Naturally, Rodcorte and his familiar spirits, the ‘Calculation’ Machida Aran, the ‘Inspector’ Shimada Izumi and the ‘Oracle’ Endou Kouya were watching the situation unfold as Asagi and Kanako’s groups conversed with Vandalieu.
With that said, Rodcorte’s expectations were different from those of his familiar spirits.
Rodcorte had expected negotiations to break down, battle to break out and Asagi… perhaps not defeating Vandalieu, as that was unlikely, but at least being of use in gathering more information.
His familiar spirits, on the other hand, were afraid of a battle taking place. They didn’t care about what happened to Kanako’s group, but they wanted to avoid the souls of Asagi’s group being destroyed.
“Shouldn’t we tell him to not get involved with Vandalieu anymore?” said Kouya.
“Kouya, do you really think Asagi will listen to that warning?” said Aran.
“… That’d never happen.”
The existence of Asagi, a passionate man with a sense of companionship and a strong sense of self-righteousness, had been very helpful in uniting the Bravers in Origin. There were many among the reincarnated individuals, who had concealed their true identities as they lived in an environment that was different from Earth, who had been saved by the fact that Asagi had interacted with them in the same way as he had on Earth.
… Though there had been some, like Murakami, Kanako and Minuma Hitomi, who hadn’t gotten along with him.
The familiar spirits were certain that Vandalieu was the type who wouldn’t get along with Asagi as well.
They had looked at the memories of their former classmates who had been fortunate enough to survive the ferry sinking, and within them, there were memories of Asagi talking to Vandalieu.
It seemed that Asagi hadn’t realized this, but Vandalieu’s eyes had been clearly dead back then.
“It might even be better for him to be guided by Vandalieu. Not that I think that would happen,” Izumi sighed. “It definitely wouldn’t,” she muttered, denying the possibility completely.
They knew from the precedent of the ‘Perseus’ Samejima Yuri… Sarua Legston, that reincarnated individuals being guided by Vandalieu took a considerable length of time. They wouldn’t be guided just by talking to him a little.
It was very doubtful that the strong-willed Asagi would even be guided by Vandalieu in the first place. It was hard to imagine that Vandalieu would proactively attempt to guide him.
As the familiar spirits watched, their stomachs painful with nervousness despite the fact that they had no physical bodies, Asagi quietly left the scene with Shouko and Tendou following after him.
“How unexpected… I imagined that a battle would develop,” Rodcorte whispered.
The familiar spirits heard him, but they were in agreement. The Asagi of the past that they knew would have continued to stubbornly oppose Vandalieu, eventually causing Vandalieu to reach the limits of his patience.
Incidentally, neither Rodcorte nor his familiar spirits had expected Vandalieu to accept Asagi’s request.
“I hope that he rethinks his opinion on Vandalieu now, but…” Aran muttered.
Rodcorte and his familiar spirits could browse through everything Asagi had seen and heard as records.
But they could only try to predict what he would think and try to do in the future.
In any case, he would be fine for a while now that he had placed some distance between himself and the regions that were under Vandalieu’s influence.
“It might have been for the best that we didn’t tell him about Legion… about Hitomi,” said Izumi.
“Yeah. If he knew about the Eighth Guidance and Hitomi’s current state, he would definitely lose his cool,” Aran agreed.
If Asagi found out that they were no longer people but an enormous, mysterious, spherical life form made of flesh mannequins entwined around each other, he would have certainly become enraged. He would have told Vandalieu that turning humans into such a monster was something that could not be forgiven.
He would have become enraged and likely taken his anger out on Vandalieu.
“I don’t know exactly how they ended up like that, but Vandalieu probably didn’t make them like that on purpose, and from what we saw, they don’t seem to be unhappy about it,” said Kouya.
“It’s probably Rodcorte’s fault. Of course, Vandalieu does things like joining corpses together to make Undead, so I don’t think it can be helped that he’s misunderstood,” said Izumi.
The two of them were in agreement that they should continue to keep this hidden from Asagi. Their interest was shifting away from Kanako’s group, who were still with Vandalieu.
Unlike Asagi’s group that were trying to stop Vandalieu, Rodcorte also had no interest in Kanako’s group who were trying to curry favor with Vandalieu.
It was likely that they would fail, but even if they were killed and their souls were broken, they were reincarnated individuals whose next lives had not been determined, so the circle of transmigration would suffer minimal damage.
If they did succeed, Rodcorte thought that he could likely still use them to gather information for a short while, but they would likely be guided by Vandalieu eventually.
That was why he was surprised when he heard Kanako’s next words.
“I think you should turn us into members of Vida’s races, like Vampires or something!”
“What?” Rodcorte turned towards Kanako’s group in surprise. “Impossible, the knowledge regarding the circle of transmigration should have been erased when she was reincarnated in Lambda… How does she know that they are certain to be moved to Vida’s circle of transmigration system if they become members of Vida’s races? Could it be… Did she use the power I gave her?”
After the ‘Death Scythe’ Konoe Miyaji was destroyed, Rodcorte had allowed the other reincarnated individuals to use their abilities freely inside this Divine Realm.
Whether the abilities could be used effectively inside the Divine Realm depended on the ability, but he had thought that the reincarnated individuals would be in a more similar state to when they were alive if they could use their abilities, allowing them to gather their thoughts more clearly.
