What should I do?
A man arbitrarily entered the room and screamed.
I can hear people running from outside the door. Judging by the clanking sounds mixed in, it seems heavily armed people will soon enter as well.
Hyunkeshuni is looking at the man who sat down trembling on the floor, screaming with a face drained of vitality. Well, Hyunkeshuni is like that because she was threatened.
Is it such a strange sight that he collapses screaming?
Couldn’t it be seen as a masquerade procession with purple spheres on their heads?
No, they probably didn’t have many opportunities to see something like this.
I thought about dancing to the dance song of a legendary pop artist from the world when I was still human, but here they’d probably swing swords saying what nonsense is this.
Although their heads are covered with dark purple spheres, they’re half zombie-like, so it should be shocking enough, but I’m a little disappointed.
Now the moment has come to learn about the sphere humans.
Because I need to know about these sphere humans to be able to escape from this place now.
I have no choice but to leave Hyunkeshuni alone. If she knows I can’t escape this crisis, she won’t be guilty even if she stabs me.
From the beginning, I didn’t make some magical contract where something terrible would happen if Hyunkeshuni didn’t write the book.
It’s just a contract between people.
There’s always a risk of being scammed, but still trusting and doing it.
Of course, in reality, trust is written and the iron hammer of the law is written. And if that iron hammer doesn’t hurt, the contract is worthless.
I’m substituting that with an illusion about myself.
In other words, from Hyunkeshuni’s position, she made a dangerous contract where she would die if she didn’t keep it, by an outer god with special powers.
I deliberately induced such a misunderstanding.
Therefore, I can’t use Hyunkeshuni. Then I need to use another method, but I can’t believe I’ll speak well.
Because I can’t speak beautifully enough to instantly charm people, I persuaded with force while pretending to be an outer god with powerful strength.
Of course, it’s persuasion done while trampling the head with feet on the dirt floor, but persuasion is persuasion. Yes.
Currently, the only units in my hand are sphere humans.
Come to think of it, sphere humans. Strictly speaking, they haven’t followed me inside, right?
To describe it metaphorically, rather than following me inside, it’s more like turning a cup upside down and throwing it into the sea.
I grab any one of the nearby sphere humans. If possible, the same height to easily touch the light. And I gently push myself in. Just like when I gave blessings until now.
Dark purple smoke comes out. When I was in Rebecca’s body, cracks formed on the arms and dark purple mist flowed out from those gaps, but this time the arm just changes like smoke.
Ah, is this why I could put my hand inside Hyunkeshuni’s chest earlier?
The dark purple mist enters inside without any resistance. Inside, there’s a black light with a very faint purple energy swirling.
Hmm.
Hmmmm.
Oh!
I entered simply.
Rather, I entered more than usual?
Swish.
The dark purple sphere slowly shrinks. And from inside, a girl’s face popped out. It’s one of Tis’s granddaughters.
As I watch quietly, she opens her eyes.
“Where’s grandfather?”
Ah. Oh no. It’s a child. Well, if she has the same height as Rebecca Rolfe, she’s far from an adult. If she screams now, it’ll become an irreversible situation.
A child’s scream makes people confused.
I try to close her eyes, but my hands are mist now.
For a moment, the thought that I’ve failed passes through my head, but the child in front closes her eyes on her own.
Huh huh huh?
I don’t particularly feel like I’m controlling her? It’s just the same sensation as when I watch from inside.
“Get away from Her, you witch!”
At that moment, a person armored in full plate rushed at me. And as they swung their sword, the blade touches my neck.
Clang.
My head was cut off and rolled on the floor.
No, how many times is my head going to be cut off today?
Of course, the next moment, the head that rolled on the floor becomes blurry as if its resolution is lowering and disappears, and I regrew my head.
Looking at the opponent, that knight in armor is holding the girl in their arms and pointing their sword at me. And as they prepare to swing again, I grabbed them with sphere humans.
“Kugh! Let go! What are you all doing! Hurry and protect Her!”
At that person’s shout, the people stopped at the entrance start to move. At this rate, all the sphere humans will die and I’ll be in danger too.
So I hurriedly thrust my hand into the chest of the sphere human right in front of me.
My hand turned into dark purple mist, so it went in smoothly without blood and flesh splattering. And when I follow the light that turned black, this person’s dark purple sphere on their head slowly shrinks too.
And a man’s face emerged.
“What’s happening right now?”
Oops. He has reason.
Won’t the situation become chaotic if he falls into panic like this? If possible, I’d like him to close his mouth and close his eyes like the girl earlier…
Huh?
He closes his mouth and closes his eyes.
