Isekai Tensei – Kimi to no Saikai made Nagai koto Nagai koto

Chapter 151 Ruler

From the beginning he’s the kind of guy that would be okay as long as he can do some amusing stuff. Even if his subordinates betrayed him, even if he were to fall into the depths of the earth, he won’t get particularly disturbed or panicked. He gave off the feeling that he couldn’t care less about his subordinates whom he didn’t even trust to try to rescue him.

Despite me being not wanted to get involved with this kind of guy as much as possible, in the end I ended up searching for him and by my own will came to this place. I’m such a miserable person.

“Hasn’t it already two years? You must have never thought that we’ll be meeting again like this in this kind of situation, right? Why have you come, Asakura-kun?” (Kagami)

“I got caught.” (Velt)

“Hah? Got caught? Really! Eh, the Asakura-kun who walks on the happy road of life got caught? What the hell, that’s just sucks!” (Kagami)

Despite always being imprisoned and inside a foul and harsh environment he seemed to be quite energetic to be able to blabber so well like that.

Uncut hair and beard were covering his whole face, however despite how his appearance had changed there’s nothing else that changed about him, I well understood that he hasn’t reflecting even a tiny bit at all.

“And~ what kind of thing you had done Asakura-kun? Did you finally make those princesses angry? Ain’t you friggin’ awesome if that really happened?” (Kagami)

Against Kagami who was bending forward in excitement, I only answered with a single summarization.

“I got to know Holy King’s script.” (Velt)

“……………My………” (Kagami)

Either he found that to be outside his predictions or as he predicted, Kagami let out a stupid sounding voice.

Just by looking at his condition made me filled with feelings close to intention to kill.

“It’s your damn fault, Kagami. Because of you saying that half assed joke Mannie made me become the leader or something of that organization and Tyler just need to get reeled in with it. And in the process of Tyler convincing me into it, I ended up knowing of the script of the world.” (Velt)

Yeah, that’s how it was. I arrived here because I rejected Tyler’s proposal and ended up knowing about all those stuff. Everything began from this guy.

However, Kagami didn’t shy away from what I said one bit. He grinned and became defiant instead.

“Thanks to me you got to know it, right? Those war and justice are just bullsh*t.” (Kagami)

I got unnecessarily irritated since I can’t refute it.

“The ones who knew about this truth are only the Holy King, the six holy knights, and the six kings. After that me and Mannie-chan also know about it. And now you’re also in the know too.” (Kagami)

“There’s another one. Another person who had arrived at the same truth together with me, one of the Demon Kings.” (Velt)

“Fufu…… and? I’ll let you check what you’ve come to understand with me if you want. Wanna have a go?” (Kagami)

The truth of the world I came to know two years ago.

“Two years ago, the three races’ war appeared to be in a balanced state, however the difference of their military strength was already clear as day. What made this balance possible was because the demons and demihumans can’t take command of their own continent. That’s why they can’t muster all their strength in the war against other races.” (Velt)

That’s right, originally the Jigoku Demon Kingdom, a single country can herd the Great Human Alliance Army to the brink of annihilation, what made them unable to do that until now was because they’re on the lookout for other demon kingdoms’ attack and raid.

And it was the same with the demihumans. As the humans were fighting with the entire force the human race can muster taking command of the whole continent, the demihumans and demons were only fighting with the strength of one country. That’s why we didn’t able to beat them.

“Yep, I know right. Those Seven Great Demon Kings and Four Heavenly Beast Demihumans, If only they just cooperate with other countries from the beginning they must have become unbeatable already, right? Well, that’s where they’re different from how the humans are thinking, they’re way more thoroughly idiot than humans.” (Kagami)

“Yea, and that’s exactly why this warring era has a really simple composition. If one were to look at this three-way deadlock of a war, they can see that the powers between them aren’t balanced at all. Should either demons or demihumans start to cooperate with other countries the ones to be the quickest to fall into ruin gonna be the humans.” (Velt)

That’s right, it’s something really simple. Just look at how many of the Ten Heroes of Light that have been sacrificed in the war against Jigoku Demon Kingdom, among the three races the humans were the weakest, they’re the ones that have the biggest chance to be destroyed.

