Arifureta Shokugyou de Sekai Saikyou (WN)

Intermission Second Crazily Effective Waterfall Training

In any case.

The question and answer session between Hajime and Sathla continued for a while.

Hajime suddenly stood up and wore something on his right hand’s index finger. It was a finger armor made from black metal……no, based from the tip that was sharp like a knife, perhaps it ought to be described as a hidden weapon in the shape of nail.

He walked toward the unconscious Richard and crouched beside him.

What’s he gonna do? Everyone focused on him.

「This’ll be faster than interrogating him.」

*Zubu*, the black metal nail stabbed Richard’s head. It kept sinking in like his skull was nonexistent. The stabbing was so smooth like a fork stabbing a cake.

*Twitch* Richard-san jerked. Everyone was speechless seeing the abrupt violence.

Even while that was going on the fingertip seemed to have arrived at the brain and started jerking around. Voice of 「A, ah, aaa, a, ah」 reflexively leaked out matching the rhythm of that. His body was also jerking around *twitch twitch* at the same beat.

His eyes half opened and drool trickled out from his mouth. Blood was also trickling down slo~wly from his nose, eyes, and ears……

Let’s be clear here.

「「「That’s too gurooo!!」」」(TN: Grotesque)

Kousuke, Atsushi, and Noboru all screamed from their souls.

Ryuutarou was pulling his girlfriend(Suzu) to his chest to prevent her from looking, and Suzu too was clinging on Ryuutarou while her voice 「Hiih」 slipped out.

Yuuka, Taeko, and Nana were also hugging each other harmoniously as though they had just watched a startling scene of a horror movie.

「Please at least say something before you did that!」

「Please at least say a word before you did that!」

Remia-mama and Zhu-oneesan also protested. Each covered the eyes and ears of Myuu and Hinata respectively by putting them on full nelson from behind. And then,

「A, a, a, a, aaaaaaah」

「Amai-san-, hang in there! I’ll cast magic to stabilize mind now――」

「I choose you! Stick sugar!!」

Someone’s sanity point would normally get whittled down when seeing a human’s brain matter got stirred around right in front of them.

Aiko was about to use “Soul Repose” with amazing speed, however, Amai-san’s movement was even more amazing.

The bunch of stick sugar that Kaori and others bought together with the café au lait just in case were poured right into her mouth with the fluidity of flowing water and the swiftness of wind, five of them at once.

Crunch crunch. Gulp-. Swee~t♡ Happiness……

Of course, Aiko’s expression became that of the defeated……

But putting that aside.

「O-oi, Mister Nagumo!? Just what in the world are you doing!? He’s still an important suspect for now!」

「T-that’s right! We still need him for investigation! Don’t kill him――no, before that, why are you doing something so brutal!?」

Agent J and K also said their own protests even while feeling shaken up.

「Don’t worry. I don’t plan to kill him and this also won’t leave after effect. I’m just using an artifact that transfer his memory to me directly from his brain.」

「「It’s scary that you can call this as merely “only”!!」」

This time it was Takehiko and Kiyotake who spoke with matching twitching expression. A scene that caused even curse specialist to be creeped out……

As expected from someone with the title of demon god. Hidzuki-san was very impressed, while Vanessa and Claudia were shaking like they were in the presence of the embodiment of evil, or like a small rabbit in the presence of a carnivore.

Shia and Tio smiled wryly while asking for confirmation.

「Hajime-san, just to make sure, what you’re doing is probing his memory right?」

「That artifact art unfamiliar even to me though?」

「Yeah. After all it’ll take a lot of time to see this guy’s memory if he has been maneuvering since Christmas last year.」

The magic of seeing the past in the end was a method to “see” the flow of event whether it was in the shape of projecting the memory to reality or to the back of their mind.

But, this artifact was different. It could extract memory as data and transferred it to the user’s memory.

In other words, it cut the “watching time” and enabled “knowing memory” of the target as knowledge.

「I, I see. Getting the memory directly……」

「Well, if it’s something like that then……it’s fine, I guess?」

J and K accepted for now but they were sweating rivers.

Richard’s brain must be getting whipped around even now. Each time he would convulse while leaking out voice 「A, a, a」. Their reactions couldn’t be helped after seeing such thing.

Because, it was a repulsive sight that wasn’t at all inferior in ghastliness even when compared with the iridescent colored slime.

「……Hajime, you said memory transfer……is it fine? It’s not unclean?」

Yue who was the only one who didn’t get creeped out at all was snuggling close to Hajime in worry instead.

Everyone had a thought. Hey, are you looking? There’s someone convulsing crazily in front of you there. Bodily fluid mixed with blood is trickling out from all holes of his body you know? Aren’t you worrying for the wrong person?

Of course they didn’t say it though.

「Aa, it’s fine. I had tested it many times to the demons to check whether this has any negative influence……I’m finished.」

「As someone who has the established reputation of getting crude treatment despite being a princess, allow me to make a tsukkomi here okay? Hajime-san is always like that! Just what do you think the demons are!」

Of course, Princess Liliana’s tsukkomi was beautifully ignored.

