118-117. Daughter-in-law




 Well, I got screwed from the beginning.
 In the redone timeline, I agreed to the princess's pledge, really peacefully.

'Come to think of it, what's the pledge this time?

 Cianne, who has recovered from the shock, sends a tumultuous look at us while sprinkling a wave of killing intent.
 She really wants to kill him.

You can't be sure of that. The guardianship that the princess was talking about didn't quite make sense to me, but if you need someone like me to keep this world from being destroyed or whatever... well, it's a typical stay-at-home type of pledge. Apparently, all you have to do is stay in this world for a while.

 This type of stay-at-home pledge is not so unusual.

 Other worlds with extreme energy balances, if left unchecked, will go to destruction on their own.
 Whether it's positive or negative energy, it's the same thing.

 What's important is the nutritional balance of the planet. It's the same with normal creatures.
 That's why they maintain the balance of energy by summoning beings like me from another world... Well, the situation is different in each different world, and I don't know the details of the mechanism.
 In other words, I guess we can think of it like humans eating lactic acid bacteria yogurt.

''What?! Then you want me to stay in these humans' lodgings and stay quiet!

 After being defeated by Adi, and even more so by her mother Ituna, Sianne's impatience seems to be considerable.
 

I'm going to travel to shorten my stay. In short, the sooner I solve the energy problem in this world, the better.
Tabitha!
Travel!

 When Stella and Addy hear my answer, they cheerfully banzai.

'You mean, Addy, you're going to follow me?
''No, the school is on summer vacation and I'm not busy.
'No, you ... doesn't that mean you have homework or something?'

 Addy looks away from her father's eyes, saying, "I'm sorry.

'Hey, my girl,'
'No, no, no! And I was thinking about turning in a diary of my travels with my dad or something! I'm sure you'll learn a lot of things and hahaha!

 
 Well, I don't feel bad that my daughter seems to adore me.
 I've been skipping summer vacation homework to begin with, so I can't afford to be a big boy to my daughter.

"Please, Dad! Let me stay with you for a while! I'll do my best to do chores and everything!
Ummm... on one condition, then.
Conditions?

 To Adi, who was looking at me with a look of puzzlement, I pointed at Cyanne, who was about to fall to the dark side.




''Aaaaaaahhhh........!

 Cianne's scream is a tree spirit in a deep valley lined with steep snowy mountains.
 As we fell down the cliff, listening to her voice grow fainter and fainter due to the Doppler effect.......me and Stella were completely donkeyed.

''Cianne-san! Please get up there before the sun goes down!

 On the other hand, Adi, the person who pushed him down, looks extremely unconcerned and calls out to the darkness below him.

''No, I told you to go along with the training but isn't this too much?

 How many times is this the first time Sianne has fallen.
 How many times is that too spartan........

''I think you're still a much gentler person, but........

 Adi said, sounding like Eva in a heartbeat.

'I mean, Dad is too soft on his wives!
Mm, I don't think so.
You put your mother through a lot of trouble because of it, don't you?

 ... ugh.
 d*mn, I have too many things in mind to argue with!

Shea, sweetheart, we're losing her!
Don't worry. I'll go easy on you, you know.

 Addie, my darling daughter, smiles a nice smile at Stella, who is about to start bawling at the exciting scene.
 Then Stella looked up and stared at me.

I'm not a fan. My baby girl.
Uggh...!

 The young girl's honesty stings more than anything else.
 I can't stand it. Let's get away from this place as soon as possible.

Well, then, Stella-chan and I will go on ahead! Don't kill Sianne!
Okay. Have a nice day.

 Addy waves back at me in a blissful, easy-going tone to alert me to things.
 I wonder if she's okay. The mother has a criminal record.....
 Anyway, while praying for my daughter-in-law's good health and her daughter's self-reliance, I left the place by pulling Stella's hand away.




 I only had a quick look at it on the way, but this other world looks really peaceful.
 There are no vicious demons, and even wars between people from other worlds are at the level of skirmishes.
 The resources are abundant, and there is no need to compete for them.

 The reason for this is quite simple: the energy of the planet is abundant.
 There is almost no negative energy, so there are no legends about the undead.
 Rather, the power of the spirits is so strong that many people seem to be plagued by huge natural disasters.

 People work together to protect themselves from natural threats and survive.
 It seems that this is such a different world.
 Moreover, the god of creation seems to be happy with the current state of affairs...the so-called demon king that is used as a regulator has not appeared yet.

 It may sound like a good thing, but in the case of this other world, one wrong move and the positive energy will increase too much and you could get a flat tire.
 And because of the abundance of resources, it could be a top priority target for otherworldly invaders like Anse-Baal's army, and the potential dangers are numerous.

