Give children a little self-destruction shock to their worldview.

Without that magical power, the technique of transforming into a dragon would be difficult to achieve.

The gods in this world are unbelievably friendly.

Not only did they accept Mayumi Haga at the beginning, but they also provided her with magic at that crucial moment, and even offered her the position of [Despair] when she needed to recover her body...

Has that unknown magical deity truly not awakened?

At one point, Mayumi Haga actually felt a gentle gaze upon her.

Looking back now, it might have been a tiny bit of kindness from the gods... but even that was enough to allow Mayumi Haga to avoid the original bad ending and come to this world that was too gentle and too beautiful for her.

Now, it's time for her to repay the favor.

Mayumi Haga didn't know if her world could be successfully restored with the last remaining embers, or what it would look like even if it were, or if a completely new world would be born. But even so, she would begin to strive for it.

After awakening the bloodline of the ancient elves through forbidden techniques and gaining the dragon attribute, Mayumi Haga has a deeper understanding of the origin of her original world.

These traditions etched in her blood awakened in her mind, making her understand more clearly than ever what she needed to do next.

In the process, please let her repay this kindness.

It gave her enough strength to avenge the lost continent, and enough strength to continue living... She had to do everything in her power to repay such a debt of gratitude.

Therefore, Mayumi Haga's next task is to assist in repairing the spiritual veins of this world.

Furthermore, by harnessing the power of this world, they will find a way to repair their own world.

...Perhaps, it's time to relax a bit.

Haga Mayumi, belatedly realizing that she had already shirked some of the responsibility, unconsciously became calm.

Hitomi Tono, standing next to her, chimed in enthusiastically, "Yeah, now that the troublesome things are over, we should really enjoy life! Mayumi will be participating in the sports meet this year, right?"

Sports meet, sports meet, sports meet... Is this child's mind filled with nothing but homework, extracurricular activities, and magical girl matters?

Sugiyama Rika had a headache, but she knew that children this age—or rather, magical girls this age—were all like this.

However, being single-minded is also a good thing, since this way the influence on Mayumi Haga's mental space won't last too long.

From this perspective, it's great that Hitomi Tono is an idiot.

Megrana remained noncommittal, only offering a cold laugh from the sidelines.

Unlike the oblivious former magical girl, she was fully aware of all the strange things happening to Mayumi Haga.

Even if they didn't have physical relations, these two people definitely crossed the line in some way... otherwise Mayumi wouldn't be so awkward!

Elven ears are excellent organs for expressing emotions. Although Mayumi Haga was previously a near-perfect master of facial expression management, she was clearly not used to her new ears yet. Therefore, Megaran was able to almost read minds through Mayumi Haga's pointed ears.

Ha, I did it.

Judging from this reaction, it must have been done somewhere.

Something indescribable definitely happened in the mental space.

Megrana rolled his eyes.

Mayumi Haga's gaze darted away, and then Hitomi Tono became even more aggressive than before. It was clear that the two of them had done something, and it was incredibly intense.

This makes Sugiyama Rika, an adult who still hasn't figured out the situation, seem excessively oblivious.

Has this guy never had an emotional life...?

Sugiyama Rika was unaware that the blue-headed lady in the fruit basket on the coffee table in the living room was mocking her in her heart. When the other party made a sound, she shifted her attention to her and sighed, "Megran, you still have the same harsh expression as always. After such a great battle, shouldn't you be a little more sociable and happy?"

Although she only met Mograine during Ms. Kirino's home visit, Sugiyama Rika felt that he was sometimes a bit harsh towards Mayumi Haga.

For example, rolling your eyes openly when everyone is having a good time.

Mograine, who was unable to participate in the silver party due to his lack of physical presence, grumbled, "Heh, yeah, I'm just unhappy because I don't feel like I'm participating."

She was initially thrown into a backpack, and later became a falling object when the backpack exploded, and was buried under the rubble. She was later dug out of the pit and looked like an artifact.

She wasn't jealous at all for not being able to attend the silver party, really.

Although Megaran had already enjoyed Mayumi Haga's real body, both the sickly Mayumi Haga and the still somewhat immature Mayumi Haga in the spiritual space were very tempting, but she did not participate because she did not have a body...

...She didn't care about any of that.

Anyway, the first time I took Yuga Mayumi's lips, and there was still her.

