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At the feet of a creature, so enormous and grotesque that it was difficult to recognize that it was a living being, were two silhouettes.
“I’m going,” said one of them, which barely had a vaguely humanoid shape that was just as grotesque as the enormous creature.
“’ai-’ai,” said the other silhouette, a black, human one of a size somewhere between a baby and a toddler.
The grotesque silhouette being waved goodbye then walked straight ahead, approaching the enormous grotesque creature… and silently melted into it to become one.
But a moment later, another grotesque figure emerged from the enormous one and split away from it.
“Banda, big Banda, li’l Banda,” said the small silhouette.
“I’m back, Meh-kun. I suppose you’re talking about the large me and me?” said the smaller grotesque figure that had newly come into existence. “So then, do you need an explanation, me?” it said, turning back towards the larger one.
Silence.
“It seems not. Both of you are me, and a single moment of reconnection is enough to update my memories and abilities with no problems.”
More silence.
“But I suppose creating one more of me and giving it to him is impossible. Well, it cannot be helped.”
“Nii-nii,” said the small silhouette.
The enormous creature remained silent.
“… Well then, let’s do that. It seems that I just happen to have a strange little something that I have no use for. Whether he can make use of it is up to him.”
At the beginning of that dream, Hiroshi thought it was the same scary dream that he had been having a lot recently – the same nightmare that he’d been having ever since that incident, a nightmare in which he was suddenly captured by villains, tormented and then killed.
In reality, Hiroshi and the other two kidnapped people hadn’t been killed. Hiroshi had lost consciousness partway during the incident, and the next time he opened his eyes, he had been in a hospital bed and the incident had been resolved.
He had told his parents that he was fine, and pretended to be strong in front of his friends at school, saying that he hadn’t been scared at all. But in truth, he had been completely terrified. And as if to punish him for lying, he was now haunted by this repeated dream of a version of the incident that was even more cruel than what had actually taken place.
Tonight, Hiroshi found himself surrounded by darkness as always, captured and unable to move. He thought that the dream was about to begin once more.
However, he was only surrounded by the darkness for a moment.
“… Huh? Is this an ocean?” he murmured as he suddenly found himself in a strange space.
It was like a bright seabed, covered in countless faintly-glowing, colorful corals and sea anemones, with seaweed-like objects billowing and dancing among them.
Hiroshi swam there, not drowning.
“Don’t you want power?” a voice called out to him suddenly.
It was a mysterious figure in a black robe with four eyes and a tear-like mouth that stretched from ear to ear.
Hiroshi thought that it was a monster. But he did not feel any fear towards it – perhaps because he remembered that his younger sister Mei had made countless scribbles of this monster, or perhaps because he had faint memories of being protected by it, or perhaps because he knew that this was only a dream. He himself did not know which was the real reason for his lack of fear.
“I do, I do want it, but… I don’t have any special powers like Mom or Dad,” he replied to the monster’s question.
Hiroshi wanted a special power like the ones his parents possessed. He wanted to become special. That was what he wished for. He was quite brilliant when compared to the children of his own age – not only in his studies and in sports, but he had also inherited his parents’ inherent qualities for magic.
But the only thing he was missing was a cheat-like ability. His parents, being reincarnated individuals who were aware that the cheat-like abilities were something that had been granted to them by Rodcorte, didn’t think anything strange of this and simply accepted the fact.
However, only the reincarnated individuals themselves knew that they had been reincarnated from another world. The adults around them, the children at Hiroshi’s school and Hiroshi himself – they were all unaware of this fact.
“I see,” the monster murmured. “If you wish, I will give you a source of the power that you long for. And I will teach you how to use a special kind of magic.”
“Really?!” Hiroshi said excitedly.
“Yes, really. First of all, eat this,” the monster said, holding out something that resembled a fresh internal organ towards Hiroshi.
Hiroshi’s face turned pale. “W-what is that?! It looks all slimy and it’s moving! It’s some dangerous stuff, isn’t it?!”
“It’s fine, it’s fine. It has no artificial coloring or additives; it’s a completely naturally-derived… thing,” said the monster.
“Thing?! I’m definitely not eating something suspicious like that!” Hiroshi protested.
“Hmm, you have a very healthy sense of judgment… Now that things have come to this, I have no choice.”
The monster took the organ back and produced a pot from inside its pocket. And right before Hiroshi’s eyes, it began cooking something.
It started a fire with the seaweed-like plants, then plucked one of the sea-anemone-like things growing nearby and squeezed a crimson liquid out of it, filling the pot. It then cut the organ-like object into suitably-sized pieces and added them to the liquid.
Soon, the pot was bubbling and boiling.
Hiroshi stared in bewilderment. “U-uh…”
The monster continued its cooking, its efficient movements making it seem like it was strangely used to doing this.
“Now that I think about it, it wouldn’t be good to teach a child to simply accept a raw item from someone they’ve never met before and eat it,” the monster said.
“Umm… Banda, right? Is it normal to give raw meat and guts to each other in the world of monsters?” Hiroshi asked.
“I’m surprised you know my name,” said the monster… Banda.
“Huh? Yeah, Mei keeps drawing pictures of you and calling you Banda, so I figured that’s your name,” said Hiroshi.
“I see. Well anyway, this is finished,” said Banda, producing a plate from somewhere and placing the pot’s contents on it.
Considering the strange ingredients that had been used to make it, it now resembled a slightly overly-red beef stew.
And despite the fact that this was a dream, Hiroshi could smell it for some reason.
“I-it looks delicious!” said Hiroshi in astonishment, as if unable to believe his eyes.
Banda held out a spoon and beckoned Hiroshi to eat once more. “Eat this if you want a special power. And if you want even more, I will teach you how to use a special kind of magic. No-attribute magic, whose existence isn’t known to anyone else in this world.”
Hiroshi woke up several minutes before his alarm was set to go off.
“… Huh, it was just a dream,” he murmured.
“I forgot to mention something,” a voice said suddenly.
Hiroshi turned around to look back to his pillow in shock, and found that Banda was there, staring at him with his four eyes and his fangs protruding from the mouth that stretched from ear to ear.
“Everything you saw in your dream is a secret. You must not use the magic I taught you in front of others, not even your parents. Do you understand?” Banda asked.
Hiroshi nodded, and Banda silently began to disappear.
“W-wait,” said Hiroshi. “Are you that ‘Eighth Guidance’ thing? Did you save us when we were kidnapped?!”
Banda stood still, and his head began turning on his neck. “Unfortunately, I can’t talk about that now.”
“W-why not?!”
“Because it is a long story, and you will be late for school if I were to tell all of it.”
Unfortunately for Hiroshi, today was a weekday.
Over a month had passed since the kidnapping and subsequent rescue of the ‘Braver’ Amemiya Hiroto and the ‘Angel’ Narumi’s two children.
The police responding to the anonymous report had found the kidnapped children, the bodyguard and the babysitter, safe and sound. They had also found the criminals; all but one of them had been killed in a gruesome manner.
And the other thing they had found was the Eighth Guidance’s symbol.
The investigating authorities had immediately ordered a media blackout on the incident, called the ‘Bravers’ including the Amemiya couple to a meeting, and provided information to authorities in another nation in exchange for help with the investigation.
“… And yet, the authorities that offered their cooperation are only focused on investigating the survivors of the Eighth Guidance. The masterminds who ordered Hiroshi and Mei’s kidnapping are being left to do as they please,” Narumi murmured.
Indeed, the investigation efforts were being directed entirely at the Eighth Guidance rather than the kidnappers.
After all, the kidnappers were still humans despite being criminals, and it wasn’t wrong to chase the suspect that had slaughtered them in cold blood, but… the investigation was clearly doing more than merely chasing the perpetrator.
“You’re right. Saying that the kidnappers were just members of a foreign criminal group trying to extort money and calling it a day is overdoing it. There’s no way a group of ex-soldiers and mercenaries would prepare guns and a truck then attempt a kidnapping for monetary purposes in a foreign country,” said the ‘Titan’ Iwao Kazuki. “Well, don’t worry so much. They can chase the Eighth Guidance all they want, but we won’t let them get in our way. We’re doing everything we can to look into the information we got from the kidnappers’ driver, the guy called Woo.”
“And Narumi, it is not wrong to investigate the Eighth Guidance,” Amemiya Hiroto added. “Whether there really are survivors from their group, and with what purpose they saved Mei and the others… We need answers to these questions.”
