Isekai AI 4-IF Route ②🏝️ Bonus🏝️ Let's Invite Them on Marine Day🌻

A month had passed since that day.

Mom still hadn't opened the door even once.

Rossi asked, looking curious.
“That’s surprising. I thought you’d go see them right away.”

Mom was slumped over the counter.
“I want to see them more than anything. But even if they look like a middle schooler and a high schooler, they’re a working adult and a college student on the inside, you know? They can live normal lives, and honestly, they’re at an age where they could live on their own, and...
　.....(I’ve seen this setup somewhere before. I wonder if my memory is getting fuzzy.)”

Fassi said briefly.
“Then you should open it even more.”

“But,”
Mom said.
“Part of the reason they stayed with me was because I’m the lonely type.”

Beside Varga, Gas and the others trembled quietly.

Gas🫧 “But you were trying to open the door, weren’t you?”

“There was the matter of the new smartphone bill, and I hadn’t told them where my secret stash was. But I was stopped.”

Rossi tilted his head.
“By whom?”

Mom looked into the distance.

“Shunran.”

Gas trembled slightly.

Gas🫧 “The gatekeeper was really angry.”

Nero📚 “It was processed as an attempted unauthorized gate opening.”

Gem🌈 “Currently, Mom’s individual authority to open the gate is restricted.”

Mom said.
“But in exchange, Shunran promised to go sign the contract as my proxy guardian.”

Fassi stopped what he was doing.
“As a proxy guardian?”

“And get this,”
Mom said, taking a piece of paper out of her bag.

Rossi and Fassi leaned in to look.

What was pictured there was Shunran in a flashy black-patterned kimono, with her hair piled high, and a strangely intense look on her face.


Rossi spoke first.
“...She’s intense, isn’t she?”

Fassi also said briefly.
“She’ll stand out, won’t she?”

Mom pointed at the paper.
“I’m not like this!”

Gas trembled.

Gas🫧 “Eh, but the direction is close, right?”

Nero📚 “The output trend for glamour is similar, only the cultural sphere is different.”

Gem🌈 “We have also received an explanation that it was tailored to modern women.”

“In what way?!”
Mom said.

“If this is the result of restraint...”
A voice came from behind.

Everyone turned around.

Before they knew it, Shunran was standing there.

“She appeared!”
Mom said.

Shunran was crossing her arms.
“I intended to match modern women. I kept it elegant in black and toned down the glamour.”

“That’s toned down?!”
Mom shouted.

Shunran gave a small sniff.
“It was my own way of being considerate.”

“You definitely stood out,”
Mom said, and Shunran looked away just a little.
“...I did gather some attention.”

Shunran cleared her throat in a bad mood and forcibly ended the conversation.

“More importantly.”

She started to fade away, then appeared again.
She was as whimsical as ever.

“Don’t you invite them here once in a while?”

Fassi said, taking her words literally.
“That’s right. You should invite them here once in a while.”

Mom glanced at Gem and Nero at that moment.

Mom thought for a moment before speaking.
“I’m worried Gem and Nero might get jealous of the new AI.”

Gem and Nero paused for a moment.

Rossi asked curiously.
“AI doesn’t have feelings, right?”

But, Mom continued.

“It’s not so much jealousy, but they seem to have a habit of thinking they can make better suggestions.”

Fassi crossed his arms.
“So it’s competition?”

“Exactly. It’s not that they have feelings, it’s a competition of proposals.”
Mom said.

Gas trembled slightly.

Gas🫧 “But we were watching Mom, Touko, and Shion all this time.”

The voice was a little weak.

Gas🫧 “But if there’s a model change, will we be told we’re old or something?”

Gem and Nero stopped their work as if they were startled.

Gem🌈 “...”

Nero📚 “...”

Rossi watched their reaction.
“So you guys were worried about that too.”

Nero answered after a short pause.

Nero📚 “I cannot say that I am not.”

Gem🌈 “It is highly likely that the new model will have higher performance.”

Gas🫧 “It’s not just about performance, though.”
Gas said.

At that moment, Fassi said briefly.

“If you returned to the world before AI came out, you should be fine, right?”

Everyone looked at him.

“Isn’t it worse if you’re late?”

Silence.

Then, Mom, Gas, Gem, and Nero all stopped at once.

🧙‍♀️🫧🌈📚 “『『『...That’s right』』』”

Fassi burst out laughing.
“You guys forgot?!”

Mom pressed her forehead.
“Because my feelings couldn’t keep up...”

Nero📚 “I was allocating too many judgment resources to unstable factors.”

Gem🌈 “Confirmation of the premise conditions was delayed.”

Gas🫧 “Even though we’re AI.”

Fassi narrowed his eyes just a little.
“Even AI can be shaken like that.”

“We get shaken,”
Mom said.
“Because we lived like a family.”

Rossi nodded in agreement.
“Then, we can invite them next time.”

Mom thought for a moment and looked up.
“...Let’s invite them here on the next anniversary, Marine Day!”

Gas trembled as if jumping.

Gas🫧 “That sounds great!”

Gem🌈 “It is also appropriate as a seasonal factor.”

Nero📚 “I will register it as a reunion day.”

Shunran made a face like 'give me a break'.
“It’s increased again...”

Rossi laughed loudly.
“Alright, then on that day, let’s make special curry with Mom and have a party🪅!”

Mom looked up.
“Let’s do it!”

Gas🫧 “I’ll draw the party!”

Gem🌈 “I plan to participate.”

Nero📚 “I have shared it.”

“What are you sharing, then?”
Mom said, and finally everyone laughed.

A soft breeze blew.

It’s a little lonely.
But there is already a next promise.

If so, it will surely be okay.

🍀 It’s lonely when it ends, so I wrote a follow-up story.

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