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Chapter 4 — She’s So Gullible, It’s Kind of Unnerving!

Vivian didn’t seem like an especially bad person, but she accepted whatever this god told her without thinking about whether what she was doing was right or wrong.

I’m not good with people like this, Yogiri thought to himself. If she attacked them, he would have no choice but to kill her, but he felt bad about killing someone who was so densely straightforward.

“I guess I can’t deny that I’m a danger to the world, but do you actually know who I am?” he asked.

It didn’t seem like she was impossible to reason with, so he decided to try talking to her first. She said she had received a revelation from God, and she clearly had a way to find him, so he figured he should get as much information as possible.

“You’re a mass murderer who kills anyone regardless of age or gender, right?”

“That’s it?”

“What do you mean, ‘that’s it’?! That’s more than enough of a reason to eliminate you!”

It was pretty cruel for someone to have sent her to kill Yogiri without telling her about his abilities. Trying to fight him without any sort of countermeasures in place was suicide.

“What proof do you have that I’m a mass murderer?” he asked. “Did you see me kill anyone?”

“Are you really going to act like nothing happened?” Tomochika muttered with a sigh. But to Yogiri, Vivian’s attitude was somewhat irritating. Sure, he had killed people, but that had nothing to do with this woman, who had suddenly appeared. She had no right to proclaim him guilty of anything.

“Proof or not, if Malnarilna said so, it’s one hundred percent the truth!” Vivian declared.

Malnarilna, the name of the chief god of the eponymous religion, was the most well-known god in this world. Although the Malnarilna sect came second in scope to the Axis Church as a religious institution, the Church worshiped an enormous pillar that supposedly existed at the center of the world, not a god with thoughts and feelings of its own. As such, Malnarilna was the most revered god, so even someone outside of the sect would have no reason to doubt a revelation given by them.

I guess I can’t just say I doubt that they’re actually God...

Feeling like it wasn’t his place to call another’s faith into question, Yogiri decided to leave it at that.

“And I can see the Yogiri Takatou Signal, so there’s no way I’d mistake you for someone else.”

“Okay, hold on, you just mistook a whole bunch of people for him a second ago, didn’t you?!” Tomochika blurted out, unable to hold back any longer.

“I couldn’t help it! The signal isn’t that precise! But when everyone else died and the signal was still there, since you were the only guy left, by process of elimination that must mean that you are Yogiri Takatou!”

“So, if you’re planning on eliminating me, that means killing me, right? You’re talking an awful lot if that’s the case.”

“Ha! I’m not a murderer like you, so I would never kill someone who didn’t attack me first!”

“Except for that guy in the carriage, I guess?” Tomochika commented again.

“Y-You could call that an attack against me! So bring it on! These shields can reflect any kind of attack! Yogiri Takatou, you will die by your own power!”

“No thanks.”

“Wh-What?!”

“I don’t use my power on people unless they attack me first either,” Yogiri replied.

“All right,” Tomochika sighed again. “If neither of you will attack first, can we leave?”

“You can’t just leave!”

“Then what are you going to do?” asked Yogiri.

“Well...when you try to kill another innocent person, I’ll step in and defend them! Yeah! That way I can protect someone and also put an end to a mass murderer!”

“That sounds like a pretty roundabout way of doing things. You aren’t going to do anything to me now, right?”


“I mean...”

“This is becoming remarkably tedious,” Mokomoko interjected, clearly fed up as well.

“Hey, hey, what’s this all about?”

Just as Yogiri had decided they could leave this girl alone, a man’s voice called out to them. He had completely forgotten about the mohawked men, but they seemed to have finished their business with the carriage’s cargo. They had apparently taken notice of the four of them making a ruckus on the side of the road.

The five men walked over to them.

“Heh heh. Isn’t this a nice bit of roadside luxury? We’ve got three young girls here.”

“Looks like they were just plain old thugs attacking that carriage after all!” Tomochika observed.

“I was just saying it was possible,” Yogiri said defensively, feeling like he was being criticized.

“Now what?”

“They’ll probably attack us, so I’ll have to fight back.”

But when he did that, Vivian would try to intervene. His power only worked against the target he had in mind, but he had never had someone try to intervene when he activated it. He was confident that his intended target would still die, but he couldn’t guarantee he wouldn’t kill her in the process.

Killing intent began to swell up from the bandits.

“What do we do with the guy?”

“No point in bringing him with us.”

“I guess we’ll just deal with him right away, then!”

There was the possibility of death. Yogiri couldn’t tell what his opponents were thinking, but when they decided to kill him and those thoughts translated to actions, the probability of him dying increased. He could detect that probability as a fine black mist or black lines. But the line of death coming from the man passed clearly by him, not even grazing Yogiri. In short, the guy would miss. He clearly intended to kill Yogiri, so Yogiri would have no problem killing him anyway, but he hesitated to do so. That would give Vivian exactly what she wanted.

So he decided to wait and see what would happen, but for some reason Vivian sprang into action. Jumping between the man and Yogiri, she intercepted the knife the thug had thrown with her shield. The knife bounced back, hitting the man in the chest. It punched straight through, then through another of the men standing behind him, before flying off into the distance. The man’s attack couldn’t have had that much strength behind it, so it seemed that her ability was to amplify the power of attacks she blocked before reflecting them.

“I’m the one who is going to defeat Yogiri Takatou! Stay out of my way!”

“What is she, a shonen manga rival?! Are you going to tell me she joins the party later too?!”

As expected, the other men weren’t interested in picking a fight with them after that. The three survivors made a panicked retreat.

“Uhh, I only use my power to defend myself, but if you protect me, I’ll never get to use it. Doesn’t that make it hard for you to complete your objective?” Yogiri asked, not at all intending for the question to be a taunt.

“B-But you’re super evil, so someday your desire for murder will be uncontainable, and your true nature will be on full display!”

Yogiri was at a loss. It didn’t seem like she planned on attacking him, but she was clearly going to follow him around. And if she could roughly tell where he was, it would be pretty hard to lose her.

I guess if she’s not going to hurt anyone, it doesn’t matter if she follows us.

He decided to see if he could make use of her instead. “Vivian, is this the Empire of Ent?”

“Who knows? I don’t know where they draw their borders, but there is a place called the Empire of Ent on this island.”

“Are there any cities around here? If there are, can you take us to one? We don’t know anything about the area, so we don’t know where to go to find any people.”

“What? Why should I guide you around?!”

“If you want to see if I’m really a mass murderer, you have to watch me when I’m around other people, don’t you? If we just sit here and stare at each other, I’m not going to be killing anyone.”

“I-I suppose that’s true. Fine! I’ll take you there!”

“She’s so gullible, it’s kind of unnerving!” Tomochika commented.

Making use of her was incredibly easy.



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