 That's probably why they summoned otherworldly beings like me as 'guardians' to maintain the balance.
 Perhaps the purpose of summoning a 'guardian' is to have them consume extra energy.
 In other words, the longer they live in the world, the better.

 However, I'm Ryouji Sakagagi, a self-proclaimed destroyer of other worlds.
 I don't care about that, and I'm not good enough to stay here for long.

 The reason why I came to this remote snow-covered mountain is not to drop Cyanne into the Valley of a thousand.
 It was only to investigate the Star Meridian, which should be in this place.
 As you know, the 'meridian of the stars' is a pathway of energy, the main artery of the other world, where the energy balance is disturbed.
 If we remove the cause of the energy imbalance there, we will be able to stabilize the other world and transfer to the next one.

 I'm not sure if I can call it a merit of the injury, but I also understood the constitution of the planet to some extent when I used the World Debugging Cheat.
 It seems to be a congenital factor, and it doesn't seem to be anyone's conspiracy, so it's an easy trip for me to take it easy.
 It is possible to solve this problem by debugging, but there is no guarantee that you won't turn the world into a fairytale again by exercising your unfamiliar ability.
  Let's not do that.

Nee-cha, over here!

 This kind of investigation is Stella's specialty, as she was originally the will of the stars.
 The landscape around us was buried in deep snow, but Stella and I both wore magical devices that allowed us to walk on the snow just like a normal ground.
 So I thought that once I located my meridians, all I had to do was follow Stella's beckoning, and I felt like I was hiking, but frankly, I was in a hurry.

'Nee-cha! That!

 The direction that Stella, wearing a stubby glove, was pointing in wasn't a star meridian.

''A person in distress in a place like this?''

 Someone's hand was growing out of the heavy snowfall.
 Was it caught in an avalanche?
 I don't think there's a human settlement this deep in the mountains in the snow.

 I was whistling as I climbed up the mountain, but snowy mountains are dangerous.
 Moreover, in the case of this other world, the energy that's lost in this world will cause the weather to go haywire, and this may be even worse than the Everest on Earth.
 If you are a local, you should know that.
 If you are a climber, then why...?

 Anyway, as I approached him, thinking that if he was dead, I would bury him, his fingertips twitched with a small movement.

'You're alive!'
Nee-cha! Quickly!

 Stella will rush to the rescue.
 Apparently, it was not the star meridians she was aiming for, but this distressed person.

''Well, if that's the case, it can't be helped!

 There's no reason to abandon them and it's something.
 I dug the supposed distressed person out of the snow with an ice-manipulation cheat and used telekinesis (psychokinesis) to lift them into the air.

'Hey, are you okay?'

 I tapped him lightly on the cheek, but he didn't respond.
 I'm not going to be able to tell whether they are male or female because they are dressed in cold weather gear, although they look petite and look like children.

 In order to nurse the distressed for now, I created a shelter with my Kamakura creation magic.
 You can also do this with the freeze control cheat, but that requires you to think about the shape and size of it from scratch.
 In this kind of situation, the otherworldly magic that has a fixed format is more convenient and less troublesome.

 It looks like a plain ordinary kamakura, but if you make a fire in the center of it, it will become an open hearth.
 Of course, ordinary flames won't melt the magic room.

 After lighting the hearth with ignition magic, you start to make the distressed person take off their thermal protection equipment.
 As it turns out, when I was the age of the distressed person, I was a girl of about 13 or 14.
 I'm pretty sure she stripped naked to save her life.

'But then again, how did you survive?

 The frostbite is so bad that I winced.
 Even a poor massage would destroy the cellular tissue at this point.
 Of course, even as it is now, her limbs are necrotic and useless, so leaving her alone is out of the question.
 I tried rewinding the girl with a time-space manipulation cheat, but it was a bad idea.

"Tsk, I knew it was no good.

 My frostbite is a little better, but it's not a very complete recovery.
 Due to the "Summons and Pledges", I can only rewind with a time-space manipulation cheat until the time I was summoned to another world.
 Since I came to this other world - to be precise, since I came to a different timeline than the other world that was fairchickened - only a few hours have passed.
 With Renmi, she was able to rewind time and restore her virgin membranes and clothes, but in this girl's case, it was impossible because she was lost more than an hour ago.

'If only I could use my recovery magic in a situation like this.

 There's no point in complaining about it.
 Once we've decided to help them, we can't just let them die so easily.

Stella. "Stella-chan, will you take off your clothes with me?
Aye!

 Without a doubt, Stella cheerfully took off her winter clothes.