Ch 61 – 24 May, Meeting Sakura Hibiki

It was Thursday evening, and Kouta, just like yesterday, spent his lunch break with Takao, and he got some good rest while spending time with her. After that, Kouta went to GCC to give Inada his illustrations for future games before meeting with Eriri and Utaha in the audiovisual room.

Eriri told him that she felt her relationship with Utaha was much better. And when Kouta saw Eriri and Utaha's relationship half an hour ago, and yesterday too. He trusted what Eriri said, even though they didn’t look so close. But, at least, they didn’t bicker with each other like in the anime. They talked about our project properly.

Well, for now, Kouta left Eriri with Utaha as he left the school. It had been a long time, he showed up at the Glory Boxing Gym. The last time he went there was maybe a day before the midterm exam.

"Excuse me…" Kouta entered the gym, and all eyes fell upon him before they went back to their own activities.

"Oh… Kouta-kun. You’re here." Said a woman with long brown hair and brown eyes while waving her hand that was still holding a bamboo sword. "Hm… Hey!! You aren’t here to slack-off you dick-cheeses!!" She screamed at the member while slamming the bamboo sword on the floor.

""Okay, Nee-san!!!"" The member responded to her spartan training.

"Yeah, Coach Uehara. Last week I had an exam after all, and I don’t think my uncle would be happy if he knew I came to this place when the exam was around. He could be mad." Kouta said.

"Ahahaha, that’s true. Even though you said something like, you don’t need to cram study into one day to get a good grade." Nana replied to Kouta's remark with a laugh.

"Well, but that’s true… Hm… I don’t see Ayaka-senpai around here?" Kouta asked after he looked around and didn’t see the familiar figure.

"Ah~~ I think she wants some rest after the exam, but it may be a good time for her to start helping at the gym again. Ah… You can change your clothes while I call her." Nana responded to Kouta's question with a smile, put a bamboo sword down, and left the gym without hearing what Kouta said to her. "Eh… you don’t have too…"

But Nana looked like she didn’t hear what Kouta said and still left the gym anyway.

So Kouta changed his clothing to the usual sports attire, and when he came back Nana was already back, followed by Ayaka.

"Geez, even though I'm still having friends visit," Ayaka protested.

"I did say you could bring her along to watch, and I’ll give you an extra allowance. Also he is here, you know…" Nana said while pointing at Kouta, who looked at them.

"Hm… Oh, Kouta, you’re here. It feels like it has been a long time since we met." Ayaka said while coming closer to him.

Kouta noticed a lovely tanned girl wearing black shorts and a fitted white tank top with her blue sports bra peeking out.

"Of course, the last time I was here, you were studying for an exam. Ayaka-senpai." Kouta replied, and he saw someone behind Ayaka. Someone he was familiar with, because of his memories.

It was a tan-skinned girl of average height with long blonde hair who used two high ponytails with shoulder-length hair. She wore the same uniform of Toyogasaki HighSchool with a different uniform from what Kouta saw in her anime.

"Un… Ayaka, who is this boy?" The girl asked Ayaka, while staring at Kouta from top to bottom. "I don’t know why, but he looks very similar." She continued while still staring at him very hard.

"Ah…" Ayaka clasped her hands as she understood with a smile on her face. "Well, of course. You may have seen him already. He is our junior, Suzuki Kouta." Ayaka introduced Kouta to the girl, and Kouta bowed at her when Ayaka did that.

"Nice to meet you, Senpai." Kouta said.

"Oh… I’m Sakura Hibiki. Nice to meet you." Hibiki introduced herself, but she still stared at him so hard. "I wonder… I feel like seeing him somewhere? That beautiful pinkish hair and cute face… Ah… Ayaka, he… could it be…!?" Hibiki realized something really horrifying in her mind when she remembered Ayaka saying he was their junior.

"Yes, Hibiki… He was that girl from the GCC video. The famous one, our school is talking about." Ayaka replied to Hibiki.

"But… how so… Look how pale skin he is… and cute face he is… Beautiful pinkish hair and pinkish eyes. There is no way, she is he?" Hibiki responded while pointing at Kouta as her finger was trembling with emotion.

"I know how you feel too…" Ayaka patted Hibiki's shoulder with such sympathetic expression and voice.

"Ugh… How can it be… Isn’t he much cuter than us!?" Hibiki said to Ayaka.

"No… No… No… Ayaka-senpai and Sakura-senpai are cute girls too." Kouta responded to Hibiki's remark.

"I don’t think I’m happy to hear that from you." Hibiki replied to Kouta with a bitter voice.

"Is that so… I’m sorry." Kouta said with a sad tone, as if he was deeply saddened to hear that from Hibiki, even though he was trying to elicit sympathy from Hibiki or Ayaka.

"Ah… Ugh… Sorry. No."  Hibiki felt bad seeing how sad Kouta's expression was and his voice tone too. At the same time, she felt a tingle in her heart, because of how cute Kouta was and it touched her motherly feeling.

