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On a Godless Planet:Volume1 Chapter 2

2026-06-21T11:44:28Z

202.136.82.225:

==Chapter 2==
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She beat me pretty badly.

The place they called their “clubroom” was at the very end of the clubroom building right next to Building A, which contained the faculty room. They called their club the Game Club.

That seemed a little too on the nose to me, but I was a member too. Although I pretty much never showed up.

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“Sumeragi-chan, you’re so bad at fighting games. Tooru is stupid bad, but I remember how you stupid lost to him the day you joined the club. That’s when you stopped coming, isn’t it? You said you have some systems at home, right?”

That was the upperclassman named Saku. I had just learned her full name when I saw the nametag on the chest of her uniform. It said “Shifu Saku”.

Meanwhile, the upperclassman named Tooru was tall and had his long hair tied back.

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“What are you staring at me for, Sumeragi?”

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“Oh, nothing really…”

I’m sure you can tell just by looking at them, but he and Shifu were clearly an item. I could smell it. It was a unique scent that we unpopular folk were quite sensitive to.

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“Well, I was pretty sure I knew what was going on when you shared the food from the same convenience store bag.”

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“Yeah. I know you like big boobs, Sumeragi-chan, but these ones are off the market.”

She readily admitted it, but there was something I had to say to her comment.

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“It isn’t that I want them to myself. My love of big boobs is more of a conceptual thing.”

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“Did you hit your head?”

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“My head is just fine. Yes, if anything, my mind is a little too weak.”

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“You have some nerve claiming that.”

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“I’m a nervous person, what can I say? …Anyway, while I do want to touch and stare at big boobs, it’s worshiping and adoring them that really matters.”

“I see,” said Shifu-senpai as she passed me a convenience store sandwich.

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“You are quite the pervert…”

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“Oh, I’m not that high level yet.”

I took the sandwich and her partner tilted his head.

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“Hey, Sumeragi.”

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“What is it?”

He nodded and crossed his arms.

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“Saku’s my wife, so that means I’m the bigger big boobs lover. Don’t try to claim otherwise, okay?”

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''It’s on now,'' I thought as I slowly stood up.

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“Let’s settle this once and for all.”

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“Don’t be dumb. You’re the underclassman and I’m the upperclassman. I win by default.”

Shifu-senpai was giving us ''quite'' a look, but we decided to ignore it.

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“Listen.”

He made the first move.

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“Prove to me it isn’t just boobs in general you love.”

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Shifu thought to herself.

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…''They are the worst…

Was this really a conversation to have with a girl around? And something about Sumeragi must have gotten to her partner because it looked like he was about to attack the boy and then he started giving him some kind of test.

But it seemed harmless enough, so she decided to let it play out. However…

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“Very well.”

The underclassman idiot gave his response.

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“My love of boobs is a love of big boobs and not just boobs in general.”

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“Explain.”

The underclassman answered the upperclassman idiot.

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“The Japanese language includes the word ‘ippai’. It means ‘lots’ or ‘a large quantity’. Meanwhile, the word for boobs is ‘oppai’. When you look at the vowels, ‘o’ comes after ‘i’, so ‘oppai’ must mean ‘even more’ or ‘an even greater quantity’! Since I understand that logic, the concept of boobs and the concept of large size are inextricably attached in my mind. Thus, it is impossible for me to love boobs without it being a love of big boobs. Q.E.D.”

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“Can I just kick his ass?”

When she asked that, Tooru stepped forward and took a breath.

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“My brother…”

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“Brother…!”

The two idiots hugged, but that was a bad idea on such a hot and sweaty day.

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Shifu saw the two of them move apart while looking about ready to puke.

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“Ugh, it’s way too hot today. I shouldn’t have gone for a full body joke when the air conditioning is so bad in here.”

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“That’s my line! I love big boobs, not chests of any gender!”

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“Are you sure?”

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“Yes! You clearly don’t have boobs.”

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“Then give my chest a feel.”

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“Huh!? You dare challenge my concept of big boobs!? Fine, then! I’ll feel you up!”

He did so. And Tooru immediately threw the stupid underclassman to the floor.

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“You call that a caressssssssssssss!?”

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“Ow, ow, ow, ow! Wouldn’t it be worse if it did feel good!? I’m normal!”

Shifu felt like she should stop them soon.

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“Well, it is pretty hot today,” said Shifu as she intervened.

I felt like I had gotten the short end of the stick what with being thrown to the floor and all, but he held out his hand.

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“The name’s Raidou Tooru. You can use either one you like.”

I took his hand and pressed it to my chest. Then I wrapped my hands around his and looked up at him.

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“Well? Do you like it? Do you? Hgwah!”

He threw me to the floor again, but Shifu-senpai gave a nod of understanding this time.

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“Well, there’s generally someone here and people from the other clubs often come here for fun, so there’s really no reason to join if you’re never gonna show up.”

I looked around the clubroom while Raidou-senpai said that.

I saw him, Shifu-senpai, and one other person.

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…''She’s not a target of my worship…

There was another girl. She wore an old style uniform, so she was probably in the same year as me.

She had come out on top during the Monopoly-style game we had just been playing. Shifu-senpai had been 2nd, Raidou-senpai 3rd, and me dead last.

Shifu-senpai laughed quietly when she saw me looking at the other girl.

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“That’s Kuwajiri Tsubomi. She’s incredible at intellectual games. She’s stupid good at games like that one we were playing.”

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“No, that was only a matter of knowledge.”

Kuwajiri pushed up her glasses and sounded a little troubled.

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“When I saw the in-game currency, I calculated out the total amount of assets and used that to estimate what the general market prices would be like. It’s my standard technique for games like this. With experience, the other players will get a feel for the market prices and how negotiations work, but I’m terrible at that part and I start to fall in the rankings.”

''She talks really fast…'' I thought, but I did state my other impression out loud.

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“So you know the genre well enough to be untouchable on a first play through.”

My comment caused everyone to look my way. Kuwajiri immediately looked away and both Raidou-senpai and Shifu-senpai nodded. Then Shifu-senpai spoke up.

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“C’mon, Tsubomi-chan. That was a compliment.”

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“I don’t want a compliment for impermanent results…”

That must have been how she saw things. And I did have some experience with that. Yes, like in a fighting game when the environment-

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…''Huh?

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Something felt off to me.

But it was a minor thing, like realizing you didn’t really have a point to make.

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“But,” said Raidou-senpai.

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“Make sure you visit here as much as you can from now on.”

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“Eh? Do I look like I don’t have a life or something? You’re asking for a lot here since I’m actually pretty busy. Still, it sounds like I’m Mr. Popular around here.”

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“What are you busy with?”

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“Well, a good looking girl with big boobs just moved into the apartment next door, so I can earn the happy meal of life just by spending all my spare time bowing down toward that wall! Bet you’re jealous! Wait, Shifu-senpai, why are you putting my convenience store food back in the bag!? Give me one good reason!”

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“Look in the mirror, idiot.”

Since Kuwajiri nodded, the majority was against me. My only chance was a clever change of subject.

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“Why do you want me to visit here?”

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“Well, what the hell was that last night?”

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“Last night?”

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“You died immediately, remember?”

It came back to me when Kuwajiri glared at me.

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That starry sky.

And they probably meant that part where a dragon made of lava charged at me.

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“—————”

Yup, I sure did die. And since those three knew about it…

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“You were in that game?”

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“We sure were.”

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“We were wondering where you would be since noobs tend to have trouble figuring out their coordinates, but you were a lot closer than we expected and you died right away.”

“Oh,” I said in newfound understanding.

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“So it’s that kind of game.”

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“What kind of game did you think it was?”

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“It just happened so suddenly I didn’t have time to figure anything out.”

“Yeah,” said Shifu-senpai while nodding several times.

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“Humans really are weak.”

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“Oh, you mean the character race.”

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“Right, right. That’s what I meant. And you can kind of blame us for that one.”

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“We asked you to do it. We got you involved.”

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“Do you need my help in that game?”

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“Really, that field is all about you.”

When Raidou-senpai said that, Kuwajiri reached across the table and hit him on the back.

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“Hey, no spoilers.”

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“Oh, right, yeah. …So what are you doing tonight?”

“Well,” I said. Shifu-senpai had returned my confiscated food. The convenience store rice ball was kombu flavor. I started to wonder if you could catch that in that sea of lava.

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“Okay, I’ll join you. I honestly don’t really get the game, so I’d appreciate your help.”

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“Actually, Sumeragi-chan, where is your god partner?”

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“Partner?”

Shifu-senpai and Raidou-senpai exchanged a glance.

Kuwajiri answered in their place.

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“A human character chooses a god as their partner.”

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“Really?”

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“You can’t start playing if you don’t. Well, you can, but you can’t do anything.”

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“Is that so?”

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“But I take it you don’t know who yours is.”

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“I kinda died immediately, if you recall. It’s like I took one step out the door and immediately keeled over.”

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“You small fry.”

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“Yeah, I am a small fry! I haven’t lived the kind of life that lets me have a busty girl standing by my side like you have! If the options are 0 or 1, then I’m a 0! Got a problem with that, you son of a bitch!?”

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“I don’t, but watch your language.”

“Will you please tell me if you’ve got a problem with that, you son of a bitch!?”

He raised his fist and I tried to hide behind Kuwajiri, but she scooted her chair to the side.

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“Huh? Am I Mr. Unpopular now? But why? Because I’m annoying? Is that it? Well, Kuwajiri-kun? Can you help explain this to me? Hmm?”

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“Because you are irritating, creepy, and dumb.”

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“Th-that is much more of an answer than I expected! And when we only just met today!”

She looked even more irritated.

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“Fine, see if I care.”

I realized something as I said that.

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“I was a human, but I was sitting on lava. That’s not a standard ability, is it?”

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“Of course not. And if you remember that much, you did pretty good.”

Raidou-senpai placed a hand on his chin.

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“But in that case, I think we’ll stay out of tonight’s game session.”

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“Eh? Why!? I thought you were going to help me out! And you call yourselves upperclassmen!? I’m like a cute little lamb over here!”

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“Damn, I could really go for some lamb.”

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“I hope you like it bone in!”

I pulled up my shirt, held out my side, and lightly slapped it.

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“Coooooome and get it!!”

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Shifu-senpai slapped my side so hard she left a handprint.

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“Kuwajiri-chan, I dealt with the villain, so you can turn this way again! C’mon, turn around.”

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“No, thank you. I can’t imagine living a life of pure emotion like that. It sounds awful.”

I must have made Kuwajiri really mad. Calming her seemed to be Shifu-senpai’s job because Raidou-senpai left them alone and glared at me instead.

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“So anyway, you have a partner. They’re a god with enough power to let you walk on lava.”

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“Do you know what kind of god they are?”

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“It’s Shinto, so you chose and…”

He thought for a bit and tilted his head.

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“Well, that maybe explain it.”

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“Huh? I don’t get it.”

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“Simply put, you’re super weak, so the management may have given you a strong character.”

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“None of you know who it is?”

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“Oh, we’ve met them. Like when we put together the mission. We just don’t know their name.”

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“A nameless god? What’s that about?”

I could tell I was nothing but questions, but I couldn’t help it. I did remember dying last night. Apparently I needed the power of a god partner if I was going to avoid dying, but…

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“There are a lot of nameless gods. Shinto in particular has more than most religions.”

Kuwajiri explained it to me.

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“So if we show up, your partner might back off. In the worst case, they might decide to have nothing to do with you.”

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…''Hmm?

I had a little confused.

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“I have a god partner. Let’s just assume that’s true.”

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“What about it?”

Well…

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“You say that partner will decide not to show up if you’re nearby. Now, this whole discussion has nothing to do with my field of worship, but does that mean what I think it does?”

I stated my conclusion.

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“Are you all stronger than my god partner?”

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“It’s a pretty common thing.”

He readily admitted it. I couldn’t believe what I was hearing, but…

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“You’re a small fry…or rather, you haven’t even begun, so your partner isn’t that great either. On the other hand, we’ve got a decent amount of experience from a different field.”

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“Without a partner?”

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“Yeah, because we started as gods instead of a human like you.”

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“No fair!”

I simply spoke my mind.

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“I can remake my character, right!? Right!? I wanna be a god too! I wanna be a god so I can barge into the women’s bath, transform into an animal to spy on the women’s bath, and transform into the wind to blow by above the women’s bath!”

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“There’s not really anything worth seeing in there.”

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“I don’t care! It’s a fantasy! A fantasy! It’s in a boy’s nature to peep on baths! So you can call it a ‘nature bath’ for short! And doesn’t a nature bath sound nice!? Well, whatever! If I don’t have that kind of freedom with my character, I want a new one!”

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“You say that, but playing a god character ain’t easy.”

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“How so?”

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“Sometimes when a human character is in trouble, you have to save them.”

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“Really!? Wow! You have to save losers like me!? Sucks to be you! I’d never be able to stand that! Okay, human it is!”

Kuwajiri gave me one hell of a glare, but I pretended I didn’t see it.

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“Now.”

I asked another question.

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“What kind of game is it?”

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“Well, you could call it a crafting game.”

Shifu-senpai answered my question.

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“Or terraforming. It’s about cultivating a planet.”

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“Terraforming?”

I crouched down, stood back up while mimicking robot noises, and struck a pose.

“Terra Forrrrm! Te-terra-terra! Do you transform the planet like that to cultivate it?”

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“Do that again.”

Kuwajiri asked, so I did.

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“Terra Forrrrm!”

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“I didn’t get a good look. Do it again.”

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“T-Terra Form.”

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“Oh, that seemed different from before. Try doing it again.”

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“T-Terra…okay, fine! I didn’t think it was funny either, dammit! Mad!? Well, are you!? Hmm!?”

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“I am extremely angry, but that just proves I am normal.”

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“Senpai! Senpai! Let go of me! I won’t be satisfied until I’ve spoken my mind to that girl! Senpai! My pride demands it, so let go of me! Ahh, wait, no, not there, gwah, that’s my weak point!”

Shifu sat in front of Kuwajiri while letting her partner calm down the rioter who was shouting nonsense.

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“Tsubomi-chan, nothing good comes from taking idiots seriously.”

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“Not you too, Shifu-senpai!”

''Pipe down, you.

Then Kuwajiri sighed.

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“How should I put this? People like that are so foolish…”

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“Hmm, I think you’re a little young to be acting so world-weary, Tsubomi-chan.”

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“Actually, people don’t see me as mature as they see you…”

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“So you were just full of yourself? Wait, no, don’t take it that seriously.”

Meanwhile, the door opened. And…

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“Ohhhh, sounds like you’re having fuuun in here.”

A bald guy walked in.

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“Oh, it’s Yomoji-chan.”

Shifu-senpai’s comment clued me in to the new visitor’s presence. I was currently dangling 15cm above the floor thanks to Raidou-senpai’s right iron claw, but…

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“Oh, what’s this? You’re here, Shinsei?”

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“Eh? Who is it? Who, who? Is it a busty girl by any chance!?”

He released me by tossing me aside and I managed to strike three poses before coming to a stop. I was feeling woozy, but Shifu-senpai gave me some applause, so I deemed it a success.

And when I looked over, I saw a tall bald guy.

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“I’m going to be honest.”

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“Hold on.”

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“Is this bald guy really a student?”

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“You have guts. I’ll give you that.”

“Oh, I’m not that great,” I said while Shifu-senpai pointed at the guy with her can of coffee. He may have been even taller than Raidou-senpai, but he was even skinnier than me.

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“This is Yomoji Shinsei. He’s our club leader.”

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“Leader?”

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“Thaaat’s right. Oh, and Sumeragi-kuuun?”

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“Oh, yes. What is it?”

“Wellll,” said the club leader while stretching out the word, nodding, and spreading his arms.

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“I thought you miiiight be able to help last niiiight, but you died alllmost immediately. It was quiiiite a shock.”

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“Yeah, sorry. I’m not used to that game.”

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“IIII see. Hmm, not used to it? That iiiis true.”

The club leader made a suggestion.

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“Howwww about you try stuuuudying up on it?”

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On a Godless Planet:Volume1 Chapter 2

2026-06-21T11:35:16Z

202.136.82.225: /* Chapter 2 */

==Chapter 2==
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She beat me pretty badly.

The place they called their “clubroom” was at the very end of the clubroom building right next to Building A, which contained the faculty room. They called their club the Game Club.

That seemed a little too on the nose to me, but I was a member too. Although I pretty much never showed up.

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“Sumeragi-chan, you’re so bad at fighting games. Tooru is stupid bad, but I remember how you stupid lost to him the day you joined the club. That’s when you stopped coming, isn’t it? You said you have some systems at home, right?”

That was the upperclassman named Saku. I had just learned her full name when I saw the nametag on the chest of her uniform. It said “Shifu Saku”.

Meanwhile, the upperclassman named Tooru was tall and had his long hair tied back.

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“What are you staring at me for, Sumeragi?”

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“Oh, nothing really…”

I’m sure you can tell just by looking at them, but he and Shifu were clearly an item. I could smell it. It was a unique scent that we unpopular folk were quite sensitive to.

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“Well, I was pretty sure I knew what was going on when you shared the food from the same convenience store bag.”

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“Yeah. I know you like big boobs, Sumeragi-chan, but these ones are off the market.”

She readily admitted it, but there was something I had to say to her comment.

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“It isn’t that I want them to myself. My love of big boobs is more of a conceptual thing.”

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“Did you hit your head?”

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“My head is just fine. Yes, if anything, my mind is a little too weak.”

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“You have some nerve claiming that.”

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“I’m a nervous person, what can I say? …Anyway, while I do want to touch and stare at big boobs, it’s worshiping and adoring them that really matters.”

“I see,” said Shifu-senpai as she passed me a convenience store sandwich.

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“You are quite the pervert…”

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“Oh, I’m not that high level yet.”

I took the sandwich and her partner tilted his head.

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“Hey, Sumeragi.”

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“What is it?”

He nodded and crossed his arms.

[[Image:godless_raidou.png]]

“Saku’s my wife, so that means I’m the bigger big boobs lover. Don’t try to claim otherwise, okay?”

●

''It’s on now,'' I thought as I slowly stood up.

[[Image:godless_boku.png]]

“Let’s settle this once and for all.”

[[Image:godless_raidou.png]]

“Don’t be dumb. You’re the underclassman and I’m the upperclassman. I win by default.”

Shifu-senpai was giving us ''quite'' a look, but we decided to ignore it.

[[Image:godless_raidou.png]]

“Listen.”

He made the first move.

[[Image:godless_raidou.png]]

“Prove to me it isn’t just boobs in general you love.”

●

Shifu thought to herself.

[[Image:godless_shinobu.png]]

…''They are the worst…

Was this really a conversation to have with a girl around? And something about Sumeragi must have gotten to her partner because it looked like he was about to attack the boy and then he started giving him some kind of test.

But it seemed harmless enough, so she decided to let it play out. However…

[[Image:godless_boku.png]]

“Very well.”

The underclassman idiot gave his response.

[[Image:godless_boku.png]]

“My love of boobs is a love of big boobs and not just boobs in general.”

[[Image:godless_raidou.png]]

“Explain.”

The underclassman answered the upperclassman idiot.

[[Image:godless_boku.png]]

“The Japanese language includes the word ‘ippai’. It means ‘lots’ or ‘a large quantity’. Meanwhile, the word for boobs is ‘oppai’. When you look at the vowels, ‘o’ comes after ‘i’, so ‘oppai’ must mean ‘even more’ or ‘an even greater quantity’! Since I understand that logic, the concept of boobs and the concept of large size are inextricably attached in my mind. Thus, it is impossible for me to love boobs without it being a love of big boobs. Q.E.D.”

[[Image:godless_shinobu.png]]

“Can I just kick his ass?”

When she asked that, Tooru stepped forward and took a breath.

[[Image:godless_raidou.png]]

“My brother…”

[[Image:godless_boku.png]]

“Brother…!”

The two idiots hugged, but that was a bad idea on such a hot and sweaty day.

●

Shifu saw the two of them move apart while looking about ready to puke.

[[Image:godless_raidou.png]]

“Ugh, it’s way too hot today. I shouldn’t have gone for a full body joke when the air conditioning is so bad in here.”

[[Image:godless_boku.png]]

“That’s my line! I love big boobs, not chests of any gender!”

[[Image:godless_raidou.png]]

“Are you sure?”

[[Image:godless_boku.png]]

“Yes! You clearly don’t have boobs.”

[[Image:godless_raidou.png]]

“Then give my chest a feel.”

[[Image:godless_boku.png]]

“Huh!? You dare challenge my concept of big boobs!? Fine, then! I’ll feel you up!”

He did so. And Tooru immediately threw the stupid underclassman to the floor.

[[Image:godless_raidou.png]]

“You call that a caressssssssssssss!?”

[[Image:godless_boku.png]]

“Ow, ow, ow, ow! Wouldn’t it be worse if it did feel good!? I’m normal!”

Shifu felt like she should stop them soon.

●

“Well, it is pretty hot today,” said Shifu as she intervened.

I felt like I had gotten the short end of the stick what with being thrown to the floor and all, but he held out his hand.

[[Image:godless_raidou.png]]

“The name’s Raidou Tooru. You can use either one you like.”

I took his hand and pressed it to my chest. Then I wrapped my hands around his and looked up at him.

[[Image:godless_boku.png]]

“Well? Do you like it? Do you? Hgwah!”

He threw me to the floor again, but Shifu-senpai gave a nod of understanding this time.

●

[[Image:godless_raidou.png]]

“Well, there’s generally someone here and people from the other clubs often come here for fun, so there’s really no reason to join if you’re never gonna show up.”

I looked around the clubroom while Raidou-senpai said that.

I saw him, Shifu-senpai, and one other person.

[[Image:godless_boku.png]]

…''She’s not a target of my worship…

There was another girl. She wore an old style uniform, so she was probably in the same year as me.

She had come out on top during the Monopoly-style game we had just been playing. Shifu-senpai had been 2nd, Raidou-senpai 3rd, and me dead last.

Shifu-senpai laughed quietly when she saw me looking at the other girl.

[[Image:godless_shinobu.png]]

“That’s Kuwajiri Tsubomi. She’s incredible at intellectual games. She’s stupid good at games like that one we were playing.”

[[Image:godless_kuwajiri.png]]

“No, that was only a matter of knowledge.”

Kuwajiri pushed up her glasses and sounded a little troubled.

[[Image:godless_kuwajiri.png]]

“When I saw the in-game currency, I calculated out the total amount of assets and used that to estimate what the general market prices would be like. It’s my standard technique for games like this. With experience, the other players will get a feel for the market prices and how negotiations work, but I’m terrible at that part and I start to fall in the rankings.”

''She talks really fast…'' I thought, but I did state my other impression out loud.

[[Image:godless_boku.png]]

“So you know the genre well enough to be untouchable on a first play through.”

My comment caused everyone to look my way. Kuwajiri immediately looked away and both Raidou-senpai and Shifu-senpai nodded. Then Shifu-senpai spoke up.

[[Image:godless_shinobu.png]]

“C’mon, Tsubomi-chan. That was a compliment.”

[[Image:godless_kuwajiri.png]]

“I don’t want a compliment for impermanent results…”

That must have been how she saw things. And I did have some experience with that. Yes, like in a fighting game when the environment-

[[Image:godless_boku.png]]

…''Huh?

●

Something felt off to me.

But it was a minor thing, like realizing you didn’t really have a point to make.

●

“But,” said Raidou-senpai.

[[Image:godless_raidou.png]]

“Make sure you visit here as much as you can from now on.”

[[Image:godless_boku.png]]

“Eh? Do I look like I don’t have a life or something? You’re asking for a lot here since I’m actually pretty busy. Still, it sounds like I’m Mr. Popular around here.”

[[Image:godless_shinobu.png]]

“What are you busy with?”

[[Image:godless_boku.png]]

“Well, a good looking girl with big boobs just moved into the apartment next door, so I can earn the happy meal of life just by spending all my spare time bowing down toward that wall! Bet you’re jealous! Wait, Shifu-senpai, why are you putting my convenience store food back in the bag!? Give me one good reason!”

[[Image:godless_raidou.png]]

“Look in the mirror, idiot.”

Since Kuwajiri nodded, the majority was against me. My only chance was a clever change of subject.

[[Image:godless_boku.png]]

“Why do you want me to visit here?”

[[Image:godless_raidou.png]]

“Well, what the hell was that last night?”

[[Image:godless_boku.png]]

“Last night?”

[[Image:godless_kuwajiri.png]]

“You died immediately, remember?”

It came back to me when Kuwajiri glared at me.

●

That starry sky.

And they probably meant that part where a dragon made of lava charged at me.