Indeed, on the surface, it appeared that Mei and the others had been saved by someone who had left the Eighth Guidance’s symbol behind. But the motive behind doing that was unclear.
Nobody knew if they could simply be thankful for saving the children. Pluto had once tried to kill Narumi, but stopped upon realizing that there was a small life within her. The fact that that small life had been Mei was not information that had been made known to the public.
Other than the ‘Bravers’ that had been a part of the operation that had taken place back then, this fact was known only to people belonging to various investigating authorities around the world, and even then, to only a limited number of individuals authorized to access that information.
Had the members of the Eighth Guidance whose corpses were never found actually escaped and survived? Or were there unknown members still remaining? Or had someone used the Eighth Guidance’s symbol to interfere with the investigation?
“And the others are just ‘cooperating’ with us; they’re not under our command or under the command of the police. We’ll just have to investigate the mastermind behind the kidnapping ourselves. Let’s let them chase whoever saved the kids and disappeared right afterwards,” said Hiroto. “We have more important questions to answer, though.”
“You’re right. It seems that Mei doesn’t remember anything, but it also seems that Hiroshi still sees it in his dreams,” said Narumi.
“He spoke to the kidnappers, after all. Even if he didn’t actually see them die, I’m sure it wasn’t a fun experience,” Iwao agreed.
Hiroshi had put on a brave face, but Narumi knew even without using ‘Angel’ that scars had been left upon his mind. Even an adult would be traumatized by what he had gone through. Simple nightmares could be considered to still be a minor way in which that trauma manifested itself.
“If only I had the power to heal people’s minds…” Narumi murmured.
‘Angel’ allowed her to link her senses with those of others and have telepathic conversations with them. However, it did not allow her to directly heal mental wounds.
Hiroto placed a hand on her shoulder to cheer her up. “Don’t be so hard on yourself. Hiroshi doesn’t seem to be disturbed by those nightmares anymore these days. When I saw his face just earlier -”
Hiroto suddenly stopped mid-sentence and stood up out of his chair, then headed for the second floor where the children were sleeping.
“What’s the matter?!” Iwao whispered.
“I feel a strange kind of Mana. On the second floor…?!” Hiroto whispered back.
He stopped at the top of the stairs and looked around the second floor, but he couldn’t see anything happening.
“What now?!” Iwao asked.
“The Mana – it’s disappeared,” Hiroto replied. “Was I just imagining it?!”
He looked into the children’s room and saw that Hiroshi and Mei were asleep, then checked if there was anything strange with the guards, whose numbers had been increased following the incident. But he, Narumi and Iwao didn’t notice anything.
“Honey, the security system detected some suspicious Mana, just for a moment,” said Narumi, examining the security system. “This is… What could this be? Wind-attribute and light-attribute Magic appeared for just a second, and then it suddenly disappeared…”
It seemed that it wasn’t just Hiroto’s imagination. The security system had indeed detected the presence of Mana.
“It doesn’t seem like you were just being too nervous about things,” said Iwao. “But for Mana to appear and then disappear for no reason… Could it be that Hiroshi is only pretending to sleep and is using magic to play pranks on us?
“No,” said Narumi, shaking her head. “It seems that he’s been practicing magic really hard in secret, but he’s still a child. He shouldn’t be able to produce such a large amount of Mana.”
The Amemiya residence was equipped with a sensor that could detect Mana of the seven attributes – earth, water, fire, wind, light, life and space. The time attribute didn’t exist, and no-attribute Mana had yet to be discovered. The death attribute was difficult to detect in nature to begin with, and since there were no living sources of it currently in existence, sensors for it could not be easily made.
Given these circumstances in Origin, this security system was more than adequate.
But even that system did not know what had happened.
“If I remember correctly, Rikudou and Moriya were knowledgeable about things like this. Moriya should be arriving tomorrow, so do you want to try asking him then?” Iwao suggested.
Ever since Hiroshi and Mei’s kidnapping, members of the Bravers had been rotating shifts to protect the Amemiya residence as bodyguards. That was why Iwao was here today.
“… Yeah. But just in case, let’s try negotiating to see if we can be supplied with a sensor that can detect death-attribute Mana. Maybe there really are survivors from the Eighth Guidance,” said Hiroto.
The three of them spent a sleepless night deep in discussion, but early in the morning, a message arrived from the ‘Shaman’ Moriya – one saying that a mission had come up, and he was unable to go to the Amemiya residence that day.
Meanwhile, during Hiroto, Narumi and Iwao’s discussion, Banda was in Mei’s room, confused by what had just happened.
“What were those strange things?” he murmured to himself.
He had no need for sleep, so he had simply been loitering around the Amemiya residence when he noticed the presence of two masses of Mana that could not be detected by the naked eye, similar to himself.
They had slipped through the walls like ghosts, approaching the children’s room. But they were clearly not ghosts. Banda recognized that they were something like familiars, made of masses of Mana.
He had then attacked and defeated those familiars in an instant. He had simply stayed invisible and struck them with his body that was made of Demon King fragments, breaking the familiars and causing them to crumble apart with ease.
This had caused the Mana to scatter into the air, and he got a fright when Amemiya Hiroto noticed this, but he had stayed invisible and Hiroto had not noticed him.
“Either Rikudou is trying something, or a different group… Could they have been secret guards sent by the investigating authorities? If so, I might have been too hasty. Hiroshi-kun seems to have absorbed the part that didn’t quite fit in with me. Will they try something serious before he learns how to use no-attribute magic?” Banda murmured to himself.
When Vandalieu devoured the reincarnated individuals’ souls, there had been a part that he had not been able to absorb, so Banda had turned that into a stew and given it to Hiroshi.
It was an ability that regenerated Mana, but it seemed that Vandalieu had been unable to find a use for it as the regeneration it provided was so insignificant to him.
And now that it had been transferred to Hiroshi, its regeneration had decreased even beyond the original amount. However, to a child in Origin, it was equivalent to having acquired a source of endless Mana.
The Mana it provided would certainly decrease the amount of time Hiroshi needed to acquire ‘No-Attribute Magic.’
Banda had asked the main Vandalieu to give him an appearance that would give Hiroshi the best first impression when he appeared in a dream, and made it as fun a dream as possible. He had succeeded; although Hiroshi had been a little suspicious of Banda at first, he had followed his instructions.
Banda had turned horns and bones into coral with the Demon King’s luminescent organs and ink sacs, made his tentacles resemble sea anemones, and made his body hair wave around like seaweed. Taking the improvised cooking into account as well, Banda had to say, he had put on a pretty good act.
Since it had gone so well, he wanted Hiroshi to successfully learn ‘No-Attribute Magic’ as well.
“It does help me out that they made a convenient misunderstanding, though,” Banda murmured to himself.
A sleepy noise came from Mei’s bed.
“Ah, I’ve gone and woken you up, Meh-kun. Here, wriggle-wriggle,” said Banda, extending a tentacle of the Demon King towards her.
“Wriggle-wriggle!” Mei giggled happily.
Banda kept her entertained until she fell asleep once more.
Meanwhile, far away from the Amemiya residence, the ‘Shaman’ Moriya Kousuke’s face was pale with shock.
“Both of the artificial spirits I created were extinguished in an instant?!” he muttered to himself.
Moriya Kousuke’s ability, ‘Shaman,’ was an ability that allowed him to create artificial spirits with his own Mana and control them like familiars.
In Origin, spirits consisted of Mana of a single attribute that had gathered into a mass. They moved as if with an intelligence and emotions of their own. They were not living creatures; they were considered to be a kind of natural phenomenon.
Moriya was capable of creating spirits with his own will and Mana, and control them more precisely than other familiars.
This made it easy for him to break through modern security systems and wiretap, take secret pictures of or monitor targets. He had intended to use this ability to probe into the Amemiya residence – especially around the children. However… this attempt had broken into pieces, along with Moriya’s pride.
“How in the world were my spirits detected?” Moriya wondered. “It’s not Amemiya Hiroto or Narumi, and Iwao is out of the question. Could it be that there really is a survivor of the Eighth Guidance lurking around the children? Even if that’s the case, is it even possible for them to attack and destroy both of my spirits before being seen by them? … Or perhaps the enemy has an ability of a similar type to mine!”
There were old stories of warlocks that were capable of controlling evil spirits that were visible to the naked eye. There was a type of death-attribute magic that was extremely similar to the warlocks of these legends, and perhaps one of the members of the Eighth Guidance was capable of using it.