"What are you doing, Hibiki… don’t be cruel to him." Ayaka, her face blushed red very quickly.

‘Ayaka, how can there be such a cute guy like this…’ ‘I know, right… I can believe it too.’

Ayaka and Hibiki murmured to each other as they had their own conversation in front of Kouta.

"What are you doing, Ayaka? How about you teach Kouta with focus mitts?" Nana, who had already taken her bamboo sword, came at them and scolded Ayaka.

"Ah… yes? But it’s is fine? Not too fast from him?"

"Hm… It may be, but you know. He is such a fast learner. He had gone through bag drills, speed drills, footwork drills, and other exercises."

"Okay, then. It’s your call, Aneki. I take my punch mitt."

"Ah… Sakura-san, how about you see it from here?"  Nana told Hibiki to sit down near her.

Not long after, Ayaka came with her mutt in her hand.

"We started Kouta-kun… follow my instructions, okay!" Ayaka ordered Kouta, who had been already and put his glove in his hand.

After that, Ayaka gave him instructions. Kouta followed her by hitting the mitts, as the sound of gloves hitting could be heard in his ear. Kouta followed the mitts worn by Ayaka and punched it as had been taught in this gym.

Kouta didn’t know if his punch was good enough, but he followed Ayaka’s instructions. When she told him to punch with his left or right.

It was different from hitting a sandbag or speed bag, as Kouta needed to follow Ayaka’s mitts. Each of his punches felt quite good enough.

"Hey… Kouta-kun, try faster…" Ayaka told him to try punching faster. Kouta followed her order by moving faster. Until then, she told him to stop and take a break. Before, she helped another member.

Kouta sat near Hibiki, trying his best to control his breath while his sweat kept on gushing out. Even after a month of training, his stamina is still not as good as Ayaka's. He could see she still looked fresh and was helping another member.

"Haa…" Kouta sighed deeply and drank some sports drinks.

"Good job, Suzuki-san." Hibiki gave him a slap on his shoulder, praising him. "I never thought someone with your face had a good move."

"I don’t know if those words are praising or jabbing my heart." Kouta replied with a dry laugh.

"Well… Uunn… I didn't expect Ayaka to have this kind of business…" Hibiki said.

"Hm…Sakura-san, I take it. You didn’t know about our family business." Nana answered as she stood near Hibiki.

"Oh yeah…"

"Our dad’s a former pro-boxer, so he decided to open a gym after he retired. He really pushed us into boxing too, so when our dad isn't here. It’s our job to train these guys." Nana explained to Hibiki, who answered, "I, I see."

Kouta heard their conversation, which was the same as his memories could remember. It was the same as the scene from the anime. They were talking about having some world champions train here.

Not long after that, Ayaka arrived, complaining about how tired she was... At that time, Hibiki saw how incredible Ayaka’s abs were.

Kouta also saw her abs and agreed that they were amazing... It has more muscle than him.

Ayaka told Hibiki to train abs with her training core as ‘Dragon Flags’ and ‘Planks’ which can be found in the anime episode 2 and manga chapter 5.

"Ah, I got it! Why don’t you take this chance to hit that sandbag over there? You can burn some fat, too. I’ll teach you, so give it a shot." Nana told Hibiki while she pointed to a sandbag nearby and she helped Hibiki put on her gloves.

"Well, Okay then… Just a bit…" Hibiki put a stance told by Nana and punched the sandbad.

And with that Kouta and all of the members of the boxing gym saw a miracle as the Hibiki punch hit so hard that the sandbag not only moved a bit, but broke the chain and her punch made the sandbag fly so far….

It was a magnificent punch that came from a girl and an amateur too. Something that Kouta couldn’t even do at this point in his life.

This slender or slightly chubby girl could do it with ease. Even Nana and Ayaka couldn’t help but widen their eyes and keep their mouths open.

"Sakura-san… in the meantime, let’s grab the world title!" Nana said as she found out a rough diamond of Hibiki’s talent.

Kouta himself once again realized how absurd the tropes in this anime world are. Since in this world, even a lean body could have such absurd power.

"I wonder when I can do something like that…" Kouta spoke with a defeated tone.

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Chapter 01 - The Nameless Soul and Fourteen

He never knew his name. He didn’t remember if he had a parent or not, but he remembered an older girl taking care of him. She gave him food and always took him playing. She took him and walked around the street. And while caressing him said that he needed to say something in that street to people. People who eat in street vendors, bikers and car drivers too.

“Sir, please… Sir, I’m hungry. I haven’t eaten yet.” He said those words to those people. Sometimes they gave him money, sometimes they drove him away, sometimes they just gave him some food or drink.

It was an easy task for him. It’s just sometimes his feet hurt because he walks so much.

But that older girl who took care of him always gave him sweets and praised him. Which made him so happy that he may have forgotten about his hurting foot.

But there was something that he always remembers. Nearly every night someone he hated always came by to his house. The older man with a scary face is always mad at the older sister and screams that the money is not enough and slaps or hits her.

