Death March kara Hajimaru Isekai Kyusoukyoku (WN) - Volume 8 - Chapter 21

Chapter 21: 21

8-21 . The Battle in the Arena (3)

 

Satou's here . There's this thing called Tabletop RPG . It's a game where you're role-playing as someone in the game's world, but unlike Westerners, Japanese people are generally shy, so in most matches, they talk in business-like manners the whole time .

I'll say this again, there are a lot of shy people among Japanese .

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A birdkin scout comes flying from the opposite side of the arena .

Apparently, the duke forces have finally arrived . Confirming on the map, there are 10 iron golems, and 3000 knights encircling the arena . There are also several mobile forts .

"Tsk, coming here after all this . "

I'm saying my farewell to the hero who's uttering cursing words . It'll be troublesome if I don't leave soon .

"Hero, I will have to go soon . I don't want to get too close to influential people . "

<TLN: He's using boku to refer himself here, mostly used by polite males, but can and is rarely used by females too . >

I'm sorry, I'm actually already on the side of those influential people .

"I understand that feel . You can probably see it already, but I'm Hayato Masaki . It may be confusing, but Masaki is the family name . You're also a Japanese--no, with that hair, a reincarnated person huh . You're a former Japanese right?"

"Japanese or not, you already know from seeing me don't you?　I'm the [Hero without Name], Nanashi . We might meet again in a battlefield someday . "

<TLN: Alright, the unsung hero thing isn't going well with how Satou's using the title for lol . It can still mean either way though . >

Do I regard myself a hero--nope~ it's embarrassing enough that I feel like rolling on the floor . It's like installing chuuni language converter tool in a smartphone .

I'm really glad that I have the poker face skill .

"Wait! Won't you fight with me together? I want you for the battle with the demon lord . "

Gross .

At least, please say, "I want your power" instead . Being a homo on top of lolicon is unreasonable .

"Is that a proposal? Thanks for the invitation, but no thanks . The sca~ry onee-sama bunch behind you are glaring after all . Bye then, ladykiller-san . "

What the heck is with [Ladykiller-san]!Someone please stop me . I wonder if it's because I'm aware of my gender-neutral speech, I have become a strange character .

I've cleared the objective of becoming a character that won't be associated with me (Satou), but it's too gross, I'm dying .

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The scout unit that have raided the audience seating begin to call out [Yamato] when they see me .

What?

After I look at myself, I understand .

13 Claiomh Solais splits are floating around me like options from old shooting games, or bits .

They probably see it like the picture of Yamato in the museum .

However, wasn't Yamato a big man who wielded a two meters long great sword?

As expected, the current gender-neutral look of me can't possibly be likened with him I think . No, when I think again, the soldiers are pretty far away from me, so they probably can't measure my height .

Now then, let's heal the prince's and his cohort's wounds before leaving the stage . If I leave them alone to die here, it'll be like MPK, leaving me with a bad aftertaste .

Since it's troublesome to take the prince and his cohorts buried in the wreckages of the monsters, I put the wreckages into my storage, and then heal them who are left on the ground with water magic . I intended to only heal them for a bit, but they got completely recovered instead . I wasn't able to heal his white hair and aging, but I don't have any interest to help him that far . Have the temple look for it later yourself .

Looks like their destroyed equipments have been stored inside the storage along with the monsters remains, they're half-naked . I feel that it's pointless, so I put mantles I've got from thieves back then on top of their bodies .

"See you later, hero . "

"Ah, let's meet again in the battlefield with the demon lord next time!"

Oops, I forgot to tell him that I've already defeated the demon lord . There's going to be an oracle from the god before long anyway, so I guess it's fine .

I climb several hundreds meters high with Sky Drive, and fly away beyond the sky with the Wind Magic: Air Cannon . When I tried it back then, the speed exceeded 100 Km/H . Let's try to see the maximum speed soon .

To disappear beyond the sky like this, I feel like a hero from Showa era .

<TLN: This time he's saying Hero in English . In this context, he means the superhero in TV kind, and probably Ultraman in particular . >

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When I'm up in the sky on top of the duchy capital, I confirm that Arisa and the others have properly evacuated into the basement of the mansion . Sera seems to have been safely rescued too, she's in the same room with Arisa and the others . Looks like the previous earl couple and the employees are all safe too .

I'm glad that lady Karina, and little brother-kun are also safe in the scroll workshop .

I land in a suitable-looking forest .

It looks like I'm being watched by monitoring magic, though I don't know if it's from the hero's companion, or the duke's subordinate . Once I had landed in the dense forest, I used [Break Magic] on myself, and the monitoring goft canceled .

I thought that it'd be troublesome if the sky drive got canceled, so I made a landing, but it seems that break magic only affects the designated target magic .

I go back to the duchy capital while flying close to the top of the forest . When I get close enough to see the capital, I descend to the ground and continue moving .

I infiltrate the duke castle by using the route I've used to sneak into the duke's third son room before . According to the map, it seems that the duke and the king's body-double are in the same room .

Looks like the hero, followed by lady Ringrande, and the imperial princess Maryest, are coming to the castle to have an audience with them . Since I can't find the other hero's companions and his ship, they've probably gone back to the sub-space .

