Death March kara Hajimaru Isekai Kyusoukyoku (WN) - Volume 15 - Chapter Int2

Chapter intermission 2

15-Intermission 2 . At the Eastern End of the Continent (1)

 

※ This isn't from Satou's POV

" . . . . Furry mountain?"

I muttered as I saw a small mountain of fur in my dim view .

--Thud .

A warm lump touched my body .

When I look down, I see a creature resembling a newborn rat .
It might be cute if it were small, but it's as frighteningly big as an adult man .

I almost reflexively jumped out, but I couldn't put any power in my limbs, I was only able to bend backward .

"●●●"

I heard gibberish words from the small mountain .

Apparently the owner of that fur is alive .
I wonder if I've been carried here to be his food-- .

Right when I thought of that, I noticed .

"So this is reincarnation . . . "

I had never thought that I would be thrust down in the animal realm .

I couldn't fight again the rapid drowsiness of my body as I fell asleep just like that .

And then I recall my shitty past in my dream-- .


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"Mom, I'm  hungry . "
"I'm sorry, we have no money, so get some meal from our neighbor okay . "
"Eeh, again?"

Hearing my mom's and elder sister's conversation in the corridor, I realized that mom had offered all the food to [God] .
Since dad disappeared with a young girl, mom was always absorbed into [God] .

"Tarou, let's go . "
"Un . "

Together with my elder sister, we went to the neighboring diner .
Of course nowadays there's no one kind enough to feed us free of charge .

We were finally able to eat after I washed plates while enduring the cold water while my sister acted like a waitress .
It was not that good, but I didn't care as long as it made me full .

One day my sister ran away from home after she graduated middle school .
I was always a baggage of my sister . . . .

I survived somehow while enduring hunger .
I'm sure I would've long been dead if there was no lunch service in my middle school .

After graduating middle school, I was picked up by a small factory in the town, I left my mother who offered everything to god as I began to live alone .
The wage is low, but I was satisfied with living a life where I could have meals three times a day .

Cause I wanted to be apart from my mother who raised queer cry at night and endlessly repeated her god's teaching, no matter what .
After living alone, I noticed that my heart had also started to fall ill .


After some time, when I (boku) started to call myself with ore (I), I met an unexpected person .

"Is that you Tarou?"
"Dad?"

The dad that I hadn't met for more 10 years was wearing priest-like clothes .

"What are you doing now?"
"I'm an instructor of the Eastern Joy School . "

--Ha?

Don't tell me that even dad had been influenced by some good-for-nothing cult?

"Tarou, won't you go with me?"
"I'm not interested in cult . "

I shook off the arm of my father who started to be delirious and spat out .

--I don't wanna have anything to do with cult and god!

"This is different! Don't group up the Eastern Joy School with the average cult! This is a school dedicated to finding happiness for people!"

That's the same thing, dad .

"You have a job right? Would you like to join the Eastern Joy School?"

My dad said that after seeing my factory uniform .
His eyes, mixed with flattery and contempt, were unpleasant .

"I've no interest . "
"Then why don't you try investing in the school's benefit society? 100,000 no, just 10,000 yen is fine! This month's quota is tight you see . Please . "

I felt sick looking at my father acting like the model of shamelessness .
I lightly pushed him aside and ran away .

Even though I noticed that the pay envelope in my pocket fell, I ran through the alley without stopping .
I almost vomited hearing my father saying, "Thanks, Tarou" behind .

"God can go die!"

I frantically shouted out the sordid feeling overflowing in my heart .
I felt like I'd get swallowed by that sordid feeling if I didn't do that .

I kept running while staring at the sky .

"Oy! Look out!"

Before I could see who said that, I heard a high-pitched noise of a brake, and got hit by an impact, my sight was wrapped in darkness .
Truck guy, sorry for jumping in front of ya . . . .


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" . . . . God?"

I faced a self-proclaimed god in a purple space .

The self-proclaimed god told me that they'd reincarnate me to another world .
Moreover, they'd give me a special power that only I could use called Unique Skills .

--Too suspicious .

"I don't have money . "

The self-proclaimed god replied with something with 'denial' and 'unnecessary' as the points .

Apparently, it's hard to communicate with this guy .
It feels like having a conversation between extreme ends in the factory .

