Together with the guild members, we fought off the monsters approaching the guild.

This wave consisted of goblins that any adventurer could handle. Thanks to the adventurers who had returned from the pterosaur Teranos’s nest, we could deal with the goblins at a leisurely pace. The more skilled adventurers could even sit in the park and just watch us fight.

Thud-!

Park Min-kyu stabbed a hobgoblin’s neck with his spear. Seeing a goblin rushing at Park Min-kyu from the side, I provided support by shooting an arrow.

“Oh! Nice one, Gyeoul!”

“Y-yes…”

Kind Park Min-kyu. I still couldn’t get used to it.

It seemed Jung Yu-na from our world felt the same way.

“Hmm…”

Jung Yu-na, who was inspecting the guild, showed discomfort while looking at Park Min-kyu. However, she didn’t say anything, likely having noticed he was different from the Park Min-kyu of our world.

“…This feels strange to get used to.”

“Hehe…”

Sigh.

After making an odd sound with her mouth, Jung Yu-na left to maintain the guild while I continued hunting goblins.

Slash-!

Thud-!

The wave ended when I shot an arrow through the last goblin’s head.

“Phew… good work, Gyeoul. The cleanup team will handle the rest, so go get some rest.”

“Okay.”

After stopping the wave, I walked around the park looking for the children. In the distance, I spotted this world’s Levinas still growing crops. Our Levinas was absent, likely resting due to the aftereffects of using the Long-lived Horned Rabbit’s mana stone.

“Yah!”

This world’s Levinas walked through the park growing cherry tomatoes. She was sweating profusely, probably from growing crops for so long. Perhaps due to exhaustion, only a few cherry tomatoes grew at a time.

Still, this world’s Levinas worked very hard to produce the cherry tomatoes. Both Gaeuls followed behind her.

Chomp chomp chomp-

Munch munch munch-

The two Gaeuls amicably picked and ate the few cherry tomatoes. After finishing them, they moved to the side to eat newly grown ones.

Chomp chomp chomp-

Munch munch munch-

Chomp chomp chomp-

Munch munch munch-

The two Gaeuls wagged their tails rapidly, apparently enjoying the cherry tomatoes.

“Gaeul, are the cherry tomatoes good?”

“Nyuu.”

“Nyuu.”

Both Gaeuls nodded and put cherry tomatoes in my mouth, one from each of them for a total of two. As always, they tasted amazing.

Munch munch-

Delicious.

Now I understood why the Gaeuls kept eating the cherry tomatoes. As I was picking and eating a few more like I was enchanted, this world’s Levinas caught her breath and approached us.

“Princess…! Heuk! There are no tomatoes left…!”

This world’s Levinas opened her horned rabbit eyes wide and looked around. We had eaten all the few cherry tomatoes that had grown, leaving none.

“Where did the tomatoes go?!”

This world’s Levinas asked while looking around. Our Gaeul patted her belly in response.

“Belly.”

“Did Gaeul puppy eat the tomatoes?!”

“Nyuu.”

Our Gaeul flashed a bright eye-smile. Seeing this, this world’s Levinas broke into a wide grin.

“Well done! Want to eat more tomatoes?!”

“No.”

“No?!”

This world’s Levinas was clearly surprised that our Gaeul declined.

I patted Levinas’s shoulder.

“I think Gaeul wants Levinas to rest.”

“Really?!”

“Yeah. She seems worried because you’ve been working without rest. Why don’t you take a little break?”

“Hmm…! Okay…!”

This world’s Levinas plopped down on the ground. Then she lay back, looking at the clouds and giggling.

“Want to rest together, Princess?”

“Um… I have something to do for a bit. Let’s rest together when I get back.”

“Okay! Got it!”

**

A meeting was held at the guild.

The atmosphere at this meeting was more harmonious than ever before. This world’s Master and Han Yeoreum’s faces looked more relaxed than when we first met.

“How’s the guild’s condition?”

“Really good. That Yu-na… I mean, the mage from over there even repaired the broken defense magic.”

“Hmm…”

The mage from over there, huh?

This world’s Master muttered quietly and spread a map on the table. Several areas were marked with red X’s and circles.

These were locations of Lotus bases, but I was curious about the difference between the X’s and circles.

“What’s the difference between the X’s and circles?”

“Places where Lotus bases were found versus where they weren’t.”

“Heuk. Did you check all those places in between?”

“…I wasn’t the one who checked.”

Of course.

Master had to deal with the powerful monsters that came periodically.

Then…

Ah.

It must be our world’s Master.

My tail wagged gently with joy.

