My name is Taro Sato (Satoutaro), and I'm thirty years old and work for a local construction company.
Finally, I can be independent as a site supervisor, and now I'm building a three-story office in steel.
During the lunch break, the craftsmen go to dinner, so there will be no people in the building.
I had missed it and was taking construction photos on the third floor.
When people are around, they get in the way of shooting.
With the construction blackboard in one hand, head to the next shooting point.
When I stepped on a veneer plate about the size of a tatami, which lay on the floor, it woke up.
He fell into a hole hidden by a veneer plate.
The veneer plate showed no signs of supporting my weight at all, became like paper, cracked.
My body falls downstairs with fragments of the veneer plate.
Feeling a sensation of frightening fall, I remembered. That there was an opening here for the duct.
Due to the duct opening, the second floor also has an opening in the same position. That's why I fell. I'm on my way to the first floor.
The upstairs opening, by the way, is fenced around the perimeter.
(Whether veneers are veneers or thin veneers! A thin veneer for opening curing is a trap!
Screaming in my heart, my body passed through the upstairs opening and crashed into the ground floor.
I was drifting through a dark space.
I saw a big chunk of light in the distance, and I was pulled fuzzy that way.
(Oh, I guess I'm dead)
I thought so. I was convinced.
(Mr. President, I'm sorry. On the last day of the Summer Safety Promotion Month, I had an accident)
Besides, it's a fatal accident.
The president won't have a basin break. No, at our company size, we might all have to deal with accidents without time off.
My sorrow for everyone, my regret for my death, my anger for my stupidity sprang up one after another.
And I thought of my middle-aged father's face, presumed to have laid a thin veneer, with fierce anger.
Halfway through my job, I have a bad reputation as an equipment shop.
They were working around the duct today.
When I left after lunch break, I didn't think it was a good idea to leave the opening intact, but the proper ingredients were not close by and it was a hassle to pick them up, so I guess I laid a thin veneer that was also used for packaging.
Only during the lunch break anyway, if you block the look, you won't be complained about, it's an idea to that extent.
As much as laying such a thin veneer, it's still safer to open it up for what it looks like.
Well, if I'd found the opening, I'd have been furious.
With that in mind, my voice hung from behind.
Rather than sound, it feels like it echoes directly into my heart.
"Why don't you take the request?
Looking back, a short distance away, a thick book, like a dictionary with a long side of about 4m, was floating.
In the center of the cover of the book, this is another big, stoned human face, whose eyes looked more at me.
"... take the request, will you?
Seeing me as I couldn't react much to the surprise, the stone statue once again slowly uttered the same words.
"Request...?
I manage to calm down and respond. It's probably the post-mortem world. It's not strange that such a monster exists.
It is only natural that language should be polite. I don't have the barbaric courage to meet someone like that for the first time.
The stone statue nodded, yes, and continued the words.
"I want you to go to my designated world and live there."
Think a little.
but I don't know what that means.
I decided to ask for an explanation.
"I'm sorry, I'm a little confused about the situation. I'd like an explanation, if you don't mind."
'Of course. It would be helpful if you could calm down and listen to me. "
I heard the words and somehow understood them.
He said that if he was suddenly brought to this post-mortem worldly place and voiced by a monstrous stone statue, many of them would panic.
Conversely, it's so strange why I can stay so undisturbed.
Well, as a field director, I had a lot of opportunities to meet older scary old men, so maybe my liver had been sitting around a little bit.
'First of all, you're dead. You know what this is?
"... yes"
"And normally your soul is gathered in one place and restored as a new soul"
There, but as I said, the stone statue's eyes point to a point. That's a big chunk of light I just saw.
But before I do, I want you to go to a certain world and live the rest of your life there.
"For what?
"I'm not going to explain why, I don't"
I was surprised to hear that. No one will take the request with this explanation.
"You can't take that."
That was an unexpected reaction to me.
'Well, that's too bad. Goodbye, then.'
Pulled lightly behind me, probably in a direction where a new dead person would appear again, and moved out.
I panicked more about that response.
I have no information about the current situation. Aside from not taking requests, I'd like to pull something out of this stone statue.
There's nothing else we can talk about.
"Hey, wait a minute!
"Do you take it?
"I won't take it."
"Then it's a waste of time"
Shit, this stone statue isn't obsessed with me at all. If they say no, that's the next thing I know. This negotiation is not a reciprocal position. They're better off.
Damn! It's like a popular part-time interview I had as a student.
Besides, I don't feel like I have much time.
A huge mass of light is coming closer and closer. No, I don't know if this one's attracted.
He said the restoration of the soul, or something, so I feel that if I go over there, it will be restored without question.
"No! After all, I'm not bluffing at receiving... so please explain a little more!
Hmm, the stone statue nodded.
"Explain... no, I want to ask you a question."
What are you asking me for? When you hear that, next time, please come home at the end of the Q&A. Take care, I feel like it will.
