Not long after Takatsuki promised to prepare a Stigmata without side effects for Hiko, the girls who had been bathing in the hot spring returned.
"Ah… Takatsuki-kun, your world is truly amazing."
Hestia, who had just arrived not long ago and was already exclaiming this, was holding a glass of iced milk. This was sothing i usually prepared, saying it was a tradition after bathing in hot springs in the Far East.
Hestia's yukata was provided by Hiko, as only Hiko's clothes would fit her voluptuous figure. Everyone else's clothes looked like they were about to burst.
Although Hiko's clothes were long enough to drag on the floor and provide free mopping, the villa's floor was very clean, so it didn't make much difference.
"I'm glad you like it. Ais, what about you?"
Ais, also wearing pajamas, was staring at the electric light illuminating the entire room. Hearing Takatsuki's words, she lowered her head: "A very strange thing, not a magic stone."
"That's an electric light. This isn't the original world anymore, it's my world. Ais, why did you co over in the first place?"
"Not the original world anymore?"
Ais seed to take a mont to react. "I heard that you, Teacher, were leaving."
"So you just pounced over?" Takatsuki rubbed his forehead, feeling a headache. "But you're different from Hestia. Hestia has no ties in that world…"
Takatsuki thought for a mont and didn't continue. Although he subconsciously wanted to lecture her, it was already a done deal, and blaming soone wouldn't solve the problem.
"Ais, I unfortunately have to tell you sothing: you might never be able to return to Orario."
Although Ais was naturally naive, she wasn't foolish. She didn't know where this place was, nor did she understand the concept of different worlds, but Takatsuki's words directly told her the outco.
"Why?"
"Because these are already two different worlds, just like the Upper World and the Lower World, unable to interfere with each other."
Takatsuki tried to explain in terms she could understand.
"Like a returned god?"
"Yes."
Ais finally understood her current situation, but she didn't show any negative emotions, just an 'oh, I see' expression.
"Ais, aren't you going to say anything?"
"Say what?" Ais looked at Takatsuki and thought for a mont: "Where is this place? Can I live here?"
Takatsuki hadn't responded yet, but Hiko, who had been watching from the side, burst out laughing first: "Hahaha, Takatsuki, where did you bring this child from? She's so interesting."
After speaking, Hiko walked up to Ais and looked at her, saying, "My na is Murata Hiko. This is St. Freya Academy, the cradle of Valkyries. I agree to let you live here, little girl. What's your na?"
Ignoring Theresa, who was clamoring behind her not to be ignored, Hiko asked Ais.
"Ais Wallenstein."
Takatsuki rubbed his brow and said, "Then let introduce. This is Ais Wallenstein, a high-level adventurer from another world. And this is Hestia; you can think of her as a mascot, just like the Headmaster."
Of course, Takatsuki's introduction caused dissatisfaction from the two. Although their figures and ages were different, perhaps Theresa and Hestia had a lot in common.
After all, they were both mascots…
The acceptance of the two new mbers went much more smoothly than Takatsuki had imagined.
Hestia had no airs; she didn't deliberately ntion her identity as a deity. Ais was not only as delicate as a doll in appearance but also in personality, so there was no possibility of her being disliked.
Of course, if there were any problems, they would certainly be blad on Takatsuki.
Since it was already late night, having stayed in other worlds for four months, which is about one hundred and twenty days, it was only two hours here.
After the interrogation and acceptance phases, the ti was already approaching 2 AM.
Theresa yawned: "It's getting late. Everyone, please get so rest early. Tomorrow, I, the Headmaster, will take you on a proper tour of the Academy."
Theresa saying this ant that she had officially accepted the two of them to stay at St. Freya Academy.
Although the two were not registered Valkyries and didn't even have identification, within St. Freya Academy, wouldn't it be easy for Theresa to pull so strings?
Otto wouldn't even pay attention to the origins of two obscure "small fries," especially since he didn't even know that Welt Yang, who hadn't even changed his na, was lurking in St. Freya Academy.
After settling the two into their respective new rooms, the farce of the night finally ended.
However, Takatsuki's work was not over yet. He had several relatively important tasks.
One was to check how the system had been affected by Hestia's divine power.
One is to prepare a Stigmata for Hiko and Ais.
Hestia is protected by divine power, so there's not much to worry about, and Hestia in this world can use divine power freely without fear of being sent back.
However, Ais is different. Although the Falna has raised her life level and even extended her lifespan, Takatsuki doesn't know if her Honkai Energy adaptability has improved
If this girl were to die from Honkai due to his mistake, his sin would be imnse.
Takatsuki opened his system and began to check the system's prompts.
"Due to external factors, system functions have been tampered with. Attempting to repair…"
"Repairing…"
"Repairing…"
"Repairing…"
After more than ten consecutive jumps, a different display finally appeared.
"Repair failed. Patching vulnerability…"
"Repair complete. New function enabled."
"New function: Dungeon Companion Return"
"Allows non-party mbers to be brought back to the host's main world. Bringing back each person requires a paynt of 2000 crystals. Characters brought back via this thod will automatically gain legal identity in the main world."
So Hestia and the others were stowaways and didn't have legal identities, right?
He didn't expect Hestia's actions to actually successfully unlock a new function for him. Should he go find her and ask her to add more functions to his system?
Just as Takatsuki was thinking this, the system suddenly continued to display prompts
"To prevent malicious tampering with system functions, the system has activated energy absorption mode, automatically absorbing and converting all energy entering the system into system energy."
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"System function compensation: Character Template Customization enabled."
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