“Heh…”
“Why’re you standing there, trying to look cool, Master?”
“Fwahahaha! The Grand Philosopher Asley has been rejuvenated! Look, Pochi! The morning sun!”
“Yes, Master, we did NOT leave town during the night as initially planned. And it’s your fault.”
“Ngh–! Hehehehe… Listen well, Pochi. The plan was… an estimate. And being an estimate ans we don’t necessarily have to follow it!”
“Okay, so when we’re back ho, I can tell Bruce about what happened last night, right?”
“AAAAAAHHHHHH, NO NO NO! You promised not to. And promises are ant to be kept! ALL RIGHT!?”
“Oh, you sure have a way with words, sir…”
To recap, Pochi saw a totally humiliating side of yesterday. So humiliating that, regardless of right or wrong, I’m determined to take it to my grave.
And if I die, Pochi won’t stay alive for long after — aning the secret dies with and her. Two birds with one stone!
Now hol’ up a minute… Pochi may technically be tight-lipped, but she DOES let sensitive information slip all the ti, regardless of whether or not she wants to–
“–You know what, I should make sure you NEVER blurt it out — with Curse-Word Explosion! Or I could erase your mory by strangling or hitting your head… Oh yeah, I did invent that mory Edit spell! Okay, that’s it– OUCH!? Hey! What’re doing!? That hurt!”
“Do you even have to ask, sir!? Not like you’re THAT good at keeping secrets, either — you let sensitive information slip all the ti! You should calm down and think about how you ACTUALLY have to act! And what’s up with that mory Edit spell, anyway!?”
“What!? Pochi!? Did you just read my mind!?”
“Do I need to hit your head before you get it!? YOU SAID IT OUT LOUD!”
“When!?”
“Just now!”
Welp, today’s off to a bad start — I’m not vibing with Pochi at all.
Maybe she’s already gotten her mory edited by God?
“Oh, I have a GREAT idea! I’ll write a story about you crying like a baby last night, and tell it to Lina!”
“Whoa whoa whoa–! Wait a second! Not THAT! Anything but THAT! For real!”
“Hmm… HMM~~ …All right, deal! I’ll tell you what I want later, sir! Expect it to be costly, yes~~?”
Man, I can clearly see the greed in her eyes. Who raised her to be this way? I sure want to have a nice, looong talk with him.
And so I proceeded to eat breakfast while nodding along with Pochi’s whining.
By the way, I’m pretty sure that I never opened my wallet after giving 200 Gold to Pochi last night… but I have a feeling that I have 100 Gold less than I’m supposed to. Is it just my imagination?
Wait, that can’t be right — I DO rember talking with Pochi about money yesterday, but not the exact details.
Hmm… well, I must’ve just dropped a few coins randomly sowhere. Here’s hoping whoever picked it up uses it for a good cause.
“All right! Rise, A-rise, All Up: Count 2 & Remote Control!”
“I’ll try to get us to Regalia by today’s afternoon, sir! Hmm!”
Pochi gigantified, and at the sa ti, I hopped on her back.
“Here we go!”
“Hell yeah! Run like the wind, doggo!”
“AWOOOOOOOOO!!”
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Pochi, glancing at while running along the way, called repeatedly,
“Master! Hello!? Master!!”
“Whuh–!? W-what’s up, Pochi?”
Is it just , or has her voice beco softer after her archetype got changed to Avian? …Do voices even work that way?
“What’re you doing on my back, sir? It feels kinda tickling!”
“Ah, sorry. I’ve been planning out a new magic spell.”
“What kind of spell?”
“Space-ti transmission — I’m naming it ‘Ti Teleportation.’ Gotta be able to use it if we’re gonna go back to our original ti, you know?”
“Is it because God’s power is weakening, sir?”
I had expected her to laugh out loud, but she actually answered seriously.
What the hell.. for once, the furball’s actually happy for my achievents!
“Yeah, and I’m sure my ginormous arcane energy pool will be back once we’re done with our tasks in this era. As long as there’s enough energy, a space-ti transmission can be perford… in theory, anyway.”
“The little bit I’ve seen of the formula is gibberish, though… What’s up with that, sir?”
“It’s fundantally similar to the Teleportation spell. What’s different is that it also plays out the effects of explosive speed enhancent and defense augntation at the sa ti, letting one cross through ti and keep their body intact despite the impact.”
Once she heard the whole explanation, Pochi gradually slowed down, eventually stopping entirely.
“Hey, I’m not telling you to hurry, but try to get us there before the sun sets, all right?”
“Are you sure it’s going to be safe, sir…?”
Pochi stared at real hard.
What the hell, this furball isn’t happy for my achievent at all…!
“Totally safe, yeah… Aha, I think this will work.”
“It’s already finished!?”
“I’ve already created and used similar spells before, you know? And I’d like to make more, in fact…”
“Let guess, the Instant Transmission spell?”
Yeah, why?
“W-well, that’s one thing… and there are other specialized stuff, too. They’ll be quite a challenge.”
“Um, your eyes are… sparkling real bright right now.”
“I know, right? Gotta rack up more achievents, or I’ll lose to the Black and White Chain People… and the new Devil King. Hehehe… I must expand the scope of my dreams! WITHOUT END!”
“Ah, I just rembered! There’s one thing that’s been on my mind for a while now!”
Why’d she so suddenly bring up a new topic? To distract from the other one?
“Oh yeah?”
I got down from Pochi’s back and sat on a nearby boulder.
“It’s about Sir Billy.”
“What about him?”
“Well, more like about his Familiar, actually! An Eye-Dorr! Wasn’t it called the ‘Devil King’s Minion,’ and said to appear near the Devil King, sir!?”
“……Now that you ntioned it, we didn’t see any of those ‘minions’ when we fought Lucifer, right? Did the Pochi Pad Breath’s explosion blow them all away or sothing?”
“No, sir, I think that’s a bit of a stretch…”
Ngh… despite her track record, Pochi does make quite a reasonable point.
“Well, it IS a legend, so maybe they’re not actually a thing during Lucifer’s ti?”
“Hmm, that is quite possible, sir… But then it creates another question — how did Sir Billy find one of them in the first place?”
Right, anyone would be curious about that.
Maybe he was manipulated by the Devilkin, and got one as a Familiar to help him do their work?
That would make it unlikely that the Eye-Dorr was from our era.
I an, when I looked it up, that one book said Eye-Dorrs spawn directly from the Devil King’s body.
Man, I don’t know what’s going on anymore! So many challenges, so many questions…!
“Oh, another thing, sir!?”
“ANOTHER!?”
“I rembered it just now!”
Boy, oh boy, she sure does remind of so genius around here…
“Well, what is it?”
“The Devil King who’ll be born in our era… won’t be nad Lucifer, will he?”
“That’s it? Hmm… if it IS a ‘birth,’ then he’ll be soone else, yeah. But him ‘resurrecting’ as the sa Lucifer is… quite possible, actually.”
“You’re being pretty vague, sir~~”
“What’d you expect? I haven’t been alive for THAT long. And I wanted to ask God about it, but He disappeared before telling anything.”
“What do you an, not long? You’re over 5,000 years old! Say that around other people, and they’ll get angry, sir!”
Ngh… that’s right. People are sure to get angry, especially Irene.
Speaking of her, I wonder what the Irene in our era is up to.
I don’t think that was ever brought up when I was talking with God. I should’ve rembered to ask…
But, well, this is Irene we’re talking about. She’s probably busy whipping the new students into shape or sothing.
“Look, enough talking. Let’s go!”
“Yes, sir!”
A few hours later…
We finally saw Royal Capital Regalia for the first ti in this era.
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