Welcome home, Lady Fuyao, my lady.
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　The three "Etoile" golems bow small, just as the silver dragon matches the humanized white silver "Shirogane". These three bodies are becoming more and more impressive.
　The reason I came to the underworld this time is to make sure that the great attack of the Freys that occurred in Sandra the other day didn't have any effect on this world as well.
　No Freys seeking the nucleus of the "King" will appear here. But mutants are different. That's why I was a bit worried that mutants might be appearing in large numbers in the underworld, just as they are in the surface world.
　Well, as soon as I got there, I searched for "mutant species" but didn't get it. It seems my fears were unfounded.

''Fuyoru-kun, Fuyoru-kun. I wonder if I'm included in the 'wives' mentioned earlier?　Huh?
I'm not in. "Wives and others.
You could be 'the wives and mistresses'

　The doctor, still wearing a sloppy white coat, grinned and said that.
　The five people who accompanied him this time were Yumina, Lou, Linse, Lean, and Dr.
　Sue, Else, Yae, Hilda, and Sakura couldn't come because they had things to do. Sue is at her parents' house, Else, Yae, and Hilda are with the Order, and Sakura is helping her mother, Fiana-san, with her school.
　This time I only came to check on the mutants, so my errands were already done, but Linse and Leanne wanted to read in the mansion's stacks and take a walk around the city, which the doctor couldn't do the other day.
　It would be a shame to just go home, so I decided to go with them. Yumina and Lou were on board as well.

Then let's just go to the Holy City again.
Would you like some food while you're at it?
I like it.

　I open the 【Gate】 and the four of us, Yumina, Lou, and the doctor, shift to the back alleyway where there is no more popular 《people》 like before.
　When we step out onto the main street, we can still hear the bustling bustle of Golems coming and going.
　We buy a newspaper from the town's newspaper vendor and after strolling around various places, we head to the café we had previously entered with everyone else.
　Since it was beyond the mid-afternoon mealtime, we were seated right away. We ordered a light meal and a drink called "Kofi" that the person sitting next to us was drinking. I think the aroma is probably coffee.
　As I eat the sandwiches and salads that have been brought to me, I look over the newspaper I bought. If Leanne were here, she'd scold me for misbehaving again.

I'm sure you'll find this kind of newspaper useful. I wonder if we can't do it in Brunhild.
'At the moment, we don't have a very well-developed method of long-range communication in general. We could mass-produce them in Babylon, but this kind of thing inevitably produces the kind of misinformation and conspiracy theories. I don't know if it's a good idea to get the world talking for no reason, but it's certainly useful.

　I handed the newspaper to the doctor and drank the "coffees" that were brought to me after dinner. Yes, it's still coffee. It's a little sour and I don't like the taste, but that doesn't mean it's undrinkable. ...put sugar in it.

"Hmm?

　The doctor, who was reading the newspaper, makes a small noise. As it was, he was staring at something with narrowed eyes, but then he pulled something out of his pocket and started peering at the newspaper. Is that a loupe?

What's going on?
No, it's a story here.

　He pointed to a place where a pirate ship had washed ashore in the port of Barkuru.

A pirate ship of unknown nationality has washed ashore in the port of Valkur. The thirty-four crew members were captured.
Look at these pictures of the wrecked pirate ship. Here. A crest on a battered sail. Don't you recognize it?

　Hmm?　A sigil?　I borrow a loupe from the doctor and stare at the black-and-white newspaper photo, magnifying it. It's torn about halfway through.
　What I see in the loupe is a black and white unicorn, a unicorn, supporting a starry shield....... What is this........!

'Why is the leaflet crest...?

　I stare at it magnified with a loupe in astonishment. It's not the case that this is the ship that was lost during the slaying of the pirates?　As I recall, it was the McClane or something like that...!
　As I hurriedly read the article, I found that the ship washed up in the harbor was a mysterious vessel of unknown nationality, all of the crew members did not speak the language, and it was currently being held by the Lords of Barkul Port.

'What do you mean by that?　Why is a reef lease ship in this world?
''I don't know........ I've heard before that gods often drift off to other worlds before....

　As I answered Lou's question, I tried to wrap my head around it. Was this a coincidence? Or..........

'Either way, we can't just leave him alone. We have to help.
Hang on. I don't mind helping you, but then what do we do?　You're sending me back to Leafy's?
Of course, of course...
Yeah. 'If we save them normally, we'll have to explain this world to them. Not just to the crew, but to the reef lease and, by extension, all the representatives of the surface world. It's still too soon to tell, I suppose.

