Surviving as a Cult Leader in Another World

"Defendant, the city of Royalroad and its 330,000 residents─guilty."

Royalroad, the royal capital.
The city gates, which had not allowed any enemy invasion for 25 years, were forcibly opened today.
The cult, which had rapidly gained power in the past five years, went wild like a swarm of locusts and occupied the capital.
As black smoke billowed everywhere and screams and groans soared to the heavens, someone suddenly appeared from among the red-cloaked cultists.
"How boring. The ironclad gates of Royalroad were breached this easily."
She was wearing a red robe like the surrounding cultists, but her graceful figure couldn't be hidden.
Probably a young woman.
The vortex-shaped mask signified a prominent figure within the cult, bearing the name of a "Deadly Sin".
"I don't have time to deal with these small fries! Everyone, move quickly! If you dawdle even a little, this Lady Wrath will crush your balls!"
Crack, crunch-.
The masked woman clenched her fists.
"We will continue to advance and reach the royal treasury!"
The cultists had one goal.
To occupy the royal palace and treasury.
If things continued like this, the royal palace, with its 400 years of history, would surely fall into the hands of the cult.
Of course, even in the pitch-black despair, there was hope.
Someone appeared before the prominent figure who was making a triumphant advance, crushing the knights' plate armor with her bare hands.
"Stop right there!"
Her long hair was as red as flames, and her armor shone silver. As the greatsword she plunged towards the ground glinted, the woman shouted.
"You shall not advance a single step further!!!"
The excitement of the fearlessly rampaging cult was cooled like water poured on a fire by the woman's shout.
Psyche, the guardian of the church, the Maiden.
She was a woman called the hope of the kingdom, seething with traitors and sorrow.
"Wrath of the Deadly Sins."
"Foolish Psyche."
Psyche and Wrath were polar opposites who had engaged in countless battles to the death, and yet, there had been no decisive victory.
As the two women's murderous auras clashed fiercely, everyone watching the situation thought the same thing.
Today, one of them would surely die─.
However, contrary to everyone's expectations, their bloody battle did not materialize.
The cultists began to kneel as the crowd parted like the sea in the Bible, and someone appeared along that red path.
He was a tall man wearing a mask with a red cross on a black background.
"Lu…Lust."
"Two of the Deadly Sins have descended upon us…!"
Lust.
An unidentified stranger called a living demon.
Blasphemer, defiler, land-fucker, corrupter, virgin devourer, plague, demon king─the nicknames that followed the man were impossible to trace.
The only thing that was known for sure was that the book "The Way of the Beast", which he was said to have written at the behest of an evil god, became the bible of the cultists and brought chaos to the world.
Such a man appeared in this place.
Even Psyche, the Maiden who had always bravely confronted the cult, was tense at Lust's appearance.
"…Lust, the Beast."
Having been afflicted by his "sorcery" several times, Psyche wanted to turn around and run away immediately. It was the same for Wrath, who was also a member of the Deadly Sins.
"…Lust, this pressure is overwhelming. Even I almost pissed myself. You must be excited because it's the day our Blood Crusade conquered the royal capital, right?"
Lust didn't answer Wrath, the high-ranking cultist's question. He wasn't even looking at Wrath or Psyche.
He was only looking at the royal treasury.
"What I desire lies beyond there."
Lust opened his heavy mouth and muttered a few words, then took a step.
At that moment, Psyche, who had come to her senses, shouted and swung her greatsword at Lust.
"Lust! The treasury is full of tools that will harm the world! You have to stop now! Stop! Stop it!"
Whoosh-! When Psyche's greatsword flew towards my neck, I honestly freaked out.
Fortunately, Wrath, the high-ranking cultist, blocked the attack with her fist, saving my life.
Clang-!
"Lust! I'll take care of Psyche, so you go to the treasury!"
I didn't want to answer Wrath, who was babbling while putting on her gauntlets.
My real name wasn't Lust of the whatever Crusade, but Hyde, a discharged soldier and returning college student!
To explain why I'm in this situation, I'd have to talk about the novel contest held on the suspicious website "Evilpia" and the 100 million won prize money─.
─Unfortunately, I didn't have time right now.
The cult's rebellion would soon be suppressed, and the Blood Crusade would be arrested and beheaded. In this world without human rights, cultists were either burned at the stake or beheaded.
I ran through the burning palace towards the treasury. The reason I instigated this reckless rebellion was in the royal treasury of Royalroad.
The royal treasury was usually guarded by more than 10 guards, but perhaps because I had bribed them earlier, the front of the door was empty now.
"Alright!"
I cheered.
The pent-up stress from pretending to be a cult leader for five years felt like it was flying away.
Creak-.
As I opened the door to the treasury and entered, I saw piles of glittering gold bars and jewels. If I were a thief, I would have naturally been drawn to these treasures, but I only wanted one thing.
The King's Three Sacred Treasures.
Among them, the object called the "Holy Grail". This "Holy Grail" was filled with various rumors and myths, but what I cared about was this:
The Holy Grail saves the soul of its owner─.
