Welcome to the Special-Grade Guild! ~ The Beloved Elf Poster Girl Soothes Everyone’s Hearts ~
Chapter 136

136. The Little Elf Poster Girl

All sorts of magic, mostly wind-based, were flying around. Schelmelhorn’s blades of wind and tornadoes, the Demon King countering them with a variety of magic, deflecting them, altering their trajectory, sometimes even obliterating them. Neither of them moved from their spots, and they weren’t even out of breath. I’m mentally exhausted just from using magic so many times earlier!

“You should have just rampaged like a proper idiot.”

“Hmph, it’s true that I’m an idiot. I’ll admit that.”

“Ah, because you’re a doting father,” Kron-san, who’d retreated from the front lines after the Demon King’s arrival, muttered with a blank expression. I couldn’t help but to chuckle! What’s with this lack of tension? Schelmelhorn and the Demon King are still battling it out!

But somehow it felt like the Demon King had the upper hand. It was reassuring somehow…

“Well, the fact that you even want that means I have a chance of winning, wouldn’t you say?”

“…What are you saying, you garbage?”

But neither of them could land a decisive blow. The Demon King, with his physical abilities, and Schelmelhorn, with his special ability to read minds, were skillfully dodging and deflecting each other’s attacks.

I wasn’t sure how long it’d been. Time passed, but there was no resolution. Had anything changed in that time?

No!

“There’s no way a person can become a god! You’re the same race you were the moment you were born! You’re acting like a spoiled child!”

“Shut up, brat! You know nothing! Fate can be changed!”

“You’re a sulky High Elf!”

“You’re the sulky one, you oversized worm!”

Their insults were escalating. It was getting… childish, wasn’t it? Everyone else was starting to look fed up.

“You have no right to take away Meg’s future!”

“Hmph! There is no greater happiness than using their powers for my sake!”

Oh? They’re talking about me now.

“She was born with such a high potential. For her to be raised in such a lukewarm environment, to not be able to utilize that ability, there’s no meaning to her existence!”

I could sense jealousy in Schelmelhorn’s words. But I was getting irritated too. Seeing people as tools!

“At this rate, she’ll just become useless! She’s already a good-for-nothing who can’t do anything on her own. Just obey my instructions! You’ll be given food, clothes, you’ll have a comfortable life. There’s no reason to complain!!”

What does he think people are?

“Children should just be grateful that they’re allowed to live!”

“…SHUDDUUUUPPP!!”

I snapped! Everyone stared at me with wide eyes, but I didn’t care!

“I’ve been listening thish whole time, and just who do you think you awe!? A High Elf-shama!? You’re not even a god yet, how can you be sho awrogant!?”

“Wh-Wha…!”

He was speechless, probably because he hadn’t expected me to snap. And my rant continued.

“And I won’t listen to yo patriarch orders, not evah! Even if you capture me, you can just get fwustwated at a disobedient child! High Elves are just… a wittle bit amazing, just wike the other Elves!”

“A little amazing… Elves…”

Kron-san repeated my words, seemingly dazed. The Demon King and Nika-san also looked surprised.

“Thish is what happens when you try to diffewentiate! We don’t need High Elves! I’m fine being an Elf! I’m the wittle Elf, the poster girl of Ortush!”

I said this, my shoulders heaving. That’s right, I’m an Elf. That’s what I’d believed at first. I was able to enter this place because I have High Elf blood, but basically, it’s just because I’m related to the High Elf clan. I was able to enter because I’m a relative. That’s it, right? So I was just recognized as a High Elf. I just have a High Elf surname, and my name is Meg, that’s all.

“And beshides, it’s easier to shay ‘Elf’ than ‘High Elf’…”

Ah, this part’s not important. But it was an important issue to me!

A moment of silence. And then I felt something shaking!? An earthquake!? No, that’s not it. It was Gil-san who was trembling.

“Why are you waughing!?”

He started laughing even more when I asked. He’s surprisingly easy to amuse. Then the Demon King, Kron-san, and Nika-san, seeing him like that, also started laughing out loud. Why!?

“Meg, you’re too much!”

It was the Demon King who said this with a smile on his face. And then, he relaxed and turned towards Schelmelhorn.

“Schelmelhorn, why don’t you stop? Don’t you think it’s absurd? Using a child, us fighting because of it.”

“You call our long-cherished dream absurd!!”

“Not true!”

I couldn’t help but interject. I suddenly remembered a conversation I’d had with Dad.

“Tell me. Why do you want to be a god?”

“…That’s a stupid question. Those of your kind wouldn’t understand, you imbecile.”

Ugh, so stubborn.

“But you can’t be a god without those imbeshiles, can you?”

“…What did you say?”

That’s right. A god is someone who is worshipped. It’s a source of comfort, something that allows people to live peacefully. Dad had told me that when I was a child, when I’d asked those child-like questions about whether or not gods exist. It had made so much sense that I still remember it. So no matter the truth, I still believed it.

“You can’t call yourself a god if people awen’t grateful, if they don’t worship you. If you call yourshelf a god even so, it’s just a name. …Awe you being thanked by those imbeshiles?”

Schelmelhorn frowned, looking incredibly displeased, but he didn’t speak.

“Gods awen’t amazing. They’re just shomeone who people rely on, pray to, shometimes cling to. Just shomething they worship. They’re not beings who can contwol others.”

Honestly, I don’t have any religious faith. I’m a former Japanese atheist. Maybe I’d pray to god if I had a stomachache… that’s about it.

But I do believe in the existence of gods. I believe they exist, but don’t interfere with humans. They probably just watch, as we act on our own will, thinking various things. And maybe they occasionally intervene, or even make mistakes. Ah, the gods in my mind are surprisingly human.

That’s why, even if you became a god, you wouldn’t be able to do anything. If they were omnipotent, everyone, every living creature, would be happy, right? So, so, you know?

“Inshtead of trying to become a god, why don’t you become the person you want to be?”

If the person he wants to be is a dictator who controls people, then it can’t be helped. It would lead to war. But even if it did, I’d try to stop him, even with my limited power. Because I want to become a member of Ortus, someone who makes people smile. Everyone has the right to overcome the obstacles that stand before them.

After hearing the last of what I said, Schelmelhorn was silent for a moment before finally speaking.

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