Margnan came under us the day we got the artifact 'Cross'.
In the name of picking Phil up with me, you think she rushed me from the beginning town to this point?
"... it seems like I ended up wasting my legs"
Margnan was sighing heavily when he saw us returning to Wolds continent on his own.
Despite pinching the leveling along the way, we were able to get back here in days like there for three months, but I'm sorry for Margnan for taking so long.
Well, Margnan was here until Kengo and the others talked to me, so I didn't know we had anything to do with it.
"So you're saying that Sin and Phil are safe, right?
"I think it's good."
"Mmm."
"Forget it."
But Margnan never gave us any foolishness.
"... that's a lot for you. I thought you were gonna throw up on us about one of your complaints."
So I ask her.
Because I know Margnan is always a bad image of a woman who doesn't want to spit poison.
"The fact that you guys came home safe and early is not a bad story in itself. Well, I came here for nothing, but if you think I skipped my teaching job, I'm not hungry, am I?
"... is that so?
"That's the way it is. I'm not always a sick woman who spits poison."
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Have you read your mind?
I don't surprise you or care because I know Margnan's psychic powers.
"Well, what are you guys gonna do now? By now it's time for Earth to be ready in the morning, but if you want to log out, you should log out sooner rather than later."
"Oh, yeah"
Our bodies on the planet's side are in the LSS now.
It's still about 3 days of precise operation, so I don't even think it's having that much of a negative effect on your body, but I guess Marnyan wants to say that you should log out as soon as possible just in case.
"Then we should go back to the town where it started and log out."
"Hmm..."
When I told Phil I was going home with my gaze on him, she nodded and agreed.
... but.
"What are you guys going to do now?
I turned around and asked the Kengos.
Apparently Kengo and Ceres have been flying around the Earth world until now as investigators hired by the state.
So when I broke up with us, I heard him say he was going somewhere again on the road to this city.
"Right. If you're leaving this city, there's no reason for us to stay here."
"We're free, too, but we're not free enough to stay in the city forever."
"Oh well."
If so, I'll say goodbye to Kengo and the others here for a while.
Even on Earth we've been having a bad relationship for the past few months, so I don't even know when we'll see each other this time.
I miss you a little bit when I think about it.
"... so what are you going to do now?"
"? Me?
Kengo asked me the other way when I was immersed in sentiment.
"Even if you go back to the town where it started like this, it's hard to party with your age because of the level?
"... you mean that"
You've asked me what I hate.
We did get a little too high.
Me and Phil's level is 63, but even Mina and Sakuya, who are supposed to be top notch levels in the high department, would still be in places like Precision 30 right now.
It's tough to throw a party when there was a difference of more than 30 levels.
I can put it together if I want, but it's subtle when asked if it serves and produces good results.
Even if I lowered the quality of my gear now, I wouldn't feel threatened at all by the attack of monsters that show up where they're hunting below 30 levels, and Phil would be crunchy hunting alone at that level of hunting ground.
"You don't have a clear answer yet. I just think once we get to the beginning of town, the leveling will be off for a while."
So I told Kengo the answer I could give now.
It doesn't make sense that we're not the only ones getting stronger.
Some hands try to advance the attack of the underground labyrinth, but I can also draw attention to the fact that Phil and I alone will monopolize the delicious parts of the labyrinth.
We compete with each other at the same age, but if we leave alone, we become isolated.
And I don't think it's a good idea to be isolated, and Phil seems a little concerned about it.
So I didn't level for a while, and I was thinking about working to improve my player skills as a Phil with some of the combiners I've been doing now and then.
"... hey, if you think you can't breathe, why don't you come with us?
"Huh?"
But that's where Kengo has shown us another way.
"We're still about 20 levels apart, but I think we can narrow that difference by about 10 levels, right?
"! Kengo, that's..."
"You want to say power leveling, right? But in this case, there's nothing wrong with that. Because you and Phil have enough player skills to survive this world. All we have to do is care about the eyes around us."
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Advanced power leveling is generally a recognized practice in online gaming.
Even if a beginner sees a player growing a character in power leveling and lowers the tension, it's because advanced players who move with efficiency top priority when they can use multiple characters in a single account or recreate characters from scratch don't compromise the fun.
