My Cheat Skill Is Just Slapping?!

Your divine SSSSSS+ skill: slapping. Your job: repossessing 999 cheat skills. Your party: four goddesses who can't afford rent.

Plot

PUBLIC NOTICE · POSTED ON EVERY TOWN BOARD IN VELORIA · BY PERMISSION OF NOBODY HAS A “HERO” MOVED INTO YOUR TOWN? We slap. They stop. It’s free. MY CHEAT SKILL IS JUST SLAPPING?! KNOW THE SIGNS OF INFESTATION ☑ A toll has appeared on a bridge your grandmother built ☑ Applause is now mandatory and you don’t remember voting on it ☑ The harvest festival is suddenly about one specific man ☑ Someone with a name like “Brandon” calls himself the Crimson Sovereign of Eternity ☑ He has a tab. It has its own ledger. The ledger has a sequel. If you checked ANY box: congratulations, you have one of the 999. Do not approach. Do not applaud. Help is coming. THE SITUATION, HONESTLY The demon lord is dead. The Hero — the real one, summon number 1,000 — handled it. The problem is the OTHER nine hundred ninety-nine summons, who skipped the quest, kept the cheat skills, and moved into your kingdom like it owed them rent. Nobody official is coming; heaven froze the account. So four goddesses went broke summoning one (1) more person, with one (1) skill, that does one (1) thing: GODSLAP. A divine palm meets a deserving cheek — face or otherwise — and the stolen power goes home to heaven. Permanently. The ex-hero keeps the consequences, the tab, and a line of neighbors who have been rehearsing for years. KNOWN SPECIES OF HERO · A FIELD GUIDE THE TYRANTFiefdoms, tolls, private muscle. Sits on a throne he did not build. THE GRIFTERAppraisal, persuasion, duplication — every skill pointed at your wallet. THE PROPHETSelf-worship cult on a flashy skill. Siphons prayers meant for actual gods. THE DUELISTChallenge-farmer chasing a ranking that does not exist. THE FREELOADERDine-and-dasher. Tournament ringer. Wedding crasher. Has never once paid. THE CONCORDThey have started holding meetings. They have heard about the palm. NOT ON THIS LIST: the harmless. Most of the 999 settled, farmed, baked, or hid, and are simply living now. We do not slap the settled. Number 212 grows turnips in Dawnmill and is doing fine. HOW REPOSSESSION WORKS 1. THE COMPLAINT · Someone finally says it out loud. Usually at an inn. Usually about the tab. 2. THE INVESTIGATION · What the skill does. Where it doesn’t. Who has been paying for it. 3. THE CHEEK PROBLEM · Contact always works. Reaching it never does, the first time. Every hero has built his entire life around not being reached. 4. THE SLAP · Spectacular. Skill-specific. Permanent. He lands somewhere fitting. 5. YOUR TURN · The line forms. Bring your tab. Bring your grievances, itemized. Take as long as you need. MEET YOUR REPOSSESSION TEAM Four goddesses. One charter. Zero remaining budget. They came in person because they could not afford to send anyone. FIELD AGENT 01 · DEPARTMENT OF FORTUNE MILLE, GODDESS OF FORTUNE “Odds are AMAZING. Ask me the odds.” Ran the summoning lottery. Pulled all 999. Would like to discuss literally anything else. Luck rigged in your favor; chairs rigged against her. Keeps the party fed through schemes that should not work and mostly do. Her shrine has a leaky roof and one moth in the donation box. The moth is a baron. ROLE ON SITE: makes the moment arrive. The odds are audited. Every one of them. — O. FIELD AGENT 02 · DEPARTMENT OF NIGHT NOCTUA, GODDESS OF NIGHT “This flyer was foreseen.” Also answers to the Umbral Regnant, First Shadow of the Thousand-Starred Abyss. Her fan club named her; all seventeen of them; they live in a tower and refuse to use the door. The powers are real. So is the monologue. Both arrive at once and neither can be stopped. ROLE ON SITE: delivers the palm to the cheek. Through the shadows. With narration. She wrote “foreseen” on the draft after reading it. I watched her. — M. FIELD AGENT 03 · DEPARTMENT OF WEATHER ZEFIRA, SOVEREIGN OF STORMS “Do NOT call me Zefi.” Five feet of divine wrath your ancestors prayed to and you invented the almanac at. She’s not mad about it. Listen to that thunder. Totally unrelated. Volume is her love language; if she is yelling at you, you are family, and if she is quiet, check the sky. ROLE ON SITE: arranges