You're taking forever to eat!
What an eyesore!
Look at those ugly-ass eyes you have, kid.
I'm sorry...
Not loud enough!
I'm sorry... I'm sorry!
I'm sorry!
Hey, stop that!
AYAKA SOGOU - CLASS PRESIDENT OF 2-C Hey, stop that!
AYAKA SOGOU - CLASS PRESIDENT OF 2-C Give it back, Oyamada!
The best-of-the-ever-best romance novel of the year?
Oh, wow!
So you're actually a sweet girl
SHOUGO OYAMADA So you're actually a sweet girl
SHOUGO OYAMADA who's into romance novels, Ayaka?
G-Got a problem?
TOMOHIRO YASU Ugh!
TOMOHIRO YASU What's up with these line breaks? So few!
I can't read stuff like this!
- My eyes hurt! - The mountain scenery is good for broadening
- My brain cells are dying! - your imagination for the extraordinary.
Then give it back!
HIJIRI TAKAO You should pay close attention, Itsuki.
- Why are you doing this, Oyamada? You should pay close attention, Itsuki.
- Come on, give it back! - I got you, Sis.
ITSUKI TAKAO - I got you, Sis.
KOBATO KASHIMA Oh, should I?
- Well, I'll give it back to you only if you - This bus is taking us
- Well, I'll give it back to you only if you - to our school field trip.
- give me your R@IN contact. - At the center are Oyamada
and the class president, bantering.
- Oh, you'd better not, Oyamada. - Alongside the high-rank group,
- Just turn him down, Prez. - laughing at them,
- Just turn him down, Prez. - and also the quiet classmates.
Only the Takao sisters, and our not-so-caring homeroom teacher, remain unchanged.
TAMOTSU ZAKUROGI HOMEROOM TEACHER OF 2-C
Heck, I bet I'd look cool if I stepped in here.
Still, someone as thin as air like me would just be a gentle breeze to them.
I'd have zero effect, it'd be for nothing, void, meaningless.
Oyamada, give it a rest already!
Come on, I'll give it back if you give me your R@IN contact...
- Just give it back!
- Oyamada, just give it back. - Just give it back!
Huh?
You're Touka Mimori, eh?
Huh...
Bro, come on.
What's your deal?
I mean, Sogou's starting to get really annoyed here...
Oh, get a load on this knight in shining armor!
Seriously, what's your deal, man?
The thin-air man trying to get back on me?
Mimori?
Give her book back, Shougo.
Come on, Takuto...
Help me out in giving this Mr. Cool Guy a piece of my mind here, will ya?
I don't intend to do so.
I'm not interested in Mimori at all either.
Ooh, I'm freezing here, Takuto!
Man, I wish you'd share some of that chilly aura with me!
I guess this is what separates us, eh?
You can just ignore Mimori,
but you should give Sogou's book back.
It doesn't sit right with me.
Attaboy, Kirihara!
ASAGI IKUSABA Attaboy, Kirihara!
ASAGI IKUSABA Case closed, then!
- He really is so kind. - My bad, Sogou.
I kinda went overboard.
Will you let me go peacefully?
Hey, Yasu!
Mr. Thin Air Mimori just had his rare event exceeding his character,
but how dare you, the lowest caste of 2-C, ignore such a moment!
I'm sorry!
- Enough with the cold shoulder! - Oyamada.
Cut it out already.
I can't have any of you jump off a bridge.
If you still wanna do it, wait until I'm no longer your teacher, Yasu.
'Kay, I'll be careful.
That sure wasn't like me.
For someone like me to do that...
Must be because of that dream...
Ugh!
Thanks to Mimori, my only one
- sparkling event scene for this field trip - Through one's vast knowledge
- sparkling event scene for this field trip - of countless boundaries,
- is so done for! - one summons the bravest of hearts and souls.
- It's all ruined for me! - Obeying the Goddess Vicious' light,
thou shalt gather at Alion...
Where are we?
Is this a dream?
Must be a prank, huh?
What is this?
Dear brave fighters of evil, our glimpse of hope.
