Instant Death

Chapter 35 - I decide what is death

Translator: Thy Unsus

Edit: Upsilon

There were only four Japanese people who were left in the plaza.

Yogiri Takatou was continuing to stand unaffected, and Tomochika Dannoura was surveying the situation with a somewhat drawn-back look.

The young man wearing the suit was revealing his straightforward thoughts of complete surrender with both of his hands raised, and Masayuki had hardened as is while standing on top of the corpses.

“I am the feudal lord which governs this region, Ryouta Takahashi. This current matter is this guy’s own judgement and I have absolutely no connection to it!” (???->Ryouta)

The suited man, Ryouta, immediately continued to clearly indicate his position. It was a cunning action from the feudal lord.

“What……is this? What the hell is this!” (Masayuki)

Masayuki exclaimed in order to misrepresent his confusion.

“Stop bullsheetting me, you~! How are the undead dying? Why are the undead which have already died dying!” (Masayuki)

“They’re undead? But I didn’t know that from the start, even though you said they were dead. Aren’t they alive since they are moving?” (Yogiri)

There wasn’t any intent to ridicule him, Yogiri was asking out of genuine doubt.

Even though he said the corpses were moving, they would be alive then if they were moving. That was common sense for Yogiri.

“You proceeded to take it upon yourself to attack having tried to ignore them for some reason! Although that is greatly contradicting of the words ‘moving corpses’!” (Tomochika)

It appeared that Tomochika wasn’t giving a damn about that point daringly.

“All of your group is dead. What are you going to to do?” (Yogiri)

“Damn i~t! Lain! You~, did you know this!? Instant death magic~? It se~ems that this isn’t such a thing!” (Masayuki)

Masayuki used foul language while looking at the sky. It appeared to be towards Lain, but that person didn’t appear to be in this place.

“This isn’t a situation to say complaints about various things in? I’m asking you what you’re going to do. The current situation is the same way as you see it. It’s understood if you use your head a little?” (Yogiri)

“Ah, he told you to ‘use your head’ some time ago, but he’s trying to do it somehow.” (Tomochika)

Masayuki jumped down from the mountain of corpses.

“What’s with you! It’s a sage’s divine protection, right? Or the Sword Saint? Or are you a dragon’s descendant? But what makes you able to do that! How do you kill things that are dead!” (Masayuki)

Masayuki appeared to be unable to quite understand it, he was only adhering to the event of the undead being dead.

“It is my job of deciding what is death. It is alive if it’s moving, and stops when it’s dead. I don’t care about what you would think.” (Yogiri)

Disorder, confusion, exhaustion.

Masayuki’s face displayed a mixture of various feelings, and finally it was painted with rage.

Murderous intent burst open from within Masayuki, it controlled the vicinity and looked like miasma.

A person would certainly die from that much if they were weak-spirited.

Masayuki’s violent emotions were immediately established on the surface of his body.

His fangs jutted out, and his fingernails stretched. His coat became one with his body while changing into wings, and his body proceeded to cover itself with black bristles.

It probably hadn’t taken a lot of time.

However, Masayuki had made an incorrect choice. The situation wasn’t one to transform.

The way to prevail wouldn’t be anything but a swift attack. But something surpassing the limit of Yogiri’s thinking speed, it would only be quick attack of a deity.

In the end, it was the same as Masayuki’s defeat being decided at the time he confronted Yogiri without a great plan.

Yogiri responded to the killing intent by reflex.

“At least allow him to transform!?” (Tomochika)

Said Tomochika as she looked at Masayuki who had collapsed. Masayuki had collapsed with an unfinished figure that couldn’t be said to be a man nor a beast.

“Why do I have to wait for a fully motivated guy?” (Yogiri)

“Eh, look, it’s a rule. But, weren’t you negotiating? And what about things like the barrier?” (Tomochika)

“This guy is fine. Right, Takahashi Ryouta-san?” (Yogiri)

“Ah, yes.” (Ryouta)

Ryouta vigorously raised his hands in surrender, then nodded his head.

It’s fine if he negotiated with the feudal lord afterwards. It would be easy to go through negotiations this way. Ryouta should have given his self introduction with that intention. To sum it up, it was at that moment he killed Masayuki.

“I don’t have any combat strength. However, I think I won’t converse well in something like this situation where I don’t know when I will be killed.” (Ryouta)

“Since we basically only did it for the sake of defending ourselves, you can be at peace of mind if you don’t feel that way.” (Yogiri)

“No no. Since I truly don’t anymore! May I be allowed to retrieve only the key of the barrier for now? Masayuki has it.” (Ryouta)

Yogiri nodded. Ryouta felt for something on his body when he got closer and crouched down next to Masayuki, and took out a single key.

