Returned from Another World, Earth Turned Out to Be Quite the Fantasy Too. Also, Losing Heroines, Stop Looking This Way. - V3 Chapter 03

Chapter 03: “Finally Meeting God?” ③

“Huh? Why?”

“Well, since you killed the only god, the Demon God, in that world, it’s now left unattended. It’s one choice to leave it as is, but they messed up our turf without any apologies, and although we can’t really do anything, sometimes it’s good to accept a challenge you’ve been given.”

“Don’t you believe in loving your neighbor!?”

“A far-off, unmanaged world isn’t exactly a neighbor, is it?”

For Natsuki, this other world, to which he has no emotional attachment, might even be better off destroyed, but that’s just the human perspective.

It’s unclear whether demons are as corrupt as humans, and he doesn’t want to wipe out all living creatures.

“To be honest, I sometimes think that the humans in that other world can just perish, but as for the entire world— I guess I don’t really care anymore.”

“I’m sorry if it sounded like I was testing you. It was just a God-joke.”

“Huh?”

“That was supposed to be a neat joke, but it seems it didn’t go over well. I imagined myself, God, saying, ‘Let’s destroy it together!’ and you being like, ‘No way, that’s impossible!'”

“That’s a pretty heavy joke for a God to make! Be careful with your words!”

Natsuki felt relieved inside. 

He didn’t want to deal with that other world anymore, nor step foot in it again.

If it perishes on its own, that’s fine, but he prefers they handle it without him knowing— that was his honest feeling.

“You might not want to hear this, but I think you should know, so I’ll just go ahead and tell you.”

“…Okay.”

“Seventy percent of that world is now under the control of the Demon Lord.”

“That was fast!”

“Well, time flows differently there, so about twenty years have passed. The country that summoned you from Earth, they’re gone.”

“Wow.”

“The royal family, whom you know, tried to do whatever they wanted after you returned and failed. They were overthrown and killed. I don’t really like to say this, but the world might last longer under the rule of the demons.”

Natsuki wasn’t surprised that the Demon Lord had taken over seventy percent of the world in twenty years, nor was he shocked to hear that the humans who summoned him were killed. The royals weren’t exactly beloved, and the nobles under them were selfish, so it was all predictable.

He felt pity for those who perished together—well, he thought he would, but since most people in that other world, noble or commoner, were corrupt, he didn’t really care.

Whether the country falls or the royalty dies, Natsuki’s feelings won’t clear up now, and the past won’t disappear.

However, if someday the Demon Lord creates a better world, he thinks that would be fine.

“Let’s leave the other world’s story there for now. What happens to it from here on, frankly, doesn’t really concern us.”

“That’s true.”

“But there is one thing I’d like to ask you.”

“…I owe you one, right? I’ll do it if I can, within my abilities!”

“Hahahaha, no need to be so wary, I won’t ask for anything unreasonable. My request is just for you to become a conversation partner for a young man who was summoned to that world after you.”

〜〜Afterword〜〜

Actually, there was still another victim.

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