The Death Mage that doesn't want a fourth time

80 The man who comes to an end with his third time

Kanata, who knew that Vandalieu was headed for the area beneath the castle through his Target Radar, clicked his tongue in frustration.

In an underground area with limited space, he couldn't use his abilities to their full potential.

If he were to release his magic with full power, his own life would be endangered by a cave-in. Even if he used Gungnir to pass through the dirt, he wouldn't be able to do anything about the lack of oxygen.

And the gun that he was so proficient with... in Lambda, it had become Archery, but he could imagine that it would be difficult to fire underground, where there would be many obstacles. He could use Gungnir to make the arrows he fired pass through such obstacles, but his eyes wouldn't be able to see through them.

That was why he had used infrared scopes and detection spells to identify his targets' locations in Origin, but... infrared scopes didn't exist in Lambda and if he recited an incantation for a detection spell, there was a chance that Vandalieu would sense it and Kanata would be the one being located.

Thinking that there was no other choice, Kanata had given up on sniping Vandalieu from afar and started to think about a close-range assassination.

He had decided to continue with the plan of attacking Vandalieu here rather than waiting for another opportunity with better conditions for the assassination or creating a better plan to create such conditions. He knew that Vandalieu's mobility was superior to his so there was a chance that Vandalieu would simply run away, but the bigger reason was that he wanted to get this job over and done with so he could begin his fourth life.

And in order to purify the spirits haunting him (although at this point, they had already left him to go to Vandalieu), he had poured holy water, which he had obtained from one of the female adventurers he had raped, over himself.

The moment he had on Target Radar and used Gungnir to pass through the walls and floor to get underground, he had realized that Vandalieu had noticed him.

It wasn't a skill that told him this. Despite being a degenerate individual, he was an experienced combatant who had been through countless battles to the death; it was his instincts that told him that he had been noticed.

"Wait! Listen to what I have to say! I'm sorry for what I did back then, please forgive me!"

Having revealed himself faster than he had planned, Kanata kneeled on the ground.

He's bigger than the information that the god gave me would suggest. And he's got so many monsters with him that I have no information about. What are those things that look like flaming people?

Kanata performed a desperate-looking apology. But Vandalieu, who seemed to have gained many pawns, was being held in contempt in Kanata's mind for having an interest in such bizarre creatures.

"... What are you playing at?" Vandalieu asked.

Kanata could feel his heart applauding the fact that Vandalieu had chosen to engage in conversation rather than attacking. He's naïve after all, Kanata thought.

"D-don't you remember what happened in Origin? I'm Kaidou Kanata; I was one of the students from the same high school as you," said Kanata.

Of course, Vandalieu, who had already heard Kaidou Kanata's name from the spirits, had a good idea of who he was. There wouldn't be anyone in Lambda with the surname "Kaidou," after all.

Even if that weren't the case, everything about Kanata's words and actions were too strange, so Vandalieu hadn't been able to imagine that Kanata was anything but someone who had reincarnated from Origin.