Instant Death

Translator: Thy Unsus

Edit: Thy Unsus

The tower was confused.

If speaking accurately, the man-made spirits that were governing the maintaining of the barrier were flustered in the presence of the impossible situation.

First, was division of the soul path.

The tower collected energy referred to as ‘soul’ and ‘spirit’, and used it to maintain the barrier. Those energies were running about inside the tower, forming complex paths.

That part broke. The hub, which linked multiple paths, suddenly stopped functioning.

It was something impossible.

It was especially sturdy, and in a place where the possibility that it’d break was almost none, and even if it broke, it should have started self-reparing instantly, but that node hadn’t proceeded in a logical manner anywhere.

Of course, the Devil didn’t revive with this amount. The barrier was the last fortress to protect humanity. Safety measures were conducted over and over again, and though the event this time was incomprehensible, it immediately created a detour route and managed to avoid further problems.

However, it didn’t mean that nothing at all had happened.

A fluctuation was produced in the first barrier concealing the tower’s surroundings.

That was something momentary, but it couldn’t be said that no one captured that instant.

In the world, there are those who wander about the world in order to revive the Devil, such as evil believers who worship the Devil and the Devil’s kin. The possibility that it was noticed by those guys probably wasn’t a little.

However, problems outside of the barrier were out of the tower’s control. It was because the tower was only thinking about continuing to maintain the barrier, and as long as the barrier was safe, other matters were inconsequential.

The tower returned to its normal operation immediately, but after a while, it noticed that a functional failure had occurred again. ƒ𝚛𝐞𝚎𝑤𝘦𝚋𝓷o𝚟e𝘭.c𝐨𝙢

It was the door opening and shutting mechanism.

It was a mechanism which merely used excess energy, and had no direct connection to the barrier, but it shouldn’t have been broken so simply.

Doors, traps, and devices stopped one by one.

The tower searched for a cause, and found it immediately.

It was two people—a man and a woman. When the man and woman approached, a part of the tower stopped functioning. It was easy to infer that the two had something to do with the stoppage of the riddle feature.

The tower tried to kill the two. Thereupon, one part of the man-made spirits stopped functioning.

And, it became confused.

What it was trying to do, it didn’t understand.

The tower started a self-diagnosis a second time, and knew the abnormality inside the tower. It noticed that the people—a man and a woman—were the cause, tried to deal with them, and it collapsed into confusion again.

The tower was slowly stopping its functions.

“Um, it may be just excessive self-consciousness, but perhaps, each and every person is aiming at me?” (Tomochika)

Tomochika said, while overlooking the man whose face was hidden by a skull.

What had collapsed in front of Tomochika and others was a man who drew near with a looking-down-on manner while making vulgar remarks, and now he was an un-talking body.

“I think it’s just like that. Those guys say something like ‘leave the woman’ in their second statement.” (Yogiri)

This place was the 3rd floor of the tower. Probably, in the middle of the passage to the second floor, some people had collapsed in front of and behind the two. This much had become the natural scenery already.

“Righhh……t! Why are guys like this aiming for Sword Saint!?” (Tomochika)

『It’s the Sword Saint, so it might not be that they ‘have to be a man of noble character’. There were people who were called as and called themselves the Sword Saint even in Japan, but they were roughly vulgar people.』(Mokomoko)

They range of which they could move got smaller every floor they went down, making it easier to fellow candidates. And, Tomochika and others were attacked frequently.

Each others’ abilities were unknown by the fellow people aiming for Sword Saint. They didn’t know what would happen if they fought. They should have been a bit more cautious, but the candidates who came across Tomochika and others gleefully challenged them to a fight for some reason.

And, Yogiri killed all of those guys who attacked.

He’d talk to them if it seemed he was able to, and he didn’t intend to kill them if they could avoid a fight.

However, in the end the state was ‘heaps of corpses’.

It was because each and every one of them arrived with a looking-down-on manner from the onset, and didn’t listen well to conversations, etc.

“Those guys, I guess they are believing in that ‘status’ thing a lot.” (Yogiri)

“Well, even without such things as statuses, we don’t seem to be strong, right?” (Tomochika)

“But, if you have a head to think, it’s normal to consider ‘they, who have survived until here, have something’. That’s why, in the end, those guys are idiots.” (Yogiri)

『That’s blunt. But, it is true that because they don’t have an imagination, they’ll die.』(Mokomoko)

“Yeah, I’ve also heard such a thing. I, um, I’m so charming that, how should I put it, they feel like attacking me?” (Tomochika)

She had been wondering it for a while, so Tomochika tried to ask. It was because she had a feeling like, since she came to this world, she was being aimed at every time there was something.

