The Death Mage that doesn't want a fourth time

Side Chapter 16 Preliminary encounter (Origin)

The Eighth Guidance's bombing of the Bravers' headquarters.

This bombing incident caused great damage to the Bravers' reputation, which still hadn't recovered from the 'Fallen hero incident,' where the crimes of Kaidou Kanata, one of the Bravers, were revealed.

Up until then, the Bravers had been literal heroes to the people of Origin.

All of the Bravers' members possessed genius-level talent for magic and tremendous physical capabilities, and each of them had non-magic, special superpowers that had only existed in fictional works.

They came running to help when accidents and disasters happened. They had done many deeds that put them at the forefront of the war against terrorism.

There had even been people worshipping the Bravers as angels sent by a god.

However, once the crimes committed by Kaidou Kanata were made public, it revealed that the Bravers were just humans like the rest.

As the Bravers had been trying to restore their fallen image, the bombing incident had occurred.

Among the casualties were two of the Bravers' members, Shimada Izumi and Machida Aran, and several staff were also injured.

The world expressed sympathy for the Bravers and anger towards the Eighth Guidance. However, this was a defeat that was difficult to erase for the Bravers as an anti-terrorist organization.

Most importantly, two of their companions had been killed.

The loss of Shimada Izumi with 'Inspection,' which allowed her to see through all kinds of falsehoods, and Machida Aran with 'Calculation' that made him a living supercomputer, was a hard blow for the organization, and their companions from Earth of which there had only been a hundred were now two fewer. And these two hadn't died because they were paying for their mistakes like Kaidou Kanata, who had been killed by Shihouin Mari because he had been illegally selling her mother's organs.

The Bravers had been able to act the way they did up until now because these two had been working behind the scenes.

"We'll definitely avenge those three!" exclaimed Minami Asagi, who had been a part of sports clubs on Earth.

There were many like him who raised their fists in fierce anger, advocating that they should punish the Eighth Guidance, and the traitors like Murakami Junpei, with their own hands.

All of the Bravers, including Minami Asagi, knew that all of the members of the Eighth Guidance had been victims of death-attribute research and then been handed over to another research institution while under the Bravers' protection.

Indeed, if the Bravers had acted properly back then, it was possible that these victims wouldn't have become terrorists.

However, the murder of the Bravers' companions couldn't be forgiven.

"Shimada and Machida were our companions who saved our lives countless times! And Mari... she killed Kanata, but she was supposed to atone for her crime! There was no reason for her to be killed by terrorists! Isn't that right?!" shouted Asagi, seeking the agreement of his companions in this space that was completely white, from the floor to the ceiling.

Amemiya Hiroto, and Amemiya Narumi, whose surname had changed from Naruse after marriage, were present. There were over a dozen other Bravers gathered here as well.

All of them were armed with military body armor, knives of all kinds, and the latest gloves that had the functions of a staff built-in internally.

"Exactly!"