TLN: Reminder that many Japanese names can be pronounced in multiple different ways. I’m not sure on the pronunciation on any new Japanese names appearing in this chapter. I’m basically just picking the coolest-sounding among the possible readings! In fact, sometimes I have to guess the gender of the character solely based on their names, too.
The Metamorph, Shihouin Mari, gave a small laugh as she looked at the place she had been taken to, a special cell that had been made for detaining her. “How generous of you to give me a custom-made room,” she said.
Her voice had no sign of bitterness or sarcasm, but a special microchip and explosives had been embedded inside her body.
This was a step to prevent even the smallest chance of Mari escaping, as she was capable of taking on any appearance.
“… I’m sorry for being so incapable,” said Amemiya Hiroto, apologizing to her without responding to her words.
He was wearing a pained expression as if he was the criminal, not her. The other reincarnated individuals who had been working with him and Mari were wearing similar expressions.
But Mari gave Hiroto a small, bitter smile. “Don’t apologize,” she said. “I know you worked hard to solve things without having to kill me.”
Mari had killed another person who had been reincarnated from Earth, Kaidou Kanata. Although she hadn’t worked with the terrorists, she had exploited them, led the government and her companions on a wild goose chase with false information and set things up so that her target, Kanata, would be sent on a mission on his own.
Kaidou Kanata’s death had a great impact on the other reincarnated individuals. They had been working in disaster relief and counter-terrorism, so they had come into contact with people’s deaths… even other than the civilians and terrorists killed in disasters, they experienced the deaths of allied military personnel and helpers that they should have saved.
But the death of Kanata, one of their own, had a different level of impact.
They had been given new lives by a god and reincarnated in this foreign world called Origin from Earth with magical talent and special “cheat-like abilities.” But they had been stared in the eyes by the reality that even they could die and be killed.
This event had caused cracks to form between the reincarnated individuals who had come together to form the organization known as the Bravers.
No, to be more precise, the cracks had already been there, but they had simply been invisible. It was Mari’s murder of Kanata that had made these cracks impossible to ignore any longer.
But there were some among them who thought that everything was Mari’s fault. Even the governments and armies of every nation considered Mari, who possessed the Metamorph power that allowed her to perfectly replicate her target’s fingerprints, retinas and even their vein patterns, to be a dangerous individual.
And there were also those who felt distrust for Hiroto, who had advocated for her to be confined rather than erased.
“You killed Kaidou Kanata, a single person,” said Hiroto. “You ensured that the president’s daughter remained protected. I can understand your motives. This is your first crime, and normally you would be given life imprisonment or maybe even a definite term depending on the country, not a death penalty. And the nation you killed Kanata in has already abolished capital punishment. It would be too selfish to erase you out of convenience and emotion.”
“A stiff way of thinking as usual,” said Mari.
“It’s better than being soft,” said Hiroto. “At least, it makes it easier for others to tell what I am thinking.”
If including those who did the office work, not all of the Bravers were those reincarnated from Earth, but they had many relatives and needed to be faithful to international laws in order to be trusted. That was what Hiroto thought.
The reincarnated individuals possessed powers that went beyond even the principles of Origin, a world with science as advanced as Earth’s and magic that didn’t exist on Earth. If something went wrong, they would be treated as mutants. In fact, groups advocating that they should be treated as such already existed.
That was why they needed to show that they obeyed the rules of society.
“But with everything said and done, I was oblivious to Kanata’s crimes,” said Hiroto. “That’s what I’m apologizing for.”
“There’s no reason to apologize to me, considering that I killed him with my own hands before consulting you,” Mari said as she entered the room.
Seeing her disappear behind the closing door, Hiroto and the others turned and left.
“… What information do we have on them?” asked Hiroto.
“The whereabouts of Murakami and the others became unknown after they joined the ‘Eighth Guidance,’” replied Minami Asagi, one of the three people who had been escorting Mari. His tone was polite, but his eyes were filled with anger.
Murakami… the reincarnated individual who had been a high school teacher on Earth by the name of Murakami Junpei, had left the Bravers with a group of ten others and vanished after joining a terrorist group.
Rodcorte had said that the conflict had subsided, but for Hiroto and the other Bravers, this was just a calm before the storm.
“Just what are they thinking… Especially Murakami,” Asagi continued. “Did you know that he was our homeroom teacher? Would a normal teacher incite his students and have them join a group of terrorists?”
“It has already been nearly thirty years since he was your homeroom teacher,” another one of Mari’s escorts pointed out. He was the ‘Oracle,’ Endou Kouya.
However, it seemed that Asagi wasn’t satisfied with these words.
“But we are all companions, are we not? Despite that, they betrayed us… I cannot forgive them.”
Asagi had been a hot-blooded member of a sports club on Earth who cared about his friends, who had a somewhat totalitarian way of thinking. He also had a strong tendency of being influenced by the past life he had lived on Earth.
