Why can't humans do it too?

She must be moved to tears upon receiving this gift, right?

Suer nodded in satisfaction.

He suddenly felt like he was a zashiki-warashi (a type of spirit offering gifts), and was spending money everywhere.

"Are there trees this big in the cities of the Forest Spirits?" Suer suddenly asked, pressing his palm against the bark and feeling the slightly moist moss beneath his hand.

"Why do you think there isn't?" Xin Ke had already revealed herself and was carefully examining the special features of this giant divine tree. "We can even form a huge city with just one tree. This sapling is far from that."

“Okay… little sapling,” Su Er shook his head, somewhat speechless.

Even a towering tree that's hundreds of years old is reduced to a sapling in some woman's mouth. Is there any hope for this world?

"No, there's no special energy at all. There's nothing unusual about this tree." Even after she etherealized herself and carefully examined the tree trunk, she found nothing unusual. Xin Ke couldn't help but look puzzled. "Where could the problem be?"

Research that could cause irreparable damage to such a unique, non-renewable sample is prohibited, so although Sue was tempted to uproot the tree to see the effect, she refrained from the idea.

Besides, this is someone else's shrine backyard, and it's a tree that has been passed down for hundreds of years... Damaging the well is one thing, but uprooting the tree is just too inhumane.

Biting her lower lip, Xin Ke put her genius brain to work, but this was clearly not something that could be concluded by mere imagination. She simply clapped her hands and said, "Let's build a magic workshop here and then conduct a more detailed investigation."

The great Lord Nirbalen was confident that his focused research would lead him to the reason why the two people had traveled through time to this era, but Sur remained unusually silent.

"why?"

"what why?"

Why should we investigate the reasons for our time travel to this place?

"Because we want to—"

Xin Ke's words came to an abrupt halt. She widened her eyes slightly, having already understood what Su Er meant.

Suer didn't like that primitive era, whether it was the gods, the monsters, or those who, like him, were called humans... primitive humans—something Xinke already knew.

If that's the case, now that we've already arrived in this era, why bother researching the process of time travel?

Is it to return to that primitive era once again?

What's the point?

Isn't this city, built of steel and concrete, inhabited by humans who look similar to Suer, and filled with all sorts of modern culture and entertainment, the place Suer has longed to see again since the last world?

Like a gift from heaven, it appeared before Suer and Xinke in an unexpected way and at an unexpected time.

“Aren’t you curious, Hinco?” Suer turned his head to gaze at his wife, his eyes gleaming. “Not the various appliances that you and Jibril copied based on my description, which only have appearance and function, nor the fake city that Okan created, but a world that has truly evolved naturally to this point?”

Chapter Ninety-Four: Su Er Settles Down in Modern Times

“The Great Wall, the Eiffel Tower, the pyramids, the Sphinx… and all sorts of other wonders created by humankind,” Suer said earnestly. “Now that we’ve come to this era, there’s no need to hesitate about whether to willingly fall into slumber until the technological age arrives. Why make things difficult for ourselves?”

Skip over those tedious, long hours, skip over those battles and wars that only bore people, those foolish gods and monsters... How wonderful this era is.

Suer was no longer willing to waste his thoughts on those boring things.

"...Are you really planning to settle down here?" Xin Ke asked, staring into Su Er's eyes, suddenly realizing that what Su Er had said to the girl with the braided hair wasn't just a made-up excuse.

“I just can’t find a reason to go back. No matter how we traveled to this era, I don’t want to go back,” Su Er frankly admitted. “Why the rush? Even if we want to figure out why this happened, we can take our time to study it while enjoying this era. What do you think?”

"It doesn't matter," Xin Ke said, spreading her hands. She genuinely didn't care. "But I remember you still owe me a... movie?"

The promises made in the past have a chance to be fulfilled at this sudden moment.

“Ah, no problem,” Suer smiled.

"So what are you going to do? Like you did with your money before? Robbery? Or sell the gold?"

"No, no, no~, none of those," Su Er said confidently, shaking his finger as he met Xin Ke's curious gaze. "The first thing we need to do is—this."

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Behind him was a busy street with cars coming and going, and the occasional honking of horns didn't bother Su Er... at least not now. Pedestrians passing by on the sidewalk would occasionally cast curious glances at Su Er, wondering why this handsome foreigner was standing motionless on the road.

Girls wearing school uniforms were seen on the streets during what should have been a school day. Their skirts had been custom-modified, rolled up to almost the level of their underwear, revealing their fair thighs. They wore delicate earrings and glittering nail polish in the sunlight. They whispered among themselves, their hands covering their lips, while their eyes kept glancing at their companions towards Suer. They discussed in hushed exclamations who should approach Suer and start a conversation, one encouraging the other.

Pretending not to hear the loud conspiracy between the daring girls over there, Suer stared at the door in front of him with an unprecedented sense of tension. Even though they were from different countries, he had never done anything so daring in his previous life. Even now, with his superhuman strength, the meaning behind this action was completely different.

Just a second before the girls were about to charge, Suer stepped into the hall with its healthy blue-green floor tiles. At first glance, apart from the busy staff, he didn't see many people, which relieved Suer somewhat.

District Office—that's the name of the building Su'er is currently entering. Putting aside its other functions for the moment, Su'er's only purpose is the seventh window with the sign "Registration Office".

Simply put, he came to obtain a legal household registration and household register.