I welcome you all to our humble kingdom.
I am Goddess Vicious.
Once again, welcome.
01. THE GODDESS WHO SUMMONED
Our kingdom, Alion,
summons brave warriors to have them fight the evil Great Demon Emperor,
every time he appears.
200 years ago, by the effort of the heroes,
the lingering threat was warded off once,
but the Great Demon Emperor was revived after a long time.
O chosen heroes of another world.
We beg of you to lend your strength against the demonic threat again.
So we got summoned to another world?
Well, yeah...
Come on, this gotta be a dream.
I really don't get it...
Wait, we were on a bus, right? Are we dead?
This gotta be a prank, right?
My smartphone's out of service too...
Where's my stuff? I can't put on my make-up like this!
Calm down, kids! Your teacher is right here with you.
I don't know what situation we're in now.
Which is exactly why we should listen to the goddess first.
Thank you, Teacher.
A large stone room...
An old-fashioned bonfire...
Soldiers with swords and spears...
And also a goddess with golden eyes...
Are we really in another world?
So you want us to take down that Great Demon Emperor?
That would be the case.
And what if we won't cooperate?
I am unable to send you back to your previous world.
Is there a way to go back?
The Reverse Summoning Ritual
requires a special magical element called the Evil Element.
There are only two certain ways to obtain it.
One is to obtain the heart of the Great Demon Emperor,
which is the source of the element.
Another one is to absorb the element released when the Great Demon Emperor perishes,
into the crystal of this necklace.
What does that all have to do with us?!
Who gives a freaking damn about a demon emperor?!
I beg you, please save our world, O Messiahs!
U-Um, can I ask something?
Go ahead.
I'm Ayaka Sogou.
I see you are so polite, Miss Sogou.
What would be your question?
As you can see, we're just humans.
Even if you consider us messiahs,
I don't think we can be of any...
It's okay.
You have powers that no other human being has.
- But we don't think we're aware of them.
- What is this tingling feeling? - But we don't think we're aware of them.
- What is this tingling feeling? - Obviously.
Not until you were summoned here, I suppose.
Bring me that.
Yes!
Another world?
This gotta be a prank, eh?
Enough with all the lame jokes!
That goddess...
That looks scary...
O holy fire that purges demons.
By the order of Goddess Vicious, one orders thee to scorch impure souls.
Fire Ball.
FIRE BALL
Minamino!
What was that?
I get it.
This is truly a different world from ours.
Or maybe it would be best to think we're on a different planet.
Now, my heroes.
It is the time to face your hidden skills.
Come forth, one by one.
I see you have the aptitude.
Wow! Look at this amount of light!
My, this is magnificent!
I don't really get it, but I guess this is good! Flames!
Maybe the parallel world isn't so bad after all! I'm so hyped!
- Fine, I'll be your hero and save the world! - We've got a flaming dude here.
N-No way!
He broke the measuring crystal!
Did that mean something?
Way to go, Mr. Kirihara!
You are an S-Rank, the best among all!
We're in a different world, but you're using alphabets?
We have adapted the terms with language conversion so you can understand it.
So, what does S mean?
S, as in "Special".
What rank am I?! S for Super?
You are an A-Rank, Mr. Oyamada.
- Protect me please! - Still can't beat Takuto, huh...
- Awesome! - Still can't beat Takuto, huh...
What?!
So you are also an S-Rank, Miss Sogou?
Another A-Rank!
By the Goddess!
The third S-Rank!
Even having one S-Rank in one summoning ritual is already good luck,
but these results are beyond what has come so far!
Now, who is next?
I'm Touka Mimori.
Go ahead, Mr. Mimori.
Purple?
Wait, doesn't mine look the dimmest compared to others?
Next one, please.
Huh?
Next one, please.
Um, what rank am I?
Next one.
I'm being ignored?
It's as if she doesn't even consider me.
A background character.
Even in another world, I'm treated like air.
Well, such is reality.
I'm not getting any special treatment in another world.
Yeah.
Such is the life of Touka Mimori.
Goddess!
This is fine.
