Surviving as a Cult Leader in Another World

Lady Milione.

She cornered me.
Her large breasts touched my stomach, and they were softer than anything I had ever felt before.
"What is this?"
When I asked, flustered, Milione clicked her tongue and stepped away from me.
Then, she snorted.
"I heard stories about you being a very interesting man. But you, meeting you in person, I don't feel even the smallest spark."
"My heart is full of the Holy Spirit's flame."
"Saying things like that is boring and dull. Honestly, when I heard that Psyche had taken a husband, I came here with high expectations. But it's a dud."
Lady Milione gave me a harsh evaluation.
Psyche bristled at that.
"My husband, Hyde, is an interesting person! He writes incredibly interesting stories, you know? Milione, you've probably never read anything like them!"
"He writes stories? You mean novels?"
Milione's furrowed brows softened slightly with anticipation. Psyche, as if waiting for this moment, pulled out a book from somewhere.
`"The Village of the Back Alley Nymph"`.
It was the first fairy tale I had ever written, the one I showed to Dihon.
Psyche handed it to Milione and said,
"It's so interesting that I decided to personally fund its printing this time. My husband Hyde's name will surely become widely known!"
Her eyes darted towards the boxes Milione's soldiers had brought into the parlor.
"This is what a good book is. Not that blasphemous, trashy, obscene book! Please, read it. Then you'll understand how amazing my husband Hyde is!"
It was praise that made me blush.
My heart pounded.
My dream during my ministry had always been to write a book about faith in my old age.
I wondered how Milione, the daughter of Archbishop Archibald, would evaluate my book, which contained the essence of my faith.
Perhaps she would praise it immensely.
After all, both Psyche and Dihon liked it.
What if she loves it so much that she wants to gift it to the Archbishop?
Then, maybe Archbishop Archibald would take notice of me and say, "Become my disciple. No, I will become your disciple! Teach me! And take my daughter as your second wife!" while kneeling before me.
With such thoughts in mind, Lady Milione read my book for about 10 minutes.
It was a tense moment in many ways.
Thud-
"Boring. It's a low-level, childish book. Especially this 'Nymph,' what is she even supposed to be? She uses strange speech and acts like a fool. It's probably a projection of the author himself, isn't it?"
Harsh criticism.
It was a huge blow!
Crack-
I felt like my body was being ripped apart from head to toe. Lady Milione picked up the book `"The Way of the Beast"` that was spread out in front of her.
She bit her lip slightly as she flipped through the pages.
"This is what you call a book. It's like an axe striking a frozen world. These direct and poignant expressions are a first for me. Lust, this man is clearly a genius! Dick and pussy. How can a human mind even conceive of such direct and vulgar words?"
Milione criticized the "Back Alley Nymph" I wrote, but praised the obscene `"The Way of the Beast"`.
Psyche was utterly shocked by this situation.
"H-How can the Archbishop's daughter use such words…!? Lady Milione! That's vulgar! I want to wash my ears!"
Apart from Psyche's anger, I was also a little angry.
How dare she criticize my "Back Alley Nymph"?
This woman was probably too young to understand the essence of my faith.
So, I decided to explain it to her kindly.
"Lady Milione, `"The Way of the Beast"` cannot be considered a book. It's just a combination of letters that stimulates the peripheral nervous system. It's full of pleasure-seeking lies. The person behind the mask of Lust is surely a coward. That's why he hides his face with a mask─"
Bang!
Before I could finish, Lady Milione slammed her fist on the table.
Crack-
The Agarphe family's parlor table split in half.
"Are you saying that our Archibald family's second son was killed by such an insignificant man? Are you saying that our Archibald family is insignificant too?"
"No─" Archibald's second son wasn't killed by Lust.
He died from shock due to excessive blood loss.
But before I could even explain, Milione continued.
"I'm telling you, Lust is an amazing man. The world should never underestimate him. Look at this 'metric system' that appears in `"The Way of the Beast"`. This is the most amazing unit I've ever seen."
The metric system.
I included the metric system in `"The Way of the Beast"`.
