The Heroine Is In Love With Me

I'm On The Phone

   “… Okay, I’ll do that,” I said.

   For now, let’s do as Jade said and prepare for tomorrow.

   I took a bath, had supper with a worried Gibeon, and fell
   face-first into my bed.

   Geeze, I can’t even lift a finger anymore, I’ll fall asleep
   like this–

   Doss.

   “Uwah…?!”

   –Is what I thought I’d do, but something fell on my back.

   Umm, this is…

   “Marshall! The Saint Of Light Has Always Loved The Marshall, So
   Even If She’s Far Away, She’s Prepared!”

   This line like the title of a web novel is… the Michaela doll?
   I thought it wasn’t good to put it in a storage room so it’s
   been leaned against my bed instead.

   I managed to move my battered body and pull the Michaela doll
   out from on top of me. Even so, if I take a closer look, it
   only looks like Michaela has collapsed from exhaustion. What is
   Michaela doing these days?

   Additionally–

   “The Lady of Light says it’s okay to leave everything to her.”

   –What did Sea’s message mean?

   Did she want to take care of everything in returning us to our
   original world, after all?

   But, I don’t want to put such a strain on Michaela…

   “My daughter, is now a good time?”

   Suddenly, I heard a knocking on my door and Gibeon’s apologetic
   voice through it. I’m so tired, but I can’t just ignore him…

   “Yes. Please wait a moment, Father,” I said.

   I managed to head to the door while dragging my limp body
   along. When I opened it, Gibeon presented a communication
   device of this world that resembled a smartphone.

   “I’m sorry to interrupt your rest,” Gibeon said.

   “Ah, no. There’s no problem,” I said. “By the way, what’s going
   on?”

   “Right. Your friend is calling you,” Gibeon said.

   “I’ve got a call from a friend?” I asked.

   Gibeon held out the communicator to me. On the screen, I can’t
   recognize the numbers displayed, but this is definitely going
   to be…

   “Ya-hoo! Saki! Is now a good time…?!”

   When I put the communicator to my ear, I heard Michaela’s
   energetic voice like I thought.

   “Well then, Papa will go back to his throne,” Gibeon said as he
   turned around and left. “When you’re done talking, please
   return the communicator.”

   “Huh…?!” Michaela cried. “Sakiii! Can you hear me?!”

   “Yes, sorry,” I said. “I can hear you.”

   “That’s a relief!” Michaela said. “I wanted to talk to you a
   bit, so I called my father-in-law!”

   “Is that what happened?” I said.

   Incidentally, she’s close enough to exchange messages with
   Gibeon, but not enough to even give me her number–

   “Oh, right!” Mika said. “I already got your contact info, Saki,
   but I thought you’d be surprised if I called you out of the
   blue!”