I Was Caught up in a Hero Summoning, but That World Is at Peace

Standing narrowly alongside the cobblestone path, the stalls give some good old-time atmosphere, where you can remember the illusion that the times have only been rewinded.

Alicia and Makina were walking down the road as the sun set and the lantern lit up with its pale glow.

"No - good timing. I didn't know there was a festival just nearby..."

"You're an amazing person... this yukata has a kind of strange vibe with the clothes."

"Well, maybe this vibe is unique."

Arriving in Japan on a few days of sailing, the two first came to a luxury spa inn called Alicia's Recommended. And by chance, I heard that there was a festival going on nearby, and I had left my stuff and the two of us were here to visit.

Machina is dressed in a yukata prepared by Alicia and walking with her gaze moving from rarity. Knowledge alone is readily available, but I guess it's still a different feeling to come and walk on the spot yourself in this way.

After seeing her smile like that, Alicia buys food at a nearby stall.

"Alicia, what's that?

"It's a takoyaki. Want a makina, too?

"Uh-huh, I'd love to, but... I let Alicia eat a lot of things and I figured it out, 'cause I'm pretty much a cat tongue, so I guess it'd be better if I cooled down a little bit"

"Hmmm... makina, ahhh"

"Huh?"

It was a makina who refused to eat a takoyaki because of her cat tongue, but soon afterwards Alicia opened her mouth reflexively with a mean grin.

And there, Alicia tossed in a hot octopus with what could be described as brilliant control…

"Ginny!? Ahhh, ahhh, no!?

Of course, the thrown in makina is not a hoard. Throw away the shame and the outside world with the shouts and roll down the ground. However, it may still be the last resistance as a woman to keep the takoyaki from falling off zero with both hands against her mouth.

As it was, after rolling the gobble and the ground, Machina stood up a little bit and stuffed Alicia by the blaze.

"What are you doing!? It's terrible, Alicia!

"Is that it? Was Makina a cat tongue? No, I'm sorry, I didn't realize."

"I said it! I said I'm pretty clear and cat tongue!!

"Oh, don't worry. No one is aware of Makina's dementia because she inhibited recognition!

"... If I could care for you there, I would have liked you to care for me more elsewhere... I, when I can use the power of God, would definitely heal my cat tongue first"

"Haha, that's some kind of luxurious use"

"Mmm."

Seeing Alicia laughing with pleasure, Makina swells her cheeks a lot. I'm not so angry at you, but I'm not going to let Ariel know.

Makina quickly snatches the container of the octopus that Alicia had in her hand and tells her just in return.

"Alicia, ahhh."

"Ahhh."

……

"Uh-huh, quite delicious"

"Why are you okay?!?

"No, 'cause it's nothing. I'm not a cat tongue..."

"Mmmm... this, this!

"Oh, hey, wait! Because I still have it in my mouth..."

Unfortunately, a retrograde attack on Alicia did not work. But then the counterattack of pulling a cheek that went halfway to a shitty mood seemed to have had a slight effect.

"... haha, no, sorry. I've healed the burns on my tongue, so let's eat something else. There are lots of things that aren't hot."

"Huh. Alicia's... fiddle"

"I'm sorry, oh, look, Makina, I'm selling cotton candy! Because if it's you, it's not hot!

While flat apologizing to Machina for being obstinate rather than angry, Alicia buys cotton confectionery at a store that was nearby and hands it to Machina.

Makina took a bite of cotton candy while she looked dissatisfied... and let her eyes shine.

"Yummy! Wow, Alicia! This is fluffy!

"... I'm in a better mood. Easy to handle or cheap..."

"Yeah? Did I say something?

"No, anything, look, let's go around a lot!

"Wow, don't pull it for a second... because these clothes are hard to move and I'm going to rip it off"

After enjoying the festival, we went back to the Hot Springs Inn and were both set to enter the Hot Springs before dinner.

"Ha, nice water ~"

"Huh, it feels good to have a hot spring...... but it's a great room. I can't believe you even have a hot spring in your little garden."

"It's the finest room in a super luxury inn. Dinner is the finest, so you can expect it."

"Hehe, huh? Looking forward to it."

Seeing Alicia speaking brightly as she lined up and immersed herself in the hot springs, Makina also smiles naturally. The friendliness between the two is also conveyed by the fact that they sit so close that nature and their shoulders touch each other in a wide spa.

"I really want to drink sake lightly here, but Makina is still here, and I'm the only one who can't drink it."

"Oh, that's not true. Look, think about it, Alicia. I've become a god now, and it doesn't matter what human law is. That's why drinking isn't a problem at all."

"No, it's not... it's absolutely bitter, but it's not delicious, which means it's visible."

"... you won't know unless you try it."

"So, you want a drink?

Machina, who rides clams and Alicia's provocation, should be called a buying word for a selling word, receives a pork mouth that Alicia has taken out of nowhere.

"Fine. I'm already a fine adult, and I can afford to drink!

"I hope so - well, go ahead"

"Thanks. So let's just... Huh!?

When Alicia poured sake into her pork mouth with a bitter smile, Makina drank it all at once after thanking her. Machina, who seemed to have an extra look before drinking, bit her lips to indulge in something after drinking and shook up with a pull.

