My Instant Death Ability is So Overpowered, No One in This Other World Stands a Chance Against Me! - Volume 8 - Chapter 4

Chapter 4 — For Now, Let’s Find a Girl I Can Do Adult Things With

Haruto Ootori was a bird beastkin, something that had been true of him long before he came to this world. The Ootori family had carried inhuman blood for generations. Haruto was proud of his heritage, so he thought his natural gifts would work to his advantage in this world.

Though he normally repressed his abilities, at full strength he was dozens of times stronger than an ordinary human and was practiced in his family’s martial arts as well. He could sprout wings from his back to fly, fire off feathers to use as an attack, and wrap himself in those same feathers to create a powerful shield.

On top of that, he had gained the power of a Consultant upon coming to this world. The Consultant class allowed him to offer advice to others, so he had access to a wealth of information. Between that and his strength, Haruto had figured he would be more than capable of surviving here.

But things hadn’t gone as planned. He had attempted to work with a Sage, as she had demanded, but her whims had brought all his plans to ruin. He had been forced into a battle to the death with his classmates, faced a bizarre meat monster consuming the Underworld (the world below the capital), and when he had attempted to fly away, he had been caught in a fiery explosion.

He had no idea what had happened down there, but if that was the kind of danger this world regularly posed, there would be no way for him to prepare for it. Although he had been severely burned by the explosion, he had flown as far as he could manage before passing out. And when he’d woken, he’d found his wounds being treated by a man who called himself a god.

Perhaps due to that treatment, the Gift given to him by the Sage had been erased, and he no longer needed to use his glasses either. When he had asked why this person had bothered to treat him, seeing as he had no connection to the so-called god at all, the man had only responded that he had the ability to help someone who was near death, so why wouldn’t he? He had no interest in Haruto himself.

Following that, the god had asked Haruto if he would help him in searching for something.

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Haruto sat across from Yogiri’s group at a table in Fuwat’s house. Though they had gone to see the elder, they didn’t have anything in particular to discuss with him and had mostly gone just to greet him. Fuwat still had things to discuss with him, so Haruto had taken them to Fuwat’s house ahead of her. Hanakawa had left them at some point, but no one seemed to mind.

“You guys might be surprised to see me,” Haruto started, “but believe me, I’m quite surprised to see you too.”

Yogiri should have died in the trap Haruto had set for him. It had been a complicated, roundabout method to try to avoid his ability to sense killing intent. He had confirmed that the cliff had collapsed and dropped Yogiri into the abyss, but apparently that hadn’t been enough to kill him.

But even if he hadn’t died from the fall, there had been that bizarre flesh consuming the Underworld and the enormous explosion that had followed it. He had assumed those would be enough to kill him, but it seemed Yogiri and Tomochika had both survived. While Haruto had been on the verge of death himself, these two had passed through the same trials without issue. At this point, it all just seemed ridiculous. Now free of the Sage, Haruto had no reason to make an enemy of Yogiri, so he felt no need to meddle with him further.

The biggest surprise, however, was Enju Sumeragi. Why was a direct descendant of the Sumeragi family—those who ruled over the beastkin—here, of all places? She might have been summoned to this world in a similar way to Haruto’s class, but he couldn’t help feeling that there was some purpose behind a girl who was essentially his princess showing up in front of him.

“Uhh...what do we start with?” Tomochika said. “That Underworld was pretty crazy, huh? I thought everyone else had died.”

“Ah, yeah, I can fly. So I just kind of left.”

“Your class is Consultant, right? That lets you fly?”

“Shouldn’t Miss Sumeragi know full well who I am?” Haruto glanced at Enju. They had met a number of times, but even if she didn’t recognize him, she should have clued in after hearing the name Ootori.

“Hm? Are you speaking of me? My apologies, but I am not the real Enju Sumeragi.”

“What do you mean?” It didn’t seem like she was playing dumb. She clearly didn’t know anything about him.

