As a Reward for Saving the World, I Was Reincarnated Into a World Where Girls Are Super Aggressive and Chastity Roles Are Reversed!! …Or So I Thought, Until It Turned Out to Be an Overbearing Yandere Harem of My Former Companions Who Loved Me Too Much - 40

Chapter 40: The Girls’ Determination

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“―Well now, Hero-kun. Looks like you’re worryin’ yourself sick inside the ‘sweet prison’ I went and set up for you.”

I jerked my head up. Sitting on the window frame of my room, with the moon behind him, was a familiar young man. His slit-like eyes gleamed with a shady smile, as if he could see straight through everything.

“Loki-sama…!?”

The very person who had thrown me into this sweet hell stood there, his expression brimming with amusement.

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At that very moment, in the mansion’s long corridor, three maidens ran into each other. Silvia, who had returned from the Elf Village and was heading to check on Kazuki because she was worried about how deeply he was lost in thought, found herself blocked by Celestia and Shinon, who had been watching over him for the same reason.

“Silvia-sama. It seems your date was quite enjoyable. To think you even went as far as the elven village…”

Though her face was expressionless, Shinon’s eyes carried no trace of laughter. She was trying to gauge just how far Silvia had gone.

“Of course it was. Kazuki loved my homeland. And what’s more, I introduced him properly to my papa and mama as my ‘fiancé.’”

Silvia puffed out her chest proudly. At her words, Shinon’s voice cut in, cold as ice.

“…And yet, Master seemed terribly troubled afterward. Could it be that you whispered something unnecessary into his ear? For example, forcing a fait accompli on him?”

“Wha-…! Don’t say things that sound so awful! I only expressed my true feelings! If anything, you’re the one who kept Kazuki locked up for seven days and practically brainwashed him, and I heard Celestia made a tearful confession too!”

“It was not mere tears of manipulation. I only told him my true feelings. Well, I… May have borrowed the children from the orphanage, but…”

Celestia flushed red as she remembered the moment she had confessed. That memory became fuel, and sharp words flew back and forth. Sparks crackled between the three of them, until at last, when the conversation hit its core, all three froze, staring at one another with dawning realization.

“““…You confessed too (didn’t you)?”””

Their voices overlapped in the silent corridor. Each one of them had confessed their feelings to Kazuki. That truth weighed heavily between them. Each of them had thought she was the only special one. Each of them thought she had succeeded in stealing a march. But reality was different.

“…No wonder he’s so torn up.” 

Silvia muttered bitterly.

“How will Kazuki-sama answer, now that he knows all our feelings…” 

Celestia clasped her hands nervously over her chest.

“…There is only one answer,” 

Shinon said, her voice quiet but utterly brooking no denial.

“We must ask Master directly. Who will he choose?”

At her words, the other two nodded with firm resolve. Rivals they might be, but staying in this suspended state was far more unbearable. The three exchanged glances, and together, they headed for Kazuki’s room to hear his answer.

But what they found when they reached the door was a firmly shut entrance, with a godlike white light spilling from the cracks. From inside came Kazuki’s voice, and another familiar man’s.

『――Could it be… This world isn’t a chastity-reversed isekai after all…?』

『Finally figured it out, Hero-kun? Your wish was for “a chastity-reversed world where the girls are super proactive,” right? But ya know, you also said something else that sounded way more interesting. “A super-heavy yandere harem of my former companions who love me too much.” That sounded way more fun, so I just gave y’all a little push in that direction.』

At Loki’s words, the blood drained from Celestia’s face. Kazuki now knew everything. He knew that their extreme displays of affection were not the “common sense of this world,” but nothing more than the runaway obsession of yandere-like love. The reason he had accepted it all up to now was because he thought it was supported by “misunderstood common sense of the so-called chastity-reversed world.” And that premise had just collapsed.

“What is this light… A rupture of some kind? I can’t get close!”

“What is this shady radiance…?”

“This is bad!”

While Silvia and Shinon frowned in puzzlement, Celestia remembered the oracle Loki had once given her, her face twisting in fear.

“God said He would grant Kazuki-sama’s wish…! Now that He knows this world isn’t truly what Kazuki wished for, He may intend to take him away to a world that really is…!”

“Master… Might go somewhere else…?”

“Like hell he will! I finally managed to be honest with him…!”

Panic and despair now colored Silvia and Shinon’s faces as well. Losing Kazuki. The unimaginable terror of it united their hearts. There was no more time to hesitate.

“I will never let him go…!”

“Of course not!”

“Yes!”

They exchanged a look, and in the next instant, Silvia began chanting a spell at the door.

“Blow apart!!”

With a deafening roar, the heavy door shattered into splinters. Inside, the room had transformed into a blinding space of white light. At its center, Kazuki stood dumbfounded, facing Loki, who was grinning in delight.

“Kazuki-sama!!”

“Kazuki!”

“Master!”

Without a moment’s hesitation, the three hurled themselves into that divine light… To seize the man they loved with their own hands… To never hand him over, not even to a god… All three of them dashed forward with maddening determination burning in their hearts.

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