In a Different World with a Smartphone Chapter 410: Planting, and the Blue Stag.

(Author: as expected, putting out characters with the same names causes a lot of things to go weird)

Around here seems to be a good place.

Bastet jumped off from the white [Crown], Albus head lightly.

Theyre currently in a nameless forest situated close to Eisengards center. Its far from towns and villages, and is a place where people wont tread easily.

So were planting it here?

Right. Bring it out.

Following Bastets instructions, Anubis took out the Sacred Tree from his [Storage]- enchanted collar, and dropped it onto the ground.

Then Albus-san. Please.

Understood.

Receiving the sapling of the Sacred Tree from Anubis, Albus dug up a spot on the ground lightly, and planted it there. As soon as it was planted, glittery magic particles began to appear from the small leaves of the sapling. Its proof that the Godslaying Poison polluting this land is starting to be purified.

Now all we need to do is to protect this sapling until its grown to a degree, huh.

Do we know exactly how long that is?

According to Uncle Kousuke, the purification radius should reach around 20 meters after 2 days or so. Once that happens, itll be fine to call King-sama and the others here.

Just 20 meters in 2 days? Can we really purify the entire country with this?

Its fine; with the saplings growth its purification speed will also increase, apparently. Please take care of the guarding duty until then, Albus-san.

Leave it to me.

Albus nodded once towards Bastet. Suddenly, Anubis turned his head towards the depth of the forest, and let out a growl.

Seems like the forest residents are coming out to welcome us already.

While producing rustling sounds, three small demons with green skin appeared from within the forest.

Goblins. Theyre probably trying to get rid of the enemies who have appeared in their territory. Theyre holding thick sticks and stone spears in their hands, and look raring to go.

At a glance, Bastet and the others can only be seen as a black dog and cat, and a humanoid child wearing armor. If their noses were actually working, the goblins wouldve noticed that these three dont have the smell of living beings, but their own body odor had made sure that wouldnt happen.

Gyagyagyagyaa!

Gyigyi!

Gyaaaaa!

The three goblins rushed towards Bastet and the others, thinking that theyve found good food.

Alas, their opponents were anything but.

One of them had its throat caught in Anubis jaws, before he slammed it down onto the ground powerfully. The fangs made from crystal materials easily bit through the goblins neck and robbed it of its life.

And the other two had their heads separated permanently from their bodies by Albus crystal sword, drawn out in an instant. It only took several seconds; it wasnt even a proper fight.

As expected, Albus-san. Well done.

No problem.

While listening to Bastets compliment, Albus returned the sword to its scabbard.

Anego! Anego! What about me?

Waa, amazing-.

Flat reading!? Put more love into it, please!

Anubis began rolling around on the ground.

Stop fooling around and start paying more attention to your surroundings. If its something like that earlier, we can handle it ourselves, but if something like a group of variants came attacking wed have no choice but to retreat, you know.

Heii.

If its one or two variants, then Albus can deal with them by itself. However, if they started calling in reinforcements, theres no way Albus can fend them off with him alone.

If possible, they should defeat the variants as quickly as they can. Its fine to stall for time since thats exactly their mission this time.

Two days. If theyre lucky, they would be able to defend the Sacred Tree without encountering any variants. After that, they can just leave it to the sovereign and others.

While glancing at the Sacred Tree producing sparkling magic particles besides her, Bastet began paying attention to her surroundings as well.

The mace and the halberd clashed together. The two passed through each others sides, made a U-turn, and came back once again to bring their weapons together.

Even though it should be hard to grasp a sense of balance, the two of them are performing perfectly.

In front of my eyes, two Frame Gears, one white, one blue, were fighting against each other while standing on top of a surfboard-like flying device. Brunhilds knight order commander, Rain-sans Shining Count and one of the vice-commander, Norn-sans Blue Moon. Oops, its not Norn anymore but Norue, isnt it.

It was the beastman vice-commander Norn-san who said that its confusing having two Norns, and changed her name on her own. Or rather, instead of changing her name, its apparently more of making her name sound like its correct pronunciation. Which seems to be Noruen, or something.

