Not 'Get Stronger for NEW GAME' but 'Get Stupider for RE: GAME'
Not 'Get Stronger for NEW GAME' but 'Get Stupider for RE: GAME'
The ten years in the frozen world passed by in the blink of an eye.
"If I were to imitate mortal emotions... yes, I was happy."
"Heheh, that's wonderful to hear."
"No matter how many times I see it, your smile is truly beautiful. Well then, I'll see you next time."
Whoosh-
"...Should I head back now too?"
After confirming that the being who had been with me for ten years, the Will of the World, had returned to fragments and scattered across Atroxia, I returned to where I was before time stopped—the backyard of the brothel—and began preparing to go back.
"It feels like it's been a long time... and yet also like it was just a moment ago..."
Even if I had some special abilities back when I was human, a span of ten years would have felt incredibly long until its end. But in my current state, possessing both the Will of the World and divine power, the beginning and end of those ten years felt like a single instant.
"Well, that doesn't really matter anyway."
It was fun to indulge and play around while I had my omnipotence back for once, but I couldn't stay like this forever.
"Besides, it's a frozen world, so there's a limit to what I can do. Anyway! Come forth, Goddess! Yap!"
So, after ten years, I summoned the Goddess, who was originally supposed to be trapped in the Labyrinth of Physical Transformation for a hundred years. Because she is a precious slave who must manage the world on my behalf once it starts moving again.
Kooong!-
"Waaaah!!! I accidentally stepped on it again! No! If my breasts get any bigger, I won't even be able to crawl! Kyaaaaah!... Huh?"
The Goddess who appeared before me like that—her body had grown as large as an elephant, her lower half had transformed into that of a snake, her skin had turned bluish, she had three pairs of arms like an insect, and four pairs of breasts like a beast. Moreover, those four pairs, eight breasts, were swollen so enormously it was a wonder how they were even hanging there.
"Ah!... D-don't look!!!"
Despite that, the fact that her bashful face was still the same beautiful one from before she was imprisoned in the Labyrinth of Physical Transformation made it feel even more bizarre.
"Really? I can't fix it if I don't look."
"Then look! Here! Quickly!"
Whoof!-
At my words about fixing her, the Goddess rushed close to me, and her massive body moved, causing a gust of wind that made my hair, which had grown quite long over ten years without a cut, flutter.
"Ugh, don't come so close. It's overwhelming, geez."
"I'm so sorryyy!"
Fwoof!-
It wasn't just her appearance that had changed; a strangely erotic scent lingered in the spot where the Goddess had briefly approached and then retreated.
'Just this scent alone probably could have lured a bunch of erotic monsters in the dungeon.'
Feeling like I might start acting strange myself if I smelled it any longer, I quickly restored her to her original form and asked.
"So? Did you reflect a bit?"
"Re...flect?"
"Goo~d! Should I really make it a full hundred years this time!?"
"Waaaaah!!! I'm sorry, Shephy-nim! I reflected! This incompetent Goddess has reflected! Waaaaah!!!"
"Tch, you should have done that from the start."
"Uu... uuu..."
The Goddess sniveling pathetically looked a bit pitiful, but since she was the one who failed to do her job properly and summoned me here in the first place, you could say it was her own fault.
"Well, I'm going back now... but before that, there are two things I need to tell you."
"W-what are they?"
"Absolutely, no matter what situation arises, never force choice options. Understood?"
This was one of the things that made me the angriest in this life of Shephy. Forcing me and Leira to be locked up with the goblins was somewhat understandable since Leira was already captured like that, a little force might be okay. But the next time, when we had to get captured by the bandit group, it was ridiculous.
"I can forgive you for hastily making the choice options, but I hate the situation itself! There are smarter ways! Like having them suddenly raid us during a request, or the whole village that invited us for the request actually being the bandit group! But just giving us a request and forcing us to go no matter what? What kind of nonsense is that!"
Moreover, because having sex with Rohan generated more energy for the world, this bastard didn't even kill me and instead created a situation where I was ambiguously under Rohan's protection.
'Well, that wasn't bad though...'
"That was because of you! You made it so Rohan wasn't a bandit, which messed up that part!"
"Ugh, th-that..."
"The bandit group was originally supposed to be formed from the elite of the Special-Class Adventurer Rohan! After kidnapping Leira, they were going to demand you, the brothel Madam, as ransom, have their way with both of you, and then sell you to a perverted noble for a Bad Ending! You ruined everything!"
As the Goddess said, our brothel guard leader Rohan wasn't originally such a dandy character and was in fact supposed to become the bandit leader.
