Hey Let's Go Destroy Another World Chapter 2

“You’re misunderstanding me.”

Keeping her sullen face, the woman sitting across from Ruito said that while pointing her index finger at him.

Without responding to her, Ruito drained the insides of his coffee cup in one breath, and pushed the empty cup to the pointing woman’s index finger.

He thought that perhaps, with just that action she might prepare more coffee for him, and even if it didn’t work he could just go back to the action he did before. As a result, Ruito’s coffee cup was refilled.

“Can you give me that finger?”

“My finger isn’t a coffee server?”

To Ruito who was looking at her finger with eyes like he wanted it, the woman panicked, and retracted her finger as if to hide it.

“What do you mean by misunderstanding?”

‘If I had that finger, I could have all the coffee I could drink’, Ruito regretfully stared at her finger.

“There’s no way a devil would ever ask you ‘please destroy the world’ or something like that.”

“Is like that?”

As far as Ruito knows, whether in books or in games, most of the time the demon king or a devil or other things like that would be on the enemy side.

That’s why he immediately thought that her favor of destroying the world were the words of a devil, but according to the woman that seemed to be wrong.

“In the first place, a devil is an existence that corrupts people and enjoys making them suffer you know? If the world were destroyed, what exactly would they have fun with?”

Although Ruito felt that he wanted to keep his body apart from this smiling woman as much as possible, because of her statement that time would resume if he moved, Ruito who valued his life decided that there was no choice but to ignore his bad feelings, and stay stopped.

As the least amount of resistance, Ruito decided to give an as ill-tempered voice as possible.

“That idea is already devilish.”

“By -ish, do you mean that it isn’t that?”

Being easily switched over, Ruito was silent.

Even if she asserted that somewhat reasonable, somewhat sophistic opinion, Ruito wouldn’t be able to accept it.

After all, whether she was a devil or not or a god or not, if he listened to her request, it was certain that a good-for-nothing future awaited him.

In the first place, the wish of destroying a world itself was too obscure, and Ruito didn’t know what he should do.

Since there was no way he’d accept something like that, an expression that showed he was thinking he had to firmly refuse here may have showed up on his face, and after the woman showed behavior that showed she was thinking, she hit her hand.

“It seems like this will be hopeless unless I properly explain from the beginning.”

“It would have saved me if you did that from the beginning.”

“First of, my name. You can call me the Goddess Roge.” (TLN: Pronounced Rouju.)

‘Ahem’ The woman who named herself as Roge stuck out her chest, and displayed it.

Although Ruito wondered about her naming herself to a human and telling them she was a goddess and was trapped in his thoughts, he decided to press his hands together in prayer to the large things stuck in front of him.

“What did you just pay your respects to?”

“Er, you have some pretty big ones.”

To Ruito’s action of continuing to press his hands together in prayer and pay his respects, Roge tilted her head, but promptly thought up the true identity of what he was paying his respects to, and in a disgusted tone of voice, spoke as if to confirm something.

“Ah, you like big ones?”

“No, I don’t feel like attaching value to large or small.”

Ruito knew that there were ideas that they’re great because they’re big, or great because they’re small.

And of course, he was aware that there were opposite ways to think about it.

However, for Ruito, he wanted to cast a vote that just them being there was great.

“I don’t have the kind of personality that’ll make a commotion over whether they sway or not.”

“……I feel like this conversation has magnificently gone off topic. Can we return to the main topic?”

“I don’t mind, but in that case, would I have to admit that you’re god?”

The distinction had yet to be defined, and the moment Ruito turned the conversation in that direction, the truck’s bumper that was right beside Ruito’s head, although only slightly, moved closer to him.

Sensing that through its sound, Ruito made a meek expression towards the goddess who named herself as Roge and was looking at him, and spoke.

“I think I’ll admit that.”

At the same time when Ruito said those words, the moving truck again stopped.

To Ruito, who was feeling relieved and stroking his chest, Roge made a slightly scary face and gave something like a warning.

“Wonderful. The discussion will proceed faster like that. I don’t want to lose a suitable person I finally found over something so boring. Anyways, even though I called myself a goddess, I’m not a god involved with this world. Is that sufficient?”

Although she asked whether that was sufficient, there was no room to refuse her.

Ruito had as much ability to learn as anyone else, and thinking that it’d be foolish to make the same mistake over again, he shook his head up and down to Roge’s question.

“Good. Because of that, about the world I want you to destroy, it’s one I govern over as the chief goddess.”

After Ruito felt not just a little surprise that woman in front of him was the chief god of some other world, he felt a little compassion.

