203. The place of beginning, the two of the beginning




 I was wandering around the city, not doing anything in particular, when I passed by an apartment.

 A cheap apartment for 20,000 piro a month. The apartment I rented right after I came to this world and shared it with Emily.
 I still keep it rented.

 I suddenly felt nostalgic and turned toward the apartment.

''Huh?''

 I hear a sound, a sound from inside the room.
 I put my hand on the doorknob and easily turned it.

'Oh, it's Yoda,'
Emily.

 It was Emily in the room.
 She rolled up her arms and cleaned up.

'You're here.'
Hi. I come in and clean up sometimes.
Well, thank you.

 Then I look inside the room.
 The room is small, but warm and bright.
 The exterior of the apartment is completely raggedy. It's so desolate that I'd believe it if they called it a haunted house or an abandoned house.
 And yet, the warmth inside is in full swing.

 This is the room that Emily has been tinkering with and maintaining.
 Home, a place to come home to.
 It's a place where that feeling comes up naturally from the bottom of my heart.

I was happy then.
What?

 Emily is surprised.
 Because my line was too abrupt.
 But it was only for a moment.

 Emily quickly calms down and smiles serenely.

'I'm the one who was very, very, very happy that Yoda worked so hard to rent this room for me.
'I just wanted Emily to live with me, that's all.
I would have loved to live with Yoda like that.

 We looked at each other, both of us smiling at each other.

 We have already changed a lot from that time.
 But still.

"It's good to be here.
'Yes, sir! Yoda, we're having dinner here today. I'm going to cook something delicious.
Yeah. I'll have the bean sprout soup.
Yes, sir!

 Emily smiling at me.
 The soup of bean sprouts that linked us together.
 We've both changed a lot since then, but I'm sure the sprout soup is still delicious.
 I'm sure of that.

I'm going to buy some bean sprouts.
No, I'll get the sprouts. Emily will get the other ingredients.
Okay.

 We nodded silently to each other, saying we'd be back here later, and were about to leave the room, when.

'Kyaaaah!'
Go to hell.

 It's suddenly noisy outside the room.
 Me and Emily's expressions instantly tightened, and we ran out of the room.

 I see a monster.

 It's a spherical monster floating in the sky, maybe three meters in diameter, with a torso (?), and a body (?). has a strange pattern of flickering lights.
 There are dozens of tentacle-like things wriggling at the top, and the tips of the tentacles are eyeballs.
 It's a disgusting monster, to say the least.

 It's running rampant, and the townspeople are running away like spiders scattering spiderlings.

'Mr. Yoda!'
Yeah.

 The moment he nodded and took out his gun.
 One of the monster's tentacles shot a fireball at me.

 A fireball as big as a slime flew straight at me, flying at breakneck speed.

''What! It is.

 Emily swung her trademark hammer and popped a fireball.

'That's awesome Emily!
Ehehe. ......

 Emily smiles shyly.
 It was different from that time.
 It was different from when the slime on the first floor of the tellurian basement could take a hit and then attack in time.
 Emily has become strong enough to be able to flick off even a straight fireball with no problem.

 I'm different from those days, too.

 The monster attacked me.
 Tentacles and eyeballs unleashed their magic all at once.

 Fire, ice, rock, lightning--.
 I'm not going to be able to get my hands on any of them.
 The magic comes this way--the apartment is completely obliterated by the magic--don't let it!

Mr. Yoda!
No problem!

 I drew my two pistols, I saw the type of attack magic at a glance, and loaded the bullets that matched it.

 Freezing bullets for flames, flaming bullets for ice, and annihilation bullets for rocks--.
 He shot each one and knocked all the magic out of the air.

 The apartment--not a scratch!

'Hah!

 Emily's judgement was outstanding, and I was like, "No problem! The moment he shouted, he already rushed forward.
 Rushing at full speed, he turned the hammer, which was much bigger than his height, around and around, and pounced on the monster.
 A painful - no, a satisfying blow.

 The hammer struck the monster, which went rigid after firing a single shot, directly on the monster.
 The monster, which was floating in the air, was knocked directly to the ground and crushed with a crunching sound.

''Whoa!''
It's The Lula and the Bludgeoning Mother.
'Awesome ......, that's the Lyota family and ......

 The residents of the city that had been on the run right up to that point seemed to be a city with a dungeon nearby, so they quickly calmed down and marveled at me and Emily.
 I mean, what the hell is that? I get it, because bludgeoning moms are perfect for Emily, but what is The Lula? I'm moving at a moment's notice.

 As I was pondering the meaning of Lula (the ruler) for a moment, Emily came back with a smiling face and carrying a hammer.

 I looked at her and high-fived her, holding out my hand from either side.

'Yoda, that's what I'm talking about,'
Emily.
'No blisters, no bears. It was true when they were gone.
That's not what I meant, but still.

 I chuckled.
 Emily was right.

 I don't have blisters on my hands now, nor do I have the dark circles under my eyes that I couldn't get rid of all the time I was in the black business.
 Those two things that symbolized the times when hard work went unrewarded are gone.

 This is just the beginning, and there's more to come.
 There will be more and more to come.

 I look straight at Emily.

"Once again, good luck in the future.
'Yes, sir! It's good to see you!