He had thought that Kanako’s Venus would be particularly useful, as it allowed her to manipulate memories and emotions.
Since they had no bodies, they would not be able to try and kill each other even if something went wrong, and no problems would occur if he kept watch over them. That was what Rodcorte had thought, but…
“That’s right, I was monitoring the use of their abilities. Then the only possibility is…” Rodcorte cast his gaze towards his familiar spirits, realizing that he had been too reliant on his attentiveness.
But his familiar spirits were surprised by Kanako’s words as well.
“If you think it’s because we told Kanako’s group that it would be easier to be accepted by Vandalieu if they became members of Vida’s races, you’re wrong,” said Aran.
“We’re your familiar spirits; there’s no way we’d be able to send a Divine Message without you knowing, right?” said Izumi.
“We don’t even have any reason to tell them to begin with. They betrayed us, and we haven’t forgiven them. It’s true that they’ve left Murakami, but that doesn’t mean they’re regretting what they did,” said Kouya.
Perhaps convinced particularly by Kouya’s words, Rodcorte turned his attention back to Kanako.
“Which means that it is merely a coincidence? Vandalieu leads Vida’s races, so she happened to think that it would be best for them to become members of Vida’s races as well?” Rodcorte murmured. “Or perhaps… did she somehow outwit me?”
Rodcorte focused on searching Kanako’s records for the reason she had voiced a desire for her group to become members of Vida’s races.
His familiar spirits watched him quietly, feeling shaken.
Rodcorte truly could not be trusted… After finding out that Rodcorte was a god who was willing to abandon the reincarnated individuals and the entire world out of fear for his own existence, they had been trying to think of ways to outwit him.
But before they were able to do so, Kanako had outwitted Rodcorte first. This fact caused the familiar spirits to feel both shock and a sense of defeat.
Aran’s shoulders dropped. “We were in charge of the brain work for the Bravers, but… What’s wrong, Izumi?” he asked, seeing that Izumi was looking in an odd direction.
“No, it’s just that I got the feeling that we’re being watched… It was only for a moment, but I think I saw something…?” she whispered.
“You saw something? What was it?”
“It looked like a pair of eyes. Not a person’s, but a beast’s.”
“You’re not just imagining things, huh. You should be able to figure it out with your Inspector power.”
“Yes, that’s why I’m certain I saw something that looked like a pair of eyes, but… Whatever. Let’s not think about this. Speaking of it is forbidden, of course, and we should forget about it as quickly as possible… until something happens,” Izumi said, knowing that Rodcorte could read their thoughts.
Aran and Kouya nodded.
However, the familiar spirits knew that Rodcorte was not constantly monitoring their thoughts with all of his attention.
It was as if their thoughts were being seen by a single surveillance camera, and Rodcorte was sitting in a guard office, looking at the footage from a countless number of surveillance cameras. With this, Rodcorte could indeed monitor their thoughts.
However, while Rodcorte was focused on something else, his focus on their thoughts would slip… perhaps.
In any case, the three of them decided not to let Rodcorte know about the ‘something that resembled a beast’s eyes’ that Izumi had seen for a moment until something further happened.
Around the time when Kanako’s group was living inside Vandalieu’s experimental Dungeon, Asagi’s group returned to the Sauron Duchy’s capital city from the border of the former Scylla territory.
They paid for rooms at a middle-class inn and gathered to sit inside one of them.
“Now that we’ve come this far, there won’t be anyone tailing us. Right, Tendou?” said Asagi.
“Yeah. I’m not completely certain, though,” said Tendou.
With his Clairvoyance ability, he had noticed that they were being followed. That was why they had returned to this city where people’s eyes were watching as quickly as possible.
They hadn’t dared to even think about trying to shake off or fight the ones tailing them. Through experience, they had learned that unlike in Origin, there were beings in this world that they could not compete against.
Of course, it wasn’t as if Asagi, Shouko and Tendou had been unrivaled in Origin. But their enemies had been armies equipped with modern weapons, or multi-millionaires or corrupt politicians who used such armies as their pawns. Their enemies had not been individually strong.
But in Lambda, there were individuals who could overwhelm Asagi’s group armed with what they would consider primitive weapons.
Asagi believed that the ‘head-hunting demon’ was one of them.
“It’s someone that even Tendou’s Clairvoyance couldn’t see directly; I never even noticed them. It wasn’t even detected by Shouko’s thermal sensing. This world is filled with monsters,” Asagi muttered.
“Asagi, I’m sure my thermal sensing couldn’t detect the head-hunting demon because it’s almost certainly an Undead,” Shouko pointed out.
“I’m taking that into account when I say this world is full of monsters,” said Asagi, and then he gave a sigh.
He had experienced numerous defeats since being reincarnated in this world.
The first was when he had tried to stop an argument between failed adventurers who had become petty criminals. Asagi had been far superior than them in terms of strength, but the criminals landed clean hits with Unarmed Fighting Technique martial skills.
The second defeat was in a battle against a Lich, an Undead mage. When he used ‘Mage Masher’ to seal the Lich’s elemental magic, he had been defeated by the Lich’s no-attribute spell, Mana Bullet.
He had let down his guard because although he possessed the knowledge regarding martial skills and no-attribute magic, he hadn’t experienced them before.
But because of these defeats, Asagi had become more careful than he had been in his previous life. That was the reason he hadn’t asked Vandalieu to stop breaking souls.
