By his own senses, approximately an evening had passed since he’d been shut up in that space. He continued to wait there—until all of a sudden, he felt ground beneath his feet.
“Whoa! Wh-What’s happening?!” The sudden pull of gravity made him topple over. Before his eyes was a young child—a girl with golden hair. It wasn’t Karina, but he could feel immense power radiating from her.
“Charm!”
“Yeah, that’s not gonna work,” the girl said with a grin.
The Orc King was baffled. She was young and female, so his charm should’ve taken effect! Yet the girl didn’t look the least bit infatuated with him—or even interested in him, for that matter. He didn’t even sense an effort to resist, as he had with Karina.
“Charm! Charm! Charm!” he cried, flinging his ability desperately. He didn’t know why, but this girl terrified him.
She laughed. “Fool, there’s no way the power of the gods would work on an actual god. Now then, it’s extraction time!”
No sooner than the girl had said that, the Orc King felt a great power leave his body. The extracted energy gathered before his eyes to form a shining golden orb—the power of the gods. The Orc King reached out toward the orb, but it zipped into the girl’s outstretched hand before he could touch it.
“G-Give that back!”
“No way. This was mine to begin with.” The girl shrank the orb down to the size of a small candy and casually popped it into her mouth, just like that.
“Nooo!”
“Well, that’s that, I guess. Socks are still more delectable, but I suppose this’ll do.” She licked her lips. “Hmm, I don’t really need this thing left over, though. Oh? Is there something on your mind, perhaps?” she asked the orc with coquettish, upturned eyes. From the girl’s perspective, this was just because she wanted to look cute, but the Orc King interpreted it quite differently. He thought she was fawning over him—even though she’d just stolen his power and even called him this thing.
“Y-You, female! I will make you mine, as you wish, so send my power back to its rightful home—me!”
“Excuse me? The God of Destruction is my only lover,” she said with a smile—though it didn’t quite reach her eyes. “Looks like you’ve just earned yourself the death penalty.”
At that moment, the Goddess’s wrath was unleashed—a wrath so powerful that it could destroy the world twice over. The Orc King, with his small, frail body, was hit with the full brunt of that wrath—in fact, he literally went flying. As the Goddess’s rage enveloped him, every cell in his body cried out for mercy before simultaneously exploding. Just like that, the Orc King was no more.
“Whoops, guess I went a little too far there. At the same time, I’ve got better things to do than deal with him, so it’s whatever. Still, it’s a shame. If only he’d asked me to send him back home instead of that power, I would’ve done it, you know?” Naturally, someone as powerful as her could’ve returned him home in a near-death state and then toyed with him even more afterward, but she hadn’t been angry enough to warrant that.
“Now then, back to watching Karina’s antics!” With her task complete, she plunked down on an invisible chair in the middle of the empty space, swinging her legs back and forth in anticipation. She’d already forgotten about the Orc King completely.
#Side: END
After accessing the Goddess’s space from the church, I handed the Orc King over to the Goddess.
“All right, delivery confirmed. As promised, I’ll award you 500 SP,” she said.
“Yes, it worked! Thank you, Goddess!” So I’d never needed to defeat the Orc King in the first place! I could’ve just delivered him here the entire time!
Phew, that’s better. The moment I handed him over, my mind and body returned to normal. That confirmed it, then—it was all the Orc King’s fault.
“Well, I admit it would’ve been pretty cute if you’d come after me with your heightened libido, but I also kinda wanted to see what you’d be like if he actually got you to submit.”
“Seriously? But if that happened, Goddess, my adventures would’ve been over.”
“Hm... You’re right, that would be a waste, wouldn’t it? Well, I got to see you do it with Aishia last night, so that’s good enough for now, I suppose.”
Shit. Come to think of it, I was so worried about the Orc King that I forgot to use Mr. Sneaky! Oh no, the Goddess saw my antics again...
“Anyway, now that you have more points, want that subscription to the period-skipping medicine? I heard you talking about it with Siesta, you know.”
Right, we were discussing it in the church, so of course she would’ve heard that too. “Yes, please!”
“Then I’ll put you in for a year’s worth... There, you’ve used 350 SP. You have 150 SP remaining. Thanks so much!” A small vial suddenly appeared in my hand, containing a single dose. “Since your first month is on the house, I’ll send you one dose for the next twelve months before your period begins. Cherish that medicine—it’s extremely valuable.”
Ooh! So I can skip my period with this! Hmm... I bet I can’t copy this anyway, so I won’t even try. No doubt the Goddess has some copy protection measure put on it or something.
“Oh, I almost forgot to mention—the pills sold in general stores will work on you too.”
“Huh? Pills?”
“Yeah, pills to stop a woman’s period. Made by my very own lover, the God of Destruction—and no side effects either! That way, all the working women of the world can use it too!” She thrust out her chest, looking smug.
Medicine to halt a woman’s period? Come to think of it, that sort of thing existed in Japan too, didn’t it? And that really wouldn’t be any different from skipping my period, would it...? Wait, hold on. Pills like that existed in this world all along? And they’re even sold in the stores here?
“Seriously? But I’d thought you couldn’t get pills like those unless you were in Japan.”
“Don’t tell me you thought items from Japan couldn’t exist here because it’s a different world? This is a world where you can heal any injury by drinking a potion, and you thought Japanese goods were out of the question?”
“Well, when you put it like that...” Come to think of it, she was right. There was no rule stating that an isekai couldn’t include things from Japan as well. “But wait, then why didn’t Siesta, or Blade’s party, or anyone else for that matter, say a word about it?”
“Siesta doesn’t need that sort of medicine anyway, so she probably just doesn’t know. Your adventuring buddies are guys, so they wouldn’t have had any reason to look into it. I’ll bet Harumikazuchi, Li’l Satie and Aishia know, but they likely assumed you already knew too, so they didn’t say anything.”
Oh, right. They probably never even imagined Karina was zero years old, practically a newborn.
“In other words...” I began.
The Goddess, with a big smirk, whispered the rest into my ear. “In other words, Karina, you just wasted all that SP. Tee hee!”