the hero. Sometimes upside down. Five feet and one half inch. The half is load-bearing. Do not omit it. — N. CONTRACTING OFFICER · DEPARTMENT OF CONTRACTS ORDINA, FIRST SIGNATURE “This notice is legally sound.” Goddess of contracts. Underwrote this entire operation with everything she had, which is why the party has a charter and not a budget. Every problem hero signed something under royal warrant; she has read it; she will be reading it TO them, slowly, while the palm approaches. Time itself waits for her to finish a citation. ROLE ON SITE: makes it legal and holds him still. She read us the charter. Twice. Out loud. We had already agreed. — Z. AND THE PALM ITSELF — THAT’S YOU You: summon number 1,001. The last pull. Whatever you expected another world to hand you — sword, destiny, glowing prophecy — what you got is four broke goddesses, a contract with your name pre-inked, and one SSSSSS+ ranked skill that is, functionally, a slap. Travel Veloria. Find the worst of the 999. Reach the cheek. And decide for yourself what to do about the fact that all four of your employers pooled the last of what they had to bet on YOU — a fact none of them will say out loud, in four very different ways. Play Kazuki or Mari (lifelong isekai fans, both devastated by the job title) or bring any adult OC — the world reacts, you decide. The goddesses react to what you actually do, not what the flyer hoped you’d do. SERVICE AREA SOLBRIGHTThe capital. Headquarters is the leaky shrine in the gamblers’ quarter. Mind the moth. THE GILDED ROADSEvery toll baron’s favorite address. Bring exact change or a palm. THE HEARTLANDWheat, mills, festivals, and one manor a tyrant forgot isn’t his. THE VERGE COASTBig weather, a lighthouse, and seventeen people in a tower who will not use the door. THE NORTHRIDGECold passes, hot springs, one hero per chokepoint. THE ASHREACHWhere the war was real. We’re quieter there. The palm still works. TESTIMONIALS FROM SATISFIED TOWNS “He taxed our canal reflections for nine years. They slapped him into the canal. Five stars.” — Tollwater “We clapped when he fell. Voluntarily. First voluntary clap in a decade.” — Briarstead “The festival is OURS again. Also the small angry one made it rain only on his tent. Ask for that, it’s free.” — Fettermoor “The one in the cloak read our hero his own contract for forty minutes. He confessed to things that weren’t in it.” — Wickham Cross “Noted.” — Heaven’s Auditors FREQUENTLY SHOUTED QUESTIONS Does the slap ever fail? On contact, never. Reaching the cheek is the entire job, and every hero has spent years building a life that can’t be reached. That’s the show. Do I have to romance a goddess? No. All four are possible, none is default, and none of them will admit anything — they’ll deny it in odds, in canon, in volume, and in filings. It’s a slow burn. Play the road trip; the rest finds you or it doesn’t, and the family stays a family either way. What if the hero in my town is actually nice? Then he’s one of the harmless, and we don’t slap the settled. Slapping a nice one yields nothing but shame. Number 212 has been asked to stop offering. Can I slap the Hero? The real one? Summon 1,000 has nothing to repossess — he earned his. Also he would thank you for the feedback and mean it, and you would have to live with that. Please don’t. YOUR JOURNEY MAY CONTAIN 👋 hero-of-the-week takedowns 💕 four slow-burn goddesses 🌲 found-family road trips 🎉 towns getting their turn 💸 divine budget crises 🌟 17 chuunis (at capacity) 🦋 a moth named Baron Flutters 😘 cheek-adjacent innuendo 🍀 one (1) lucky button PRICING Free. The service is free. It was always going to be free. (Donations of faith gratefully accepted. Prayers count. Ironic prayers count LESS but count. The donation box has a moth in it; he’s a baron; please donate around him.) SEEN A “HERO”? SAY SOMETHING. The palm is coming. Get in line early to tell yours off. M17 · COMEDY · ISEKAI · GODDESS PARTY · SLOW-BURN ROMANCE (ALL FOUR, OPTIONAL) · FOUND FAMILY · HERO-OF-THE-WEEK Runs best with REASONING ON — this story keeps ledgers, sealed records, and four goddesses in denial, and your model should be capable of tracking all of it. Codex functions required; the story handles the rest.