"What kind of presence are you?
"In my understanding of that, God, it is close. I am not a god of creation. It's a pillar of God with about a few stars.
"What's your name? What can I call you?
"You can call it what you want"
I don't want to answer this one.
"So what is soul restoration?
"As a new life, sent everywhere"
"Will consciousness and memory remain then?
"I won't stay."
I see, that's what you call substantial death.
"What if I followed your request to the world?
"Consciousness, memory, figure, just like that."
"So what am I supposed to do?
"I want you to live as freely as you wish."
Hmm, I don't know what this means. What's in it for the statue if I live free?
And, more than that, the lump of light is getting closer.
"Excuse me, before I continue with the question, I'm so close to a lump of light, could you pull it off?
The stone statue moved the entire book left and right so that it shook its face to the side.
'I can't do that. I cannot resist the power of my soul to the Redemption Ground'
Is that true? You're not refusing because you want to push the negotiations in your favor, are you?
'I'm not lying. I don't have much time left. "
It was on my face, or they read my mind.
Even if we don't have time, we still don't have enough information to get through.
"I mean live as you please, but in that world, am I in a situation where I can live as I please?
If it's just a life of poverty, sickness, and heavy taxes, pardon me!
"I lend you a piece of my power. It's the best magic in the world.
All right, cheat's here -!
If I can get a cheat, I'll take it. I still have so much untrained in my life.
Now I'm determined to take it, but I have a problem.
Can I believe in stone statues?
Whatever, you're offering me a different world transfer cheat, but you can't tell me what's in it for me.
Believe me, if I go, it's not unlikely that my soul will be fueled or processed into an emotional generator of suffering, or worse.
... but if you don't take it, it will only be restored, whatever your soul is, and as Taro Sato personally, it's gone.
If you doubt it, you can also be lying about the restoration of your soul.
In fact, when you get into that light, you think you can go on a hospital bed and regain consciousness or something heavenly?
But I can only say this is an inquiry, but I don't think the restitution thing is wrong.
That light sucks, it extinguishes, that's what makes it bin.
Plus the attitude of the stone statue.
That pale feeling makes me feel unwilling to fool this one.
It may be personal sensibility, but in my case, assuming the other person is too desperate, even in good faith, I'm wary.
If you say no or no, you've been advancing a free upgrade, and you've ignored it from the middle of nowhere, you'll be forced to upgrade on your own.
If you complain, if you don't click Refuse, you'll have accepted, or something.
I already physiologically refused to upgrade.
Undo the derailed thinking.
If you do not receive the request, it will be restored and extinguished.
If you take it, you might be able to cheat on a different world transfer.
I don't have the ability or the time to be sure of the authenticity of the stone statue's words anyway.
Then you can bet here.
"One last thing. What is the reward for receiving this request?
"One who finishes one raw halfway through is given more unprogrammed power than the others, with his personality, his memory, and again, he can resume the raw. It depends on whether you accept this as a reward or not. '
You're right. Adequate reward.
"I take it! Request, we accept!
To my reply, the stone statue, well, closed its eyes.
Shortly after, the main body of the stone statue, the back cover of the part of the book, opens (assuming the one with the stone statue is the cover), and the flaps and pages are turned on their own.
And he stopped pitted, one page left the dictionary softly, and flew quietly in front of me.
And it folded with patties and became one book worn.
'Take it, it's my power. Details are in it'
I reach for the book and push.
Turning the cover and glancing through it, I could see that I could make healing magic and potions.
"Uh, in these cases, can't you choose what kind of magic you can have?
Horrible. Ask.
'Don't do it, it's a loan.
Oh, that's important there. Ok.
'That power will help you sustain your life and also greatly to gain money. If you are healthy and have money, can you live freely?
No, I'll come straight without any decorations.
I know you have a lot of opinions, but I don't disagree with you personally at all.
I shake my head up and down.
"Okay, let's get into trouble."
Actually, I was just expecting a little, just a little bit, to be able to show off overwhelming attack magic and lay people down and be proud.
Of course I can't talk about that.
In the midst of all that, the restoration field of the soul, the sphere of great light, is finally approaching.
I know the enormity of it when I approach it.
I wonder if it has a diameter of about 100 m.
I guess the distance to the actual sphere is still about 200 m.
But big and glowing, the direction of the sphere can only be seen in a giant wall of light.
I can't keep my face to myself because I'm blind.
With his back to the sphere of light, he exchanges his last words with the stone statue.
"Thank you. Okay, I'm coming."
The stone statue nods slowly.
"Like it, live it"
Until the last moment I was transferred to another world, I was keeping an eye on the stone statue, but I didn't say, "I put it in place!," an attitude like "hook him up w" didn't even see the shards.
It was just pale.
I was horrified and convinced again.
Yeah, this guy, he said he wasn't going to fool you.
And my vision turned dark.