“If that’s the case… It would be bad for me to go near the Amemiya residence. If the enemy is controlling an artificial evil spirit that is similar to the spirits I create except far more powerful, then they might consider me to be an intruder and attack me. Whether I would be able to defend myself against that is… In any case, I must decline to act as the Amemiya family’s guard for today, even if it causes some suspicion. I’ll let Rikudou decide what to do.”
Just as Banda wished, Moriya had made a convenient misunderstanding. And so, the peaceful image of the Amemiya residence was preserved for now.
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So Banda managed to call home for updates huh? I was hoping that would happen. Some of those jobs and skills will probably help a lot. IIRC he didn’t get Dream Guider till after Banda split off, so Banda should only be getting access to that ability now. Not to mention Demiurge. That signature mix of utterly abnormal and perfectly normal is very Van. Hiroshi took it pretty well though. I’m now looking forward to the day when the Amemiyas realize both their kids are friends with an eldritch abomination… I was wondering what happened to Super Mana Recovery. I… Read more »
It is nice to know the Mana regeneration cheat isn’t forgotten. I think the problem for Van is that it was set up for someone who only had a few thousands of mana. Van works in the Billions. So it’s not even a drop in the bucket for him. I feel like Rikudous side misunderstanding what Van is might actually help Banda more hurt him. It means that Rikudou is going to have to go more direct with his infiltration. That means more chances for Hiroto and his wife to find stuff. Better yet if there’s physical evidence Banda could… Read more »
Actually I was wondering about that conference as well. I think Banda is sorta going to be like an Uncle Iro or Uncle Qrow to the family by the time its over.
I’m kind of imagining Banda talking to them with a list of grievance’s about how they raise the kids. Like letting them stay up to late and stuff, lol. Would be hilarious to see Banda the giant Eldritch Horror coming off as a fussy Mother in law or Grandparent.
Now Banda can take over the Dream Enchroachment/Therapy in Origin! And gain power from the worship that it will generate towards the Undead!
I suppose it helps that since Hiroshi is still so young, he’s more likely to believe Mei’s “imaginary” friend that she constantly draws and talks about is real if he sees the same thing. And since Mei is never afraid of it, he wouldn’t be.
An insignificant Mana recovery ability for Van that becomes even more insignificant after being transferred = easy infinite supply of Mana for people in Origin… he just literally created a cheat 😀
Van is literally a cheat, lol. Creating a cheat was Banda. This is just recycling the garbage.
Infinite mana… For a child. Not as big once he gets to an adult. And he didn’t create it, just recycled what he got from Murakami.
Still, it’s a cheating recovery, even as an adult I could be a class A magician if they have talent.
I’m not saying it’s not a cheat, I’m just trying to correct a misconception. And apparently Hiroshi did inherit his parent’s talent for magic and athletics, so he’ll without a doubt become a powerful individual on Origin comparable to the Bravers
Y’know, as I’m reading this again, it occurs to me that while the mana regen will be nice, the No-Attribute Magic will probably be more busted. Van only got tortured originally because Origin logic states mana must have an attribute. Even the security system presented in this chapter are based on mana attributes.
This might mean Hiroshi’s spells are now unbreakable, unblockable, and undetectable.
As for the undetectable part, one thing this story glosses over a lot is spell chants since Van, most of his crew, and many of his enemies have chant revocation. If Hiroshi could cast without chanting, even only no-attribute, then he could mimic half a dozen abilities (enhanced strength, enhanced regeneration, flight, telekinesis) but if he has to chant for them he can still use them but once he has to use it in an emergency he’ll give away that it’s magic. Mana sensors wouldn’t pick anything up but someone near him could still tell he’s about to do something… Read more »
I agree that he is going to have to chant it, but I wonder how loud you have to chant the spells. This is a world that has been using Magic in combat for centuries. Knowing how humans deal with war they probably have methods of at least hiding chants from foes. That or ways to shorten the chant through practice/magic medium. Out of the list of abilities I think flight might be too much for his mana supply. Even Van burned through mana too fast when he first started using that one. Enhanced Strength and Telekinesis though would be… Read more »
For the record, no-attribute magic is not unbreakable, unblockable, or undetectable. It’s just another form of mana, what makes it special is it does not carry an elemental attribute with it. Since that form of magic hasn’t been discovered in Origin that would give Hiroshi a leg up on people just from the novelty of it, and it would be undetectable as far as sensors go in the short term, but eventually the novelty and advantage will disappear. Like how death attribute magic didn’t exist before the “undead” and now there’s technology based on it and can detect it (albeit… Read more »
While I agree it is not a perfect form of Magic, as it is the purest form of Magic it does have advantages. Remember Asagi’s ability lets him stop all magic in a radius around him. However, as he learned the hard way No-Attribute Magic still worked inside his cheat ability. It has its downsides like Mana Bullet being a point blank attack, unless you can dump like 10k mana into it. I get the impression at least for the time they won’t be able to detect No-Attribute Magic, until they tweak their detection devices or abilities. After all it… Read more »
It was powerful because Van was the one using it. My point simply is it’s not a super magic. The fact that it would be new to Origin is the biggest advantage going for it and that advantage would serve Hiroshi well for whatever the period of time he’d likely need it. But, it wouldn’t remain an advantage indefinitely. Also, it’s not actually clear if Asagi ability wouldn’t work on no-attribute magic. He wasn’t aware of it upon immediately arriving in Lambda and it’s already been proven that the reincarnators can improve their cheat abilities in Lambda with enough time… Read more »
it would be good if hiroshi manage to use the magic that van used to kill curatos or a magic similar or he will create a degraded verion of it
I love how he is so considerate as to what is good for the kids’ development while being an eldritch monster.
Thanks for the chapter!
Van is a benevolent Lovecraftian horror, not a monster.
But his standard isn’t humane through.
And spoiled little girl with tentacle.
Van’s not human anymore and the majority of his closest allies were never human to begin with.
He is very humane, he just isn’t human. “Humane” in this particular instance being compassionate, considerate and nurturing. Van is a better parent than most parents existing, because he knows exactly what should not be done to developing children having had all the wrong things being done to him.
The Banda and meh-kun chapters always give me energy , there’s something about a girl and her eldritch horror, guardian demon that warms the soul😄
Jokes apart, is *Hiroto* gonna find out soon about the fact his kids are being haunted?
Funny part is that reveal is pretty much guaranteed. It’s only a matter of time until Narumi uses ‘Angel’ on one of them. My money is on it being, Hiroshi since he’s the older one and you’d definitely want your kids to be used to your telepathy in case of emergencies.
I kind of feel like she might connect to Mei first. Just because Mei’s behavior is a lot more suspicious and I think she would want to respect her son’s privacy. Narumi seems like the type to refuse to connect to others if it’s not an emergency so I think it will probably be a bit longer. Gotta say though looking forward to Narumi and Hiroto first contact with Banda, lol. My money is on Hiroto blowing a few holes in some walls. Would also be hilarious if they try to grab Mei and run. Banda trying to be considerate… Read more »
I wouldn’t say Mei’s behavior is suspicious. She is a not even 3 yet. At that age there are many kids prone to seemingly random outbursts and actions. She seems to be a calm child little obsessed with drawing a weird creature she calls Banda, and prone to ask and laugh with her “imaginary” friend. On the other hand Hiroto went through trauma which even they knew was obviously haunting him, but couldn’t do anything to help, yet suddenly he overcame it just suddenly overnight? But aside suspicions, I personally think its going to be more of an accidental discovery,… Read more »
From what this chapter said I think its been a month since Hiroshi stopped having nightmares and Narumi hadn’t realized it. Hiroto seemed to have noticed he’s calmer though. I think they’ll probably just be happy he seems happier and not try to dig deeper for fear of bringing up old wounds/trauma. If you ask me they should of had a sit down with their son a long time ago and explained its okay to be afraid, but if that was going to happen it would of happened a long time ago. I agree with you that she is probably… Read more »
Yeah, I agree that the discovery of Banda will likely be during a high stress time. Poor Narumi might even think that the situation is worse than it is and be the one causing issues due to the misunderstanding. Personally I would find it hilarious if it was discovered during a peaceful time, seeing how the Amemiya household panicking and trying to exorcise Banda. Well it could also happen that due to something Banda decides that he should reveal himself, tho even that would be a rather interesting affair, since its likely a serious situation that would force him to… Read more »
wasn’t it 50 meters?
Hope that Banda-kun will break Moriya’s soul. Or at least he will die so painfully that his soul will be scarred forever. As for why I’m hoping for this: He’s one of the people who is helping maintaining the brainwashing on Mari…
Just keep reading to find out.