“Correct. The Holy King and holy knights are after all, humans. They have to think of a way to ensure that the humans won’t perish and keep maintaining the continuation of humans. However, it is almost impossible to win and survive in the war. That’s why they have no choice but to think of other way.” (Kagami)

Yes, as Kagami said that much, I also nodded and spoke out what I found two years ago.

“They bring out the divine race, that so called fourth existence then the war went quieted down at once. They spread out the [lie] where the divine race gonna be revived once the balance of military power collapsed. And in the mean time, they make preparation for the artificial revival of the divine race, and by using divine race’s power, they will annihilate the demons and demihumans in one go.” (Velt)

“Cooorrect.” (Kagami)

Exactly, all of this wasn’t for the world but for the survival of humans. Love and Peace was established for the sake of that purpose.

・The first to be destroyed in the three races war is the humans.

・After the humans has been, destroyed demons and demihumans will be on full scale war. Whoever win in the end they will bear huge sacrifices.

So Tyler and his group used that.

・Then they spread the lie where once the demons’ and demihumans’ war came to an end the divine race will revive and eradicate all the races.

・This will make the demons and demihumans hesitate and prevent any big war from happening.

However, as they were spreading the lies of divine race revival, there were also those that didn’t believe in it that easily. That’s why they need to bring in the important guys from the demons and demihumans.

・As Love and Peace brought in the people of the class of Seven Great Demon Kings and Four Heavenly Beast Demihumans, they will fan up the sense of danger towards divine race revival to them and later on those people will rein in the conflicts inside each of their own races.

And then, as the conflicts quieted down they then will proceed with their preparations.

“Divine race’s military prowess. It is the power like machine dragons that’s able to threaten the world. I don’t really understand how but it seems the Holy King and holy knights are capable of controlling the revived divine race.” (Velt)

“Aah, I heard something like that too. And, with that power they will use it to get rid of other races. And like this they will make the world into human only world. Hihahaha, it’s an awesome script no matter how I see it~.” (Kagami)

“Yeah, to the point I’m sick of it. Not only I don’t want to be burdened with that kind of lie I also don’t want to betray them, I’m being tied to them that much after all.” (Velt)

“Yup, it’s betrayal. It’s because to the organization we call Love and Money, joining hands with the demihumans and demons isn’t for the sake of peace. They’re in the end nothing more than being used under the pretext of divine race countermeasure.” (Kagami)

The moment I learned of this truth I got hit hard by Tyler. I thought I got beaten with all of his strength. However, as the result of that I arrived here like this.

“Ooh… so you lost, Asakura-kun.” (Kagami)

“No, it’s not like I lost… it’s just there were a lot of stuff going on.” (Velt)

“Hihahahaha, hmm? Huh? Don’t you think it’s weird? Whether you know the truth or not you got locked up here after all, I thought your friends definitely won’t keep quiet about this? You have lots of those friggin’ awesome girls with you, right?” (Kagami)

“Yeah…… I [had] them.” (Velt)

That’s right, I had them. The me of two years ago that is.

“Past tense? What do you mean, could it be they dead already?” (Kagami)

“No, they’re alive. Even in the newspaper they gave me, they seemed to be energetically doing a lot of stuff after all.” (Velt)

“……Fuuuh…… Then what? Eeh? Could it be, you got abandoned? They got tired of you? Eeh? Really really?” (Kagami)

The guy’s eyes got fiery and glittering as if finding it interesting, what the heck is this guy. It’s not like I got abandoned or anything. Well, it can be said to be something close to that though.

