The Dimensional Tavern of the Mefilas Alien

Ignoring the troublesome magical girls, Murphy attempted to awaken Fissna through telepathy. However, no matter how he tried, Fissna seemed convinced that he was her father.

"what!"

Murphy was helpless. He could only reach out and read Fissna's memories.

To be honest, he didn't really like using this ability most of the time, because it seriously interfered with his fun. But he really didn't want Fisna to keep calling him "Dad."

"I see……"

After reading Fissna's memories, Murphy finally understood.

Despite claiming to protect humanity, the organization's fees are actually exceptionally high. Often, even smaller towns can't afford to hire a Claymore, let alone impoverished villages.

Fissna was born in such a small village.

After discovering that demons were lurking in the village, the villagers immediately gathered together to discuss countermeasures.

However, they were so poor that even if they sold everything they owned, they still couldn't pay the commission to the organization.

However, ordinary people also have their own wisdom.

Aside from their ability to disguise themselves, demons' true strength is not beyond what humans can handle.

Therefore, the villagers decided to identify the demon by taking turns locking up their homes, family by family. If someone outside was killed, it proved the demon was hiding in an unlocked home. If someone in a particular household was killed, it proved the demon was in their house.

During this time, the isolated families received food from the rest of the villagers. Furthermore, the villagers left each isolated family a sword. While more symbolic, this ensured that they wouldn't be entirely without a chance to fight back should demons appear.

When it was Fissna's family's turn to be locked up, Fissna's father, unable to bear the hunger, ate Fissna's mother, brother, and sister.

When Fissna awoke from her sleep, she witnessed this hellish scene firsthand.

The demon, disguised as her father—or rather, who was her father—ate while weeping, saying, "...I thought I could make it through, but I was just too hungry..."

Driven to despair and fear, Fissna picked up the sword left behind by the villagers and beheaded her father.

It's hard to say whether it was her exceptional talent or the demon resembling her father who gave up the fight.

After all, no matter how outstanding she was, she was just a child of a few years old at that time.

However, Fissna's nightmare was not over.

Out of fear, the other villagers did not open the sealed door to Fiesna's house after her father's death, and even stopped bringing her food. She tried everything to get out, but to no avail. In the end, she had no choice but to eat the corpse of her father, who was a demon.

It wasn't until a month later, when the organization's greatsword happened to pass by, that Fissna was rescued.

It was this experience that forged Fissna's loyalty to the organization and her hatred for demons.

For her, only by slaying all the demons could she be freed from her suffering.

However, her recent battle with Teresa had brought her to the brink of awakening and left her in a state of mental confusion. Murphy's mental suppression in an attempt to bring her back from this state further exacerbated her mental breakdown.

This caused Fissna's memories to become disordered, as she was already trying to escape her past life.

She overlapped the person who saved her life, Murphy, with the savior she had hoped for in her childhood, thus altering her memories.

"Father, the demon has been slain..."

Naked, Fissna curled up on the lab table like a baby, tugging at her fingers and muttering in her sleep.

Murphy was very sad.

Aside from having the magical girls change Fissna's clothes, he was completely helpless against her.

As a being from the planet Mefilas, manipulating people's hearts is his specialty.

But when faced with someone like Fissna who imprints her own thoughts onto herself, there's not much he can do.

Even if her memories have been altered now, as long as she's still at the bar, she'll still see him as her father.

Essentially, it's because Fissna is unwilling to accept that tragic past, so she tries every means to distort her perception.

"What a hot potato I've picked up!"

After Murphy finished with a wry smile, he put the exhausted and asleep Fissna back into the monster ball.

He planned to return Fissna to Dinesa the next time she came.

Such a troublesome guy is better left to Denise to handle herself.

However, because he tried to replicate the Poké Ball when creating it, the ball, like the Poké Ball in Pokémon, lacked sufficient binding force.

As long as the creature inside the ball has no ill intentions towards the owner of the ball, it can come out on its own while it is conscious.

