The Tutorial Is Too Hard

“I don't think I'm convinced. ”

Kirikiri scratches his ear.

Then I reached out and grabbed my hand and said,

“Shall we move on? I don't think it's a good place to talk. ”

I was moved with Kirikiri without a chance to speak to my doctor.

Red sky and nosebleeds.

For a moment, I thought I was back on the ground of Tatatos.

But soon, I could see that I had traveled to a completely different dimension than where I was.

I looked around.

My body had somehow escaped the power of the god of slowness.

I was free to move.

“It's not a great environment to have a conversation here either. ”

I pressed down on the floor with my foot.

I didn't give you much strength, but the blood rises from the ground.

It was disgusting.

I felt like I was standing on a corpse, not on the ground.

Kirikiri picks up a piece of wood and sits crouched on it.

He didn't seem to want to put his foot on the ground, rather than a piece of wood.

I wondered.

This place seemed like a kind of virtual world.

Similar to what the perforated god created.

But this is an unpleasant place you brought here to talk.

I didn't understand.

Kirikiri didn't say much.

I kept looking around.

I felt a strange strangeness.

The horizon that you see at the border between the red sky and the red earth looks familiar.

Kirikiri explained.

“It's my hometown. ”

Disgust became my stomach.

I lifted my foot slightly.

The sticky blood on the sole of your shoe creaks.

“Maybe the dirt beneath your feet is the corpse of my family that was shredded. ”

I wanted to tell you that if I wanted to make you feel bad, it was very effective.

But I didn't say anything fast.

Even when he said, "The destruction of the world," Kirikiri smiled blankly.

Regret and misery are evident in her self-muttering face.

Kirikiri sometimes had a serious face, but it was a bit embarrassing because he had never shown such a dark color.

I noticed the identity of the strange feeling a little later.

This place has already been here before.

Several times.

I was so different, I didn't notice it right away.

A garden in Kirikiri that I encountered every time I completed the tutorial.

It was always a place where she'd just howl and howl.

“What happened here? ”

This place was weird.

Like a sponge watered by the ground, every time I press it, I start vomiting blood.

Even if there is a war, the earth will not be drained of blood in this way.

Without killing so many people here.

“Destruction. The god of slowness and the reckless creature who wanted to be part of it wanted to gain greater dignity through the human race. He ate up everyone in the land he ruled, but when there was not a single one left who worshipped him, even his personality was lost.... Stupid thing happened. ”

... It was a freshly crazy story.

“There weren't many gods back then. Most of them were powerful ancient gods, guardians of small lands or tribes. It's when the gods themselves were ignorant of their personality. ”

A god who slaughters his followers.

It was a story I experienced several times in the tutorial.

I felt disgusted and disgusted just thinking about it again.

It wasn't just cruel and unfortunate.

There was unpleasantness when I witnessed the collapse of the taboo that should not exist.

“That's why you brought me here. ”

“... I want you to know that we're not just talking about this. I chose it not because I underestimated life, but because I had to. ”

I have been through Kirikiri for a long time.

I don't know how honest she was with me, but I think I know her pretty well.

Unlike other gods who think that even the existence of other people's lives is a long way off, Kirikiri was a god who valued his relationship with others.

Technically, it was the most similar to the perforated god.

I even cared about the challengers in the tutorial.

Now that she knew she was a god and she knew what a god was, she could understand how special it was.

When I finished the first floor of the tutorial, I asked about the people who died there.

At that moment, I remembered the sorry face that Kirikiri had sent out.

So it was even more shocking.

To put the destruction of the world in her mouth without a care.

“I really think it's better to destroy the world once. ”

It was still a dark face, but Kirikiri made it clear.

Of course you are.

She does not stop the recall of the tutorial as she must apologize for the death of the challengers.

“Are you sure?”

Kirikiri nods.

“I am sure. It is better for the world to perish than for the god of order to be transcendent. ”

I thought there would be a world that was perfectly aligned with the will of the god of order.

So people will be like cogs disappearing from a life that's perfectly machined.

I told Kirikiri my guess.

“In a world with the will of the transcendent god, you must not think that there is anything else besides that will. Perfect order will force a world of absolute nothingness. ”

Either way, we're doomed.

It really made things worse.

“… you should have done a good job with the design in the first place. ”

I heard that God and the system of order are designed artificial gods.

This wasn't a skynet that crashed, and I should have designed it not to happen in the first place.

“… the god of order is well designed. Just……. ”

“Just, you know. ”

“The problem was that too many gods were born. ”

Too many gods have come under the system, and as a result, the power of the god of order has surpassed the expected category.

“When I scattered the power of the god of slowness across the world, I didn't think it would come together so easily. ”

Kirikiri mutters to himself.

As I listened to her excuses, I could recall what the power of the scattered god of slowness meant.

“Origin.”

“That's right."

The origins were strangely common people.

Even on the planet itself.

And in the face of a continental or tribal crisis, that power is concentrated on one hero.