Because I was still confused about feet, yards, and pounds, I used the units I was familiar with.
Milione added,
"1 meter…the standard of that measurement is based on the length of Lust's penis when it's fully erect, right? Just like the founding king designated his foot size as a foot, Lust declared his own measurement system. This is clearly an act of rebellion against the kingdom!"
This is insane.
I felt dizzy.
"…How can a person's length be 3 feet? It's obviously a lie."
"It's not 3 feet, it's 1 meter. And stop belittling other people's things just because yours is small. Besides, were you castrated by the Crescent Moon Sisterhood?"
Castrated?
I was healthy.
In fact, I was too healthy, that was the problem!
Psyche flinched.
"Ca-castrated? Hyde, was the reason you didn't want to share a bed with me because of such an injury? Hyde, are you no longer a man?"
Psyche's eyes were glistening with tears.
She seemed worried that I might have been castrated.
Milione frowned at the sight.
"Psyche, you swore to live as a purist even after marriage, right? You're already famous in the kingdom. The story of `"Virgin Psyche"`. Then it doesn't matter if your husband is a castrated eunuch, does it? Wouldn't an eunuch be even better?"
She was right.
Whether I was a man or not didn't matter to Psyche, the purist.
Psyche was flustered.
"Th-that's─"
"Humph, whatever! Anyway, congratulations on your marriage! That box full of `"The Way of the Beast"` is a wedding gift. And I'm going to take a look around this territory for a bit. Hyde, you guide me."
Me, guide her?
Isn't this usually done by the same gender?
As I recalled the passage about men and women needing to be devout and separate, Milione said,
"I don't see you as a man. And even if you went crazy and tried to attack me, you wouldn't be able to beat me. I've even beaten Psyche in a fight."
Lady Milione beat Psyche in a fight?
Was that even possible?
While I was wondering, Psyche frowned.
"That's because you attacked me with a cowardly surprise attack, Milione!"
Even if it was a surprise attack, it was surprising.
Lady Milione was a scary person.
"That's the tallest spire in the Agarphe territory. It's a whopping 4 stories high. Isn't it incredibly tall?"
"Humph, a 4-story spire is the tallest building? How dull."
Lady Milione yawned boredly.
She wiped a tear from the corner of her eye and said,
"I was expecting it to be comparable to the royal capital. But the Agarphe territory is just countryside, a boring village with nothing interesting. I pity the people who live in such a dull place."
Lady Milione criticized the Agarphe territory.
I liked this place quite a bit, so I frowned.
Milione said to me,
"But Lust is definitely hiding somewhere in this boring and quiet territory."
"...!"
That was a sharp deduction.
To have such sharp intuition.
Perhaps `"The Village of the Back Alley Nymph"` and `"The Way of the Beast"`.
Did she deduce the existence of 'me' from these two books?
No, that was absolutely impossible!
I made sure the writing style, tone, pacing, and detailed expressions of the two books were completely different!
There was no way she could find out that I was the author of both books!
However, there were many uncertainties in this world.
The existence of magic and holy power.
Perhaps the Archibald family had figured out my identity through some mystical sorcery.
With that nervousness, I carefully asked,
"Why do you think that man, Lust, is hiding in this territory?"
"Huh? You don't even know that? It's because I'm here. Because I, Milione Archibald, am in the Agarphe territory, that man is definitely here too."
…What is she talking about?
It was a reason I hadn't even considered.
"A fool like you wouldn't understand. But according to `"The Way of the Beast"`, Lust is an omniscient and omnipotent person. Of course, Lust would have known that I, the daughter of Archibald, would come to this territory."
"Uh-huh?"
"The content of `"The Way of the Beast"` is about Lust, the defiler of beasts, raping and forcibly violating the most famous women in the kingdom. Isn't this a prophecy?"
The content of `"The Way of the Beast"` was a direct copy of the story "Another World Beast Cult" that I had won an award for in a contest.
It was a story about a cult leader who sleeps with all the most famous women in the kingdom.
He sleeps with the princess, the saintess, and of course, violates all the famous female knights.
Sleeping with every famous woman was the trend of 21st-century obscene novels.
