The Death Mage That Doesnt Want A Fourth Time 30 (1/2)

The Undead titans’ recollections of what happened after the【Divine Spear of Ice】Mikhail joined the attack on Talosheim were full of holes; they had never known the exact details up until now

These were the events of what happened when they were killed, what happened before they becaht after that

They only knew the historical facts, such as that Talosheim had fallen, that the heroes had been defeated and that Mikhail had attempted to destroy the Goddess Vida’s treasure that existed below the royal castle but was heavily wounded by Vida’s legacy, the guardian Dragon Gole shi+eld-nation

『I… Jeena, Zandia-jouchan and I, the three of us, ambushed that bastard in the audience chamber The Adventurers’ Guild branch that had been built in Talosheim back then told me that I was an A-class adventurer Jeena was proh Zandia-jouchan was still B-class, it was said that she would definitely becouy had a legendary-class Magic Iteht we could do it』(Borkus)

Two A-class adventurers and a B-class adventurer, a total of three people, fought a single A-class adventurer The odds were clearly in the favor of the for the chamber

But Borkus continued speaking

『In the end, things turned out as you knoas called the【Sword King】I had no intention of losing I received supportive spells fronature ic sword The on in one attack was smashed by his spear da like that as I tried to swing a punch at hi deal, I just lost ether』(Borkus)

Adventurers are divided into classes froth; adventurers’ success rate in co requests and their normal conduct are also taken into consideration, and Jobs and possessed skills can have an effect as well However, there are no overwhelth between two adventurers of the same class

But at that time, Borkus had learned the hard way that the A-class and S-class are exceptions to that rule

The A-class is the realon was nothing to thee differences in power could exist between A-class adventurers

People of the B-class are beyond ordinary people but aren’t quite extraordinary An ordinary person with extraordinary qualities, just a little beyond those of the B-class That is what the【Saint】Jeena was

Undoubtedly an【extraordinary person】and a hero, but still an extraordinary【person】in the end, unable to break free of the restrictions of being a person Falling short of being one of the inhuures in myths that were said to be able to reach the do’s evil Gods That is what the【Sword King】Borkus was

And Mikhail was a truly inhu poorthy of the S-class

『Because of that, I ended up kissing the floor And the next thing I knew, I had become an Undead Then I turned around, and Zandia-jouchan was there Only one part of her』

With these words, Borkus pushed open the door of the audience chauarded for two hundred years

Chilling, cold air came from beyond the door

There wasn’t a single ray of light in the audience chamber, but with their【Dark Vision】, Vandalieu and Nuaza could see inside, clear as day

The first thing they saw in the audience cha it This hole was likely the entrance of the passage that led to the Goddess’s treasure beneath the castle

And frozen inside the pillar of ice was a severed wrist that see from its shape

「This is! I had always thought that we had never seen their re these two hundred years because you had buried them, Borkus-dono But this, could it be!」(Nuaza)

『That’s how it is Their dead bodies are probably on the other side of this annoying block of ice Judging from the size of this hand, it’s probably Zandia-jouchan’s There’s no doubt that she kept fighting that bastard even after I got killed and chased hi her hand And so I’m sure she was killed on the other side of this ice』(Borkus)

The ic Itein of Mikhail’s title, contained powerful ice Mana It was said to be able to freeze its ene them for eternity

『I don’t knoas on the other side of this ice All I know is that there’s no way to le crack on it, and pouring oil on it and setting fire to it doesn’t even leave a single scorch-mark So, can you melt this ice?』(Borkus)

「I can melt it」(Vandalieu)

Vandalieu nodded i it while Borkus and Nuaza were talking, and he could definitely feel Mana in the ice

It seeely different to a curse, but it was siuished the Mana, it was likely that the ice would round

『I see Then please do it I don’t know if their bodies have become Undead on the other side of this ice, and even if they have, they ht have lost their sanity But I’ll never feel at ease until I say soize to them』(Borkus)

「I understand」(Vandalieu)

Vandalieu released death-attribute Mana that absorbed other Mana, and the ice beganexposed to some extreme heat

