Tragedy
Me and Shiro. Then, Mary, Ori Hime, and Mylene drink an elixir to boost our spirits and rush into the dungeon where the Demon King may have been born.
"Ugh!!"
When Mary opened the huge door to the Dungeon entrance, the smell of sweat poking her nose and the rusty, metallic smell unique to blood flowed outside through the door
In front of the door were stairs that led down to the basement, and we gingerly descended the stairs and emerged onto a wide stone-paved floor.
"T… this is…"
There were thousands of corpses of monsters and hundreds of beastmen who were believed to be our collaborators.
Then there's the corpse of Joan of Arc, who robbed me of my chance to succeed in the last war, and the corpse of Charlemagne.
And the bodies of Anastasia, Kenji, and Reinhard were lying around.
"They're dead..."
"Yeah……"
When something so unrealistic happens, people seem to lose their composure, even though it should be sad.
"What was Joan of Arc doing here?"
"I wonder……"
Shiro answered briefly.
"Why is Kenji dead?"
"I do not understand……"
"Even Anastasia… why is she dead!?"
While I'm talking, my emotions start to explode.
"I don't know! For now, I'll try applying the elixir!"
Shiro takes out a large amount of elixir from her bag and sprinkles it on Anastasia, Kenji, and the beastmen who seem to be our collaborators.
However, even after applying the elixir, none of them moved at all.
"Why aren't they coming back to life!?"
"Perhaps it's been too long since they died! Or..."
Shiro stopped talking.
"Or... what is it? If you know, answer!"
"I just used the Divine Eye to appraise them. All of these people were killed by the Death Scythe..."
Shiro answered sadly, apologetically.
"What! If that happens, Kenji and Anastasia won't come back to life!"
"That's right……"
"I see…. No way! Shiro, do something!
Aren't you a handy maid who can solve anything!?"
I take it out on Shiro, even though there’s nothing she can do about it.
I feel like if I don't take it out on someone, I feel so full of sad feelings that I feel like I will go out of control.
"There is a way. Master has done it many times!"
Shiro also retorted, showing no emotion.
"Using the Ancestor’s Ring to return by death…"
"That's the only way. Anastasia-san was probably entrusting the Ancestor's Ring to the hero, without a doubt, as a countermeasure against the Death Scythe!"
Apparently, the [Ancestor's Ring] was a sacred treasure prepared entirely as a countermeasure against the Death Scythe, although I was vaguely aware of it.
It just so happened that Blackbeard had the Death Scythe, so it looked strange, like it didn't have much to do with the hero,
The original role of the [Ancestor's Ring] was to be a sacred treasure used to subjugate the Demon King and protect against Merlin, a witch with the Death Scythe who is closely related to the Demon King.
"In that case, it would have been nice if Anastasia had something like the Ancestor’s Ring!"
"That's no good. Anastasia-san can't withstand the [Ancestor's Ring]!"
Shiro, who was seriously appraising the [Ancestor's Ring] with her divine eye, blurted out a strange fact.
"Why?"
I was relieved to know that things would work out in the end, so I asked Shiro a question.
"The [Ancestor’s Ring] can only be used by special immortals!"
"Anastasia is also an immortal!"
"A normal immortal can only use it once!"
"W... what!?"
I, in my own way, showed my astonishment.
Since I'm not upset anymore, I can respond like I always do.
"By the way, Anastasia-san has forced herself to use it twice in the past!"
"You know that?"
I seriously look at Shiro's terrifying divine eyes.
"Because they are divine eyes, they can understand things that normal people cannot understand!"
"When you have three eyes open, you've surpassed God!"
"The Arachne race is originally a race that picks fights with the gods, so in order to defeat the gods, they seem to have naturally acquired the potential to defeat the gods!"
"You were trying to kill God!"
"It's about Greek mythology! There's no god I want to kill!"
"So?"
I lost interest in the myth story in an instant and listened to the rest of the story.