Rather, it can be uninteresting on the path you've already taken once for players who have raised characters up to Kanst to take time to level when they recreate characters from scratch.
That's a matter of freshness.
There is also the aspect that if someone inside is advanced, power leveling has rarely bothered around because of ignorance, and there is less criticism of advanced leveling.
I guess that's why Kengo is encouraging power leveling after acknowledging our power and telling us to throw a party with ourselves.
"Mr. Singh......"
He understood Kengo's words like that. Phil turned his gaze toward me like he was lost.
I'm honestly lost, too.
Do we listen to Kengo's suggestions here and act as a party and set ourselves apart from players our age?
Or do we wait for players of the same age to grow and party then when the difference in power shrinks somewhat?
This choice will change our future dramatically.
That's why we were worried.
"Besides... Sin, you're still hesitant to use your powers, right?
"Huh?"
And suddenly Kengo came to the place where I was worried and he had a story about the anomaly.
"You still have a sweet idea that you can live this world without using your powers, don't you? You think you can cross enemies with just your prior player skills, don't you?
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"I say it because I'm a senior who came first to Earth. You should put yourself in an environment where you can train to use your abilities. And you don't get that environment near the town where it started."
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I kind of figured out what Kengo was trying to say.
I'm still hesitant to use my powers in Earth.
But Kengo, who vowed not to use alien powers in the game, has a verse in Earth that has normally used 'Forecasting the Future' until now.
I guess that means that for Kengo, this world is totally dividing itself as being real, not games or something.
Also, you want to say that you wouldn't have survived in Earth if you hadn't.
"You're strong. But there are some people in this world who can't beat you because they're incompetent. That Grimm just fights the Demons, and you know the limits of this world."
"I'm not thinking about that."
"Are you sure?
"Oh."
I'm not insulting this world.
I'm just concerned that using too much alienation might rust my natural strength.
"If you use too much alien energy, hey. But if you don't use that power from time to time, you might not be able to use it at all.
... I hear you've read my mind. Margnan's got his mouth pinched.
"I know Sin is trying not to normally use his powers because he's afraid that his powers will be rampant, but from what I can tell, I don't think it would be more refreshing to use force on the ground, but what do you think of that area?
"... that makes sense"
Besides, Margnan has followed exactly the dilemma I have.
My psychic "Time Run" is characterised by the fact that I sometimes start a runoff on my own, as it is named Run.
That's rarely activated when I use too much power, when my sense of crisis has increased to the extreme, or even when it's nothing in particular.
There was once a time when I tried to control this power, but I interrupted it knowing that if I kept using it, my powers would become more and more powerful.
If the result of the training was that my powers were not of a kind that I could control, then when I turned into a powerful alien, I felt like I was out of control.
"But this is Earth. No one can blame you for testing your power against monster opponents, and it's a last resort if you have to. Really?"
"... right"
I suppose you're talking about the last resort, that is, the forced erasure of alien powers.
In the unlikely event that I fail to control my powers, I will only be spared the worst if I act suicidally in the earth.
But if I do, I don't know how many memories will disappear from me.
At least it's certain that all the memories of my time in Earth will disappear.
That's... I knew you didn't like it.
"Hey, it's not like you're definitely going to run wild if you train your powers. Don't elbow like that."
"But..."
"Besides, if you're going to suck, I can stop you. Even if it's not me, Celeste and Phil are watching over you. Is that why you have to worry about me alone?
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I keep worrying.
Should I polish my powers with risk?
Should I act with Kengo and the others to sharpen my powers?
Kengo kept saying sweet words to me, and I kept worrying.
"... then why don't you make a bet with me, Singh"
That's how Kengo said I was worried and walked out.
"Bet?"
"Oh, yeah. Follow me."
I don't know what I'm going to do, but I'm going after Kengo while I tilt my neck.
Then the four of us were taken outside the city, where Kengo pulled out the sword he had lowered to his waist.
"Let's duel with me now. The dueling method is a one-shot battle. No skills, no allogeneic limits, no special rules."
"Duel... because...?
"Whoa. If I win this, you guys come with us. So, if you win, do whatever you want."
And I was challenged by Kengo to a duel, and he offered me a bet that I would entrust him with the way forward.