In a matter of round had been opened

「What do you think, Holy Son?」(Nuaza)

「 I don’t see any shadows thatto see if I can figure so at this hand」(Vandalieu)

『H? I heard that Zakkart had been aiinal world』(Borkus)

Apparently the hero Zakkart had been striving to become a forensic scientist when he lived on Earth He seemed to have been quite the intellectual type

「No, this is so more occult」(Vandalieu)

Vandalieu raised Zandia’s hand whose brown skin had received h it was now as cold as ice

『It would probably be bad if I were to say it’s huge or heavy』(Vandalieu)

The hand and wrist of the【Tiny Genius】was large

This was not because Vandalieu was an infant, but sie person

Of course, as her title suggested, she was probably small For a titan, that is

The average height for an adult titan was 27m for men and 25irl, judging from the fact that Borkus called her「jouchan」, but wouldn’t she still be over two meters tall?

So it was difficult for Vandalieu to say that it was thin or small

『Well, leaving that aside, let’s try to find any residual thoughts』(Vandalieu)

Death-attribute hts frohts from corpses, and even if he could read them they often made no sense, he hadn’t had many opportunities to use this ability up until now

Vandalieu pressed his forehead against Zandia’s cold palm and closed his eyes

He saw aa distinctly sharp spear Behind hiround, covered in blood and still clutching the handle of a broken sword

Zandia collapsed She was stabbed repeatedly by the spear, as if judgeht down upon her In the corner of her eyes, she saw another brown-skinned woman who had already been defeated before her And just before her vision turned dark, she saw a round

The man with the spear was Mikhail, while the defeated man covered in blood was Borkus The other woman was likely to be Jeena

However, if these residual thoughts were correct, Zandia and Jeena had died here in the audience chamber after Borkus was killed They hadn’t descended into the underground passage beyond the ice as Borkus thought they did

But then ere their bodies not here? Even if one assumed that their bodies weren’t trapped in the ice other than this one wrist and thus weren’t preserved, at least their bones should have re before his body turned into just a skeleton There was no way that he wouldn’t have noticed Zandia and Jeena’s bodies if they had been present

Had someone taken them away? Had they been disposed of in a way that didn’t even leave the bones? But then why had this wrist and, more importantly, Borkus’s body been left alone?

Conte on his oould yield Vandalieu no answers

「I saw in the residual round」(Vandalieu)

『What?! What do you round?! It’s true that there were no signs of the out, but』(Borkus)

「Then where could the two of them be?!」(Nuaza)

Borkus and Nuaza, who had been peering into the hole leading underground as if expecting Jeena and Zandia to ee from it, turned around in surprise But Vandalieu’s reply was,「Who knows? I have no idea」

「What I saere the residual ht have been confused at the moment that this happened, or maybe what I saw isn’t what actually happened, but an envisioned, hopeless future that burned itself into her mind And even if what I sahat really happened, it’s still possible that they got up after that and chased after Mikhail」(Vandalieu)

『So in other words, on’t know until we go down and have a look』(Borkus)

「Yes By the way, you wouldn’t happen to knohat ht be beyond this point –」(Vandalieu)

『No idea It’s a sacred place, after all』(Borkus)

「As I thought」(Vandalieu)

「However, we have no choice but to descend into it to find out what happened Let us go, Borkus-dono, Holy Son」(Nuaza)

It seee below the castle, even though it was a sacred place Was that because it no longer mattered after Mikhail had set foot into it, or because Vandalieu was the Holy Son?

Peering down into the hole, Vandalieu saw rods of stone protruding fro a spiral staircase

With a Le the way, Vandalieu, Nuaza and Borkus descended the spiral staircase At the bottoeway that somehow seemed like it was part of a temple

There were no special traps or trials waiting to hinder them It was impossible to say whether this was because the Goddess had uton Golem, or because Mikhail had already destroyed every obstruction besides the Dragon Golem

However, they were surprised to see that there was a door, frozen solid in ice

「The story I heard is that Mikhail was heavily wounded and barely escaped with his life, but could it be that he actually wasn’t so desperate?」(Vandalieu)

