Chapter 168 – A fear inside a fear
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“TRANSLATOR: Anargya”
“EDITOR: GhostApe”
「Ah, Enka-san. I’m sorry for the inconvenience… So, what happened?」
『Ohh. You returned at the right time, old man. I’ve been waiting for you. Now please command your child to erase that stalker properly this time.』
「Is that what you wanted to talk about?」
The Cardinal did say that “There is something that God wants to talk about”, but to think that it was a request to deal with Yoro-san again.
「Do you want to do it, Evil Dragon-sama? Certainly, for me that has powered up right now, there will be no trouble at all. And——it seems that this armor has weakened a lot too.」
「Mu? I don’t mind if you want to. I might have lost a lot of magical power, but it doesn’t mean that I am no longer absolutely strong. The differences in power will fill my heart up.」
「I’m prepared. I’ll send you straight into the underworld so that you won’t suffer at least.」
「Wait. Why did you guys hit it off in such a dangerous direction? Please don’t start fighting here.」
Rēko and Yoro-san were about to fight at any moment, but I hurriedly broke in between them and tried to mediate for both of them. 「Cih.」Enka who saw that clicked her tongue.
「Let’s sort out the situation for the time being. How did Yoro-san came back at such speed?」
『Well—… it’s somewhat my mistake or my carelessness you could say… Ahh, it’s so troublesome.』
Enka sat down cross legged on the spot while frowning.
『Look, you heard about this before. I can’t carelessly use my power, so I had minions to do the protection of this country. The Holy Beasts——and, an incarnation of volcanic lightning made from the cloud that was from an eruption.』
「Come to think about it, there was such a thing. Thunder God-sama or something.」
When we entered the capital for the first time, that thunder god was more generally worshipped than Enka herself.
『That thunder guy was something like an automatic interceptor, so Raijin was not such a noble thing, but… it gathered a lot of faith before I knew it. All of that faith’s magical power accumulated as it had no place to go.』
「Un.」
『Then all of it flowed into this other one.』
「Ahh…」
『It was because he had to do such a misleading thing. He went around throwing lightning at the small fish monsters did he not? Because of that, the faith in the Thunder God suddenly went into him. Then his magical power recovered rapidly and he revived.』
At that point, I could guess the rest.
A huge amount of magical power gathered for an object of faith (or awe) that has no real image, then the instant there is an existence that is somewhat close to it, all of that magic power flowed to him. It is the same phenomenon that I suspect to be Rēko’s source of power. Rēko’s power is something that she got herself after all.
「Well, that doesn’t sound good. But Yoro-san isn’t exactly a bad person, so why don’t you guys just get along?」
『Are you fooling around, Old man? There is no way I want this stickly stalker guy to become my subordinate without my permission.』
「I wonder about that. I believe I can really sympathize with you. It might be difficult, but I’ll support you. Let’s do our best.」
『Oi, don’t kid with me. And why are you giggling?』
While being shaken by Enka, I smiled at their dark sense of companionship. Looks like the number of companions has increased.
「Oi Enka. Anyway, since I reincarnated and all, let’s have a proper duel this time.」
『Shut up. I’m already tired today. If you are free, then go wipe the area clean, you newcomer.』
「Umu…fine. I also wanted to have a duel with you when I am completely resurrected and full with magic power. I’ll show you that I am a first-class God and gain more faith than you.」
Yoro-san dutifully took out a bucket and a rag from his cloak and got into a wiping position.
He wasn’t good at squeezing a rag.
Moreover, the floor of the cathedral is starting to get scratches because he is kneeling with his armor on.
I was wondering if anyone is going to stop him, but each of the church members are standing at the back of the hall away from us and are just looking at us from a distance.
It doesn’t feel like they are looking at an object of worship. It feels like they have stopped thinking of what to do. By the way, I almost have the same expression as them on my face.
When I was wondering what went wrong, Yoro-san turned toward me. He seems to be tired of wiping and cleaning already, and walks up to me leaving the rag.
「By the way, Evil Dragon. What are you going to do from now on? There seems to be a person who claims to be a Demon King aside from me but, are you going to defeat them?」
「Um… That’s right, huh.」
I hesitated a little, so I scolded myself.
「I’ve come this far already, so I feel like it’s better to go as far as I can with Rēko rather than running away. You also encouraged me before, so I’m not scared of any enemy anymore.」
「Fumu, that’s a good mental attitude. You are still weak but, even with that minus, that girl has ridiculously powered up. So it is true that you don’t need to be scared. 」
「Rēko is truly a reliable child. She is even 100 times stronger than before.」
Rēko’s strength is already indescribable for me even with my eyes. Well, I didn’t get a full picture of her strength from the beginning.
Here, Yoro-san tilted his head.
「Mu? 100 times? That’s strange. It doesn’t look like that from my point of view.」
「Ahaha. Well, Rēko is a human after all. I too might have been a little out of it and blew it out of proportion. But, she should be 2 or 3 times stronger than before though.」
「What are you talking about? I’m saying it’s more than 100 times.」
The air froze. Mainly the one around me.
「…Um. It isn’t 100 times? I-Is there an error? Is it 101 times, then? How many times specifically?」
「It’s too big so I don’t know the details. But, 100 times… no, ten thousand times… it seems to even exceed that number. 」
I was determined to not be afraid of anything, but hearing that, my body began to tremble tremendously.
「Wh-Why? What do you mean by that? Rēko is a child who keeps her words, so she shouldn’t have gotten stronger than I told…」
「No, even if you ask me that.」
『Oi, Old man.』
There, Enka gently walked between me and Yoro-san.
『I was watching that battle from a distance… And when I thought about it, you didn’t say “100 times!” from the beginning, did you not?』
「What do you mean by that?」
『First 2 times, then 5 times. That means 10 times… Then it multiplied one by one, right? Isn’t that how much she powered up each time?』
I, Yoro-san, and Enka fell silent.
During this time, Rēko is wiping the floor, which has been soaked with water by Yoro-san while saying “I can’t stand seeing it”.
「Le-Let’s calm down. In that case, how many times will it be in total? Is there anyone who can calculate?」
「I am not confident as there are too many digits.」
『It’s too much for me too. Let’s call the cardinal. He is a fool, but he has a smart head.』
「Did you call for me, O’ God of mine!」
The Cardinal jumped in from the opening of the main gate with a “Don!”. To appear as soon as he is called, he is a very hardcore follower.
I don’t really know what the actual number is, so for the time being, I asked the Cardinal to calculate it.
He answered immediately with mental arithmetic on the spot.
「Yes, O’ God of mine. 2 x 5 x 10 x 11 x 12 x 13 x 20 x 100…The answer is 343.2 million.」
A true horror, unmatched by any enemy I encountered ever, struck my heart.
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