By the Goddess!
There was once such a case in the past.
The same being as the Dark Hero, once touted as the strongest.
We really scored big this time.
Well, obviously.
I knew my time to shine would come!
All right, everyone.
Have you learned how to check your status?
Status open.
Now that I pay close attention, my stats do look puny...
TOUKA MIMORI: HP, ATK, VIT, INT, MP, DEF, STR The status correction value is a number
TOUKA MIMORI: HP, ATK, VIT, INT, MP, DEF, STR that compensates for your physical abilities.
TITLE: E-RANK HERO The display screen has been constructed
TITLE: E-RANK HERO in a way that is familiar to everyone.
Since I am a goddess, I can do that much.
INHERENT SKILL: Inherent Skill:
ABNORMAL STATE ENDOWMENT/READY TO USE Abnormal State Endowment?
PARALYZE: LV1 An inherent skill is
POISON: LV1 a skill unique to one person.
POISON: LV1 Some people have it congenitally,
SLEEP: LV1 Some people have it congenitally,
SLEEP: LV1 while others may awaken to it later.
So rest assured.
Ugh, enough with the explanations, Miss Goddess.
Oyamada! Don't be so rude!
Huh? How dare a D-Rank teacher talk like that to an A-Rank?
Someone throwing his weight about is actually below us now?
Ugh, talk about lame.
We are now going to perform a critical ritual.
Mister Touka Mimori, come over here.
Huh? Me?
Did I do something?
Just go.
Touka Mimori, you are an E-Rank.
The lowest among the other heroes.
All the lowest rank heroes in the past
have a history of hindering the other higher rank heroes.
Therefore, it has been decided that such heroes...
...are marked for disposal.
Disposal?
Yes, indeed.
However, if we dispose of you right here and right now,
it would prove to be a shocking experience to the others.
And also the cause of infighting.
Thus, we have decided to give the lowest rank heroes another chance.
What do you mean?
Using that magic circle, we send the lowest rank heroes to certain ruins.
Huh?
If they manage to survive and come back above,
we will not bother with them anymore.
Alion shall give them the free right to live.
Is it a dangerous place?
Why, yes!
Most of the heroes and criminals, who have been deemed highly dangerous,
have also been sent to those ruins.
Well, well...
I suppose I will at least tell you the name of the place.
It is dubbed...
The Abandoned Ruins.
ABANDONED RUINS
Abandoned...
What the heck...
Oh, yeah!
I have an inherent skill as well!
And what about it!
It's something called Abnormal State Endowment!
I can endow poison or something!
Look here.
In this world, all abnormal state spells and skills have no value.
What?
To be frank, the success rate is just too low.
Even if you use it successfully, the effect is too weak and the duration too short.
You cannot use it on low-level demons, let alone the medium ones.
N-No way...
In short, your skills fall into the "Failure Frame" category.
Failure Frame?
Also, it must be because you are an E-Rank as well,
but your status is just too weak.
Even leveling up will not prove anything useful.
Are we done here?
B-But you summoned me here, made me a hero, without my consent...
And now you're disposing of me?
- That's just too miserable, Mimori. - That's just too...
Just get it over with already.
- The girls are already tired as well. - Take a hint already, Mimori!
- Kirihara's so kind! - As if he could!
Come on, we're all tired here!
You okay, Mimori?
Yasu...
Huh? What are you on about?
What?
That' Mister Yasu for you!
Pay respect to your higher rank comrades, you lowlife E-Rank!
- Talk about bad manners! - All right, enjoy your not-so-fun
limited time you have now,
O Abandoned Hero.
Well, then. Let us commence the ritual.
Each hero will be given a unique item after being summoned.
That leather pocket will be yours.
If you pour mana into this gem, it will glow.
- Although, that is what it only does. - Wait!
This is wrong!
Mimori's our classmate!
- You are the S-Rank... - Don't be so rude to her!
- I can't allow this! - Don't be so rude to her!
- Release him now... - Looks like there is only one option.
Sogou...
All right, everyone.
Witness the pitiful sight of the abandoned hero!