*Zubo-* Hajime pulled out his finger. *Tsuu~~* It felt like there was something trickling down from the tip of the finger armor, but everyone averted their eyes so they didn’t notice.

Richard’s expression had already become peaceful when they returned their gaze. There was also nothing sticking to the finger armor. Of course, there also wasn’t a single scratch on Richard’s head. His head was clean.

The destruction of evidence was also perfect!

「N-Nagumo……you also created something convenient, convenient (?) like that huh. Is it something like the next version of “Urd Glass” or “Villagerization”?」

Despite feeling a bit creeped out, Kousuke asked with his tone intentionally light in order to soften the atmosphere of the place.

「Well yeah. ……Do you want one?」

「No need!!」

It was an extremely energetic reply. Well said! Claudia and others nodded deeply toward Kousuke as though to say that. Rana alone went 「Eh? Kou-kun, is that okay?」 while looking a bit lost. Truly an Hauria.

「I get the gist now. But, there’s one more thing to confirm……or rather I want to deal with it quickly.」

Hajime said that and took out his compass. He poured magic power into it and closed his eyes at the same time to focus.

He was concentrating really deeply. It made the atmosphere so serious everyone hesitated to even say something.

One minute, two minutes……

While strange tension was filling the air, Hajime slowly opened his eyes before long. He did that while his expression became awfully bitter.

「I see. I can sense Sathla though it’s fuzzy, perhaps because she’s a half. But, even though now I have this much information and there’s also Sathla in front me as example for detection target, I still can’t detect “The One Who Follow”.」

Kousuke and others muttered 「Seriously……?」 with disbelieving tones. Yue and others also opened their eyes wide like saucer. Something impossible had just happened. Their reaction was natural.

「Sathla. Based on your story just now, you can talk with

“The One Who Follow” through telepathy right?」

「Umu, exactly. Using telepathic ability they can sense each other even when apart, and it’s also possible to share thought and information. I’m not a pure “One Who Follow” so I can’t give order to them even though I possess the lord’s cell but……it’s possible for me to link up with them and guide their consciousness. If it’s within a limited range then I can also sense them.」

「What’s your effective sensing range?」

「Let’s see……about the radius of a hundred km I guess.」

「Yosh. Yue, use sublimation magic on her.」

「……Nn!」

Sathla became enveloped in golden radiance. 「O-ooooh」 She raised her voice with a tone that could be considered as astonishment or wonder.

Right after that, Hajime opened a “gate” with Crystal Key. The location was near the spot of the attack that he heard from Amai.

Urged by his gaze, Sathla used her telepathic ability through the “gate”. It was to call the specimen that attacked Amai.

「Mu, found them. Three……no, there’re five. They’re gathering in one place.」

「That’s convenient. What’s their distance and direction from the gate?」

「Wait for a while. …………This is……Nagumo-kun. Isn’t this near your home?」

「……What?」

Apparently she had learned the surrounding geography of Nagumo family home from the returnees commotion and the movements of magician organizations and she managed to determine the place from the shared senses.

But the location was problematic. Nagumo family house was fortified like a fortress, and there should be a lot of powerful protectors beside Sumire and Shuu starting from Netemp.

Dangerous aura burst out not only from Hajime, but also from Yue and others. Sathla stepped back a little even while focusing her mind.

「I’m linking my mind to them right now. It looks like they’re concealing themselves in a park nearby. Let me say this just in case but, I don’t feel any hostility from them.」

「……」

Hajime reopened the “gate” at the park near his house while still staying silent.

Sathla must be guiding their mind. After a short while five man in black clothes went through the “gate”. They weren’t wearing hood, and their race and age were also varied.

They didn’t give off any abnormal presence, but there was simply no emotion that could be seen from their eyes and expressions. In that sense they were strange but from a glance they simply looked like human.

「Ah, these people! It’s them! The people who attacked me before Rin-chan sent them flying with some kind of amazing technique using wooden sword! That person is the one who swallowed my bodyguard demon!」

「I know. He’s also in Richard’s memory. They’re members of “Us”. ……Although, their insides are different huh.」

――Tekeli li Tekeli li li

Discordant sound faintly resounded inside their heads. The gazes of the black clothed men turned toward Sathla. But at the same time they also seemed to be strongly conscious toward Hajime.

Everyone could somehow feel it. The men were terribly wary toward Hajime. No, rather,

「……Fumu. It looks like they art afraid of demon god-dono.」

Hidzuki who was most sensitive of “fear” as an apparition saw through inside the heart of the men.

「However, a desire inside them surpass that fear……what? Book? Searching? Presence you say? Don’t tell me, really……?」

Sathla seemed to be communicating something with them. Right after that, the black clothed men’s gazes all moved toward Myuu.

From Ditto of [Pocket Monster].

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