But it seemed that Milione had greatly misunderstood the content.
A prophecy?
"The most famous woman in the kingdom is me, Milione Archibald. So Lust would want to violate me, and he's probably hiding somewhere, waiting for an opportunity."
"...."
"Perhaps the reason why Oscar Archibald was brutally castrated, tortured, and killed was because of me? He anticipated that I would come to this Agarphe territory to retrieve Oscar's body─!"
No.
Lust didn't kill Oscar.
Lust didn't castrate him either.
"Lust, he's a truly terrifying and scary man."
Milione, I'm starting to find you scarier.
Why did I even consider taking this woman as my second wife?
"But well, since a bounty of 50 gold coins has been placed, he'll be caught soon. I really want to see the face behind that mask. I wonder what kind of villainous face he has─!"
50 gold coins.
That was a huge amount of money.
A bounty that would normally be placed on famous heretics from groups like the witches' coven "Walpurgis" or the killer group "Psychoes" was now placed on Lust, who had only written obscene novels.
`"Lust of the Beasts"`.
The thought of the wanted posters with that name causing an uproar in the kingdom again made me feel itchy, as if ants were crawling on my back.
To suppress the itch, I spoke to Milione with a feigned seriousness,
"Lust won't be in this territory. He's a coward who wouldn't even dream of violating Lady Milione, the daughter of Archibald. We will protect you."
"A coward? That's what you call yourself, hiding in a dung heap because you're afraid of death! Lust, that man, is more fearless than anyone else. I know! I've read `"The Way of the Beast"` hundreds of times!"
So that's why the book was so tattered.
It seemed like a good time to make an excuse and get away from Milione.
If I stayed here any longer, I felt like I might get a hole drilled in my head.
The digitalis herb I had procured for Dihon.
Shouldn't the medicine made from it be ready by now?
As I was about to excuse myself, Milione said,
"I, who know Lust better than anyone else in the world, say that Lust will attack me tonight. Because there's intel that that 'Wrath of the Deadly Sins' will attack the territory tonight."
Wrath is attacking the territory?
Tonight?
What was going on?
"According to the survivors' testimonies, Wrath and Lust formed a team, right? Since Wrath will appear, Lust will definitely appear amidst the chaos. And he'll try to violate me!"
It was an absurd story.
But the Archibald family's intelligence network was reliable.
I felt a wave of dizziness.
At the same time, I couldn't help but ask something that had been on my mind.
"Lady Milione, what happened to the bandages on your hand?"
"Oh, this? It's nothing. Anyway, I'm leaving now. Hyde, I'm bored and tired of seeing your dull face and listening to your dull words."
Whoosh-
With those words, Milione left as she pleased.
Time passed, and evening arrived.
I told people that Wrath would attack the territory tonight and warned them to tighten security.
But that wasn't enough.
If Wrath really attacked this territory, many civilians would be slaughtered.
The Agarphe territory wasn't strong enough to deal with Wrath yet.
"If it's true…"
I have to stop her.
I'm the only one who can.
"This, damn it. Lord, please forgive me for becoming a righteous heretic just for today. This is the only way. The only way─."
I put on my mask.
And under the pretense of going to the bathroom, I climbed to the highest spire in the Agarphe territory.
A masked woman was on the top floor.
A woman wearing a swirl mask.
"Wrath."
"Lust! What are you doing here! You really are omniscient and omnipotent as written in `"The Way of the Beast"`! To think you knew I was here!"
How would I know, you crazy bitch!
You always like to look down on an area from the highest point before you attack it!
In Agarphe, this 4-story spire is the highest point!
And.
Jiggle jiggle-
Height: 160cm.
F-cup.
Probably 48kg.
There are bandages on her hands too.
Those must be the injuries she sustained when she crushed Psyche's sword with her grip.
"...."
I felt my eyes behind the mask widen.
Wrath of the Deadly Sins.
My partner in many crimes, but an unknown entity whose face I had never seen behind the swirl mask.
I felt like I had finally discovered her identity today.
Wrath, your true identity is Lady Milione!