Level 1 Strongest Sage ~

“Former world, huh. Yeah, I did want to go back way back.”

“Way back— then, you don’t want that now?”

Luna seemed to brighten up a bit.

“That’s because everyone’s here. I want to be with my family rather than go back to that former world.”

“Halt!”

Luna hugged me.

She seemed really happy about something.

“Actually…I found a way to return to the former world.”

“Eh!?”

“But I thought Halt might disappear if I were to relay that to you…so I couldn’t say anything.”

We trudged through this world’s oldest dungeon last year, and we found a ginormous stone monument with various information written in divine script on the last floor.

There were too many things written on them that even Luna, who could read any kind of script, couldn’t grasp everything that was written on it in a day.

And so, Sitri and I would teleport Luna to that dungeon, and she continued working on it until she understood everything.

It was also where Luna got the information about [Inter-world Teleportation Magic].

The magic that would allow us to teleport to the world we were in before — it seemed that Luna and I would be able to pull it off with our combo.

The only important thing was the magical circle written in divine script, and since I had unlimited power, I just had to write it according to Luna’s instructions and it would be fine.

“Sorry for keeping it a secret…Did it make you want to return to our former world?”

Luna finished explaining it briefly, and she anxiously looked at me.

“Thanks for letting me know, Luna. Maybe I’ll return eventually, just to take a peek at what’s happening over there. I want to see my family…my younger sister, in particular. I want to know if she’s doing okay.”

I also had my own doubts.

There’s no magic in my previous world as far as I know.

There’s a possibility that I wouldn’t be able to return back to this world via teleportation magic if I were to go to my previous world.

I absolutely didn’t want that.

“I’ll hate it if I won’t be able to see you guys again. So, I will never use inter-world teleportation magic until we find a surefire proof that I’ll be able to return here.”

I still have something I need to do.

At any rate, I don’t think I’ll venture to the other world until I accomplished that.

“But, if Luna wants to go back no matter what, then I’ll help you, but I…really don’t want you gone.”

“I, I will never disappear! I’m your wife, Halt, and I’m also a member of the Ernol family. My home is in this world.”

I was overcome with happiness because of what she said, so I hugged her with all my might.

“H-Halt…hard..to… breath.”

“Sorry. Just thinking that you’re gone made me really scared, Luna.”

Luna didn’t tell me about how to return to the other world even though she already knew it because she probably felt the same as me.

“I won’t be gone. I’ll stay in this world forever with Luna and everyone.”

“Right. Master, it’ll be a problem if you disappear on us.”

Youko already woke up before we noticed.

It seemed she had been listening since halfway through our conversation.

“Halt-sama. If you return to your former world, can you take me with you?”

“We’ll tag along too!”

“Me too! Ah, but I’m worried whether there’s mana in Halt’s world…”

Tina, Mai, Mei and Leaffa approached me.

Leaffa was worried whether there was mana in my previous world. Pure-blood elves get sick easily in a space with completely zero mana.

“We can just increase the mana in Halt’s world if there’s none, right?”

Sylph was a ginormous block of mana, being a Spirit King herself, so I felt that might be plausible.

“There is a Goddess-sama over there too. Maybe there are people who use magic without Halt and I knowing about it…I see.

Luna met the Goddess-sama of our previous world before. Then, maybe that place was also a fantasy world without us knowing about it.

“It’ll be best if you take me with you when you go to the other world, Halt. No matter what happens, I can communicate with the deity of the other world so that you’ll be able to return here.”

Such reassuring words from Shiro, as expected of a Divine Beast.

“Even if the conversation with the other world’s deity fails, I don’t think Creator God-sama won’t abandon me. You’ll be safe as long as you’re with me.”

“So we’re gonna rely on Creator God-sama, huh?”

“Right! That’s my purpose as the Divine Beast.”

I felt like there’s a lot of misunderstandings going on here, but it’s really reassuring that Shiro could communicate with the deities whenever.

If I decided to use the interworld teleportation magic one day, I’d definitely take Shiro with me.

“Meow. Everyone’s gathered…Is it breakfast time already?”

Merdie woke up.

Unlike Tina and Youko and the rest of the girls eavesdropping on our conversation, she had really been fast asleep until now.

The slime girls were still sleeping, but all the rest were already awake.

“Good morning, Merdie. Everyone’s awake, so I’m about to prepare breakfast. Wait for just a bit more, alright?”

I rarely cook, but this isn’t my mansion.

At times like this, I can at least cook for everyone as a treat.

“Halt’s going to cook?”

“That’s the plan.”

“Halt-sama, is that okay with you?”

“Yup. I also want to cook every now and then.”

The Ice Knights that I sent off to hunt should be back by now.

I conjured several Ice Knights to guard our surroundings, and had them hunt for monsters for food, or else gather fruits.

By the way, I didn’t conjure Flaming Knights because they won’t be able to covertly move in the night. If they patrol the area, the monsters would notice them immediately and they would run away.

If that happened, the entire forest would be in an uproar, and everyone wouldn’t be able to relax and sleep.

“If Halt’s gonna cook, then I want chao fan, meow!”

“Nobody eats chao fan at breakfast.”

“Even if it’s Halt-sama’s hand made dish, chao fan is a bit…”

Ryuushin and Tina didn’t like it, it seemed.

Yeah, I also think so.

We didn’t even have rice in the first place.

“Then, how about pizza?”

“Ah, pizza’s nice!”

Luna agreed with Youko’s suggestion.

So pizza’s fine… is it really fine?

— Eh, we don’t even have dough.

The Ice Knights returned right on cue.

Great, they gathered [Bread Fruit ], fruits that resemble bread when grilled.

A few people checked them out, then they suddenly disappeared.

Afterward —

“We got the tomato sauce.”

“This mistress brought cheese.”

Mai, Mei and Sitri returned to the mansion and got some sauce from a tomato-ish fruit and cheese. Nice, I thought it’ll be impossible because we didn’t have sauce.

“Halt-sama. The Ice Knights hunted horned rabbits, it seems. I will drain the blood now.”

“Mother, I’ll help you.”

Kikyou was holding a few rabbits.

“Yup, thanks for that.”

“Halt-sama, let’s grill them with this!”

Tina summoned stone golems and she instructed them about something —

The stone kiln was completed.

The golems turned into stone kilns.

“Whoa. This is amazing.”

“Halt! I gathered herbs!”

Sylph gathered herb-ish things while I was admiring Tina’s golems.

I can make margarita with this.

As for the horned rabbits, let’s use them to make meat pizza.

…Eh?

I’ll hardly cook at this rate, right?

I told them I’ll be the one to prepare breakfast, but everyone just split up and started working on it.

It became such a huge deal so early in the morning.