Heroic Spirit: I, Shinji, have tried my best.

“…What are you doing here?”

"Ah!... What? You scared me. When did you come here..."

Shinji glanced around the surroundings. It was obviously a place like the elves' library, so he was not surprised that Jibril, a knowledge fanatic, was here...

But no matter what, this should be an important place for the elves. How could this guy sneak in so easily?

"… Never mind, it's not a big deal anyway… We should go."

"Um... I'm afraid that's not possible."

"?"

Shinji turned around and stared at the little thing in front of him with a puzzled look on his face. Why didn't it want to leave? Then he would leave it here alone...

"It's not what you think. It's that I can't leave, not that I don't want to leave."

While Jibril was explaining to Shinji, she continued to flip through the pages of the book in her hand, quickly scanning the contents written on it:

"Actually, when I first came here yesterday, I was discovered by a little elf girl, but she didn't dare to do anything to me, so we played a little [game]..."

"…So? You won?"

"No...I lost."

"?"

"It's such a pity. I really can't defeat my opponent, so I can only lose miserably and be forced to explain my origins..."

Hearing this, a strange look appeared on Shinji's face:

"...You, you didn't buy me, did you..."

"How can you say that! I strictly abide by the rules set by the Lord of the One and Only God. The bets made in the game must be followed!"

"After finding out, the other party was eager to go back and report it, but in order to prevent me from escaping, they also added a restriction that forbids me to leave the room. It's really abominable!"

"..."

Well...it seems I have a rough idea of ​​what happened.

As for the other party's words like "what a pity" and "miserable defeat", Shinji didn't believe them at all.

"Hey! Don't pull me! I haven't finished reading here..."

"Don't show off your cleverness in front of me. I have lifted the restrictions on you now. Hurry up and leave..."

"Mo~"

The little loli stared at Shinji and acted coquettishly, but the other party still didn't show any hesitation, so she had to give up.

[It's really strange. It works on other humans, but why is this guy so stubborn? ]

Then at the last moment, Jibril folded a corner of the page in her hand and marked it, and she would continue reading it next time!

Then the two uninvited guests quietly left the elves, leaving behind a huge mess.

The forest elf girl who discovered Jibril "luckily" won the [game], and heard a shocking news from her.

After hearing this, her first reaction was to tell Lord Xink immediately, and of course she did so...

But unfortunately, at this critical moment, Lord Xinke was always busy. She went to ask for a meeting many times but was rejected. She was so anxious that she waited in front of his residence for a whole day.

Just when she was about to lose hope, the instructions for the meeting were finally issued...

"Lord Xinke! Oh no... Hey, it's not Lord Xinke..."

"Um... ahem! Hey, if you have anything to say, just tell me directly. The teacher has some health problems, and now I am taking over her management of the clan affairs..."

"Oh... No! Oh no, something terrible has happened!"

Looking at the anxious girl in front of him, the young disciple, who had just cleaned up his teacher and put him on the recovery circle to recuperate, forced a calm look on his face.

Unexpectedly, she encountered such an important matter on her first day in office. It seems that the days to come will not be easy... Woo woo, teacher, please wake up soon!

"Ahem... Don't panic, just tell me what's wrong, there will always be a way to solve it..."

"It's Lord [The One and Only God]!"

"What! That guy again!"

Hearing this, she clapped her hands on the chair and stood up excitedly, but immediately realized her loss of composure and sat back in silence.

"..."

"Um, the guy you just mentioned is..."

"No... No need to worry about it. Just continue talking. What happened to the [One and Only God]?"

"...Oh, just now, but not just now...Yesterday, I heard that Lord [The One and Only God] had secretly entered our city. He might be staying somewhere now. We must do something..."

"..."

"Um...are you feeling unwell? Why do you look so weird..."

"No...it's okay..."

"You don't need to worry about the affairs of the [One and Only God]... Although I don't know much about other things, this is the only exception..."

After all, the real person just left her not long ago. Sigh...what is going on?

……

“…Hey! What are you doing? Didn’t you agree to take me with you?”

"Forget it. You are just a guy who can only take advantage of others or cause trouble for me... So you should just go back to your stage and perform your play..."

After leaving the elves' city, Shinji did not go directly to the next race as planned, but returned to the human side, threw Jibril back, and left alone.

"Tsk! What a stingy guy..."

The little girl snorted in displeasure, then stood up, patted her butt and returned to her residence... and Shinji also had a new goal:

"I haven't seen Hubie for a while. I don't know how her negotiations with the Ex-Machinas are going..."

"Well, in that case, let's go and take a look!"

Having made up his mind, Shinji still took out his universal tool - [Star Cup] to open up a space tunnel for himself to the location of the Ex-Machina.

After traveling through so many places with the Star Cup, his perception of space has gradually improved a lot... It seems that he still has a lot of potential that has not been developed...

He stretched out his hand and reached into the space tunnel, followed by his head and torso, and finally his entire body sank into it... Then the space tunnel began to shrink until it completely disappeared.

Shinji, who passed through the tunnel just now, found that he was teleported to a pitch-black place, but he could still vaguely feel the presence of many living beings around him.

"Snapped…"

Suddenly, a bright blue halo lit up in front of him, and then various lights began to light up around him, and Shinji gradually saw the environment here clearly...

He was actually surrounded by countless strange-looking mechanical devices!

You can even see a lot of Ex-Machinas, namely Ashes, standing there with their eyes closed, as if they were in hibernation...

[…Unknown entity intrusion detected, alert mode activated! ]

A red light hit Shinji's face with a "pop", making him raise his hands to cover his face feeling a little uncomfortable, and look at the huge machine with a human face in front of him.

This should be the so-called host...

Suddenly, the red light, which had been on for a short time, went out again, and turned into a soft blue-white fluorescence:

[Detection completed, the intruder is an authorized personnel [Shinji], identity: [The One and Only God]... Alarm lifted...]

“…What’s going on here?”

"Shinji!"

"Hmm? This sound is..."

Just as Shinji was wondering what was happening, a familiar voice came from behind him... He turned around and saw the girl who had been with him for a long time...

"Hubby!"

Shinji ran towards him happily, and Hubie also smiled gently. After untying the tail of the data cable connected to the strange line behind his butt, he immediately threw himself into Shinji's arms excitedly.

"How's it going, did you miss me?"

"…Um!"

"So do you still remember the task I gave you?"

"Remember!"

Speaking of this, Hubie suddenly raised his head and looked into Shinji's eyes seriously:

"I have synchronized the relevant information with the host, and the specific details have been set up."

"That's good... This way I can safely entrust this world to you..."

Shinji felt the girl in his arms suddenly tremble, and then asked in an indescribable tone:

"Shinji, are you...going to leave? Leaving...this world..."

"…Yes, but not now. I plan to stay here for a while, but I will leave eventually."

"But this world cannot be left without management. As for humans... there are both good and bad ones among them. I cannot trust them completely, but there are also races that I can fully trust..."

As he spoke, Shinji glanced at the Ex-Machinas who were sleeping with their eyes closed... If it was Shuvi and Ashe, he could safely hand over the power to them...