let her experience with her own body the consequences of what she’s done.

Still, even if it’s karmic retribution, is it really okay for a parent to feel so little guilt doing this to their daughter? Well, then again, when I was in grade school and broke the living room window playing monster games, I got locked out of the house from evening until morning. Maybe exile punishments as discipline are more common than I thought.

Now then, even though Rin-chan is now a wanderer, the problem isn’t solved. Shouta-kun is still somewhere in the Amazon, and Shige-Jii is in the Middle East. First, we have to rescue the two of them.
Shouta-kun’s parents might be about to file a missing persons report, and Shige-jii is simply too frail. Just getting an upset stomach from unfamiliar water could be a real threat to their lives.

But how do I find them? Using telepathy is difficult with so few clues. My psychic ability just extends my vision—it’s basically like flying around and visually searching, passing through objects but still relying on line of sight.
It’s good for exposing a specific hidden thing in a specific place, but terrible for trying to search a vast area for an unknown something.

If I could find out where the two were sent via the informant Lee, that would help, but Lee is tight-lipped and only communicates via synthetic voice online, so I can’t locate them even with clairvoyance.

So, I’ll start with the easier one to locate: Shige-jii.
First, Shiori listed villages in the Middle East with no nearby airport, no Japanese embassy, no public transit or internet access—basically places that would make returning to Japan difficult. There are villages not even on maps that only locals know, but even Japanese underworld types wouldn’t know about those. The black-market operator probably picked a convenient village that fit the client’s order.
I then used telepathic clairvoyance to scan the listed villages for Shige-jii. I checked every part of the villages—even inside homes, even in toilets. *Sorry for violating everyone’s privacy.*

By the time I’d spent three hours checking just the first village, I gave up on this method. There were over 200 villages on Shiori’s list. Checking them all nonstop would take a month. Way too inefficient.

So we decided to distribute flyers. A classic method for missing persons. If we can’t find him, we’ll make him find us.
We printed a ton of flyers featuring Amaterasu’s sun symbol and only the Japanese phrase “Raise the smoke signal,” then shipped them to the region and scattered them from the sky. Now we just wait for Shige-jii to see one, raise a smoke signal, then find and retrieve him.

The plan worked quickly. By dawn the day after the flyers were dropped, black smoke rose from village #189 on the list. Shige-jii, with a scruffy beard and slightly haggard face, was safely recovered by a local agent hired by Shiori.
His usual nonsense didn’t help since no one understood him, but he managed to get by after being hired by a kind, grandfather-loving young man to guard camels. The money Rin gave him was stolen on the first day.

The strange flyers with odd symbols and language became local rumors but were casually accepted—used as fire starters or memo paper. Apparently, past propaganda during conflicts involved similar flyers, so people assumed this was just more of the same. A lucky outcome.

Now then, next is Shouta-kun.