My Instant Death Ability is So Overpowered, No One in This Other World Stands a Chance Against Me! - Volume 10 - Chapter 7

Chapter 7 — What If I Grew Up and Ended Up with a Figure like Tomochika’s?!

After the defeat of Raiza in the City of the War God, Risley had called for Yogiri. He was heading to Risley’s room in the castle. She wasn’t a half-demon, but as Euphemia’s master, the other half-demons treated her with respect. She had been given a rather fancy room. It was likely one that had been used by either Raiza himself or one of his close associates.

When Yogiri entered her room, a servant guided him to a sofa inside. After a short wait, Risley came in and sat on a sofa across from him.

“I came because you said you’d give me a Philosopher’s Stone, but are you asking for anything in return? I already said I wasn’t going to marry you.”

“Ugh...please stop bringing that up. I wanted to wait until you’ve forgotten about it to bring it up again...”

“I don’t think my answer will change regardless of when you ask.”

“But what if I grew up and ended up with a figure like Tomochika’s?! Would you think about it?!”

“I guess I can’t say it will never happen.” He found the possibility extremely unlikely, but he couldn’t say it was totally impossible. For now, he decided to give up on constantly repeating his rejection.

“So, about the Philosopher’s Stone,” Risley continued.

“You said you wanted me to kill someone, right? I think I already refused that as well.”

“Umm...for now, let me give you the stone anyway. There’s no reason for me to hold on to it.” She pulled the stone from her pocket and placed it on the table between them.

“Are you sure?”

“Yes. But just in case, there’s something I want to tell you as Lain’s successor. So please listen to my story. Is that a fair trade?”

“Okay. If you just want me to hear you out, I can do that.” Though he couldn’t just happily accept a request to kill someone, he felt bad taking the stone from her for nothing. He didn’t mind at least listening to what she had to say.

“The person Lain wanted to kill is Seira Tendou, Reine Tendou’s twin sister.”

“Hearing it’s her sister makes me want to do it even less,” Yogiri said, a little taken aback. He wasn’t interested in getting involved in a family dispute, especially one that involved killing.

“Lain and Seyla were brought here from another world as Sage candidates, just like you.”

“So they’re Japanese then? Judging by their names.” There were a fair number of Japanese people that ended up in this world, so it wasn’t that surprising.

“That’s right. Lain and Seyla were given the class of Twins by the Gift. They could share all of their senses and magical energy. Though it was convenient, it wasn’t particularly strong.” As she said, there were plenty of incredibly powerful classes like General and Dominator. It didn’t seem like much compared to those. “Actually, their chances of becoming Sages were really small. But you know how this world is. Their only choice was to try as hard as they could, so they did. I guess it feels kind of distant from me, though.”

“But Lain was an Origin Blood, so she was immortal, right?”

“Umm, we’ll get to that; please hold on.”

“Sorry, I’ll be quiet.”

“The two of them tried really hard to become Sages and found a relic belonging to a god that was once worshiped in this world in some ancient ruins.”

Yogiri remained quiet.

“Uhh, you don’t have to be completely silent, you know.”

“It’s fine, just keep going to the end.”

“I guess there’s no point in drawing it out. The relic had the ability to transform people into something inhuman. In short, that’s how Lain became an Origin Blood. But actually, the one who used the relic was Seyla. They argued a bit over who should use it. They didn’t really know what would happen when they did, so Lain thought she’d experiment on herself. But whoever gained a new power would be more likely to survive in this world, so in the end her younger sister ended up using it.”

“What was this relic?”

“It was a metal box about the size of a palm. When Seyla opened the box, something jumped out and wrapped around her. It stuck to her skin and then melted into her body. She immediately began to swell up and lost her form as a human. Lain regretted what they had done, but she knew panicking wouldn’t solve anything. So she used her powers as a Twin. By sharing their senses, she hoped to take some of Seyla’s pain from her. But the pain was far more than she could ever have imagined. The relic didn’t just transform her body, it also infiltrated the very foundation of her soul. Lain couldn’t bear it. She blacked out numerous times and lost track of who she was, but at that point she had already become immortal and unchanging. Even if her mind broke or warped, it would always return to perfect condition. She thought that cycle of agony would continue forever, but suddenly it ended, and Lain was alone.”

After that, Risley stopped.

“So? What does that mean for me? I don’t get why she’d want me to kill Seyla. What happened after that?”

“Well, Seyla was missing, and the two never reunited. Lain looked all over the world but never found her.”

“Maybe she was already dead?”

“Lain was sure that Seyla was still alive. The power of the Origin Blood was only a small part of the power Seyla had obtained, so she likely had a type of immortality that was stronger than Lain’s.”

“I still don’t know why she’d want her dead.”

From the beginning, Yogiri didn’t like using his power for anything other than self-defense. Killing someone because he was asked to, or because they made him angry, or because they were a bad person felt like it was a slippery slope.

“I think you’ll understand when you meet her.”

“Will I? I never even saw Lain.”

If they were twins, they should look identical, but Yogiri had never seen Lain for himself. She had moved at such high speeds when attacking Hanabusa that he had never had the chance to see her face.

“Okay, then. If I see her, I’ll think about it,” he said.

If Seyla attacked him, he would likely kill her in response. He didn’t expect he’d go out of his way to find her, but if he ended up finding her somehow, then he’d have no other choice.