“Hm. Now that you mention it, I know almost nothing about this body...” she muttered.

“This is a robot,” Yogiri commented offhandedly. “We ran into some guy who could summon things from our world, and this was one of the things he summoned.”

“No way...”

Upon closer inspection, she did seem to lack the intimidating aura of the rulers of the beastkin. He couldn’t tell if she truly was a robot just by looking at her, but he could at least accept that she wasn’t a member of the Sumeragi family.

“I thought the same, since I knew Enju too. But it looks like her being summoned was just random chance.”

“Well, extraordinary people have a way of gathering other important people around them without trying,” the android mused.

“So, why are you here, Ootori? For that matter, how did you get here before us?” Tomochika asked.

“Okay, let me explain things in order.” He probably didn’t need to bother telling them. It wouldn’t be hard to hide it all. But there also wasn’t much need to talk to them in the first place. He had already completed his objective in the village, so he could leave whenever he wanted.

Why was he talking with them at all, then? To put it simply, he had stopped caring about anything. He was so small and insignificant that he couldn’t make any difference in this world. Trying to plot and scheme at this point seemed ridiculous. That was the conclusion he had come to.

“Wait, can I ask something?” Yogiri cut in. “Who exactly are you, Ootori? We kind of skipped over that earlier.”

“I’m a bird beastkin. I can grow wings from my back and fly.”

“A bird?! Wings?!” Tomochika exclaimed.

“Hm. I have heard of such people,” the robot said.

“You have?! Wait, you said something earlier about knowing vampires, didn’t you?!”

“Then judging by what you said earlier, Enju has something to do with the beastkin?” Yogiri asked.

“The Sumeragi family rule over the beastkin. Essentially, we have to do anything they say.”

“Oh, really? All I heard was that they ruled Japan from the shadows.” Yogiri seemed to know Enju, but he didn’t know about her connection to the beastkin.

“What is with our world?!” Tomochika shouted. “At this point, I’m not sure I’m even comfortable going home!”

“If you peel back the thinnest layer, you will find our world overflowing with the bizarre and the supernatural!” Enju proclaimed. “That is the kind of world we come from!”

“Explaining everything about the beastkin will take a while, so let me get back on topic.” Haruto then offered a brief explanation of the journey that had brought him there. After escaping the Underworld, he’d been picked up by a god calling himself Zakuro, who had set Haruto free after treating him, but Haruto had agreed to his request to help look for something afterwards.

“So, this god named Zakuro is looking for an even higher-ranked god, and you’re helping him with that.”

“To put it simply, yes. Zakuro gave me a number of possible locations to search. This was one of them. Is that enough explanation for why I’m here?”

“Excuse me!” Tomochika raised her hand like she was in a classroom. “I heard that if you fly, you’ll get caught by the Sage’s defense network and be attacked. Is that not a problem for you?”

“With the power Zakuro gave me, my ability to fly has been greatly improved. I could probably escape before anything showed up to attack me.”

“I kind of understand your situation now, but doesn’t that bother you?” Yogiri asked.

“Yeah, you don’t have to do what that guy tells you!” Tomochika added. “Do you want to come with us instead?”

“What? Are we bringing more people with us?”

“Hey, if we’re willing to take Hanakawa, that must mean we’re accepting anyone.”

“I appreciate the offer, but I’ll have to decline,” Haruto replied. Zakuro wasn’t forcing him to cooperate. He respected Haruto’s free will. But beastkin had an innate instinct to serve those more powerful than themselves. The God of Beasts they served in their home world had been destroyed long ago, so Haruto couldn’t help but recognize Zakuro as his new deity.

“Well, if you don’t want to, that’s up to you.”

“Right. I’m just doing what I want to do. By the way, what brings you guys here?”

“It’s not like we really wanted to be here...” Tomochika explained their journey so far. They were traveling in search of Philosopher’s Stones, and they had come to the forest in search of yet another Sage. They had ended up getting lost along the way and had come to the village in search of a way out. “Speaking of which, do you know how to get out of here, Ootori?” she asked.