[[Image:godless_boku.png]]

“—————”

Yup, I sure did die. And since those three knew about it…

[[Image:godless_boku.png]]

“You were in that game?”

[[Image:godless_shinobu.png]]

“We sure were.”

[[Image:godless_raidou.png]]

“We were wondering where you would be since noobs tend to have trouble figuring out their coordinates, but you were a lot closer than we expected and you died right away.”

“Oh,” I said in newfound understanding.

[[Image:godless_boku.png]]

“So it’s that kind of game.”

[[Image:godless_raidou.png]]

“What kind of game did you think it was?”

[[Image:godless_boku.png]]

“It just happened so suddenly I didn’t have time to figure anything out.”

“Yeah,” said Shifu-senpai while nodding several times.

[[Image:godless_shinobu.png]]

“Humans really are weak.”

[[Image:godless_boku.png]]

“Oh, you mean the character race.”

[[Image:godless_shinobu.png]]

“Right, right. That’s what I meant. And you can kind of blame us for that one.”

[[Image:godless_raidou.png]]

“We asked you to do it. We got you involved.”

[[Image:godless_boku.png]]

“Do you need my help in that game?”

[[Image:godless_raidou.png]]

“Really, that field is all about you.”

When Raidou-senpai said that, Kuwajiri reached across the table and hit him on the back.

[[Image:godless_kuwajiri.png]]

“Hey, no spoilers.”

[[Image:godless_raidou.png]]

“Oh, right, yeah. …So what are you doing tonight?”

“Well,” I said. Shifu-senpai had returned my confiscated food. The convenience store rice ball was kombu flavor. I started to wonder if you could catch that in that sea of lava.

[[Image:godless_boku.png]]

“Okay, I’ll join you. I honestly don’t really get the game, so I’d appreciate your help.”

[[Image:godless_shinobu.png]]

“Actually, Sumeragi-chan, where is your god partner?”

[[Image:godless_boku.png]]

“Partner?”

Shifu-senpai and Raidou-senpai exchanged a glance.

Kuwajiri answered in their place.

[[Image:godless_kuwajiri.png]]

“A human character chooses a god as their partner.”

[[Image:godless_boku.png]]

“Really?”

[[Image:godless_kuwajiri.png]]

“You can’t start playing if you don’t. Well, you can, but you can’t do anything.”

[[Image:godless_boku.png]]

“Is that so?”

[[Image:godless_shinobu.png]]

“But I take it you don’t know who yours is.”

[[Image:godless_boku.png]]

“I kinda died immediately, if you recall. It’s like I took one step out the door and immediately keeled over.”

[[Image:godless_raidou.png]]

“You small fry.”

[[Image:godless_boku.png]]

“Yeah, I am a small fry! I haven’t lived the kind of life that lets me have a busty girl standing by my side like you have! If the options are 0 or 1, then I’m a 0! Got a problem with that, you son of a bitch!?”

[[Image:godless_raidou.png]]

“I don’t, but watch your language.”

“Will you please tell me if you’ve got a problem with that, you son of a bitch!?”

He raised his fist and I tried to hide behind Kuwajiri, but she scooted her chair to the side.

[[Image:godless_boku.png]]

“Huh? Am I Mr. Unpopular now? But why? Because I’m annoying? Is that it? Well, Kuwajiri-kun? Can you help explain this to me? Hmm?”

[[Image:godless_kuwajiri.png]]

“Because you are irritating, creepy, and dumb.”

[[Image:godless_boku.png]]

“Th-that is much more of an answer than I expected! And when we only just met today!”

She looked even more irritated.

[[Image:godless_boku.png]]

“Fine, see if I care.”

I realized something as I said that.

[[Image:godless_boku.png]]

“I was a human, but I was sitting on lava. That’s not a standard ability, is it?”

[[Image:godless_raidou.png]]

“Of course not. And if you remember that much, you did pretty good.”

Raidou-senpai placed a hand on his chin.

[[Image:godless_raidou.png]]

“But in that case, I think we’ll stay out of tonight’s game session.”

[[Image:godless_boku.png]]

“Eh? Why!? I thought you were going to help me out! And you call yourselves upperclassmen!? I’m like a cute little lamb over here!”

[[Image:godless_shinobu.png]]

“Damn, I could really go for some lamb.”

[[Image:godless_boku.png]]

“I hope you like it bone in!”

I pulled up my shirt, held out my side, and lightly slapped it.

[[Image:godless_boku.png]]

“Coooooome and get it!!”

●

Shifu-senpai slapped my side so hard she left a handprint.

●

[[Image:godless_shinobu.png]]

“Kuwajiri-chan, I dealt with the villain, so you can turn this way again! C’mon, turn around.”

[[Image:godless_kuwajiri.png]]

“No, thank you. I can’t imagine living a life of pure emotion like that. It sounds awful.”

I must have made Kuwajiri really mad. Calming her seemed to be Shifu-senpai’s job because Raidou-senpai left them alone and glared at me instead.

[[Image:godless_raidou.png]]

“So anyway, you have a partner. They’re a god with enough power to let you walk on lava.”

[[Image:godless_boku.png]]

“Do you know what kind of god they are?”

[[Image:godless_raidou.png]]

“It’s Shinto, so you chose and…”

He thought for a bit and tilted his head.

[[Image:godless_raidou.png]]

“Well, that maybe explain it.”

[[Image:godless_boku.png]]

“Huh? I don’t get it.”

[[Image:godless_raidou.png]]

“Simply put, you’re super weak, so the management may have given you a strong character.”

[[Image:godless_boku.png]]

“None of you know who it is?”

[[Image:godless_raidou.png]]

“Oh, we’ve met them. Like when we put together the mission. We just don’t know their name.”

[[Image:godless_boku.png]]

“A nameless god? What’s that about?”

I could tell I was nothing but questions, but I couldn’t help it. I did remember dying last night. Apparently I needed the power of a god partner if I was going to avoid dying, but…

[[Image:godless_kuwajiri.png]]

“There are a lot of nameless gods. Shinto in particular has more than most religions.”

Kuwajiri explained it to me.

[[Image:godless_kuwajiri.png]]

“So if we show up, your partner might back off. In the worst case, they might decide to have nothing to do with you.”

[[Image:godless_boku.png]]

…''Hmm?

I had a little confused.

[[Image:godless_boku.png]]

“I have a god partner. Let’s just assume that’s true.”

[[Image:godless_shinobu.png]]

“What about it?”

Well…

[[Image:godless_boku.png]]

“You say that partner will decide not to show up if you’re nearby. Now, this whole discussion has nothing to do with my field of worship, but does that mean what I think it does?”

I stated my conclusion.

[[Image:godless_boku.png]]

“Are you all stronger than my god partner?”

[[Image:godless_raidou.png]]

“It’s a pretty common thing.”

He readily admitted it. I couldn’t believe what I was hearing, but…

[[Image:godless_raidou.png]]

“You’re a small fry…or rather, you haven’t even begun, so your partner isn’t that great either. On the other hand, we’ve got a decent amount of experience from a different field.”

[[Image:godless_boku.png]]

“Without a partner?”

[[Image:godless_raidou.png]]

“Yeah, because we started as gods instead of a human like you.”

[[Image:godless_boku.png]]

“No fair!”

I simply spoke my mind.

[[Image:godless_boku.png]]

“I can remake my character, right!? Right!? I wanna be a god too! I wanna be a god so I can barge into the women’s bath, transform into an animal to spy on the women’s bath, and transform into the wind to blow by above the women’s bath!”

[[Image:godless_shinobu.png]]

“There’s not really anything worth seeing in there.”

[[Image:godless_boku.png]]

“I don’t care! It’s a fantasy! A fantasy! It’s in a boy’s nature to peep on baths! So you can call it a ‘nature bath’ for short! And doesn’t a nature bath sound nice!? Well, whatever! If I don’t have that kind of freedom with my character, I want a new one!”

[[Image:godless_raidou.png]]

“You say that, but playing a god character ain’t easy.”

[[Image:godless_boku.png]]

“How so?”

[[Image:godless_raidou.png]]

“Sometimes when a human character is in trouble, you have to save them.”

[[Image:godless_boku.png]]

“Really!? Wow! You have to save losers like me!? Sucks to be you! I’d never be able to stand that! Okay, human it is!”

Kuwajiri gave me one hell of a glare, but I pretended I didn’t see it.

[[Image:godless_boku.png]]

“Now.”

I asked another question.

[[Image:godless_boku.png]]

“What kind of game is it?”

●

[[Image:godless_shinobu.png]]

“Well, you could call it a crafting game.”

Shifu-senpai answered my question.

[[Image:godless_shinobu.png]]

“Or terraforming. It’s about cultivating a planet.”

[[Image:godless_boku.png]]

“Terraforming?”

I crouched down, stood back up while mimicking robot noises, and struck a pose.

“Terra Forrrrm! Te-terra-terra! Do you transform the planet like that to cultivate it?”

[[Image:godless_kuwajiri.png]]

“Do that again.”

Kuwajiri asked, so I did.

[[Image:godless_boku.png]]

“Terra Forrrrm!”

[[Image:godless_kuwajiri.png]]

“I didn’t get a good look. Do it again.”

[[Image:godless_boku.png]]

“T-Terra Form.”

[[Image:godless_kuwajiri.png]]

“Oh, that seemed different from before. Try doing it again.”

[[Image:godless_boku.png]]

“T-Terra…okay, fine! I didn’t think it was funny either, dammit! Mad!? Well, are you!? Hmm!?”

[[Image:godless_kuwajiri.png]]

“I am extremely angry, but that just proves I am normal.”

●

[[Image:godless_boku.png]]

“Senpai! Senpai! Let go of me! I won’t be satisfied until I’ve spoken my mind to that girl! Senpai! My pride demands it, so let go of me! Ahh, wait, no, not there, gwah, that’s my weak point!”

Shifu sat in front of Kuwajiri while letting her partner calm down the rioter who was shouting nonsense.

[[Image:godless_shinobu.png]]

“Tsubomi-chan, nothing good comes from taking idiots seriously.”

[[Image:godless_boku.png]]

“Not you too, Shifu-senpai!”

''Pipe down, you.

Then Kuwajiri sighed.

[[Image:godless_kuwajiri.png]]

“How should I put this? People like that are so foolish…”

[[Image:godless_shinobu.png]]

“Hmm, I think you’re a little young to be acting so world-weary, Tsubomi-chan.”

[[Image:godless_kuwajiri.png]]

“Actually, people don’t see me as mature as they see you…”

[[Image:godless_shinobu.png]]

“So you were just full of yourself? Wait, no, don’t take it that seriously.”

Meanwhile, the door opened. And…

[[Image:godless_yomoji.png]]

“Ohhhh, sounds like you’re having fuuun in here.”

A bald guy walked in.

●

[[Image:godless_shinobu.png]]

“Oh, it’s Yomoji-chan.”

Shifu-senpai’s comment clued me in to the new visitor’s presence. I was currently dangling 15cm above the floor thanks to Raidou-senpai’s right iron claw, but…

[[Image:godless_raidou.png]]

“Oh, what’s this? You’re here, Shinsei?”

[[Image:godless_boku.png]]

“Eh? Who is it? Who, who? Is it a busty girl by any chance!?”

He released me by tossing me aside and I managed to strike three poses before coming to a stop. I was feeling woozy, but Shifu-senpai gave me some applause, so I deemed it a success.

And when I looked over, I saw a tall bald guy.

●

[[Image:godless_boku.png]]

“I’m going to be honest.”

[[Image:godless_raidou.png]]

“Hold on.”

[[Image:godless_boku.png]]

“Is this bald guy really a student?”

[[Image:godless_raidou.png]]

“You have guts. I’ll give you that.”

“Oh, I’m not that great,” I said while Shifu-senpai pointed at the guy with her can of coffee. He may have been even taller than Raidou-senpai, but he was even skinnier than me.

[[Image:godless_shinobu.png]]

“This is Yomoji Shinsei. He’s our club leader.”

[[Image:godless_boku.png]]

“Leader?”

[[Image:godless_yomoji.png]]

“Thaaat’s right. Oh, and Sumeragi-kuuun?”

[[Image:godless_boku.png]]

“Oh, yes. What is it?”

“Wellll,” said the club leader while stretching out the word, nodding, and spreading his arms.

[[Image:godless_yomoji.png]]

“I thought you miiiight be able to help last niiiight, but you died alllmost immediately. It was quiiiite a shock.”

[[Image:godless_boku.png]]

“Yeah, sorry. I’m not used to that game.”

[[Image:godless_yomoji.png]]

“IIII see. Hmm, not used to it? That iiiis true.”

The club leader made a suggestion.

[[Image:godless_yomoji.png]]

“Howwww about you try stuuuudying up on it?”

●

[[Image:godless_boku.png|50px]]

"I'm so bored..."

[[Image:godless_balancer.png|50px]]

<What a foolish ape of a human.>

[[Image:godless_boku.png|50px]]

"I want to do something exciting."

[[Image:godless_chuto.png|50px]]

<Is something wrong, Boku-chan?>

[[Image:godless_boku.png|50px]]

"I'm bored. How much longer do I have to stay here?"

[[Image:godless_balancer.png|50px]]

<Just one more week. Stop complaining.>

[[Image:godless_balancer.png|50px]]

<Why not go visit the other gods and goddesses instead?>

[[Image:godless_boku.png|50px]]

"They're too far away. Besides, I'm only an ordinary human, not a superhuman like everyone else."

[[Image:godless_balancer.png|50px]]

<That's true. Then tell me, what is it that you want?>

[[Image:godless_boku.png|50px]]

"Please give me the power to reach the gods and goddesses quickly. I'm begging you, AI."

[[Image:godless_chuto.png|50px]]



The moment Chuto finished speaking, a radiant light descended from above and gently enveloped Boku's entire body. The brilliant aura shimmered like countless stars, filling the surroundings with an indescribable warmth before gradually fading away.

[[Image:godless_chuto.png|50px]]

<Congratulations, Boku-chan. You have now obtained a blessing that will prevent you from ever becoming tired.>

[[Image:godless_boku.png|50px]]

"A blessing? What kind of blessing is it?"

[[Image:godless_chuto.png|50px]]

<Boku-chan, please try walking or running toward any destination you desire.>

Curious, Boku looked around and noticed a sofa positioned some distance away. Thinking it would be a perfect place for a nap, he casually took a single step toward it.

In that very instant, before his mind could even process the movement, he found himself already standing directly in front of the sofa.

There was no sensation of rushing through space, no blur of motion, and no distortion of the scenery. It was as though the journey itself had simply never existed.

[[Image:godless_boku.png|50px]]

"How is this possible?! The sofa was so far away only a moment ago, but now I'm already standing right here..."

[[Image:godless_chuto.png|50px]]

<The Blessing of Zero Time Interval.>

[[Image:godless_chuto.png|50px]]

<In simple terms, this blessing allows its bearer to arrive at the result of any intended movement instantly. Every action Boku-chan performs proceeds directly to its completed outcome, requiring no passage of time whatsoever.>

[[Image:godless_boku.png|50px]]

"Wow... that's incredible! Is this some kind of teleportation?"

[[Image:godless_chuto.png|50px]]

<No. It is not teleportation. Teleportation transfers someone from one location to another. The Blessing of Zero Time Interval instead allows Boku-chan to traverse any distance while consuming exactly zero time, causing movement to reach its conclusion the instant it begins.>

Boku stood frozen in astonishment for a brief moment before excitement overtook him. His eyes sparkled with wonder, and a wide smile spread across his face as he realized the extraordinary power he had been granted.

[[Image:godless_boku.png|50px]]

"Thank you so much, Chuto!"

[[Image:godless_chuto.png|50px]]

<You are most welcome, Boku-chan. Seeing you happy brings joy to me as well.>

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On a Godless Planet:Volume1 Chapter 2

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On a Godless Planet:Volume1 Chapter 2

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==Chapter 2==
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She beat me pretty badly.

The place they called their “clubroom” was at the very end of the clubroom building right next to Building A, which contained the faculty room. They called their club the Game Club.

That seemed a little too on the nose to me, but I was a member too. Although I pretty much never showed up.

[[Image:godless_shinobu.png]]

“Sumeragi-chan, you’re so bad at fighting games. Tooru is stupid bad, but I remember how you stupid lost to him the day you joined the club. That’s when you stopped coming, isn’t it? You said you have some systems at home, right?”

That was the upperclassman named Saku. I had just learned her full name when I saw the nametag on the chest of her uniform. It said “Shifu Saku”.

Meanwhile, the upperclassman named Tooru was tall and had his long hair tied back.

[[Image:godless_raidou.png]]

“What are you staring at me for, Sumeragi?”

[[Image:godless_boku.png]]

“Oh, nothing really…”

I’m sure you can tell just by looking at them, but he and Shifu were clearly an item. I could smell it. It was a unique scent that we unpopular folk were quite sensitive to.

[[Image:godless_boku.png]]

“Well, I was pretty sure I knew what was going on when you shared the food from the same convenience store bag.”

[[Image:godless_shinobu.png]]

“Yeah. I know you like big boobs, Sumeragi-chan, but these ones are off the market.”

She readily admitted it, but there was something I had to say to her comment.

[[Image:godless_boku.png]]

“It isn’t that I want them to myself. My love of big boobs is more of a conceptual thing.”

[[Image:godless_shinobu.png]]

“Did you hit your head?”

[[Image:godless_boku.png]]

“My head is just fine. Yes, if anything, my mind is a little too weak.”

[[Image:godless_raidou.png]]

“You have some nerve claiming that.”

[[Image:godless_boku.png]]

“I’m a nervous person, what can I say? …Anyway, while I do want to touch and stare at big boobs, it’s worshiping and adoring them that really matters.”

“I see,” said Shifu-senpai as she passed me a convenience store sandwich.

[[Image:godless_shinobu.png]]

“You are quite the pervert…”

[[Image:godless_boku.png]]

“Oh, I’m not that high level yet.”

I took the sandwich and her partner tilted his head.

[[Image:godless_raidou.png]]

“Hey, Sumeragi.”

[[Image:godless_boku.png]]

“What is it?”

He nodded and crossed his arms.

[[Image:godless_raidou.png]]

“Saku’s my wife, so that means I’m the bigger big boobs lover. Don’t try to claim otherwise, okay?”

●

''It’s on now,'' I thought as I slowly stood up.

[[Image:godless_boku.png]]

“Let’s settle this once and for all.”

[[Image:godless_raidou.png]]

“Don’t be dumb. You’re the underclassman and I’m the upperclassman. I win by default.”

Shifu-senpai was giving us ''quite'' a look, but we decided to ignore it.

[[Image:godless_raidou.png]]

“Listen.”

He made the first move.

[[Image:godless_raidou.png]]

“Prove to me it isn’t just boobs in general you love.”

●

Shifu thought to herself.

[[Image:godless_shinobu.png]]

…''They are the worst…

Was this really a conversation to have with a girl around? And something about Sumeragi must have gotten to her partner because it looked like he was about to attack the boy and then he started giving him some kind of test.

But it seemed harmless enough, so she decided to let it play out. However…

[[Image:godless_boku.png]]

“Very well.”

The underclassman idiot gave his response.

[[Image:godless_boku.png]]

“My love of boobs is a love of big boobs and not just boobs in general.”

[[Image:godless_raidou.png]]

“Explain.”

The underclassman answered the upperclassman idiot.

[[Image:godless_boku.png]]

“The Japanese language includes the word ‘ippai’. It means ‘lots’ or ‘a large quantity’. Meanwhile, the word for boobs is ‘oppai’. When you look at the vowels, ‘o’ comes after ‘i’, so ‘oppai’ must mean ‘even more’ or ‘an even greater quantity’! Since I understand that logic, the concept of boobs and the concept of large size are inextricably attached in my mind. Thus, it is impossible for me to love boobs without it being a love of big boobs. Q.E.D.”

[[Image:godless_shinobu.png]]

“Can I just kick his ass?”

When she asked that, Tooru stepped forward and took a breath.

[[Image:godless_raidou.png]]

“My brother…”

[[Image:godless_boku.png]]

“Brother…!”

The two idiots hugged, but that was a bad idea on such a hot and sweaty day.

●

Shifu saw the two of them move apart while looking about ready to puke.

[[Image:godless_raidou.png]]

“Ugh, it’s way too hot today. I shouldn’t have gone for a full body joke when the air conditioning is so bad in here.”

[[Image:godless_boku.png]]

“That’s my line! I love big boobs, not chests of any gender!”

[[Image:godless_raidou.png]]

“Are you sure?”

[[Image:godless_boku.png]]

“Yes! You clearly don’t have boobs.”

[[Image:godless_raidou.png]]

“Then give my chest a feel.”

[[Image:godless_boku.png]]

“Huh!? You dare challenge my concept of big boobs!? Fine, then! I’ll feel you up!”

He did so. And Tooru immediately threw the stupid underclassman to the floor.

[[Image:godless_raidou.png]]

“You call that a caressssssssssssss!?”

[[Image:godless_boku.png]]

“Ow, ow, ow, ow! Wouldn’t it be worse if it did feel good!? I’m normal!”

Shifu felt like she should stop them soon.

●

“Well, it is pretty hot today,” said Shifu as she intervened.

I felt like I had gotten the short end of the stick what with being thrown to the floor and all, but he held out his hand.

[[Image:godless_raidou.png]]

“The name’s Raidou Tooru. You can use either one you like.”

I took his hand and pressed it to my chest. Then I wrapped my hands around his and looked up at him.

[[Image:godless_boku.png]]

“Well? Do you like it? Do you? Hgwah!”

He threw me to the floor again, but Shifu-senpai gave a nod of understanding this time.

●

[[Image:godless_raidou.png]]

“Well, there’s generally someone here and people from the other clubs often come here for fun, so there’s really no reason to join if you’re never gonna show up.”

I looked around the clubroom while Raidou-senpai said that.

I saw him, Shifu-senpai, and one other person.

[[Image:godless_boku.png]]

…''She’s not a target of my worship…

There was another girl. She wore an old style uniform, so she was probably in the same year as me.

She had come out on top during the Monopoly-style game we had just been playing. Shifu-senpai had been 2nd, Raidou-senpai 3rd, and me dead last.

Shifu-senpai laughed quietly when she saw me looking at the other girl.

[[Image:godless_shinobu.png]]

“That’s Kuwajiri Tsubomi. She’s incredible at intellectual games. She’s stupid good at games like that one we were playing.”

[[Image:godless_kuwajiri.png]]

“No, that was only a matter of knowledge.”

Kuwajiri pushed up her glasses and sounded a little troubled.

[[Image:godless_kuwajiri.png]]

“When I saw the in-game currency, I calculated out the total amount of assets and used that to estimate what the general market prices would be like. It’s my standard technique for games like this. With experience, the other players will get a feel for the market prices and how negotiations work, but I’m terrible at that part and I start to fall in the rankings.”

''She talks really fast…'' I thought, but I did state my other impression out loud.

[[Image:godless_boku.png]]

“So you know the genre well enough to be untouchable on a first play through.”

My comment caused everyone to look my way. Kuwajiri immediately looked away and both Raidou-senpai and Shifu-senpai nodded. Then Shifu-senpai spoke up.

[[Image:godless_shinobu.png]]

“C’mon, Tsubomi-chan. That was a compliment.”

[[Image:godless_kuwajiri.png]]

“I don’t want a compliment for impermanent results…”

That must have been how she saw things. And I did have some experience with that. Yes, like in a fighting game when the environment-

[[Image:godless_boku.png]]

…''Huh?

●

Something felt off to me.

But it was a minor thing, like realizing you didn’t really have a point to make.

●

“But,” said Raidou-senpai.

[[Image:godless_raidou.png]]

“Make sure you visit here as much as you can from now on.”

[[Image:godless_boku.png]]

“Eh? Do I look like I don’t have a life or something? You’re asking for a lot here since I’m actually pretty busy. Still, it sounds like I’m Mr. Popular around here.”

[[Image:godless_shinobu.png]]

“What are you busy with?”

[[Image:godless_boku.png]]

“Well, a good looking girl with big boobs just moved into the apartment next door, so I can earn the happy meal of life just by spending all my spare time bowing down toward that wall! Bet you’re jealous! Wait, Shifu-senpai, why are you putting my convenience store food back in the bag!? Give me one good reason!”

[[Image:godless_raidou.png]]

“Look in the mirror, idiot.”

Since Kuwajiri nodded, the majority was against me. My only chance was a clever change of subject.

[[Image:godless_boku.png]]

“Why do you want me to visit here?”

[[Image:godless_raidou.png]]

“Well, what the hell was that last night?”

[[Image:godless_boku.png]]

“Last night?”

[[Image:godless_kuwajiri.png]]

“You died immediately, remember?”

It came back to me when Kuwajiri glared at me.

