The Death Mage That Doesnt Want A Fourth Time 122 (1/2)

Upon receiving the information froin as the ‘Undead’ and was now Vandalieu, the faces of the Bravers, as well as Murakarew pale The ‘Oracle’ Endou Kouya reacted particularly severely; he collapsed onto his knees

Of course, the reasons the two groups turned pale were different, however

“How could this have happened! To think that the Undead was hii shouted He clutched his head at the realization that he and his companions had exterly handed the Eighth Guidance, the ones that this former classmate had saved, to a research laboratory for further inhumane research to be carried out on them

Tendou, Akaki and Mao felt the sai felt even more shock because Amamiya had been his own classmate

“What have we done to such a good guy, soroaned

“Eh?! Minami, you remember Amamiya-kun?!” Izumi asked him

She had been the class representative and even she didn’t rei remembered him

“Of course, how could I forget such a good guy!” Asagi said

“What specifically do you remember?”

“Specifically, you knohen Naruse was about to fall, but he saved her and fell into the ocean instead Not just anyone could do souy”

“No, that’s a story you heard froht? Do you re other than that… you don’t, do you”

Asagi’s eyes wandered around restlessly as he searched his ht?” he said in the end

“It’s true that I’ve never talked to him before But I never heard any bad ruood person…”

It seei and Izu about Amamiya Hiroto

Other than Asagi, the ‘Death Scythe’ Konoe Kyuuji and the ‘Venus’ Tsuchiya Kanako had been A fro, it see about him either

“I’ve realized the weakness of ain realized that she couldn’t detect falsities that she herself assumed were true

“Who cares about uy on Earth? nobody remembers him anyway,” said the ‘Chronos’ Murakami Junpei, who had been the hoing the topic “The problehly likely that he resents us, and the question is whether we can kill him”

Murakauilt, but because of the fact that there was a being waiting for them in their next life ould have a desire to kill them

And that being was the ‘Undead’… the one who had given the Eighth Guidance their powers For Murakami, this was quite a bad situation

“Gazer and the Eighth Guidance are with hiht? He already resented us before, but now I’ to kill us even more shi+t!” Murakami cursed

“No, he was unexpectedly indifferent… Murakami-san, you’ve received the information that Kaidou Kanata experienced as well, haven’t you?” asked Aran

The inforiven the reincarnated individuals included the fact that the second reincarnated individual to die, the ‘Gungnir’ Kaidou Kanata, had tried to kill Vandalieu and then been destroyed

Several of them had muttered, “Scum will always be scum, even if they’re reborn,” but the truth was that before destroying Kanata, Vandalieu had said that he didn’t care about the reincarnated individuals as long as they didn’t get involved with him

“After he was exterin, and he’d just arrived here, he was angry to the point of losing his sanity, but now, the environ as you don’t accept this idiot’s stupid idea and don’t do anything stupid, I think it’ll be fine,” said Aran

“Aran, when you say ‘idiot,’ are you perhaps referring to me?” Rodcorte asked

“That’s right, I’ to you, idiot,” said Aran

He was an angel, cal a God that was his own boss Of course, Rodcorte showed no signs of caring about being called an idiot He had known fro that Aran and Izumi had no respect for him, and he are that their objective was to ensure their co them as assassins to kill Vandalieu

“And Vandalieu is capable of destroying souls,” Izu stupid about hi after Vandalieu no matter how many times he died, if you try to kill Vandalieu and are killed in return, you won’t just die I’m sure no matter what you say, your souls will be broken and your existence will be extinguished”

She clearly explained the risks involved with showing hostility against Vandalieu Even after being told that their souls would be broken, normal people wouldn’t really be able to fear how fearsome that was, but these people were those who had already experienced reincarnation and died twice; they understood what this would mean

A final, irreversible end They would not return to Rodcorte once more; there was not even the smallest chance of a miracle that could make that happen

“Looking at it another way, he’s the only one who can break souls As long as you don’t become his ene her companions to not show hostility towards Vandalieu

“No, that’s i her off

“Oi, Kyuuji, what do you

“Doug, do you really believe what Vandalieu said? The words frohts you can never tell, whose expression doesn’t budge an inch even as he’s killing people? And they’re words that he said after Kanata pretended to kneel on the ground How can you be sure that those words weren’t an act as well? Or are you saying that one of you can declare with absolute certainty that he’ll do exactly as he said?!” Kyuuji shouted at everyone else

