Worthless Skill Escape (WN)

Chapter 220

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Chapter 220 – The Selfless King Part 3

The Prime Minister’s Office in the Prime Minister’s Residence is hardly a place where one can feel at ease.

This is because the emotions of past prime ministers constantly invade my mind.

The political excitement of rising to the position of prime minister.

The political joy of crushing political rivals at will.

The political humiliation of being forced to leave the prime minister’s residence.

All these emotions were greasy and far from beautiful.

However, if I follow the lead of these emotions, I can play the role of a prime minister more like a prime minister than anyone else.

“I learned a lot from Junko.

There are sadists among businessmen and politicians, but I have never seen a sadist as thorough as Junko.

When someone is so thoroughly sadistic, they usually go against social norms.

Being cold-hearted and functioning socially.

The “personality” of my daughter, Junko Tozaki, was the perfect sample for fulfilling the role required of a manager.

In this sense, I could say that Junko was my parent.

The same could be said of the other “children”.

“What was required of me as a manager was not to treat my employees well.

As a manager, I was always the hated character.

By being hated, I could enforce my unreasonable management philosophy.

By being hated, I could make my employees work for low wages.

By being hated, I could give discounts and make customers smile.

Oddly enough, my employees also wanted to make me the target of their hatred.

They were looking for a perfect target to vent their frustrations about the difficulties of their daily work, their dissatisfaction with their relationships with others, and their vague fears about their uncertain future.

It’s all his fault that (my) life is so bad!

They were looking for a scapegoat to point the finger at.

I was just responding to that desire.

“The other children… weren’t so great compared to Junko. There were some who were useful for work, but they weren’t useful for cultivating my ‘human shell’.”

At the orphanage I run, Zacchaeus’ House, I gather people with the right personalities and have them live together in groups.

Junko also played a role in this house.

I think she knew that I would leave her if she didn’t play her part.

“The Zacchaeus’ House” was called the “Cold House,” and those who came from the Cold House became people who would move like limbs to do my bidding.

“Clovis. That man was also useful.”

The haughty elf king who came from another world.

I picked him up by accident.

Of course, it can’t be said that it was all by chance because I have the “Rakan” Explorers’ Guild, which has the largest number of personnel in the country.

“I learned how to be a ruler from him.”

When I took in Junko, the dungeon had not yet appeared.

Therefore, I had not yet awakened to the unique skill of Change of Strategy.

What I learned from Junko was her personality.

Junko’s soul helped me create a “shell” that would give shape to my amorphous soul.

By the time I picked up Clovis, things had changed a lot.

With the advent of the dungeon, I acquired the unique skill of “Change of Strategy.”

What I learned from Clovis was not just about personality.

By observing Clovis’s state of mind, I was able to add a number of strategies to my repertoire of Change of Strategy.

“As for Kiriko Kandori… was she a disappointment?”

Of all the people I met at the Cold House, she had an exceptional career as a researcher.

However, her personality was fragile and lacked unity.

“She was just a poor researcher who lost her mind after her supervisor took away her achievements. Her personality was quite weak. This weakness and fragility led to extreme behavior and results… but this was not something I should have accepted.”

If I accept a personality with social adjustment problems, I will also have social adjustment problems.

Even though she was a disappointment, I did not have an emotional response like “I am disappointed.”

I just cut her out of my life, like cutting out an unwanted card in a card game.

“Well, she was useful after all. Practically speaking, she’s more than a perfect score.”

Fixing the gate to the other world was an unimaginably difficult task.

Even for me, who was raised by a spiritualist grandmother, the modern world where dungeons have appeared seems fundamentally crazy.

But more than that, the idea that another world actually exists and that it is possible to open a passageway to it was something I could only imagine as a tall tale told by Clovis.

Of course, it is difficult to lie to someone who can intuit the other person’s mind.

Clovis did not seem to have a complex personality, so the risk of him deceiving me was low.

“Yuto Kurashiki… If he hadn’t interfered, it would have been realized a little earlier.”

If things had gone as Clovis had planned, the collapse of the Okutama Lake Dungeon would have opened a huge hole to another world.

But to my surprise, that young man was able to defeat that haughty elf king.

He was also the one who caused the destruction of Kiriko Kandori.

