Zen Xuyun bought a full-dive game with the utterly bizarre-sounding title Doki Doki: The Heart-Pounding Cursed Speech Sorcerer Saves the Monkey King.
The black-haired man in robes on the cover was exactly her type.
Entering the game...
[Please choose your profession]
A. Monkey B. Slave C. Cursed Speech User
Zen Xuyun: ?
*
After becoming a cursed speech user, Zen Xuyun had one fatal weakness: she couldn't keep her mouth shut.
After entering the game, she hadn't even stepped out of her room before her reckless words had killed her dozens of times.
“It's hot. Sun, explode!” She died.
“Mosquitoes are so annoying. Go extinct!” She died again.
“I'm hungry. I want pork cutlet rice.” She died yet again.
After countless resets, Zen Xuyun finally mastered her ability. Any [command] beyond her capabilities would rebound on her, so all she had to do was keep quiet!
But as soon as she stepped outside, she found a capture target in an alley, half his body blasted away by an unknown weapon.
Zen Xuyun: ?
Wait, she hadn't even started trying to win him over. How was he already dying?!
Seeing the bloody mess he was in, Zen Xuyun blurted out in a panic, “Don't die.”
Zen Xuyun covered her mouth, but realized that the backlash never came.
Not only that, the capture target's body was slowly recovering.
Realizing what this meant, Zen Xuyun opened her character stats and scrolled down to her skill proficiency.
It was ∞.
*
Suguru Geto felt the blood draining from his body and was preparing to accept his death.
“Don't die!”
An unfamiliar voice rang out, and Suguru Geto realized his body was slowly recovering.
Reverse cursed technique? No, there were symbols on her lips. Was she a cursed speech user?
Suguru Geto chuckled softly, thinking his idea was pitifully absurd.
How could there be a cursed speech user who could decide whether someone lived or died? It was probably just an illusion before death.
Ah, Gojo was taking far too long... It seemed death would arrive first.
Suguru Geto closed his eyes...
Then opened them again.
*
During his recovery, Suguru Geto showed no aggression at all. He was gentle and considerate.
Until one day, Zen Xuyun discovered his secret.
The breakdown, distance, and disgust she had expected never came.
Zen Xuyun only asked one question:
“So I just have to kill everyone except Jie, right?”
Suguru Geto: “Ah... what?”
*
Suguru Geto hated monkeys. He had always told himself that.
But after meeting Zen Xuyun, he suddenly felt that maybe the monkeys hadn't quite deserved this...
“Zen... put away that book of yours, 108 Methods of Interrogation.”
“Oh, that? I stopped reading it ages ago.”
“Hmm?”
“Lately I've been reading Trevor Borown.”
“...”
Reader's guide and content warnings
- The timeline is Volume 0.
- The heroine is a little naive and cruel. Since it's a game, she thinks everyone except the capture targets is an NPC. When you play games, you don't care what happens to NPCs either, right?
- Most of the story is about the two getting close. Her ability is so overpowered that the plot won't be explored in much depth.
- OOC warning
Theme: Reforming a bad person? No! Becoming a bad person!