Despite it being a physical takeover, her progress was already ahead of the curve, leaving these guys far behind!

Megaran, who had thought that being able to eat Mayumi Haga would make his life complete, felt a long-lost regret after discovering that Mayumi Haga had undergone a major upgrade and that he could no longer eat her. He wondered why he couldn't have kept more of his body.

They managed to preserve the head... so what's wrong with preserving an arm too!

None of the people present knew what the disgruntled water sprite was thinking, and their attention quickly shifted.

Sugiyama Rika's phone suddenly rang.

She rarely uses her phone while traveling alone; in fact, she's out of touch most of the time, so it's quite unusual for her to hear her phone ring.

After returning home, Sugiyama Rika put her spare phone aside to charge.

Actually, she wanted to contact Ayasa Terasaki to help check on Hitomi Tono's body, since the girl had once again recklessly transformed during the transformation ban. Ayasa Terasaki strictly forbade Rika Sugiyama from making telepathic calls to her during her vacation, especially so early in the morning.

Sugiyama Rika thought the other person planned to reply to the message after waking up, but she never expected that the other person simply didn't want to be woken up by Sugiyama Rika's deafening world broadcast.

So, this was a call from Cai Sha?

Sugiyama Rika glanced at the time and confirmed that it was still early. Terasaki Ayasa usually wouldn't get up before noon on a holiday.

The caller ID displayed on the phone was not Aya Terasaki, but a string of unfamiliar numbers.

So what exactly is going on...?

Sugiyama Rikka answered the phone.

"Hello?" she said into the phone. "Who is this?"

There was no voice on the other end of the phone, only the sound of footsteps going up the stairs and heavy breathing, which sounded like a man who was physically exhausted and not young.

Sugiyama Rika's expression changed, and she wanted to hang up the phone.

Outside the door, heavy, disordered footsteps grew closer and closer, completely overlapping with the voice on the phone.

And they came here specifically for this purpose.

"Finally found you!" the unfamiliar elderly man shouted through gritted teeth, "Sugiyama Rika! Open the door for me!"

The voice ultimately remained outside the door.

Sugiyama Rikka's expression was extremely stiff. She first looked at Haga Mayumi and Tono Hitomi, and finally turned her gaze to the face of Mograine on the coffee table: "..."

This was the first time the group had ever seen Sugiyama Rika so flustered.

Mayumi Haga frowned, her ears perked up, displaying unusual aggression: "An enemy?"

"Huh? Is it a nemesis who's come knocking on our door?" Knowing Sugiyama Rika's ability to make enemies in the industry quite well, Tono Hitomi was eager to try. "I can help take care of it..."

Sugiyama Rika hurriedly shouted at them, "Shh! Shh ...

Yes.

Sugiyama Rika, who hadn't been home for a long time and didn't even answer her parents' calls, only sending postcards home during holidays, was finally contacted by her busy father for some reason.

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Both Arata Sugiyama and Rika Sugiyama have vibrant red hair, but apart from inheriting red hair, the former bears almost no resemblance to the strikingly beautiful Rika Sugiyama.

He resembled a lion, exceptionally tall and strong, even in his old age.

He has a beer belly from overindulging in drinking, his red hair is messy yet vibrant, and his features are very masculine. However, years of hard work have given him more fine lines and gray hair, and his eyes are no longer as ambitious as they were in his youth. Instead, they are more peaceful and calm, and he wants to protect his territory even more.

From his appearance, you would never guess that he is the head of the Sugiyama Group. If you had to say, when he's with his daughter, he looks more like a nouveau riche who just laughs foolishly.

But Sugiyama Rika, this unfilial daughter, hasn't been home for a long time.

During her time at university, Sugiyama Rika had already begun to distance herself from her family.

Her parents hoped she would study subjects more beneficial to managing the Sugiyama Foundation, but she chose an extremely obscure major in college... apparently, it was studying ancient scripts, and there were only a handful of people in the entire major.

This infuriated the family.

At that time, Sugiyama Rika couldn't explain that the major was related to the magic she was studying, and that she had been admitted through a back door (on the magic side).

Because of the magic, she gradually drifted away from the world of normal people, and naturally lost some contact with her family who knew nothing about her.

This was all planned by Sugiyama Rika.

