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Published at 7th of March 2016 04:57:23 PM


Chapter 2.1

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CHAPTER 2 – I’M JUST A LEVEL 1 VILLAGER, CAN I DEFEAT THE DEMON KING?

PART 01

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Perhaps it was the fervent nature of my request that saw me ushered into a huge guest room with a canopy bed by the king and his subjects.

Plopping down onto the bed, I heaved a sigh.

“Hero-sama! Is there anything else you need?” Harissa asked with an energetic smile.

“No, everything’s fine. May I be left alone?”

“No problem!” Harissa replied happily, before relaying my request to the servant girls waiting out in the hallway.

‘How young she is~’

Watching her leave, this old man’s thought ran through my mind.

“Rekka-san, do you like naïve girls like her?”

“No comment.”

With that smooth quip to R’s question, my mind drifted back to my current predicament again… and I clutched my head in frustration.

Wizards, aliens, otherworldly beings. It would be tough dealing with any one of them, but to have all three piled upon me at once! What can I do?

If I include R, the entity from the future, it’ll be four different problems. Besides, the “All Of War”‘s going to happen in the future, so what’s happening now would hardly have an impact on that. At this point, that does seem like the only saving grace.

“Arggh—… Seriously. What should I do?”

“Since we’re already here in this other world, you’d have to resolve this ‘story’ first.”

“I don’t have time for that. Why should I stick my nose into the business of this other world, anyway? And Satsuki may be in great danger now. If I don’t get back to our world right now…”

My hands on my watch appeared to move at the exact same speed in this world, which meant that it should be about 2 p.m. back on Earth right now. I remember reaching the abandoned factory at 1 p.m., so Satsuki had been left alone with Messiah for almost an hour.

Messiah had said that Satsuki was to be his bride, so he probably would not hurt or kill her… But I still need to return to our world to make sure that she was safe.

As I was panicking, R was looking at me quizzically for some reason.

“So you’re planning to return to your world and let this one perish?”

“But I have no choice. I’m just part of the ‘Lineage’. It doesn’t grant me any special powers, nor does it make me any different from everyone else. I can’t save this world.”

“Do you really believe that?” R continued, insistent.

“Do you believe I should?”

“No, but if Rekka-san were to abandon this ‘story’…”

Before R could finish her sentence, Harissa returned from the hallway.

“Hero-sama? Were you speaking with someone?”

“No. You must be imagining things.”

“Oh, I must have misheard, then! I’m really terrible with that. When I was young, I once mistook my grandpa’s snoring as the roaring of a dragon, which caused chaos throughout the entire village!”

Is that something you should be recounting with such happiness?

Harissa trotted over and sat down beside me. S-so close…

“Hero-sama! Is there anything you need from me?”

“Not really.”

“But it can’t be! His Majesty ordered me to take care of you. Please give me an order, I’ll do anything!”

“…OK, why don’t you sit a little further away?”

“I-I’m sorry! I was so excited that I didn’t realize I’ve come so close! I must stink.” Harissa exclaimed as she jumped away from me.

“No, I didn’t request that because you stink…”

“It’s OK! I’m just a commoner, so it’s actually an honor for me to even be here like this. So I must surely be giving out a horrible commoner’s stench from my armpits!! But that’s because I’m speaking with hero-sama, and it’s really making me sweat!”

…I’m guessing deodorant has not been invented in this world.

That aside, this girl, Harissa, seemed to be the one who summoned me to this world.

Which meant that the fastest way for me to return to my world was to garner her help…

“Erm, there’s something I’d like to ask.”

“Yes! What is it, hero-sama?!”

I can’t say that when you’re looking at me with such sparkly eyes… But I need to say it.

“Please send me back to my world.”

“………Huh?”

Yes, I was expecting that answer.

“There’s no way I can defeat a Demon King. And I’m not a hero.”

Yes, I’m just an ordinary person. If I was a character in a game, I’d probably be a random villager.

“…B-but! Rekka-sama was summoned by the legendary spell passed down through the Abraham royalty. According to the legend, our hero would emerge from a dazzling light…”

“Sorry, but it’s just that my physical constitution makes it really easy for me to be dragged into things. Please find yourselves another hero.”

“No… You’re lying.”

“I’m not.”

“No, you must be… Rekka-sama is our hero. You must be. If not, I’ll be in trouble.”

“……”

Such words do nothing but make my heart wrench.

But there is someone I really needed to protect.

“Your problem has nothing to do with me. I don’t have the time. Send me back to my world now!”

“Gasp…!”

My angry outburst caused Harissa to recoil in shock.

Her smile, as bright as the Sun, disappeared, and was replaced by tears.

“~~~Jearim Neckrum!” She chanted, lips trembling.

Suddenly, she disappeared before my eyes.

“What? Harissa?”

I couldn’t see her, but I could hear the sound of footsteps running away from me. Then, the door opened on its own, and the footsteps escaped out into the hallway.

“…Did she just turn herself invisible?”

“Who knows,” R, who had drifted into the floor so her face rested on the stone like some freshly severed head, answered nonchalantly.

Left without a choice, I decided to ask R for help.

“Do you know of a way to return to my world?”

“I can’t answer that.”

“I knew it…”

“You didn’t answer me back then. Are you really going to leave, just like that?”

“I already answered you back then. I need to get back to my world as soon as I can.”

R can be frightfully annoying at times.

“So what if I leave?”

“Well, this world will come to an end without Rekka-san,” R informed me in an emotionless voice.

“…End?”

“It’s not that difficult to understand,” R continued as she drifted out of the floor. “A ‘story abandoned by its protagonist’ has no other conclusion except destruction. In fact, there are kingdoms that had perished because your ancestors abandoned them in the past, because descendents of the Namidare family really are the final hope for the people in these ‘stories’.”

R’s eyes appeared totally serious under her military cap.

“…But my old man never told me about that.”

“Because of his love for you, Rekka-san. If he had told you that abandoning a ‘story’ would spell its doom, you might have acted recklessly to try and save everyone. As you said yourself earlier, you’re just an ordinary human being.”

Well, the old man did make me promise not to abandon the “stories”.

Maybe he had wanted to tell me to do my best to rescue them. He did say it in a roundabout way…but maybe it was really his parental love which prevented him from requesting it outright.

So now that I know, what should I do?

I’m only armed with the laser gun and warp watch I was holding while on the spaceship, and Satsuki’s phone in my pocket. Even so, all these girls are asking me to save them in their “stories”.

Three girls, three “stories”… But there is only one me.

Will I be able to rescue them all?





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