On a bright sunny day in Mondestadf, many people were walking around doing their business and knights of favious patrolling the area.

While in Good Hunters, we see two people at the table. the blonde Aether eating his food normally, while the other white-haired child, Paimon, devours her food.

Aether had a week off, no commission, and no traveling, he needed rest from fighting Abyss Mage and exploring and solving puzzles for other nations.

While eating, he felt vibrations in his pocket. He stopped eating and looked at Paimon, still devouring her food, looking left to right to see if there were people nearby.

Seeing that there were no people nearby, he pulled the device out of his pocket.

Looking at the device, it looks like a communication device. This device is called a phone.

Why does he have a phone in this world? Because a special friend of his from another world gifted this to him, she said this device is special because he can text or call his friends in another world. Even if he's pretty far across the galaxy,

He looked at his phone, saw his group chat, opened the chat, and smiled at seeing his precious children messaging him.

Group chat.

Stelle: Hi dad!

Caelus: Hi, father.

Aether smiled while typing his phone message to his son and daughter.

Aether: Hello, Stelle, Caelus, what are you two up to today?

Stelle: Nothing much, just boring, and we have nothing else to do. Me, Caelus, and others just finished our missions, and now we're here in our room lying around playing games.

He chuckled at his daughter and asked his son.

Aether: How about you, Caelus? What're you doing today?

Caelus: Nothing much, Father, like Stelle said, just lying around our room and playing games.

His son said

Stelle: How about you, dad? Are you doing commissions? Solving puzzles again in other nations?

Aether: Nah, I have a week off today just relaxing and eating good hunting with my companion.

Stelle: Wow, your lucky dad. You have a week off while we have another mission tomorrow.

Aether: Haha, you have to endure it, my dear. I was like you both back in the other world; we barely have a day off due to work eliminating monsters.

Stelle: Ugh, traveling across the galaxy is so tiring. I wish we stayed in Belebog and went trash can hunting.

He chuckled at his daughter and son about their obsession with trash cans.

He doesn't know why his two children are obsessed with trash cans.

He was thinking about someone. When he thought about a certain woman with gray hair, she was diving into trash cans looking for treasures.

Thinking about that time when he was watching her dive to dive all the trash cans in another world when they were traveling

He smiled, still remembering her glaring at me while pouting, teasing her, and calling her raccoon when she's diving trash cans.

Ah, how I miss her. I wish she's here with me and sees our two kids have grown.

Stelle: dad?

stelle: dad?

Stelle: daaaaad!

I texted my daughter after snapping my thoughts on my phone's vibration.

Aether: Hmm? Sorry, Stelle, my mind went off a bit.

Stelle: Are you alright, dad?

Aether: I'm fine, dear, just thinking about someone.

Stelle: thinking someone?

Caelus: Are you thinking, mother, father?

Ah, I forgot these two are worrying when I'm sad. I still remember these two when they were young. Instead of playing with their toys, they looked at me, looking at the stars with a sad expression.

Sometimes, when they crawled all the way to me and felt tucked at my pants, I averted my eyes at the stars and looked down and saw Stelle and Caelus raising their tiny hands at me. I smiled at both of them and carried them back to our room, tucking them to sleep.

Even though their mother is not here anymore, she'll watch us in the stars. Whenever we traveled all the way through the galaxy,

Aether: Hehehe, yes... I'm thinking about your mother; don't worry about me.

Caelus: If you say so, father, I'm going to go have plans to play games with Wolf today.

Aether: Okay, Caelus, say hi to Wolf for me.

Caelus: I will, Father. Bye.

Caelus went offline.

Stelle: Jeeez, that guy is leaving me alone here. I have nothing to do here.

Aether: Now, dear, how about you read some books or go hang out with your other companions?

Stelle: hmm.. I don't have the mood to read books, but maybe I'm going to hang out with March 7 or miss Himeko or Mr. Welt as for Dan Heng... Hmm, let's not bother him. Maybe he's sleeping. Due to our last mission, he was dead tired and collapsed on his bed.

Aether: Alright, go hang out with them and send my regards to Yang and Himeko. Bye, take care, Stelle. love you.

Stelle: Bye-bye! I loved you too, dad!

Stelle went offline.

Aether sighed, closed his phone, put it in his pocket, and smiled. His smile vanished when he felt two eyes looking at him.

He raised his head and saw Pain looking at him. There was a lot of sauce on her cheeks.

He sighed again, pulled out a tissue, and wiped her cheeks.

He finished wiping her cheeks, and Pain was still looking at him. Getting worried, he decided to ask her what was wrong.

Is something wrong, Paimon? Is there something on my face? I asked her

She blinked her eyes and said,

Nothing is wrong; Aether just saw you smiling while looking down at that weird device on your hands.

Oops, she saw that it's pretty hard for me to explain this device to her.

I decided to lie to her.

This is just a toy device. When I have nothing to do, I play with it. I said

I see.. She said she floats up and stretches her small body.

Hmm! Ah! Paimon is full; let's head to Sumeru Aether and hang out with Nahida! She said she floated excitedly.

Aether smiled. Sure, paimon! Let me pay for our food, and let's go! He said

She nodded her head, and he went to the counter, paying for their food and telling Sarah to keep the change. She bowed her head and thanked the traveler.

The two went nearby to teleport and placed their hands on the teleportation device.

Ready? He asked her

Ready! She said it excitedly.

He smiled and closed his eyes. He took a deep breath, and both of them disappeared.

End...