Doug nodded “That’s true The records we got from this God showed that he has eyes like those of a dead fish The fact that he shows no expression is creepy, and his voice sounds soa script It doesn’t look like he’s clearly trying to deceive us, but he’s not someone we can trust”

It wasn’t just him; it seemed that the ‘Clairvoyance’ Tendou and the ‘Noah’ Mao were doubtful of Vandalieu’s words as well

After all, this was a person whose existence they couldn’t even remember from the time they lived on Earth The reincarnated individuals couldn’t see a single thing that suggested that he ht be trustworthy

“shi+mada, can’t you use Inspector to find out?” asked the ‘Ifrit’ Akaki

“This happened before I beca but what I saw in the record But what I do know is that he really said those words to Kanata,” said Izumi

When she looked at a record of the past, her Inspector could only tell whether that record itself was real or not

“Well then, I can’t really believe him, either,” Akaki said “I feel bad, but…”

“I s”

“He makes Skeletons and Zohter six thousand people, sews corpses together or feeds the their blood, hasn’t he?”

“He brainwashes people as well, and he’s a cannibal, too He acts more like a demon than Rikudou does”

As the reincarnated individuals unanireed, from their perspective, the acts that Vandalieu had committed up until noere almost purely evil The individual events had their own circu insane and the fact that he would sacrifice others for his own benefit were both real facts

However, the reason the reincarnated individuals thought this as because the inforiven them was biased

Being a God of reincarnation, Rodcorte could see the records of what the souls in his systei and Murakami had

However, Vandalieu was often surrounded by only those ere outside Rodcorte’s system – those of Vida’s races and Undead And since he had acquired the Demon Guider Job, even the humans and Dwarves ere supposed to be a part of Rodcorte’s system were led to Vida’s circle of reincarnation system, so the information that Rodcorte could obtain was terribly limited

As a result, Rodcorte could only show the reincarnated individuals records of the things experienced by those of races such as huuidance, or Vandalieu’s eneuided

Of course, there was a lis towards Vandalieu recorded in this information

“So, the plan to trust Vandalieu and try to convince hiet involved with him, isn’t it impossible after all?”

“Haah… Even if the risk is too high and it isn’t worth it, it would be nice if he could understand us”

Whether out of trust or fear, as long as the reincarnated individuals avoided Vandalieu, their souls wouldn’t be destroyed Of course, Laers other than Vandalieu, but as long as their souls weren’t broken, they had the hope of another life

“But Kouya, hadn’t you learned of the situation with your Oracle beforehand?” Mao asked “Even if nothing could be done right after he was born, I think that things wouldn’t have turned out this way if we’d found him and rescued him before he turned into the ‘Undead’”

Kouya, as still on his knees, suddenly returned to his senses and raised his head, but he quickly shook his head “If you’re asking me whether it was possible or not, then I think it was possible But I wasn’t careful enough; I didn’t notice I realized that Amamiya Hiroto had been reincarnated quite some time after we defeated the ‘Undead’”

“Quite a useless oracle, aren’t you?” the ‘Death Scythe’ Konoe Kyuuji muttered

His eyes seehth Guidance would have never formed, and I wouldn’t have been killed” They were filled with clear, unfounded resentment

“Kyuuji, shut up for a moment Now that I’ve become a familiar spirit, and you’re still just a spirit, it would be simple for laring at him

Kyuuji clicked his tongue and fell into silence

Aran turned his gaze away frouys, too Feel free to discuss things, but leave the arguing for later We won’t get anywhere otherwise You hear me?”

