Chapter 107 - My OC Stash #7 - A Sociopath in this Wonderful World! by H3ctic (KonoSuba: Gods Blessing on This Wonderful World) (1/2)

-Kazuma but he's irredeemably manipulative and we don't know if he's capable or even willing to change for the better. The story is great in concept and execution, my kind of fic~

Sypnosis: Kazuma was a sociopath. He knew it well, and had for a long time. His life ended too quick, so he takes his chance at another. With fewer rules, smaller penalties, and little reason to hide, I wonder what a sociopath can get up to in this new world? Let's find out, shall we? Rated M for s_e_x_u_a_l references

Rated: M

Words: 126K

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Chapter 1

”Satou Kazuma-san, welcome to the after-life. Unfortunately, you have died. It may have been short, but your life is over.”

Someone in this pure white room, that seemed to have neither an end, nor beginning, had started speaking to me.

The sudden change in my situation was rather startling.

I took notice of the words. I was dead, huh? When did- right. That f_u_c_ktard who was flying down a country road, 30 over, slamming into me while I was on a f_u_c_k_i_n_g crosswalk. Zero out of ten, would not be hit again.

In this endless white room, there sat an office desk and chair, with the speaker sitting upon it.

If some type of God, existed, she was surely one.

She was beautiful. Stunning, really, but that isn't what led me to my conclusion. Just by looking at her, she gave off this… I'm not sure how to describe it. An aura, I suppose? Yeah, anyway, just looking towards her gave off this aura of Divinity (also something I can't really describe, sorry. Cut me some slack yeah? I literally just died). She had long, bright turquoise hair, and sapphire eyes set into a soft face. A (very) short navy dress, ending barely below her a_s_s, covered a slim, but curvaceous body, one similar in age to my own. She had blue highlighted, white sleeves that somehow remained on her arms, despite no visible connection to the shoulder-less dress, and navy, soft-soled boots that extended up past her knees, with white socks passing up further to mid-t_h_i_g_h. Her outfitted was completed with a translucent pink scarf that seemed to hover above her pale shoulders.

”I'm dead then,” She blinked her gorgeous sapphire eyes at me as I finally answered her, ”So what happens now? 'Cos this place seems way too nice to be hell,”

”Hell? No, this isn't Hell. More like Limbo. And besides, you wouldn't be sent to Hell. You haven't done anything super evil in your life. Maybe not super good, and I'm pretty sure that being a shut-in NEET like yourself isn't really liked by your primitive society, but nothing evil,” She casually responded.

Is this bitch really shit-talking me right after I died?

”Here is where you get to decide your fate after death. You can be reborn, your memories and experiences erased from your mind, basically going back to square one, or you can go to Heaven. Though, to be honest, Heaven isn't the utopia you little humans imagine it to be. There's nothing there. No manga, no games, no nothing. You don't even have a physical body so you can't have any fun either,” The way she said 'fun' left little confusion as to what she meant by it, ”All you can do is bask in the sun with your predecessors and chat. Forever,”

That sounds like hell. For someone with the attention span of a goldfish- well, more like an ADHD goldfish- having no entertainment for all eternity would literally make me want to kill myself, but I wouldn't be able to do that either. No physical body, remember?

F_u_c_k. That.

”Yeah, it's pretty bad,” she said with a grin.

I said that out-loud, did I?

”But you don't wanna restart everything as just a baby either, do you? You don't wanna lose everything and go from scratch, so how about a third option?”

So she definitely wants me to choose option C, whatever it may be, considering how much she's putting-down the other two. But why? Why is it that she wants me to go for this tertiary option? I'll have to see what she proposes I guess.

And also- Note to self, this Goddess Aqua cannot do subtle, good to know. That, or she is exceptional at faking being bad at being subtle, though I'm leaning towards just plain bad. When you hear hoof beats, think horses, not unicorns. Occarm's Razor, lead the way. But again, I'll have to wait to find out.

And yeah, I'm a very suspicious person. As Murphy's Law says, 'Anything that could go wrong, will go wrong. I live with a mentality along the lines of 'Hope for the best, expect (and, as such, prepare for) the worst' (well, more like 'Hope for better').

”And that would be?” I answer, after a short pause.

