Death March kara Hajimaru Isekai Kyusoukyoku (WN) - Volume 7 - Chapter Int5

Chapter intermission 5

Intermission: The Agony of a Transported Person

 

I thought I could do anything alone .

Who made me the meal, who gave me games and phones, I didn't appreciate those kind of things, thinking that they were givens .

I wonder, was that why?

I was different than the classmates around me . I had come to think so without any ground .
Of course, I felt that exerting effort was uncool, so I did nothing but raising my gaming skill . Flaming on bulletin boards behind anonymity was also my specialty .

Maybe because no one wanted to associate with such a person, far from friends, my own families were even distancing themselves from me . Mysteriously, I didn't get bullied .

For those reasons, I started playing wish-fulfillments galge, and got into things where the protagonists were unparalleled or reincarnated .
Particularly the reincarnation plot, I collected various knowledges from the net to prepare for when I got summoned someday . After copying the collected informations, I wrote it down on a notebook . Since electricity might not exist on the world where I'd get transported . I filled the notebook with a lot of those knowledge in messy writings .

Come now, princess of a different world . I'm okay with getting summoned anytime!

Mouth is the origin of misfortune . These words come home to me these days .


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It suddenly becomes dark, and I'm inside a room made from bricks .
Oy, oy, where the heck is this?

Not . Of course I know . Obviously .

The room is dim, and the lights from candles are flickering . They're not light from magic .
Oops, I shouldn't forget about my favorite reincarnation works . First, I have to observe [People] . I frantically keep my eyes on the faces of the people here . Who are my allies, who are in agreement with the summoning, and against it . Observing them . Right now, that's the only thing I can do . That's why I'm observing .

There are three women who wear miko-like clothes, and six men who looks like soldiers . The other people are two civil officials-like old men, and a sly glasses-wearing good-looking guy, he's an enemy . It's decided .
Ack, a weasel is standing upright and talking about something . Beastman should just have different ears and tail . I'm okay with paws too .

My people observation is forced to stop .

"●●●●、●●● . ●●●●●●●●●"

When that person is talking, my cool style instantly evaporates .

Oh, geezuz!

My head becomes blank, I can't think of anything . I can only stare at that woman wholeheartedly . It might be some kind of magic attack or mind attack .

But, whatever .

Right now, staring at her is justice .

A maid-looking woman is giving me something .
You, outta the way . Get away . Look, you're hiding her hair . She pushes me something on my hand, but as long as she's not obstructing the view, that's fine .

"Do you understand what I'm saying?"

I do, but so what?
Is there any meaning to that for enjoying her beauty .

"What should we do your highness . The translation ring might be malfunctioning . "
"My, that's troubling . What should we do?"

The beauty's troubled face also looks beautiful .
I want to see more expressions on her face .

"Your highness, the result from the Yamato stone that he's touched earlier has come out . "
"And it is?"
"He's like the two before . He has an unusual 『Burying』 skill, but there's no unique skill . "
"Does it match the kingdom's interest?"
"Unfortunately . . . . "
"Is that so . "

I heard something bad . What the heck is  "The two before" . Am I the third one?　I shouldn't say, "It's because I'm probably the third" right? Furthermore, what is kingdom's interest?　What's with that remark when you've gone and kidnapped people without permission .

Just like how a young man usually react, I'm also boiling in anger for a moment .
However, that was poured with cold water due to the existence of the guarding soldiers . The swords on their waist and the spears look real .

If I'm to attack, now is not the time .
This is a composed investigation . It's not because I'm scared of the soldiers' swords at all . It's also not because the glances from the soldiers are saying as if they'll kill me if I move . It's the result of a cool investigation through and through . I'm going coolly . Coolly .

I keep staring at the violet-haired woman . She's too beautiful it's hard to live . I wonder how old is she?　She looks like a high schooler, but she's probably older right?　I want to tell her that her twin-tail will look good tied with thin ribbons, but the soldiers' glances are scary . It feels like they'd slay me for rudeness without warning .


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In the end, the kidnapper lots treat me as if I'm air the whole time, and a maid escorted by two soldiers guides me to a three tatami-wide small room . The room is only lit by one candle on a candlestick .

"The person in charge of training you will come tomorrow morning, wait here . I'll bring you something to eat later, so be quiet okay?"

A maid of around 20 years old talks to me condescendingly and leaves .

It's probably going to be black bread and lightly salted soup right?


I want to see her bringing imperial court cooking .

When I see the dish that the maid's brought, I regret the curse that I've said in mind earlier .  

Don't make fun of me fantasy .

What the heck is dinner with one potato! Moreover it's raw!　You're killing my stomach!

Since I can still feel that there are guards outside the room, I swallow my complaints . The maid seems to misunderstand it .

"Ara? Are you really that hungry?　I'll prepare another one for the breakfast tomorrow, so you can eat that whole . You don't need to hold back . "

The girl said so without sarcasm, put a water jug on the side table and left . Oy, oy, there's no cup here .