"Well, that’s right… Master is a special immortal!
You have such a strong soul that you won't die even if you turn into a bone or a poop!"
"Is that so?"
"That's right! Master, you've been trying your best not to lose to Kenji in this life, right?
Even though you had the strength of an ordinary person, you continued to train like an idiot, trying to catch up with the genius Kenji!"
"Yeah. All my status as a hero had been hidden..."
I feel nauseous, remembering the bloody training I had back then.
"Also, it seems that your job as a copy machine salesman in your previous life was good!"
"I visited hundreds of businesses and homes a day, bowing my head, desperately trying to sell copy machines that weren't selling well...''
"Yes. You've been doing a job that a normal person wouldn't be able to handle for five years!"
Shiro quickly added some information.
"And after five years of work, you've only managed to sell two copy machines... one for your parents' house and one for yourself..."
"And every day, my boss called me a thief and subjected me to power harassment!"
"Yeah! Who would buy an expensive copy machine leased from a Chinese manufacturer that is not a famous manufacturer?"
Well, in my state of mind at that time, I thought it was my fault, and I couldn't complain about my boss, although it wasn't that bad.
"Master is dissing China a lot!"
"I like Shiji and Romance of the Three Kingdoms, so I'm dissing modern China, which makes cheap imitations!
Who would buy a copy machine with a strange name like Sera, Bra, or Shiko today!"
I cried tears of blood as I remembered those days.
Because everyone says it's a scam even though I'm trying my best to sell it!
Well, sure, it's a scam if you ask me, since it's a cheap imitation from a well-known manufacturer, the warranty period is only one month, and they used a yakuza-type leasing company that does not allow cooling-off.
Well, just so you know, I only sold them to my relatives, so I wasn't involved in any scams.
If anything, I feel like a victim.
Because until the day I died, I was paying a ridiculously high lease fee for a copy machine that broke after two months.
"And your soul was trained to the maximum in your past life. It was when you were a crown prince of the Russian Empire! Because of your hemophilia, you suffered from a sore body every day!"
"I don’t know because I don’t remember anything!"
"In fact, it seems like it was difficult to live a normal life!
Until Rasputin made you a drink from the holy grail and you became an Ancestor!
Well, even after becoming an Ancestor, you were imprisoned, abused, and lived a heroic life!"
"Are you saying that by accumulating such tragic experiences in my previous life, the other previous life, and even this life, my soul has become as strong as steel?"
"Otherwise, there’s no way you’d be fine even if you spent a thousand years training in the Room of Spirit and Time!
It can cause a mental breakdown!"
"Huh? Shiro also trained in the Room of Spirit and Time, right?"
Shiro couldn't help but slip up.
It is a secret that she evolved into Perfect Arachne through training in the Room of Spirit and Time.
"Just a little bit! Seriously, please die, master!"
Shiro forces the story forward in order to confuse the story.
"Please die... I don't have Merlin with the Death Scythe, so that's impossible!"
"Then, let’s go to the princess on the southern continent!
Let her obliterate your soul with the Kusanagi Sword!"
"I don't want Gabrielle to hold onto my weakness anymore..."
Yes, I had already made a promise to grant the wishes of Gabrielle, who is the strongest on the southern continent and can obtain anything.
I didn't want Gabrielle to hold onto my weakness any longer.
"If Master doesn’t die, Kenji and Anastasia-san won’t come back to life!
Please take a look at Mary!
[Grandmother! Grandmother!], she's crying all the time!"
"Uwaa! Grandmother~ Why did she die!?"
It's true that she's crying all the time.
Unless I return from death, this situation will never change.
"I have no choice but to go..."
"You're planning to go, but you have too much leeway!"
Shiro chided in as usual.
It was true that at the time, I might have felt a part of me that felt light about death because of the [Ancestor's Ring].
However, at that time, I didn't realize that what I thought was normal was actually dangerous.
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