117 117 "Beer accompanies my fathers long story" (1/2)

”Hey, you're home. So how did you do, little girl? How was your tour of earth?

”Yes!　Very nice place!　Touching, seeing, and tasting all sorts of unfamiliar things, things that just don't exist in the world I was in!　If possible, I would love to bring our culture back to my world!

Haha, well, you can do as much about that as you can. But do it in moderation. If you try to bring in too much of our culture and speed up the evolution, the result could be dangerous.

”More importantly, Dad. Let's get on with it. Why did you put me back in this world?　Also, explain to me what's going on with my dad.

I'm going to ask him again, while holding back Fitis, who is happy to report back to her father.

I've neglected to ask him who he is, or why he was in that world, and so on. It's about time you told us. I mean, just explain.

I guess so. First of all, I was one of those who were accidentally transported to another world. I was about 15 at the time and I was sent to that world.

Considering my father's age, that's about twenty years ago.

So there have been cross-world transitions before that.

But if you think about it, that's true. Even in anime and manga, there have been many transitions to other worlds before that.

But the reason I moved to that world was because the goddess called me.

”To Moe?

”Oh yeah.

Oh. But why again?

”I'm with you on that. For the evolution of the world. You wanted to use an outside force, an alien, to facilitate it.

I see.

So, did my dad help you with that?

Well, indirectly. I met my mother at that destination. By the way, your image at that time was quite different from now. Even though it was the order of the goddess, she was quite unsettled by the fact that we demons were prepared to evolve human beings and that we were hired by them to do so.

I almost asked myself if that was so, but now that I think about it, it's only natural.

As for Lily and Behemoth, they accepted their roles and were rather ready to dedicate themselves to the evolution of the world.

However, this is an act of self-sacrifice, akin to a human pillar.

Even if SS-ranked demons were created just for that purpose, not everyone would accept them.

Mom's dilemma is natural.

She hated humanity at that time. Well, he treated me coldly too, hahahaha.

The old man laughing and talking about his past encounters.

He was what would be called a ”tsundere” nowadays, and while he was coldly criticized many times, he and his friend, a girl called witch, gradually melted Mom's misanthropic feelings, and before he knew it, Dad and Mom had become attracted to each other.

That's a classic otherworldly romance from somewhere.

So what happened after that?

Yeah, well, I got caught up in a battle with the then Demon King. After that, my mom and I were sent to this Earth.

How long have you been flying?　I mean, what was the Demon King back then?

Don't be so quick to foreshadow what's to come!

And then you had me in this world and went back to the other side with your mother?

I know, but do you really think you can just pompously walk across an alternate universe like that?　Don't you think that's God's domain in a way?

Well, that's what I thought.

”Originally, this ability was not mine, but that of Semargul, the Goddess's entourage.

”Oh, that goddess guardian

Yes, she gave me the ability to cross over to another world so that my mother and I could be sent back to Earth.

So that's what happened.

I mean, it's been a while since I've seen that guy's name.

Semargul. He was the young Seemurgle, the SS-ranked demon who came for me at the goddess's. He must have been Locke's father.

You know, I've still left Locke in the other world, is he alright?

It's already been more than half a day, and if this is the case, I might be left behind for more than a day.

While I was worried about this, my dad laughed as if it was no problem.

”Don't worry, Kyou. The ability to cross the different worlds that Semargle gave me can also manipulate time. I'm sure you'll be able to see that it's only been an hour since you moved from here to there.

”Huh?　How can you do that?

Oh, it's not so much an ability to cross over to another world. It's more of a creation skill to create 'space-time'.

The Creation skill of Space-Time. Another one of those grandiose skill names.