●

That starry sky.

And they probably meant that part where a dragon made of lava charged at me.

[[Image:godless_boku.png]]

“—————”

Yup, I sure did die. And since those three knew about it…

[[Image:godless_boku.png]]

“You were in that game?”

[[Image:godless_shinobu.png]]

“We sure were.”

[[Image:godless_raidou.png]]

“We were wondering where you would be since noobs tend to have trouble figuring out their coordinates, but you were a lot closer than we expected and you died right away.”

“Oh,” I said in newfound understanding.

[[Image:godless_boku.png]]

“So it’s that kind of game.”

[[Image:godless_raidou.png]]

“What kind of game did you think it was?”

[[Image:godless_boku.png]]

“It just happened so suddenly I didn’t have time to figure anything out.”

“Yeah,” said Shifu-senpai while nodding several times.

[[Image:godless_shinobu.png]]

“Humans really are weak.”

[[Image:godless_boku.png]]

“Oh, you mean the character race.”

[[Image:godless_shinobu.png]]

“Right, right. That’s what I meant. And you can kind of blame us for that one.”

[[Image:godless_raidou.png]]

“We asked you to do it. We got you involved.”

[[Image:godless_boku.png]]

“Do you need my help in that game?”

[[Image:godless_raidou.png]]

“Really, that field is all about you.”

When Raidou-senpai said that, Kuwajiri reached across the table and hit him on the back.

[[Image:godless_kuwajiri.png]]

“Hey, no spoilers.”

[[Image:godless_raidou.png]]

“Oh, right, yeah. …So what are you doing tonight?”

“Well,” I said. Shifu-senpai had returned my confiscated food. The convenience store rice ball was kombu flavor. I started to wonder if you could catch that in that sea of lava.

[[Image:godless_boku.png]]

“Okay, I’ll join you. I honestly don’t really get the game, so I’d appreciate your help.”

[[Image:godless_shinobu.png]]

“Actually, Sumeragi-chan, where is your god partner?”

[[Image:godless_boku.png]]

“Partner?”

Shifu-senpai and Raidou-senpai exchanged a glance.

Kuwajiri answered in their place.

[[Image:godless_kuwajiri.png]]

“A human character chooses a god as their partner.”

[[Image:godless_boku.png]]

“Really?”

[[Image:godless_kuwajiri.png]]

“You can’t start playing if you don’t. Well, you can, but you can’t do anything.”

[[Image:godless_boku.png]]

“Is that so?”

[[Image:godless_shinobu.png]]

“But I take it you don’t know who yours is.”

[[Image:godless_boku.png]]

“I kinda died immediately, if you recall. It’s like I took one step out the door and immediately keeled over.”

[[Image:godless_raidou.png]]

“You small fry.”

[[Image:godless_boku.png]]

“Yeah, I am a small fry! I haven’t lived the kind of life that lets me have a busty girl standing by my side like you have! If the options are 0 or 1, then I’m a 0! Got a problem with that, you son of a bitch!?”

[[Image:godless_raidou.png]]

“I don’t, but watch your language.”

“Will you please tell me if you’ve got a problem with that, you son of a bitch!?”

He raised his fist and I tried to hide behind Kuwajiri, but she scooted her chair to the side.

[[Image:godless_boku.png]]

“Huh? Am I Mr. Unpopular now? But why? Because I’m annoying? Is that it? Well, Kuwajiri-kun? Can you help explain this to me? Hmm?”

[[Image:godless_kuwajiri.png]]

“Because you are irritating, creepy, and dumb.”

[[Image:godless_boku.png]]

“Th-that is much more of an answer than I expected! And when we only just met today!”

She looked even more irritated.

[[Image:godless_boku.png]]

“Fine, see if I care.”

I realized something as I said that.

[[Image:godless_boku.png]]

“I was a human, but I was sitting on lava. That’s not a standard ability, is it?”

[[Image:godless_raidou.png]]

“Of course not. And if you remember that much, you did pretty good.”

Raidou-senpai placed a hand on his chin.

[[Image:godless_raidou.png]]

“But in that case, I think we’ll stay out of tonight’s game session.”

[[Image:godless_boku.png]]

“Eh? Why!? I thought you were going to help me out! And you call yourselves upperclassmen!? I’m like a cute little lamb over here!”

[[Image:godless_shinobu.png]]

“Damn, I could really go for some lamb.”

[[Image:godless_boku.png]]

“I hope you like it bone in!”

I pulled up my shirt, held out my side, and lightly slapped it.

[[Image:godless_boku.png]]

“Coooooome and get it!!”

●

Shifu-senpai slapped my side so hard she left a handprint.

●

[[Image:godless_shinobu.png]]

“Kuwajiri-chan, I dealt with the villain, so you can turn this way again! C’mon, turn around.”

[[Image:godless_kuwajiri.png]]

“No, thank you. I can’t imagine living a life of pure emotion like that. It sounds awful.”

I must have made Kuwajiri really mad. Calming her seemed to be Shifu-senpai’s job because Raidou-senpai left them alone and glared at me instead.

[[Image:godless_raidou.png]]

“So anyway, you have a partner. They’re a god with enough power to let you walk on lava.”

[[Image:godless_boku.png]]

“Do you know what kind of god they are?”

[[Image:godless_raidou.png]]

“It’s Shinto, so you chose and…”

He thought for a bit and tilted his head.

[[Image:godless_raidou.png]]

“Well, that maybe explain it.”

[[Image:godless_boku.png]]

“Huh? I don’t get it.”

[[Image:godless_raidou.png]]

“Simply put, you’re super weak, so the management may have given you a strong character.”

[[Image:godless_boku.png]]

“None of you know who it is?”

[[Image:godless_raidou.png]]

“Oh, we’ve met them. Like when we put together the mission. We just don’t know their name.”

[[Image:godless_boku.png]]

“A nameless god? What’s that about?”

I could tell I was nothing but questions, but I couldn’t help it. I did remember dying last night. Apparently I needed the power of a god partner if I was going to avoid dying, but…

[[Image:godless_kuwajiri.png]]

“There are a lot of nameless gods. Shinto in particular has more than most religions.”

Kuwajiri explained it to me.

[[Image:godless_kuwajiri.png]]

“So if we show up, your partner might back off. In the worst case, they might decide to have nothing to do with you.”

[[Image:godless_boku.png]]

…''Hmm?

I had a little confused.

[[Image:godless_boku.png]]

“I have a god partner. Let’s just assume that’s true.”

[[Image:godless_shinobu.png]]

“What about it?”

Well…

[[Image:godless_boku.png]]

“You say that partner will decide not to show up if you’re nearby. Now, this whole discussion has nothing to do with my field of worship, but does that mean what I think it does?”

I stated my conclusion.

[[Image:godless_boku.png]]

“Are you all stronger than my god partner?”

[[Image:godless_raidou.png]]

“It’s a pretty common thing.”

He readily admitted it. I couldn’t believe what I was hearing, but…

[[Image:godless_raidou.png]]

“You’re a small fry…or rather, you haven’t even begun, so your partner isn’t that great either. On the other hand, we’ve got a decent amount of experience from a different field.”

[[Image:godless_boku.png]]

“Without a partner?”

[[Image:godless_raidou.png]]

“Yeah, because we started as gods instead of a human like you.”

[[Image:godless_boku.png]]

“No fair!”

I simply spoke my mind.

[[Image:godless_boku.png]]

“I can remake my character, right!? Right!? I wanna be a god too! I wanna be a god so I can barge into the women’s bath, transform into an animal to spy on the women’s bath, and transform into the wind to blow by above the women’s bath!”

[[Image:godless_shinobu.png]]

“There’s not really anything worth seeing in there.”

[[Image:godless_boku.png]]

“I don’t care! It’s a fantasy! A fantasy! It’s in a boy’s nature to peep on baths! So you can call it a ‘nature bath’ for short! And doesn’t a nature bath sound nice!? Well, whatever! If I don’t have that kind of freedom with my character, I want a new one!”

[[Image:godless_raidou.png]]

“You say that, but playing a god character ain’t easy.”

[[Image:godless_boku.png]]

“How so?”

[[Image:godless_raidou.png]]

“Sometimes when a human character is in trouble, you have to save them.”

[[Image:godless_boku.png]]

“Really!? Wow! You have to save losers like me!? Sucks to be you! I’d never be able to stand that! Okay, human it is!”

Kuwajiri gave me one hell of a glare, but I pretended I didn’t see it.

[[Image:godless_boku.png]]

“Now.”

I asked another question.

[[Image:godless_boku.png]]

“What kind of game is it?”

●

[[Image:godless_shinobu.png]]

“Well, you could call it a crafting game.”

Shifu-senpai answered my question.

[[Image:godless_shinobu.png]]

“Or terraforming. It’s about cultivating a planet.”

[[Image:godless_boku.png]]

“Terraforming?”

I crouched down, stood back up while mimicking robot noises, and struck a pose.

“Terra Forrrrm! Te-terra-terra! Do you transform the planet like that to cultivate it?”

[[Image:godless_kuwajiri.png]]

“Do that again.”

Kuwajiri asked, so I did.

[[Image:godless_boku.png]]

“Terra Forrrrm!”

[[Image:godless_kuwajiri.png]]

“I didn’t get a good look. Do it again.”

[[Image:godless_boku.png]]

“T-Terra Form.”

[[Image:godless_kuwajiri.png]]

“Oh, that seemed different from before. Try doing it again.”

[[Image:godless_boku.png]]

“T-Terra…okay, fine! I didn’t think it was funny either, dammit! Mad!? Well, are you!? Hmm!?”

[[Image:godless_kuwajiri.png]]

“I am extremely angry, but that just proves I am normal.”

●

[[Image:godless_boku.png]]

“Senpai! Senpai! Let go of me! I won’t be satisfied until I’ve spoken my mind to that girl! Senpai! My pride demands it, so let go of me! Ahh, wait, no, not there, gwah, that’s my weak point!”

Shifu sat in front of Kuwajiri while letting her partner calm down the rioter who was shouting nonsense.

[[Image:godless_shinobu.png]]

“Tsubomi-chan, nothing good comes from taking idiots seriously.”

[[Image:godless_boku.png]]

“Not you too, Shifu-senpai!”

''Pipe down, you.

Then Kuwajiri sighed.

[[Image:godless_kuwajiri.png]]

“How should I put this? People like that are so foolish…”

[[Image:godless_shinobu.png]]

“Hmm, I think you’re a little young to be acting so world-weary, Tsubomi-chan.”

[[Image:godless_kuwajiri.png]]

“Actually, people don’t see me as mature as they see you…”

[[Image:godless_shinobu.png]]

“So you were just full of yourself? Wait, no, don’t take it that seriously.”

Meanwhile, the door opened. And…

[[Image:godless_yomoji.png]]

“Ohhhh, sounds like you’re having fuuun in here.”

A bald guy walked in.

●

[[Image:godless_shinobu.png]]

“Oh, it’s Yomoji-chan.”

Shifu-senpai’s comment clued me in to the new visitor’s presence. I was currently dangling 15cm above the floor thanks to Raidou-senpai’s right iron claw, but…

[[Image:godless_raidou.png]]

“Oh, what’s this? You’re here, Shinsei?”

[[Image:godless_boku.png]]

“Eh? Who is it? Who, who? Is it a busty girl by any chance!?”

He released me by tossing me aside and I managed to strike three poses before coming to a stop. I was feeling woozy, but Shifu-senpai gave me some applause, so I deemed it a success.

And when I looked over, I saw a tall bald guy.

●

[[Image:godless_boku.png]]

“I’m going to be honest.”

[[Image:godless_raidou.png]]

“Hold on.”

[[Image:godless_boku.png]]

“Is this bald guy really a student?”

[[Image:godless_raidou.png]]

“You have guts. I’ll give you that.”

“Oh, I’m not that great,” I said while Shifu-senpai pointed at the guy with her can of coffee. He may have been even taller than Raidou-senpai, but he was even skinnier than me.

[[Image:godless_shinobu.png]]

“This is Yomoji Shinsei. He’s our club leader.”

[[Image:godless_boku.png]]

“Leader?”

[[Image:godless_yomoji.png]]

“Thaaat’s right. Oh, and Sumeragi-kuuun?”

[[Image:godless_boku.png]]

“Oh, yes. What is it?”

“Wellll,” said the club leader while stretching out the word, nodding, and spreading his arms.

[[Image:godless_yomoji.png]]

“I thought you miiiight be able to help last niiiight, but you died alllmost immediately. It was quiiiite a shock.”

[[Image:godless_boku.png]]

“Yeah, sorry. I’m not used to that game.”

[[Image:godless_yomoji.png]]

“IIII see. Hmm, not used to it? That iiiis true.”

The club leader made a suggestion.

[[Image:godless_yomoji.png]]

“Howwww about you try stuuuudying up on it?”

●
'''
[[Image:godless_boku.png|50px]]

"I'm so bored..."

[[Image:godless_balancer.png|50px]]

<What a foolish ape of a human.>

[[Image:godless_boku.png|50px]]

"I want to do something exciting."

[[Image:godless_chuto.png|50px]]

<Is something wrong, Boku-chan?>

[[Image:godless_boku.png|50px]]

"I'm bored. How much longer do I have to stay here?"

[[Image:godless_balancer.png|50px]]

<Just one more week. Stop complaining.>

[[Image:godless_balancer.png|50px]]

<Why not go visit the other gods and goddesses instead?>

[[Image:godless_boku.png|50px]]

"They're too far away. Besides, I'm only an ordinary human, not a superhuman like everyone else."

[[Image:godless_balancer.png|50px]]

<That's true. Then tell me, what is it that you want?>

[[Image:godless_boku.png|50px]]

"Please give me the power to reach the gods and goddesses quickly. I'm begging you, AI."

[[Image:godless_chuto.png|50px]]



The moment Chuto finished speaking, a radiant light descended from above and gently enveloped Boku's entire body. The brilliant aura shimmered like countless stars, filling the surroundings with an indescribable warmth before gradually fading away.

[[Image:godless_chuto.png|50px]]

<Congratulations, Boku-sama. You have now obtained a blessing that will prevent you from ever becoming tired.>

[[Image:godless_boku.png|50px]]

"A blessing? What kind of blessing is it?"

[[Image:godless_chuto.png|50px]]

<Boku-sama, please try walking or running toward any destination you desire.>

Curious, Boku looked around and noticed a sofa positioned some distance away. Thinking it would be a perfect place for a nap, he casually took a single step toward it.

In that very instant, before his mind could even process the movement, he found himself already standing directly in front of the sofa.

There was no sensation of rushing through space, no blur of motion, and no distortion of the scenery. It was as though the journey itself had simply never existed.

[[Image:godless_boku.png|50px]]

"How is this possible?! The sofa was so far away only a moment ago, but now I'm already standing right here..."

[[Image:godless_chuto.png|50px]]

<The Blessing of Zero Time Interval.>

[[Image:godless_chuto.png|50px]]

<In simple terms, this blessing allows its bearer to arrive at the result of any intended movement instantly. Every action Boku-sama performs proceeds directly to its completed outcome, requiring no passage of time whatsoever.>

[[Image:godless_boku.png|50px]]

"Wow... that's incredible! Is this some kind of teleportation?"

[[Image:godless_chuto.png|50px]]

<No. It is not teleportation. Teleportation transfers someone from one location to another. The Blessing of Zero Time Interval instead allows Boku-sama to traverse any distance while consuming exactly zero time, causing movement to reach its conclusion the instant it begins.>

Boku stood frozen in astonishment for a brief moment before excitement overtook him. His eyes sparkled with wonder, and a wide smile spread across his face as he realized the extraordinary power he had been granted.

[[Image:godless_boku.png|50px]]

"Thank you so much, Chuto!"

[[Image:godless_chuto.png|50px]]

<You are most welcome, Boku-sama. Seeing you happy brings joy to me as well.>'''

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On a Godless Planet:Volume1 Chapter 2

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==Chapter 2==
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She beat me pretty badly.

The place they called their “clubroom” was at the very end of the clubroom building right next to Building A, which contained the faculty room. They called their club the Game Club.

That seemed a little too on the nose to me, but I was a member too. Although I pretty much never showed up.

[[Image:godless_shinobu.png]]

“Sumeragi-chan, you’re so bad at fighting games. Tooru is stupid bad, but I remember how you stupid lost to him the day you joined the club. That’s when you stopped coming, isn’t it? You said you have some systems at home, right?”

That was the upperclassman named Saku. I had just learned her full name when I saw the nametag on the chest of her uniform. It said “Shifu Saku”.

Meanwhile, the upperclassman named Tooru was tall and had his long hair tied back.

[[Image:godless_raidou.png]]

“What are you staring at me for, Sumeragi?”

[[Image:godless_boku.png]]

“Oh, nothing really…”

I’m sure you can tell just by looking at them, but he and Shifu were clearly an item. I could smell it. It was a unique scent that we unpopular folk were quite sensitive to.

[[Image:godless_boku.png]]

“Well, I was pretty sure I knew what was going on when you shared the food from the same convenience store bag.”

[[Image:godless_shinobu.png]]

“Yeah. I know you like big boobs, Sumeragi-chan, but these ones are off the market.”

She readily admitted it, but there was something I had to say to her comment.

[[Image:godless_boku.png]]

“It isn’t that I want them to myself. My love of big boobs is more of a conceptual thing.”

[[Image:godless_shinobu.png]]

“Did you hit your head?”

[[Image:godless_boku.png]]

“My head is just fine. Yes, if anything, my mind is a little too weak.”

[[Image:godless_raidou.png]]

“You have some nerve claiming that.”

[[Image:godless_boku.png]]

“I’m a nervous person, what can I say? …Anyway, while I do want to touch and stare at big boobs, it’s worshiping and adoring them that really matters.”

“I see,” said Shifu-senpai as she passed me a convenience store sandwich.

[[Image:godless_shinobu.png]]

“You are quite the pervert…”

[[Image:godless_boku.png]]

“Oh, I’m not that high level yet.”

I took the sandwich and her partner tilted his head.

[[Image:godless_raidou.png]]

“Hey, Sumeragi.”

[[Image:godless_boku.png]]

“What is it?”

He nodded and crossed his arms.

[[Image:godless_raidou.png]]

“Saku’s my wife, so that means I’m the bigger big boobs lover. Don’t try to claim otherwise, okay?”

●

''It’s on now,'' I thought as I slowly stood up.

[[Image:godless_boku.png]]

“Let’s settle this once and for all.”

[[Image:godless_raidou.png]]

“Don’t be dumb. You’re the underclassman and I’m the upperclassman. I win by default.”

Shifu-senpai was giving us ''quite'' a look, but we decided to ignore it.

[[Image:godless_raidou.png]]

“Listen.”

He made the first move.

[[Image:godless_raidou.png]]

“Prove to me it isn’t just boobs in general you love.”

●

Shifu thought to herself.

[[Image:godless_shinobu.png]]

…''They are the worst…

Was this really a conversation to have with a girl around? And something about Sumeragi must have gotten to her partner because it looked like he was about to attack the boy and then he started giving him some kind of test.

But it seemed harmless enough, so she decided to let it play out. However…

[[Image:godless_boku.png]]

“Very well.”

The underclassman idiot gave his response.

[[Image:godless_boku.png]]

“My love of boobs is a love of big boobs and not just boobs in general.”

[[Image:godless_raidou.png]]

“Explain.”

The underclassman answered the upperclassman idiot.

[[Image:godless_boku.png]]

“The Japanese language includes the word ‘ippai’. It means ‘lots’ or ‘a large quantity’. Meanwhile, the word for boobs is ‘oppai’. When you look at the vowels, ‘o’ comes after ‘i’, so ‘oppai’ must mean ‘even more’ or ‘an even greater quantity’! Since I understand that logic, the concept of boobs and the concept of large size are inextricably attached in my mind. Thus, it is impossible for me to love boobs without it being a love of big boobs. Q.E.D.”

[[Image:godless_shinobu.png]]

“Can I just kick his ass?”

When she asked that, Tooru stepped forward and took a breath.

[[Image:godless_raidou.png]]

“My brother…”

[[Image:godless_boku.png]]

“Brother…!”

The two idiots hugged, but that was a bad idea on such a hot and sweaty day.

●

Shifu saw the two of them move apart while looking about ready to puke.

[[Image:godless_raidou.png]]

“Ugh, it’s way too hot today. I shouldn’t have gone for a full body joke when the air conditioning is so bad in here.”

[[Image:godless_boku.png]]

“That’s my line! I love big boobs, not chests of any gender!”

[[Image:godless_raidou.png]]

“Are you sure?”

[[Image:godless_boku.png]]

“Yes! You clearly don’t have boobs.”

[[Image:godless_raidou.png]]

“Then give my chest a feel.”

[[Image:godless_boku.png]]

“Huh!? You dare challenge my concept of big boobs!? Fine, then! I’ll feel you up!”

He did so. And Tooru immediately threw the stupid underclassman to the floor.

[[Image:godless_raidou.png]]

“You call that a caressssssssssssss!?”

[[Image:godless_boku.png]]

“Ow, ow, ow, ow! Wouldn’t it be worse if it did feel good!? I’m normal!”

Shifu felt like she should stop them soon.

●

“Well, it is pretty hot today,” said Shifu as she intervened.

I felt like I had gotten the short end of the stick what with being thrown to the floor and all, but he held out his hand.

[[Image:godless_raidou.png]]

“The name’s Raidou Tooru. You can use either one you like.”

I took his hand and pressed it to my chest. Then I wrapped my hands around his and looked up at him.

[[Image:godless_boku.png]]

“Well? Do you like it? Do you? Hgwah!”

He threw me to the floor again, but Shifu-senpai gave a nod of understanding this time.

●

[[Image:godless_raidou.png]]

“Well, there’s generally someone here and people from the other clubs often come here for fun, so there’s really no reason to join if you’re never gonna show up.”

I looked around the clubroom while Raidou-senpai said that.

I saw him, Shifu-senpai, and one other person.

[[Image:godless_boku.png]]

…''She’s not a target of my worship…

There was another girl. She wore an old style uniform, so she was probably in the same year as me.

She had come out on top during the Monopoly-style game we had just been playing. Shifu-senpai had been 2nd, Raidou-senpai 3rd, and me dead last.

Shifu-senpai laughed quietly when she saw me looking at the other girl.

[[Image:godless_shinobu.png]]

“That’s Kuwajiri Tsubomi. She’s incredible at intellectual games. She’s stupid good at games like that one we were playing.”

[[Image:godless_kuwajiri.png]]

“No, that was only a matter of knowledge.”

Kuwajiri pushed up her glasses and sounded a little troubled.

[[Image:godless_kuwajiri.png]]

“When I saw the in-game currency, I calculated out the total amount of assets and used that to estimate what the general market prices would be like. It’s my standard technique for games like this. With experience, the other players will get a feel for the market prices and how negotiations work, but I’m terrible at that part and I start to fall in the rankings.”

''She talks really fast…'' I thought, but I did state my other impression out loud.

[[Image:godless_boku.png]]

“So you know the genre well enough to be untouchable on a first play through.”

My comment caused everyone to look my way. Kuwajiri immediately looked away and both Raidou-senpai and Shifu-senpai nodded. Then Shifu-senpai spoke up.

[[Image:godless_shinobu.png]]

“C’mon, Tsubomi-chan. That was a compliment.”

[[Image:godless_kuwajiri.png]]

“I don’t want a compliment for impermanent results…”

That must have been how she saw things. And I did have some experience with that. Yes, like in a fighting game when the environment-

[[Image:godless_boku.png]]

…''Huh?

●

Something felt off to me.

But it was a minor thing, like realizing you didn’t really have a point to make.

●

“But,” said Raidou-senpai.

[[Image:godless_raidou.png]]

“Make sure you visit here as much as you can from now on.”

[[Image:godless_boku.png]]

“Eh? Do I look like I don’t have a life or something? You’re asking for a lot here since I’m actually pretty busy. Still, it sounds like I’m Mr. Popular around here.”

[[Image:godless_shinobu.png]]

“What are you busy with?”

[[Image:godless_boku.png]]

“Well, a good looking girl with big boobs just moved into the apartment next door, so I can earn the happy meal of life just by spending all my spare time bowing down toward that wall! Bet you’re jealous! Wait, Shifu-senpai, why are you putting my convenience store food back in the bag!? Give me one good reason!”

[[Image:godless_raidou.png]]

“Look in the mirror, idiot.”

Since Kuwajiri nodded, the majority was against me. My only chance was a clever change of subject.

[[Image:godless_boku.png]]

“Why do you want me to visit here?”

[[Image:godless_raidou.png]]

“Well, what the hell was that last night?”

[[Image:godless_boku.png]]

“Last night?”

