Melanoche and Carnachias send you a message.

You get a message as you lay next to Citrinas. Focusing on it, the message opens to reveal a long paragraph from Melanoche herself.

"Hey Anon, it's Melanoche. I'm not sure what you did, but you're surrounded by heroines and the forces of light and we just saw two of your monster cores disappear, so I'll assume the worst is happening. Luckily for you, the resulting power vacuum from moving so many soldiers has permitted the forces of darkness to claim unprecedented swathes of land. For that, I give you a strand of my hair and Carnachias'. I must also apologize. We can't send reinforcements to you, and we know you still aren't strong enough to fight an entire army and the heroines at the same time. You've done admirably, but we know your days are numbered even with your cheats. We'll be cutting our losses and summoning another champion, as the forces of light have already summoned a second hero for this world. We will no longer contact you or keep track of you to avoid letting that cursed bird Ariel track our plans. I apologize for this. Had you been luckier, you would have easily surpassed the demon king in power. So long, my first champion." The message wrote as you finally gained the status effect monster power. A second message appears as you close the first one, the sender labeled as Carnachias.

"Hey stud, Carnachias here. Heard that everyone who is anyone is bum rushing you after you bum rushed their girl. Sorry bro, but you did WAY better than we expected as our lab rat. I kinda expected you to freeze over and die on day one. Mel's idea, not mine btw. She didn't like your build and wanted to replace you with a new champion, so she sent you there to die. Now she's kicking herself for that since you caused more chaos in a few months than the demon king did in in years. Anyway, I'm casting my custom spell on you. It's called sole discretion. Now gods and people can't detect what cheats you have or differentiate you from a standard monster. Can't do much, but at least it's something. Course, we can't sense you either. If you live through this, nobody's gonna know you're our custom character. If you die, sorry! In the small chance you do live, I also set my inbox to auto reply, so you'll still get monster powers if you fulfill the criteria. I just won't notice. Anyway, we'll be summoning a new OC character since the forces of light just spawned ANOTHER hero (can you believe it? Balance much?). We'll try and avenge you! P.S. if I were you, I'd be doing more breeding than bleeding. Might as well as go out with a bang, am I right? Eh? Eh? Real talk though, you really are screwed. Even the demon king would die from an attack of this size. Again, sorry about the spawn point and ruining your adventure. Mel didn't like you, and she tossed you there before I noticed. I wanted to spawn you in my church and give you an orgy on day one. If you actually live, our deal still stands. I like you better. New champion's a super edge lord that isn't into fun kinky stuff. Didn't even choose a penis. Was all "I'm a girl! Why do I need a cock!?". Prude. Mel's also been making sure applicants from here on are all women, so it's super boring. Anyway, cheering for you, king! You're still my priest, so I might chat if you find one of my churches and pray there! AKA, Call me if you live. I have faith you'll get away!

-Your Goddess, Carnachias

You read as you resist the urge to cheer and whoop at your luck. It seems Carnachias and Melanoche weren't omniscient, and assumed you were having a final showdown with the heroes affer abducting Citrinas. They were even replacing you with a new champion and cutting their losses. Judging by their responses, the best Melanoche and Carnachias could discern from you were vague actions you've done or achievements for monster powers. You were now free from responsibility! Now you just needed to get Citrinas to leave you alone and avoid the second hero that was being summoned, and you'd be golden. As you close the messages, you hear Citrinas wake up with a groan, only to let out a scared squeal.

"V-Verdi!? Why am I-you did-you pervert!" She says, remembering your the previous night as she sits up in the bed. Opening your eyes, you feign fatigue as you look to Citrinas, her face cherry red as she looks away from you.

"Seems somebody woke up on the wrong side of the bed." You note as she throws her pillow at you.

"You, you, you kissed me and held my hand and massaged me, and-" She says angrily, looking away from you sheepishly. Taking advantage of the moment, you hug her from behind, causing her to tense up.

"I might not be able hurt you or directly antagonize you, but I can still bully you like this." You say, kissing her on the cheek as she heats up and places her hand on your forehead.

"Domain!" She exclaims, banishing you from her world as you reappear in the mountains once more. Instead of appearing in the middle of the camp, you find yourself inside a tent with a pile of salt pork, hardtack, and winter clothes waiting for you. It seems they expected you to pop out here. Donning the outfit, you walk outside to find the troopers look towards you. Despite outleveling your human form by several leagues and your monster form by a significant margin, they look to you with respect of a peer. As you try to wander off camp back to the mountain, you feel a muscular hand grab ahold of your shoulder.

"Where are you going?" Alkadabuki says as you freeze in place.

"Er... Bathroom?" You say as she picks you up like a sack of potatoes and drags you away.

"Well, hold it. It's breakfast time." She says as you feel a familiar wave of pain in your core. Those cursed heroines! What kind of OP ability lets you just scream an enemy to ****!? Dragging you into the tent, you find yourself surrounded by the 4 heroines, each of them sitting around a table eating what appears to be omelete rice. How'd they get eggs and rice in the artic tun-oh right, OP isekai cheats.

"Tomoko, I got him." The Amazon says as the hero claps her hands and smiles at your presence.

"Splendid! Sit him down there so we can eat." She says as you're unceremoniously plopped at an empty chair across from her. To your dismay, you're seated next to Elmeria, her mere existence hurting you like a thousand needles.

"Er... Not hungry." You say, half worried the food was blessed with holy magic. The last thing you wanted was to return to your true form in the middle of the camp.

"Okay!" Tomoko says while still smiling at you. Though the mood around the table is still cheery as Ruya and Elmeria exchange idle chatter, you feel your stomach turn into knots. Perhaps teasing Citrinas this morning was a bad idea.