To Deprive a Deprived Person

Le Larange. It is the most prestigious fine dining restaurant in the city. Most of the customers are aristocrats and large merchants and it cannot be used by at-a-look customers.

"Ho, can I really eat it? I tell you, there's no such money even if you charge money later?"

In a room at Le Larange, Ansgar hurriedly wipes the table-lined fine dishes with the back of his hand as the saliva is about to drip from his mouth. That was also unavoidable. Because Ansgar couldn't even have a decent meal or break to keep escaping the relentless pursuit of the Holy Country Jardalk´s intelligence agency Hana Blossom.

"Sure, isn't this a high-class store that seems like a refusal at first glance? Is it okay to have a private room?"

"I guess you said you wanted to eat. And it's a store I've used many times and it's a store that is flexible to some extent because I'm a wholesaler of some ingredients, so it's okay"

"Heihei. Mugumugu, kusouu. This bread is delicious. Uguguu, but what are you? I'm older even if I look like this!

"What does it look like? You´re an old man no matter how I look at you"

Ansgar complains to Yuu as he eats a lot of bread at once and rushes the bread stuck in his throat into his stomach with soup. Normally, the dishes are brought in the order of appetizer, soup, fish dishes, etc., but Ansgar says that he wants to eat quickly anyway, so Yuu forces the store to bring the dishes at once.

"Gaa! You're a bad-mouthed kid. I told you I wasn't the enemy. Believe me a little bit"

"Shut up. I'll decide if you're an enemy"

"I don't know. I wondered who was watching when you were just coming to Comer and I was the one who implicitly gave the adventurer's guild information about the rookie hunt. Well, fine, I've seen more than that"

While carving the Udon demon beef steak, Ansgar points to Yuu with a fork.

"What are you doing?"

"Did you quarrel with Roy Buom in the Adventurer's Guild? And you're fighting unilaterally"

"I don't care about that. Rather than that――"

"I was asked by Stella..., to watch over you. Jardalk was trying to make you the demon king and your circumstances――uoo! This mellow aroma has a rich taste spreading on the tongue, it is a ridiculously fine wine"

After drinking a glass of wine all at once, Ansgar urges Yuu to speak with his chin. The expression is so hateful that it irritates Yuu.

"If you know Jardalk's plans, you don't have to tell me. I'm paying attention to the movements of each hero. Roy Buom was active mainly in Jardalk and Hameln. The hero came to the Udon Kingdom to see me, right? If you weren't wary of this, it would be a stupid thing"

"Well, that's true"

Ansgar nods with a difficult face.

"But that bastard has a sloppy face, why don't you become a hero? That's it. I'm overwhelmed by my anger"

"Kuhahaa. Well, don't get angry. But when you think about it, it might have been good to stay in your eyes"

"Ha?"

"You don't seem to notice it, but it's like the characteristics of a hero that you don't notice"

"What do you want to say? Say it clearly"

"You were――attracted to the hero, a little to Roy Buom"

Ansgar points with a fork to Yuu, who is about to open his mouth to say something.

"Actually you didn't kill Roy Buom. If it was the Yuu Satou I know, you would have killed him. Or did you sweeten after a while?"

Yuu keeps his mouth closed and doesn't argue. There is a reason for Ansgar to say. As evidence, Yuu is unaware of Roy's footsteps after leaving the Adventurer's Guild. Even though he had just told Ansgar that he was paying attention to the hero's movements.

"You seem to understand a little. However, the evil■ is not necessary any longer. One of my purposes is to unlock your evil■. I've fulfilled my promise to Stella, so I'm sorry. Anyway, that's......I can't leave you alone"

Ansgar doesn't say it clearly, his words are confusing.

"Don't do anything extra"

"What's extra. I'm for you"

"I'm saying that's extra"

"Ah, that's right. I'll tell you. I don't know how much you are indebted to that shitty Stella■ old woman■. From my point of view――"

"Stella?"

