Chapter 2032 (1/2)

Chapter 30 – The for Tsuchiya Kanako's first life, her childhood dreaer brother and her friends all said that she was cute, and she thought of herself as a genius when it ca

With the help of her parents, she attended the ballet class in her ho With effort, she did becos, but… she realized that her talent was only average

Perhaps her parents hadn't thought that she would survive in the entertainment world either, or perhaps they had actually been opposed to Kanako chasing such a career, or perhaps they had simply experienced financial probleister her at a training school

And so, Kanako went through elementary school andher talent She experienced having leading and secondary roles in her school's theater club, but it was not the resplendent idol life that she had iined

And in h she was the irl in each class of her school that was about as attractive as her

Around the tih school, she became aware of how mediocre she was It was true that she was relatively attractive, and she was certainly good at singing, dancing and acting for an a the other students in her year, and she was popular in her class

But it would have been impossible for her to use those as her weapons to survive in the entertainment industry The media at the time was obsessed with approachable idols that were “about as attractive as the cute girl in your class,” but it wasn't realistic for Kanako to be a such idols

Maybe it was possible for her to pass an audition Maybe she could be chosen to stand at the center of a group of members But Kanako would have needed to work desperately hard just to acquire the chips she needed to gamble on all of these amble failed

Not only that, it was possible that she would become mentally strained, fall into debt and be forced to appear in adult videos

Kanako had heard the saying that failures were lessons in life, but in the end, she decided to give up on her drea school life, enter university and then get a job She would look for a boyfriend while working, get married and, if possible, live a coht, childish drea that kind of ordinary life But when a terrorist incident occurred on the ferry during her school field trip, she made her best efforts to survive, but died in the end

Tsuchiya Kanako's life was supposed to end here

But through some kind of miracle, Kanako was able to live a second life What's ic existed, with a variety of gifts given to her by a God

It was a greaternoticed by an entertainin, she was born as the daughter of the owner of a company On top of that, she had become even more physically attractive than before (This was subjective at the time, but other reincarnated individuals confir skills from her previous life were now real talents

With all of these circuether, it was only natural that Kanako strived to achieve the dream that she had failed to attain in her previous life

A ood… You're quite good at this, considering it's your first ti,sure not to look at hih like that… Let's see, there are no hidden caood, because I don't want to leave any evidence of my crime But I've found the re in here I'll keep that to the side,” she said to herself “All that's left is my objective… There it is! It really is a black notebook!”

Naturally, what she was ru out erotic noises on the bed As for why Kanako found herself in this chaotic situation, the events leading up to this point were a little coh her parents' connections, Kanako had used her cheat-like ability and worked hard to debut as a child actor, and she had gained popularity in no tier, er, dancer and actor as she enteredas convenient as 'talent for being an idol,' but as a result of her increased physical capabilities co had beco skills came from her useful experience in the theater club on Earth and the serious study that she had done in this world

Well, even then, I'm sure that there are people who think I cheated There are probleht to herself

Kanako had been granted a cheat-like ability… the one that would eventually come to be named as Venus It allowed her to copy the memories and emotions of others and implant them into herself, and vice-versa She had used this ability with no restraint

She had implanted favorable impressions of herself on her producers and her co-actors, and turned the people who caraph sessions into her own fans

She had copied theinstru in order to obtain these skills for herself

Kanako didn't think of herself as having done anything wrong Venus wasn't a powerful enough ability to brainwash others or cause large changes in their personalities She had also only implanted favorable opinions of herself onto others; she had never iative opinions of her corossed with her that it would cause the and singing abilities, they were the result of the hard work she had put in after copying the memories of other performers onto herself

However, these methods had occasionally caused unexpected proble with one of theht! Make me happy and I will endorse you to Director Michael Golden-Silver, so do your best!”

