“Cheater.”
Is the first thing Kori says when she gets off the elevator. Her usual cheerful expression is blank, and I even feel bloodlust from her piercing eyes.
“Where did you come from?”
Saratha is confused, as she steps out of the same elevator. But I also notice her moving away from Kori. This is bad.
“Y-y-you’re the worst! Obscene! Cheater!”
Says Suzuri with her face bright red as she comes out of her room wearing a shirt and dolphin shorts. Isn’t a harem obscene anyway?
“So an illegitimate child has suddenly appeared.”
Iris appears calm, calmly upset. I feel like the sharpness in Kori’s eyes is increasing.
“Eh? But where from? We’re not docked.”
Vasilisa appears wearing a dress, and in her confusion, stays calm and asks a valid question.
“Ah, mommy.”
The girl runs to Vasilisa and hugs her.
“I haven’t given birth!”
“Cheater.”
“Calm down, Kori! This is clearly not right!”
“Anyway, let’s everyone relax. Can anyone say why this child is in the ship? No, right?”
“She could have perhaps snuck aboard when we resupplied.”
“Such as master getting a local wife in Pokapoka.”
Ah, that… Leaving that local wife stuff aside, Tortilla Double is currently in space. She either flew through space and got inside, or snuck aboard when we received torpedo materials and food. Well either is… not possible. No, the rings on her head…
“Less of a local wife… Does her head not look like Luca…”
“Darling goes for inanimate objects too?”
“It’s a misunderstanding, misunderstanding. I didn’t do that.”
“Mommy.”
The girl holding on to the octopus tentacles changes direction, and this time buries herself in Kori’s cola float body.
“Hey!!!”
“Kori! Don’t be hasty!”
“Let it out! Peh! Go peh!”
“M-mommy…? Me, mommy… It might sound nice…”
“Now’s not the time! Pull her out! She’s dodging my tentacles!!”
The girl in Kori’s lower body dodges Vasilisa’s tentacles as she heads up.
I don’t see bubbles, and it doesn’t look like she’s choking. Actually, I remember seeing in the news that kids drown quietly in the bath.
“We need to pull her out right now!”
Saratha joins Vasilisa’s octopus tentacles and puts her arm in Kori to get the girl out, but can’t.
“This girl isn’t breathing~.”
“This is bad, pull her out!”
“No, I think she doesn’t breathe in the first place.”
The girl’s face pops out of Kori’s soft cream hair.
“Funny! Fun! Daddy! Mommy! Let’s play more!”
“Okay~! A rocket next!”
With a shhpa sound, the girl is launched from Kori head first, stays about three centimeters above her, and sinks back down.
It’s like a trampoline…
She does it again, and again, and as the girl laughs, we sit down on a couch,
“Genma’s cheating problem has not been solved.”
Says Suzuri while glaring at me with her bright red eyes, but please stop. I really don’t remember that, and we need to confirm where this girl came from!
“Let’s ask her name first. It’s not Luca, right?”
“Hey~. What’s your name~?”
“None!”
“Your name is none?”
“No!”
“She does not have a name, correct?”
Is she as old as she looks? It’s like Luca had human form…
“Daddy! Name! Want!”
“Name? How about Lu?”
“I’m Lu! Lu!”
“Ah, naming her is not… It looks like I was too late…”
Oh? Did I do something bad?
“Naming a presumed spirit is like a contract, so it is said it is not something you should do…”
“So this girl really is a spirit?”
Vasilisa taps Lu with her tentacles, and she starts climbing Vasilisa while laughing.
“I thoroughly checked the ship’s internal cameras, and all I can say is that Miss Lu suddenly appeared. Only a fairy or a spirit could do this, but since the rings on her head strongly resemble Luca’s, I assume she is a spirit.”
“Luca? Luca!”
“Hn? Hey Lu, a lot of magic energy is flying! What are you…”
<Did you call? Good morning. Oh, there’s a little one. Is it my child?>
“You?”
<I don’t know her. Stay, stay, quiet, be still. Why are you so unruly?>
It’s chaos. Kori glares, and Luca shrinks back…
“Luca, good timing. Are you this girl’s parent?”
<I don’t know about her. It’s got nothing to do with me.>
“Eh…”
<It is a light and electricity spirit. A middle spirit like me.>
“Hey~?”
The big spinning chandelier and the little girl are both middle spirits…? I thought Luca would be a great spirit, but it’s a middle?
<Hm, well, in terms of rank difference, it would be like a D- and C+. Me being C+ of course.>
There are ranks like that… Are great spirits like SS rank?
<Great spirits are B rank, so an SS would be a spirit king.>
“Please don’t read my mind… Anyway, what should we do about her?”
“Lu is our kid~!! We’ll take care of her!!”
“Daddy and mommy’s!”
<She says she’s your child, so you just have to make it so.>
Hm, I can’t refuse.
After all, Kori is fully on board. The others look like they’re thinking it can’t be helped. Well, I guess we can’t just throw something that looks like a child out from the airlock.
As I think that, Lu starts climbing me, sitting on my lap. Yes, it feels really weird. This kid doesn’t have a smell.
She also has what look like angel halos flickering on her head, but then they rise and stop on top of mine.
What’s going on…
“Is it okay…”
“It is!”
“Having a child…”
“Having a child without having a child…”
“What should we do about Lu’s room~?”
“Ah, that’s a problem. We don’t have an empty room, do we?”
“I feel like someone clearing out of her room wouldn’t be good for her education… I think she should stay with someone for now.”
There’s a lot to think about.
“Why did Lu come here anyway?”
“Hn? Hn! Dodonbon! I was staying still outside, and then dokyan! A big cradle came crashing! It scared me! It broke!”
“By dodonbon, she means hyperspace broke~.”
“I don’t really get staying still outside, but is the big cradle a colony?”
“No, didn’t a destroyer wreck crash against an asteroid? And the asteroid broke?”
“It did not break but… Ah, it did crack.”
So she was involved in the Pokapoka colony defense battle.
<That could be… Many of my brethren stay in the comfortable asteroids around here.>
“Yes! And this looked like the strongest so I came here! There was a bonban! There was a spirit!”
“Well, a destroyer was destroyed.”
“So to appear, I took magic energy from daddy and mommies.”
“Lu?”
<I apologize for my brethren.>
The light of the shining chandelier drops to something like a nightlight.
“Hm… I feel like this is too much to handle.”
“Eh!”
“Can you take her, Luca? She’s a spirit.”
<First, the magic energy she took isn’t enough to feel languid. If you lie down for five minutes it will be back to how it was, and it’s not fatal.>
Says Luca, but can we take her? My mind is shifting to not really thinking it’s a good idea. But the girls seem to like it. Especially Kori.
“So, are spirits just free?”
<Spirits are free. There’s a trend where we take wandering souls and send them off to live new lives in other places.>
Is that how isekai reincarnation became popular on Earth…
<But it looks like you named her… Ah, a middle spirit could be useful to you. You can use hyperspace if this spirit is with you, even if it doesn’t work right now.>
I don’t really want to use a child, but that’s a huge thing to throw in.
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