Heroes become monsters because they can't handle their power, and it was the gods that came out of Tatatos that were born with endless accumulation of power.

It was after the origin was revealed.

The rapid rise of adult nationals, and tutorials in the name of protecting the realm from such gods.

I understood the situation.

“I didn't have that temper from the start. But……. ”

“Let's talk about that later. ”

I stopped Kirikiri from explaining it in detail.

I had a lot to say before that.

“Is there any way to stop the God of Order? ”

I recalled when the God of Order appeared in the Realm of the Perforated God.

The giant attack, as well as the divine struggle of the perforated god, had no effect on the god of order.

There was nothing I could do to prevent the attack at all.

“There is.”

“How? I couldn't touch it like a figment. ”

“There is.”

Kirikiri repeatedly agreed with my question.

“… so what? ”

“You.”

“What?"

“You can touch the God of Order. We could attack. ”

It wasn't.

Like giants, I tried to attack the God of Order.

And my attack did not reach the God of Order.

“Because you were out of line. The God of Order prevented the God of Perforation from breaking the rules. You had nothing to do with the God of Order. So you couldn't reach it. ”

“Is it possible now? ”

“If you follow the rules of the gods of order as a challenger, ”

* * *

… Challenger.

Yeah, that damn challenger.

I always wondered why we were called challengers.

At first, I thought it meant a challenge.

It was unnatural to think of the place as a tutorial.

If the goal was to be cultivated as an apostle of the gods through tutorials, it would have been better to name the student or reserve rather than the challenger.

“That was the final goal of the tutorial after all. ”

“Yes. It was also aimed at cultivating an apostle of the gods and dispensing superhumans to defend the planet themselves, but ultimately, it was aimed at gathering the apostles and challenging the god of order. ”

That's way too promising.

The only way to stop the transcendent god is to grow the mortal and stop him?

“The gods couldn't do it themselves. And so are the servants. I had to get a new one after all. I was supposed to gather more challengers. But the god of order grew too fast, and above all, you appeared. ”

I was unable to successfully complete the tutorial, and at the very last minute, I appeared to have grown to share some of the tutorial.

“So when I asked you to stop the tutorial, I was able to do it without any pressure. The challenger is ready.”

“Winning?”

“Nothing. Right now. ”

The answer came back.

“To increase the odds……. ”

You mean destroy the world.

The story was huge.

This is ridiculous.

“I can't help it. This is your last chance. The god of order has become too powerful, and there are too few challengers ready. ”

Kirikiri unfolds his fingers.

“There are two options. Both are scheduled for destruction, but one side has both victory and a future. ”

“One more thing. ”

There is an option that Kirikiri did not mention.

Maybe I didn't even think of the option.

“You can win without destroying the world. ”

In the end, the destruction of the world is to increase the odds.

But if only I could overcome it without destroying the world and undermining the gods of order.

The destruction of the world becomes meaningless as a result.

“Impossible. Arrogance. ”

Kirikiri, who was crouching, stood up and looked me straight in the eye.

We were standing on the ground in a flurry of blood and moved back to the vicinity of Tadartos.

My body doesn't move again.

Even moving your lips to make a voice.

“The proof is that you cannot escape the power of the god of slowness. You cannot resist that power, and there is no chance of winning by challenging the god of undiminished order. ”

Kirikiri stares at me with pitiful eyes, unable to move.

Then I whispered.

“I trust you'll understand. Results are the most important thing to you. It's a painful process, but there's nothing we can do to make it work. ”

That's how Kirikiri got further and further away from me.

“Wait here. By the time you're released, the whole ordeal will be over. That's when you focus on your goals. ”

Kirikiri's last words get distant, and he hides himself again.

* * *

Time lapse.

Separate from the world, it slows down the flow of time for me.

Because of this, you experience a world that is almost frozen, and the mind experiences a long and long time for a short period of time.

It was useful for training and for judgment and focus during combat.

But Kirikiri transformed this ability and used it on others.

As a prison of time cut off from the world.

Kirikiri was right.

I could not lift a finger in the power of the slow god, nor could I win against the god of order approaching the transcendent god.

But I didn't want to just sit here and wait for the world to end.

No, I couldn't.

My definition of victory is complex.

Even if you win, if you destroy the world in the process.

Can I accept the consequences of winning it?

I was dizzy.

The god of light, who had not cared about it, was slowly approaching.

He was annoyed by the approach.

In close proximity, it looked like a small human form.

I couldn't tell exactly because I was suffering from staring straight at him.

The Lord of Light applauds as he approaches.

Shiny.

Every clap, the light scattered.

What are you doing, you idiot?

The Lord of Light tried to prick me with a finger when I did not react even as he approached.

The finger slowly approaches.

A powerful swarm of light shook around the finger of light.

In the time loop, everything seemed slow.

Slowly, slowly, fingers approached my face.

The finger of the Lord of Light was about to touch the back of my nose.

I was able to hold his finger out of time prison.

“Put it away.”