Become a God Earlier in My Next Life

[Taking a break to build up a backlog. I'll start posting once I have enough.]

Also known as: "The End of Hard Work Is Changing Jobs"

I died and became a spirit.

In the ninth year since transmigrating, and the eighth year since entering the Divine Kingdom to study magic, nineteen-year-old Tilanos finally activated her external golden finger:

A rib from the previous God of Death, hidden deep within her soul.

The Black Dragon told her this meant she had been chosen as the successor to the divine throne.

Before her death, Tilanos had been one step away from becoming an official saintess. She was devastated:

She had worked so hard to earn points and reputation, and gone to such lengths to get along with those difficult teammates and coworkers. Had it all been a waste? Had she been on the wrong side from the very beginning?

The one saving grace was that she had died early enough. Any later, and she wouldn't have been able to get away.

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In the Divine Kingdom's New Calendar year 416, the Holy Light Church's prospective saintess died suddenly on the eve of her appointment. The cause of death was unknown.

At first, people thought it was only a passing grief, something that would heal one day.

But that day never came in time.

[Content Warnings]

* Cheesy Mary Sue vibes and a messy tangle of one-sided crushes. The main story has a happy ending, while the romantic plot concludes in the bonus chapters. There's a good chance none of the romantic leads will get a happy ending, only a neutral or tragic one. This isn't a romance where you bet on a love interest. I just write whichever interactions come most naturally to me.

* The heroine has flexible boundaries and judges people differently depending on who they are. The account of her life before death, told from her own perspective in the blurb, glosses over some aspects of her behavior. Some adjectives and verbs should be taken with a grain of salt.

Theme: Care for the people around you