My Instant Death Ability is So Overpowered, No One in This Other World Stands a Chance Against Me! - Volume 13 - Chapter 15

Chapter 15 — He Looks Dead, but I Don’t Think It’s My Fault

Yogiri had thought that by riding Atila up into the clouds, they would be able to bypass any annoying gimmicks in the pyramid, but things weren’t going to be so easy. As they made it into the wall of clouds, a sudden impact threw them into confusion.

Something had tossed him into the air. Looking around, he found Atila falling, her wings motionless, while Tomochika and Dai were flailing helplessly as they plummeted.

“What happened?!” Tomochika cried.

“Maybe we hit something.”

Atila would know best, but she was stunned at the moment.

“We’re kind of falling here! We’re going to hit the ground!”

“I’m sure we’ll be fine,” Yogiri replied.

“How can you say that?!”

“It doesn’t look like we’re going to die.”

“That’s not comforting at all!”

Similar to his ability to sense others’ intent to harm him, Yogiri could also tell when he was in a situation that could threaten his life. Stabilizing himself in the air, he moved closer to Tomochika and grabbed hold of her.

“What?!” The sudden action took her by surprise, but a moment later, they were in the forest. Plunging violently through the trees, they struck the ground hard. Anyone would expect them to die from such a fall, or even if a miracle occurred and they survived, to no doubt suffer crippling injuries.

“Ow...”

“Wait, how are we okay?!”

They were basically unharmed. Though they felt the impact on their bodies, it was a little different from tripping and falling on the road.

I imagine it is due to the effects of the armor the Great Sage gave you, Mokomoko suggested.

It seemed capable of protecting them from falling a great distance.

“Dai looks okay...but where’s Atila?!” asked Tomochika.

Standing up, they looked around.

“Looks like she got the worst of it, huh?” Yogiri observed. The enormous dragon was sticking out of the ground. Her body had knocked aside the trees, forming a small clearing where she’d landed. “You okay?” he asked, stepping up to her side.

“Of course not!” the dragon snapped back, transforming into her human form. She didn’t have any visible injuries, so she was likely fine.

“Mokomoko, do you know where we are?”

Hmm. Allow me to take a look. The ghost floated up into the air, returning shortly. We are about a hundred meters from the pyramid. It feels like we simply took a shortcut through the forest.

“Then I guess it wasn’t for nothing.”

“I don’t think I could take it if all that pain was for nothing!”

They were in no position to be casually lounging around in the forest. “Well, if it’s right near us, let’s—” The moment Yogiri thought to start moving, he felt killing intent wash over them.

“Uh...” Tomochika murmured.

I suppose your landing was hardly a quiet affair.

The forest around them began to stir. The trees shook, and the roars of various beasts echoed around them. The unrest in the area was clear even without Yogiri’s abilities. Dai began to growl, hackles raised. Though he was a rather gentle dog, it seemed he was gutsy as well.

The group huddled together, watching their surroundings. Whatever was surrounding them didn’t seem to have any intention of waiting to see what they would do. Creatures lunged at them from the trees, coming from all directions, before immediately crashing lifeless to the ground, felled by Yogiri’s power. They were wolves, significantly larger than Dai.

“They look pretty strong.”

“Still died on their own, though, didn’t they?” Tomochika said.

Yogiri’s powers wouldn’t automatically activate to protect him if the attack could be blocked by the Great Sage’s armor, so these wolves must have been strong enough to harm them.

In the end, they are only like armor in a video game. If this is the final boss’s area, even the most powerful armor will not stand up to these monsters.

One after another, other monsters attacked. A giant lion, a horned horse, a translucent blob, a frogman, a tentacled sphere, a one-eyed giant, and a multi-headed snake all appeared, and all died in quick succession. The small clearing that Atila’s falling body had made was covered in corpses in no time.

“A game where the enemies all die on their own without even fighting must really suck,” Tomochika commented.