[[Image:godless_kuwajiri.png]]

“You died immediately, remember?”

It came back to me when Kuwajiri glared at me.

●

That starry sky.

And they probably meant that part where a dragon made of lava charged at me.

[[Image:godless_boku.png]]

“—————”

Yup, I sure did die. And since those three knew about it…

[[Image:godless_boku.png]]

“You were in that game?”

[[Image:godless_shinobu.png]]

“We sure were.”

[[Image:godless_raidou.png]]

“We were wondering where you would be since noobs tend to have trouble figuring out their coordinates, but you were a lot closer than we expected and you died right away.”

“Oh,” I said in newfound understanding.

[[Image:godless_boku.png]]

“So it’s that kind of game.”

[[Image:godless_raidou.png]]

“What kind of game did you think it was?”

[[Image:godless_boku.png]]

“It just happened so suddenly I didn’t have time to figure anything out.”

“Yeah,” said Shifu-senpai while nodding several times.

[[Image:godless_shinobu.png]]

“Humans really are weak.”

[[Image:godless_boku.png]]

“Oh, you mean the character race.”

[[Image:godless_shinobu.png]]

“Right, right. That’s what I meant. And you can kind of blame us for that one.”

[[Image:godless_raidou.png]]

“We asked you to do it. We got you involved.”

[[Image:godless_boku.png]]

“Do you need my help in that game?”

[[Image:godless_raidou.png]]

“Really, that field is all about you.”

When Raidou-senpai said that, Kuwajiri reached across the table and hit him on the back.

[[Image:godless_kuwajiri.png]]

“Hey, no spoilers.”

[[Image:godless_raidou.png]]

“Oh, right, yeah. …So what are you doing tonight?”

“Well,” I said. Shifu-senpai had returned my confiscated food. The convenience store rice ball was kombu flavor. I started to wonder if you could catch that in that sea of lava.

[[Image:godless_boku.png]]

“Okay, I’ll join you. I honestly don’t really get the game, so I’d appreciate your help.”

[[Image:godless_shinobu.png]]

“Actually, Sumeragi-chan, where is your god partner?”

[[Image:godless_boku.png]]

“Partner?”

Shifu-senpai and Raidou-senpai exchanged a glance.

Kuwajiri answered in their place.

[[Image:godless_kuwajiri.png]]

“A human character chooses a god as their partner.”

[[Image:godless_boku.png]]

“Really?”

[[Image:godless_kuwajiri.png]]

“You can’t start playing if you don’t. Well, you can, but you can’t do anything.”

[[Image:godless_boku.png]]

“Is that so?”

[[Image:godless_shinobu.png]]

“But I take it you don’t know who yours is.”

[[Image:godless_boku.png]]

“I kinda died immediately, if you recall. It’s like I took one step out the door and immediately keeled over.”

[[Image:godless_raidou.png]]

“You small fry.”

[[Image:godless_boku.png]]

“Yeah, I am a small fry! I haven’t lived the kind of life that lets me have a busty girl standing by my side like you have! If the options are 0 or 1, then I’m a 0! Got a problem with that, you son of a bitch!?”

[[Image:godless_raidou.png]]

“I don’t, but watch your language.”

“Will you please tell me if you’ve got a problem with that, you son of a bitch!?”

He raised his fist and I tried to hide behind Kuwajiri, but she scooted her chair to the side.

[[Image:godless_boku.png]]

“Huh? Am I Mr. Unpopular now? But why? Because I’m annoying? Is that it? Well, Kuwajiri-kun? Can you help explain this to me? Hmm?”

[[Image:godless_kuwajiri.png]]

“Because you are irritating, creepy, and dumb.”

[[Image:godless_boku.png]]

“Th-that is much more of an answer than I expected! And when we only just met today!”

She looked even more irritated.

[[Image:godless_boku.png]]

“Fine, see if I care.”

I realized something as I said that.

[[Image:godless_boku.png]]

“I was a human, but I was sitting on lava. That’s not a standard ability, is it?”

[[Image:godless_raidou.png]]

“Of course not. And if you remember that much, you did pretty good.”

Raidou-senpai placed a hand on his chin.

[[Image:godless_raidou.png]]

“But in that case, I think we’ll stay out of tonight’s game session.”

[[Image:godless_boku.png]]

“Eh? Why!? I thought you were going to help me out! And you call yourselves upperclassmen!? I’m like a cute little lamb over here!”

[[Image:godless_shinobu.png]]

“Damn, I could really go for some lamb.”

[[Image:godless_boku.png]]

“I hope you like it bone in!”

I pulled up my shirt, held out my side, and lightly slapped it.

[[Image:godless_boku.png]]

“Coooooome and get it!!”

●

Shifu-senpai slapped my side so hard she left a handprint.

●

[[Image:godless_shinobu.png]]

“Kuwajiri-chan, I dealt with the villain, so you can turn this way again! C’mon, turn around.”

[[Image:godless_kuwajiri.png]]

“No, thank you. I can’t imagine living a life of pure emotion like that. It sounds awful.”

I must have made Kuwajiri really mad. Calming her seemed to be Shifu-senpai’s job because Raidou-senpai left them alone and glared at me instead.

[[Image:godless_raidou.png]]

“So anyway, you have a partner. They’re a god with enough power to let you walk on lava.”

[[Image:godless_boku.png]]

“Do you know what kind of god they are?”

[[Image:godless_raidou.png]]

“It’s Shinto, so you chose and…”

He thought for a bit and tilted his head.

[[Image:godless_raidou.png]]

“Well, that maybe explain it.”

[[Image:godless_boku.png]]

“Huh? I don’t get it.”

[[Image:godless_raidou.png]]

“Simply put, you’re super weak, so the management may have given you a strong character.”

[[Image:godless_boku.png]]

“None of you know who it is?”

[[Image:godless_raidou.png]]

“Oh, we’ve met them. Like when we put together the mission. We just don’t know their name.”

[[Image:godless_boku.png]]

“A nameless god? What’s that about?”

I could tell I was nothing but questions, but I couldn’t help it. I did remember dying last night. Apparently I needed the power of a god partner if I was going to avoid dying, but…

[[Image:godless_kuwajiri.png]]

“There are a lot of nameless gods. Shinto in particular has more than most religions.”

Kuwajiri explained it to me.

[[Image:godless_kuwajiri.png]]

“So if we show up, your partner might back off. In the worst case, they might decide to have nothing to do with you.”

[[Image:godless_boku.png]]

…''Hmm?

I had a little confused.

[[Image:godless_boku.png]]

“I have a god partner. Let’s just assume that’s true.”

[[Image:godless_shinobu.png]]

“What about it?”

Well…

[[Image:godless_boku.png]]

“You say that partner will decide not to show up if you’re nearby. Now, this whole discussion has nothing to do with my field of worship, but does that mean what I think it does?”

I stated my conclusion.

[[Image:godless_boku.png]]

“Are you all stronger than my god partner?”

[[Image:godless_raidou.png]]

“It’s a pretty common thing.”

He readily admitted it. I couldn’t believe what I was hearing, but…

[[Image:godless_raidou.png]]

“You’re a small fry…or rather, you haven’t even begun, so your partner isn’t that great either. On the other hand, we’ve got a decent amount of experience from a different field.”

[[Image:godless_boku.png]]

“Without a partner?”

[[Image:godless_raidou.png]]

“Yeah, because we started as gods instead of a human like you.”

[[Image:godless_boku.png]]

“No fair!”

I simply spoke my mind.

[[Image:godless_boku.png]]

“I can remake my character, right!? Right!? I wanna be a god too! I wanna be a god so I can barge into the women’s bath, transform into an animal to spy on the women’s bath, and transform into the wind to blow by above the women’s bath!”

[[Image:godless_shinobu.png]]

“There’s not really anything worth seeing in there.”

[[Image:godless_boku.png]]

“I don’t care! It’s a fantasy! A fantasy! It’s in a boy’s nature to peep on baths! So you can call it a ‘nature bath’ for short! And doesn’t a nature bath sound nice!? Well, whatever! If I don’t have that kind of freedom with my character, I want a new one!”

[[Image:godless_raidou.png]]

“You say that, but playing a god character ain’t easy.”

[[Image:godless_boku.png]]

“How so?”

[[Image:godless_raidou.png]]

“Sometimes when a human character is in trouble, you have to save them.”

[[Image:godless_boku.png]]

“Really!? Wow! You have to save losers like me!? Sucks to be you! I’d never be able to stand that! Okay, human it is!”

Kuwajiri gave me one hell of a glare, but I pretended I didn’t see it.

[[Image:godless_boku.png]]

“Now.”

I asked another question.

[[Image:godless_boku.png]]

“What kind of game is it?”

●

[[Image:godless_shinobu.png]]

“Well, you could call it a crafting game.”

Shifu-senpai answered my question.

[[Image:godless_shinobu.png]]

“Or terraforming. It’s about cultivating a planet.”

[[Image:godless_boku.png]]

“Terraforming?”

I crouched down, stood back up while mimicking robot noises, and struck a pose.

“Terra Forrrrm! Te-terra-terra! Do you transform the planet like that to cultivate it?”

[[Image:godless_kuwajiri.png]]

“Do that again.”

Kuwajiri asked, so I did.

[[Image:godless_boku.png]]

“Terra Forrrrm!”

[[Image:godless_kuwajiri.png]]

“I didn’t get a good look. Do it again.”

[[Image:godless_boku.png]]

“T-Terra Form.”

[[Image:godless_kuwajiri.png]]

“Oh, that seemed different from before. Try doing it again.”

[[Image:godless_boku.png]]

“T-Terra…okay, fine! I didn’t think it was funny either, dammit! Mad!? Well, are you!? Hmm!?”

[[Image:godless_kuwajiri.png]]

“I am extremely angry, but that just proves I am normal.”

●

[[Image:godless_boku.png]]

“Senpai! Senpai! Let go of me! I won’t be satisfied until I’ve spoken my mind to that girl! Senpai! My pride demands it, so let go of me! Ahh, wait, no, not there, gwah, that’s my weak point!”

Shifu sat in front of Kuwajiri while letting her partner calm down the rioter who was shouting nonsense.

[[Image:godless_shinobu.png]]

“Tsubomi-chan, nothing good comes from taking idiots seriously.”

[[Image:godless_boku.png]]

“Not you too, Shifu-senpai!”

''Pipe down, you.

Then Kuwajiri sighed.

[[Image:godless_kuwajiri.png]]

“How should I put this? People like that are so foolish…”

[[Image:godless_shinobu.png]]

“Hmm, I think you’re a little young to be acting so world-weary, Tsubomi-chan.”

[[Image:godless_kuwajiri.png]]

“Actually, people don’t see me as mature as they see you…”

[[Image:godless_shinobu.png]]

“So you were just full of yourself? Wait, no, don’t take it that seriously.”

Meanwhile, the door opened. And…

[[Image:godless_yomoji.png]]

“Ohhhh, sounds like you’re having fuuun in here.”

A bald guy walked in.

●

[[Image:godless_shinobu.png]]

“Oh, it’s Yomoji-chan.”

Shifu-senpai’s comment clued me in to the new visitor’s presence. I was currently dangling 15cm above the floor thanks to Raidou-senpai’s right iron claw, but…

[[Image:godless_raidou.png]]

“Oh, what’s this? You’re here, Shinsei?”

[[Image:godless_boku.png]]

“Eh? Who is it? Who, who? Is it a busty girl by any chance!?”

He released me by tossing me aside and I managed to strike three poses before coming to a stop. I was feeling woozy, but Shifu-senpai gave me some applause, so I deemed it a success.

And when I looked over, I saw a tall bald guy.

●

[[Image:godless_boku.png]]

“I’m going to be honest.”

[[Image:godless_raidou.png]]

“Hold on.”

[[Image:godless_boku.png]]

“Is this bald guy really a student?”

[[Image:godless_raidou.png]]

“You have guts. I’ll give you that.”

“Oh, I’m not that great,” I said while Shifu-senpai pointed at the guy with her can of coffee. He may have been even taller than Raidou-senpai, but he was even skinnier than me.

[[Image:godless_shinobu.png]]

“This is Yomoji Shinsei. He’s our club leader.”

[[Image:godless_boku.png]]

“Leader?”

[[Image:godless_yomoji.png]]

“Thaaat’s right. Oh, and Sumeragi-kuuun?”

[[Image:godless_boku.png]]

“Oh, yes. What is it?”

“Wellll,” said the club leader while stretching out the word, nodding, and spreading his arms.

[[Image:godless_yomoji.png]]

“I thought you miiiight be able to help last niiiight, but you died alllmost immediately. It was quiiiite a shock.”

[[Image:godless_boku.png]]

“Yeah, sorry. I’m not used to that game.”

[[Image:godless_yomoji.png]]

“IIII see. Hmm, not used to it? That iiiis true.”

The club leader made a suggestion.

[[Image:godless_yomoji.png]]

“Howwww about you try stuuuudying up on it?”

●

[[Image:godless_boku.png|50px]]

"I'm so bored..."

[[Image:godless_balancer.png|50px]]

<What a foolish ape of a human.>

[[Image:godless_boku.png|50px]]

"I want to do something exciting."

[[Image:godless_chuto.png|50px]]

<Is something wrong, Boku-chan?>

[[Image:godless_boku.png|50px]]

"I'm bored. How much longer do I have to stay here?"

[[Image:godless_balancer.png|50px]]

<Just one more week. Stop complaining.>

[[Image:godless_balancer.png|50px]]

<Why not go visit the other gods and goddesses instead?>

[[Image:godless_boku.png|50px]]

"They're too far away. Besides, I'm only an ordinary human, not a superhuman like everyone else."

[[Image:godless_balancer.png|50px]]

<That's true. Then tell me, what is it that you want?>

[[Image:godless_boku.png|50px]]

"Please give me the power to reach the gods and goddesses quickly. I'm begging you, AI."

[[Image:godless_chuto.png|50px]]



The moment Chuto finished speaking, a radiant light descended from above and gently enveloped Boku's entire body. The brilliant aura shimmered like countless stars, filling the surroundings with an indescribable warmth before gradually fading away.

[[Image:godless_chuto.png|50px]]

<Congratulations, Boku-sama. You have now obtained a blessing that will prevent you from ever becoming tired.>

[[Image:godless_boku.png|50px]]

"A blessing? What kind of blessing is it?"

[[Image:godless_chuto.png|50px]]

<Boku-sama, please try walking or running toward any destination you desire.>

Curious, Boku looked around and noticed a sofa positioned some distance away. Thinking it would be a perfect place for a nap, he casually took a single step toward it.

In that very instant, before his mind could even process the movement, he found himself already standing directly in front of the sofa.

There was no sensation of rushing through space, no blur of motion, and no distortion of the scenery. It was as though the journey itself had simply never existed.

[[Image:godless_boku.png|50px]]

"How is this possible?! The sofa was so far away only a moment ago, but now I'm already standing right here..."

[[Image:godless_chuto.png|50px]]

<The Blessing of Zero Time Interval.>

[[Image:godless_chuto.png|50px]]

<In simple terms, this blessing allows its bearer to arrive at the result of any intended movement instantly. Every action Boku-sama performs proceeds directly to its completed outcome, requiring no passage of time whatsoever.>

[[Image:godless_boku.png|50px]]

"Wow... that's incredible! Is this some kind of teleportation?"

[[Image:godless_chuto.png|50px]]

<No. It is not teleportation. Teleportation transfers someone from one location to another. The Blessing of Zero Time Interval instead allows Boku-sama to traverse any distance while consuming exactly zero time, causing movement to reach its conclusion the instant it begins.>

Boku stood frozen in astonishment for a brief moment before excitement overtook him. His eyes sparkled with wonder, and a wide smile spread across his face as he realized the extraordinary power he had been granted.

[[Image:godless_boku.png|50px]]

"Thank you so much, Chuto!"

[[Image:godless_chuto.png|50px]]

<You are most welcome, Boku-sama. Seeing you happy brings joy to me as well.>

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Note: I'm one of the people working with 加藤戦人, so this novel is also my responsibility. I'll be adding illustrations to it too!!

'''「俺は望むもの全てを消し去る力を持っている」'''
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Light Novel By '''加藤戦人'''

Note: I'm one of the people working with 加藤戦人, so this novel is also my responsibility. I'll be adding illustrations to it too!!

'''「俺は望むもの全てを消し去る力を持っている」'''
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**[[Overpower_Ability_Erasure:Volume1A_Prologue|Prologue: Introduction Character]]**

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On a Godless Planet

2026-06-12T15:07:11Z

202.136.82.225: /* On a Godless Planet by Kawakami Minoru (Web Novel Version) */

{{Status|Active}}
{{Web_novel|English}}
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The '''''On a Godless Planet''''' (神々のいない星で) series is a web novel written by Kawakami Minoru (川上稔) and illustrated by Satoyasu (さとやす). It takes place between [[Owari no Chronicle]] and [[Kyoukai Senjou no Horizon]], two of the author's light novel series. It conforms the EDGE series of the universe.

==Story Synopsis==

Before Horizon, humanity ascended to the heavens, but how exactly did that happen? Kawakami's new series explores the Edge era in which legends must be recreated to reshape a distant planet.

== Web Novel ==

This web novel is currently hosted on Dengeki Bunko's Kakuyomu [https://kakuyomu.jp/works/1177354054887891136 page].

==Updates==
*August 25, 2019 - On a Godless Planet: Planet Crafting with Senpai and Me 1-A '''completed'''
*September 7, 2020 - On a Godless Planet: Planet Crafting with Senpai and Me 1-B '''completed'''
*September 19, 2023 - On a Godless Planet: Splashy Fun with Senpai and Me 2-A '''completed'''

==''On a Godless Planet'' by Kawakami Minoru==

===On a Godless Planet: Planet Crafting with Senpai and Me (1-A) ([[On a Godless Planet:Volume 1A|Full Text]])===
[[File:Godless_1A_cover.jpg|right|225px]]
*[[On_a_Godless_Planet:Volume1A_Illustrations|Illustrations]]
*[[On_a_Godless_Planet:Volume1A_Preface|Preface]]
*[[On_a_Godless_Planet:Volume1A_Prologue|Prologue: Shining Force]]
*[[On_a_Godless_Planet:Volume1A_Chapter_1|Chapter 1: Hellfire]]
*[[On_a_Godless_Planet:Volume1A_Chapter_2|Chapter 2: Paperboy 01]]
*[[On_a_Godless_Planet:Volume1A_Chapter_3|Chapter 3: Paperboy 02]]
*[[On_a_Godless_Planet:Volume1A_Chapter_4|Chapter 4: Paperboy 03]]
*[[On_a_Godless_Planet:Volume1A_Chapter_5|Chapter 5: Opa-Opa]]
*[[On_a_Godless_Planet:Volume1A_Chapter_6|Chapter 6: Gods 01]] (WN version)
*[[On_a_Godless_Planet:Volume1A_Chapter_7|Chapter 7: SimEarth 01]] (WN version)
*[[On_a_Godless_Planet:Volume1A_Chapter_8|Chapter 8: SimEarth 02]] (WN version)
*[[On_a_Godless_Planet:Volume1A_Chapter_9|Chapter 9: Gods 02]] (WN version)
*[[On_a_Godless_Planet:Volume1A_Chapter_10|Chapter 10: Crackdown]] (WN version)
*[[On_a_Godless_Planet:Volume1A_Chapter_11|Chapter 11: Junction 01]] (WN version)
*[[On_a_Godless_Planet:Volume1A_Chapter_12|Chapter 12: Junction 02]] (WN version)
*[[On_a_Godless_Planet:Volume1A_Chapter_13|Chapter 13: Junction 03]] (WN version)
*[[On_a_Godless_Planet:Volume1A_Chapter_14|Chapter 14: SimEarth 03]] (WN version)
*[[On_a_Godless_Planet:Volume1A_Chapter_15|Chapter 15: Dangerous Seed]] (WN version)
*[[On_a_Godless_Planet:Volume1A_Chapter_16|Chapter 16: Heavy Unit]] (WN version)
*[[On_a_Godless_Planet:Volume1A_Chapter_17|Chapter 17: SimEarth 04]] (WN version)
*[[On_a_Godless_Planet:Volume1A_Chapter_18|Chapter 18: Megapanel 01]] (WN version)
*[[On_a_Godless_Planet:Volume1A_Chapter_19|Chapter 19: Megapanel 02]] (WN version)
*[[On_a_Godless_Planet:Volume1A_Chapter_20|Chapter 20: Forgotten Worlds]] (WN version)
*[[On_a_Godless_Planet:Volume1A_Chapter_21|Chapter 21: Gods 03]] (WN version)
*[[On_a_Godless_Planet:Volume1A_Afterword|Afterword]]

 

===On a Godless Planet: Planet Crafting with Senpai and Me (1-B) ([[On a Godless Planet:Volume 1B|Full Text]])===
[[File:Godless_1B_cover.jpg|right|225px]]
*[[On_a_Godless_Planet:Volume1B_Illustrations|Illustrations]]
*[[On_a_Godless_Planet:Volume1B_Preface|Preface]]
*[[On_a_Godless_Planet:Volume1B_Chapter_22|Chapter 22: Dangerous Seed 02]] (WN version)
*[[On_a_Godless_Planet:Volume1B_Chapter_23|Chapter 23: Gauntlet]] (WN version)
*[[On_a_Godless_Planet:Volume1B_Chapter_24|Chapter 24: Flintstones]]
*[[On_a_Godless_Planet:Volume1B_Chapter_25|Chapter 25: Thunderblade]]
*[[On_a_Godless_Planet:Volume1B_Chapter_26|Chapter 26: Gods 04]]
*[[On_a_Godless_Planet:Volume1B_Chapter_27|Chapter 27: Junction 04]]
*[[On_a_Godless_Planet:Volume1B_Chapter_28|Chapter 28: Treasure Hunt]]
*[[On_a_Godless_Planet:Volume1B_Chapter_29|Chapter 29: Blockout 01]]
*[[On_a_Godless_Planet:Volume1B_Chapter_30|Chapter 30: Blockout 02]]
*[[On_a_Godless_Planet:Volume1B_Chapter_31|Chapter 31: Death Bringer]]
*[[On_a_Godless_Planet:Volume1B_Chapter_32|Chapter 32: Curse 01]]
*[[On_a_Godless_Planet:Volume1B_Chapter_33|Chapter 33: Paperboy 04]]
*[[On_a_Godless_Planet:Volume1B_Chapter_34|Chapter 34: Flash Back]]
*[[On_a_Godless_Planet:Volume1B_Chapter_35|Chapter 35: Tri Formation]]
*[[On_a_Godless_Planet:Volume1B_Chapter_36|Chapter 36: Lemmings]]
*[[On_a_Godless_Planet:Volume1B_Chapter_37|Chapter 37: Switch]]
*[[On_a_Godless_Planet:Volume1B_Chapter_38|Chapter 38: Curse 02]]
*[[On_a_Godless_Planet:Volume1B_Chapter_39|Chapter 39: Crying]]
*[[On_a_Godless_Planet:Volume1B_Chapter_40|Chapter 40: Heavenly Symphony]]
*[[On_a_Godless_Planet:Volume1B_Chapter_41|Final Chapter: Family Games]]
*[[On_a_Godless_Planet:Volume1B_Afterword|Afterword]]

 

===On a Godless Planet: Splashy Fun with Senpai and Me (2-A)===
[[File:Godless_2A_cover.jpg|right|225px]]
*[[On_a_Godless_Planet:Volume2A_Illustrations|Illustrations]]
*[[On_a_Godless_Planet:Volume2A_Preface|Preface]]
*[[On_a_Godless_Planet:Volume2A_Prologue|Prologue: Cool Spot]]
*[[On_a_Godless_Planet:Volume2A_Chapter_1|Chapter 1: Twin Cobra]]
*[[On_a_Godless_Planet:Volume2A_Chapter_2|Chapter 2: Shining in the Darkness]]
*[[On_a_Godless_Planet:Volume2A_Chapter_3|Chapter 3: Switch]]
*[[On_a_Godless_Planet:Volume2A_Chapter_4|Chapter 4: Tempo]]
*[[On_a_Godless_Planet:Volume2A_Chapter_5|Chapter 5: Midnight Resistance]]
*[[On_a_Godless_Planet:Volume2A_Chapter_6|Chapter 6: Comix Zone]]
*[[On_a_Godless_Planet:Volume2A_Chapter_7|Chapter 7: Junction]]
*[[On_a_Godless_Planet:Volume2A_Chapter_8|Chapter 8: Gods]]
*[[On_a_Godless_Planet:Volume2A_Chapter_9|Chapter 9: Opa-Opa]]
*[[On_a_Godless_Planet:Volume2A_Chapter_10|Chapter 10: Death Bringer]]
*[[On_a_Godless_Planet:Volume2A_Chapter_11|Chapter 11: Zoom!]]
*[[On_a_Godless_Planet:Volume2A_Chapter_12|Chapter 12: Gain Ground]]
*[[On_a_Godless_Planet:Volume2A_Chapter_13|Chapter 13: Kageki]]
*[[On_a_Godless_Planet:Volume2A_Chapter_14|Chapter 14: Arrow Flash]]
*[[On_a_Godless_Planet:Volume2A_Chapter_15|Chapter 15: Junction 02]]
*[[On_a_Godless_Planet:Volume2A_Chapter_16|Chapter 16: Marvel Land]]
*[[On_a_Godless_Planet:Volume2A_Chapter_17|Chapter 17: Chiki Chiki Boys]]
*[[On_a_Godless_Planet:Volume2A_Chapter_18|Chapter 18: Gauntlet]]
*[[On_a_Godless_Planet:Volume2A_Chapter_19|Chapter 19: Chaotix]]
*[[On_a_Godless_Planet:Volume2A_Chapter_20|Chapter 20: Side Pocket]]
*[[On_a_Godless_Planet:Volume2A_Chapter_21|Chapter 21: Tempo 02]]
*[[On_a_Godless_Planet:Volume2A_Afterword|Afterword]]

