"Was I infected with the Void Virus... or does Mana-Eve's method of identifying Adam not actually require it?"
Leaving the Roppongi area of Tokyo with this doubt, Hiro activated the Boosted Gear's Juggernaut Drive and casually broke the sound barrier.
Cone-shaped sonic booms stacked one after another as he sped toward nearby Saitama Prefecture.
Roppongi lay in the southern part of Tokyo, close to the coast.
Broadly speaking, Tokyo could be divided into three parts: Tokyo-to, Tokyo-fu, and the Tokyo urban area that used to be Tokyo City.
Saitama bordered Tokyo-to to the south, and between it and Roppongi lay only a small stretch of Tokyo.
Under these conditions, Hiro flew for less than a minute before the familiar six-story building in Saitama came into view.
He scanned the interior with Observation Haki.
The result made him frown.
There were no traces of Rias, Sona Sitri, Kirigaya Midori, Nanamiya Yasuko, or anyone else.
The spacious apartment complex had no active humans or pets at all.
The only life signal came from a lone devil in a small room that had been added to the courtyard at some unknown point.
Hiro had no memory of that devil.
"Even if Rias and the others went to university and I graduated from high school, abandoning this place at this timing makes no sense. Did some kind of accident force everyone to relocate?"
With that question in mind, Hiro flashed directly into the devil's room.
The low-ranking devil-who hadn't even reached Middle-Class-was seized by Mental Out before it could react.
Hiro read through its memories in an instant.
"They left here not long ago and have been gone for quite a while. Only a Gremory devil was left behind to watch over and clean the place. The masters' whereabouts are unknown, huh?"
After sorting through the necessary information, Hiro smacked his lips, unsure whether to feel helpless or resigned.
Just like the Kirigaya residence, the Hyoudou home next door-also converted into a six-story apartment-was completely empty.
The only difference was that the Hyoudou place didn't even leave behind a caretaker.
"Since it's a Gremory subordinate guarding this place, that means that even if I don't know who my future wife is, Rias Gremory definitely wasn't left behind."
Although the sequence of events was unclear, Hiro was very confident in his own judgment.
A moment later, he stood alone in the rooftop garden of the six-story building, looking up at the blue sky and drifting white clouds, his gaze distant.
"I rushed back from Roppongi and didn't run into anyone familiar. My plan to confirm my future outcome in advance failed, and I wasted a few minutes."
"Logically speaking, Sirzechs and Ajuka should still exist. Finding them wouldn't be any harder than finding myself. But it's too troublesome."
As he muttered to himself, a water fairy silently appeared behind him.
A beautiful upper body.
Below it, the pale-blue body of a giant serpent.
Countless snake-like strands of hair.
Its hands-larger than his entire body-gently enveloped him within its palms.
"The one that needs to be 'captured' isn't the 'me' exiled to this era."
"It's the existence of 'me'-Nanamiya Hiro."
Wrapped in crimson armor, Hiro closed his eyes and communicated with the familiar behind him.
Beneath his eyelids, the sky-blue God's Eye of Authority and Sodom's Eye remained active, just as they had been before his banishment.
The accumulated power from the Red Dragon Emperor's Gift was fully transferred to the Gorgon behind him.
All to achieve the intended result.
The power held by Sadalmelik-Albus was not "time."
Hiro had vaguely sensed this from information in his previous life, and recent events-especially Lala's repeated "requests"-had confirmed it.
This was not simple repair.
Not time reversal.
It was status completion.
A primordial regression.
It wasn't like Pokémon.
Its meaning was closer to Kamijō Tōma's other title, God's Pure Demon Slayer, though still fundamentally different.
The most obvious difference-
when Sadalmelik-Albus activated, there was no BOOST sound.
Right now, Hiro intended to use this power to reset himself-returning from incorrect temporal and spatial coordinates back to the proper ones.
"Understood. Capture complete."
After a brief wait, the will of Sadalmelik-Albus surfaced in his mind.
Come to think of it, the Fourth Progenitor's twelve servants had once been sealed within twelve individuals-twelve girls-and used their bodies to participate in the feast.
So in other words...
Do I have a l*li buried inside me?
Though judging by appearances, Sadalmelik-Albus didn't really look like one.
Hiro's thoughts drifted as he heard the neutral reply echo in his head.
"Master, for us servants, there is no concept of gender."
"I know, I know. For servants without bodies, if the host is male, the gender is male. If the host is female, the gender is female."
Hiro responded indifferently to the unexpected explanation.
"Since you're ready, hurry up and send me back to the original point in time."
"Understood, Master."
As the servant's ability activated, the strange sensation of weightlessness he had felt earlier returned.
Within the dazzling, multicolored passage, Hiro observed his surroundings through the green gem on his faceplate, ensuring he could grasp the situation the instant he arrived.
Compared to the earlier passive "banishment," this return was largely under his own control.
Still-
he was far too naïve about the true nature of "time."
Even less informed than the inexplicably powered-up August.
At best, his understanding was only on the level of a Maou from the Fairy Tail world.
The mere existence of "Sacrifice Magic," which never appeared in the original work, was proof enough of that.
Dong!
After an indeterminate duration within the chaotic temporal passage, Hiro suddenly felt solid ground beneath his feet.
His focus snapped sharp.
Sweeping his gaze around, he immediately spotted a white-haired old man standing within a magic circle not far to his right, gripping a staff taller than himself.
It was August.
The one who had sent him to 2022.
The golden "6" floating above his head confirmed it.
A Magic King.
Some believe he is.
Some don't.
The secondary setting-
follows mine.
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