Kanako had used Venus to is towards herself in one of the people in the entertainment industry, and that person had recommended her to a variety of s behind the curtain in the industry

As a result, the -shots who had taken an interest in Tsuchiya Kanako, had te in the next work of a world-famous director and offered her a chance to sleep her way up the ladder

Incidentally, Kanako was thirteen years old at this moment in time

“So there really are people like this… It almost makes me cry to think how pathetic the entertainment world is to be controlled by lolicons like this,” Kanakoout soood!” the ht

“… It see to the edited fakehter of a company president, she could not stand up to the masterminds who ruled the entire entertainment industry She had pretended to accept the man's demands, copied hisVenus… She then edited the false memories that she had slept with him in order to e of memories to use as basegirls to sleep with him to improve their careers

Now, that irl sleeping with him for her career

“Now then, I've secrets to use in self-defense once this gets out… All I need to do now is see how things unfold,” Kanako said to herself

Having taken a record of the contents of the black notebook, she returned it to where it had co an opportunity to take a shower and have the man's employees take her back to the production studio After that, she just needed to pretend that nothing ever happened… after all, nothing had actually been done to her body

nobody would find out about this; not her , and certainly not her parents or older brother

“Still, it's quite strange That God gave us good fortunes and destinies, so why aa and I really did have good fortune and a destiny, then wouldn't I have been rescued by so sense of justice?” Kanako wondered

This wasn't the first time that she had found herself in trouble She had once been abducted after unexpectedly discovering an executive director's conspiracy to take over the company, and she had also once been attacked by a stalker During her older brother's engagement party, terrorists had snuck onto the boat on which the party was held

She had also once gotten involved in a a

Kanako had resolved all of these proble Venus to pass clues that she had discovered herself onto others and make them the hero… She wanted to be an idol, not an action hero or a great detective She couldn't afford to stand out in those kinds of ways

“Those times were really troublesome,” Kanako recalled to herself “If I were to ever become a suspect, my life in the entertainment industry would be over… Well, not that there were any crie Still, if I really aood fortune, wouldn't it be norht up in these incidents?”

Of course, there was nobody to answer this question, and she naturally received no response Her ability was one that copied and pasted previously-existing memories and emotions; it could not produce answers that nobody knew

“Maybe I should think of h all this by using my ability, but… it isn't like I can ask the other reincarnated individuals,” she hter of a company president and also involved in entertainment, she came into contact with people froe that she had never hters, famous artists, local celebrities and children froazes when they noticed Kanako – these children with traces of the same features possessed by her classroups and the school staff who had died on the saet involved with her Kanako felt the sah they had been coether on Earth, they were now all living their own, separate lives

There was no benefit in gathering together

However, there had been one reincarnated individual who tried to i has really thought things through?” Kanako wondered

It was her fori He had sent her an encryptedthe events of their first lives in an essay with novel-like sentences, and asking her what she thought of reuniting with their former companions

Back then, Kanako had replied, “I think it's strange Wouldn't it be unnatural for us to gather without so knoould be fatal for e incident,” Kanako murmured to herself

The man on the bed had fallen quiet, so Kanako used Venus on him once more to plant false memories upon hi had happened, just as she had planned

Incidentally, as a result of this incident, she was cast in Director Michael Gold-Silver's next work as the niece of an Asian police officer, the secondary lead actor Her character was kidnapped by a ical media, and rescued by the main character She was on-screen for just five minutes in total, and her only spoken line was “Thank you” after being saved

After that, Kanako's life was supposed to go shteen years old

The reincarnated individual Amemiya Hiroto publicly announced to the world that he and 99 others possessed special abilities Following that, he united Kanako and the rest of the reincarnated individuals

The truth was that Kanako and the other reincarnated individuals had received es froe the fact that Amemiya had united them forcibly

If they had refused, their special abilities would have beenreluctantly reunited with the other reincarnated individuals, Kanako forroup with like- the 'Chronos' Murakaether, they joined Ai and Naruse Narumi who already knew him

However, A truth Various nations' intelligence agencies were already learning of their special abilities

At this rate, it was possible that they would be kidnapped in secret and placed in confinement inside research facilities Ae their special abilities to the public and forroup so that this could not happen

Under these circumstances, many of the reincarnated individuals cooperated with Aanization that he formed soon afterwards They used their special abilities that they had kept hidden up until now for the benefit of hu of use to society For them, this was their liberation from their secret

But several of the reincarnated individuals, including Kanako and Muraka, as the revelation of their special abilities had cost theh the explanations of the Bravers' abilities to the public were brief, they had indeed been revealed Kanako lied about her ability and told everyone that Venus was an ability that allowed her to charm others If she were to try to pretend that her ability was soh by shi+mada Izumi's Inspector ability, and she would be very troubled if she were asked to deotten aith any lie if it weren't for the fact that the cheat-like abilities didn't work as effectively on other reincarnated individuals, however