He hates him. That older man always made the older girl cry as she begged him to stop.

But, there was nothing he could do. It hurts to be hit after all. That older man sometimes hit him too after all.

That was his life as far as he could remember… As he became older he became the one who took care of the younger child. Before he became street performance no… rather than performance, it looked like he begged people money since people stopped him from singing as they gave loose change.

At that time, he started to learn about smoking, drugs, and thieves. He was doing it with his street friend that he thought was the friend he can trust since they experience the same life as him.

Until, they were caught in the act when they tried to steal some donation boxes from a nearby worship place. One of those friends pushed him and made him fall to the ground before people caught him.

In some developing countries, sometimes people judge a thief like him by themself and hit him really hard. It was really hard that he could feel he was dying.

With that he lost consciousness and his view became darkness.

He thought that his pathetic life was over and prayed to get something good in the next journey.

….

….

He woke up.

With many people in robes circling around him and his bodies were shackled and they spoke with an unknown language talking to each other.

Before one of them walked toward him and put a collar on him…

“For now, your name is fourteen.” That man told him which is the start of his life as Fourteen. A young man summoned by these people to become a tool to fight a reborn demon lord.

Fourteen couldn’t do anything since his body was controlled by a slave collar. That slave collar would give him an electric to his brain and make him submit to any order given by those people.

Fourteen just have only one skill, but these people love his skill. It was a godly skill by their standard.

Mana Manipulation, the skill that made fourteen, could manipulate mana in his bodies and around him too. He could manipulate mana to become anything as long he had enough mana for it.

The downside was he needed more mana to manipulate something. For example, he could make a fireball, but it needed more mana than a regular magician using fireball skill.

Even so, it made Fourteen become versatile and could become strong too.

One of the problems was that the Fourteen mana pool was so small, that these people needed to make his mana pool bigger than ever to make him rival the demon lord.

So they used the easiest way to expand fourteen mana pools by doing Mana Transfer.

The most efficient method to raise the amount of mana in fourteen bodies is to take it in from the outside by doing sex act. It could be by kissing not all the way, but intercourse is the efficient and fastest way.

As they needed to make Fourteen ready as fast as possible. They make sure he is doing Mana Transfer everyday. Even made him drink drugs and aphrodisiac magic to make sure he could do it everyday.

As for others' skills, they just put those in his brain without care at all. It made Fourteen starting forget about his past name and in the end… he wondered if he was still he was…

As he had many other memories in his brain, his bodies moved as people ordered him too. It was like his mind was just a parasite in his own body. That Fourteen just viewed his body move with other people's skill in his brain.

When Fourteen was ready, he was sent to the battlefield. As Fourteen jobs was a living weapon. He sacrificed most of the people and soldiers in one fort took all of their mana with mana manipulation to kill most of the demon army with their general with one-shot magic.

Fourteen was just like a nuke with magic form. He took many people as fuel and destroyed everything in his way.

And he paid by using such powerful magic with his own body. Every time he used that tremendous magic his body crumbled.

One shot, he lost his senses of taste.

Another shot, he lost his right eye's vision.

Another shot, he lost his left ear’s hearing.

Until he finally killed the Demon Lord… his body crumbled and vanished just like that…

So Fourteen thought that his life ended. Finally, this awful life was over and he would be free,

As his awareness went blank.

He started to hear.

A curse. A plea. An Agony. A Shriek.

“I don’t want to die.”

“It Hurts!”

“Why! Why are you killing us!”

“Curse you!” “We want to live.”

He started to see many souls looking at him with hatred and cursed at him. The hatred in their tone and eyes. Even though Fourteen never see their faces. He knew whose soul was?

They were the souls he took as a sacrifice to defeat those demon lords.

Those hoarseness curses that he heard every second without stopping. Berate him to sacrifice them to become fuel of his magic.  No… it’s never stopping. That Fourteen didn’t realize how much time had passed.

How many days - week - year — he heard this cursing.

He felt tired… and he started to wonder.

If this is his fate that will never be truly free and shackled by everyone.

“I wonder if it’s alright… If I just destroy everything…”

That’s what Fourteen thought with his own skill and… with this hatred from the soul. He felt that he could just destroy everything.

At that moment…

His view… his world… became bright with the whiteness as he opened his eyes.

It was a temple-like podium with an ancient structure made of white stone. And there was a beautiful being that looked like a Goddess, a woman with white hair, dressed in an actual white tunic in front of him.

“Hm… what a pitiful soul? Do you seek forgiveness?”

Chapter 02 - Fourteen and The Goddess.

There were many beings that monitored the world. They looked over them without doing anything to the world except something that could disturb many - many worlds. Those beings usually came from souls from many worlds. The soul that is so strong has a right and power to look over the world.

And this being called by other beings… It was an emergency, they said.

This being called Gaia was called by the Throne of Guardian a council made of the strongest from these beings which consists twelve of them. She reluctantly came to the council. After her last world was destroyed, she thought she would have free time for relaxing, but to think she will call after just a thousand years… just too fast as she thought she would have more time to rest and so Gaia got a new job.

