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Today as a Lich
Translator: yuNS
Editor: Skythewood
Part 1
On a certain day with clear weather
While today was a rest day for the ic tool store, there was a troublesome customer that made herself at home
“Co the tea! Hot and thick!”
“Yes, I’ll go right now!”
Without regard for anyone else, the troublesoed the table from a corner and , placed it in the middle of the store
“Hurry, I have a lot of time today, so let’s hear it!”
“Unlike thy who has an inordinate as to do”
Seeing this hasty blue-haired Goddess, Moi could only sigh”
––This Goddess came to the store everyday to pester Wiz and Moi about our relationshi+p This Goddess was such a nuisance that Moi finally decided to tell her
“By the way Aqua-sama, why are you so curious about our pasts? How should I say this, it’s not rand story you know?”
Wiz, as pouring tea, smiled embarrassedly
It see about the past
“Because, doesn’t the honest Wiz and this twisted cruel strangeabout how you two got together, and couldn’t sleep at all Since there was no other way, I take a long afternoon nap every day”
“Uht because you take afternoon naps…”
Moi pulled a chair and sat down As usual, the two of the an idiotic conversation
“To so much as compare the dishonest store oho e, with Moi who is well known as a hard worker in this town, how disrespectful”
As Moi spoke, Wiz averted her gaze
The blue-haired Goddess glanced at Wiz, and delightfully sipped her tea
“In the first place Wiz, I don’t kno you became the dirty existence that is a lich Since you usually treat me to tea and snacks, I will hear your reasons firstIf the reason for becoo with you to ask Eris for forgiveness when you are summoned by the heavens”
In this rareGoddess’ mouth
“That aside In this era, thea lich is forbidden, and it isn’t simple to learn either So I’m curious as to how you learned the spell in the first place”
“Allow Moi to teach you that”
“God Blow––!”
The rabid dog Goddess suddenly threw her first at Moi
To avoid being hit, Moi quickly turned Moi body to sand
“Ahhh! Converting your body to sand is unfair you know!? What the heck did you teach Wiz!? Eat one blow fro it!”
“Please calh it’s true that Vanir-san was the one that taught ic to become a lich…”
Seeing Moi unwilling to return Moi normal state, the violent Goddess splashed the tea in her cup at Moi
“Aqua-sama, if you do that you’ll not only make Vanir-san wet, you’ll also burn him!”
“Once I pour the tea on him I can forcibly petrify hi the trash bag”
It looked like this unreasonable Goddess had thought of a good idea, so I returned to Moi body to normal
“Just calm down you short-tempered Goddess, if you exter story you know? Are you fine with Wiz will not telling her inconvenient and e story?”
“What are you saying Vanir-san, I don’t… I really don’t have any e and inconvenient stories to tell!”
“…Anyway, after she’s done with her story, you’ll eat my holy fist”
Then, the Goddess picked up the overturned table and proceeded to pester Wiz for tea
Wiz handily poured the tea, and happily looked towards Moi
“Well then Vanir-san, is it alright if I tell the story?”
And so, with a nostalgic tone, she began to tell her story
Part 2
Shouts echoed through the dungeons
“daic!”
The sword re zombies
“‘Turn undead’! ‘Turn undead’! We won’t be able to break through like this! Everyone, lets pull out already!”
Screa with a tearful face, the archpriest Rosary repeatedly cast ic
“Don’t be an idiot, the treasure chest is right in front of us!”
While Brad and Rosary were arguing, I coic
“‘Inferno’!”
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In an instant, the dungeon was illurees
At the sare zo flames and collapsed
Overcome with relief when the monsters iped out, the two of them fell on the backs
Brad chugged the water in his knapsack, and took a large breath With a wide grin, he said
“Hah~… you saved us As I thought, you’re reliable in these kinds of moments aren’t you, Wiz?”
“I-, I thought I was going to die… Eris-sah this unharmed!”
––This was recently discovered dungeon near the capital
When we heard that one deenerals had hidden themselves here, our party of three rushed here, but…
“You two continue to rest here While you are resting, I will use ic to check for traps on the treasure chest”
I looked towards the treasure chest that sat deep in the roore zombies
For soeon
This was either a bait to lure adventurers, or it was a chest that the eon would use to keep their treasures
Though there were different ways to the intentions for this chest, there was no doubt that for us adventurers, this was a great source of income
“‘Trap Search’ ‘Enemy Search’”
My hand which I raised towards the treasure chest showed no reaction
“Safe, it’s not a trap or a mimic”
“Oou, then hurry up and open it! Since this treasure chest was placed so deep in the dungeon, it ood!”
