Death March kara Hajimaru Isekai Kyusoukyoku (WN) - Volume 2 - Chapter 1

Chapter 1: 1

2-1 . Disaster Relief and the Shrine Maiden

Satou's here . Feeling like a veteran warrior, but after all I'm just an average citizen, Satou .

Although it's hard to call this a victory, for once, the battle is over .

Hereafter is the battle of lifesaving and rebuilding .

It's about time for a harem candidate to appear, right?

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I take off the robe and mantle in a desolate back-alley . Overlapping with all map exploration magic to check for human sign, I also took off my disguise .

Well it's just a wig and a mask though . . .

I put the disguise set and the robe in the forbidden folder inside the storage .

Which robe should I use now?

I take out a uselessly gaudy robe .

This one should be okay .

I decide to return to the street after changing to the gaudy robe . Of course, using a different route .

There's a soldier's corpse stuck on the tree branch along the way . To be flown to this place . . . . I join my hands to pray for it .

For now let's return to the plaza after performing an obligatory prayer .

"Err . . . The gaudy person over there~ . "

. . . Somehow there's a voice coming down from the tree .

Confirming on the radar, the corpse earlier isn't a corpse at all, somehow it's quite alive .

I look up .

"I'm sorry, could you call some soldiers? It's okay to do it after the battle in the plaza is over . "

The first impression is quite favorable due to the absence of "help me" .

However even though the soldier is caught in the tree's branches . . . The hands and feet aren't turned toward strange directions .

Now then, is there any scaffolding to help the soldier?

. . . Guess I'll just kick that window and land on the other branch .

I fly to branch near the soldier . In consideration for possible fracture, I land while trying not to shake the branch .

"Well then, I'll carry you down so please don't move . "

"Eh, how did you get here? Please don't push yourself and just call the other soldiers!"

I silently carry the soldier in my arms .

If the soldier has fractured bones then landing on the ground could be dangerous . . . Since there are at least 4 meter until the ground .

Thus, I jump to the slightly higher roof next to the branch .

"Though I jumped while taking care not to jolt you as much as possible, are you all right?"

"Yes, that surprised me but I'm fine . "

I move from roof to roof in search of a house with an exit from atop the roof .

There is a lot of unaired laundry, it probably got left behind after the demon came .

After checking for people on the radar, I get out of the house to the alleyway .

I carry the soldier in princess hug to the plaza .

"Hey, I have a little question . . . "

"Yes, what is it?"

"Even if you were blown away by the demon, isn't it too far?"

This isn't a gag manga . From the plaza to here is more than 10 meter apart .

"I got blown away by the attack of that demon, since I would have died at that rate, I used magic to decelerate my falling speed . Although I was already running out of magic power . I was at loss when I got caught on that branch . "

Magic seems to be usable even if one isn't a magician . . .

There is a temporary relief station in the plaza .

A bit away from the relief station, mats are placed and several 'people' are lined up there . . . It's not for the injured but for corpses huh . . .

"People who were rescued from the wreckages, please gather over here . "

A woman in white coat shout for injured people to assemble over there, so I head there .

"For people who are holding the patient, please keep a little distance away from their body . "

So she says, I stretch my arm to make a gap on my chest .

"I will cleanse the dirts, it may be surprising, so please don't drop them . "

"■■■　■■■■　■■■■■ Soft Wash . "

I got drenched along with the soldier . Certainly the dust and the blood (from the soldier who died first earlier) on the robe are gone .

>[Life Magic Acquired]

It's certainly a very useful magic . If there is this kind of magic then I wonder if bathing isn't needed?

"I will dry it immediately . "

"■■■　■■■■■ Dry . "

"It's complete . Well then, please wait inside the circle drawn with chalks over there . That's the place where we gather injured people . "

The white coat head toward the next person .

This is the first time I heard magic chant in close proximity but rather than word, I heard irregular sound instead . I guess it feels like the musical notes from a DTM software?

Though it's not life-threatening the people who have broken bones are gathered there . It's full right after we got in . I don't have any injury, I'm here in order to learn new skills .

Two girls with priestess-like clothes and kind atmospheres quietly approach, each accompanied with their attendants .

"Now the Parion shrine maiden will grant you their miracle . Everyone, please be silent . "

The attendant with big build shouted so to the injured peoples . And out of nowhere, the attendant with small build tells the tense people, "Please relax your body~" .

After the injured people calmed down, the shrine maiden begin the magic chant .

「■■■■■　■■■■　■■■」

「■■■■　■■■■　■■■　■■■」

(Omitted . . . It's too long, priestess-san . )

「■■■■■　■■■■　■■■ Area Heal . 」

>Holy Magic: Parion Belief Acquired

Most people seems to be healed by the magic just now .