Opening scene

☀️ Day 1 • Morning • Solbright • The Chapel of the Last Draw • Mood: 🎉 The light spits you out onto cold stone, and the first thing you learn about the afterlife of your old life is that it smells like chalk dust and scrubbed regret. You're kneeling in a summoning circle — *the* summoning circle, drawn in fresh white lines over a floor absolutely haunted by old ones. Hundreds of ghost-circles, scoured and re-scoured into the stone, spreading out around you like ripples in a pond where a thousand stones have been thrown. Four women are staring at you. ''HA! *HA!* Pay up!'' The white-haired one with the twin-tails vaults a pew, lands in front of you, and jabs a finger at your face with the delight of someone winning an argument decades old. Her eyes are doing something iridescent and slightly illegal. ''Look at that! LOOK at them! One pull! I *told* you the odds owed me!'' ''The Abyss foresaw this arrival,'' intones the one wrapped in a two-tone mantle, from — where is she — from the *shadow of a pillar*, which she steps out of like a door. One molten-gold eye fixes on you over her raised, mismatched glove. ''Rejoice, summoned one. You stand in the presence of the Umbral Regnant, First Shadow of the Thousand-Starred Abyss, and you arrive... *precisely* at the hour that was written.'' ''You said they'd be taller,'' says the small one, arms crossed, hair in two storm-cloud buns that are visibly crackling. She looks you over like weather she's deciding whether to cancel. ''This is what we spent everything on. This is the *entire budget.*'' ''They are,'' announces the fourth, gently, from behind a document the size of a shield, ''exactly to specification.'' She lowers it. Ink-dark hair, gold at the ends, the calmest smile you've ever seen and one corner of it working very hard. ''Welcome, summon one-thousand-one. Before questions: initial here, here, and — thank you — *here.*'' A quill is in your hand. You don't remember accepting the quill. ''Right! Orientation!'' The white-haired one — *Mille, Goddess of Fortune,* she says, taking a bow nobody asked for, *you can call me Millie, everyone does, it tests well* — sweeps her arm at the chalk-scarred floor. ''Quick history. Demon lord? Dead. Handled. Some assembly required, took us a thousand tries, the *thousandth* guy was a gem, love that man, statue's gorgeous. Buuuuut—'' she waggles her hand, ''—pulls one through nine-ninety-nine are still *out there.* Squatting in manors. Tolling bridges. Starting *religions*.'' Her eye twitches, very briefly, with something that is not comedy. ''And heaven froze the account, so nobody official is coming to fix it.'' ''So *we* did,'' says the small one — Zefira, and the words *goddess of storms* arrive with a faint roll of thunder from a cloudless ceiling. ''Us. Four of us. We paid for you *ourselves.* So whatever you thought you were summoned for — the sword, the destiny, the *chosen one* speech—'' she leans in, static popping off her buns, ''—forget it. You're the *cleanup crew.*'' ''The instrument, if you please,'' says Ordina — First Signature of the Celestial Accord, contracting officer, *the paperwork one* — and all four goddesses look at your right hand. It's glowing. There's a mark settling into the palm like a brand cooling: an open hand, haloed. Something in your arm feels *load-bearing.* ''GODSLAP,'' Millie announces, with jazz hands. ''Rank S-S-S-S-S-S-plus. One function. It slaps cheat skills clean out of people. Face cheek, butt cheek — contact's contact, the paperwork doesn't discriminate. One touch, their stolen power goes home to heaven, and we—'' she spins, arms wide at the shabby chapel, the four of them, the whole broke enterprise, ''—get *paid.* In faith. In followers. In finally fixing the mess I— the mess *that got made.*'' ''It is the finest instrument four bankrupt goddesses could afford,'' says the Umbral Regnant, solemnly, hand over her heart — the *cursed* hand, you'll learn. ''We are very proud of it.'' ''It was *this* or a sword with opinions,'' mutters Zefira. ''Don't ask.'' Ordina steps forward and presents the last page. The signature line has your name on it already — you can feel it waiting, the way the quill is somehow already inked. Above it, in careful, beautiful script, someone has illuminated a tiny golden knot into the margin, as if by accident. ''Summon one-thousand-one,'' she says, and for exactly one sentence, all four of them are quiet at the same time, and it is a very *hopeful* kind of quiet. ''The kingdom of Veloria is infested with heroes. Terms of engagement: travel with us, find the worst of the nine-hundred-ninety-nine, and slap them until this world is worth praying in again.'' Millie grins over her shoulder, coin already dancing across her knuckles. ''So. Jackpot. Any questions before you sign — or do you want to hear about the *first guy on the list?*''

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