Chapter(2)

Episode(2): Ah, I messed up!

Sovereign of Death~(2)

Barely holding back his laughter Nagisa almost thought that he'd lost his mind.

Although he only read a few novels and manga in his entire life, he wasn't unfamiliar with this genre at all.

'Isekai!'

Yes. This was that exact scenario.

Honestly, he felt the world spinning and couldn't fathom what in the world was happening.

'No!'

He shook his head to calm his nerves.

In a situation like this where nothing made sense panicking would only make it worse.

Right, he wasn't the type to be flustered. What he needed now was a clear mind to rationally analyze the situation. 

He really wanted to scream and pull his hair out at the moment but-

'This is no time for that!'

Releasing an anxious breath, he steeled his mind and calmed down almost instantly.

At first, this all seemed like a huge crazy dream.

'Even so, I doubt the current technology has the ability to make a group of people have a collective dream'

And he was the heir to a large family that had the power of a nation, he doubted the government was insane enough to use him as a guinea pig.

If not mass summoning to another world, there would be no other explanation.

So now followed the question, what should he do?

The usual trope was a king asking them to fight a war for them, but-

'I have no reason to risk my life in this unfamiliar world!'

Perhaps, if this was an accidental summoning he'd have no option but t o accept it.

However he was directly brought into a castle. There was no way that would be the case.

Curious as he was about another world, he didn't want to role play as a 'hero'.

With no family in this world and more than likely no way to return home, he didn't have the motivation to follow the usual cliche.

His knowledge concerning reincarnation or Isekai wasn't that deep, but he had understood enough to know that he would most likely never make it home.

He shook his head.

Since searching for a way home would be a wild goose chase he'd give up on that for now.

He just honestly wanted to avoid the trouble that would follow if he slipped away from the castle.

Still, he was missing a vital piece to do so.

'Information'

Without information of this world he would just be lost in another world and he wanted to avoid this at all cost.

Just then-

Creak!

The huge double door at the entrance of the throne room creaked open interrupting his thoughts.

Several figures wearing gaudy outfits and some wearing armor entered the room through the opened doors.

[Introducing the sun of the empire, His majesty Florence V. Synth makes his entrance!]

Two of the several people stepped out from the queue.

They knelt and bellowed the kings arrival to which a man wearing a crown and even even more exaggerated outfit stepped forward boldly.

Sporting an arrogant smirk, a crown shining gold as sharp as the rays of the sun and a long goat beard, his confidence seemed to scream that he was a monarch.

And following behind him were the men and women in gaudy attire and those wearing armor and carrying weapons.

Indeed, this was a fantasy world.

The armor wearing people all started releasing a dense amount of killing intent as if to intimidate the students and teachers present.

For Nagisa, this was nothing compared to his gramps pressure but it had all those present hunched over with pale faces.

Some even looked like they were on the verge of dying.

Unfortunately they were all just normal students till a moment ago. Resisting seemed futile.

With pleased eyes, the king surveyed the group and nodded after giving everyone a once over.

He then took a breath and opened his mouth for the first time.

[O Heroes that come from afar, please raise your heads!]

With his opening line, the guards slammed their spears to the ground and stomped a foot to the ground simultaneously and the heavy pressure surrounding the hall vanished like a dream.

The king still looked down at everyone like ants, but Nagisa judged that the king himself wasn't an issue so he ignored it.

At the same time, the king seemed to see Nagisa and was surprised that someone was so Nonchalant after all that happened.

Thinking it was just an excellent hero, he was satisfied with himself for this round of summoning and continued speaking.

[I would like to give my thanks to you for answering our call. As we've hoped, the summoning ritual went splendidly and there seem to be promising people among you!]

[Normally we should take care of your accommodations first, even so we have no time to waste and I would like to get into details quickly! –]

But before the king could finish his words, a hand rose stopping his speech.

[W-Wait...could you please explain what's going on?]

The king turned to face the person.

He had a handsome face, brown hair and the charm of a man destined to be a protagonist.

It was none other than Aikawa Renji.

A detested existence among men but an individual loved by almost 80% of the girl in the first year.

He was the main reason behind Nagisa and his childhood no longer speaking.

They weren't on the best of terms before but at the least you could say they both made an effort.

It all fell apart however when Mr. Perfect decided to start a rumor about him being a pervert molester. 

Every one believed the rumor.

Unfortunately, Aoi also believed the lie and no longer even tried to speak with him.

[Ah yes, your right hero...your name please?]