And Gaia hates this new job.

It was a joke.

It looked like a new being that the soul came from earth. That monitoring a world and making the world as he pleases. It looked like this being made his world to become a battlefield. As he made a world consisting of many stories from his world onto one world.

“What a disaster…”

Not only that, this bastard is doing something taboo… as he puts his awareness to the world as he tries to enjoy his own world. That made him collide with impurity that made him become something called miasma that could destroy those worlds…

No… As he made a lot of stories with many protagonists and heroines that have a lot of power in their soul. It could be made the strongest evil being that could affect many worlds from other beings.

The worst case, this evil being could rivaled the Throne of Guardian which is a really dangerous thing that can happen.

“What I’m gonna do… Hm…” Gaia thought of her plan while looking at this disastrous world. “The easiest way, just to destroy this world.” If she did that, she would be chewed and the Throne of Guardian would be angry and punish her. Since even though those would could be dangerous,  Throne of Guardian always have policy to that every world had chance of making their own path,

But before Gaia destroyed that world, she found one poor soul… A soul that could save the world… even though it is such a gamble. And she will take it.

“Damn… what are these people doing to this poor soul… Do they want to make another demon lord? This soul is full of hatred and unhappiness. No… the main core itself is just an empty soul which is really special. A pure soul that doesn't know anything, but impure at the same time since it knows many things. An unbalanced soul like this world…. This is a perfect soul to save this world with even a small chance to do that..”

Gaia used most of her power to contain many souls of hatred from the core soul and summoned the soul to her world.

Slowly, in front of her… came forth a soul. A relatively young soul. It could just be a teen soul, but he had been through such hardship that the soul was broken for a little. It would be a long time for this soul to be repaired again.

“Hm… what a pitiful soul? Do you seek forgiveness?” Gaia asked the soul.

The soul that formed a teen that was around 16 years old looked at Gaia with pondered eyes.

“Forgiveness? I… I never thought of doing something bad to ask something like that.”

“Hm… Well, you may think like that. That’s all of your doing. It’s not your fault. Yes, you have been forced by adults around you… and you hate those worlds… that make you hurt and hurt other people. That’s made you want to destroy everything. I don’t condemn you.” Gaia said it lightly.

“Yeah… that’s not my fault. All of them, because those people just took me, enslaved me and ordered me to fight those demons and… and sacrifice many people… And to think they have any right to curse and get angry at me… Really…” Those souls ranted, but stopped when he saw Gaia who looked at him with such clear and smiling a bit as if she read him.

“Even so, deep down… Deep down in your heart. You feel bad and sorry for them. For the soul whose lives are taken absurdly. Since you sympathize with them. You pitied them. That’s made you still human. A splendid one…” Gaia told the soul that showed a complicated face.

“But… but… I…” The soul emotion was still fresh. The feeling of wanting to destroy everything.

“You don’t hear that cursing, right?”

“Ah… yes…”

“It’s because I sealed it for a moment, but do you want to live hearing that forever? Even though you became a demon and destroyed everything. Those curses… those souls will not vanish you know?”

“That’s… so what do you want me to do…?”

“How about you give them salvation? You free them from eternal prison of hatred and send them to their next life.”

“Salvation… but how…”

“Well, the easiest way will be to clear their regret. But it will be difficult since there are a lot of souls and most of them hate you after all. So there is only one way… which makes your soul stronger and purifies a hundred and thousand souls with one swoop and repeats that process again and again.”

“And…”

“Do you know Doujin?”

“I don’t know what that is.” The soul answered the question straightforwardly even though Gaia just said absurd things.

“Eh… you don’t know doujin… such an unfortunate being. Well, doujin is self-published print works, such as magazines, manga, and novels in order to publish material outside the regular industry like from manga or anime.” Gaia explained to the soul.

“Sorry… I don’t know anything about that.” The soul answered truthly since he was poor after all. He didn’t know anything about anime or manga that Gaia talked about.

“Ugh… This is quite difficult… It will be easiest if I send people who know the story, but I don’t have any choice… Well… What you need to do is to help me save people for an evil being.” Gaia asked the Soul what she wanted him to do.

“Save people?” The soul was quite puzzled.

“Yes… I will send you to a world that recently gave it to me to be monitored since the last administrator didn’t do a good job. It was a world where there are many protagonists and heroines from those called tales, but most of those protagonists and heroines in this world came from anime / manga in a world called ‘Earth’, but some evil being targeted them, especially they targeted those heroines. Since the administrator nerfed those male protagonists really badly. With that, those evil beings would focus on heroines since it could make them become stronger.”

“Soul… Huh…”

“Yes… They are protagonists and heroines after all so their soul is more spiritual than normal humans. That evil being used another human or other’s being in that world to taint heroines souls and made them stronger when they became stronger. I’m afraid they could make the world into chaos or they could become demon king in that world.”

“Taint soul. Huh… how do they do that? If I know how they work it will be easy for me to handle them.” He asked since this sounds important.

