What on earth is going on?
Age at death: 34. Died in the line of duty after being shot by the criminal I was pursuing.
Having died so young, I should have left for a heaven full of dreams and hope with this glorious title…
"You idiot. I said you were lacking, but did you really decide to become completely useless?"
Where's heaven, and why is there a middle-aged man I've never met before shouting insults right to my face?
Is this… my heaven?
"I told you, if you're going to die, die at the Grand Temple. Why do you keep returning to the family estate? What will it take for you to come to your senses?!"
Bam!
The middle-aged man slammed the table, still shouting things I couldn't make sense of.
The fancy food set before him rattled.
So… I guess I'm in some sort of dining room?
A chandelier hanging from the ceiling, a long table covered in white cloth, elegant candleholders.
Aren't these things only supposed to exist in movies?
Even the man cursing at me, and the people watching behind him, were all wearing luxurious suits and dresses.
Is this the afterlife, or some kind of early-modern fantasy romance world?
"I can't watch your disgraceful behavior any longer. Drag her out immediately, lock her in her room, and don't give her even a sip of water! And at sunrise tomorrow, throw her out to the Grand Temple!"
Well… one thing's for sure—this isn't heaven.
Before I could even process this revelation, some women grabbed me by the arms and started dragging me away.
"Ah, wait!"
Crash!
…Huh? What?
Let's ignore the fact that I'm wearing what looks like a maid cosplay uniform…
But why am I being dragged away so easily? And by women who don't even look that strong?
That can't be right.
Do muscles vanish when you die?
"You've completely ruined my appetite."
A mocking voice reached me, frozen in confusion. It came from a young man sitting in front of a luxurious meal.
"Do I even have to see your face here? This place isn't for someone like you. Get lost, Ordel."
Even though the guy, who looked way younger than me, was acting like a complete jerk, I couldn't say a word in return.
Ordel, Ordel, Ordel.
What is this? That name—familiar, yet ominous.
Why do they keep calling me that, like it's actually my name…?
Beep.
[Welcome, user ■■■! I am the AI system that manages dimensional travel.]
At that moment, a strange window popped up in front of my dazed eyes.
Like one of those system messages you see when playing games…
[You are currently possessed in the world of Sacred Idella. From today onward, your name is "Ordel Kyris."]
[I am here to support you to the best of my abilities during your time in this world. I look forward to working with you.]
"What the hell…"
This is nonsense.
I closed my eyes thinking I'd be headed straight to heaven…
But without my consent, I've been thrown into a second life.
What is this? Give me back my heaven.
I was a civil servant.
More specifically, I was a police officer who caught bad guys.
Low pay, and working overtime was a given whenever a case broke out.
Sometimes I had to go on stakeouts that lasted for months. Work-life balance? Never even saw a trace of it.
The only comfort I had in that life was web novels.
Because with my erratic lifestyle, it was hard to spend time with anyone else—but web novels were always there.
"...But now, I think I'm going to start hating it."
Sacred Idella is a romance fantasy novel where the heroine becomes a saint and saves the world.
Did I possess that heroine?
Of course not.
Instead, I possessed the pathetic villainess who causes all sorts of trouble, is jealous of the much more competent heroine, torments her like a lunatic…
And in the end, gets destroyed by the male leads in a glorious downfall!
The typical trashy villainess that always shows up in romance fantasy novels.
I became Ordel Kyris.
"And to make matters worse, her family is a complete disaster."
They were so harsh with Ordel that I thought maybe she'd been taken in by enemies or something.
But no—surprisingly, this was her actual family.
The middle-aged man who just gave that thunderous order to starve me? That's her father, Count Kyris.
Ordel was the black sheep of the Kyris family.
You can tell just by looking at the room they dragged me into and locked me in.
A dusty attic tucked away in a dark corner, barely getting any sunlight.
Furniture clearly chewed by rats, and yellow stains left on the bedding.
If you had to choose the last character you'd ever want to possess in Sacred Idella, Ordel would win first place, hands down.
"So why the hell did I have to end up in Ordel's body?!"
Beep.
[The AI system has received your inquiry.]
As I punched the floor in frustration, a chime sounded and a system message popped up in front of me.
I immediately grabbed this damned window.
[Your soul has defied a near-impossible probability of 0.00018% and was chosen by the Sun God of this world to be possessed as an apostle.]
Wow, what a number. Practically begging to be cursed out.
So what—you want me to swear now?
[Originally, you were supposed to be reincarnated. However, due to the Sun God who brought you to this world being a little… lacking, we had no choice but to implant your soul into an already existing body.]
"Lacking?"
Lacking in what? Intelligence?
[Correction. The Sun God currently lacks the divine power required to fully reincarnate you.]
[And that is precisely why the Sun God summoned you to this world.]
Okay, let's hear it.
What kind of grand mission justified intercepting a virtuous soul that was supposed to go to heaven?
[
So now, after dragging me into a saint-themed novel, they want me to actually become a saint?
"This is insane."
I let out a hollow laugh at the ridiculousness of it all.
That's when I spotted a mirror covered in dust.
Long, flowing pink hair.
Golden eyes that still gleamed beautifully even in this filthy room.
A stunning woman with slightly upturned, cold, and proud eyes stared back at me.
If this were Earth, that face alone would have taken over the entire entertainment industry.
But what's the point?
This is Ordel—estranged from her family, plagued by deep inferiority, and known for causing chaos out of jealousy. A fake saint.
And now I'm supposed to become a real saint… in the body of someone with barely any divine power?
If that was the goal, they should've just put me in the heroine's body to begin with!
In the original novel, the run-down Sun God's temple gets miraculously revived thanks to the heroine, who brings about a golden age while saving the world.
I never imagined the Sun God would go by the uncomfortable name "Sun Crawling Back from Death," but still—if left alone, the story was supposed to unfold just fine on its own.
So why the hell did they go out of their way to forcibly possess me, someone meant to go to heaven, into the body of a fake saint?
[That question falls under forbidden knowledge. To receive an answer, your divine power must exceed 40%.]
They forcibly possessed me and now won't even tell me the truth?
No wonder the weak get trampled on.
"How much divine power do I have right now?"
Even if Ordel's a fake saint, she does have some divine power.
The novel said it was tiny, sure, but she played the saint's role before the heroine showed up, so she should at least have… 20%, right?
[Current Divine Power: 2%]
"…?"
I rubbed my eyes and looked again. But the miracle where 2% becomes 20% didn't happen.
[To fully awaken as a Saint, you must reach 100% Divine Power.]
So let me get this straight: you put me in a body with only 2% divine power, and now you expect me to become a real saint and save your whole damn temple?
No matter how I look at it… I'm pretty sure the Sun God really is lacking in intelligence.