Chapter 177 (1/2)

Volume 2

Chapter 156

「Huh, eh, what, have you finally gone crazy?」

「Huh, you’re actually right, I have gone crazy a long time ago. I just forgot that I am actually crazy」

As soon as I regained my vow, my headache disappeared as if shattered.

And as the turbid flow of memory pervades every parts of my brain cells, it felt as if they were being resuscitated.

The first time Hero Summoning.

The Journey to defeat the demon king in order to return to my original world.

The day I wept because of my incompetence for being unable to save Leticia.

The day I died amidst betrayal and something akin to hatred.

The day I arrived in the world the second time, like a miracle.

And newly acquired Minnalis and Shuria, such extremely rare accomplices.

And that in that world, there still remain some folks that has to be killed.

I rose up from the toppled-over position I was and looked up at the blue sky that looked so transparent.

「The sky, is so blue」

How many times have I fallen to the ground and looked at the sky in this manner I wonder.

However, this blunder is a major blunder that rates among top five even among those in the past.

「Yet another reason Leticia is going to be pissed at me」

Even with so many thoughts swirling through my mind, such words were the first I was able to utter out of my mouth.

I was told I would burst into tears anytime I think of Leticia when I eventually return to my original world just like this, but to think I would completely forget about the other world.

To think I would abandon and leave my revenge unfinished, and live a carefree life while leaving my accomplice girls behind.

To think I would pretend not to see because I’m scared and choose to stay in a state where the memories that were burned in my body and the vows that were burned inside my soul was robbed by something unknown.

「Is that not even worse than trash, what the hell am I doing……」

Grrrr, as I grit my back teeth.

Part of this situation was as a result of my naivety.

Bad habits of my past self.

Pretend not to see what I don’t want to see, or something I don’t want to know, and push it far away.

That’s how I was betrayed in the other world, losing everything.

Even in this world that I finally returned to, I have been hurt by someone and betrayed like this.

And that bastard just told me straight out that after me, he is going to do the same to my beloved sister as well.

「……That must be way too much adrenaline for you to rise up in that state. Well, it’s better than you crying from the pain」

I turned my sight and saw Onishi, who took out a second cigarette in a quite indifferent and nonchalant manner, and then skillfully lit the cigarette again.

「Listen here, you know, umm, what’s the name again, your sister’s friend. Oh yeah, Miyuki-chan. Shit was ugly during that girl’s time. She was crying, screaming, going all wild. At that time too, I was told to capture her alive, and when I tried to tie her up with a rope, she scratched my neck with all her might. At that time, Miyakawa-san made fun of me and asked, 『Were you done in by a woman? 』, and since that time Miyakawa-san seemed to be suspicious of me strangely, and I couldn’t move around carelessly. That was a totally evil woman to me」

「……Aha, aha ha ha ha !! Wow, this guy is a real psychopath. Even in the other world, there aren’t that many that are as badass as this guy」

I felt no maliciousness, hostility, guilt, uplifting, or murderous intent from the words that fell from his mouth.

Even assassins who have been drugged and thought-educated, it’s difficult to find anyone who can hurt someone without feeling emotional completely up to this point.

If it was the me who lost hie memories, apart from looking at someone like Maeno with plain eyes, it is impossible to see through the true nature of a human who is capable of doing this much harm without malice.

「What do you mean by psychopath, that’s so mean. It’s a lie if you say you won’t do it when you’re in such financial distress. I mean, you get tens of millions just for simply grabbing a girl, or for just bringing a corpse you know?」

While Onishi was saying such in a disgruntled manner, there indeed was no strange behavior mixed in.

He really just, simply behaved in a natural manner based on a rational judgment, an attitude that does not think even for a second that he has done anything wrong.

「Aa-h, and here I thought it was a more decent world ……., why is it that scums just always approach around me like this I wonder. Is it because I myself, am a scum afterall I wonder, in whichever world, that saying that friends attract their kind?」

「Tsk, tsk, tsk, You’re missing the point. Money really is important you know? You see that tens of millions, is an amount that earnest hardworking adults like me, take decades to save up. That being said, I wonder maybe it’s too difficult for a student like you to understand?」

He laughed off conceitedly with some cheesy words like he picked it up from somewhere.

I am sure he’s already aware that my countenance has changed, I guess the reason why he still feels confident is because of the crossbow in his hands, he must think that he could just quell my resistance should I try to do anything.

It’s not as if he’s without vigilance as the crossbow is aimed to pierce my joints, and Onishi’s gaze has never deviated from me.

Apparently, psychopaths usually look very decent, was something I read online or somewhere, I got to say that I am convinced.

An average human being can not move like this so spontaneously, in a natural manner.

「Hey more importantly, when you said you finally remembered just now, do you mean the memories of the time you went missing? So, does that mean that you actually did went to another world?」

「Huh, that’s right. I remembered various things I experienced in the other world」

「Eeh! Wow, that’s so cool, please tell me. What kind of place is the other world? Are there really magic and such? My client told me that he/she* wants to use you to make magic available in this world too……」 (TLN: The client’s identity is not yet disclosed)

「There’s not much difference. It is the same as this world. It’s beautiful, but it’s dirty and there are different kinds of people, and I’m sure that the ratio of unhappy people mixed in is rather higher than happy ones. It’s not at all different from this world」

I said such interrupting Onishi who began to talk with such keen interest.

「No no, that’s not what I wanted to hear, you see……」

Onishi just made a grumpy looking face at what I said, and still hadn’t noticed what I had done.

「Like I said, it means that the way people break too, isn’t that much different」

Then he made a dumb looking face.

「Ah? eh, What?」

Thud, as both the crossbow, and his right hand falls to the ground.

And the possibilities of a blank time during a long brief moment.