I'm not hungry enough to eat a raw potato, so I drink the water directly from the jug to quench my throat .
My mouth longs for something, so I throw a candy that I've always readied in my pocket inside it . Other things that I've brought are a swiss army knife, the three candies that are the most important, and a notebook written with cheat about administration .

After getting some sugar supplies, I'm able to think this a bit more carefully .

First, let's check if cheats dwell in my body .

By simply doing push-up . I'm downed before the tenth just like usual . I don't have a body reinforcement cheat .

I take out the swiss army knife, imagine a virtual goblin and swing the knife . I feel empty in the middle of doing it, I don't have a swordsmanship or martial arts cheat either .

There should be magic at least, since I was summoned after all . My last hope, I try magic cheat . Imagine it . I imagine flame and put my hands toward the desk .

It's cold . My heart is cold .

This is a world without magic huh . I've decided so .

That means, I stay like what I've always been . Summoning magic, do your work .

Fuhn, there is no apology from the god, and I begin to vaguely notice . Reality is different than delusion . I am allowed to despair for a bit right? I'm already tired . I'm sleepy .


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When I notice a certain thing, I immediately stand up .
That's right, this is a hard mode world . It might be a cripplingly very hard world even . It's still too early to rest .

I investigate the informations that I've got in hands .

I got summoned . The summoner is probably that girl .



They call the violet twin-tail beauty your highness, she's probably a royalty .

Who were the "Two before" that the sly-glasses mentioned . Were they summoned people like me?

I recall the look on the soldiers' eyes . Those guys were obviously wary of me . That means, the previously mentioned two summoned people have done something bad . They couldn't have hugged that beauty right .

No, the thing they were wary about was not that kind of thing .

That's right, it's [Skill] . Those guys unmistakably said that . They said that I have skill . It was [Burying] wasn't it?　It's really like me, sweats will come out of my eyes .

How do I use it?
I recite Burying inside my heart . I somehow feel like my presence becomes thinner . Wait, isn't it just like always .

While becoming slightly sad, I get out of the room .
I've thought that there's a sentry, but there's no one outside the room .

If I didn't think like a child and went to explore the castle here, my future might have been slightly different .

However, there is no IF in reality . You can only choose once .

And then I've heard it .

I have heard it .

The two summoned people before me were deemed to be unsuitable for heroes and executed . The maids and soldiers talk about it without having any sense of guilt .

That's bullshit!

After you've abducted them like that . If they're unnecessary, send them back to their world .


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Unable to go back to my room, I wander around the castle and meet a girl .
I try to block her mouth in a hurry, but get pinned down by her self-defense-like moves instead .

She's strong, belying her delicate look . Why did I use polite speech .
<TLN: The first line is said in keigo/polite speech . >

"Keep quiet . The soldiers will come if you're noisy . You're the person from the different world that Yuriko-sama has summoned today right?"

The girl is called Menea, a princess of this kingdom . I'm told that Yuriko is the violet-haired twintail beauty, her aunt . Eternally 17 years old huh . I understand .



In exchange for some informations, I got informations out of her .
I shouldn't have heard it . There is no method to return to my original world . Are they calling and leaving huhh .

When we talk about the fate of the two summoned people before me, she becomes upset . It seems that she spent some times with the two on the city outside the castle .

I desperately try to get her sympathy, and ask about the ways to get out of the castle . It has been since the examination for high school that I try so hard like this .

I got fruits and jeweled ring for trading with money from her . Since she doesn't seem like she's directly involved with the kidnapping, I want to repay the favor, so I give her two pages of the administrative cheat from the notebook . I've memorized the content of those pages . Don't belittle a student with free time .


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I light the torch that I've got from Menea with a lighter .
Even though I've been suspected of smoking by the teacher, and questioned by patrolling police and other doubts because of this, I keep carrying it .

I'll use [Burying] until I arrive at the town at night .

Fufufu, I'll register at the adventure guild in the town, and seize my success story from there on . Different world dream, come on .

I don't hear the sounds of insects .

I know .
This is not an easy mode world . It's a crazy hard real different world . Of course, there are monsters too .

However, seriously spare me from getting attacked by a praying mantis the size of a human being .

I desperately run away, but I've not thought that running on the mountain at night would be this hard . I couldn't even run away for several meters and got caught . My left arm is bitten off in one gulp . It's hot rather than painful . I wonder if my adrenaline is pumped in tons, I don't feel much pain .

Ah, game over huh .
Even if I want to counter attack, I've dropped my torch somewhere .

The monster deliciously eats the left arm that's been torn off me . Even though I want to run, the monster pins down its leg on top of my stomach, so I can't move .
Ah, I'm bleeding too much .

My consciousness becomes hazy .
I hear a clamor in the end . I don't understand what they're saying . Oh right, I've put the translation ring on the finger of my left hand .

The last thing that I see is a dark brown skin with long ears .
It's here, a dark elf in flesh .

I've thought that my life is a kusoge, but I see something good in the end .
I wanted to TUEE with a dark elf serving me .
<TLN: TUEE is a slang for, err, basically OP? kusoge=trash game . >

I will become black knight the next time I'm reborn . . . .