When that state lasts for a few seconds, Makina tells him with a bitter look as to whether he is finally no longer able to cut.

"... or it's hard... what is this, this, this is alcohol?

"It's sake. I'm telling you, this isn't dry, is it?

"... a, is Alicia... this so spicy, is it delicious?

"Sake is mainly alcoholic beverage that enjoys fragrance. So instead of drinking it all at once, the aroma of the liquor poured into your pork mouth, the incense that you feel by including it in your mouth and letting it slide over your tongue to get the air out of your nose, and the trick is to drink it while enjoying the two scents."

"Heh..."

I saw Alicia tilting her own pork mouth and drinking sake as she was accustomed to it, and Machina tried to practice what Alicia told me while imitating the movement.

Then I could still feel the spiciness, but I could feel slightly what Alicia called the two scents.

"... Huh... Uh-huh. I know it's hard... but just for a second, maybe you found out I enjoy the scent?

"Well, I'm used to it. Maybe you'll start to feel delicious while you're drinking a couple of times?

"Why is it doubtful?

"It's a matter of preference after all. Also, sake can easily get drunk, so maybe you should drink it alternately with the same amount of water. So yes, water."

"Thanks...... uh-huh. Is it because you've become a god? I don't feel very drunk... but, uh, I guess it's because I'm not used to it? Water tastes better."

"Haha, it's still cheap"

The look on both of them laughing at each other for saying that was something that seemed really happy.

Time for dinner at the table in the Japanese room, rising from the hot springs and feeling luxurious. As for the shape of the room, it is natural to sit in the seats opposite each other, but the two sit side by side. Especially not because one of them even mentioned it, but because it would be tighter to line up next to nature in this way.

"... ugh, ugh"

"Makina? You're not eating?

"Yes, no, I know. This is a decent dish called sashimi, and you can eat it... but, you know, it's the first time you've eaten raw fish... so you're a little brave."

"Ah, I see."

Needless to say, the most common thing Machina has eaten in her life is jelly beverages, followed by military cans. Ever since I got to know Alicia, I started eating a lot of things, but sometimes it was the first time I had eaten raw fish, and she seemed a little hesitant.

After laughing bitterly at how Makina was doing like that, Alicia offered Makina a slice of sashimi using chopsticks in a way she was used to.

"Look, Machina. Ahhh."

"Ugh...... yeah. Oh, ahhh."

"... How's it going?

"... delicious! I thought it smelled worse."

"Well, you can't help but hesitate with your first sashimi experience. Well, there will still be some raw odor, and if you're not comfortable with it, you might want to pull some water."

"Hot pot?... oh, sashimi in this little pot..."

It was Makina, who tilted her neck once to Alicia's words, but immediately nodded whether she immediately looked it up in full knowledge. And when I ran the hot water drawer as I was told, I got a happy look at you whether you liked it better than eating it raw.

"... Alicia's wearing it. Is that what wasabi is?

"Yes, but... shouldn't we stop makina? Look, Makina's a kid's tongue."

"Oh, that's not true! I'm a fine adult... I'm perfectly fine with wasabi!

"Oh, no, that's too much -"

"- I knew this had happened, or in a way I wouldn't betray my expectations, or something..."

Machina, muckished and wasabi eaten by what was said to be a child's tongue, immediately stunned with tears and stunned eyes. Alicia handed the water to Makina, grinning bitterly at the sight, which in that sense could be considered as expected.

But the look is somewhere kind... even a really trivial meal time can feel fun like this. He also looked like he was biting off that happiness.

Alicia's unexpectedly planned journey around the world… it didn't set a particular purpose, especially this one, but the journey of the two of us touring around the world… actually lasted a decade.

It was Alicia and Makina who circled many areas amicably and enjoyed different things, but the journey also did not last forever...... it was coming to an end on an island that was their starting place and goal, an uninhabited island that now had no one to manage.

In the corner of that artificial island, where the grass seemed to have grown a lot more than a decade ago, the two were exchanging words as they lined up to look at the full starry sky like the day they first met.

"... By the way, Alicia, do you end up not needing this core anymore?

"Uh-huh, no use where I had it."

"Oh well, I don't need it anymore, and I can break it... maybe one day, the time will come for Alicia to use it, and 'seal it on this island'"

Though being a god has not changed his appearance, Makina, who has been able to use his power as a god quite a bit over a decade's journey, gently waves the core of the Great Evil God he used in the process of becoming a god into a place of memories he is not using right now...... inside a building that was once Makina's house.

Then a number of magic formations emerged, and Machina's house sank to the ground after turning into a box of iron small enough to ride in the palm of his hand.

"... well, don't hesitate to 'let me steal it out' if you ever need it"

"... stealing was originally Alicia's property"

"Haha, well, now I've already given it to Makina, because it belongs to Makina"

"Heh heh, maybe when they say so."

After looking at each other and laughing happily at each other, Makina gave him a slightly lonely look. Alicia, who saw it and felt that the time for parting was approaching, also turns her expression into something serious.

"... is it time to go?

