About a thousand years from when Yuuki’s gang fell into a predicament.
Magic was refined into Magecraft¹ and developed into a craft that anyone who received training for a license could use, despite talent and individual differences.
¹ «TN: mahou (魔法) vs majutsu (魔術)»
There yet exists the ruins of the Isky residence whose time has ended, and was being carefully preserved as a nationally-designated cultural asset.
On a black, diffusely shining stone monument, these words were written.
Underneath it, long descriptions of his exploits were carved.
It was also known that the change of the country’s name from Ivan to Isky happened in his time.
Two young women entered the gardens where Rosé and Yuuki once walked.
One of the women walking on the park, a woman of just over twenty, was wearing a Faith of the Born Light habit², her silent movements giving a sense of the depth of her moral sense, born out of her religious piety.
The other woman was very young, a cute little girl that seems to have just reached ten years of age.
However, her attitude, oozing confidence out of her entire body betrayed that, giving her an adult atmosphere rather than a childish one. It’s almost as if she was a career woman in the shape of a little girl.
² «TN: nun uniform»
“Did you know how our Nikka Choir began?”
“Yes, Sister Lilipa. It was named after Sister Nikka who took down the Demon Queen with Hero King Glenn”
“The war a thousand years ago was grand. After becoming King, Glenn-sama devoted himself to fighting his deranged wife, Demon Queen Rosé, and made the harsh decision to take her down himself”
It was a historic incident known by every person with general education in this country, nay, this whole world.
However, after her father, King Ivan was taken ill, her mind started to go mad and she finally got her hands on forbidden magic and became a frightening monster.
The ones who opposed her were Sister Nikka, who received a revelation from heaven, and Rosé’s former husband Glenn.
The war, known as the Great Demon Queen War, lasted several years, then Glenn, in tears, shot down Rosé and laid her to rest in this land.
“Our Nikka Choir’s mission is to spread the teachings of the will of heaven so that a tragedy like that never happens again”
Seemingly pleased at the young girl’s backchanneling, Lilipa smiled.
“— Renbo-san. Will you join us to carry out this mission together?”
“A superior magecrafter like you is exactly the strength that we need. What do you say? Will you protect the world’s peace together with us?”
The young girl, Renbo, returned her smile and said.
“Unfortunately, I’ll have to refuse”
†
“Oi! Renbo!”
He was just slightly older than her.
Rabbit ears swayed from his head.
“I made su–re I refused her”
“Ah, good”, the boy said, catching his breath.
“I’m an idiot too, aren’t I, taking Aparu’s conspiracy theory seriously, to even turn down an elite job”
“Hey, Aparu”
Sensing something, Aparu turned pale and shouted.
” ‘Footstool‘ ”
“NNNUOOOOOOOOOOOOOOHH!”
“Yoissho,” Renbo rested her feet on his back, and went back to relaxing.
… In public, at that.
“Really? Well, I don’t feel like curing it”
“So, once you finish training school, where are you going to go?”
“It’s more exciting to blur the boundary between normal and abnormal. You understand that much, right?”
*haah*, Aparu sighed, and said,
“I’m going to be a ‘dimension police‘”
“Eh. You’re going to the lower world!?”
The ‘Lower World’ is what the other world is recognised as in this age.
It lies on the other side of the scenery you see with your eyes, if you have fulfilled certain conditions, it flips like turning the page of a book, the world was that close by.
However, Renbo’s society had cut off and prohibited contact with the Lower World.
The reason was because it was clear that once exchange was established, political disputes regarding race, religion, and economics would return.
But in this world there are criminals who defy this rule and illegally travel to that world.
Their job is to integrate into our world and when those people came, to conceal their existence and forcibly deport them back.
“You don’t know what kind of place it is but you seem so eager to go”
“Hmm….”
Renbo pondered a bit, looking cute as she does.
“Listen, you, we don’t go there to play, you know”
*nnnh*, Renbo stretched, then she stood up.
” ‘Wait five minutes and you may stand‘ ”
After giving her friend a new order, Renbo walked away.
“Lower World, huh. Somehow I feel I’m going to have a wonderful encounter there”
With that sort of presentiment bouncing in her chest, Renbo walked a new path, leaving Aparu still on all fours.
A side story in the form of a tie-in
³ «TN: http://ncode.syosetu.com/n0236cf/»
Chapter end
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