Chapter 32

“It seems to have gone smoothly . He did not notice until the last moment . ”

“Um, it came out excellent . ”

A girl with bowl-cut black hair and a somewhat gloomy complexion, No . 0666 Totomorti, was leading Isshi into the room .

“When you combine Verde’s and Fortuna Rossa’s , it’s not difficult to discover enemy spies . Never in their wildest dream did they consider that they were being monitored by us . ”

Well, Totomorti said that in a light manner, she also was waving her right hand .

Surprisingly the bucktooth man who got stabbed not that long ago begun to respond with timid movements .

But,

“Isshi-sama I think that this thing is already useless . However, as you said earlier, with proper management we can still train it to do some simple actions . ”

While the girl spoke the bucktooth man get up .

“A, u, e, a, o, e , a”

As it began to groan words that doesn’t even makes sense,

“See . ”

“Really? It can’t be wrong if the Necromancer herself says so . It can’t perform well because I kill him in ambush, right?”

Toward that inquiry, Totomorti shook her black-haired head in denial .

“No . I think it’s because the hooked-nosed man’s attack awoken a strong sense of mortality . Though the projection was shown by Rossa’s , the sword was simply too quick to see . I think the blow had pierced his heart? Surely this man didn’t realize that he was already dead . That’s in itself was the ideal situation . ”

Upon hearing her word, Isshi simply asked; “Is it so?” .

Um, the girl nods,

“My Necromancer gift is the power to manipulate the dead . However, this power comes with a lot of restrictions . Fresher corpses are better to give detailed instructions to; however, the best ones are those that didn’t realize that they died . It’s similar to the man you killed . They are able to reproduce the actions of living people almost perfectly . However, if months or even years have passed since the person’s death, then only simple commands can be given . Something along the lines of attacking people at best . They would also lack the ability to speak . ”

“I understand . Please put that corpse away for now . ”

The girl said “Understood”, then started to wave her hand in a manner simulator to that of a composer .

Then, with a 「pishi pashi」 sound, the head and body of the bucktoothed corpse started to enter some kind of spacial rift .

In a matter of seconds, the man’s body began to crumble like sand, and as if being blown away by a gentle breeze, it soon disappeared as if absorbed into thin air . \Silver: I should learn some Necromancy, it seems to come with some fun sub-skills\

“By the way, how about the other one . Though weren’t you a little flashy in your disposal of that one?”

Towards that question,Totomorti became a little pouty,

“I’m not denying it . But, it was for the sake of our strategy . When people close to me are on the verge of death, I can project their own death visage in their minds . ”

While saying so, the two glanced at the corpse of the goblin that had been placed atop the bed .

Thanks to her interference the hook-nosed man saw his own corpse rather than the one of the beast that had been hunt beyond the city’s limits .

“Is there any meaning in showing a person their own death visage?”

“Of course . Do you think I do such a nasty thing as a hobby?”

While Totomorti had misinterpreted his meaning, she still began to wave both her hand on the air .

As if she was playing the piano .

What was transpiring now was a performance for death itself .

Thus a short time later, the hook-nosed man’s corpse began to respond with 「bikuri bikuri」sound .

“Because they die seeing their own corpse, they reject the fact that they have died .

That feeling, the disbelief, the denial that oneself is dead; it causes the corpse to house darker emotions . Necromancers tend to prefer these types of corpses, I think . Though I’m still in the experimental stages . ” \Silver: Well, we now know what happened to the mercenaries after the battle . \

Even while immersed in such an interesting topic, she continued to move her fingers to the finest detail .

While moaning “Uu . . . uugh . . . . ” the hook-nosed man starts to unsteadily stand up .

“Fufufu, rise, you pitiful child possessed by death . From now on I will let you trample upon the logic of this world!!”

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“Wah!?”

That was what the hook-nosed man said when he awoke .

He seemed to be standing at Jirumu’s entrance .

Although it was late into the night, the pedestrian traffic was not yet zero .

So sometimes a passerby would throw a suspicious glance in his direction .

“What in the world, why I am here… . How did I end up in this place…?”

When the hook-nosed man tried to recall his memories,

“Guh!? Uugh, what is th-this pain!?”

A throbbing pain run through his head .

But, the pain subsided after a while, and he was able to remember what happened before he lost consciousness .

“Aah, that’s it . I and my partner easily infiltrated the enemy’s base . But, a myriad of traps had been laid as anticipated . As we retreated my partner was nearly caught by the enemy and committed suicide . Somehow I was able to escape out of the town’s entrance along with information regarding the enemy’s forces . However, I seem to have blacked out as I ran for my life . ”

Remembering everything to such an extent, the deathly pale expression that floated on the man’s face a moment ago disappeared .