”Do you… like games?” she says with a grin

With that, she delved into her explanation. The gist of which is this; in an alternate world, there exists a Demon King. The Demon King and his army attacked, and the world was thrown into chaos.

Magic and monsters exist in the alternate world.

So it's basically the same world as nearly every fantasy light novel ever made or conceived. Sounds pretty cliché to me, but whatever.

”The people who died in that world were killed by the demon king army, and were very afraid, saying they don't want to die like that again. So, almost all the people who died rejected reincarnating into that world. That world would end if this continued, since babies would cease to be born there. Hence, it could be solved by sending the dead from other worlds over, right?”

That sounds like a pretty shit immigration policy. Also, I see a contradiction here. People have two options; go to Heaven, or Reincarnate, and since I'm sure not everyone chose reincarnation, that means we should have a decreasing population. She said that because no-one is reincarnating, they're running out of souls, which means souls are finite. So how is the population increasing? Stupid Goddess. Giving me contradictory information.

”And since we're sending people over, we should find people who died young and still yearn to live, sending them over with their original body and memories. It would be meaningless if they died immediately after going over, so we will grant a privilege to all those who are going to that other world, allowing them to take one thing they like to that world. It could be a powerful ability, an exceptional talent or god level weapons… What do you think? It might be another world, but you can live once more. For the people of that world, someone would appear who could fight immediately. How about it? Isn't this great news?”

She said 'That other world,' which means there's more than one. Cool to know.

The prospect of traveling to a parallel world was certainly a good one. Seems like it would be lots of fun. I'd have to be careful. The hazards are much bigger, and there won't be safety nets like what we've got on Earth. If I get injured in any major way, I might just be f_u_c_k_e_d. But, magic, so who knows.

”I have a question,” I start, ”Will I be able to speak the language of this world?”

It'd suck pretty hard if I couldn't.

”This isn't a problem,” She begins, ”With the gentle aid of the gods; you will have the language directly in your brain the moment you head over to the other world. You will even be able to read! But there is a side effect; your brain might be wiped blank if you are unlucky and you'll just go 'Poof'… And so, all you need to do is to choose a powerful ability or weapon.”

Wait, ”What do you mean; 'Poof'?” I asked

”I didn't say that,”

”Yes you did,”

She ignored me and instead pulled what looked to be a catalogue out from behind the desk.

”I can grant you one and only one power that would match any person. It could be a powerful unique ability, or a legendary weapon. Come, it can be anything. You have the privilege to bring this one thing to the other world. Now, brave hero, make your choice!” She declares as she tosses the catalogue into the air, pages scattering.

”Hey, hurry up. It doesn't matter which one you choose. I have no expectations of a shut-in NEET like you, so can you just pick one and be on your way? Anything will do, so hurry up!”

Bitch.

I had been looking through what was available here, and all of them were completely, nearly game-breakingly Over-Powered.

I responded with a flat face, and equally flat tone, ”I died outside. I don't think I can qualify as a shut-in… and hey, can I take stuff from Earth to the other world?”

”No,” she answered, while munching some potato ch_i_p_s with a bored look on her face ”You can only select from what's in this room,”

Only from this room? I guess that's fair, especially if it meant you could just ask for a nuke or something if there was no restrictions.

”It doesn't matter, just hurry up and choose! There are still many dead souls still waiting in line!”

Anything from this room.

Well, there's an idea.

She's a God, so she should be plenty powerful, right? And she did want me to choose quickly.

I couldn't help the vicious smirk that came upon my face as I rose to my feet.

”Ok… I choose you.” I say as I point towards her.

Aqua looked at me surprised, still eating her snacks.

”Alright, please don't move from the centre of the magic cir-” She suddenly stopped, ”…What did you just say?”

”Satou Kazuma-san,” A new voice. I turned and looked up to see a woman with wings sprouting from her back. An angel? ”We have heard your request, and as it is within the rules, it shall be granted. I will be taking over Aqua-sama's position from now on,”

Under my feet (and Aqua's), large magic circles appeared. Yeah, they were pretty cliché too. Lots of spirally and geometrical patterns, glowing, the whole nine yards. New world's up next I guess.

”Wait, huh, what is happening? Hey, you can't be serious, right? No, wait; hold on, this can't be right! Isn't it cheating to bring a goddess along? This shouldn't count! Wait! Please wait, okay?”