“Last time on Supreme Clumsy God!
Maiya, the child born between Kaida Kogen and Oberon. That child, due to Mika God’s—again, my bad—ended up with tremendous power. If things continue like this, it’ll be a disaster when we return to Earth! What will you do, Clumsy God!”
We stared at the high-performance AI (self-proclaimed) as it spoke to the empty air.
This kid gets weird sometimes. Sometimes? Hmm…
The location is the Land of Gods, Ende.
In the capital, Avel.
“So, what are you going to do, Mika? About Maiya-chan?”
Seira-chan, the most sensible one, asked me.
That’s right…
It’s obvious that if Maiya-chan returned to Earth with such incredible magical power, it would be a disaster.
Or rather, if someone with such tremendous power went back to Kaida-kun’s era (pre-war), it wouldn’t just be a change in history…
“As Master says, history would be completely altered.”
“Right…”
If they were to win against a certain country, it would be a level of historical alteration that couldn’t be ignored…
The time patrol might be dispatched.
Well, I don’t know if they exist, but if such an organization did.
History, time patrol, and so on… let’s put that aside for now.
More importantly… the immediate problem.
We can’t send Maiya-chan back in this state.
There’s no magic or fairies on Earth.
If she went back now, it would surely be a disaster. Discrimination, of course, and she might be found by important people in the country and subjected to vivisection… something like that could happen.
I can’t allow that. I can’t allow my friend and her son to be unhappy.
So, I’ll do something about it.
“Hey, Sinri. Can’t you do something about it?”
“Oh dear, what a troublesome person. You can’t do anything without me~♪ Oh, what a problem~♪”
With a face that said, “What’s the problem…?” Sinri began searching with her Omniscient and Omnipotent (Internet).
My God Skill, Omniscient and Omnipotent (Internet).
It’s a super amazing skill that allows me to search all of creation… well, sometimes it doesn’t find what I’m looking for (mainly when it’s related to me).
“Search complete. I’ve found a way to manage it.”
“Oh, well done. So, what should I do?”
Sinri pointed sharply at Maiya-chan.
“The Supreme God, Master, must take her true name and give her a new one.”
“Huh? Take her name and give her a new one…?”
What does that mean…?
“Master, you can evolve someone by giving them a name, right?”
“I can.”
I don’t understand the logic, but I can do that.
“Conversely, by taking away a name, you can weaken someone.”
“Seriously?”
I can do that?
I’m not human anymore, completely… I’m a God, after all. Not human.
“Um… Sinri?”
Oberon raised his hand.
“What exactly do you mean by taking away a name?”
“You use Master’s God App, God Sign.”
That was the app used when creating Covenant Gods, right? (The Let’s Become Familiars update app).
“The God Sign has a function to rewrite the other person’s name. By entering a new name there, the other person will be weakened.”
“Seriously?”
“Also, as a secondary effect, you will be able to control everything about that person.”
…Huh?
“Um, Sinri-san? What did you say just now?”
“By taking away the name, Master can control everything about that person.”
Haaah?
“Eh, what…? So, you mean I can manipulate the other person freely?”
“Yes. If you wanted to.”
Ehh… I don’t want to do that…
“I don’t want to do that… And, Oberon and the others, wouldn’t you hate that?”
The two of them were troubled. I thought so…
Of course. To have their beloved child’s freedom taken away by some unknown woman.
“I am fine with it.”
That’s what the person in question said.
“No, you’re not! You hate it, right?”
“Is that so? Surely the God has no intention of controlling me?”
“Of course not.”
I would never want to restrict what someone wants to do.
“If freedom is to be taken away by an evil person, then that’s one thing, but our God is a benevolent being. If you say you won’t misuse it, then I’ll leave it to you.”
I have no intention of misusing it at all.
“But still… Wouldn’t you hate having your original name taken away by someone?”
Even though your parents gave you a good name.
To have some random woman give you a different name.
“If that’s the case, then I would like you to give me a name in Kanji. The pronunciation will remain the same.”
“Ah, I see…”
You want the pronunciation to be the same, but the name to be in Kanji.
Certainly, it’s rare to have a given name in Katakana over there. (Especially before the war).
If I give her a name in Kanji with the same pronunciation… then she won’t have to abandon the name her parents gave her.
“Sinri. Even if I just change the other person’s name to Kanji, can I still weaken them by taking away the name?”
“Yes, it’s possible.”
Next, I asked her parents.
“Is it okay if I give this child a name for over there? The pronunciation will be [Maiya] and won’t change.”
“If that’s the case, then there’s no problem,”
Oberon said, and Kaida-kun nodded in agreement.
Alright.
“Then… I’ll overwrite the current name with a new name.”
Maiya…
If I apply Kanji to this…
舞弥… Maiya… Yeah, 舞弥 is good.
“Okay, [舞弥]. From today, your name is [舞弥].”
It was at that moment.
Maiya-chan’s body began to glow.
A change occurred in her appearance.
Her hair color turned black, and the size of her ears shrank.
Until just now, she had a look that made it obvious she was a half-fairy.
But… now, she has black hair, black eyes, and round ears…
She transformed into the appearance of a typical Japanese person.
“Is this also an effect of the weakening?”
“Yes. By taking away her name, her existence has regressed from a half-fairy to a human.”
I asked Maiya-chan.
“Is this okay?”
“Ogyaa!”
Maiya-chan nodded.
It seems she can’t speak anymore.
The other party is a baby, 0 years old, so this is more natural.
“Sinri. Can she use magic? This child.”
“Yes. However, approval from Master is required.”
By taking away her name, I have become able to control everything about this child.
So, if I give permission, she can use magic as before…
“But if that’s the case, wouldn’t it be a hassle if she had to get my approval every time she wanted to use magic over there?”
“No problem. I don’t think I’ll want to use magic on Earth.”
Said Kaida-kun.
“Is that so?”
“Yeah. Magic doesn’t exist over there in the first place, right?”
“I guess that’s true…”
Conversely, if she used it, she would stand out and be caught by bad people.
“It’s enough if I can use it. I also received a branch of the World Tree.”
Oberon used illusion magic to make his appearance more Japanese-like (shortening his ears).
If he has the branch of the World Tree he received from Mei-chan, he will be able to use magic over there as well.
“Thank you, Mika. Thanks to you, this child will be able to live over there. I thank you.”
Kaida-kun bowed his head. No, it’s fine.
“You don’t need to thank me. In the first place, it’s because I gave her name a good blessing that she became so strong, right?”
If I trace it back to the source, I was the one who powered up Maiya-chan.
I just dealt with the consequences of my own blunder.
“But, thanks to Mika God, this child was able to become human. She wouldn’t have been able to live in the human world as a half-fairy.”
Well, if Maiya-chan, with her different hair color, ear shape, and eye color, could have lived in pre-war Japan, it would have been difficult.
“With illusion magic, we can certainly change her appearance. But if I, who casts the magic, were to disappear, Maiya would have been persecuted over there… So, thank you, Mika God.”
The two of them bowed deeply.
Well, there were various things, but if these children can live without hardship, then that’s good enough.
“…………”
“What’s wrong? Seira-chan.”
“No… I just… can’t keep up with the conversation…”
“Can’t keep up?”
“Why can you change a race just by taking away a name! That’s weird! It doesn’t make sense!”
“That’s true.”
“Don’t you agree when you’re the one responsible!”