“D…damn it! ‘You’ ‘cannot breathe’!”
At the same time as Nagano God shouted, the air completely stopped.
The world refused to give me “oxygen.”
This is his Skill, 【Definition】.
The power to twist the laws of the world with a single word.
If you can’t breathe, people die.
In that case, I… should have died.
“So, what about it?”
“Wh-what… Impossible…!? Why aren’t you dead!?”
Heheh, you’re flustered, aren’t you, Nagano God.
“What you defined was only that I ‘cannot breathe.’
You didn’t define ‘dying,’ did you?”
“Impossible!? If you can’t breathe, people are supposed to die!”
“That’s your common sense, isn’t it? It doesn’t apply to me. Now, what will you do next?”
Cold sweat slowly beaded on Nagano God’s forehead.
“A r-road roller… ‘will suddenly appear from above and crush Nagano Mika’!”
DOOOM!!
A road roller fell from the sky—and I was, indeed, crushed.
“This time for sure…!”
“There.”
“Whaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaat!?”
Nagano God’s scream.
Without a doubt, the road roller fell on me.
And yet, I’m perfectly fine like this.
“I-Impossible…!? Why are you alive…!? You should have been crushed…!?”
“That’s right. I was certainly crushed.”
“Then why aren’t you dead!? It’s a road roller, you know!? Even by common sense—”
“I told you, didn’t I? Your ‘common sense’ doesn’t apply to me.”
His ability is the power to define phenomena.
It just rewrites the world to make it “become so.”
But—
“You haven’t defined what happens after that. In other words, the ‘result’ is up to me.”
“G-ghh… Then, how about this! ‘Nagano Mika’ will—’die’!”
At that moment, strength left my body.
My knees buckled, and my vision tilted.
My consciousness, a sensation like it was suddenly dropping—
—I died.
“I did it…! I won…!”
“Who did?”
“Whaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaat!?”
Nagano God’s third scream.
I stood up lightly and brushed the dust off my clothes.
“Why!? I defined you to ‘die,’ didn’t I!? Why are you alive!”
“That’s why, I did die, didn’t I?”
“Huh!? Then why—”
“You didn’t define what happens ‘after’ death, did you?”
Nagano God’s ability is immense.
It’s a Divine Power that overwrites the very principles of the world.
But as long as “what happens after” isn’t defined, the world “returns me to normal.”
“Amazing…! Master is overwhelming Nagano God…! But… but what on earth is the logic behind this!?”
“Even the Omniscient and Omnipotent (Internet) doesn’t understand?”
“Yes! Even for the Omniscient and Omnipotent (Internet) that governs all creation, this situation is unsearchable! This logic is incomprehensible!”
But, Sinri-tan looks a little amused.
“What is this… Incomprehensible… What is this abnormal creature…”
“Hah! There’s no way you could understand! That person isn’t a God or anything! She’s the incarnation of all the absurdity in this world! The ‘Incomprehensible God’!!”
Thanks, Sinri. Whether you’re praising me or making fun of me, it’s a bit ambiguous, though.
“Th-that can’t be…! The rules set by a God are supposed to be absolute…!”
I took one step closer to Nagano God.
His feet took a step back.
“Certainly, with the rules you arbitrarily made, that might be so. But… that’s not ‘everything.'”
Thud, thud, thud, treading firmly on the floor, I approached.
“St-stop it…! ‘Nagano Mika’ will ‘be crushed to death!’ ‘Drown!’ ‘Burn to death!’!”
Rocks fell, water clung around my face, and fire enveloped my body.
—I died many times.
But, each time I died, I came back to life.
As long as there’s no definition for what happens after death, I slip through that blank space and rise again.
That is—me.
“Hiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii! What the hell are yoooooou!? Youuuuuuuuuuuu!!”
I picked up my beloved Bar that had fallen on the ground.
Gripping its handle tightly, I stood before him.
“I am Nagano Mika. Nothing more, nothing less.”
The edge of the Bar pierced straight through the space between his eyebrows.
“Don’t you, a God (you), define me (Kami)!”
With a wet thud, Nagano God collapsed.