5-12. Maze of Trazayuya 3 (2/2)
”Is your purpose a hero?”
”Indeed.”
”Then, couldn't you just go to the Saga empire without doing this roundabout charade?”
I asked with harsh voice. I've been shocked with the tragic deaths of the women, my heart has become restless.
”Fumu, Parion's hero eh. When I went there, the hero had been sent back home.”
”Don't you know that there's a next generation?”
”Ah, so it's already that season eh. However, the time is not right.”
”What do you mean?”
”You wouldn't understand even if I explain.”
It seems that he won't answer.
While having the dialogue, I'm calming my heart down.
”Hey magician, do you really only want to die?”
”The right answer to that question should be no.”
”I don't want to have a Zen dialogue.”
Hearing that answer, the magician is laughing like a mad man.
Two purple lights lines are sipping through his hood.
”Kuhahaha, I see, so you're a comrade who has also come from the land of the god.”
”I don't know any such country.”
No wait, I think ancient Japan has been called that a long time ago.
”Kakakaka, it's useless to put on false front, what did you pray, wish, and desire from the ruthless god?”
”I did not hope for anything.”
I haven't even meet one.
”If there was one, then I had wished for a rest I guess?”
I wished hard for that one.
”Fuhahaha, such selflessness. Truly worthy to be a hero.”
”You, what did you wish for?”
Yes, why is your race not human.
”Don't you know it? Don't you see it? Yes, I am the king of night, an immortal existence. What I wished from the omnipotent god was a body that won't die, a live without starvation, and power to strike back at unreasonable violence.”
”So that's why you were born with that body...”
The magician shakes his head while spreading his arms horizontally.
”You're reading too far. The god had let me reincarnated in a body of a healthy baby. And arranged me to be raised by good parents who I could respect, and met a pure lovely spouse who was more than I deserved.”
Then, why?
”I became too accustomed with my new life. Even though I was robbed by unreasonable violence in my previous life, in this life it was done differently.”
The magician takes off his hood.
”I was prisoned by a noble who fell in love with my wife and executed under false charge. The first view that I saw when I was resurrected in this figure was the head of my whole family starting with my parents in front of the castle. And underneath them was my broken doll-like corpse of my wife...”
Tears aren't dripping on his white cheeks.
Purple flames are raging from his eyes sockets.
”Your pity is unnecessary. I changed the corpses of my whole family into undead, and along with the corpses of the people with the same circumstance as me, we bared our fangs toward the noble and completely destroyed everything.”
There is no way for him to shed tears.
Because his figure is that of a white skeleton.
”I, who had completed my revenge, intended to depart to the next world where my wife is waiting. However, the blessing from the god cannot allow that. Even with the purification technique (Turn Undead), or with the holy sword that I got with much hardship, I wasn't able to die.”
He said, ”Truly god's blessing (curse).”
”Come now, hero. I've said all that need to be said. Stab me to bring my end! At the very least, kill me before even my heart turned into demon lord.”
The magician Zen, no, Immortal King (No-Life King) Zen, said so.
Accepting those words filled with insanity, I pull out the holy sword, Gjallarhorn.
It's a curious sword with drill-shaped edges.
I raise the sword as if praying, then stab No-Life King Zen with all my might.
”Kuha, kuhahaha. Ena, my other half of wings. I'm going to you now...”
Zen's body is destroyed by crumbling into dust.
The robe falls and spreads out on the ground.
I could faintly hear, ”My gratitude”, in the end.
>Title [No-Life King Slayer] acquired
>Title [Maze Traveler] acquired