Chapter 239 – A WONDERFUL ADVENTURE (1/2)

CHAPTER 239 – A WONDERFUL ADVENTURE

Under the blue sky, Eleanor and I laid down on the ground close to each other.

Eleanor’s body is small, small that I would feel like I would break her if I hug her tightly.

That body of hers laid down on top of me, and would hit my me in the chest from time to time.

「How dare you」

「Un?」

「How dare you make me your woman」

「You were such a good woman after all」

「No thanks nor apologies huh」

「Leaving aside thanking you, do I also need to apologize?」

「Of course you do」

Eleanor looked up to me while our body stuck to each other.

「Don’t you think apologizing to a woman who is forced to wait for four hundred years, with only a moment of pleasure as her support, fair enough?」

「I see, in your perspective, you will need to wait for four hundred years huh」

When we came to this era, when Io saw Rodotos, she said that he was a character from four hundred years ago.

The pair ticket for a wonderful adventure.

I gained the rights to travel through space by winning the lottery, but that journey is about to end.

After it ended, Eleanor must continue to stay in this era.

「……」

「What’s the matter? You’re suddenly frowning. What are you thinking」

「I’ll do something to take you to my eraーーow!」

Eleanor pinched me.

It doesn’t hurt as much as I said, it was literally just a pinch.

Rather than that, I looked at Eleanor who suddenly did that.

「What are you doing」

「It’s punishment for your arrogance. You don’t need to think of that」

「Butーー」

「What are you going to do if there were aftereffects if you take me to the future? If Hikari was not born because of that, how are you going to take responsibility?」

「Mu……!」

She pointed out something I couldn’t refute.

It’s the thing called time paradox. During time travel, actions taken in the past would consequently affect the future.

Honestly, I really don’t know what and how things would change up until now, but in the case when I take Eleanor with me, the Eleanor of “that” time will disappear, and there will be a possibility that Hikari would not be born.

And that is……a little too……

「I shall stay here. What, a mere four hundred years is not that long. It would quickly pass by as I played with five or six humans」

「Do it in moderation」

「I’ll try to do that」

My pillow talk with Eleanor was not romantic even for flattery. But, it was really very like Eleanor, so I didn’t hate going along with her.

「For starters, I’ll start playing with that woman 」

「That woman?」

「The woman who was the trigger when you first tore the dimensional wall. Her name was probablyーー」

「Are you talking about Tanya?」

「It’s that woman. Now that’s decided, I’ll offer that Tanya woman a contract. After the contract ends, her soul will be unable to enter the heavens, eternally bounded in the earth, but that can’t be helped」

「……」

“Hey hey, do it in moderation okay……”, but when I was about to say that, I somehow stopped myself.

Although she’s saying it in a very roundabout way, Eleanor is telling me that she would protect Tanya for me.

That’s why Tanya became a ghostーーor an evil spirit huh.

「Thank you」

「No need to thank me. I told you right? It’s just to kill time」

「I see」

「Also, Tanya might refuse you know? I am not omnipotent. I can only do things what a Demon Sword is able to. Tanya must suffer through the rest of her life」

……ahh, it was like that huh.

I remembered the fortune teller, Akansa’s words.

In Tanya’s fate, “Painful and agonizing, a suffering as if you were in eternal hell is waiting for you”.

And after overcoming it, she was told that there is “one part good and nine parts bad”.

I disagreed with her nine bads.

Since she will meet me in the future, since she will become my woman, it would definitely be ten good.

I thought that her suffering through hell is the several hundreds of years after she turns into a ghost, but it might be pointing at Eleanor.

「What? Aren’t you persuading me to do it in moderation, or be more thoughtful of her?」

Eleanor looked up to me curiously while our body was stuck to each other.

「Wasn’t she a woman you hold dear?」

「I’ll make it up to her later. No, not only that. I will make her so happy later on, that she would forget everything that happened with you」

「Can you do that?」

「Of course」

I answered instantly.

Tanya is my woman. No matter what, I’ll definitely make her happy.

While I was talking with Eleanor like that, with our bodies cuddling closely, I saw a shadow passing in the blue sky.

The shadow made a turn, then slowly landed.

It was Olivia in her dragon form.

「Finally here. I am also there」

「You can tell?」

「Yeah, I can tell it clearly. And, about Hikari too」

……did she get, connected?

Finding out that Hikari is riding on Olivia, Eleanor and I stood up and wore our clothes.

At almost the same time we fixed ourselves, Olivia landed.

Io, Tanya, and Hikari got off her back. After everyone got off, Olivia returned to her human form as well.

Hikari ran up to us while hugging the Demon Sword Eleanor.

「Otou-san〜!」

「Sorry, Hikari, I did something like throwing you. Were you okay?」

「Is Otou-san okay?」

「Sorry for making you worry」

「……this man, he apologized twice in an instant」

Standing beside me, Eleanor muttered while rolling her eyes.

「What, what do you mean by that?」

「I was just strangely impressed」

「……?」

Was there anything to be impressed for in our conversation earlier?

While feeling curious about it, I received the sword Eleanor from Hikari.

『It looks like you had fun last night』

「What, you can tell it too? Is it because it’s yourself?」

『Nope, it’s just that I saw a woman’s face. The women that you take in as yours would always make that face』

「What kind of face?」

「Okaa-san, do you feel happy right now?」

Hikari asked the Eleanor in her human form, the Eleanor in this era. I was told “that kind of face” by the sword Eleanor.

「Umu, just decent」

「Is it because you were with Otou-san?」

「I don’t mind recognizing that fact」

「I see〜. Ehehe〜」

「What?」