“Hm… They tainted heroines souls by making their minds break… or drugged or NTR’ed just like in doujin.”

“What is that..” He was stunned by many unfamiliar things he heard.

“Well, they tainted them by making them become slut or slave sex… destroyed their existence and became nothing but an onahole. Just like in Doujin.” Gaia said with a tone that this was an important piece for him to know about.

“Is that so…” The soul nodded as he understood what Gaia wanted him to do. “Wait… If that is the case… to make my soul stronger I needed to do the same thing?”

The soul realized and asked Gaia.

“Well, that’s a bit true. But, rather than make them become like an onahole or sex slave… I want you to take heroines. I need you to make them fall in love with you and protect them from any evil being. Also, you are familiar and know a skill using sexual activities to make you stronger, right? To have sexual activities with the opposite gender. It will be good if they are addicted to your skill. ” She smiled as if she gave him a reward.

“Isn’t that just the same…”

“Is fine… since you have my blessing. Their souls will not be taken away.”

“Well, if that's the case. I will do it. I will work hard for you.” The soul swears to Gaia deep in his heart. Since he feels this Goddess gave him a chance to salvation himself.

Chapter 03 - The First Poor Soul 01

"Oh you! You’re finally awake."

The nameless soul heard someone's voice… A familiar one. He slowly opened his eyes to see a familiar face.

An ordinary girl with many freckles on her cheek looked down at him. She smiled at him, a familiar one too. Even though Takeru knew that she wouldn’t be here. Which means, there was only one explanation.

"What are you doing here, Goddess? Ain’t coming into the world can be dangerous."  The nameless soul asked the Goddess, who used the appearance of the older sister who took care of him in the past.

A young girl with brown skin, black hair, and black eyes... who always has a sad smile on her face. Neither beautiful nor ugly... Just a normal girl. An older sister that he forgot her name. The only thing he remembered was her appearance.

"Well, of course… I came here to help you. This world is dangerous after all, but it’s fine as long as I'm faithful to my duty and don't try to do anything funny. Also…" The Goddess looked at the nameless soul deeply, as if she were staring at his soul.

"It is much easier to seal you in this close." She added

"That…"

"Anyway,  right now… You’re Shirogane Takeru, a young man whose parents died a year ago and his grandfather from his father’s side has already passed away. On his mother’s side, she already cut ties with her family, and the only blood-related relative he had left was his grandmother, who has dementia and is currently living in a nursing home." The Goddess explained to The nameless soul… No, he was already Shirogane Takeru.

"Now… you need to go to school…"

"School?" Takeru had never experienced going to school and was confused. He expected to save the protagonist and heroines, so why did he need to go to school? He may never go to school, but he heard about it in his previous world.

"Oh, well… You will understand when you’re going there… Ah… Also, even though your power has been limited… You still easily use your skills. At least, you can easily spot people who you need to save." The goddess once again explained. "How do I say… Well, they're like a spirit in your previous world." After some thought, she added.

"Spirit… Huh… So I can just blast him with purification?"

"Well, if that's easy… Didn't I say… "You must make those girls love you, and by binding them, you have taken their hearts and souls, and with that... your soul becomes stronger, and you can purify many souls within you."

"You know… It’s kind of like we’re doing evil things?"

"Haaa… Do you know Takeru-kun? What do you think Goddess is doing?" The Goddess asked Takeru.

"Well…"

"In the end, our purpose is to make the world work… and achieve harmony with many—many worlds. Even if it fails, we can and will unhesitatingly just destroy this world…" The Goddess said as there was nothing she needed to worry about.

"Anyway… You just need to go to school for now… okay… You will understand. I may be here… But you can’t expect me to help you at every moment. So please be careful…"

And so, following the Goddess, Takeru changed his clothing and left the apartment. Unexpectedly, he knew the way to his school. And after the entrance ceremony…

Takeru found out what Goddess meant…

"My name is Yoshida Saki. My hobbies are… reading and gam… I mean.. SHOPPING. Nice to meet you all.." A beautiful, naive girl with shiny black, straight long hair introduced herself with an awkward smile.

It happened in the homeroom after the entrance ceremony. Takeru, a young man with cold and frightening features but bright golden eyes. A blonde boy with hair so long that his bang could close his eyes, the young man, aged 16 years old, was stunned when he heard and saw that girl introduce herself.

That young man stared at a girl named Saki with such great interest, because he knew that the girl was one of his targets. Ordinary people couldn’t see it, but he could…

It was such a dreadful, bad luck aura around her. It was as if an evil spirit was clinging to her in order to feed her soul. If normal people looked at those gruesome beings. They would be screaming like little girls.

But, for him, it was just a common thing seen in the previous world.

"So this is what the goddess… Huh… Which means the girl is in danger…" Takeru whispered to himself.

The problem was that it looked like he couldn’t do anything to those evil beings. It was like they were projected by something more powerful than him.

"What bothersome…" Takeru grumbled as he could not use all of his power because it had been limited. Rather, it was limited since it could make him go back to insanity.