Thus, people began to think that Kanako's popularity a her fans and the people of the entertainment industry was because of her ability There wasn't any proof, and the media couldn't criticize the Bravers directly Many of the fans didn't even care

But the people of the entertainment industry took very clear steps to create distance between theardless of whether she had really used her ability or not

Not only that, but even her older brother and his fiancé had cut contact with her

Kanako told herself that the changes in the way the people around her treated her were so her ability But at the saet her resentment towards Amemiya and the others However, it was also true that she had nowhere to go except for the Bravers

For about two years, she took part in international disaster rescue as a part of the Bravers Being proficient in earth-attribute, water-attribute and life-attribute ic, she was quite active in the field, but it was difficult for her to make use of her Venus ability

Its only real application was to charet the trau the 'Undead' incident and the revelation of the existence of the death attribute to the world, she began fighting against terrorists with the rest of the Bravers

Kanako went through ainst terrorists with guns and ate captured suspects

But many of these political criminals refused to talk, even with favorable impressions of Kanako implanted upon them Thus, Kanako secretly copied their memories in order to extract the information they knew

“Now that I think about it, that was athered around her as she reminisced back to the past

“Why? You've done plenty of copy-and-pasting with memories, so aren't you used to it?” asked Bilde, the Ghoul woe that had been led by Zadiris

“That's what I thought,” Kanako replied “But once I actually did it, I started to throhenever I ate, have nightmares and hear auditory hallucinations It was very troublesome”

“Wow… So, the memories of those 'political criht I'd be fine because I was used to it, but I'd underestimated the toll it would take on me”

Up until that point, Kanako had believed that she had mastered the use of Venus, despite the fact that there was no Status systein to check Skill Levels in nuan her anti-terrorist activities in the Bravers organization, Kanako had only used her ability on ordinary people… There had been so them, but she failed to realize that they had all at least possessed sane minds

The terrorists, on the other hand, had possessed extreme beliefs and values that were not accepted by society, and did not fear death Kanako had been unable to accept those ine how hard it was to copy and paste theto relive the memories of someone like Rick Paris as if they wereto the rueso Orbia, whom she had loved like a sister, in order to make his older brother the duke of the Sauron Duchy

She could see the reasoning behind his actions, but he had seduced Scylla to fall in love with him and then murdered them She could only think of the rotesque That was especially true considering that he had respected and loved his brother, Ray lives to survive are different from political criminals who kill for their beliefs I suppose Gordan would fall under that category, as well as Isla when she was still alive,” said Basdia

Kanako nodded In Origin, she had copied the memories of soldiers who had killed enemies in battle and police had happened

“Well, I never met Gordan or Isla while she was still alive,” Kanako pointed out “But I think you're absolutely right The memories of a fanatical funda interests for tens of thousands of years… I get the feeling that those would be pretty dangerous”

“It was hard for you, too… I went through the sa, so I understand,” said the 'Gazer' Minuma Hitomi, as a reincarnated individual with similar experiences “But I turned to alcohol to escape reality, atte I kneas in a hospital… You didn't get hospitalized, did you?”

“At the very least, you didn't appear to be suffering that ion's personalities

“I didn't do anything incredible I simply used Venus to cut away the htmares,” said Kanako “I'd delete my ownthat repeatedly, I becao well? It sounds as dangerous as Vandalieu and Luciliano's experiments,” said Kachia, a former adventurer as a Ghoul like Bilde

“It didn't,” replied Kanako with a sigh “I couldn't talk to anyone about it since I was keeping e on my own, but… in the end, I killed people, and I beca people who thought of ot that memories aren't simply pieces of information; they have emotions attached to them and form the basis of the experiences thatthat were just as Legion and the others knew Kanako had started spending tiroup of members who felt dissatisfied with the Bravers… Those who had also had their dreaerous and they were not being paid enough for it Following that, the group had accepted the 'Avalon' Rikudou Hijiri's suggestion, kidnapped the hospitalized Minuhth Guidance and –

“And then I died, and now I'm here,” Kanako said

“Wait, I think you just skipped over so important,” said the Arachne Gizania

“Huh? But the stuff that happened after I was reincarnated in La”

“It is not that, it is the way you refor,” said the Eave a confused blink She didn't consider herself to have reformed

