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 - 41

Chapter 41: Kazuki’s Decision

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“Kazuki-sama!!”

“Kazuki!”

“Master!”

From beyond the shattered door, the desperate voices of three girls rang out. Without hesitation, the ones who leapt into the blinding light were Celestia, Shinon, and Silvia. In their eyes burned the pure terror of losing me and a maddening resolve that would not yield to anyone—not even a god.

“What a noisy bunch y’all are. Don’t be interruptin’ me and the Hero-kun when we’re havin’ ourselves an important talk, ya hear?”

Loki let out a sigh that was utterly exasperated and gave a casual flick of his finger. That alone was enough to halt the three in their tracks, as if an invisible wall had slammed down between them and me. Just a few steps more, and they would have reached me.

“Kh…! Let go of me!”

“Kazuki-sama…! O divine one, why would you do such a thing?”

“Master… I won’t let you go…”

Silvia tried to cast a spell, but against the power of a god it dissolved into nothing. Celestia and Shinon could do nothing but either glare or call my name in prayer, unable to reach me. Ignoring them, Loki turned back toward me, his shifty grin growing wider.

“Well then, Hero-kun. Since you’ve noticed, this’ll go quicker. Sorry ‘bout this. The truth is, this world ain’t the ‘chastity-reversed world’ you wished for. It’s just a twisted place where the girls who loved you too much went off the rails. But I’ll grant your wish properly this time. I’ll take you to the real ‘world where girls are super proactive.’ No messy attachments like with them. Just a lighthearted, fun harem all for you, waitin’ out there.”

His words echoed like the whisper of a devil. Yes, that was what I had wished for. A dream world with no troublesome emotions, just pure adoration from girls. And yet… Strangely enough, my heart did not waver. My mind replayed every moment I had shared with them, like scenes flashing in a lantern show.

Celestia, who threw away her status as a saintess and clumsily poured her desire into me, thrilled by my nakedness. Her indecent fantasies were something special—something she shared with no one but me.

Shinon, who overcame her lonely past, called me “family,” and tried to give her whole self to me. Her perfect caretaking was her way of saying she wanted to embrace me entirely.

Silvia, who hid her worry behind sharp words, risked her life to search for the World Tree’s leaf, and tried to stand before me as my “fiancée.” Her tsun-tsun attitude was just a form of shy affection she only revealed to me.

Their love was undeniably heavy. Possessiveness, surveillance, jealousy—maybe none of it was normal. But it was precisely that weight that had saved me, supported me, and now filled my heart to overflowing. I met Loki’s gaze straight on, and with quiet certainty, shook my head.

“…Forgive me. I appreciate the offer, but I must decline.”

“Oh? And why’s that? Let me hear it.”

Loki’s narrow eyes opened ever so slightly, piqued with interest.

“What I wished for was, sure, a world like a ‘reversed chastity world’ where I was popular. But being with them made me realize something. The reason I had fun was because they were there—because Celestia, Shinon, and Silvia were with me. Without that, it means nothing.”

Through the barrier Loki had conjured, I looked at the three girls holding their breath, meeting each of their faces with tenderness.

“Their love is heavy—so heavy people would call them yandere. But that heavy love makes me unbearably happy. For my sake, they get jealous. For my sake, they lose control. For my sake, they become desperate. And I… I love them for it. That’s why I’m not going anywhere. In this messed-up but wonderful world that started from a misunderstanding, I want to live with them.”

That was my answer. My true, unshakable heart. The moment those words left my lips, Celestia’s eyes brimmed over with tears, Shinon’s usually expressionless face crumpled, and Silvia flushed crimson as she cast her gaze downward.

“…Kuku…”

It was Loki’s laughter that broke the silence. Soon it grew into booming, belly-shaking laughter.

“Kuhahahaha! Now that’s rich, Hero-kun! You really are somethin’ else! So, instead of the ‘reversed chastity world,’ you chose the ‘super-heavy yandere harem of ex-comrades who loved you too much,’ huh!”

Wiping away his tears of mirth, Loki nodded with satisfaction.

“Fine then. I like that answer of yours. Guess there ain’t no place for me here anymore.”

Snap. 

Loki clicked his fingers. In an instant, the invisible wall and the divine radiance filling the room shattered like breaking glass and vanished. And what was left was the familiar sight of my own room.

In the quiet that followed, Celestia was the first to move.

“Kazuki-sama…!”

With her tear-streaked face, she threw herself into my chest. Right after, Shinon and Silvia clung desperately to me as well.

“Master…! Don’t leave us…!”

“Idiot…! I was really worried, you know…!”

Their warmth, their trembling voices, and each of their sweet scents enveloped me completely. I wrapped my arms around the three of them, holding them as tightly as I could.

“Yeah. I’m not going anywhere. That’s a promise.”

Outside the window, the moon had begun shining gently down upon us. The sweet and dangerous harem rom-com that had begun from my misunderstanding—its true curtain seemed to have finally risen.

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