Up until now, that had been a good thing. The past lives that the reincarnated individuals had lived on Earth and the things they had experienced there were a necessary foundation for them to not abuse their new lives and the powerful abilities that they had suddenly been given.
However, the current problem had occurred because they had relied too much on this foundation and not seen what they needed to see.
“Asagi, it has already been more than twenty years since we died on Earth… nearly thirty,” saidHiroto. “People change over that amount of time. We should have considered that.”
“Hiroto-san, I know that even in the news on Earth, you would hear about arrested criminals’ classmates saying that they were good people in the past, but we are companions –”
“Kanata sold the organs of his ‘companion’ on the black market.”
“That’s true, but… isn’t that because he gave into temptation and strayed from the path! We must fight, for Tanaka and the other two who were lost! If we don’t, they won’t be able to rest in peace!”
“Asagi, I know how you feel, but… we’re nothing more than humans who have memories from our previous lives and strange powers,” said Kouya.
“Kouya-san, what… are you trying to say?” Asagi glared at Kouya, as if Kouya’s words had poured cold water on his fiery emotions.
“Other than Murakami, we’ve already spent more time in Origin than on Earth,” said Hiroto. “We should not believe in each other blindly just because we are companions. We can be tempted, or… our senses of values can even change. That’s what Kouya is trying to say. And I think the same.”
“That… I understand what you are trying to say, Hiroto-san, but I cannot accept it!” Asagi shouted over his shoulder as he walked off, leaving Hiroto and the others behind.
Hiroto gave a bitter smile as he looked at Asagi’s strong-looking back, and then he spoke to the other reincarnated individuals, who had remained quiet up until now. “Sorry, but please go and listen to his grumbling,” he said, gesturing for them to go on ahead, leaving him and Kouya alone.
“I think he is far more hard-headed than I am, but it is helpful that he is so unchanging,” Hirotoremarked.
“It’s not like I hate him,” said Kouya. “It’s just that when nobody else is around, he says, ‘but on Earth,’ at every opportunity, which is troublesome.”
“Indeed.”
Hiroto and Kouya laughed and relaxed their shoulders as they continued their conversation.
“Can’t you find out where Murakami and the others have gone with Oracle?” Hiroto asked.
Kouya’s cheat-like ability, ‘Oracle,’ might be considered by some to be like a god’s ability to make prophecies. However, in reality, it was not a power that could be called omnipotent.
Kouya’s Oracle was simply ‘something’ that told him a way to achieve the results he wanted.
At first, Kouya had thought that this ‘something’ was a god. But he soon experienced that it wasn’t anything as all-knowing or omnipotent as a god.
It had answered several of his questions with, “That goal is impossible to achieve.”
Thus, Kouya suspected that the answers he received from Oracle were derived by accessing the collective human unconsciousness or the Akashic records or something like that.
According to the Oracle, the answer to Hiroto’s question was –
“In the near future… I don’t know the exact time because it changes every time I ask, but as soon as three months or as far away as three years, it says we’ll know through the news.”
“That means that those guys will do something. Is there a way to prevent that from happening?”Hiroto asked.
“… Sorry, but I don’t know,” Kouya replied. “The answer to that changes every time as well. If I don’t know what specifically needs to be done, I can’t give an accurate question.”
“How to prevent Murakami and the others committing an act of terrorism,” “How to prevent Murakami and the others kidnapping someone,” “How to prevent Murakami and the others from trafficking drugs” … All of these were different questions.
With something vague like, “How to prevent Murakami and the others from committing a crime,” he would get strange answers like, “Catch Murakami within one hour before he spits out his gum on the street.”
On that occasion, they did check satellites and surveillance footage in nations and regions where spitting gum onto the street was a crime, but… of course, there was no way that Murakami could be found.
“Murakami and the others know about my Oracle as well,” said Kouya. “That’s why they’re interfering with it by making multiple plans for crimes and committing small crimes like spitting gum on the street.”
“I see. I suppose we have to use methods other than your abilities to find them,” said Hiroto. “If possible, I want to avoid doing something like killing them, but…”
“For your wife’s sake as well, huh?” said Kouya.
“Yeah. She said to treat them as different people from when they were on Earth, but it’s also a fact that we can’t erase the past,” said Hiroto.
Their lives that ended abruptly and irrationally on Earth, the bonds with their families that they left behind. And the unhappiness that they were experiencing in Origin now.
The more disappointing their lives on Origin were, the harder they were, the more their memories from Earth seemed to shine.
Companions killing each other was hard for Amemiya Narumi, who had become Hiroto’s wife.
Knowing this, there was something that Kouya hadn’t revealed to Hiroto. “… There’s something that I haven’t told you,” he said.
“I had the vague feeling that you were hiding something,” said Hiroto. “Ever since a short while after that secret research laboratory was destroyed by one of the subjects becoming an Undead.”