Asagi had begun feeling that he needed to stop Vandalieu when he saw Vandalieu destroying the soul of ‘Death Scythe.’
Though he had been concerned about the significant damage that it caused to the circle of transmigration system, he had felt a sense of repulsion towards the act of destroying souls, something that surpassed murder.
Vandalieu didn’t only kill people, but he destroyed their souls. Asagi hadn’t known what punishment that deserved, or why that should be forgiven.
So then, why had he not voiced these thoughts and instead asked Vandalieu to stop using death-attribute magic? Asagi had believed that even if Vandalieu were to agree to stop breaking souls, he would think of a loophole to capture souls instead.
Sealing souls away without breaking them, destroying only one part of souls such as the memories or personalities, splitting souls apart and imprisoning only one part of them.
Asagi didn’t have an exact understanding of a soul’s structure, whether a soul would be fine after having only one part destroyed, or whether it was possible to split them.
Rodcorte had told the reincarnated individuals that their souls would return to his Divine Realm immediately after their deaths instead of wandering about the world or turning into Undead.
But not much time had passed since Asagi received the familiar spirits’ message of “Don’t evertrust Rodcorte.”
And since Vandalieu had destroyed the ‘Gungnir’ Kaidou Kanata’s soul, that meant that he at least had enough time to destroy the soul before it returned. If he had enough time to do that, then it was possible that he would have time to do other things to the soul as well.
That was why Asagi had asked Vandalieu to stop using death-attribute magic altogether rather than asking him to stop breaking souls.
Vandalieu’s ability to destroy souls was clearly related to the death attribute. Thus, if Vandalieu became unable to use the death attribute, he would become unable to destroy souls.
Of course, he did also truly believe that desecrating the dignity of the dead and toying with them was unforgivable.
“Still… I wanted to ask if ‘Perseus’… Samejima is safe,” said Asagi.
“It can’t be helped,” said Tendou. “There’s no way we could know about Sarua Legston. If we spoke his name there, it would become clear that he’s a reincarnated individual and it could even put him in danger.”
Asagi’s group had been told by the familiar spirits that Sarua Legston was ‘Perseus,’ and he was currently living in Talosheim with his family.
But there was no telling what Vandalieu would do if he were to learn of this, so Asagi’s group had been unable to confirm whether ‘Perseus’ was safe.
“So, what are we going to do now? If you’re going to tell me that you’re going to join up with Murakami’s group to stop Vandalieu, I’m out,” said Tendou.
“Tendou, there’s no way I’d think of doing something like that. I’d always have to be watching my back if I joined up with those guys,” said Asagi.
Tendou hadn’t even needed to mention it – joining up and working with Murakami’s group, who were still after Vandalieu’s life, was out of the question. Like Kanako’s group, they couldn’t be trusted.
“I don’t even want to fight Vandalieu in the first place. I just want to stop his mistakes,” said Asagi. “In order to do that, I think we need to think of a way to make him relinquish the death attribute. A method that doesn’t need Rodcorte’s power.”
“A method that doesn’t need Rodcorte’s power, you say… You mentioned that when we were talking with Vandalieu, but is there really such a way? I don’t think there is,” said Shouko.
“There are probably Magic Items that seal magic away to be unusable in this world, just like there were in Origin, but using those is definitely impossible. His Mana is on a completely different scale,” said Tendou.
“There should be one,” Asagi said forcefully in response to these negative opinions. “Of course, there’s a reason that I believe that. Do you two remember this world’s mythology? The part where the Demon King Guduranis was sealed away. From what I’ve heard of this world’s mythology, the Demon King Guduranis’s power was strikingly similar to death-attribute magic. With that being the case, if we used the method that was used to seal the Demon King away, it might be possible to seal away the death attribute of Vandalieu and the Eighth Guidance.”
“That’s… certainly possible. At the very least, that’s true for sealing away the Demon King’s fragments,” said Tendou in surprise, nodding in agreement to Asagi’s words.
Vandalieu had actually absorbed the Demon King’s fragments and was using them as if they were a part of his own body.
If this made him equivalent to the Demon King, then it was possible that the sealing method that had worked on the Demon King would work on Vandalieu as well.
But it seemed that Shouko was still skeptical. “That’s true, but Vandalieu undid those seals, didn’t he?” she pointed out. “And you don’t intend to defeat him, right? How are you going to split him into pieces and seal him away?”
“That’s true, but I don’t intend to use the same method to seal away Vandalieu and the Eighth Guidance. I’m thinking that it might be possible to investigate the method used to seal the Demon King away, then apply it to seal away just their death attribute,” said Asagi. “And if the method used to seal the Demon King away can be applied like this, we’ll share that method with the Mages’ Guild and the other nations.”
“Wait a second, why does that lead to sharing the method with other nations?!” Tendou asked in surprise.
“To make sure that what happened in Origin isn’t repeated in this world,” Asagi replied. “Even if we’re able to seal away Vandalieu’s death attribute, if powerful figures learn of the death attribute’s existence, they’ll definitely try to acquire it for themselves. We need to spread a method that stops the death attribute in order to prevent that.”
In Origin, even after the death of Vandalieu, the sole user of death attribute magic, every nation had continued research into the death attribute in the shadows.
That was how useful the death attribute was. In fact, Vandalieu had risen to the top of an entire nation with the death attribute’s power.
