"...She’s insanely fast."
The trail of blue lightning stitching across the sky was still vivid. Her movents truly were like a thunderbolt.
"Ha... What even is this ss?"
A woman appears out of nowhere, spanks for insulting the Divine Heaven and Earth, claims They saved , and when I curse harder, They descend through her and pull so bizarre stunt—
...But is that a normal punishnt?
If she’d just spanked harder, I could’ve written it off as discipline. But a kiss?
Sure, in the mont it was mind-lting pleasure, but thinking back, sothing felt off.
Wasn’t that just—
Scratch...
’N-No, sorry, I misspoke—sorry, please spare !’
A wave of that sa pleasure crashed through my mind again.
Phew.
It vanished cleanly after my apology. I decided to shut up for good.
Still, if I was going to keep this carriage trip going, I’d need to stop at a village soon.
Peek.
Lifting my clothes to check my underwear, I caught a faint dampness and the scent of night-blooming flowers.
...I leaked a little.
I’d thought I’d stopped just shy of climax—guess not.
...
...
Fluff.
"Ahhhh..."
After washing up and changing, I sank into the soft bed.
This ti I’d taken a separate room from the Sword Empress. I’d asked for it, and she’d quietly agreed—seed she had things to think over too. It felt a bit wasteful, but I paid for two rooms and secured them.
Roll, roll.
"So comfy..."
This inn’s bed was top-notch. Not quite a modern mattress, but still impressive for the Central Plains. I’d buy it and take it with if I could.
Or maybe it was just a normal bed and I was so utterly exhausted that it felt heavenly.
Today had been way too much.
Roll.
...Why did I end up here?
The na the Sword Empress had spoken—Yeo Socheon—had said it.
That without the Divine Heaven and Earth, I would have suffered so terrible fate. That They had saved .
Back then I was too furious to care, cursing until They descended and I backed down. But now, lying here, it weighed on .
It ant there was more to my story than I knew.
Haa...
Sighing, I reached for the candle to sleep—
Crackle, crackle.
"...?"
The shop interface popped up unbidden, buzzing with strange static.
What now? I froze, staring at it.
Crackle, crackle, crackle.
["...ear ! ...sir!"]
A faint voice cut through the noise, growing clearer until it rang sharp in my ears.
["Hero! Can you hear ?!"]
...Huh?
Hearing a voice from the shop, I thought—
What the hell is this now?
This world clearly had far more layers than I understood.
["Hero? If you can hear , please answer! Herooo!!"]
A woman’s voice suddenly blared from the interface.
...What’s this about?
It only made my already tangled head spin more.
Hero? What hero? This isn’t a fantasy world—it’s the martial realm—
...Wait.
A half-forgotten suspicion resurfaced.
Why is the shop full of fantasy stuff?
The shop barely carried anything that belonged in the martial world. Sure, there were a few universal items, but 99% of it was pure fantasy—things you couldn’t find in the Central Plains no matter how hard you looked.
I’d once vaguely wondered if the shop was tied to a fantasy world, but it hadn’t mattered then, so I’d brushed it aside.
Now, with a voice breaking through, I couldn’t ignore it.
A voice from a shop linked to a fantasy world.
Then she was—
["Hero! Don’t you hear ?! The channel’s definitely connected!"]
"..."
Probably soone from that fantasy world.
A flood of questions raced through my mind.
Why did this shop exist? Why did I have it? Why was a voice breaking through now?
And the way to answer them—
"...I hear you."
—was to talk to the owner of this voice.
["You really hear ?! Thank goodness... The channel was connected, but you weren’t responding—I was worried!"]
"Uh... I’m pretty confused, so could you explain what’s going on?"
["Of course, Hero! I’ll explain everything slowly! Good timing too—my influence is pretty stable right now!"]
Influence? What’s that?
It sounded like sothing straight out of the novels I’d read back on Earth.
["First, let introduce myself. My na’s Erdel. I’m a saintess in the Holy Kingdom, serving the Goddess of Life."]
"Saintess?"
["Yes. I serve the Goddess and act as the vessel for Her descent to the mortal plane."]
I wasn’t asking because I didn’t know what a saintess was.
Of course I knew.
...Fine. Whatever. Vampires exist here, so why not a saintess?
With vampires walking the martial world, a saintess wasn’t out of bounds. I’d just roll with it.
So—
"Then why are you calling ’Hero,’ Saintess?"
Why ? My martial prowess was laughable, and I had no standout talents. I could read the heavens, sure, but I wasn’t even convinced that was a big deal.
And does the fantasy world even have heavenly readings?
["Because you’re the Hero, Hero!"]
"I don’t have any special abilities, though?"
["A hero isn’t soone who starts with special powers. Gaining them after becoming a hero is totally normal!"]
Cool words, but aningless in my situation.
"Haa... Okay, I’ll ask, and you answer."
["Yes! Ask anything!"]
"First... This ’Holy Kingdom’ you’re in—the place tied to this shop—is it a different world from where I am now?"
A question I half-knew the answer to, but I had to be certain. What if it was just so far-off western land? That would complicate everything.
Her answer was exactly what I’d expected.
["Yes. As you said, Hero, the world you’re in—called the martial realm—and this one are different. Oh, would it be easier if I said they’re on different planets?"]
"No... I get it."
I’d hoped otherwise, but there it was.
Second question.
"You know I’m from yet another world, right? Then do you also know why I ended up in this one?"
The shop had appeared the mont I landed here. It wasn’t sothing the original body had possessed.
So it was natural to assu my possession and the shop were linked.
["Yes. I know you’re from another world—’Earth,’ a different dinsion. That this body isn’t originally yours. And the reason you’re wondering about most—why you ca to this world—is..."]
A deep breath echoed through the shop.
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