"Well, the goddess said that the tale had a protagonist and heroines. Those evil beings targeted protagonists or heroines, but she said the evil beings were more likely to target heroines or female protagonists since an evil being prefers women. And she claims that I can easily tell them apart by looking at their souls...And it looked like this girl was a female protagonist? I wonder what kind of doujin she came from…" Takeru said this as he looked at Saki's soul, which was quite weak for a protagonist's soul.

In any case, even though the Goddess told Takeru about Doujin, it is not like he understood what it was.

Takeru wondered what kind of doujin or story she came from… If he knew, it might be easy for him to help her in any way.

The problem was that those evil beings acted a bit weird. No, it may be so active that something could happen to her at any moment.

"Be careful on your way home, all of you." The teacher said it aloud. After hearing the teacher's words, the classroom became noisy with people talking to each other. Some of them tried to get to know each other, and of course some people around Takeru also tried to talk to him.

But Takeru only answered their question pretty lightly as he focused on Saki, who was talking to two girls. Those girls all had the same short hair that reached their shoulders. The only difference was that one of them dyed her hair and wore it in a clip on her hair, whereas the other was simply a girl with short black hair.

"Un~ Yoshida-san Would you like to walk home with us? There’s a really nice juice place nearby…" The dyed girl asked Saki to go home together with them.

"Huh..?" Saki looked confused by the other girl's invitation and tilted her head for a moment, before she realized what had happened. "Huh… Oh… Yeah… I do."

Saki agreed with those two girl’s invitations and left the classroom.

Seeing what happened, Takeru couldn’t stay still… Even though those two girls looked like ordinary girls, the problem was that those evil beings put some evil aura around those two girls and tainted their souls.

"That’s not a good signal…" Takeru immediately ignored the student who talked to him and followed Saki as she left the classroom and school too. As they walked toward the shopping district that is usually used by students to play before going home.

Three of them looked very happy to hang out together, and it kind of took a long time before they parted. Also, even though that girl invited Saki to buy juice, they finally purchased a bubble drink, which has become a new type of trendy drink in recent years.

Takeru followed Saki even though she was already separated from the others. Of course, what he was doing was stalking, but did you think Takeru cared? The only thing on his mind was to successfully do his job as given by The Goddess. All other things would be pluses and minuses, since he is doing this for his own sake too.

Takeru even bought a bubble drink and enjoyed his first time drinking stuff like this. He never had this kind of drink in the previous world, after all.

"Hm… She entered the convenience store. Huh…" Takeru followed her and entered the convenience store. It was simple for him to remain undetected while following such an ordinary girl. He was even capable of making people in the store not see him at all.

Saki looked around the magazine with such a serious expression on her face, while Takeru drank his bubble in the corner. Before he saw a tall and grown up man who looked about thirty walked toward her and talked toward her.

"Ohh! Is that the latest ‘Monmon’ I was looking for that…" The grownup looked very much like a flirtatious guy talking to Saki.

"Um… I’m sorry. I was just flipping through it. If you want it… Here…" Of course, Saki said it nervously as she found herself suddenly talking to an older man, while giving him the magazine.

"Oh no! God will smite me if I take away a magazine from such a cute girl." The older man gave praise to Saki. Takeru, who had never flirted with a woman before, was unsure whether the man was a corny or smooth flirt... or just a pain and cringe thing.

But it seemed to work on Saki because she was flustered and possibly happy to be called a cute girl.

Their conversation continued to be as painful as it could be from Takeru's perspective. Wasn't the problem obvious, corny, and cringe-worthy? Wait… he said m’lady… Is that even working in real life… Wait, how is Saki's face blushing? How is that working…

Takeru was confused… maybe because of the effect of the evil being's aura on him. That old man's aura was full of evil, and Takeru could see a devil spirit in his pocket. Which means that some devilish thing is in his pocket.

Wait… Saki-san? Are you seriously going out with such a flirtatious guy? And why have such a looking forward expression on her face. She actually clenched her fists as she won something.

Well, of course, Takeru understands that an ordinary girl like Saki couldn’t see such an evil being, but it isn't such an obvious thing to never go together with a stranger, especially a grown man, even though they may be handsome or to your liking.

"Ugh… What a stupid girl? Ain’t she a female protagonist? Damn… I wonder what female protagonist she came from?" Takeru couldn't help but mumble as he trailed Saki and that grown man to the Karaoke joint.

Takeru, who was unaware of the type of Karaoke used in the Doujinshi, did nothing to help Saki before she entered the Karaoke. In the end, he spent his time in a fantasy world and living in the street in the previous world. If he knew about it, he may have helped Saki much faster.

Chapter 04 - The First Poor Soul 02

Takeru followed those two to the Karaoke store and ordered the place beside Saki and that old man. The Karaoke room was dim and a little loud, making Takeru unable to hear what they were saying, but he managed to get through it thanks to his skill in mana manipulation. He could feel mana around him. With that, he could feel or see around him like a detector or sonar scanner. It can also function more specifically as a heat scanner.