There is definitely going to be a giant battle with Hijiri before a bunch of the Bravers leave Origin. I think Banda is probably going to be playing a leading role in that battle and he is going to be leaving a lot of trauma in his wake, lol.
Part of me wants Banda to injure Moriyas soul, but part of me wants him to get to Origin so Van can eat him…. slowly….
We still don’t know if Banda can break or devour souls while he’s in Origin. He specifically says that that’s the one thing he wouldn’t test out to see if he can use it in Origin because he’d need to find a soul to be a guinea pig first.
Moriya volunteers as test subject n°1.
Also souls in Origin are Rodcorte’s jurisdiction. If he breaks a soul in Origin he might tip off Rodcorte that he has a presence there as well as Lambda.
That is definitely true considering how many alerts even one soul breaking sends and Van being the only being in all of Rodcortes worlds with that power.
Hmmm… True but I don’t think that Vandalieu/Banda cares about hiding his presence in Origin from Rodcorte. After all, it’s not like he can check whether or not Rodcorte already knows that he’s in Origin as well. Moreover, even if Rodcorte could try to attack Banda, it would be mostly a waste of time: If Vandalieu managed to arrive in Origin, he can come back. Besides the Origin gods are also on his side, right? So it would be better for Rodcorte to focus himself on the origin point. Deal with the big Vandalieu first, before he can get even… Read more »
I think Van would want to avoid attracting Rodidiots attention to Mei so he’ll probably avoid breaking souls in Origin. I think the bigger part though is he’ll probably avoid breaking souls if possible because it would be bad for Mei’s education, lol.
Couple things. First, Banda is attached to Mei in Origin. He wouldn’t want Rodcorte messing with Mei’s soul. Secondly, Van wouldn’t want the rest of the bravers to be turned against him all at once by Rodcorte telling them things. By laying low, he’s able to gather intel, as well as subtlely influence people to his side. If he’s able to convince Narumi and Hiroto that he’s good before they leave Origin, that’s two powerful allies. And yes, Origin’s gods aren’t exactly fans of Rodcorte, but at the same time, he’s solely responsible for the entire planet’s transmigration system. In… Read more »
I think everyone is forgetting the fact Rodidiot’s attention might be drawn to Origin and realize Van has influence there, since he has probably, like Mei, drawn Hiroshi to his path and Vida’s circle. Because the familiars had noticed Mei had but not said or thought about it to keep Rodidiot from noticing. But now Hiroshi has been guided by him it’s possible he might notice. Unless this is happening while he is still hurt, then the others might fix the problems and choose to not think about it while he is still down for the count, trying to hide… Read more »
Rodcorte figuring it out requires him to pay attention to what lower mortals are doing which the author has established is not something Rodcorte cares to do. Van breaking a soul would be Van actively seeking Rodcorte’s attention as his system would throw all sorts of alarms at that happening. Van casually guiding people to Vida’s system of reincarnation is not as big a tipoff as Van destroying a soul.
but then, wouldn’t he not want Rodcorte to even know he can go to other worlds, because that would make him even more desperate, and they say a cornered rat will bite the cat.
He almost definitely can, it’s an aspect of Death Attribute, and he still has his skills like venom secretion, it’s just he doesn’t want-to/have-an-opportunity-to, especially because it will alert Rodcorte and he doesn’t want to do that yet because things will probably get (more) troublesome
Seeing it’s another side chapter.
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Banda shows up.
┬─┬ノ( º _ ºノ)
One Banda’s trash is another brat’s treasure!
Curious as to how the connection was made?
It feels so satisfying when Rikudou and Rodidiot experience frustrations. Those artificial spirits were pretty pathetic by Lamda standards.
Amemiyas are a little disappointing …c’mon, suspect your fellow Bravers more! What happened to Narumi’s unease with Rikudou? Gotta admire Shaman a little …he had enough sense not to tackle Banda …not that that sense will last.
Rikudou isn’t “openly” tied to any part of the ongoing situation, besides arranging which Braver is in attendance to keep watch, no? And none of the other Bravers have their own (known) reason to target their household, nor use Eight Guidance as a scapegoat to excuse ‘heroic’ actions. In this, Titan and Shaman exposed a lack of general knowledge towards the Amamiya household security functions, and while the latter :might: have been specifically searching for something suspicious before he took watch (without informing the parents), he’s probably not going to tell the right people about it.
Shaman is part of the suspicious activity team to be reported on, lol. He was sending those familiars to bypass the Amemeyias security system. He didn’t know about the Banda security though that’s what messed him up.
I believe the reason Shamans familiars were noticed by Hiroto was because they exploded mana upon death. If Banda hadn’t attacked them I think they’d stay invisible.
You forget the part where Hiroto Amemiya is a delusional idiot who never once thought he would be betrayed by other Bravers because of justice and friendship is magic.
While I understand and share your frustration with the Amemeyias trusting Hijiri. A big thing to remember is just how few people they have to rely on. Basically every government in the world looks at those two as potential weapons of mass destruction or something to be studied and used. Hijiri has also targeted and killed just about everyone that could be a confidant or sniff him out. Add in the deaths of close friends like Asagi and Mao. As well as the hidden pasts of people like Murakami and Gungnir. It’s not hard to understand why Hiroto would desperately… Read more »
But still, the fact that he didn’t even consider that some of his allies would turn bad or were bad from the very beginning is foolish.
Oh don’t get me wrong I completely agree that Hiroto was and still is an idiot who has no understanding of the big picture. I’m merely saying why he wouldn’t want to suspect someone he has considered a close friend from the beginning. With how many betrayals that have happened it would be stupid to blindly believe anyone. The big problem then is who do you trust to help look after your family? The world governments are actively and openly trying to use you, and they prioritize Death Attribute over all else. Since the government’s aren’t trust worthy then just… Read more »
“He would of noticed how the Eighth Guidance was being treated” He was perfectly aware of how the Eighth Guidance were being treated and that all of the original members of the group were escaped Death Attribute lab experiments from the same laboratory that housed “The Undead”. All of the Bravers knew that the escapees were recaptured and experimented upon again, they all knew the reason behind the foundation of the Eight Guidance, the story makes explicit mentions of this, but like the typical “It cannot be helped” Japanese trash human beings, despite being endowed with powers to defy the… Read more »
From what the story said during the Eighth Guidance chapters I believe the course of events was: 1) Undead killed. 2) The other people experimented on and then helped by the Undead are found by the Bravers. 3) Braver’s hand these people over to the government who promises they’ll ‘help’ the poor victims. 4) Eighth Guidance is now put in a new lab to be experimented on. 5) Eighth Guidance escapes using the powers the Undead gave them and become a teriorist group. 6) The Braver’s learn what happened. I believe in a previous chapter Hiroto admits feeling guilty about… Read more »
Indeed, your summary is in point, both Heinz and Hiroto are “heroes of convenience”. Unlike Scheinder, they care too much for how the society they inhabit perceives them to commit what the authorities would portray as “random acts of wanton violence”, even though the actions in reality were aimed towards destruction of evil that hid behind money or laws. He is a true hero, they are not. He would fight to do the right thing no matter the circumstances, they would fight to do the right thing only so long as it did not clash against the established order that… Read more »
And found the explicit mention I referenced in Volume Six, Chapter 16: Preliminary Encounter (Origin)
“All of the Bravers, including Minami Asagi, knew that all of the members of the Eighth Guidance had been victims of death-attribute research and then been handed over to another research institution while under the Bravers’ protection.
Indeed, if the Bravers had acted properly back then, it was possible that these victims wouldn’t have become terrorists.”
It does really annoy me that Asagi and the rest know they screwed up and the Eighth Guidance were forced to become terrorists because of them. Then they decide its okay to murder those same people because they lash out at the Bravers who put them in this terrible situation to begin with.
To me the Braver’s treat being a Hero too much like a game. They swoop in and ‘rescue’ people, but don’t bother following through. When their victims then understandably are angry at them and try to hurt them they decide its okay to murder the bunch.