During that incident, the world had become aware of a new attribute, the death attribute, while simultaneously losing it. Even though they had been compelled to do it out of necessity, this incident was the beginning of the Bravers beginning to fight terrorists and criminal organizations in addition to rescuing people after disasters and accidents.
However, to Kouya, it was an unforgettable incident in a different way.
“After that incident… It was when we all started our military training. I asked, ‘How we can avoid losing a single one of us reincarnated individuals.’ The answer was, ‘Impossible. One has already been killed.’”
The incident had now become even more unforgettable for Hiroto.
“Is that true?” he murmured. “Long before Mari killed Kanata…”
“After that, I managed to ask the Oracle before my Mana ran out,” Kouya continued. “I asked who the killed reincarnated individual was, who killed him, whether there was any way to find out. For, ‘who was killed where,’ it told me to ‘look at the file of the incident at the research laboratory,’ and for, ‘who that reincarnated individual was on Earth,’ it replied, ‘you will know if you ask Naruse Narumi what happened before she died on Earth.’”
Kouya’s confession revealed a truth that was terrible for Hiroto and the other reincarnated individuals.
“I see, at that time, we… finished one of our companions,” said Hiroto.
“I simply intended to ask the Oracle, ‘the best way to exterminate the Undead,’ but… for him, it was probably a terrible betrayal,” said Kouya.
Kouya and Hiroto, who had finished their reincarnation in Origin before Amamiya Hiroto had reincarnated, couldn’t understand why only Amamiya had been unable to join up with the others and ended up as an experimental subject in that research laboratory.
However, the only reason that the other reincarnated individuals had all been able to join up was something as vague as a ‘miraculous destiny.’
“Amamiya Hiroto… so he reincarnated as well,” said Hiroto.
The young man who had tried to save Narumi and died before her. Hiroto’s wife had first talked to him after mistaking him for Amamiya Hiroto. This was the beginning of their relationship, soHiroto also remembered that there had been a boy who had a similar name to him.
“But Kouya, back then, he was already –”
“I know. He was an Undead. He was already dead and had turned into a dangerous creature. There was no way to turn him back into a human. That was why the only thing we could do back then was to grant him peace.”
At least in Origin, Undead were those kinds of creatures. They were monstrosities that twisted and corrupted the Mana around them. There were some cases where they maintained their personalities for a short while immediately after becoming Undead, but even then, there was no telling when they would become evil monsters.
A method of bringing people back to life didn’t exist, so there was no way that there would be a way to turn an Undead back into a person.
That was why Kouya didn’t regret the act itself of killing Amamiya Hiroto, nor did he consider it a crime.
“Still, we were supposed to be able to find him, but we couldn’t,” he said. “I should have just asked the Oracle what we needed to do to meet him. But… for some reason, despite the fact that I asked the Oracle so many questions about our companions, it never told me about his existence.”
The companions that Kouya had asked about were defined as, “those who had reincarnated from Earth and received new abilities from the god.”
Amamiya Hiroto had indeed been reincarnated from Earth, but he had not received cheat-like abilities or anything else. That was why he had not been considered as one of Kouya’s “companions.”
“It’s best not to brood over it,” said Hiroto, putting his hand on the guilt-ridden Kouya’s shoulder. “It’s you who said that we are merely humans. Neither you nor the Oracle are omnipotent. Don’t blame yourself.”
“But…”
“He died. We can’t meet him anymore, nor can we apologize to him or have him forgive us. The only thing that we can do is to ensure that there are no more victims like him… victims born of research into death-attribute magic.”
The real problem was that the dead could not be brought back to life. They could not be talked to or anything, so they could not directly apologize to Vandalieu.
Even if they wanted to compensate his bereaved family, Amamiya Hiroto had no relatives or friends in Origin.
That was why if they felt guilty and were seeking a way to atone, they had to act to satisfy themselves, just as Hiroto was saying.
The idea of ‘saving enough people to make up for the person who was killed.’
“… You’re right,” said Kouya. “Since we can’t bring him back to life, we have no other choice but to do that. What will you do about your wife?”
“Don’t tell her. I don’t want to cause her pain,” said Hiroto.
“Yeah, that’s for the best,” said Kouya. “Even if we tell her, she can’t meet him again. It’s better for her to not know. That was something that could be said for you as well, but… I’m sorry for getting you involved. I kept quiet about it for as long as I could.”
“Don’t worry about it,” said Hiroto. “The fact that we gained even the smallest amount of information about the death attribute means that there is a meaning to the battle we are about to face.”
If Kouya had asked the Oracle how to meet Amamiya Hiroto again, it would have given him a clear answer that they would meet the one who had once been Amamiya Hiroto after death, and he and Hiroto would have been able to deduce that there would be a “next” opportunity for them. But this thought didn’t occur to them.