“Hey, Kagami. What’s the special trait of this big prison?” (Velt)

“Hm? What’s wrong with that?” (Kagami)

“For the sake of defending against attacks and infiltration from the outside, the outer part of the prison is covered by a strong magic barrier. That’s why you didn’t realize it, you also wasn’t in the range of it’s effect. It was that magic, the one that the Six Holy Knights unleashed upon the world two years ago.” (Velt)

At that moment, Kagami tilted his head. It felt like it’s the first time for him to make a surprised face.

He looked at my face really really intensely…

“Asakura-kun… are you crying?” (Kagami)

“!!” (Velt)

I didn’t realize it. My vision has become blurred. When I came to, my eyes already accumulated tears, with just a small blink they seemed going to spill out.

“No- none of your business……” (Velt)

Other than knowing this truth, what else actually happened to me? What I actually had lost? Just by the thought of that made me lose strength this much, I’ve never thought I could become like this.

As if to gloss over it I shook my head, It’s just, I can’t help but being glared at by Kagami.

“As I know of the truth but don’t cooperate with them, Tyler’s group can only see me as a threat. And though I know of that truth I can’t go and speak out about it. Because once I do that the human race will get an all out attack by both the demons and demihumans and then be doomed.” (Velt)

In the end, I can’t do anything. Even though I knew the truth I can neither agree to it nor go against and destroy it, I can do nothing. And because I can’t do anything I ended up always being locked up down here like this.

What can I even do?

“Kagami, I’m fine with not knowing this kind of truth. I’m fine with not having anything to do with it. But you see, all of this began because of your damn fault.” (Velt)

In the end, the only thing I can do is…… venting my anger to him.

When I came to, there’s a mass of compressed air whirlpool inside my hand.

“………It seems you don’t come to me to reminiscence about the past, eh. The reason you’re searching for me…… is it for revenge?” (Kagami)

Me make him cry and beat the hell out of him right now, it’s all pointless. I already well understood that.

“I just…… want to look for Kamino…… and after that, I just, want to live like usual. Why, ……why did you went and dragged me into all of this!”

If he didn’t recommend me to be the leader of Love and Peace, I could have just live freely without knowing anything.

If he just kept his mouth shut.

“Bastard! You destroyed it all! Kagami!” (Velt)

I didn’t care. Even if he’s my former classmate, this magma like anger that boiled inside me just won’t cool down.

In these two years, as I lived my life like a lazy pig, I was in anguish, I’ve thought it countless times and in the end what I arrived at was, how come things became like this? There’s nothing but that.

Though I’ve experienced death once but as I was about to kill this guy who didn’t have any attachment or affection to this world, he then went and said something like as if not in suffering at all.

“……………But, you won’t kill me, right?” (Kagami)

Even so, I want to frickin’ kill you. I was thinking like that but why the hell I can’t just kill him!

“Sh*t… Sh*t! Sh*t sh*t sh*t sh*t sh*t! What the hell have I done! I didn’t do anything! Why the hell am I in this place! Why! What the hell is this life of Velt Jeeha!” (Velt)

When I realized it, I already screamed.

Despite all those time and labors I spent to be finally able to arrive here without being caught, I still ended up shouting without a care in this place deep beneath the earth.

Everything just felt so painful that I ended up only thinking of wanting to vent and be at ease.

“Who’s there!”

“You, state your name and division!”

“Wait! That… that’s, Velt Jeeha! Why is he in this floor! Moreover, why is he wearing our uniform!”

I made too big of a disturbance with my big voice. The jailers who sensed something unusual happened brought out their weapons and rods appearing one after another, I’ve been surrounded.

In their eyes, I was able to feel confusion and a slight thirst for blood but I don’t really care.

“Velt Jeeha! We were told by the general to pay extra attention in watching over you. So how the hell did you get here! By what means you able to arrive here! What’s your purpose with coming here! Answer me!”

Since I had Tyler with me I bet they wouldn’t kill me but my life from now on might be getting more strict…… but, somehow I also didn’t really care about that.

