The Death Mage That Doesnt Want A Fourth Time 106 (1/2)

Leaving Pauvina and Princess Levia behind, Vandalieu rushed towards the person who had produced the scream that had reached his ears What he found was a beautiful woreen-blonde color that wouldn’t be seen on Earth, see in the river

“Kyah, kyah, kyaaah~♪”

Still screa at the water’s surface with both her arerous monster or suspicious silhouette that could be a murderer anywhere nearby

She was just drowning… perhaps?

“Hmm?”

Vandalieu stared at this beautiful wo out of the thicket on the riverbank, even forgetting to put his stretched-out tongue away

The reason for this was that the sight before hie one

Norht leap into the river right away to save the drowning woman

However, no matter how Vandalieu looked at the situation, the beautiful wo

First of all, the woman was unmistakably a Scylla

The lower half of the woman’s body couldn’t be seen as it was hidden by the water But it was almost winter, and despite that, this woe, inside Scylla territory, half-naked with nothing but a cloth wrapped around her chest Given the circumstantial evidence, this conclusion could be drawn

They were a race of people with octopus tentacles for the lower halves of their bodies, and though they weren’t as well-adapted to being underwater as Mer-people, they were fine with being underwater for about half a day

Of course, it was possible that there were so It was likely even possible that they could drown if water levels increased or they were in bad shape

But this river’s water was flowing gently Even now, there were leaves floating slowly past the woman

“And htest reaction froer Sense: Death,” Vandalieu murmured

This meant that the woman was harmless to Vandalieu, and she herself was at absolutely no risk of dying

“And now that I listen to her screa”

For so

But then this raised the question of why she was pretending to drown in a place like this

In fantasy works on Earth, Scylla were depicted as monsters who pretended to drown and then attacked the ones who came to help them Was this the case here?

But if this was the case, there was a conspicuous lack of killing intent

“So, so, are you going to go to her?” asked Orbia “Or are you going to ignore her?”

Vandalieu had wanted to ask Orbia about the woman, as likely acquainted with Orbia, but for so at Vandalieu with an excited sparkling in her eyes, see to watch what he would do next

“H out to her,” said Vandalieu

It didn’t seem that the woerous murderer was in these areas It was probably best to at least speak to her

Vandalieu thought that it would be a pain if he were to use Flight to approach her just because he didn’t want to get wet, only to have her detect the use of ic and mistake him for an eneers with Thread-reeling to e

It would look strange to see hie, but from the front, it would likely appear as if he was if he alking on the water’s surface

“Kyah~♪ Kyaaaah~♪”

“hello, excuseout to her “Could I speak to you for a moment?”

“Kyah… Huh?” The beautiful woman froze and stared at hi “W-why is there a child in a place like this, walking on the river? M-more importantly, you just came closer to me?!”

The woed hectically She became flustered as the former went froradually more red

She seereatly disturbed; her octopus-like tentacles were squir about around her as well

Her expression changes so easily; I’m jealous So, she was a Scylla after all And it seems that there are bokukkos in other worlds, too With these thoughts running through his mind, Vandalieu watched the woman for a while

TLN: A ボクっ娘/bokukko is a girl who uses the pronoun 僕/boku to refer to herself, when it is a pronoun that is usually used by males This Scylla did indeed refer to herself with this pronoun in her previous dialogue line

“Are you alright?” Vandalieu called out to her after realizing that she wasn’t showing any signs of regaining her composure “Please cal you”

The wo her head in her hands “You’re even calling out to me?!”

Tentacles wrapped around Vandalieu’s torso before he could ask, “What did you want me to do?”

“Come here for a second!” the woman said

And then Vandalieu was taken to the side of the river

“Uwaaaah… What should I do, seriously, what should I do~? I was only practicing the courting rituaaal”

According to the beautiful Scylla wo her head in her hands in worry, what she had been perfor ritual that was handed down aeneration

A Scylla ished to getand dance to make the request of, “Someone, please marry me”

If a man wanted to marry that Scylla, they would enter the water, approach the Scylla and call out to her or embrace her

Once the above procedure was followed, the proposal was established

“Wow…” Vandalieu was surprised to learn that as considered a way of trapping prey on Earth was actually a courting ritual

Maybe Vida and others told the founder of the Scylla the stories that they heard froed over time?