That was why Asagi believed that a way to seal away the death attribute needed to be spread to every nation in order to prevent a race to research the death attribute in this world.
After that, once the religious figures of this world declared the death attribute as a forbidden power, things might not be perfect, but they would work out. Religion held far more power in this world than in Origin.
“… Now that you mention it, doing that sounds like it will be helpful for when that Rikudou bastard is reincarnated here,” said Shouko, nodding. “Not that I think he can complete his death attribute research.”
Rikudou, who should still be alive in Origin, was a man in the upper ranks of the Bravers who had secretly continued research into the death attribute and pulled the strings behind Murakami’s group.
“Yeah…” Tendou hesitated for a moment, then nodded. “I don’t know if we can really do it, but let’s try,” he said.
He feared Vandalieu, but the possibility of finding a way to stop the death attribute sounded very attractive to him.
He had not forgotten that he had the choice of leaving the continent and cutting all ties, like Mao had done. But what Tendou had seen of Vandalieu’s power was too great for him to make that choice.
Even if he left the Bahn Gaia continent, would he really be able to escape Vandalieu? As long as he lived in this world, wouldn’t he have to continue living in the fear that Vandalieu might change his mind and come to kill him?
For Tendou, who began feeling this fear and uneasiness, Asagi’s suggestion looked like a bright hope.
“Alright, now that you’ve agreed to this, let’s go with this plan,” said Asagi. “Though I say that, it’s not like we have any clues to go on… Well, I suppose we should look at some historical ruins… though we might not be able to spend too much time doing this.”
Asagi had a bad feeling about this. Vandalieu had said that he was the ruler of a nation; if he continued expanding his influence, wouldn’t there one day be a great war with the Amid Empire or Orbaume Kingdom that engulfed the entire continent?
We have to find a way to stop the death attribute to stop that from happening. And if he finds out that the other nations have a way to stop the death attribute, he might be more careful, Asagi thought. At the very least, peace can be maintained if he retreats from the Sauron Duchy and holes himself up in the mountain range.
The truth was, the forces of Alda, the god of law and fate, had already begun to move. Even if Vandalieu were to stay quiet inside the Boundary Mountain Range, it was possible that a war involving the entire world would break out, but… Asagi was oblivious to this.
Around the time Vandalieu was searching the ocean for a ship, Amemiya Hiroto was spending one of his days off inside his own home.
Over a year had passed since the battle against the Eighth Guidance and the disaster at the national department of defense. The world situation was changing in significant ways.
Relations between the nations that had sent special forces troops to the Eighth Guidance’s base and the Bravers had deteriorated, and although they seemed to be repaired on the surface, the truth was that they were still strained.
The federal state’s president had resigned, leading to a general election. Even now, the nation was still under pressure to change political administrations and rebuild the department of defense.
In the United Nations, there had been a movement to form a treaty that banned the research of death-attribute magic in all member nations. Hiroto had worked towards the signing of the treaty as well, but a certain individual’s opposition had prevented it from being signed, and the treaty had been discarded in the end.
“Mom, is Oji-san still not here yet?” said Hiroto’s eldest son, Hiroshi.
Amemiya Narumi, whose surname had changed after her marriage with Hiroto, smiled at their son. “You love your Oji-san, don’t you, Hiroshi?”
“You don’t have to worry. He’ll be here soon. He should have today off as well,” Hiroto told his son.
“But Dad, it’s been so long since we saw Oji-san. You haven’t seen him for a while either, right?” said Hiroshi.
Hiroto was shaken by these words. “That’s… right. Yeah, I haven’t met him in private for a while.”
He had quickly suppressed his discomposure so that it wouldn’t show in his facial expression, but it seemed that Narumi had noticed it.
In the next moment, the intercom notified the family of a visitor.
The oji-san who had not visited the Amemiya family in a long time… The ‘Avalon’ Rikudou Hijiri, smiled calmly. “I suppose it would be strange to say, ‘long time no see.’ We see each other at work, and both of us deal with the media pretty often,” he said.
“… Yeah,” said Hiroto.
“But I want you to understand. I put a lot of thought into opposing that treaty to ban research into the death attribute.”
The one who had opposed the treaty was none other than Rikudou himself, who was currently an important figure even among the upper ranks of the Bravers.
Now that Minami Asagi and Endou Kouya were dead, Rikudou was the one whom Hiroto had trusted the most, so his opposition of the treaty had been devastating. But now, he did understand Rikudou’s point as well.
“Banning research only in the nations that are a part of the UN is meaningless. Not only that, but in order to prepare ways to stop the other nations and large-scale criminal organizations from researching the death attribute, you had to object. That’s your reason, right?” Hiroto said.
“And we’re just people from a single organization. We’re not politicians or leaders of nations. The United Nations rejected the treaty through a vote, so the result couldn’t have been changed whether we agreed with the treaty or not,” said Narumi. “It’s nothing that you two should be blaming yourselves for.”
“I’m glad you understand,” Rikudou said, smiling.
But the truth was different. Rikudou Hijiri was researching the death attribute himself in secret, and he had simply opposed the treaty because it would hinder his own research.
He had important figures and rich people from every nation, as well as a number of the reincarnated individuals, under his command. It would have been inconvenient for research into the death attribute to be banned in the main nation that it was being carried out in.
