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Translator: Kazumi
Editor: Kabur & Silavin
After Alec returned from the Administration Floor to the Fifth Floor, Kousuke and Floria talked for a while in the relaxation area.
Then Sylvia joined in.
“Oh? What’s wrong with your tense expression? Did the talk with Alec not end well?”
“Ah, no. That’s not it. It wasn’t really a problem…”
Sylvia tilted her head at Floria’s muffled response.
“It seems that being a High Human really shocked him.”
Sylvia nodded in agreement to Kousuke’s words.
The existence of High Humans was almost a legend to start with.
The longer the history of a country, the more legends remain, but no one had ever been able to confirm the truth of such legends.
Of course, if one were to ask the Gods, they would tell the truth, but no country would go to the trouble of asking such a question.
After all, it was a matter of the very foundation of the nation.
It would be a delicate question whether the Gods would respond to the question.
The Gods, who were not involved with happenings in the ground as much as possible, would not do anything to disturb that place.
“Did you come here to tell me that Floria is not allowed to be Queen?”
“No, I’m not concerned about that. When he was leaving, he was muttering about what it was like to be the parent of a High Human.”
Kousuke said this with a wry smile, to which Sylvia also returned a wry smile.
“Is that what he was concerned about when he left?”
Alec and Alec’s wife, Sonia, were both definitely human.
Floria, born of these two parents, was definitely human, at least until recently.
The fact that this Floria became a High Human was something that Alec just couldn’t understand.
“Well, I would say it can’t be helped. He’s simply having a hard time accepting it.”
Floria, who was smiling, came close to Kousuke with the same wry smile.
“Did he not like it, you becoming a High Human?”
“I don’t think so.”
Kousuke asked, to which Floria answered clearly and continued.
“I was the one who wanted to have children in the first place, remember? It was an absolute requirement to become High Human, to do so.”
“Then is he worried about something else?”
“Nope, he is simply confused as to why it would be so easy for me to become a High Human. I don’t think he particularly thought anything had changed, though.”
When Kousuke told Floria that she had become a High Human, she recognized the change, but before that, she had not noticed any change herself.
There was nothing, not even a strange feeling that there had been a significant change in her body.
“‘Certainly, the change was not really prominent.”
Sylvia, who was also a High Human, nodded in agreement.
“That’s how it is… Oh, wait. If you ask me, I was also like that before.”
Thinking about it, Kousuke had a similar experience.
The first time he went to Sanctuary in flesh and blood, Asura told him that he had become a living god.
If he was not told at that time, he would never have realized that he had become a God.
Floria and Sylvia looked at him as if to say, “I don’t believe that,” but Kousuke ignored them.
“Even so, there’s no advice I can give them. They’ll just have to take their time and accept it.”
Kousuke could not help but say so.
After all, he had experienced the same thing as well.
In fact, there was still a part of him that had not accepted his status as a God.
However, he didn’t feel as uncomfortable as he used to.
Whether that was a good or bad result, Kousuke was unable to decide.
As time goes by, he might have a different opinion.
Kousuke did not know if this feeling of his would also apply to these two people.
But at least they did not seem to think in a bad way, so Kousuke had little to worry about in that sense.
Besides, there were others on the Administration Floor who were in the higher ranks of their species as well.
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With Floria and Sylvia now being High Humans, Collete was the only one who had not yet become a higher species.
As for Peach, she had not yet told them that she had become a higher species, but when she was asked about it, they seemed to have guessed it somehow from her attitude.
As for the remaining Collete, as he had long declared, he was not particularly concerned about immediately becoming a higher level species, so the Administration Floor did not become uncomfortable because of this.
Collete then asked Floria something that she had been wondering for some time.
“Can I ask you a question?”
“What is it?”
Floria tilted her head at this unusual question from Collete.
“Floria will be the Queen, right?”
“… Yes.”
“Which means, of course, that you will be asked to have children as soon as possible, right?”
“Yes, they probably will.”
“Isn’t that putting a lot of pressure on you?”
At Collete’s question, Floria’s eyes flashed, then she crossed her arms and thought for a moment.
Collete’s attitude made her think that this was not an easy question to answer.
“I’m not saying there won’t be… In my case, I guess I’m used to it, in both good and bad ways.”
“Used to it?”
“Ah. In the first place, I was raised as a princess. Even though I am not a male, I still have the role of preserving the royal bloodline in case of emergency.”
“…I see your point.”
In the first place, the primary role of a royal family would be to preserve the next generation’s bloodline.
No matter how good the reign was, if the next generation could not be left behind, the country would be in disarray in the following generation.
Naturally, the primary role of a royal family would be to preserve its bloodline.
Because Floria grew up in such an environment, she felt that it was natural for her to leave behind children for the good of the country.
“In that sense, I wonder if it was a good choice to have Floria as Queen.”
Sylvia turned an inclusive gaze on Kousuke.
“Well, I didn’t choose her in that sense…”
Kousuke looked at Floria with an annoyed expression on his face.
Kousuke simply thought that it would be better to choose Floria, a High Human, to rule over the growing population of Humans.
Above all, she had been educated as a princess, regardless of whether she had children or not.
For Kousuke, who thought he would never be able to show himself, Floria was precisely the right person for the job.
“I understand, don’t worry about it. Besides, I’m not the only one that he was thinking of putting out there, you know?”
” Ahaha. So, you knew?”
“Well, that’s a given.”
Collete tilted her head at Kousuke and Floria’s conversation and asked.
“What do you mean?”
“What? Did you forget? As long as you build a country, you need a temple no matter what. Or, to be more precise, the existence of a clergy.”
Floria glanced at Sylvia as she said this.
“It’s not so much that we’ll need priests, but rather that we know that the clergy will try to intervene. If that’s the case, it would be better to already assign someone like that from the very beginning, wouldn’t it?”
In this world, there would always be a temple at the center of the state.
It was not that they meddled in politics, but that there were always those who conveyed oracles of the Gods and so on.
To avoid any unnecessary interference from the temple side, he wanted Sylvia to be placed in the center from the beginning.
“…So, that’s what happened.”
Even Sylvia understood her role.
That was why there was no particular objection to it.
As for the management of the Tower, she would take it slowly, just as she had done with Floria.
“I’m sure things will get busier and busier outside the Tower from now on, but I’ll be counting on your support.”
Kousuke reminded them, especially the two who would be involved in nation-building from now on.
