The Death Mage that doesn't want a fourth time

73 Scum approaching from afar and a scoundrel lurking nearby

"I'M NAKED AFTER ALL!" Kanata shouted, having been reincarnated in Lambda stark naked. But immediately afterwards, he regained his composure. Though he hadn't wanted it, he was a man who had received standard training in an army. He hadn't forgotten the danger of making noise over trivial things when in an unknown situation.

Although, if he was really a capable man, he would have kept his composure from the beginning.

Leaving that aside, Kanata looking at his surroundings to examine the situation.

Judging from the height of the sun in the sky, it was a little before noon. He was surrounded by a grass-covered plain with a thicket of shrubs, and there didn't seem to be any dangerous creatures, humans included, nearby.

"They're called 'humans'* in this world, right? It really is like a comic, for there to be sentient races other than humans," said Kanata, examining his own body once more.

TLN*: A different Japanese word, which typically means "mankind", is used to refer to humans in Lambda. This is a translation headache so I'm translating case-by-case based on context.

Though he couldn't see the fine details as he had no mirror, it seemed to him that there had been no change from how he had been in Origin right before his death, other than the fact that the fatal wound in his solar plexus had disappeared. Everything was the exact same, from his trained, lean body to his moles.

And as he had shouted just a moment earlier, he was standing there completely naked, but... as he looked at his surroundings, something caught his eye.

A dead skeleton that had fallen to pieces and its luggage, lying on the ground.

"Could it be that this was what that god meant when he said that he'll 'adjust things so that they work out?'" Kanata wondered.

It seemed unclean and he wasn't pleased with it, but he didn't like the idea of going to kill Vandalieu equipped with a grass skirt and club made from the nearby plants, so he had no other choice.

He searched the luggage to find numerous pieces of clothes, though they looked old, and a single rusty knife. He also found some silver and bronze coins. The owner of these belongings was probably killed by a lion or something.

"Ah, it feels absolutely terrible on the skin," Kanata complained to himself. "It's not cotton, is it... It doesn't have any weird fungi growing on it, does it? Now then, Vandalieu is –"

【This message has been set to play automatically after you have been reincarnated in Lambda.】

"Uwah?! What is this?!" Kanata, surprised to suddenly hear Rodcorte's voice speaking, leapt away from the spot he had been standing on and raised his knife, but the god was nowhere to be seen.

A moment later, he frowned as he realized that he had heard the voice inside his own head.

"Is this supposed to be a game's tutorial or something?"

【Now then, first of all, take some clothes and the money that will allow you to get by for the time being from the nearby corpse's belongings –】

"I mean, I've already got those."

It seemed that Rodcorte's voice was something that had been recorded beforehand, so it wouldn't answer Kanata's questions or change its words based on his actions.

【Next, check your own Status. To do this, simply think about seeing your Status.】

"Status, huh?" Kanata wasn't pleased with the fact that he was being treated like a character in a game, but as instructed, he opened his own Status.