No Further Tutorials
And the Goddess said, "This is a tutorial, okay?"
"Ah — ahahahaha!! What do you mean, 'I am the true Chaos God'?! You're a joke!! The real one's way waaaaaaaay more powerful!!"
"Eeeeek!?"
Saying that, I—err, that's not right, I… gah, that's not right either.
The [True God] inhabiting my body was slowly dismantling the so-called [Chaos God] — who claimed to be the real thing — into LEGO blocks piece by piece.
It wasn't a metaphor. Its limbs were being dismantled into small blocks with no blood flowing from it at all. Its right arm had already been completely dismantled all the way up to its shoulder.
It looked like the work of the Spatial Magic I'd been given.
We were in a luxurious temple. The literally disarmed and self-proclaimed Chaos God was an old man draped in dazzling ornamentation. Then there was me, a girl with flowing black hair who looked like some random villager tormenting him.
The old man's lust-filled eyes were focused on my chest at first, but now they showed nothing but confusion and fear.
The old man tried to gather the scattered red, flesh-colored blocks with his remaining left arm.
My leg mercilessly kicked him away. He flew like a soccer ball, so light that he hit one of the temple's pillars and screamed in pain.
"E — eeek! Wh-who are you, n-no, save me!"
"Come on, shouldn't someone claiming to be the [Chaos God] be able to fix this easily? What's that? You can't? Hahaha! You're a joke! What a joke! Talk about a joooooke! A weakling like you trying to pull off some bullshit like saying you're the [Chaos God]!? Time for some divine ass whoopin!! Here I cooooooome!!"
A genuinely delighted voice came from my mouth. As a bonus, I surprised the old man by dropping debris right next to him — debris that had been accelerating in free-fall by connecting two points in space above and below each other.
"Gyaaaaaah! Eeeekyaaaaah!!!"
"Ahahahaha! Come on, aren't you going to resist? You could at least try, you know～?"
"F—Fireball!"
When the old man shouted that, a fireball went flying. However, it was blocked by an invisible wall where the space's state was fixed and did not reach me.
"I mean, it's useless even if you try."
"Telekinetic Psychokinesis! … Why — why is it not workiiiiing!?"
"Are you even doing anything～? Ahahaha."
Given that my own body's state was also fixed, external attacks would not work on me either.
This included my weight, so I could lift debris without feeling how heavy it was. If something was too heavy for me to lift, the debris would break instead of me.
It was a physical self buff called I Am A Star — an atrociously strong enhancement that improved both my offensive and defensive capabilities.
As my right hand swung down, the old man's body split in two like it was nothing. However, this too caused no blood to flow.
"Eeeek! M-my bodyyyyyy…!?"
"Ahaha, it's fine, you're not cut in half yet since I'm still connecting the space. I mean, I could cut you apart at any time though? Ufufu."
Pachin.
As my fingers snapped, his bisected body was restored to its original state.
"Someone, anyone——!!!"
"No one's coming to help you～, I've divided the space around this room, after all! Oh, and I'll restore your arm. Duplicate, invert, and connect!"
With a clap of my hands, the old man's left arm was duplicated in the air, inverted, and connected to his right shoulder. It was connected to the blood vessels and nerves as well, so it was a perfect replacement for the arm that had been dismantled.
Ugeh, doing all of this is making my head spin. It's a big strain on my body.
"Oh, are you okay? This is kinda a tutorial… so I thought I should use as many abilities as possible."
"Goddess, did you just say 'kinda'?"
"No way, it's a perfect tutorial. Obviously."
I responded with a light chuckle at my thought-comment.
She didn't deny it.
"Like this, it's possible to mutilate a body as much as you want by duplicating and regenerating it. Well, duplication does use a lot of MP, but it's a tutorial, so it's free service! This is a tutorial after all!!"
Yeah. This was, to the best of my knowledge, a tutorial from the Goddess.
It totally wasn't a punishment for a scoundrel who dared to use the name of the Chaos God… Well, I mean, I was supposed to defeat this self-proclaimed Chaos God as my Last Boss, but…
"Goddess, what was that about not being able to directly influence the world…?"