“Wait Brad, let me confirm the contents of the chest, you sit here and rest!”
I sht to open the chest, and stretched my hand towards the chest––
Before I could open the treasure chest, it opened on its own
“Boom–!!”
“Kyaaaaa–!?”
Froe noise, so appeared
Caught off guard, I sank towards the ground, petrified by the sudden terror
The thing that flew out of the box stood up
“Fuhahahahaha, Congratulations! Congratulations on your grand prize adventurers, for Moi was unexpectedly the one in the treasure chest! Now, Ye who hath received Moi prize, allow to see through ye brilliant futures!”
Before us, ere dumbfounded by the sudden situation, stood a masked man
Seeing my expression, the masked man quizzically tilted his head
“Hmpf, was that too ative emotions Moi have already waited a month in this treasure chest Moi have already put thisfor a little bit more of a reaction…”
Hearing the masked man speak, I immediately rebutted
“W-, What are you!? Why are you in the treasure chest… More importantly are you a monster!? So why did my Enemy Search have no response!?”
“How disrespectful to call the pure and forthco Moi a monster Moi haven’t even introduced Moiself yet, oh lady who said ‘safe, it’s not a trap or a mimic’, opened the chest with a triuht
Though this was the first time we met, this person’s randoic
“Oh, why thank you for your delicious negative eeneral known as the duke of hell, the great devil Vanir!”
“““‘Duke of hell!?’“““
While I had thought that he was a ht that he could be such an iure
Even though we had coht that ould encounter an opponent of this level…
The figure before us is a duke-class devil, a great devil that had once fought against the Gods with the future of the world at stake
This type of existence shouldn’t be the subordinate under the deainst humans, but…!
“You said you are the great devil froenerals!? No one like that would be sitting in a box waiting to surprise people! Wiz, Rosary, don’t be tricked! This guy’s just a pervert!”
“Wait Brad, while it’s true that this guy is a pervert, but I recognize him! He looks the same as the picture in the wanted list!”
When I heard Rosary’s words, I hastily stood up and readied my staff
“Deeneral Vanir! You will be defeated here and now!”
“W-Wiz!? Isn’t this opponent too much for us to handle!?”
“We’re fighting!? I-I Wiz is going to fight then as an archpriest of the Eris cult, I will also…!”
Seeing us prepared to fight, the devil nanation
“Even though Moi said that Moi can see through your wonderful futures, so why art thy have to be so barbaric? This is why the Eris cult fanatical believers and coician freaks are so…”
By co about me?
This was the first ti so rude, so I didn’t kno to respond
“What do you mean by the Eris cult’s fanatical believers, how dare you say such a thing!? Duke of hell Vanir! Even if I cannot defeat you, I shall seal you on behalf of Eris-sama!”
Ignoring an to chant her ic
“Take this! This is the catalyst that I’ve been praying to every day since I became a priest!”
It was the necklace engraved with the symbol of the Eris cult that Rosary always carried with her
She threw the strongest catalyst that had been cultivated for years at Vanir’s feet
“‘Sacred Shell’!”
Receiving the ht…
“What is this thing”
Without waiting for the sealing ic to activate, Vanir kicked the necklace at his feet away
“Ahh!? You will be cursed for that!”
Ignoring Rosary who tearily retrieved the necklace, Vanir raised his ar
“Please calm down a little you adventurers Why don’t we first talk for a bit?”
Saying that, he sat down cross-legged on the floor
Part 3
After Vanir had finished what he had to say, Brad showed a complex expression
“––So you eneral have been tasked withthe barrier, and you have no intention to harm anyone?”
We sat in a formation that surrounded Vanir on all sides as we listened to hie devil said, we didn’t knohat to do either
“Like I would believe sos like Devils are cowardly and fiendish creatures that only think about hurting people you know!? Devils must be destroyed!”
Since the beginning, Rosary maintained the stance that ‘he must be slain’
“If you want to say that, things like Goddesses don’t do anything, they tell their believers that ‘you will be saved if you believe in o to heaven’ to get money Aren’t they also existences that hurt people?”
“This enemy of the Gods, I will destroy you!”
“Wait wait, please Wait! Your opponent is a duke-class you know? Think about it a bit uy is probably the real deal!”
Brad abruptly stopped Rosary, who picked up her h
“I understand your feel, but we came here at the request of the capital, with the task to slay the deh I don’t mean it in the same way as Rosary, devils are the enemy of mankind I don’t think we can turn a blind eye to this”
I looked towards Vanir
“It is because this dense girl says such hard headed things, that she doesn’t even notice the thoughts and feelings of the people around her”
“D-Dense girl? What do you s’…?”
