The Death Mage that doesn't want a fourth time

122 The threat lying in wait and the threat closing in

Upon receiving the information from Rodcorte that Amamiya Hiroto had been reincarnated in Origin as the 'Undead' and was now Vandalieu, the faces of the Bravers, as well as Murakami and the others who had deserted them, grew pale. The 'Oracle' Endou Kouya reacted particularly severely; he collapsed onto his knees.

Of course, the reasons the two groups turned pale were different, however.

"How could this have happened! To think that the Undead was him... Amamiya Hiroto, one of our companions!" Minami Asagi shouted. He clutched his head at the realization that he and his companions had exterminated a former classmate as a mere Undead and unknowingly handed the Eighth Guidance, the ones that this former classmate had saved, to a research laboratory for further inhumane research to be carried out on them.

Tendou, Akaki and Mao felt the same way, but it seemed that Asagi felt even more shock because Amamiya had been his own classmate.

"What have we done to such a good guy, someone who risked his life to try to save Narumi!" Asagi groaned.

"Eh?! Minami, you remember Amamiya-kun?!" Izumi asked him.

She had been the class representative and even she didn't remember Amamiya Hiroto; it was very surprising that Asagi remembered him.

"Of course, how could I forget such a good guy!" Asagi said.

"What specifically do you remember?"

"Specifically, you know, when Naruse was about to fall, but he saved her and fell into the ocean instead. Not just anyone could do something like that. And we did something like that to such a guy."

"No, that's a story you heard from Narumi; you didn't see it with your own eyes, right? Do you remember anything other than that... you don't, do you."

Asagi's eyes wandered around restlessly as he searched his memories. "No, but he's a good guy, right?" he said in the end.

"It's true that I've never talked to him before. But I never heard any bad rumors about him, so I thought he was a good person..."

It seemed that both Asagi and Izumi simply remembered that they didn't remember anything about Amamiya Hiroto.

Other than Asagi, the 'Death Scythe' Konoe Miyaji and the 'Venus' Tsuchiya Kanako had been Amamiya's classmates as well, but judging from the fact that they weren't saying anything, it seemed that they didn't remember anything about him either.

"I've realized the weakness of my Inspector once more..." Izumi once again realized that she couldn't detect falsities that she herself assumed were true.

"Who cares about memories of a guy on Earth? Nobody remembers him anyway," said the 'Chronos' Murakami Junpei, who had been the homeroom teacher of Amamiya Hiroto's class, forcefully changing the topic. "The problem is that it's highly likely that he resents us, and the question is whether we can kill him."

Murakami and his group had turned pale not because of a sense of guilt, but because of the fact that there was a being waiting for them in their next life who would have a desire to kill them.

And that being was the 'Undead'... the one who had given the Eighth Guidance their powers. For Murakami, this was quite a bad situation.

"Gazer and the Eighth Guidance are with him as well, right? He already resented us before, but now I'm sure he'll be wanting to kill us even more. Shit!" Murakami cursed.

"No, he was unexpectedly indifferent... Murakami-san, you've received the information that Kaidou Kanata experienced as well, haven't you?" asked Aran.