As Ash muttered to himself and retraced his steps, the girls who had originally been following behind him were now walking ahead of him.
"Ash, there's still one last question you haven't answered, right?"
Before they knew it, everyone's eyes had turned to him. After all, this was a serious matter that could not be taken lightly.
"Now that you have Dark Echo, what kind of goal do you want to achieve?"
Whether out of concern or curiosity, they all wanted to know the answer.
"But..."
As if she had thought of something, Rei's expression inexplicably turned a little shy as she awkwardly added,
"If it's really too embarrassing to say, you don't have to say it."
They believed him. They believed that the current him was not some villain using power to do evil.
"You got one thing wrong again."
Though he said that, Ash did not come over to rap her on the head this time. Instead, he stood on tiptoe and patted Rei's head as a reward.
"Dark Echo was originally for the system's goal. I merely promised to help it gather everything."
"Alright, alright, we get it."
Even Kirara sounded a little helpless when he brought that up again.
"We know just how important it is to you, that no one can replace it."
He was clearly a Harem King, yet he had such a "devoted" side to him. Was that setting really okay?
"That wish is—"
Ash raised both hands high and proudly shouted as though he were showing off for himself.
"To make every world a wonderful place where good is rewarded with good!"
Of course, it had more or less become part of my own wish now, too.
"..."
"What's wrong? Why do you all look like you've been hit by weird cat