“Lain thought Seyla might have been with the Sage Van. So if you’re looking for more Philosopher’s Stones, there’s a good chance you’ll come across her.”

“If she knew that, why didn’t she go to find Seyla herself?”

“Van has control over a certain part of the world, but the details are kept hidden from the other Sages. So when she checked the whole world and never found her, Lain thought there was a possibility she was in the territory under Van’s control. I guess it’s still just speculation, though.”

“And she didn’t know where that territory is?”

“Right. No one does.”

“They were both Sages, though. Why didn’t she just ask?”

“Apparently, he just dodged the question.”

“I thought the Sages would get along with each other.”

“I don’t know much about that either, but it seems they aren’t all that unified.”

The Sages were each responsible for a given territory and had the mission of repelling any Aggressors that appeared in their domain. As long as they did that, there was no need for them to cooperate with each other or to share any information.

“Anyway, I get what you wanted to tell me. I’ve listened to your story, so if you don’t mind, I’ll take the Philosopher’s Stone now.”

“Okay. Even I don’t feel like I have much of a connection to Lain, so I don’t really care if you ignore it, but it felt like I was carrying heavy baggage this whole time. So I’m glad I finally got to give you the message.”

Yogiri took the stone. He couldn’t help but feel guilty, like he was tricking her somehow.

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“That’s the story I heard from Risley.”

“I feel like you could have told me that story right after you heard it...though I guess if we never met Seyla, it wouldn’t have mattered.”

If he had told Tomochika about it, she could have helped in the search, but he never intended to proactively look for Seyla himself. Yogiri didn’t feel like there was much point in sharing that information with her.

“So, is that Seyla connected to this grass somehow?”

“It seems that way. Are you sure this is called Seira Tendou?”

“Yeah. That’s the official name. Most people just call it Seyla, though. No idea where that name came from. That’s how it was when I first got here.”

“Do you know what the Seyla is?”

“No clue. I only know that if it touches you, it transforms you into an undead creature. It seems like the most annoying thing on this continent, so all of the factions are looking into ways to deal with it. Speaking of which, the stuff that grabbed me died, didn’t it? Did you kill it?”

“Yeah. I used a Dannoura School technique,” Yogiri said casually. He had told them he was using martial arts earlier, so he decided to stick with that story.

“Can you not steal our name?! Also, you’re being way too flippant about it!”

Hmm...if we allow him to take the name, it could help in spreading the name of the Dannoura School...

“We don’t need to spread it! We’re trying to go back home anyway, so what’s the point?!”

That may be true, but there is a kind of romantic appeal to spreading the name of our house in another world, don’t you think?

“But it’s being spread by Takatou just making stuff up! No one is going to be able to copy what he’s doing!”

“The Dannoura School, huh? Seems terrifying...” Matsuo immediately swallowed what Yogiri told him.

“Are there any cities around here?” Yogiri asked.

“There are, but I don’t think there’s a point in visiting them.”

“Why not?”

“All the people there have been infected by the Seyla. They can’t even hold a real conversation anymore.”

“We don’t have anywhere else to go, so I guess we’ll take a look anyway. Which way is it?”

“South from here.”

“Okay, we’ll head there. What about you?”

“Uhh...I’ll pass. I’ll wait for someone to come find me.”

Yogiri wasn’t sure he liked the idea of abandoning this guy out in the middle of the wilderness, but if someone would find him, they could leave him be.

They headed towards the grassland. There was a road there, so if they followed it south, they should make it to the city. As if it recognized someone had approached, the grass all around them shifted in their direction.

“This is...kind of gross.” Tomochika murmured.

“What should we do about it? Do I really have to kill all of it? You’ve got leggings on, so you should be fine, right?”

“No way! There’s no way such thin fabric can keep that stuff out!”

“Then I guess I’ll just kill enough to make a path for us.”

“We’d really be stuck if you weren’t here, huh?”

If the young man wasn’t with us, we would have died immediately after being summoned to this world.

Yogiri killed a stretch of grass three meters wide in front of them. It immediately withered and shriveled, creating a path for them. He stepped onto the dead grass.

“Wow...the rest of it is really trying to get at us, huh?” Tomochika hesitantly followed him. The still-living grass turned to point at them. It was hard to say how much of a will it had as a plant, but it seemed like it was desperate to touch people.

They continued forward, Yogiri killing the grass in front of them along the way. After proceeding for a while, they made it to the stone road. The road was about five meters wide, so if they walked down the middle of it, they didn’t need to worry about the grass.

“I guess south is to our right?”

“I don’t know about this city...”

“Maybe the people infected by the Seyla won’t be able to talk, but there might be some uninfected people still there.”

“Well, at least we might be able to rest there!”

“It would be a lot easier to find the Philosopher’s Stone if Luu was with us.”

Luu could tell when there was a Philosopher’s Stone nearby. Rather than searching an entire continent blindly, it might have been smarter to try and find her again.

“Luu went to Himeln, wasn’t it? That was in the top right of the continent. I don’t think we’ll be able to walk that far, so we’ll need to find a way to travel.”

“The four factions are camped in the corners of the continent and fighting each other, right? I guess we just have to hope they have some sort of vehicle that lets them get around.”

Though they were possibly out of luck, there was no point in worrying about that now. They set out for the city, choosing to be optimistic.