But the story where Rohan becomes a bandit—the reason being that his daughter Marine, born from his mistress when he was still an Intermediate Adventurer, was sold to the brothel without his knowledge and became the plaything of his younger brother, the head of his noble family, before dying—never happened. Because when Marine was sold to the brothel back then, I took on all the brothel's designated roles in her place, and I cared for her with utmost devotion until she eventually passed away, as she had always been in poor health.
After becoming a Special-Class Adventurer and belatedly finding her, Rohan learned all of this. Since I wasn't of a status to own a slave at the time, he instead became a guard slave belonging to the brothel and has been repaying his debt by staying by my side even after I became the Madam.
Thanks to that, he, who was originally just a bandit leader, became one of Shephy's Capture Targets, who possesses a fragment of the Will of the World.
"Anyway! Be a bit more flexible with that kind of thing! Use your ingenuity and figure something out on the fly!"
"I don't know! I don't know about such perverted things!"
"Hoo~ I see. Then next!"
If she doesn't know, I can make her learn. I was tempted to send her for a 10-year, no, 100-year special training in ero-games, but I held back and gave my next instruction.
"Don't just leave things half-assed, just interfere properly."
"What? You told me to absolutely not interfere unless necessary! You said to only interfere during endings, so the first time I interfered was after the Demon King died!"
"No, what I mean is..."
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In the end, what was supposed to be an immediate return turned into another ten years of arguing with the Goddess, even after the initial ten years had passed.
"Let's make the next Demon King this one."
"What? But this one's a woman. Then the Capture Target..."
"Is attached."
"Ah..."
We worked on the Hero and Demon King System to supplement the Shephy System, creating a new Demon King to replace the dead one.
"It's around here, right?"
"Hobgoblin Forest?"
"I don't think we need two Goblin Forests. So I'm going to merge it with the Goblin Forest by moving it, and then create Dosukebe Village in this area."
"Dosukebe Village? What's that?"
"A village only accessible when your Lewdness Level is 100 or higher."
"Shephy, you know the average Lewdness Level of a normal person in our world is 10, right? Even a Beastkin in heat is at most 50."
"This body's Lewdness Level has surpassed 500. I am walking sex."
"...Somehow you can still function in daily life. Shephy..."
"Save the compliments. Besides that..."
I added the slightly more perverted elements I had thought of while traveling the world with the Will of the World for ten years in various places.
"I think I'm too smart."
"What's that all of a sudden? Why the self-praise?"
"No, it's true I had the help of the breadcrumbs I planted, like my real name on the request form, but I inferred that I might be a goddess-level existence based just on that? That's too boring, so I'm thinking of making myself a bit dumber."
"Roughly to what extent?"
"Uh... to the point I can't recite the multiplication table?"
"You're the head of a business, that's too extreme..."
Finally, I halved Shephy's intelligence stat, which had managed to grasp the truth based solely on the few breadcrumbs I'd scattered and the Goddess's bad acting, and cleaned up a bit of the overly abundant breadcrumbs.
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"Well then, I'm off! Work hard!"
And only then, finally, the omniscient and omnipotent Harmonizer of the World, Shephy, after twenty years, could at last return to being the slightly dumber Brothel Madam Shephy.
*
Don't you have those times sometimes?
"Munch munch... Huh!?"
Those times when you gain some great realization without any warning whatsoever.
As if that time was now, while munching on a sweet potato, I felt a lightning bolt strike in my head and gained a great realization.
"Huh? This is..."
Simultaneously, a letter fluttered down from the sky. Along with the Goddess's sincere 5,700-character apology letter, it contained a reason that was a bit difficult for me to understand: that I must complete a route to collect H-Scenes in order to save the world.
"Well then, I have no choice! Actually~ I had many chances to enjoy myself but I wasted them too much~ Hahaha~"
Originally, I should have suspected this was also the Goddess's trick, but having forgotten even the fact that the world had stopped once, and having been made quite dumb by my own machinations, I accepted the Goddess's apology and resolved not to refuse the next erotic event.
"Oh my, Madam, so here you are?"
In Michelle's hand, who had come looking for me like that, were detailed informations about the next erotic event.
"This! It's the list of monsters participating in this year's Monster Festa sent by Roland's Circus Troupe! And... haak♡ haak♡"
Michelle's heavily roughened breathing. Understanding what she desired from that, I said to her.
"I don't know how many people, but add me, you, Roche, and Leira for now."
"Yesss♡ Thank you, Madam♡ I'll follow you foreeever♡ Haak♡ Haak♡ Hihihihihi♡"
In the late autumn, which was starting to get properly cold, our party, along with Michelle, decided to participate in the secret stage of Adventurer City's final festival, the 'Monster Festa'—the Monster Interspecies Show—before welcoming winter.