Extra Episode — The Ultra Lucky Hero Wataru’s Labor Gets Exploited

“I’ll tell you everything once this is over. Which means, yeah, I can’t tell you anything until it’s all over. If you want to know what’s up, ask your {Ultra Good Fortune} to do a good job here.”

And so, Wataru ended up stuck rolling dice like crazy with Emmymephy writing down the results. When he finally, finally finished and had a night’s rest, his relief was shattered first thing in the morning.

“Heeey, Wataru. Pick which strategies we should use. The strategies are a secret, though!”

“Alright then, this one, this one, this one... this one. Oh, and this one, too.”

Keima held out some tubes, looking as exhausted as someone who had stayed up the entire night, and Wataru randomly picked some of them.

“Hm? I don’t remember making this tube... Uh, what the heck is this? Whaaat...?”

Keima, after checking the contents of the tube he didn’t recognize, slapped his forehead and looked at the ceiling.

“...Well, Wataru, there’s another job only you can do. You’ll help, right?”

Wataru didn’t mind helping, but naturally even his cheeks twitched at that.

And so, Wataru ended up working with Soto to trick people into thinking she was a god. He was there to guard her and provide legitimacy to her claims. (And hide her from Chaos, but he didn’t know that.)

“Behold, Sototemporarily the Goddess of Time! The Goddess Sototemporarily controls all time, be aware!”

Wataru was introducing Keima’s daughter Soto to the masses as she stood atop a simply made stage. It felt something like a political rally to Wataru.

“Wataru, I think it’s about time to move on. The Goddess of Time must adhere to her schedule!” Soto declared.

“Understood, your holiness Sototemporarily. Er... And that concludes today’s Sototemporarily show! Oyasuminasai!”

All they were doing was having them shown into time-slowed chambers Soto made one by one, from which they looked outside. From the outside, those in the chamber looked like they were moving slow, while from the inside those on the outside looked like they were moving fast. It was a miracle of time. And it was so much like fraud Wataru accidentally called it a show.

In any case, the scheduling of her demonstration was honed down to the hour, such that they never took place where Wataru was told not to go after rolling thousands of dice.

There were plenty of empty spaces on the danger heat map, and that’s where the demonstrations were held. The results of {Ultra Good Fortune} meant that coincidentally... or rather, by necessity, they were taken to places where people could easily gather. Wataru honestly thought it was turning out to be some excessive plot armor, even. But since the situation was apparently so bad that this was necessary to have a chance of winning, Wataru decided not to think too hard about it.

“Still, Soto, is that trick of yours really just a trick?”

“Uh-huh. Though there’s nothing deceptive about it.”

Wataru was starting to think she really was performing miracles. That would make him feel less guilty, but for some reason Keima had told him they were committing fraud.

Still, Wataru was just glad to finally be freed from rolling dice. And the schedule was for him to spend some time in the inn after this. No doubt he would finally get time to rest.

“Alriiight, not to copy Keima here, but it’s time for me to nap like crazy,” Wataru said, opening the door to his inn room.

“Hey Wataru, I’ve been waiting for you to get back. Mind rolling some more dice for me?” Keima asked, holding out more graph paper.

“Figures... Do I really have {Ultra Good Fortune}? I’m starting to doubt it,” Wataru said, letting out a dry laugh.

Incidentally, as soon as he got back to the empire, a new system was set in place where he would always roll dice to figure out where he should go when patrolling the empire, but that is a story for another day.