If the treaty had been signed, the trade, import and export of experimental drugs, medicines, Magic Items and analysis machinery that could be used in death attribute research would have come under strict monitoring. If Rikudou’s plans were uncovered as a result, everything would go to waste.
It’s fortunate for me that Minami, Endou and Tendou are gone. Things are much easier thanks to that. It seems that destiny loves me, Rikudou thought.
Unaware that Asagi had been reincarnated in another world and Kouya was still glaring at him bitterly from Rodcorte’s Divine Realm, Rikudou believed that he was a special being.
“Let’s leave the difficult conversation at that. Narumi, I know it’s late, but here’s a baby gift,” said Rikudou, handing her a beautifully wrapped box.
“Thank you,” said Narumi, smiling as she took the box.
Hiroto relaxed his shoulders and began to talk to Rikudou like he did before, as a friend.
“Oji-san, where’s mine?!” Hiroshi demanded.
“Hey, Hiroshi! Don’t say such rude things!” said Narumi, scolding her son.
“Hiroshi-kun, yours is here,” said Rikudou, taking out a small pouch.
“Thanks!” Hiroshi said, taking the pouch and running off.
“Wait, thank him properly before you open it!” Narumi shouted, going off to chase after him.
“I’m sorry he’s grown to be such a rascal,” Hiroto said apologetically.
“Hah, it’s just good that he’s healthy. But it seems that he doesn’t resemble you, nor the one he got his name from,” said Rikudou.
TLN: The kanji for Hiroshi’s name is the same kanji as the first kanji in Vandalieu’s given Japanese name (Hiroto).
“… Yeah, that seems to be the case. I never met him, the one whose name was similar to mine, so I don’t really know much about him,” said Hiroto, thinking of Amamiya Hiroto, whom he had never met… or rather, had been unable to meet until Amamiya turned into an Undead.
“The truth is, I don’t remember him much either,” said Rikudou.
As he said, he didn’t remember Amamiya Hiroto, but he pretended to remember him nonetheless. But what he was really thinking about was how tiring it was to keep up this act in order to deceive Hiroto and the others, maintaining their current relationship.
If I left everything to my puppet ‘Metamorph,’ I’d forget how to keep up my act as Amemiya’s “virtuous close friend,” after all.
Continuing with the act, Rikudou changed the subject. “Come to think of it, you said that your second child is a daughter. I heard that her name is Mei… Is it…?”
“Yeah, I couldn’t name her ‘Pluto,’ so I changed it to a Japanese name,” said Hiroto.
TLN: The kanji for “Mei” means “dark,” and it’s also the first kanji of the Japanese word for the planet Pluto.
“I see… The Eighth Guidance still has a lot of fans, including Pluto and Baba Yaga. You should be wary of the people around you,” Rikudou warned him. “By the way, has she already gone through her attribute examination?”
In Origin, where both science and magic existed, it was important to learn what attributes one’s own children had an affinity for. Thus, in developed nations, it was normal for young children to have their Mana’s properties to be examined.
“No, she’s not even a year old, so she hasn’t had her examination yet. If they’re too young, the Mana is often too weak and the machines can’t tell what attribute they are,” said Hiroto.
“Now that you mention it, you’re right. In this country… if I recall, the examination is done at the age of three and over, right?”
Even if she shares a name with Pluto, there is no way that she has qualities for the death attribute. Maybe I’m overthinking things, Rikudou thought.
At that moment, inside a cot in another room, Mei’s eyelids suddenly opened.
“…”
Her eyes were entirely a pitch-black color, including the parts that were supposed to be white. But she blinked, and her eyes returned to a normal color.
And then she closed her eyelids and went back to sleep.
There was not a single being watching this small but bizarre phenomenon, not even the gods.
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Korath
I can imagine Asagi receiving Bellwood’s powers and Heinz actually really having a change of character.
@Mei: yeah, probably death attribute user and Van will come to save her with his labyrinth transportation spell after Avalon kidnaps her. 😀
emergency3808
OK Who is that wildcard named Mei Amemiya?
lazygeko
Asagi is an idiot. Like we didn’t know that, but just to emphasize. “I want to stop the war by sealing Van’s death attribute.” Is his plan. But if he succeeds, that will cause a huge world war to start instantly. “I don’t want to kill or seal him, just get rid of death attribute.” Is his though. But as soon as you weaken Van enough, all his enemies would jump him. It would be like tying up someone and leaving him in a lions den saying, “I don’t want to kill him. I’m just going to leave him there with no way of saving himself.”
He is stupid to an extreme degree. And this is just pointing out the flaws/hypocrisy in his current plans and isn’t even going into how skewed his original views are.
Winter
It’s funny how full Rikudou is of himself while he’s basically living out a clownshow without knowing that he’s still playing the tutorial, while Van is already close to the godhood that he’s craving so much.
Korath
Well, its not impossible to change the system, after all the current gods are able to do it in theory. I imagine it myself kind of like a Dyson sphere, only instead of fusion energy from a sun, souls are transfered and manipulated. Maybe some aliens already do it in another milky way or even in another dimension.