“… And now that I’ve learned this, I want to capture the members of the Eighth Guidance alive, no matter what,” said Hiroto. “Of course, for reasons other than those of the intelligence agencies. Because they are the last people Amamiya Hiroto saved.”
The Eighth Guidance… When Amamiya Hiroto had become an Undead and gone on a rampage in the secret research laboratory, he had saved the other experimental subjects. The Eighth Guidance was a criminal organization formed by those former experimental subjects.
“Back then, we didn’t know the details behind that incident, and we ended up leaving their protection to an international organization. But we won’t fail this time,” said Hiroto.
The members of the Eighth Guidance, which Murakami and some of the other reincarnated individuals had joined, were supposed to be protected by an international organization, but they had then been secretly exploited by that organization for further research into the lost death-attribute magic. They had escaped through their own efforts, and now they had been involved in several major incidents in addition to conducting acts of terrorism against agencies and organizations that were conducting research into death-attribute magic.
They were completely different from other criminal organizations; they were almost like a cult. And every other organization was targeting them, suspecting that they knew something about death-attribute magic.
“I’ve already asked if there is a way to save them,” said Kouya. “But it’s going to be hard.”
“What was the answer?” asked Hiroto.
“… We have to capture Murakami and the others as soon as possible, or kill them. That was the answer. Murakami and the others aren’t cooperating with the Eighth Guidance. They’re going to use the Eighth Guidance and then betray them.”
Hearing this answer that was far more difficult that he had imagined, Hiroto pressed a hand to his forehead.
A god stood still with his eyes closed.
His appearance was that of a trinity consisting of an old man, a young man and a boy. So it would have appeared, but then these three, who were all carrying heavy books, turned into beautiful women.
The god’s name was Ricklent, the genie of time and magic. Like Alda and Vida, he was one of the eleven gods born from the giants of origin.
He and one other god were gods with no gender and no fixed appearance like those of Alda and Vida; they were gods without form.
Ricklent opened his eyes and stared at Lambda, the world that he and the other gods had created.
“The prophecy has been fulfilled. Ark has returned,” he said.
“Is it not Zakkart?” asked another voice.
A four-headed lion had suddenly appeared in front of Ricklent.
“Zuruwarn, he is also Ark,” Ricklent replied.
The one with the form of a grotesque lion was Zuruwarn, the god of space and creation. He was a being that existed everywhere and yet existed nowhere, ruling over space.
“Indeed. He is Zakkart, he is Ark, he is Vandalieu and he is a transgressor,” said Zuruwarn. “Other than our reckless older sister and brave younger sister, have any others answered?”
“There are few other than Vida who have responded to my prophecy,” said Ricklent.
“What about our brother who has become violent and foolish?”
“Unknown. Zantark is too far separate from me.”
“Then what about our new brother who is honest and wholehearted?”
“He answered. But he is wandering somewhere and cannot be found.”
“I see. Then what will we do from now? I intend to curry favor with the transgressor.”
Hearing Zuruwarn speak these last words, Ricklent showed emotion on his face for the first time.
He frowned and gave a bitter smile. “You should not use that expression*. Neither she nor Ark would want that,” he said.
TLN*: The phrase for “curry favor” can also be used for a woman flirting with a man.
“Then you will not curry favor with him?” asked Zuruwarn.
“I will not,” said Ricklent. “I will cooperate with him in accordance with Ark’s goal and humor him*.”
TLN*: This is really just another phrase for “curry favor.”
“So you do intend to curry favor with him after all, do you not?”
“Of course. He is a transgressor, after all.”
Long ago, Zuruwarn had suggested inviting inhabitants of a foreign world in order to save Lambda, which was in crisis due to the war against the Demon King. At the time, he hadn’t actually said, “Let us summon champions.”
He had said, “Let us summon transgressors.”
Beings from another world who would transgress and stir all kinds of domains, creating something new.
Destroyers who would break down the existing order, causing chaos as a new order was created.
Those who would shout good words while scattering evil, one who would destroy evil and carry out good.
These were what Zuruwarn referred to as transgressors.
Those with the knowledge, ideas and values from another world who could make possible even things that the gods themselves could not accomplish. Zuruwarn had wagered everything on such a being.
And regrettably, at this rate, he would lose that wager.
That was why he needed the transgressor who was Ark and Zakkart to do everything he could.
Although he was a god, he thought it was irrational that the transgressor would need to continue where things had been left off a hundred thousand years ago and carry the world on his shoulders again, however.
“The transgressor has not honored us because our subordinate gods are cooperating with Alda,” Zuruwarn said.
Ricklent and Zuruwarn’s subordinate gods continued to exist, working under Alda, the leader of the remaining gods.
“They are our Spirit Clones that do nothing more than the work that is needed to maintain the world, but… it would also be irrational to expect a one-sided understanding from him, too.”
The god of seconds, the god of minutes, the god of hours, the god of the front, the god of points, the god of depths and the god of the behind. These were the gods who had been given the role of supporting the concepts of time and space, maintaining the space attribute. But their true states resembled advanced artificial intelligences.
