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“W-welcome… back… Mas… ter…” said the woman with a clumsy smile, her words unsteady.
Her skin was pale and stitches ran across her entire body. She was an Undead… a Zombie.
But she wasn’t just any Zombie. She was a Vampire Zombie, an Undead created from the corpse of a Vampire. This was made evident by the fangs protruding from her mouth and her eyes, which were still crimson despite now being dull and devoid of light.
In this world, becoming Undead would not mean that one would become more powerful than they had been while alive, but… as this Zombie had enough remaining intelligence to speak, it was absolutely certainly a threat to humans.
And if she was a Noble-born Vampire, she would have been able to use advanced spells and fly despite having no wings. She was a fearsome being… and yet, she was wearing a maid uniform. However, it had been altered to be very revealing; her bosom was visible through a gap at the chest and her skirt ended above the knees.
“W-wel… come… back… Mas… ter…” she groaned.
She had been practicing this greeting over and over for a while.
“Hmm… her speech is unsteady after all. Maybe it’s because you split her head open with your halberd, Nee-san,” said Rita.
“Yes… Her movements are stiff. Maybe it’s because you cut her head off with your glaive, Rita,” said Saria.
Rita and Saria were supervising her greeting practice. She was one of Birkyne’s four Noble-born confidants, and she had been turned into a maid after being defeated by the twins.
Her name was Magisa, and when she was alive, she had been a fearsome Rank 11 Noble-born Vampire Marquess who had operated in the shadows of the Bahn Gaia continent for tens of thousands of years.
But of course, this had nothing to do with how well she would serve as a maid.
“She is a complete amateur as a maid, but we are personally responsible for killing you!” said Rita.
“We have a lot of new Vampires, so we have a lot of new maids as well. But we’ll be sure to turn you into a splendid maid, Magisa-san,” said Saria.
“Let’s all work together!” the twins said in unison.
Magisa’s dull eyes moistened and her limbs began to tremble in response to their words.
“We’ll leave the greeting for later… Let’s start with acquiring the ‘Spirit Form’ and ‘Long-distance Control’ Skills. The benefit of Undead-type maids like us is that we can split our bodies up and have each part do different bits of housework individually,” said Rita.
“How about getting Bocchan involved first instead, with the goal of acquiring a divine protection?” Saria suggested. “He was with you when he was repairing your body and brain, so I think you just need a little more,” said Saria.
“Bocchan told us off, too, saying that it takes a long time to repair eyes and brains…” said Rita.
“… I think I have a better suggestion. Want to hear it?” asked the ‘Aegis’ Melissa, interrupting the discussion of Magisa’s future education plans.
“Melissa-san, have you finished making the baby food?” Saria asked the aproned Melissa.
“Yes. More importantly, if you intend to turn her into a splendid maid, the first thing you should do is have her wear a proper – and by that, I mean formal – maid uniform. Not this cosplay-like thing,” said Melissa as she examined Magisa through narrowed eyes.
Indeed, Magisa’s current clothes were a remodeled maid uniform that would certainly offend real, first-rate maids that served high-class masters. On top of that, Magisa had the appearance of a woman in her mid-twenties with a good figure, so it looked like the kind of clothes that a queen-type person in the sex industry would wear reluctantly at the request of a customer.
In other words, it looked forced and unnatural; Magisa did not look like a real maid.
But it seemed that Rita and Saria had objections to this idea.
“If we get a bunch of new formal maids, we’ll stand out too much,” Rita complained.
As a Living Bikini Armor and Living High-leg Leotard Armor, the twins’ bodies that were visible in between their armor was spirit form that was protruding from their main bodies. But from the perspective of an outsider, they looked like young girls wearing very revealing clothes.
Even if they were in the company of other maids, they would stand out immediately if those maids were wearing formal maid uniforms.
“And there isn’t a single person in Talosheim who wears a formal maid uniform like those in human society,” said Saria.
Indeed, many of the maids working in Talosheim’s royal castle were members of Vida’s races or Undead. Thus, the common sense that applied in human society did not apply to them.
“Now that you mention it, you’re right,” Melissa realized, and gave up on trying to convince the sisters. “I’ll just make sure to never become a maid,” she said, doing her best not to look at Magisa, who was trembling like an abandoned puppy.
Suddenly, a troubled bark from Fang, happy noises from the rat sisters, and the laughter of children came from the shed.
“It seems that the children are playing. Though it seems that Fang is the one being played with,” said Saria.
“As expected of Maroru and the others. They’ve learned Kanako-san’s teachings well,” said Rita.
“She taught them tricks, saying that they could become characters that are popular all over the world, right? Luciliano didn’t stop her, either,” said Melissa.
While watching the three of them, Magisa decided to appeal directly to Vandalieu regarding her clothes once he returned from the Adventurers’ Guild.
As Vandalieu and his companions entered the Adventurers’ Guild building, they drew the attention of the adventurers inside.
The first ones to draw attention were Simon and Natania.
“If I recall, that’s Simon. I remember him, he was with me when I was still a rookie accepting cleaning jobs.”
“He only had one arm… Apparently he uses that Magic Item artificial arm and fights monsters with a two-handed sword like he did in the past. How did he get such a high-quality artificial arm?”
“That’s not the only thing you should be surprised about. Look at the Beast-kin girl next to him. You guys might not know, but she was one of the women who were rescued after being attacked and captured by Minotaurs. She had all of her limbs cut off, not just one arm.”
“What?! Then those arms and legs aren’t just wearing armor…!”
“They’re probably artificial limbs. If you look closely, you can see that there are a few differences, but they’re very similar to Simon’s arm.”
It was fairly well-known among the adventurers that Simon had lost an arm and Natania had lost all of her limbs, and there were now widespread rumors that they had gained artificial limbs.
Of course, the rumors had mistaken their artificial limbs for being Magic Items.
“Is it that kid who gave them those artificial limbs? Apparently he’s a Dhampir, but honestly, he just looks like a creepy brat to me.”
“Hey, don’t say such rash things. That br… That child is a big-shot with friendly relations with the Guild Master here and the Guild Master at the Tamers’ Guild, and he was even invited to a tea party with the lord of the land! The entertainment district of this city is like his playground now!”
“W-why has a brat made the entertainment district his playground?! Just how precocious can you be?!”
“I just told you to stop saying rash things! If he hears you, you won’t ever be able to visit a brothel again!”
“More importantly, tell him about how he’s a capable Tamer. He has a Rank 4 Hellhound and three other monsters that are all of new races. They might be the cause of all the noise at the front.”
“Monsters of new races, huh. I’m a little interested. Maybe I should go and take a look.”
“By the way, what is that Beast-kin child that he’s carrying on his back? Err… Did bull-type Beast-kin always exist?”
These whispers could be heard all over the Adventurers’ Guild. It seemed that the Iron Boulder Brigade, the adventurer party that Vandalieu was acquainted with, wasn’t here.
“Hey, Master. Some of these rumors are pretty weird. Are you sure it’s alright to leave them be?”
“It’s fine. I’m sure that the truth will naturally start to spread soon… although I’m being pressured meaninglessly by the people of the Mages’ Guild,” said Vandalieu.
“Damn those guys, being all suspicious because they think Master is going around handing out Magic Items for free… but I guess it’s fine, since they’re not causing us any real harm,” said Natania.
Vandalieu and his companions were guided to the second floor by a Guild employee and entered the Guild Master’s office in the back.
“It seems that things have been calm as of late. Have you become accustomed to this city?” asked Berard, the Guild Master of the Adventurers’ Guild.
He had invited the three of them here because there was a message for Natania.
“… Well, I suppose. Things have been calm recently,” Vandalieu agreed, though his words had a different nuance from Berard’s.
Berard’s ‘recently’ referred to the past half-month. From his point of view, nothing strange, astounding or chilling had occurred around Vandalieu during that time.
Joseph, former Deputy Guild Master of the Commerce Guild, had been exiled without incident, and the Guild Master had returned from his trip as well. There had been one small incident where Aggar, the missing corrupt guard, had reappeared in an insane state of mind. But his reappearance was distant from the entertainment district in which Vandalieu lived and operated his food cart, so it was considered to be unrelated to him. At least on the surface.
The number of food carts under Vandalieu’s banner had increased, causing Gobu-gobu and baked Kobold meat to become Morksi’s new famous products. The ‘Starving Wolf’ Michael was now in a completely cooperative relationship with Vandalieu, and the thugs working under him had been trained to become bodyguards… security guards, making the slum quarters drastically safer.