“I never even realized this was like a Lost Woods. But I came in from the sky, so I imagine I could leave the same way.”

“I see. Perhaps the spatial warping does not extend that high...” Enju murmured.

“So, like a loophole in the system. Or maybe a bug?”

“Either way, we can’t fly ourselves.”

“Even if we create wings with Furemaru, the best we can manage is gliding,” the robot agreed.

“I’m sorry to say this, but I don’t think I could carry you out if I wanted to.” It wasn’t totally impossible, but Haruto had no obligation to help them. He had talked to them out of their curiosity after seeing Enju Sumeragi, but he had nothing else to gain from them.

Haruto decided to head for his next objective.

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Hanakawa had split off from the rest of the group and headed for the outskirts of the village, finding a spot behind one of the houses where there would be no passersby. Deciding he was in a sufficiently safe place, he put his plan from earlier into motion.

“Thinking about it, I have never tried to perform this summoning properly, have I?”

When he had summoned Malnarilna, he had only needed to yell in a loud voice, so it was hard to say whether his power to “summon anything” had even come into play. Although it had worked the first time, if his ability to summon things allowed him to set criteria, it should have had a more systematic method for utilizing it.

“System window, open!”

A half-transparent system window appeared in Hanakawa’s vision. As something he had used since his first time coming to this world, he was more than capable of opening it without saying anything and could even use his skills without having to consciously activate them, but it was all a matter of personal preference.

The window showed his basic stats. Class: Healer. Level: 99. While he possessed a large amount of magical energy, despite being the highest level possible for a human, his other stats were fairly low. Even gaining the summoning ability hadn’t changed his class.

“Hmm. I thought a dual class of Healer and Summoner would be cool, but... Anyway, putting that aside for now.”

Selecting the skill window, he saw a list of skills he could use. “Summon Anything” was one of them.

“Hm. I suppose it truly is part of the Battle Song system.”

The power given to him by the twin goddesses must have been the same as the one given to him when he had first been summoned. However, that likely meant the summoning power was limited.

“I suppose there is nothing for it but to try it. The Sages were capable of summoning us from Japan, so I imagine it would at least be capable of doing that much.”

Hanakawa selected the Summon Anything skill from the list, and a number of text fields appeared. That must have been where he was supposed to enter the criteria for the summoning.

“If I am too specific, there may be no applicable candidates, so first of all, let us begin with a beautiful young girl.”

Having grown well used to the system window, he was able to make entries using only his thoughts. When he entered his criteria into the text field, a list of names and faces began to populate the screen. There were ten thousand results. It was hard to believe there were only ten thousand people who qualified as “beautiful young women,” so that must have been the maximum number of results it could display.

“Oho, I thought such a parameter would be awfully vague, but it appears to have filtered them based on my personal tastes.”

Skimming through the list, there were none he would turn down. Beautiful young women of all kinds were listed.

“However, deciding based on the face alone seems insufficient... Ah, it is still set to summary view. Let us see if we can change this to a detailed view...like so!”

The list expanded to show detailed information about all of the candidates. It showed their full body, height, weight, and physical measurements.

“I see, there is even a lamia in here. If I decided based on face alone, I might have ended up with something fantastical. Then let us set it to human... Wait, I don’t mind if they have cat ears... Okay, anything with two legs and two arms, then. Next, let’s set the bust size to F or larger. I have nothing in particular against the lolis, but I wouldn’t want to give the impression that is what I am into... Ohh, even with this many conditions, still ten thousand results! The world is truly a huge place!”

Even after removing those who didn’t satisfy his conditions, it still displayed the maximum number of results.

“At this rate, I should be able to be very precise... Wait! Looks should be put on hold for now! First I need a girl who will be interested in someone like me! I must add that restriction first!”

Hanakawa added the condition of “someone who likes people like Daimon Hanakawa.” He didn’t know if such vague criteria would work, but so far the system had handled similar requests fairly well.