"... yeah, I'm thinking about doing that. But before I do, I need a favor from Alicia."

"Please?"

After the preposition, Makina stared into Alicia's eyes with a serious look, creating a small gear in her palm to offer to Alicia.

"... I tour all sorts of worlds to be a true God from now on. I think I'll see a lot of stuff, and I think I'll go through a lot. And I don't know how long it'll take... one day, I'll create my own world"

……

"I'm going to do my best not to... but still... if one day, I get my origin... forget love, and become a merciless God... you, 'break' me, Alicia"

That is Makina's heartfelt desire to walk out to be a true God from now on. If I have changed in the process of knowing and seeing different things... if I have gone down a path I do not want, I want myself destroyed...

Alicia smiles as she receives the gear Machina offers when she hears that word in a cage of strong readiness.

"Fine... instead, if you can be God without forgetting the origin, then God power is the one, help me, okay?

When the gear got on Alicia's hand, it disappeared to be sucked into its body after a moment of light. While understanding that the gear was key to destroying Makina, Alicia nevertheless received her best friend's wishes.

"Hehe, yeah, that's a 'promise'...... one day when I see you again, if I had, like, 'makina' left...... be sure"

That being said, Makina smiled too, after a short time... with one hand up in the sky. Then a complex and immense magic formation appeared in the starry sky… the art of crossing the world.

That surgical formula learned by the Knowledge… As Alicia looks intriguingly at the magic of world metastasis, Makina's body sheds light and floats.

"... I'd still like to talk, but I'm going to run out of kiri... and it's time to... go"

"Yeah, it's gonna be a lot of trouble, but good luck...... makina"

"Yeah, thanks...... Alicia"

It was a makina that slowly ascended into the sky, as if sucked into the night sky, but as Alicia and her distance separated, her body trembled slightly and her expression began to change, disguised as calm.

And when there was a tear from those eyes, Makina screamed as if she had cut her blame.

"Alicia! I'm so glad I met you! Me, because I won't forget...... absolutely, absolutely, about Alicia, about the days I spent with Alicia...... I won't forget! I love it, Alicia!!

"... yeah... me too... I won't forget"

And the girl, who emitted a brilliant light and wished to be God, left this world.

Here's one thing...... let's talk about an overly ironic mistake.

The existence of Makina was the only of a large number of people that Alicia knew between her death and her death… a distant future, until she met the Miyagi Express… "a presence that could have saved Alicia".

Because she was originally a human being, compatible with Alicia... and more importantly, a 'being able to walk with you through what can be considered a long time'...

And in fact, if I tell you the truth, Makina... 'I wanted to be with Alicia more than the creation of the world'.

So why did she make the choice to leave this world... that was the little, and deadly, mistake that happened between Alicia and Makina.

Until Makina left this world, she just never used her all-knowing power against Alicia. That's because, more importantly, I love Alicia and it's important… I felt like a betrayal to use the all-knowing power that they even knew they didn't want to talk about.

And that's why Makina stayed unaware of... 'What Alicia's Looking For'... until the end. Because of that, she'll make one mistake.

That was the mistake that Alicia was interrupting her search for hundreds and thousands of years because of herself. The words Alicia told me, "Look only on your own feet" go hand in hand, and I thought that I would be disturbed if I stayed beside Alicia with all-knowing power.

Alicia would have stayed with me as long as she wanted. But she chose to leave this world because she thought it would only be the result of tying herself up as her favorite best friend and benefactor.

Because I love Alicia, and more importantly... Makina left Alicia.

And that was something I could tell Alicia.

Alicia, to be honest, wanted to be with Makina much more. For her, for the first time since losing Illis, she was the person she called her best friend and she always felt like being together.

I was wondering if Makina was the one I kept looking for... so much so that I felt that way...

That's why she couldn't stop the dream of "making the world" that such a dear best friend wished for. My own unconcerned desire not to leave Makina made me want to disturb her... best friend.

That's a really, ironic story.

We were supposed to wish each other the same future. But because I care about my opponent, both Alicia and Makina have strayed from that future.

There's no point in talking about IF. As a reality, Makina left this world and Alicia was to be left alone again.

But still, if we're going to talk about the possibilities...

If Makina knew what Alicia was looking for by all knowledge...

If Alicia had told Makina more about what she was looking for...

If Makina had asked Alicia a word...

What if Alicia's heart was in a hurry for the status quo at this point...?

And more than anything......

"... I'm not saying... I don't... my favorite best friend... I finally found him. I'm trying to do what I want... and I can't believe he said 'Don't leave me alone'... I can't say that..."

If only a few more moments, honestly, she keeps crying big tears as she stares at the starry sky where Makina left off...

Two girls beyond a person's framework travel through a world of amicable change… there may have been such a future.

And with this day on the border, the heart of a hero named Alicia will begin to break in acceleration. Because she met... in a being that could have been her own answer...

Maybe I could say that's a 'second eye curse'. As long as Alicia's upcoming presence 'does not exceed the criterion of Makina' in her… she is sure that she will not be able to reach an answer.

And the presence... winter comes too long to her heart until the Miyagi Hatsune shows up.