Chapter 473: # 473 My friendâs daughter is coming, and the story of the future.
âWhat, so, are you really Mr. Endeâs daughter?!?
âApparently soâŚâ
As I tell Yumina the circumstances, I lie down on the couch and look sideways at the girl sleeping on her knees pillow by Mel.
In the meantime, weâre back at the Royal Castle in Brunhild. Weâre Alistella⌠I tried to talk to you from a girl named AliceâŚ
âNemiui. Iâm sleepingâŚâ
Thatâs all I left to say, and I fell asleep with Melâs lap pillow like a dead battery. Heâs my paced kidâŚâŚ
I spoke to Nay watching him in silence. [M]
âWhat the hell is going on⌠In the meantime, youâre pretty sure that kid is Ende and your kids?
âNo, I donât think so exactlyâŚâŚ This child undoubtedly draws on the properties of Frase, but the ringing sounds of life are not those of me and Lise. Between Endemion and Dear MelâŚâŚ I think so. The ringing noise doesnât lie.â
Well, the hair color is similar to Endeâs, and the eye color is Melâs.
Itâs not surprising that Melâs children call Nay and Lise their mother, who are married as well as Ende.
Ten or eighty-nine, Iâm pretty sure Alice means two children. thenâŚâŚ
âMarriage I could have done⌠No, marriage I could have doneâŚâ
âYou canât even joke about it, winter nightâŚâ
âI donât remember giving birth eitherâŚâ
Aliceâs parents stared at me. Sorry, I was just trying to soothe the air in the field.
âYour children from the future are likely.â
âFrom the future, is it? HowâŚâŚ oh, space-time magic!?
Yumina slaps her hand with bread. Alice hits the sound, yeah, so we lurk.
âHey, Dad. Bring your daughter to bed.â
âSoâŚ! Come on, thatâs enough!
Ende quietly hugs Alice and takes her to a separate room under the guidance of Maid Chief Lapis. Worried behind that, Mel, Nay, and Liseâs mothers followed each other.
Yeah it feels good to be carried while sleeping doing itâŚâŚ When I was a kid, I blurted out that my father carried me, too.
âItâs space-time magic⌠Sure, I donât know. But I donât. There are examples.â
Snuff as Leanne arms on the couch.
Alerias Palerius, the ancestor of the Kingdom of Palerius, the user of space-time magic. Lerios Palerius, the ancestor of the Kingdom of Primula, who flew in an accident to the back world with his son.
He goes back about two hundred years when he was flown to the back world. Well, I didnât seem to notice the flying person.
Not established magic, but space-time magic does have timeless powers.
âSo that kidâs a space-time magic user?
âNo, I donât know if that kid flew into this era hoping. At least it was an accident when Lerios ParelliusâŚâ
I donât know about the future world, but Iâve never heard of timeless space-time magic. From the future to the past in some accident, just like Lerios?
Has there been some hell of a case in the futureâŚâŚ MmmmâŚâŚ I donât know whyâŚâŚ!
âI donât know, if itâs about time, why donât you ask Grandma Toke? Are you sure itâs a space-time god?
âAh.â
Next to me roaring, Su brings out the right answer lightly.
Yes, I did. Grandma Toke is a 'space-time godâ who directs time and space. You probably know about this one too.
⌠No, Grandma Toke may have brought Alice here in the past. When I was talking about Sister Blades, I went to the future for a moment.
âWhat about Grandma?
âUh, I was always on the balcony in the morning, butâŚâ
Thatâs what Lindsay told me when I asked. [M] During the day, my grandmother mostly knits on the balcony. They are restoring the worn out âworldâs boundariesâ through knitting because of the frays.
He eats with us at night, talks to Su and Linze, but generally falls asleep early.
Itâs past ten oâclock. Have you just fallen asleep yet?⌠Oh?
When I felt the usual signs and turned around, Grandma Toke shifted on the spot.
âYes, yes, thank you for waiting.â
My grandmother, who is a space-time god, is also a family member of the same world god as I am, so I can feel that sign of being transferred.
In an attempt to ask the questions I had accumulated, Grandma put her hands together to control it once.
âI know. You mean Alice, right?
âI knew you knew?
