The Ordinary Sorcerer's Fun Otherworld Villain Play

In other words. This was what it was apparently.

We who were gathered at the cathedral for tomorrow’s magic school entrance explanation were taken as substitutes.

Their plan from 5 years ago failed.

The Insect Cult’s long-cherished wish. The death goddess’s revival, apparently as sacrifices for that.

“Aah… beloved beloved Blue Milk. My cute Blue Milk, I can finally meet you.”

An old woman clad in the Insect Cult’s black robes.

I had seen her before.

“Holga Village’s reincarnator heroes! Prophesied children, I’ll offer you to the death goddess and take back my beloved… ah, Grandma Grelod won’t, give up, you know.”

The caretaker of the homeless children, Holga Village’s Pharmacist Grelod.

“…The others?”

“My my, my my my, as expected of that margrave house’s daughter… Lady Snow, you, are truly loved by the 7 Great Gods and Chief Deity.”

“…Please answer my question, are they still alive?”

Dark, was it a cave?

We were all crucified in a space like a hall.

Ah, hands and feet, surely were in terrible states…

It was a common event in the game Life Field, but when you actually became the party involved it wasn’t funny.

“Ah, kind, kind sheep young lady, rest assured, they’re still alive. What the death goddess devours is life, she’ll keep them alive until she devours them, of course.”

“”””””……”””””

All directions.

Like gravestones, on carelessly erected crosses, everyone was crucified.

Aki, Natsu-kun, Haru-chan too, they had no consciousness but were breathing.

But, not good.

Black bruises emerged all over their faces. That was, no good…!

I had to treat them quickly…!

—Gift, Spirit Summoner, activate.

Please, protect everyone.

Pale light only I could see.

Those who reacted to my voice scattered to everyone.

“…Lady Snow, you’re a strange child. The death mark hasn’t touched life yet. Perhaps due to the Gift’s influence, many spirits are protecting you… that pretty-faced brother there is also liked by spirits but… dark spirits, fear the death goddess, hihihi, poor thing.”

“What, are you talking about…”

“Hihihihi, no need to deceive, reincarnator heroes, prophesied children… 7 Great Gods’ apostles… with this many, they’ll substitute for those guys too, those ungrateful cowards… domination, war, famine… if only those guys had become sacrifices 5 years ago…”

“5 years ago…?”

Snow.

You understand your role, right?

Here, me.

Where I should fulfill my duty.

“…What happened 5 years ago?”

I had to buy time.

Surely, Maris Church or the margrave house would find this place.

“Ah… doesn’t Lady Snow know? Certainly according to reports you were involved too… do you recognize it? This place, this cave.”

“…5 years ago, cave… ah…”

I had seen it.

5 years ago, that night I saw a real corpse for the first time.

Meaninglessly piled corpses.

The cave I headed to as if invited.

That masked person and the three girls—

I was the only one who remembered that day.

Even the instructor didn’t remember after entering the cave.

“Right, this land where the death goddess’s anecdote remains. One relay point in her long journey… you can smell death’s lingering scent here and there, right?”

“I’m sorry, but I don’t understand. Grelod. As one bearing blood of the margrave house ruling this land, I order you, immediately release us.”

“Kehya! Hihihihi, young lady is bold… ah, I feel fear from your life… and, noble light equal to that too… beautiful… you’ll make a good sacrifice…”

“What do you want to do by reviving the death goddess…?”

“Ah, admirable, you’re seeing hope even in fear. Not mud, a human who sees stars, death, loves life like you…”

No good, the conversation wasn’t working.

Moreover, something was strange.

Every time this old woman’s words echoed, my head—

I can’t hear everyone’s voices anymore—

“Ah, you… can hear voices, 7 Great Gods’ toy, or, Maris’s shattered child… well, doesn’t matter. Snow… you’re a good child.”

“Oh my, is that so? Then, how about it? Showing mercy as an elder?”

“Hihihihihi, plus clever, with courage. Ah, it’s like seeing my younger self. Snow, I’ve come to like you in this short time. —You understand, right? Like this, everyone will die.”

“…—”

“Reincarnator heroes’ Gifts are powerless before our goddess equal to Chief Deity… the death mark is slowly, eroding your friends’, precious ones’ lives… ah, I feel impatience from you again… you’re expecting help from Maris Church or the margrave house… futile, this place is concealed with grand ritual-class magic barrier… even the church’s high executors can’t dispel it…”

“…Can you read minds?”

