In Another World With My Smartphone: Volume 10

by Patora Fuyuhara

  “Touya... Did you seriously steal them? You’re that brazen...?”

  “You wanted to do something that badly, huh...?”

  “Th-That’s wrong! I’m innocent here!” What the hell?! Why would I steal underwear from my fiancee! I’d never need to stoop that low!

  “Wh-Who else but you could steal my underwear while I was wearing them...?!”

  “What?! They came off you while you were wearing them?” Yumina, who was somehow becoming even redder, stared me down. I couldn’t escape from her piercing gaze.

  Stealing underwear from underneath the clothes... It was definitely possible if I used [Apport] or something...

  “Oh, I see. Touya’s [Apport] could do it, huh. When were they stolen, Yumina?”

  “A little bit ago. I decided to head to the dining room... O-Only Touya could do something like that, right?”

  “Touya’s been with us the whole time, though... And no underwear appeared in his hands.”

  “H-He could’ve stashed it in [Storage], no?” I was unable to prove myself innocent against that allegation. I was the only person who could use [Storage], so I was the only person who could see what was in there.

  “Eeep!” Just as I tried to profess my innocence again, I heard a shrill shriek from down the hall. It was Lu’s voice. Don’t tell me...

  Lu suddenly hunched over and charged over towards me.

  “T-T-Touya! You can’t just steal a woman’s underwear, you know?! Even if you love them that much, you could’ve asked me! You can’t just take them off me while I’m wearing them!”

  “Stop! It’s not me! It wasn’t me, damn it!” Why do people immediately assume it was me?! I know I’m the most likely person to perform weird feats, but don’t assume I’m like that! I’m innocent! Yumina continued to stare me down. Her gaze was focused on my hands, for some reason. I flailed my arms in response.

  “I guess it wasn’t you, Touya...”

  “Thanks for finally believing me...”

  “...It wasn’t Touya?” Yumina turned to Lu and nodded. If it was me, then Yumina would’ve surely noticed a pair of panties materialize in my hands.

  “You didn’t use [Mirage] or [Invisible] to mask them, did you?”

  “No, I didn’t... Throw me a bone here, Linze?”

  “W-Well, it’s true that I didn’t sense any magic use.”

  Obviously you didn’t... Because I didn’t use any! Gaaah! Do you guys seriously believe I’m at the center of some convoluted panty-stealing plot?

  “Hm? Elze and Yae are running over here too?”

  “What?!” I turned in response to Sue’s words and saw both Yae and Elze hurtling down the hall at mach speed.

  “Don’t you move, Touya! I’m gonna get you!”

  “T-Touya-dono! You have infringed upon my honor, you have!”

  “Wait, no! You’re misunderstanding!” They’re not listening at all!

  “Gah... Come forth, Wind! Softening Enclosure: [Air Sphere]!” I used a wind spell to wrap myself in a cushion of air. Elze and Yae, upon making contact with the bubble, had their reckless charge reduced to a slow meander. I was safe.

  “Elze, Yae, please calm down! Touya isn’t the underwear snatcher.”

  “How do you explain my disappearing stuff, then?! Only Touya could possibly do that!”

  “I-It happened at the training grounds, it did! How did you do it from such a far distance?!”

  “Lu’s underwear was also stolen right in front of us. Touya isn’t the culprit, we promise.” Yumina gave the necessary evidence to prove me innocent. The two incensed girls gradually calmed down and came to accept that I wasn’t the criminal here.

  “Then... Where did our underwear go...?” Every girl here except Linze and Sue had lost their undies.

  Wait... There are four girls here without any underwear on, huh...? H-Heh...

  “Wait, did you just imagine something weird?!”

  “Huh?! No! I promise!” Elze was turning red either out of anger or shame. She was getting pretty aggressive. Naturally, I couldn’t admit what I had been thinking of. Not if I valued my own life.

  “Wait. Can’t you use your smartphone to search up the stolen underwear?”

  “Oh, you’re right.” Even if the criminal had hidden them, I’d be able to track them so long as a barrier hadn’t been erected around them.

  I took out my smartphone and opened the map app. I specified the entire local region in my search.

  Huh...?

  “......”

