Novel: Is He a Hero? “Yup.”
Author: Karumi Ayumu
Chapter 4: Does the Goddess Actually Have Too Much Free Time?
“Wake up, hero. Open your eyes.”
The hero awoke to find himself in the same place where he first met the goddess. Naturally, the goddess was also there.
“Ugh… Huh?! Goddess?! Did I actually die? Can I still continue?”
“Calm down, hero.”
“Oh, right! I didn’t save yet. Well, I mean, I couldn’t even find a save point!”
The goddess looked amazed, smiling as she plucked out bead-like accessories (?) from her hair. She declared, “So calm down. If you’re too obstinate, I’ll split your soul and reincarnate you as ants, crush you under my high heels like bubble wrap to pass my free time, eternally reviving and killing you, the cycle of reincarnation, repeating over and over.”
The hero became calm. “Ah, excuse me.”
Under her robe, the goddess wore those heels. ‘Not the kind of shoes you’d expect her to wear, huh,’ the hero thought.
The goddess returned to her usual expression and continued. “Rest assured, hero, that you only fainted from the fight with the demon. By the way, if you die, that’s the end.”
“I see… Thank god. Then what business do you have with me here?”
“You lost consciousness at a good time, so I’m dropping by in your dream. Congratulations on leveling up.”
“Right, I leveled up. How can I check my status, where are the controls?”
“There’s nothing like that. The necessary information is planted directly into your mind when you level up. Do you want to try it out by meditating? I think you’ll figure out something’s different from before.”
The hero concentrated, trying to check his status. “Indeed… I feel like it’s changed. Everything except wisdom…”
“That’s because there are differences in individuals when it comes to ability progress, right? It may seem like you can’t gain new skills like this, but when you learn them you’ll physically feel it in your body. So please patiently work hard.”
“I see.”
“Hero, what are your thoughts on visiting a different world? Don’t you have any questions?”
“At the moment, not really… Oh, that reminds me.”
“What is it?”
“When I was over there, I just randomly started calling their currency ‘gold’ and saying things like ‘HP’. But they didn’t seem to react strangely.”
“That’s because of the translation skill I gave you. I told you not to worry about the language, didn’t I?”
The goddess looked like she just said ‘so what?’ The hero felt troubled.
“While I do appreciate it, maybe it’s a little too handy. Like, what if using this in a different world means my identity as a modern person will…”
The hero was bewildered, and the goddess looked shocked. She said, “What is all this now, after you were summoned naked here? You’re not the type to frighten these different world citizens with cell phones and mess around with languages, are you?”
“No, if you’re alright with it I don’t mind either, but it feels like something’s wrong.”
The goddess thought for a while, and then murmured something with a smirk. “Hmm, I suppose it might be alright to mess around just a little…”
“What did you say, goddess?”
With a suspicious smile on her face, the goddess said, “No no, it’s nothing. I was just admiring your convenient selective listening as a protagonist. As one would expect from a hero. Hehehe.”
“….-……,…-…..”
The hero felt like he heard someone’s unclear voice that he couldn’t make out very well.
“Either way, it looks like it’s time for you to wake up. Please keep moving on, good luck, hero!”
“Wait, god—”
The hero dissolved into the center of the light…
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