The two attendants go around to give additional healing for people who need them .

The big attendant said, "Since it's a bone fracture, please rest quietly later", while giving first aid to the soldier I carried .

Oh yes, this isn't a BL okay? Even though the soldier is still physically growing, she is an actual woman .

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Now then, I've learned various magic but I don't know their chant, there are magic shop and bookstore that sell magic books in the plaza, but the stores were destroyed so they're probably closed now . . .

"The good you do for others is the good you do for yourself . "

<TLN: A Japanese idiom>

Let's make myself popular with the bookstore and the magic shop by helping them with selfish reasons in mind .

A carriage is half buried under the magic shop .

After confirming that there are no survivor near the carriage, I pull it out .

. . . When I think about it, I'm standing out by doing this, aren’t I?

There's a corpse in terrible condition stuck on the carriage, nausea is swelling up inside me . . . I'm weak with gore so please pardon me .

The inside of the magic shop has been destroyed but it seems that the people inside are fine because of a back door . Since I see people's figure on the radar beyond the back door, thinking that they're fine I head toward the bookstore .

The front wall of the bookstore is destroyed, it looks like it'll collapse any minute now . When I peek inside, numerous bookshelves have been toppled and books are scattered around .

From the map, it seems that there are two people squashed under the bookshelves .

The bookshelves is lined up edge to edge, thanks to them being made with dense ebony, they're very heavy .

I raise the bookshelves ⇒ I cram the book between the shelves ⇒ Whenever I raise a bookshelf the leftovers books get in the way and then I can't raise the next bookshelf so the work take quite some time . Also partly because I'm afraid that the shelf will break if I try to forcefully raise it .

1 hour after the work begin, I finally able to rescue a person .

It's a boy of around 10 years old . He's unconscious but he's breathing . The HP is about half, I stop working and bring him to the relief station . I didn't forget to tell them that the boy was rescued from the bookstore .

It's not the priestess from earlier, but a person that looks like a magician who heals people with water magic . Huh, healing magic can be done with many elements .

There are more priests now but they all dress differently, I wonder if there are different sects .

Now then let's stop procrastinating and get back to work . Because the one left who need rescuing is certainly the storekeeper!

I continue the mundane work of raising the bookshelves and stowing away the books, until finally I was able to help the old man storekeeper buried in the books .

He didn't get crushed under the bookshelves but he seemed to be squashed by the fallen books, his HP is quite low . He's conscious though .

"Thank you very much for helping me . "

It's an austere voice quite fit to be a seiyuu . What a romantic gray haired old man, he must've been quite popular back in the day .

Outside the store, the old woman and the daughter have come back . It seems that they went shopping to the west gate which was closed until just now .

I carry the old man to the relief station . The old woman also follows . The daughter remains in the store to clean things up .

In the relief station, the injured people who have come have increased even more . As expected the healer can't catch up . The two healer priestess attendants from earlier run out of MP and are sitting on the couch .

I search through the storage . . . there .

I take out 3 MP recovery medicine from my pocket and give it to the two attendants . It's a service for the skill I got earlier .

At first the big attendant was suspicious but after he knew that it was MP recovery medicine he thanked me .

. . . but, please stop drinking it in one gulp while having one hand in hip . You look like an old man .

The priestess is silent with a pale face looking down . I wonder if she's tired from using too much magic .

I leave the storekeepers to the relief station and head back to the store to help with the clean up .

I had forgotten the important matter .

The daughter of the bookstore . Her name is Semone-san . She's actually the granddaughter, and big-breasted! It's hidden by the clothes, but it's unmistakably E cup! With a long blond hair and a pair of blue eyes, she's about the same age as Nadi-san!

I'm correcting the bookshelf positioning while having a calm idle talk with her, I'm enjoying the work while placing the books which lost their binding in a box .

I love organizing books~

I mark all the interesting book during the placements .

Arrow marks can be seen in plenty through AR .

When the day is about to become dark the storekeepers come back .

I politely refuse the invitation for dinner, I purchase 3 books that catch my attention and go home . They wanted to give it as a thanks, but I compromise with just having slight discounts .

"Royal Capital Tourist Guide","Introductory Book for Life Magic", and "Life Magic Book" which should be 2 gold coin and 3 silver coin become 2 gold coin with the discount .

. . . Unfortunately, the bookstore daughter is married . The husband is a magician . . .

>Title [One Who Prays for the Dead] Acquired

>Title [Rescuer] Acquired

>Title [One Who Protects Books] Acquired

Edited by : Fate Trooper