Death March kara Hajimaru Isekai Kyusoukyoku Vol 16 Chapter 42

Published at 2nd of October 2018 10:02:29 PM

Chapter 42: 42
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on Monday, April 2, 2018ein zwei

16-42. [Judicial Nation] Sheriffald (6) Satou here. It's easy to predict moves of people who are true to their desires and objectives, regardless if they're just or evil. While it's not that simple to read the action patterns of altruistic people.

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"That's Saga Empire's--"

The audience buzzed in whispers.

"--Hero Seigi."

As if their words never reached Hero Seigi, he grandly stepped forward toward the judge.

Everyone's eyes are gathered at Hero Seigi.

Clad in faint blue light, his steps showed no hint of hesitation.

This boy sure is quite brazen considering he was just an ordinary middle schooler until only recently.

"I'm back."

Arisa suddenly showed up next to me.

"Good work, Arisa. Your timing was perfect."

"Fer' sure. All that staling tactics were really tiresome, but it was all worth it after hearing Master's praise."

I had asked Arisa to bring Hero Seigi here at this timing.

Arisa is clinging on my arm while saying something like, "Hey Master, I don't mind perverted reward, you know?", but guess I should just ignore her like usual.

"Hero Seigi-dono, what do you have to object?"

The judge inquired Hero Seigi.

"I know--"

Hero Seigi covers his face with his hand and looks around at the surrounding people from between his fingers.

Blue light dwells in his eyes.

"--that you are evil! Pitch darker evil than anyone here!"

And then he vigorously pointed his finger at a certain person.

"T-the chief?"

Inspector Starry behind the chief let out his surprise.

That's right, the one whom Hero Seigi pointed at was the Chief of the Central Judicial Bureau.

"The Ogre of Impartial Law is 『Evil』?"

"He may be a hero, but he's still a kid after all. Someone must have instigated him into it."

The people around us don't seem to think the Chief to be evil.

"I am evil you say? What evidence do you--"

"I'm the evidence!"

Hero declared so while being clad in blue light.

"The 『Justice Mind's Eye (There is only one Truth)』 and 『Evil Search (Where's the Bad People at)』 bestowed to me by Parion-sama informed me! That you are evil! In the name of Parion-sama, I declare here! You are evil!"

I think the chief was asking for evidence, but Hero Seigi made a declaration under god's name as if that didn't matter.

In a world where gods exist for real, the words of heroes beckoned by gods themselves carry much weight.

At the very least, the countless Truth Discerners here should be able to testify that he hasn't told a lie.

Still, nevertheless, some people just don't know when to give up.

"Without any evidence--"

『I went and made a fictitious organization and it was for nothing.』

Another voice overlapped with the Chief's.

"T-this is the chief's voice?"

"T-that's!"

"The chief's room."

A video showing the chief's back from diagonally above got projected here.

This recording was taken by the Sage Mice that had snuck in.

The image quality is not the best due to the limitation of the portable recorders, please don't mind it.

『We must prune out all the abscesses to turn this imperfect country into a perfect country only for justice, and humans. For the sake of destroying all evil--』

The recording stops there, so I make it repeat back to the beginning.

Since He wasn't going to show his true color even after all the shake-up, I made the Sage Mice to burn Confession Incenses before they could finally take the recording earlier, but his self-control was too strong, the monologue ended abruptly.

But there was no mention of [Crime Syndicate Dujii] in the recording, and no evidence that he knew about the crimes, thus I made use of Hero Seigi's Unique Skill and Hero's brand.

"I can't believe it was the chief who created Crime Syndicate Dujii..."

Inspector Starry who's under the Chief's protection fell on his knee.

"It appears that God Urion had foreseen everything."

While saying that to the Chief, I leveled the [Golden Scale] back.

"I-I did it for the sake of justice. To turn this country where injustice runs rampant into a perfectly just country..."

"Chief."

The vice-chief stepped forward and stopped in front of the chief who was talking to himself.

"No one person is completely clean."

