Rosen quickly returned to the Date A Live World once more.
He met Tokisaki Kurumi and Yamada Sawa, who had been waiting for a long time, at the Tokyo branch of the DEM Corporation.
"Lord God! Welcome to us!"
Upon seeing Rosen appear, Yamada Sawa immediately showed a happy expression.
Tokisaki Kurumi, standing nearby, muttered, "Sawa-chan is so happy to see Mr. Rosen, but when she interacts with me, her attitude is completely the opposite."
"I can't believe my old friend of several decades is also a woman who prioritizes romance over friendship."
Tokisaki Kurumi touched her cheek and sighed deeply, her expression of resentment seeming genuine.
"Wha... what prioritizing romance over friendship! I only hold respect for the Lord God! There are no strange emotions mixed in!"
Yamada Sawa's face flushed red as she said indignantly.
"Oh? Really? But I don't believe it at all. After all, Sawa-chan clearly has a life-sized body pillow of Mr. Rosen in her bedroom, and also the sea..."
"Stop! I beg you to stop talking!"
Before Tokisaki Kurumi could finish, Yamada Sawa rushed forward and covered Tokisaki Kurumi's mouth.
"It's... it's all a joke, Lord God, you believe me, right?!"
Hearing this, Rosen showed a faint smile: "I don't mind if you harbor other feelings for me, after all, you are my Familia."
"..."
As if her heart had been struck by a critical hit, Yamada Sawa felt dizzy upon hearing this sentence.
Tokisaki Kurumi also revealed a knowing smile.
Her old friend was good in every way, but she was too timid. Decades had passed, yet she hadn't made any progress in matters of affection.
"Sawa-chan, if you keep this up, you'll be preempted by the newcomers. After all, you know we are going to look for other Spirit Candidates just like me. Do you think Mr. Rosen is recruiting them simply to change their fate?"
"And you also need to know that all the Familia around Mr. Rosen are girls~~~"
These words shook Yamada Sawa's inner thoughts, making her stare intently at Rosen.
Unlike Rosen's other Familia, since her fate was changed thirty years ago, she had genuinely lived here with Tokisaki Kurumi for thirty years, and thus her feelings for her God had also accumulated over three decades.
"Alright, it's time to do the mission now."
Tokisaki Kurumi clapped her hands. She had said what she needed to say; what Yamada Sawa did next was her own business.
Rosen didn't dwell on the matter either. He could compensate Yamada Sawa later.
"We should go find Honjo Tokiya first. Her Angel is very effective at helping us locate the others."
The two girls had no objections.
After replenishing Tokisaki Kurumi's Divine Power, Tokisaki Kurumi activated her Time Travel ability.
Soon, the three of them returned to Tokyo over twenty years ago.
After contacting the DEM Corporation of this era, the Acting Director, Elliot, immediately sent an inquiry asking if they required guards.
Rosen naturally refused these things. After receiving information about Honjo Tokiya, he took the two girls straight to a cheap apartment in the suburbs.
Meanwhile, inside a certain low-rent apartment, a girl with short gray hair and high-prescription myopia glasses was hunched over a desk drawing with a paintbrush.
The girl was naturally Honjo Tokiya.
However, compared to the main storyline, she was an ordinary person twenty-eight years ago, before she became a Spirit.
After graduating from high school, because her grades weren't good enough, she had to leave home to work like other people her age.
However, as an Otaku NEET, she didn't look for a job. Instead, she used her remaining funds to find and move into a cheap apartment, using the rest of the money to buy manuscript paper, paintbrushes, and the cheapest instant noodles.
She did this naturally because she wanted to earn money and support herself through her hobbies.
However, Honjo Tokiya was not yet the Best-selling Mangaka she would later become. As a newcomer in the Island Nation, where Manga Artists were already heavily saturated, her current works were continuously rejected.
Today was her seventeenth rejection.
This often made Honjo Tokiya doubt whether she was suited for this path, thinking she might as well just go out and find a job as a waitress.
However, after seeing the posters of her favorite anime characters hanging on her wall, Honjo Tokiya began writing furiously again.
This time, she planned to accept the Editor's advice and carefully refine the plot of her manga.
After all, she had heard from that Editor that while drawing was important for a Manga Artist, excellent artwork was only the second most important factor compared to having an interesting plot.
After all, the artwork can be continuously revised, but if the plot goes wrong, they have to start over from scratch.
However, after several hours of work, Honjo Tokiya still had no clue.
An interesting plot isn't that easy to conjure up.
Overwhelmed by sorrow, Honjo Tokiya grabbed the White Liquor beside her, gulped down two large mouthfuls, and then, feeling dizzy, prepared to nap briefly on the Tatami mat.
However, she didn't know how much time had passed.
One minute, one hour, or perhaps a day... Honjo Tokiya slowly woke up, feeling disoriented, and then noticed several unfamiliar figures moving in her vision.
A thief broke in?
"You're awake?"
"You are now a cute boy."
The moment she heard this sentence, Honjo Tokiya's mind instantly cleared.
Sitting up, she saw three people in her room.
Two young girls, and a black-haired young man whom she couldn't take her eyes off after just one glance.
At this moment, Rosen was flipping through Honjo Tokiya's Manga Manuscript.
Honjo Tokiya blushed slightly.
"Not bad. Your manga shows me that you possess the qualification to touch the essence of the world."
Following that, Rosen handed over the spirit crystal in his hand.
"O maiden, would you like to Sign a Contract with me and become a Mahou Shoujo?"
Originally, Honjo Tokiya found the three people highly suspicious and had the urge to run away.
But after hearing the term "Mahou Shoujo," she instantly felt that these people might be trustworthy after all.