Um, please do that thing in a nice way, nicely #1

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“Your Highnesssssss!!”

A voice that sounded half-crying reached his ears.
Looking over, he saw a woman with blue-purple hair tied back, running toward them with tears welling up in the corners of her eyes.
Finn instinctively braced himself, but she didn't look hostile in the slightest.

“...!”

Beside him, Shirley gasped. Her expression brightened instantly, and she trotted over toward the woman.
The two collided and embraced. Shirley buried her face deep into the woman's incredibly large breasts.
I mean, it was the first time Finn had ever seen someone with breasts that big. He vaguely thought that daily life must be difficult for her.

“Waaaaaah! I’m so glad you’re safe!”

Pressing her cheek against Shirley’s fluffy golden hair, the woman clung to her, crying like a child.

“I don’t think your decision to flee alone because you couldn't protect everyone against that many enemies was wrong, but I was so worried, so worried... I was barely saved myself by the hero from another world, and if anything had happened to you, Your Highness, I would have... I would have... Ugh, waaaaaaah!!”

Shirley patted her back as if soothing a child. Their ages seemed completely reversed.
The girl lifted her face from the woman's chest and whispered something into the ponytail-wearing woman's ear.

“Eh?”

As she listened, her face froze.

“No way, your voice!?”

Shirley smiled troubledly and nodded.

“No, no...! Uuuu...!”

She started crying again and hugged her tightly.

“It’s okay! It’s okay! *Sniff!* The summoning ritual you performed, even at the cost of your own body, was a complete success! The hero who was summoned is a terrifyingly skilled warrior! Look, they are right behind me!”

Saying that, she pointed to the person who was walking toward them in a leisurely, composed manner.
It was a beautiful young man. He was wearing black formal attire that resembled a military uniform, with a cape of similar design draped over his shoulders.
His face, filled with a refined elegance that made one wonder if he were a hallucination in broad daylight, was relaxed in a gentle expression.
However, it wasn't a beauty that forced tension upon others; he was a young man who carried a strange air that made one feel strangely relieved and relaxed.
Shirley, seeing him, tilted her head in confusion.
Then, without a word, she pointed toward Finn and Rekka.

“Eh? Who are they...?”

A silence that was hard to interpret hung in the air.

“Ah, excuse me.”

The one who broke the silence was the youth in black robes.

"I presume you are Her Highness Shirley Jude Obscure, the Third Princess of the Obscure Kingdom. I am a student named Sojuro Nuebi. Please, get to know me from here on out."

Shirley nodded once.

"I gather that you have lost your voice as the price for the summoning. And, though I do not know what kind of mistake occurred, it seems you have summoned three heroes from another world at once, have you not? The attire of those two over there is clearly not from this world... Tell me, you two over there? What about it? Are you not also from a world different from this one?"

The youth who called himself Sojuro then turned his voice toward Finn and Rekka.

"A... different... world...?"

Finn muttered in a daze.
Applying concepts of quantity like "same" or "different" to worlds was a first for Finn, but indeed, it made sense if one considered that they had wandered into a completely different, alien world. At the very least, it was much easier to accept than thinking such rich nature remained in a corner of a world sinking under the pollution of the Cain people.
In other words.

--There are no Cain people in this world.
--They aren't here.

Finn almost collapsed on the spot. Since becoming conscious of the world, he had never felt such a deep and profound sense of relief. In that moment, he realized just how much he had been cornered by the existence of the Cain people. It felt as if the thick, black stake of poison that had been piercing his chest until now had suddenly melted away.

"Ah, um, perhaps, that is, correct. I, too, am surely... from a world different from this one."

Still dazed, Finn answered.

[To be continued]

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