　Indeed. Other worlds are not something that everyone can accept like Yumina and the others. With the existence of Fraise and the others, you can understand it to some extent, but.......

''........I remember there was an ancient magic of the dark attribute that put you in a hypnotic state, right?
You mean "Hupnosis"?　Well, I suppose that would fuzz up my memory.

　The ancient magic of the dark attribute includes magic of the mental interference system. There are a lot of magic such as memory manipulation, coma, confusion, insanity, temptation, insanity, and mental breakdown that could lead to serious problems if one mistake is made.
　Normally, I would hesitate to use it on anyone other than villains and criminals, but in this case it's unavoidable. Besides, if you're locked up in a prison without understanding the language and without being able to communicate, you might be happier not to have such memories.
　I've read the spellbook in Babylon's Library, so I think it's probably useful.

Anyway, let's go rescue them. The place is the Kingdom of Panachez, the port of Barkul here?

　On the map screen of my phone (no spatial projection as it is a café), I check the location of the port as described in the newspaper.

'Palouf and Linier the country on the island of Parnier as we call it in our world.

　Looking into the map, Umina was right, the port of Barkul existed on the island of Parnier in our world.
　'It's a bit far from Arendt,' she said.

I'll fly down here once I'm done. You all wait here.
I understand. Take care of yourself.

　Maybe I can use [Teleportation] to transition in an instant, but I've been hurt by that before. Let's go there without getting sidetracked. If I fly as fast as I can, it won't take me more than thirty minutes.
　I jumped out of the cafe, entered the back alleyway right next to it and disappeared with 【Invisible】. As it was, he jumped up to several thousand meters in the sky with 【Fly】 in one go, and flew at high speed above the clouds with super acceleration by 【Accelerator】.
　Eventually we reached the sea, and a large island came into view ahead of us. That's the Kingdom of Panachez, not Parnier Island.
　As soon as I landed at the port of Barkul, which is located to the southeast of it, I immediately opened the 【Gate】 and returned to the back alley of the Holy Royal Capital, taking everyone waiting at the café, and tongued down to the port of Barkul again with the 【Gate】.

''There are a lot of ships staying here. It's an oddly shaped ship.''

　Lou scurried around looking at the ships floating in the harbor.
　Among the ships that lined the harbor, there were also ships without sails. A steamboat........or is it a magician ship?　Some golems were also unloading and other things on the pier, along with the crew.
　There was a lot of fish for sale at the harbor stalls. The unique fishy smell poked my nose, but not as much as I thought. Will it be frozen with magically created ice?
　The good smell of the grilled fish sold at the stall almost caught me, but I had to be patient. We had no time for such a thing. But I wonder if that thing they're grilling over there is turban shells....

"Fuyao-san, that!

　Yumina pointed to a battered ship floating silently on a secluded beach. And on the sail, hanging powerlessly from its broken mast, was the unicorn's coat of arms. It was still the coat of arms of the leaflet. No doubt about it.
　I went up to check the hull, and found that the plate with the name "McClane" engraved on it was on the verge of being removed, but still hanging there.

I knew it was the McClane.

　So, as the name of the ship suggests, he was a reluctant survivor, just like the bad luck detective.
　I called out to a sailor who was nearby to ask him about the details.
　He told me that the ship had washed ashore here four days ago in the morning after a storm had passed. There were thirty-four crew members found on board. There seemed to be some others, but they were already dead.
　We tried to get them to tell us what had happened, but we couldn't communicate with them at all, and all we got was a bunch of unintelligible words.
　When I asked him to show me a map and point to where he came from, he just turned the map over and complained about something, but he didn't get the point, and he seemed to be frightened when he saw Golem. Perhaps because of the extreme conditions, some of them began to riot, and they were unavoidably detained and thrown into prison.
　Weapons and cannons were found inside the ship, and it was believed to be one of the pirates ravaging the seas around.
　Of course, it was a military ship to begin with, so it was loaded with weapons.

It was originally set sail to exterminate pirates...

　It's very discouraging to be treated as a pirate.
　It seems that their treatment is still undecided, but if they're completely determined to be pirates, they'll be hanged. We have to get him out of there as soon as possible.
　It seems that the crew of the McClane is being held in a prison adjacent to the guard's quarters in the harbor.
　It's broad daylight, but it doesn't matter, because they're going to disappear and sneak in. We arrived at a three-story soldier's quarters in a corner of the harbor. The building next to it is a prison. It's a rude building, made of what looks like concrete.
　Maybe it's because it's daytime, but there's only one person guarding the entrance. There are people walking normally on the street, and if something happens, guards will fly in from next door. Is that why the security is loose? Although I'm grateful for that on this side.

