Chapter Forty-One: What Heaven Gives, If Not Taken, Brings Disaster

After all, for an ordinary high school student, suddenly gaining power that surpassed common sense was bound to make him proud and pleased.

But now that ability had vanished, it was natural for him to feel dejected, genuinely regretful, and sad.

At this moment, Kamisato Shoryu was still somewhat groggy. He picked up the phone beside his bed and glanced at it, only to be shocked to find that the date had gone back several months.

The time displayed on the phone was exactly the day he had obtained Ideal Banishment.

"Uh, was I actually dreaming this whole time?"

Kamisato Shoryu scratched his head, feeling incredulous. "...If this is a dream, then it's way too vivid."

"...But then again, things like Demon Gods and magicians sound so fantastical. They don't seem reliable at all."

Everything in the 'dream' had been vividly etched in his mind, so Kamisato Shoryu still found it difficult to accept that it had merely been a dream.

But since reality had already told him that it was a dream, Kamisato Shoryu could only accept it.

"Forget it. I won't think about it anymore. I'm just an ordinary high school student. Ordinary looks, ordinary learning ability, ordinary athletic skills."

"...How could someone like me possibly gain supernatural powers like the protagonist of a novel and make so many cute, beautiful girls fall for me?"

Kamisato Shoryu mocked himself, but the dejection in his heart was plain to see.

When he possessed Ideal Banishment, he could shamelessly claim that the Demon God had twisted his life.

But once that power was gone, he found himself missing it terribly.

Still, even if he felt some regret, life had to go on.

As usual, Kamisato Shoryu walked to school with a piece of bread between his teeth and a schoolbag