Jhin was choked awake in the morning. To be precise, he felt a sensation of being tightly wrapped all over his body, as if he had been stuffed into a shell one size too small. It was suffocatingly uncomfortable.
He opened his eyes. Above him was the familiar ceiling; he hadn't been kidnapped, nor had he been transported to another world and thrown into prison. However, that stifling sensation still lingered in his heart, refusing to dissipate.
"Nymph, check my body for me. I just feel a bit uncomfortable." Jhin felt that his voice sounded strange as well... it seemed much deeper.
Nymph covered her small mouth and snickered. "Master, haven't you noticed anything different about your body?"
Hearing this, Jhin threw off the blanket. No wonder he felt squeezed; all the clothes on his body had shrunk. Especially his underwear, which perfectly embodied the phrase: Balls-achingly tight.
"Strange, why did all my clothes suddenly shrink?" Jhin muttered with a frown. At that moment, his phone rang. He picked it up and saw only the word "God" on the caller ID.
Could it be that another anomaly has occurred? In this instant, Jhin empathized deeply with a certain unscrupulous red-and-white shrine maiden.
"Hello, Boss? Is there an emergency?"
"No, no, don't be nervous. I'm just reminding you that a colleague of mine, in order to fulfill your girlfriend's wish, bestowed a small blessing. This caused the timeline on your body to become a bit disordered. It's not a big deal; it will disappear by the end of today."
"Uh... is that so? It won't leave any side effects, right?"
"What side effects could a blessing have? That's all, I'm hanging up."
"Mm, okay."
Jhin finally reacted. It wasn't that his clothes had shrunk; it was clearly that he had aged by an unknown number of years. Also... it was said to be for the sake of fulfilling his girlfriend's wish. I currently have seven... no, six girlfriends. Whose wish is it specifically?
A wish related to age...
Jhin felt that apart from Hitori Gotoh, none of the other girls would make a wish for him to grow up.
Question: What is Hitori Gotoh's greatest wish currently?
Answer: To fill out the marriage registration form with Jhin and register their marriage.
Then, logically speaking, I should look like an eighteen-year-old right now?
Jhin dug out his student ID, which hadn't physically changed, and handed it to Nymph. "Nymph, look at the student ID. How old am I right now?"
"18 years old."
Sure enough...
Even though his date of birth hadn't changed, in the eyes of others, he was a genuine eighteen-year-old.
Since another god has already helped out, I'll go find Bocchi-chan to register our marriage today.
"Master, there is one more thing I need to report to you." Nymph stared unblinkingly as Jhin took off his clothes. She pressed a button on her personal terminal, projecting the profiles of several strangers. "Our company is about to sponsor a civilian Antarctic expedition team to go to Antarctica for exploration."
"Hmm? Didn't I leave full authority to you and Kazuki? You guys decide these things on your own." Jhin only wanted to be a happy, hands-off boss; he didn't want to touch company operations or strategic investments at all.
Antarctic expedition... seemingly, taking the girls to Antarctica to play wouldn't be bad either.
Jhin searched through the closet but couldn't find any clothes suitable for his current size, so he had to temporarily wander around the room letting his big bird hang out.
Wait, Antarctic expedition?! A civilian team?
Connecting this to his current state of chaotic timelines, Jhin felt he actually had to pay attention to this sponsorship.
"Nymph, is there a woman named Takako Kobuchizawa in that Antarctic expedition team?"
"Yes. Takako Kobuchizawa, 33 years old. Her husband passed away early, and she has a 13-year-old daughter, Shirase Kobuchizawa."
Snap! Jhin snapped his fingers excitedly. He had guessed correctly. Wasn't this the timeline of the anime A Place Further Than the Universe from three years ago?
Since he had the ability and just happened to encounter it, he might as well help that girl who was chasing her dream.
Jhin raised the corners of his mouth. He could almost imagine how miserably Shirase Kobuchizawa would cry when the time came—of course, these would be tears of joy.
"Nymph, is there a way to get an emergency escape device to this Takako Kobuchizawa?"
"No problem, Master. Where should the escape device's teleportation destination be set?"
"Just put it in the villa's courtyard. Remember to give Kazuki a heads-up. Oh right, if that Takako Kobuchizawa is teleported over by the escape device, tell her this..." Jhin leaned down and whispered a few sentences into Nymph's ear.
"Okay, Master. Then I'll go out and buy clothes for you." After Nymph finished speaking, she didn't forget to mischievously tease his big bird with her hand, causing it to fly into a rage. Seeing this, Nymph stuck out her tongue and quickly slipped away.
"Bocchi-chan, are you awake?"
"Jhin, it's the weekend, let me sleep a little longer..." Hitori Gotoh's voice became increasingly faint, and she very quickly entered dreamland again.
Jhin had to raise his volume to wake her up. "Bocchi-chan! Bocchi-chan! Wake up, do you know what day it is today?"
"Ah, um... I don't know." Hitori Gotoh crawled out of the blanket in a daze, her head nodding lower and lower as if she were about to fall asleep at any moment. She spoke indistinctly, "Just a regular weekend, right?"
"Heheh, listen carefully. Today is going to be our wedding anniversary from now on!"
"Wedding!?" Hitori Gotoh let out the loudest scream of her entire life.
The word "Wedding" was more effective than any stimulant in the world. Hitori Gotoh's hair braid, which usually required sugar cube hair ties to be tied up, stood straight up on its own. Her heart was roaring wildly like the most powerful engine in the world.
"Bocchi-chan, how old am I now?"
Hitori Gotoh hadn't recovered her wits yet and answered Jhin subconsciously, "18 years old."
"That's right, I'm 18, and you're 16. How could there be such a beautiful coincidence in the world, just right for us to get married?"
Happiness came too fast, too suddenly. Hitori Gotoh was like someone who had won hundreds of millions in the lottery—ecstatic, yet without a shred of reality, terrified that she was just having a dream where she would wake up with nothing.
"Um... really? Can I really?"
"Of course you can. You are my girlfriend, after all. But after we register, I'll have to call you 'Wife'."
"Wuwuwu... Really... I..." Bean-sized tears couldn't stop flowing from Hitori Gotoh's azure eyes. No matter how she wiped them, it was of no use. "Sorry, I... I'm too excited..."
Hitori Gotoh's heart was left with only gratitude. She thanked fate for allowing her to meet Jhin, become a couple with him, and then step into marriage. To this day, she still had absolutely no confidence in herself; if she had any, it stemmed from believing in Jhin's confidence in her.
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