I came back but the world is still a fantasy!? – Repercussions Arc – Act 2: Otherworld Hometown – 02-16: He Who Stands in Front (1/5)

If one were to compare what the boy gained and what he lost from the incident during the resurrection of the evil god, and if one were merely to speak numerically, then unfortunately, the boy won out.

The things he lost included that something that he has been protecting for thirteen years, and the friends who saved him from the perils of a foreign world – which unfortunately also happened to include his first love.

Regardless, he lost just those two things.

In exchange, he gained many things.

The three thousand years’ worth of information about Falandia while the evil god was sealed.

The experience of the many battles that occurred in the shadows for the evil god’s revival.

The knowledge that only gods are privy to.

The limits of his stats that were raised when the evil god possessed (overwrote) him for a moment.

 

And…

 

Though he remained in the body of a human — the authority of a god.

 

Of course, he would never think of such things as anything but a curse.

 

Regardless what those things could accomplish.

 
 

To him they were nothing more than a curse.

 
 


 
 

*Drip.

*Drip.

Dripped that red thing to the floor.

When everyone there saw that scene, they were all shocked.

But the one most shocked was none other than Daigo himself.

His arms were petrified, and for some inexplicable reason, a person that shouldn’t be there was right in front of him.

 

“—This is the next most unexpected thing after that 8 years thing.”

 

Daigo found himself blinking in response to the unexpected fed-up voice that seemed to reproach him.

That red thing that continued to drip did not belong to him.

How did things turn out like this? Why was this person in front of him? No one could answer it.

And yet somehow, that boy was able to arrive there in a flash and stop that knife before it could reach him.

“Huh… Wa!? Are you okay!?” Daigo cried.

“W-What are you doing!?” The girl cried.

“Onii-chan!?” The child cried.

Seeing the three hostages shocked, the boy wryly smiled.

Daigo’s hands released the knife in a panic, but Shinichi continued to hold onto it.

Blood continued to drip onto the ground since he was holding tightly onto it, but Shinichi himself was calm.

“Don’t worry, a scratch like this can’t hurt me. I’m already used to it.”

“Used to? You?”

Shinichi smiled gently, but Daigo’s emotions were complicated.

What manner of experience would it take to turn a child who would cry upon a simple fall into someone so composed a bleeding wound could not faze him?

When Daigo thought of the implication behind Shinichi’s words, he couldn’t find it in himself to smile.

“Forgive me, Daigo… For testing you,” Shinichi said.

“Testing me? Huh?” Daigo asked.

“But I’m glad,” Shinichi said. “That you haven’t changed at all.”

Shinichi didn’t answer him and just said that.

There was no deeper meaning to it. He just wanted to know what Daigo would choose.

Although it was true that Shinichi panicked when Daigo pointed the knife at himself, but it was also true that he smiled.

That’s why Shinichi could finally say those words that he wanted to say when they first reunited.

“You’re the same as ever…. Using that body of yours for someone else.

You’re the coolest, Daigo, my best friend, and I’m proud of you. Still, I think it’s too hasty to try and stab yourself.”

“S-Shut up! I was at my breaking point!!”

As Shinichi smiled in satisfaction and said a few words too much as usual, Daigo too returned to his usual behavior.

But there seemed to be some pain hidden behind Shinichi’s smile which left Daigo uneasy.

And then a panicking voice resounded.

“Y-You! J-Just what did you do!? How did you!?”

The suited man who was the calmest of them all until just a while ago was now panicking.

What did Shinichi do? He couldn’t see it at all.

Moreover, the man who had a gun pointed at him was already on the ground with his eyes turned over.

Mitsuda, who was close to the hostages, was also squatting on the ground holding his stomach.

Although no one knew what happened, there was no need to ask who did it.

“What a noisy guy…” Shinichi muttered unhappily as he changed his grip on the knife.

Unfortunately, only his childhood friend could actually understand just how angry he was.

Shinichi juggled the knife with one hand and held it in between his fingers.

“Shinichi?” Daigo asked.

“…Sorry, Daigo.

Unlike you, I changed,” Shinichi said.

Shinichi wryly smiled at Daigo, then he shot the knife with a snap of his wrist.

The knife shot like a bullet and penetrated the man at his side.

“Oneechan?” The child asked.

The girl who saw that unfold took advantage of how the child couldn’t see what was going on and covered his ears.

This was not something that should be seen or heard by a child.

“Huh… GyaAAAaa!!??

HIYa, you stabbed me! You stabbed me with a knife! GyaAAa!!” The man cried.

“…So needlessly noisy.

I didn’t hit any vital points, and yet he keeps going ‘gyaa gyaa’,” Shinichi mocked.

For a moment, the suited man didn’t know what was going on, but when he realized what was happening, he started screaming frantically.

It was less the pain and more the fear of being stabbed that drove him into panic.

