The light shining into the room brought my consciousness back.
Since I finally woke up feeling nice for once I didn’t want to hear that piercing sound, so still lying down, I reached out my hand to stop it before it rang.
I tried to grab it from above and press the button on the alarm clock… when a sharp pain at the base of my thumb sent me jumping right up.
“Tss-!?”
When I looked at my pained right hand, I found that at a cut ran vertically down the base of my thumb, and blood was oozing from there.
After looking around the room still confused, I remembered that this wasn’t my room.
Right, I was thrown into another world, and made it to this room.
Mn?
No, I mean, being thrown into another world is off to begin with, or rather it’s beyond a level you can just call ‘feeling off’, but leaving that aside, it feels kind of like last night’s scene was a little different, or rather…
Wai-, black?
Last night when I went to sleep, it was supposed to be just a simple wooden bed, with white sheets and a white blanket.
No, but the room seems to be the same as the room that I fell asleep in last night.
Still unable to process the situation, the knife from before entered my vision.
I put it away in my item box, but because of the curse of being unable to unequip it, it probably flew out while I was sleeping.
While licking my wound, I was at a loss as to what I would do from now on.
Having remembered about the knife, I realised what had probably happened with the bed as well.
There might have been a voice just like the time with the knife and robe, but unfortunately I was sleeping and apparently missed it.
In other words────
“I’ve done it now.”
Because of the skill, it seems that I accidentally demonically remodelled the bed.
It’s become luxurious, so I wonder if they might forgive me.
Despite running into trouble first thing in the morning, I put on my robe and shoes.
Let’s just deal with it later.
After having breakfast I left the inn.
My goals are two places; the Adventurers Guild and the church.
I don’t have any intention of proactively going on adventures, but it seems like various things will get annoying without ID after all, and I want to maintain a way of earning money too.
I experienced trouble this morning too, but I really would like to hurry up and get rid of the curses on this robe and knife.
Since the curse really exists, I think there should exist a method to dispel it too after all, and even if the church can’t do it, if I talk to them about my problems they’ll probably teach me how to approach it.
A helping hand to the lost lambs.
The church was apparently somewhat closer to the inn, so I’ll head there first.
Turning left at the central plaza, I walked northwards along the road that intersected the east-west road.
That’s probably the estate of the lord of this town.
I arbitrarily had the image of ‘church = cross’ but thinking about it carefully, that’s only limited to the Christians of my old world, and the churches of this world have no crosses.
Benches were lined up, and there was a podium further in, and a person who appeared to be a priest was currently preaching.
Enshrined inside was a divine looking statue of a goddess, and people were sitting on the benches and offering prayers towards that statue.
Mn, there’s no mistake that this is the church.
With lightened steps, I headed towards the entrance and went through that do-…MIGYAH-!?
The moment I tried to head through the door I collided face-first into the invisible wall that was there.
Taking a staggered step backwards because of the impact I took to the face, in front of me was a crack in space.
Finding it strange, I timidly gave it a poke, when the crack widened from where my finger was, and with a light -pan- sound, something that was surrounding the church ruptured and disappeared.
“Ah.”
Could this possibly be that? A barrier or something?
And moreover, with just a light poke it so easily broke too.
When I happened to glance that way, I found that everybody in the church was looking at me, frozen up.
Um~mm, I think that the possibility of the barrier breaking is only at a ‘not completely non-existent’ level, but I realised that from an outsider’s point of view, it looked like I had obviously destroyed the barrier.
Now that it’s come to this────
“… … … … … … …Strategic retreat.”
I desperately made a smile, and tilted my head in confusion before quickly leaving the scene.
I don’t hear any screaming behind me, I don’t hear any screaming behind me.
Frantically putting my hood back on, I decided to take a breather at a cafe by the plaza.
While sipping the black tea I ordered, I thought about what just happened.
I’m a human, and not a devil or anything… Wai-, is this because of the 『Child of the Evil God』 titlee!?
Do people with this title get treated as non-humans? So troublesome.
Like I thought, I really do want to give that evil god a punch.
With things as they are, it would probably be better not to go near the church for now.
It seems that for now I have no choice but to give up on the curse removal as well.
While drinking my black tea, I let out a deep sigh.