The Death Mage that doesn't want a fourth time

77 Abandoning the duchy, unable to forgive the enemy

"Hang on a second, will you?" said the adventurer, casually approaching the reception counter that Vandalieu had frozen stiff in front of. "It's the first time I've heard of this rule change. Can you explain what you mean?"

"Y-you're troubling me. I'm currently dealing with this child –" the receptionist began.

"I have something I want to say about how you're dealing with him. Can you call the Guild Master for me?" said the adventurer.

"You're troubling me," the receptionist repeated. "If you want to make an appeal to the Guild, then, when it is your turn, please tell one of us staff members at the reception counters first."

"I am the A-class adventurer Heinz. I'd like to request a face-to-face meeting with the Guild Master once more, under the authority of an A-class adventurer."

Heinz. It was Heinz.

Vandalieu turned his head as if it was on a creaking hinge, looking at the adventurer standing next to him.

He was a well-featured, strong-willed young man with blonde hair and blue eyes. He was in his early-to-mid-twenties. It was clear from one look at his appearance and equipment that he wasn't an ordinary person.

Though it had changed a little, he had the same voice that Vandalieu had heard in Evbejia, and he matched the physical description given by Riley.

Mom's enemy, the Blue-flamed Sword Heinz!

He was one of the people whom Vandalieu absolutely needed to kill. Vandalieu had heard that Heinz had crossed over to the Orbaume Kingdom, but he hadn't imagined that Heinz would be staying in the Hartner Duchy, nor had he imagined that he would encounter him at this moment.

The resurrection of Darcia was something that was absolutely needed for Vandalieu's "pursuit of happiness." And those who interfered with that needed to be eliminated. That was why he would kill Heinz.

Selling his mother to a fanatic worshipper of Alda had simply been another request for Heinz. It didn't matter if his actions were completely normal and legal in that nation.

It didn't matter what Heinz was thinking and doing now.

The problem was the future, what lay ahead. He had sold Darcia to a religious fanatic once. What reason did Vandalieu have to believe that he wouldn't do the same again? If he had already changed his viewpoint once, who was to say that he wouldn't change it again?

In order to reduce those possibilities to zero, Heinz needed to be killed and destroyed.

Now was a good opportunity to do that.

Of course, Vandalieu couldn't do anything flashy in a place like this where people were watching. He knew that. He could simply poison him or infect him with a disease.

Should he turn his breath, a small amount of his saliva or the substances secreted by his skin into poison? Should he 'accidentally' touch Heinz and infect him with pathogens?

Vandalieu started coming up with these plans, but every time he thought about them, he heard the warnings of Danger Sense: Death in his head.

If he tried to poison Heinz, he would be killed. If he tried to infect Heinz with pathogens, he would be killed.

Either way, the one who would die was not Heinz, but Vandalieu.

Impossible, is this guy invincible or immortal or something?!

He was far too different compared to when he had worked for High Priest Gordan. Vandalieu was astonished at this change, but he couldn't deny the reality in front of him or the death-attribute magic spell that had saved him up until now.