The Summoned Person's Mission
The Summoned Person's Mission
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"What's this thing we need to talk about among ourselves?"
Yuri and Reni sat perched on the bed, and I dragged a chair over and settled in. The Holy Sword sticking to Reni's back caught my eye a little, but I ignored it. If I paid attention to that springtime-foal of a creature every single time, I'd never get a serious conversation done.
I steadied my voice.
"You know I came from another world, right?"
"And?"
"I think I know why the Goddess... summoned me. What she wanted me to do."
"...!"
Only then did their expressions grow serious. Until now, we'd drifted along without any clear direction, but from this point onward we had a definite task to accomplish.
I shared the speculation I'd only kept in my head all this time.
"I told you I can communicate, however indirectly, with the Goddess... right?"
"Yes."
Skill proposals, and the corporal punishment that came flying at me every time I badmouthed the Goddess. And the Emergency Quest she used just once to make me shut my mouth.
You couldn't call it a conversation, but it was still a device that let us exchange a tiny bit of intent. That was also the reason I didn't doubt the Goddess's existence.
That, however, wasn't what mattered today.
"Not only do I communicate with the Goddess... I'm not sure exactly what to call this. Whenever I do certain things, I receive a kind of reward from the Goddess."
"A reward?"
Yuri tilted her head.
"Yeah."
"What kind? Don't tell me the Goddess gives you money... or something." "Yuri..."
"Nothing like that."
Reni looked like she wanted to say something about Yuri's materialistic attitude, but maybe out of consideration for me, she let her words trail off.
Anyway, a reward. How should I explain the Golden Ticket?
I frowned.
"It's hard to describe precisely, but you can think of it as... a resource that lets me develop and strengthen my abilities. For a priestess like Reni, it'd be like an increase in Divine Power; for a wizard, it'd be like an item that can dramatically boost their mana. That's just a figurative comparison, though. I call them Golden Tickets."
Golden Tickets. A resource I could use to pull the Trait Gacha or buy skills or items.
"Golden Tickets, huh... not the catchiest name."
"..."
Don't give me that look. I didn't come up with the name.
"...Anyway, I used to think the conditions for earning Golden Tick—the rewards—were completely random. But it seems that's not the case."
In the original, they'd been a kind of bonus stat you got from random virtuous acts, but for me, there were conditions for earning them.
"First, Reni, when I unsealed your Divine Power. Second, Yuri, when I accepted you. And this time, likewise, I think the odds are high I'll get that reward when we resolve this matter with the elf sisters. If we don't help them... what did I say would happen later?"
"..."
The two of them turned grave. I'd told them before that if we didn't intervene with those elves, they'd cause a horrific incident later.
"Well, there's that, but what I'm about to say is more important."
"..."
"The first time I got a ticket was when I killed that wizard in the skeleton dungeon at Riverbridge. The second time was after I killed that Whitebeard bastard in the Goblin Dungeon. And the third time was after I killed this pig bastard."
"...Ah."
Yuri let out a groan. She stared at me with her mouth hanging open as if she'd realized something. Reni still tilted her head as if she hadn't caught on. Couldn't be helped. Even if I hated saying it, I had to hammer it home.
"The first was a guy who screwed skeletons, the second was a guy who screwed goblins. And this time it was a guy who tried to screw little kids."
"...Eugh."
Reni's incredulous voice. I let out a sigh.
"Yeah. It seems the Goddess is telling me to hunt down perverted bastards like that."
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The Bone Fucker. The Goblin Fucker. The pedo. Three times was enough to call it inevitable.
"Right. It seems she sent me to catch perverted bastards like that."
"..."
Silence hung for a while. I understood. It had seemed like some grand purpose awaited, and the words that actually came out were nothing more than exterminating perverts!
Yuri grumbled quietly.
"Isn't that too much of a stretch? For something so trivial..."
"Yuri. Calling it something so trivial..."
Reni said that, but she looked just as uncertain. Damn it!
But the memory was still vivid for me. The moment that pig bastard's tentacle punched through my gut...
The pain as if my insides were being turned inside out. The smell of blood and chunks of flesh gushing out and burning.
"Y-Yoo-jin. Are you all right?"
"Huh? Ah."