“Say, I think there are zombies among other things still left inside of the town, however, what will that result in?” (Yogiri)

“That one~. That was Masayuki placing the ‘Corpse Warrior’ ability on the barrier. Therefore, dead people shouldn’t be turning into zombies after this…… Well, I’ll do it in some way or another. There are countermeasures for stray zombies. And, the town can be exited again since the barrier has been restored to its normal state. I want you to wait until things calm down a little more if you use the train.” (Ryouta)

“Enough about that matter, do you know what this situation is?” (Yogiri)

The ringleader who caused the affair had died, so it was somewhat unclear what Yogiri and others should do.

“Ah~, that, don’t get angry? Masayuki was ordered to ‘kill you’ by the sage, Lain. So, Masayuki’s head was a little crazy. He came forth with such means. I didn’t want to allow such a city to become something similar to a wreck. But, you can’t defy a sage-sama’s command.” (Ryouta)

“Don’t you have to perform that order?” (Yogiri)

“Although I am also a sage’s follower and in same position as Masayuki, I haven’t received a direct order. That being the case, the preservation of this town is of maximum priority.” (Ryouta)

“Hmm? Isn’t the sage’s name Shion?” (Tomochika)

Tomochika tilted her head to the side. She appeared to have remembered the sage who turned up on the bus called herself Shion.

“Shion-sama is also a sage, but her jurisdiction is different. Around this is under the control of Lain-sama. I am entrusted with this place.” (Ryouta)

“But, we were summoned by that Shion, so why would they kill those who are said to become sages?” (Tomochika)

It would be wrong to kill Yogiri and others as they seemed to have been summoned as sage candidates for the sake of increasing the number of sages. But then in that case from that point of view, it was possible to say it was proper to eliminate Yogiri who had decreased the number of sages.

“I don’t know because I didn’t hear about that. But, I don’t intend to be a hindrance to you, and I will get someone to plan for maximum convenience.” (Ryouta)

He wouldn’t feel like planning as the annihilation of the ‘Immortality Corps’ was shown.

It was supposed to settle the current problem with this. However, Yogiri’s face wasn’t cheerful.

“What is it? Is there still something?” (Tomochika)

“Although I had thought the origin was this ‘Immortality Corps’, it appears it wasn’t like that. The gloom is continuing to grow darker. That thing was felt outside of the town.” (Yogiri)

It was something he felt in the middle of coming to this town when they had separated from the robot. It had decreased as they approached the town, and it mostly wasn’t felt around the time they reached the town, but it appeared to be a critical situation again.

“Ah~, is he some kind of danger forecast guy?” (Ryouta)

“It is over 50% if I say it as a forecast and it is beginning to rise rapidly.” (Yogiri)

“If that is a weather forecast, it’s generally rainy weather, right!?” (Tomochika)

Tomochika looked at the surroundings in a panic.

“……what……it’s dry?” (Tomochika)

It wasn’t anything but a subtle uncomfortable feeling, but it wasn’t only a thought now that he had mentioned it.

The air was getting dry. Morever, she even felt the air had a rough feeling in it somewhere.

“What is that!?” (Tomochika)

Tomochika pointed at the distant sky in confusion.

If you tried to look at the thing she pointed to, something gigantic and black in the shape of a person was towering over the surroundings.

That, it appeared to be coming towards the town slowly.

“……no way……that invaderaggressor……is that Kurayami?” (Ryouta)

Ryouta became dumbfounded as he leaked thus.

“Do you know that!? And was the robot an invaderaggressor?” (Tomochika)

“Kurayami is an invaderaggressor which appeared recently. I heard Santarou-sama had repelled it but……damn~. Is this what Lain-sama left for!” (Ryouta)

Screams became audible.

People who became confused were arriving and rushing into the plaza here and there.

Kurayami stepped into the town easily. The barrier didn’t display any effect towards Kurayami.

Kurayami’s large build overlapped with a skyscraper which was visible in the distance. The building vanished in an instant.

“Bastard! The zombie disturbance isn’t even finished yet, and now there’s an invader!? What do I do! What place do I run away to!” (Ryouta)

Ryouta shouted a complaint because it was too much.

Though its movement was a size where it appeared to be slow. It’s movement speed was awfully fast if it was compared to a person’s, it wouldn’t be enough to evacuate even if they officially proclaimed a warning from now.

The shadow which indicated killing intent was continuing to grow more and more darker, which conveyed that Kurayami was coming to this plaza.