In the end I didn’t able to do anything. Even the revenge to Kagami, the only thing I thought I could do, I still didn’t able to do it.

I just felt I wanted to disappear and die.

“Asakura, there’s one thing you can do.” (Kagami)

At that moment, as if something evil appeared in his mind, Kagami grinned broadly and turned to face me.

“To prevent the destruction of human race and ensure the continuation of the demons and demihumans…… it left you with only one way.” (Kagami)

My senses awakened spontaneously to those words that sounded like coming from the devil.

“Stop speaking nonsense, Mackey Mouse! Velt Jeeha, you need to stay away from that place!”

This guy, what the hell is he saying? There’s a way? What does he mean by that?

“Asakura. In short, the humans, demons, demihumans, even divine race, you should just remove that idiotic racial conflict among them.” (Kagami)

“What do you mean?” (Velt)

“Asakura-kun, why do you think the world is always in a war? Can you tell what’s the cause that justify this war?” (Kagami)

What is he saying now?

The reason to do war?

To protect their own races? Grudge? Justice? When I list it, there’s no end to it.

“It’s hella simple. In short, it is to obtain the Divine Race Continent. If I were to say it, they’re warring to occupy that big, rich in resources and land of a continent…… Also, it’s because that continent doesn’t have a ruler.” (Kagami)

That’s right, it is the fundamental cause of the war.

Those dispatched to the Divine Race Continent would fight in the war. And because of that the war in this world has been continuing for countless years.

“Then, you should just become it’s ruler.” (Kagami)

“Ah? Kagami… what the hell are you saying?” (Velt)

I spontaneously shivered.

Why is he saying something like that in a way that felt like he is asking to go out to the karaoke as if just going with the flow?

“Be separated from the human races, demons, demihumans, Love and Money, or even the gods. You, Velt Jeeha, yourself, will be the ruler of the divine race continent then everything will be fine. No one will lay their hands on you, you will become the one and only existence like that.”

There’s no way something like that can happen.

“If war kept on happening in the divine race continent, then you should just chase everyone out. If they still want to do war in their own continent then just let them be. How about it? Friggin’ awesome, right?” (Kagami)

It is not to erase the war by defeating and destroying the enemy but to erase it by driving them away?

It’s obviously impossible dammit. Or you want to say, you want those heroes, demon kings, and those beasts from the whole world to drive me away instead?

“Are you idiot? You want me to start world conquest?” (Velt)

“Exactly, it’s awesome and easy to understand right?” (Kagami)

It’s really idiotic. This guy…

“Kagami, at the empire you laid your hands on my old friends and killed them.” (Velt)

“The ones who did it was the cyclops though?” (Kagami)

“Not only you made me fell into this situation, you did an even more a pain in the ass thing on top of that, do you having fun in harassing people?” (Velt)

“Exactly♪” (Kagami)

Really, what a stupid talk.

“I’ll say it in a simple way. I ain’t can trick anyone with lies. That’s why, sooner or later I’d be ended up turning everyone into enemies.” (Velt)

“Yes that, how ‘bout you just turn on them like that?”

If I obey to Tyler’s words, the world of Ura and the demons with her also Musashi and the demihumans with her will be destroyed.

In the wake of the divine race revival, this condition where the big war was calming down won’t be able to continue for long.

The world wide reconciliation of humans, demihumans, and demons will absolutely be stopped.

As long as the Divine Race Continent exist, the living creatures will always try to devour that world.

“Asakura-kun, it was like that in our world too. Were the fellow humans in that world all able to understand each other? We just didn’t know it, the world has always been overflowing with war.” (Kagami)

“Cut your crap! Shut up!” (Velt)

“And, since you and me are in the side of the world, in side of the life that are in the know, we can no longer go to the side where we stay uninvolved. Yup, we can’t be just onlookers no more.” (Kagami)

And why the hell am I should be the one to do anything about that?

“Why should it be me?” (Velt)

“Who knows? Maybe because it’s you?” (Kagami)

Because it’s me?

