Chapter 130 (1/2)
Volume 2
The Simple Job of Only Perishing to the Hero Volume 4 Chapter 11
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In her second life, she was the daughter of a peddler.
In the middle of a trip, they were betrayed by the vagrants they hired as guards, and her life came to an end.
Having survived, her father the peddler, in order to make sure that victims like him wouldn’t appear again, created an organization to manage the vagrants altogether.
This, was the start of the Adventurer’s Guild.
In her third life, she was the daughter of a Magician.
Seeking the answer to the mystery of why she possessed the memories of someone that wasn’t her, she also became a Magician.
She frantically studied magic, and ended up having expectations of future prospects placed on her at a young age, but even so, the mystery of her memories was left unsolved.
Piling up research, the young lady succeeded in creating the theories behind the 『Reveal Crystal』 at the age of 17.
It was something revolutionary that could confirm a person’s Status through the use of an item.
However, that night, she was killed by another Magician that was jealous of the young lady.
Her research was stolen, and the Magician who created the 『Reveal Crystal』 obtained fame and fortune.
In her fourth life, she lived as an Adventurer.
She sought the strength to protect herself no matter what, and single-mindedly lived virtuously.
Drawn to that young lady, she also gathered comrades that she could trust.
The young lady’s party was said to be number one in the St. Altlis Kingdom, however……they were attacked by a monster in the middle of a wild animal subjugation mission that should have been easy, and were completely destroyed with only one person left alive. Among those that were killed in action, the young lady who was the leader was also included.
Due to the young lady’s group having the first encounter with the enemy of mankind that would eventually be called Ogres, the menace of the Mazoku lead by the existence called Demon King Shuklous was first whispered among mankind.
In her fifth life, the young lady gave up on living on her own strength.
Seeking the protection of a strong force, she polished technical skills appropriate for being protected.
And then, the young lady ended up being employed at an Earl’s residence as a maid.
The residence’s security was solid, and even the Earl had the reputation of being an upright and clean handed person.
The young lady properly performed her duties, and even became liked by the people of the residence.
Things would be fine if it was this place.
The expectations of the young lady who believed that were crushed by the Earl’s son who liked her too much.
In a place where she was half forcibly brought to, the young lady learned of the thing known as the slave trade.
There was a slave only there to have the Earl’s son’s perverted tastes pushed onto her.
The young lady took that young Sylphid lady slave that lamented over her own fate out from that place of confinement.
What she gained in her second life was the art of conversation.
What she gained in her third life was magic.
What she gained in her fourth life was the method of fighting.
Using all of that, the young lady continued her escape to the Jiol Forest Kingdom together with the young Sylphid lady.
On the way there, the young lady lost her life at the hand of an assassin that the Earl’s son had sent.
However, the young Sylphid lady that obtained a strong will in her journey with the young lady made her escape to the Jiol Forest Kingdom.
And then, this case became an international problem, and a thorough enforcement on the prohibition of slave trade as well as harsh punishments towards those that performed slave trades were carried out.
The young lady repeatedly reincarnated.
Every time, she would inherit memories and technical skills.
The young lady desperately tried to escape from her fate of death.
However, the young lady would always be dragged into the revolutionary point of the era……and die there.
The young lady repeatedly had a lives that seemed like she was a sacrifice for those revolutions.
The sixth time.
The seventh time.
The eighth time.
Endlessly repeating that, before long, the young lady……gave up on everything.
Already forgetting what number life she was living, the young lady left her house at the same time she became aware of the thing around her, and went on a journey.
No matter what she did, she would eventually die. In that case, she thought that it would be the same no matter what she did.
Going out into the wilderness, she walked while not holding on to anything.
If I’m just going to die anyway, it’ll be the same no matter where or when it happens──thinking that, she continued to walk on.
Eventually, becoming unable to take another step, the young lady collapsed in the wilderness.
With this place being away from the main road, there should be no one to come across and save the young lady.
Thinking “ahh, so this is where I die this time……”, the young lady looked up at the sky.
In the night sky, there was a large moon.
Seeing that, the young lady remembered her first life.
At that time, the last thing that she looked up at was a large moon.
It was happiness, the memory of that time.
「Why……」
Why, did she end up dying?
Why, did she possess those memories?
Why, couldn’t she be happy?
Why, couldn’t she just live?
Why, did she end up getting reborn?
「I don’t, want to die……I don’t, want to live anymore……」
The young lady simply shed tears.
The young lady no longer knew what she should do.
「……Are you collapsed and dying in a place like this? As expected, finding someone this young collapsed and dying is a first even for me.」
In the young woman’s view, a woman’s face suddenly appeared.
After the fastidious-looking woman confirmed the fact that the young lady was surprised by her, she nodded with a “fumu”.
「She seems to be alive. It can’t be helped. I suppose I’ll pick her up.」
「Eh?」
Just like that, the young lady was held in the woman’s arms.
She had fluffy and wavy blue hair, thin eyes that had the impression of being strict, and firm lips.
Beautiful like a sculpture……the clothes of the woman who suited that expression was something that the young lady knew of very well……However, if it was someone of that occupation, it was also an appearance that they would never have.
It was maid clothes that had blue as the basic tone, and armor that covered the chest area. A sword hung at her waist, and a shield was carried on her back.
Looking like a maid, yet looking like a knight……She was a mysterious woman.
While being held in that woman’s arms, the young lady lost consciousness.
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When she woke up, she was beside a warm fire.
In front of the crackling fire, there was the figure of the woman sharpening what looked like a kitchen knife.
「Nn……So you have awoken.」
While checking on the polish of a kitchen knife that gleamed from the light of the flames, the woman called out to the young lady.
The young lady alternately gazed at that kitchen knife and the fire.