Chapter 3: The Cushion Is a Pig Noble
Hello there, it seems I’ll be in your care in this other world from today onward.
Back in my original world, I was a female college student, and my friends often told me, “You kind of seem like a petty villain,” but I think I’m probably just a relative of those little devils who charm men.
Anyway.
“Giiiiiiyaaaaaaaaahhhhhh!!”
Can someone please do something about the fact that I’m falling from an insane height!?
“Don’t screw with me, you crazy delinquent!!”
That god wannabe did it!
He sent me up into the sky!
This is free fall without a parachute.
All I can hear is the roaring sound of wind in my ears, and even my own screams sound distant.
Spread out before my eyes is a vast land filled with rich nature, stretching endlessly.
It feels like some ancient wilderness, but the colors and smells are so vivid that it screams “another world.”
The sheer vitality is almost overwhelming.
“Well, right now I’m about to get crushed by wind pressure thoughhh!”
If I weren’t falling, I might’ve been able to appreciate the scenery.
At this rate, I’m going to die.
Well, apparently I won’t disappear, but!
At the very least, if I hit the ground, it’s going to hurt like hell.
“!?”
Suddenly, my vision turned pure white.
No, this is… cloth?
My body slammed into something soft with a muffled thud.
Then I felt a rebound, and my body bounced back up.
What my bouncing vision caught was—
“Is this… an airship?”
Probably, most likely, an airship.
I’m not entirely confident because it’s a shape I’ve never seen before.
It looked like a giant airship with rings around it, like Saturn.
It could also be mistaken for a domed stadium.
Except it’s flying.
The balloon-like dome that stopped my fall sends me bouncing several times.
“This is bad!”
Well, the surface is curved.
My bouncing body gradually moves toward a steeper angle.
“Woooooahhh! Damn it!”
Letting out a completely unladylike scream, I cling to the balloon part.
But the strength drains from my arms, and I start slipping.
Huh?
Was my grip always this weak?
Like a slide, I slip downward smoothly.
Ahead is the ring part of the Saturn-like structure, where tiny ant-like figures seem to be walking.
Are those… people?
As I get closer, I realize just how massive it is.
And then—
“Uwaaah!”
“Gehbu!!”
I safely landed on a human cushion.
Now then, the prince who caught me with his entire body…
Yeah, to put it mildly, he’s a pig.
The man, grotesquely obese, was wearing something like a red military uniform, with flashy decorations all over his chest.
It might look cool in a chuunibyou kind of way, but with that body, it just looks ridiculous.
“ーーーー！ ーーーー！！ ーーーーー!”
Holding his head, the pig-like man staggered to his feet and started yelling at me in some incomprehensible language while pointing.
“S-sorry! This was an accident!”
He seems angry, so I tried apologizing for now, but his face turned bright red as he got even more heated.
Actually… we can’t understand each other, can we?
“W-well, well. You have every right to be angry… right?”
As I held out both hands to calm him down, I noticed something strange.
My hands… are small.
“ーーー！ ー！ ーー！！”
“……”
“ー！ ーーー！ ーー！！”
“…………”
“ーーー！ ーーーー！”
“WHYYYYYY!?”
“!?”
My scream made the man flinch.
Why why why—!?
Why are my hands small?
No, don’t run from reality!
It’s not just my hands—my whole body is small!
Did I turn into a child!?
Just what the hell happened…
‘A stable life while job hunting, huh. Don’t think it’ll be that easy. This is my little way of messing with you.’
The delinquent god’s final words echoed in my mind.
That’s it…
He turned me into a child so I wouldn’t be able to get a proper job.
Damn it!
That’s effective!
I don’t know how this world works, but being a child definitely limits job options.
And I probably won’t even grow up.
Damn it!
I’ve been completely played!
As frustrating as it is, I’ll set that aside for now.
Things around the pig man are getting tense.
People gathered around him, probably called by his voice, and now they’re surrounding me.
Everyone who came is wearing neat, uniform-like clothing… could they be police or soldiers?
If so, then this obviously shady-looking pig man must be someone of higher status… like a noble.
Isn’t that bad?
If he’s a noble, then me landing on him like that could mean execution…
No, no!
Calm down, me!
It’s not confirmed that this pig man is a noble.
And even though he looks super angry, maybe I’m just misunderstanding.
“ーーー！ ーー。ーー!”
Let’s try dubbing this.
“Ohh, what a cute little girl, oink!”
Yeah, something like that.
The pig noble shouting at me is definitely saying something like this.
“ーーーー。ーー!”
Now he gives instructions to the soldiers surrounding me.
“Don’t you all agree?”
Yeah, yeah.
This feels right.
Even though the circle around me seems to be tightening, it’s probably something like that.
“ー。ーーー。ーーー!”
The pig noble reaches into his chest area.
“O-oh! Let us reward this lovely girl!”
What he pulled out was a beautifully decorated knife.
He pointed it at me like a conductor’s baton.
“ーーー!”
“Kill her!”
Nope, this is bad!
Even my imagination has limits!
That’s definitely what he said.
His eyes are bloodshot.
And just like that, the young girl surrounded by adults was easily overpowered despite her resistance.
It seems I was thrown into a prison inside the airship.
Yay.
I got myself a home.