In the morning, when Bronya left her room, she saw Takatsuki already seated at the dining table in the living room, and Mei, who had begun her day's work in the kitchen.
"You're up early today?"
Usually, Mei and Fu Hua were the first to wake up, followed by Bronya, and then Takatsuki.
Kiana and Hestia were always the last to wake up, anyway.
"Yeah, I got used to waking up early in the Dungeon."
"You seem to be in a very good mood?"
Bronya sat opposite Takatsuki, looking at him with some confusion.
"Am I?"
Bronya nodded at Takatsuki's rhetorical question, "You look like a dog who's found a bone."
"Uh… what kind of terrible analogy is that?"
Seemingly pleased with the result of her "teasing" Takatsuki, Bronya's lips curved up slightly, "When are you going to help me?"
"When we go back. I can't go to the Sea of Quanta in this world."
Bronya's only concern was Seele, but Takatsuki could only prevaricate for now, because he didn't know how to help Seele escape quantumization, although he had already figured out how to enter the Sea of Quanta.
While D4C's ability was only to rigidly cross worlds and couldn't reach the Sea of Quanta, Takatsuki could enter the Sea of Quanta through world bubbles that were easy to reach, which was a roundabout way of saving the day.
Although he didn't know which world bubbles had a way to enter the Sea of Quanta, he could tell which world bubbles were about to shatter!
As long as he entered a world bubble that was about to shatter and shattered with it, he would fall into the Sea of Quanta.
If an ordinary person fell into the Sea of Quanta like that and hadn't been quantumized, it would be a sure death, but Takatsuki wasn't worried about that.
Not to mention his immunity to death, D4C could also take him away at any time.
"Then I'll wait a bit longer. Was it true what you said before, that the time flow is different between our two sides?"
Bronya asked another question she was concerned about. If it was just her bearing some waiting time, that was fine, but she didn't want Seele to suffer and drift alone in the Sea of Quanta because of her own laziness.
However, Takatsuki felt like rolling his eyes when he heard this. You spent so long before, and only by chance did you save Seele, and now you're suddenly in a hurry?
But before he could answer, Mei's voice came from the kitchen doorway.
"It's true, you know. Takatsuki-kun, Kiana, and I have already been to another world once. Only about an hour passed when we came back."
Mei walked out of the kitchen, placed the serving dishes on the table, and said.
"Takatsuki-kun?"
Bronya looked at Mei with some confusion.
"Mei seems very happy today too?"
"Eh? Is it that obvious?"
Bronya nodded, but did not continue to ask.
Did something happen that Bronya didn't know about?
Takatsuki and Mei certainly wouldn't tell Bronya about last night.
Bronya was also very sensible and didn't pry, after all, it didn't fit her personality; if it were Kiana, she probably would have dug for answers.
However, that idiot Kiana probably wouldn't notice.
Just as Bronya thought, Kiana and Hestia came out for breakfast and didn't notice the slight abnormality between Mei and Takatsuki.
Knock knock…
Breakfast had just finished when there was a knock at the door.
"We have guests, I'll get it!"
Kiana, who was playing a handheld game with Bronya in the living room and getting utterly defeated in chess by Bronya, heard the knock, immediately overturned the chessboard, and ran to open the door.
Bronya expressionlessly looked at the chessboard that had been unfairly overturned: "Bronya's 72nd consecutive victory…"
"It's you! Crozzo, and who is this little runt?"
As soon as she opened the door, Kiana saw the familiar tall young man and an unfamiliar little girl.
"Liliruca is not a little runt, Liliruca is here to see Bell-sama."
Welf gave an awkward laugh: "Just as Liliruca said, we're here to see Bell. We teamed up with Bell before, and if it wasn't for Bell yesterday, we might not have made it back, so we came to check on him."
"Oh, I see, then come in, but Bell isn't awake yet."
Although she didn't ask anyone else, the people in front of her were acquaintances, so Kiana directly let the two of them inside.
"Bell-sama!"
Liliruca quickly ran to Bell, who was lying in the living room, but clearly, he was still not awake. However, his breathing was very stable, and there were no problems.
"Oh, is it Bell's Supporter-kun and Blacksmith-kun? Bell told me about you. Thank you for taking care of Bell during this time."
Hestia stood out, adopting the posture of a head of the household.
"Good morning, Hestia-sama, it is we who have been taken care of by Bell. If it weren't for him, we wouldn't have been able to return at all."
Hestia was very pleased to hear Welf's words, as no one dislikes others praising their child, but she still said, "Don't be so modest. Takatsuki-kun has already told me everything. If it weren't for the magic sword you provided, Bell wouldn't have been able to defeat that monster."
"Ah, speaking of monsters, this…"
Welf suddenly remembered something, took a piece of gray cloth from his waist, and opened it. Inside was a bull's horn.
"This is a material that dropped after Bell defeated that Minotaur. I picked it up."
Hestia took the bull's horn that Welf handed over: "Hmm, I'll give it to him when Bell wakes up, Blacksmith-kun."
After confirming that Bell was fine, Welf and Liliruca left.
"Bell is quite surprising, isn't he? He came to Orario at the same time as us, yet he already knows so many people."
Kiana said, looking at the still sleeping Bell.
"That's because we've been teaming up. You guys can actually try to get to know people from other Familias."
After finishing the dishes with Mei, Takatsuki walked out of the kitchen and said, "Today we'll go to the Loki Familia to get our share of materials back. Kiana, you can try to get to know other people, and don't you like beautiful girls? The Loki Familia has many beautiful girls."
"Hmph, I don't need them!"
Kiana snorted, then pounced on Mei, who had followed him out, and stuck out her tongue at Takatsuki: "I has enough with Mei."
"My hands are still wet."
Looking at Kiana clinging to Mei, Takatsuki thought, if Kiana knew what happened between him and Mei last night, she would probably… Ugh, with Kiana's naive personality, she probably wouldn't make much of a fuss.