I Became the Second-in-Command in a Romance Fantasy Novel - Chapter 36

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◈ I Became the Second-in-Command in a Romance Fantasy Novel ◈

Chapter 36: The Romance Fantasy Heroine Is Strong (6)

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#5 Holy Kingdom Correspondent, Codename Tinky Winky.

“Denounce 00.”

It was a scene that often appeared when a romance-fantasy villainess was brought down, an act that practically ended the other person’s life.

Of course, this being romance fantasy, it meant killing them socially, not actually killing them.

Well, if they had committed a serious crime, they would be dragged to the guillotine.

Usually, though, romance-fantasy villainesses bullied the heroine. They did not send assassins after her.

That was why, even when they were denounced, the other side did not desperately lash out.

They could watch for an opening and turn the tables by refuting their opponent’s words.

In the original story, too, the Cardinals had taken a step back after Daisy and the Pope denounced them, waiting for an opportunity.

That failed, and they all ended up in prison.

Still, there had not been some massive clash during the process.

But execution was different.

It meant they would simply be killed right here.

Forget opportunities. If they gave up now, the Cardinals would die.

They said even a cornered rat would bite a cat.

But the Cardinals were not rats. They were cats, and they were even in their own home.

“Kill those who deceived Her Holiness with their wicked tricks, and reclaim Her Holiness!”

They pushed forward in desperation, mobilizing the Holy Knights.

Most of the Holy Knights looked confused, but those who had committed filthy deeds alongside the Cardinals charged at us without hesitation.

That had been a while ago.

Half out of my mind, I had been worked like a dog alongside the romance-fantasy leads.

The fortunate part was that, as expected of romance-fantasy leads, they fought disgustingly well.

Asran in particular seemed even stronger than the original story described, perhaps because Ellen and even Adam had beaten the hell out of him.

“Ghk!”

Still, he had only improved a little.

Not enough to perform a miracle.

We knocked down the Holy Knights pouring in like waves, then knocked down more.

But the Holy Kingdom forces supporting reform, including the romance-fantasy party, were far too few.

After the relentless fighting, Asran’s sword was knocked away and landed at our feet.

Asran immediately picked up a fallen Holy Knight’s sword and held the front line, but it was obvious he would not last long.

For a swordsman like Asran to lose his sword meant he had reached his limit.

The same went for me.

I had scraped the bottom of my mana reserves long ago, to the point that my heart tingled.

Just as defeat loomed before us...

“...”

Daisy quietly stared at Asran’s sword, then picked it up from the ground.

“Daisy?”

Daisy seemed to have put quite a few points into close-combat stats, but martial arts and swordsmanship were different.

Adam had strongly pushed for Daisy to transfer to the Swordsmanship Department.

The Sword Emperor, the Head Professor of the Swordsmanship Department, had actually been interested in Adam’s recommendation and tried to arrange the transfer. But Professor McGregor, the Head Professor of the Magic Department, had fiercely opposed it, so they had given up.

So Daisy could not have learned swordsmanship.

That was what I thought.

“Goddess, grant me strength.”

But swordsmanship was not important for a romance-fantasy heroine.

With just a small prayer, a light more radiant than even the Sword Emperor’s aura blade gathered around the sword.

“...That works?”

I gaped at the brilliantly glowing sword.

Of course, divine power was not as destructive as aura.

But with that much light, it could definitely draw aggro...

“Goddess, your first servant beseeches you.”

“...Huh?”

As Daisy drew everyone’s attention, the Pope beside her had somehow stepped in front of her.

The Pope stretched out a small hand, placed it upon the sword Daisy held, and began offering a prayer to the Goddess.

“Goddess.”

“Uh? Uh? Uh?”

It was growing.

The pillar of light gathered around the sword grew bigger and bigger, reaching beautifully toward the sky.

“...”

The chaotic battlefield fell silent.

The Cardinals, who had been shouting in fury.

The Cardinal Faction and Reformist Faction Holy Knights, who had been fighting while roaring.

Even the romance-fantasy party, who had been running themselves ragged amid it all.

Everyone had no choice but to stop fighting and stare at one place.

“...How much bigger is that going to get?”

The moment the pillar of light, which was turning into a tower rather than a sword, stopped growing, the world was dyed in light.

“Is that the Holy Sword that only appeared in legends?”

“No, that’s just a cheap sword...”

Asran’s muttering annoyed me, but my attention was immediately drawn back by the voices that followed.

“On behalf of the Goddess, we ask you.”

Daisy and the Pope asked the same question at once.

The massive pillar of light rippled, flaunting its presence.

“Wow...”

It was as though the Goddess herself acknowledged Daisy and the Pope as her representatives.

A holy light beyond description began to envelop the world.

“Goddess...”

“Ah.”

The Saintess and the Pope had come together. Miracle joined miracle, completing a scene from myth.

Every servant of the Goddess fell silent.

Even I, who had no faith, felt faith that I had never possessed before growing by leaps and bounds just from watching.

If Daisy invited me right then, I would have considered becoming a devout servant of the Goddess.

Who could refuse when she was holding something like that?

Honestly... if the Demon King had been here right now...

Would he not have converted to the Goddess Church if Daisy threatened him with that sword?

The original story never revealed the sword’s power, so I did not know how strong it was, but its impact was more than enough.

