What Became of Sara Salar, the Baron's Daughter (Omake-sama's Explanation #1)

A few days after Miss Salar woke up.

“‘O water bullet, come forth, and pierce my foe! 【Water Bullet】!’”

Miss Salar chants the incantation.

Then, a small sphere of water forms at her fingertip, and it...... without falling to the ground as it did before, flies straight toward the target.

But its force is anything but normal.

With a hiiin!! sound I'd never heard, the 【Water Bullet】 reaches the target at overwhelming speed. The target explodes.

The momentum doesn't stop even after destroying the target; it continues on, mowing down dozens of trees in the forest behind the mansion.

Overwhelming.

Just that one word.

Just like that, the power of my 【Stone Throw】 has been easily surpassed.

“Sa...... Sara...... Sara, who was so clumsy with magic...... is using magic with such high power......”

Madam is so shocked she looks like she's about to collapse, her legs giving out.

If she falls, her clothes will get dirty, so I support her.

I...... Omake-sama and I both figured, “Well, that's how it'll go,” so it's not much of a shock...... but my feelings are pretty mixed.

To be honest, getting overtaken in combat ability by that thing, which hasn't trained at all, is incredibly frustrating.

<You mustn't let it get to you, Emi. She has been granted a god's blessing, after all. If anything, you, who can do something close to that without any blessing, are far more impressive.>

The blessing of the gods...... a gift, to those granted a god's favor.

According to Omake-sama, it usually involves being lent special abilities or a massive amount of magic power.

In other words, Miss Salar's magic just now was activated using a god's magic power, not her own.

Of course it's going to be powerful.

After that, she went on to cast not just water but wind, earth, fire, and even lightning magic, which Madam shouldn't have taught her, and completely floored Madam.

Why did she make such rapid progress?

When Madam couldn't help asking.

“It's because Emma-sa...... Mom taught me so well nano, desu!”

That's the kind of smart-aleck answer she had the gall to spit out.

If that were the case, she should have been able to use magic a long time ago.

That thoughtless, makeshift lie pisses me off.

And the way her manner and speech are subtly like the old Sara-chan and yet not, that really gets on my nerves too.

I want to kill her.

<Please restrain yourself, Emi. Even if you pick a fight with a reincarnator with a blessing, the chances of winning are very slim. Even if you managed to corner them, a god would simply grant them new power, they would awaken, and then they'd turn the tables on you.>

......Kidding, I'm kidding, Omake-sama.

There's no way I could, hurt that girl.

Because that girl, even if her soul has been swapped.

There's no doubt that she is my former friend, Sara Salar, the baron's daughter.

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An orb of light suddenly appeared and entered Sara-chan's body, which had seemed all but dead, and as a result she came back to life.

What happened at that moment?

The baron and the others in the mansion have no clue.

And so, a divine miracle had occurred.

That's how it was decided.

The baron's daughter's personality and tone of voice have changed slightly compared to before.

She has completely forgotten about me.

Including the way she occasionally says strange things, it was concluded that these were aftereffects of damage from the poison and such.

But I have Omake-sama inside me, who is extremely well-versed in this sort of thing.

What on earth happened to Sara-chan at that time?

Omake-sama explained it to me in detail.

<What happened then was a divine miracle.>

Hey, hold on!

That's exactly the same conclusion as everyone in the mansion!!

<I'll explain in detail now. First, what that orb of light that appeared in the room really was: it was a soul.>

A soul!?

Wait, but I saw plenty of my classmates being put up for auction as souls, and they weren't shining like that?

<It was shining because it had been given a massive amount of a god's magic power. In other words, it tells us that soul had been given a god's blessing.>

......Eh, Omake-sama, a soul with a god's blessing, don't tell me......

<Most likely the soul of one of your classmates...... I'd say. I don't know which god it was, but they must have kept adjusting the blessing from the moment they got the soul until now. Ability-wise, that soul has turned out quite high-spec.>

Then, Sara-chan's body right now...... isn't Sara-chan, but has been taken over by that reincarnator's soul?

What happened to Sara-chan...... the real Sara-chan's soul......?

<Right now, the body of Sara Salar, the baron's daughter, is indeed being moved mostly by the reincarnator. That said, the original soul has not vanished. Weakened by the physical damage from the poison and such, it is in a dormant state, you might say. Whether that soul will ever wake again, though, is unknown.>

Th, that's......!

Hey, Omake-sama!

Is there no way to kick the reincarnator's soul out of Sara-chan's body?

That body belongs to the real Sara-chan's soul, doesn't it!?

<To begin with, that's impossible for you as you are now, Emi, and since the original soul is dormant and inactive, doing it would kill the body of Sara Salar, the baron's daughter.>

............

I felt dizzy.

Right now, Sara Salar, the baron's daughter, is receiving a lecture on the history of the Teenidys Kingdom from Madam right in front of me.

She's as healthy as can be, making it hard to believe she was on the verge of death from poison a few days ago.

But the inside isn't the Sara-chan I know.

It's a reincarnator, pretending to be Sara-chan.

Not my friend Sara-chan, who was an idiot, noisy, full of energy, cheerful and kind.

............

......I wonder if this reincarnation, too, was done, for the filming of an Isekai Reincarnation Broadcast.

<Probably. Thinking about it now, every crisis that befell Sara Salar, the baron's daughter, may have been set up by a god. To stuff a new soul into a physical body, it is necessary to put that body into a near-death state and the original soul into a dormant state.>

......As expected of gods. They've got it made. Toying with Sara-chan for the sake of such a game. Who do they think they are? ......Gods, I guess.

......And that's how it went.

My first friend was lost.

The days like a dream, where I spent time happily with a friend, have vanished.

Like an illusion, as if to say that, from the very start, there never was any such thing.

Because I was weak.

Because I couldn't protect Sara-chan to the end.