「There, you see, the way a hand that is slashed falls is the same right」

「GYAAaaAAAaaAAA!?」

The beautiful red and white cross-sections are instantly covered with fresh red blood and fall off, forming a blood pool underneath.

「The same color of red blood that burns into your eyes too is the same」

「Blood, blood AaaaaaAhHHHH!?」

Onishi has become frantic and squeezes his arms, I wonder where his confidence a while ago ran off to.

「I’ll die, I’m going to die!?」

「AHaha, that annoying trash screams too are the same」

That’s right, that’s such a lovely scream. A scream that denotes that an enemy who is trying to take away something important from me is suffering.

However, I on the other hand have no intention of letting you die off easily.

「Rest assured, I won’t let you die just yet」

I pull out the bowgun’s arrow that I have stuck while enduring the pain.

After some resistance a little stronger than usual, 【Verdant Green Crystal Sword] emerges in my hand without any problems.

「……Thou which conveys from trees, dwells in the leaves that rides the wind, with the blessings of the forest I summon thee Verdant Green Light 『Healing Verdure』」

A pale light covers the wound and the bleeding stops shortly after.

It would look like a thread of spider hanging in front of Onishi’s eyes.

「Th, is that, magic!? Blood, please stop the blood!!」

「Kukuku, Like I thought, in whichever world, people don’t really change that much」

Onishi, whose eye-color changed as expected, I feel a black water filling a cup of fire burning so thunderously inside of me.

「Wh, what are you waiting for!! Didn’t you just say that you won’t let me die! Hurry and heal my wounds too!!」

「Hahahahaha!! …………Don’t get ahead of yourself, what kind of misunderstanding are you having, you bloody dimwit」

「Eek!」

I stood up on my healed feet and in turn looked down at Onishi, who was standing on his knees.

I didn’t even bother trying to control my killing intent no more.

「It seems like you’re not aware so let me tell you. The place you are right now, is already the entrance to the bottom of hell」

「Wha?」

I created 【Yang Sword of Flame Wheel]

I held it in an unadorned grip with no fancy of showing off the blade that looked like flame itself just turned into a blade.

The ability to inject enough magic power to activate, is a flame inside the blade that has the ability to burn everything in an instant.

The flaming sword that I brandished, cut off the tip from the elbow and the cross section burns with high heat.

From the wrist that fell off earlier, the arm also falls to the ground.

「GYAAaaAAaaAAAaaaaaa!?」

「There, this will stop the blood? As long as you don’t lose blood, you won’t die that easily even if I cut off your hands and feet. Hey, don’t faint just yet」

「Hygh!?」

I grabbed Onishi’s hair and pulled it.

「Don’t, DON’T FUCK WITH MEEEEEEEEEEEE!! HEAL ME, you better heal my arm dammittttttt!!」

Onishi, who has gotten so excited, may not even know left from right anymore.

He was sticking out an arm that is no longer there, and getting all angry as if he had forgotten about pain and everything else.

「Do you know what’s going to happen after doing this? I will kill you, I will absolutely kill you!! And then sell your sister and friends after tomenting all of them!！」

「And I keep telling you, to stop misunderstanding me don’t I? And just now, you just asked what I was doing, huh? Are you stupid? Are you dying? Do you want to die? I think you’d like to die right? If that’s the case, you should have said so in a more straightforward manner right?」

「Gi, Gigi ……!?」

I pressed the grabbed head against the ground and rub it as if filing with a rasp on his face.

I continued doing so until all resistance of trying to raise his head stopped completely, and then after, I raised his head.

「Now then, shall I have you answer a few questions, if you tell a lie or hesitate to speak……, well? I guess I need not finish the sentence, you can think for yourself?」

「Eek!?」

Onishi who is covered in bruises now has a slightly more prettier face and looking better with fear manifested all over his face.

「Well, if you walk down memory lane, you’re realize you’re a little sloppy and suspicious……, when there are actually some who don’t even make contact」

「Answer, I’ll answer, puris just stop」

「Good, then, first of all, start by telling me the mastermind of this particular incident」

「It’s Kawakami, a lady reporter who goes by the name of Kawakami Kumiko!! He requested that I……」

「Hmm, I see. As expected huh……」

I am convinced after hearing Onishi utter out that name just like I feared.

In retrospect, for some reason she was able to sniff out my existence that the police are concealing and came to see me at the hospital, or somehow meeting by chance on the road.

And in every one of them, she expressed strange subtle changes in her expressions that, I, who had lost my memories, couldn’t discern. Well, it’s not quite accurate to say I did not notice on the spot, as I made the judgment from the memories I reclaimed, so its credibility wasn’t quite reliable. I was actually thinking more along the line of Maeno-sensei for the most part.

But, he’s just too much of a small fry to be the mastermind.

「So, but……, wait a second, in that case, I guess I have no more use for you?」

Now that I have gotten confirmation that the so-called 『Client』 he wouldn’t shut up about is the same person as who I was anticipating, then there goes the need to ask anything more.

It is much more efficient to light the fire on the mastermind’s ass rather than pressing him for information that may not even be credible when there’s not much time.

Just because I regained my memories, still doesn’t change the fact that, it’s not a good idea to take my eyes off the current Mai.

Onishi yells with a more frightened distorted face, as if he read my thought process.

「Eeek, forg, forgive me, kidding, I was just kidding, so I won’t come near you anymore……」

「……Forgive you? I, to you? You’re kidding right?」

Naturally, I was not going to be kind to my opponents, and I threw such sentiments away right from the beginning.

As I knocked down the kneeling opponent with a kick, flame emerges on the sword once again and I lopped off his ankle.

「Gyaa!? GYAAaAAAaaAaaAAAAAAA!?」

「There’s no way in hell I could forgive you, you crossed that line a long time ago right」