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Translator: thursdays Editor: Yahiko PR: LightBrin
After hearing my request, my colleagues didn’t say anything for a long time. Maybe they were looking back at the lives they led. Their days that were stained with purges.
“…You’re asking us to take the harder path, really.”
After a long period of silence, the Black Dragon Master opened her mouth.
Her voice was nearly lamentful.
“People can become skillful with practice. If they try, they can become a moral person too. They can become powerful by working hard. But it’s nearly impossible for someone to be competent, moral, and powerful. It’s simply too hard… It’s truly a difficult path.”
“Someone told me that the road to hell is paved with good intentions.”
I held out my hand to the guildmasters.
“If so, the road to heaven must be paved with countless sins.”
There would be countless people who become jealous of us. There would also be many who make trouble for fun. People who want power would fight, and those who come to agitate the Tower’s inhabitants would appear.
Such people existed.
Many of them.
Evil is both common and strong.
“But that isn’t a reason for us to give up. Let’s show a slightly better world to the people who have forsaken the outside world to come here.”
I pushed out my hand again. It wasn’t so that we could shake hands.
It was a pose for multiple people to join their hands at once.
Like a sports team cheering together before a game, I quietly extended my right hand toward the guildmasters.
“……”
“Aha.”
While the Black Dragon Master hesitated, the Heretic Questioner reached out his hand first. Touch. The Heretic Questioner’s palm joined the back of my hand.
“I don’t mind! It’s appealing if the ones in charge have moral legitimacy. And Death King is the only one who can gild us with morality. It’ll be a waste to miss this opportunity!”
“Ahem.”
The Venomous Snake put his hand on top.
“I’m now the successor to the Righteous Sect. The old man is always nagging me to think about the sect’s mindset or whatever when he sees me. Well, I guess I’ll participate out of respect for my master who’s staying behind.”
“Mm.”
The Crusader laid her hand on top.
“I’ve been using my skill since before this conversation began.”
Lie detection.
“Nobody here has let false words escape their mouths. And more than that, Kim Gongja. I know that you ran through [The Chronicles of the Heavenly Demon] and [The Tale of Sormwyn Academy] with an upright heart.”
“……”
“I believe in your truthful attitude, I believe in your true love, and above all else, in your character. All revolutions fail. But I will at least devote my life and soul to make our revolution be remembered as the most spectacular failure.”
“Mhm.”
The Count extended her hand.
“I can’t keep up with the romantics’ tale. But whatever. I’m just following the crowd. I don’t want my precious stocks to fall. Let’s do our best, everyone.”
“……”
Lastly.
The Black Dragon Master hesitatingly put her hand on top.
“…I can’t promise you much. I can’t guarantee our success. I can’t throw away the tools I’ve used so far. But… All right.”
Black eyes swept over us.
“If we fail. If someone among us must die… I will be the first to do so. I’ll promise you that.”
“Then I’ll also make you a promise.”
I smiled.
“I won’t let anybody here die. No matter where. No matter when.”
“You’re making an absurd promise, you…”
The Black Dragon Master smiled bitterly. However, she did not take back her hand.
The six of us.
Our hands were gathered.
“Mm. Very well!”
The Librarian smiled as he swam through the air.
“Death King. Black Dragon Master. Heretic Questioner. Count. Venomous Snake. Crusader. I designate these six as characters of [Me and Our Scapegoat]! When you open your eyes, you’ll be in a world that met its discontinuation at its height. Be careful. It’s very different from the Apocalypses you’ve encountered so far!”
The Librarian opened the book. Poof! Light flowed from the pages of the Apocalypse and onto our overlapping hands.
“The difficulty of this Apocalypse is A-Class!”
The light wrapped around us.
“Unlike last time, I can’t bestow many blessings upon you. The Constellation of this Apocalypse is alive. Alive and reigning over the world. You will enter as a sort of invading army in this Apocalypse. Naturally, the Constellation will be hostile.”
The Librarian laughed lightly.
“Death King, the Constellation will treat you, especially, as a foe!”
‘A foe!’
Before I could understand what the Librarian meant, our vision was completely covered with light. Actually, I didn’t have to try to understand what the Librarian’s words meant.
As the world turned white, before we even opened our eyes to greet the new world—
[The Evangelist of Everlasting Happiness detects invaders.]
A cutting voice flickered through our brains.
The voice continued like a tidal wave or an urgent siren, ringing one after the other.
[The Evangelist of Everlasting Happiness issues you a warning.]
[The Evangelist of Everlasting Happiness intends to eradicate the invaders.]
[The Evangelist of Everlasting Happiness declares war on you!]
Me and Our Scapegoat.
[The Evangelist of Everlasting Happiness abhors you.]
This fairy tale was ruled by the Constellation who invaded Raviel’s world.
3.
In a story with a hero and a demon king, the demon king is always careless.
The demon king never reveals his full power at the start. He sends off the weaklings to fight the hero. The hero, who is weak at the start of the story, grows by defeating increasingly strong opponents.
Until the hero finally confronts the demon king.
-I’ve been waiting.
The Constellation of this fairy tale was different.
-How dare you oppose my master!
This Constellation bared its venomous teeth to us from the beginning.
The first in our party to detect the crisis was my Holy Sword.
[Shiny detects the presence of her sister sword!]
The hilt of the sword shivered at my waist as if to announce the crisis. Though our visions weren’t clear yet, Shiny hastily shouted.
[Shiny confirms that the properties of ‘The Evangelist of Everlasting Happiness’ matches the properties of the ‘Sacrifice Sword’!]
[The Evangelist of Everlasting Happiness is the fourth sister sword left by Lefanta Aegim, ‘Sacrifice’!]
As soon as Shiny’s warning finished, my eyesight returned.
A blue sky.
Our party was falling through the sky. We had been floating shortly after being put into this world, so we hadn’t realized it. However, our bodies were quickly dragged down by gravity.
Whoooosh!
The wind brushing our foreheads. Blood rushing to our heads. We were plummeting down.
“Mm!”
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