The Death Mage That Doesnt Want A Fourth Time 77 (1/2)

“Hang on a second, will you?” said the adventurer, casually approaching the reception counter that Vandalieu had frozen stiff in front of “It’s the first tie Can you explain what you mean?”

“Y-you’re troublingwith this child –” the receptionist began

“I have so with him Can you call the Guild Master for me?” said the adventurer

“You’re troubling me,” the receptionist repeated “If you want to make an appeal to the Guild, then, when it is your turn, please tell one of us staff members at the reception counters first”

“I am the A-class adventurer Heinz I’d like to request a face-to-facewith the Guild Master once more, under the authority of an A-class adventurer”

Heinz It was Heinz

Vandalieu turned his head as if it was on a creaking hinge, looking at the adventurer standing next to him

He was a well-featured, strong-willed young man with blonde hair and blue eyes He was in his early-to-mid-twenties It was clear from one look at his appearance and equipment that he wasn’t an ordinary person

Though it had changed a little, he had the same voice that Vandalieu had heard in Evbejia, and he iven by Riley

Mom’s enemy, the Blue-flamed Sword Heinz!

He was one of the people whom Vandalieu absolutely needed to kill Vandalieu had heard that Heinz had crossed over to the Orbau in the Hartner Duchy, nor had he iined that he would encounter him at this moment

The resurrection of Darcia was so that was absolutely needed for Vandalieu’s “pursuit of happiness” And those who interfered with that needed to be eliminated That hy he would kill Heinz

Selling his mother to a fanatic worshi+pper of Alda had simply been another request for Heinz It didn’t al in that nation

It didn’tnow

The problem was the future, what lay ahead He had sold Darcia to a religious fanatic once What reason did Vandalieu have to believe that he wouldn’t do the saed his viewpoint once, as to say that he wouldn’t change it again?

In order to reduce those possibilities to zero, Heinz needed to be killed and destroyed

Noas a good opportunity to do that

Of course, Vandalieu couldn’t do anything flashy in a place like this where people atching He knew that He could simply poison him or infect him with a disease

Should he turn his breath, a small amount of his saliva or the substances secreted by his skin into poison? Should he ‘accidentally’ touch Heinz and infect hiens?

Vandalieu started coht about theer Sense: Death in his head

If he tried to poison Heinz, he would be killed If he tried to infect Heinz with pathogens, he would be killed

Either way, the one ould die was not Heinz, but Vandalieu

I?!

He was far too different coh Priest Gordan Vandalieu was astonished at this change, but he couldn’t deny the reality in front of hiic spell that had saved him up until now

I see; this is an A-class adventurer worthy of becoh to slay Borkus and the others in an instant

Someone ould defeat A-class adventurers, ere supposed to be superhumans, with ease A superhuman that transcended superhumans

Heinz was far too different from Riley, whose soul had been broken by Vandalieu after his defeat at Borkus's hands And it was even said that Heinz was far more blessed when it came to allies than Riley had ever been

Vandalieu moved his eyes and looked far past Heinz to see that there were fivethere Two of them matched the descriptions that he had heard from Riley

The female Dwarf shi+eld-bearer with blue hair, Delizah The ar The other tere perhaps new party arb, and a young wohter

Heinz wouldn’t have chosen them just for their looks, so they were probably A-class and B-class as well, C-class at worst

This must be the new ‘Five Colored Blades’ with tthe place of Riley and the feeon

The fifth additional er as half-hiding behind Delizah, was probably not a party er sister?

Ah, how troublesome They’re the worst kinds of enemies for me

Even excluding the girl, he could tell by looking at the other four It was because of these people that Vandalieu didn’t even have a fraction of a percent of a chance of killing Heinz

They atching Heinz ry s words like, “Good grief,” and “Here we go again” But if anything were to happen to Heinz, they would back him up with swift speed and precision

If Heinz were to fight Vandalieu with these party members with him, there was no doubt that he would utilize his ability to coordinate with the Vandalieu’s barriers

Poisoning theens would be futile Unlike the soldiers of the Mirg shi+eld-nation’s expedition arh-Rank monsters that inflicted status effects with their attacks They were different even from the self-conceited Riley

They were ridiculously strong Their Mana pools were irrelevant If Vandalieu was an enor such an elephant

I have no choice I have to endure this hus I need to do I’ll be satisfied with being able to see these guys’ faces directly I’ll regroup with Eleanora and the others, and… Huh? What are these guys… What is Heinz doing?

