Chapter 1938 – [Overtime]

This Christmas went to the moon, but it still ended smoothly. No, I was emotionally battered, but whatever.

What can I say… Through repeated reincarnations, I was originally heterosexual but evolved into bisexual, and my body can freely change between men and women, but I still feel a little different when I’m a man and when I’m a woman. Of course, it’s not at the level of mental illness like in the TS drama where one’s gender is changed, but I feel like I’m more sensitive when I’m a woman.

Maybe that’s why it hurts more when you take a mental hit when you’re a woman. Still, it’s bearable…

When I returned from my trip to the moon, I was greeted by other families who had stayed up all night. Meanwhile, Eden runs away and tells her mother what happened on the moon.

“Look at that, my daughter. That’s what they call a femme fatale.”

“A woman who drives a man to destruction…!!!”

“My daughter is also her father’s daughter, so it’s better to cut her off rather than be vague and give her hope.”

“No, what are you talking about to the child?”

“If I had rejected it outright, wouldn’t it have left a bitter first love for the child?”

“I said she was a married woman, and she refused!!!!!”

“But because you can’t control your distance and treat you warmly, the other person is mistaken. In fact, your good intentions are causing harm.”

“But that doesn’t mean Eden can draw a hard line against her friend…”

“Being affectionate is both your strength and your weakness.”

“Use it.”

I have nothing to say about him.

Anyway, Christmas has passed, and this year has come to an end. And then the new year comes.

There is only one year left in my presidential term. Around this time next year, there will be elections and a retirement ceremony, so my retirement is just around the corner.

“If this is the case, you should pay attention and prepare for your father’s reappointment. What kind of preparation is this for retirement?”

“Eden, you!!! You can’t speak evil to your father like that!!!!!”

“Honestly, wasn’t there enough to do in 5 years? The space development project is just starting, so wouldn’t it be better for dad to manage it?”

“Well… Won’t the next president take care of that?”

“Normally, when a president has one year left in his term, he has no power because he is a lame duck or something, but my dad has no motivation!!!!”

“If a soldier in his final years of service is motivated and creates work just a few days before his discharge, it is actually a nuisance.”

“And the ending where the discharged sergeant returns with a sergeant rank…!!!”

“You keep telling me not to say that?!”

First, I had to take care of the remaining work before I left office. There was a handover issue, but first, the issue of the treatment of the Earthling survivors and imperial people rescued from the Aiol civilization had to be resolved.

No, this isn’t something I did while working for the Great Demon Lord. So, at the latest, I have to finish this during my term so that it doesn’t come up later.

As I said before, they had two options left. Will I return to my hometown or will I stay here?

So we surveyed them separately. Those who will stay and those who will go, and when I asked roughly what that would be like… A larger percentage of people than expected chose to stay. Oh, of course, that was the result only for the Earthling victims, not the Imperials who had nowhere to go.

“Why?! If you have family, isn’t it better to go where your family lives?!”

“So, there are some people who say that if they move their families here, they will stay. If they can’t, there are some who say that they have no choice but to go to the other side of the world… But still, there are quite a lot of people who say that they will stay here.”

“Use it.”

It’s not that I don’t understand. In the Aiol civilization, they were treated as animals rather than humans, and as a result, they suffered harm such as killing people or selling their bodies. Even if I were to return to my home planet in such a situation, I wouldn’t be looked upon very favorably.

It’s pretty good here. There is also room for sympathy because they have an understanding of dimensional civilization and have searched through everyone and testified that they are the only ones who have survived. Also, it’s because I’m the one protecting it.

The imperial people are like that too. Now that their hometown has been destroyed, they have no place to go but here or the other side of the Earth, and in reality, the only option is here.

“The perpetrators are also civilized people, but honestly, there are many people who think that if they had been fucking bastards, you would have killed them and not deliberately brought them in to protect them.”

“It’s not that my presidency was meaningless. Since I’ve been doing it for so many years, there are people who recognize me.”

“Even though it is a political issue, you keep it simple and easy to understand.”

“What are you dissing?”

Anyway, there are people who want to return to their hometown. So they have to be sent back, so some procedures are necessary.

Originally, I would have to go through a complicated process such as contacting Earth in the other dimension and negotiating with each government, but since Phantom decided to do that, I was able to save an hour. All I have to do is wait for further news, but I recently received a call.