He didn’t know what world it was, and on top of their chief goddess going out of her way to go to another world for a business trip, she asked that world’s residents if they would come and destroy her world.

Of course, Ruito only thought they were pitiful, and didn’t think to do anything concrete for them, even for a little bit.

“Why is there a need to destroy that world?”

In response to that question that naturally came out, with a thin smile on her lips, she replied like this:

“If I said ‘on a whim’, would you get mad?”

“Not really. I do think the world that’d get destroyed on a whim is pitiful though.”

At the same time, Ruito thought that he, who was getting involved in it, was pitiful too.

As if she didn’t notice Ruito’s sentiment, Roge snorted quietly.

“Do you like the theory that since I created it, whatever I do with them is up to me?”

It was something common.

‘If you think like that, then don’t let your creations have free will’. Swallowing these words, Ruito stated his thoughts.

“I don’t like it, but it’s not my place to talk. But then, if you’re not a god of this world then I’d like for you to exclude me from those who you can do whatever you want with.”

“It’s just a joke. Even if I call myself a goddess, I don’t have that haughty of a way of thinking. Besides, strictly speaking, it’s not a world I created.”

As he couldn’t see the end of the conversation, Ruito suspiciously narrowed his eyes.

He felt that calling herself the goddess of a world she didn’t even create, and wanting him to destroy that world was didn’t make any sense for the conversation’s direction.

To Ruito who thought that since she was proceeding this nonsensical conversation exceedingly seriously she won’t punish him for being slightly suspicious, Roge continued explaining.

“Strictly speaking, there’s one more god above me. The real situation is that I’m managing the world they created.”

“Is it okay for you to arbitrarily destroy something like that?”

So to speak, this was like turning the house you borrowed from someone into an empty lot.

If you do something like that without gaining the landowner’s approval, it’s obvious what would happen later.

To Ruito who thought that, while shaking her standing index finger left and right, Roge clicked her tongue.

“I can’t arbitrarily do something like that. Even I’m afraid of my lord.”

Roge unnaturally held herself with her arms, and showed herself shaking.

The fact that she was acting was obvious at first glance at her face because she was still smiling, and after Ruito released a small short sigh, he tried confirming it.

“……In other words, the one above you approved of this too?”

“It’s not like they approved it. The understanding that I can justify it if they question me about it later would be correct.”

Roge strangely spoke in a way that would make one uneasy, but since he wasn’t in a position to complain about her phraseology, Ruito stayed silent.

Even if what Roge said was wrong, and she gets punished by this lord or whatever, it’s not like Ruito can do anything, so he won’t receive any harm.

“From your recognition, the world I want you to destroy is something like medieval Western Europe. There’s a class system with kings and nobles, and knights and commoners. Of course, they’re just similar, so you can’t say they’re exactly the same.”

To Roge, who said ‘you might need to keep your guard up against attacks’, and laughed, while embracing feelings of being somewhat fed up, Ruito tried asking her a question.

“For example, how are they different?”

“Yeah, for example, there are races other than humans, there’s magic, and people’s lives are really light. If I called it a sword and magic world would you understand?”

“I see, it’s really template isn’t it?”

This time, Roge made a suspicious face to Ruito’s words.

‘Apparently the goddess doesn’t read web novels on the internet’, thought Ruito as he hid his bitter smile by putting his cup to his mouth.

To Ruito it seemed that the words ‘sword and magic world’ were worn out, but he thought that it didn’t seem like anyone else would be given such a brief explanation.

For the time being, these were useful words that somehow transmitted the explanation that it was a fantasy world.

“Well, I guess it’s fine, I’ll continue explaining. I just said that I want you to destroy the world, but it’s not like I’m asking you to actually do the absurd and destroy the world. Well, if you really want to then you can feel free to though.”

“After hearing that, I feel a little relieved.”

Although it really was just a little, Ruito felt relieved that she didn’t mean for him to go and do the work of a demon king from a game.

In the first place, if he were sent to the world that this goddess Roge manages, and destroyed it, Ruito’s safety would become dubious.

In general, if he destroyed the world, it’d be tough to think he’d be safe.

In the world he’s currently in, it’s almost a well-established fact that Ruito won’t be saved because of the truck right beside his head approaching him, and he’d like to refuse going to all the way to a different world to suffer another death-like experience.

“What I wish from you is the destruction of the existing society. What it comes down to is that I want you to bring about a huge change.”

“For that, wouldn’t it have been better to take a free politician, or a high school student with excess knowledge?”

