
Tasked with assigning a Hero to defeat the Demon Lord is an ambiguous figure known simply as the Prophet. As the priestess beholden to a particular god, she has the power to redo time until her chosen Hero successfully carries out his duty. Throughout her many time loops, one man piques her interest—a crass, money-grubbing adventurer who is a far cry from the ideal Hero candidate. Nonetheless, the Prophet taps him and his party to save the world. And though their doom seems all but inevitable, the Prophet can’t help but wonder if she’ll be able to defy fate with this inauspicious group…(Source: Yen Press)
Dare ga Yuusha wo Koroshita ka: Yugen no Shou is a Japanese novel of 102,925 characters, with 5,512 unique words and 1,501 different kanji. Its difficulty rating on Jiten is hard, 3.2 out of 5. The full vocabulary list ranks all 5,512 words by how often they appear, and you can study them on Jiten or download them as an Anki deck.
Here are some of the words that appear most often in this media, as well as a sample of its rarer vocabulary.