"Hello, I would like to apply for household registration."

"Okay, please show me your ID... Okay, please fill out this form."

The black-haired staff member suddenly changed his tune without warning, and it was all because of... magic, Suer had used magic.

It's unimaginable what the point of doing this is. If you truly respect the law you speak of, you shouldn't be doing this, but what is this all about?

Is breaking the law done in order to obey it?

The great Lady Nirbalen uttered a remark she found hard to accept; she could no longer understand her husband's thought process.

"Ordinary people can't live in a modern city without these big and small documents. It's the same in any country. Stop complaining, let's get this sorted out. We still need to open a bank account here."

"I don't want to have to rely on hypnosis or magic to get everything done... at least not now. I'd like to experience the modern life of an ordinary person first. Great Lord Nirvalen, if you start playing a game by using cheat codes to max out all the stats, you'll lose interest in continuing."

While filling out the form handed to him by the staff and writing his name in the name column, Su Er muttered to himself. As a result, his head suddenly went blank for a moment—as was the inevitable consequence of uttering that taboo name, he was subjected to a soul shock by Xin Ke.

"Okay, here is your household registration transcript. Please make sure to keep it intact."

"Thanks for your hard work."

Theoretically, foreigners can only obtain resident registration certificates and residence cards, but through the miraculous power of magic, Sull obtained a family register that only native residents can obtain.

After thanking the staff, Su Er turned and left gracefully. The bank was not far away, and he had to hurry.

First and foremost, there was the full amount of money – donations from kind-hearted people.

Next came the seal to prove his identity—which Suer had casually carved from a piece of stone.

Please keep this safe.

As the bank employee spoke with a smile, a bank card was pushed out of the window.

Great, everything went smoothly.

Thanks to Hanekawa Tsubasa, the information provided by that braided girl greatly contributed to Suer's success in getting to this point. Even though he had complained with his friends in his previous life about Japan's continued reliance on paper-based offices and the lack of widespread use of cameras, Suer was now grateful to the Japanese government for reducing a lot of trouble for him.

Not to mention that this era is still behind the point in time before he first traveled through time.

【……Then what?】

Xin Ke, who had witnessed the entire process from the very beginning, spoke with a weak and listless tone for the first time.

[You're not going to have to look for another job next, are you? Like those other office workers passing by?]

“Well, that should be the last step. Before that, we need to find a place to stay. We can’t sleep under a bridge, can we?” Unlike Xin Ke, who was listless, Su Er seemed quite enthusiastic. This man was clearly enjoying himself.

This was a completely new game he had never played before, incorporating elements of survival and simulation.

Yu Su'er silently rolled her eyes, sensing the eagerness emanating from the man's soul. Xin Ke knew that this guy probably wouldn't get tired of playing with her anytime soon.

Chapter Ninety-Five: Xin Ke Rejects Inspirational Quotes

Suer really liked this hourly-paid job. At least the money came in quickly, and the salary was high. After all, thanks to the minimum wage guarantee and the high labor costs in Japan, there were ways to make some money if you really wanted to.

Moreover, he had already solved the truly difficult part with magic. This man even managed to get himself a driver's license with his own photo on it, which is the usual form of identification in this country, and can be understood as an ID card from across the sea.

For a corporate slave, the most despairing thing is the unchanging work every day. Even more despairing is having to convince yourself that the rest of your life will be an endless cycle that repeats every five days... or even seven days.

They are like cogs in this society. Their own will is not important. They just need to be there and perform their fixed function. Suer can understand this pain because their work is only to prolong their own and their families' lives rather than to realize their own value. Or rather, the only value they are given is a fixed one - building XX.

Suer truly understood, after all, he had already become such a cog in the machine before the very beginning of his transmigration... However, what he was facing now was different.

A game began in a foreign society, and even though he knew that the cycle would remain the same in any country, at least Suer did not feel bored when the game had just started.

“I earn money through my own efforts, and then use that money to support myself and my family… This is the life I lived in the world I started in,” Su’er said, sitting at the table in his rented room. “We already have endless lives, so wouldn’t it be interesting to pause for a moment in this long life and experience different scenery?”

"You were rejected for your job."

The only response to Suer's philosophical words was Xinke's cold voice.

"...Besides, wouldn't it be more meaningful to take you to the movies with the money I earn from my hard work?" After a slight pause, Su Er continued casually, "As the saying goes, the most precious gift is not something you can buy with money, but something your loved one makes by hand. Even if a homemade cake isn't as delicious as one you buy outside, the sweetness it brings far surpasses that."

"This is your fourth job rejection."

Xin Ke remained expressionless.

“…Life will always have some difficulties, but as long as we don’t give up, we can always overcome those obstacles…” Su’er’s voice became strained.

"—Are you going to use magic?" A little bit of feel-good advice naturally couldn't touch the heart of the great Lord Nielbaren. Xin Ke simply tilted her head slightly and asked curiously, "It's okay. After all, it's understandable to use any method when facing difficulties. What we need to do is overcome the difficulties~"

Mori's chicken soup.

"...I don't know how to use it, okay?" Finally looking up from her slumped-over-the-table resume-filling session, Suer squinted and said, "I've already got my household registration and bank account sorted out. If I need magic to find a job, what's the difference between me and a piece of trash?!"

"You were rejected for your job."

Xin Ke has no emotions.

Suer: "..."