As for the Adventurers’ Guild, their attention was on the discovery of three new monster races – the Flame Rat, Wet Rat and Iron Rat.
Not only that, but Berard himself was trying to see if Vandalieu could help train other adventurers who had lost limbs to use artificial limbs like Simon and Natania.
Under normal circumstances, all of these would be a big deal. To the employees of the Commerce Guild and the people working or living in the entertainment district and slum quarters, these were highly significant events that they would still remember a decade later. The matter of the artificial limbs was also a big deal to Berard.
But Berard was Guild Master of the Adventurers’ Guild; he was in a different societal position from others. To him, these were not really ‘highly significant events.’ They were an extension of everyday events; if he had a stomachache, he would not have to force himself to continue working in order to write reports about them to the earl and the Guild headquarters.
But to Vandalieu, ‘recently’ meant ‘the past two days.’
In the two weeks since he had devoured the pure-breed Birkyne and Hihiryushukaka, the evil god of joyful life, there had been many things to do that Berard didn’t know of, so he had been very busy.
First, he had gone around to visit the organizations and facilities left behind by Birkyne that were dangerous to leave alone or had valuable things.
Most of the facilities ‘farming’ humans to use as sacrifices or turn into Undead or Vampires were fine to leave alone. There had been only a few with brainwashed Dhampirs or Vampires like the one in Morksi, or run by evil Vampires that were fully aware of the situation. Many of them were being run by those who didn’t know anything.
Vampires had apparently been disguising themselves as humans to adopt children from orphanages or pay for the freedom of slaves and prostitutes when they needed someone to use.
The Vampires that had been playing this role had either fled or sworn loyalty to Vandalieu, so they would be operating as very ordinary orphanages, brothels or slave traders from now on. Thus, there was no need for Vandalieu to interfere.
As for the organizations, Vandalieu had left alone those that were just running local criminal organizations, choosing instead to go to the places that stored Undead and Subordinate Vampires whose brains had been meddled with and tortured by Birkyne for his own amusement.
Unlike Ternecia who had considered Undead to be works of art and Gubamon who had thought of them as fighting forces, Birkyne had apparently considered Undead to be a source of labor.
There had been several facilities that stored Undead for production-oriented tasks such as constructing buildings or manufacturing arms.
Surely this couldn’t have been because he would destroy entire buildings at a time when he went into one of his hysterical fits…
The Subordinate Vampires whose brains had been altered had lost their ability to reason, showed no emotion or only possessed the intelligence of beasts, but that was actually a fortunate thing. They had become obedient as soon as they saw Vandalieu, being charmed like Undead or living corpses would.
And Vandalieu had also acquired Magic Items that would be considered national treasures, including Item Boxes. Up until this point, he had just teleported around each region very quickly, so there had been no troubles.
The busy times had started after that – after he took the orphans rescued from dangerous facilities, the Undead and the Subordinate Vampires back.
The dozen or so orphans that had originally come from Morksi’s slums and those who had become friends with them during their captivity had chosen to live in Director Holly’s orphanage.
But there were over a hundred orphans in total. Thus, those not returning to the orphanage had been taken to Talosheim. However, there was no way that a hundred parentless children could simply be crammed inside a dormitory.
The production-related Undead did nothing until ordered to do something, so they hadn’t caused any problems, but… it would have been problematic to leave the Subordinate Vampires alone after bringing them back. The ones whose brains had been altered were particularly dangerous to others, even if they were obedient to Vandalieu.
On top of dealing with problems like these, Vandalieu had also been dealing with the things that Berard was aware of, as well as watching over the training of Natania and the others, beginning a certain plan, and taking care of the reborn ‘girls.’
He had been fairly busy.
Miles has been working publicly as well, so that’s made things easier, Vandalieu thought.
Miles and the others had infiltrated the criminal organization that had controlled this city from the shadows, but there was no longer a reason to continue this infiltration after Birkyne had been disposed of.
They had already seized the organization’s information network, and Vandalieu’s remaining targets – the reincarnated individuals – were likely already aware of this infiltration work, as they were receiving information from Rodcorte and their friends who had become his familiar spirits.
Of course, Miles’s name had become quite well-known in the underworld, so he continued being known as the ‘Starving Wolf’ Michael, while Isla remained in the shadows, as she was an Undead.
“I’ve heard that you have more employees now. And the women outside… Simon-kun, do you know where he is bringing these beautiful women from?” Berard asked.
“No, I have no idea. Well, I mean, it is Master we’re talking about,” Simon replied.
Incidentally, Simon had not been told Vandalieu’s secret. However, he had recently been using the convenient words ‘Because it’s Master’ to explain any strange things about Vandalieu or those connected to him, and didn’t question things any further.
Perhaps he believed that he would be informed one day, or perhaps the hidden letters of his divine protection were being revealed, making him aware of some things.
“I see. I wanted to share in his good fortune. But I suppose I’ll give it up, since I can’t investigate him when he’s not even a member of the Guild,” Berard sighed, giving up on the idea of looking into Vandalieu’s relationships with those around him.
“More importantly, what is this about the Flame Blades having paid the reparations? I thought the amount hadn’t been finalized yet,” said Natania.
“That’s right. Please hurry and explain,” said Vandalieu.
I want to ask about you in more detail, but I also want to pretend that I never saw you… Berard thought to himself as he cast a gloomy gaze at what appeared to be a creature that he was seeing for the first time, and yet looked familiar.
That creature… what appeared to be a five-year-old girl with a bull-like tail and horns, as well as features that strongly resembled Juliana Alcrem, was wearing a familiar’s collar.
“We already told you, this girl is the mutant Minotaur that Julia-san gave birth to!” said Natania, noticing Berard’s stare.
“My name is Juliana. Nice to meet you,” the girl said.
Of course, the truth was different. Juliana, the youngest sister of Duke Alcrem, had been pseudo-reincarnated in one of the eggs implanted in her body by the Minotaur King, and had been born a few days after Hihiryushukaka’s destruction.
Initially an egg, she had hatched and developed quickly, going from being a baby to a girl around five years old in appearance in around ten days.
For some reason, she possessed the divine protection of Peria, the goddess of water and knowledge, in addition to Vandalieu’s. At the same time, it seemed that she had received a Divine Message from Peria, but there were a lot of unexpected things going on, including the fact that she could not remember the Divine Message yet. However, she was developing very well.
… Perhaps too well. But although ordinary Minotaur children did not develop as quickly as Goblin children, they did develop at a fast pace. On top of that, Juliana was a child that had been implanted by the Demon King’s oviducts and mutated by Vandalieu. These kinds of things were within acceptable limits… for Vandalieu and his companions, at least.
“I see, a mutant… I suppose if she’s a mutant, then that’s how it is?” said Berard.
“That’s how it is, isn’t it? Bachem-san of the Tamers’ Guild said that since she exists right before his eyes, he has no choice but to accept it,” said Vandalieu.
Mutants were monsters born with abnormal appearances and abilities; in other words, they were those with spontaneous mutations.
“She doesn’t bear the slightest resemblance to an ordinary Minotaur… She’s quite clearly a girl. Not only that, but she is able to speak and looks exactly like a certain somebody whose death in battle during a monster extermination mission was publicly announced… But if she’s a mutant, then that’s how it is, I suppose,” said Berard.
“I think that’s correct,” said Vandalieu.
Statuses existed in this world, and race titles were clearly displayed. But they could only be viewed by their owners, with the exception of those with the rare ‘Demon Eyes of Appraisal’ Unique Skill and Tamers being able to see the Statuses of the creatures they tamed. Juliana’s Status was visible only to herself and Vandalieu.
There was also a way to display one’s Status to another with Magic Items such as Guild registration cards. But Juliana was considered to be a monster rather than a person, and there were no Guilds that allowed the registration of monsters as members.
Thus, no matter how odd and suspicious she was, everyone had no choice but to accept Vandalieu and his companions’ explanation that she was a mutant.
“This is really messing up what I know about mutants. And bringing tamed monsters inside the Guild building is supposed to be prohibited,” said Berard, trying to show a small amount of resistance.
Vandalieu stood up from his seat, lifting Juliana up in his arms.
“But there’s a rule that small monsters are allowed if they can be personally managed like this, so there’s no problem, is there?” he said. “… It’s quite a new experience for me to be the one doing the holding,” he added.
“Th-this is most discourteous of me, so I would be most grateful if you could put me down… Berard-san, you can’t fool me!” Juliana said in protest.