“How exciting. Now, what kind of beautiful women are waiting for me?” But after showing the symbol of an hourglass as if to say it was loading, the system window stopped responding. “Wait, there’s no way it would just freeze, right?!”

After a considerable amount of time, it finally displayed some results. There were three.

“What?! That is all?! Actually, the fact there are three is something I should be thankful for! It is difficult to say which of them is best, and I can always summon all three, so let us begin with the first result!”

Hanakawa selected the first girl in the list and tried to summon her. Once again, there was no response.

“Why is it taking so long?! Is it trying to make me worried?!”

But no matter how long he waited, there was no indication that anything would happen.

“Perhaps with Malnarilna’s death, the skill lost its function?! No, the search was still possible, so it should be working...”

“Are you the one who tried to summon me?”

Hanakawa suddenly heard a voice.

“Ah, yes, that was me!”

It was a cute voice. His expectations began to swell.

“Umm! You are one who is interested in men like myself, are you not? Not just my looks, but my personality as well?”

“Yeah, I am.”

“And speaking concretely, since being ‘interested’ could mean many things, you are willing to do adult things with me?!”

“Sure.”

“Ohh! Then please come!”

“Huh?”

“Eh?”

“Summon me, then.”

“Uhh, that is what I am attempting to do...”

“Ahh. It looks like your summoning ability has a maximum range of ten worlds. We’re about a hundred worlds apart. Sorry, I don’t think I can make it there on my own power. That’s too bad.”

And then he couldn’t hear the voice anymore.

“What the hell! Why is it displaying results with people I am incapable of summoning?!”

Then again, there was a possibility that even if he couldn’t summon them, they could use their own power to reach him. So they were technically viable candidates for the search.

“Well, in that case, allow me to restrict the search to those who are within range... Why is it saying zero results?! I cannot be that off-putting!”

As far as looks went, there was no accounting for taste. Surely there must have been someone who liked guys like him. But perhaps including his character had made the search too restrictive.

“In that case, let us just select a girl I can get pervy with... No, if that’s all I want, I only need to pay for it. I have this powerful summoning ability, so I should be looking for something more, someone who would truly love me from the bottom of her heart. Wait, I can just set the condition to someone who is capable of reaching me with her own power!”

He changed the criteria from “within summoning range” to “capable of reaching me with their own power.” After a short wait, the search window displayed a single result.

“One result... No, isn’t this actually incredible?! Even across all worlds, there is one single individual who is a perfect match for me! Truly this must be some sort of fate!”

He immediately selected the single result. A magic circle appeared on the ground in front of him. A pillar of light erupted from the circle, fading to reveal a young woman. Long black hair, a small frame, and a huge chest. She was exactly the type of girl Hanakawa was into. As their eyes met, her face broke into a smile. Her glistening eyes and flushed cheeks showed that she clearly liked what she saw in him as well.

“Umm, my name is Daimon Hanakawa!” He didn’t really know how to start off with her, so he began by introducing himself and offering a handshake.

Normally most people reacted to him like they would a poisonous insect, but this time she clearly had a positive impression of him right from the start. The girl stepped closer. There was no displeasure in her face at all. Just as Hanakawa began to feel relieved that things had finally gone well for him, his outstretched right arm suddenly disappeared.

“Huh?”

Her jaw expanded far more than should have been possible, dripping blood as she chewed.

“Delicious...”

Swallowing what was in her mouth, she showed an expression like she was melting with pleasure.

Hanakawa screamed. “Is this what it meant when it said I was her type?!”

His right arm had been bitten off at the elbow. Such an injury wasn’t truly of any concern to him, though, and he healed it back instantly.

“Amazing... You’re so delicious, and I can just keep eating forever?!”

The girl gave a radiant smile, her dazzling features slightly ruined by the drool that began to pour from her mouth.

“This is the worst case of good compatibility ever!”

Hanakawa regretted summoning her from the bottom of his heart.