“You can’t be evil, you’re just plain bad. Moreover, your heart is so soft that it blatantly reeks of small fry. Did you know? Rather than an absolutely perfect cheat like bastard, people feel more liking to a helpless guy, it makes them want to help him. I’ve been saying it from long time ago right? A stupid kid is way more adorable.” (Velt)

“What the, why the hell are you dissing me so blatantly.” (Velt)

“I’m not wrong, right? You’re stupid and bad. But when you need to do your best, you do it, that tickled into Ayase-chan’s and Biyama-chan’s maternal instinct, right?” (Kagami)

Geez, it’s such an ambiguous reason that I couldn’t say anything.

Me becoming the world’s ruler? The heck with that topic.

“But you see, to protect everything in the end you have no choice but to do this. And, for someone like you the only way I can think of and possible is this kind of stupid method. You’re half assed at pretending to be cold hearted. You can’t abandon your humans, demons, and demihumans friends.” (Kagami)

Yeah, it might be like that.

I didn’t have any interest to whoever died in the war at the dark side of the world. As long as Forna and others didn’t die then I was fine with that. But I wasn’t able to say anything, I no longer able to just ignore when someone died. It’s because I’ve met too many of them. I’ve made too many connections with them.

For example right now, despite I just want to cut away from all of them.

“Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaah, sh*t! No one wants to die, none of them!” (Velt)

Really, it’s better if I didn’t know. If I knew things would become like this, it’s better if I didn’t meet them. Had I didn’t meet with the demons and demihumans, I wouldn’t be in this much of suffering.

“Seems I got no choice.” (Velt)

Everything’s already too late.

Then, if I have no other choice, I will turn upon them all. It irritated me to no end being coaxed by this bastard’s cajolery. Maybe those cyclopes who once worked together with him before must have felt the same. And then, it’s now my turn to feel it. Really, I’m such a stupid small fry.

“Me being a small fry? Bring it on. I’m hella become one, that kind of small time scoundrel.”

When I realized it I’ve been using my power, I twisted and broke the jail bars and the chains that restrained Kagami.

“What!”

“Ve- Velt Jeeha, wh- wha- what the hell are you doing!”

This isn’t Japan. This isn’t even the earth. What is justice, what is evil, what is right, what is wrong, in the end I just lived seventeen years of my life without knowing any of it.

“I’m gonna do it, that thing you just talked. And I’mma make you work like a horse pulling a cart. I’ll be the one to drag you into the whole mess this time. This be my revenge.” (Velt)

“My my~?” (Kagami)

“I’ve had enough of thinking all the complicated stuff. I’mma just beat the crap out of those who blocked my way and those guys who pissed me off too. I’m gonna be the one who conquer the Divine Race Continent. I’m gonna throw out all those who come there and make them all unable to step their foot there anymore.” (Velt)

Yeah, that’s right. Rather than tricking everyone and living thoughtlessly, I’ll just make everyone else my enemies and live freely.

“Hihahaha, really? The hell is that, friggin’ awesome! I mean, Asakura-kun, you want me to be your comrade?” (Kagami)

“I don’t have any comrade. I just have slaves I can use.” (Velt)

“Sick! Dirty! What the heck is that! I mean, you don’t trust me at all, aren’t you afraid I’m gonna betray you?” (Kagami)

“Hah? Idiot. You’re just Kagami. No way in hell I’m scared sh*tless against someone like you.” (Velt)

That’s right, I will live once again. In this world.

At the thought of that both me and Kagami felt like we had back to the times in high school.

“Now then, since I’ve had enough sleep, why don’t I go out after all these two years?” (Velt)

“Hihahahaha, it’s a world I don’t really care anymore but… it feels like I wanna see it a bit more somehow. I wanna see what you’re gonna do, what things you’re gonna change!” (Kagami)

When I realized it, we’re already in a bit of high spirit. The kids we are, childishly being in high spirit just like kids.