"So, you approached the Void Gate and got pulled in at the same time, and then you ended up here?"
Josh rubbed his head with a bitter expression. He had never expected that the little girl before him, who looked both angry and aggrieved, had come to say goodbye to him only to be dragged into this world. He truly did not know how to judge the situation.
Scold her? Josh did not even know whether he could bring himself to do it. After all, she had only come to bid him farewell out of kindness. Still, it reminded him that he had to make sure no one was nearby before opening the Void Gate in the future. Once he was done crossing over, unless someone sensed it, he would immediately withdraw the energy to prevent such accidents from happening again.
It was not as though Josh did not want to throw Hermione straight back, but he had already begun withdrawing the energy when Hermione happened to arrive. The Void Gate had closed, which meant the girl would likely have to stay here with Josh for a while.
"Once the Void Gate is stabilized, if it closes, we have to wait seven days in Muya Continent time before reopening it. Fortunately, since I've returned here, the time reference is still calculated with me as the core. It will take some time to reopen the gate to that world, and the time ratio between this world and the Wizard World is one to seven."
"So seven days here means forty-nine days have passed in the Wizard World."
Josh calculated silently, but he found it strange. Why was it always seven? Could that man's will have affected this place too? Come to think of it, if he changed his name to Eight,