NOVEL NEXT chapter 11
11. When I woke up, I had become a dad?
“U, Vn?”
I wake up to someone shaking my body.
My body feels lighter than usual?
As I open my eyes, light floods in, and I close them again.
“Papa?”
I’m taken aback by the sudden call of “Papa?” and, while enduring the dazzling light, I force my eyes open.
As my eyes adjust, I see a girl dressed in tattered cloth.
Her purple hair reflects the light, appearing almost ethereal.
Two black horns jut out, absorbing the light and asserting their presence.
And her porcelain-like white skin, paired with her mesmerizing red eyes.
I found myself unable to move, captivated by those eyes.
“Mm? Papa?”
The moment I’m called “Papa,” I snap back to reality.
I immediately respond, “P-Papa?”
As I say this, the girl’s expression remains blank, but the corners of her mouth lift slightly as she repeats, “Papa! Papa!”
“Papa…! Papa…!! Papa!!”
I can’t comprehend what’s happening, so I take a deep breath to calm myself. No, I’m not calming down at all.
“I’m not your Papa~?”
I say this in a soothing tone, but it seems to have no effect; she continues to call out “Papa!” This isn’t going to end well…
As I ponder this, I suddenly remember that I’m in the middle of a mission!
“Right! This is bad! Did the mission succeed?”
Thinking this, I look around. The flow of magical energy seems to have stopped, and the central pillar remains unchanged, but it appears there were various instruments behind where the girl was standing, now broken from the severed tubes.
“It seems like it was successful, but how do I get back to where I was…?”
As I struggle to find a way back, the girl pulls on my hand.
“Papa!”
She leads me toward the central pillar, pointing to where she had been restrained. The broken tubes hang down, but at the center, there’s a mark that looks like it was welded later.
“What is this?”
—
I might be able to go; there’s no time to hesitate here!
I steeled my resolve, enveloping my body in a dark aura through physical enhancement, and clenched my fists.
But suddenly, when the girl touched my hand, the dark aura surged forth more than usual.
“What!?”
Then, power surged through my body, filling me with a sense of omnipotence. Is this… an increase in magical power?
“Is this some kind of divine revelation? But it’s quite convenient!”
With a strength greater than usual, I struck the welded section.
BAM!
The iron wall buckled violently, and the welded part
couldn’t withstand it, falling into the cylinder.
“Guess I have no choice but to fall in here for now?”
I activated the Unyielding Sacred Wall, wrapping myself in a dark membrane.
Grip.
Before I could leap down, my feet were caught, halting me in place.
“Daddy?”
The girl looked at me with a worried expression.
Right, she had been trapped alone in this place with the magical device; she must be feeling incredibly anxious.
I reaffirmed my resolve
and lifted the girl with one hand.
She let out a strange sound, “Whoa?”
Without hesitation, I jumped into the cylinder.
“Whoa!”
Perhaps because it was larger than the first cylinder I entered,
I was surprised by the sensation of floating, yet I felt myself being pulled toward somewhere.
The girl seemed to be joyfully exclaiming, “Whoa!” I felt myself being pulled with tremendous force. Then, at some corner, the momentum surged, breaking through the cylinder and emerging into a vast hall.
“What!?” “Whoa!?”
I could hear the voices of a woman and Gora.
As the dust settled and I looked around, I saw guards everywhere, surrounding us. In the center of the circle stood a battered Gora, an unconscious Ayla, and a female guard dressed in a distinctly different attire.
Just when I thought I had escaped, I’m in a dire situation!?