Chapter 160.2 - The One who He Wanted to Protect

Chapter 160.2 - The One who He Wanted to Protect

But I can't feel any presence inside. As if there's no one inside.

Upon hearing Mei-chan mutter so, I guessed that someone might have been living on this floor, but Hinagiku-san was definitely in another room. Or else, she might've some sort of skill which hides her presence from us. Depending on her ability, it wasn't impossible to achieve at least that much.

Let's go looking for her carefully, she might be aiming for the moment of our carelessness.

Yeah.

I summoned more skeletons in order to cope with any kind of situation that might happen and started looking for her butOur search ended as soon as we started.

We found Hinagiku Saya.

I see so this is the reason huh

She was sleeping peacefully on top of the bed which was made by Sakurai-kun. I was sure that she would sleep peacefully like this, forever.

Because I knew that Hinagiku Saya had already passed away.

K-Kotaro-kun, this mean

Looking at her current condition, it seems quite some time has passed since Hinagiku-san passed away. Her body started to show the signs of rotting. I don't know the exact time, it might be around one or two weeks ago, but it's definitely not more than one month ago.

Even my untrained eyes could tell that Hinagiku Saya had already died. I didn't even have to check her pulse and breath to confirm that fact. Her body was clean without any external wound but her complexion was something that none other human-made except for the dead.

Then, Sakurai-kun is

Maybe, he simply couldn't accept the fact that his girlfriend had already died.

He had gone mad. Yeah, that was the only explanation for his behaviour.

And that explained what he did to us. I couldn't feel a shred of hesitation in Sakurai-kun's actions even though he had never killed a person before. He was very straightforward in threatening his own classmate to go looking for a potion to cure Hinagiku-san.

Behind that seemingly calm facade turned out to be a boundless, raging madness.

N-No way, Sakurai-kun

The one who was shocked the most was Mei-chan, the one to personally killed Sakurai-kun.

If only if only Sakurai-kun had accepted Hinagiku-san's death, we might be able to work together with him.

Presence IsolationSurpress your presence, become one with shadow so that you can move stealthily.

Eagle EyeEagle-like eyes, you can see something far away accurately.

Even though he was an archer, none of his basic skills were related to bow or arrow such as drill shots. Or else, my earlier assumption that the Fool's Cane bestowed basic skills for the vocation was actually wrong, it might be actually selecting skills that suit its user. It prefers practicality since an archer's martial arts are literally useless in my hand since I need to use both hands to execute archer's martial arts. Archer's martial arts were useless since I'd have to hold the cane in my hand when using the archer's skill.

But these skills were really useful.

Rather than an archer, these skills were more suited for an assassin. And those martial arts skills might hardly show their effect in my hand, a shaman.

And I was particularly grateful to the Presence Isolation skill which helped me hide my presence. In addition, the Eagle Eye skill was also useful when looking at the situation in the field from a faraway place, it replaced the need for binoculars.

As for Presence Detection, well since Mei-chan possessed sharp intuition and Rem could detect the enemy's presence for me, this skill must lay low for the time being. However, there's nothing wrong with having too many skills. I mean, in case I'm joining the battle, I, the rear guard would be vulnerable to the ambush of the enemy's reinforcement when Mei-chan, the vanguard, was busy dealing with the enemy in front of us. But this skill allowed me to maintain vigilance against ambush.

Well then, next was a surprisingly plain and boring skill from Hinagiku-san's Shaman's Skull.

Never expected that there'll be another Shaman

Maybe she also received every single one of her skills from Ruinhilde-sama after undergoing all kinds of gruesome methods. I checked the abilities with half-anxiety and half-expectation for the power that resided in Hinagiku-san's skull.

PoisonMakes someone fall into a disorderly state with the power of poison.

EnchantNow you can add an effect of magic into materials.

Simple Alchemy FormationEnable the most basic alchemy such as Comprehension and clarification. Disassembly and reconstruction.

Ooh?

What the The lineup of her skills was completely different from mine. Rather, the naming of her skill was completely normal like other spellcasters that I met before, yeah, unlike my wacky-sounding skill. Is this really the same shaman skill granted by Ruinhilde-sama?

Could it be that even with the same vocation, there's a possibility that it comes from a different god?

Previously, Id imagined a game-like setting that one vocation definitely came from one god but now that I think about it more carefully, if the number of gods in this world is only as much as the number of vocations, it means that this world wasn't created by a single god, this world was definitely created by many gods.

I mean, even if you lined up two warriors, you would find that they might use completely different weapons, they might use a one-handed sword, two-handed sword, dual wield, knives, halberd, etc.

Even in the matter of vocation, Kenzaki Asuna's Twin Swordsman or Yamada's Heavy Warrior must belong to a superior category. In short, even the God of vocation who used the sword as their weapon was divided into Swordsman and Twin Swordsman.

That's why the number of gods wasnt equal to the number of vocations, there's a high possibility that several gods might bestow the same vocation.

I see, maybe Ruinhilde-sama is actually the minor existence amongst the God of curse.