The Hero Who Returned Remains the Strongest in the Modern World

"No, I'm here. I'm here. Brother, don't be silly. Yes!

Shouri City.

The Toddler Girl Ninja came bashing my shoulder as I paked the convenience store onigiri.

"I can't believe it's you..."

"What the fuck?

"Friendly to Yake...? It was an end or a kill, wasn't it?

"What are you talking about? Yesterday's enemies don't know the word" friend of the day "? That's what the Japanese chronicle says, right?

Full-faced bottomless grin.

And my broken front teeth with my upper cut earlier.

Somehow, I can't help it...... Aura, the son of an asshole, comes pumping.

If this happens, there's nothing I can do about it.

"... you... you said level 99, right?

"Oh," he nodded, and the toddler ninja took something out of her nostalgia and offered it to me.

"Hmm? Is this... a scroll"

"Oh, yeah. This describes your abilities everywhere."

I guess it's like a ninja version of the status plate.

Which I loosen the scroll and look through the numbers.

"Hey, you? Levels written here...... no, you guys are steps. Well, it says 33 steps anyway?

So just when I was frightened, the toddler ninja laughed my words with her nose.

"Hey, brother? Don't you know the word ninja triple step?

"If that's what you mean, three times Kendo..."

Erm......

I mean... and I'm going to chew this Lori Ninja word out of my brain and translate it.

Yeah, I mean...

"Level 33!

I freaked out and lost it.

No, I'm still so strong by this world standard.

My level was about 40 when Brother Yang died the first Fire Dragon Battle...

Well, it's strong there even over there.

"You, I've been thinking..."

"Hmm? What is it, brother?

"Something tells me you're very biased about Ninja. There are a lot of things that are influenced by america and novels."

"Well, Akihachi raised me. Everyone in there was killed when they were babies..."

Kill them all?

I heard this disturbing word again, but I'll leave it there for once.

"It's only natural that Ninja knowledge everywhere is biased like that. Oh, my God, I only taught you that."

"... hum"

"Besides, Ji-chan's a little weird"

"Weird?"

"Many times a day I eat meshi, I also forget to dedicate the last minute meal I ate... call me by the name of my dead mother..."

Whoa, no way... and I opened my big mouth there.

"Well, Jicha still has perfect combat skills. But I've noticed a lot of weird things lately. I've been delayed in realizing it because it's been like that since I was so tempted..."

"Do you have a glass of america or ninja novels in your grandpa's room?

"Oh, because Jicha is a ninja maniac. There was a whole bunch of comedy and novels!

Confirmed.

Now I'm sure... I sighed.

- This guy was raised by a bogus old man in a quarantined place... and his knowledge gets real and messy and he's doomed.

I've been meaning to ask a lot about ninjas and magic girls, but I can't talk to Locke about this.

"So, what's a magic girl? It doesn't seem to make sense to ask you."

"Oh, about that. I'm sorry! You're too strong, brother, and you don't seem to have anything to do with magic girls. The fact that Abeno's little girl and Vatican's little girl were urochiro turned out to be so fateful over there... Maria Morishima..."

"Hey, what's this all about? What did you just say?

"Abeno's Little Girl..."

No, not that way.

"Oh? Maria Morishima, once?

- Let me hear more about it.

On the way back to the airport, I called Senior Abeno.

"Are you a senior?

"So, how was the ninja?

"It was a piece of cake."

"... a piece of bread?

"Yeah, isn't that about putting you in the top four at the Teito Swordsmanship Games over there? I mean, not my enemy."

"My strongest feelings were fading due to the MP running out or something... you really are a monster"

"But why did you keep quiet?

"You said you kept quiet?

"I'm talking about Maria. You knew everything, didn't you?

……

"Why did you keep your mouth shut!

"Because they were ninjas. There was a chance that you wouldn't have done it. That's why you didn't give us any useless information so we could put all our efforts into it."

"Waste of information... you're talking about my sister, aren't you?

"I know very well because I started dealing with skills too. Actually, this ability affects your mental state pretty much, doesn't it? I didn't want you to think of anything else."

"That may be... but you're talking about my sister, right?

"... sorry Morishita-kun"

"Senior?"

"It's my mistake. I misjudged my strength."

If they apologize honestly, I can't help blaming them any more.

"Anyway, I'm going home from Okinawa, right?

That's how I got to Naha airport. I was stunned.

"Dude..."

Seeing the letters flowing through the electro-optical bulletin board and kneeling on the spot, I continued my words.

"In a typhoon... you said you were missing all flights...?

-Side: Leila-Sakaguchi

New moon night.

Near the abandoned school building, fully armed we were lurking in the shade of a tree.

"You have a good sense of combat... you misread, don't you?

"I'm confident at the tactical level, but I don't like the strategy."

"What?

"Do you know what a mosquito comes by in response to?

"Carbon dioxide."

"That's right. And when I found out about it, I was in kindergarten, and I decided to run an experiment on dry ice."

"It's a shock that you're a kindergartner and you know the causal relationship between carbon dioxide and dry ice. So, when you say experiment?

"Dry ice, warm water from human skin temperature, human sweat... I put this in a small plate and went into the woods. The mosquitoes… which small plates do they gather in?"

"I see. So what happened?

"The mosquitoes - they've gathered on me."

"It would be hey!

"I mean, Leila-Sacaguchi? What do you think I'm trying to say?

"What are you trying to say?

"He seems smart at first sight... but he's a pretty naughty tea-eyed guy"

"Mr. Tea Eye!?

"No, I'm a tea-eyed girl."

"Though I might have been a young girl at the beginning of the experiment!

"Well, it's my mistake, anyway. I apologize."

"No, but if there's a ninja out there, then there's no choice. I've been taught to be synonymous with God, and so have you, haven't I?

"Anyway - we're gonna have to fit in tonight"

Yeah, and I nod and stare at the ground in the abandoned school building.

Spiritual pressure is abnormally increasing, and the hair is upside down with static electricity standing around the perimeter.

By the way, there's black purple electricity running around, and it's not just a joke.

"Space-time distortion...... no -"

- Singularity

Abeno-hui nodded cocklessly at my words at night.

"Looks like the joke's over here."