"I said shit old woman"

"If you connect it, it seems to conflict with the prohibited wording"

Muttering 「Shit」, Ansgar throws a carrot with the steak into his mouth.

"Look at it. ■If you don't lift your eyes, you won't be able to talk to me with satisfaction"

"It's all right, so just talk to me

Ansgar gives up and begins to talk to Yuu who doesn't listen obediently no matter what he says though an expression which is visibly irritated is floated to Yuu who doesn't hear it.

"Don't regret it. Again, Stella might have been a good old lady for you. To me, she's like a demon――no, she was a scarier woman than a demon. I was originally an orphan and was picked up by Stella, but it was a terrifying start from that day. The food is bad, the training is so hard that I die, but Stella doesn't cut any hands. Do you know that old woman's nickname? Her nickname is 『Evil■Demon■』, 『Ice Su■ra』, and 『Frozen■Woman』. Well, it's funny that it's not an overstatement.Also, the territory of Jardalk is mostly thin and weakened earth, so you can't get satisfactory ingredients, but even if you take that into question, Stella■food isn't■good! It's poisonous. I can't even eat poison-resistant poison hounds''

Yuu couldn't understand all of Ansgar's words, but he was still surprised at what he said. It was too far from the impression of Stella he knew.

"N? Heehee, were you surprised? Stella started practicing cooking and sewing after she decided to live with you. Until then, she wasn't interested in the taste of cooking, she just needed the nutrition she needed. Because she was a thoughtful woman. Anyway, if you think about the future, you should open your ■eyes. In that state, you cannot check the status of the person with the Foddo surname in 『Devil Eyes of the Spirit World』. One of your strengths is that you can see your opponent's status without any difficulty, right? If you stay this way, you will eventually fight Jardalk in earnest. If that happens――"

"Is it the 『Two Holy Saint』?"

"That's right. He knows that you've become incredibly strong, but 『Two Holy Saint』is one person and To■re Fu■u■ is a genuine monster. Anyway......that bastard is a causative of God..."

Exposing his disgust, Ansgar words it.

"Do you know more about summoning me than that?"

"That, you....... Yes, I know"

"Tell me how much sacrifices you have sacrificed to summon my soul"

"Soul......what do you mean? All I know is――"

"Don't play stupid"

Even though Yuu didn't speak out, the pressure of Yuu shook the room――no, the whole of Le Lalange.

"Wait! Calm down a little. Maybe there is a discrepancy between the information I hear from Stella and the information you know"

To Ansgar's words, the pressure released from Yuu disappears and the hair that stood upright returns to its original state.

"Good grief. I'm not an enemy, but you´re putting more pressure on me. Look, I´m soaked in sweat"

Ansgar sighs with a big sigh and wipes his sweat with a napkin.

"Is it okay? What I'm talking about now is what I heard from Stella, and I hear that Stella herself has never actually seen it. Listen based on that. Long before the Holy Calendar, there was a country called Kanmerida Kingdom. I heard that the country was no longer destroyed, but there was a man in the country who was good at summoning. One day, at the order of King Kanmurida, the vassals were ordered to gather excellent human resources. While many vassals were unable to gather the talent that King Kanmurida wanted, the summoner man devised a technique. Yes, by sacrificing what you were saying, for them rather than the 『Spirit World』. Summoning people who are more convenient human resources―― 『Other world summons』. The feature of this summoning is that unlike normal summoning, you can ignore the intention of the other party and add more conditions. For example, black hair...black eyes...boy"

Yuu silently listens to Ansgar's story.

"Besides......the scary part of this 『Other World Summons』was the sacrifice to offer. Depending on the number of sacrifices, the summoned person will be given powerful skills. You got 『Evil Eyes of the Spirit World』"

"If it's hard to say, I'll tell you. It's 『Depriving』"

"Even though sacrifices are necessary, it didn't take long for countries other than the Kanmurida Kingdom to get the most power of talented people to 『Other World Summons』. The same is true of Jardalk. The speculations of each country were different. They continued to 『Other World Summons』 in search of heroes and sometimes villains that were convenient for them. It did not become obsolete after the Kanmurida Kingdom was destroyed"

Ansgar had been moistening his throat with wine many times, perhaps because his throat was abnormally dry.

