Dad! But That Bitch!
The Archmage who had been my party member set a trap! I trusted that bitch!
Because of the trap that bitch laid to target Dad, he was flung beyond the dimensional rift.
They say the magic to send something beyond the rift takes an incredibly long time to prepare in advance.
No one would have tried it on our Dad, but because I had spent countless regressions with her, that trusted companion ended up causing this mess.
As I tore into her, I demanded to know why.
She laughed.
Right now, Wooser?
She looked at me and smiled as she spoke.
“Hahaha. You’ll never see your dad again. Anyone sent to another dimension can never return, no matter how many times you turn back time! Hahahahahahaha, gurk.”
She told me that no matter how many times I rewound time, I would never meet Dad again.
I shouldn’t have told her my secret this round. In the end, believing everything was finally over, I trusted her too much.
But why did that bitch do it?
Why does every world, every fate, seem determined to tear Dad and me apart?
Why does it force things without any logic?
Dad, fallen beyond the dimensional rift.
In this round, the Demon King had already been defeated. We had already slain him and unified the continent.
I could ask the gods to turn back time, but that bitch’s words kept bothering me.
Returning to the past and reaching this point again isn’t a problem. I’ve done it countless times.
But what if, when I go back, Dad isn’t there? What if I can never meet him again?
I… I would have no reason to live.
I gathered the mages and listened to their stories.
Even if I returned to the past, because time between dimensions is discontinuous, Dad might never come back.
Then what’s the point of asking the gods to rewind time now?
I have to find Dad.
No matter what it takes.
They say the regression method no longer works.
Still, thinking there might be a chance, I tried rewinding time once more.
What if Dad is there?
I begged the gods desperately and tightly shut my eyes.
When I opened them again, I had returned to the body of my younger self, back in the house where I lived with Dad.
But Dad wasn’t there.
It was true.
Dad really was…
That damn bitch!
In my child’s body, I ran straight to the imperial capital.
Through thousands of regressions, my soul had grown so powerful that even in a child’s body I could face hundreds of thousands of troops.
Upon reaching the capital, I killed the Archmage bitch in the most painful way possible and subjugated the empire.
It took some time, but without Dad to protect, I was confident I could defeat the entire continent with only my own body.
After making the empire mine, I became emperor and unified the whole continent.
Then I mobilized every resource across the lands to search for where Dad was.
It was an incredibly long process.
But in the end, through repeated regressions, I found the dimension where Dad existed and opened a gate to that place.
Finally, I succeeded in opening the dimensional gate.
I opened it.
It was so hard.
Even when regressing, I could endure because Dad was there, but regressing without him…!
Having finally done it, I stepped through the gate.
And there he was.
Dad!
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“Dad!”
I ran to the Dad before my eyes and threw myself into his arms.
Thank goodness! If Dad had been hurt or killed after being sent to another dimension, there would have been no way to bring him back!
I’m so glad you’re safe, Dad.
“Dad… When you really disappeared because of that bitch’s trap back then, I was so shocked wondering what would happen to you! But I’m glad you’re okay.”
Dad’s embrace feels so good.
How long has it been?
But Dad seems a little younger?
“Dad! I really searched for so long, you know? Let’s hurry back to our little nest, just the two of us♡.”
Yeah, let’s go back!
I’m the ruler of the continent now. I’ve dealt with all the traitors. Now Dad will really be safe!
“Dad? Why aren’t you saying anything? Your one and only precious daughter, Diana, came to find you! …Did something happen to your mind?”
Dad? What if only his body is fine but his mind is broken?
Crossing dimensions with nothing but his body—there’s no way he’d be okay. No, Dad!
“Wait a second. Who are you two? Calling him Dad?”
“Master has a daughter?”
Who the hell are you? Don’t butt in.
Huh? These girls… they’re incredibly strong.
Strong enough to fight multiple Demon Kings? They seem weaker than me, though.
What did these bitches do to our Dad!
“What are you? What did you do to our Dad?”