“Wiz, now’s not the tiuy doesn’t even want to fight, so just should calm down already!”
Brad got between Vanir and I, and flusteredly waved his hands
“Mh ‘it is about ti an adventurer and marry the companion whom I’ve always loved, and then pass my days peacefully’ says
“Oi what are you saying! Don’t say anys!”
“Brad? Y-You couldn’t be… A-About me…”
“No Even you… what are you saying!?”
I don’t knohat they werecoo
Though I despised surprise attacks, I also understood that this was not an opponent that could be gracefully dealt with
“Then who is it? …Haa~~h, is it Karen who split froeneral? You can’t do that you know? After all, that girl and Yukinori are in love with one another’
“AAhh, just shut up already!”
Ignoring the two that continued to ic––!
“‘Light of Saber’––!”
I violently waved my arm towards Vanir, who continued to amusedly observe the two
The ic clan It was a ic poas great enough
Vanir, who had been careless, was decisively cut through by the white light At the sa, quickly picked up their weapons and assumed a battle stance
It see tiic
Vanir looked toards his body with an astonished expression…!
“To think that Moi would be defeated by a surprise attack… Well done, adventurers…”
As he said that, his lips curved into a peaceful smile, and his body collapsed into dust…
“… Sorry Deed a feords, I swear I won’t forget about you…”
Though I was relieved that ere able to defeat hi a surprise attack on soht left a bad taste
“…Wiz, that guy was one of the deuy re fortress’ barrier would continue to be , so don’t feel bad about it”
“Y-Yeah, destroying a devil is a righteous act! I’m sure Eris-sama is happy about it!”
I returned a small smile towards the tho tried to console me
“It’s fine, I’o assist Karen and Yukinori on their mission”
Right now, the other group of three were probably desperately fighting another of the deenerals
Since we’ve defeated the general hidden in this dungeon, there was no reason to stay here
To exit, I chanted ic––
“‘Teleport’!”
Once the teleportation ather the dirt under it A body formed and stood up
“Did ye think that Moi was defeated? Too bad! Well, please co for you, adventurers!”
We heard his ihter
Teleportation ic could not be canceled after activation
Teleporting to the town that was saved as our checkpoint, we stood frozen in place, dumbfounded
Brad murmured
“Even though we used et there…”
…I will absolutely not forgive that devil
Part 4
A week later
“Fuhahahaha! Fuhahahahahahaha!! Delicious, how delicious! Thy negative enificent!”
Returning to the deepest floor of the dungeon, we challenged Vanir to a fight
“Wiz, Rosary! Do it! Kill that guy!”
“’Sacred Exorcism’!”
The exorcised by Vanir
“’Light of Saber’!”
However, he wasn’t able to avoid ic that followed immediately after, and was cut across the body
Vanir, whose body began to collapse like last time, said in a serious manner
“To think that Moi would be defeated again… Well done, adventurers…”
“Shut up! It didn’t have any effect on you anyway! Rosary, now! Purify him before his body reforms!”
“One more time! ‘Sacred Exorcism’!”
Rosary chanted her ht
…But before the light could consume hi body, and threw the mask into the air with one hand
The uard after casting ic
Vanir’s mask, as if it was vacuumed, attached itself onto Rosary’s face––
“Hmpf, for an Eris cultist this body is quite well trained, it’s quite easy to move around in it”
Rosary paced around the area as if to confirm her body’s condition, so that means…!
“Brad, Rosary’s body has been possessed! Avoid using your sword to attack!”
“A-Are you for real!? Rosary’s a high level archpriest you know!? How could she be possessed so easily…”
As if to confirm what I said, Rosary––, No, Vanir who possessed her, turned towards Brad
“I’ve been thinking about this for a while now, but Brad has the saoblin”
“Uwaaaaaaahh!”
“Brad! That’s not what Rosary said! It’s just what the body’s possessor said! Don’t believe it so easily!”
As I looked at Brad whose teary face was covered by his arms, I felt the terror of a devil
This devil was dangerous, extreerous!
If we don’t defeat hi trouble later…
“You know Wiz, how you always e your shoulders in front of me? It makes me really upset- I don’t know if your breasts are really that heavy, or if you’re purposely doing that…”
“R-R-R-, Rosary won’t say such things! Just get out of that body already!!”
Though Rosary’s body seele for control, the opponent currently had control of the body
So I can’t use ic to stop him…!