“Y-yes, I’ll be careful from now on. Umm, you know…” Berard muttered.
He wasn’t intending to brush aside Vandalieu and Juliana’s complaints, but he decided to stop thinking about her.
Officially, he’s just a Tamer and an apprentice trader, but… he is very influential in this city, especially in the entertainment district and the slums… and the redhead and blonde beauties that he has recently brought from somewhere are no ordinary people, either, Berard thought to himself. It seems that it won’t do me any good to keep prodding. As always, the ominous thing is the fact that I don’t know what exactly he is.
Berard took out the report about the Flame Blades. “It’s true that the sum of your reparations have not yet been decided, but… it seems that the Flame Blades have paid the highest possible amount to their Adventurers’ Guild branch. One hundred thousand Baums each – Five hundred thousand Baums in total.”
“F-five hundred thousand?!” Natania and Simon exclaimed simultaneously, standing up out of their seats.
“… That’s more than I thought it would be,” said Vandalieu, blinking in surprise.
Juliana covered her mouth with a hand.
Though this could not be measured precisely, one Baum was worth about a hundred yen on Earth. Thus, five hundred thousand Baums was the equivalent of fifty million yen. It was a sum that an assailant might realistically have to pay his victim who had lost their limbs on Earth, but in Lambda, it was quite the large sum.
If one lived modestly, it was enough to feed themselves for the rest of their lives, even after losing all of their limbs. But apparently, reparations would not be so expensive.
“Th-they overcharged them quite a bit, didn’t they,” said Natania.
“About that… This doesn’t sound good to say out loud, but you were a mere D-class adventurer. However, you have attended the earl’s tea party and now have this person as your guardian,” said Berard, glancing at Vandalieu. “It seems that the Guild over there did everything they could.”
It could also have been something to do with the fact that Natania hadn’t mentioned Juliana’s name in her report; she had been referred to as ‘a village girl by the name of Julia.’ The possibility that the reparation amount included hush money for her to stay quiet couldn’t be ruled out.
“But that was the maximum amount that they would have been forced to pay; it would almost certainly have been reduced by some amount… by several tens of thousands of Baums. But the Flame Blades have apparently paid the maximum amount before the final amount could be decided, using materials and Magic Stones from monsters that they hunted,” said Berard.
“There’s got to be some kind of mistake; there’s definitely some trick behind it! Less than a month has passed since we met Natania and reported her situation to the Guild. I’d understand if they were A-class or B-class, but no D-class adventurer could earn that much,” said Simon, who was a D-class adventurer himself.
Natania and Juliana nodded in agreement.
“I think it’s suspicious as well,” said Berard. “The Guild over there also suspected that something was amiss. Those adventurers left to hunt and didn’t return for more than ten days, but they came back with a huge amount of materials and Magic Stones. So the Guild was more careful than usual when inspecting the goods to buy them. But it seems that all of the goods were real, and they were not obtained in a way that violates the Guild’s rules or the Alcrem Duchy’s laws.”
All of the materials and Magic Stones the Flame Blades had brought back to the Guild were real, valuable items. And it had been determined that they had not stolen them from other adventurers.
… This had been determined through the fact that ten days was not enough for them to gather five hundred thousand Baums’ worth of materials and Magic Stones by attacking other adventurers belonging to the city of Itobam’s Guild.
“But according to a witness, there were several other adventurers with them. They might have had those other adventurers help them… Well, that’s a strange story in and of itself,” said Berard.
“Isn’t it wrong for other people to help?!” Natania demanded.
“Unfortunately, there’s nothing against that. A promotion examination is one thing, but the Flame Blades’ task was to pay reparations… like repaying a debt,” Berard explained.
Having someone assist during an examination for determining a member’s ability was not allowed, but the Guild did not mind anyone helping for the payment of reparations as long as they were paid.
“Could you please tell me the names and backgrounds of the adventurers who helped them?” Vandalieu asked.
“Sorry, I can’t do that,” Berard said, shaking his head.
Vandalieu wasn’t surprised by this reply.
“No way!” Natania exclaimed.
“We’re begging you, Guild Master!” Simon pleaded.
“Calm down, I would love to tell you if I could!” Berard said hastily. “High-ranking adventurers helping the Flame Blades who are on the decline, they have to have some kind of motive!”
The situation was understandable if one of the Flame Blades’ members possessed some rare, peculiar Unique Skill, or they were an illegitimate child of a nobleman, or had some relative who was a capable adventurer.
But as far as the Guild was aware, the Flame Blades were common, ordinary adventurers. They were apparently on the capable side, but they were not so talented that they drew attention.
It was difficult to imagine that high-ranking adventurers capable of earning five hundred thousand Baums within a short period of time… adventurers who were likely B-class or above, would help them. Not without some ulterior motive.
Berard suspected that this motive was related to Natania, the victim, and her guardian, Vandalieu.
That was why he had asked Vandalieu and his companions to come as well rather than having Natania come alone.
“But there’s no information about those other adventurers. They didn’t even enter the city, let alone the Guild. Nobody in the city recognized their faces, and their names and adventurer classes are unknown as well. It’s possible that they’re mercenaries or something rather than adventurers,” said Berard. “What we do know is that they were young human men with hair standing straight up.”
“Then it can’t be helped. If they entered the city, we would have been able to ask the guards to learn their names and what class they are if they’re adventurers, but…” Simon murmured.
One needed to present identification when entering a city. If a guard had seen a Guild registration card, they could have been asked about it.
“Hey, if they’re going so far to hide their identity, maybe they have a bounty on their head?” Natania suggested.
“We looked into that, but… at the very least, there’s no wanted posters of them around here. There aren’t any portraits that match their faces, either. They’re definitely suspicious no matter how you look at it, but the Guild Master of the Itobam branch has decided that it’s not appropriate to circulate portraits of people around branches in other cities when they haven’t committed any crimes,” said Berard.
“Well, that’s true. If being suspicious was enough to have one’s portrait circulated around the surrounding cities, portraits of me would have been circulated as well,” said Vandalieu.
Everyone else looked surprised.
“… So, you were aware that you’re suspicious, Master…” Simon whispered.
Berard and Natania nodded, as they were surprised for the same reason.
… Incidentally, Princess Levia and the other Ghosts were nodding as well, though they were not visible to the rest of the room.
“How rude!” Juliana exclaimed.
“It’s alright,” said Vandalieu, calming her down. “I have some idea of who those adventurers might be.”
“You do?! They must be related to the Alcrem family after all…!” Berard murmured, suspecting that this was some plot by the duke’s family.
“No, they’re not related to the duke’s family,” said Vandalieu.
Berard sat back down, looking relieved.
“Master, is it those notorious Alda extremists?!” asked Simon.
Vandalieu shook his head. “That’s not impossible, but I don’t think it’s very likely.”
His guess was that it was Murakami or Hajime, the reincarnated individuals other than Asagi’s group that was in the Birgitt Duchy. They had acquired young human bodies of about fifteen years of age when they were reincarnated in this world, though it seemed that the women, ‘Sylphid’ and ‘Super Sense,’ had chosen to become Elves.
The reincarnated individuals, with the radar abilities telling them Vandalieu’s location that had been given to them by Rodcorte, had likely been successfully lured into the city of Morksi.
Even considering the fact that they know where I am, I didn’t expect them to come to this city so readily… I wonder what they’re thinking? Vandalieu thought to himself.
The fact that they were acting to ensure that their names weren’t known already gave away the fact that they were reincarnated individuals targeting Vandalieu. But Vandalieu couldn’t understand what they had been thinking when they helped the Flame Blades.
The reincarnated individuals would certainly be aware that even if they used their abilities to make the D-class adventurers their pawns or persuaded them to help, they were no match for any of Vandalieu’s companions, let alone Vandalieu himself.
“But if an ability is being used to control them, then it is ‘Marionette,’ the one named Inui Hajime, isn’t it?” said Orbia through telepathy.
“Probably. From what we’ve heard, his ability targets people he comes into contact with through physical touch or electricity, and it’s difficult for him to control multiple people at once, but… it seems that the abilities granted by Rodcorte can be developed. He might have done a lot of training after being reincarnated,” said Princess Levia.
“Then isn’t it best to bring Kanako here? If it’s ‘Marionette,’ he definitely won’t be able to ignore her!” said Orbia.
“Let’s bring Legion-san here and have them transform into Isis’s form!” said Princess Levia.