“That’s reality for you.” In a game, a balanced, nail-biting fight was fun, but in real life, Yogiri always felt it was better to take the safest route.

“I suppose we have cleared out all the monsters around here?” Atila asked, looking around. The woods around them had seemed to calm somewhat.

“But still, that’s way too many monsters, don’t you think?” Yogiri replied.

“Right?” Tomochika agreed. “Sure, we stood out considering how we fell into the forest, and this is the last boss’s field, but having so many monsters crowded around feels like something’s wrong.”

Perhaps the cause is up there?

Yogiri followed Mokomoko’s gaze up into the sky. An enormous monster floated above them. The unnerving creature stared down at them with numerous eyes, looking like a collection of internal organs that had been torn from some giant and fused together. Something was falling out of the creature, plopping to the ground. As the formless lumps of flesh fell, they transformed. One became a lizardman, another a six-legged horse, and another a bird wrapped in flames.

“Die.”

Yogiri killed the sickening monster in the sky. Though it hadn’t directly attacked them, leaving it alone meant fighting an endless stream of enemies. He couldn’t just let it live.

Though he had no idea how it had been flying, once it was dead, it began to fall. The monster dropped into the forest, the impact shaking the ground around them.

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Asuha Kouriyama and Yuuichirou Kiryuu were convinced their powers were enough to defeat Yogiri Takatou.

Of course, the ability to kill anything with his thoughts was incredible. But it was only a threat if he could use it on them. They just needed to kill him before he could perceive their killing intent and fight back. Asuha was sure their abilities were up to the task.

Her class was Beauty Coordinator, just as it had been before the reset. Though it wasn’t a class suited to combat, it excelled at charming others. Immediately after arriving in this world, she had used her powers to turn Yogiri and the others left on the bus into bait. Basically, she could make others look like an appealing meal.

The first time, Yuuichirou had failed to accept the Battlesong system properly, but this time he had received the class of Master Assassin. His specialty was Stealth and Certain Death. Of course, his stealth abilities included making himself invisible, but he could also make other people, objects, and even abilities impossible to perceive. His Certain Death skill allowed him to directly attack the insides of a target he selected. Once he had locked on, no amount of distance, no number of obstacles, no kind of defense would save them. It could be called an instant death power of its own.

Their plan was simple. Yuuichirou would use his Stealth skill to hide them, and Asuha would use her Charm Up skill on Yogiri and his friends. The effect would make them glow, but Yuuichirou’s abilities could counter that side effect, so it wasn’t a problem. At full power, her Charm Up skill would draw the nearby monsters in to attack Yogiri all at once. A large number of monsters may have been enough to kill him in and of itself, but that was just a cover. Yuuichirou would hide among the attackers and use his Certain Death skill. The only difficulty with their plan was that both the Lock-On skill and the Charm Up skill required them to see their target, meaning they had to get reasonably close.

The two of them entered the Castle in the Sky field, intent on carrying out their plan. They figured Yogiri would make his way there eventually. They found a number of other parties there, so they set up in a place away from the others. It didn’t matter who killed Yogiri, so there was no point fighting over who got the honor.

Asuha and Yuuichirou waited at the pyramid in the center of the field. They remained hidden there for half a day before it happened. A dragon suddenly fell from the sky. The impact created a loud crash, resounding throughout the forest. When they went to see what had happened, they found Yogiri was there, having fallen with the dragon.

“What kind of getup is that?” Asuha asked.

Yogiri was in all black, as if he had embraced his role as the villain. Tomochika’s highly revealing outfit also made her look like she was just screwing around.

“Something’s wrong with him,” Yuuichirou said. “No normal person could kill his classmates without feeling anything.”

“Makes it easier for us, though.”

There was no impression that Yogiri felt the least bit of guilt. That meant Asuha would be able to carry out her plan without hesitation.

“I guess we can’t complain about killing classmates, can we? At least we have a good reason for this, though.”