A hundred thousand years ago, the world needed to be maintained whether Alda or Vida emerged victorious, so Ricklent and Zuruwarn, who were currently more than half-asleep, had ordered those subordinate gods to not participate in the battle.
As a result, even though they had remained neutral, the myths had depicted them as being among the gods who had supported the victor of the conflict, Alda.
From the perspective of the transgressor, Vandalieu, Ricklent and Zuruwarn were not definite enemies, but it was unlikely that he would think of them as allies, either.
And if they continued acting as if they were pulling the strings behind the scenes, he might mistakenly think of them as enemies.
Thus, it was necessary for them to make him aware that they were allies, even if they needed to strain themselves a little.
“With that said, we cannot do anything significant,” said Zuruwarn. “We have lost our power. I in particular must do many things in my powerless state.”
“It does not have to be significant,” said Ricklent. “The transgressor himself will do significant things. He is the one we are anticipating great things from. As expected of Ark.”
“There is Zakkart as well. But I am in agreement. He has reproduced the ramen, miso and soy sauce Zakkart and Ark could not. At this rate, curry will be not far behind.”
Ricklent experienced the pain similar to having one’s bones gouged out while Zuruwarn felt as if his organs were bursting as both of them ‘cooperated’ with Vandalieu.
“Whether this will be made use of will depend on him,” said Zuruwarn.
“It will depend on him, but either way, he will create something new,” said Ricklent.
And then Zuruwarn vanished and Ricklent returned to gazing continuously at Lambda.
Note from the translator:
And so we reach the end of the fourth volume of the series! What a wild ride it was! Thanks to all the readers for the continued support that makes the translation effort possible!
Just a preview of what’s coming ahead: A character summary sheet is coming next, followed by side volume that contains two more side chapters (containing actual story!) and then one non-story information chapter about the races in Lambda. So the next few releases goes non-story, story, story, non-story.
After that, volume 5, titled “The Monstrosity’s Expedition,” will begin!
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Winter
I feel like Hiroto and Heinz could become best buddies >_>
All this wishy washy half hearted justice garbage is making me nauseous.
Naberisu
Half hearted justice is still better than nothing, more than most people complaining about them ever did.
Sailon
“Back then, we didn’t know the details behind that incident, and we ended up leaving their protection to an international organization. But we won’t fail this time,” said Hiroto
This is bullshit the reason he created the Bravers was explained that becasue government watching them and was to protect everyone to be used beig forced to use powers or lab rats, so they se a undead was discover being a test subject to death magic that are others victims, i mean i think dificult to believe that after kill the undead MC, they dint check the laboratory arquives, and if dint they are stupid and simpling seing the surviving people that MC save would alredy give a ideia of what happened unless you are stupis and then he say he dint know what would happend to them if you simple deliver them to other organization? With the international influence they had even if could not ask to the subject stay in theyr protection he could make a international appeal using the media to be allow feee aceess to the location the subjects are stay to garantee that no more inhuman research are made on them, could cause problem form him do that? It would governments would be more carefull with him, but he could do it if re really care about them, feels sense of responsability is what he would do. Aay he dint know the details of the incident is bullshit. Is simple to gloss over his mistakes this guy is not bad but his half asses, and dont whant to admit his faults
Naberisu
They are too naive, that’s all.
Zenden1st
Nice chapter 2 new gods on the scene
JKingSniper
lil bastard
Your wife because she mistook you for someone else
God-stealth0
This is improving in the right way
Chiu ChunLing
“Don’t tell her. I don’t want to cause her pain,” actually means “Don’t tell her, I don’t want to cause MYSELF inconvenience.”
He suspected from the time he first met Narumi what had really happened to Van. And he lied to her and pressured everyone around her into going along with his lie cause he didn’t want to confirm his suspicion.
Cause it would make him look bad.
Alke
Yeah, he’s an assshole, that’s all
XPotato
“transgressor” an interesting choice of word fitting of a God in my opinion. I really want at least one of these two to have healthy friendship with van
Alke
I reaaally liked the transgressor word! 👌👌It’s amazingly idiotic that bring someone to change a world to make it evolve without him transgressing the old establishment 😒😒😒if the world was ok as it is, nobody would need an external help to make it move forward
Dr. Steel
Yay! Van has some more Gods as potential allies. Though they are weakened, it’s good to see he isn’t universally hated by such beings.
Shroda
So what amazes me as well as frustrates me so much about the character of Van is his unpredictablility especially when it comes to his enemies. Like I understand his conflict in ideals. On one hand he knows that some of them were just doing what they believed was right and have even attempted to atone for their crimes when they felt a moral conflict. On the other hand they killed his mom after he finally had a good chance at happiness. The thing is in the end the unpredictabliity of Van character comes from his complete insanity. Van is completely and utterly insane. He randomly goes around and meets people. If he likes them he basically adopts their problems but if he thinks that the are not good then he will kill them and in many ways the way he decides whether a person is good or bad is very arbitrary.