The two of them looked gleeful as they made these disturbing suggestions.
In Origin, Hajime had used his power to make a failed attempt to manipulate and abduct Isis, one of Legion’s members. Due to the explosives implanted in her body, he had been left on the verge of death. He had then sought help, but was finished off by Kanako, who was supposed to be one of his allies.
Hajime had brought much of this upon himself, but he had deep emotional scars from being treated horribly by women one after another, and he had apparently developed gynophobia in Rodcorte’s Divine Realm.
What had become of him after his reincarnation was unknown, but… in this world, where the field of psychology was undeveloped, it was difficult to imagine that he would have been able to conquer his phobia within three years.
“W-women are scary!” Berkert muttered with a shudder.
“Ternecia was a woman as well, after all…” Chipuras said in agreement.
“… Ternecia?” Daroak said, unable to remember her.
“Well, it’s possible that he will go into a frenzy and try to kill the two of them, so we must be careful…” Vandalieu told them.
With that, he put an end to the telepathic conversation.
“I have an idea of who it might be, but I can’t really say it here,” Vandalieu told Simon.
“That would be for the best,” said Berard.
This response seemed to have made Simon remember that Berard was not in the same position as himself and Natania.
“No matter what happens, I will act as the Guild Master of this city’s Adventurers’ Guild. It isn’t that I don’t trust you, and I know that the Flame Blades are obviously suspicious, but there are things that you are unable to tell me,” Berard said.
He had a favorable relationship with Vandalieu and his companions, but he was not one of them.
“Well then, go and collect the reparations from reception. Personally, I would recommend that you deposit it with the Guild. There might be a time you’ll need it if you’re going to continue being an adventurer,” he told Natania.
But just as Berard was having Vandalieu and his companions leave, there was a rushed knock on the door, and a red-faced Guild employee came into the office without waiting for a response.
“Berard-san! There’s a commotion outside!” the employee said.
“I am with visitors,” Berard said angrily.
“There’s no time for that! Your daughter, the ‘Starving Wolf’ Michael and some men are about to begin a duel, with your visitor’s tamed monsters on the line!”
“What?! Why is Jessie doing that?! She’s an alchemist!” Berard shouted, standing up from his chair.
“I don’t understand what’s going on, but this is an emergency!” Simon exclaimed. “Master, we must hurry… Wait, Master isn’t here?!” he said, realizing that Vandalieu was no longer in the room.
“He took Juliana and left just a second ago,” Natania told him. “We need to go as well!”
- Name: Saria
- Rank: 12
- Race: Tartarus Maid Chief Armor
- Level: 45
- Passive skills:
- Special Five Senses
- Super Strengthened Physical Ability: Level 1 (Awakened from Strengthened Physical Ability!)
- Water Element Resistance: Level 10
- Physical Attack Resistance: Level 10
- Self-Enhancement: Subordinate: Level 10
- Self-Enhancement: Murder: Level 10
- Murder Healing: Level 10 (LEVEL UP!)
- Enhanced Attribute Values: Creator: Level 8 (LEVEL UP!)
- Strengthened Physical Ability: Spirit Form: Level 7 (LEVEL UP!)
- Self-Enhancement: Guidance: Level 7 (LEVEL UP!)
- Strengthened Attack Power while equipped with a spear: Medium (LEVEL UP!)
- Magic Resistance: Level 3 (LEVEL UP!)
- Mana Enlargement: Level 1
- Active skills:
- Housework: Level 6
- Underworld Halberd Technique: Level 1 (Awakened from Halberd Technique!)
- Coordination: Level 10 (LEVEL UP!)
- Archery: Level 8
- Spirit Form: Level 10
- Long-distance Control: Level 10
- Armor Technique: Level 10
- Aura of Fear: Level 9 (LEVEL UP!)
- No-Attribute Magic: Level 3
- Mana Control: Level 5 (LEVEL UP!)
- Water-Attribute Magic: Level 5
- Surpass Limits: Level 5 (LEVEL UP!)
- Familiar Spirit Demonfall: Level 1 (NEW!)
- Unique Skills:
- Vandalieu’s Divine Protection
- Name: Rita
- Rank: 12
- Race: Tartarus Maid Chief Armor
- Level: 49
- Passive skills:
- Special Five Senses
- Super Strengthened Physical Ability: Level 1 (Awakened from Strengthened Physical Ability!)
- Fire Element Resistance: Level 10
- Physical Attack Resistance: Level 10
- Self-Enhancement: Subordinate: Level 10
- Self-Enhancement: Murder: Level 10 (LEVEL UP!)
- Murder Healing: Level 10 (LEVEL UP!)
- Enhanced Attribute Values: Creator: Level 8 (LEVEL UP!)
- Strengthened Physical Ability: Spirit Form: Level 7 (LEVEL UP!)
- Self-Enhancement: Guidance: Level 7 (LEVEL UP!)
- Magic Resistance: Level 2 (LEVEL UP!)
- Mana Enlargement: Level 1
- Active skills:
- Housework: Level 6 (LEVEL UP!)
- Underworld Naginata Technique: Level 1 (Awakened from Naginata Technique!)
- Coordination: Level 10 (LEVEL UP!)
- Archery: Level 8
- Throwing: Level 10
- Spirit Form: Level 10
- Long-distance Control: Level 10
- Armor Technique: Level 10
- Aura of Fear: Level 8 (LEVEL UP!)
- No-Attribute Magic: Level 2
- Mana Control: Level 3
- Fire-Attribute Magic: Level 6 (LEVEL UP!)
- Surpass Limits: Level 3 (LEVEL UP!)
- Familiar Spirit Demonfall: Level 1 (NEW!)
- Unique Skills:
- Vandalieu’s Divine Protection
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Vitor
And if she was a Noble-born Vampire, she would have been able to use advanced spells and fly despite having no wings. She was a fearsome being… and yet, she was wearing a maid uniform. However, it had been altered to be very revealing; her bosom was visible through a gap at the chest and her skirt ended above the knees.
Why in the world did you…
“If we get a bunch of new formal maids, we’ll stand out too much,” Rita complained.
As a Living Bikini Armor and Living High-leg Leotard Armor, the twins’ bodies that were visible in between their armor was spirit form that was protruding from their main bodies. But from the perspective of an outsider, they looked like young girls wearing very revealing clothes.
…ok…
Zenden1st
vandalieus stats are creeping on heinz stats
Ronin
Actually Van’s is far higher than Heinz and higher than even Schneider’s in everything but, agility.
As of ch. 186 Heinz Attributes:
Vitality: 78,800 (Increased by 6,850!)
Mana: 47,498 + 4,749 (Increased by 11,347!)
Strength: 9,450 (Increased by 975!)
Agility: 12,529 (Increased by 951!)
Stamina: 13,675 (Increased by 975!)
Intelligence: 7,797 (Increased by 700!)
As of ch. 224 Van’s Attributes:
Vitality : 235,503 (Increased by 110,525!)
Mana : 5,779,760,020 (+4,623,808,016) (Increased by 1,371,958,437 in total!)
Strength : 29,158 (Increased by 13,650!)
Agility : 24,761 (Increased by 13,695!)
Stamina : 31,520 (Increased by 14,537!)
Intelligence : 41,375 (Increased by 17,848!)
Caio lima
PL
NsP7737
Reincarnator about to die
Zenden1st
they just dont learn
Hunt3rm4n
Someone about to get an a**-whoopin’
FunniFear
So much water in the text…
Hobbes
Are you talking about Orbia?
Zauberbiest
hohoho another harem member
Kidd
Thank you for the chapter!
Can someone remind me when this Jessie girl was first introduced?
Tejing
Now. In this chapter.
Zauberbiest
getsuga tenshouu
Vitor
A long ago, in chapter 226
weebdoesnotwantpeopletoknowheisaweeb
~Ahhhhhhh so sad that it already ended. Thanks for the chapter Yoshi
Dean1997
Can’t wait for Juliana to interact with her big sis Pauvina. I’m just imagining how a sis fight between those two is gonna look like one day “You pig!” “>:O! You cow!”
ExplodingPenguinDood
Ehh Pau-chan is really accepting so I doubt they will fight
no1
An interaction like that would be cute, but unlikely
Zauberbiest
ohh a new milk product in taiosheim
Inea
degen
Nox
Thanks for the chapter.