I really do love the difference between how Schneider acts and Heinz. I think the biggest difference for me is how each person acted upon first meeting Van. Heinz’s first reaction was to try and deflect his involvement in Van’s moms death or justify it. He never owns up to the fact instead trying to emphasize how legally it was okay. Schneider and his party on the other hand upfront apologized. They make no excuses. They don’t try to escape the blame. They lowered their heads and confessed that they should of been there and they weren’t and they are… Read more »
I think that’s a bit of an unfair take on Heinz actions after killing Darcia. Considering being a part of that scheme shocked him to the point of leaving the empire he and his team were based in. And while it’s true he hadn’t done as much as Schneider in actively putting himself in danger to save Vida races, by preaching a more tolerant approach for Alda worshippers to accept Vida races, he was at least diminishing the stigma Vida races felt in human cities to some degree. Remember, the American Civil rights Era needed both a Martin Luther King… Read more »
“But, outside from Van’s perspective, Heinz is not that bad” No, he is every bit as bad as people make him out to be, even if you only consider all the ghoul extermination commissions he and his company had undertaken. Women and children and all. Heinz is a hundred times a murderer Van had ever been. And I’d also thank you not to bring real life examples to this discussion because this isn’t an issue of different races of the same hominid species, but an issue of completely different biological creatures separated not only by ethnic, racial, relicious and economic… Read more »
Couple things. First off, regarding Heinz taking Ghoul extermination commissions. Again, that isn’t fair. Humans during this age are not aware that ghouls are a Vida race. To them they are simply monsters. So while we know they are a Vida race, and we’ve come to know several ghouls, thus knowing they are a sentient, intelligent race of people deserving of respect, that’s not how the majority of humans in Lambda view them, so it’s unfair to hold Heinz to a standard no other human would reasonably be expected to have. Secondly, regarding my comparison, it was in how change… Read more »
“Humans during this age are not aware that ghouls are a Vida race.” Humans may not be, but Heinz was, nothing stopped him from blowing the truth wide open, nothing but his own cowardice that is. If he really wanted to help the Vidas races that is. I never said anything about it being offensive, nor do I understand where from did come the interpretations of me being offended by anything. I said that your comparison is erroneous, because there is no civil rights movement in place and no civil rights movement could happen or be established because in the… Read more »
“And I’d also thank you not to bring real life examples to this discussion” How am I to interpret this statement but as you taking offense of my use of comparison to two well known civil rights activists. You’re directly requesting I not make an argument regardless of how pertinent it is simply because this story is fictional yet the activists are real people. That argument ignores fiction is not made in a vacuum. Japanese light novels frequently use race allegory in these fantasy stories for very real elements of racism that Japan had gone through in the past. So… Read more »
Even when Vandalieu spelled it out for him, Heinz continued to insist that despite being a killer of women and children, he still is a a “Part of Alda’s peaceful faction”.Just because Heinz stifled his doubts about what is going on doesn’t make his beliefs ethical or grant him a blanket justification of his actions. There is such a thing as “duty of inquiry”. If the beliefs an individual holds are attained through evasion of reality and suppression of doubt and critical thinking, they are unethical beliefs that can and will lead towards disaster. While the fiction might not exist… Read more »
“Heinz continued to insist that despite being a killer of women and children, he still is a a “Part of Alda’s peaceful faction”” Gotta love the completely biased way of phrasing that. If you killed a bunch of bugs you found while walking outside one day, only to be told later those bugs were a sentient, intelligent, species and that you specifically squashed a bunch of women and children, would you phrase your actions at the time as “women / child murder”? No, you’d say you didn’t know at the time. And apparently in your view he’s not allowed to… Read more »
“If you killed a bunch of bugs you found while walking outside one day.” That’s another false equivalence, comparing humanoids that bleed and birth children and use spoken language or advanced tactics in combat to bugs. “And again we arrive at a standard we hold one character to that doesn’t exist for any other.” That standard exists for practically any other character but Heinz, in fact, the only other character that never doubted his actions or acknowledge their consequences openly with a considerable degree of self reflection was Rodcorte. Even Alda knows that what he is doing will lead to… Read more »
It is not a false equivalence, but simply using and extreme comparison to make the point clearer
It was already clear enough that the point was incredibly poorly presented, because it’s not as easy to make an inference about insect sized living beings possessing sentience and intelligence as opposed to beings that walk upright, look like humans except with a different skin tone, use a spoken language that humans can understand and use tools and clothing.It is nonsensical to assume the former to possess sentience, but it is very reasonable to assume such a thing about the latter. It makes it a poor comparison that does nothing to illustrate the point.
I feel like you’re not really understanding how comparison or inference works in an argument. In the context of my comparison, the “bugs” in question are sentient, intelligent life. Because such beings don’t actually exist doesn’t matter for the sake of this argument. I presented you a near identical scenario as people in this fictitious world would be presented when told a lifeform they believed to be man eating monsters without much intelligence and your response to me was to say, “well the bugs clearly don’t look like humanoids, so it’s a fallacious argument and false equivalency” as if what… Read more »
“No, he is every bit as bad as people make him out to be, even if you only consider all the ghoul extermination commissions he and his company had undertaken. Women and children and all. Heinz is a hundred times a murderer Van had ever been.” If you were transported to another world, say, Goblin Slayer, and became an adventurer, would you not make sure to kill the children that would grow up to be just as bad if not worse than their parents? Ghouls are considered monsters, just like goblins. And considering the long-standing relationship between adventurers and ghouls,… Read more »
“If you were transported to another world, say, Goblin Slayer, and became an adventurer, would you not make sure to kill the children” You’ve gone and done exactly the thing I said shouldn’t be done – bringing examples from other stories and fictional universes for the purposes of basing your argument about the existing story, which is fallacious. It is true that Ghouls frequently fought adventurers and other monsters alike, however it had been pointed out that more often than not, Ghouls refrain from attacking adventurers or humans in general due to retaliation it invites. Their own lack of knowledge… Read more »
To me the problem isn’t really that Heinz isn’t that bad, the problem is that he’s not that good. I do understand your point that sweeping changes are harder to get, but what kind of changes is Heinz really aiming for? Having it so people don’t exclude Dhamphirs and the non monster races from getting basic jobs? He ignored the people being exploited unfairly. He ignored the seedy underbelly because he doesn’t care to change the system itself. Basically Heinz is effectively is a white guy who doesn’t want things to really change but is doing enough to make himself… Read more »
I feel like you’re conflating personal opinion with what we’re actually told in the story. First off, what change do you think Heinz can realistically do? He’s an up and coming team leader of an adventurer group who just recently reached A rank. He’s not a king or nobleman. His power is only his fame from his adventuring rank. He has no authority. Schneider at the very least was given territory and a court rank. Secondly, Van is an outsider to this system in two ways. Being a reincarnator who didn’t know about any of these fantasy races before being… Read more »
Also, while Van did hear Heinz out in the dungeon, he never had any intention to not kill him. So I think using Van’s perspective here is flawed. Van is emotionally compromised when it comes to his mother.
So anything Van said to Heinz must be viewed from that context.