"I know that. I'm asking how much sacrifices were sacrificed for my summon"

"It's about 200,000. As far as Stella investigated......I know just that"

With his eyes closed, Yuu thinks for a moment. It was a defenseless figure that couldn't be imagined from the usual appearance without a gap.

"The maximum capacity of the Hilfue camp should be about 100,000. Are there multiple other facilities?"

"I don't know the details, but they seem to save the sacrificial soul in a certain way"

"Is it the same manufacturing method as Holy God's medicine?"

Ansgar is surprised to see the name of the holy god medicine coming out of Yuu's mouth.

"Thats......I don't know. However, in the diary left by Stella, there was a description that she guessed that it was an application of the power of the Holy Grail"

"You guys are really helpless waste"

"I'm a Jardalk, but I'm not involved in 『Other World Summons』. And there were some people in Jardalk who opposed 『Other World Summons』. Stella was one of them"

"Shut up"

From this room, from Yuu's eyes, he forcibly suppresses his desire to run away immediately and Ansgar just silently stares at Yuu.

"200,000......?"

"Most of the sacrifices are sinners"

"Sinners? Tell me what kind of sins they committed. Can you tell me what I saw before I came to this world and before I lost consciousness in the original world? Children, women , a pile of corpses of men, old men, men and women of all ages. The corpses are not limited to humans. Many of them are beastmen, elves, dark elves, dwarves――races that you discriminate as demi-humans. Among them was a baby. These guys were sacrifices, aren't they? Then it's understandable that the ones I saw were looking at me with cursed eyes''

Ansgar didn't say anything further. No, he couldn't say anything. Yuu stands up, saying he doesn't need to talk anymore.

"Wait, the story isn't over. At least ■ release your eyes. You seem to think that you have a connection with Stella, but that ■ your eyes limit your abilities and thoughts. For example, you should barely wear decorations! That's because some of the decorations release charms and invitations"

Ansgar's words pass through Yuu's ears.

"And you're afraid of loneliness...you can't be alone. I think this is Stella's treatment with you in mind, but that's why you――"

No matter how desperately Ansgar repeats his words, Yuu's steps toward the door wont stop.

"Even if you can't believe me, believe in Stella!"

Yuu's feet stop at that sentence.

"I have one question to ask"

"What?"

"The tomb of Grandma Stella was dug up――"

"I dug it up, because Stella asked me to hide her corpse after her death so it isnt used by Jardalk"

"Yes, is that so......"

"Wait! Hey!!"

Yuu leaves the room without looking back. The remaining Ansgar sat down in a chair, holding his poisoned flank with his right hand.

"Did you hear the story?"

"Yes, I remember everything"

Yuu goes out into the corridor and talks to Russ, who has disappeared for a long time and was on the alert.

Even if words are not recognizable, we know that characters can recognize them"

"Understood"

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Ansgar was walking down the corridor leading from the private room of Le Larange to the exit. The waiter who was guiding at the beginning was a man with gray hair, who was the organizer of the waiters.

"I don't need to pay?"

"Please be assured. We have already received it from Satou-san"

Even after Yuu returned, Ansgar continued to eat and drink. The reaction was probably great because he couldn't eat and drink satisfactorily in his escape. His abs, which he normally tightens, are now a little bulging.

"We look forward to seeing you again

"It was delicious"

Ansgar returns the greeting lightly to the waiter who bows reverently, and proceeds to the main street. This is a restaurant in a corner of the aristocratic district and inevitably the people who pass by are dressed better than the commoners and the number of people is sparse. Even in Comer city, it's too noticeable that Ansgar walks there.

"That bastard. Didn't Stella teach you to listen to people's stories to the end?"

Ansgar complains after eating and drinking a lot and having Yuu take care of him. After a while, he soon sees the main street. He saw a large number of people passing by as usual.