Even I, who had pushed the theory that the Goddess was useless, felt this way. How much more would the people of the Holy Kingdom, who at least claimed to believe in the Goddess, feel it?

“Ahh...”

“I’m sorry. I’m sorry. I’m sorry...”

“A sinner is here.”

“Goddess...”

Every Holy Knight lowered their sword and pressed their heads to the ground.

Some trembled in fear as they confessed their sins.

“...”

The others were no different.

Only several major sinners, including Cardinal Sergio, whose deeds could no longer be undone, stood there with their mouths hanging open, unable to do anything.

“Where do you think the Goddess’s will lies?”

Daisy’s icy voice rang throughout the world.

If there had been comments, they would probably have been flooded with things like, “Big sis is so cool.”

Seeing it in person made my heart pound on its own.

Sorry to the male leads, but if she confessed in that state, I felt like she could even pull off a GL drift.

Would our boss be happy that Prince Ellen had been dumped? Thankfully, that would never happen.

Anyway.

“This is the Goddess’s will.”

Daisy swung her radiant sword, and the Holy Kingdom arc, brought forward by two years, reached its finale.

* * *

-That’s what happened...

If it had been personal, that would have been one thing.

But when it came to work, she was not Violet. She was Tinky Winky.

And I was not simply Adam either, only Tinky Winky’s superior.

Normally, I would have required Tinky Winky to use formal speech.

This time, though, I could not bring myself to say anything even when she spoke casually.

-So much fucking happened. I’m exhausted...

I kept my mouth shut at the dejected voice of Tinky Winky, no, Violet.

If I said, “But wasn’t all that a disaster you brought on yourself?” my capable subordinate seemed likely to flee on the spot.

Fine, I admitted it. She had worked hard.

She had wrapped up a three-year story in about a week.

-But they’re saying they want to make me a Cardinal too?

“How did that even happen...”

It was starting to become scary.

Had it not even been a month since vacation started?

I had returned to the royal palace after a little over half a day, repeatedly using teleportation to make sure Prince Ellen did not cause trouble.

The romance-fantasy party must have entered the Holy Kingdom by carriage.

Then I came to my senses, and my junior from work was about to gain the title of Cardinal of the Holy Kingdom.

-I don’t know... I told them it made no sense just because the Pope wanted it. Daisy said it would be fine, but when I said that still made no sense, the Pope said the Goddess had given a revelation that Daisy could do whatever she wanted...!

Was this the sort of scene comics showed with spinning eyes?

The kid was half out of it and rambling, but what she was saying was no joke.

“The Goddess said Daisy could do whatever she wanted?”

-That’s what they said?

It seemed the incompetent Goddess up in the heavens had really liked Daisy’s great purge.

Come to think of it, even in the Bible, the Monkey Wrench of Nazareth had set a temple straight with a whip.

Maybe that was what Daisy was to the Goddess.

Her representative, who would set the broken Holy Kingdom straight!

Everything Daisy did was bound to look beautiful to her.

-Save me!

I wanted to cut off the communication right away.

But I could not.

“Uh, well. You worked hard.”

-I didn’t say I worked hard, I said save me!

“The Commander says he’ll reward you generously.”

-I don’t need money, save me right now!

“Becoming a Sword Master does not mean you can hold a sword and teleport... Even the granddaddy of Sword Masters can’t do that...”

-Aaaah!

It was true. The Sword Emperor could split the sky or sea, but he could not split space and teleport.

-I-I’ll end up a Cardinaaaal!

It sounded like a joke, but the horrifying part was that she really might become one.

Most of the Holy Kingdom’s Cardinals had now been dismissed and locked in underground cells.

The huge pillar of light created by the Pope and Daisy did not possess physical force proportional to its size.

Well, if divine power had that kind of destructive force, everyone would become clergy instead of knights.

But within the Holy Kingdom, it was a strike more terrifying than the Sword Emperor’s sword.

Sword of Condemnation.

That was the name Violet had relayed for Daisy’s slash.

A strike that stripped every bit of divine power from condemned sinners, effectively a death sentence for clergy.

Had anyone other than the Pope and Saintess wielded it, they could have been branded wicked heretics.

But its wielders were who they were, and everyone in the Holy Kingdom had witnessed that brilliant light.

The Pope and the Saintess became not heretics, but condemnors sent by the Goddess, and struck down every corrupt sinner.

As a result, the Holy Kingdom’s twelve Cardinals had become two.

They had to select ten new Cardinals, but given the situation, nobody in the Holy Kingdom could stop an appointee handpicked by the Pope and Daisy.

“But if you become a Cardinal, can you still attend the Academy?”

-Aaaah!

Apparently not.

I could only hear screams rather than human speech from the communication orb now. I could not bring myself to turn it off, so I set it aside in a corner for a moment.

Then I organized what I had heard and reported it to the Commander.

Summary.

The Saintess our prince had fallen for conquered the Holy Kingdom with a sword.

And our agent was about to become a Cardinal.

The end.

“...Don’t joke around.”

The Commander’s expression twisted at my brief summary.

“I’m not joking.”

It was short, but there was no more accurate way to put it.

“Please tell me you’re joking...”

The Commander rarely looked like he was about to cry as he pleaded.

“I left the communication orb on in my room. Want to hear it yourself?”