Okay let me put my two cents on the whole Heinz discussion, personally, when he and Van first met in the Hartner duchy , when we learnt of Selen and of the Alda peaceful faction, I had high hopes for him , I thought it would be similar with Saul the persecutor from the bible , I thought he wouldn’t just preach about tolerating Vida’s races or be content with people simply not killing them , I thought he would go out of his way to investigate cases where Vida’s races were persecuted, where they were turned to slaves ,… Read more »
Don’t get me wrong, his preaching helped the “human-like” races of vida a little in getting employment, the Dark elves , the Titans and beast kin, but only the lowest of positions though, nothing to really improve their overall lifestyle or social standing or even give a bright future for them, that’s something that even an ordinary citizen can see 🙈, in the grand scheme of things at beast they would be second class citizens without the rights that come with it but hey at least they won’t be killed? 🤷🏾♂️
“yet why doesn’t he actually think about these things more ? Why doesn’t doubt himself or his actions more ? Why doesn’t he question the supposed enemy more ?” We don’t know that he doesn’t have those thoughts. Heinz is not the main character of this story, Van is. We are only told what Heinz is thinking through brief moments in the story and mostly through his conversations with his teammates and with Van. And considering his soul healing was taking far longer than it should have, it’s clear Heinz actually was having a lot of doubt over his decisions.… Read more »
You’re right that cause is to help the vida races he can , you’re right in saying we’re supposed to be sympathetic to Van as he is the MC , you’re also right that we don’t know what Heinz is thinking all the time, but I don’t believe I’ve put him in any position he isn’t capable of doing, his aim is to help those he can reach right? Then doesn’t he IDK , reach out ? He doesn’t have or need to be a Vida fundamentalist to make her races have better social standing in society, he was dissatisfied… Read more »
“but I don’t believe I’ve put him in any position he isn’t capable of doing, his aim is to help those he can reach right? Then doesn’t he IDK , reach out ?” Just because someone has the capability to do something doesn’t mean they have the responsibility to do it. If I studied martial arts all my life and knew how to defend myself in a fight I’d certainly have the capability to protect a person being attacked on the street. However, I wouldn’t have a responsibility to protect that person. If I instead called the police, I would… Read more »
Technically speaking a gangster, a teacher, a salesman, a mechanic, a tailor or anyone one who isn’t a politician doesn’t have any say in lawmaking, but if said person has a certain amount of influence as well as a sizeable amount of people who also share a similar idealogy , they can demand for it , if enough pressure is put , it can happen (tho most of the time I admit it leads to civil war) , as for responsibility, that would fine IF he didn’t make himself the face of a Peaceful faction but he did meaning he… Read more »
You keep making the same flawed argument. Faulting him for something that is not his responsibility. Why must he “do more”? Because you say so? Why is what he has done not good enough? Because you don’t think things have changed enough? Who determined that? You see what I’m getting at? You seem to be of the mind that unless Heinz personally fixes systemic racism, or put all of his energy into doing so, then he’s literally done nothing of merit. You say that because he’s the face of the peaceful Alda faction that he’s like a class representative, therefore… Read more »
I’m not mad at his actions of the past , I’m mad at his inaction in the present, other than being Bellwood’s successor and questioning Alda , he made preaching tolerance for races of Vida to be his goals , even if it’s for self satisfaction or for the sake of o e little girl, do a good enough job that in the long run , it’s beneficial, you’re under the misconception that I hate Heinz because Van hates him , that’s far from it , I see things this way , there are times in story where he overlooks… Read more »
“I’m not mad at his actions of the past ,” Then spends the remaining rest of the paragraph detailing Heinz inaction IN THE PAST. Present Heinz is recuperating from having his soul being damaged with his team and we haven’t heard much of anything from him during the entirety of the Hajime-Fitun arc. So I don’t know what present actions you think Heinz isn’t doing. “he rather continues things the same way that led to him causing someone like Darcia’s death.” Again, you can’t possibly know this. You’re putting motivations and thoughts into a character’s head that the author hasn’t… Read more »
Heinz didn’t intentionally use Darcia’s death, it just happened. And you said he tried to deflect or justify his actions? He has admitted that it was a terrible mistake, but he’s trying to move on and find his peace, put himself back together after wallowing in regret, because you cannot change the past. You are trying so hard to vilify Heinz that you ignore anything the author writes that takes this story from black and white, good and evil, and makes it a complex and compelling tale with realistic representations of the thing called humanity. This goes for everyone that… Read more »
Hold up, since when did Hiroto blame Eighth Guidance? And it’s more like he feels Death Attribute is distasteful, and that makes sense considering all the terrible ways you can bring about death with it, but its not like a religious fervor “It’s evil!!” that overwrites his reason or anything
And on account of Heinz, people, stop trying so hard to vilify him. It’s not like he knew the circumstances behind all of Van’s actions, and it’s not like he’s blaming Van for everything, in fact he blames himself for being the cause.
I agree. I think what’s happened here is that people got over zealous with siding with our protagonist. The mark of a good writer is to make the central protagonist likeable, and somebody you want to emotionally and logically agree with because the readers will be spending the most amount of time with that main protagonist. A story is doomed to fail if nobody likes the protag. However, the consequence of that is often people will then over commit to that protag’s actions and viewpoints. Failing to see where the protag might be wrong or acting imperfectly. A good character… Read more »
Hate is too strong of a word to use, I don’t like Heinz because in spite of everything that had transpired within the story, he has not changed his ways and learned nothing from his lessons, especially since we already have a character like Schneider that already exists in the story, who despite being human and most likely having been born and lived with a typical Alda-worshiping family, adventures alongside an evil god, that may or may not be his lover and fights for justice while disregarding boundaries of unjust societies.
“he has not changed his ways and learned nothing from his lessons,” I’ve repetitively stated how this is not the case. The mere fact that he forms the peaceful Alda faction IS HIM CHANGING HIS Ways. Because you don’t consider what he has done as all that meaningful in the grand scheme of things doesn’t mean literally nothing was done. You’re willfully ignoring his character growth by claiming it doesn’t exist when it does. We’ve read it. You’ve also basically provided the answer I asked of CybreDre to the question,” What is good enough”. Which is you think he should… Read more »
I continue to worry because nobody cares that the girl, who since before birth was involved with an experience very close to a little-known energy, is drawing a strange monster in all her drawings for several months, because children have their friends imaginary, but Banda is not something I would let my son draw without taking him to therapy at least once
Congratulations you are an actually good parent. Just remember what Hiroto does and do the opposite and they’ll probably turn out well, lol. Honestly children don’t usually draw things they haven’t seen before. So if your kid keeps drawing a Demon maybe look into it. In Narumi’s defense, Banda is one letter from Panda(not sure how that looks in Japanese but in English makes some sense). She might just have decided she really likes the black crayon while drawing the Panda. She also might’ve gotten bored and thought he’d look cooler with a few more arms. She might of also… Read more »
Thank u always for ur great work…
^^…
— It started a fire with the seaweed-like plants, then plucked one of the sea-anemone-like things growing nearby and squeezed a crimson liquid out of it, filling the pot. It then cut the organ-like object into suitably-sized pieces and added them to the liquid.
Read this part while eating, I got a SUPER mixed feeling here…
-.-…
there are definitely parts of this series I read while envisioning some kind of spoof of Shokugeki no Soma (Food Wars)…
Well yeah, but not the grotesque part while in the middle of meal…
-.-a…
It would freaking hilarious if they had the food orgasm scene like in Shokugeki, but instead of something like Angels coming down it was little Banda’s with Batwings. That would be amazing.
I like the way you’re thinking
Demon King’s soup to the child hope he doesn’t develop horns or something lol
Nah though I might start to see in complete darkness
Oh, if Van’s guidance can give him the Darkvision skill he can call that one of his “Braver” powers, after all it is similar to Clairvoyance’s powers, and if Banda could somehow give him chant revocation then he could have one of his father’s powers. All depends on if Van can give skills or teach someone skills in Origin
There was a reddit thread about what people like about this series, and I think this chapter is a great example of one aspect, how the series can troll it’s characters: “W-wait,” said Hiroshi. “Are you that ‘Eighth Guidance’ thing? Did you save us when we were kidnapped?!”Banda stood still, and his head began turning on his neck. “Unfortunately, I can’t talk about that now.”“W-why not?!”“Because it is a long story, and you will be late for school if I were to tell all of it.”Unfortunately for Hiroshi, today was a weekday I am just imagining one of those one… Read more »
Thank you Yoshi-sama!
Oh my god.
No no no.
Oh. My. Vandalieu!
He is now the most godlike MC I know.
He can now grant power? This is godhood if I ever seen any in a light novel/manga/anime.
Also, Mei and Banda! The dream team itself!
Looking forward to more chapters about Origin now(even if I am aware is not going to be soon).
The next chapter is another origin chaper 😀
I have no way to tell you how happy I am after reading this. Therefor I will only say one thing:”Nice”
Nice….
Van wouldn’t be happy to hear you say that.
Because no matter how obvious divinity he obtains, he insists he’s just a human (as in a mortal being, not racially). He has an ever-growing complex about this. And getting that title only stung him further.
He’s been giving other people powers for awhile now and he’s been performing god-like feats since the beginning of the series.
Unfortunately, I know what is coming,and Van is going to almost cry, from shame
He’s granted powers before. When he picked up the “dream guider” job several chapters back he gave all of his main followers additional powers on top of his divine protection. Zadiris, Borkus, Basdia, the vampires, I believe they all got rank upgrades out of it.
Yeah but it was not in such a direct way. They got a boost in strenght and other things related to their races, but this time it’s an entire ability just slapped on Hiroshi.
It was fairly direct. Each of them were at an impasse in their training and it took Van handing out bits of himself in his dream for each subordinate to get their upgrade. You’re correct that this is the first time he’s specifically given an ability he acquired to another person through a dream but I don’t know if that is any more special than giving people divine protections, or increasing the ranks of several people at once.
I feel like the deliberate nature of this shows Vans growth. He has gone to people’s dreams and given them pieces of his Soul ever since he first got the Guider Job, but all those times were done subconsciously. This time he consciously made a choice and arranged a skill for someone. I do think part of what makes this possible now compared to before is that Vans soul is much more organized. Before everything was mixed together so I think it would of been impossible for Van to take out such a specific piece with one ability and give… Read more »
Banda: system update received
My wish got granted!