"Daddy!" Fissna, emerging from the ball, happily hugged Murphy's arm.

So, within a few days, everyone at the bar knew that the manager, Murphy, had a daughter.

……

"Click!"

Belial, who had come to supervise Murphy, immediately took out a pair of handcuffs specially made by the Land of Light and put them on Murphy's wrists after hearing Fesna call him "Dad."

"arrest!"

Compared to the lifespan of the Mefilas aliens, even centenarians on Earth are no different from infants.

Chapter 87 Murphy's Yearning for Love and Justice

Have you stooped so low as to pin your hopes on this kind of toy?

Before he finished speaking, the handcuffs had already slipped off Murphy's hands.

"This is my latest invention, which I obtained from the Science and Technology Bureau!"

Beria could not accept this.

Although he is not even the captain of the Space Garrison now, that's mainly because he can't accept being Ken's subordinate.

Otherwise, even if he has made a big mistake in the past, based on his past achievements, it would not be a problem for him to become a high-ranking official such as a branch minister.

Therefore, he can enter important places like the Science and Technology Bureau as easily as if he were going home.

"You didn't go to the Science and Technology Bureau to steal something again, did you?" Beria looked at Murphy suspiciously.

"Nonsense! How can you call it stealing when it's a scientist's business? It's called technical exchange!" Murphy retorted confidently.

"Besides, I've never taken a single needle or thread from the Science and Technology Bureau. On the contrary, I even helped you upgrade your security. Instead of thanking me, how can you slander me?"

Beria chuckled. Upgrading security was true, but the main purpose was probably to secretly leave a backdoor inside!

To be fair, the security upgrades Murphy made were indeed much better than the original ones at the Science and Technology Agency. So much so that Hikari was initially reluctant to dismantle them.

If we don't dismantle it, we'll only be facing Murphy. If we do dismantle it, we'll be facing all the ambitious people in the universe.

Between two evils, choose the lesser? At least, although Murphy developed many dangerous inventions, he himself was not very ambitious, nor was he particularly evil.

More importantly, Murphy somehow managed to completely integrate his upgraded measures with the Science and Technology Agency's original security system, meaning that dismantling it would require removing all the existing security measures as well.

However, recently, the entire elite force of the Science and Technology Agency, led by Hikari, has been busy working on overcoming the challenges of life solidification technology, leaving no manpower available to rebuild the agency's security. In the end, they had to ask other departments to send people to help keep an eye on Murphy.

Beria looked down at the handcuffs on the ground.

It seems their surveillance wasn't working. Murphy was still moving freely within the Science and Technology Bureau.

Belial had a guess about this. Murphy might have invented some kind of phase-shifting technology by studying Bruton, thus evading the Land of Light's notice.

"Don't bully Daddy!"

Wearing an adorable dress, Fesna suddenly drew a greatsword from thin air and glared menacingly at Belial.

Although Fiesna tried her best to look fierce, in Belial's eyes she was no different from Pigmon breathing heavily, and had no intimidating power except for being cute.

"You've got a good daughter, haven't you!"

Beria grabbed the handcuffs from the ground and abandoned his plan to handcuff Murphy.

Murphy's daughter defends him so much; perhaps they truly are in love!

Ultimately, it's not illegal for aliens and humans to fall in love. It's just that it's morally reprehensible. This isn't just an older man dating a younger woman; it's a case of an old man preying on a young child!

"Don't talk nonsense, I'm not her father!" Murphy said irritably.

“Dad, don’t you want me anymore?” Fissna immediately became teary-eyed.

Upon hearing this, Beria's eyes instantly sharpened.

"If you're really bored, you might as well go check out the Dark Nebula. The evil Bogaru might break free from its seal any day now. Every time you come to the tavern and disturb my business, you don't even order a drink. Be careful, or I'll complain to Ken about you disturbing the peace!" Murphy first complained about Belial.