“You can do it too if you live long, if it’s you who can hear voices. I was also a god’s apostle once, you know.”

“…God’s apostle?”

“That’s right, this world is gods’ endless game board… you were chosen. Ah, similar, so similar, you and I…”

“Is that so? But, I, black clothes don’t suit me. Grandma Grelod, black quite suits you.”

“Ah, cute, Snow. Acting tough. You’re really so scared you can’t stand it. You want to run away, throw it out, you really want to live more freely, as you like. Because of that nobility you can’t escape from yourself.”

She closed her eyes, recited as if singing.

A shiver, a sensation like something inside my chest was touched— this was.

“I can see your heart… ah, we’re similar even to this extent… your happiness only exists in the past.”

“What are you…”

My breathing became rough.

I had a bad premonition about something.

The conversation pace was taken, no good, my heart was being read…

“Ah, clever child. You’re protecting the surrounding reincarnator heroes’ deaths with spirits. …Hihihi. Then, what happens if I do this?”

Slide.

“Ah.”

Something was entering…

Black, shadow hand? extending from her palm.

It pierced my chest.

“Ah, rest assured. My death hand doesn’t affect the body. Your heart, what a beautiful heart, but how fragile the contents… is the iron-like outer wall to protect the soft heart… oh my, what’s wrong? Snow?”

“Ah, gu…”

“Guaaaa………”

“U, uuuuuuu…”

“”””” “It hurts, it’s painful…” “””””

Everyone crucified groaned painfully.

—Bad.

My concentration, spirit control by Gift…!

“Your precious friends are suffering, you have to concentrate, or it’s no good.”

“Gu, ah, you…”

“Good Gift, spirit control, that’s already divine domain work. S-rank Gift… ah, pitiful, sacrificial lamb…”

“What, are you… gu.”

“What, it’s almost time to finish. First let’s offer your friends to the death goddess.”

All my classmates’ groaning voices became even stronger…

Spirit-caused death progression delay, couldn’t do it…

What should I do, what should I do what should I do, what should I do what should I do what should I do.

Because I can’t protect them, because of my insufficient power everyone will die…

No, no, no no no no…

“Ah, so cute, —I can see your despair. The hard hard heart wall is crumbling. …Oh?”

“Hii.”

My body stiffened.

Her power, something, felt like it touched something decisive in me—

“Ah, as expected, very similar… you also had a sad love.”

“—”

Ah…

Being seen.

My heart.

“Short but, racing through, is this… memories of adventure? But, strange, not this world.”

“Ah… sto, p.”

“Magic, battle, monsters, conflict, interaction, life, I can see, ah, you, were truly happy. More than the lifestyle you imposed on yourself, a place where you could be your true self… good comrades. Good friends. There no one treated you as royalty. You could be just one human.”

“Sto, p.”

“I can see your heart, ah, it was fun. Playing, fighting, traveling, building houses, cultivating fields, playing again. That was what you really wanted to do. —There was a man who made you realize that.”

“Don, ‘t look.”

——an-san! Today, apparently there’s a 1.5x acquired experience campaign! Wanna go hunt head-hunting rabbits? Eh, creature encyclopedia? Huh, I didn’t know that existed!

“Endlessly cheerful, that man seeking something, the meeting might have been by chance. But, only the time meeting that man hidden from family, was the time you could truly relax…”

“Really, stop.”

———Man-san, I just decorated the new guild uniform on the guild house mannequin! I used the design function for the first time so sorry it’s clumsy.

——Nowman-san’s clothes I tried making a snow crystal design, ah, if you don’t like it please delete it.

“You were happy, just as a comrade, just as a friend. That time accepting yourself who wasn’t royalty or anything— ah, heh… Life Field? Game…? Hihihihi.”

Ah, aaaah.

She, Grelod laughed.

“Guild name, Brotherhood—”

“—STOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOP!!”

The loudest voice I’d made in my life came out.

——Snow, such vulgar entertainment is not befitting of royalty. You understand, right?

——Yes, Father.

Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaah, aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaah!!

“That, that!! Don’t touch!! My, my precious—”

That place I threw away, had thrown away myself.

“Ah, unfortunate, your concentration is breaking, cute cute Snow, no.”

Ah, cra—