The Young Princess Kills Everyone: Re
In this world, there was a sea where numerous ‘worlds’ floated in.
There were countless worlds there, not calculable using any human digits.
The so-called ‘parallel worlds’ or ‘alternate dimensions’ were included in these.
There was a presence continually increasing the number of these worlds.
People called them the ‘Great Will’.
They did not know their official name; they simply named them as such.
No one ever met them.
But they certainly knew that they existed, and had that their goal was to make more worlds.
At one point, the Great Will noticed something.
The number of worlds was increasing on its own without their interference.
It happened when intelligent life on a certain world reached a certain level of civilization.
Using a means of expression that followed as an extension of things like plays and novels, they conducted ‘world creation’.
The Great Will noticed the possibilities with this phenomenon and created a certain world as an experiment.
The intelligent life in that world was instinctually striving towards ‘making more worlds’.
This was thought of as the greatest joy, and those who could not birth a world entrusted their hopes to the next generation as they established their offspring……
♢♢♢
The male teacher gave a passionate speech to the students after writing on the blackboard.
“This is the meaning of our lives as humanity. You’re now going off to study in middle school and try to enter the God Guidance Academy. However, even one person from this class enrolling there would be a big deal. Most humans will live worthless lives without even being God candidates.”
The students listening to him seemed bored.
This attitude fired the teacher up even more.
“There’s been a lot of people recently who claim that there are other meanings to life than to become a God, but that’s very long. Listen, humans are born to become gods. Understand that all other ways of life are equally meaningless! Only a loser would think that they can be forgiven if they give birth to offspring instead!”
He continued his passionate lesson without a breath until the bell rang.
♢♢♢
The students sighed when the class came to an end.
A young girl resting her chin on her hand in the corner of the classroom was one of them.
She had a characteristic black twin tail, and was sharply glaring at the teacher as he vanished into the corridor.
“They’ll send you to student counseling again if you look at teachers like that, Mitis.”
The young girl named Mitis looked at the owner of the voice she heard.
Long blonde hair.
A beauty that could be mistaken for that of a Goddess.
With her courteous tone of voice and conduct included, she was elegant enough to be mistaken for a princess.
She was wearing the same uniform as everyone else, but even that looked like the dress of a princess.
“You say that, Luno, but I know everyone would like a word or two with him.”
Luno reservedly laughed at Mitis’s remark that showed no remorse.
Then, another girl suddenly came up behind Luno.
She had light brown hair with springy tips, skin slightly tanned from club activities, and large and bright eyes. Her outward appearance gave her almost a dog-like aura of friendliness.
“Ahahaha, you always disliked people like that, Mitis.”
“Don’t you hate him too, Ceres?”
“Well…… No comment.”
“Silence means affirmation.”
“Yes, I am the Silent Emperor.”
“I don’t get it.”
“Don’t think…… Feel it!”
Ceres opened her eyes wide and Mitis nudged her side with her index finger.
“Hnnnyyah! That’s not what ‘feeling it’ means!”
Mitis was fed up with Ceres who writhed in a little pleasure and glared at her with scornful eyes.
Luno smiled at their exchange.
“You and Ceres are really good friends, huh Mitis?”
“We made a promise for the future together.”
“Who!?”
“Ah, sorry. I guess Luno is your promised future, right?”
“N-No! That’s not what I meant!”
“Hehehe, I have space for two people in my future.”
“So I’m in too……”
“You should be grateful for Luno’s kindness.”
“Why are you acting like the victor, Mitis!?”
The three made noise and frolicked about.
It was a daily scene that had been going on for many years.
Mitis Pulvia.
Luno Aplix.
And Ceres Sanctus.
The three were childhood friends and wanted to be together forever.
They were sure that would be the case.
Until that time, at least.
♢♢♢
After school, when the oppressive homeroom by that annoying teacher ended, Mitis took her bag and walked out with Luno and Ceres.
“You two wanna hang out?”
The two seemed troubled after Mitis’s invitation.
“I’m sorry, I have cram school today.”
“I have cram school after club activities. Sorry.”
“I see…… I guess there’s no helping it.”
“Why don’t you come to cram school too?”
“I don’t have money.”
“Wanna join our club?”
“I’d have to buy tools and stuff, right? And I don’t think I’m very sports-oriented anyway.”
“But you’re so compatible with me!?”
“Me? You’re the reason I don’t wanna join.”
“So meaaan! Hnnnh, comfort me with your soft boobs, Luno!”
Ceres leaped into Luno’s chest.
Then she took advantage of the confusion and groped Luno’s breasts.
