19-4 Until The Day We Come Again

As usual, the princesses fluffed the spirits, played thoroughly with the Rainbow Fals mother and child, and seemed extremely satisfied.

The elves also looked satisfied.

Even if they wished for more, it did not mean those long days of captivity had vanished.

But for now, this was enough.

Ars also quietly watched over them.

When that guy, who was usually so carefree, acted like that, it somehow threw me off too.

After that, the little-kid army woke up from their nap and entered snack time.

Fal wandered around, wondering whether to have snacks or magical power, but in the end, she dragged this old man along with Remi.

Both confectioners looked extremely busy.

I also joined them and had some fruit dessert.

Everyone was friendly and cheerful.

I had Aoi-chan make tea for us, and everyone tried practicing the tea ceremony together.

As Aoi-chan instructed me, I fabricated the tools based on online images and the like.

I had her check them and remade them many times, so I think they turned out reasonably well.

The princesses seemed interested in the culture of the country where their ancestors had lived.

To tell the truth, I had only ever learned tea ceremony manners once, when I was young.

And it had been at a standard youth hostel event, too.

There had been an Indian person among the participants, and it had only been a tiny, tiny event held by people who happened to gather there by chance.

More than anything, the hostel mother was the teacher, so she seemed to be enjoying herself more than anyone.

That was why all the participants enjoyed it too.

Aoi-chan also looked happy.

Seeing her like that made me very happy too.

When there were fellow Japanese people around and we held Japanese-style events, even though I had been stranded in this other world, my heart felt saved.

After Nielsen beat me to a pulp, I had been pretty depressed too, but doing things like this lightened my feelings.

When I returned to the Beast-Ear Garden, maybe I should build a full-fledged building with a veranda.

I was sure my heart would feel calmer than it did now.

A tea room would be fine too.

The spirits also ate their fill of snacks and seemed completely satisfied.

This time, I had survived thanks to these guys, after all.

Here you go, a lavish serving of magical power.

Receiving my magical-power radiation, the spirits danced wildly.

Then the satellite pilots, whom I could call my own followers, gathered around.

“Thanks.”

Suddenly, I even felt fond of them.

When I gently shared magical power with them in a soft, fluffy way, they clung to it in a frenzy.

When they were like this, spirits were cute too.

I wanted to bring the other children here to play again.

Then, since it was already time to go home, I went over to Rain, but she also looked a little lonely.

“Even such a fun time will end someday.

Though there is no way I can keep this child here anyway.

And I cannot go over there either.”

After that, she gently rested her head against Fal.

“Well, we’ll visit again soon.

The brats won’t stop complaining anymore.

They keep pestering me to bring them here.

Please play with everyone again.”

“Yes.

Rare visitor-san… no, Japanese people are fun.”

Perhaps remembering Takeshi, Rain narrowed her eyes and sank into her memories.

Fal looked up at her as if wondering what was wrong.

When Fal was beside her mother, she also took the form of a Rainbow Fals.

That was probably instinctive.

When I said, “It’s about time to go home,” the princesses whined.

“Eeeh, just a little longer!”

Normally, they probably would not say something this selfish.

His Highness Prince Emilio was already used to it since this was his second time.

He could simply come play again, after all.

Rain also looked very happy to have met the children of Takeshi’s descendants again.

The spirits gathered around me, Eri, and Yamamoto-san as if reluctant to part.

Then, as a final service, I gave them a massive release of magical power.

Receiving it, the spirits’ wild dance of joy brought this visit to a close.

Yamamoto-san also brought out snacks with a bang at the very end, and the spirits who ate them released their materialized forms one after another.

It had the feel of a rush of fireworks launched near the end of a fireworks festival.

“Well then, Rain. See you again.”

“Yes, see you again. Fal, be a good girl, all right?”

Rain said this while lovingly and gently stroking Fal with her foreleg.

“I understand, Mother. See you again.”

Lately, Fal seemed to strongly recognize Rain as her mother.

These days, this child has started changing forms while still wearing clothes.

She probably had an ability like an item box.

I did not really understand Rainbow Fals abilities, but it would not be strange if they were fairly cheat-like.

At the princesses’ strong request, our return trip was made with the spirits parting the forest for us as we went.

As always, this performance was very well received.

The events of this day would probably be woven into stories in those countries when these girls married into them.

And someday, they would become legends.

As an extra, we went up into the sky for a sightseeing flight, then returned to the royal palace from there with teleportation magic.

Seen off by the waving prince and princesses, we then arrived at Elf New Town.

And the moment we arrived, we were surrounded by a crowd of elves.

Everyone could not hide their emotion and thanked us all at once.

Yes, I had also been broadcasting the local situation live to Elf New Town through magical images.

Since it had been connected by magic, it seemed the blessing of that duet had been transmitted as well.

Some even shed tears and said they could now die at any time without regret.

After living for hundreds of years, no, even more than a thousand years, perhaps that was how it felt.

Come to think of it, Mari had also sobbed when she received a reply email from the Japanese Mari-san.

That was an emotion ordinary humans, who did not even live a hundred years, could never possibly understand.

After that, I took everyone except Ars and returned to the Beast-Ear Garden.

Things were about to get busy again.

We would soon be holding the school performance.

I had to let all sorts of people see how those children, who had lived as street children from a young age, had grown.

In that sense, the school performance was the event the Beast-Ear Garden was putting the most effort into right now.

“Souvenirs!”

“Next time, we wanna go too!”

“I’m going too!”

“Yeah, let’s all go together.”

I also had to plan the spring field trip.

Maybe next time, I should plan a new attraction.