“By the way, about the Spatial Translocation usage you asked about the other day...”
I felt myself lean forward expectantly at the topic Karen suddenly brought up. Thinking it would be nice to let the kids visit Earth once everything was over, I’d asked her about using Translocation to teleport everyone there. It was already possible for me to do it myself, but there were all kinds of minor restrictions like not being allowed to go in my current form or not being able to use most of my powers while over there—if I used my powers as I pleased while on Earth, then I’d be as bad as the god of erosion.
“The brief answer is yes, there’s no problem for you to do that. But with your abilities, you may end up missing the mark a little, y’know.”
“Missing the mark?”
“Spatial Translocation is a divine skill that allows its user to cross worlds, but it also lets you cross time, y’know. Not as freely as the space-time goddess...as Grandma Tokie, but it’s possible. It isn’t such a big deal if you’re only moving around this world, but if you’re going to a different world entirely like Earth, you have to make sure you focus enough as you make the jump, or you could end up going off course on the time axis, y’know. You could end up in some time like the Edo Period by accident.”
Ending up in a completely different time would definitely be bad... Maybe I’d be better off putting in a request to God Almighty like I did for our honeymoon trip. I’d rather make it there with my own strength, but I didn’t want to risk our lives just to do it. Or well, maybe Grandma Tokie could give me some special training.
“And about using Spatial Translocation to infiltrate the wicked devout’s ship...”
This was the important one. If this one didn’t work and we couldn’t solve the problem of the wicked devout, then we couldn’t even go to Earth in the first place. I’d asked Karen if using Spatial Translocation to cross the barrier and enter the Ark was considered breaking the divine rules. I wouldn’t be directly influencing the surface realm with my abilities, so I’d think it would just barely count. I needed to get a clear answer, though, or we couldn’t start formulating a final battle plan.
“They’ve said it’s fine for you to use it so long as you don’t have Spatial Translocation affect the wicked devout themselves directly, or use it as a form of surprise attack for either yourself or your wards.”
In other words, it was fine so long as I didn’t use it to directly teleport the wicked devout or use it to teleport us to launch a surprise attack.
Basically, any attacks using divinity were forbidden. It was most likely meant in the sense that divine powers shouldn’t be used in a fight on the surface realm, and that apparently seemed to include using Translocation to suddenly appear behind the wicked devout and deal the killing blow. The ability wasn’t being used on them directly, but it was still viewed as a battle tactic using divinity.
However, if we only used it to infiltrate the Ark, they were willing to turn a blind eye.
“You’ve got it right, y’know. But you really shouldn’t use your divinity to take down the wicked devout, okay? I’m being serious. Even God Almighty won’t be able to vouch for you if you do that. Worst case, you could be sealed away for thousands of years, y’know?”
Yeah, no thanks. I’d rather not be sealed up for that long. All I had to do was avoid using divinity during the fight, right? Then again, maybe I shouldn’t be fighting on the front lines to begin with...
Okay, I’ll take up a support role this time, then.
“But will you reeeeeaaaally be okay? There are times when you get really mad...”
“Right? You’re usually so goofily happy, but the moment anything happens to the girls, you enter search and destroy mode, so I’m worried, y’know?”
“Hey, who are you calling goofy?!”
Karen and Suika were right, though. The moment anything happened to my wives or kids, I was pretty sure I’d beat the offender to a pulp. Except I wasn’t allowed to do that this time, unfortunately.
“This is why gods don’t tend to go to the surface themselves, but instead grant a sacred treasure to a hero, y’know. If you let your anger get the better of you, you could end up destroying a whole world. There are plenty of examples of people inciting a god’s wrath that’s resulted in some pretty bad outcomes, like a whole continent being sunk under the ocean, or a city burned to a crisp in one quick moment, y’know.”
Pretty bad was an understatement... I really didn’t think I would ever go that far, though.
“Reallyyy? Your kids are the ones using the sacred treasure, right? If they end up in trouble, you seem like you’d go out there and go boom the enemies!”
She isn’t wrong...
“A parent shouldn’t get involved in their children’s fights, y’know? I’m not saying you shouldn’t help, but at least believe in them. Overprotectiveness can stunt a child’s growth, after all.”
Karen likely wasn’t talking about just my own children this time, but everyone in this world. She was probably trying to say that I shouldn’t help with absolutely everything that went wrong, but...that wasn’t always something so easy to do.