"Like I said, I don't need no power! More importantly, let me hit you . "

I don't mind if my soul is erased here if I could hit god who had wrecked my life .

And then a purple sphere emerged in front of me .
I didn't know if that was a god or not, but I hit it with all my might while thinking of my shitty father and cult mother .

It felt like hitting a water surface and then my right arm got sunk into the sphere until my shoulder .

"Uwaa"

I pulled my arm in panic, but two lights were coiling about around it .

"Chose? Chose what?"

I asked the self-proclaimed god, but the other party didn't reply, instead an image got unilaterally transmitted to me .

"Gods? There's other gods? Hit them all I want if I meet them?"

I tried to grasp the purple lights and then I felt my body got filled with power .
It seems I acquired two power, [Lucky Star] and [<<Reflect Unlucky>>] .

"If this power allow me to hit gods, then I'll accept it . "

I grinned at the image transmitted by the self-proclaimed god .



"I'll beat you the last as a thank . "

The self-proclaimed god replied like it was nothing, annoying me .

"You're looking forward to it? I'll make you eat those words someday . "

I was melting inside the purple darkness as I heard the laughter of the self-proclaimed god who heard my declaration of war .


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"Sheesh, is this primitive age . . . . "

I muttered while looking at the people living in pit-dwellings .

I thought I was dropped into the animal realm when I just got reincarnated, but it turned out that I'd just been reincarnated as one of beastkin races, the weaselkin .

My father in this life seems to be the patriarch of this poor hunting community at the eastern end .

After losing to the powerful tigerkin and lizardkin, we were driven away to the barren land near the coast which had few prey, a lot of people died of starvation during winter .
I wanted to discard this unstable hunting lifestyle and pressed forward with agriculture, but the land here is really bad it's impossible .
It seemed my father tried to procure sea products, but he gave up after 30% of our tribe were eaten by the monsters living in the sea .

I spent many days without food, but strangely enough, there were many times where I got food myself before I died of starvation .
Gods and cults are still my enemy even now, but I don't mind thanking that self-proclaimed god for the [Lucky Star] I got .

"Ani-cha"
"Ou, are you alright going out today?"
"Aye!"

I support my youngest weak little sister walking .
I dunno if it's because my father is fertile or if it's just the tribe thing, but I have a lot of siblings in this life .

"You look like a princess today . "

She usually wore some dirty crude clothing, but today she's wearing something that looks like a traditional costume .

"Ehehee, it's a ritual . "

"Ritual? Ritual huh--"

I felt a foreboding at the [Ritual] my little sister told me .

And that foreboding became real immediately .

"S-STOOOOOOOOP!"
"Tarou, don't obstruct the ritual!"
"Yes! That good-for-nothing sick is finally good for something . "

My father and my eldest brother sneered at me for trying to stop them .
Even though I tried to forcibly shake them off, this child's body couldn't make it happen .

I could hear shrill laughter of my little sister .

"Look, she's having fun right . "
"That happy medicine is exclusive for the offering after all . "
"That's just a drug!"

The moment I snapped, my little sister's laughter stopped, and I heard shouts of joy from the tribe people overlooking the ritual .
My heart froze looking at the lump of flesh that was my little sister .

"You should thank her . If he didn't become the god's sacrifice, the corpse over there would have been you, the 『Taboo Child』, instead--"

My eldest brother told me that while laughing repulsively .

"--You sure are lucky . "

Hearing that, I lost control of myself and hit my eldest brother while screaming .
Of course, a seven year old like me couldn't possibly win against my eldest brother, I laid on the ground after getting beat up .

--I want power .

Not the vague lucky power I got from the self-proclaimed god, but a power to have my way with . . . .


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"Nii-san, I should go with you after all . "
"Al, there's no need for you to pull the short end of the stick too y'know?"



The brightest one among my siblings, Alrusuri came before me in traveling clothes .

My eldest brother drove me out of the tribe once he took over as the patriarch, perhaps it was because he didn't like me kept pressing the agriculture .

"They say you're going abroad to study about agriculture but--"
"I know . "

--In reality, it's an exile .