But Shinichi only looked at him coldly as if it didn’t concern him.

Daigo blinked several times at that and rubbed his eyes.

‘Who is that?’ He found himself wanting to say, but he swallowed those words before he could say them.

Regardless, that just showed how unbelievable this whole thing was to him.

“Hey, get into position! The hostages don’t matter anymore! Just kill them all!”

Daigo had no choice but to shelve his confusion for now, for someone gave that order while Mitsuda and the others calmed down the panicking man.

Shinichi went in front before anyone else, but something suddenly left him shocked.

Daigo and the girl behind him were also confused.

Even the men who gave that order were frozen.

“T-That’s right… I just wanted to do something for my dad…” Said a criminal.

“I just kept hating and I never did anything myself…” Said another criminal.

“I just loved to run, but before I knew it all that was on my mind was winning…” And another criminal.

“The one who was neglectful was me. Why didn’t I look for a new path at that time?” And another.

Before anyone knew it, the situation had become like this.

No one was listening to the order; everyone was breaking down crying.

No one was holding a gun anymore. They were all harshly rebuking themselves, saying, ‘what was I doing?’

The hostages were even more shocked at the sudden reform these criminals had undergone.

That’s why no one realized it when Shinichi’s face suddenly paled and he covered his mouth.

“Y-You’re kidding… The Divine Words… leaked?”

Comments

22 responses to “I came back but the world is still a fantasy!? – Repercussions Arc – Act 2: Otherworld Hometown – 02-16: He Who Stands in Front (1/5)”

  1. Chaoton Avatar

    Wow. The Author’s pacing is just so damn good.

    It’s the same Isekai power fantasy thing all over again but the back to our world and timeline rearrangement really added some spices and excitement into mostly predictable and cliche story.

    Thank you for the release, as always.

    1. cryum Avatar
      cryum

      Yeah the flipped order really helps the delivery

    2. Riceball Avatar
      Riceball

      Oh boy, what now Shinichi?

      Thanks for the chapter!

  2. darkm3d Avatar

    He have overpowered skill, so thats why he feels lonely all the time. He’s too powerful. Thanks for the chapter.

    1. sense-san Avatar
      sense-san

      Its not a skill, its a curse.

      1. Beshadowed Wanderer Avatar
        Beshadowed Wanderer

        From what it was stated, he is somewhere along the way to being a full-blown deity. But he really doesn’t like how he got there, and the price for that. Hence “the curse”.

    2. Taku Avatar
      Taku

      No hes lonely because he lost his lover. He obtained his powers through the sacrifice of his lover it was in the previous chapter.

      That not technically what happened but that’s how he thought it happened.

    3. Sayadewa Avatar
      Sayadewa

      Like Onepunch Man, the difference is that this is truly a curse, and not something we can laugh at.

  3. Anon Avatar
    Anon

    Okay, this was really quite good. I like his serious side; it shows what he’s been through while staying self aware.

  4. St.George Avatar
    St.George

    Thanks for the chapter!

  5. Darkaeluz Avatar

    Dn, this is getting better and better everytime! Thanks for the translation!!

  6. Aufa Azi Nepu Avatar
    Aufa Azi Nepu

    Nice, I’d love to see if there’s romantic development

  7. ResidentialPsycho Avatar
    ResidentialPsycho

    I wonder what words these people are reacting to. Are they just his thoughts? He didn’t say anything about making them understand what they’re doing or anything like that immediately before they were affected.

  8. fumungus Avatar
    fumungus

    That was an epic plot twist

  9. Dash323 Avatar

    MOAR

  10. leo Avatar
    leo

    after reading back i found out that the girl with blue hair is ringlets

  11. AE Avatar
    AE

    Huh. Divine words. I wonder if we’ll get a similar Lelouch scene where he accidentally uses his supernatural authority to cause a tragedy.

  12. Paps Avatar

    Thanks for keeping up with this series.

  13. Kirripixie Avatar
    Kirripixie

    So that’s what the 3015 years old comment was about! It was really bothering me, and I almost thought it was a joke, but it because he combined with the evil god!

  14. Astarle Avatar
    Astarle

    “The things he lost included that something that he has been protecting for three years” whut?? Three years?? I’m pretty sure the time he spent at Falandia is just 2 years. And he meet his Savior after he collapse cause of hunger after the language that people use is different than the one he is.
    I’m pretty sure that mean he meet them and then calamity happen at early time of that 2 years.

  15. Astarle Avatar
    Astarle

    Just check at raw with my google translate the correct one is 13 years, not 3 years
    #typo-suggestion-to-jiggly

  16. Astarle Avatar
    Astarle

    Just check that with my buddy Google Translate, the correct one is 13 years not 3 years.
    “The things he lost included that something that he has been protecting for thirteen years,”

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