After waking up and taking a shower, I collect the portable power supply and all the other electrical appliances that needed charging while still on my boxers.
I put everything but my phone into the magic bag, then pull out a business card to make a call
The ringtone only rang one time.
The phone picked up right away and I hear a reluctant voice over the speaker.
『 You’re late. Any progress? 』
「 How do you know it’s me? I haven’t told you my number 」
『 It’s easy to look that up. Putting that aside, what’s the news? 』
「 She’s safe and sound 」
『 Is that true? 』
So annoying.
The loud and harsh voice is coming out of the speaker.
「 She’s not in danger. That aside, you didn’t do anything around me, did you? 」
『 Don’t look down on us. We keep our word 』
「 That’s good. How do we do this? I got something that confirms her safety in the meantime 」
『 I want to talk to her directly. Can I meet her? 』
「 Yes, I was going to deal with this today and move on, sure 」
『 Then, can you come out right now? I have what you want to be prepared too 』
「 Understood. Where should I go? 」
『 There’s a convenience store near your house. Go there… 』
「 Then, I’ll get there right away 」
The Boss ended the call.
I know I said it but I’m scared to death that he knew my phone number and even my house.
The convenience store is only a few minutes walk, so I guess I don’t need to hurry, but I’ll get there early and have a light breakfast.
I put on my shirt and pants and grabbed my leather key case from the table thinking about leaving the house.
Then my intercom rings.
There’s no scheduled delivery, right?
Then, it must be some newspaper seller?
The intercom rings repeatedly while I wonder who’s coming.
「 Wait, could it be? 」
This pattern, must be the police?
Should I answer?
No, I’m not a criminal. I don’t want to deal with this.
I mean, I’m going to meet with the Yakuza.
They’ll know that.
I don’t know what kind of reaction these dangerous people if they meet.
Okay, let’s run away.
I can pretend to stay away, but I want to leave and eat breakfast.
I tiptoed to the front door, retrieved my shoes, and teleported to a back alley a short distance away.
「 Phew, escape success. Oh, I knew it, it’s the police from the other day 」
I put on my shoes, looked at my room door from the other side, and saw the police who visited me before standing there.
I wasn’t wrong.
Okay, time to go to the convenience store.
There are several convenience stores near my house, but since they told me that it’s nearby, I went to the closest one.
I continued down the alley downtown where the smell of early summer is beginning to waft through the air, and I bought breakfast when I arrived at the store.
While I was in front of the store eating a burrito with coffee, a luxury car pulled up in front of me.
The Yakuza I encountered the other day gets off the driver’s seat and opens the door to the back seat.
「 Please get in 」
Unlike his intimidating behavior from before, now he’s quite polite.
He’s trying to avoid making eye contact.
Was he told to treat me like a guest?
I boarded the rear seat and the boss was sitting next to me, and the passenger seat has the person who accompanied me last time, so it was the same group.
「 Lad, let’s go somewhere quiet first. Step on it 」
I nodded and the car started driving.
After a short drive, we stopped at a road built along the river with no houses and hardly any pedestrians.
Upon arrival, the two front-seat passengers go off without a word, leaving me with the boss.
「 Sorry for calling you out. Let’s talk 」
「 It’s normal to worry about your daughter. Please take a look at this 」
I took out my phone and play the video Mirai recorded the other day.
A girl was talking to her father and mother with teary eyes.
「 Ooh, M-Mirai…y-you’re alive… 」
The boss is man-weeping.
The boss wipes his tears with a flower-printed handkerchief that makes me want to ask what brand it is, and he has his eyes glued to my phone.
I’ll send the video to him later.
「 And so, I came to have a discussion. As mentioned in the call earlier, she’s safe for the time being– 」
「 Lad! Where’s Mirai?! Tell me! 」
The boss interrupted me from speaking and grabbed me excitedly.
「 Please calm down. I’m still working on letting her free. I will be telling you a lot of things, so could you write your name here? 」
「 What’s with this character? It seems like an alphabet, but not 」
Well yeah, you won’t understand it, it’s written in Isekai letters…
「 If you want to know then you’ll need to write your name. There’s nothing here that will harm you, so you can write as you please 」
「 Okay… Mirai did tell me to do what you say. Oh, I don’t need a pen I have my own 」
I offered him my ball pen, but he pulls out a fountain pen from his pocket and quickly wrote his name.
As soon as the two names have been written, they disappeared with light just as they did before.
「 Wha? Hey! It disappeared! 」
「 Yes, what a surprise. I was also surprised when I used it for the first time.
Hmm, as expected, I can use those just like my skills.
I mean, where does it go when it disappears?
I can still understand it if it disappears in the other world, but if it does in our world, where does it go?
No, that’s the wrong way to think about it.
It goes nowhere.
If it’s in the range as the “space” that Mira-chan mentioned, then it works the same everywhere
Ooh, scary.
Well then, now that my secrets are safe, let’s tell him some stuff.
「 Another world? Summoning? Do you think I’d believe something that outrageous? 」
「 But it’s all the truth. You’ve seen it, haven’t you? Things that don’t exist in this world. Besides, have you seen the Western room Mirai-chan was in? That’s a castle in another world. It’s funny you know. Man, you don’t know how hard it is to not explain it before. If I told you the same thing the other day even though we just met, you’d probably say that I was on drugs or something, right? If you ask me, I’d think that it’s nuts 」
「 How did Mirai come to such a place… Can she retur—Wait, you can return! 」
「 That’s right. However, we’re not at that stage yet, so I’ll have to ask you to wait a little longer. Also, she’s been summoned as the hero of the country, so I don’t think the other side will let her go easily. I was troubled to decide what I should do.
Man, it’s much easier when I don’t have to be careful with what I say.
However, the boss was skeptical.
He’s confirmed that Mirai’s safe for now, but at this point, he doesn’t know when or where this was taken, and maybe I forced her to say this.
He believes it to some extent, probably because of the other world contract I just showed him.
For someone who lived normally, they know that something like that doesn’t exist in this world.
「 And so, boss. How about the one I asked you to prepare before? 」
「 Yes, I had it prepared. What will you use it for? If you want money, then I can pay you 」
「 No, it’s not about the ready money. Apparently, the police marked me as someone involved with Mirai and the group, I’m fine as far as my savings are concerned, but I’m afraid of spending more than I should have. You don’t know when they’ll figure things out you see? I had a visit earlier this morning and I had to escape from them 」
「 Oh, the first department is working on the kidnapping case, and the Yakuza’s on it too 」
What do you mean by the first department?
I’m not involved with these people most of the time so I don’t even know their names.
I get the Yakuza group, sure, but oh…It’s because one of the people that disappeared was his daughter.
「 Okay. Consider that fixed. I can’t get Mirai back if you snapped at them 」
「 Ooh, that would be helpful 」
I don’t know what you’re about to do but thanks!
I know that it’s Yakuza, so the worst would be killing, but I don’t want to go against the state power, which is working with good intentions at the moment.
Can I say that I no longer have to fear the police?