"Besides, my dream is the same as Nii-san's, that is having agriculture as our tribe's mean of survival . "
"I see . "

I left the familiar pit dwelling village with Al and two guards .
A tinge of loneliness recurred in my chest when I could not see the village anymore .
Looks like I'm attached to it even though it's a poor village .

"Where are we going?"
"I heard from father who went traveling in the past--"

We know little about outside world as there's no peddler who comes to our village .

According to father, our race is a nomadic people who peddle around the world .
It seems there's extremely few who settle down like this village .

"If tigerkin or lizardkin people found us, we'd probably be killed or become slaves . So we need to head toward the humankin country while avoiding their regions . "

According to father who was once a traveler, we should be able to reach either Rumooku Kingdom or Doraoku Kingdom .

We hid ourselves from huge monsters and tigerkin's assaults, ran away with all our might from the slow lizardkin, and finally arrived at a human settlement with our emaciated bodies .

While feeling nostalgic at humans living at the village, I was thrust before the reality; beastfolks like us are persecuted .
We helped the farmwork in that village while getting treated like slaves as we learned their language .
It was the long-awaited agriculture, but the things the village was doing was just a primitive farmwork where they plowed, randomly sowed seeds, and scattered fertilizers without even ridging the field .

We ran away from the village once we learned how to talk imperfectly, heading toward the western big kingdom, Shiga Kingdom .


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"Nii-san, there's a village . "
"Yeah, the field looks splendid . "

Going out of our way to Shiga Kingdom looks to be the correct choice .
We rode our horses to Puta Town along the highway since the field belonged exclusively to villages .

"Young master, the town seems strange . "
"Yea, it seems you're right . "

The guards didn't need to stop us .
We could hear tumult from the people inside the town .

There must be trouble .

"Let's avoid this town and go to the next one . "

I turned the horse around as I said that .

"Nii-san, that!"

Hearing my little brother, I turned back and saw a foxkin girl with purple fur who tumbled out of the town gate .
And she's bloody all over . . . .

"Nii-san!"

I heard my little brother's worried voice far in the back .
Apparently, I'd run the horse without thinking of the consequences .

"Gimme your hand!"
『Ui? Mofumofu?』

--Japanese language?

I pick up the young foxkin girl, passing through the townspeople who carry crude weapons such as farm tools .

"There's more of those cursed beasts!"
"Kill the No Life King's kin!"

Ignoring the mob-like townspeople's shouts, I run the horse .



"Nii-san, they're chasing us . "

Three armed men are pursuing us .

"Young master, please leave this to us . "
"No you can't . I'd rather dump this girl than you guys . "

The body of the young foxkin girl on the back seat stiffened hearing me rejecting the guards' reckless suggestion .

"Nii-san!"

I turned my line of sight back to the front at my little brother's shout, a ratkin riding a six-legged boar jumped out of the forest .

"I ask! Are you criminals?!"
"We're not, we just saved a girl who was about to be killed by adventurers . "
"Understood . With justice in hands, Warrior Mize of Ash Ratkin will assist you!"

That ratkin was strong .
To think a level 30 warrior was this strong!

Warrior Mize defeated the pursuers in no time at all and we got out of the trouble .


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"Thank you . I'm Tarou of weaselkin . I came to Shiga Kingdom to learn about agriculture . "
"Hou? That's unusual for a beastkin . "

Warrior Mize was surprised after my introduction, and then he folded his arms while looking a bit troubled .

"Is it that unusual?"
"Sorry, it's not about that . "

I urge the hesitant Warrior Mize to continue .

"Presently, Shiga Kingdom is in a dangerous state due to the murder of a noble by the 『No Life King』 . "

The town earlier certainly looked strange .

"Umu, and?"
"That 『No Life King』 is a Cursed Child--In other world, he has the same purple fur as you and that girl over there . "
"In other words, we cannot enter Shiga Kingdom?"

I exchanged looks of loss with my little brothers and the guards at the outrageous situation .

We must have looked really pitiful .

"This must be fate . If it's fine with you, would you like to go with me?"

Warrior Mize told us that .
We don't really mind as long as we can learn about agriculture-- .

"To where?"
"Elf Village, Boruenan Forest . "

Thus, our destination changed from Shiga Kingdom to Boruenan Forest .

※ Next update is planned for 3/5
New chapters will come rushing in from 3/12!