It’s great that Banda can reconnect to Vandalieu. He can now begin bringing people to his system!
Thanks for the chapter !
I do think Banda might bring those he directly connects with over, but I think being a Spirit Clone Banda lacks the direct Guidance capabilities. Even if he has a connection I don’t think he can Guide unless Van takes over for a bit. Still Banda can spread the good word of Van to all the lost sheep!
I don’t think him being a Spirit Clone would make him lose/weaken his Guidance. Would a God’s spirit clone be unable to guide people about their teachings? Or gather faith and prayer?
Part of the reason I say I don’t think his Guidance works with Banda is because the Death Attribute Charm doesn’t seem to work for Banda currently. Now I think he could work to lead people closer to the path, but I think it might need direct interference from Van to guide them.
There is a difference between his guidance and his enticement. He probably has to directly guide people in their dreams and stuff
Banda is made out of pieces removed from his own soul
it operates independently of the main body also the
skills don’t exist in origin eg he is still great at hand to hand
combat but he can’t use active skills nor does he get passive
buffs in origion
Banda can use his Active skills. That’s how he can affect the material world the skill Materialize. He also gets the passive bonuses that’s why he so outclassed the kidnappers.
Origin admittedly doesn’t have the skill system, but Banda kept all the benefits of it. I think the reason is because Banda is an off shoot of Van. So Banda can’t really increase the skills levels, but he can benefit from Vans efforts.
I agree, now that he reconnected, he can use the skills Van gained during their time apart. And he can for sure guide his new disciple (it’s so funny how he accumulates disciples and one of them being Hiroshi is incredible! Hiroshi doesn’t even know he has three seniors haha!) since he gave him a part of him to eat.
Yes, like we saw him using Venom Secretion to take care of the maids, which is definitely not something he can do without skills. The difference between Passive and Active skills is just whether the system thinks it is an automatic thing versus something you think about doing (i.e. difference between heart beating and moving your arm).
Also in the kidnapping chapter he uses Artillery Technique with the parasitized kidnapper’s gun. That’s an active skill.
Thanks for the chapter, the Amemiyas are lucky to have the ultimate bodyguard around them.
“Ah, I’ve gone and woken you up, Meh-kun. Here, wriggle-wriggle,” said Banda, extending a tentacle of the Demon King towards her.
“Wriggle-wriggle!” Mei giggled happily.
Banda kept her entertained until she fell asleep once more.
I’m just telling you, this scene will bring serious consequences, Listen, it will bring consequences
Noctyrannus : It’s too early to lewd the baby girl. (-O_O)
Paradoxe : What about the big boy ? -__-
Noctyrannus : He’s already the lewd one. (-O_O)b
I was gonna ask how Banda gained that fragment or connected to Vandalieu. Then I realised that the ability could have transferred since they are technically the same soul. And with it, Vandalieu and Banda could talk for a bit.
I believe in the first Banda chapter it said they were still connected but the connection was very weak. I think now that Van is a Dream Guided he has an easier time traversing dimensions in dreams. So he sent his soul over to Banda and gave him a quick update.
Oh, it’s a new chapter.
Thank you very much.
What comes after?
Maybe Van or Banda will come in with a clutch.
Is this Origin Arc?
Will it be Dark?
How long will it last?
I’m sure I’ll have a blast!
Stay safe
Take care
I ran out of ideas for rhymes
So I guess this is the part where I say bye
Lol no way their children will be against Van in the future then. Guessing Banda will be trying his best to protect them as much as possible.
Thanks for the chapter.
Both of Amamiyas and Narumis children are being raised by Banda-kun and are thaught by him while both of them are ignorant about this. And they’re furthermore ignorant that most of their “friends” are in fact their enemies who are after their daughter and they still haven’t made any kind discoveries in that regard. I’m starting to wonder if they’re just musclebrains because all the things that happened to the bravers it should be obvious that there is something fishy going on there.
Well, it is obvious to them something is wrong, but figuring out what exactly is wrong is too hard at the moment. Well, except that governments still want death-attribute magic.
Just starting to wonder if they’re musclebrains? Lol. The Bravers had left almost all of their thinking to the human lie detector, calculator, and library from the start. Even before those three were killed they still did a terrible job of avoiding tragedies and finding out their friends crimes.
Overall the Amemeyias have always been incompetent. Thank god they have such a great 24/7 nanny/bodyguard for the children now, lol.
Hey, Amamiya is incompetent, but I wouldn’t say he’s a muscle brain (that’s asagi). They only have a serious problem where they place their trust, putting people like asagi in positions of power(He was one of the most immature members, until Van which is, well, Van, he left his days on earth behind), focusing the entire administration on non-combatants without adequate security (honestly, Rokudo has played his cards very well, if it weren’t for I revealed it to
those who were basically dead, maybe even Banda would have been slow to realize)
I mean to figure out the crux of why the Amemya’s kids are being targeted, they would need to know that Mei has death magic. Which nobody in the bravers know is the case. Avalon and his subordinates suspect Mei does due to the Pluto incident but they don’t know for sure. And so far Hiroto and Narumi haven’t been given enough information to be suspect of other bravers. There’s possibly a level of personal bias in play here. Hiroto started the Bravers. He probably doesn’t want to think that members of the group he put together, made up of… Read more »
So that’s what happened to the mana regen ability. Pretty good way to put it to use though.
Someone with a vore fetish reading this ss 👌👌
Banda is Meh-kun’s stand 😂😂 took too long to realize.
Poor Hiroshi the pressure must be insane for him, hopefully Banda will ease his worries
People seem to be missing something.
Van copied what Rodiot did. He not only copied that action but improved on it.
He took a skill from someone that died and grafted it onto another person.
And the improvement was that the person the broken skill was grafted onto was still alive instead of just a soul.
Actually, Rodcorte gave the abilities but slightly worse, same as Van, and Van didn’t break the soul, so it wasn’t like he was working with fragments of the ability.
Oops nevermind, I misread your comment, it was an improvement that the skill was added when he was still alive
Interesting. I didn’t realize Banda had the ability to communicate with Lambda Van, or to update his powers with the reincarnated souls. I thought once Banda split off Van it severed their connection. Good to know. That means Van should have up to date information on the Braver’s in Origin (well, whatever information Banda can glean from being near Mei).
I was reminded by another comment, but their connection wasn’t cut, it was just faint because the gap between even adjacent worlds is large
Yus! More Banda! Glad Hiroshi didn’t freak about Banda, and now we get someone else for Banda to interact with. I’m hoping for some fun banter between the prodigal son and eldritch spirit-clone from another dimension. Clearly not the most significant thing in this side chapter, but did Banda/Silent Van just create a pseudo or full-on divine realm? I know it was a dream and those bits seem more like props added to the usual “between” space Van usually crawls about to pass out divine protections, but Van’s influence on these areas has suddenly spiked. One more side note, anyone… Read more »
Shit, I Caught up…
No atribute magic would be op in origin. speciali with enhanced mana regen
GIB MOAR BANDA
Hope Author-sama makes JoJo reference. Example:
Rikidou: Hand over the Death attribute magic!
Mei: So, you are going to use it to advance humanity to next level?
Rikidou: Yes! You will be recorded in history! Anecdotes about you will pass down the generations!
Mei: Dagakotowaru!!!
×××××××
Mei: So you are approaching me? Instead of running away, you are approaching this Mei-sama?
Amemiya Hiroto: I can’t preach my useless ideologies without approaching you after all!
Mei: Then come closer as your wish!
××××××××
Banda(monotone voice):MUDA! MUDA! MUDA! MUDA! MUDA! MUDA! MUDA!
I wasn’t expecting a new chapter so soon. That it happens to be about everybody’s favorite buddy cop duo Banda and Meh-kun makes me very happy. Beep boop. Looks like Banda has finally reconnected with Van and gotten a patch update and is now Banda 1.01. I assume that the connection with Van is because of either Van’s Dream Guider or Demiurge jobs. I think Van enjoyed the Maou act he gave to all the kids at the orphanage in Morksi too much and now he has decided to do a similar act with Hiroshi with the whole, “Do you… Read more »
People keep missing this, it isn’t infinite mana for an Origin mage, for a normal child who’s mana pool is still developing, it might as well be infinite mana
It’s still a cheat so even if degraded, it should still be more than enough mana regen for any mage in Origin. Also some cheats can be improved with training even in Origin. Doug’s Hecatoncheir was a cheat that didn’t have fine control originally but he trained and improved it in Origin to be able to do precise tasks with it like knitting. Hiroshi could possible train to improve his mana regen cheat to either regen mana faster or regen more at once thus making it effectively an infinite mana source.