The Goddess Vida had given birth to ned their exterior appearance and inner features beforehand

She had si races in order to restore the world that had been ruined by the ith the De, but it was unlikely that she had simply decided to create black-skinned Elves and women with octopus tentacles for the lower halves of their bodies

Thus, Vida had likely named the founders of the newly-born races based on creatures that appeared in the ends and fantasy works that she had likely once heard from the champions

Thus, the Scylla race had been naed into this strange courting ritual

“We don’t really do it that often now, though, this ritual,” said Orbia, adding more details to the beautiful woman’s explanation “In the distant past, there were nuht that the Scylla were really drowning, and apparently there were arguments afterwards Now, it’s only really done by couples who have already becoirl who do it as part of a festival’s ceremony I didn’t perform this ritual with that man”

In japanese ter each other poe to know each other

“I wish you’d told me beforehand,” Vandalieu muttered If he’d known, he would have called out to the wo

“I thought that Vida’s Holy Son would knoithout being told!” said Orbia

“I didn’t notice you!” the beautiful wo that Vandalieu’s words had been directed at her But then she dropped her shoulders and let out a heavy sigh “But I suppose what’s already been done can’t be helped It’son my own because I was embarrassed, anyway I’e,” she said, finally introducing herself “And you?”

“My name is Vandalieu”

“Privel is the chief’s twelfth daughter,” said Orbia “You did it! Connections get!”

Vandalieu suppressed the urge to ask her where her tragic mood from before went

“Vandalieu, huh,” said Privel “Well then, Van-kun, where are yourritual to them…”

“Eh? Isn’t it invalidated by the fact that it was an accident?” Vandalieu asked

“It’s not; I’o as far as to get married, but I want you to help with the festival”

Vandalieu thought it would have been fine to pretend as if it had never happened, since there hadn’t been any witnesses, but Privel’s position apparently made that impossible

“The shrineritual to the Gods during the winter birth festival,” Privel explained “The shrine maiden is supposed to choose just one person to perfor ritual to, but… it’s a rule that she hed She hadn’t expected a child to be passing by in a place like that “I it was decided that I would become a shrine maiden on short notice because of certain circu about it, but… You’re a boy, aren’t you? You have quite the rugged-sounding name, too”

“I am a boy,” said Vandalieu

“Then we can’t,” said Privel “I want to explain things to your parents and have you cooperate with the festival If I can’t, I’ll have to explain the situation to ize to the Goddess and the other Gods, and then have someone else take my position as shrine maiden”

It was apparently a religious probleion apparently had few cerein with, but perhaps this one had been created to increase the sense of unity with the village

“Wait Was there really a white-haired child like you in one of the other villages? Where did you come fro suddenly realized that she had never seen him before

“Privel became the shrine maiden in my place,” said Orbia “She was a candidate, just like me, after all”

The reason Privel had become the shrine maiden on such short notice was because Orbia, who had been named as the shrine maiden, had been killed

“I understand,” said Vandalieu “I’ll help you”

Vandalieu had never been involved in religious things on Earth, but in this world, he was Vida’s Holy Son He was a religious figure, through and through

Since this was the case, it was probably best to cooperate with Privel and the Scylla, who also worshi+pped Vida It seemed that this would make Orbia happy as well

And he also wanted to do his best to spread the seeds of goodwill a the Scylla race

“Eh, are you sure? Thank you! But I have to explain things to your parents first,” said Privel

“It’s fine,” said Vandalieu “I have an understanding mother”

He had left the bone fragment that Darcia inhabited back at the ca it now Darcia wasn’t here right now, but it was probably fine

Suddenly, Vandalieu heard Pauvina’s voice

“Van~”

“H voice had come from, and then froze “She’s… a friend, isn’t she?”

A little girl with blonde hair that looked as if it was ht years old in appearance However, she was nearly two and a halfa steel mace that looked as if it could kill a bear

“You found a Scylla-san? That’s a, Van!” Pauvina waded across the river with an innocent smile on her face

It seemed that Princess Levia had hidden herself

“This is Pauvina, who is so like my little sister,” said Vandalieu

“I-I see, quite the large little sister, isn’t she? Is she a half-Beast-person titan?” Privel guessed, noticing the triangular ears protruding from Pauvina’s blonde hair

But she didn’t realize that Pauvina was a half-noble Orc… though this was to be expected, as Pauvina was probably the only member of her race to exist in history

“Hey, I’ herself “Nice to meet you”

“Nice to meet you,” said Pauvina “Van, did you tell her about Orbia-oneesan?”

“Orbia-oneesan?” Privel repeated “How do you know that nao, Orbia-san…”

Pauvina had let Orbia’s name slip

But Orbia herself said, “I’ll take it from here, so cast your spell on me”

It s thanAnd since they knew each other while she was alive, it’s probably fine, Vandalieu thought as he cast Visualization

“Privel, I’m sorry that my death caused a lot of trouble for you,” said Orbia

As she appeared out of thin air, Privel’s eyes opened wide With tears welling up in her eyes –

“O-Orbia-saaan!”

Overcome with emotion, she tried to throw herself into Orbia’s chest

“Hey?!”

Orbia wasvisible to normal people, thanks to the Visualization spell

She didn’t have any physical form

As a result, Privel went straight through Orbia and tackled Vandalieu into the river

… Lucky sukebes aren’t very lucky after all, Vandalieu thought earnestly as he fell into the river with Privel crushi+ng him

TLN: As explained in chapter 104, a lucky sukebe is a situation that unexpectedly turns lewd due to chance