âI had a time shift. Thereâs no way I wonât notice. Thought you guys should go rather than me picking you up, and I let you go for a while even when you got to this time.â
Grandma smiles and says so. You seem to know a lot about Alice. Does Alice look familiar after all?
âIs that kid from Ende and Mel, after all?
âYeah. Two kids to be born in the future. Instead of evolving from nucleus to adulthood like Frase, heâs a child who grew up normal like a human being. And, of course, it has the properties of Frase.â
Is Nay right? Turns out that kid is a future child born between Ende and Mel. The question is, why did you come to this age from that futureâŚ
âWas it Grandma who brought that kid here in the past?
âI could say that, but the direct cause is different. They got caught up in the Dimensional Earthquake. I was bounced by the sloppiness of the time and the fault of time. Space-time distortion spreads like a ripple of water, pushing anything drifting like a tsunami away everywhere. Thatâs why I led them to this time before it happened.â
Did Grandma raise it to this age that it could have drifted forever through the confines of space-time?
I hear a lot about space-time drifters on Earth with urban legends and all that⌠Is that true, too? I donât know.
âI gave a good explanation when I was drifting, but you couldnât wait very long. Thatâs why sheâs here.â
Iâm just worried about whether itâs okay to stand around with three big men with a word from âOtenba,â but thatâs not the problem.
âThat âdimensional earthquakeâ? By, you mean the future world was hit by some catastrophe?
Often found in time slips and stuff, the future people who come to change the past from a collapsed future, what an image comes to mind, and they accidentally spit on it.
âNo, nothing in particular has happened. Dimensional earthquakes are distortions of time. Like the ripples produced by droplets dropped on the water, it spreads wide around, but it goes right back to normal. I just happen to have those kids near its center this time. The world of the future is peace itself.â
âBut the future Ende and Mel are worriedâŚâ
âOf the future, they are the present, arenât they? I know all about what happened.â
Grandma Toke answers Linzeâs query with a smile. Is that it? But isnât that strange?
âWhat it means is the future Ende, no, we all knew that dimensional earthquake would happen, including us, right? Why didnât you try to prevent it or keep Alice away?
âI donât need to prevent it, I guess. Because Alice and the others will be back a few seconds after a dimensional earthquake occurs with no problem. From a determined past. Because I know I canât even try to prevent it.â
Uh⌠youâre saying the future canât be changed? Futurists come to try to change the past with time slips and stuff, but I couldnât change it in the end⌠although there are few things that will end well.
âI canât believe Aliceâs arrival has changed my futureâŚâ
âWho do you think I am? Donât worry about that. You donât have to worry about anything about this.â
Whoa. Thatâs the superior god and the family of the world god. How comforting.
I asked for more details, but the Spirit of Time wasnât sure how to repair the event, but he didnât have any problems anyway. Even if Alice asks you about the future, does that not change history? Even if you try to change it, you mean Grandmaâs unchanging power worksâŚâŚ? Thatâs the administrator of time, halfway through, space-time godâŚ
âI wonder if Aliceâs coming to the past or safely returning to the future means that the future has already been finalizedâŚâ
Lene arms up again and thinks.
It would be amazing if the only thing I could see was an artifact peeking into Dr. Babylonâs future that was uncertainâŚâŚ
Probably also easy to change the future the other way aroundâŚâŚ What the hell is that? God. It was God.
Since itâs before the gods built that they donât interfere too much with events on earth, canât the future change dramatically or something?
âLater, Grandma. So how long will Alice be over here?
Su rides himself out of the back of the couch and asks Grandma Toke.
Hmm. Alice is sure to make it back to the future. Whether you leave tomorrow or a year from now, even though itâs only been a few minutes in the era of the future when you were there, it may be a bad idea to be around too long. If I suck, Alice from this era will be born, and Alice wonât be the two of us.
âWell, until the waves of the dimensional earthquake settle⌠itâs a feeling this way for a few months. Donât worry, when weâre all here, Iâll take responsibility for the future.â
âUm, Iâve been wondering since earlierâŚâ
Nanny and Hilda raise their hands small. Hmm? Something bothering you?
