Mr. Hurt. What in the world are you doing?

　Late at night, I was getting ready to go deliver a gift to Akari when Tina called out to me.

"Akari believes in Santa Claus, so I thought I'd go give him a present.

Santa Claus?

Oh, you mean the gifters on my side of the world? Akari believes in gifters. She's already sixteen, but I think she deserves a gift from a Gifter for once.

...Are you planning to become a Gifter, Master Hurt?

'Yes!　My gifter was Tina, so now I'm going to be Akari's gifter.

'Well, did I?　Um, what are you talking about?

　Hmm?　Maybe Tina thinks I haven't figured it out yet?
　Well, that's okay.

Anyway, I'm going to go to Akari's now to bring you a present, so go to bed.

'Really? I see. But Master Hurt what are you wearing?

　I'm wearing a red outfit with white trim and a red nightcap on my head.
　I made it myself, trying to get a feel for it.

　Of course, I also prepared a big white gift bag.
　The gifts in that bag were prepared by reading Akari's thoughts with the mind-reading technique and what she wanted.

'In our world, this is what Santa wears.

　The only information I had was that gifters are beings who bring gifts to children who have been good all year - and I didn't know what to dress like.

　So I dressed up as Santa Claus, which was common in the original world.

'Well, I mean, it's kind of like a complete prowler's figure, isn't it?

　Tina's gaze is cold.

　Yeah. I can understand that feeling.

　If Santa's presence hasn't been established, this figure is suspicious to anyone who sees it.

　I'm going to make sure that Akari doesn't see me, but it might be bad if the rest of the family sees me too. That just makes the mission a little more difficult.

'Don't worry. No one will see you. Okay, then!

　I started to move towards Akari's room.



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　Since it's late at night, I could normally come to the front of Akari's room without being seen by anyone.

　The mansion is filled with my magic, so if someone tries to go out into the corridor, I'll know instantly.

　Fortunately, no one woke up tonight.


　Incidentally, there are countless traps placed in this mansion against intruders from the outside as well.

　Even though they're intruders, it's not like they're setting up so many dangerous traps because they don't want blood to be shed inside their homes. If I detected anyone other than the person I had registered my magic power with, I had made it a trap that would transfer it somewhere far away.

　I've set about a thousand of those traps so that I can eliminate intruders no matter where I walk in the large mansion.

　If someone were to break into this mansion, it would be absolutely impossible for them to move through the mansion.


　So what about opening the window and entering the room?

　Of course, that's been taken care of, too.

　Originally, the windows of the original mansion that my father prepared for me were ordinary windows with glass inlaid into a wooden frame. Since this is the grounds of the Ifrus Magic Academy, the possibility of bandits entering in the first place is extremely low.

　However, I'm an enemy of the evil gods, so it's not always the case that demons and other minions of the evil gods won't come. I thought it was necessary to be able to endure such an attack by an outsider, so I greatly strengthened the mansion.

　I can pour magic power into wood and metal to 'blacken' it.

　With the blackened wooden stick, it becomes hard enough to break Orihalcon's sword.

　That's why I blackened all the window frames in the house.

　In the same way, I poured magic power into the glass and increased its strength.

　I think I can withstand a laser that consumed the magic power of one of Yoko's tails in plenty of time.

　Also, I've made it so that only my family can open and close the windows, so it's impossible for even a demon or a demon to get in through the windows.

　In other words, even if there were a Gifter in this world, there's no way he could bring gifts to my family.

　So I'll have to be Akari's gifter.

　Of course, the trap doesn't work on me, so I'm free to roam the mansion even in the middle of the night.


　Now, let's get into Akari's room.

　Now here's the problem.

　Akari is a brave man, so he has a trait that makes him incapable of being caught by surprise.

　It seems that if someone approaches him while he's unconscious, he'll spontaneously wake up. The stronger the approaching object is, the further away it is, the more it will wake up.

　By the way, the strength(──) of the thing is based on its level.

　I'm a level 1, so even if I get close enough to touch my body, Akari won't be able to detect me.

　This is because a normal level 1 human would not be able to injure a level 300 Akari with a hero.

　Moreover, she is protected by a thin magical protective barrier at all times, so it's absolutely impossible for any level 1 person to directly touch her skin.

　Well, I'm not attacking Akari, and I'm not here to touch her body, so it's not a problem.

　All you have to do is put the present under your pillow without being noticed.

　Without being noticed - so there's another problem.

　It's Tet, the pet Akari has with her.

　The Tet in the form of a black kitten is a being that Bastet, the god of the world that Akari and I originally came from, was reincarnated into this world with Akari.

　Akari also has an excellent enemy detection ability, but Tet is even better.

　All creatures in this world possess more or less magical power without fail.

　If they have excellent magic power sensing like Tina and Tet, they can perfectly grasp the movements of humans without having to see them.

　Until I come here, if I move, my magic power moves along with it, so Tet can tell that I am approaching.

　I don't want Tet to be aware of this, either.

　That's why I adjusted the amount of magical power deployed in the mansion and my own, and blended myself into the magical power spreading in the mansion.

　It's been proven that by doing this, even Tina's magic detection ability can be fooled.

　Since I used it to get here, I'd like to believe that Tet hasn't found out about my approach yet either.......


　Now, next time I have to open the door.

　But I'm pretty sure the door will be revealed by the sound of the door being opened....

　Hmm, what should I do?　

　I was facing the biggest challenge of all, to give Akari a gift.