Riding on the Flying Ship Air Bird, we’re heading to the southern country.
It seems we’ll arrive at our destination, the Labyrinth City Nant, in less than a day.
Since I have some free time, I decided to explore the Air Bird.
“Well, I’m going to take a look around inside.”
“Master! It’s not fair to slack off alone! I want to slack off too!”
Sinri, sitting in front of the control stick, is screaming.
Behind her stands her educational mom, or rather, Fairy King Oberon, monitoring her.
“You’re not slacking off. It’s an inspection.”
“Liar! You’re slacking off! Kyaa!”
Oberon pinches Sinri’s cheek.
“Do your work. You can do office work remotely, right? Make the reports sent by Luciel-sama, Seira-sama, and Lisia-sama readable for Lord Mika as well.”
“Hiii…”
…Everyone’s working hard. Is it just me? Just relaxing like this?
“Sinri, should I help after all?”
“No, please conserve your motivation, Lord Mika.”
Conserve my motivation…
“After all, once we get there, you’re the only one who can solve the problems, Lord Mika.”
“What’s your basis for thinking that?”
“I don’t know what the Mass-Produced Mika is doing. But the opponent is a God, albeit a Mass-Produced Model. Only Lord Mika, who is of the same rank, can handle her.”
I see. I get it. So, I should conserve my strength to fight there.
“Leave Sinri to me.”
“Master, help me…”
Hmm… Pitiful.
“Let’s take a break. It’ll be better for her performance if she moves voluntarily rather than being forced to work.”
“Mashtaa…”
Haa… Oberon sighs.
“…I will guide Lord Mika through the interior of the Air Bird.”
It seems that was the condition for giving her a break.
Gyun! Sinri comes to my side from the cockpit and hugs me.
“Master Mika is the only mom for Sinri after all! That old hag is no good!”
Old hag… She’s probably talking about Oberon.
She’s saying terrible things…
“I don’t admire badmouthing friends.”
“I don’t think friends would hit or pinch!”
“Well, yeah, but you’d slack off if I didn’t.”
“That doesn’t mean violence is okay! It’s bad for children’s emotional development! What if they grow up to be adults who do that to their own children in the future!?”
As a major premise, Sinri is an AI… How do you make children…?
Copy and paste data files…?
Well, in any case, I don’t like tense atmospheres.
I want to do something about Sinri’s habit of slacking off, but Sinri is also a friend. I don’t want to force her to work.
I myself have been forced to work like a slave in a black company.
“Master would be a good mom.”
“Thank you. But I have no plans to marry.”
“Eh, is that so?”
“Yeah. I don’t really care to.”
I already have many daughters (Lisia-chan, Seira-chan, Sinri-chan the 0-year-old, etc.).
“What about romance?”
“Not interested. It’s a pain.”
It’s troublesome.
I’d rather relax at home. Besides, there’s no merit in getting married.
“Master has already obtained money, women, and power, everything a woman could want.”
“That’s one way to put it…”
Well, the way she says it is something, but as Sinri says, I have everything I need now.
I’m not trying to seek what I lack from others. That’s why I have no intention of getting married. There’s no one I want to marry either.
“Okay, while we were chatting, we arrived at the living space.”
Leaving the cockpit, a corridor stretched out. After walking a bit, we arrived at the living space.
It’s a slightly spacious living room. There’s a table and even a sofa.
There’s even a kitchen. A refrigerator and a microwave too.
“Does water come out?”
“Yes, it does. A magic circle is set up to produce water magic.”
When I turn the faucet, water actually comes out. Oh, amazing…
But, wait?
“There’s no stove?”
“No. We don’t recommend cooking with fire.”
“Ah, right. This is in the sky, after all.”
“Affirmative. So, we have frozen food prepared for cooking.”
It seems she’s buying frozen food from KAMIZON.
Sinri is a slacker, but she does her job properly. Even though she slacks off.
“What is ‘frozen food,’ Lord Mika?”
“Oh, you’ve never had it before, have you?”
