You Again... I'm a Victim!

Outside the forest!

...It feels like the countryside, but we're outside the forest!

Koa and the others seem a little excited, too.

This world...

'It's broken... Why?'

'What are we going to do?!'

'You said it couldn't break!'

Whoa, that startled me.

Hearing a voice out of nowhere... What kind of horror is this?

I look around, but no one is there.

What?

Where is that voice coming from?

That voice sounds familiar.

'This is bad. Now that the wall is gone, the divine beast's power is leaking outside.'

'Put the wall back up.'

'Impossible. It requires an enormous amount of divine power, and our divine power is sealed!'

...【Divine Beast?】【Divine Power?】

I look around again.

There's no one.

I can hear only voices.

I've experienced this situation before.

Like when I was dropped into this world...

Besides, these voices sound like those three idiot apprentices from back then.

Could I be getting caught up in something those guys are doing again?

'Which one is the one who broke it?'

I don't see why I should tell you that.

I ball my hand into a fist.

My right hand feels strange.

Come to think of it, I was holding part of the wall.

'Who is this guy? Why is he with a Fenrir?'

Fenrir?

Is that what Koa is?

I look up at Koa, sitting beside me.

...Is a Fenrir some kind of wolf?

That sounds kind of cool.

I try stroking Koa's head. Koa seems to like it.

...Fenrir? ...I feel like my little sister mentioned it once...?

'Ah, the magic stone!'

'What?'

'Hey, why is it cracked?!'

Apparently, the 【magic stone】 is cracked.

I have no idea what's going on.

But those voices definitely belong to the three who are the source of all this evil.

They caused my death and got me dropped into this world.

They also seem to be the reason Koa and the others couldn't leave the forest.

'What are we going to do?'

Whatever happened, just give up already.

'If we're found out, this time we'll lose not only our divine power—we won't even be apprentices anymore.'

Was that so-called 【divine power】 taken from them because of the failure that dragged me into this world?

I hope they can't be apprentices anymore, either.

'Hey, what if we use this guy...'

This guy... They mean me, right?

They definitely mean me, right?

This is irritating.

Perhaps my magic power wavered, because Koa looks at me with concern.

Phew... Thanks.

Koa is... Ah, Koa and the others are all kind.

The fluctuation in my magic power made the others look at me, too.

Their faces are scary, but I can tell when they're worried.

Calm down.

'That's right, he looks human, so... Huh? Is he human?'

I am human.

What else would I look like?

Judging from what they're saying, though, it seems they've already caused some kind of trouble.

I wonder what it is.

'Whatever. We can have this guy—'

'What are you doing?! I came here after sensing the presence of the divine beast that disappeared!'

'Ahh...'

Looks like they've been caught.

And I recognize this voice, too.

The voice of the god I heard during the hero summoning.

'What is this world?!'

'Lord God, this is...'

'Could it be that you stole the fruit of the world?!'

Apparently, they even went so far as to steal.

They've really done all sorts of things.

By the way, is it all right for me to keep listening to this?

I don't know why I can hear them, so there's nothing I can do about it.

'That's not it.'

'What do you mean, it isn't?!'

'Things were going well. The world was turning properly, and...'

'By imprisoning the divine beasts and using the power you stole from them?'

'Ah...'

What kind of people are they?

So 【Divine Beast】 is what they call a divine beast?

Is that what Fuwafuwa and the dragons are?

They're special beings in Japan, too, but are they special in this world as well?

So they locked Fuwafuwa and the others up and used their power as they pleased?

What horrible people!

'...By the way, it seems someone is listening to us.'

They noticed me.

That's a little scary.

"Excuse me. I'm a victim of those idiots over there... the three apprentices."

'Huh? Don't lie!'

'Silence!'

What a voice. Is this what they call intimidation?

I flinch.

'A victim of what?'

"I'm a human from Earth who was caught up in the hero summoning those three performed and dumped into this world."

'What?!'

Their voices are perfectly in sync.

Or rather, had none of them noticed me?

I thought that might be the case, but it still pisses me off.