Kousuke had come to the town on the Fifth Floor with Nana and Mitsuki to test the effects of a magic tool he had created.
As they walked through the town, they headed straight for the mansion where the children were supposed to be.
Along the way, Kousuke confirmed that people’s gazes were not focused on him.
When Kousuke arrived at the mansion, Colette, who had been surprised to see him, entered the living room with him.
Of course, Nana wiped her feet before following him.
Colette, who had been as surprised as Peach, asked Kousuke, who had settled onto the sofa in the living room.
“So? What did you come here for?”
“Well, while testing this magic tool, I thought I’d visit the children.”
Kousuke said this while pointing to the mask on his face.
Mitsuki was also wearing a mask with a similar effect.
Colette looked at the masks Kousuke and Mitsuki were wearing as if they were strange objects and said,
“That looks like a very unusual mask, but why are you wearing something like that?”
The masks were shaped like Noh masks, so it was extremely strange for someone wearing such a thing to walk around town.
However, Kousuke and Mitsuki, who were wearing the masks, did not attract much attention.
This was what Kousuke wanted to confirm.
“—And so, this mask has an enchantment of recognition obstruction. However, it is properly visible to those whom the wearer recognizes.”
To Kousuke’s casual explanation, Peach and Colette both sighed at the same time.
It was not unusual for Kousuke to create ridiculously high-performance magic tools, but this mask surpassed them all.
In the sense of why such a high-performance function was added to create such an item.
“I understand the purpose of the mask, but why such a thing?”
To Colette’s reasonable question, Kousuke replied nonchalantly.
“Well, to avoid being remembered even if I stand out?”
“If that’s the case, you shouldn’t have done anything memorable in the first place.”
Kousuke replied curtly to Colette, who was glaring at him.
“I would like to, but there are times when that doesn’t go as planned. Besides, isn’t it the same for you, Colette?”
To Kousuke’s question, Colette could not immediately respond.
Colette herself was aware that, while not to the same extent as Kousuke, she also occasionally made mistakes.
This was probably true for all the women around Kousuke, not just Colette.
Schulein, who rarely appeared in front of those other than her own kind, could perhaps be considered an exception.
Even Schulein occasionally made mistakes, so it was impossible for Colette to deny Kousuke’s words.
Peach then patted Colette on the shoulder.
“Let’s just give up~. In this matter, it’s six of one, half a dozen of the other.”
“Hmph. I want to deny it, but it’s frustrating that I can’t.”
Kousuke gave a wry smile to Colette, who said this with a frown.
“Well, that’s how it is, and more importantly, considering the future, it’s better to have this made.”
As Kousuke’s expression turned slightly serious, Colette and Peach nodded in unison.
The “future” Kousuke was referring to was not just the next year or two.
Kousuke, who had become an avatar, and the other wives were beings with exceptionally long lifespans.
This was a irrefutable fact, confirmed by Asura and the others.
If Kousuke and the others were to wander around town in the same form forever, there might come a time when someone would notice something strange.
Of course, in this world, there were also species like elves who aged without showing it, so at first, they might not be noticed, but there were limits.
To avoid being seen through, they could not spend all their time locked away in the management layer, so Kousuke had created this tool to avoid that.
Colette looked slightly impressed by the item that seemed useless but was actually essential for Kousuke and the others.
“We understand that it’s necessary for us, but was there really a need to make it in such a shape? I think you could have made it with a more normal shape.”
Colette frowned at the Noh mask (tentative), which looked somewhat eerie depending on how you looked at it.
“Well, even so. Should I have made it with an animal face?”
The Noh mask was the closest thing Kousuke could think of to a human face.
He had thought his thinking was quite biased when he came up with it, but it was the only thing he could think of when he made it, so it couldn’t be helped.
When Kousuke asked, Colette momentarily imagined Wanri wearing a fox mask and shook her head.
It felt as though it would suit her too well.
“That may be true, but…”
“Either way, to other people, it looks like a face with no distinguishing features, so the shape of the mask itself doesn’t matter.”
“Is that so?”
“It was made so that it would look that way to whoever saw it.”
Colette’s face became complicated, unsure whether to be exasperated or impressed by Kousuke’s confession of the mask’s new high-performance capabilities.
No one would have imagined that this, which appeared to Colette to be just a mask, possessed such a ridiculously high function.
Peach, replacing the suddenly speechless Colette, picked up the mask Kousuke had taken off and nodded.
“The more I hear about it, the more it suits us~.”
“Ah, that’s true.”
For succubi like Peach who worked in the dark, not being remembered by face was of utmost importance.
For such individuals, Kousuke’s masks would be highly sought-after magic tools.
However, Kousuke had no intention of letting anyone other than themselves use these masks.
“If something like this were to circulate normally, it wouldn’t just cause confusion. I’m only making enough for ourselves to use.”
“That’s true~.”
Peach nodded in understanding, though she looked a little disappointed at Kousuke’s words.
She understood that if these masks were to become commonly available, it would cause a major commotion, so she did not insist on Kousuke making them.
As Peach nodded and looked closely at the mask, she suddenly remembered Nana and asked,
“Speaking of which, aren’t you giving one to Nana~?”
“No, in Nana’s case, an excuse that she brought a different individual would suffice.”
There were very few people who could distinguish Nana’s wolf form as different just by looking at it.
Although Nana was a conspicuous presence among Kousuke’s group, her form was easily disguised, rendering the mask unnecessary.
At that point, Nana, realizing her name had been mentioned, approached Kousuke and happily nudged him with her nose.
Kousuke, noticing this, began to pet Nana’s head, and the discussion about the masks came to an end.
Aiming to become less of a shut-in.