The only difference is that his madness has a focal point i.e the people involved in the murder of his mom. When faced with objects of his insanity he tends to break down. What is scarier is he masks his madness in cold calculative logic but all the logic and calculation is thrown out the window when it convenient for him. Now I am not saying Van is a bad person. Rather from a moral perspective he is an great guy. But even when he thinks everything through he is the type of person to hold someones heart in his hand then think about whether or not he should crush it.
Dera
Well, with everything he has gone through its not surprising that he acts that way. It wouldnt even be suprising if he just went on rampage to be honest. But seeing the development, he is kinder than everyone else even after going through purgatory. But as he said, he cant just forgive them, the endless rage, he cant let go of it. It is not easy just letting go of it. You have to release it, thats how the majority of human works. Not everyone is a saint. Even if the other party was a good guy like heinz. Is it selfish? Maybe, but unless someone has gone through the same experience he did, nobody should judge his actions.
Wsteven7o7
I kinda have but i actually support him and hope he gets his sweet revenge.
Tomas-28
I kinda agree but also disagree with you. Saying that he suffered a lot isn’t a justification to seek vengeance, vengeance is selfishness disguised as “justice”, even if it ends up doing some good; Heinz seeks atonement and forgiveness and has done a lot of good things in his path seaching for it, though the choice to forgive or not to forgive is still Vandalieu’s. I agree that nobody has the right to judge someone else, saying that he or she is more or less valuable due to their actions or ideas, but we must still alow ourselves to doubt and evaluate things morally and logically.
I agree that Vandalieu is pretty kind.
Chiu ChunLing
Heinz isn’t seeking atonement, he’s seeking to cover his crime and pretend he did nothing wrong.
Heinz will never admit that Alda was wrong to start the war with Vida in the first place, and he’ll never admit his own atrocities were anything other than a “mistake”.
Heinz absolutely must die, not just for the sake of Darcia’s safety and Van’s emotional health, but also to protect Vida from Alda. And since Rotcortex and Alda have uses for Heinz’s soul if he dies, his soul must be destroyed.
For the sake of the world.
Even if Van’s just doing it for himself.
Hu-Tao
True. What a fucking asshole. In the end it wasn’t atonement he seeks but recognition that he was right. If he wants atonement and forgiveness he should’ve had devoted all of his time and effort to find vandalieu and seek from the person(victim) himself the forgiveness he wants not protecting some unknown dhampir. It’s all just unwanted favors created by heinz to make his guilt be relieved he is doing it for self satisfaction rather than for the sake of justice.
Vitor
So true, and even more both your opinions will be in future chapters, death is the only satisfactory result for what Heinz has done, is doing and will do
Sailon
But never say that his vengence with Heinz is justice Van himself think is for himself because he cant forgive, because he cant be certain heinz will not harm the people important for him, Van never think of vengence as right he know is selfish but Van main priority is his happiness this including the safrty and happines of his family friend and subordinates
yvesdakempo
I think this Van as a character had complexity that even the author challenged greatly by how he should progress the story, the MC and people around him. If the author made many small mistakes, it will greatly jeopardize the greatness of this novel…
Wsteven7o7
Totally agree im scared author pictualize Van’s character to great .
Wsteven7o7
Actually Van way of thinking is very natural in my perspective since i have lost my sanity as well.
Not saying i have suffer more them Van but i have become calculative very careful about everything in my surrounding.
And from personal experience the person that drive me insane to the point that he started choking me and i choking him back. Now he has become a better person but even so i cannot forgive him and every time i see him i wanna choke him again but instead of leaving him half dead actually knock them unconscious and torture him. I of course would not do that since is the past.
But i i was Van and had his power i would give zero fucks and break his soul. So yeah Van is actually insane and over calculative and emotionless more or less = to insane.
Wich makes me sad since i hope author is nit writing from personal experience and that by casualty Van personality is almost the same as mine.
Chiu ChunLing
There’s nothing unpredictable about how he deals with enemies.
If they’re his enemies, then he’s their enemy. It’s that simple.
Good for good, evil for evil.
Van knows that everyone who does evil to him has their own circumstances and excuses, and that those who do good to him have their own ulterior motives.
It’s precisely because of that he expects them to go on hurting or helping him.
And why he responds by destroying those who will always find reasons to be his enemies and protecting those who will always find reasons to be his friends.
He doesn’t care about “Good” vs. “Evil” in some absolute sense cause he fully understands all good and all evil are a matter of perspective, even when it comes to the perspectives of gods there are several, and even before he knew that he didn’t accept Rotcortex’s perspective when it deemed causing harm to Van convenient.