  “Where are they, Touya?”

  “No, I haven’t searched yet... I need to narrow down the terms first.”

  “Isn’t searching for stolen underwear good enough?”

  “It has to be something I’d recognize at a glance. So I couldn’t do that.”

  How am I supposed to know if underwear is stolen or not at a glance?

  “Oh, then how about Lu’s underwear?”

  “What are you saying, Sue?!”

  “Won’t work either. I can’t recognize Lu’s underwear from anyone else’s at a glance.”

  Maybe if her name was written on it... But man, if I could recognize Lu’s underwear at a glance I’d probably get in trouble.

  “Hmph... Then what about Yae’s? She wears that Eashen underwear, right?”

  “S-Sue-dono?!”

  “No dice. There area lot of Eashenese people in this country, after all...”

  Plus, even men wear fundoshi. It’s too broad.

  Hmm... Underwear that vanishes, let’s see... Was someone trying to lower my reputation? Or... Maybe they just wanted underwear. Wait... WAIT.

  The gears in my brain began to turn, and I suddenly remembered something.

  “That bag... It wasn’t a magic bag of holding at all!” I opened up a [Gate] to Babylon immediately. I knew who the culprit was.

  “Ohoho... Leen sure wears adult underwear... How lacy. I’m not surprised, given her age.” I watched as Doctor Babylon put her hand inside the alleged magic bag and plucked out a small, lacy pair of black underwear. She gently set it down on the hangar’s console desk. There was a variety of other underwear pairs there, too.

  The little girl gleefully stared at her collection, but she truly emanated the aura of a dirty old man. The same vibe came from the pervy maid standing next to her.

  “I see. So the bag gives you ability to replicate my [Apport], huh?”

  “Well, it’s slightly different in principle. It was originally designed to pick fruits in orchaaaugh!” I grabbed her by the scruff of her labcoat and picked her up. I picked her up and made her look at the red faces of all the girls she’d wronged.

  “Ah... Ahaha... Hey there... Y-You’re not mad, right?”

  “Of course we’re mad!” The girls angrily gathered their underwear from the desk. I turned away as this happened. I kept my eyes tight shut. There was apparently quite the collection of underwear on the table, so it was evident she’d gone after more fiancees than the girls in our immediate company.

  “Ah, well... I was just doing some research, you know?”

  “What kind...?”

  “Uhm... My capitalistic hypothesis on the idea of a futuristic economy built on color and forms of girls’ underwear...?”

  “Liar.”

  “You’re in big trouble.” I wasn’t sure where to look.

  I focused my glare on the pervy maid.

  “I had no part in this. It was all Doctor Babylon’s idea.”

  “You’re selling me out?! Traitor!”

  “My master is Mochizuki Touya. Sorry. I don’t speak this language. Who are you?” Cesca clinically responded to the friend she had so evidently betrayed. She sure was impressive in how cold she could be...

  “You watched and didn’t stop it?”

  “I wasn’t ordered to stop it.”

  Damn... I guess that’s fair.

  Ah well... This isn’t my business. They can deal with her. I left Doctor Babylon’s fate in Yae’s hands, handing th
e girl over to her.

  “This is how we have punished bad children since ancient times, it is.”

  “Hey, I’m mentally older than you, you know! What are you even gon... What?!” Yae pushed down Doctor Babylon against the console desk and deftly rolled up both her labcoat and her skirt. Then she rolled the girl’s underpants down her legs, exposing her bare behind.

  “W-W-W-Wait a second now! You don’t need to pull down my underwear, what are you doing?!”

  “Without shame there is no punishment, there is not. I hope you take this lesson to heart, I do.” Regina struggled desperately, but Yae was holding her down in place.

  Yae raised her hand and firmly brought it smacking down against the doctor’s rump.

  “Hyah!”

  “Argh!” The punished doctor let out cries of anguish. She was being hit a bit harder than I expected. I thought the point of this kind of punishment was humiliation instead of pain.

  “Hyah!”

  “Gngh!” Are you trying to hit her one time for every pair of underwear she nabbed? Not that I care, but this is going pretty far...

