As time passed, the world began to stabilize.

One day, the number of monsters attacking the guild was cut in half, and another day passed without any monsters appearing for half a day.

‘Amazing.’

The information from Sunny and our world’s Master.

Just the two of them saving the world.

Though I hadn’t done anything myself, my shoulders rose with pride.

“Heuk…”

“Hah…”

When no monsters appeared all day, we left the park with everyone to look around the city.

Collapsed buildings from battles and monster bloodstains.

Though it wasn’t a pretty sight, people’s faces were full of joy.

‘Everyone’s distracted with sightseeing.’

Most portals in the city had disappeared, but not all of them.

That’s why adventurers accompanied us, but even they were distracted looking around the city.

Though embarrassing, I felt I needed to give a gentle warning.

“Um, we’re not finished yet… let’s do our best until the very end…”

“Ah.”

“…Right.”

Perhaps because people were caught up in their emotions?

Though my voice was quiet, it reached those nearby.

“Everyone, we’ll head back in thirty minutes. There are still monsters around, so please don’t wander off alone or go too far.”

“Okay.”

“Understood.”

We toured the city in an orderly fashion after that.

Some people burst into tears seeing their homes, while others hugged their families.

After savoring the joy of reclaiming their lost territory, we returned home.

**

Two more days passed after touring the city together.

In just those two days, we stopped seeing monster waves entirely.

It was thanks to Yeomyeong’s adventurers joining the Lotus base raids with their newfound free time.

In just a few days, all artificially created portals across the country disappeared.

After briefly savoring this joyous moment together, people joined forces to start cleaning up the city.

They washed away bloodstains left in the city and cleared away debris from broken cars, roads and buildings.

Meanwhile, adventurers dealt with monsters still lurking in the city and naturally occurring portals.

The children and I helped in our own small way.

Swish swish swish-

While sweeping away fallen leaves and dust gathered in the city, I noticed something off about this world’s Levinas and Saebyeok sweeping beside me and stopped in place.

This world’s Levinas’s shoulders were slumped.

Saebyeok’s tail hung limply.

Their whole bodies radiated regret.

Why were they like this when we’d reclaimed the city?

I stopped sweeping and approached this world’s Levinas and Saebyeok.

“Kids, what’s wrong?”

“Hmm…”

“Aren’t you happy everything’s returning to normal?”

“We are happy. It’s just…”

Sigh.

This world’s Levinas let out a deep sigh full of regret.

For some reason, her face was filled with worry.

“Is something wrong?”

“…Yeah. It hurts here thinking about having to say goodbye to our family from another world.”

This world’s Levinas repeatedly pressed her heart area.

While doing so, she kept glancing at me.

Perhaps she wanted to spend more time together but knew we had to return, so couldn’t ask us to stay.

Both this world’s children and I couldn’t help feeling regretful.

“Does this mean we can’t meet again after we return…?”

“Um… if we wish for it desperately enough, maybe we can meet again…?”

In truth, that was just my hopeful thinking.

The way portals formed was completely unknown to me.

Though Gaeul seemed to know something about portals…

“Tch.”

The thought of parting with this world’s family filled me with regret.

I wanted to see this world’s Levinas proudly showing off the rebuilt city with an “ahem.”

I wanted to see Saebyeok magnificently hunting monsters again.

I wanted to see this world’s unchanged, innocent Gaeul again.

‘The guild family, and um… Park Min-kyu too…?’

How could we meet again?

Though I pondered this, no solution came to mind.

As I looked down at the ground with regret, our world’s Levinas came running with a confident look.

She wore a robe to hide that there were two Levinas, but couldn’t hide her innocence.

“This world’s Levinas! Levinas will lend you this!”

“This is…”

What our Levinas held out to this world’s Levinas.

It was the Long-lived Horned Rabbit’s mana stone that Levinas always treasured.

“Levinas, isn’t this your treasure?”

“Yeah! It’s really precious so I can’t give it away! I’m lending it!”

Our Levinas spoke with a bright smile.

Only then did I understand why Levinas was doing this.

“This world’s Levinas! You can use this to cure King’s illness! After curing the illness, you have to come return it?!”