He’s more open to Vida’s perspective, and if Ricklent and Zuruwarn want to be on his side, he’ll be open to their perspective too.
Sailon
Actually his view of “good and bad” can be divide like that friends are good enemies are evil, if he sees someone and danger and he can help is only a small thing for him, if he see bandits he dont care if he killed them, but in general if that person dont have many crimes of murder and rape he can allow to his side with some insurence like he did with criminal slaves if i say a crime he never forgive is harming people close to him and harming women because his trauma for what happend to his mother
TruePath111
The “romance” in this story is terrible. Sadly.
Wsteven7o7
This is not a “Romance” novel and in terms of relationship is way better than what you have been reading to say this novel is trash sice almost the beginning.
And sadly for me is that i have to see you dumb Fuck say this novel is trash because you pay no attention to understand what is happening.
And i predicted you were gona be hated in this chapter on last chapter. You are predictable.
polynesianvibez
i hope van kills amemya and breaks his soul
thanks for the chapter
jacktronsit13
he doesn’t seem evil but he should be more sympathetic
Dr. Steel
He is actually pretty sympathetic considering he doesn’t know anything about him or his experiences.
TruePath111
This is very confusing and different from the LN/Manga. It’s very frustrating.
Nobody2
Dude the manga hasn’t gotten anywhere near this far stop making stuff up
Wsteven7o7
What are you talking about??
Some people should definitely not reproduce
Erelorial
Thanks for the chapter! I wonder what they did.
Shienou
So does anyone else suspect hiroto of being the inside man for the terrorist group…like in order to pull things off wouldn’t they need say a passenger who can get them the route of the original ship they were on and let the terrorists onto the boat whole staying hidden and uninvolved….also it seems like hiroto is just playing hero so that the general population doesn’t want him dead….also seems like he wants to capture the “terrorist” group so he can try to figure out immortality and that the reason killing the terrorist group would save them is not from regular people but from hiroto’s schemes that are worse than death….just saying I would act just like hiroto if I wanted to say force everyone under my rule without them realising it. That and it’s really easy to fool people into fighting one another without anyone realising that it’s really you who caused everything…I’ve only done this a few times…though I apologized when I did it to people I like
iunno
Way too farfetched and quite baseless frankly, but ok.
FSGInsainity
If he wanted immortality, why would he have been a suiciding terrorist?
Tejing
This exchange between Zuruwarn and Ricklent has 2 parts that are difficult to interpret. Hopefully I can clarify them a bit here.
Firstly:
Zuruwarn: Other than our reckless older sister and brave younger sister, have any others answered?
Ricklent: There are few other than Vida who have responded to my prophecy,
People have lots of theories about who Zuruwarn is talking about here. It seems clear 1 of the 2 is Vida, but which one? And who’s the other one? After a fair amount of thought, I’ve come to the conclusion that BOTH are Vida. In other words, the “and” here is really more like a “/”. It fits the flow of the conversation, where Ricklent repeatedly restates Zuruwarn’s questions in his answers, yet here his restatement only refers to Vida. There’s also the fact that Vida appears as both young and mature simultaneously, so both descriptions fit her in different ways. Pointing out this contradiction also fits Zuruwarn as a transgressor of boundaries himself.
Secondly:
Zuruwarn: Then what about our new brother who is honest and wholehearted?
Ricklent: He answered. But he is wandering somewhere and cannot be found.
You’re not supposed to know who this is yet, so don’t worry. It will become pretty obvious once you read far enough ahead. I won’t spoil it here.
Valeth
I think Vida is the reckless older sister, not sure who the Brave Younger sister is yet.
As for the New Brother who is honest and wholehearted is someone who is not mentioned yet..
Vitor
SPOILER: All greater(the atribute gods and the dead dragon, gigant and beast original gods) gods where mostly created at the sale time, but the only female gods were Vida, Peria and Botin, but since they say that they can’t locate their “new brother” I guess that they are reffering to Fraumand Gold, for things that will happen later, and Nineroad, the champions selected by Zantark(Fire, “losts his sanity after fusing with evil gods) and Shizarion(Wind, destroyed), that after the Battle with Vida ascended as the leader gods of the Fire and Wind atribute un the ausence of them both, Botin and Peria may nota be for what we know able to answer, and other options are the gods who succeded Mardruke(dragón), Zenos or something like this (gigant) and Ganganaplio(beast), thought I think there isn’t an oficial “Boss” among those, or if they are, there are 2, one for the ones that sided with Vida, and other for the trash ones
Sailon
The ney brothers can also be considered evil gods that join they side.
The Butt Wizard
“God of the behind”
☺️
Hobbes
Are you a subordinate of that god? lmao
yvesdakempo
*insert Lenny face
WolfLord_Jordon
You know that hero I have a feeling it would have been kinda if he killed her.Thanks for the chapter on a good story
Kiradien
I really want to see what the interaction will be like if and when these guys meet Van; Narumi especially, when she finds out her husband went to such efforts to hide this from her. Will Amemiya ever realize that he is indirectly the reason for Van’s terrible lives?
