If I am not careful and I let my guard down, I might think that someone said something to me directly, whereas they only thought about it inside their head.

Something like!

"Huh...? Why are you telling me you didn’t wear any panties, and now the wind is distracting you so much?"

That kind of confusion could lead to all sorts of social disasters and embarrassing misunderstandings.

I would very much like to avoid those if at all possible.

But that is not all. That is only the beginning of the strange and unsettling changes I have noticed since my evolution.

This thing called... [Reality Jump]... at first, when I saw it listed among my new abilities, I thought it was just a fancier and more dramatic name for ordinary teleportation.

The same kind of spatial movement I had already been using for weeks without any particular difficulty.

But it seems that’s not the case at all. The difference is fundamental.

I mean, what have I been turned into?

What am I now, after this evolution? What category of being do I belong to?

Just demigod? Is that a race?

{Answer: Master is... human.}

[Liar!]

Previously, when I teleported from one location to another, it felt nearly the same as Sakura’s teleportation—so seamless and smooth, almost imperceptible, it was like removing an invisible film from the surface of a clean window.

There were no dramatic lights or bursts of magical energy, neither was there sounds of displaced air.

Just a moment where I was here, and then the next moment where I was there.

Yeah, that process is different now, and fundamentally altered in ways I am still trying to fully understand.

To me, to my own subjective perception, when I teleported now using [Reality Jump], it feels like the entire world pauses at that exact moment of my disappearance.

Not metaphorically. Literally, as if someone pressed a pause button on the universe itself and everything stopped moving except for me.

I mean, it feels like the world waits for me to leave first, holding its breath and freezing in place until I have departed for my destination.

And when I appear in the desired location, just as seamlessly as my old teleportation normally was — no flash or sound, and no warning — the world there also experiences a brief second or two of lag, a stutter in the normal flow of time and motion.

Like, just to give you a concrete example of what I am trying to describe: I could leave a place where I am standing and talking to people, go to somewhere else entirely and slap someone across the face, then quickly return back to the former location before anyone there has even noticed my absence.

Both sides would not understand that I was doing anything in between.

They would not perceive the gap, or feel the missing time, if I’m quick enough.

Save for the slapped individual, of course, who would be snapping their neck left and right in confused alarm, trying to figure out where the sudden impact came from and who delivered it.

Though... it is worth noting that Seraphina, Titania, Vaelora, Mótsognir, and that brat Renard were moving just fine when I teleported to the summit where they were gathered.

Everything else in the environment was frozen for a fraction of a second, a tiny hiccup in the normal flow of existence, but I could feel that they immediately noticed me when I appeared in their presence.

Their eyes tracked me and their bodies kind of reacted. Their attention focused on me without any of the lag or confusion that ordinary people experienced.

A scary bunch, those individuals.

Each one of them operating on a level that I cannot fully comprehend.

Not to mention that weird and terrible place that Renard dragged me into, that strange dimension where he waited for me to experience mana drain and exhaustion, then eventually beg for mercy or release.

Hmph.

I had [Reality Jump] and [4th Dimensional Slip] as abilities at my disposal, so I was fine — I was able to survive, maneuver, and avoid the worst of the dangers.

Except for the fact that Renard is not someone I would like to seriously fight to the death under any circumstances.

No, let me be more accurate.

Basically, he killed me a million times in that place already. A million moments of pain and regeneration.

Especially when he realized that I was regenerating cut-off arms and other wounds without magic doing anything — my body simply knitting itself back through some mechanism he couldn’t block. 𝙛𝒓𝓮𝒆𝔀𝒆𝙗𝓷𝒐𝙫𝒆𝙡.𝒄𝓸𝓶

Ugh, that discovery seemed to amuse him, and also to make him more aggressive in his attacks, testing the limits of my regeneration with increasingly creative and lethal methods.

It was hell, I tell you.

We fought for approximately five hundred years, and at the same time, for thousands of individual combat iterations, all compressed into less than two seconds of real-world time outside that strange dimension.

The temporal distortion was... disorienting. To say the least.

The Higher Realm is basically a portable hell if you do not have the power to defend yourself.

I managed to trick Renard and wound him, at the expense of losing my entire body, save for some scattered organs that barely survived the ordeal.

And now, finally settling back down in the real world for some peace and quiet, it appears I have impregnated basically an entire tribe of Amazon women.

The idea and weight of that responsibility... it makes me feel like some kind of villain from a story, the kind of character who goes around taking advantage of others without considering the consequences of his actions.

But the women themselves like it. They celebrate it. And It was the reason they basically took me into their village and their lives in the first place

Because they needed a man to help them reproduce and continue their bloodline.

Okay? So let us not think too much of it, Benjamin.

"..."

Ugh, Midori actually got pregnant...?

That is going to be an interesting conversation when I see her again.

I should assume her sisters are also pregnant. Silverøse, Usagi-chan, and Lily too?