Reni wiped my forehead. I must have broken out in a cold sweat without realizing it. Yuri too had stopped grumbling and was stealing glances at me.
I supposed the excitement of battle kept me from fully feeling it at the time, but looking back, it had been truly horrifying. Right. Maybe the reason I'd hidden in that panic room and violated Rebecca like crazy was to forget the terror of that moment? Unconsciously?
"Yeah. He was a total mess, bawling his eyes out, remember? Snot running, blood running, anyway it was absol—"
-Thwack!
"Ow! Why'd you hit me!"
"Shut up, you idiot."
The Holy Sword chattered away without reading the room, but thanks to that I managed to pull myself out of those awful memories to some degree. This creature, maybe she was more useful than I thought...
"Here, here. Does it hurt?"
-Thud!
"Agh! You hit me right where you hit me!!! Hieeek?!"
I flung the Holy Sword, who was trying to flip my clothes up, onto the bed. The Holy Sword squealed as she tumbled onto the bed, then immediately lunged at me again.
"Ah! Do it again!"
"...You want to get hit again?"
"Not that, you moron!"
...
After a brief tussle with the Holy Sword, I also had to peel away Reni, who rushed over to search for scars that had already vanished. Then we resumed the conversation.
"Mm. Is doing it with a kid really that bad... a thing? No, that came out wrong. I misspoke. No. I said no!"
Yuri was saying some seriously dangerous things. Come to think of it, hadn't that one gone on about whether it was possible when I'd turned young, or something?!
I suppressed the urge to veer off on a tangent and continued.
"What those guys do might be ridiculous, but the results aren't so funny. You saw, didn't you?"
At that, both of them wore dark expressions.
Sure, a lot had happened so we'd forgotten, but we'd nearly died quite a few times. Whether it was the Bone Fucker, the goblins, or whatever—not once had they been weaker than I'd expected. Even that pig bastard had pulled out tentacles.
"Th-then. Can't you just not accept that reward or whatever? It seems way too dangerous..."
Yuri's suggestion. Reni was silent too, which made it seem like she secretly agreed. Normally she'd have insisted we had to do it because of the Goddess this and that.
But I couldn't go along with that.
"The reward itself isn't what's important."
The illusion the Whitebeard bastard in the Goblin Dungeon had shown. The maids whose futures I wouldn't have known about if I hadn't intervened. And above all, that message that appeared every time I earned a ticket, saying a certain probability was decreasing.
"I think the tickets are... a kind of token given when you eliminate elements that threaten this world. If we just leave them alone, a major problem will definitely happen. It actually did, right?"
"..."
"...Then we haven't got a choice..."
Reni's attitude was unusually passive. Before, she'd urged me to act more actively as a divine apostle, but now that we might truly have to carry out a divine command, her worry seemed to come first.
After a brief silence, Yuri scratched her head roughly.
"Okay. I still don't really get it... but let's say that's how it is. So those... perverts? How do we find them?"
"..."
Find them? The moment I'd been dreading had finally arrived. While I swallowed a groan, Yuri kept running her mouth.
"The bone-fuck... or goblin... or the pervert who likes little kids? So what's next? Do we have to find someone who... does it with slimes? But there's no way to find them. We can't go peeking into people's bedrooms one by one."
"..."
I thought I knew. I'd denied it vehemently at the time, but in truth, I already knew.
"Uh... um... I... think I know, but honestly I'm not sure, so..."
"Know what? How do you know?"
"...Honestly, I'm not entirely certain myself, so..."
"Stop beating around the bush and tell... ah. D-don't tell me..."
When Yuri saw where my gaze was pointed, her voice trembled as if she'd figured it out.
"Don't tell me what?"
"It's... that! In front of the cave... so that's why!!!"
Damn it. Quick-witted little thing. Stop pointing at me!
[A Sex Warrior Respects All Tastes (E)]
[Description: A Sex Warrior will come to respect a wide variety of tastes.]
Right. Whenever I meet those bastards, my dick reacts.
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"Yoo-jin... is that true?"
Was it true? I wanted to ask the same thing. Was this for real?
I let out a deep sigh.
"It does react... but it seems I can't exactly use it as a detector. The reaction seems more like a sort of final confirmation. Otherwise, my thing would've been twitching every time I ran into that pig bastard."
"Is that so..."
