"Doggo, you finally fucking came back."
Tetsuya looked at Husky, who had reappeared before him, and spoke with a touch of emotion.
"I thought you'd exiled me to this world."
[How could I? We're the closest of partners.]
"All right, tell me. What were you doing, disappearing for so long?"
At the mention of that, Husky replied wearily.
[What else? Taking care of things related to this world, of course.
This world was originally supposed to be handled by that little junior of mine, but now you and I have been temporarily assigned to it. There's a lot to hand over, and we need approval from above, too.
Anyway, there were way too many little things to deal with, but thankfully, they're all done now.]
"So that's how it is. Looks like your system world has plenty of headaches, too."
[Yeah, otherwise I wouldn't have been gone this long.]
"I thought you weren't coming back. I was even thinking that if you didn't, I'd start planting trees in this world."
[Planting trees...]
The corners of Husky's eyes twitched twice.
[Let's not, okay? If you plant trees in this world, I'll have a hard time explaining it to the higher-ups.]
"I was just saying. Besides, look, you're back now, aren't you?"
For a moment, Husky didn't know what to say. Good grief, thank goodness he'd come back fast enough.
Otherwise, with Tetsuya's temperament, he really might have started planting trees in this world.
After all, he had a God Tree and a Ten-Tails Cub ready to go.
If Husky had returned too late and his master had tossed the God Tree or the Ten-Tails Cub into this world in a fit of anger, that would've been it. There would have been no way to explain himself to the higher-ups.
[Um, Master,