I Will Buy Divine Power With Money! - Chapter 1

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What on earth is going on here.

Age 34 at death. Died in the line of duty from a criminal’s knife while on pursuit.

Having died at such a young age, I should have departed to heaven with this glorious title, full of dreams and hopes…

“You stupid thing, I said you were lacking, but did you decide to become truly deficient?”

Where did heaven go, and why is there a middle-aged man hurling insults at me upon first meeting?

Is this supposed to be my heaven?

“I told you that even if you die, you must die at Daesinjeon, yet you keep returning to the clan like this? What will it take for you to come to your senses!”

Bang!

The middle-aged man who had been spouting incomprehensible words struck the dining table violently.

The lavish food arranged before the man trembled.

So the place I’m in right now seems like a restaurant…

A chandelier hanging from the ceiling, a long dining table covered with white cloth. Antique candlesticks.

Aren’t these all things you’d only see in movies?

Even the man cursing at me and the people watching from behind were wearing fancy formal wear and dresses.

Is this the afterlife, or some early modern romance fantasy world?

“I can no longer tolerate your recklessness. Drag that thing out immediately, lock it in a room, and don’t give it even a sip of water! And tomorrow morning, as soon as the sun rises, chase it straight to Daesinjeon!”

Well, at least I know this isn’t heaven.

Before I could even process this new revelation, some women grabbed both my arms and dragged me away.

“Ah, wait!”

Crash!

…Huh? What?

Setting aside whether this maid outfit I’m wearing is cosplay or not…

Why am I being dragged away so easily? And by women who don’t even seem that strong…?

This can’t be right?

Does death come with muscle loss too?

“Really kills my appetite.”

A sneer fell upon me as I stood frozen in this confusing situation. It was a young man seated before luxurious food.

“Do I have to see your face even here? There’s no place for you in this spot, so get lost quickly, Ordel.”

Despite the insolent behavior of this guy who looked much younger than me, I couldn’t say anything.

Ordel, Ordel, Ordel.

What is this familiar yet ominous name?

Why are they calling me that as if it were my name…?

Beep.

【Greetings. User ■■■! I am an AI system that manages dimensions.】

Then a strange window appeared before my dazed eyes.

Like those System Message windows you usually see when playing games…

【You are currently possessed in the world of 【Sacred Idella】. From today, User ■■■’s name is ‘Ortel Kiris’.】

【I will wholeheartedly assist you for a smooth possession experience. Please treat me well.】

“What is this now…”

This is bullshit.

I naturally expected to go to heaven and closed my eyes peacefully…

But without my consent, my second life arbitrarily began.

What the hell, give me back my heaven.

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I was a civil servant.

More precisely, I was a police officer who caught bad guys.

Low pay, and when a case broke, overtime was standard.

Sometimes I had to do undercover work for months, a detective for whom work-life balance was nowhere to be found even if you searched with your eyes washed.

My only comfort was web novels.

Because even I, who found it hard to spend time with others due to irregular lifestyle patterns, could easily enjoy them.

【Sacred Idella】 was the novel I loved most.

“…But I think I’m going to hate it now.”

【Sacred Idella】 is a romance fantasy novel about a female protagonist who becomes a saint and saves the world.

Did I possess the female protagonist?

As if.

Someone who commits all sorts of evil deeds around her, jealous of the much more successful female protagonist, and torments her like crazy.

Eventually facing backlash and being executed by the male leads!

The trashy villain that typically appears in romance fantasy novels!

I possessed ‘Ortel Kiris’.

“Even the family relationships are the worst.”

They were saying so much to Ordel that I wondered if this was an enemy’s house.

Surprisingly, this was Ordel’s family home.

Moreover, the middle-aged man who just gave the thunderbolt order to starve me was her father, Count Kiris.

Ordel was the scapegoat of the Kiris Household.

You can tell just by looking at this room where I was dragged and locked up.

An attic room located in a corner where sunlight doesn’t properly enter.

Dust piled up everywhere.

Furniture clearly gnawed by mice and blankets with yellow stains still remaining.

If you were to pick the character you’d least want to possess in 【Sacred Idella】, Ordel would proudly take first place.

“But why did I have to possess Ordel of all people!”

Beep.

【The AI system has received your question.】

When I struck the floor with my fist in frustration, some notification sound rang and a System Message window appeared before my eyes.

I immediately grabbed this damn window.

【Your soul broke through the extremely slim probability of 0.00018% and was chosen as an apostle by this world’s sun god, leading to your possession.】

Perfect number for cursing.

So are you asking me to curse right now?

【Originally, we intended to reincarnate you, but the sun god who brought you to this world was a bit lacking, so we had no choice but to possess you into an already existing body.】

“Lacking?”

What, the sun god’s intelligence?

【Correction. The sun god’s divine power is currently far too lacking to completely reincarnate you.】

【And this is why the sun god called you to this world.】

Alright, let me hear this.

What grand reason could there be to arbitrarily intercept a good soul destined for heaven.

【【Quest】 Please save the ‘Sun That Crawled Out of Death’!

Currently, the ‘Sun That Crawled Out of Death’ is in danger of extinction due to insufficient followers.

Become a saint who inherited the power of the ‘Sun That Crawled Out of Death’, increase the number of followers, build divine power, and save the pitiful god and world from extinction!

Success Reward: Wealth, honor, and power as a saint

Failure Penalty: Eternal extinction of the ‘Sun That Crawled Out of Death’ and dimensional destruction】

You arbitrarily possess me into a saint novel, then demand I become a saint?

“This is maddening.”

I burst into hollow laughter at the absurd content.

In my vision, I saw a mirror covered with hazy dust.

Long pink hair flowing down messily.

Golden eyes that shone prettily even in this dirty room.

A beautiful woman with slightly upturned eyes that made her look cold and haughty was looking at me from within the mirror.

It was beauty that would have dominated the entertainment industry on Earth, but what meaning does that have?

Ordel, who has bad family relationships and severe inferiority complex leading her to commit all sorts of evil deeds, is a ‘fake saint’!

You possess me into the body of a fake saint with barely any divine power and tell me to become a real saint?

If you were going to do this, you should have possessed me into the female protagonist’s body from the start!

The impoverished Daesinjeon of the Sun God is revived thanks to the heroine who appears like a comet, and reaches its greatest period of prosperity as she saves the world.

I never imagined the Sun God would be called by such an unsettling name as ‘the Sun that crawled out of death,’ but anyway, if I just let things flow naturally, the Sun God will revive on his own.

But why did he go so far as to use his insufficient power to possess me, who should be going to heaven, into a fake saint?

【That question falls under divine secrets. To obtain an answer to that question, the user’s divine power must exceed 40%.】

You possess me without permission, then say you can’t tell me the truth?

Life is miserable when you’re weak.

“How much divine power do I have right now?”

Even though Ordel is a fake saint, she does possess divine power.

Although it’s described in the story as a measly amount, she did play the role of a saint until the heroine appeared, so she should have at least 20%…

【Current divine power: 2%】

“…?”

I rubbed my eyes and looked again. However, the miracle of 2% becoming 20% did not occur.

【To achieve perfect awakening as a saint, you must reach 100% divine power.】

You put me in a body with only 2% divine power and tell me to become a saint and develop Daesinjeon?

No matter how I think about it, the Sun God’s intelligence seems to be lacking.

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