“Hyah, this is wrong! Please stop her Mitis!”
“……I think I like that face.”
“Why are you cooperating with her now!?”
For a moment, the thought ‘maybe I should grope her too’ crossed Mitis’s mind, but she shook it off and stopped Ceres.
She wanted to continue this foolish exchange forever, but it was time.
Mitis saw Luno off as her parents came to pick her up, and left the school.
The familiar lonely way back home.
The red sunset she was tired of seeing.
Because of club activities or cram school, the three were having fewer and fewer chances to walk home together since entering middle school.
They had a good relationship.
But just wishing for things to stay the same did not change anything.
Normally, Mitis would go straight home when she had to walk home alone.
But now, she went out of her way to make pointless detours.
She stopped by a book shop, did her homework in the library, walked around a shopping mall nearby by herself, and finally browsed magazines in a nearby convenience store to kill some time.
After buying as much time as possible, Mitis went home.
“……I’m home.”
She spoke quietly and took her shoes off in the dim entrance.
There was no welcome.
She heard the sound of the television and the laughter of a crude man from the living room.
Mitis hesitated for a moment and stopped.
“Hey Mitis, why don’t you show your face!?”
The man seemed to have noticed her return and angrily yelled.
Mitis accepted this and entered the room.
She met eyes with the man sitting on the couch trying to look important and cool.
And her mom with the face of a woman was between his arms.
They were flirting in the room that smelled of tobacco, without caring about their daughter.
“Make some food if you’re back. We’re busy.”
“There’s probably something in the fridge, Mitis. Go make something.”
Mitis stood still on the spot and looked at the man with a blank expression on her face.
“What’s with the face……? Is that the face you make for your future father!?”
An empty beer can flew at her.
It hit Mitis’s forehead, and she pushed on her forehead while making a wry face.
“Tsch, I hope that doesn’t scar your face. Hey, stop just standing around and make some damn food! This girl’s hungry too! Right?”
“Mhm, I’m hungry. Please, Mitis.”
There was no telling what would happen if she disobeyed them any further.
Mitis had no choice but to obey.
She would be beaten again if they realized that she ate alone before coming home, so she made food for three.
Though the only things in the fridge were alcohol and side dishes.
She could not create a grand menu, but she read books in the bookstore for times like this.
She would not have to get hurt as much if she did well.
She would still get hurt, but she learned to cook better if it meant she would get hurt less – she hated herself for following such negative reasoning.
♢♢♢
A few days after that, during lunch break at school.
Mitis pushed her table and ate together with Luno and Ceres.
“Wow, you have a handmade lunch box today, Mitis!”
“I’ve been thinking, Mitis. You don’t look like it, but you’re actually pretty good at cooking, huh?”
“I’m not gonna give you any, Ceres.”
“So heartless!”
“Hehehe, I’ll take Ceres’s share too then.”
“Stop it Luno. It’s weird to assume that we’ll get any in the first place!”
“I’m sure she made extra to give us.”
“Yeah. Because that’s how kind Mitis is.”
“Hnnnh! Sorry Lady Mitis, please find it in your heart to bless me too!”
Mitis realized how comforting the conversations between these two were for her.
Without them, she would already have been crushed a long time ago.
This was why she went out of her way to wake up early and make a box lunch.
She did not want to be improving her cooking skills for her mother and her mother’s boyfriend.
She wanted to keep telling herself that it was only for Luno and Ceres.
♢♢♢
Mitis’s mother was never the type to stay with one man for long.
So she did not know much about her own father.
There was already another man around her when Mitis was old enough to remember things.
She did not want to admit this, but her mother was beautiful, and had a personality that was popular with men.
And for better or worse, she was easily influenced.
Her sense of fashion, hair, and even character changed depending on the tastes of the man she dated.
One could say that this was quite the supreme power for someone living in this world.
Only a small fraction of people had anything to do with world creation as a god.
The others only lived to make offspring.
Though Mitis’s mother was having a hard time getting her next one after giving birth to Mitis.
Meanwhile, such a creature seemed like an amorphous monster from Mitis’s point of view.
The fact that she was a kind mother who thought of her child only when she was not dating anyone made Mitis feel this way even more.
“Hey mother, I need some advice.”
“What?”
“I wanna go to cram school.”
For example, what if Mitis said something like that to her mother?
If her mother did not have a boyfriend, she would happily let her go.
But what about now?
“Hahahahahaha, a stupid girl like this going to cram school? That’s never gonna happen!”
“C’mon, don’t call her stupid. Hmm, why do you wanna go to cram school?”
“I think…… I wanna try to make it into the God Guidance Academy.”