Vandalieu, who had even been using his High-speed Thought Processing skill to ihts in an atte of powerlessness and humiliation that toran processing the information from his ears

“Please wait, the Guild Master is currently out of his office –”

“Then a Sub-Master should be here The rules state that when the Guild Master is absent, one of the two Sub-Masters will always reed as well?”

Heinz was currently arguing not with the receptionist, but a male staff member who appeared to be her senior But the situation was looking worse for the staff member

“That is…”

“I know that there’s no point in saying this to you,” said Heinz “The saoes for the Guild Master of the Guild’s Niarki branch But there’s so I want the Guild Master to write I want him to write a letter of introduction to meet the Guild Master of the Adventurers’ Guild headquarters of the Hartner Duchy”

“I-if our Guild Master writes so you?!” said the staff member

Heinz pressed the staff h he can approve of such a e?”

“Th-this isn’t so that can be decided by a mere staff member!” the staff member protested

“Any Guild ee is a non-coain the support of the churches, including the Church of Alda, because he can’t gain the support of the duchy’s ar that even I could figure out right away, after all”

Apparently, ures in the Hartner Duchy’s Church of Alda were fundamentalists rather than members of the peaceful faction

“Children with h a single examination They could lose their self-control at anytheuys really believe these things?” Heinz asked

The rew and the led to reed with Heinz’s words It seemed that the same went for the other staff members and receptionists

The other adventurers present voiced their agreement

“What’s the problee!”

“That’s right, that’s right! The doors of the Adventurers’ Guild are wide open, aren’t they?!”

“You’re not planning to keep us Beast-people out soon, are you?”

And then the male staff member seemed to co I can do is pass the e onto the Guild Master”

“I know,” said Heinz “That’ll be enough”

“I arn you… As an A-class adventurer, you already possess more influence than a lower nobleman,” the staff member told him “Your intentions will be known to the lords But please do not forget that it is up to the lords as to how to interpret your intentions”

“I know that, too,” said Heinz “Not as a member of Alda’s peaceful faction, but as an adventurer, I believe that the Guild shouldn’t obey the will of politicians That’s all I wanted to say ‘The doors to adventure are open to nore the words of the founder, should we?”

“I like those words too,” said the staff er the Guild Master, so excuseat Vandalieu

With the staffagain

Lucky? Why? Because he had been able to see how his enemy’s appearance and a part of his power? No, that wasn’t it…

Could it be… Heinz is helping me? Impossible!

As Vandalieu directed his gaze towards Heinz to see hi, reliable smile As if to say, “Leave it to me”

However, rather than being reassured, Vandalieu was going mad

Why do I have to be helped?! Don’t mess with me!

Is it some kind of trap?! There’s another side to this, there’s another side to this, there has to be!

There’s soe, I’m not convinced!

Feeling an unpleasant sensation that felt like his brain, spirit and even his soul were turning into hts The Parallel Thought Processing and High-speed Thought Processing skills served only to further increase his confusion; he couldn’t calm down

“Good grief Who was it that said he’s not interested in politics? The moment we finish our escort request and arrive in the city, this happens And now you’re planning to complain to the next duke and the Guild Master of the duchy’s Guild headquarters,” said Heinz’s male party member

“But Edgar, he’s been saying it all along, hasn’t he?” said another “That Alda’s teachings should be changed to beas far as to split up with Riley to come to this country was Heinz’s –”

“I re that this party’s objective was to coeon, ‘Zakkart’s Trials,’ though,” said a third party member, a woman

“Please don’t say that,” said yet another party member “Or do you mean to say that you think that Heinz’s words are mistaken, Jennifer?”

“… That’s not what I meant,” said the woman called Jennifer

Vandalieu could hear Heinz’s cos couldn’t be helped, though none of the Heinz’s words

“Hey, is Heinz the one who belongs to Alda’s peaceful faction?”

“That’s right I heard that in the Mirg shi+eld-nation, he witnessed the tragedy of a certain Dhampir and his mother, and that’s why he came to this country”

“Huh So that’s why he’s helping a Dha else”

Vandalieu could hear the voices of other adventurers

In sued their viehen they saw Mom burned at the stake after they captured her and handed her over Now they’re part of Alda’s peaceful faction and work in the Orbau…

“It’s alright,” said the little girl ith Heinz’s coht in front of Vandalieu, who, despite his inner thoughts, appeared to si there motionlessly

She took his hand as she continued speaking

“Heinz-oniichan is going to help you Just like he helpedOne of her eyes was a blood-red color that didn’t match her other eye

“Ah…”

Vandalieu’s hand trembled

“Uu…”

Nausea, a headache and a sense of discomfort, the likes of which he had never experienced in his third lifetih his body

“Kyah?!” the little girl cried in surprise

Unable to stand it any so, he had kept his claithdrawn and controlled his strength so that he didn’t injure her

That was the limit of how much he could hold back

“Hey, you?!” Startled, Heinz reached out towards Vandalieu

But Vandalieu put all of his effort into putting as much distance between himself and Heinz as possible He used all four liht in a way that excessive force was exerted on his internal organs

“O-oi! Wait a second!”