"I know that much! That's why I'm going to eliminate evil--"

"What's the standard of that evil?"

"Isn't it obvious! The law of Sherrifald is justice! Anyone who violates the law is evil!"

They've started some troublesome conversation on their own somehow.

I was going to quickly end this by branding the Chief guilty by way of [Golden Scale] trinket, but the vice-chief went on to try to correct the chief's self-righteousness.

Next to me, Arisa is getting busy like, "That's not right!", "Yup, yeah, figured."

I turned around because I thought it was weird for Hero Seigi to keep silent in this situation, his mouth was wrapped in red bandage-like thing.

Seems to be the doing of the bandage user attendant from back then.

"W-was my justice mistaken all along..."

"Haste makes waste and only sows discords. Tomorrow rather than today, the day after tomorrow rather than tomorrow, we have no choice but to correct it little by little."

"That's why, you were--"

The Chief and the Vice-chief are now looking at each others' eyes.

I don't really care what happened afterward so long as I satisfied God Urion's order, but this would likely lead into a country without leadership if it kept up, so I decided to project the last recording.

『The illegal brewery has been exposed. Yet so many still demand liquor. If this keeps up, there will be more smugglers coming from Corrupt City Dodobu, and that country's cloud of influence will only grow larger. And it's Dodobu that houses many beastkin people who bear grudges on our country. None would be the wiser if they put something among the smuggled liquor... Dyeing your hands in evil to protect your country, what an irony...』

The content is not dissimilar to the one with the chief earlier, however no one jeered at this.

『Hero and an Earl who took on the [Trial of God Urion] huh.... I loathe to borrow the powers of foreigners, but this country has no capability to save itself from itself anymore. It shouldn't surprise anyone if they came to the conclusion that I'm the head of Dujii if they were to check on the documents. Perhaps I might as well confess and drag along people that Inspector Stary is investigating with me, laying bare this country's abscesses in broad daylight to public....』

There was no real need to show this scene, but I put it on the screen anyway.

"Vice-chief Bupa!"

"You're the true patriot!"

People who look like they've been overcome by emotions are praising vice chief.

About half of them seem to be acting, but since the vice-chief is needed to run this country, I'm keeping my mouth shut.

"But why? That guy's evil too y'know?"

Hero Seigi said that while looking like he couldn't comprehend, but unfortunately, it seemed to fall on deaf ears.

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『--Thou has laid bare evils under light, and corrected injustice. I shall grant thee my mark.』

While being bathed in indigo light, I was informed of the trial's completion at Main Urion Temple's oracle room.

>Title [Urion's Mark] Acquired

>Title [One Approved by Urion] Acquired.

>Title [Urion Saint] Acquired

>Title [Urion Apostle] Acquired

>Title [Wiretapper] Acquired

>Title [Candid Shooter] Acquired

Delete the last two please, they make me look like a criminal.

My consciousness goes back to the temple after brief words of God Urion.

Inside a light dawning from heavens, particles of light gather into one item.

--Spectacles?

It's a spectacles with gilded rims adorned with an indigo colored gem called [Cyanite].

Unlike ordinary specs, the hinges are decorated with rustic and odd looking embossed carving.

According to AR readings, this [Golden Spectacles] is enhanced with an effect similar to Hero Seigi's Unique Skill, [Justice Mind's Eye], or [Eye of Conviction].

Feels like it's the first time I've gotten an item I wanted after all these trials.

After firmly refusing Head Temple's invitation to the feast celebrating the trial completion, I left the temple.

I mean the temple's meals are of the same bad tasting variety as the city's dinery.

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I was met with a scene of Hero Seigi yelling [You're evil!] at a bakery shopkeeper in front of the store.

The shopkeeper was dragged away by the bandage attendant while shouting, "I'm not the only one! Everyone is doing it too!"

It kinda piqued my curiosity so I tasked Arisa and the girls to ask around about the situation.

Hero Seigi turned around when he noticed me.

"Did you come here to brag your victory, Pendragon?"