She had betrayed Rodcorte and joined Vandalieu's side because she had thought that the reward for doing so was greater than the alternative She hadn't decided that Rodcorte and Murakaht

From Kanako's point of view, Vandalieu versus Rodcorte wasn't a conflict of justice against evil It was simply that their interests conflicted with each other

It was the sain

Kanako didn't believe that Vandalieu was on the side of justice However, she was certain that in this world, she stood to gain the most in Talosheim, the nation that he ruled

“H Ireincarnated here, but I have killed soinning To begin with, I never killed people for no reason in ht be true, but… Are you not aware of it?” Pluto asked her

“You're surprisingly unperceptive,” said Enma

“Aware…? Pluto, En to you? What do you think, Bilde-san?” Kanako asked, turning to Bilde

Bilde gave her a sirl”

“That's right, that's… Wait, why do you think that?! The inside of my stomach is pitch black, you know?!” Kanako exclaimed

“What?! Isn't that some kind of disease?! I've never heard of so black!” Privel shouted in alarm

“It means I' black is a japanese phrase that , wicked oraside what you think of yourself, there's proof that you've reforood person All of us received the divine protection of Deanna, the Moon Giant, didn't we?” said Basdia

Recovering her coht back to that tio When she, Darcia, Zadiris and Zandia were on-stage, Deanna had appeared along with Tiaiven them her divine protection

“That's true, but what are you trying to say? You and Pluto and the others received divine protections as well, didn't you?” said Kanako, not quite understanding

“You know, Kanako Gods aren't all-knowing or all-powerful But they aren't careless enough to directly give their divine protections to those who oppose their teachings,” said Privel, as also Merrebeveil's shrine maiden

Kanako fell silent for aof these words… and was dumbfounded “I-I see… When I think about Gods and divine protections, the i that I never thought too deeply about it, but… Uwah! Should I go and thank her right now?!” she said hastily, having realized that she had received so very valuable

But Privel and the others were still cal Kanako's reaction, this God called Rodcorte must be really untrustworthy,” said Privel

“Ordinarily, granting a divine protection upon an individual is a way that Gods show their belief in that person's qualities and personality,” said Gizania

“Well, there are soh their connections,” said Myuze

“That is true for rant the a divine protection fro a divine protection was a declaration from the God that the recipient was an es, a holy person

Divine protections were only granted to a handful of priests, ys to the masses of believers In other words, such individuals were those who had been chosen by a God

Of course, if such individuals began to ignore the teachings and gave into i the preciousness of life and repeatedly co and killing pregnant mothers, babies and lovers

The people would not revere a God ould give a divine protection to such an individual

That hy Gods carefully chose those whoave their divine protections to… or at least,her divine protection to Kanako, Deanna would have considered Kanako's personality and thought that there were no problems The people of Talosheim would certainly interpret it this way

… As for Rodcorte, who taught nothing, did not lead the people or look back on the past, he had siranted his divine protection to the reincarnated individuals to ht,” said Basdia “She ive you a bitter smile once she learns that you have only just realized it, though”

“Really?!” Kanako gave a sigh of relief as she corrected her posture and faced Basdia and the others once more “… It would have beentaken away froht that my life as an entertainer, which I worked so hard towards, was over”

“You're staunch, aren't you It's true that you're not a bad person, but you're not a saint,” said Pluto

“I've learned sos have turned out differently fro to turn over a new leaf and do ether!” Kanako said, raising her fist into the air

“Yeah!” everyone else cheered, raising their fists into the air with her

“H their best efforts together towards?” asked Myuze

“Why are we all gathered here in the first place?” Hitomi questioned

Everyone suddenly realized that there was soathered in one room and listened to the story of Kanako's life?

“It's because I want you to help ical Girls' plan to make more idols, of course,” said Kanako in a casual tone, as if there was nothing out of the ordinary about what she had just said

“What?! We can becoirls?!” Bilde shouted in exciteet excited! Kanako, we haven't heard anything about this!” exclaimed Privel

“Because I didn't tell you,” said Kanako “If I explained it beforehand, I didn't think all of you would come”

“So as all of that talk about, then?” Privel asked

“I hid nothing and told the truth, planning to persuade you byyou the pitiful tale ofthat I need everyone's love and help for athered everyone here without telling the to create an at to cooperate with her by telling theain their sy that you had soh, but…” muttered Pluto

“But why do you needwell,” said Hitomi