Alke
I’m happy that the looser’s Amemiya’s daughter has death attribute magic, it will create a reason for him to protect the attribute and not go against the MC, at least if he is even a litttttle bit sensible (but I don’t know if he is, though 😒). The daughter will really be in danger if his “friend” knows about her attribute! This idiot doesn’t even know how to choose friends 😒😒😒
Alke
This 3 pple who want to seal Vandalieu’s and his allies power, and want to tell the whole world about it, I really really want them dead! 😤. The stupid Asagi is really a second Bellwood of a lower brand😒😒😒he thinks so highly of himself self-righteous public danger! He doesn’t even know what he’s doing nor what it implies, not even the chaos that would be engendered by his own stupidity, for what he cares! Is it that for him, dead pple not being “toyed with” like he ignorently says, is more important than pple being saved?! 🤔😒😒😒Yeah, totally bellwoodian reaction! Just die and let pple live freely! 😒😒😒😒
Akachi86
“Or perhaps… did she somehow outwit me?”
Yes, yes she did. And it was easy too, since you have the emotional intelligence of a rusty saucepan.
Zenden1st
kinda corny how he named his children after 8th guidance weird asf too
Chiu ChunLing
You kinda have to choose whether something is “corny” or “weird asf”.
Saying something is “corny” is a way of dismissing it as being too ‘normal’ and expected.
I do think I get where you’re coming from, naming his daughter in honor of the woman who saved her and Narumi at the last moment despite having no logical reason to do so (and him killing her for it) does come across as just trying to play the part of a ‘good guy’. And it seems impossible that he could be deluded enough to think he’s not a villain.
But there are plenty of people who believe him, both in and out of the story.
Kurogane916
And thus the second true death attribute mage has come, really looking forward to seeing her interactions with van.
NjShade
She probably will became Vandaleu Miko… To spread his name and religion in origin
BeiBei G6
Because he’s self-righteous and way too much at that. To him he believes that death attribute shouldn’t exists but what he doesn’t realize how overly idealistic he is. It’s not that he’s narrow-minded it’s just he’s idealistically thinking that without death attribute magic Vandalieu would not posed a threat. But he dead wrong.
XPotato
“It’s probably Rodcorte’s fault. Of course, Vandalieu does things like joining corpses together to make Undead, so I don’t think it can be helped that he’s misunderstood,” said Izumi.
She just nonchalantly guessed that something was Rodcorte’s fault and she was right. That’s how much of an idiot Rodcorte is and makes so many mistakes
Baldingere
Asagi… has been enjoying death magic items and products in Origin, right? Like cheese matured with death magic (parmesan was a big thing), medicine, deodorant, anti-baldness and a lot of convenients things. Yet he is so narrowminded, I don’t get it.
Chiu ChunLing
Yeah, I mean all of the Bravers should be well aware of just how fantastically useful Death Magic is.
The problem is that Asagi doesn’t want to confront the fact that he’s a jerk.
BeiBei G6
Because he’s self-righteous and way too much at that. To him he believes that death attribute shouldn’t exists but what he doesn’t realize how overly idealistic he is. It’s not that he’s narrow-minded it’s just he’s idealistically thinking that without death attribute magic Vandalieu would not posed a threat. But he dead wrong.
Yonko
At the moment the one who is the most dangerous among the reincarnated individuals should be Asagi, because if he actually succeeds and shares the knowledge with the world it would give people and gods the ability to seal a part of Vans power making life harder for him
Bzn
I dont really see him succeeding, maybe the avalon would have a chance but asagi? Naahh. Any way if it was that easy to do zakkart would have taken care of guduranis the same way instead of bellwood brute forcing it to seal him
DarkCarnage
the only way it could work, that they find ancient knowledge, a new/rediscovered special magic metal that counters death magic, which to be frank very unlikely.
BaldTurtle
This is the only circumstance that I will say this but I really hope Van NTR Narumi from Ameme.
PancakesWitch
he wont lol
Chiu ChunLing
He can’t.
NTR (whichever of the various forms you mean) means stealing affection.
El Braver has no legitimate claim on her affection, and he knows it. Otherwise, he’d have told her the truth about ‘the Undead’. You can’t NTR a relationship that is founded on a lie. Van has stolen a few of the girls in his harem, even if mostly from unhealthy or outright abusive relationships.
But he can’t steal Narumi, whether or not she ends up with him (pretty sure she will, somehow, it can’t be too much more difficult than killing Rotcortex and we all know that’s set in stone).
Jason
Uh oh, his daughter has death magic
Brandragoon
Asagi is dead wrong, Soul devour and God devour are not part of Vans death attribute. They may have originated from it but he doesn’t need to use death mana to use it. In fact many of Van’s “forbidden” abilities are not tied directly to the death attribute and can be done without it.
And tendou is also wrong, even if he seals vans death attribute magic Van can still easily kill tendou, asagi and shouko with his no attribute magic which actually possesses more raw destructive power than death attribute.
Van isn’t powerful because of his death attribute mana (It does certainly factor into his current strength though) Van is powerful because of the raw amount of mana he possesses.
Tejing
I wonder if the reincarnators’ thinking has been affected by the fact that each of them have a cheat skill. They think too much in terms of what special power someone has, so they end up thinking of Van the same way, not realizing how broad and varied his powers actually are. Not to mention the fact that he prepares thoroughly for every eventuality he can think of, that’s a kind of strength in and of itself.
unwanted child
also van cAN BITCH SLAP PEOPLE TO DEATH
Wsteven7o7
I think that one is thunder clap
Chiu ChunLing
I’m not 100% sure that Van could still use his Soul Devour and God Devour Skills (or control the DK fragments properly) without his Death Attribute.