Reni wore an expression that was hard to read. She looked sympathetic, and also a little relieved.
"...So now what?"
Yuri stopped herself mid-sentence from saying something pretty irreverent about the Goddess and asked. Now what?
"First, I plan to head to a dungeon."
"Why a dungeon?"
The reason for going to a dungeon was simple.
Because I was far too weak.
After being pierced by that pig bastard's tentacles, I'd felt it in my bones. I needed to get stronger than I was now.
I'd used my Sex Warrior class as an excuse to laze through days unrelated to combat, but at this rate, I might get myself killed screaming before I could do anything. No matter how much of a non-combat class I was, I needed to level up.
After hearing my explanation, the two nodded.
"True. I guess we've been too complacent up to now. So, we start right away tomorrow?"
"Yeah, right away tomorrow..."
"Do I have to go too?"
The Holy Sword abruptly butted in.
"Didn't you say if I leave this place I'll go back to my original form? C-can't I stay here just a little longer? I haven't gotten to try anything yet, I don't want it to be over like that..."
The Holy Sword's sudden whining. At first she sounded accusatory, but by the end her voice grew thick with tears. Why was this one suddenly getting so dramatic? Way too much pressure! Had I really been that cold?
"Food-wise, you just toss me a few pieces of candy... if I say I'm bored, you toss me a few weird books... and now already... already I have to go back? I don't want that... there's still so much I want to try..."
"N-no. Hey. When did I ever..."
"I got so many cool new things... and I haven't even gotten to use them... Scorching Flame... Holy Thunder... Avatar Descent..."
Wait. What did she say?
"What did you just say? Some kind of Descent?"
"Avatar Descent? Goddess Descent? I dunno. It's hazy. Ever since I got this form, all kinds of stuff's been popping up. You can't see it?"
I shared skills with the Holy Sword, but the things she mentioned weren't visible to me. Was there some other condition? Anyway, Goddess Descent?
"Goddess Descent. Can you use that now?"
"No? Can't right now. It says I need to raise my Divine Power level. Right. You said you'd give me sex education, remember? Said you'd raise my Divine Power."
Yuri caught the Holy Sword's words.
"Holy Sword. Sex education. What's that about?"
"He said so. He said doing it in dreams is pointless, so if my form changed he'd put Divine Power into me directly. But he said to put Divine Power in, he has to give me sex education first."
"..."
The atmosphere chilled in an instant. It felt like a dagger had flown into my heart. Yuri grabbed the Holy Sword's arm.
"...Mind if we have a little chat?"
"Huh?"
"Here, your big sister will give you something tasty?"
"Really? But why are you the big sister? I may look like this but I'm hundreds of years ol—"
"I've got more life experience than you, so I'm the big sister."
"Oh, is that how it works?"
The Holy Sword got completely swept up in Yuri's nonsense. What a moron!
"Let's go, quick. I'll give you something waaay tastier than candy. Hurry!"
"Okay! He always just gives me that stuff and acts like he's so generous!" "You come this way too, Reni!"
"...Ah, aah..."
Unable to do this or that, Reni was ultimately dragged off by Yuri.
"..."
In an instant, I was left alone in the room.
I was afraid—afraid of whatever nonsense the Holy Sword might say. Good grief. I didn't think I'd done anything wrong, so why was this happening to me?
...And I was lonely. Having to spend the night by myself.
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I'd gone to bed early, but my head was so tangled with all sorts of thoughts that sleep wouldn't come.
Besides leveling up, there was plenty more to do in the future.
Not just staying here—sooner or later I'd have to visit the hot-spring city up north, and I'd have to stop in advance the bastards causing trouble in the southern resort. And I needed to recover items related to Divine Power from deep inside a dungeon... and also...
My head ached.
-Knock, knock.
...Who could it be at this hour? Had Reni already forced the other two to bed and come to spend the night with me again? How admirable. Infuriatingly admirable. She was so admirable that tonight I'd just quietly let her have her way with me in my sleep.
I closed my eyes and pretended to be asleep.
-Creeeak. Click.
The faint sound of a door opening, and then the sense of a presence. More cautious than Reni usually was. Just as I'd expect from Reni. She'd done the sleep-sex thing so many times she must be a pro by no—
"...Yoo-jin. Are you asleep."
...Why are you here?