Now that one of his enemys being defeated the others can’t wait to be the next ones being eleminated. They’re furthermore using innocent people in order to lure Van-sama out not learning their lessons and thus angering Van-sama more and more. This is death seeking behaviour and *beep beep beep beep* would be proud knowing that this disease is spreading across multiple novels.
no1
Hope we get to see Van fighting Hajime soon.
Yoshi
It is disappointing that some of you need this reminder: DO NOT POST SPOILERS. If you have read ahead of my translations, do not spoil what happens in the untranslated chapters for everyone else. Do not try to pretend that you are simply “guessing” what happens next.
Tejing
For those who don’t know, you can put spoiler tags in your posts like this (but with square brackets rather than parentheses):
(spoiler)some spoiling text(/spoiler)
If the topic of your post is remotely spoiler-y, I recommend putting the entire comment in spoiler tags, rather than trying to pick out the bits that are spoilers. People will still pick up on too much otherwise.
Yoshi
I would rather people don’t post spoilers at all, spoiler tags or not. If you want to talk about spoilers, we have a channel on our Discord for that. This isn’t the place to do it.
Tejing
Alright, good to clear that up.
And probably the best policy really, considering that this comment section is literally attached to the chapters themselves, so anyone who reads the story sees the comment section too. The urge to click those spoiler boxes is always there even when you know you shouldn’t.
Chiu ChunLing
[spoiler title=”You know you shouldn’t…”] But you clicked anyway. [/spoiler]
Darquesse
Huh, Rita’s status is missing the “Strengthened attack power when equipped with a spear” that Saria has, otherwise their statuses are basically the same, other than the elements.
Paps
Thanks for the chapter, well that combat is coming strong!!!!!
gomezseba37
You mean the daugter pulling a mr satan vs cell?
antonio
juliana have her memories because just like quiin she was psudoreicarnated while been alive and pauvina was a ghost so her memories were damage and whene she was reborne she barely remember her previous life
Renrobt
Also don!t forget that Pauvina was Van’s first attempt at pseudoreincarnation, at 3 years old. By the time he did that with Quinn his power and control over it has increased a by a lot. Especially now, after having absorbed many evil gods and a few gods and their fragments/clones/familiar spirits etc. he has gotten far stronger shown by his Magic evolving from Death Attribute to Dark King magic.
Chiu ChunLing
More important, Pauvina had been dead for months and had already forgotten everything other than her obsession with how her body was being treated (which was admittedly really terrible). She didn’t even remember how she’d died or who killed her.
Juliana was in a terrible state but Van etc. was able to do a fair amount of mental treatment while she was still alive and also had the help of dozens of other spirits to inform him of her previous life and circumstances. She was then transferred directly from her previous body into her new body without any significant time without a body.
And Quinn of course suffered almost no disadvantages at all.
antonio
did any one realize that bellmond is a reference to wallter from the anime hellsing i mean both are butlers use therds and the first vampire hunter was called VAN hellsing
Jonathan Hurd
I can’t a hundred percent say that Bellmond and Walter are supposed to be refrences to each other personally. Bellmond is a pretty typical name for Vampire stories. I think it comes up in some recurring characters in Castlvania. Also Threads are just an awesome weapon so a lot of stories like to use them.
I can’t say that Bellmond wasn’t inspired by Walter, but the differences just seem too many to say reference to me.
Ozarazil
And her name is oddly similar to Castlevania’s vampire hunter family, the Belmonts
Calango
you must be right, at Bell’s first appearance she was even wearing the monocle. and the monocle had the power to change her appearance to that of a man. she fought Van in the form of a wallter.
MBA
Well, here is a piece of Trivia for this chapter, but mostly, to keep in mind with the Maid Armor Sisters.
Their Awakened Weapon techniques have the suffix 冥土, which could be something like “Hell Grounds” or something like that, however, it’s not really supposed to make much sense in translating it, the true meaning of it is actually a pun.
冥土 is read as MEIDO, the same way “Maid” is called in Japanese. In regards to their Race, because it’s written properly in katakana, it is supposed to be read as Maid, but you can’t deny that it can’t me reversed to claim that they are Hellish Maids.
Tejing
It’s too bad some puns just don’t translate. Thanks for pointing it out 🙂
Chase Eldredge
I agree, its always a shame when thing just don’t translate well.
As for a name the closet English pun equivalent I could think of would be calling it Iron Maiden (weapon) Technique, though Hell Maid (weapon) Technique seems like a good middle ground translation, literal and pun wise.
Soundwave
So it would seem that Peria is an ally of Van-Sama good to know can’t wait to see the next chapters!
no1
Thanks Yoshi for another chapter. So it is confirmed that Juliana was the one Peira gave divine protection and message to, good to know. And Juliana is finally born. Can’t wait for the next chapter. Also from the guild masters explanations, it seems like a group of men helped the flame blades. I thought Hajime was Fitun’s only pawn.
Renrobt
Hajime has Marionette, allowing him to literally puppet others. If that skill has gained more levels and he gained parallel though processing or similar skills, it might be possible for him to control more then one at the same time, making his skill far scarier than it was in Origin where he had a limit.
Plus he could puppet people through touch or through range by Electricity… And that just made me realize something far scarier:
Fitun is a war god, but is also the god of thunderclouds. If his ability to control people has drastically increased and his ability can work through lighting, i.e. electricity, he might very well have the power to take control of a large portion if not the whole town, using a lightning storm.
This might very well become a far larger scale orphanage hostage situation, but with the possibility that Hajime’s goal being killing of Van, and his complete disregard of the hostages.
no1
oh I get it. So Hajime is controlling others with marionette, to serve as a small army. So fitun is controlling Hajime, while Hajime is controlling others, this situation is like putting a “hat on top of a hat”.
Jonathan Hurd
I agree with you that Fitun probably has the ability to take the whole city hostage I don’t think it would really serve his goals to do so though. Birknye went the hostage route because he wanted to avoid a fight. Fitun is in it exactly for the fight. I feel like it isn’t his style to fight a handicapped opponent. Though he might take hostages to try and make sure Van can’t run away from the fight.
ReignGuard
Author-san has developed the art of the cliff quite well.
Triduo
When you’re busy taking over secrets organisations when you’re supposed to be in a city, building a commercial empire and growing as a Tamer…
Paradoxe : Also, I wonder what’ll happen to that Jessie who’s clearly biting more than she can chew by asking a duel with one of Van’s companions in order to take one of his pets… Either she’ll act arrogantly only to be put in her place by Van and her father or she’ll keep trying for the sake of her curiosity before being humiliated in front of a lot of people… Either way, I’m waiting for her tears. (-O_O)*
Triduo
Paradoxe : -___- <… She's still getting a beating next chapter, right ?)
I thought that they were supposed to not stand out ? O_O'
Paradoxe : How ? To the public : Van's friends with the leader of a gang, has launched a chain of food-carts, discovered new races of monsters, gave artificial limbs to adventurers who needed them, got to get to a tea party with one of the most important people of the city and has ties with the Guild masters of the city… Not to mention that he's unofficially the leader of a district…
… Fair enough, at this point, there's no helping that…
Tejing
Tankhunter, you really need to work harder at not inadvertently spoiling. Or just not participate in speculative discussions. (It’s honestly quite difficult to participate in such a discussion without giving anything away. Most people can’t really do it) For example, what, in the translated content, would *possibly* make you think *spoiler removed* are relevant to bring up right now? The only reason that makes even a little bit of sense is that you’ve read ahead and it will actually turn out to be right. Add to that that you do this regularly and the pattern becomes obvious to anyone who pays attention. You’re basically telling someone who’s only seen star wars episode 4 “hey, wouldn’t it make sense if darth vader was actually luke’s father?”. Just because you phrase it as speculation doesn’t make it not a spoiler.
MBA
You would have been so smart if you hadn’t read ahead, right? :3
Too bad you are not that smart, since you did read up ahead.
Tejing
The simple fact that multiple people have felt that future story events were spoiled by your comments by definition means that you are spoiling. I’m hardly the first person to call you out on this. If you think it’s such a good story, stop detracting from other people’s experience of it.
MBA
It matters not how you word your sentences to make yourself look like some wiseman, you are just spoiling and ruining other people’s fun.
There are other people who also read ahead, so why not join those instead?
Yoshi
This is your final warning. Continuing to post spoilers and pretending that you are just “guessing” what will happen next will get you banned.
Reio
Man.. I even registered just to to tell you to stop spoiling.
I read the mtl and I’m sure you ain’t “guessing” nor are you deducting, especially your marionette “theory” a couple chapters ago.
