For some reason, Melfina was attacking the Beast Kingdom of Mismede. Mochizuki Touya and his party were doing their best to defend the country by shooting Melfina with rubber bullets enchanted with [Paralyze]. Unfortunately, Melfina had managed to dodge every single bullet.

"Time for Plan B," said Touya. "Smartphone! Cast [Paralyze] on that angel!" Touya had already [Programmed] his smartphone so that whenever he told it to cast any spell, it would first cast [Search] to find the intended target, then cast [Multiple] if more than one target was found, then highlight the pins on the map as though Touya had touched said pins, then cast the intended spell as though touching the pins on the map were the same as touching the actual targets, which was a requirement for the kind of spells Touya had enchanted his smartphone with in the first place for that reason.

"Error," said Touya's smartphone. "[Search] returned zero results."

"She seems to be protected from [Search] magic!" said Touya.

"It could be that talisman around her neck," said Leen, the fairy matriarch.

"In that case, [Apport]!" said Touya. "Wow, that actually worked!" Not only did the talisman necklace appear in Touya's hand, but Melfina fell out of the sky as though she were knocked unconscious.

"Unhand me, you lowborn filth!" said an angry male voice from the talisman.

"A talking talisman," said Touya. "Were you in control of the angel that attacked us?"

"It was easy to control an empty shell with no mind of its own," said the talisman.

"Leen, I think this is your area of expertise," said Touya. He tossed the talisman towards Leen, who caught it.

"Keep your filthy paws off me, lowly demi-human!" shouted the talisman.

"Count Baldy?" said Touya, recognizing the talisman's racism.

"My name is Count Balsa!" said the angry soul of the racist Count.

"But it's true that you have even less hair now than when we last met, and that's saying something," said Touya.

"Don't you dare insult me, you rat!" said Balsa.

"Insult you?" said Touya. "Your baldness is your best quality. If I wanted to insult you, I'd have pointed out that you're a racist, elitist, homicidal cartoon villain with about as much subtlety as a sledgehammer."

"And you're a lowborn rat who sticks his nose where it doesn't belong!" replied Balsa.

"What's with this obsession with circumstances of birth?" asked Touya. "You think you're so high above me because you came crying out of a high-class womb? And just so we're clear, I'm not insulting your mother. She probably accomplished more than you could ever dream of, even if you hadn't been executed."

"It's your fault that I was executed in the first place, you rat!" said Balsa.

"At least he didn't kill you in person," said Princess Yumina.

"He might as well have!" said Balsa.

"Forget about my fiancee," said Yumina. "He's not your concern."

"Your WHAT?" said Balsa in disgusted shock. "How could you be engaged to that scum?"

"That's none of your business," said Yumina, who secretly believed that if anyone deserved salt in an open wound, it was Balsa. "You tried to kill my father, King Tristwin Ernes Belfast, and his daughter is standing right here. Leen, I can't get a clean shot if you're holding him."

Leen tossed Balsa's talisman into the air to give Yumina some free-falling target practice. Due to her mastery of the bow, and the amount of time she had spent adjusting to guns, Yumina shattered the talisman with a single bullet. It was much easier than shooting an aerodynamic target with god-level evasive maneuvering. Speaking of which…

"Cancel [Summoning]! Cancel [Summoning]! Why isn't it working?" said a panicked mage as he ran down the streets.

"Come back here, you thief!" said Melfina, flying like a hawk in pursuit of the mage.

"So much for an empty shell," said Touya when he saw Melfina.

"Please, protect me!" said the summoner, hiding behind Touya.

When Yumina saw the summoner, she could feel her heterochromatic Mystic Eyes burning in their sockets. "You work for Count Balsa, don't you?" she accused him.

"What does that have to do with anything?" said the summoner, playing dumb. "That angel is the biggest threat right now! You saw what she did to this city!"

"It's your fault this body caused so much damage!" said Melfina angrily. "You summoned one of my avatars while I was busy possessing a different one, then you willingly handed it over to a vengeful spirit!"

"So the blood of innocent Mismedeans on Count Balsa's hands is also on the summoner's hands, it is," said Yae, the samurai girl. "I believe that warrants the death penalty, unless anyone wants to interrogate him further, I believe."

"Before you do that," said Melfina, "I have some information you'll probably find more valuable than anything you get out of him. First things first, I should introduce myself properly. I am Melfina, the goddess of reincarnation. This body you see is one of my avatars, which was somehow summoned by this lucky bastard. If he dies, my avatar that he summoned will disappear. Which is fine, but only after we're done talking."

"Why haven't you disappeared already?" complained the summoner. "As long as I have mana, I should be able to decide whether or not you remain present!"

"Speaking of mana," said Melfina, "yours is running a bit low. [Transfer]."

"That makes three people who can use that Null spell," said Leen.

"I don't want your mana!" said the summoner. "Besides, no amount of it should be able to keep you summoned against my will!"

"I'm a goddess," said Melfina. "Deal with it. I clogged your summoning channels, so not only can you not un-summon my avatar, you can't summon anything else either. I happen to know that Darkness is your only magical aptitude, and in this world, that element is used exclusively for summoning magic, which means I can [Transfer] as much mana as I want to you, and you still won't pose a threat."

"What do you mean, 'in this world?'" asked Elze.

"Touya, you haven't told them?" asked Melfina.

"I didn't think they'd believe me if I did," said Touya.

"Are you from another world, Touya?" asked Elze's twin sister Linze.

"Was it that obvious?" asked Touya.

"Your smartphone is definitely not from this world," said Linze. "Unlike you, your smartphone can't even blend in, yet you always treat it like it's normal. Actually, you're not that good at blending in either, but at least your appearance could pass for a local human at a glance."

"Not to mention, Touya-dono," said Yae, "You said that you were from a country very similar to Eashen, but despite the breadth of my travels, the only country I've ever seen that matches that description is Eashen itself, it is. Also, your affinity for every magic spell ever cast makes you the exact opposite of most Eashenese, myself included, it does. The only spells I can cast are the three that you enchanted my engagement ring with, they are."

"Speaking of other worlds," said Melfina, "have you heard of the Phrase?"

"Have I heard of them?" repeated Touya. "They're basically the Daleks to my Time Lords at this point."

"Are the Phrase also from another world?" asked Yumina.

"Nobody knows their world of origin," said Melfina, "but they've probably destroyed it already, because that's what they do to worlds. They're currently looking for something in this world, putting it in the most danger, but my party recently encountered them in my world as well."

"Are you asking for my help in fighting them?" asked Touya.

"Actually, I'm warning you about the stake you have in the Phrase invasion, even in another other world," said Melfina. "We've already defeated one Phrase on our own, but it wasn't easy. More importantly, there was another Phrase that didn't exactly defeat us, but it just disappeared while we were busy fighting the other one. The one that disappeared most likely moved on to your world."

"It seems that we'll need to destroy the Phrase in your world as quickly as possible to minimize the ones that make it to this world," said Touya. "If you'll let me read part of your mind with [Recall], I should be able to open a [Gate] to your world."

Touya and Melfina pressed their foreheads together. "[Recall]," said Touya, who then saw a vision of the city of Parth in another other world.

"Before you open a [Gate]," said Melfina, "I should warn you, you should prepare everything up front so that you only have to come to my world once. While it is possible to teleport back and forth between both worlds, doing so will make the hole in the World Barrier bigger each time, which will make it easier for the Phrase to squeeze through. That won't be a problem for me, since I can just leave this avatar behind and switch to the one I already have in that world. Speaking of which…" She then executed her own summoner in this world, from which she promptly disappeared.