But Asagi is understandably ignorant of that point.
What’s not so understandable is that he knows perfectly well that there are other ways to permanently abuse souls other than relying on Death Attribute, which Rotcortex doesn’t use. The lack of Death Attribute doesn’t prevent Rotcortex from “Sealing souls away without breaking them, destroying only one part of souls such as the memories or personalities, splitting souls apart and imprisoning only one part of them.”
And in fact this is what Rotcortex does to nearly every soul that comes into his hands without any particular justification. Asagi is somehow conveniently forgetting that at the exact same time that he’s remembering it and planning to figure out how to do it to Van. That’s some top-grade doublethink.
And this is one of the guys that El Braver trusted most…that says a lot, none of it good.
hungsayori
“if we used the method that was used to seal the Demon King away, it might be possible to seal away the death attribute of Vandalieu”
lmao how does he think it’ll play out
“Vandalieu, please let us rip and tear your body into pieces so we can seal you away for eternity”
BaldTurtle
DID SOMEONE SAY RIP AND TEAR!!!
https://memestatic.fjcdn.com/pictures/A+summary+of+doom+eternal+in+one+meme_2d3e83_7605354.jpg
Wsteven7o7
Music intensifies
TruePath111
It’s all Hiroto fault it ended like this.. What a stupid wife.
OtakuOnCaffiene
Why blame the wife??? Please make it so that it is logical so I can logically take back my down vote as down voting you is really tiring…
Chiu ChunLing
Yeah…she doesn’t know what happened to Van and all the people in Origin who know are intentionally concealing that from her. El Braver lies to her about it every time he call’s his son’s name.
Vitor
Because he has to insult women in all his comments or else he isn’t happy
Wsteven7o7
So know you blame woman for no reason.
I hope your mother or any female member blames you for no reason…
polynesianvibez
wait, is mei the previous demon king? i kno i’m reaching too far
thanks for the chapter
Chiu ChunLing
I gave you an upvote just cause your comment doesn’t deserve that many downvotes.
Shiiny2.0
Her eyes were entirely a pitch-black color, including the parts that were supposed to be white. But she blinked, and her eyes returned to a normal color.
Love this development. But she will probably get limited death attribute magic
Sp00t5
O será guduranis, sería una locura pero…
Wsteven7o7
Most likely not
Erelorial
Thanks for the chapter! Well, damn.
SuicidalSkeletin
So in the future, Amemiya’s daughter becomes a death attribute mage because of the physiological effect of Pluto’s mana.
Every nation tries to turn her into an experimental subject like Van. Amemiya tries to desperately protect his daughter but fails and dies, he then reincarnates in Lambda and takes the side of Vandalieu. I can smell the plot thickening
nightRox
U have big brain
Kionzel
That is the best case scenario.
Igotdie24
What about if his daughter turns evil, kills his wife. Amemiya absolutely hates death attribute, blames van for it. Then the gods of lambda use him to attack van because he possess a bunch of “cheat” abilities
Chiu ChunLing
If he fails and dies, that means that Narumi will also die…and find out that he’s been lying to her all along about Van.
Narumi’s reaction to that fact is almost certain to destroy any hope of Van significantly cooperating with El Braver.
Wsteven7o7
When you said El Braver in my head i was like El Macho…
Petty good scene of the minions what surprise me was that i remember even do i haven’t wach it in 3 years…
Vitor
Pretty sure his codename is just Braver, also, he isn’t lying about being Van, It has already been said that it was an error and they arged about that and she already knows he isn’t, and the only reason he lied about van being the undead was in order to avoid her suffering upon knowing that, why the heck are you so dead set on believing he is some kind of Evil mastermind when he obviously isn’t smart enought for that? If he was, he would have sniffed out Hijiri already, and he would have stopped Ifrit from burning Valkyrie’s corpse, all evidence shows that he isn’t an evil mastermind, he just thinks that it would be better that death atribute didn’t exist, but he was trying to capture eighth guidance alive, so he won’t kill someone just for being able to use it, please, stop your conspiparanoidism
Hobbes
Heya Yoshi typo here in this chapter:
Asagi received the familiar spirits’ message of “Don’t evertrust Rodcorte.”
Needs a space in there like so:
Asagi received the familiar spirits’ message of “Don’t ever trust Rodcorte.”
WolfLord_Jordon
Apparently they managed to miss a new death attribute baby.Thanks for the chapter on a good story
Sora
So did Rodcorte and and his 3 familiar spirits just missed the part where Van went up close and personal to Doug to tell them he doesn’t care about the reincarnated individuals?
mickeyduck
the sheer density and paranoia that these guys have really goes a long way
Chiu ChunLing
It’s precisely because he intentionally told them that they don’t believe him.
Well, to be fair, the Former Braver Investigators probably do believe him by now. But Rotcortex actually would prefer Van went after the Bravers so he’s not going to just say “oh, okay” to him leaving them alone.
Blackpercher
damn the omen…
Wsteven7o7
Bad omen 100 has been acquired.
The Villagers do not want you to protect them…
There is a blood moon tonight..
The eye of cthulhu has spawn…..
