Chapter 83
The Saint and
2
Translator : PolterGlast
When I told Yuko, who
had widened her eyes in surprise and muttered, "The same as me," with
a voice that trailed off, "No, we're not," she let out a sigh of
relief. I panicked, realizing that my phrasing was poor.
"I know The Tale
of the Land of Five Leaves too. But I'm not the same as you. I was definitely
born as 'Eldorado.'"
"...That
means..."
"If you're a
transmigrator, then I guess I'm a reincarnator."
I remembered my
memories of my previous life when I became a demon and was thrown off a cliff.
If the story had gone as in the original work, Eldorado would have used that as
a trigger to hate people, indulging her overflowing talent in harassment
without restraint, and hating the Saint, the hope of the people.
Of course, it wasn't
that I didn't have any resentment, but now that the memories of my previous
life were mixed in, I knew how much effort it took to keep hating people.
Taking into account the labor and cost, I just ran away, thinking it would be
better to live my future life happily. Even so, there were things I would
suddenly remember, and they weren't something I could completely discard.
I unintentionally
looked down and pondered, but this wasn't the time for that. I intently
observed Yuko, who was trembling with her mouth wide open.
(...She believed me,
right?)
In the main game, I
was the most terrifying witch, a dangerous woman who manipulated people using
illusion magic. If I had suddenly claimed, "Hey, I know the game too, look
at me!" there was a possibility she wouldn't have believed me at all,
thinking it was some kind of trickery. So, first I wanted her to think,
"Maybe that's it?" herself.
Taking advantage of
the fact that Ichi and the others were invisible to Yuko, they circled around
her, saying "How's that? What do you think? Surprised, aren't you?"
smoothly. They returned saying, "Conclusion, she's super surprised!"
I could tell just by looking.
First, looking at
Yuko's reaction, she seemed to be struggling with the idea that such a thing
could happen. And the next thing she probably thought was, "But I was
surprised too when I came to this world, so maybe it's natural to be this
surprised," or something like that. However, it was easy to tell from her
expression—she was falling for it. I judged that I could get through to her.
"...My oshi is
actually Veda from this Soleil. I fell for his serious face, his love for spicy
food, and his full smile during the curry event."
"............!!
M-my oshi is, of course, Lotus, and his dialogue events were basically silent,
just '............' all the time, but if you listened closely, you could hear
the voice actor's sigh-like huuu sound, and it was the best...!"
We grabbed each
other's hands tightly. In that instant, we flung our hands apart. We almost formed
a bond.
"B-but that makes
even less sense! Even if you were a player of The Tale of the Land of Live
Leaves, why are you with Lotus! I'm jealous... no, Lotus's demeanor and
appearance are completely different, it's weird!"
"W-well, that's,
um, unavoidable..."
Just as I was about to
say it wasn't out of malice, Yuko was fiercely angry. Well, yeah. By the way,
the fact that Veda was my oshi was a secret I would take to my grave with
Lotus. My oshi and the person I liked were completely different!
I forcibly calmed down
the super-angry Yuko and explained, "Really, it wasn't out of malice! I
was desperately trying to survive, and that's how things ended up!" I
explained it with a huge amount of omissions. I desperately infiltrated the
city to survive, was saved by Lotus, then got to know Lotus's important people,
and when I realized they were going to die, I desperately ended up like this!
See, just thinking about it is this long.
"More than that,
there's something I want to tell you! That's why I came all the way here!"
I planted both feet
firmly and glared fiercely at Yuko. I was much shorter and younger than her, so
I probably didn't have any intimidation factor, but Ichi and the others were
making up for it. Gogogogogo, gogogogogo. They were in charge of making sound
effects. Of course, Yuko couldn't see them, but maybe she felt an overwhelming
atmosphere. She took a step back. Shara-ran karan, the sound above our heads
was just the lantern swaying in the wind. "Why..." I somehow felt like
I had been pushed from behind.
"Why aren't you
leveling up~~~~!!!?"
Yeah, seriously,
that's the point.
"I mean, I know
it must be tough for you too, suddenly becoming a Saint or coming to another
world or whatever!? I get it! But if you've played the game, you know, right?
If things keep going like this, it'll be a bad end!? You'll die!? You won't be
able to go back to your original world!!"
I just had to say it,
I couldn't hold it in any longer. Yuko, the protagonist, would be easily killed
by monsters and die if she didn't exceed the appropriate level for the event.
If she died, killed by monsters, this world that was seeking the Saint's
prayers would also collapse. Of course, you could probably clear it depending
on the player's skill even if you didn't exceed the appropriate level, but no
matter how I looked at it, she was below the minimum level. Her faith wasn't
enough, and since she couldn't use the World Tree branch, she couldn't move to
other leaves either.
Being exposed as
Eldorado or being known as a reincarnator didn't matter at this point. Well, it
did matter, but more than that, I desperately wanted to assert my point to
Yuko. Increase! Your! Level!
This was what I meant
when I told Lotus I wanted to have an open and honest conversation. It wasn't
that I wanted to do sit-ups at all. There were words I desperately wanted to
slam into her, on the premise that she knew I was a reincarnator.
"At least try to
learn how to use the World Tree branch! If you did that, you could go to other
leaves and increase your companions, right!? Even this time with the sand
scorpions, you could have easily repelled them!"
Just because something
is right doesn't mean you should just slam it into someone. But I wanted to say
it just this once. After all, people's lives were at stake. Yuko, while being
taken aback by my intensity, said, "B-but..." while poking her index
fingers together.
"B-but leveling
up is such a pain... In the game, it was an event you could just skip, but
first you have to receive a blessing, so you have to study etiquette, and if
you make even a small mistake, you have to redo the ritual I can't remember it!"
"Let's try our
best to the death! I'll do it with you!!"
Well, of course, there
was no way a demon like Eldorado could receive a god's blessing. The god who I
had tried to get help from once just ran away without doing anything, so I
almost exploded with a belated sense of anger, but I somehow put that aside.
Yuko's efforts were
related to the future of this world. It was only natural that my words would
become heated. I unintentionally clung to her, but Yuko screamed with all her
might, "No way!" "I hate studying to death!" "So you'd
rather choose death!?" Her resolve was too firm.
It was when I was at a
complete loss about what to do with her rock-solid determination that she said,
"Besides..." Yuko huffed through her nose and looked down at me with
her arms crossed.
"Even if you look
like you're going to fail, you can just loop, right? It's easy."
"What in the
world are you talking about?" was the nuance of my exasperation. After
shaking my head, she glared at me with emphasis at the end, "You don't
even understand something like that!?" I stared up at her in astonishment.
So I replied with even more intensity.
"Like hell I can
do something like that!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!"
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