That’s a fair point. But at least call it near-infinite
The 8th guidance still lives! Praise Death!
Evil spirit… so Meh-kun is really kind of a stand user
If this keeps up I’m wondering if people in Origin are going to end up with Van’s divine protection, or is Banda going to be the next to be raised to mythological status.
More like Banda will be recognized as the evolved/phase 2 Undead and the Undead will be worshipped. Wonder how that would effect Origin’s god. Would Origin’s god then link with Vandalieu?
Love this side story, favorite aspect of the novel!
I’d still read if only Banda and Mei kun were the main characters. That whole dynamic would be cool to explore. It could serve as a way to really add to Origin; which in my opinion was always lacking. I’m just saying a tie in series wouldn’t hurt my feelings. Anyone else want to see the Adventures of Mei and Banda? With that little lore addition about evil spirits. It’s not impossible that there are or have been people that do have some sort of death magic in Origin. A toddler taking down a secret death cult that’s been acting… Read more »
Thanks for the chapter yoshi, chapters with banda and mei are cute. Banda and Hiroshi finally meet and Banda gave him something to eat. Mei and Hiroshi’s parents are still clueless. And apparently another guy named Moriya is working with Rikudou. Also I thought that Banda could not communicated with Van in Lambda. Guess that changed and Banda can access skills that Van had devoured from the reincarnated individuals, cool. Hope the next chapter comes soon
He for the most part can’t connect with Van, Van’s soul would have to travel to Origin, probably in his sleep, so it’s more like he can occasionally check in.
thanks for the chapter.
small error in: “ There were old stories of warlocks that were capable of controlling evil spirits that were visible to the naked eye. ”
it should be “invisible” not “visible”.
Haaah, so the Avalon isn’t the only little bitch left among the Bravers. Well, I guess that’s kind of to be expected with the heavy-handed approach that Amemiya has taken over the years to try and make them a group of ‘Heroes of Justice!!~!’. With this guy popping out of the woodwork it shows that we have plenty of fodder for Origin stories for the foreseeable future, as there are dozens of faceless Bravers out there. Nice to see Banda expanding his friends network a little though! I had an image pop into my head of the parents somehow discovering… Read more »
Sometimes I look through the comments and start wondering why people are so poisonous to Amemiya and Heinz, it makes you wonder if they are actually reading everything the author is writing, or if they are like Kouki(Arifureta) and making convient interpretations or just ignoring evidence that doesn’t support them. Yes they have faults (Heinz especially so), but they also have circumstances, and what they don’t have is the perspective of a reader. Especially everyone dissing on Amemiya for being a muscle-head, justice-freak, and for trusting Avalon. Firstly, the Bravers weren’t a “we have power, it’s our responsibility to help… Read more »
thank
Getting offered somebody offers you power and you accept without questioning it is a cliché that Hiroshi should know better then to accept; not that Van will do anything bad to him. Small update to the abilities list below. Just wish the newer site formatted this better. -Souls Destroyed (6)- Kaidou Kanata (M/Gungnir) – Ex-Bravers – Ignore interference Konoe Miyaji (M/Death Scythe) – Murakami (Betrayed) – Spends mana to paralyze parts of the body after seeing his victim’s face. Misa Anderson (F/Sylphid/Elf) – Hostile Faction (Rodcorte) – Turn body into gas Murakami Junpei (M/Chronos/Human) – Hostile Faction (Rodcorte) – Spell/Skill… Read more »
Well he IS dreaming tho , yeah it’s a lucid dream but IT is still a dream from his POV, the fact he didn’t immediately stuff the “Thing” into his mouth is enough self awareness that a child his age wouldn’t normally have, in a dream for that matter.
Besides he recognizes Banda from meh-kun’s drawing, add with the fact she always seems cheerful when mentioning Banda, his sub councious mind saw Banda in a more favourable light(the tune up to his looks also helped)
It’s a cliche, but a well played one.
How old is mei at this point
I think they said she’s three. She can’t be much older than that.
Thanks
did hiroshi get his own exclusive banda or meh-kun’s banda is now babysitting 2 children?
Mei’s Band takes care of both of them, it seems that the connection was not strong enough to send another Band and even if they did it seems that joining it would be difficult, so Banda also takes care of Hiroshi, but the main body is still Mei
Which likely means for Hiroshi to see him, Banda needs to materialize his form. Unlike for Mei, who can always see Banda.
The exception obviously is in dreams.
Mei can see him more likely because she can see spirits in general. I think even if their connection helps, it would be impossible if she couldn’t see spirits originally.
I believe you got it backwards. Mei can see spirits because she’s connected to Banda, not the other way around. Her connection to Banda is Mei’s “power”. As such Banda’s passive abilities like spirits appearing to him are accessible to her.
There is no evidence of her manifesting Banda’s powers/passive skills/passive “abilities” like that anywhere so far. Just seeing spirits, which is something, presumably, any death mage can do.
Mei can see spirits because she was exposed to Pluto’s death attribute mana and is highly likely to have the ability to use death magic when she grows up. Or it could be like the Eighth Guidance where they can use one spell/ability, and hers is seeing spirits. After all, when they teased her death attribute ties it was her eyes turning black.
You misunderstood what I meant. It’s not Mei having passive abilities that only exist in Lambda. Spirits appearing for Banda is Van’s passive ability as it is a part of his death attribute magic. She sees the spirits BECAUSE Banda sees them. Again, her power is her connection to Banda, not separate from him. Put another way, Banda is Mei’s death magic power. Also, I don’t believe it is a skill all death magic users share. I don’t recall Legion saying they could see the spirits swirling around Van. Each of them had one specific aspect under death magic, much… Read more »
“Also, I don’t believe it is a skill all death magic users share.” Maybe limited to full death-mages, someone who can use one death attribute spell is NOT a death-attribute magician. Also, Mei had death attribute before Banda joined her, it is what led Van to her(or vice versa) and it was teased in a side chapter after Eighth Guidance died but before Banda came over that when she was alone Mei’s eyes turned pure black before returning to normal. So either she has the potential to be a full death mage, or her one death attribute spell is vision… Read more »
“someone who can use one death attribute spell is NOT a death-attribute magician.” I mean by that definition than Van is the only death-attribute magician as every member of Legion can only use one thing (except the girl with the future sight ability that was never a death magic experiment that’s also part of Legion) Regarding Mei seeing spirits, that’s not actually clear. So the relevant chapters are 198, SS26, and SS28. In SS26 is the black eye moment you allude to and it’s said she’s less than 1 at that time. The inference here is she has the death-attribute… Read more »
Yes I can agree with that. We simply don’t have enough information. I just thought that with that limited information it would be foolish to make that assumption.
I wish nyoro-nyoro.
I was waiting for this! And it’s even better than I imagined!
I REALLY want to see the moment when Narumi realizes that she married an imposter and that she actually killed the real Amemiya Hiroto (Van).
The impostor is going to look like an idiot, everyone is going to hate him and maybe thanks to that he will start to hate Van? That guy is the most troublesome of all.
Meh (Mei) kun is more Van’s daughter than Hiroto’s (the impostor) hahaha.
Narumi is already aware that the Amemiya Hiroto she met is not the one that tried to save her life. She married him even knowing that. Hiroto also never claimed to be that guy,so it’s not like their marriage is based on a lie. I also believe they are already aware that the Undead was also a reincarnator, or at least strongly suspect that to be the case. So there is unlikely to be some big reveal that you’re thinking of. More likely what is to happen is Narumi will discover Banda and Banda will explain that he’s a part… Read more »
Yeah from what I remember, Narumi did initially approach Hiroto because she thought he was Van and wanted to thank him for trying to save her -honestly it sounded like she wanted to make it a rescue romance- but then she found out he wasn’t who she thought he was and they got into an argument but worked it out and began a relationship afterwards. As for being aware of who the Undead was, only Hiroto, the Oracle guy whose name I forgot and Rikudou learned that he was a reincarnator and was Van. Nobody else knows anything about the… Read more »
I thought Oracle had told a few of the bravers his suspicions about the Undead being a reincarnator but even if only Hiroto is aware that’s fine. My point was simply I don’t think Banda’s identity as the undead would be that shocking of a reveal. I think the focus would be more on how he’s connected to Mei.