Her body had been assimilated by the spiritual veins, transforming her into something akin to a magical elf. Strictly speaking, she was no longer human.

Sugiyama Rika consciously maintained a distance from her family so that even if her appearance did not change for decades, she would not be suspected.

But her family has been trying to contact her, hoping she can come home more often.

In fact, Sugiyama Rika has a pretty good relationship with her family.

This time, Shinta Sugiyama personally came to her door and caught Rika Sugiyama, who happened to be in Miracle City, red-handed.

Sugiyama Rika had no choice but to welcome her father in and obediently serve him tea and water.

Arata Sugiyama seemed to be very tired from his journey. For some reason, he didn't bring any bodyguards with him. He sat casually on the sofa and accepted the water poured by Rika Sugiyama, followed by the snacks brought over by Mayumi Haga.

I shoveled in a few mouthfuls and almost choked on the pastries that had been sitting for who knows how long. I quickly took a big gulp of barley tea to soothe my throat.

Setting the cup down, Arata Sugiyama took a peculiar interest in the decorative items on the table: "What's this?"

"...This is the head of a friend." Mayumi Haga wasn't very good at lying, and after thinking for a long time, this was the only answer she could give.

This serious, almost eccentric answer made Sugiyama Shinta burst into laughter, his voice loud, much like the giant craftsman Haga Mayumi had seen before.

Then, as expected, Shinta Sugiyama took something out of his bag and said to Rika Sugiyama with a smile, "The child you adopted is really funny, much more interesting than you."

As he spoke, he stuffed a pitch-black card into Mayumi Haga's hand. The latter was about to refuse when she was startled by Shinta Sugiyama's overly kind self-address.

“Take it,” he said. “This is from your grandfather, don’t refuse.”

……grandfather?

Mayumi Haga was quite confused by the sudden appearance of a grandfather.

“You kids just like buying weird costumes, what’s this called… role-playing, right? I heard it costs a lot of money, and if it’s not enough, you just ask your grandpa for more.” Shinta Sugiyama, who was amazed that his daughter had adopted such a big child who looked even more mature than her, smiled in a forced way because he wasn’t used to smiling.

After he uttered the self-designation of "grandfather," an eerie silence fell over the room.

"Dad! Mayumi and I are of the same generation!" Sugiyama Rika was shocked. So, in her parents' eyes, she had always been seen as an unwed mother who adopted a daughter before she was even an adult?!

"Peers?!" Arata Sugiyama looked even more surprised.

Sugiyama Rika and her father stared at each other wide-eyed: "Of course we're peers, she has to call me 'older sister'!"

At this point, Sugiyama Rika, the "older sister," seemed a little guilty.

I feel like Mayumi is older than me, both in real age and in her mindset...

According to the timeline in the spiritual space, Mayumi had indeed lived a much longer life than I did before meeting me. In terms of experience, Mayumi is undoubtedly an elder.

Uh oh, now that I think about it, I guess I'm the one who picked up a parent and brought them home.

Realizing this, Sugiyama Rika wore a pained expression.

No, now is not the time to talk about this.

"Why are you here, Dad?!" This was what surprised Sugiyama Rika the most.

She cast a spell to obscure her whereabouts, so her family generally wouldn't be able to find her unless she actively contacted them. She also set up a protective barrier around the house where Mayumi Haga usually lived… and so on.

Where is her barrier?

Sugiyama Rika then realized that her barrier had been slightly damaged by the magician, causing her original ability to conceal information to completely disappear.

To the Sugiyama family, who have been keeping a close eye on Sugiyama Rika's whereabouts, it must seem as strange as having searched for years only to suddenly discover that a clue to her was right under their noses...

Sugiyama Rika hadn't expected this to happen, and couldn't help but cover her face.

She was careless.

This magician is doing more harm than good.

(The mage, who is now back in the Tower of Stars and engrossed in a new game: Achoo!?)

Despite harboring countless grievances against the magician in her heart, Sugiyama Rika accepted the fact and finally managed to have a proper chat with her father, whom she hadn't seen in a long time.

After Sugiyama Rika unilaterally left home and declared independence, apart from postcards during holidays and money regularly deposited into her account, the father and daughter had basically never sat down for a proper chat like this.

Arata Sugiyama came to see Rika Sugiyama because he had something important to discuss.