When they had first arrived in this world, Asuha had used her Charm Up skill on Yuuichirou and the others on the bus to turn them into bait. As a result, he had been killed by a dragon, so it was hard to understand why he would work with her now.

But they were connected through another of their classmates: Romiko Jougasaki. She was a close friend of Asuha’s, and Yuuichirou had fallen in love with her, so the two had joined forces to bring her back to life.

“Charm Up!” Asuha used her skill at full power.

Yogiri’s body began to glow with a blinding light, but only to Asuha’s and Yuuichirou’s eyes. Nothing happened to Asuha in return. She had assumed as much, but it seemed using Charm Up didn’t count as trying to kill him.

The two quickly ran off. The area would be swarming with monsters any minute now. Once they had gotten a good distance away, they moved on to the next part of their plan. Yuuichirou picked up a rock. His Certain Death would send it directly inside his target. The skill’s primary weakness was that it could only work with things small enough to be carried in one hand, but even a pebble sent to a target’s brain would kill them instantly. All they had to do now was wait for the chaos to begin. Through his Lock-On skill, Yuuichirou could see what was happening, but Asuha was left to wait fidgeting in the dark.

“What are you waiting for?!”

“For this.” Yuuichirou collapsed to the ground.

“Huh?”

Asuha couldn’t understand what had happened. She shook him, but he didn’t move. Stunned, she finally realized Yogiri might have killed him, but even then it was hard for her to believe. She couldn’t process it. Seeing someone drop dead for no apparent reason in front of her wasn’t enough to convince her it was Yogiri’s doing.

Her plan had failed. With no backup in place, she had no idea what to do.

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The floating monstrosity above them had apparently been the source of the attack, as once it had been dealt with, the monsters stopped coming.

“That was a tough enemy. I guess I should expect it from the last field in the game.”

“You thought it was tough?!” Tomochika exclaimed.

“Uh, emotionally tiring?”

“Pretty sure that’s just your imagination.”

“Anyway, things seem to have calmed down. Let’s get moving.”

Though the heaps of corpses around them had no visible injuries, being surrounded by dead bodies wasn’t a pleasant experience.

They decided to head for the pyramid. Weaving through the dense trees was a pain, but with only a hundred meters to travel, it didn’t take long to reach their destination. Making it out of the forest, they were met with what looked like an enormous gray wall. The enormous stones stacked on top of each other were certainly forming a pyramid, but it was far bigger in scope than any Yogiri had seen before. Each of the stones making it up were ten meters tall.

“Climbing up the outside isn’t an option, is it?”

“Absolutely not!” Atila asserted. After their last experience trying to cheat the system, finding the proper route seemed safer.

“There’s got to be an entrance somewhere... Oh, there’s a body over here!” Looking around, Tomochika found what looked like an adventurer lying beside the pyramid.

Another one of the young man’s victims?

“Hey! He wouldn’t do something like that!” Tomochika objected.

“It’s not totally impossible,” Yogiri said. If the person in question had tried to attack him from a distance, they could have fallen victim to his power without him even knowing it. With the number of monsters that had been attacking them earlier, it wouldn’t be surprising if he failed to notice this one person among them.

“Should we...deal with him?”

“We should probably consider everyone else our enemy...but I guess we can save that for when they attack us.”

Leaving a body lying out in the open left a bad taste in Yogiri’s mouth, so they moved to approach the fallen man. He looked like a knight in his silver armor, but it was clear he was dead. His breastplate was covered in blood. There was a hole there, as if something had punched through it straight into his heart.

“He looks dead, but I don’t think it’s my fault.” The area around him was torn up, as if there had been a fight here.

“Wait, isn’t this Rick?!” Tomochika cried in shock.

“Now that you mention it, it might be.”

Richard, the third prince of the Kingdom of Manii. A man who had worked with them in the tower and was now, for some reason, lying there dead.