Now that I think about it, he was probably the one who killed my daughter Junko.

I can summon the spirits of the dead, but for some reason, I can’t summon Junko’s spirit.

At first, I thought it might be because she died in a strange way in the dungeon, but I could summon the spirits of the other members of the Rakan without any problem.

I don’t know why I can’t summon Junko’s spirit.

It’s probably because of some kind of skill that Yuto Kurashiki has.

“I didn’t think there was anything special about his personality…”

From the impression I got from talking to him on the phone, he didn’t seem to have a sharp personality that would make me want to recruit him for Cold House.

He was a young man who had become a shut-in because he was incompatible with society, to begin with.

I’m sure he had his own reasons for being like that, but as a robot without emotions, I judge things only by their outcome.

What I look for in a role model is a strength so great that it makes society adapt to the individual, not the other way around.

It doesn’t matter if it’s good or bad, but it’s no good to be weak.

Despite his appearance, Yuto Kurashiki has a certain amount of personal strength, but it is not the kind of strength that would allow him to get his way in the world.

For better or worse, I’d say he’s a good young man.

“How did he become so powerful?”

Of course, the conditions for social success are not necessarily limited to the strength of one’s personality.

“Was it luck, or was he blessed with a good match… or are there other unknown factors at play?”

Whatever the case, the result is that the young man named Yuto Kurashiki is undoubtedly becoming a unique point, the eye of the typhoon, in modern Japan―or even modern Earth.

There is also a strange connection between him and Junko.

I am surprised that he was the one who was blamed for causing the author of “Insect Cage”―Sayuki Natsume―to commit suicide.

Although I have no feelings, I am surprised when something that is objectively unlikely happens.

I am surprised, but I accept it.

I don’t deny it out of surprise.

However, considering the country’s population, the connection between the novel’s author and Yuto Kurashiki is a low-probability event that cannot be dismissed as a coincidence.

Furthermore, it seems that Yuto Kurashiki is also connected to Haruka Shinozaki, the Princess Halkafia that Clovis was obsessed with, and her daughter.

Haruka Shinozaki is doing an impeccable job as a government spokesperson, thanks to her beauty and spiritual charm as an elf.

If we grant her daughter Japanese citizenship, she will continue to work hard for us.

The only concern is that her daughter’s whereabouts are unknown…

“It’s amazing that he’s behind this, too.”

Honoka Shinozaki is undoubtedly being protected by Yuto Kurashiki.

The original plan was to keep the Shinozaki mother and daughter, who had no residency status, in an immigration facility and make the mother work on the condition that the daughter’s status would be guaranteed.

The fact that she is an elf is proof that another world exists, which is easy for humans to understand.

The thought that they might be able to add a beauty like her to their party members will give them the impetus to accept immigrants from another world.

Although we could say that things are going according to plan since we have her ‘cooperation’, it was unexpected that the trump card escaped our grasp.

If it was Yuto Kurashiki’s involvement again, what a coincidence.

“It seems that my grandmother also had her own ideas about the concept of ’cause and effect’…”

My grandmother is unable to hold a conversation at the moment.

Even I don’t know whether the grandmother in front of me is the original grandmother, the spirit of those who died in battle, or something else.

It feels like everything has already become one, and I can only call her a collective spirit.

I even took her to a famous psychiatrist, but they completely gave up on her.

Of course, she can’t lead a social life in this state, so she lives in a nursing home run by the Rakan Group.

I don’t even know if she understands that the “Vessel of the King” she built with such tenacity has finally taken its place.

The person who took away my compassion for my grandmother was my grandmother herself, so I don’t have any special feelings for her.

I am now a machine-like god who takes in the feelings, intentions, and desires of all the people in this country and works to make them come true.

My grandmother is now a being who is not even worth one-twenty millionth of a human being.

The reason I thought of my grandmother was that I thought she might have some kind of opinion about the imbalance of “cause and effect” surrounding Yuto Kurashiki.

“However, the gate that Kurashiki-kun prevented from opening was also opened by Kiriko Kandori.”

Specifically, it was opened by the mad scientist Kiriko Kandori, the heroic prince from another world and the being who calls themself the god of this country.

“No one can stop me now. I will turn this country, this world, into a paradise. A paradise on Earth that everyone desires.”

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