When Miyauchi Hikage appeared in front of Tohru, Tohru hadn't reacted yet, but the small figure hiding behind Tohru started hissing first.
Compared to the unfriendly but at least superficially concealable attitude when Tohru and Miyauchi Hikage first met, it seemed that Kanna's first impression of him was even worse.
On the contrary, Tohru couldn't help frowning when she looked at Miyauchi Hikage's figure.
With her level, she could naturally see Miyauchi Hikage's current situation.
When she went back to her own world to ask her old friends for help, Miyauchi Hikage could only be considered in the category of "human" in terms of life nature. Although he obtained the power to manipulate rules through some messy means, he was indeed still in the realm of normal humans.
How many days had she been away?
Only three or four days, right?
How come in just a few days, this guy Miyauchi Hikage took that step and caught up in terms of life level?
Wasn't he still far behind before?
Even if Tohru knew that Miyauchi Hikage and Shiina Mashiro had their own secrets and seemed to be able to obtain rewards from higher-level existences through means she couldn't understand for the time being.
But this speed was a bit too fast.
If the previous Miyauchi Hikage, under her playful mentality, could play with her casually for ten minutes or half an hour without pressure, as long as he didn't stand in front of Miyauchi Hikage and take a Broken Phantasm head-on, there would be no problem.
Now, a Miyauchi Hikage fully utilizing Unlimited Blade Works might really suppress her in terms of firepower in a short time.
Before, Miyauchi Hikage could only fire two or three Broken Phantasms at a time, but now he could at least smash a dozen at a time.
Even if she was a dragon, getting hit in the face by a Broken Phantasm hurt, okay!
Not to mention that under the situation where both sides were evenly matched, that power of calamity could also play a key auxiliary role.
How long had she known Miyauchi Hikage?
It hasn't even been an Earth month until now.
Growing at this speed, it was estimated that in another month or two, Miyauchi Hikage's strength could comprehensively surpass her.
However, Tohru didn't feel lost, and even looked forward to Miyauchi Hikage's growth.
After all, every one or two hundred years, humans in her world would always suddenly produce a few stunning geniuses, enough to fight against gods and dragons.
In her long life, she had met and fought with such humans, so she wouldn't have emotions like jealousy towards human powerhouses.
What she regretted more was that those powerful humans didn't have open enough horizons. They were always limited to human kingdoms, only thinking about changing the immediate predicament, and never considered that what they had done had happened countless times in history.
But she also knew that if she hadn't come to this world and seen other possibilities of world development, she could actually only see that narrow part herself.
What she cared about more was whether Miyauchi Hikage could maintain his current growth rate in the future.
If Miyauchi Hikage's growth rate slowed down in the future, then his upper limit would be a normal god, which wouldn't have any impact on the pattern of her world.
But if Miyauchi Hikage could continue to maintain his current growth rate.
Then when Miyauchi Hikage could look down on all the gods and dragons in her world equally in the future, perhaps he could bring new changes to her world.
It was just that even Tohru felt she was fantasizing.
Even the existence behind Miyauchi Hikage couldn't grant such power to others at will, right?
"You guy, it looks like you secretly became a lot stronger while I was out for a few days?"
Facing Tohru's inquiry, Miyauchi Hikage smiled.
"Not bad. I got some good stuff, and it's estimated to be useful to you too."
Both the Jeweled Sword and Senzu Beans could be used by Tohru.
The former could provide magic power endurance for Tohru. Even if the cost for outsiders to use the Jeweled Sword would be greater, compared to nearly infinite magic power, Tohru was obviously willing to bear these side effects.
There was no need to say more about the latter.
Even Gods of Destruction and Super Saiyan Gods could use Senzu Beans; wouldn't it be a piece of cake for mere Tohru?
Although Tohru always acted nonchalant there, the place where she was once pierced by the dragon-slaying sword was not so easy to heal.
Even if it seemed to have no effect on her strength on the surface, physical and even psychological pain was unavoidable. When Tohru got a few thousand years older, maybe it would turn into a chronic problem like rheumatism.
Miyauchi Hikage took out the projected Jeweled Sword.
Leaving aside other things, the shape of the Jeweled Sword alone was eye-catching enough.
For dragons, such shining gems grew on their heart. She wished she could snatch it over as her collection.
Even little Kanna hiding behind Tohru couldn't help but peek out secretly to stare at the Jeweled Sword.
Having known Miyauchi Hikage for so long, Tohru naturally knew that this was most likely a counterfeit this kid Miyauchi Hikage dug up from somewhere. Even if she snatched it, the magic power inside would disappear and it would dissipate automatically in a few days.
But she still took the Jeweled Sword, wanting to see what secrets this thing had.
"This thing is a weapon used by a magician who can shuttle arbitrarily in almost infinite parallel worlds. Its user can use this to obtain magic power from parallel worlds for their own use, which is equivalent to a power bank with infinite endurance. Of course, if you don't have compatibility with the Second Magic, using it will be more troublesome."
However, Miyauchi Hikage had the reward from the diary, which added compatibility in this aspect to him. And Tohru and the others originally possessed magic that could travel through parallel worlds, just not as convenient as the Second Magic.
It was just that the Jeweled Sword was designed for humans. Perhaps the magic power in Tohru's body had exceeded the output limit of the Jeweled Sword.
But even if it could only recover half, or even one-tenth of Tohru's magic power at a time, it was enough to make Tohru interested in this Jeweled Sword.
So did Miyauchi Hikage's sudden increase in confidence come from it?
After all, even if wars between gods were considered contests between rules, manipulating rules also required consuming power.
In a life-and-death fight, no matter how huge the magic power mastered by a god was, there would eventually be a time when it ran out.
Just like her.
