A chaste, gorgeous beauty who awakens as an NPC and turns into a snarky commentator x a pretty beauty who is the strongest fighter around and a villain who keeps trying to destroy the world
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Francis, the high priest of the Church of Light, has a secret: he knows that the world he lives in is actually an otome game.
Francis himself is nothing more than a functional NPC. But before the game officially began, someone who had transmigrated into his body maxed out the affection levels of every romanceable character, then promptly walked away.
So when Francis woke up, the usually calm and composed high priest was faced with a maddening situation. The Elf King sent him a token, summoning him to the sacred tree to be crowned queen of the elves. A royal messenger brought a handwritten order from the prince, commanding him to enter the palace and share his bed. A clever magic-powered cat delivered a message from the master of the mysterious mage tower outside the city, inviting him to study the ultimate secrets of magical technology together. Even the holy son of the Church looked at him with unmistakably suggestive eyes.
Meanwhile, the heroine was still the lowest-ranking worker at the Adventurers' Guild, scraping by on odd jobs around town, like finding the landlord's dog or catching the neighbor's chickens.
Everything was a mess! A complete mess!
Faced with a plot that had taken countless twists and turns, Francis, who knew the script, swore he would put the story back on track and return all the romanceable characters to the heroine!
So, with a little careful maneuvering on his part, the lofty Elf King was shot through the heart by the heroine; the prince gave up his claim to the throne and set off on an adventure; and the archmage and the holy son... joined hands to study how science and theology might arrive at the same destination by different paths.
As for the heroine? Oh, she took her newly accepted disciple and strode down the broad road to prosperity, turning an otome game into a business simulation game.
Francis: I'm tired. Just destroy the world already.
A deep voice rang out from the sky. "Oh? Destroy it?"
Dark clouds blotted out the sun. Amid flashes of lightning and peals of thunder, the shadow of a world-ending black dragon slowly appeared, bringing a calamity capable of laying waste to all creation.
Solid ice spread from the oceans through every waterway. Scorching magma erupted from underground. Choking gases filled the air, and a gigantic meteor came hurtling from beyond the heavens...
In the apocalypse, the black dragon beat its wings and slowly descended. Francis hurriedly clung to its leg. "Honey, stop! I only said that to vent!"
Francis had another secret: he knew the secret of the Church of Light.
The temple was actually a seal, guarding the world-ending black dragon from a thousand years ago.
But when he reached the mysterious seal, he found a naked young man with black hair crouched in the center of a magic circle, eating.
Sensing an outsider, the young man looked up. His pretty face was smeared with blood, and he bashfully licked his fingertips. In a nasal dragon's voice, he said, "There's still more? I can't eat another bite."
The calamity vanished, and everything returned to normal. Unharmed people looked around in bewilderment, unable to understand how they had all just experienced a terrifying vision of the destruction of all life.
Above the temple, the black dragon had disappeared without a trace. In its place was a tiny, chibi figure with black hair and red eyes, perched on Francis's shoulder and yawning. "Darling, I'm so hungry. Let's go home and eat."
As Francis coaxed the little figure, he wiped the cold sweat from his forehead, still shaken. Today, the high priest had saved the world once again.
Theme: As long as you keep trying, you can find a way forward.