With this, the two Norns have completely split apart; the master of the black [Crown] Norn, and the wolf beastman vice-commander of our knight order Norue. On a side note, I dont know if having the same name had anything to do with it, but the two of them have a good relationship.

Even though Norn looks like a young girl but is surprisingly cool, while Norue-san looks grown- up but is still innocent on the inside; theyre pretty much polar opposites, so its surprising in a sense.

At this time, the white and blue knights stopped in place and began exchanging blows.

As expected, when you fight while not standing on firm ground, you end up attacking with only your upper body, huh.

Well, they cant jump around or do footworks, so its pretty tough. Models like Elzes Gerhilde would be completely out of the question for this.

While looking at the twos combat, I replied to our other vice-commander, Nicola-san, whos standing besides me.

The professors group also thought of ideas like making Elzes Gerhilde combine with Linzes Helmwige at first, but they also had to give up later on.

The flight units used in the fight against the Magicraft King were improved to operate over longer periods, and given to Yae and Hildas frames for use, and these Flight Gears are

fundamentally designed to be used by Knight Barons and Chevaliers. Its not a good fit for Yumina and the others Valkyrias.

Most of the flying variants are the type that attacks by charging in instead of staying in a spot and attacking like that, after all. In the end, I think its probably about how to dodge their attacks as they charge in, and how to land your own attacks on them during that timeframe.

Contrary to the land-based variants, who move like beasts, the flying variants are better likened to swimming fishes instead of flying birds.

Most of them would utilize their tough bodies and charge straight in like a bullet. There are also types who like to shoot crystal arrows down, but those types generally have very slow movements. Basically, theyre artillery units.

The key to aerial battles against variants lies in seeing through the difference between the bullet-types and the artillery-types, and using that to our advantage.

And conversely, its going to be hard to use that to deal with enemies on the ground, isnt it.

If they fly too low, theyll get in the way of other Frame Gears, after all. The only way would be for them to switch to shield mode and go into ground battle

Deer. While talking with Nicola-san, I turned to look at the mechanical blue deer which is currently running about on the field.

Bigger than a Frame Gear by about one size, its our newest Over Gear, [Dea Blau].

Over Gears can only be operated by [Crown]s. Which means, the one thats controlling that deer is the blue [Crown], [Distortion Blau]. Which means

Hey! This is amazing, isnt it! It moves exactly like I want it to!

Roberts voice was projected out from the speakers. Towards that voice, the only one who reacted was his fiance who came together with him, Celes. Shes clapping with a full-faced smile. They have such a good relationship, as usual.

Norns [Leo Noir] and Nias [Tiga Rouge] are pure offensive-type Over Gears. In comparison, Roberts [Dea Blau] was designed to be a defensive type focusing on mobility.

The large horns extending out of its head can form magical barriers, with which it can protect its surroundings.

At the same time, it can also utilize those barriers to carry out ramming attacks.

The professor apparently couldnt decide between a horse and a deer for a long time, before she settled on a deer.

Cooperation between the three crown holders Would be a bit tough given who they are, but still, a pure increase in fighting force is to be appreciated. The fact that all three of them have a rampaging streak is a bit worrying, though.

Its made nicely, isnt it? That [Dea Blau] was built to make the best use of the blue [Crown]s golem skill, you know.

Behind us, Professor Babylon came up together with Rosetta behind her. Her trademark ether stick was in her mouth as usual.

It looks like tobacco, but its actually an aroma that can relax the mind, or something. I keep feeling there might be some suspicious ingredients in there, though. Also, a young girl like the professor smoking is a bad image in terms of societal perceptions.

Is it fine taking its golem skill into account? Wouldnt it be dangerous

That princes compensation is the least risky one, after all. Nia could die if she bleeds out too much, and Norn could regress all the way back into an embryo. However, in the case of that prince, he just falls asleep.

Is there nothing like falling into an eternal sleep for him?

Of course, thats still different from dying, I suppose. Its just the possibility of whether he will fall asleep forever.

Thats alright. I say were using Blaus ability, but in actuality its just making use of a part of its powers, and he wont die even if that happens. There are many ways we can wake him up with On a side note, I havnt slept in four days.

The professor laughed fufufu in a strange way. This is bad Ive made her do a lot of unreasonable things recently, after all.