 

===On a Godless Planet: Splashy Fun with Senpai and Me (2-B)===
[[File:Godless_2B_cover.jpg|right|225px]]
*[[On_a_Godless_Planet:Volume2B_Illustrations|Illustrations]]
*[[On_a_Godless_Planet:Volume2B_Preface|Preface]]
*[[On_a_Godless_Planet:Volume2B_Chapter_22|Chapter 22: Ichidant-R]]
*[[On_a_Godless_Planet:Volume2B_Chapter_23|Chapter 23: Rampart]]
*[[On_a_Godless_Planet:Volume2B_Chapter_24|Chapter 24: Mega-Lo-Mania]]
*[[On_a_Godless_Planet:Volume2B_Chapter_25|Chapter 25: Flintstones]]
*[[On_a_Godless_Planet:Volume2B_Chapter_26|Chapter 26: Cool Spot 02]]
*[[On_a_Godless_Planet:Volume2B_Chapter_27|Chapter 27: Battle Mania]]
*[[On_a_Godless_Planet:Volume2B_Chapter_28|Chapter 28: Double Switch]]
*[[On_a_Godless_Planet:Volume2B_Chapter_29|Chapter 29: Dangerous Seed]]
*[[On_a_Godless_Planet:Volume2B_Chapter_30|Chapter 30: Fatman]]
*[[On_a_Godless_Planet:Volume2B_Chapter_31|Chapter 31: Growl]]
*[[On_a_Godless_Planet:Volume2B_Chapter_32|Chapter 32: Block Out]]
*[[On_a_Godless_Planet:Volume2B_Chapter_33|Chapter 33: Tetris]]
*[[On_a_Godless_Planet:Volume2B_Chapter_34|Chapter 34: Junction 03]]
*[[On_a_Godless_Planet:Volume2B_Chapter_35|Chapter 35: Megamind]]
*[[On_a_Godless_Planet:Volume2B_Chapter_36|Chapter 36: Sword of Vermilion]]
*[[On_a_Godless_Planet:Volume2B_Chapter_37|Chapter 37: Greatest Heavyweights]]
*[[On_a_Godless_Planet:Volume2B_Chapter_38|Chapter 38: Megamind 02]]
*[[On_a_Godless_Planet:Volume2B_Chapter_39|Chapter 39: Panic!]]
*[[On_a_Godless_Planet:Volume2B_Chapter_40|Chapter 40: Fastest One]]
*[[On_a_Godless_Planet:Volume2B_Chapter_41|Chapter 41: Shining in the Darkness 02]]
*[[On_a_Godless_Planet:Volume2B_Chapter_42|Chapter 42: Crying]]
*[[On_a_Godless_Planet:Volume2B_Chapter_43|Chapter 43: Hellfire]]
*[[On_a_Godless_Planet:Volume2B_Chapter_44|Chapter 44: Rise of the Dragon]]
*[[On_a_Godless_Planet:Volume2B_Chapter_45|Chapter 45: Tempo 03]]
*[[On_a_Godless_Planet:Volume2B_Chapter_46|Final Chapter: Socket]]
*[[On_a_Godless_Planet:Volume2B_Afterword|Afterword]]

 

===On a Godless Planet 3-A===
[[File:Godless_3A_cover.jpg|right|225px]]
*[[On_a_Godless_Planet:Volume3A_Illustrations|Illustrations]]
*[[On_a_Godless_Planet:Volume3A_Preface|Preface]]
*[[On_a_Godless_Planet:Volume3A_Prologue|Prologue: Blue Almanac]]
*[[On_a_Godless_Planet:Volume3A_Chapter_1|Chapter 1: Rampart]]
*[[On_a_Godless_Planet:Volume3A_Chapter_2|Chapter 2: Cool Spot]]
*[[On_a_Godless_Planet:Volume3A_Chapter_3|Chapter 3: Wonder Library]]
*[[On_a_Godless_Planet:Volume3A_Chapter_4|Chapter 4: Star Control]]
*[[On_a_Godless_Planet:Volume3A_Chapter_5|Chapter 5: Riddle Wired]]
*[[On_a_Godless_Planet:Volume3A_Chapter_6|Chapter 6: Wonder Library 02]]
*[[On_a_Godless_Planet:Volume3A_Chapter_7|Chapter 7: Side Pocket]]
*[[On_a_Godless_Planet:Volume3A_Chapter_8|Chapter 8: Greatest Heavyweights]]
*[[On_a_Godless_Planet:Volume3A_Chapter_9|Chapter 9: Doom]]
*[[On_a_Godless_Planet:Volume3A_Chapter_10|Chapter 10: Death Bringer]]
*[[On_a_Godless_Planet:Volume3A_Chapter_11|Chapter 11: Gargoyles]]
*[[On_a_Godless_Planet:Volume3A_Chapter_12|Chapter 12: True Lies]]
*[[On_a_Godless_Planet:Volume3A_Chapter_13|Chapter 13: Mega Answer]]
*[[On_a_Godless_Planet:Volume3A_Chapter_14|Chapter 14: Dahna]]
*[[On_a_Godless_Planet:Volume3A_Chapter_15|Chapter 15: Opa Opa]]
*[[On_a_Godless_Planet:Volume3A_Chapter_16|Chapter 16: Corporation]]
*[[On_a_Godless_Planet:Volume3A_Chapter_17|Chapter 17: Crude Buster]]
*[[On_a_Godless_Planet:Volume3A_Chapter_18|Chapter 18: Party Quiz]]
*[[On_a_Godless_Planet:Volume3A_Chapter_19|Chapter 19: Alien Storm]]
*[[On_a_Godless_Planet:Volume3A_Chapter_20|Chapter 20: Warrior of Rome]]
*[[On_a_Godless_Planet:Volume3A_Chapter_21|Chapter 21: Flash Back]]
*[[On_a_Godless_Planet:Volume3A_Chapter_22|Chapter 22: Monster World]]
*[[On_a_Godless_Planet:Volume3A_Chapter_23|Chapter 23: Kiss Shot]]
*[[On_a_Godless_Planet:Volume3A_Chapter_24|Chapter 24: Chaotix]]
*[[On_a_Godless_Planet:Volume3A_Chapter_25|Chapter 25: Chuck Rock]]
*[[On_a_Godless_Planet:Volume3A_Chapter_26|Chapter 26: Killing Gameshow]]
*[[On_a_Godless_Planet:Volume3A_Afterword|Afterword]]

 

===On a Godless Planet 3-B===
[[File:Godless_3B_cover.jpg|right|225px]]
*[[On_a_Godless_Planet:Volume3B_Illustrations|Illustrations]]
*[[On_a_Godless_Planet:Volume3B_Preface|Preface]]
*[[On_a_Godless_Planet:Volume3B_Chapter_27|Chapter 27: Battle Mania]]
*[[On_a_Godless_Planet:Volume3B_Chapter_28|Chapter 28: Poseidon Wars]]
*[[On_a_Godless_Planet:Volume3B_Chapter_29|Chapter 29: Zoom!]]
*[[On_a_Godless_Planet:Volume3B_Chapter_30|Chapter 30: Forgotten Worlds]]
*[[On_a_Godless_Planet:Volume3B_Chapter_31|Chapter 31: Monkey Island]]
*[[On_a_Godless_Planet:Volume3B_Chapter_32|Chapter 32: Riddle Wired 02]]
*[[On_a_Godless_Planet:Volume3B_Chapter_33|Chapter 33: Super High Impact]]
*[[On_a_Godless_Planet:Volume3B_Chapter_34|Chapter 34: Power Monger]]
*[[On_a_Godless_Planet:Volume3B_Chapter_35|Chapter 35: Galaxy Force]]
*[[On_a_Godless_Planet:Volume3B_Chapter_36|Chapter 36: Switch]]
*[[On_a_Godless_Planet:Volume3B_Chapter_37|Chapter 37: Klax]]
*[[On_a_Godless_Planet:Volume3B_Chapter_38|Chapter 38: Puzznic]]
*[[On_a_Godless_Planet:Volume3B_Chapter_39|Chapter 39: Art Alive!]]
*[[On_a_Godless_Planet:Volume3B_Chapter_40|Chapter 40: Side Pocket 02]]
*[[On_a_Godless_Planet:Volume3B_Chapter_41|Chapter 41: Bad Omen]]
*[[On_a_Godless_Planet:Volume3B_Chapter_42|Chapter 42: Monster World 02]]
*[[On_a_Godless_Planet:Volume3B_Chapter_43|Chapter 43: Super Real Basket Ball]]
*[[On_a_Godless_Planet:Volume3B_Chapter_44|Chapter 44: Mega Mind]]
*[[On_a_Godless_Planet:Volume3B_Chapter_45|Chapter 45: Master of Weapon]]
*[[On_a_Godless_Planet:Volume3B_Chapter_46|Chapter 46: Fire Mustang]]
*[[On_a_Godless_Planet:Volume3B_Chapter_47|Chapter 47: Super Thunder Blade]]
*[[On_a_Godless_Planet:Volume3B_Chapter_48|Chapter 48: Nostalgia]]
*[[On_a_Godless_Planet:Volume3B_Chapter_49|Chapter 49: Undead Line]]
*[[On_a_Godless_Planet:Volume3B_Chapter_50|Chapter 50: Out Runners]]
*[[On_a_Godless_Planet:Volume3B_Chapter_51|Chapter 51: Sansan]]
*[[On_a_Godless_Planet:Volume3B_Chapter_52|Final Chapter: Eternal Blue]]
*[[On_a_Godless_Planet:Volume3B_Afterword|Afterword]]

 

==''On a Godless Planet'' by Kawakami Minoru (Web Novel Version)==
*[[On_a_Godless_Planet:Volume1_Prologue|Prologue]]
*[[On_a_Godless_Planet:Volume1_Chapter_1|Chapter 1]]
*[[On_a_Godless_Planet:Volume1_Chapter_2|Chapter 2]]
*[[On_a_Godless_Planet:Volume1_Chapter_3|Chapter 3]]
*[[On_a_Godless_Planet:Volume1_Chapter_4|Chapter 4]]
*[[On_a_Godless_Planet:Volume1_Chapter_5|Chapter 5]]
*[[On_a_Godless_Planet:Volume1_Short_1|Short: On a Godless Planet - New Style Uniform]]
*[[On_a_Godless_Planet:Volume1_Chapter_6|Chapter 6]]
*[[On_a_Godless_Planet:Volume1_Short_2|Short: On a Godless Planet - Ether and Ley Lines]]
*[[On_a_Godless_Planet:Volume1_Chapter_7|Chapter 7]]
*[[On_a_Godless_Planet:Volume1_Short_3|Short: On a Godless Planet - Character Roughs]]
*[[On_a_Godless_Planet:Volume1_Chapter_8|Chapter 8]]
*[[On_a_Godless_Planet:Volume1_Chapter_9|Chapter 9]]
*[[On_a_Godless_Planet:Volume1_Chapter_10|Chapter 10]]
*[[On_a_Godless_Planet:Volume1_Chapter_11|Chapter 11]]
*[[On_a_Godless_Planet:Volume1_Chapter_12|Chapter 12]]
*[[On_a_Godless_Planet:Volume1_Chapter_13|Chapter 13]]
*[[On_a_Godless_Planet:Volume1_Chapter_14|Chapter 14]]
*[[On_a_Godless_Planet:Volume1_Chapter_15|Chapter 15]]
*[[On_a_Godless_Planet:Volume1_Chapter_16|Chapter 16]]
*[[On_a_Godless_Planet:Volume1_Chapter_17|Chapter 17]]
*[[On_a_Godless_Planet:Volume1_Short_4|Short: On a Godless Planet - Character Roughs 2]]
*[[On_a_Godless_Planet:Volume1_Chapter_18|Chapter 18]]
*[[On_a_Godless_Planet:Volume1_Chapter_19|Chapter 19]]
*[[On_a_Godless_Planet:Volume1_Chapter_20|Chapter 20]]
*[[On_a_Godless_Planet:Volume1_Chapter_21|Chapter 21]]
*[[On_a_Godless_Planet:Volume1_Chapter_22|Chapter 22]]
*[[On_a_Godless_Planet:Volume1_Secret_Chapter|Secret Chapter]]
 

== Project Staff ==

*Supervisor:
*Project Manager:

=== Translators ===

'''ACTIVE'''
*[[user:Js06|Js06]]

=== Editors ===

'''ACTIVE'''

== Series Overview ==
*EDGEシリーズ神々のいない星で僕と先輩の惑星クラフト〈上〉 (17 August 2019, ISBN 978-4-04-912569-6)
*EDGEシリーズ神々のいない星で僕と先輩の惑星クラフト〈下〉 (17 September 2019, ISBN 978-4-04-912732-4)
*EDGEシリーズ神々のいない星で僕と先輩のウハウハザブーン〈上〉 (18 May 2020, ISBN 978-4-04-913005-8)
*EDGEシリーズ神々のいない星で僕と先輩のウハウハザブーン〈下〉 (17 July 2020, ISBN 978-4-04-913006-5)
*EDGEシリーズ神々のいない星で僕と先輩の超能力学園OO〈上〉 (17 June 2022, ISBN 978-4-04-914276-1)
*EDGEシリーズ神々のいない星で僕と先輩の超能力学園OO〈下〉 (15 July 2022, ISBN 978-4-04-914277-8)

[[Category:Light novel (English)]]
[[Category:Dengeki Bunko]]
[[Category:Minoru Kawakami]]

Horizon:Volume 1A Glossary

2026-05-31T08:00:13Z

202.136.82.225: /* Glossary */

==Glossary==
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===A===

*Academy: An educational facility. Used as the center of political and military power. Tend to have many branch schools.
*Academy Rules: The basic laws upheld between academies. Agreed to by the Testament Union.
*Apocalypse: The end of the world. 1648 when the Testament’s history descriptions end.
*ATELL: The smallest unit of ether. Used for spells.

===B===

*Blessings: The amount of ether needed for a human to exist for one hour. 3600 ATELL. Conversion unit for a spell’s ATELL consumption.

===C===

*Catholic (Old Faith): The old mainstream version of Tsirhc.
*Chancellor’s Officers: An organization led by the chancellor which leads the academy and performs work such as defense.
*Contradiction Allowance: The foundational ability of the world. Allows the simultaneous existence of all sorts of physical laws.

===D===

*Divine States: Former name of the Far East.
*Divine Weapon: A weapon that, unlike a normal weapon, has a unique ability.

===E===

*Edel Brocken (Overlooking Magic Mountain): Magic brand. Location of headquarters unknown.
*Emperor: A divine individual who is said to control the ley lines using the Imperial Regalia in Kyou. Does not interfere with the world.
*England: Uses a floating island and does not control any Far Eastern land or Far Eastern daimyo.
*Ether: Component that makes up contradiction-allowing space.
*Ether Engine: An engine that uses ether’s space-altering ability. The effect changes based on the internal crest.
*Ether Fuel: Ether that has been purified into fuel. Used as External Blessings or for ether engines.
*Ether Reactor: A reactor that extracts and purifies ether from the air. Has a lower output than a ley line reactor, but is relatively safe.
*External Blessings: Blessings accumulated outside of oneself. Ether fuel is an example.

===F===

*Fan Gang: Qing brand. Durable but a bit rough.
*Far East: Name of the Divine States after the Harmonic Unification War.
*Fino Alba (Star of Mechanical Devices): K.P.A. Italian brand. Their use of springs is their selling point.

===G===

*God of War: A giant humanoid machine that people combine with to move.
*Graduation: No limit for nations other than the Far East. Far Easterners must graduate at 18.

===H===

*Harmonic Territory: Locations where the fallen Harmonic World Divine States unified with the real world while breaking apart.
*Harmonic Unification War: A war between the harmonic world residents and the real world (Divine States) residents after the destruction of the harmonic world. The harmonic world residents won and began a provisional rule over the Divine States.
*Harmonic World: A former alternate space that copied the Divine States. Preserved through ley line control.
*Hexagone Française: Mouri clan + France.
*History Recreation: Recreating the Testament descriptions to maintain the path the world takes.
*Holy Spells: Tsirhc spells. The Catholics are related to the Testament and holy individuals while the Protestants derive power only from the Testament.

===I===

*Inherited Name: The name of a historical figure given to an appropriate individual for the history recreation.
*Internal Blessings: blessings stored within oneself.
*IZUMO (Izumo Industries): The Far East’s largest corporation. The headquarters for Far Eastern shrines and the corporation that built the Musashi.

===J===

*Jud./Judgement: Means “understood”. Used by criminals.

===K===

*K.P.A. Italia: Association of Aki States + Union of Italian City States.

===L===

*Ley Line: The thicker of the pathways through which ether flows.
*Ley Line Reactor: A reactor that extracts and refines either from ley lines. Can easily cause lay line mutations and destroy everything within several kilometers if they explode. Due to their instability, they are banned by the Tsirhc religion.
*Logismoi Oplo (Deadly Sins' Weapons): Weapons of mass destruction created on the motif of the seven deadly sins.

===M===

*Magic: Folk spells currently under persecution in Europe.
*M.H.R.R.: Hashiba clan + Holy Roman Empire.
*Mikawa: Located between India and the Middle East. Because it had been named as the controller of the Far East, it acts as a residential area for the Far East, and the Testament Union has acknowledged its high autocracy, but because of the Testament's description, it allied with P.A.ODA. As P.A.ODA had half-ceded from the Testament Union, it became a neutral country in a half locked-country status to both the Testament Union and P.A.ODA.
*Mlasi: A later non-Tsirhc religion that also worships the Testament.
*Mouse: A spirit beast device to act as an intermediary between the Shinto religion and its musicians. Other religions use different names.
*Musashi: Aerial city ship. The sole independent territory allowed for the Far East.
*Musashi Ariadust Academy: The Far East’s representative academy which exists on Okutama of Musashi.
*Musician: A religion’s worshiper.

===O===

*Offering: Providing a god with something they will enjoy or Internal Blessings.
*Orei Metallo/Water: Ore or water containing ether. Can be used as ether fuel.

===P===

*P.A. ODA: Oda clan + Ottomans.
*Peace of Westphalia: The peace treaty that ended the Thirty Years’ War.
*Protestant (New Faith): A new style of Tsirhc created to escape the corruption of Catholicism and to adjust to the new age.
*Provisional Council: Group of adults who act as bureaucrats toward Musashi’s student council, chancellor’s officers, and student committees.

===Q===

*Qing: China.

===R===

*Religion: Organizations or groups that worship a god or the Testament.

===S===

*San Mercado (Pure Metropolis): Tres Españan brand.
*Shinto: Far Eastern religion. Worships the Far Eastern gods and uses divine music spells.
*Shirasago Enterprises: IZUMO’s shrine brand.
*Sign Frame: Spell device needed to use each religion’s basic protection.
*Song of Passage: Prototype of a fairy tale created in the Far East during the Edo period.
*Spell: Causing a miracle in a certain space by processing ether.
*Student Council: The organization that handles an academy’s domestic and foreign affairs.
*Substitution: Offering something to please a god instead of using Blessings to activate a spell.
*Sviet Rus: Uesugi clan + Russia.

===T===

*Tes/Testament: Means “understood”.
*Testament: A history book that provides the history of the earth’s previous age. There are seven pairs and excerpts.
*Testament Descriptions: History of the earth’s previous age that is automatically updated by the Testament. However, it stopped updating after the description for 1648.
*Testament Union: An organization meant to lead the history recreation.
*Testamenta Arma: Weapons that use the ability of the Testaments.
*Tres España: Oouchi and Ootomo clans + Spain. Currently includes Portugal.
*Tsirhc: A religion which places the Son of God at the top. Worships the Testament.

'''Note''': Ether is the energy that forms reality and the laws of this world.

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On a Godless Planet:Volume3B Chapter 27

2026-05-28T04:02:17Z

202.136.82.225: /* Chapter 27: Battle Mania */

==Chapter 27: Battle Mania==
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–''Rather than realize it on your own, let someone else guide you to realization.

●

''Anyway,'' thought Beisu.

[[Image:godless_beisu.png|50px]]

…''How are they going to settle this?

The Irish representative and the Olympus representative Poseidon were going to fight.

Did he want to see this? Yes, very much so. But on the other hand…

[[Image:godless_demeter.png|50px]]

“Is that even a fair fight?”

He wasn’t exactly an expert on Olympus mythology, but he knew enough. He recognized most of the gods’ names and Poseidon was major enough to appear in a lot of games and such.

Meanwhile, he didn’t know much about Irish mythology. Really, he barely knew anything at all.

[[Image:godless_boku.png|50px]]

“What kind a moves does Busty Bangs-senpai use in a fight!? Do you use the three Royal Weapons from the opening castle like in Tir Na Nog!?”

[[Image:godless_anne_awate.png|50px]]

“Eh? Eh? What?”

[[Image:godless_beisu.png|50px]]

“I’m not sure Irish mythology would use an English word like ‘royal’.”

[[Image:godless_ki.png|50px]]

“Hey, quit it. That one hurts ''me'' more than anyone.”

She was a really major upperclassman. Beisu knew he shouldn’t have said that. But…

[[Image:godless_TJ.png|50px]]

“It is kind of fascinating that we don’t know what Irish mythology will do.”

[[Image:godless_beisu.png|50px]]

“You mean Poseidon doesn’t have the advantage?”

[[Image:godless_TJ.png|50px]]

“Oh, he definitely does. But we’re all gods, so she might have some kind of special move. Like Senpai-san over there.”

The lifespan goddess.

Beisu had received some info on that, although none of the specifics.

Most likely, the Shinto terraforming leaders – usually known as the Library Pals – had leaked it as a show of force.

[[Image:godless_beisu.png|50px]]

“If only I had something like that.”

But just as he said that…

[[Image:godless_gil.png|50px]]

“Do you mean the authority? Or the human’s worship?”

And there was another major one.

●

Bilgamesh had something he wanted to ask about.

[[Image:godless_gil.png|50px]]

“A god cannot perform their released manifestation without human worship. It’s true for us and the Norse gods, so it must be true for you as well.”

That was fine for the representatives. At their high divine rank and level, they could handle most anything without a released manifestation.

[[Image:godless_gil.png|50px]]

…''The released manifestation would only be for a serious emergency.

Even his Hyper Series Summoning would have difficulty against one. And he thought he might need that kind of power if he was ever unable to do a summoning. But…

[[Image:godless_gil.png|50px]]

“How is it for you?”

[[Image:godless_beisu.png|50px]]

“How is what?”

Apparently that was a poorly phrased question.

[[Image:godless_gil.png|50px]]

“Sorry.”

[[Image:godless_beisu.png|50px]]

“No, um, you don’t have to apologize!”

The other god seemed really nervous. Not good.

[[Image:godless_gil.png|50px]]

“I am truly sorry…”

[[Image:godless_beisu.png|50px]]

“No, no, no, no! You misunderstand!”

''Why are my apologies ineffectual!?

●

[[Image:godless_gil.png|50px]]

“We have a situation here. '''My apologies are being negated somehow.'''”

[[Image:godless_ki.png|50px]]

“Are you kidding me?”

[[Image:godless_gil.png|50px]]

“No, I am trying to act nonthreatening, yet he seems extremely guarded for some reason. Is there any way of fixing this?”

[[Image:godless_shifu_akire.png|50px]]

“Maybe you’re trying, but you seem pretty damn threatening to me…”

[[Image:godless_kuwajiri.png|50px]]

“E-excuse me. When I was buying a case of beer at Inageya, the lady at the register asked ‘oh, is that for your dad?’ and I immediately and bluntly said no. Now whenever I check out at the register there, she’s really apologetic, so could this be a similar situation?”