Is he listening to orders? Or am I moving him directly? It seems more like he’s listening to orders. I don’t know the principle, but a phenomenon is a phenomenon. If it’s already happened, interpretation comes later.
I need to move quickly.
What should I do?
At least if I can restore the outer appearance, and if they can maintain consciousness, I need to increase them. Only then will a way to break through this situation emerge.
I immediately remove the spheres by pushing myself into those grabbing the knight’s arm holding the sword.
While doing this, I realized one thing.
Originally, to do this, I need to say that line.
‘I’ll give myself to you. In return, when you finish everything later, I’ll take everything you have then. How about it?’
I need to make a verbal contract for there to be no resistance when I push myself in.
But these have no resistance. Because their warmth was already taken? But the monsters that lost warmth before were connected to me but lost their reason and were hostile to me.
I concluded that there’s a law that you become such a monster when you lose warmth.
It’s as if the contract was already made before.
These have purple hair. Tis’s original hair color is brown.
Perhaps the contract automatically passes to the descendants of blessed ones? Like how a rental contract implicitly continues if you don’t express intention to terminate at the end of the contract period?
Then, why can’t I share their vision?
Ah, could it be.
The contract passed on, but they don’t follow me inside?
Is it considered that the contract ended but they haven’t fulfilled it yet?
I like it when the number of blessed ones increases.
Good is good.
Let’s increase them first.
I first went around the room turning sphere humans into blessed people.
I glanced at the people near the entrance who couldn’t enter the room and were aiming into the room while gripping their weapons.
They’re all too terrified to dare enter the room. Even the man who sat down screaming earlier is now stuck right at the entrance.
I check the faces visible behind them.
There are no Holy Spirit Religion priests.
There doesn’t seem to be anyone who knows my identity for certain. There might actually be some inside, but at least there are none in the memories of the people here.
Then let’s move assuming there aren’t any.
I have a little time until I return the dozens of people in here to their original state.
I need to think until then.
Hyunkeshuni?
That person’s face gains more of a smile every time I increase the number of blessed people.
She smiles because she’s scared.
From her perspective, does it look like a man-eating monster increasing its hosts?
But she already said she’d write the book. I have no intention of letting her off. Then I’ll read that and obtain the summoning method.
Books are neat.
The capacity will probably be much smaller too.
I can transmit the summoning method faster than passing on pieces of Yasle’s memories bit by bit.
While quickly organizing current and future matters like that, the number of sphere humans gradually decreases too.
There’s no time.
I need to decide what attitude I’ll take from now on.
At least I can’t act like a simple person. I’ve already shown regenerating after my head was cut off. Therefore, I’ll exclude the act of being a righteous messenger who appeared to help them.
I could sell out Hyunkeshuni, make her write the book and then cut her down, but as far as I can see from the memories of the people here, they won’t immediately throw Hyunkeshuni in prison for being a witch.
I said it before, right?
Tis was a good king.
And he consistently exerted a good influence. Now is the most shining era when the Kingdom of Anselus is enjoying great peace and prosperity.
The trials are still fair so far.
They’ll probably try to cross-verify after hearing Hyunkeshuni’s words. So I need to keep Hyunkeshuni in my hands. I’ll move so that I can control her.
Because if she runs away, I have no way to catch her.
What should I do?
How can I gain justification in this place now?
No, let’s think it’s okay even if I can’t survive to the end. It’s just delusion to want too much when you have nothing.
At least I need to stay alive until Hyunkeshuni writes the book.
No matter what Hyunkeshuni says, the blessed people created here now shouldn’t die. Conversely, Hyunkeshuni shouldn’t have her head cut off for being a traitor who attacked the royal family.
Until she writes the book.
Yes.
Let’s set the direction.
And let’s make up our mind.
It’s the role Hyunkeshuni gave me anyway. If things go wrong after taking on that role, let’s blame it all on Hyunkeshuni.
After returning the last sphere human to a person, I went to where Tis’s corpse was and sat at the head.
While at it, I examined the crack where the upper body was, but I still don’t understand even looking at it.
Now, just by saying “Wake up,” the Tis’s blood relatives in this place regain consciousness. This place with Tis’s children, grandchildren, and even great-grandchildren mixed in.
I look at them and tell the truth.
“I am the one humans call an outer god. I’ve come to receive payment as per the contract from back then from those who received my blessing. Does the Holy Spirit have a law that prevents the execution of contracts? Doesn’t the person who made the contract first come first in your laws too? Answer me. Humans.”
Attack first to win. If you’re upset, come and answer, god of the Holy Spirit Religion.
I put my soul into acting as an outer god.