“Heuk! Got it! Levinas will cure the illness and come return it! Will we play together again then?!”

“Yeah! When you come return it, Levinas will teach you something fun!”

Our Levinas handed the Long-lived Horned Rabbit’s mana stone to this world’s Levinas.

Levinas’s one-of-a-kind precious treasure.

Lending it without hesitation meant she must be certain we’d meet again someday.

Thanks to Levinas, we could completely dispel our gloomy feelings.

As we were cleaning the city together, our Gaeul came running urgently from far away.

“Master! Maaaster!”

She pointed somewhere while hopping up and down.

As if telling us to follow.

Where Gaeul led us, there was a portal back to our home.

**

The day of farewell arrived.

The children, Jung Yu-na and I stood before the portal exchanging goodbyes with everyone.

They were goodbyes promising to meet again someday.

Our Master said meeting his other world self would be awkward, so he went through the portal first.

“Here, this is sister’s gift to you.”

“…!”

This world’s Han Yeoreum handed me a bag.

My back, stomach, and both shoulders.

My whole body was heavy with gifts from guild members.

This was after reducing and reducing the mountain of gifts they tried to give.

“Gyeoul, you’ll come visit again, right?”

“Um… no.”

“U-um…?”

This world’s Han Yeoreum looked surprised, clearly not expecting me to decline.

Sophia and Encia beside her opened their eyes wide too.

Seeing them, this world’s Saebyeok spoke up.

“Next time we’re going to visit them. With Gyeoul.”

“Ah! I see?”

Glance.

After looking at Han Yeoreum’s group, this world’s Saebyeok approached our Saebyeok.

The two Saebyeoks met each other’s eyes.

“You need to protect the younger ones well. I failed but you…”

“What failure?”

Our Saebyeok looked around at this world’s children.

This world’s Levinas and Gaeul were smiling innocently.

This world’s Levinas held the Long-lived Horned Rabbit’s mana stone.

“Well…”

“You haven’t failed yet. So protect the younger ones well.”

“…Okay.”

“I’ll check later?”

“Yeah. I’ll do my best.”

Saebyeok shared friendship with Saebyeok, and Gaeul shared friendship with Gaeul.

The way the Gaeuls shared friendship was quite funny.

They just looked at each other and smiled brightly.

“We’ll be going now.”

“Alright, see you again later.”

“Take care on your way back, Gyeoul.”

“Good work.”

Squeeze-

This world’s Sophia and Encia, Master and Han Yeoreum, and the children too.

After hugging everyone, I turned to look at the portal.

“Everyone take care! Make sure to bring King when you come visit!”

Levinas waved to everyone as she walked toward the portal.

Just as she was walking proudly toward the portal-

“…Levinas?”

Levinas turned around at someone’s voice.

I reflexively turned around too at the unfamiliar voice.

Where the voice came from, an adult male and female horned rabbit with long rabbit ears and horns stood.

“Heuk! Mom and Dad came?!”

This world’s Levinas ran toward the two adult horned rabbits.

Shocking me with the words “Mom and Dad.”

“Yes. We heard it’s okay to return now. Has Levinas regained her strength too?”

“Yeah! Levinas is invincible! Levinas needs to be strong so Princess can wake up!”

“That’s right. As expected of our Levinas.”

The woman called Mom hugged this world’s Levinas tight.

I could only freeze in place seeing this.

‘Oh…’

Our world’s Levinas’s parents…

I carefully turned around.

Our Levinas was staring blankly at this world’s Levinas hugging her parents.

“……”

Regret crept into our confident farewell.

What should I do?

Should we stay a little longer before going home?

I had no idea what to say.

As my throat tightened and my lips moved meaninglessly-

“Mom! Dad!”

Our Levinas called out to this world’s parents with fiercely raised eyebrows.

Then she shouted confidently in a voice loud enough for everyone around to hear.

“Levinas is happy every single day! Because Levinas has a very precious family too!”

“Levinas…?”

“So don’t worry about me, okay?!”

After saying everything, Levinas turned toward the portal without regret.

Then she walked toward it with great pride.

Because in our world beyond the portal, we had family just as precious as parents.

Our Levinas was much stronger than I’d thought.

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