That’s why even Takeru could see what they were doing. It looked like they were talking to each other and singing. Before, the waiter gave them a drink that they ordered.

At that point, Takeru didn’t feel anything weird until it felt like the evil being became really active. Especially when Saki took the drink. Well, even though Takeru could see them get the drink—his skill could not distinguish which drink they had.

"Oh shit…" Takeru cursed himself as he realized what had happened. A dimly lit room with only two people... This place called Karaoke was where people used to flirt with one another.

Takeru came to a conclusion. He immediately went out of his room and tried to enter their room. But the room was locked… Takeru felt weird as he didn’t think any person in the room went out to lock the door…

Which means, the waiter, as the last person to close the door, is the culprit.

‘They work together. Huh…’ Takeru easily understands what happened.

"What are you doing!!"

Takeru heard the waiter call him out, but of course he didn’t really care. This body is not as strong as his previous world, but by manipulating mana and concentrated in one place like for example right now he put all of his mana on his foot and with that he could give an explosive kick.

*Bam

And the door was flying inside the room. That’s surprised anyone

"What!?" The old man screamed and looked toward Takeru, who, without saying anything, jumped at him.

Takeru himself saw that the old man was already close with Saki and opened her uniform. Yeah, this man already started his way toward Saki and with that evil aura being active. Which means, what Goddess told him about, they tried to taint the girl's soul which was already on the way.

Takeru manipulated the remaining mana on his foot toward his hands, especially his fist. It may not be as strong as his previous kick, but this is enough to make this old man really hurt.

"Wait… GAAAAHHH!?" The old man tried to say something, but Takeru punched him in the gut. That made him throw something out of his mouth.

Takeru could see a pink pill with a heart drawn in the center… It looked like a drug… And from his vision, Takeru could feel the devil's power there. In the previous world, there was some kind of drug using the devil’s power that was usually not good for humans.

For Takeru, who had been forced to take those pills by adults in the previous world in order to become stronger and faster in order to defeat the Demon King, He couldn't help feeling angry?

Takeru grabbed the old man and put him down on the ground with his knee on his chest to make it difficult for him to breathe. Before Takeru took the pill and grabbed the glass nearby him.

The man had difficulty breathing and said to him as… "What are you doing bastard!?" "Look, you’re putting your hand on someone wrong here!!" He was screaming.

Takeru without mercy, put the pill and the alcohol to the man's mouth and forced him to swallow these pills.

"GUAAAHH!! Bastard!! What are you doing!!! Ugh… Aaaa…"

It didn't take long for the pill to react, and a bulge appeared on his jeans.

"Uggh… What have you done…?" That man looked like he was in pain and uncomfortable.

"Hm… Ah… That pill… perhaps an aphrodisiac. Huh… What an unfortunate situation for you." Takeru couldn’t forgive this man and would give him a punishment.

Takeru put the mana again in his foot, and without mercy this time, he stepped on that bulge.

"Guah!! Bastard!!!" The man screamed in pain as Takeru stepped on his important meat, which became harder because of the pill. The problem wasn't just that he couldn't control it since he was under the influence of the pill. Also, Takeru used the mana on his foot to manipulate the mana in that man's body… which gave him a weird pleasure.

Yeah, as Takeru stepped on him again and again… That man experiences both pain and pleasure.

"Gaaaah! Bastard!! Stopped!! Stoopp!! What the hell is going on? Uuhhhhh… Ahh~~"

Takeru knew very well this man already came from being stepped on by man, but because of the influence of the pill the man’s meat was still harder than ever…

"Ugh… No wayy… Ugh… Mercy!!"

Of course, Takeru didn’t show him any mercy… and stepped on him again and again… till that man came several times…

"Do you enjoy that pill… old man…?" Takeru gave that man who was already half-conscious from cumming too much from pain and pleasure. Takeru hoped this man would change... that he would become a better man rather than drugging young girls. In the future, he would be the man that enjoyed being stepped on by men.

"Hah… It looks like he can hear what I am saying." Takeru sighed, and he turned his head toward Saki, who trembled as she fixed her uniform. She looked at Takeru with a scared expression.

Well, it was understandable, she may be scared of him as she might not understand what happened since she was under the influence of alcohol.

At this moment, Takeru didn’t know what he was doing. In the previous world, rather than a hero or something, he was feared by people. People were aware that he used mana, including mana within humans, as fuel for his magic. And it wasn’t like people knew he was forced to do it too.

That’s why people always shun or avoid him.

"Ah… You may be confused… But, I’m Shirogane Takeru. Your classmate. Nice to meet you."

In the end. Takeru just introduced himself in the worst possible way.

Chapter 05 - Yoshida Saki 01

Sometime during Takeru and that man's commotion, one of the waiters called the police, especially after he saw Takeru destroy the door. After witnessing such a feat, the waiter had no desire to stop Takeru and went his way, calling the police.