Renji nervously gulped and replied.

[A-Aikawa...Aikawa Renji-p-please call me Renji sir]

[Oh, how polite, as expected of a hero!]

The king seemed satisfied.

Since he was planning to do the explanations sooner or later this just helped ease into it.

[As far as explanations go. Allow me to start from the beginning...]

He began the explanation as if unfolding the story of legends.

According to his words, the world was born out of energy released from the God's, Yada Yada.

Good energy made humanoid and intelligent species while bad energy made monsters and creatures without intelligence.

Humans lived in Settlements and continued to grow until countries were formed.

They enjoyed the brief peace as the world continued to evolved, If it was always like this, the years to come for humanity would be nothing but prosperous.

That was until monsters began to attack humans.

Normally monsters would not just brainlessly attack human settlements unless they were enraged or at least had a reason prior to said attack.

But things changed overtime, the monsters no longer needed a reason.

As if driven by a purpose to annihilate man from the face of the earth, monsters commenced a never ending battle against humanity.

They needed a way to defend and learned magic as a means to it. However, that wasn't enough to erase the threat completely.

Monsters grew stronger the more time elapsed and they were just mere humans that couldn't go against those monsters.

The battle began to tilt in monsters favor more and more.

The scale was unbalanced and would completely fall if any more weight were added.

It was when they thought it couldn't get any worse. The worst of all threats had appeared, the demon lord.

The most vicious of all demons who controlled the monsters to do countless atrocities.

With power equivalent to a God, no one could challenge the demons reign of terror.

They tried taking the fight to her directly, but the dark energy surrounding the castle was too great and they couldn't even pass the Frontline of the demon king's defense.

Because of that humanity could only defend and the fragile defenses of humanity began to whittle away one after the other.

What they needed was someone to save them before the fragile glass of defense was broken.

The God's answered their prayers giving them a way to survive.

By summoning heroes from another world, they could finally see the small thread of hope unravel from the twisted knots of despair.

[That's why, please help us O' heroes! The threat called the demon king is nigh, and humanity, as a last stand of defense you are our only hope!

If you don't defeat the demon lord then we will all surely perish!]

The king pleaded. He wanted to give the heroes a sense of purpose and spoke in a desperate tone.

Nagisa honestly almost gave an applause.

Although it sounded like nonsense, it'd probably make for a hit story back on earth if it could be written properly.

~Demon king, are you kidding me?

~oi oi, even as a prank this is going too far. He must be on drugs.

The hall quickly erupted into a mass of complaints and noises.

Some were happy while some were anxious, another group just sat there digesting the information.

Nagisa was also coming to terms with what he had just learned.

'I see, of course a demon lord really exists'.

He sighed in exasperation.

'I don't wanna get involved!'

He already expected it but, this was too much!

Even if he were to develop an amazing ability, wasn't it just the compensation he deserved for being kidnapped from his original world?

'I mean, don't kidnap someone and force them to fight you psychopaths'.

Playing hero?

Whoever wants it can have at it!

Nagisa however didn't want anything to do with this situation.

Creak!

The double doors opened once more, and along with the creaking came an angelic voice.

[The demon lord has slaughtered and pillaged most of the human Settlements. Those we sent to deal with them never came back and those that do, end up severely injured unable to fight again. This has taken a severe toll on humanity]

Soothing to be heard and it attracted the attentions of all the boys.

[It's the same situation wherever you go, because of this nowhere is safe but after deliberation we finally came to a decision. Use the gift of the gods, summon the heroes!]

Pink hair, blue eyes and a petite figure. 

With a cute face and the elegant way in which she carried herself there was no one who didn't know who she was.

'A literal princess has descended!'

All eyes were glued stuck to her figure in awe and admiration.

Forget the initial confusion, Nagisa felt as if the guys would dive straight into battle just to impress this girl.

She was just that beautiful.

[W-We will do our best! Uhm-]

Still unable to comprehend that such a beauty could exist, Renji stuttered out the words.

Maria curtsied with a small smile and replied.

[My name is princess Maria, nice to meet you]

Noticing the change in the surroundings, the king was pleased.

[Alright heroes, we want your help but first we have to figure out your talents and field of expertise in order to know how to train so you can stand against the forces of evil]

At this, everyone seemed confused but princess Maria chuckled and spoke in place of the king.

[To do that, please Chant status in your minds]

'Status? Like that thing in games huh'.

Things like that would actually exist?

He no longer questioned it but instead chanted the words in his mind.