“Ah, that as an objective fact, okay? Look, there are also things from now on. I’m thinking ‘aren’t I such a big deal?’, but if there is a gap in that recognition, it might become some kind of problem. Well, maybe it’s just people, who are doing such things as killing each other in a place like this, are a little strange and saying strange things.” (Tomochika)

Tomochika had heard the story such as ‘animals placed in extreme situations woke up to the preservation instinct of their species’. She thought that she wasn’t attractive, and maybe it was a circumstance beyond her control.

“Yeah. You’re charming, and cute. Your figure is also nice, I can understand the feelings of the man who want to attack.” (Yogiri)

“Wha!?” (Tomochika)

Tomochika solidified after being told from right in front of her without any parading.

Yogiri stared at Tomochika’s reaction seemingly in wonder.

“Don’t worry, I won’t attack you or something. Asaka-san said ‘forcibly is no good’.” (Yogiri)

“That means if I agree?” (Tomochika)

“There’s no factors to hesitate in that case?” (Yogiri)

“O, ou……ah, but! The other day, I felt like you buried your head in my chest when you pushed me down when we received the sage’s attacks in the town!” (Tomochika)

“It’s an irresistible force, and if it happens by accident, that situation is a style to enjoy.” (Yogiri)

“You’re very positive for what you’re doing!?” (Tomochika)

『Yeah. It’s my first time seeing someone positive at lucky pervert so far.』(Mokomoko)

Mokomoko folded her arms in air, she looked strangely impressed.

『And, I am also impressed by my descendant trying to start a love-comedy development in a situation such as heaps of corpses like this. You’re surprisingly bold.』

“Fo, for now, let’s go ahead!” (Tomochika)

The embarrassed Tomochika began advancing the passage while avoiding the corpses.

Yogiri also caught up to her before long, and went beside her. As they thought, it seemed that this passage was the right one, and after a while a big door appeared.

When they opened the door, there was a staircase, the same as before, and the two went down without hesitation.

When they opened the door to the second floor, the inside was in a small room. It was a room that was narrow enough even for two people, and there was a door which seemed to be the exit directly on the other side.

『Congratulations on reaching the second floor. You guys are the 55th and 56th arrivals.』

Upon entering the room, a woman’s voice came to be heard out of nowhere.

『From now on, the candidate will manage with the number that was called not long ago, so please don’t forget it.』

It seemed that Yogiri, who entered first, was fifty-five, and Tomochika was fifty-six.

“I intended to go forward quickly, but there are people who are reasonably ahead, huh.” (Yogiri)

“Well, we were sleeping at leisure.” (Tomochika)

『Ahead from here, there will be a point system. One hundred points are needed to open the door to the first floor.』

“Eeehhh? We’ve come until here, and now a point system?” (Tomochika)

“It’s tedious, right? I wonder if they intend to balance the candidates here since they didn’t decrease more than they thought they would.” (Yogiri)

『You’re noisy!』

It seemed that it wasn’t a kind of recording, and someone was dealing with them in realtime.

『Well, it’s fine. Ahead from here, you can steal points if you kill someone who has a point. ‘So, if that’s it, then what was the challenge so far!’ As it’d be like that, your actions so far will be evaluated and you’ll be given initial points. Fifty-fifth, 0 points! Fifty-sixth, 0 points! …huh?』

What they were evaluating wasn’t known, but as they broke through all of the trials forcibly, it wouldn’t be strange even if they said ‘it is impossible to evaluate’.

『Ummm……I have a feeling something’s strange, but 0 points is 0 points!』

“Well, it’s not worth worrying about.” (Yogiri)

What Yogiri did wouldn’t change. He’d just descend the tower while killing every obstacle.

The exit door opened. The passage branched into three directions—forward, left, and right.

He didn’t have a map of the lower floors, and the width of each passageway weren’t different. There weren’t any clues of where to go at all, but Yogiri began to advance to the passage right in front.

Tomochika knew.

Choosing a path was troublesome, so Yogiri just walked ahead.