The Prodigal
Ugh…. Why is Tendou so paranoid he just got assurance that he’d be safe as long as he doesn’t interfere with Van….. He’s gonna regret it at the moment when he’s about to be killed by Van and Asagi… He doesn’t even need any explanation he is a dumbfuck
Hobbes
I agree with you, but you have to admit it would be kind of hard to believe the words of someone who is insane… nevermind someone who has transcended sanity altogether.
unwanted child
van transcends a lot of things to be fair
Chiu ChunLing
Honestly there are a lot of characters being extremely stupid. Murakami failing to understand that they have absolutely no counter to Death Magic (even before it got upgraded), Asagi not realizing how annoying and stupid he sounds to anyone who actually has a functioning brain, Rotcortex.
But no matter how stupid they are being, they at least have motives for being stupid.
Tendou’s stupidity is a lot harder to understand.
I think that he’s stuck in a destructive cycle cause he doesn’t want to defect from Asagi’s group, both because he doesn’t trust Kanako and because he doesn’t want to abandon Asagi to his own devices, since it’s obvious that Asagi will end up getting killed if nobody stops his stupidity. Except that nobody can stop Asagi from being stupid because he’s determined to avoid facing what a total eyesore he is. So Tendou ends up just going along with Asagi’s stupidity cause he doesn’t want to get kicked out because then who would stop Asagi from doing something stupid?
I don’t really get what Shouko’s deal is, maybe she’s just not very smart? The thing where she was tricked into burning herself to death didn’t exactly make her look like a genius.
Wsteven7o7
You can say she is not the brightest one…
Even do she lit herself on fire that can never be turn off…
But at the same time you can say she was the brightest all the way to the end…
rajinmund
I think tendou is currently operating in the same state as alda albeit with a different motive. He knows that he doesn’t have to be involved with asagi. He also knows that he can just off the continent like mao but he didn’t because he is operating with emotions right now and is too paranoid of what van will do. As for asagi, I dont think he even has a chance of sealing vans death magic without killing him. Vans death magic is a passive skill to begin with meaning wether he is using it or not doesn’t really matter. To him death magic is a naturally occurring phenomena in his body so asagi telling him to stop using death magic is just like how he says it its like telling him to stop sweating. So yeah vans answer wether asagi found a method or not is a no brainer.
Sleepworth
It’s clearly obvious, the god granting destinies and affinities to newborn was having a bad day, and mistook amemiya for amamiya. Mistaking her to be Vandelieu’s child, he gave her op death magic
Feniz
Lol
darkoneko
Not really, it was half-predictable from the moment Pluto filled her moment to the brim with Death before saving her. Now I wonder if she, and her parents, will be hunted by the whole world, and if that’ll make codename Braver hate vandalieu
Pallington
I do think, I do believe, that OP made a joke.
Koronoir
actually that was their first baby(the male)
havok038
I see it all happening:
Rikudou discovers Mei’s Death Attribute leading to his ambitions of Godhood. Naturally as any parent should, Narumi and Amemiya will struggle hopelessly against a guy with the backing of the entire world elite. Maybe Narumi and Mei die in the process. Thus leading to his hatred for anything related to Death-attribute.
And Rodcorte, being the asshat that he is will naturally endow Cheat Skills on his new Vandelieu Hitman. Maybe he’ll even promise Amemiya that Mei would be reincarnated with him in the 4th life as a guarantor (As if).
Meth
Still meth
The Butt Wizard
It’s not a bad theory, but I promise that you’ll like what really happens exactly ten million times more.
Feniz
Yes. It’s good. But that theory is still possible too
Vitor
Indeed, and hopefully, Chiu will stop with his paranoidism
ObserverBias
Why, exactly, would Mei be the endgame antagonist? Her death attribute, if she has it, is something being sought after on Origin.
kumari
Well, they do have cheat abilities, especially Mage Masher which is specifically geared towards preventing magic. (although currently doesn’t work on Death or No-Attribute magics, cheat abilities can grow stronger)
Also, I’d expect either Rodcorte or Alda to be the final bosses. I don’t see how something grounded could compete against Vandalieu, who’s basically a god at this point.
Hobbes
Couldn’t have said it better
bencachinit
Yeah. Rodcorte would just be an inconvenient and boring final boss in any game.XD
Supreme king
Nahh man if everything we know so far is true especially considering how rodcorte has given the reincarnators such op abilities then he’s a great god like the first two gods that fought and died since he’s been around so long I say he’d make a great end game boss well only if he somehow gets possessed by a being that is smarter cuz goddamn he’s fucjing stupid
Bruhnnoe
The reason Rodcorte can give the abilities the reincarnators received is because he is the god of reincarnation. And the skills change, which may be becoming stronger or more convenient or having more freedoms because the bearers are not gods.
He has a lot of power, but is turned to his authority. In a fight he is weak. So he would lose a fight if Alda and his subordinates attacked Rodcorte, even with Alda and the others weakened. And remembering, Alda doesn’t have his powers from when he was at his peak, even before creating the dungeon for Heinz. Even with all this time, he has had no chance to recover because he is the only Great God managing the attributes.
Hobbes
Plus Rodcorte has no pain tolerance or resistance to suffering in general. He’s a great god who gets surprised and incapitated by a hangnail…
Decaf [Invidia]
“At that moment, inside a cot in another room, Mei’s eyelids suddenly opened.”
Mei gave a wide Looney toons grin, and winked directly at the camera.
Hobbes
And said, “Erhhh… What’s up Doc?”
Wsteven7o7
*She says while munching on a carrot fast enough that you could hear clicking sounds every bite*
Turix
“We are Venom.”