[[Image:godless_tenma.png|50px]]

“Knowledge God-senpai, what have you been buying frequently enough for this to be an issue?”

[[Image:godless_kuwajiri.png|50px]]

“Snacks to go with my beer and frozen foods.”

[[Image:godless_kido_awate.png|50px]]

“Not counting the alcohol, couldn’t you create the illusion of cooking for yourself?”

[[Image:godless_senpai_awate.png|50px]]

“Or she really could start cooking for herself?”

[[Image:godless_raidou.png|50px]]

“Yeah, I don’t think that’s happening.”

[[Image:godless_shifu_akire.png|50px]]

“Right? Oh, sorry. This was about Bil-chan. So what do you mean your apologies aren’t working?”

[[Image:godless_gil.png|50px]]

“I am apologizing, but he isn’t accepting it. Must I make some kind of vow to get him to accept my apology?”

[[Image:godless_raidou.png|50px]]

“ ‘I am not being threatening. Now, you had better accept my apology.’ That’s a new one, for sure.”

[[Image:godless_boku.png|50px]]

“Apology Man! You haven’t been apologizing as much since the camping trip, so your Apology Power is waning! Be more like me and how I think about big boobs at least once a second!”

[[Image:godless_tenma.png|50px]]

“Is apology worship a thing?”

[[Image:godless_eshita_warai.png|50px]]

“Ah ha ha! Being me is great because I don’t have to apologize when these things happen!”

[[Image:godless_ki.png|50px]]

“You have your own issues, so be quiet.”

●

Kuwajiri ended up having to speak on his behalf since she was threatening but in the same school year.

[[Image:godless_kuwajiri.png|50px]]

“To put it simply, Beisu and Seito are wondering if there’s any reason for gods as unimportant as you to even be in this divine world.”

[[Image:godless_beisu_awate.png|50px]]

“There has to be a better way to say that!”

Shifu failed to fully suppress her laughter behind Kuwajiri, but Kuwajiri was just glad that someone could find humor in it.

But Beisu’s partner stepped up to his side.

[[Image:godless_beset.png|50px]]

“We are here because we hold a fairly unclear position in Egyptian mythology.”

[[Image:godless_kuwajiri.png|50px]]

“Hm? But you two are pretty important.”

She knew their origins.

[[Image:godless_kuwajiri.png|50px]]

“You are Bes and Beset, gods who spread across all of Egypt and ultimately made it all the way to Greece and Persia.”

●

[[Image:godless_senpai_awate.png|50px]]

“…”

[[Image:godless_senpai_awate.png|50px]]

“Sorry. I’m probably just going to reveal how little I know with this, but what kind of gods are they?”

“Um,” said Kuwajiri, with a pretty good idea where this was going.

[[Image:godless_kuwajiri.png|50px]]

“Bes and Beset are the Egyptian gods of folk belief and they are thought to have come from Nubia in the Upper Nile region, which is now Sudan and Ethiopia.”

[[Image:godless_raidou.png|50px]]

“They would provide protection and exorcise evil and they did that with song, dance, and feasts. This led them to be associated with weddings, birth, and female labor, turning them into a guardian of all things.”

[[Image:godless_shinobu.png|50px]]

“He’s a 68 user and goes to the arcade a lot, so he’s friends with Tooru.”

[[Image:godless_kuwajiri.png|50px]]

“Bes is a short old man god and is thought to be represented by a lion standing on its hind legs as a threat. Since he has a foreign source, he is usually presented head on whereas Egyptian gods are usually depicted in profile. He arrived in Egypt during the New Kingdom, which began in 1570 BCE, after all that dynasty business we were discussing before. It’s thought he was brought in after Hyksos rule was overthrown and Egypt began attacking other places.”

[[Image:godless_kido.png|50px]]

“So he was brought back from a conquered land and incorporated into their myths.”

[[Image:godless_TJ.png|50px]]

“In that sense, he isn’t really from our mythology. That’s why his worship is based on folk worship, not on the royal family or a religious group, but that actually expedited the construction of a temple and such for him.”

[[Image:godless_beisu.png|50px]]

“We belong to the ordinary people living in the present. The higher ups are kind of old-fashioned. …Or that’s how we took it.”

[[Image:godless_raidou.png|50px]]

“So a god focused on having a good time whoser worship is led by the people and isn’t a part of the existing religious groups like the royal family? There’s no way that wasn’t spreading.”

[[Image:godless_kuwajiri.png|50px]]

“As Bes gained popularity like that, he and his female version Beset made it all the way to Central Asia in the east and the Iberian Peninsula in the west. It kind of reminds me of the modern spread of musicians and subculture.”

●

[[Image:godless_kuwajiri.png|50px]]

“That more or less sums it up. What do you think, Senpai-san?”

Kuwajiri turned around to find Senpai-san prostrating.

[[Image:godless_senpai_awate.png|50px]]

“Sorry, sorry, sorry, sorry! You’re super major gods! I was acting like I was some important upperclassman, but you’re so important you could obliterate a puny little shut-in god from the mountains of an eastern island nation who can look all across Japan and count the number of shrines to her on her fingers!”

[[Image:godless_tenma.png|50px]]

“The terraforming lead always pulls out all the stops when it comes to belittling herself.”

[[Image:godless_beisu.png|50px]]

“No, no, no, no, no! That was forever ago! It’s old news!”

[[Image:godless_boku.png|50px]]

“Wait! You should stop right there and accept Senpai’s apology! Look at the perfect form of her prostration! You look too, Kuwajiri! That is the prostration of a true Japanese heart! It is a world-class prostration! And the way her knees squish her boobs makes it all the better! Even a strict assessment would have to award her at least 6 billion points! If you refuse to accept it, I’m going on a trip to Egypt one day and licking every one of your statues I find! Until my tongue is dry and cracked! Like this! On this wall! Licky licky licky lick!”

[[Image:godless_TJ.png|50px]]

“We only reapplied the mortar there the other day.”

[[Image:godless_boku.png|50px]]

“That’s some tasty mortar! Is that why it tastes like chemistry class!? But it’s nothing compared to the flavor of a retort pouch boiled by Senpai!”

[[Image:godless_senpai_awate.png|50px]]

“Um, Beisu-kun? Seito-san? Sumeragi-kun is always serious.”

[[Image:godless_beisu_awate.png|50px]]

'''“Stooooop!”'''

He was forced to accept the apology.

●

[[Image:godless_kuwajiri.png|50px]]

“Anyway, the question was why you came here.”

Kuwajiri more or less already knew the answer, but Beisu answered anyway.

[[Image:godless_beisu.png|50px]]

“We were made a part of the mythology, but we never did become a part of the main family? I guess you could say? And because we spread so rapidly, it was always awkward around them. Also, our divine rank is pretty low because it’s based on our myths in Egyptian mythology.”

[[Image:godless_ki.png|50px]]

“So like how Senpai-san’s authority puts hear near the top, but her divine rank is low because it’s based on her myths?”

[[Image:godless_senpai_awate.png|50px]]

“Oh, no you don’t! You can’t belittle yourself that easily! Us true no-name gods never even did get our time to shine! You can’t join my New Weakling God Clan if that’s all you have!”

[[Image:godless_shifu_akire.png|50px]]

“You are strict in the weirdest ways…”

[[Image:godless_kuwajiri.png|50px]]

“Anyway,” said Kuwajiri to Beisu. “Are you here because you wanted human worship?”

She knew something about this.

[[Image:godless_kuwajiri.png|50px]]

“Your power dropped recently, didn’t it? Is it about that?”

●

“Um.” I hesitantly raised my hand.

[[Image:godless_senpai_awate.png|50px]]

“May a weakling god like me ask a question?”

[[Image:godless_tenma.png|50px]]

“That’s a new one.”

''I have to worry about these things!'' I thought on the inside as I spoke.

[[Image:godless_senpai_awate.png|50px]]

“The rules say that you have to go through me to get Sumeragi-kun’s worship, and you have to meet certain conditions.”

[[Image:godless_boku.png|50px]]

“You have to be part of my family and have big boobs!”

[[Image:godless_kido.png|50px]]

“He means me.”

[[Image:godless_anne_awate.png|50px]]

“…”

[[Image:godless_anne_awate.png|50px]]

“Eh? Are you mother and child? Ehh!?”

[[Image:godless_boku.png|50px]]

“How about that, Busty Bangs!? Feel like you’re on a hidden camera show!? It surprised me too!”

[[Image:godless_senpai_awate.png|50px]]

“It surprised me a lot too, but Kido-san’s mother-in-law act is great, so it works! It really works!”

[[Image:godless_kido_awate.png|50px]]

“Based on what?”

[[Image:godless_tenma.png|50px]]

“Using those conditions, Guard God-senpai cannot receive the human’s worship.”

[[Image:godless_senpai_awate.png|50px]]

“Yes, because she doesn’t have big boobs.”

[[Image:godless_shifu_akire.png|50px]]

“You could just focus on the other condition.”

A hand went up.

[[Image:godless_beset_awate.png|50px]]

“Wait a second! Big boobs and part of his family!? Funto and I are a couple, so that just isn’t possible!”

[[Image:godless_kuwajiri.png|50px]]

“Ah.”

[[Image:godless_beset.png|50px]]

“Eh?”

[[Image:godless_beset.png|50px]]

“…”

[[Image:godless_beset_awate.png|50px]]

'''“Ahh! Forget I said that!”'''

●

[[Image:godless_senpai_warai.png|50px]]

“'''Wow,''' I’d forgotten. You are, aren’t you? I understand. Yes, I really do. Yes.”

[[Image:godless_shinobu.png|50px]]

“Tooru and I are too, but it’s somehow sweeter with underclassmen.”

[[Image:godless_kido_tere.png|50px]]

“W-well, everyone has their own situation, so no comment.”

[[Image:godless_beset_awate.png|50px]]

“'''Ahh!!''' This is why I didn’t want to say that!”

[[Image:godless_raidou.png|50px]]

“They’re weirdly drawn to this topic, aren’t they?”

●

[[Image:godless_gil.png|50px]]

“But,” asked Bilgamesh. “Was your position in your mythology the only reason you came here?”

[[Image:godless_beisu.png|50px]]

“Eh? Oh…”

After pausing to think, the younger god responded while returning Bilgamesh’s gaze.

[[Image:godless_beisu.png|50px]]

“That’s right. If we had another reason, why would she have said that just now?”

●

Kidou watched her partner nod and say, “I see.”

[[Image:godless_ki.png|50px]]

…''Now I get it.

Bilgamesh spoke to Beisu.

[[Image:godless_gil.png|50px]]

“I will honor your position. I do not know your reasons, but I can tell it is a matter of your pride.”

''He’s being threatening again,'' thought Kidou with a smile. That was just how he was.

And she had learned something from this exchange.

[[Image:godless_beisu.png|50px]]

“…Thank you.”

The lion god, who bowed a little, was definitely weakened at the moment.

She didn’t know why. And she noticed…

[[Image:godless_ki.png|50px]]

…''Since the wife god attacked Poseidon, her power must not have fallen.

They had originally been a single god, so why was this happening?

It wasn’t related to human worship.

They had come here, knowing neither of them had that. And the Norse knowledge god had said something else…

[[Image:godless_ki.png|50px]]

…''His power dropped recently.

What did that mean?

●

[[Image:godless_ki.png|50px]]

“Can I ask a question on this divine transmission line, Norse gods?”

[[Image:godless_raidou.png|50px]]

“Go for it. …I know more or less what’s going on, but I’ll generally not be answering.”

[[Image:godless_gil.png|50px]]

“A matter of honor?”

[[Image:godless_shinobu.png|50px]]

“That’s right. Since Funto-chan’s keeping quiet. And with Seito-chan here, it’s both their problem. We’ve known them long enough to make some good guesses.”

[[Image:godless_kuwajiri.png|50px]]

“But it’s odd that the wife still has her power while the husband’s has fallen.”

[[Image:godless_raidou.png|50px]]

“It reminds me of The Return of Ishtar, but that was the wife getting a boost because the husband had declined.”

[[Image:godless_ki.png|50px]]

“You keep saying you’ll let me see that one, but I still haven’t seen it.”

[[Image:godless_raidou.png|50px]]

“We’ll probably be spending the night in the clubroom tonight, so I’ll show it to you then. Sumeragi brought his MSX2.”

●

Kido looked to Poseidon and Dan before speaking.

[[Image:godless_kido.png|50px]]

“Now, it is about time to begin today’s slag-tering.”

[[Image:godless_senpai_awate.png|50px]]

“Kido-san! Kido-san! You need to take that down a notch! Down from ‘barbarian’ to ‘considerate modern person’!”

Very well.

[[Image:godless_kido.png|50px]]

'''“First to behead their opponent wins.”'''

Shifu-san waved her raised hand side to side.

[[Image:godless_shifu_akire.png|50px]]

“You don’t have to be modern to understand that one.”

''So take it down yet another notch?'' In that case…

[[Image:godless_kido.png|50px]]

“How about they both duke it out until we appear to have a winner?”

Why did everyone breath a sigh of relief there?

●

[[Image:godless_kido.png|50px]]

“The duel will be completed here. You are limited to the courtyard, so only use authorities contained to this space.”

[[Image:godless_demeter.png|50px]]

“You’re restricting them a lot.”

[[Image:godless_kido.png|50px]]

“Yes. Because we would be in trouble if they destroyed this place.”

[[Image:godless_demeter.png|50px]]

“I would say, ‘look in a mirror, numbskull’, but I am above such things.”

[[Image:godless_kido.png|50px]]

“Oh? It seems to me you should keep in mind that you are in launch range of Yamanashi as long as you are in Tokyo.”

[[Image:godless_senpai_awate.png|50px]]

“Kido-san! Stop picking fights with Demeter-san!”

●

''They’re just going to continue provoking each other at this rate,'' concluded Mr. V, so he raised a hand.

And he spoke to the Irish representative and Poseidon.

[[Image:godless_neptunes.png|50px]]

“You may begin.”

●

Balancer chose not to open a spell field.

[[Image:godless_balancer.png|50px]]

…''Even if they would be able to make full use of their authorities inside one.

A spell field was a space where, for example, Yomoji could launch a meteor strike without any concern for collateral damage.

But that wasn’t true here. When limited to the courtyard, the duelists’ choice of authorities would be severely limited.

[[Image:godless_balancer.png|50px]]

<Very well. Proceed.>

●

[[Image:godless_raidou.png|50px]]

…''So how’s this going to play out?

Raidou was eager to find out.

He knew Poseidon was powerful. They had compared strengths a fair amount during their virtual manifestations.

Poseidon was undoubtedly skilled.

And then there was Dan.

[[Image:godless_shinobu.png|50px]]

“Dan-chan’s part in this is going to be interesting.”

[[Image:godless_raidou.png|50px]]

“You set something up with Kuwajiri earlier, didn’t you?”

[[Image:godless_shinobu.png|50px]]

“You could say we gave her some indirect support. I thought she could use it when dealing with Posei-chan.”

Raidou was excited to find out what that was.

Currently, the duelists were facing each other.

[[Image:godless_raidou.png|50px]]

“A mother earth goddess vs. a sea god. Let’s see how this goes.”

●

Anne made the first move.

[[Image:godless_anne_awate.png|50px]]

“Umm.”

But not to attack. She fell back.

She put three or four more steps between them, but at the same time…

[[Image:godless_poseidon.png|50px]]

“Oh? Are you running away?”

Poseidon swiftly stepped forward.

Just as he did, something happened.

After moving forward as many steps as Anne had moved back…

“Oh?”

Poseidon disappeared.

As everyone watched the center of the courtyard, the sea god stepped onto an earthen depression in the brick paving. And…

[[Image:godless_gil.png|50px]]

“He disappeared.”

Without a trace.

●

[[Image:godless_senpai_awate.png|50px]]

“…”

[[Image:godless_senpai_awate.png|50px]]

“Eh!? Wait, what!? What was that!? Poseidon-san just vanished!”

[[Image:godless_ki.png|50px]]

“He didn’t just vanish. He was removed. By the Irish representative.”

[[Image:godless_anne_awate.png|50px]]

“Y-yes. …Kind of like that.”

So it was kind of like that.

A fairly large person had been removed from the courtyard.

It happened just as he took a few steps forward and stepped into a circular depression of dirt in the center of the courtyard.

[[Image:godless_kido.png|50px]]

“When Poseidon stood there during the questioning, Raidou-san stopped him. Was this why?”

[[Image:godless_raidou.png|50px]]

“No, that was something else. But…”

Raidou-san looked to Dan-san.

[[Image:godless_raidou.png|50px]]

“I see. So she’s a mother earth goddess, but she isn’t just a harvest god. To go along with the twin hills, she’s a god of the mountains and forests too.”

[[Image:godless_boku.png|50px]]

“What do you mean!? How did Double Big Boobs get rid of Poseidon? If it was her big boobs power, then I would have been vanished by Senpai 500 times over, but that hasn’t- wait, has it been happening but I’ve been reborn each time it happens!?”

[[Image:godless_kuwajiri.png|50px]]

“If you were reborn that often, you wouldn’t have a single memory left in your head.”

Thank you for the correction, Kuwajiri-san. But Raidou-san’s comment made me think of something.

[[Image:godless_senpai_awate.png|50px]]

“Was he spirited away!?”

●

Kuwajiri opened her mouth while everyone’s eyes gathered on Dan, who was still technically in a duel.

[[Image:godless_kuwajiri.png|50px]]

“That’s right. This was a stereotypical case of spiriting away. Ireland has the changeling stories of fairies kidnapping children, but there are countless similar stories based on the local fairies of Europe where the Celtic culture spread.”

[[Image:godless_kido.png|50px]]

“But we’re in a courtyard, not the mountains or woods.”

[[Image:godless_kuwajiri.png|50px]]

“Right. So I think she adjusted the phase to match.”

Kuwajiri pointed at the depression in the center of the courtyard. There was a reason why the dirt ground was exposed there.

[[Image:godless_kuwajiri.png|50px]]

“The structure of the courtyard prevents all the water from draining out when it rains. So the center was turned into a depression of exposed dirt to let the water soak underground.”

Meaning…

[[Image:godless_kuwajiri.png|50px]]

“That ground is the natural terrain. The club building itself is built on a foundation, but the dirt ground below that is the natural terrain. That provides the necessary earth phase.”

This was probably thanks to Balancer since he created this divine world. The divine world was a data world and it had enough detail to allow the establishment of phases.

But…

[[Image:godless_senpai_awate.png|50px]]

“You only need dirt ground to spirit someone away?”

That was the right question to ask.

[[Image:godless_kuwajiri.png|50px]]

“Not normally, no. Also, the architecture gods are currently lifting this place on jacks, so I doubt someone at Dan-senpai’s level could do it with an earth phase alone.”

[[Image:godless_shinobu.png|50px]]

“Then what did she use?”

[[Image:godless_kuwajiri.png|50px]]

“The rain. She used the rain.”

●

For Anne, it had been a gamble.

[[Image:godless_anne_awate.png|50px]]

…''It…worked…

She really had spirited him away.

Ordinarily, the technique was used to “protect” people who had gotten lost in the mountains or forests and send them back where they belonged. Of course, this was done based on the standards of the world the gods and spirits like her came from, so it often ended badly in the human world, but that was unavoidable.

She had used that here.

She had used the earth phase and the rain phase.

[[Image:godless_anne_awate.png|50px]]

…''The dirt ground, the rain, and…

Japanese summers were hot and humid.

[[Image:godless_anne_awate.png|50px]]

“The summer heat built up in the ground and buildings…created a fog…with today’s rain.”

She had summoned that.

[[Image:godless_anne_awate.png|50px]]

“Deep fog…is enough for…a spiriting away.”

When on the dirt and in the fog, a god could spirit someone away without needing the mountains or the woods.

So she had done so to that major Olympus god.

●

[[Image:godless_anne_awate.png|50px]]

“––––––”

Anne took a breath.

She realized everyone was looking at her.

[[Image:godless_anne_awate.png|50px]]

“Oh, um.”

Had this made her stand out?

That was a problem. She didn’t like to stand out. The druids, wise men and priests with a close connection to her mythology, preferred to remain hidden in the woods.

She and her fellow Irish gods were the same.

The old gods had gone to live underground, leaving the surface to the humans. It was more tasteful to only occasionally visit the surface to stargaze or to play.

So she preferred not to stand out, but…

[[Image:godless_anne_awate.png|50px]]

“Eh?”

The hill sea god called Mr. V had stopped his right hand mid-motion.

He must have been counting something on the hand because it was frozen with four fingers raised.

Why had he stopped?

[[Image:godless_anne_awate.png|50px]]

“Umm…”

After some hesitation, Anne realized the others weren’t looking at her. They were looking behind her.

[[Image:godless_poseidon.png|50px]]

“Well, whaddya know! You’ve actually got some fight in you!”

Poseidon stood there.

●

[[Image:godless_poseidon.png|50px]]

…''That was interesting.

Spiriting away was like a sort of abduction. In Greek mythology, Zeus had a tendency toward abducting girls and goddesses he was interested in, but Poseidon had a few of those stories as well.

And this kind of “technique” was pretty common among the local gods and spirits of Europe too.

So he had known what happened as soon as he was spirited away.

[[Image:godless_poseidon.png|50px]]

…''She used elements of a mountain.

She had used the dirt ground. And probably the fog as a smokescreen. But this fog wasn’t commanded by a water authority – it was the rain fog that covered the mountains.

That meant this goddess was a mother earth goddess of the woods and mountains.

So he had made a decision.

[[Image:godless_poseidon.png|50px]]

“I forced my way out.”

There was a way to escape a spiriting away.

[[Image:godless_gil.png|50px]]

“Did you soak the fog with your water and turned it into a spring?”

●

[[Image:godless_poseidon_awate.png|50px]]

“Oh, c’mon! You stole my big reveal.”

Bilgamesh did not respond to Poseidon. He only looked to something behind Poseidon.

A dark line stretched down into the courtyard from the rooftop. It was…

[[Image:godless_gil.png|50px]]

“A drain spout. Did you link the fog phase to that?”

●

[[Image:godless_boku.png|50px]]

“Eh!? What does that mean!? Explain it in terms of big boobs please!”

[[Image:godless_senpai_awate.png|50px]]

“Help! Is anyone here an expert at big boobs explanations!?”

[[Image:godless_kido_awate.png|50px]]

“What are you even talking about?”

[[Image:godless_tenma.png|50px]]

“You could say he ''linked the small boobs to some big boobs.''”

[[Image:godless_boku.png|50px]]

“…”

[[Image:godless_boku.png|50px]]

“Sorry, Temanko! That was a terrible explanation! I’m really sorry! But I still don’t understand! And since there obviously can’t be anything wrong with big boobs explanations, the problem must be with your explanation! Sorry!”

[[Image:godless_shifu_akire.png|50px]]

“Is he really calling a god of education bad at explanations?”

[[Image:godless_ki.png|50px]]

“The complete lack of doubt in his faith is honestly impressive.”

[[Image:godless_raidou.png|50px]]

“You’re up, Kuwajiri.”

[[Image:godless_kuwajiri.png|50px]]

“I was going to complain, but instead I will do my job and explain this the ordinary way.”

●

[[Image:godless_kuwajiri.png|50px]]

“He used a phase link.”

Kuwajiri pointed to the center of the courtyard.

[[Image:godless_kuwajiri.png|50px]]

“The courtyard’s brick paving gives it the phase of an artificial structure, but there is a depression in the center without any brick. The dirt there gives it an earth phase and the rain gives it a fog phase. Think of that combination as a ‘spiriting away door’ created by Dan-senpai.”

The battle had already resumed. Dan was avoiding Poseidon’s hands. To keep the explanation from falling behind, Kuwajiri chose her words carefully.

[[Image:godless_kuwajiri.png|50px]]

“There are a few different ways of breaking an opponent’s authority. One is to outdo it in strength and that is what Poseidon did.”

[[Image:godless_senpai_awate.png|50px]]

“And he did that by…?”

[[Image:godless_kuwajiri.png|50px]]

“Creating a link. There is a denser form of water here than the fog Dan-senpai summoned. The water gathering on the rooftop and flowing down the drain spout,” she said. “The fog and the drain spout water is all ‘outside water’ that fell from the sky. And the fog summoned to the center of the courtyard came from the ‘spring water’ that flowed down the drain spouts and gathered in the center of the courtyard. Poseidon is an earth god and controls spring waters, so he was able to forcibly redefine Dan-senpai’s fog as ‘the water of his spring’.”