The professor, who has the same kind of body as the Babylon Sisters, has a far higher level of endurance than normal humans. However, the brain inside her head is no different from a humans. As such, she still requires things like sleep.

Then dont come over here and go sleep. You might even endanger your life, you know?

Actually, that was the reason why the Guinness book of records no longer keep records for longest time gone without sleep. If they had continued recording that, someone might turn up dead one day.

I want to finish my work properly before I sleep, you see. Itd be good if Touya-kun can give me a reward, seeing how hardworking I am, you know?

What do you want?

While being wary of the professor whos staring at me with eyes lined with eyebags, I asked. Im quite thankful of her, so as long as it isnt anything too outlandish, Im thinking of acquiescing.

What, its nothing hard. Just spend a hot night with me, passionately tangled

I see you want me to make you fall asleep by force.

Alright, huge nope-. Since its the pervert loli I didnt expect much, but to think she came at me with a bloody straight ball of all things. Its honestly kinda scary if she says that kind of things while smirking at me with panda eyes.

Then hold me. Hug me I say, hug.

The hurdle sure went down hard. Could this be one of those arts of negotiation, where one first throws out a huge demand thats sure to fail, then pass through a second, much smaller demand thats the true purpose? What was it, uhh, door-in-the-face?

I lightly held up the professor who was waiting with her arms spread wide in front of her.

Gufufufufu. Its been a long time, Touya-kuns body Nice. Im getting excited.

Ill throw you off, you know.

The professor put strength into her arms around my neck and her legs around my waist, clinging on harder. Are you a koala clinging onto a Eucalyptus tree!? This isnt a hug anymore, its just her clinging onto me

And just when I felt the force in her limbs disappearing all of a sudden, I began hearing a sleepers breath from her. Eh, wait a, oi.

Shes asleep-de arimasuna.

Seriously

I let out a sigh when I heard the voice of Rosetta, whos peeking at the professor from behind me. Theres no way I can throw her off like this Shes not pretending to be asleep, is she?

Its true that she worked hard-de arimasuyo.

Eh?

Five thousand years ago The professor was originally a genius, so she only ever worked on things shes interested in, and did whatever she wanted without caring about others at all-de arimasu.

Doesnt sound a lot different from now

No no. Shes never thought anything like using her strengths for someone else a single time before this-de arimasuyo Its possible that the most important reason the professor crossed over five thousand years was to meet you-de arimasu.

Whats with that heavy love. Well, she did help me a lot in various areas.

And in the first place, the reason why we hold affectionate feelings towards you, Master, isnt just because youre the owner of Babylon, you know-de arimasuyo? Our personalities and way of thinking all came from that person over there in the first place, anyway-de arimasukara.

Rosetta pointed at the sleeping professor and smiled. Mumu Thats true. And in the first place, the Babylon system was made so that Im literally the only one who can possibly become its master.

While saying Well give it to you if you fulfill the conditions, you know?, its actually a system designed exclusively with one person in mind from the beginning. If you think about it normally, thats quite the fraud.

Using the [Jewel of Future Vision], the professor had learnt that no other person with all elemental aptitudes would appear in the next five thousand years besides me. It would be perfectly natural for the professor to make it so that I would eventually get my hands on Babylon.

I wonder if everything concerning myself and Babylon were actually all set up by this person in the first place. Well, the current situation is favorable to us, so its fine, I guess.

Also, this is a bit tough. Rosetta, is the back okay?

Yes-de arimasu.

I transferred the sleeping professor to Rosetta who turned her back towards me for a piggyback.

Let her sleep on a bed in the [Ramparts]. And, when she wakes up, can you help me tell her thanks for everything?

Oh? Is it finally the dere period?

No you idiot.

While carrying the professor, Rosetta moved back to Babylon via short-range teleport.

Since shes done this much already, I cant really pull away from her anymore. I dont feel like pulling away, anyway.

A few days later, we would march on Eisengard, and the battle against the evil god would begin.

Ill definitely drag that guy out and end all this. To be honest, its whats coming after that that has me worried. Like my wedding, and the god training.

Well, theres no choice but to do it for me.

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