I wanted to be saved.
"My dream was actually to be a pioneer church pastor! Why the hell am I became a cult leader instead?!"
I, who was supposed to return to the seminary as a second-year student, had become a cult leader while struggling to survive in this barbaric and profane world that I had suddenly fallen into.
It was so unfair.
I cried every day because it was so unfair that I couldn't even cry anymore!
At this rate, my soul was destined for hell after death.
I was desperately hoping for the salvation of my soul.
"Is that it?!"
A golden, glittering vessel caught my eye as I searched the treasury.
It was as big as my head, so it was worthy of being called the "Holy Grail".
How much effort had I put in over the past year to obtain this?
"…Salvation is mine!"
I smiled with joy and reached out for my salvation.
The moment I finally grabbed the Holy Grail─.
Whirrrrrrl-.
I felt like my whole being was being sucked into the Holy Grail.
"What the━─!?"
This must be how rats feel when they fall into a washing machine.
But the pain was brief, and I started to feel better and better.
It felt like the sewage called sin was being drained from my soul, making it clean.
It felt like I was becoming a new person!
"Is this heaven?!"
I shouted with gratitude, filled with emotion.
Then the woman who was watching me screamed in surprise.
"Eeh!"
Thud-.
The woman who fell on her butt had long blonde hair and wore a brown robe. She had a dot on the bridge of her nose like a crosshair, and she was a rather cute beauty.
Who is she? Why is there a woman here?
"Ow, ow… I suddenly screamed…, ugh, my butt hurts."
Jiggle.
Her breasts were quite large, despite being hidden by the shabby robe.
Probably 75D.
A very blessed size indeed.
Is she an angel?
Did I really go to heaven because I was saved?
"…A-are you alright?"
The angel asked me as she rubbed her butt and got up.
Am I alright?
I looked around.
This place was too gloomy to be the paradise of the saved that I had always dreamed of.
Rats were stuffed in the old shack-like interior, and snakes and frogs were preserved in solution.
There was a musty smell all around.
"Where is this place?"
"It's Mr. Paltman's house in Sodomi. Mr. Paltman is a physician called "Bluebeard"… He brought you here when you collapsed and gave you first aid…"
Something flashed in my mind at the woman's words.
"Bluebeard" of Sodomi.
It was a familiar name.
Once upon a time, I was severely injured and treated by a man called "Bluebeard".
And his assistant's name was Nicola.
I asked.
"Is your name, by any chance, Nicola?"
"H-how did you know my name?"
"How do I know, you bitch?!"
I grabbed Nicola's breasts with both hands.
Women tend to get hurt when their breasts are grabbed hard.
"Kyaaaa!!!"
Nicola, who had suffered Lust's 22nd hellish punishment, "Milking the Milk Jug", collapsed on the floor again, revealing her vulgar nature.
"Y-you crazy bastard!!! After I saved you!!! You crazy pervert!!!"
"Calling someone a crazy pervert? You really can't hide your true nature, you wicked Nicola! When I think about how much I suffered because of you guys─."
Actually, that "Bluebeard" bastard who treated me in the past was a very bad bastard who conducted unethical experiments on patients' bodies and sold them as sacrifices to the cult when they were no longer useful!
And his assistant, the "Wicked Nicola", was a total bitch who used her pretty face and 75D cups to lure men and turn them into fools. The D in 75D stood for 'Devil'!
Later, when I realized that I had been tricked by these people and sold as a sacrifice to the cult, I was so angry that I even developed a circular bald spot for a while!
I don't know why these guys appeared in front of me again, but such bad guys needed to be punished.
"Defendant Nicola, guilty! Defendant Bluebeard Paltman, guilty!"
Clang! Clang!
I poured and smashed every chemical I could see on the floor.
And I set the floor on fire with a nearby candle.
Whoosh!
"This is the holy flame!"
Bluebeard's shack, as a den of iniquity, caught fire in an instant, and I was able to escape from it refreshingly.
The dawn breeze was very refreshing.
Then I saw a leather newspaper lying in front of Paltman's house.
Was it delivered today?
Or was it yesterday's?
I checked the date and it was June 6th, 12th year of the Arud calendar.
12, 6, 6. A very crappy date.
But it was also an unforgettable day.
It was the day I first opened my eyes in this strange world.
"Wait a minute. Bluebeard and Nicola, who should have been executed and dead, are alive, and an old newspaper is lying on the floor as if it was just delivered…"
Crackle-.
A hypothesis flashed through my mind like lightning.
Could it be that I went back in time?
I wondered if the miracle of a person going back in time was possible.
But I had a hunch.
"The Holy Grail!"
I touched the Holy Grail.
To be saved!
That's right.
I must have returned to my pure days before I committed sins, before I became a cultist, through the Holy Grail!
"Now I am a pure theology student who has not yet sinned!"
It was like being saved.
"This time, I will become a faithful and devout clergyman!"
"Help me! A crazy pervert cause fire─ cough cough!"