I’m reading this translation after forgetting some details yet your “gusses” affected even me
And I’m like: ah yea that exactly how it happened….
Tejing
At the end of the day, what is and is not a spoiler is determined by whether it actually spoils future story events for the people who read it. Your comments do. No amount of arguing that those events “make sense” changes that. (They do indeed make sense. The things you aren’t intended to see coming in a story usually do, in hindsight.)
MBA
hey, if you want to talk spoilers, why not join #spoilers on the Discord Server boy? Then you can show how much of a smart boy you are on the same playfield. 🙂
You can also join the subreddit, spoilers are allowed there when properly tagged
Entropy
Thanks for the chapter. It sounded like the daughter of the head of the beast tamers is trying to steal Vand’s beasts while he is meeting with her father. That would really hurt both of their reputations. Or she could have arrived and is trying to stop some men from stealing said creatures. Confusing cliff hanger. Can’t wait for the next big fight, I am guessing Fitun has joined forces with one of the reincarnator groups, probably the one that wants to kill Vand. I wonder that group still has free will. I do wonder why the god of water is reaching out to Vand considering that one of her heroic gods is definitely in Alda’s corner. Maybe Alda’s group is not as together as they seem, I am curious if other gods in his group will send Vand an olive branch.
Tejing
She’s the daughter of the guild master of the adventurers guild, not the tamer’s guild.
Yupeon is indeed in Alda’s corner, but there was never any indication that Peria was. Alda’s side just presumed that she would be when she woke up. Although Yupeon is in Alda’s corner, another of Peria’s subordinate gods, Tristan, is definitely in Vida’s, plus there was that whole scene with Pargtarta that hinted pretty strongly that Peria wouldn’t really side with Alda. At this point it shouldn’t be a surprise.
The way things are currently I have difficulty seeing any of the gods who actually follow Alda (rather than just being presumed to do so) making any sort of conciliatory moves toward Van, they see him as the “great enemy” of their world, just like Guduranis.
Entropy
That raises another question then, why does she care about someone else’s tamed creatures. Is she hoping for some easy experience from strong creatures or trying to start a fight with Vand?
DeathDisciple
well, they are new monsters so maybe she wants to study them? after all she is a alchemist
UnveilingSage
Thank you lots!
Seinvolf
Thank u always for ur great work…
^^…
Mr.Darkness
“If he hears you, you won’t ever be able to visit a brothel again!”
This made me laugh until i cried… hahhahahhahahhahahahhahahhahahhahahaha
Chiu ChunLing
A more realistic outcome might be losing the means of enjoying a visit to a brothel ever again.
Nguyen Tran Duong Hoang
*Spoiler deleted*
Tejing
First of all, don’t trust the wiki. Second of all, spoilers aren’t allowed without spoiler tags.
EDIT: Apparently even with spoiler tags it’s not really ok. Just don’t post spoilers.
V4NQU1SH
damn. rita and saria are OP asf. and they are only maid. wtf
thanks for the chapter~!
Doom-sama
BEHOLD THE GREAT VAN-SAMA, OUR LORD SAVIOR, OUR CHAMPION, OUR DEATH GOD, AS HE DEFEATS ALL FOES AND READS THE POSSIBLE MOVEMENTS OF HIS ENEMIES! THE SACRED MESSAGE TODAY IS:
How suspicious. Maybe I should send a few thousand spirits to haunt them?
General Gratas
That would be hilarious to see. Also, PRAISE VAN-SAMA
RipDisqus
I like the picture that Van is just carrying a little girl behind his back around the city lol
Lord Rin
Berard probably already figured it out that the child is somehow Juliana but he’s smart enough not to bring it up and question it. Anyways is Juliana more like Pauvina in that she qualifies as a human race and can hold jobs and have no rank, is she closer to one of Vida’s races that can hold ranks and jobs, or does she still qualify as just a monster despite Van modifying the minotaur fetuses? Anyways we now know definitively that Juliana is the one who Peria gave her Divine Protection and Message too. On another note I don’t know if this had been mentioned before but I had always assumed that Juliana’s squad was made up of both guys and girls but apparently it was only made up of girls since Van only refers to the half minotaurs as girls.
Well I still think it was a stupid idea for Fitun to decide to make the Flame Blades his pawns and he doesn’t seem like he just randomly picked these guys and they just happened to be related to somebody close to Van and instead it seems like he picked them precisely because of that for some reason. It doesn’t take a genius to know that paying off their debts would be told to Natania who also happens to be related to Van which would also notify him that something weird is going on. And as has been shown, it didn’t take much guesswork to figure out the mysterious benefactor of the Flame Blades was Hajime. Now Van will start to prepare to face him. If Fitun had instead looked for some other random adventurers then Natania wouldn’t have been informed which in turn wouldn’t have alerted Van and Fitun could ambush him. He might want to fight him to the death but he’s not somebody that cares about being honorable or fighting fair.
I guess whoever is trying to mess with Van’s group outside are probably just random thugs. It’s still too early for Fitun and his group to make a move and it’d make no sense to attack Van’s people instead of going after Van directly since he’s nearby.
Also jeez, Saria and Rita are OP. Look how many skills they got at level 10 and some have even awakened into superior skills.
Ltshrek
Yep she classify as the same with pauvina and Quinn
Phantom Knight
Am I the only one who noticed that Julianna’s personality seems to still be intact? Most people undergoing pseudo-reincarnation will loose their old personality and memories, but Juliana’s behavior and speech pattern implies that she kept her old personality. In fact, her mental issues are even cured, and she probably has a new mental defense skill.
……The [Reincarnation Imitation] spell that he attained from his [Demon King] job might already be in effect. If so, the situation could imply that he is subconsciously activating the spell due to his affinity with it or due to his skills. In other words, Vandalieu-sama might start affect the Transmigration System faster than we thought.
As for whoever is messing with Van-sama’s monsters, I wouldn’t be surprised if one of the reincarnators are somehow involved. They might try to make a connection (in a similar way to how Byrkine did it), or they might stupidly try to confirm location of Van-sama and then continue spying on him. I could be wrong though.
Tejing
Quinn didn’t lose anything either. Pauvina did, but unlike Juliana, she spent a fair amount of time as a spirit, and that was probably the cause of her memory loss, not the pseudo-reincarnation itself.
Chiu ChunLing
I think that Fitun finds pawns who bear some kind of ill-will against Vandalieu easier to use for whatever reason. As Van notes, it would be difficult to completely control a lot of people with Marionette, so it’s probably somewhat necessary that the pawns have a plausible motive even if it’s not one that would normally cause them to freely cooperate.
It’s probably also important that the Flame Blades have had their other relationships ruined and are now socially isolated, it’s harder to keep people brainwashed if their friends and family will seek them out and try to talk to them.
These factors are also part of why Fitun chose Hajime himself, after all.
Superboy8338
Now, I’m wondering how Van would fair in a fight against either Ainz Ooal Gown from Overlord or Hajime from Arifuerta…?
ExplodingPenguinDood
I think Ainz has no chance against Van. His skills are structured and planned in a game setting while Van’s are game like without potential limit. Plus Van has level upped to 100 multiple times now and his stats are crazy high.
Dinzu
Depends on whether or not Van even can be killed. Ainz could use the combo he used in his duel with the swordsman guy, stop time and cast an instant kill spell. If Van cannot be killed by that top-tier death magic spell, then Ainz has no chance.
LygarX
Van has the divine protection of a god of time and space a founding god of lambda. time stopping would be invalidated. if you saw the special cross over series with overlord, konosuba, youjo senki, and re:zero, you can see that the time stop is ineffective against certain beings.
Superboy8338
But at the same time, Ainz and the Floor and Area Guardians all have OP skills and abilities that are just broken to the point that they cost EXP and are further amplified by their equipment.
LygarX
the thing is the items and skill that would give them a fighting chance have a cost. if they don’t kill him in one shot, over time, they will lose in a battle of attrition. Ainz’s subordinates are more powerful than Van’s but Van is so vastly more powerful and he typically equips his subordinates like weapons. using a world item to erase both from existence in a double KO is the only way for Ainz to even tie.
BLK
Ainz has access to world class items that can rewrite/ignore the laws of reality…so who knows.
observer6322
Also as an undead Ainz would be under the effect of Vans charm-skill.
BLK
it’s been hinted (based on his previous encounters with weaker undead) that Ainz might have a similar ability as a racial…….so i imagine Ainz and Van meeting is going to immediately turn into a yaoi doujinshi…..