[Woah, it’s me.]

“Okay, seeing as you suddenly contacted me, it looks like negotiations with that side are over, right?”

[Somehow. It was a bit late to persuade them because the Earth is not a unified government but rather multiple countries and there are multiple victims. No, honestly, if you were the big guy there, I would have done all the work in less than a month.]

“I cursed at you.”

Basically, politicians have a tendency to be lukewarm. These are people with heavy hips who don’t move easily unless there’s a reward right in front of them.

Because of the meteorite, I also searched all the existing politicians to see what they were doing, whether reform or legislation. If they had stayed and tackled me, it would have taken more time to do the things I have done over the past few years.

When you think about that, you can imagine how difficult it must have been for Phantom to deal with this and that and resolve political issues on the other side of the ordinary Earth. Well, anyway, I was here to take care of the Earthling victims, so we’re good to each other.

[I’ve roughly dealt with it, so go shake hands, take some pictures, and then hand over the victims. Ah, but were there people who wanted to go home from there?]

“A significant number of people say they will stay, but there are no none.”

[It seemed like that. However, even those who want to stay should be allowed to meet as if it were a separated family reunion. Unless you have family or are on bad terms, bring everyone.]

“I guess I’ll have to go on a business trip again… The president is in his final years now, so it’s a hassle to move.”

[This bastard is sabotaging his business when he is already a lifesaver.]

“There is no guarantee that I will be elected in the next election!!!!!”

[Think about what you did and then say it. Anyway, please do the rest.]

I’m on an overseas tour… No, is this a dimensional tour? Anyway, I made the schedule. I could have sent someone else, but I did it, so it was right for me to finish it myself.

Since I’m going to work, I can’t take my entire family with me, so I have to pick someone to take with me. I was wondering who to take with me, but I decided to take Korma and Eden.

First, Korma is in the business side. Since he holds the position of Prime Minister and can discuss and negotiate with numerous people through self-immolation, he should also be brought along as a secretary or attendant. And Eden was an image person, because even though he had no special position, he was able to gain the respect of the people on the other side of the Earth just by being able to treat people with water essence and perform resuscitation procedures.

A person with superpowers who can heal seemingly fatal wounds and even revive the dead? Perhaps even those who are wary of our Earth cannot help but welcome Eden. Moreover, isn’t our Eden pretty? Even with that, I can eat half of it.

… Honestly, if I were to visit alone, I don’t think my image would be very good since he is just a young, dark man. You won’t be seen as a mere president who doesn’t seem to have anything special to do.

“Dad, you’re hating yourself again. I don’t know when that will go away.”

“Even if I go on for a lifetime, I can’t fix it.”

“Well, I think that’s why Tiv’s mom likes dad. Anyway, I’m going to visit Korea, so I have to prepare too!”

Since he was the president, he had to make a separate announcement when he was away. However, since most of the public opinion was already sympathetic to the victims on Earth, there was no public opinion against my going on a business trip. Rather, we just congratulate them on their return after recovering from their physical and mental wounds.

Ruri and Argo came along as representatives of the Earth victims and the people of the Empire, respectively. The reason why the expression ‘companionship’ is used is because the two decided to remain on this earth.

“I have a family, but if I’m going to live with Argo, it’s better here. I think people over there will look at me with discrimination as if I’m a people who kidnapped people from Earth.”

“I think that’s the reason most imperial people stay on this Earth, but there are still people who follow their lovers to the other Earth… So we should at least give them a final send-off, so they don’t feel uncomfortable.”

“Well, others may not know, but the government’s treatment of the people of the empire is probably not bad.”

Although they are survivors of the Aiol Empire that kidnapped the Earthlings, they are people who survived the time when the Earthlings were slaves by treating them as human beings, and in addition, they know basic magic.

Although it is not a very great magic, it is a high-quality human resource in an Earth where there was no magic itself. From the looks of it, it looks like the Earth over there doesn’t have any special abilities, unlike the Earth over here, but if you go there, you’ll be treated well.

However, apart from that, I have to endure the fact that I have to live with the label of being from an empire that used the people of Earth as slaves. On this side, it’s normal whether it’s good or bad, and on the other side, the treatment may be good, but the reputation will be bad, so in the end, each has its own pros and cons.