●

[[Image:godless_raidou.png|50px]]

“So by placing his opponent’s weapon into his phase, he was able to place it under his command?”

[[Image:godless_kuwajiri.png|50px]]

“Right. He couldn’t have stolen Dan-senpai’s fog if their power were equal, but that wasn’t the case. So his ‘spring water’ was linked to the fog, allowing the fog to continue to act as an entrance to the spiriting away but also turning the ‘spring water’ of his phase into an exit from the spiriting away.”

[[Image:godless_shinobu.png|50px]]

“That explains how he managed to leave through the drain spout water, but from a mythological perspective, was that a god emerging from a spring?”

[[Image:godless_boku.png|50px]]

“Eh!? So in terms of boobs, linking the fog to the spring water was like ''linking small boobs to big boobs''!? Wow, go me! I just found the perfect analogy!”

[[Image:godless_tenma.png|50px]]

“Human-senpai, if you ever come to me praying for academic success, I will refuse you to your face.”

[[Image:godless_senpai_awate.png|50px]]

“All I understand is this battle is beyond the understanding of a small-time god like me.”

[[Image:godless_kido_awate.png|50px]]

“The battle is still ongoing, so I would recommend watching it.”

●

[[Image:godless_raidou.png|50px]]

“Hey, so how’s it going?”

Raidou looked up, unsure which one to root for.

[[Image:godless_ki.png|50px]]

“The Irish one is holding her ground.”

[[Image:godless_gil.png|50px]]

“Is this another authority?”

“Yes,” confirmed Raidou, nodding at what he could see.

Poseidon was pursuing Dan with his footwork and sending out his hands.

He unleashed a merciless combination. He did what needed doing, not letting his opponent’s appearance distract him. He was doing the right thing for a god with combat authorities.

But…

[[Image:godless_raidou.png|50px]]

“Dan’s mountain and woods authority is impressive too.”

●

''Not bad at all,'' thought Poseidon.

[[Image:godless_poseidon.png|50px]]

…''I can’t seem to hit her!

He had a few different authorities, which of course included combat ones.

They were the authorities of a powerful god. You could compare them to the rest of his group to determine just what position he held.

Poseidon’s power was possibly the greatest among the Olympus gods.

But as he used the long arms of his tall stature to throw out a combination of punches…

[[Image:godless_poseidon.png|50px]]

“None of it matters if I can’t hit her.”

She was dodging.

Anne’s back stepping looked clumsy.

She wasn’t a seasoned fighter. But he could tell she did have some combat authority.

[[Image:Godless_3B_p035.jpg|thumb]]

[[Image:godless_poseidon.png|50px]]

…''What a strange goddess.

[[Image:godless_poseidon_awate.png|50px]]

“Nothing at all like Demeter.”

●

[[Image:godless_tenma.png|50px]]

“By the way, why are you so aggressive around him, Demeter?”

[[Image:godless_demeter.png|50px]]

“We did some fighting before we were combined into the single Greek mythology. And after that too.”

[[Image:godless_balancer.png|50px]]

<Greek mythology does have Poseidon engage in a “forced union” with Demeter, but that puts Demeter in an enraged mode called Demeter Erinys.>

[[Image:godless_kuwajiri.png|50px]]

“We mentioned before that Aphrodite has her reasonable mode and pleasure mode, but this must mean Demeter has an ordinary mode and an Erinys mode.”

[[Image:godless_balancer.png|50px]]

<A fascinating aspect of the story has been found on the Greek island of Crete. The ancient Greek alphabet was created on Crete which was prospering due to trade and it spread from there, but an ancient clay tablet made in 1450 BCE references an offering to the mainland which is addressed to ‘the Two Queens and Poseidon’.>

[[Image:godless_tenma.png|50px]]

“That would mean Poseidon was known as a god back then, but who were the two queens?”

[[Image:godless_demeter.png|50px]]

“Most likely, Persephone and me.”

[[Image:godless_senpai_awate.png|50px]]

“But why call you queens instead of using your names?”

[[Image:godless_kuwajiri.png|50px]]

“We can only guess, but it is possible that a state with Demeter and Persephone as its top gods was ruled over by a state with Poseidon as its top god, or they were allied with the Poseidon one in the more powerful position.”

[[Image:godless_demeter.png|50px]]

“And I later got mad and made more of a name for myself.”

[[Image:godless_balancer.png|50px]]

<The ancient Greek alphabet was probably made around 1500 BCE, so about that same time. Greek mythology also began to be formed in the same period, so if Demeter’s resistance came later, it would fit with the time the mythology was being formed. That would explain why Demeter causes so much trouble within Greek mythology. You can think of it like realtime commentary.>

[[Image:godless_boku.png|50px]]

“Busty Olympus really is the aggressive type!!”

[[Image:godless_senpai_awate.png|50px]]

“Dan-san is nothing like Demeter-san. Or maybe it’s Demeter-san who is the different one.”

●

Poseidon had to agree that Demeter was a force to be reckoned with.

[[Image:godless_poseidon_awate.png|50px]]

…''There’s something wrong with her.

She was a rude, belligerent harvest god who got high off certain leaves and made anyone who attacked her apologize. That had even applied to Zeus. Hades hadn’t been her husband, but he had been in charge of her daughter Persephone.

Who was the strongest Olympus god?

Yes! A certain “queen”!

[[Image:godless_poseidon_awate.png|50px]]

…''It scares me to think that clay tablet from Crete may have called her a queen because they were afraid to use her name.

It was far too likely a possibly.

But Poseidon had a more immediate opponent to focus on now.

[[Image:godless_anne_awate.png|50px]]

“…!”

She was good.

He realized they had already passed by Tooru, Shifu, and that group.

Anne made good and broad usage of the circular courtyard to escape his attacks without every placing her back toward the outer edge.

And at the same time…

[[Image:godless_poseidon.png|50px]]

“What about this?”

He made what looked like a triple combo, but was actually a 3-2 five-stage combo. And to fill the gap between combos, he made it look like he was going to finish it with the third blow the second time around only to extend his arm and…

[[Image:godless_poseidon.png|50px]]

…''Grab!

His hand grasped Anne’s collar.

His long arm shot out in a flash and his palm reached her neck. But…

[[Image:godless_anne_awate.png|50px]]

“–––––”

She dodged it. No, wait…

[[Image:godless_poseidon.png|50px]]

“She slipped out.”

That was an authority. She had avoided it with something other than an action or movement.

●

[[Image:godless_poseidon.png|50px]]

…''That was a falling leaf!

Poseidon was sure of it.

Anne’s escape had used an authority related to the trees of a forest. As unfamiliar with combat as she was, she avoided his strength with a movement so much like a falling leaf.

But he had expected this and combat gods knew how to make sure their attacks hit.

So why hadn’t it worked this time?

[[Image:godless_poseidon.png|50px]]

…''A compatibility issue maybe?

The combination of their authorities put him at a disadvantage.

●

[[Image:godless_raidou.png|50px]]

“I think Poseidon’s figured it out. His compatibility is unexpectedly bad here.”

Raidou found himself enjoying this, which he didn’t see as a great testament to his character. And…

[[Image:godless_tenma.png|50px]]

“What kind of compatibility matters here?”

[[Image:godless_poseidon.png|50px]]

“Dan’s authorities are based on the mountains and forests. I’d say she’s at a pretty high level there among the European mythologies. Poseidon’s are about the earth and sea, but he also has authorities for rivers, springs, and spring water.”

That was where compatibility came in.

[[Image:godless_raidou.png|50px]]

“It worked great when Poseidon placed Dan’s authority below his own. So now Dan has placed the authority of a falling leaf on her actions. But what does that mean for Poseidon with his river authority?”

[[Image:godless_shinobu.png|50px]]

“Dan-chan’s falling leaf authority will be applied to Posei-chan’s river authority.”

[[Image:godless_gil.png|50px]]

“Making the opposite of what happened before?”

Yes.

[[Image:godless_raidou.png|50px]]

“When a leaf falls in a river, it rides the current, never stopping. When Poseidon reaches out his hand, he himself is the current. Dan is using Poseidon’s own strength, so all she has to do is not fight it. He automatically can’t reach her. …The more power Poseidon uses, the further away he pushes Dan.”

[[Image:godless_athena.png|50px]]

“Like the paradox of Achilles and the tortoise.”

[[Image:godless_kido.png|50px]]

“But does Dan-san have any way of fighting back?”

Sumeragi nodded at Kido’s question.

[[Image:godless_boku.png|50px]]

“She has the Super Boobs Attack! The twin peaks become as one – gaining a sports-bra-like unity! Now! Super Boobs Attack!”

His big boobs worship was so radical Raidou had no idea what he was saying.

●

[[Image:godless_anne_awate.png|50px]]

…''I don’t have…an attack like that!

Anne wanted to correct him, but she had her hands full controlling her authority.

One mistake and she would be consumed.

She wanted to speak up but couldn’t. Because forests and mountains did not speak.

She couldn’t ruin her efforts here by breaking her phase in that way.

Of course, you could say there was no official problem with her talking if she claimed she herself was an embodiment of the mountains and forests and so her talking was the mountains talking. She wanted to tell herself not to worry about such a minor mistake, but…

[[Image:godless_poseidon.png|50px]]

“How about this?”

[[Image:godless_anne_awate.png|50px]]

“…!”

This was no game. Poseidon sent in about the most powerful courtyard-level attack possible and she dodged it.

She realized it was time to fight back.

[[Image:godless_anne_awate.png|50px]]

…''I have to win this.

She would be Yamanashi’d if she didn’t.

Yamanashi was a forested and mountainous region. She knew that much for certain.

So part of her thought that being launched there was acceptable as the Irish mother earth goddess, but she would still prefer not to have it happen. Down with Yamanashi-ing. Not that she had anything against Yamanashi itself.

Then what could she do? Something happened while she tried to figure that out.

[[Image:godless_poseidon.png|50px]]

“How about this?”

Poseidon attacked.

She could dodge it. But…

[[Image:godless_anne_awate.png|50px]]

“Eh?”

Something was different about this attack.

He jabbed his left arm out in what looked like an attack, but…

[[Image:godless_poseidon.png|50px]]

“Hah!”

He jumped around to her right.

He changed their positions in relation to each other.

●

[[Image:godless_poseidon.png|50px]]

''Poseidon unleashed an attack based on ether.
''

"Why can't my attacks injure you?"

[[Image:godless_balancer.png|50px]]

<That is because of the invisible combat barrier>

[[Image:godless_balancer.png|50px]]

<The combat barrier can easily withstand ether-based attacks, so your efforts will be pointless if you only rely on ether attacks because they are easily countered>

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On a Godless Planet:Volume3B Chapter 27

2026-05-28T04:01:49Z

202.136.82.225: /* Chapter 27: Battle Mania */

==Chapter 27: Battle Mania==
[[Image:Godless_3B_p015.jpg|thumb]]
–''Rather than realize it on your own, let someone else guide you to realization.

●

''Anyway,'' thought Beisu.

[[Image:godless_beisu.png|50px]]

…''How are they going to settle this?

The Irish representative and the Olympus representative Poseidon were going to fight.

Did he want to see this? Yes, very much so. But on the other hand…

[[Image:godless_demeter.png|50px]]

“Is that even a fair fight?”

He wasn’t exactly an expert on Olympus mythology, but he knew enough. He recognized most of the gods’ names and Poseidon was major enough to appear in a lot of games and such.

Meanwhile, he didn’t know much about Irish mythology. Really, he barely knew anything at all.

[[Image:godless_boku.png|50px]]

“What kind a moves does Busty Bangs-senpai use in a fight!? Do you use the three Royal Weapons from the opening castle like in Tir Na Nog!?”

[[Image:godless_anne_awate.png|50px]]

“Eh? Eh? What?”

[[Image:godless_beisu.png|50px]]

“I’m not sure Irish mythology would use an English word like ‘royal’.”

[[Image:godless_ki.png|50px]]

“Hey, quit it. That one hurts ''me'' more than anyone.”

She was a really major upperclassman. Beisu knew he shouldn’t have said that. But…

[[Image:godless_TJ.png|50px]]

“It is kind of fascinating that we don’t know what Irish mythology will do.”

[[Image:godless_beisu.png|50px]]

“You mean Poseidon doesn’t have the advantage?”

[[Image:godless_TJ.png|50px]]

“Oh, he definitely does. But we’re all gods, so she might have some kind of special move. Like Senpai-san over there.”

The lifespan goddess.

Beisu had received some info on that, although none of the specifics.

Most likely, the Shinto terraforming leaders – usually known as the Library Pals – had leaked it as a show of force.

[[Image:godless_beisu.png|50px]]

“If only I had something like that.”

But just as he said that…

[[Image:godless_gil.png|50px]]

“Do you mean the authority? Or the human’s worship?”

And there was another major one.

●

Bilgamesh had something he wanted to ask about.

[[Image:godless_gil.png|50px]]

“A god cannot perform their released manifestation without human worship. It’s true for us and the Norse gods, so it must be true for you as well.”

That was fine for the representatives. At their high divine rank and level, they could handle most anything without a released manifestation.

[[Image:godless_gil.png|50px]]

…''The released manifestation would only be for a serious emergency.

Even his Hyper Series Summoning would have difficulty against one. And he thought he might need that kind of power if he was ever unable to do a summoning. But…

[[Image:godless_gil.png|50px]]

“How is it for you?”

[[Image:godless_beisu.png|50px]]

“How is what?”

Apparently that was a poorly phrased question.

[[Image:godless_gil.png|50px]]

“Sorry.”

[[Image:godless_beisu.png|50px]]

“No, um, you don’t have to apologize!”

The other god seemed really nervous. Not good.

[[Image:godless_gil.png|50px]]

“I am truly sorry…”

[[Image:godless_beisu.png|50px]]

“No, no, no, no! You misunderstand!”

''Why are my apologies ineffectual!?

●

[[Image:godless_gil.png|50px]]

“We have a situation here. '''My apologies are being negated somehow.'''”

[[Image:godless_ki.png|50px]]

“Are you kidding me?”

[[Image:godless_gil.png|50px]]

“No, I am trying to act nonthreatening, yet he seems extremely guarded for some reason. Is there any way of fixing this?”

[[Image:godless_shifu_akire.png|50px]]

“Maybe you’re trying, but you seem pretty damn threatening to me…”

[[Image:godless_kuwajiri.png|50px]]

“E-excuse me. When I was buying a case of beer at Inageya, the lady at the register asked ‘oh, is that for your dad?’ and I immediately and bluntly said no. Now whenever I check out at the register there, she’s really apologetic, so could this be a similar situation?”

[[Image:godless_tenma.png|50px]]

“Knowledge God-senpai, what have you been buying frequently enough for this to be an issue?”

[[Image:godless_kuwajiri.png|50px]]

“Snacks to go with my beer and frozen foods.”

[[Image:godless_kido_awate.png|50px]]

“Not counting the alcohol, couldn’t you create the illusion of cooking for yourself?”

[[Image:godless_senpai_awate.png|50px]]

“Or she really could start cooking for herself?”

[[Image:godless_raidou.png|50px]]

“Yeah, I don’t think that’s happening.”

[[Image:godless_shifu_akire.png|50px]]

“Right? Oh, sorry. This was about Bil-chan. So what do you mean your apologies aren’t working?”

[[Image:godless_gil.png|50px]]

“I am apologizing, but he isn’t accepting it. Must I make some kind of vow to get him to accept my apology?”

[[Image:godless_raidou.png|50px]]

“ ‘I am not being threatening. Now, you had better accept my apology.’ That’s a new one, for sure.”

[[Image:godless_boku.png|50px]]

“Apology Man! You haven’t been apologizing as much since the camping trip, so your Apology Power is waning! Be more like me and how I think about big boobs at least once a second!”

[[Image:godless_tenma.png|50px]]

“Is apology worship a thing?”

[[Image:godless_eshita_warai.png|50px]]

“Ah ha ha! Being me is great because I don’t have to apologize when these things happen!”

[[Image:godless_ki.png|50px]]

“You have your own issues, so be quiet.”

●

Kuwajiri ended up having to speak on his behalf since she was threatening but in the same school year.

[[Image:godless_kuwajiri.png|50px]]

“To put it simply, Beisu and Seito are wondering if there’s any reason for gods as unimportant as you to even be in this divine world.”

[[Image:godless_beisu_awate.png|50px]]

“There has to be a better way to say that!”

Shifu failed to fully suppress her laughter behind Kuwajiri, but Kuwajiri was just glad that someone could find humor in it.

But Beisu’s partner stepped up to his side.

[[Image:godless_beset.png|50px]]

“We are here because we hold a fairly unclear position in Egyptian mythology.”

[[Image:godless_kuwajiri.png|50px]]

“Hm? But you two are pretty important.”

She knew their origins.

[[Image:godless_kuwajiri.png|50px]]

“You are Bes and Beset, gods who spread across all of Egypt and ultimately made it all the way to Greece and Persia.”

●

[[Image:godless_senpai_awate.png|50px]]

“…”

[[Image:godless_senpai_awate.png|50px]]

“Sorry. I’m probably just going to reveal how little I know with this, but what kind of gods are they?”

“Um,” said Kuwajiri, with a pretty good idea where this was going.

[[Image:godless_kuwajiri.png|50px]]

“Bes and Beset are the Egyptian gods of folk belief and they are thought to have come from Nubia in the Upper Nile region, which is now Sudan and Ethiopia.”

[[Image:godless_raidou.png|50px]]

“They would provide protection and exorcise evil and they did that with song, dance, and feasts. This led them to be associated with weddings, birth, and female labor, turning them into a guardian of all things.”

[[Image:godless_shinobu.png|50px]]

“He’s a 68 user and goes to the arcade a lot, so he’s friends with Tooru.”

[[Image:godless_kuwajiri.png|50px]]

“Bes is a short old man god and is thought to be represented by a lion standing on its hind legs as a threat. Since he has a foreign source, he is usually presented head on whereas Egyptian gods are usually depicted in profile. He arrived in Egypt during the New Kingdom, which began in 1570 BCE, after all that dynasty business we were discussing before. It’s thought he was brought in after Hyksos rule was overthrown and Egypt began attacking other places.”

[[Image:godless_kido.png|50px]]

“So he was brought back from a conquered land and incorporated into their myths.”

[[Image:godless_TJ.png|50px]]

“In that sense, he isn’t really from our mythology. That’s why his worship is based on folk worship, not on the royal family or a religious group, but that actually expedited the construction of a temple and such for him.”

[[Image:godless_beisu.png|50px]]

“We belong to the ordinary people living in the present. The higher ups are kind of old-fashioned. …Or that’s how we took it.”

[[Image:godless_raidou.png|50px]]

“So a god focused on having a good time whoser worship is led by the people and isn’t a part of the existing religious groups like the royal family? There’s no way that wasn’t spreading.”

[[Image:godless_kuwajiri.png|50px]]

“As Bes gained popularity like that, he and his female version Beset made it all the way to Central Asia in the east and the Iberian Peninsula in the west. It kind of reminds me of the modern spread of musicians and subculture.”

●

[[Image:godless_kuwajiri.png|50px]]

“That more or less sums it up. What do you think, Senpai-san?”

Kuwajiri turned around to find Senpai-san prostrating.

[[Image:godless_senpai_awate.png|50px]]

“Sorry, sorry, sorry, sorry! You’re super major gods! I was acting like I was some important upperclassman, but you’re so important you could obliterate a puny little shut-in god from the mountains of an eastern island nation who can look all across Japan and count the number of shrines to her on her fingers!”

[[Image:godless_tenma.png|50px]]

“The terraforming lead always pulls out all the stops when it comes to belittling herself.”

[[Image:godless_beisu.png|50px]]

“No, no, no, no, no! That was forever ago! It’s old news!”

[[Image:godless_boku.png|50px]]

“Wait! You should stop right there and accept Senpai’s apology! Look at the perfect form of her prostration! You look too, Kuwajiri! That is the prostration of a true Japanese heart! It is a world-class prostration! And the way her knees squish her boobs makes it all the better! Even a strict assessment would have to award her at least 6 billion points! If you refuse to accept it, I’m going on a trip to Egypt one day and licking every one of your statues I find! Until my tongue is dry and cracked! Like this! On this wall! Licky licky licky lick!”

[[Image:godless_TJ.png|50px]]

“We only reapplied the mortar there the other day.”

[[Image:godless_boku.png|50px]]

“That’s some tasty mortar! Is that why it tastes like chemistry class!? But it’s nothing compared to the flavor of a retort pouch boiled by Senpai!”

[[Image:godless_senpai_awate.png|50px]]

“Um, Beisu-kun? Seito-san? Sumeragi-kun is always serious.”

[[Image:godless_beisu_awate.png|50px]]

'''“Stooooop!”'''

He was forced to accept the apology.

●

[[Image:godless_kuwajiri.png|50px]]

“Anyway, the question was why you came here.”

Kuwajiri more or less already knew the answer, but Beisu answered anyway.

[[Image:godless_beisu.png|50px]]

“We were made a part of the mythology, but we never did become a part of the main family? I guess you could say? And because we spread so rapidly, it was always awkward around them. Also, our divine rank is pretty low because it’s based on our myths in Egyptian mythology.”

[[Image:godless_ki.png|50px]]

“So like how Senpai-san’s authority puts hear near the top, but her divine rank is low because it’s based on her myths?”

[[Image:godless_senpai_awate.png|50px]]

“Oh, no you don’t! You can’t belittle yourself that easily! Us true no-name gods never even did get our time to shine! You can’t join my New Weakling God Clan if that’s all you have!”

[[Image:godless_shifu_akire.png|50px]]

“You are strict in the weirdest ways…”

[[Image:godless_kuwajiri.png|50px]]

“Anyway,” said Kuwajiri to Beisu. “Are you here because you wanted human worship?”

She knew something about this.

[[Image:godless_kuwajiri.png|50px]]

“Your power dropped recently, didn’t it? Is it about that?”

●

“Um.” I hesitantly raised my hand.

[[Image:godless_senpai_awate.png|50px]]

“May a weakling god like me ask a question?”

[[Image:godless_tenma.png|50px]]

“That’s a new one.”

''I have to worry about these things!'' I thought on the inside as I spoke.

[[Image:godless_senpai_awate.png|50px]]

“The rules say that you have to go through me to get Sumeragi-kun’s worship, and you have to meet certain conditions.”

[[Image:godless_boku.png|50px]]

“You have to be part of my family and have big boobs!”

[[Image:godless_kido.png|50px]]

“He means me.”

[[Image:godless_anne_awate.png|50px]]

“…”

[[Image:godless_anne_awate.png|50px]]

“Eh? Are you mother and child? Ehh!?”

[[Image:godless_boku.png|50px]]

“How about that, Busty Bangs!? Feel like you’re on a hidden camera show!? It surprised me too!”

[[Image:godless_senpai_awate.png|50px]]

“It surprised me a lot too, but Kido-san’s mother-in-law act is great, so it works! It really works!”

[[Image:godless_kido_awate.png|50px]]

“Based on what?”

[[Image:godless_tenma.png|50px]]

“Using those conditions, Guard God-senpai cannot receive the human’s worship.”

[[Image:godless_senpai_awate.png|50px]]

“Yes, because she doesn’t have big boobs.”

[[Image:godless_shifu_akire.png|50px]]

“You could just focus on the other condition.”

A hand went up.

[[Image:godless_beset_awate.png|50px]]

“Wait a second! Big boobs and part of his family!? Funto and I are a couple, so that just isn’t possible!”

[[Image:godless_kuwajiri.png|50px]]

“Ah.”

[[Image:godless_beset.png|50px]]

“Eh?”

[[Image:godless_beset.png|50px]]

“…”

[[Image:godless_beset_awate.png|50px]]

'''“Ahh! Forget I said that!”'''

●

[[Image:godless_senpai_warai.png|50px]]

“'''Wow,''' I’d forgotten. You are, aren’t you? I understand. Yes, I really do. Yes.”

[[Image:godless_shinobu.png|50px]]

“Tooru and I are too, but it’s somehow sweeter with underclassmen.”

[[Image:godless_kido_tere.png|50px]]

“W-well, everyone has their own situation, so no comment.”

[[Image:godless_beset_awate.png|50px]]

“'''Ahh!!''' This is why I didn’t want to say that!”

[[Image:godless_raidou.png|50px]]

“They’re weirdly drawn to this topic, aren’t they?”

●

[[Image:godless_gil.png|50px]]

“But,” asked Bilgamesh. “Was your position in your mythology the only reason you came here?”

[[Image:godless_beisu.png|50px]]

“Eh? Oh…”

After pausing to think, the younger god responded while returning Bilgamesh’s gaze.

[[Image:godless_beisu.png|50px]]

“That’s right. If we had another reason, why would she have said that just now?”