âGrandmother Toke said earlier that âthose kidsâ were caught in a dimensional earthquake,⌠Well, justâŚâ
âOh! Oh, yeah! You havenât explained that yet. Iâm sorry. I put the most important thing behind me.â
Grandma Toke smiles bitterly with her hands slapped, punched. Huh? What?
âAlice wasnât the only one caught up in the dimensional earthquake. Your children, too. So one of these days, I think weâre gonna be here.â
ââHuh?
Iâm confused. The voices of me and my wives spooked me so beautifully.
For a few seconds, my head turned bright white and I couldnât think of anything. Probably the same for everyone. Thatâs when the time stopped. We didnât make it faint.
Eventually our time moves with confusion.
âYeah, yeah, yeah! What do you mean, Grandmother?
âHoly shit, kids!? Oh, oh, ours!?
âWhoa, whoa, fall, fall, get there! Sister!â
âMi, are you coming from the future!? My awkward kids!?
âMeâ and Winter NightâsâŚâŚ!
âOh, Grandma! Is that true!? Is it true!?
âIâm just surprised⌠But thereâs a kid with DarlingâŚ? Really?â
âI still have my mind as a mother! Whoa, whoa, what are we gonna doâŚ!
âTo your mother alreadyâŚâŚ! Too soonâŚâŚ!
Big panic. No, Iâm panicking too, but I canât react the other way when Iâm around. He also says he lost the time to be a werewolf.
âUh⌠Grandma? Um, when was thatâŚ?
âThereâs some discrepancy in arriving over here because the timing involved is different, but maybe all within a few months. Just saying Alice was the fastest. Each of the kids nearby might show up together.â
âDamn, damn, that! Is it okay! If only the children were thrown out to dangerous placesâŚâŚ!
Grandma gently holds Louâs shoulder as he rushes.
âYou know, so is Alice, but most of your kids are golden or silver-ranked adventurers. Heâs taking down giant beasts and stuff alive. Just worry about it. Itâs a loss?
ââHuh?
Iâm confused. The voices of me and my wives spooked me brilliantly again.
All of them, gold or silver rank? Youâre lyingâŚ? Did you defeat the giant beast alive? I defeated it with frame gear and it became a gold rankâŚ
Father, I wonât stand upâŚ
âOh, Grandma! My child is a gold rank!? Or silver!?
âOh, that! How many of my kidsâŚâŚ!
âThe Sword skill of the Awkward SonâŚ!
âYes, yes, thatâs it. If I said it all, itâd be boring, wouldnât it? Look forward to seeing you. Oh, why donât we stop talking to Alice?â
âYeaâŚâŚâ
The voices leak from all your wives, you know.
Weâre in big troubleâŚâŚ! I didnât know you were going to soak up childbirth and parenting and meet your own kids who grew up. Iâm sorry if I said this, but Iâve already blown Endeâs problem out of my mind!
âAnd for nowâŚâ
I opened a search site and typed in âHow to deal with childrenâ.
â â â
The next morning.
I can see the blue sky coming out of the window of the big dining room. Clear without clouds, itâs going to be a very nice day.
Even though it was such a refreshing morning, the dining room was surrounded by unusual tensions. Surrounding the long table were me and my wives, Grandma Toke and Sister Shirai, plus Uncle Kosuke (the other gods are still asleep), where as guests, Ende, Mel, Nay, Lise, and Alice in the vortex sat.
So many people, so little talk, only the sound of dishes and dishes rubbing off called kachakacha and Aliceâs pleasant voice echoes.
âYum! I love this! Eat your mother, too!
âYeah, yeah. Iâll take it.â
Alice smiles at Mel sitting next to her as she eats the bacon eggs that were on the table.
Asking flickering about each and every one of them, we couldnât gauge how we should talk. Even though Alice was stopped by Grandma Toke, there are many things Iâd like to ask you.
âA, Alice, how old are you now?
Whoa, Elseâs gone. Youâre gonna spread it out from the unusual story, arenât you? Thereâs something about the smile.
âPfft.â
âWhat, eh? Hey, was something wrong?
Else rushes to Alice, who suddenly erupts, holding a knife and a fork.
âBecause the teacher saysâ Alice âor something. Itâs not the same as usual. Go crazy.â
âLet, Doctor!?
