As I tried to return to reality, Nagano God stopped me.
Anyone who gets in my way, I’ll crush them.
“Crowbar Chop!!”
My signature move that has sent countless corporate slave monsters into a sea of blood.
I swung with all my might, aiming for the head of that man calling himself a God.
“It’s useless. Here, a ‘Bar’ ‘cannot injure people’.”
“Huh? What are you talking about! A Bar is a historic weapon that has bludgeoned many people to death! Take this!!”
Goin…
“…Huh? What is this?”
I definitely hit him. I even felt the impact of the Bar.
But Nagano God is completely unfazed. Not a single scratch on him.
“Damn it… You…!”
I swung down again and again. I didn’t hold back at all.
But, it’s not that I’m missing; it’s just that no damage is getting through.
At first, I thought it was a Barrier. Or maybe magic defense, or some kind of shield Skill.
But that’s not it.
If I were hitting something hard with the Bar, there should be recoil in my arm.
But it doesn’t hurt, nor does it go numb. I’m hitting him, yet I’m not hitting him.
As ridiculous as that sounds—this strange feeling proved it.
“What, are you done already? Then… it’s my turn.”
Nagano God reached out his hand, his expression blank.
I reflexively tried to defend, swinging my arm.
“Here, ‘you’ ‘cannot guard against my attacks’.”
My arm… stops.
It’s not so much that it stopped, nor was it ‘stopped’ by something.
It was as if it couldn’t move from the very beginning, completely still.
“N… No way…”
Nagano God’s hand grabbed my face.
GASHAAAAAAN!!
My body smashed through the president’s office’s huge glass window and was thrown outside.
This is a skyscraper. In reality, it’s a height you wouldn’t survive.
I’m falling.
Flung into the air, pulled by gravity, straight towards the ground.
I can’t use magic. In this dream, I’m just a normal human.
No flight, no Teleportation. Just falling.
“Now, Nagano-san. You should pray to God. …Cling to God.”
Leaning out of the window, Nagano God looked down at me.
That calm smile. After throwing a frail woman (※by my standards) out the window, what kind of God is he?
“Pray… to God, you say…?!”
Reflexively, I hooked the Bar’s hook onto the window frame.
GARIGARIGARI…!
The sound of the Bar’s metal scraping against the building’s wall echoed, and my body began to decelerate.
“…Shut up…! I am God…! A God doesn’t pray to a God!!”
I clung on desperately, shouting.
“Is that so? Then, ‘you’ ‘cannot hold objects’.”
Suddenly, the Bar slipped from my hand.
Guhn, my body was pulled by gravity once more.
Ah, I’m falling.
“Master! His ability, I’ve figured it out!”
Sinri-tan…! I knew I could count on you!
“His Skill is 【Definition】!”
“Definition…?”
“Yes! It’s a conceptual-type ability. By defining ‘A is B’, he rewrites the very laws of the world!”
So that’s why I couldn’t hit him with the Bar. That’s why I couldn’t hold onto things.
This is the ‘Mental World’ ruled by Nagano God.
Just by him defining things with words, I’m bound by those rules.
I can’t fly or use Teleportation. No one can come to help me.
“Well now, Nagano-san. What will you do? If this continues, you’ll be smashed into the ground and die, you know?”
Even though death was imminent, my heart was strangely calm.
It’s probably because I’m no longer ‘human’.
If I were still human, I would have panicked in this situation.
But now, I’m just thinking calmly.
“It’s over.”
Nagano God’s voice sounded somewhat triumphant.
“…What do you mean, over?”
“…Wha-!?”
He peered out from the window.
His gaze, which should have been looking down on me, was instead being looked up at by me.
I’m alive.
“N-No way… Impossible…!?”
Sutat, Nagano God descended lightly.
He looked down at my body with astonished eyes.
“You fell from such a height… Why is your body unharmed…!?”
Well, if I were human, I would have died.
“Who knows? I wonder why.”
…I get it.
I’ve realized it.
In this space ruled by this God, the way for me to win.
This battle isn’t one where we injure each other’s bodies.
It’s a battle to achieve mental checkmate.
“S-Surrender~!”
“Wrong!”