A supporting character in a romance anime? I became a god using a rat talisman.

For someone with social anxiety, having a stranger call out their full name accurately is as shameful and terrifying as being stripped naked and thrown into the street.

She cautiously raised her head, her beautiful eyes still filled with tears, looking at the older brother who knew her name like a frightened fawn.

The teacher... called them?

"And what about the teacher?"

"He took the others and ran away first."

Michiyo reached out and gently tugged at Chiba's sleeve, as if grasping at her only lifeline.

"Big brother... let's go quickly too..."

"Wait a minute, I still have some things to take."

Qianyu activated her spiritual vision and stared at the center of the lava lake.

The massive source of magic is right below, but the question is, how do we get our hands on it?

Just as Qianyu was thinking of a solution

Michiyo's voice suddenly became urgent, as if she had sensed something, and her expression changed drastically.

"Um...big brother...run!"

Qianyu was a little confused, thinking that she was afraid the villagers would come after her, so she comforted her by saying that the group of people had been dealt with.

"What's wrong? Don't be afraid, those villagers won't dare to chase after us."

"No! Not outside!"

Michiyo was so anxious that tears streamed down her face. She shook her head frantically, her pink ahoge (antenna-like hair sticking up) thrashing wildly as she pointed towards the seemingly calm, dark depths ahead.

"There's something here...something huge...something terrifying...it's watching us..."

"Things? Where are they?"

Qianyu just scanned the magma with her spiritual vision, and apart from the ridiculously strong magical reaction, there was no sign of any living creatures in it.

Moreover, this is just a huge underground lava lake, so what could be there?

Could it be that I'm hallucinating from the heat?

"No...it really is..."

Michiyo's tears immediately fell.

She desperately shrank behind Qianyu, as if she sensed some kind of extreme terror.

"It's awake...it's looking at us..."

Chiba paused for a moment, then followed Michiyo's horrified gaze.

The enormous lava lake was eerily calm.

But at that very moment, a large rock in the center of the lake suddenly moved.

The rock slowly rose, bringing with it a large waterfall of lava.

It revealed an eyelid that looked like armor.

The next second, her eyelids opened.

A huge yellow eyeball, as big as a swimming pool, was suddenly exposed to Chiyu's view without warning.

The pupils were vertical, reflecting the firelight, as well as the tiny figures of Chiba and Michiyo.

Kazama Chiba stared at the eye that was bigger than his entire body, and at the enormous body hidden beneath the magma that was slowly rising. The muscles at the corners of his mouth twitched wildly.

He finally understood why this place was so ridiculously hot.

How could it not be hot where Golza is?!

Damn it, so this guy wasn't killed by Ultraman Tiga after all?

Having just woken up, Golza clearly had a severe case of morning grumpiness, and without any preparatory movement, immediately raised his hand to slap.

Qianyu reacted extremely quickly, instantly activating the Time Card to pause time.

"Za Warudo (The World)!"

The gray area exploded instantly around him.

Golza, who was raising his giant hand to swat down like a mosquito, froze in mid-air.

The splashing lava remained suspended in mid-air, like countless still rubies.

But this time stop came at a price; it completely drained his remaining magic.

"Out of mana."

Before Chiba could even complain, she scooped up Michiyo Urushihara and rushed toward the nearest rock hollow.

The very next second after they rolled out of that death radius.

Time resumed its flow.

"BOOM—!!"

The giant hand, as large as a small mountain, slammed down on the platform where they had just been standing.

The hard obsidian crumbled into powder in an instant, like a fragile biscuit.

The terrifying shockwave, mixed with scorching air currents, turned the already small underground space upside down.

If it was still there a moment ago, it would probably have become a two-dimensional being by now.

But this is just the beginning.

"Roar—!!"

Having missed his first attack, Golza didn't seem to have the time or inclination to search for the two scurried insects.

Those cloudy eyes looked upwards, where they could smell fresh air and smell even more vibrant flesh and blood.

It roared and its claws, like two heavy excavators, slammed into the rock above.

"Boom boom boom—"

Mountains collapsed and the earth cracked; the ground shook violently.

The entire underground cavern collapsed, and tons of boulders rained down.

Qianyu squeezed out the last bit of magic power, using the wind to create an air current shield that blocked the cascading rubble.

Visibility quickly turned to darkness.

When the last boulder fell, sealing off all escape routes, this small space was completely transformed into a tomb where people were buried alive.

……

Above ground.

The shrine entrance collapsed completely with a deafening roar.

Smoke and dust billowed into the sky, obscuring what was originally a clear autumn afternoon.

"Drive!!"

Upon seeing the collapsed mountainside, the female teacher on the bus disregarded her grief and ordered the driver to immediately drive away.

The driver, already terrified, floored the accelerator, and the bus roared up the winding mountain road like a startled bull.

Just a few hundred meters away they had driven.

A massive head covered in a hard shell broke through the thick mountain and slowly emerged.

This colossal structure, over sixty meters tall, basked in the sunlight, shaking off the dirt and pebbles.

Golza looked down at the tiny village below and roared a cry of freedom at the cage that had imprisoned it for hundreds of years.

The sound waves shattered the windows of all the surrounding houses.

"God...Lord Mountain God..."

Chapter 74 Michiyo's Self-Reproach

Before this apocalyptic scene, the village chief, whose front tooth had been knocked out by the female teacher's punch, was kneeling amidst the ruins.

His face was covered in blood, but his eyes gleamed with an almost manic joy.

"Look! The prophecy is true! The Mountain God has been resurrected!! Our new era has begun!!"

"Once you wake up, this world is ours! Eat! Eat to your heart's content! Those outsiders, those traitors, they're all yours—"

His hymn was not yet finished.

Golza lowered his head.

It looked at the noisy little thing at its feet, a hint of impatience flashing in its eyes.

What are they babbling about?

Golza was not moved in the slightest by these people's praise; only one thought occupied its mind.

I'm very hungry.

I'm so hungry I'd even want to try this low-energy junk food.

Then, the giant claw casually scooped it up.

"what--!!"

The fervent praise instantly turned into terrified wails.

Before the village chief could even react to what was happening, he was already airborne.

Immediately afterwards, Golza flipped his wrist and threw him directly into that huge mouth full of sharp teeth.

"Click".

There wasn't even any chewing involved.

The old man's final words were not praise, but a scream filled with astonishment.

"Roar--"