Ishtar: My Life Is So Hard! / Ereshkigal: I Just Possessed Ishtar, and I'm Already Getting Beaten Up in Her Place?!

If Chu Chen wanted to take Natsuki out alone, Ai felt that she had to make some sort of gesture no matter what.

Watching Ishtar was merely an optional excuse, equivalent to Ai making her position clear.

—Go take Natsuki out on a date. Orphis and I won't disturb you.

As she walked down the road with Chu Chen, Natsuki did not forget to strike up a conversation with him.

"Not interested. Just like you—would you be interested in someone you could deal with casually?"

"That's true..." As her strength steadily grew, Natsuki could instead understand the thoughts of those Progenitors.

This world was simply too boring, so those Progenitors were only interested in amusing things.

For long-lived beings with power, whether they lived or died was not important. What mattered was whether this world was interesting.

If Natsuki herself did not have such a strong sense of responsibility, she would probably have followed those Progenitors and caused some trouble too.

But now, no matter how responsible she was, Natsuki had been worn down by that useless system.

"Just like me now, I've basically handed all the Demonic Beast Hunter work over to Yuma!"

Yuma's strength had improved tremendously. As long as the enemy was not at the Progenitor level, Yuma could basically handle them.

"Yuma is that strong now?" Chu Chen was slightly surprised as well.

The current Yuma was not Sendou Yuma from the start of the main story, but Sendou Yuma from four years ago.

In other words, Yuma had already achieved something four years ago that even her main-story self had been unable to reach.

It seemed that Natsuki was quite experienced as a teacher of magic.

"Of course. Don't forget whose disciple Yuma is now. And as Aya's clone, Yuma's talent for magic isn't low