"It can't be helped if I have to explain how to use your power during a tutorial!! … Or, was it unnecessary to explain?"
"No! There was absolutely no helping it, Sir!"
"I adore honest girls. Ah, by the way, did you know you could even do this?"
With a snap, the self-proclaimed Chaos God's arm began to twist around like the handle on a faucet. Damn, what a cheat ability…!
Just when I noticed I couldn't hear the old man's screams anymore, it turned out that those too had been completely shut out with Spatial Magic.
"Alright, should I start letting him bleed now? Things will get a little gory from here on out."
"Ueh."
With that, the Goddess took her sweet time thoroughly destroying the old man who called himself the Chaos God.
—How about we recall how we got here?
Originally, I… I was an adult male living in Japan.
It's not like I got hit by Isekai Truck-kun or anything — I just suddenly found myself in the world of the gods.
It was a world of pure white. Before me stood a black-haired, gold-eyed girl smiling at me.
"Welcome! Sorry to spring this on you, but I'll be transferring you to a world I manage… I'll make a new body for you, so I guess it's reincarnation? Well, time to send you to another world!"
"… Eh?"
"Yes, you have just escaped death. If you had said something like 'What are you doing all of a sudden! This is kidnapping! Apologize right now!', I would have deleted you. So congratulations! You chose your words better than the person before you!"
The girl clapped her hands.
… It seems the person who came before me was deleted.
"Let me give you power. And there's something I want you to do."
"S-sure."
"Good, you're being obedient. Ah, I'm the Space-Time Goddess. A true god."
The Goddess continued her explanation.
"There's some fool calling himself a [God] in the world I'm sending you to. Please defeat him."
"… A god?"
"Only self-proclaimed. He got too big for his britches while I left him alone for a bit, so I thought I'd show him the power of a real god and finish him off. However, there's a constraint that prevents me from directly influencing the world, so I need to prepare a reincarnated person."
So this Goddess couldn't directly influence the world, but could lend power to someone else to get it done.
I see, what a very god-like constraint. That would mean the God in that world really was just self-proclaimed.
"Your reward will be a free life in this world. You can become a merchant, a hero, or a hedonist, whatever you want."
"Umm… are you sure? Anything at all?"
"You can even call yourself a God if you want. You're my apostle, so you'll already be the equivalent of a minor god."
Even though that's what I'm supposed to defeat…? I tilted my head.
"No, it's fine to call yourself a God. There's just one problem with the name that I can't overlook."
"Ah, um… So what is the thing that you can't overlook about it?"
"[Chaos God]!"
Guess that name's one of the Goddess's trigger words?
"So, you're saying that I should find the Chaos God and defeat him?"
"Good, you understand quickly. That's right… Oh, your body is ready."
With that, the Goddess snapped her fingers and there was suddenly a woman who looked to be around eighteen years old standing in front of her. She had straight black hair, dark eyes, and rounded eyes that gave her a slightly plain look. Upon closer inspection, however, she was actually pretty cute. She even had pretty decent breasts.
"Wait, I'm a guy though?"
"It's my preference — ehem. Since I'm giving you power, it's easier for me to make you look like me."
"You just said preference!?"
"If you have any complaints, I'll delete you. It's true that it's easier for me to do this. Oh, and since it's going to be your body, you can even rub its boobs or do even more amazing things, sound good?"
I shut up. If I complained, it'd be me, not that body, that would be deleted.
Not that the whole all-you-can-grope thing wasn't interesting.
"I'll give you Spatial Magic, Basic Knowledge, and a talent that will make it easier for you to learn skills as a service."
"Th-thank you very much."
"Also, as some extra service, I'll even show you how to use your powers in that body as a tutorial. It's a first-time only special for breaking in your new body, alright?"
"I-I-I-I'm not a virgin! — Ahem. Yes, thank you very much."
Thus my form of I became I and I descended into another world.
"Alright, your Tutorial Boss is the [Chaos God]. Let's do this～♪"
"Huh—?"
And so my story has come back to the present.
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