"... I knew this was the evening too"
Now I'm in Japan.
Look around near the school building where the sun sets and the night color darkens.
I didn't expect the day to come when I thought the car's engine sounded comfortable.
With that in mind, I walk down the road to school and leave.
I was in different worlds until just before, but the difference is still terrible.
I'm used to it because it's been repeated many times.
The fact that this is also evening still seems to be moving forward with time.
Well, what do we do now?
I want to cooperate with Maoshin and Mr. Feishan to an extent that doesn't seem weird.
Well, when it comes to what you can do, you can bring something from Japan.
Would it still be chocolate or candy?
We're all happy with that stuff.
... In the meantime, let's go to the supermarket.
"Wait a minute."
I slipped with the kid on the road to the supermarket.
I can see the park.
It's a park I played with Maoshin many times in elementary school.
... too peaceful.
There's really nothing going on, and I'm just seeing hallucinations. What?
There has been no change on the Japanese side.
"Oh, Wing Bridge!
When I was in middle school near the signal when I was blurry, a friend I used to play with talked to.
Yes, this is Marui.
When I was in middle school, I used to act with him, Maoshin.
He went to another school on his way to school, so I didn't see him much anymore.
Sometimes there was talk from Maoshin, so I think it was connected to Maoshin.
"Ooh."
"What do you say? Lately."
"Right......"
I want to help the Maoshin people who live in different worlds, no matter what they say, they won't believe me.
Assuming a friend says the same thing, I wouldn't believe it.
"... my current class is my only one, what do you think?
"My only class?
"There's only one seat in the classroom and there's no classmate but me."
"Oh, you're different when you say you're different. But you said it before. Uh... what was that? Special grades?"
Here it is.
I react the same way to my neighboring classes, teachers, and even my parents.
Perhaps whoever you ask will react the same way?
Think normally, it's too strange a situation, but the reaction is mild.
"So something happened?
"No, it's nothing"
"Really? Well, no, let's all get together for dinner next time."
"Right. I'll tell you around Maoshin."
"Mao Shin? Who is it?
"... never mind"
Looks like everyone wasn't there after all.
Maybe this is how they treat me while I'm gone, too.
It's just that I'm good.
It wasn't originally a shadow of Maoshin, but I was wondering if he was alive when he got the spill.
But I don't like the fact that Maoshin and the others weren't there.
I'm not in love, but I still don't have a dear best friend... it's painful.
"Well, goodbye."
"Oh, again."
That's why I break up with a friend.
Until now, there was Maoshin next to me, and my friend was chatting to Maoshin one way or another more than me.
That sadness pokes reality at me.
"Welcome -"
Then I took to the neighborhood supermarket.
Troubleshooting the store.
I'm looking for something that everyone might need... this is hard.
First of all, it has to be something that's not unnatural even if I have it.
Meat and fish are out.
Even if I had it, where would I have procured it?
Well, that sounds like an excuse to go hunting or something, but it's practically impossible to go to the woods in a situation where the fighters are on constant watch.
Besides, if I had processed meat or fish, I would definitely be suspicious.
I had it originally...... it's been two weeks and there's fresh meat and fish.
You can't have lunch for the same reason.
Then it inevitably settles into sweets.
"Uh-huh..."
I can't afford anything too expensive next time.
It's not because I'm a jerk, it's because I'm financially difficult.
I don't even know what kind of money is in my wallet.
Even if you can't, the limit is precisely four digits.
It's not that I don't have the idea of working part-time... but it's not going to be a fundamental solution.
I wish I could get cash from everyone, but what are we gonna do with that money? That's it.
Whatever you think about it, don't let it settle around you like a preserved treat...
Well, they'll all be happy, though.
I want to do something about that place.
"Thank you -"
In the end, I bought a simple treat and went home.
When I get home, I sit on the couch in the living room and think.
I'm spreading the news on TV, but as always, there's no mass disappearance.
I don't have to check now, but it still looks like everyone hasn't been here since the beginning.
I don't know what the principle is, but they do when they cross the world and the world.
It's like a twister, but this is for sure.
In fact, you must recognize me as the one without me over there by now.
But from what I've been able to ascertain, this twist is pretty rough.
Is my classroom at school a good example?
I didn't attend any other classes, but I did.
This is the same in other worlds, and while I'm in Japan, I'm not there.
I was there while I wasn't. It's a recognition.
It complements everyone on its own.
Well, that's why I can stay in the other world for a long time, and I have no complaints.
"Happiness, take a bath before dinner"
"Oh."
My mother tells me to take a bath while I think.
Warm and beautiful... and I turned to the bath that even contained bathing agent.
... bath, huh?
There's a bath over there, but it's poor compared to Japanese stuff.
It's a wooden bath, and this is also set up like a big bath, just like the house.
It feels like everyone is working together to maintain the bath.
Well, the fighters are using it as a priority, and it's getting dirty by the time they come around the base group's turn.
I won't reheat Valley Springs after I go in.
Nevertheless, the base group doesn't spoil it either.
Naturally, it adds extra hot water and water.
... I feel guilty about taking a bath in my own house when I think about Maoshin and Himeno.
That said, I don't use my ability to use it. There's nothing wrong with that.
If there's room for me to go in, other guys should use it.
"I need to do something..."
It's not just the bath.
Everyone is being hunted down to the point where they are happy with chocolate and candy or something.
Everyday meals are unprovoked creature carcasses cooked.
Even the plant type doesn't change that.
Exquisite, about nuts.
There's nothing more to expect from a combat team than to collect native vegetables.
I am aware and avoid that mushrooms are just as dangerous.
The guy with the ability to cook is hanging in there, but far inferior to what can be eaten in Japan.
Not to mention that Valley Springs is monopolized, and the base group only gets the minimum, and they can't even have a satisfactory meal.
Well... Still one meal a day or something, so I'm working it out...
At least I want to do something about the food level, but I can't do anything more far-fetched than not know what will happen if my abilities are found out.
What a fool the guy who's been giving you treats before this. 'Lower Compatibility'.
Besides, to the guy in the base group, yeah.
... I need to figure out why I can take this stuff somehow.
"Ha..."
After I got out of the bath and had dinner, I was lying in my room bed.
It's a much better meal than that meal over there, and I'm not dissatisfied.
It's not the same as sleeping in a solid tree.
It is not cold because there is no gap breeze when I make it home.
... don't really compare it.
There's too much discrepancy.
I don't know why the Valley Springs seem to be having so much fun.
Well, it's fun because you can use game-like powers.
I guess we're having a fun, fun, cross-world adventure by letting them do their pioneering work.
Even I can use my ability to metastasize, and there's no reason I'm not happy.
But... what's so different about food, baths, and places to sleep?
……
Because it seemed like too much fun, or someone doesn't want to go back to Japan to Valley Springs? I heard.
But Valley Springs said something stupid about going back to Japan.
Cross-world metastases are romantic, but I think it's amazing to be able to say that even if you actually experience them.
I have no respect.
From what I've looked at online and in bookstores, I guess it's a kind of mental state in extreme conditions.
In that sense, I guess I'll be the weirdest thing in that place...
"You're an adult," Feiyama and Himeno told me.
But this spare time is because I can travel to and from different worlds and Japan.
Maybe if I couldn't come and go, I'd just complain inside all the time, and it'd be rough.
... In fact, I'm not an adult at all.
If you're really an adult, you live with Maoshin and the others even if you have the means to go home, and you must be coming up with one of the best ideas.
I can't do that. Am I an adult?