Fighting her way to the heavens alone, with the idea of abandoning herself to despair and perishing together with those gods, finally her magic power was exhausted by the gods. The holy sword that slew dragons restricted her ability to recover magic power autonomously.
If she could get this treasured sword made of gems at that time, even if the final outcome didn't change much, in this process, she could at least drag on for a few more days, and maybe kill a few more unlucky gods.
"Compared to the stuff you 'cheated' from that school, this thing is indeed much more practical," Tohru said, and then naturally put away the Jeweled Sword.
Anyway, this was a projected fake. Since Miyauchi Hikage could project one, he definitely had dozens in stock. It didn't matter if she took one to play with.
After a few simple pleasantries, Miyauchi Hikage shifted the topic to the small head behind Tohru.
"So, you went back to your hometown to find a helper, and finally found such a cute little one?"
Tohru then remembered Kanna's matter, dragged Kanna out from behind her, and introduced each other to the two.
"I was looking for another friend, and I temporarily gave the Soul Crystal to her for research. However, after hearing that the connection between the two worlds was re-established, she is still preparing at home now. It is estimated that it will take some time before she runs over."
"This is Kanna, Kanna Kamui. In your language here, she can also be called Kanna Kamui (God of Thunder/Lightning). She is my friend. As a dragon, she is not yet an adult. However, because she and her family had some problems recently, and she didn't want to stay in that world, so I temporarily act as her guardian and brought her over."
"Don't look at her appearing small, but actually, according to your time view, her current age has exceeded 10,000 years."
It was just that in these more than 10,000 years, the other party basically either ate or slept, only mastering the combat magic inherited in the dragon bloodline.
It was only when Tohru met her a few hundred years ago that she taught her some simple transformation magic, allowing her to turn into a human.
Besides that, this juvenile chubby dragon who had lived for more than 10,000 years was no different from an eight or nine-year-old child in personality.
After introducing Kanna, Tohru patted Kanna's head, who didn't look very willing.
"Kanna, this is Miyauchi Hikage I told you about. Although his aura is indeed not very clean, I have confirmed that he is not a dragon slayer in the traditional sense. It was just a ritual magic held with dragon heart and dragon blood as the main materials by coincidence. Feel it carefully again; isn't that dragon slayer aura incomplete?"
When Miyauchi Hikage obtained the Name Magic back then, the attached materials indeed included dragon heart and dragon blood. Although the dragons in Harry Potter didn't have much brains and many were even controlled and artificially bred by the magic world, they could indeed be considered dragons.
So Miyauchi Hikage, who had bathed in dragon blood and eaten dragon heart, indeed had part of the dragon slayer's aura on him, and the Name Magic was activated based on this.
Of course, the world Miyauchi Hikage lived in now had no dragons currently, so even if others could sense the special aura on Miyauchi Hikage, they wouldn't realize what aura it was.
But high-level dragons like Tohru and Kanna could naturally distinguish it.
This was also the reason why both of them didn't have a good attitude towards Miyauchi Hikage when they first met.
Later, after Tohru lived in Miyauchi Hikage's house and laid this matter out, this matter was considered passed.
Now Tohru also re-informed Kanna of these things. Although it seemed that Kanna was still somewhat skeptical, out of trust in Tohru, she nodded gently towards Miyauchi Hikage, appearing quite polite.
Unlike when she first met Kobayashi in the original work, thinking Kobayashi took away Tohru's heart and wanted to fight Kobayashi to the death, but could only turn into small fists hammering the chest because of insufficient magic power.
It seemed that in this little chubby dragon's eyes, it was indeed impossible for Tohru to have any special relationship with him.
"How about it? Kanna should stay with me here for a while. Is there any problem with her identity?"
"Not a big problem," Miyauchi Hikage waved his hand, looking at Tohru's beautiful silver-purple gradient hair.
"Coincidentally, our family's hair color is all blue-purple. She looks a little older than Renge. Being Renge's sister shouldn't be a big problem. Just put her household registration in our family directly."
Asahigaoka had long been operated into an iron bucket by Miyauchi Hikage. Arranging a person's identity in the village was very simple.
Of course, with Miyauchi Hikage's hacking skills, giving Tohru a foreign tourist identity out of thin air like before wouldn't be much of a problem either.
"But Kanna looks like an elementary school student at this age. Since she wants to live in our world, unless she stays at home all day and doesn't go out, if she goes out and is seen by others, people will think it strange why she doesn't go to school."
"It's also simple to take her to Tokyo for elementary school. I can go to Dr. Agasa and say a word, and should be able to arrange her into Teitan Elementary School. But going to school at the Asahigaoka Branch School is also easier. Anyway, the distance to Tokyo is only about a hundred kilometers. A round trip a day won't take much time."
Although under his development, the number of students in the Asahigaoka Branch School finally broke through double digits, and under Miyauchi Hikage's arrangement, not only were various facilities in the school building updated, but several teachers willing to retire in the countryside were also found to enhance the teaching staff.
But the current educational philosophy of the Asahigaoka Branch School was still based on self-study, and school activities were completely tossed about by the students themselves. In a sense, it was a school style even freer than Toyogasaki.
Of course, Miyauchi Hikage also considered finding a companion for Renge.
Although there were already the three Koshigaya siblings and his own somewhat unreliable eldest sister taking care of Renge in the school, as well as two boys of similar age to Renge who moved from out of town.
But before school started, Miyauchi Hikage had already warned those boys and their families to stay away from Renge.
Renge indeed lacked a girl of about her size as a playmate. He believed that with Kanna's personality, the two of them should get along quite well.
However, Tohru didn't give a reply immediately, but prepared to let Kanna make the decision herself.
"I don't care. It's good to let Kanna learn some common sense of life in school, but let Kanna live with us in Tokyo for a while first. Let her decide for herself after adapting to this world."