Amemiya doesn’t seem like a bad guy, and I don’t believe he should hold blame for Van’s bad luck, but what will he think? Honestly, thanks for these translations Yoshi – it’s a good story
Chiu ChunLing
If he’s such a good guy, he’d have admitted what he did.
Especially if he really believed it wasn’t wrong.
Bunnyman
What did he do exactly? Killed an undead? By the time he knew it was van, it was already too late. Telling narumi the truth would have only hurt her so not telling isnt a bad deed. (Keep in mind, that they didnt know that they would be able meet van after their death)
Chiu ChunLing
He’d have admitted what he’s RIGHT NOW explicitly decided not to admit.
He’d ALSO have admitted that he intentionally kept Kouya from continuing to pry into what really happened to Van. There’s no way he didn’t pressure Kouya to stop trying to find the guy his girlfriend admired and felt indebted to from her previous life.
Otherwise Kouya would have found him.
He’d also admit that he suspects why he has a double portion of cheats and Van had none.
He could at least have asked if not telling Narumi would actually work…take a wild guess about the answer to that one. But he didn’t WANT to know.
Not wanting to know isn’t the same as not knowing. In fact, it’s kinda the opposite, because you can’t really not want to know unless you already suspect.
Sailon
I dont thinks so Kouya know this many years like at least more tgeb 5 years so if he whanted he alredy find more aboute Van, dont thin amemiya is responsible for this, but he dont tell his wife is for his owm convenience he has no right to decide what she should or not know
MidMist
I also agree, granted van has let it go and any of his love of affection towards that guys wife has ended. Yes she will be upset but she had also technically moved onto loving her husband even if she might not have had she all the information or had van’s fate not been given to her current husband.
It is very shitty that he has so little trust in the relationship that he has developed with his wife which makes me feel like their relationship is not stable or strong for whatever reasons, the only reason not to tell her and possibly stress her out might be if she’s pregnant but aside from that I can’t really think of any other reason that would be reasonable.
I also believe that all of the others should have also been informed too.
I hate that Kouya didn’t say anything sooner when there was ample time to do so and not only that but they had plenty of time to ask as many questions as they could think up but they chose not to so and that’s their fault not anybody else’s fault or responsibility.
SupremeMinotaur
I want to see the couple fighting against Van, having them say “we will win with the power of love (or friendship, i dont know)”, have them being forced to the ground and reaching for eachother and have one of them die in front of the other and the other crying out their name
Aelia Aeldyne
X)
You’re a horrible person, you know ?
Although that COULD indeed be somewhat funny.
The Prodigal
That’d be satisfying
Lord of Goths
I’m kinda hoping she’ll get pissed at him when she finds out the truth and run off with Vandalieu when they reincarnate.
iunno
Why would she, she doesn’t even have any relationship with van :/
LordZaninLozar
she has the relationship with Amemiya because of Van
Skarbrand
What would be funny would be if they get reincarnated, then she stabs Amemiya for keeping the truth from her. The Rodcorte has to reincarnate him again just because of that.
iunno
Amemiya hasn’t do anything so far:/ , why did everyone hate him
JeKeBe
He is Origin’s version of Heinz, sure that his way is right and the only way (see how he forced all the others out into the open and become ‘warriors of justice’ regardless of their own will). In another novel they’d be the ideal protagonists.
In this novel they’re impaled as the self-righteous gasbags that they are.
Bunnyman
How so? He didnt know that it was van and as far as he knew, there was nothing that they could do for van either. So the most logical decision would be to keep going and that’s exactly what he is doing.
And him creating the bravers was the best thing one could do. These were individuals capable of doing enormous harm or good depending on their personality. Someone needed to step forward to keep them in line while also making sure that they are not being used of. He did that, he is a hero no matter how you look at it. (If you are able to think objectively that is)
Chiu ChunLing
He lied to her.
And this isn’t an innocent mistake or a triviality.
Also, there is no excuse for saying something like “it won’t matter anyway” without using Kouya’s ability to at least check whether that’s actually true.
But even if it was true, that would only mean that Amemiya is more comfortable lying to her than telling her the truth. Which is everything we need to know about his character.
Wsteven7o7
Good reasons
asbestosnaturescandy
Hey you ever question why the undead just let us kill it ,well you know that guy that you felt indebted to and had a fight with me about not being him. truns out he went through years of unhuman torture and still did not blame us he must have thought that we were going to help him but no we killed him feel guilty about that for the rest of your life. Guy no need to split up everybody this was actually the second time we killed each other so no need to disband.
this thing that you have been hiding for years that was Eating you up inside you can’t do anything about, so stop feeling guilty and try to move on and if there was something we need to know about the undead I’m sure you have asked the Oracle in all time you were hiding it.