It was then––
“Hhty delicious! Well then, what negative emotions will Moi taste next…(As an Archpriest who is devoted to Eris, how could I allow this devil to do as it pleases! Brad! Wiz! Tie my body up with rope!)… Hh she should be feeling immense pain”
Although Vanir still possessed Rosary’s body, his tone of voice changed
It was probably because Rosary was resisting his control
Hearing what Rosary said, Brad threw his weapon aside and charged forward
“Wiz, use sleep or paralyze ic now! I’ll hold down Rosary’s body…!”
Though he said that, he was stopped in his tracks by what Vanir did next
“Oh wait, if you take one(Noooooooooo! What are youuuuuuuuuuuu!)”
Before our eyes, Vanir began to strip
First he removed her skirt, and then reached for her top
“Rosary, W-W-, What should I do…!?”
“(For starters, close your eyes would you!?) Well, then the Moi who is kind will say this Stay where you are and obediently look towards Moi If you close your eyes then Moi don’t knohat shall happen to this lady (Noooooooo! Nooooooooo!)”
As Vanir moved his hands and threatened to remove the top, her lips curled into a dirty smile
“Kuh––, since Rosary is held hostage it can’t be helped! I can’t look away…”
“(Just look away! Devils have no gender, so as long as Brad doesn’t see it then there’s no problem!) Well then, this is some extra service Look here, look at this sensational pose! (Stopppppppppp! I will definitely make you pay! I swear I will!)”
Brad continued to look intently at Vanir, who sat on the ground and began to spread her legs
As Vanir was playing around, I activated ic
“‘Sleep’!”
At the same time, Vanir dropped to her knees with a thud
“Hinal is asleep now“
Saying that, he threw his round a distance away
As Brad rushed towards Rosary, who lay on the floor, Vanir gathered the dirt on the ground to form another body
Once Brad had retrieved Rosary, I began to chant ic––!
“We’ll retreat for today, but we’ll coeneral Vanir, I will definitely defeat you!”
“Hative emotions were quite delicious as well”
“‘Teleport’––!”
Together with Brad who carried Rosary, we used ic to return…It was then
At the final s
“Then Moi shall see you, ician who shows a serious personality that scares other adventurers, but is secretly afraid of being alone in old age and is in a bit of a hurry for a relationshi+p Moi will look forward to the next time you come!”
After hearing what he said, the landscape before our eyes changed to that of a familiar checkpoint
Brad fearfully spoke to round
“…You’re in a hurry?”
I will absolutely not forgive that devil!
Part 5
––Having told this long tale, Wiz gulped her tea and released a long breath
“…That kind of incident happened So after that, ould go to where Vanir-san was staying every week One tiain was forced to do some weird shake dance in front of Brad Now that I think about it, there was this ti confessing to Brad…”
As she said that, Wiz showed a nostalgic smile
“Neh~, do you want ht now?”
The Goddess said such dangerous things
“It’s in the past, so I don’t s happened after that Even I had begun to think whether it was a bit too much…”
“Moi will not apologize for it Moi s in the name of proper self-defense Moi did not physically harm any of you, so you should say that Moi has a kind heart”
“Every time we retreated with teleport, Rosary and Brad would start sulking you know? I’ainst Vanir-san”
Wiz lightly laughed as she spoke
“It’s because this child is soft-hearted But Wiz, you were really a before weren’t you When I heard that your personality and speech used to be so forthcoh you are like this right now”
“L-Like this…”
The slightly depressed store owner averted her gaze
“While she is currently a good-for-nothing store ohose ability to produce red digits far exceeds that of a NEET, she used to be quite a fa ared to, and put a large bounty on her head”
“…Neh, is the bounty on Wiz still valid?”
“Aqua-sama!?”
“Sadly it is now invalid, otherwise Moi would not just leave her be as she is”
“I guess that’s true”
“Even Vanir-san! Right now, I’m just a kind-hearted lich!”
As Moi looked at the desperate and crying store owner, Moi wondered how Moi could bring back the brilliant store owner from before
“If Moi a nickname of ‘The Ice Witch’ before…”
“Wow that’s cool, so was Wiz a witch? Was she an ice witch?”
“Please stop already, that’s enough of this topic!”
Seeing the embarrassed store oho covered her face in her hands, the Goddess grabbed Moi shoulders and began to shake Moi
“Keep going keep going! Neh, just keep going already! How did they eventually chase you out? Or how did Wiz become a lich!”
“Moi will continue so don’t be in such a rush, it’s unsightly! Also, who must the kind Moi be chased out!”
As I flicked away the Goddess’ hands, Moi began to recall the events of that time
“…Without fail, this militant store oould come see Moi every week, and at some point it had become a way to spend Moi free ti mistake”