"Stop there"

Ansgar speaks to a woman walking towards him as if to warn her.

"Hee? Did you tell me to stop?"

The woman dressed as a commoner looks surprised and points to her face. Some men and old women stop to look at Ansgar. Children were seen playing on the roadside.

"Please don't mess with me. I'm just on my way to shopping!"

With an angry face, the woman protests against Ansgar.

"You´re not shopping....... It is the aristocratic street that goes here. Do you think there's a shop where people like you go? Oops, stop making excuses. I've lived here. I'm more familiar with Comer than you"

Emotions fell out of the face of the woman who was angry. The old women and men who were watching the situation around them also had emotional expressions and moved around Ansgar before he knew it.

"Where did you hide Sister Stella's body?"

The woman asks Ansgar with a cold voice that doesn't seem to be the same person from before.

"Well, where did I hide it?"

"That...belongs to the Holy Country Jardalk. Would you give it to us freely?"

"Although it's a duty, that's my mother. Did you think I would give her to people like you?"

Despite being besieged, Ansgar replies to make a fool of himself.

"Traitor"

"When did I join you? There's a get in the way here. Let's change the location"

Ansgar suggests while watching the children playing on the roadside.

"What about it?"

"You guys......"

"I don't know about the deaths of those who don't worship Irigamit religion. Rather, I'm glad that the number of heretics decreases''

The siege surrounding Ansgar narrows.

"This is your last chance. Tell us where the corpse is and we'll kill you without suffering"

"――Teta"

"I can't hear you well"

"That's why I said I threw it away. I burned it to ashes and threw it into the sea so that you wouldn't mess with Stella's body"

"Y, You! Do you understand what you did? Just throw away the body in which the 『Two Holy Saint』 Doll Foddo descended into!?"

"What's the 『Two Holy Saint』Doll Foddo. Isn't it a fucking bastard who scatters only the seeds?

When intelligence agents belonging to Hua Brosom tried to attack Ansgar all at once--

"Ah, the uncle of the grantor"

It was Nina who appeared.

"Ni......Nina"

The intelligence agents are wary of Nina, who appears without any sign. It was the same with Ansgar. Rather, he was holding his cane towards Nina, revealing a stronger sense of caution than the intelligence agents.

"It's been a while, isn't it～what are you doing here? Th～, that? Here, something smells?"

Nina holds her nose and makes a glance at her surroundings. At that moment, she disappears in an instant and she appears behind the woman facing Ansgar. As it is, Nina puts her face on the woman's shoulder.

"Kuhkuh. Ah~, you're from Jardalk, right?"

Nina spoke with a smile, but the next moment――

"I thought it was reasonable and smelly"

With her dagger hidden in her right hand, the woman tries to poke Nina's flank, but when the movement suddenly stops, she lays on the ground like she collapses. The woman did not move again as it was. No one could understand what Nina had done to her.

"Clean up from the woman"

A man who is the leader of the intelligence agents who surround Ansgar skips instructions. An old woman throws a dagger at that voice. However, it wasn't Nina who was at the end of the throw, but the children playing on the roadside. If she was upset, Nina would move to protect the children and the rest would stab her.

"Gaa......haa......o, oma......e......children............"

The old woman kneels while holding her chest. Her chest was depressed in the shape of a palm. The old woman received Nina´s assassination technique,『Narrow Palm Headliner Kyousyou Shinda』, which shocked her internal organs and end her life. Frighteningly, the moment the old woman threw her dagger, Nina prioritized her attack rather than looking at the dagger towards the children. The children escaped death in the last second because of Ansgar´s barrier. Children stare mysteriously at Ansgar, who breathes roughly.

"Here temporarily――gahaaa......"

Nina's right elbow digs into the chest of the male leader. As it is, Nina grabs the man's right wrist with her left hand and shifts to her throwing technique. It is an assassination technique 『Elbow Throw Killing Chuutousatsu』. The last sight of a man whose head was slammed into the ground without being passive was that his companions had already died and lay on the ground.