Spruce
honestly, I don’t think Hajime would care? but if push comes to shove, my money is on Van. he’s just in a way higher tier than Hajime.
LygarX
Van has the pure brute force of Magic power that is in a higher tier yes. But Hajime has finished his main story and is his epilogue. With his Teleportation key, Age of the Gods Concept Magic, Compass, and various other artifacts like the satellite that would revive him and restore his body and soul with a combo of time/soul magic and the bullet that denies the concept of someone’s existence and Grasp Gloria which is an artifact he created which is a perpetual motion machine which he could use to convert infinite power into magic. Hajime dying is unlikely. Hajime is on the level of a looney tunes character in how unkillable and tricky he is in the epilogue.
moonlightswallowtail
Ainz and Van could probably go toe to toe in a 1v1 magic battle with none of Ainz’s pay 2 win items. Hajime would just fucking die
LygarX
Ainz would die due to the poor affinity he has against Van. With Pay to win and world items, he might tie against Van. Van has more magic power to fuel him and Ainz is undead which makes him specially vulnerable to Van. If Ainz were allowed to plan and scheme as much as he wants, he could win with the full force of Nazarick since his subordinates are stronger and he could have them use the world items to kill van without him dying as well.
If you read the epilogue and afterword chapters that continues after the main story, Nagumo Hajime is currently at a power scale that exceeds both characters. He can travel to any world or place he wants by thinking about it and using a compass and key to go there. That means he can travel to the hidden space where Lambda’s status System is managed and hack it. Van is significantly weaker in worlds without the status system. Hajime has Grasp Gloria which he created after the main story that is a perpetual motion machine which he just figured out how to get infinite magic energy from. He also has a Satellite that can resurrect someone which is based on Time and Soul Magic which would resurrect or heal Hajime if he were to die or have his soul broken. And lets not forget the bullet he used against a god to erase its conceptual existence which is on a tier higher than just destroying or eating a soul. Ainz has a world item that can erase character data and kill both target and user, but Hajime has the same thing that doesn’t kill the user. Restoration/Time Magic in combination with concept magic when used on Lambda’s status system could allow Hajime to erase the concept of Death Attribute magic, the high MP, and turn Van back into 4 separate original souls. He has done something similar before.
Suhardi
Against ainz, i think there is not a chance that ains winning since Van have barrier and with soul devoured skill he can attack the him and get his (ainz) mana deplete since ainz is mainly a magic caster
Against hajime, don’t know who will win since hajime mainly use physical attack and have many artifact with many function, while Van has barrier and mainly attack with magic and demon king fragment, so i wonder if their attack can even hit the other
LygarX
You are probably the most accurate I have seen.
Van would deplete Ainz due to the difference of Magic power. Ainz would run out first. Ainz does have the ability to use every magic from Yggdrasil, so he can counter Death Attribute with a combo affinity, but as an undead he is at a bad match up. Only by using cash items and world items does he has a chance of a Tie in a double erasing both from existence.
If you read the after story for Hajime, he got ridiculously powerful. Grasp Gloria can give Hajime infinite Magic power as seen with the new arc. He has a satellite that can resurrect people which is based off of Age of Gods magic that are Soul and Time based. So all soul attacks and destruction can be negated. He can hack Lambda’s Status system because he has his 2 artifacts of a Key and Compass that can allow him to literally go anywhere he wants to. So he can travel to that hidden dimension where those subordinate gods are located to hack the system. And he has concept magic which created the bullet he used to deny the existence of a being he fires it at. killing a god not by destroying its soul but erasing the concept of its very existence. Van’s barrier has weaknesses that can be negated with special metals and attributes since it is like the demon king barrier. Van is not invincible, Hajime basically is.
Epilogue after story development is crazy.
Suhardi
That doesn’t make sense (i think?) since that artifact can only revive people because their soul haven’t disappear yet, while van destroy the soul or devour the soul so that artifact is useless
LygarX
I think that in the end, they might all self destruct against each other. Each of them are not at their full potential alone. We have to consider that maximum war potential as the entirety of the might of the Vida Faction with Vandalieau as Head, The Might of Nazarick with all of the NPCs and World Items that Ainz has, and Hajime and family with all of his Reapers.
Van has the advantage against Ainz as Ainz is undead and would probably get charmed. Plus the magic levels are vastly different. In a stamina battle of magic, Van is superior. Ainz would run out of magic before. Van can devour and eat souls which could prevent the system that would allow resurrection. Van could destroy game like systems with his magic might alone. MP is so high that he could break reality just by using non-attribute magic. While Ainz has a stronger army, Van’s pure magic might could destroy him. Ainz does have world items that could potentially kill Van permanently, but those would probably end up killing him the moment he used them as well. In a fair 1v1 fight, Van would win. But there is a potential of a double knockout tie if Ainz uses world items that could either seal or destroy both of them or if he figures out the weakness of Death attribute magic. All characters are very careful and Ainz would probably try to figure out how to use the system of lambda to increase his own strength before engaging. and the travelling to lambda for Ainz or Vand travelling to the new world would Ainz to gain an advantage because Van would either lose the benefits of the system or Ainz would gain the benefits of it. since Ainz is not actually a god, he can still benefit from the system as a game character.
Vs Hajime, Hajime can mitigate the MP imbalance by using his artifacts. if we remember what he obtained recently, he has grasp gloria the perpetual motion machine that could give him boundless magic energy. All characters you proposed are very careful beings, but Hajime is very special in the fact that he has the teleportation key and compass that could allow him to hack the system of Lambda by finding those things hidden away. Using Concept Magic and his various artifacts, Hajime could and likely would either hack the Lambda status system or use restoration magic artifacts to revert Van into the 4 original souls he used to be. In a straight up fight 1v1 where they are both dumped into an arena to fight to the death, Hajime would likely lose and escape using his key. Van isn’t as careful and he doesnt have the same equipment. the Bullet that conceptually destroys gods that hajime has could wipe out vandalieu and all of his clones. Destruction of a soul and any damage could be negated by Hajime’s artifacts.
In a three way match or tournament, Hajime has the best chance against Van. Hajime is the only one who could potentially hack Lambda’s status system easily with what we know about their current capabilities in the novels. Ainz’s world items are up to speculation since they can affect systems but at a huge cost, but his undead status makes him a liability. I don’t ever see a way of Hajime ever dying or losing his soul to it being destroyed or devoured. he is too fast and his artifacts would reverse the damage to restore him. Ainz won’t win against Van in a million years, too many disadvantages in the fight. Even though he is a schemer/planner that specializes in pvp with bad odds, the matchup is too bad in terms of pure battle power and affinity.
Hajime isn’t fair because he is past his finish line in terms of main story progression of power. He finished the main story of his arc and is in epilogue mode of OP power.
Dyneamaeus
For the record, the only thing Hajime had that might be a threat to Van is his Emo bullet, and he couldn’t actually use it. Due to the required mental state to summon it Hajime would just fall prey to Van’s Charm.
DT
Vandalieu’s Death Attribute Charm could already end badly for Ainz. I realize he has resistance against such things, but Van’s Death Attribute Charm has ignored resistances before, even when it was much weaker than currently.
Darkhelios
Against Van? Hmmm…
Ainz would probably stand no chance. After all, Van can fight gods. Moreover considering the fact that Vandalieu has far more mana than Ainz, Van would easily win in a long battle too so, in order to win, Ainz would need to take the advantage as fast as possible… However he’s essentially a summoner / magic caster… Magic isn’t very effective against Vandalieu and summoning undeads against Van would be a bad idea… VERY bad idea.
Ainz best chance against Van would probably be: 1) World Items. 2) Instant death spells. The best one choice is, of course, using World Items… but if they’re dangerous to him, Vandalieu will be able to sense it so it’s unlikely that he will let Ainz have enough time to use one of those. In order to have this time & be able to use one, Ainz would need to sacrifice everything: Sending all the Guardians to their death. Even then, the best result would for Ainz probably be mutual destruction.
However in order to even “be able to fight against Vandalieu”, Ainz would have to bypass Vandalieu-sama’s legendary charm! Even undeads can’t resist it.
KINGSQUALLIE
Van would most likely charm Ainz. They would continue to come to terms and would form friend like relationship with each other and would go on to take out the common enemy, Hajime.
Chiu ChunLing
Why would he fight either?
Ainz Ooal Gown would probably be charmed by Dark Death Demon Dream etc. guidance, despite being supposedly immune to outright domination effects. Even leaving that aside, they just have too much in common ideologically for it to make any sense for them not to join forces. Ainz also desperately longs for genuine peer friendships.