“Yeah, yeah, alright,” Murakami said reluctantly

“Alright I just have to be the bigger person here, right?” said Asagi, being obedient for once

“Thanks, Aran,” said Kouya “I’ll preface this by saying that est Just like how Odin isn’t actually a Scandinavian God, and how Chronos and Venus aren’t a God of time or a Goddess of love, either It’s just a codenaiven to me because it seemed like an oracle”

The Bravers’ codenaovernanization that conducted relief work for disasters and accidents, after consultation with each other and those whoin

To put it bluntly, it was a strategy to build an ie for themselves

Because of this, there weren’t ative ie They didn’t use the naions, either They didn’t want to face backlash froions

Thus, many of them were named after ancient Scandinavian and European Gods, as well as well-known fairies and youkai

Those who didn’t fit under this description had codenahtforwardly described the effects of their abilities, like Inspector and Gazer

The Oracle ability was a powerful one, so it was given that name

It answered questions with ale for the people of Origin or even the reincarnated individuals and Endou Kouya hies sent by an all-knowing, omnipotent God

“The reality was different Isn’t that right?” Kouya asked, directing his question at Rodcorte

“Of course,” Rodcorte replied iave you your powers, aive just one of you a power that allows you to ask an all-knowing, o your questions and have it answer them?”

The Oracle was just another one of the abilities given by Rodcorte to the reincarnated individuals It was one of over a hundred

Thus, of course, it was not a power that surpassed Rodcorte’s own

“And I deliberately applied restrictions to that power You have asked it nu to find out what has become of Earth now What was the answer you received to those questions?” Rodcorte asked

Most of the reincarnated individuals other than Kouya frowned They had asked Kouya to ask those kinds of questions themselves

Because the reincarnated individuals had suddenly died unreasonable deaths at the hands of terrorists, the curtain had been closed on their lives in an abrupt fashi+on It was only natural for them to be curious as to what became of their families on Earth

However, Kouya had asked the Oracle these questions and received no answers

This was because Rodcorte had placed liive answers regarding worlds other than the one its owner currently resided in

If he had made its power encompass multiple worlds, it would have too much of a burden on a hu the ability would becoetable

Rodcorte had also thought that there was no point in knowing about things happening in other worlds

Telling the reincarnated individuals how their faood for their mental states, but Rodcorte was a God who not only didn’t consider these feelings iht very little of them If he wasn’t like this, he wouldn’t have prepared a hundred and one reincarnated individuals… enough so that there would be no problems even if some were to be destroyed, like the ‘Gazer’ Minuma Hitomi

And he hadn’t thought that telling thein was necessary for his original purpose of Lambda’s development

If he was the kind of God to take such indirect actions, he would have explained everything to the reincarnated individuals when he’d gathered them in his Divine Realm after they died on Earth And if he had intended to support them so attentively, he would have told the other reincarnated individuals about Amamiya Hiroto early on and asked them to save him

“In fact, I do not understand why you were so over-reliant on the Oracle,” Rodcorte said “I had thought that you would keep your use of the Oracle to a minimum”

From his point of view, it was incomprehensible that Kouya and the others had relied so heavily on an ability that provided answers froave different answers to the sa the question

“… Now that you mention it, it’s exactly as you say I relied too much on the Oracle So then, please tellthat answered my questions?” Kouya asked

He had once investigated what the Oracle answering his question was Even if he asked the Oracle itself, its ansas always different, so he had investigated hiical theory,Aran to use his Calculation to help investigate while he was still alive

Even so, in the end, he never kneas answering his questions

“I suppose you cannot make full use of it unless I explain…” Rodcorte said “It is the inforration systein, you could have thought of it as the e of all of huin As an ability, it should have been named ‘Archive’ instead of ‘Oracle’”

“I see,” Kouya murmured “No wonder I couldn’t understand what it was that was answering my questions”

nobody had ever knohat the source of the Oracle’s ansere, so there was no way for the Oracle to anshat its own identity was It was only natural for different answers such as “probably a God” or “perhaps the will of the heavens” to be given based on people’s assumptions

“Then why couldn’t he use it to find Amamiya Hiroto? Back then, he was a soul that existed in your system as well, wasn’t he?” Murakami asked Rodcorte

But it was Kouya who answered this question “This is only so that I kno, but he probably didn’t think of himself as one of our coo, didn’t you – you don’t remember him He was probably aware that none of us remembered him”

“I see And he didn’t receive anything froin He fell outside your search criteria,” Murakami muttered

At the ti Kouya, had known about the circle of transration system That hy Kouya had narrowed his search criteria to ‘reincarnated individuals who received abilities froood in the end

“And after he became the Undead, he was removed from the system, so there was no way to detect him at all,” Kouya added

“Wait, then how did you realize afterwards that Amamiya Hiroto had died after that? After he reincarnated in Lain should have known about hihth Guidance,” said Tendou