Prologue: Everyday Life on the Isle of Paramounts

My death was the result of overwork at my grueling office job—at least, that was what I had thought, but it was actually because of a god’s careless mistake, something even less likely than winning the lottery. From the perspective of an omnipotent being, a human is only one of the many life-forms out there as numerous as the stars, and their fate can be changed by the twitch of a finger. But unlike one of the gods you might see as final bosses in manga or video games, this one was kind and had even profusely apologized while prostrating herself before me. Because of her, I had ended up reincarnating in another world, and receiving a special reincarnation bonus.

When this god told me about reincarnating, I had been simply exhausted from all the stress of my job and my personal relationships—exhausted enough to hallucinate that I had died of overwork. So, I had wished to be given a healthy body and to be sent to a place without any people. My originally unhealthy thirty-year-old body turned into one that was around twenty, and I found myself reborn on an island without any humans.

It had now been two months since I’d first gazed up at this star-filled sky without any artificial light, and set my heart on living on this island alone, and—

“Yeah, people are just hopeless when they’re tired,” I said to myself as I lazily lounged in a hammock strung between two forest trees.

“What’s this all of a sudden?” Reina asked, lifting her face up from her book and looking at me curiously. As she sat nearby at an outdoor table, any stranger would have assumed she was an ordinary young woman enjoying camping. However, her real identity was as one of the Seven Celestial Archmages, the most powerf