  “Hahhh... Mh... D-Don’t worry... Her body’s the... Mmh... S-Same as us Babylon Sisters... She’s plenty s-sturdy... S-So don’t... Mmfh... Worry...!”

  “Uh... Sure...” Tica appeared next to me, dabbing at the bloody fountain leaking from her nose. She was staring at Doctor Babylon’s behind. I wondered how she knew what was going on, but I assumed they had some kind of information sharing network. A pervert like her was hardly gonna pass up on the chance to see this kind of thing.

  Sue instinctively hid behind Yumina’s back when she saw Tica. I was glad she knew real danger when she saw it.

  “Hyah!”

  “Ooof! Mmh!”

  Hey... That noise was a little weird. Is this seriously a punishment... Or is it a reward?

  “A little girl getting humiliated by an older, more mature girl?! It’s perfect, oh yes... Oh baby, mfh...! Wooo!” Tica suddenly yelled out, causing everyone to freak out. I freaked out too. I wanted out of this hellhole.

  Doctor Babylon sat on the edge of her chair, liberally applying a few bags of ice to her red rump. Even if her body was sturdy, pain and damage could still pile up on it.

  “Gaaah... Don’t hit me again...!”

  “Are you done with this nonsense now? I’m getting pretty tired, honestly.”

  “I had good intentions! I was going to give them all to you as a present, Touya!”

  “Stolen underwear is a terrible gift!” I found myself yawning. It had been a busy day.

  I felt like I should’ve spent the day resting instead of... All of this. Still, it seemed like this was my life now.

  Afterword

  Howdy, it’s Patora Fuyuhara again.

  We’ve finally made it to volume ten of In Another World With My Smartphone. I’m pretty happy, honestly.

  Now that Doctor Babylon’s on the scene, this world’s gonna see a lot more smartphones.

  In the past, I was the kind of stubborn person who thought relying on a phone was no good.

  I was a bit of a contrarian, and I acted like I had no need for a cellphone for the longest time. But then one day I found myself in a cellphone store, thinking it might at least be convenient to use for work purposes.

  After a few hours, I came out of the store with a top-of-the-line brand new smartphone. It was either that the salesman was extremely good at his job, or I was just really gullible and dumb. It was probably the latter.

  Either way, now I’m the kind of person who can’t go without using his smartphone. What kind of person did you used to be compared to now? I don’t think I’d have ever started writing this if I’d never bought a smartphone, honestly.

  Right now the anime should be coming out pretty soon, it’s pretty rough to think about. The couple months between finalizing volume nine and ten went by in the blink of an eye.

  Anime aside, a lot of people have been hosting events and campaigns related to the adaptation. I’m really amazed at the outpouring of support I’ve had, it’s emotionally moving and I’m extremely thankful.

  At the time of writing this might be a little premature, but I’d like to thank the animation staff. I’d like to thank all the voice actors, too! You’ve totally breathed life into my characters. It’s been a happy few months.

  Let’s get to our usual thanks! As always, Eiji Usatsuka, thank you so much for supporting me for a full ten volumes of amazing illustrations. Thank you for all you’ve done so far, and thank you for all you’ll do in the future.

  Tomofumi Ogasawara, your mech designs have been exceptional as always. I’m sorry for describing Sue’s so fancifully... I imagine it must have been inconvenient, but you did a wonderful job.

  K, as always. Thanks for sticking with me up until this point. I’m looking forward to continuing our work together.

  Thanks to everyone in the editorial and publication departments.

  And thank you so much to everyone who stuck with my books this far. Truly, you’ve made the last ten volumes a memorable experience.

  Patora Fuyuhara

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  In Another World With My Smartphone: Volume 10

  by Patora Fuyuhara

  Translated by Andrew Hodgson

  Edited by DxS

  This book is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents are the product of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously. Any resemblance to actual events, locales, or persons, living or dead, is coincidental.

  Copyright © 2017 Patora Fuyuhara

  Illustrations Copyright © 2017 Eiji Usatsuka

  Cover illustration by Eiji Usatsuka

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  Original Japanese edition published in 2017 by Hobby Japan

  This English edition is published by arrangement with Hobby Japan, Tokyo

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  Ebook edition 1.0: September 2018