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- Kumo desu ga, nanika? - 216 Temporary Return
- It stunk.
- The assault of the worst stench of my life made me reflexively lower the sensitivity of my nose.
- A nose as good as a dog's turned into one as good as a human's.
- Still, the unpleasantness had taken hold and didn't quite go away.
- The wind caressed my skin.
- Another feeling hardly pleasant sensation.
- Frankly, it was cold.
- All kinds of sounds reached my ears.
- The people walking past me talking.
- The cars driving by.
- Music leaking from the appartment buildings.
- I was in front of the station in a town that toed the delicate line between rural and metropolitan.
- I had returned to Japan.
- Among the duties I had given my offshoots, the most important had been finding a way to teleport to earth.
- There were a number of reasons.
- Games, manga, sweets, instant noodles.
- Eh?
- There's no good reason coming to mind?
- Oh, whatever.
- First, I entered a convenience store.
- By the way, I wasn't wearing my usual robe.
- It screamed "fantasy" way too clearly. Instead I had changed into clothes that wouldn't feel out of place in Japan.
- It seemed to be winter, so I was wearing an appropriate white coat as well as a skirt and boots.
- I was completely white, so with my clothes white, too, I did stand out though.
- Changing their color wasn't impossible, but it's a pain.
- I'd go back soon anyway, so as long as they don't call the police on me, standing out a bit is no problem.
- Having my eyes closed all the time might be a bit dangerous though.
- Inside the convenience store, I grabbed the next best magazine.
- Then, I checked the issue.
- Seeing the date, although not entirely unexpected, gave me a little surprise.
- Although more than five earth-years had passed in the other world, here only half a year had gone by.
- Apparently the flow of time differed.
- Was this the special theory of relativity?
- Nahh, I only wanted to say that once. I don't know the special theory of relativity, so I wouldn't know anyway.
- Welp, being hung-up over physics in a world with magic energy and stuff is off, anyway.
- But still, half a year, huh...
- Figures that things still look like I remember them.
- After five years, the buildings and so may very well look different, so I'd thought it strange when that wasn't the case.
- So when I thought "No way" and checked, I turned out to be right.
- Since I was already there, I caught up reading the weekly manga inside the store and left without buying anything.
- Eh?
- Buy something?
- I'm broke. Got a roblem?
- Besides, the clerk gave me those dubios looks when I kept reading manga eyes closed~
- I hurriedly made my exit.
- Yep.
- My X-ray vision properly works on earth, too.
- In the first place, if magic didn't work here, I wouldn't have been able to teleport here. My safe arrival proved that wrong.
- In literature, earth often doesn't develop magic for reasons like having no magic energy, but that doesn't seem to be the case.
- No idea why it didn't develop though.
- Somebody might be pulling strings behind the scenes, but what do I know.
- Still, I wanted to head to the likely candidate for that string-pulling.
- It goes without saying that candidate is D.
- My biggest reason for coming to earth was meeting D in person.
- Entertainment and such were only secondary.
- Really, okay?
- I knew about D, but that was it.
- We'd never met.
- But my pride didn't allow me becoming the kin of someone I'd never met.
- I originally really didn't want to become someone's underling.
- Even if I was to make a concession and unwillingly give in there, I at least wanted it to be for someone I can accept.
- That's why I had to judge D with my own eyes.
- Was that person worthy for me to work for?
- Unfortunately, I probably wouldn't be able to win with power.
- D was the creator behind a super-complex, large scale magic like the System, if nothing else.
- Knowing a fraction of that, I caught a glimpse of its even artistic perfection.
- That alone told of our difference in power.
- Even after becoming a god, being the lowest class god who can't properly utilize her power that I am, I had no chance of winning.
- Besides, if I was to blindly believe fragmented information and what D disclosed, then D was particularly strong even among gods.
- If I was to blindly believe it, that is.
- That's why I wouldn't look at D's power.
- I'd see whether D gave me the right feeling or not.
- Nothing more, nothing less.
- If, by chance, it wasn't right, then I'll think about it when the time comes.
- I could pretend to submit for a while and run away, or build up power and overthrow D, depending on how I feel.
- Just like I'd always done so far.
- I walked towards my destination.
- There was none of the earthy smell I was used to, only various stenches.
- The concrete road stretched on endlessly.
- The town felt somewhat cramped.
- None of those sensations particularly moved me.
- I didn't feel like I'd come home.
- You could say it's natural.
- If I had to say, there was only that hazy feeling.
- Ah, a Gyuudon stall.
- Ahh, wanna eat~.
- But, no money.
- I wonder if D will give me an allowance?
- If so, then I'd have no problem making D my master, yep.
- I walked from the station to a residential area.
- Compared to downtown, there were less people here, and shops slowly disappeared.
- I walked on.
- There was a single house, hiding in the shadows between to others.
- A single house, around 10 years old, without any particular features.
- I opened the gate and walked towards the entrance.
- I thrust my finger between the roots of the potted plant standing next to the it.
- There was the key there.
- With the key, I opened the front door.
- The inside was ruled by silence.
- Right after coming inside, there were the stairs up.
- Without hesitation, I climbed them.
- Arriving on the second floor, I opened the door right next to me.
- I could hear the faint sounds of a computer inside.
- The screen shows a game, a bald, old man magnificently dodging his enemies' attacks.
- Everytime he does, the controller rattles.
- "Welcome. Or maybe I should say 'Welcome back'?" The girl holding the controller said without turning around.
- "It's the first time in my life that I'm here, so it would be 'Welcome'?"
- Curiously, my words came out fluently.
- The demon queen aside, that might be the first person I could talk to properly.
- And I knew why.
- "Nice to meet you, I suppose? Wakaba Hiiro-san. Or should I call you D?"
- The girl turned around.
- My face as I remember it.
- A girl looking exactly like me.
- The difference was that she let her hair down, and her slightly different expression.
- "Nice to meet you, my substitute."
- Said my expressionless original.
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