“What’s wrong?!”

Ignoring the surprised voices of Heinz’s companions and other adventurers, Vandalieu used his shoulder to sh the door to the Guild and fled!

Vandalieu was sitting on the ground, staring at his tre hands

He was already outside the city of Niarki; probably inside a nearby forest or thicket It was unlikely that he had traveled very far

He had nothe Guild It was possible that he had created a hole in the outer wall to escape

“Ah… Guh… oh…”

Vandalieu’s mind was in so s He felt as if his entire body would rot aith the anger, humiliation and powerlessness that he felt

He had been completely unable to defeat his ene hiined that this would be the ultimate humiliation

But an even greater hu pitied by his enemy, by Heinz Vandalieu was almost helped by him

It was an action that trampled over Vandalieu’s pride

But the thing that Vandalieu found ivable was the reason that Heinz had tried to help him

Heinz had tried to help him because he was a Dhampir

Heinz had changed his way of thinking and beco Vandalieu’s mother, whom he had captured and handed over to a fanatic as part of a request, tortured and burned alive in public

“Don’t… fuck… with me!”

Logically, it s had turned out like that Heinz was probably unaware that Vandalieu had survived He was under the assuo

Vandalieu’s existence was known only to very few – so shi+eld-nation and Amid Ee to think that Heinz didn’t know that he was alive

That hy he was atoning for his past deeds It was a common story that could be found in both fiction and non-fiction books on Earth

In order to apologize to the people they had killed, they would live on and atone for their sins

They would save as many people as they had killed

Feeling guilt over the innocent civilians of enemy nations they had killed in war, they would spend the rest of their days atoning

It wasn’t unusual or anything

The examples that Vandalieu remembered best were indeed from works of fiction

Someone’spunishable by law Despite re free, the person would feel tora would tell that person, “Keep helping others until the day coive yourself”

Protagonists would tell former villains, “Atone for your mistakes with your future deeds”

Heinz was atoning for the wrongs he had done to Darcia and Vandalieu He was putting the peaceful teachings he believed were correct into practice, and he had saved that little girl, the Dhampir

nobody had asked hi in a way that was completely unrelated to Darcia and Vandalieu

“Don’t mess with me…!”

So, was Vandalieu supposed to forgive hi hi to kill him?

It was out of the question There was no way that Vandalieu would even consider accepting so so unreasonable

In serial killer who killed numerous people in a certain country and then saved a number of people in his own country equal to the number of people he had killed If Vandalieu was supposed to forgive Heinz in this situation, then the bereaved families of the people killed by the serial killer would have to forgive him as well, wouldn’t they?

If Vandalieu saved as do shi+eld-nation, would the bereaved faive him? Certainly not There was no way that they would

There wouldn’t be thousands of unusual people ould forgive him

But if everything was doive Heinz

They would tell hiive Heinz because he had saved s Because he was a hero

Because from now on, he would save many more people, ease the unhappiness of thousands, of tens of thousands He would make the people happier

Heinz’s existence was beneficial for the nation

They would tell this single Dhale person, his ive him

This would be considered normal and undeniably correct in any world

The fact that Darcia was killed, the hatred boiling up within Vandalieu, everything would beco hi to do

Forgiving Heinz, ent around saving Dha asked, was for the sake of everyone’s happiness

And even that would become another detail to be added to Heinz’s story

… How could Vandalieu forgive him!

『The level of the Grotesque Mind skill has increased!』

『You have acquired the ■ab■■■st■■on】skill!』

But Vandalieu would endure for now

Heinz believed that his deeds were done in atoneather more popularity However, Vandalieu was currently unable to defeat him

Even if he used death-attribute ic and all kinds of skills, even if he asked Eleanora and the others to ith him, no matter what he did, he couldn’t win

This was vengeance For Vandalieu, this vengeance was a process necessary for acco his own happiness It wasn’t the result

『The level of the Grotesque Mind skill has increased!』

『The level of the ■ab■th■str■on】skill has increased!』