Then he reached out and patted Fissna's head: "I've said it many times, you are human, I am an alien, we are different species!"

Then, he summoned Homura Akemi's clone and had her take Fissna to the laboratory.

After hearing about Fissna's past, the magical girls were overcome with compassion and often took the initiative to care for her. She was already young, even younger than many of the more experienced magical girls, and her distorted perception had made her personality even more childlike. Therefore, she was often dressed up like a doll by the magical girls. For example, the outfit she was wearing now was sewn by hand by those magical girls themselves.

"That child is actually a cyborg from another world."

Murphy briefly explained the situation in the Claymore world, and also mentioned his and Jamila's speculations about the truth of Claymore.

"Where is that world?" Belial's expression changed instantly.

"What do you want to do? Don't forget, interfering in the internal affairs of a planet is strictly prohibited by the Land of Light!" Murphy reminded Belial.

Beria chuckled coldly: "I'm not the kind of obedient child who follows the rules."

He has no particular preference for humans or other species; he simply doesn't have a good impression of things like 'organizations'.

"Of course, this kind of thing depends on the wishes of the locals."

Murphy also has his own principles.

Although he enjoys watching the fun, he would absolutely not let Belial pass if Teresa and the others disagreed.

"I will only open a passage to someone else's world for them if the guest agrees. That's the rule of the bar!"

Not all guests at the tavern possess great power, nor are they all good people. If restrictions were lifted, the tavern would quickly turn into a dark forest. The guests would all become fearful and insecure.

Ultimately, in order to protect themselves, they were forced to stop coming to the bar to avoid being invaded by other guests.

"Besides, weren't you worried before that my unauthorized connection to the multiverse would cause a crisis?"

Murphy glanced sideways at Beria.

"Upholding justice is Ultraman's duty." Belial said without changing his expression; his thick skin was no less than Murphy's.

"But you did the right thing. People from different universes shouldn't be allowed to travel freely between them."

Beria was not angry at being rejected by Murphy; instead, he acknowledged his principles.

Previously, persuaded by Jun Himeya, he had given up on his plan to shut down the Monster Tavern. But after returning, he was still worried that Murphy might secretly cause some big trouble. Now, hearing what he said, he felt somewhat relieved.

As expected, Murphy was different from the Dark Legion. Deep down, he actually yearned for love and justice!

It is not the fault of a virtuous person to be born in a country of petty people.

As Murphy's closest friend, it was my duty to guide him, just as he had once awakened his true self from the influence of the Reibrad aliens.

Beria recalled the past.

At that time, I was in an unprecedented low in both body and mind due to my exile.

The long-awaited Reibrad alien seized the opportunity and invaded his body.

Driven by the Reibrad factor, the faint darkness deep within Belial's heart was magnified hundreds or thousands of times, and his past perseverance and beliefs were in danger of collapsing at any moment.

It was Murphy who woke me up with a wake-up call.

Chapter 88 The Giga Battle Device and Belial's Eldest Son

Those brief ten seconds or so were the darkest moment of Belial's life.

Compared to that, being surpassed by a close friend, having a close friend get married and no longer partnering with you, being rejected by the Plasma Spark Tower... none of that matters.

Even now, when Beria recalls everything from that time, he still feels a chill run down his spine.

Under the influence of the Reibrad alien's spiritual body, many dark thoughts that Belial had never discovered awakened in his mind.

Terrible ambitions and wicked thoughts are constantly emerging.

One chilling plan after another was generated in an instant. The once powerful warrior, who was considered Ken's equal, was about to degenerate into the most evil demon king in an instant.

At that moment, Murphy appeared like a god descending upon us.

"Aren't you Belial? Why do you look so disheveled?"

He looked at Beria and mocked him cruelly.

"Tsk, you actually got invaded by a mere spiritual entity! To think that I, a fine man of the Mefilas aliens, would be compared to a weakling like you is truly shameful!"