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The general meeting of my shrine maidens…… Akatsuki? What’s all this? (TL note: It doesn’t really translate to English, but these are h.o.m.onyms in j.a.panese, and she didn’t understand what they were saying.)

“We are of the red world, ruled by Tens.h.i.+, and milady’s world is called the blue world of oceans. This is the red world. Since we are next to the blue world of oceans, this should be a world with few differences from yours.”

Probably, at this time I had already figured out the current situation with frightening speed. After putting together the sounds into something that made more sense, I somehow understood what they just said.

“The red world is the first one that’s achieved peace thanks to the management of Tens.h.i.+. We have summoned milady here, to have milady become the Red Guardian of Dawn, in order to defend Tens.h.i.+ and become his guardian.”

It’s a great help that I’ve dabbled in anime and manga to some extent. Setting aside the issue of whether to believe them, I was able to organize their statements and figure out what was going on in a short period of time.

I was summoned from my world which they’re calling the blue world of oceans, to a place called the red world where Tens.h.i.+ protects the peace, and it seems that they summoned me because they want me to become his guardian.

Then, the person who had been talking to me kneeled back down again, and the person next to him stood up and began talking. The first person that had stood up was already an old man, but the one who stood up this time looked much more elderly, he looked so weak like he should have belonged to a hospital or nursing home.

“Strong one from another world. One who has a n.o.ble soul. Please, protect our G.o.d Tens.h.i.+-sama, and bring peace to this world……”

The old man seemed to be sincerely pleading with me from the bottom of his heart. Well, the echoing sounds of his pleading didn’t get through to me at all.

I’m just going to refuse them straight up.

“I don’t care about that. It’s your world, so do something about it yourselves. Sorry, but I’m not that nice and I’m not the type to help everyone. If you can’t do something about it by yourselves, then just accept the end results and give up already.”

As I spat out those cold words, it caused a commotion in the people prostrating themselves before me.

“That’s why, I don’t even want to listen to any more of your story, so please return me to my original world.”

“T, that’s! This is……”

“There’s nothing to it, really. I’m refusing your sudden request. This is the end, so please ask someone else.”

The people kneeling raised their heads and looked at me in confusion.

“……That’s not possible. Please, we humbly request this of you……!”

“No, even if you desperately ask me, I’m not going to listen. I mean, arbitrarily calling on me just like that, I have my own circ.u.mstances going on as well. Is this a bad joke? You’ve basically kidnapped me. An abduction. And you still have the nerve to request something of me? What’s more, protecting this Tens.h.i.+, how long would it take? Forever? At the very least, you’re probably not talking about one to two hours, right? I don’t have the time to unreasonably accompany you guys for this, and even if I had the time, I wouldn’t do it. I mean, you’re saying you want me to be a bodyguard, right? Doing something like bodyguarding, isn’t it quite dangerous? Why should I have to risk my life for some strangers I don’t know and a world I don’t know? I don’t understand at all.”

I said everything on my mind that was making me angry, and by the end I wasn’t even using polite speech anymore.

Well, since they were the ones who basically kidnapped me, there’s no need to be polite with them. They’re just people from another world, there’s no reason to respect them.

After I said all that in one go, the old man in front of me was turning pale. I wonder if they’ve realized that what they’ve done is wrong.

“If it’s like this, then there’s no helping it. Everyone, capture the Red Guardian of Dawn!”

……Eh. What?

In accordance with the old man’s command, ten people close to me came flying at me in unison.

Of course, I scratched, beat, kicked, bit, pulled hair, aimed at eyes with my fingers, and attacked weak points, resisting them to the point of fully intending to kill them, but the number of people just kept increasing.

In the end, I was captured with the force of numbers, violently forced down, and something hot was dripped on my forehead –

“For now, burn a curse into her. Don’t leave a scar! Take the Guardian to the Palace of Red Dawn!”

Something is burning on my forehead, it hurts really badly. Having lived peacefully in modern society, I’ve never experienced such pain before. I was desperately screaming for the first time.

Then, a seething grudge boiled up in me, and this was the next thing to escape my throat.

“-I’ll never forgive you all!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!”

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