I summoned the holy sword to subdue the two women, but—
“No, Diana. These two are precious to me. Incredibly precious.”
Dad! Thank goodness. He recognized me!
“Dad! I’m so glad you remember me! …But ‘precious’?”
Precious? Dad spent his whole life raising me and never let any woman near him. Well, to be exact, I made sure of that.
Dad is mine. How dare some other bitch try to become something precious to him?
“That… I’ll explain everything. First, let’s sit down and talk. Come on, Bathory and Rebecca too. Let’s talk over at the table.”
Dad said that and turned to walk away.
It was hard to accept, but I needed to understand the situation, so I followed him and sat down.
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“So you and Rebecca and Bathory were in that kind of relationship with Dad.”
“……That’s impossible. Dad has women he’s that deeply involved with? …Dad is my Dad alone…. How dare some nobodies….”
What? Married to Dad?
What? Spent ten thousand years together with Dad?
Then don’t tell me they did that thing with Dad—the thing I could never do even after thousands of regressions?
“Now then, Autum. Will you explain about that woman?”
“That’s right, Master! Your daughter? Is she your real daughter? Then who’s the mother? Master~.”
How dare they! How dare these fox-like bitches with no roots try to take our Dad!
I can’t forgive this! “Uh… So, first of all, my memories of Diana’s world aren’t complete either.”
Huh? “Eh? Dad, you don’t remember everything that happened with me? Really?”
I stood up without realizing it.
That can’t be.
Dad forgot about me? Then does that mean even the memories we built together when I went back to his childhood…?
“To be precise, I remember all the intense memories with you. But the parts in between… I don’t recall them well….”
“Th-that’s… Our memories together….”
Th-that’s…
If we go back to our house in the original world and turn back time, we could build new memories of conquering the continent together. Since we’ve done it countless times already, it wouldn’t be too shocking even if Dad forgets.
But I can’t go back to before I was born.
The experiences I shared with young Dad—the ones I never forgot even after thousands of regressions—Dad has forgotten them all?
I collapsed into my seat without realizing it.
“So, to be clear, Diana really is my biological daughter.”
“Th-that can’t be. Autum is my husband… We haven’t even had our first night yet….”
“M-M-Master’s child… I waited ten thousand years… Some other bitch made a baby first?”
Huh?
What? These girls never made a baby with Dad?
Ah, then doesn’t that mean I’m the closest to Dad?
I almost got mounted by young Dad, after all. “Then who’s the mother?”
“That’s right, Master. Who’s the mother!”
Honestly, this was something I had always wondered about too.
Dad never once told me who my mother was.
No matter how many times I regressed, no matter how I asked, in all those long years Dad never once spoke about the person who gave birth to me.
I had always been curious.
Was the one who gave birth to me my past self?
If so, why doesn’t that past me exist now?
And in that case, which came first—me or my mother?
It was like asking which came first, the chicken or the egg. It made no sense at all.
I had always wanted to know the truth.
“So, Diana really is my biological daughter. But I don’t know who her real mother is.”
“What do you mean you don’t know, Autum!”
“Do you mean you don’t remember, Master?”
D-don’t tell me he forgot, Dad?
“Ah. It’s just… I remember from around the time Diana was about five years old. But before that—what I did, how I got Diana—I have no memory of it.”
Ah.
Aah.
Dad lost all memories of meeting me when he was young.
If we go back to the original world and turn back time, will those memories return?
It doesn’t feel like they will.
“Then she might not even be your real daughter!”
“No, that’s not it. There’s something I remember clearly.”
Something he remembers clearly?
What is it?
“It’s something that happened when Diana was eleven.”
Don’t tell me.
No way, Dad?
“Diana came to me and took off her clo—”
“D-Dad, don’t say that in front of other people! We promised to pretend it never happened!”
I quickly covered Dad’s mouth with my hand to stop the rest of the words from coming out.
No, not that incident! We promised we wouldn’t talk about it anymore! Even in this round, it was the same.