42 Gaiden Episode 2 (Rina Sayama)




'Shake your BP.
 Do not despair, my dear child. Continuity is always a powerful thing.

 --?

 On the screen you postpone from the status screen, an unintelligible sentence appears.

 When you close the sentence, the items 【Physical F】, 【Knowledge G】, and 【Magic Power H】 appear on the screen.

 Please allocate BP?

 Is the BP, this number of 3?

 Can I just swing these three numbers to physical, knowledge, and magical power?

 I'm baffled.

 I can't talk to them about it, but my remaining roommates are only willing to bail. They are not in a position to talk to each other. My best friend, Saori, is probably in the Tenipara club room, but I didn't like the atmosphere of the club.

 Even when I tried to go back, the back button didn't appear on my smartphone. I tried to force the screen off, but the phone wouldn't accept the operation either.

''Huh....
 I'm stumped.

'Oh, um ... if you tap on it, it will give you a status description.
Um... uh, thanks.

 Did he hear an unintentional sigh that escaped? My roommate sent out a helping hand. My roommate only told me a few words and then quickly went back to his bed.

 I took my roommate's advice and went over each item.

 I see...? It meant almost exactly what it said. The only thing I had trouble understanding was that the only explanation of [knowledge] was 'depth of knowledge' and abstract.

 Is it my physical body that I am the best at? I mean, aren't all people? Is there anyone who is superior to magic, an ability that only appears in fantasy movies from the start?

 Would it be more beneficial to build on your strengths here?

 I swung three BPs at [Physical]. The result was the same [F]

 --?

 Did you do it wrong? Or.........a message from someone who seems to be a goddess - 'My dear child, do not despair. If you believe in 'continuity always turns into power', if you continue to raise it continuously, will you one day be ranked up to [E]?

 When I finished transferring BP, only the 【status】 and 【advice】 items remained on the screen.

 Since I had already confirmed the 【status】 item, I tapped on 【advice】.

 'My dear child, to get through this world.

 If you destroy the [True Core] stored in the innermost part of the dominant area, the dominant area will return to the hands of humanity.
 When you exterminate the demons in the Dominion Domain, they will level up, and you will be able to draw out more abilities.
 When you have freed the entire realm, the world will be saved from despair.

 I hope that my dear child will be able to save the world from this despair.


 When you say "dominant territory," do you mean the inviolable zone?

 The dominant area is inhabited by demons, and their level will increase if you exterminate them. There is a thing called the [True Core] in the innermost part, and if you destroy it, the dominant area will cease to be an inviolable zone. And finally, liberate the world's dominant territory. Is that what it's all about?

 If I don't do it, someone else will accomplish it. As a student and a minor, there is probably no way for me to get out of it. I'm sure the adults will take care of it....

 I lay in bed, trusting my future to a hero I didn't yet know.

 Seven hours later.

 Under government guidance, the Self-Defense Forces were to launch a raid on 1,000 of the 16,000 controlled territories in Japan. The number of SDF personnel mobilized was 12,000.
 Why don't they concentrate their forces in one controlled territory? 
 Japan was already in the equivalent of being invaded by an unidentified enemy. The result of a quick solution and the balance of manpower was an assault on 1,000 controlled territories by 12,000 SDF troops.

 And that 1,000 controlled territory included the area near my university.

 An hour later.

 The results were scattered. SDF death toll 3,876. 8124 wounded. The first ever human counterattack on Japanese soil ended in a disastrous defeat.

 Commentators on the internet and on television have said in unison: "It was easy to predict that by a revelation from the goddess, firearms would not work. The government has wasted the lives of the men and women who have come before it.

 Until the SDF raids, "The government must resolve the situation as soon as possible" and "Bring in the SDF as soon as possible! I was shouting out loud to the government officials whose names I didn't know, and yet I felt sorry for them.


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 Three days later.

 Several small but certain hopes have been brought to humanity.

 As they say.

 -- 'Twelve members of the 3rd Hokkaido Division who were conquering a dungeon in Hokkaido have been upgraded'

 -- 'In a dungeon that a volunteer student was conquering, a powerful weapon was found!

 --'As long as the weapons do not use technology, lower-ranked monsters can be defeated by humans.'

 Every time bright news broke through to the world, several people, obsessed with heroic aspirations, invaded the dominion realm.

 No news of the liberation of the dominion territory has yet been broadcast.

 But if it continues, it may bring hope to the world.

 I will continue to watch the world go as a third party who can't even play a supporting role in such a world. And as I lay in bed alone........

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 Music announcing an incoming call came from the smartphone.

 The caller's name displayed on my smartphone is - Kaoya Saori.

 I take control of my smartphone and pick up the phone.

'Hello?'

"Oh? Hello, Rina? Me! Saori!''

What's going on?

''Well, I've got something I want to discuss with Rina. Can you come to the Tenipara club room?

'Consultation? What?

'Hmm, maybe I can't explain it well. I'm sorry, but I need to see you in the Tenipara club room! I'll be waiting for you!

Wait! Saori!

 Saori told her what she wanted to do one-sidedly and hung up the phone.

 The club room of Tenipara.... I'm not in the mood for it.

 Saori is a friend of mine. Many of my friends I met in college are also friends through Saori. Saori and I may not be on the same wavelength, but she's an important friend.

 I walked with a heavy step to the club room of Tenipara.