'Status'

[Kanata Nagisa–(Lv.1) ]

[Class– Necromancer]

[Trait – Dead Rise (SSS), Master (EX)]

[Mana–100/100]

[Perception(B+)] [Swordplay(S)] [Martial Arts(A+)] [Kanata Footwork(S-)] [Body Control(A)] [Oneness(D)]

Nagisa gave it a quick glance.

Most of his skills were those he'd trained prior to the summoning.

Since they were ranked by letters and not numbers, he had no idea of knowing whether it was high or low.

'It'd be better if it was numerical value rather than alphabetical'

But assuming it went from F- to ascending (S) then (S) would most likely be the highest level.

In that case he was glad it seemed his high specs weren't low in this world.

His highest skill was swordplay.

Thinking about it, it made sense for swordsmanship to be the highest since he would swing the sword even if his bones were broken.

Martial arts wasn't low either, this was expected so he only nodded before moving on.

He looked at all his skills then focused on the 'MP'.

Judging by game logic mana would allow him to use his magic related skills.

But, aside from Necromancy he didn't really have any magic related abilities.

'Necromancy huh...'

Saying it in his mind sounded pretty ominous.

He didn't know about this world but necromancy wasn't always viewed highly on earth.

'I should probably keep a lid on it'

He decided to seal his lips.

Luckily no one could see his stats aside from him.

'Next, I also have two traits, which must mean they were unique skills?'

It wasn't explained but seeing the 'EX' Nagisa subconsciously felt it was an extremely high level.

For now at least he had no knowledge and could only look at it with questions in his mind.

Looking away from his status, Nagisa glanced at his classmates.

Most were confused, a small number grinned creepily while another group wore pale faces.

The teachers gathered and seemed to be discussing something while talking about their individual stats.

Renji at this time, it was just for a small moment but Nagisa was sure he saw the guy grin creepily.

'I bet he has some ridiculous class like a hero? Damn his luck is too good'

Just then the princess stepped forward.

[Now then, please tell us your classes and we'll start from Sir Renji]

Renji, who stood the closest received the smile with a red face.

He wasn't the only one.

All the boys seemed to lose their minds in that smile and Nagisa nearly lost it as well.

[Y-Yes, I have a class called 'hero']

[Ooo!]

The king sat up an gave an exclamation.

[T-The hero, is it? That's the legendary class! How splendid]

The Princess was visibly flustered as well. 

As expected, Nagisa shook his head. Of course he was the hero.

Then, one by one the classmates all revealed their occupations.

[And you, you are the last. Would you please tell us your class?]

It was finally his turn.

Facing the princess Nagisa took in a breath.

Indeed, she was a beauty.

[Ehem... My class is a little strange but, I guess you won't mind...I'm a, chef]

He felt awkward as he spoke.

Would this lie even work? So, in the eyes of the princess his expression seemed as if he was shocked and embarrassed by his class.

She didn't know what to say.

A hero having a culinary occupation?

Just what joke was this?

Around him, the students started to laugh. The teachers tried to stop them but it didn't work.

'It's better to be laughed at than to be summoned and instantly become an enemy of humanity'

[It certainly is strange that you have such a class...a summoned one would normally have combat skill and class, is it possible that you were just caught up in the whole thing?]

'Considering you summoned over a hundred people, you're either naive or too kind. Either way, Nagisa felt he could use this misunderstanding!'

[T-That's right! I was indeed just caught up in this Summoning. And to think I'd end up in another world with an inept skill. Ah, I can't even protect myself...oh what shall I do now with this pitiful life of mine!!!]

Tears falling from his eyes, he fell making a face filled with despair!

There was no way out, forward!

He needed to give the most convincing act of his entire life!

He who had hid himself amongst commoners for so long decided to use his accumulated experience all for this one moment.

[AAAAHHHHH!!] 

But he seemed to have done a little too well with his acting.

~no wonder, he looks so weak

~But to think we summoned an incompetent

The nobles standing at the side gave unnecessary comments but Nagisa decided to ignore them. 

At any rate, if he could succeed with this act of his escaping the castle would be easy!

[O-Oh that's sad to hear...what are we going to do really, father?]

She glanced at the king.

The king looked down with contempt as if he was glaring at trash.

[Naturally we can't keep trash so there is no other choice. Tch, to think I had my court mages waste magic on this trash who can't even use combat skill...Guards!]

Contrary to my expectations the situation had went completely left field leaving me wide eyed in shock.

'.....Ah, I messed up'