Idle Talk 2

Idle Talk 2
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Type	Web Novel
Volume	1
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Idle Talk 2: A Virtuous Existence is one of various short, monologue-like side stories occasionally inserted between pairs of chapters in the original light novel version of A Journey Through Another World: Raising Kids While Adventuring. This one specifically, inserted between chapters 20 and 21, is written from Sylphyryll's point of view and tells how Alan and Elena were born and spent their infancy years while also shedding light into their father Wyndell's questionable personality.

Summary

The God of Water Wyndell, a known womanizer according to his brother Sylphyryll, had impregnated a human Etelldian woman, who died while giving birth to twin children as she could not hold giving birth to demi-gods (a chance of one in several hundred billion of happening), much less demi-gods inheriting the powers of their father (an even lower chance, according to Syl). Under normal circumstances, a shrine would be built for the demi-god babies to live in, be cared for, and be revered by their subjects (as well as to contain and control their own supernatural powers, because otherwise they could destroy a nearby town –if not Etelldia as a whole– with such powers); but because Wyndell was not present at their birth (as, according to Syl, he was in another dimension, enjoying a honeymoon with at least one out of many other Etelldian women he irresponsibly indulged in), their care and fate ended up in the hands of a "miser landlord", who sold them to a slave trader while Wyndell's retainers, the water nagas (who frequently kept tabs on the twins from afar, as they had no authority to directly interact with, or even travel together with, children of the God of Water), painfully watched. Under the slave trader's ownership, when they were still babies, the twins destroyed their crib in self-defense when their demi-godly instincts (as they indeed had inherited Wyndell's godly powers) took over their infant bodies. Even though such powers went dormant deep into their bodies after that crib incident, their preposterous potential led their owner to lock them up into a dark basement for years (with the Water God retainers again being unable to intervene).

As the God of Wind, Sylphyryll also had no authority to intervene in matters related to Wyndell or to his children. So he felt relief when an outsider, Takumi Kayano, discovered and assumed responsibility of Wyndell's twin children, whom he named Alan and Elena in the absence of any given names. The water nagas also noticed Takumi taking care of the twins and, after carrying out a thorough background check into him, decided to indirectly assist him by sending him gifts to aid him and the twins, including –among all things– a fenrir to serve him as a contracted beast, ahead of Syl (with whom they may have had some form of communications). Syl ends this monologue by pondering what kinds of other beasts to send to Takumi.

Characters

• Sylphyryll (narrator)
• Wyndell (mention)
• unnamed mother
• Alan
• Elena
• Water Nagas (Wyndell's retainers)
• unnamed landlord
• Slave Trader
• Takumi Kayano
• Joule (indirect mention)