Mitis was very serious.
“Gahahahahahahahaha!”
The man laughed.
“Heh, hehehe, hnnhehehehe!”
Then, her mother laughed too.
Almost as if trampling Mitis’s hopes.
“There’s no way you can go. If this woman’s an idiot, then you gotta be one too! Don’t waste time trying to look cool and studying, just think about flirting with men. That’s the goal of every human. Hey, you think so too, right?”
“Mhm, I think so too. Sorry Mitis, it won’t happen.”
“……Okay.”
She was not even disappointed.
Because Mitis was already at the bottom.
There was no more space to fall.
She could not even crawl back up after coming to the very bottom like this.
Perhaps she could do something to at least turn her minus into a zero.
She had one idea when she thought about that.
♢♢♢
There were around 30 students in each class in middle school.
Among them, Luno was always 1st place.
Ceres was 4th, thanks to her personality and love of sports.
On the other hand, Mitis was 24th.
Even lower than average.
But the teacher did not worry about her or try to help her.
Despite this, she studied in the library as much as she could after school.
She felt cooped up and hopeless.
Where could she go?
Who could she become?
She had only one guidepost; Luno and Ceres.
But those two also gradually drifted away.
No, perhaps they were always closer to her than anyone else, but also farther than anyone else as well.
Luno’s older brother was chosen as a god.
So their family was affluent, and both parents were enthusiastic about raising their daughter to become a god as well.
As for Ceres’s family, she was normal, but they were rich in their own way.
So their house had all the training tools and she was going to a good cram school.
It was actually rather strange that those two were associating with someone as hopeless as Mitis.
♢♢♢
“Mitis! What happened to your face!?”
“H-Hey, that’s no joke!”
One morning, Luno and Ceres were surprised when they saw Mitis after coming to school and rushed over to her.
Her face had a distinct bruise.
“Ignore it, I just tripped and fell.”
A lie.
She was beaten up by that man.
Her body was also full of bruises after it got trampled.
When she started to writhe in pain, her mother also joined in and roared with laughter.
She endured this hell for many hours in the room filled with the smell of tobacco and something strange.
But, she was a little happy.
If she could die like this, then she could become a zero.
And those two would be judged.
She had a little consideration for her mother, but it was good enough if she could get revenge and salvation at the same time.
“Mitis……”
Luno squeezed Mitis’s hands tight as her eyes teared up.
She looked at her face up close, and Mitis thought to herself again: ‘She’s beautiful.’
“Don’t look at me like that, it’s a pathetic story.”
“……Things aren’t going well with your parents, are they?”
“What makes you think that?”
“Because you stopped talking about your home a while ago.”
Luno was quiet, but she got very sharp now and then.
Indeed, Mitis was relatively fond of her mother when she was not dating a man, so her name came up during their talks now and then.
Luno and Mitis were childhood friends for many years, after all.
“Talk to me if it hurts. There’s gotta be something we can do too.”
Ceres was also serious, which was unlike her, and showed concern for Mitis.
Mitis unnaturally scratched her head, and:
“Hmm, but it’s really not a big deal.”
She brushed it off with a clumsy performance.
She then slid her hand away from Luno’s and smiled.
“I just fell, but people are worrying about my family environment? I guess I gotta reflect on my actions.”
She added excuses on top of excuses.
She did not want such wonderful friends to worry about an insignificant person like herself.
She felt a sense of duty to make sure they did not trouble themselves for such a worthless human being.
After all that, neither Luno nor Ceres could poke their nose in any further.
It was just the one time, so maybe she really just fell.
That’s what they had to believe.
♢♢♢
There was an unpleasant smell in the air when Mitis came home.
It was a faintly sweet, and unfamiliar smell.
“I told you I don’t like it either! I don’t wanna stay in this place. I can get what’s coming to me when I make my next child, right?”
“Didn’t I tell you I hate brats? And it’s a nuisance, you ain’t gonna get any real money by giving birth to some brat! And do you really wanna make more idiots like yourself!?”
“Sorry I’m stupid, don’t you want money?”
“Of course I want moooney! Aaaaaahahahahaha!”
She heard the two laughing before she entered the living room.
There was no articulation in their conversation, and it was incoherent.
Mitis felt her face stiffen.
She had a faint idea of what her mother and the man were doing, but she could not make any excuses now after seeing it vividly like this.
“I’m home……”
Her voice shook and the two looked over at her.
Her mother stood up.
Her pupils were dilated, and she approached Mitis with tottering unsteady steps.
“Welcoooome……!”
She snuggled into Mitis and hugged her.