"Please forgive me for the sudden visit . "

I've entered the room brazenly, but it seems none of the guards notice me until after I've opened my mouth . Are these guards alright?

The guards are coming from the roof by breaking through it, and from the hidden room .

It's troublesome to deal with them, so I use [Magic Hand] to make them unable to come closer .

"Who are you . "

"I'm called Nanashi . "

I answer the duke-san question . Duke-san instructs the guards with gesture, and they go back to their hiding places . The head miko-san might have told him about me, but to be in the same room as a suspicious person without guards like this, quite a daring person .

Only the duke's butler remains . If this was a manga, he'd be a dexterous type, but this butler seems to be of domestic affair type .

"I'll listen to your business . "

"It's nothing much . I've come here to return this . "

I unwrap the cloth while saying so, and hand over the holy sword Claiomh Solais .

Since they asked me how I got it, I told them the course of events honestly . For some reason, they were surprised when I talked about how the holy sword split into 13 when I recited the holy verse .

"This is too abrupt, I cannot believe you . "

"There have been several people who can make the sword 『Dance』 by reciting the holy verse, but there were none who could release the true form of the holy sword . "

They asked me to demonstrate if I really could do it, but isn't it bad to draw a sword before the king, regardless if he's a body-double?

"You don't need to worry . I've heard the story from the head miko . If the story about you defeating the demon lord is true, then you can kill us even without drawing a sword . "

You're awful, duke-san . It is a fact, but you're going to shatter the guards' prides .

Since I've already transfered all the mana that I put into Claiomh Solais to other holy swords, I charge mana into it once again . It's fine with 500MP right .

Not only the duke, and the king, even the hiding guards are also surprised to see the holy sword growing .

"<<DANCE>>"

Just like before, Claiomh Solais splits into 13 swords and floats around my body .

"Ooh, the legend is true after all!"

"Beautiful, that painting truly wasn't an imaginary work . "

They're too surprised .

The body-double-san even looks like he's going to go into spasm anytime, scary . Even getting excited should be done in moderation, okay .

Since it looks like they've admired enough, I release the excited state of the sword, and transition it back into one sword . I retrieve the MP that I've put into the sword, wrap it with a cloth and pass it to the body-double-san .

"You can keep holding it . "

"Is it fine to do so without getting permission from the royal capital?"

Hey now, body-double-san, you shouldn't say thing like that without getting permission from the real king alright . I vaguely ask if it's alright to do it without the permission from the real king . The duke also nods when I glance at him .

"It is the spirit of the ancestor king Yamato-sama . "

I don't really understand, but maybe there's some kind of will left behind?

It's a convenient sword, but it's not like I'm in trouble even without it . Let's make up something suitable as a reason to give it back .

"Don't you need it for the defense of the royal capital?"

"I don't mind, there is another holy sword in the royal capital . "

Ah, that casted holy sword huh .

I've made swords with the same technique myself so I know, that sword is weak even compared to Gjallarhorn . It could cope with lower demons, but it probably wouldn't be able to match upper demons .

I have swords already, so I want to refuse, but it seems that once the sword has decided on its master, it will go back to its master if anyone draws it out . Normally, the master is decided with a dedicated ceremony, but it seems the case this time is extremely unusual .

Looks like they really want personnels who can subjugate the demon lord, when I receive the holy sword and the mood becomes hard for me to refuse, the talks about service, peerage, and such comes out . Of course since I don't have any such intention, I gently refuse it . It's already quite enough . I got interested when there was a talk of marrying the princess, but when I heard that she was a nine years old princess who hadn't got a fiance, that interest disappeared . Tell that to Hayato instead .

Since I feel bad for taking the holy sword for free, I decide to trade it with the famous holy sword in Shiga kingdom .

"T, this is, the holy sword Gjallarhorn that was stolen by the demonic man 17 years ago!"

"Ooh! God! The holy sword tempered by the ancestor king Yamato-sama has returned once again to the Shiga kingdom!"

I didn't think that they would be this delighted . It might have been better if I returned it earlier . By demonic man it must be Zen huh .

Since the hero and his party have arrived in the castle, I decide to bid my farewell .

The arena is ruined, so the final is postponed for one month, but a banquet ceremony is going to be held under the pretext of 'Upper Demon Subjugation' . It seems they've decided that the great monstrous fish were just illusions that the demon used .

Late night at that day, I make a casted holy sword the size of one-handed sword modeled after Claiomh Solais in one section of the underground labyrinth . The Claiomh Solais' sheath is among the garbages that I've put into the storage, so I reproduce it with the exact same look .

>[Counterfeit Skill Acquired]

>Title [Holy Swords Blacksmith] Acquired

>Title [Counterfeit Specialist] Acquired

At dawn, I sneak to body-double-san's bedroom and leave the replica on the bedside .

I put a note that says, "I've prepared the replica, please use it as you see fit . ", together with the replica . With this, even the nitpicking nobles of pedigree can probably be effectively deceived . If the kingdom protector holy sword went missing, they would find someone to blame even if the duke and the king had given their permissions .

However, I'd have preferred a beautiful woman's bedroom if I had to sneak in anyway .

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