alaya was so angry she wanted to stomp her feet, but she didn't dare move.
Because Hansen's hand, which was pressed on her head, seemed to have... stamped a mark on her.
alaya's small face instantly turned beet red, her body went limp, and a mist rose in her ruby-like eyes.
"Don't just write things inside people randomly... pervert! Insolent brat!"
Although she was still cursing, alaya knew very well that the situation was already lost.
Resistance = Destruction.
Compromise = Survival.
Even... she could cling to his thigh.
This choice wasn't difficult even for a child with a three-year-old's IQ, let alone a Counter Force that had existed for countless ages.
"Phew..."
Hansen finally released his hand from alaya's head and smoothed out her ahoge along the way.
"Now, can we talk properly? Both of you?"
alaya straightened her messy skirt and sat back in her chair, trying hard to pull a serious face on her youthful features, attempting to regain a bit of dignity.
"Hmph... Since things have come to this, I can acknowledge you as one of us."
"But!" alaya extended a finger and pointed at Hansen. "You're not allowed to mess around! You're not allowed to destroy Human History at will! You're not allowed to make a mess of the timeline! Otherwise... otherwise!"
"Otherwise you'll cry for me?"
"..."
"Don't worry, I have no interest in destroying the world." Hansen rubbed the red-eyed loli's head and shrugged. "I'm just here for a vacation and to find something along the way."
"Big brother..."
At this moment, the leg-clinger gaia finally looked up and gazed pitifully at Hansen: "Want more... that energy... delicious."
Hansen sighed helplessly, forced a ball of pure life energy from his fingertip, condensed it into a sphere of light, and stuffed it into gaia's mouth.
Chomp, chomp... Watching the dignified Will of the Planet munching on a ball of natural energy that radiated terrifying power fluctuations like it was a jellybean, the three girls not far away had varying expressions.
"...I can't even look."
Asuka's mouth twitched. She crossed her arms and looked at Hansen with a face full of disdain. "Is this Teacher's bad taste? pervert! Definitely a pervert!"
Although she was calling him a pervert, the sour look in the depths of her eyes couldn't be hidden.
She was clearly the one who came first!
"Asuka, don't be rude."
Rei Ayanami was advising her, but her gaze remained locked on the blue-haired gaia.
Same blue hair, same silent personality, even that inhuman aura was somewhat similar.
Rei Ayanami tilted her head and suddenly said something shocking: "Teacher, will our future daughter be like this?"
"Pfft— cough cough cough!"
Mari Makinami, who was drinking water, almost choked to death.
"Hahaha! Your imagination is way too rich!" Mari Makinami laughed so hard she doubled over. She walked over and patted Rei Ayanami's shoulder. "But looking closely, they really do look a bit alike! Could it be that the BOSS is actually..."
"Hmm, that might be possible."
Mari Makinami:???
Hansen thought seriously for a moment. "She is gaia, the personified concept of the Earth's Will. She doesn't have a fixed visual image or a humanized appearance."
"Because my arrival stimulated this world's stress mechanism, it caused them to be activated from their unconscious state."
"So theoretically, whatever image I have of them, they will appear in a form that matches it."
"I-is that so?" Asuka looked at the little loli drooling while hugging Hansen's leg, feeling her worldview shatter into pieces.
Mari Makinami blinked, unsure of what she was thinking, while Rei Ayanami's cheeks flushed slightly.
—So the child in Teacher's heart is with me... "Alright, since the tickets are sorted, I should go see the reality of this world."
Hansen gently pulled gaia off him and placed her on a chair, then put alaya right next to her, effectively dealing with these two door gods.
He turned around, his gaze piercing through the The Root, looking towards the surface world called reality.
His vision passed through layers of mist, locking onto a small island city in the Far East.
There, seven magi were converging from all directions, preparing to fight to the death for a broken cup claimed to be an Omnipotent Wish-granting Machine.
"The time... 1994, Fuyuki City."
A sharp light flashed in Hansen's eyes.
"The eve of the Fourth Holy Grail War? It really is a nostalgic point in time."
Various scenes from this timeline flashed through his mind—
Papa Kiritsugu striving to be an ally of justice.
Father Mapo quietly searching for the true meaning of pleasure.
The King with the ahoge agonizing over the fall of Great Britain.
The glittering King of Streetlights slumping in a mansion, drinking red wine and acting pretentious.
"Anyway, the Cube Fragments won't escape this world. Besides..."
"Since I'm already here..."
Hansen looked at the city's night view, the corners of his mouth curling up.
"Then I might as well experience some local special activities."
Referring to the Holy Grail War... "Delicious... want more!"
Within the Root, gaia, the personification of the Planet's Will, was currently hugging Hansen's calf without any sense of decorum.
After swallowing a ball of divine power containing high-purity planetary energy whole, the dorky blue-haired loli looked dazed and satisfied, like a house cat being fed a delicious treat.
In her perception, Hansen was not only an outsider but also an existence more 'Earth' than she, the Will of the Earth.
That aura of authority, which seemed to overflow from the depths of the Earth's core, made her instinctively want to be close to and... obey him.
"Alright, you can't eat any more. No matter how delicious it is, you have to know when to stop."
Hansen, somewhat amused, pressed his finger against gaia's smooth forehead and gently pushed the gluttonous loli away.
To the side, alaya, sitting on the other side of the European-style tea table, had her ahoge twitching frantically like a radar, staring intensely at her colleague with a look of disappointment.
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gaia tilted her head, a trace of crystalline energy residue still hanging from the corner of her mouth, and looked back righteously.
But... he gave just too much!
alaya was choked with anger and turned to look at Hansen.
She was about to say some harsh words, but the moment she met those eyes burning with Platinum Divine Fire, she instantly lost half her nerve.
She shrank her neck back, crossed her arms, and put on a tsundere pose: "Hmph... although I've accepted you for now, I'll be keeping an eye on you at all times!"
"I know, I know." Hansen vigorously rubbed the loli's head, picking up the conversation with a half-smile. "But if I want to do something, it seems you can't do anything about it, right?"
"Urusai! Urusai!" alaya's face turned beet red, feeling insulted.
"Alright, the jokes end here." Hansen stopped teasing the two Great Counter Forces, his expression gradually returning to calm and profound.
Even though he was at the Root on the outside of the world, his gaze had already pierced through the barriers of dimensions.
Like a higher-dimensional being looking down on a two-dimensional scroll, he scanned the timeline below.
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