15-5 The Cause Of Otherworld Transfer

A situation where even a superbeing on the level of a Rainbow Fals used up her power.

Judging from the timing, could it be?

According to her explanation, dimensional distortions themselves were not rare.

She said such things happened very occasionally.

Even on Earth, there were places where gravity, which seemed likely to cause distortions, behaved abnormally.

In fact, gravity was not something uniform to begin with.

Especially near high mountain ranges, large gravitational anomalies were observed.

Earth was not a perfect sphere either.

Apparently, there was a difference of about twenty kilometers between its vertical and horizontal dimensions.

There would be variations in mass depending on the distribution across different parts of the planet.

The inside of the planet was also slowly moving, so the average mass per unit of its constituent materials should differ subtly in various places.

They said several enormous fragments of celestial bodies that collided with Earth in ancient times lay dormant in Earth’s core.

Naturally, there would also be weight variations caused by those.

After all, inside a planet shaped like a near-perfect sphere, there were compositions from different celestial bodies separate from the heavy core section.

“That occurred in an extremely bad location.m It warped, as though this entire world itself was distorting, and created a dimensional fissure. If that happened, the forest would be swallowed up. No, worse than that, the influence of the world’s distortion would destroy the Spirit Forest.”

So that influence had created the rift, and Aoi-chan and I had ended up coming here.

It was possible that others might have come to this world too.

And who could say that such a person had not sided with the Empire for their own benefit?

It was true that many Japanese people were decent, but the world was not made up only of good people.

I had briefly considered that possibility before, but now it had surfaced as a concrete possibility.

“Small fissures seem to have formed instantly here and there even when it was not a large-scale dimensional fluctuation. Small fissures close within a few minutes, but large ones remain for some time, and the entire surrounding area is swallowed up. This is a special land. If it were abandoned, there would be no replacement. If it were lost, it would have an enormous effect on spirits all over the world. In the worst case, this world would perish.”

What terrible timing.

So if I had been taking a bath or something in the campground management building, I might have gotten through it without incident?

No, the fact that I was in such a place at such a subtle and tight timing made me think that “that thing” had deliberately timed it, or rather schemed it, in order to send me, who had only ever received poor treatment in Japan, to another world.

That was probably why it had made me do all that shopping.

Things like that had happened before too.

Though this time, it was truly a super-dreadnought-class matter.

“I used my power as a Fals and enveloped the Spirit Forest. The swelling being known as Fals, both a living creature and at the same time not a living creature. But that alone did not remove the threat. Unfortunately, the very center of this dimensional storm struck the forest. Fortunately, I was not merely a Fals, but a Rainbow Fals with unprecedentedly powerful strength. I forcibly repaired the rift and avoided disaster. The one that occurred a thousand years ago was sealed by my parent, but they lost their life in exchange.”

So that was the reason Takeshi came to this world!

Takeshi had been transferred right into the center of a dimensional storm so intense that a Fals had to sacrifice its life for it.

Aoi-chan and I had only passed through small fissures, so our time remained the same.

But in Takeshi’s case, spacetime itself had been heavily distorted.

If he had been able to return from there right away, he might have gone back to Japan, but he could not.

And then came an age without a Fals.

The egg that was left behind did not hatch, and spirits all over the world trembled in fear.

They feared that the Fals might vanish for a time.

There had also been ages in the past when Fals disappeared.

According to Alpha, during such times, the world became long desolate until a Fals appeared again.

The world also fell into disorder.

At such a time, Takeshi came to the Spirit Forest.

At the request of the spirits.

And also in search of clues to return to his original world.

Then, through his immense mana, the Fals egg hatched.

As a Rainbow Fals.

Apparently, that was an earthshaking event even for the spirits.

Eventually, the spirits also recovered their strength, and the order of the world rapidly recovered as well.

“I temporarily lost my power as a Fals. I resolved to bring a new Fals, and a Rainbow Fals at that, to the world once more. Because you were there. I wrung out my strength and laid an egg. Fals lay eggs on their own. That does not mean the child becomes exactly the same as the parent, though. There are large differences between individuals. As a result, I entered a state where I had completely lost my power. I do not know how long it will take until I fully recover. That dimensional storm damaged me that badly.”

“So you called us because you wanted to confirm the growth of your successor. And because you wanted to meet your daughter too.”

I glanced at Fal, who was yawning on top of her mother’s head.

It was good that she seemed to have grown fairly comfortable with her real parent.

“That is right. More than anything, I am glad she seems to be growing up strong. This child is the hope of the next generation, entrusted with the future of the world. And I also wished to thank you and apologize to you. I am sorry for suddenly pushing a Fals egg onto you However, it was an emergency. I could have spoken with you first, but if you refused, I would have been in trouble, so it ended up being something I half-forced onto you.”

Then Alpha glanced at Mari and said this.

“You are not human, are you? And I can feel Funabashi’s mana from you. Nostalgic and warm… Could it be that you were created by him? I had no choice but to return to the Spirit Forest, and because I could not leave the forest, I was never able to visit him while he was alive, nor was he, busy as the king who founded a nation, ever able to come see me… never.”

“Y-yes. Um, could you possibly be… Rain?”

“That is right. He named me that when I was still a juvenile and cared for me dearly.”

“I see… When he spoke about you, he spoke as if you were a human child, so I assumed he was talking about a human he had raised.”

When Alpha, no, Rain, heard that, she smiled happily.