âUh, Dr. Else is my master of martial arts. Oh, six years old.â
âOh yeahâŚâ
Else is the master!? Is Alice a militantâŚ? I did take down the men. Yesterdayâs move was that of the militantsâŚâŚ
I was surprised and a little convinced by the future information I got. His father, Ende and Else, are brothers and sisters of the Martial God. Itâs not strange if it was that kind of relationship.
â⌠wait a minute. Didnât I tell you Else was my master?
âFather, I rarely come back. Iâm tired of sleeping when I think Iâm back.â
â⌠what do you mean youâre not coming back? EndemionâŚâŚ?
âMe!? Hey, I donât know!?
Ende with a chilling eye on Mel and a bumbling neck. No, itâs the future endeavor that doesnât come back, and you donât really blame the current endeavor.
âHe said he was busy at work. Once.â
âFor once! Letâs believe it there!?
Father Ende, who desperately asks his daughter to defend him. Sounds like a pretty interesting family.
âI mean, this guy was working?
âUntil winter nightâŚâ
âDad, I work for the Alliance Master in the Adventurer Alliance. Itâs not Brunhild.â
Yeah, you got information about Polo and the future. The Ende one, do you work in the Adventurer Guild in the future? Ma, Iâm still an adventurer, and I canât tell you if I tell you I work for the guild.
âIs that why Else teaches as a masterâŚâŚ Hasnât Uncle Takeshi taught you?
âYour father stopped me when I tried to tell you.â Itâs too much to look at. â
âNice, IâŚ!
Ende in a small, gutsy pose. Well, I donât know. If I leave something to that martial arts god, it will definitely affect my childhood personality formation. I canât cry to cry if fighting grows up to be all the neighborhood drone daughters.
âWell, then, wah, is my kid learning with Alice, too?
Donât let Else mess with you because you found a contact. Weâd like to hear it too, so I wouldnât dare interrupt.
âHmm, because Erna doesnât like to kick and punch. I often fight with Lynne. Even before thisâŚâŚâ
âAlice?
âHuh? Uh⌠heh, this was a nite. If you talk too much, you have less fun when you see him. Everyone gets mad at me later. Full, full.â
To Grandma Tokeâs words, Alice speaks her tongue small. If youâre talking about yourself, youâre still talking about our kids.
But itâs too late. At least it turns out Elseâs kid doesnât like âElnaâ, fighting with his bare hands or anythingâŚ. Elseâs kid, right?
I think itâs probably my daughter. Youâre Elseâs daughter, and you donât like fighting? Why not?
Did Else think the same thing, she has a subtle face?
And, Lynne? I guess the kid with the name is also my kidâŚ
Here, and next to Else, I turn to Linze, who is in a somewhat suspicious motion. Yeah, from the name, youâre more than likely Linzeâs kidâŚ
I know youâve come to the same idea as me, but Iâd love to hear it, but now that Grandmaâs block is in, Lindsay seems to have managed to enjoy it.
If we could be alone later, I might leak it to Pollo. She seems like a kid who doesnât really care about Alice and the details.
âOh, well, if youâre free today, play with me, Father.â
âWhat, with me?
Alice pulls Endeâs arm to sit beside her. Father-daughter confrontation?
When Ende glanced at Mel, he also had a bewildered look at what was going on with Mel.
âThereâs one available at the North Training Ground. If you want to, Iâll give you a tour, too.â
âYay! Thatâs settled!
When Sister Blades suggested as she carried the salad to her mouth, Alice raised her hands.
With regard to the training of the Knights, it is left to Sister Blades and Mr. Rain, the Knights Commander. If thatâs what Sister Blades, who knows the schedule, would be available.
âOh, then give me a tour, too. I want to see how strong you are.â
âOh, if your sisterâs going to visit, so am I.â
âI wonder if the awkward will also be given a tourâŚâ
âSo, so do I. Me!
My hands rose one after the other like that, and in the end it all meant a tour. Youâre all intrigued by Alice. Of course I do tooâŚ
Maybe theyâre all looking for information about their children and opportunities.
Sooner or later, I wonât ask. But⌠I still want to think ahead of time.
Well, itâs true that Alice is concerned about her strength. I saw that one scale in the town of Amatumi, but that wouldnât be the full force.
Then let me show you the power of the gold and silver ranks of the future.