[Invisible]

　They all disappeared in the shadows and passed proudly by the guards. In a secluded corner of the building, there was a staircase leading to the basement, and several prisons at the end of it.
　There were about ten of them, and they were being held in three different prisons. Some were sitting helplessly, some were lying down, and some were leaking small sobs, all nodding off.
　I activate [Silence] so that no sound can be leaked to the outside. Even if they make noise with this, the soldiers above won't be able to find them.
　I deactivate [Invisible]. The crew backed away in surprise at the intruder that suddenly appeared in front of them.

''Is there a captain or captain among these people?''
You speak our language?
Yes. Yes, we know you're headed out of Lefelease to kill pirates.

　A red-bearded man in dirty clothes came up to the bars from among the startled crew and spoke to me.

'My name is Simmons,' he said. I'm the second-in-command of this unit. The captain was thrown overboard on his way to wash up here.
What the hell happened?　Tell me more about it.

　When I spoke to him, Vice Captain Simmons looked down with an anguished expression and began to speak in chunks as if he were retracing his memory.

I don't know..... I don't know........We were heading to the pirates' hideout that day, along with the rest of the fleet. However, I suddenly realized that the entire area around us was covered in fog. I should have known something was wrong at that point. It had been a beautiful day. The fog got deeper and deeper, and then I noticed that it was emitting a golden glow. We couldn't see where we were going, going forward, or spinning around in the golden fog. Our compass was useless, and we couldn't see the sun or the stars. Eventually the fog lifted, and now a huge storm was brewing. Everyone was clinging to their boats and praying that the ship would not sink. The storm passed, and the next thing we knew we were washed up on the beach here. Saved, I thought, but now I couldn't get through to them. I rattled off the names of all the countries I could find, but they didn't seem to know anything at all. And a ship that I've never seen before and an iron creature that I've never seen before.... Where in the world are we?　What the hell are those iron creatures?　The overturned map...
Darkness invites you to plant a false memory, a false memory, a hypnosis.

　Without letting Vice Captain Simmons finish, he invoked the [Hypnosis] magic without question.
　A purple haze 《moya》 filled the area, and the crew members gradually looked at each other in a trongy manner.

You know what? You are separated from the reef lease fleet and have been attacked by a sea monster. I managed to save you, but you were lost and caught in a storm that left you in a life-or-death situation. I had strange dreams and was confused by hallucinations that came from hunger and extremes. Strange ships and iron creatures are the reason for this. They are dreams. They are hallucinations.
Gen.................

　The crew is mumbling and mumbling with dazed eyes. I hope I rubbed it in well.
　Lou asked me if it was okay to be so sketchy, but since he rewrites his memories of these things for his own convenience, it's probably okay. And it's true that he was in a storm.
　The point is, just think of it as a dream about what happened in this port city.
　After breaking the lock on the prison, I connect the [Gate] to the garden of the mansion on Dracliff Island and ask Yumina and the others to lead me ahead.
　Wobbling like sleepwalkers, the crew passed through the 【Gate】 as Yumina and the others led them through.
　After transferring everyone including Yumina and the others to the other side, I escape from the dungeon. The McClane, which was washed up on the shore, is retrieved in storage. And before it becomes a commotion, I also go to Dracliff Island.
　In the yard where I've been transposed, the crew members with eyes that are still unable to fixate on their point of view are still sitting there.
　It's not good for our mental health, either, to leave them in this state for too long. We have to take them back to the world as soon as possible.
　And suddenly, my phone announces an incoming call. Hmm?　In this world, receiving an incoming call is.... When I check, it still reads "Incoming God".

'Yes, hello.'
Oh, Fuyao-kun, isn't it? You look like you're having a hard time.
Oh, did you see that?
"Mm. I need to talk to you for a moment. It has to do with a problem you're dealing with right now. When you get a moment, would you mind coming over later?

　To the God Realm?　What are we talking about?　I agree for now and hang up the phone.
　What I'm involved in right now........is it this otherworldly drifting incident?　Did God have some kind of problem with them........
　.........oops, I've got to do something about these people first.
　I opened the 'dimensional gate' that stood in the center of the garden and connected the two worlds.