“If you go, you have to rent there too.”

“What, are you just going to show people here the Earth with pan-human history?”

“I don’t think interdimensional lintels are a good idea yet. We’ll just gather viewers from Earth there and broadcast it!!!!!”

“What on earth is a lintel to our Eden…”

“It’s nothing. It’s everything!!!! And isn’t a strong new game quite fun in a world that doesn’t know me?”

“You only have to do that once or twice. If you do it hundreds or thousands of times, you’ll get sick of it to the point of vomiting.”

“Oh, now that I think about it, my dad was a reincarnated representative of the new game!!!!”

“What’s new?”

“Then where are the possessed and returnees? Honestly, that’s more popular these days than reincarnation!!!!”

“I don’t know about the possessed, but it’s hard to create a returner because fate has a lot of jurisdiction over time.”

“Is that so?”

“Because the causality and will that go into the act of returning is enormous. It would be better to restore everything, but to restore only the regressor’s memories, it would take a lot of work and be cumbersome. I think Uncle Genesis can do it.”

The return of the world is an act that distorts not only fate but also time because it erases the causality that occurred and returns it to its original state. It is not something that can be done easily, and even if it is done, it is done once or twice at most.

That is why possessors and reincarnations are relatively common, but returnees are rare. I think it would be an extremely rare sight to see in a place that was worked on by Mr. Genesis, whose hobby is returning collapsed civilizations to their starting point.

“The matter of fate and time is tough.”

“The two concepts are complicated and difficult to begin with. Eden also has the ability to manipulate time, which she gained by defeating the Demon Lord, so you know that, right?”

“Yes, I’ve been using it for several years, but it’s still difficult to handle. It’s like solving a 1000×1000 Rubik’s Cube? At least, simple time manipulation only requires solving one side, so no matter what happens, if you get into the application category, it becomes as difficult as trying to draw a picture.”

“Drawing with a Rubik’s Cube?”

“Using different colors on each side like pointillism…”

“Ah, I understand roughly.”

If time manipulation is something that even Eden finds so difficult, then what on earth are these monsters who use it as their power to eat? So even though I’m good at manipulating space, I’m not good at manipulating time.

This is not a matter of strength, but a matter of brains, and I realize that I am an idiot. By ordinary people’s standards, it’s excellent, but by transcendental standards, it has to be counted at the bottom along with Phantom… Really.

Anyway, we prepared to go to the other side of the Earth. Phantom told me the date of my visit to Korea, so I plan to go accordingly.

Not only were there people who simply wanted to return to the other side of the Earth, but there were also people who wanted to go to see their family and friends. Since we’re going anyway, there won’t be any problems if there are more people.

“I need to get a few fururongs and dinosaurs to use as lintel material~.”

“You’re just making a decision. Do whatever you want.”

“Dad, would you like to do something like a broadcast about stories from that part of the world?”

“Even so, does it amount to nothing more than a murder confession that you killed someone?”

“Hey, it’s meaningful because we’re doing it on an Earth where we don’t know. Here on Earth, we’ve become so famous that we can’t do anything hastily, but on the other Earth, they don’t know much about us, so do you think we’ll be able to cross the line and chat for the first time in a while?”

“…”

“Uh huh!!! Dad!!!! You can’t even think about killing people on the other side of the planet!!!!”

“One or two people as examples…”

“It’s a diplomatic issue!!!!”

“If Eden messed with you, it doesn’t matter if you’re from a diplomatic high school.”

Eden touched me, but why did I put up with it? Fuck, I think I’ll just destroy the entire Earth over there instead of the Great Demon King.

After spending so much time preparing, the date for my visit to Korea finally arrived. Then, he takes the Earthling survivors and some of the Imperials and boards the Horizon to their home planet Earth.

“But why are you visiting Korea?”

“Even if it’s on a different level, he is the president of Korea. He has to go to Korea first. And he will mainly stay in Korea.”

“What kind of earth is this?”

And then we head to the other side of the Earth in earnest. It’s the same Earth, but a different Earth… I’m sure the phantom has his own story to tell, so it’ll be okay, but I have a feeling it’ll still be noisy.

It would be nice if I didn’t have to go and kill people…