●

Kidou watched her partner nod and say, “I see.”

[[Image:godless_ki.png|50px]]

…''Now I get it.

Bilgamesh spoke to Beisu.

[[Image:godless_gil.png|50px]]

“I will honor your position. I do not know your reasons, but I can tell it is a matter of your pride.”

''He’s being threatening again,'' thought Kidou with a smile. That was just how he was.

And she had learned something from this exchange.

[[Image:godless_beisu.png|50px]]

“…Thank you.”

The lion god, who bowed a little, was definitely weakened at the moment.

She didn’t know why. And she noticed…

[[Image:godless_ki.png|50px]]

…''Since the wife god attacked Poseidon, her power must not have fallen.

They had originally been a single god, so why was this happening?

It wasn’t related to human worship.

They had come here, knowing neither of them had that. And the Norse knowledge god had said something else…

[[Image:godless_ki.png|50px]]

…''His power dropped recently.

What did that mean?

●

[[Image:godless_ki.png|50px]]

“Can I ask a question on this divine transmission line, Norse gods?”

[[Image:godless_raidou.png|50px]]

“Go for it. …I know more or less what’s going on, but I’ll generally not be answering.”

[[Image:godless_gil.png|50px]]

“A matter of honor?”

[[Image:godless_shinobu.png|50px]]

“That’s right. Since Funto-chan’s keeping quiet. And with Seito-chan here, it’s both their problem. We’ve known them long enough to make some good guesses.”

[[Image:godless_kuwajiri.png|50px]]

“But it’s odd that the wife still has her power while the husband’s has fallen.”

[[Image:godless_raidou.png|50px]]

“It reminds me of The Return of Ishtar, but that was the wife getting a boost because the husband had declined.”

[[Image:godless_ki.png|50px]]

“You keep saying you’ll let me see that one, but I still haven’t seen it.”

[[Image:godless_raidou.png|50px]]

“We’ll probably be spending the night in the clubroom tonight, so I’ll show it to you then. Sumeragi brought his MSX2.”

●

Kido looked to Poseidon and Dan before speaking.

[[Image:godless_kido.png|50px]]

“Now, it is about time to begin today’s slag-tering.”

[[Image:godless_senpai_awate.png|50px]]

“Kido-san! Kido-san! You need to take that down a notch! Down from ‘barbarian’ to ‘considerate modern person’!”

Very well.

[[Image:godless_kido.png|50px]]

'''“First to behead their opponent wins.”'''

Shifu-san waved her raised hand side to side.

[[Image:godless_shifu_akire.png|50px]]

“You don’t have to be modern to understand that one.”

''So take it down yet another notch?'' In that case…

[[Image:godless_kido.png|50px]]

“How about they both duke it out until we appear to have a winner?”

Why did everyone breath a sigh of relief there?

●

[[Image:godless_kido.png|50px]]

“The duel will be completed here. You are limited to the courtyard, so only use authorities contained to this space.”

[[Image:godless_demeter.png|50px]]

“You’re restricting them a lot.”

[[Image:godless_kido.png|50px]]

“Yes. Because we would be in trouble if they destroyed this place.”

[[Image:godless_demeter.png|50px]]

“I would say, ‘look in a mirror, numbskull’, but I am above such things.”

[[Image:godless_kido.png|50px]]

“Oh? It seems to me you should keep in mind that you are in launch range of Yamanashi as long as you are in Tokyo.”

[[Image:godless_senpai_awate.png|50px]]

“Kido-san! Stop picking fights with Demeter-san!”

●

''They’re just going to continue provoking each other at this rate,'' concluded Mr. V, so he raised a hand.

And he spoke to the Irish representative and Poseidon.

[[Image:godless_neptunes.png|50px]]

“You may begin.”

●

Balancer chose not to open a spell field.

[[Image:godless_balancer.png|50px]]

…''Even if they would be able to make full use of their authorities inside one.

A spell field was a space where, for example, Yomoji could launch a meteor strike without any concern for collateral damage.

But that wasn’t true here. When limited to the courtyard, the duelists’ choice of authorities would be severely limited.

[[Image:godless_balancer.png|50px]]

<Very well. Proceed.>

●

[[Image:godless_raidou.png|50px]]

…''So how’s this going to play out?

Raidou was eager to find out.

He knew Poseidon was powerful. They had compared strengths a fair amount during their virtual manifestations.

Poseidon was undoubtedly skilled.

And then there was Dan.

[[Image:godless_shinobu.png|50px]]

“Dan-chan’s part in this is going to be interesting.”

[[Image:godless_raidou.png|50px]]

“You set something up with Kuwajiri earlier, didn’t you?”

[[Image:godless_shinobu.png|50px]]

“You could say we gave her some indirect support. I thought she could use it when dealing with Posei-chan.”

Raidou was excited to find out what that was.

Currently, the duelists were facing each other.

[[Image:godless_raidou.png|50px]]

“A mother earth goddess vs. a sea god. Let’s see how this goes.”

●

Anne made the first move.

[[Image:godless_anne_awate.png|50px]]

“Umm.”

But not to attack. She fell back.

She put three or four more steps between them, but at the same time…

[[Image:godless_poseidon.png|50px]]

“Oh? Are you running away?”

Poseidon swiftly stepped forward.

Just as he did, something happened.

After moving forward as many steps as Anne had moved back…

“Oh?”

Poseidon disappeared.

As everyone watched the center of the courtyard, the sea god stepped onto an earthen depression in the brick paving. And…

[[Image:godless_gil.png|50px]]

“He disappeared.”

Without a trace.

●

[[Image:godless_senpai_awate.png|50px]]

“…”

[[Image:godless_senpai_awate.png|50px]]

“Eh!? Wait, what!? What was that!? Poseidon-san just vanished!”

[[Image:godless_ki.png|50px]]

“He didn’t just vanish. He was removed. By the Irish representative.”

[[Image:godless_anne_awate.png|50px]]

“Y-yes. …Kind of like that.”

So it was kind of like that.

A fairly large person had been removed from the courtyard.

It happened just as he took a few steps forward and stepped into a circular depression of dirt in the center of the courtyard.

[[Image:godless_kido.png|50px]]

“When Poseidon stood there during the questioning, Raidou-san stopped him. Was this why?”

[[Image:godless_raidou.png|50px]]

“No, that was something else. But…”

Raidou-san looked to Dan-san.

[[Image:godless_raidou.png|50px]]

“I see. So she’s a mother earth goddess, but she isn’t just a harvest god. To go along with the twin hills, she’s a god of the mountains and forests too.”

[[Image:godless_boku.png|50px]]

“What do you mean!? How did Double Big Boobs get rid of Poseidon? If it was her big boobs power, then I would have been vanished by Senpai 500 times over, but that hasn’t- wait, has it been happening but I’ve been reborn each time it happens!?”

[[Image:godless_kuwajiri.png|50px]]

“If you were reborn that often, you wouldn’t have a single memory left in your head.”

Thank you for the correction, Kuwajiri-san. But Raidou-san’s comment made me think of something.

[[Image:godless_senpai_awate.png|50px]]

“Was he spirited away!?”

●

Kuwajiri opened her mouth while everyone’s eyes gathered on Dan, who was still technically in a duel.

[[Image:godless_kuwajiri.png|50px]]

“That’s right. This was a stereotypical case of spiriting away. Ireland has the changeling stories of fairies kidnapping children, but there are countless similar stories based on the local fairies of Europe where the Celtic culture spread.”

[[Image:godless_kido.png|50px]]

“But we’re in a courtyard, not the mountains or woods.”

[[Image:godless_kuwajiri.png|50px]]

“Right. So I think she adjusted the phase to match.”

Kuwajiri pointed at the depression in the center of the courtyard. There was a reason why the dirt ground was exposed there.

[[Image:godless_kuwajiri.png|50px]]

“The structure of the courtyard prevents all the water from draining out when it rains. So the center was turned into a depression of exposed dirt to let the water soak underground.”

Meaning…

[[Image:godless_kuwajiri.png|50px]]

“That ground is the natural terrain. The club building itself is built on a foundation, but the dirt ground below that is the natural terrain. That provides the necessary earth phase.”

This was probably thanks to Balancer since he created this divine world. The divine world was a data world and it had enough detail to allow the establishment of phases.

But…

[[Image:godless_senpai_awate.png|50px]]

“You only need dirt ground to spirit someone away?”

That was the right question to ask.

[[Image:godless_kuwajiri.png|50px]]

“Not normally, no. Also, the architecture gods are currently lifting this place on jacks, so I doubt someone at Dan-senpai’s level could do it with an earth phase alone.”

[[Image:godless_shinobu.png|50px]]

“Then what did she use?”

[[Image:godless_kuwajiri.png|50px]]

“The rain. She used the rain.”

●

For Anne, it had been a gamble.

[[Image:godless_anne_awate.png|50px]]

…''It…worked…

She really had spirited him away.

Ordinarily, the technique was used to “protect” people who had gotten lost in the mountains or forests and send them back where they belonged. Of course, this was done based on the standards of the world the gods and spirits like her came from, so it often ended badly in the human world, but that was unavoidable.

She had used that here.

She had used the earth phase and the rain phase.

[[Image:godless_anne_awate.png|50px]]

…''The dirt ground, the rain, and…

Japanese summers were hot and humid.

[[Image:godless_anne_awate.png|50px]]

“The summer heat built up in the ground and buildings…created a fog…with today’s rain.”

She had summoned that.

[[Image:godless_anne_awate.png|50px]]

“Deep fog…is enough for…a spiriting away.”

When on the dirt and in the fog, a god could spirit someone away without needing the mountains or the woods.

So she had done so to that major Olympus god.

●

[[Image:godless_anne_awate.png|50px]]

“––––––”

Anne took a breath.

She realized everyone was looking at her.

[[Image:godless_anne_awate.png|50px]]

“Oh, um.”

Had this made her stand out?

That was a problem. She didn’t like to stand out. The druids, wise men and priests with a close connection to her mythology, preferred to remain hidden in the woods.

She and her fellow Irish gods were the same.

The old gods had gone to live underground, leaving the surface to the humans. It was more tasteful to only occasionally visit the surface to stargaze or to play.

So she preferred not to stand out, but…

[[Image:godless_anne_awate.png|50px]]

“Eh?”

The hill sea god called Mr. V had stopped his right hand mid-motion.

He must have been counting something on the hand because it was frozen with four fingers raised.

Why had he stopped?

[[Image:godless_anne_awate.png|50px]]

“Umm…”

After some hesitation, Anne realized the others weren’t looking at her. They were looking behind her.

[[Image:godless_poseidon.png|50px]]

“Well, whaddya know! You’ve actually got some fight in you!”

Poseidon stood there.

●

[[Image:godless_poseidon.png|50px]]

…''That was interesting.

Spiriting away was like a sort of abduction. In Greek mythology, Zeus had a tendency toward abducting girls and goddesses he was interested in, but Poseidon had a few of those stories as well.

And this kind of “technique” was pretty common among the local gods and spirits of Europe too.

So he had known what happened as soon as he was spirited away.

[[Image:godless_poseidon.png|50px]]

…''She used elements of a mountain.

She had used the dirt ground. And probably the fog as a smokescreen. But this fog wasn’t commanded by a water authority – it was the rain fog that covered the mountains.

That meant this goddess was a mother earth goddess of the woods and mountains.

So he had made a decision.

[[Image:godless_poseidon.png|50px]]

“I forced my way out.”

There was a way to escape a spiriting away.

[[Image:godless_gil.png|50px]]

“Did you soak the fog with your water and turned it into a spring?”

●

[[Image:godless_poseidon_awate.png|50px]]

“Oh, c’mon! You stole my big reveal.”

Bilgamesh did not respond to Poseidon. He only looked to something behind Poseidon.

A dark line stretched down into the courtyard from the rooftop. It was…

[[Image:godless_gil.png|50px]]

“A drain spout. Did you link the fog phase to that?”

●

[[Image:godless_boku.png|50px]]

“Eh!? What does that mean!? Explain it in terms of big boobs please!”

[[Image:godless_senpai_awate.png|50px]]

“Help! Is anyone here an expert at big boobs explanations!?”

[[Image:godless_kido_awate.png|50px]]

“What are you even talking about?”

[[Image:godless_tenma.png|50px]]

“You could say he ''linked the small boobs to some big boobs.''”

[[Image:godless_boku.png|50px]]

“…”

[[Image:godless_boku.png|50px]]

“Sorry, Temanko! That was a terrible explanation! I’m really sorry! But I still don’t understand! And since there obviously can’t be anything wrong with big boobs explanations, the problem must be with your explanation! Sorry!”

[[Image:godless_shifu_akire.png|50px]]

“Is he really calling a god of education bad at explanations?”

[[Image:godless_ki.png|50px]]

“The complete lack of doubt in his faith is honestly impressive.”

[[Image:godless_raidou.png|50px]]

“You’re up, Kuwajiri.”

[[Image:godless_kuwajiri.png|50px]]

“I was going to complain, but instead I will do my job and explain this the ordinary way.”

●

[[Image:godless_kuwajiri.png|50px]]

“He used a phase link.”

Kuwajiri pointed to the center of the courtyard.

[[Image:godless_kuwajiri.png|50px]]

“The courtyard’s brick paving gives it the phase of an artificial structure, but there is a depression in the center without any brick. The dirt there gives it an earth phase and the rain gives it a fog phase. Think of that combination as a ‘spiriting away door’ created by Dan-senpai.”

The battle had already resumed. Dan was avoiding Poseidon’s hands. To keep the explanation from falling behind, Kuwajiri chose her words carefully.

[[Image:godless_kuwajiri.png|50px]]

“There are a few different ways of breaking an opponent’s authority. One is to outdo it in strength and that is what Poseidon did.”

[[Image:godless_senpai_awate.png|50px]]

“And he did that by…?”

[[Image:godless_kuwajiri.png|50px]]

“Creating a link. There is a denser form of water here than the fog Dan-senpai summoned. The water gathering on the rooftop and flowing down the drain spout,” she said. “The fog and the drain spout water is all ‘outside water’ that fell from the sky. And the fog summoned to the center of the courtyard came from the ‘spring water’ that flowed down the drain spouts and gathered in the center of the courtyard. Poseidon is an earth god and controls spring waters, so he was able to forcibly redefine Dan-senpai’s fog as ‘the water of his spring’.”

●

[[Image:godless_raidou.png|50px]]

“So by placing his opponent’s weapon into his phase, he was able to place it under his command?”

[[Image:godless_kuwajiri.png|50px]]

“Right. He couldn’t have stolen Dan-senpai’s fog if their power were equal, but that wasn’t the case. So his ‘spring water’ was linked to the fog, allowing the fog to continue to act as an entrance to the spiriting away but also turning the ‘spring water’ of his phase into an exit from the spiriting away.”

[[Image:godless_shinobu.png|50px]]

“That explains how he managed to leave through the drain spout water, but from a mythological perspective, was that a god emerging from a spring?”

[[Image:godless_boku.png|50px]]

“Eh!? So in terms of boobs, linking the fog to the spring water was like ''linking small boobs to big boobs''!? Wow, go me! I just found the perfect analogy!”

[[Image:godless_tenma.png|50px]]

“Human-senpai, if you ever come to me praying for academic success, I will refuse you to your face.”

[[Image:godless_senpai_awate.png|50px]]

“All I understand is this battle is beyond the understanding of a small-time god like me.”

[[Image:godless_kido_awate.png|50px]]

“The battle is still ongoing, so I would recommend watching it.”

●

[[Image:godless_raidou.png|50px]]

“Hey, so how’s it going?”

Raidou looked up, unsure which one to root for.

[[Image:godless_ki.png|50px]]

“The Irish one is holding her ground.”

[[Image:godless_gil.png|50px]]

“Is this another authority?”

“Yes,” confirmed Raidou, nodding at what he could see.

Poseidon was pursuing Dan with his footwork and sending out his hands.

He unleashed a merciless combination. He did what needed doing, not letting his opponent’s appearance distract him. He was doing the right thing for a god with combat authorities.

But…

[[Image:godless_raidou.png|50px]]

“Dan’s mountain and woods authority is impressive too.”

●

''Not bad at all,'' thought Poseidon.

[[Image:godless_poseidon.png|50px]]

…''I can’t seem to hit her!

He had a few different authorities, which of course included combat ones.

They were the authorities of a powerful god. You could compare them to the rest of his group to determine just what position he held.

Poseidon’s power was possibly the greatest among the Olympus gods.

But as he used the long arms of his tall stature to throw out a combination of punches…

[[Image:godless_poseidon.png|50px]]

“None of it matters if I can’t hit her.”

She was dodging.

Anne’s back stepping looked clumsy.

She wasn’t a seasoned fighter. But he could tell she did have some combat authority.

[[Image:Godless_3B_p035.jpg|thumb]]

[[Image:godless_poseidon.png|50px]]

…''What a strange goddess.

[[Image:godless_poseidon_awate.png|50px]]

“Nothing at all like Demeter.”

●

[[Image:godless_tenma.png|50px]]

“By the way, why are you so aggressive around him, Demeter?”

[[Image:godless_demeter.png|50px]]

“We did some fighting before we were combined into the single Greek mythology. And after that too.”

[[Image:godless_balancer.png|50px]]

<Greek mythology does have Poseidon engage in a “forced union” with Demeter, but that puts Demeter in an enraged mode called Demeter Erinys.>

[[Image:godless_kuwajiri.png|50px]]

“We mentioned before that Aphrodite has her reasonable mode and pleasure mode, but this must mean Demeter has an ordinary mode and an Erinys mode.”

[[Image:godless_balancer.png|50px]]

<A fascinating aspect of the story has been found on the Greek island of Crete. The ancient Greek alphabet was created on Crete which was prospering due to trade and it spread from there, but an ancient clay tablet made in 1450 BCE references an offering to the mainland which is addressed to ‘the Two Queens and Poseidon’.>

[[Image:godless_tenma.png|50px]]

“That would mean Poseidon was known as a god back then, but who were the two queens?”

[[Image:godless_demeter.png|50px]]

“Most likely, Persephone and me.”

[[Image:godless_senpai_awate.png|50px]]

“But why call you queens instead of using your names?”

[[Image:godless_kuwajiri.png|50px]]

“We can only guess, but it is possible that a state with Demeter and Persephone as its top gods was ruled over by a state with Poseidon as its top god, or they were allied with the Poseidon one in the more powerful position.”

[[Image:godless_demeter.png|50px]]

“And I later got mad and made more of a name for myself.”

[[Image:godless_balancer.png|50px]]

<The ancient Greek alphabet was probably made around 1500 BCE, so about that same time. Greek mythology also began to be formed in the same period, so if Demeter’s resistance came later, it would fit with the time the mythology was being formed. That would explain why Demeter causes so much trouble within Greek mythology. You can think of it like realtime commentary.>

[[Image:godless_boku.png|50px]]

“Busty Olympus really is the aggressive type!!”

[[Image:godless_senpai_awate.png|50px]]

“Dan-san is nothing like Demeter-san. Or maybe it’s Demeter-san who is the different one.”

●

Poseidon had to agree that Demeter was a force to be reckoned with.

[[Image:godless_poseidon_awate.png|50px]]

…''There’s something wrong with her.

She was a rude, belligerent harvest god who got high off certain leaves and made anyone who attacked her apologize. That had even applied to Zeus. Hades hadn’t been her husband, but he had been in charge of her daughter Persephone.

Who was the strongest Olympus god?

Yes! A certain “queen”!

[[Image:godless_poseidon_awate.png|50px]]

…''It scares me to think that clay tablet from Crete may have called her a queen because they were afraid to use her name.

It was far too likely a possibly.

But Poseidon had a more immediate opponent to focus on now.

[[Image:godless_anne_awate.png|50px]]

“…!”

She was good.

He realized they had already passed by Tooru, Shifu, and that group.

Anne made good and broad usage of the circular courtyard to escape his attacks without every placing her back toward the outer edge.

And at the same time…

[[Image:godless_poseidon.png|50px]]

“What about this?”

He made what looked like a triple combo, but was actually a 3-2 five-stage combo. And to fill the gap between combos, he made it look like he was going to finish it with the third blow the second time around only to extend his arm and…

[[Image:godless_poseidon.png|50px]]

…''Grab!

His hand grasped Anne’s collar.

His long arm shot out in a flash and his palm reached her neck. But…

[[Image:godless_anne_awate.png|50px]]

“–––––”

She dodged it. No, wait…

[[Image:godless_poseidon.png|50px]]

“She slipped out.”

That was an authority. She had avoided it with something other than an action or movement.

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[[Image:godless_poseidon.png|50px]]

…''That was a falling leaf!

Poseidon was sure of it.

Anne’s escape had used an authority related to the trees of a forest. As unfamiliar with combat as she was, she avoided his strength with a movement so much like a falling leaf.

But he had expected this and combat gods knew how to make sure their attacks hit.

So why hadn’t it worked this time?

[[Image:godless_poseidon.png|50px]]

…''A compatibility issue maybe?

The combination of their authorities put him at a disadvantage.

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[[Image:godless_raidou.png|50px]]

“I think Poseidon’s figured it out. His compatibility is unexpectedly bad here.”

Raidou found himself enjoying this, which he didn’t see as a great testament to his character. And…

[[Image:godless_tenma.png|50px]]

“What kind of compatibility matters here?”

[[Image:godless_poseidon.png|50px]]

“Dan’s authorities are based on the mountains and forests. I’d say she’s at a pretty high level there among the European mythologies. Poseidon’s are about the earth and sea, but he also has authorities for rivers, springs, and spring water.”

That was where compatibility came in.

[[Image:godless_raidou.png|50px]]

“It worked great when Poseidon placed Dan’s authority below his own. So now Dan has placed the authority of a falling leaf on her actions. But what does that mean for Poseidon with his river authority?”

[[Image:godless_shinobu.png|50px]]

“Dan-chan’s falling leaf authority will be applied to Posei-chan’s river authority.”

[[Image:godless_gil.png|50px]]

“Making the opposite of what happened before?”

Yes.

[[Image:godless_raidou.png|50px]]

“When a leaf falls in a river, it rides the current, never stopping. When Poseidon reaches out his hand, he himself is the current. Dan is using Poseidon’s own strength, so all she has to do is not fight it. He automatically can’t reach her. …The more power Poseidon uses, the further away he pushes Dan.”

[[Image:godless_athena.png|50px]]

“Like the paradox of Achilles and the tortoise.”

[[Image:godless_kido.png|50px]]

“But does Dan-san have any way of fighting back?”

Sumeragi nodded at Kido’s question.

[[Image:godless_boku.png|50px]]

“She has the Super Boobs Attack! The twin peaks become as one – gaining a sports-bra-like unity! Now! Super Boobs Attack!”

His big boobs worship was so radical Raidou had no idea what he was saying.

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[[Image:godless_anne_awate.png|50px]]

…''I don’t have…an attack like that!

Anne wanted to correct him, but she had her hands full controlling her authority.

One mistake and she would be consumed.

She wanted to speak up but couldn’t. Because forests and mountains did not speak.

She couldn’t ruin her efforts here by breaking her phase in that way.

Of course, you could say there was no official problem with her talking if she claimed she herself was an embodiment of the mountains and forests and so her talking was the mountains talking. She wanted to tell herself not to worry about such a minor mistake, but…

[[Image:godless_poseidon.png|50px]]

“How about this?”

[[Image:godless_anne_awate.png|50px]]

“…!”

This was no game. Poseidon sent in about the most powerful courtyard-level attack possible and she dodged it.

She realized it was time to fight back.

[[Image:godless_anne_awate.png|50px]]

…''I have to win this.

She would be Yamanashi’d if she didn’t.

Yamanashi was a forested and mountainous region. She knew that much for certain.

So part of her thought that being launched there was acceptable as the Irish mother earth goddess, but she would still prefer not to have it happen. Down with Yamanashi-ing. Not that she had anything against Yamanashi itself.

Then what could she do? Something happened while she tried to figure that out.

[[Image:godless_poseidon.png|50px]]

“How about this?”

Poseidon attacked.

She could dodge it. But…

[[Image:godless_anne_awate.png|50px]]

“Eh?”

Something was different about this attack.

He jabbed his left arm out in what looked like an attack, but…

[[Image:godless_poseidon.png|50px]]

“Hah!”

He jumped around to her right.

He changed their positions in relation to each other.

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[[Image:godless_poseidon.png|50px]]

''Poseidon unleashed an attack based on ether.
''
"Why can't my attacks injure you?"

[[Image:godless_balancer.png|50px]]

<That is because of the invisible combat barrier>

[[Image:godless_balancer.png|50px]]

<The combat barrier can easily withstand ether-based attacks, so your efforts will be pointless if you only rely on ether attacks because they are easily countered>

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