Because of that right now, Takeru was surrounded by police and interrogated him. Takeru is the only violent person, as many people have told them. So the police asked him…

Takeru who didn’t know any better, just said; "I happened to see my classmate with a suspicious grown man going into the karaoke, and I saw Yoshida-san being given alcohol, and the guy was trying to drug her so I opened the door by force as the door had been weirdly locked, and I beat the guy up."

No matter what the police tried to do, that’s the only answer Takeru gave them. In the end, Police found other drugs from that man and also successfully clarified that the door Takere destroyed was indeed locked.

And also, it was true that Takeru was the victim’s classmate.

They tried to ask Saki, who had been questioned, even though she was nervous. She was still answering their questions.

According to what she said, the man manipulated this naive young girl into drinking alcohol and also tried to give her a drug. Which is such a heavy crime in this country, apparently.

Well,  of course, Saki’s parents had been called… As for Takeru, the person who came when the police called his guardian was no other than The Goddess. She actually didn’t have the same appearance as in the morning. A beautiful one with pale skin, white long hair, and red eyes… The same appearance she used when they first met.

"Hm… Is there anything my little brother is doing wrong?" She asked the police, who immediately told her what happened. Takeru didn’t know why, but as soon as the Goddess came. The atmosphere around the police felt weird. It feels like they're intimidated by her.

Takeru couldn't help herself, whether she used her power, something else, or simply because of her existence.

"Hm… Is that so? In that case, my little brother didn’t do anything wrong, right? And if you are talking about the damage. I will take care of this. You can call this place, this is my lawyer’s number." Not only did she say those words to the cops, but also to the manager of the Karaoke bar."If you are brave enough…" She continued, smiling at them. It was such a provocative way, but it actually worked as the manager from the Karaoke shop only wiping his cold sweat on his forehead with a handkerchief.

After The Goddess ignored them and walked toward Saki, their parents were already here. Her father had such a stern look while her mother worried about her. When they saw The Goddess come, they immediately bowed and thanked her.

"Really, thanks to Shirogane-san… Our children are safe." They said, and Saki followed them and said thank you to Takeru, who followed The Goddess.

"Is it fine, really. It’s something man really needed to do after all." The Goddess spoke with a gentle smile on her face.

"Really—we’re thankful… But you are?"

"Ah… Yes. I’m Shirogane Yui. Nice to meet you." The Goddess introduced herself as Yui and gave them her own name card.

"Ah, Yui-san… We’re really thankful." The family thanked them again. Until she looked at Saki and started talking to her.

"Hm… So you’re Saki-chan… Huh…" Yui put her hand on her shoulder.

"Ah… Yes." Saki replied nervously, even though Yui merely stared at her while patting her shoulder.

"Hm… You look fine. That’s great. Also, you know… My little brother may be a bit violent, but he’s a good kid. So I hope you will get along well with him."  Yui said as she tidied up her ribbon and gently patted her on the back.

"Ah… Yes. I will." Saki answered as her face changed from nervous to relaxed as Yui's did.

"Well, I’m glad you are alright." Takeru spoke behind Yui. As he looked at Saki from top to the bottom, and realized that her evil aura was still on her, Takeru frowned and also those evil aura remained strong like before.

"Un… Yeah, thanks to you." Saki bowed at Takeru. She felt a bit scared with how Takeru glared at her very sharply.

"What are you doing…" Yui scolded Takeru while lightly smacking his head. "Don’t make her scared by staring at her like that… Sorry about him, Saki-chan. I hope you will get along with him even though he likes this." She added.

"Oh… Sorry about that." Takeru apologized sincerely.

"No…. It’s fine. I’m… just not good with guys… generally." Saki responded with the sweetest smile she could muster.

"Good, I know you may be excited as you just entered high school, but please be careful next time." Yui stuck up her index finger and earnestly lectured Saki, who nodded to her lecture.

"Okay then, till we meet again tomorrow, Saki." Takeru said as they left the scene. It looked like there were many reports of Takeru’s violence. In the end, because of many crimes and quite a lot of evidence that a man tried to assault a minor, the police let Takeru and Saki go after many hours of interrogation.

It was already late, when Takeru arrived at the apartment, and Yui followed him wordlessly.

"So what will happen to her? I don’t think there is any chance for her. The evil aura still lurking around her?" Takeru asked Yui as he sat on a nearby sofa.

"Well, didn’t I say that to you before? You need to take her soul and purify it to make sure that evil aura is gone… She might be in a more dangerous position than before since the evil aura plan failed. It may try to do something more than this…" Yui answered Takeru's question while walking toward the kitchen. "You must be hungry and tired. Wait for a moment…"

"Oh, shit… Really…" Takeru felt like he was still getting used to this new body. Not only that, the mana pool of this body was small. This body is not as strong as his previous one. It was nearly like a normal human body, different from the previous one.. Well, even though it was a normal human first, before his body was manufactured to be a hero's body… using drugs and experiments.

"Ah…sometimes you miss something after you don’t have it…" Takeru murmured, waiting for his dinner to come.

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