This is what will become of the unfit.
I suppose you would call him a "loser" in your world.
However, you are all winners!
TOUKA MIMORI, E-RANK HERO However, you are all winners!
The losers only have a pitiful end awaiting them.
Damn you...
Oh?
Paralyze!
How rude.
As if that would do anything to me.
DISPEL BUBBLE Dispel Bubble.
DISPEL BUBBLE It is a permanent protective coating.
It can automatically defend against abnormal state spells.
Everyone, that is indeed an E-Rank!
The loser hero, in the flesh!
Draconic Buster!
DRACONIC BUSTER
Seems like I can use mine, even though I just lightly cast it.
My bad.
Please be careful from now on.
Now...
See ya!
I feel you. I could use some rest now.
Touka Mimori, R.I.P..
Stop trying to take away my important time, thin air.
- Just get lost already. - Damn you all...
What a bunch of scum.
Do you have any last words?
Why are you crying?
You know it, don't you?
No matter how much you suppress your true self and play a good person,
- you just can't be a different person. - What does it matter now?
You hate it, don't you?
Show them your true nature!
The true side of you that you'd been hiding!
Go to hell, you rotten goddess!
If I ever make it back alive, you'd better be ready!
Status open.
Unable to open due to lack of visibility.
There is it.
I just need to pour mana into it, right?
Like this?
ABANDONED RUINS
It really feels like I'm using magic.
It's more like a cave than ruins.
Is that a skeleton?
And it's split in half too?
But by what?
Of course.
By something in these ruins.
No...
Its level and status are all different!
I can feel its murderous intent!
This must be the real deal!
I can't set any landmarks!
Just trust your instinct and run!
I don't want to die!
I'm gonna cry again...
I'm not even sad or happy...
I'm just scared...
Huh?
No...
I'm not scared...
The emotion I just experienced...
Yeah, this is not fear...
Damn it...
This is frustration!
This is the end for Touka Mimori.
I have no weapons, no status, no good skills to use!
So that means...
I have no means...
- Just get it over with already. - Take a hint already!
I want power!
Paralyze!
PARALYZE
It actually worked?
Abnormal State Endowment...
It shouldn't work on low-level demons,
or at least that's what the goddess said...
So that Minotaur was a low-level one?
Wait, no... So it was a miracle?
So the abnormal state was just a fluke?
Well, of course...
I can feel it.
The pure, unadulterated, raw killing intent.
Does it kill to eat?
Or does it kill to live?
I don't know.
But either way,
it's intent on killing me... Is it a bird demon?
Maybe a cockatrice?
No...!
I don't want to die!
Paralyze!
It worked!
So it wasn't a miracle!
What if the consecutive successes...
...weren't a miracle, but an inevitability?
What if my abnormal state spell and the other similar spells in this world...
...are completely different things?
Status open.
I have no MP left!
I've used my skill on the goddess, the Minotaur, and this demon.
Also twice on the leather pocket.
All that's left is my own MP, except for status correction values.
PARALYZE: LV1/USES 10 MP If I run out of mana to even use a skill...
I'm doomed...
POISON Poison.
POISON
I can use it?
It can be used in conjunction with Paralyze...
If the success rate is high,
regardless of the rank of the demon...
And the activation time is very long...
If that's the case...
What the heck...
You were trying to kill me, damn it...
Is it because I used my own MP?
What will happen if I keep using my skills?
The Minotaur!
So the Paralyze effect has worn off?
You're also trying to kill me, huh...
I guess you're doing well.
Besides...
Isn't someone supposed to rescue me here?
I hope you die a painful death,
Touka Mimori.
Screw that!
I'll kill you!
I'm no hero nor heroine.
A background character, like thin air, rescued by no one.
I'll kill to live!
Don't depend on anything, rely on anyone, and don't expect!
I'll lay waste to all of them!
Now, shall we begin?
The struggle for survival!
FAILURE FRAME: I BECAME THE STRONGEST AND ANNIHILATED EVERYTHING WITH LOW-LEVEL SPELLS
02. ABANDONED RUINS