Mitis reflexively staggered.
There was a pipe on the table.
The smell of sweat and something sweet drifted from her mother.
Mitis got nauseous and reflexively thrusted her mother away.
“Aaaagh! Agh…… Ouch…… Oouuuuch! Aaaaaggh!”
“Ah, no, I didn’t mean to-!”
“What the fuck are you doing you biiiiiitch!?”
The man took the remote controller from the table and threw it at Mitis.
She could not react in time and it hit her head.
Her forehead got cut and bled.
“Uuugh….. I-I’m sorry, I’m sorry!”
Mitis’s body froze up in fear and she crouched down.
The man came up to her and kicked her over and over again.
“You’ve always been a nuisance, why were you even born? You’re such a damn nuisance! She’s a good girl, but yoooou! You look halfway like her so the face of another man glimmers in yooooours!”
A sane human being probably could not shout like this.
(I’m the one who wants to ask why I was born……)
She seriously thought this way.
She would rather die than be involved in something like this.
Then, her mother who was sobbing on the ground, grabbed the man’s feet.
“Stop it, those feet should only step on me, right?”
“Huh? You wanna be stepped on? You fucking bitch!”
“Uhih, hihihihi!”
“You gave birth to such a fucking idiot! Piece of shit! Trash!”
“Ahahahaha, hihihihiahahaha!”
A monster resembling her mother, who was overjoyed each time the man stepped on her.
Mitis took this opportunity to crawl away on all fours and flee into a corner of the room.
She held her knees, closed her eyes and curled herself up.
“Let it end…… Let it end already…… I’m begging you……!”
She suddenly opened the bag that was still hanging from her shoulder and put her hand in.
There was a letter placed in an envelope.
It was a very important strategy of survival for Mitis.
She felt braver when she held it.
That day, she simply waited for this hellish night to be over without getting a wink of sleep.
♢♢♢
Mitis did not go to school the next day.
She left home and went to the front of the school building, but she did not want to enter and make Luno and Ceres worry.
On weekday mornings, at the hours where there were not even people commuting to work, she sat on a bench alone in a public park.
She had no place to be.
She just wanted to disappear.
Then, she heard footsteps.
Two people. Out of breath.
She looked up.
She saw Luno and Ceres, sweaty, standing in front of her.
“Ahh, ahh…… Here you are……”
“Good grief, you really worried us. Pheew……”
“What are you two doing here?”
She figured it was a foolish question.
She only asked this because she wanted so badly not to hear the words ‘we were worried about you’.
However, the question also showed the hidden side of her true feelings.
“Obviously because we were worried about you!”
“It’s almost like you were telling us to worry about you when you stopped coming to school the next day after you had that face!”
Mitis was happy from the bottom of her heart when she heard them say that.
Luno and Ceres hugged her from both sides.
“Something really happened at home, didn’t it?”
“Please tell us, please. There’s gotta be something we can do!”
“……That doesn’t matter. I don’t want to cause trouble.”
“I’m telling you I want you to cause trouble!”
Luno shouted in a loud voice, which was rare for her.
Mitis reflexively opened her eyes and stared at her.
Her eyes were moist with tears, and looked even more beautiful than usual.
“You’re not trouble! We’re with you because we want to support you! That’s the special thing between us all!”
“I’m always joking around too, but it’s only because I want you and Luno to laugh! If there’s anyone getting in the way of your smile, I’m always ready to beat them up!”
“You guys……”
Grades or the affluence of her family did not matter.
She understood their feelings.
That was precisely why she did not want to trouble them.
But, that thinking only ended up hurting Luno and Ceres more.
To be brave is not to endure.
Asking for help is also another form of bravery.
“Will you…… help me……?”
Mitis squeezed the words out.
Tears spilled from her red eyes.
“Obviously!”
“Of course!”
The two answered while they cried.
They did not know how to save her yet, but Mitis already felt saved from their words alone.
♢♢♢
After that, Mitis, Luno and Ceres first decided to calm down.
Because they could not think properly when they were so full of emotion.
Then, they sat next to each other on the bench again, and Luno and Ceres listened to Mitis’s story.
“My mother really gets influenced by the man she dates. She’s always been like that, but it’s really bad this time. She’s looking and acting more and more pretentious, and she barely talks to me now……”
“So she’s ignoring how her boyfriend is being violent with you too?”
“But how!? Your face is scarred so badly!”
“Thanks for being angry for me, Ceres. I’ve been getting hit and kicked around for a while, but he usually went for spots that could be hidden under my uniform.”
Luno suddenly lifted Mitis’s uniform when she heard that.