"Mou~, sleeping in a place like this would be a nuisance to other people~"

As if to take care of a drunk person, Nina lends her shoulders and carries the intelligence officers back to the alley and, as usual, the corpses are placed into the item pouch.

"Why are you here? You're done with your role, aren't you?"

Nina asks Ansgar with her plain face, so that you don't think she just killed a person.

"You told Yuu all the extra things anyway, didn't you?"

"It's not extra. I just told him the truth"

"There are some truths that you shouldn't know. Poorly, I think Yuu is hurting somewhere by now knowing that he doesn't have to know"

Nina speaks with her hands behind her, looking under Ansgar's face from underneath. Seen from the side, it looked like a smile, but Ansgar was wet with sweat from his whole body.

"You......what do you want to do"

"Do you need to know?"

Nina wields her black dragon claw dagger, in her right hand. At the end of the orbit is Ansgar's neck. The blade of the black dragon claw dagger passes through Ansgar's neck without resistance.

"S, Stella's diary was not one, but two. There was also a guess about your identity"

"Hu~h"

Nina's black dragon claw passes through from Ansgar's left shoulder to his right torso. Ansgar himself, who should have been attacked, could not understand why he was still alive and why the blade passed through his body without any damage.

"Stella was killing intelligence agents from other countries who were secretly sniffing Ressel village to protect Yuu. Some of the corpses were apparently untouched by Stella"

"So?"

This time, the blade of the black dragon claw passes through from Ansgar´s right shoulder to the left body and in the opposite direction.

"You......from other counties......no, you were killing the intelligence agents, including Jardalk"

"What about that?"

"You are......you are............haahaaa"

Ansgar kneels due to mental fatigue. Nina's wielding blade can easily kill Ansgar several times. He couldn't stand the pressure.

"Isn't it good? Duty, but you´re Stella's son. Otherwise, I´d kill you"

"Underestimate――isn't it!?"

Nina suddenly disappeared in front of Ansgar who raised his face.

"Damn. What does that woman want to do! What is that ability? Slashing my body many times――haa!? What happened? The poison has disappeared from my body"

Looking around, Ansgar rubbed his painless flank with his hand.

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"Is this all?"

"Definitely"

In his room at Yuu's mansion, Russ wrote down the conversation between Yuu and Ansgar.

"Master, please wait. Where are you going?"

Russ calls out to Yuu, who is trying to dive through the gate created by space-time magic.

"I want to read alone"

"I'm on your side too――"

"Unnecessary"

"Master, believe me"

"What happened to your country as a result of believing in people?"

Russ, kneeling in front of Yuu, couldn't even raise his face, but just clenched his fist.

"I'll be back by night"

Without saying anything, Russ just silently saw Yuu go down the gate.

"Why wasn't I dead?"

There was a figure of Yuu in the depths of a remote mountain where no one was there. He leans on the slope, reads the paper transcribed by Russ and mutters with interest.

"Ah, I'm laughing anyway. How many people are there to summon me? Yes, 200,000 people"

The bright red sunset illuminates Yuu's face.

"Ah, I'm going to laugh"

Yuu mutters the same words.

"Do you usually use 200,000 souls to call only one person, me? I wonder if it's stupid............. Ah, it's really stupid. Ah......ah............aa............"

When Yuu gets up, he holds his chest down. He felt a pain he had never experienced before. Yuu, who has endured any pain, can't stand the pain. It was the first pain that Yuu couldn't bear――no, it wasn't. There was a similar pain when Stella died.

"Granny............"

Yuu looks up at the bright red sunset.

"Granny was kind to me............I'm weak"

No matter how many people he killed or how many people died, he didn't feel anything if it was an enemy or someone who had nothing to do with him. The pain that Yuu had never felt before he met Stella, the kindness of Stella, the warmth, and those happy days weakened Yuu. Yuu's heart was in tears when the innocents were killed just to summon him. Without being heard by anyone, a roar that couldn't be heard by Yuu echoed in the mountains.