“At this rate we’ll find the machine’s location soon…”

Hmm.

Master crossed his arms. Though it should be good news, his expression was full of concern.

“What’s wrong?”

“…Once this is all resolved, we need to rebuild, but all the infrastructure has collapsed.”

“Ah…”

The realistic problem of social reconstruction had arrived. Most facilities had been stopped for months.

Restoring all the collapsed facilities and buildings would clearly cost an astronomical amount.

Just as I was lowering my head with concern, Han Yeoreum chuckled and played with my ears.

“Hehe, still better than just fighting monsters with no end in sight, right?”

“…True.”

“We have more than enough money anyway. If it’s too much trouble, we can ask other countries for help.”

Huh?

The whole country had collapsed – how could they have excess money?

I couldn’t help feeling confused.

“How do you have excess money?”

“Huh? Gyeoul, haven’t you seen the basement?”

“The basement…?”

After the meeting, I went to the basement with Han Yeoreum. To the place where the guild stored mana stones.

“Oh…?”

My ears shot straight up as soon as we entered the mana stone storage.

The storage was piled mountain-high with mana stones.

“Wow.”

Though the guild’s mana stone storage was as large as a logistics center, it felt too small for all the stones.

I could fully understand why Han Yeoreum said they had plenty of money.

“This much mana stone is piled up all over the country.”

“Then reconstruction should be easy?”

“Yeah. We just can’t give high-grade stones. Once this is resolved, countries everywhere will be reaching out to help.”

“Ah…”

That’s a relief.

I’d worried the country’s competitiveness had fallen due to this incident.

With this many mana stones, they might actually achieve tremendous development.

“Gyeoul, take this much mana stone home with you. Sister will give it as a gift.”

“No, that’s okay.”

“It’s okay?”

“Yes. I saw some collapsed buildings on my way here. A bridge was down too… Please use my share to fix those.”

The mana stones here belonged to people who had fought hard for a long time.

They were precious stones that I shouldn’t dare touch.

“Hehe, you’re similar to our Gyeoul in this way.”

“Really?”

“Yeah! You’re both such lucky charms.”

Oh you precious thing.

This world’s Han Yeoreum hugged me tight and rubbed her cheek against mine.

Hehehe.

Her cheek was soft and it felt nice.

I couldn’t help but laugh.

**

Besides the children, only Master and Jung Yu-na had come from our world.

Though only two people had crossed over, problems started being resolved dramatically.

“P-portals! The portals disappeared…!”

“What?! Really?!”

“N-not all of them, about a third disappeared…! They say portals are disappearing in other regions too…!”

“Holy…! Finally…!”

The portals disappeared.

Our Master had finally done it.

But if only a third of the portals disappeared, did that mean the portal-creating devices were spread out everywhere?

Our Master would resolve it quickly either way.

There was no need to worry.

“Dad, can we go home now?”

“Yes. The guild is resolving things, so we just need to wait a little longer.”

“Okay!”

Seeing the joyful people in the park, my shoulders rose high with pride.

Our Master truly was amazing.

Ahem.

As I puffed out my chest like Levinas, Gaeul came running.

It was this world’s Gaeul.

“Master!”

“U-um?”

Gaeul grabbed my hand and started running. We ran through the crowd of people who had just been sharing their joy.

Ahem.

Gaeul puffed out her chest and pushed me among the people.

Naturally, people’s gazes turned to me.

“Oh, it’s Gyeoul.”

“Gyeoul worked really hard too.”

“I had no idea Gyeoul could fight so well.”

People praised me from all around.

Heuk, Gaeul wagged her tail with joy and grabbed my hand again, running off somewhere.

“Oh, Gyeoul.”

As we ran around held by Gaeul’s hand, I realized something.

Gaeul was showing me off to people of this world.

It was obvious from her raised shoulders and puffed out chest.

Perhaps Gaeul thought I had resolved this problem.

In reality, our Master, Jung Yu-na, and Sunny had done it.

“Are you showing me off, Gaeul?”

“Nyuu! Master best!”

Gaeul continued showing me off everywhere.

Han Yeoreum and Jung Yu-na watched us while talking.

Though they were far away, I could hear everything.

“I’ve seen this in a video before.”

“A video?”

“Yeah. A mother cat carrying her kitten around showing it off to people.”

“Oh my, I think I’ve seen that too…”

Mother cat?

No matter what, Gaeul wasn’t in a mother position, right?

She wasn’t even a cat.

Though I felt confused, I didn’t argue.

After all, Gaeul was indeed showing me off.

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