284 Downfall of the Kingdom

The pope of the Divine Word Religion has made a personal proclamation. The contents of which are that Prince Yuugo of the Rengzand Empire has been selected as the new Hero.

Almost simultaneously with that proclamation, the finishing touches in the Kingdom are being carried out. Natsume-kun has done a good job. Using brainwashing on the reincarnators, except on Yamada-kun and sensei, hes taken possession of Ooshima-kun and Hasebe-san, and has already seized part of the Kingdom. Furthermore, by using deceitful words to fool the first prince and the queen who are obsessed with the throne, hes managed to bring them over to his side. It seems that Potimas had unwittingly induced the current king to have Yamada-kun become the next king. The first prince and the queen were easily won over when it was put to them that if the kings plans are carried out then theyd never take the throne.

All the preparations are in order. Just in case, vampire girl and I are on standby in the Kingdom, but unless some highly irregular situation occurs then I have no intention of getting involved. Unless it seems like one of the reincarnators is about to die, or something like that, then Ill simply watch over the developments.

Muhahah. At last. At last I will be able to scare the hell out of them!

Natsume-kun, disguised as one of the first princes guards, has a wicked smile plastered on his face. Next to him, is imouto-chan with a somewhat vacant expression.

Since half-way through, imouto-chan has been brainwashed by Natsume-kun. While imouto-chan might not have been aware of just how serious the situation was at the start, she gradually became aware that what they were doing was to overthrow her own native country, the Kingdom. Furthermore, completing that would result in the deaths of many people amongst the higher-ups within the Kingdom, including her own father the king. While she might be a yandere with her explosive love for her nii-sama, its not like thats completely blown away all her common sense either. Theres no way that she wouldnt realise what the effects of everything thats shes doing will have on her beloved nii-sama. Therefore, before she fully realised all that, I had Natsume-kun brainwash her. If she had been left fully conscious then theres no telling when she would get in our way after all.

Besides, this way, even after shes returned to being fully conscious, the pretense of her being brainwashed has been established. Isnt this a delicious situation for her where she can even be saved from the evil influence of brainwashing by her nii-sama? How moving that would be. Ill have nothing to do with what happens after that though. Go have your emotional scars soothed by your beloved nii-sama. Although I might have instigated it, she did half of it by her own will. Afterwards, even if she regrets what shes done its no concern of mine.

Well then? What should I do?

Vampire girl, who I brought with me, is showing signs of having too much time on her hands. So far she has contributed by using Charm on the higher-ups within the Empire and also on the soldiers in the Kingdom, but she has nothing to do in the main event. Ah, wait.

Go kill Potimas.

Taking advantage of the disturbance, Ill have her kill Potimas who is in the Kingdom. From what I could see the Potimas here isnt a cyborg or anything like that anyway, so getting rid of him should be simple. If she has nothing to do, its better to have her kill time by killing him.

Got it.

Vampire girl acknowledged, and left to kill Potimas. Yeah. Feel free to go wild to your hearts content.

Vampire girl has been quite lively recently. It seems that she was approached about a deal by the pope from the Divine Word Religion, and since accepting that shes been having this creepy looking grin on her face from time to time. On top of that, shes started referring to the pope as oji-sama as well, so Ive become worried that maybe shes finally gone mental. According to Mera theres nothing to worry about so Ive let her be as she is. I was even told that since you are going to leave ojou-sama behind it is nothing to do with you, so I was completely denied from getting involved any further. Somehow Im feeling a little sad.

I saw vampire girl off, and Natsume-kun went away looking euphoric, leaving me to just watch over the sequence of events. Im in a room inside the castle, elegantly treating myself to some tea. Incidentally, theres no problem if I intake the caffeine contained within the tea. After I collapsed when drinking coffee previously, I went over to the Earth and tried to investigate, and found that spiders get drunk when they drink coffee. Thats caused by the caffeine contained within the coffee, but in my case it seems that Im reacting not to the caffeine itself but coffee that contains caffeine. When I timidly drank some decaffeinated coffee nothing happened. Similarly, nothing happens when I drink tea that contains caffeine. It makes me think what the fuck, but theres nothing I can do about it. Ive no choice but to give up and just consider it to be part of my specifications.

While thinking about such inconsequential things, using fluoroscopy and my clones I observe the farce thats unfolding throughout the castle. Yamada-kun and imouto-chan arrive together at the kings chambers, then imouto-chan murders the king. Picking their moment, the first prince and his guards rush in. Natsume-kun, who was intermingling with those guards, the slashes right at Yamada-kun at the first princes orders. Natsume-kuns sword cuts through Yamada-kuns sword, then the follow-up strike wounds Yamada-kun. Naturally, the sword that Natsume-kun has is one of oni-kuns best magic swords. No matter how famous a sword Yamada-kun has, it cant even defend.

Having sustained a wound and being in a bad state of affairs, Yamada-kun faces a critical moment. Being very pleased about that, Natsume-kun starts revealing everything as a final farewell gift. Though saying that, he doesnt mention the relationship between me and the Divine Word Religion.

Then, with perfect timing to stop things, sensei bursts in. Yamada-kun is saved by a hairs breadth, then flees. Naturally, for sensei to be able to save Yamada-kun with such timing, is due to me manipulating things behind the scenes. Sensei doesnt know about that.

Its over.

Just then, vampire girl returned. In her hand, shes taken hold of Potimass head. Just the head by itself. It seems that he was successfully put to death.

Thanks for all your hard work.

When I said so, for some reason the head was presented to me. What? To eat? Well, if youve giving it to me then Ill take it though.

Hows things?

The first stage of the farce is over.

As planned, Yamada-kun has hightailed it out from the castle. Theres now one more stage to clear, which is to have him hightail it out from the royal capital. After that is up to Yamada-kun to decide what to do.

Authors note: this covers S20 Fall.

Translation notes:

Oji-sama in Elf Village Battle , Sophia refers to the pope as Dustin-oji-sama. Shiro refers to him as an ojii-sama (grandfather) at times but Sophia uses oji-sama (uncle). Maybe Shiro is mentally adding some age to him because hes a serial reincarnator?

As the author notes, this chapter covers the behind the scenes of S20 Fall. The word used for fall in S20 is similar to that used in the title of this chapter, so I deliberately used downfall to keep it similar in the translation.