Around it was my annihilated party, just like in the ăfirst timeă around.
âHmmmm⊠What am I supposed to doâŠ?â
Do I take the gem, or do I not?
I have two options to choose from.
âBut well⊠that really wouldnât happen again, right?â
Looking up towards the heavens, I directed my question at a god that wouldnât be here to begin with.
After making up my mind and taking the gem, just like the ăfirst timeă, my body was engulfed in light.
And then, I lost consciousness.
I hope that this time Iâll be able to return to the ăworldă that I came fromâââ
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âŠIt was no good.
I woke up once again on my bed in the starting town ăAzerleimsă.
âAHHHHHHHHHHHHH!! DAMMIT! HOW MANY TIMES DO I HAVE TO BLOODY CLEAR IT BEFORE I CAN GO HOOOOOOOOOOMEE!?!?â
I got up while screaming.
âOh my, why so loud in the morningâŠ? And Kazuha, youâre a ăgirlă so you musnât use words like ăbloodyă, you know?â
Saying that was my mother in this world, who was beginning to prepare food.
âŠMn?
ââŠOkaasan? Just now, what did you say?â
Things feel kind of, wrong in various waysâŠ
âMy, my, are you still half-asleep? Honestly, isnât today the important day that youâll be having an audience with His Majesty? Wake up properly, and go wash your face.â
No, no, no. Not that.
âJust now, you called me a ăgirlă and⊠also, whoâs ăKazuhaă?â
âMy, my, has this child forgotten not only their sex, but their name as well, I wonder? Perhaps it might be for the best if I stop todayâs audience.â
Saying that, Okaasan handed me a hand mirror.
âJust loook at how messy your hair has gotten. Fix it up properly. Thatâs improper.â
I received the hand mirror.
And then I looked into it.
What was reflected there was a girl.
Wait, is that me?
âHahhh⊠Had you been born a boy instead, you might have even been able to become a fine Hero-sama, huhâŠâ
Leaving me âMake sure you wash your face properly.â as a final remark, Okaasan left the room.
ââŠI, seriouslyâŠ?â
Getting down from bed, I began investigating my own body.
Although it was small, I certainly could feel the swells on my chest.
I reached my hand downwards.
The thing that should have been there, wasnât.
ââŠGone.â
I checked it once more.
ââŠIsnât it gone?â
No matter how many times I touched it to check, what wasnât there, just wasnât there.
ââŠSeriously?â
My third reincarnation. Or rather, I should call it my ăthird timeă.
ââŠI, became a womanâŠ?â
I was dumbfounded.
But compared to my ăsecond timeă, the shock might have been smaller.
At that time, the shock was proportional to the belief that I had that Iâd be able to return home.
But since I was prepared to a certain extent this time, I was able to mentally prepare myself.
âFor now, what I need to be doing isâŠâ
Thereâs only one thing it could be.
On the spot, without any hesitationââââ
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âItâs impossible to become the Heroo!?â
The place was the audience room.
Since it was my ăthird timeă now, I knew quite clearly what the future events were.
But I suddenly had the wind taken out of my sails.
âMy apologies. The Hero candidates are for boys only. As a woman, you are not allowed to become the Hero.â
Speaking of which, I get the feeling that Okaasan said something like that earlier, butâŠ
âB-, But I(ore)⊠I mean, I(watashi)âŠ! Itâs just a guess, but I think Iâm actually stronger than anybody else, you know!â
Uwahhh, gross. I used âwatashiââŠ
All I feel is nausea.
âWhat are you saying? For a ăSubstitute Candidateă who might not even be able to become a party member of the ăHero Candidateă toâŠâ
Uwah⊠If youâre a woman, do you have no choice but to start off in such a lowly position?
Speaking of which, wasnât this world a super ăpatriarchală society?
So toughâŠ
âI donât wannaâŠ! If you would just look at my real strengthâŠ!â
I gave it my all trying to persuade him.
If only he knew my strength, then even the king should immediately agree.
âEnough! For a mere woman to oppose my opinion as the king isâŠ! I do not wish to even see your face! You may leave!â
Ehhhhhh, seriouslyyyy?
His Majesty didnât seem to have any intent of listening to me any further.
Or rather, if I do anything more, I might be going to jail.
Having given up, I went back to my room.
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âAhh~hh. What am I sâposed to do~â
To think that by being born a woman, Iâd end up in such a bad spotâŠ
I may be somebody whoâs lived through this world 2 times already, but I never even noticed that discrimination was this huge.
âThere sure are lots of things I donât know, huhhhâŠâ
Now that I suddenly had a lot of free time, for now, I decided to check my status and belongings.
Having defeated the hidden boss in the end during my ăsecond timeă around, Iâve already hit level 99. In other words, Iâm the highest level.
Both of the strongest weapons, the ăCriminal Darknessă and the ăAngelâs Blameră are still in my bag as well.
Having already mastered the dual-handed style, no matter how I think about it, Iâm probably the strongest swordsman in the world.
And then, thereâs the money that I own.
185743040G
There were so many numbers that I couldnât immediately tell how much I had.
Having basically completed my item collection halfway through my ăsecond timeă, to me, there shouldnât have been a way to use this money to begin with.