“Hey, Luno!?”
There were countless bruises and burn marks.
Luno bit her lips and shook with anger.
“This is…… Mitis……. This is……!”
She started to cry again and hugged Mitis tight.
“Ahahaha, I’m fine. It doesn’t hurt any more.”
“That’s not the problem! How can he hurt you like that……? I’ll never, never forgive him for this!”
“Yeah. The problem is how to pull you away from them.”
“You’ll stay over at my place for now.”
“I think the police will get involved if I don’t get permission, though.”
Mitis helplessly pointed this out.
“I don’t like mentioning this, but…… My parents have some say with the police.”
“Oh, because your brother became a god!”
A god’s parents also possessed a suitable level of authority.
Due to religious faith, even the police hesitated when opposing such people.
“Wait a bit. That would cause trouble for you, Luno!”
“But we can’t be picky about our methods. You’re going to stay at my house.”
“……Are you sure?”
“I would never say no to that.”
“Yeah. Thank you so much, Luno.”
“I’ll stay with you too. I’ll beat them up if they try anything!”
Ceres did some shadow boxing.
Mitis finally smiled when she saw that.
“I wish there was another way, though. Maybe we should ask for advice about the abuse first?”
“That’s a good idea. But…… I think that will take time.”
“……Ah.”
“Mitis, is there anything on your mind?”
“Umm…… Well……”
Mitis remembered the pipe on the table and the peculiar smell in the room.
She did not understand what it was for the previous day, but considering how strangely her mother and the man were acting……
The police would probably make a move if Luno asked her parents for help.
The abuse was not visible at first, but things escalated and her face was hurt as well now.
Also considering that they were using the medicine out in the open in the living room, they were getting careless now.
It would not be hard to arrest them.
But that would turn Mitis’s mother into a criminal.
Could she really do something like that, even if it was to ensure her own physical safety?
“Tell me, Mitis. We’re like family.”
“She’s right. If you want…… I’ll even ask my dad and mom to adopt you!”
“Adopt……? Does that mean I’d join your family, Luno?”
“Yes, we’d officially be a family!”
She would be so happy if that happened.
But it was definitely not an easy thing to do.
Even for the family of a god.
But Luno’s eyes were serious, and they told Mitis that she would do anything to make it happen.
She thought that perhaps it would be possible.
Most of all, her mother would end up breaking if this continued.
Perhaps it was better to have a chance at adjusting things, rather than to let things fall down to the point of no return.
Mitis made her decision.
“It would be wonderful if I could really get adopted.”
“Then please tell me, Mitis.”
“I feel the same way as well. I can’t do as much as Luno, but still……”
“I definitely understand how you feel too, Ceres. I get it….. Okay, I’ll talk.”
She told the two everything she saw.
Naturally, Luno had to do something after she heard Mitis’s story.
She immediately called her parents.
♢♢♢
Things moved quickly after that.
The drugs used by Mitis and her boyfriend were seized on the spot and they were taken away by the police.
Her mother looked at Mitis, and perhaps finally noticing what she had done, collapsed crying on the spot.
Mitis also had tears in her eyes.
There was more bad than good, but she still loved her mother.
While the judgment on the two progressed, Mitis stayed in Luno’s home – the Aplix family’s house.
The talks of her adoption also moved ahead.
Luno’s parents accepted it surprisingly easily, and prepared to take Mitis in as their own child.
The proceedings continued while Mitis talked to her mother in prison with letters and visits.
As for her-
“I’m sorry, I have no right to call myself a mother any more. I hope you’ll be happy in Luno’s home……”
She said that and apologized to Mitis over and over again.
Mitis wanted to tell her mother that she was her mother even if her personality had changed, but she never managed to put it into words.
Each time she tried, the image of her mother high on drugs and laughing came up in her mind.
And a few months later, Mitis abandoned the Pulvia surname.
She was born again as Mitis Aplix.
They were step siblings, but now that Mitis and Luno were sisters, Mitis eagerly anticipated their new days together, with happiness and embarrassment making her heart beat louder.
Mitis was confused during her new life in an affluent household, but her new days with her kind parents, beloved sister and childhood friend were fulfilling.
She also started going to the cram school she wanted, and she honestly did not like studying that much, but her grades started going up.
Ceres quit her club when they started their third year, and the three childhood friends started studying together more often.
And miraculously, they all managed to make it into the God Guidance Academy.
Mitis, Luno and Ceres celebrated like happy kids.
The people around them also gave them heartfelt congratulations.
Their new life in the God Guidance Academy began.
This path led them on a certain path towards destruction.