There was a refrigerator in the living space. A big commercial one.
But there were no fresh foods inside.
Just a few bottles of drinks.
I open the freezer door.
Inside, there were many frozen foods that you often see on Earth.
“I bought the menu based on my own judgment and bias.”
“I wanted you to get my permission for that… Well, it’s fine.”
If I leave her alone, she tries to do everything herself. She’s capable, but I want her to do something about that tendency to act on her own.
“Make sure to get permission when you buy things.”
Said Oberon Mom.
“Hiii…! Mom… My stepmother is bullying me…”
What kind of family environment is this…? She has two moms…?
“Master is the breadwinner and the mom.”
It’s a complicated family environment, the Nagano family…
“So, what was it? Frozen food, right. If you heat this up, you can make a meal.”
“C-Can you really cook something by putting something so cold… in this box…?”
Well, for people from another world, the concept of microwaving doesn’t exist, so I understand why they’d be skeptical.
“Well, just watch.”
I decide to heat up a frozen spaghetti in the microwave.
Oberon is staring intently at the packaged spaghetti.
“Want to try?”
“Y-Yes…”
Oberon hesitantly presses the buttons and starts heating it.
“Wow! I-It started moving… It’s going ‘weeeeen’… It’s spinning inside… What is this…?”
Then, Sinri gives an evil smile.
“It’s a bomb.”
“What!? A bomb!?”
“Yes. Oberon. You’ve pressed the switch of the bomb.”
Sinri is telling a lie…
Even though her name is Sinri (True)…
Is this revenge for what happened before? Hmm…
“Oh no… What should I do… The Air Bird will explode because of me…”
“Oberon. It’s okay. It’s Sinri’s lie.”
Oberon glares at Sinri.
“Pupu. Oberon panicking was so cute…”
Oberon’s face turns red.
“Now, now, don’t tease her.”
“Yes, Mom.”
Sinri seemed satisfied that she got revenge on Oberon.
“Sorry, she’s only 0 years old, so please forgive her.”
“Yes, I understand, Lord Mika. She’s a 0-year-old baby. It can’t be helped. But…”
Oberon raises a finger.
A small tornado occurs.
“Dohiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii!”
Sinri is thrown into the air and lands on the floor with a thud.
“You must not tell lies… I need to teach her properly.”
“Well, I agree with that.”
It would be a problem if Sinri (True) told lies…
“I’m dizzy…”
While we were doing that, the frozen food seems to be done.
I take it out of the microwave.
When I peel off the lid, a good smell of Neapolitan tomato wafts out.
“Wow! Amazing… The pasta is done without boiling it in water…!!”
“Try it.”
“Yes!”
Oberon takes a bite of the Neapolitan with a plastic fork that was in the room.
“Ooh, delicious…! Such delicious pasta can come out so easily…! This box… is amazing!”
“Well, it’s not that the microwave is amazing, it’s that the Earth’s food companies are amazing.”
Oberon doesn’t seem to understand. She’s eating the frozen pasta.
“I’m heating up frozen Imagawayaki.”
When did she…?
Ching.
When I open the door, hot Imagawayaki comes out.
I get one too.
Hafuhafu.
Sweet. Delicious. The quality is unbelievable for frozen food.
“Recent frozen foods are all high quality.”
When I was living alone, I often relied on them.
I’ve eaten it many times, and yeah, it’s not as good as homemade, but it’s still delicious.
You can eat something of this quality as frozen food.
“I can’t thank the food companies enough.”
“A God has someone they can’t thank enough… Are the Food Conglomerate-sama even higher Gods?”
Why would you think that…?
“That’s right… You have to prostrate yourself before the Food Conglomerate-sama… Kyon!”
Sinri is being scolded by Oberon Mom again.
“H-How did you know it was a lie?”
“I can tell by looking at your face.”
“Are you an esper!”
“No, I’m a trainer for bad AI.”
“You said bad AI! Mom! Fire this trainer!”
And like that, we enjoyed a peaceful meal.