To think that he would seal off the passage with ice in the

Even as Vandalieu said that, he drained the Mana out of the ice to row tired of it if he were to have to repeat it dozens of times

「He ic spear that he left behind would be stolen, or soon Golem that he had half-destroyed and take the treasure」(Vandalieu)

『Hmm? Now that I think about it, this ice and the ice that was in the audience chamber were made when that bastard ran aasn’t it? How did he on Golem and run away?』(Borkus)

「Ah, now that you mention it」(Vandalieu)

The ice that Vandalieu was ic ice that wouldn’t melt even if exposed to the red-hot hellfire It was difficult to ih a spell of one of the noric

And thisthat could only have been created with theshi+eld-nation’s national treasure

So then how had Mikhail, who had lost his spear and made an escape, sealed this door and the entrance to the passage in ic ice?

『I know it’s strange forthat I never noticed this for two hundred years, but isn’t that strange? What does this mean?』(Borkus)

「What do you think of the theory that this ice was not created through the power if the ic spear, but is the product of a special spell that Mikhail devised himself?」(Nuaza)

「Or h the ice, and he simply created it from the other side to h it?」(Vandalieu)

Nuaza and Vandalieu came up with some theories, but they didn’t seem to fit

「In any case, the ice has melted, so let us continue Incidentally, I do not see the spirits of those two」(Vandalieu)

『Yeah I’one off somewhere』(Borkus)

Leaving the theories and guesswork aside, the three of them continued on Their objective wasn’t to find out what had really happened back then, but to find the Undead Zandia and Jeena or their corpses and spirits

There was no end to the questions that piqued their curiosity, but thinking about them could come later

『By the way, have you taken a liking to that?』(Borkus)

Borkus asked a question as he looked down at Vandalieu, as clutching Zandia’s wrist in both arms

「Rather than having taken a liking to it It would have been bad to just leave it up there」(Vandalieu)

He couldn’t stand the thought of abandoning it on the floor that was dirty with dust and whatever else, and Borkus and Nuaza had shown no signs of interest in taking it, so he had siht it with hi to it

But Borkus didn’t stop talking

『So you don’t like it?』(Borkus)

Vandalieu came to the realization that only yes and no were the acceptable answers, so he turned his gaze towards Zandia’s hand and examined it

The brown skin was slance, but there were several calluses on it They were certainly froht The sweet fragrance of blood co from the severed wrist tickled his nose, even after two hundred years

「If I had to say whether I like it or not, I’d say I like it, I suppose」(Vandalieu)

『You don’t like the part around the wrist? She was always co that it was too thick or its shape wasn’t nice』(Borkus)

「Thick? Shape?」(Vandalieu)

Vandalieu looked at the wrist again, but even if it were thick or unattractive in shape, there was no way for Vandalieu to tell To begin with, the size was too different from what he was used to

「It doesn’t bother me」(Vandalieu)

『Ooh, is that so, Jouchan liked older men, but she’d be happy to hear you say that! Well then, take good care of her』(Borkus)

「 I’m sorry?」(Vandalieu)

What was this guy talking about?

『Ooh, I’ood response』(Borkus)

「No, that’s not what Iyou a question in return What do you ood care of her?」(Vandalieu)

Vandalieu got the feeling that he’d had this conversation before Feeling a sensation of déjà vu, he looked at Borkus, asking for an explanation

TLN: This isn’t the first ti has occurred; this happened in chapter 16 so I’ll copy-paste the TLN from there

This is “はい？/hai?” in the raw This is sometimes used to ask the person to repeat what they said in a confused kind of way, so I’ve translated this to “I’m sorry?” However, “はい/hai” also translates to “yes” which has led to this

『Well, see, you still don’t see their bodies or spirits even after co all this way, do you? I’d be happy if they somehow miraculously made it out alive, but it’s possible that somebody somewhere just carried their bodies out of here』(Borkus)

The two of them were heroes, and Zandia was the Second Princess It was definitely possible that the Mirg shi+eld-nation had taken their bodies back to put their heads on display Vandalieu hadn’t heard such stories from Kachia, but it was possible that stories about the re put on display sie

『Which ht?』(Borkus)