Ruito thought that this was a miss in personnel selection.

Ruito has never thought himself to be an innovative person.

If anything, he believed himself to be the kind of person who didn’t seek change from day to day, languidly passed time, then suddenly realized what time it had become.

“Wouldn’t it be unreasonable to ask a normal high school student to start a reform?”

“Recent high schoolers seem like they could do it? I don’t know that much though.”

As far as he read in novels and such, Ruito felt like it was decided that generally the kinds of people who would be asked for these kinds of things would be high school aged males.

Also, for some reason those high schoolers have an abundance of knowledge they wouldn’t use in normal society stored up.

It’s to the point that ‘Truth is stranger than fiction’ is a phrase, so even if real high school students had even more dreadful knowledge and experiences, there wouldn’t be anything strange.

“Is that how it works? Hmm? But in that case, you wouldn’t be of any use, so you’d be run over and killed by that, is that okay?”

When Roge kept pointing her finger at the thing by Ruito’s head, he decided this was pointless, and decided to ask her again.

“So let’s say I’m useless, do you still have any intentions of saving me?”

“Not really……yeah, no.”

Since he was easily refused, there was only one thing Ruito could say.

“I take back my previous statement. Let’s continue talking on the assumption that I’ll go.”

At the very least, it didn’t seem like he’d be told to wrap the world in darkness, like a demon king from somewhere.

With that being the case, taking into a account that he might survive, Ruito decided to revise his thinking about Roge’s story.

“Then let’s just say that the beautiful goddess and her servant have reached a mutual understanding.”

“From our exchange just now, did we reach a mutual understanding?”

Although Ruito was glaring at her, Roge’s expression didn’t shake a bit.

That meant that she truly believed that she made a mutual understanding with Ruito.

Although Ruito didn’t hate that no matter how many times she explained it would always be shortened too much, he felt that even if he pleaded to the goddess in front of his eyes, she wouldn’t seriously respond to him.

Ruito felt that for the most part, he understood what the goddess wanted to ask of him, but he still hadn’t hear the most important part.

“I want to hear why you want me to do this.”

“That’s simple. Stagnation is a greater sin than degeneration. A world with no change will slowly rot, and someday fall apart on its own. That’s regardless of whether they’re maintaining the status quo or just not pushing for progress.”

Ruito could understand that reasoning.

A swamp in which water is poured into but never leaves might preserve a stable environment to a a certain extent, but one day the water will overflow, or the water will go bad and the environment will fail.

In order to prevent that from happening, you’d have to open a hole somewhere or make a path for the water to go out, so that the water inside the swamp is always changing.

In other words, the world this goddess manages is stagnant, so she worried about it rotting, and asked Ruito to open an air hole to prevent that.

“I understand your story, and that it doesn’t seem like I can refuse. What kinds of things will be done for my treatment over here?”

As someone about to be killed by a car, Ruito thought it couldn’t be helped for him if he were to worry about everything after this.

Nevertheless, he was curious.

It was because he was being taken to another world, and there were many things he’d have to leave in this world.

“What do you want me to do?”

In response to his question, Roge returned a question.

However, those words weren’t something that came from her wanting to tease him.

“From this situation, it seems like I’m asked you for something at a timing when you couldn’t refuse, but to have you fulfill my wish I intend to hear to your wishes. That’s why, I can make it so that you were run over by the car here, or make it so that you never existed. If there are people who would grieve over your death, then I recommend the latter.”

Roge, who said that, had a serious face as if the conversation up until this point was just a lie.

That’s why, Ruito thought.

Due to his personality, Ruito didn’t have a wide range of friends, and he was a shallow associate.

That’s why he didn’t know of any friends that would cry after hearing he died in an accident.

However, regarding his immediate family there was no mistaking that they’d grieve, and for Ruito that was heartbreaking.

“Can you make so that I never existed?”

Since it was something he couldn’t run away from, Ruito thought that he should choose the choice where nobody was sad, and told that to Roge after some time.

Although he wanted her to erase his memory too if possible, if that was erased he’d probably lose his personality too, Ruito thought that Roge probably wouldn’t shake her head vertically anyways.

“I got it. From this moment on, you’ll have never existed in this world, and all your information will be arranged without any contradictions.”

Hearing Ruito’s words, Roge lightly snapped her right hand, and made a sound with her fingers.

With that gesture alone, Ruito suddenly felt his consciousness becoming distant.

“Well then, I’ll see a little later, in my world.”

Those became the last words Ruito heard in the world he was in.

Chapter end