Nagumo Hajime has even more in common with Van at a personal level, he also doesn’t have any absolute immunity to Van’s guidance despite maybe possibly technically not being undead. He’s not as desperately friendless, but the fact that he does have friends means he has far more to lose in a pointless fight with Van.
Both of them would immediately hate both Alda and Rotcortex and side with Van. Neither would have any strong objection to anything Van does or is likely to do. Van would probably suggest that Ainz needs to keep Demiurge on a tighter leash, but Ainz pretty much agrees with that, he just doesn’t know how. That would make Ainz even more eager to learn how Van keeps his subordinates in check without quashing their aspirations.
At a raw power ranking, Ainz comes in last by a significant margin compared to Nagumo by the end of Vol. 10 and the current Van. But Ainz is significantly cleverer than Nagumo and has many even more devious subordinates. That doesn’t help against Van because of the nature of Van’s guidance being so compatible with most of Ainz’s subordinates, who would quickly ‘realize’ that loyalty to Ainz required friendship with Van. Nagumo makes a lot of dumb mistakes and often suffers losses he could have easily avoided with a little foresight. So in a fight with Van his friends and harem would tell him to stand down cause the fight was obviously another dumb mistake.
Kazza
Damn, that cliffhanger. Especially since it’s kind of unclear… are the daughter and “Michael” on the same side against the men, or is it just her against “Michael” and the men? A battle royale between the three parties?
Ah well, here’s hoping a quick update… My bet is Hajime and Fitun are involved, but mostly due to the chapter name.
One thing I found kind of strange:
“On top of dealing with problems like these, Vandalieu had also been… taking care of the reborn ‘girls.’”
Does anyone who reads the raws (Or Yoshi, I guess) know if that line specified that the reborn minotaurs were all female? It seems weird to me, because I assume not all of her soldiers were also female. And it’s not like Van to prefer making women over men, because the Anubises (Anubisi?) were for all intents and purposes equal, and it’s not like he’s ever shown he wants this massive harem that keeps expanding. Especially with literal infant additions…
P.S. Anyone else think Fitun enlisted the help of Saiyans? It’s a long shot, sure, but I think the logic checks out. See, male, spiky hair, helps out jobbers MUCH weaker than them. I rest my case: My money’s on Saiyans.
I can’t think of any other group of people from a Japanese writer that fits these criteria. Anyone else?
Lord Rin
I think it’s still way too early for Hajime and Fitun to make a move. They just barely made the Flame Blades “heroes” and they should still be only around D-rank in strength.
Kazza
… I’m confused what you mean. The chapter is literally called “The Calm Before the Thunderclouds” hinting that Fitun is currently in motion with his plan and he and Van are about to collide.
Unless you mean the cliffhanger? As in, that’s probably not due to Fitun, but the daughter and the men (presuming it’s a three-way royale) both wanting the rats for their own reasons. Maybe, but it seems incredibly stupid for someone who has connections to Van (being she can ask her father to set up a meeting between them and negotiate instead of a fight he’s not even present for) to be willing to enter combat when she seems to be an alchemist – a primarily non-combat role. So, I’m just assuming she’s getting manipulated, whether by Marionette or not.
But you’re right, the timing is definitely suspicious, and for the life of me I can’t think why Fitun would want Van to be antagonized by some randos. They can’t beat him, and it’s not like they’re going to trick the city into turning on him. So… I’m willing to say you’re probably right if that’s what you meant.
Lord Rin
Right I meant the cliffhanger at the end. Anyways I’m guessing this Jessie just got randomly rolled up in all of this. She’s an alchemist so she’s probably an absent-minded researcher who happened to be standing nearby the rats or admiring them when a bunch of randos showed up wanting to take them since there are some pretty stupid adventurers out there.
BLK
[[By the way, what is that Beast-kin child that he’s carrying on his back?]]
Totally imagined baby beel from beelzebub…
VEreality
Bold of you to assume that Van was not Beel this whole time
BLK
now i can’t un-see baby beel on baby beel’s shoulders
Superboy8338
The beast-girl is one of the girls that had all her limbs removed and impregnated by that Minotaur King. She is also a noble and Van put her soul in one of her own eggs to be pseudo-reincarnated like he did with the queen bee monster.
Tejing
Pretty sure he knows that…
VEreality
Yoooooooooo!!!!!!!
I had a “big brain” moment!
Beelzebub means Lord of the flies. This comes from a man of legend who was able to corrupt thousand of people with his words alone. These people were always by his side like flies. It’s also one of the seven princes of hell.Van has followers galore and he is the Demon King.
Beelzebub is also related to gluttony. Van has introduced a lot of food recipes to the world of Lambda. He also has the Food Cart King title that can change if he expands his business. It can become something like King of Gluttony.
Vandalieu IS Beelzebub! He is as Beelzebub as possible!
ValiantHex
I like your thinking and good chances they’re maybe a class called Beelzebub
Renrobt
Saria and Rita are scary. All those self enhancements… They are apparently most in their element when they keep slaughtering left and right, getting stronger by murdering and healing from it as well.
Plus them being rank 12 effectively means that anything other than exceptional A-rank and S-Rank adventurers have no chance of survival and considering the enhancements they might just make them even harder to deal with…
And they are “just” Van’s maids. Thank you Van.
Superboy8338
Because of Van a SHITLOAD of people are leveling and ranking up several times faster than they themselves ever would on their own. Death Magic is OP AF…!!!
VEreality
That is from his guider job not death magic but it is OP AF
Ltshrek
It goes both ways they get stronger while van gets more op * as long as he can see them or a dummy made up of dk parts is there*
LordKira
Juliana’s reincarnation was pretty fast, and I guess master guild daughter its been controlled by that twat hajime or she’s been greedy to take Van’s stuff
Irazori
Most likely the latter. Being an alchemist means working with magic and/or rare monster materials. So it’s obvious that she’s recklessly trying to get some mats from the new rat species created by Van.
Superboy8338
IF what you say is true, then I already don’t like her…
Lord Rin
I don’t think she’s like that. It kinda sounds like she’s with Miles and they’re facing some other guys who want Van’s monsters.
Superboy8338
I said “if it’s true.”
ExplodingPenguinDood
I hope she’s just crazy like Luciliano and just really want to know what those unknown rats are. She and Van would make great friends I think
Tejing
Juliana’s born already… that was quick. I wonder what Earl Morksi and Duke Alcrem will think about her?
I suppose the ‘redhead and blonde beauties’ that Berard mentioned are vampires that Van kept hidden from the people of Morksi thus far. Maybe Eleanora and… who’s blonde? EDIT: Ah, it’s the blonde vs. silver-haired thing again. It must be Bellmond.
Jonathan Hurd
I think the blonde might be Bellmont. Can’t say for complete certain though.
Irazori
I never understood that. I always just call it natural gray hair
mailundra
maybe the blonde is Isla?
Tejing
Nope. The chapter does specifically say that Isla has stayed out of the public eye because she’s a zombie. It’s definitely Eleanora and Bellmond.
LethalDose
Hell yes new chapter but unfortunately I’m sleepy right now and i was to enjoying this at 100% so it’s gonna have to wait till tomorrow
Cendacyl
The duel is probably not going to be a big deal tho
JeKeBe
The duel will be a joke, considering who’s involved. The RATS could take out a lot of adventurers.
But. That said. New future harem member probably incoming since it’s a female. That or it’ll be a research fanatic that will end up going to Talosheim and end up getting along swimmingly with Luciliano.
I was glad to see that the author didn’t skim over how suspicious their paying off the fine immediately was though, even if it did logically boil down to ‘well, we have no proof of wrongdoing’ on the guild’s side. It was brought to Van’s attention at least, so it won’t go ignored.
Thanks for the chapter as always. Think it’s about time to go back and read from the beginning again, for the third run.
Lord Rin
I’m gonna go with research fanatic since they said the girl is an alchemist.
Jonathan Hurd
Maybe. Could be a setup by Hajime. Though not sure what Fituns plan is quite yet. Something fun this duel could lead to is since the Adventurer Guild leaders daughter is an alchemist we could be seeing the joining of a new assistant like Lucilano.
ExplodingPenguinDood
I hope that too as well, more headache for Van and co. and more hilarity for us
Armorpiercer
well, this getting spicy real fast
Shank Mugen
New chapter! Praise be! Lord Yoshi!