Chapter 159

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-- Chapter 159
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borisdrakoni (Spoiler):

Young Hero

“--Each and everything, completely vanish(Deny all existence).”

In that moment, the three apostles holding Hajime down were cut in two lengthwise.  Immediately after, from the left and right, top and bottom, they were cut into pieces and disappeared without even leaving dust within seconds.

There was no blade, rather it was a mysterious phenomenon like being severed by a line instead of being cut.  No one could find any words to say as they looked with wide eyes being unable to move as the storm of magic power blew.

The torrent of power around Hajime was not his usual bright red color, but instead an a hateful looking dark red.  Everyone in the audience chamber agreed it was an unusual situation.

Hajime stood up.  With a pale face and even more inorganic expression than the apostles, blood was dripping from him.

To the side, Myuu raised a small scream at the dark red storm around her and covered her face.  As it is  it seemed that she would be blown back, but Myuu was left while the floor at their feet vanished and crumbled.

Alv rebuilt his spirit and tried to use God's Word to get Hajime to kneel, but he screamed in pain as both arms were cut off at the shoulder.  His eyes showed not only pain, but also perplexity. He could not figure out the reason why he had been damaged.

The arms that had been severed were cut into pieces in midair, and like with the apostles before disappeared without even leaving dust.

Alv asked what happened, and one of the apostles responded that there seemed to be something like chains dancing in the air.  Anything they touched would vanish regardless of the defense.

Ehito surely would not have overlooked such a ridiculously powerful artifact.  Surely he would have used it to fight with Ehito.

Alv's confusion caused him to stiffen.  Unable to succeed at producing words, let alone instructions, he exposed an unsightliness not befitting of a god with his widened eyes and mouth flapping open and closed.

One of the apostles encircling Alv for his protection tried to threaten Hajime, but was mercilessly cut up and vanished right in front of Alv, causing him to instinctively release an instinctive scream at the abnormal sight.

All the apostles jumped at Hajime together and were dismembered by the chains tearing up the air like a tornado and exterminated.

The chains wearing magic were about one millimeter in diameter and were formed by the stonework of the floor(special strong ore was used in the building construction), and were controlled by magic with Remote Operation.

At that time Hajime, perhaps from overwhelming hatred, resentment, or possibly nihilism, awoke two derivation skills of Rensei.  The first, Imagination Configuration, made the need for a magic formation for Rensei disappear.  That was why the apostles holding Hajime down were caught off guard.

However an ordinary chain could not give Alv such pain, or surpass the destruction capability of the apostles.

The origin of such a cheat was obvious.

Concept magic – Deny All Existence.

In the world in which Yue is gone, there was no value in anything's existence.  Existence won't be permitted.  Each and everything--

--disappear.

Hajime, having Yue taken from him, had his bottomless hatred and resentment saturated by overwhelming feelings of nihilism that became the basis for the chains.  The effect was literal.  Anything the chain touched would have its existence blotted out.  It was based on Sublime magic's ability to interfere with the information of objects.  “Existence” was rewritten to “nonexistence”.

The chains spinning around Hajime riding on the torrent of magic were like the embodiment of a curse.

The apostles and demonic beasts who sprung up were annihilated in an instant.  It did not take long before all the apostles were dead.   Ignoring even the commands of the Age of Gods magic, the remaining demonic beasts instinctively tried to flee, but were also cut to pieces.

Soon only Alv was left.  Realizing it was dangerous, he tried to escape through the ceiling and take Shia as his shield by crucifying her in the air like he did with Myuu, but his plan was crushed.  Chains tore up the air between him and Shia like sickles.  Alv shot a flame bullet toward Hajime and tried to escape alone, but the chains also covered the hole in the ceiling with a lattice pattern.

He turned his eyes toward Aiko and the others, thinking to use them as hostages, but in an instant chains came between them as well.  Instinctively looking back at Hajime, there was no sign of the flame bullet as Hajime stood at the center of the red tornado watching him with abyssal eyes.

Alv felt a shiver crawl down his spine.  Responding with anger to the fear he felt, he sent a shockwave toward Hajime.  Alv wasn't thinking clearly.  Before raising his spirit he should have been trying to escape even if he had to completely annihilate the place.

As a result of his pride, both legs were cut off.  He crumbled to the ground, unable to even give voice to his scream.  He seemed to go mad from the pain that had been forgotten after several thousand years.

Still, he tried to run by floating his body with magic.  However Hajime will not allow it.  Before he was aware, Alv was already trapped in a cage of chains.  There was no escape.

The cage gradually began to shrink.  Panicking, Alv tried to bargain with Hajime and beg for his life.  Everyone there looked at him in shock.  The globe cage of chains began rotating like a ball spun on a finger.

Alv grew desperate as the cage shrank.  He promised to become Hajime's servant and help him get Yue back.

Right before the chains touched Alv they suddenly stopped shrinking.  Alv timidly opened his closed eyes.

Hajime asked him if he wanted to live.  Alv was confused by the question, but felt some hope spring up finally understanding the meaning.  He told Hajime that he will do anything if he lets him live.  Hajime nods hearing his answer and Alv had a joyful look thinking he will survive, but Hajime whose eyes had not changed at all opened his mouth again and told him to die.

Alv screams as the cage deliberately begins to shrink slowly, cutting him from the edge of his body.  After a few seconds, the god who had been a pillar of this world vanished entirely.

Hajime, after confirming Alv's death, looked up at the sky and stepped strongly on the ground and shot up with the power of magic.

Shia and Kaori called out to try and stop him.  Covered all over with wounds, his life could be in danger if he doesn't receive treatment soon.  However Hajime disregards all that and jumps straight for the golden portal in the sky leading to the gods' world.

The Majin tribe people going through the portal look down at Hajime's sudden approach with surprise.  Some tried to shoot magic at him, but he easily eliminated all attacks with the chains.  The ones who tried to get in his way were cut by the chains and vanished.

Hajime charged to the gate, but he could not pass through it no matter how much he struck it.  The Majin attack him with high powered magic, but Hajime ignored it and kept charging at the gate like a madman.

The gate eventually began to shrink.  The Majin tribe rushed to make it through.  Some attacked Hajime, but no matter how much he was hit he continued charging the gate.  Eventually it disappeared completely.  Hajime didn't react at all as more magic came at him and he was blown away.  Kaori who had flown up called out to Hajime and caught him.

Kaori told Hajime to release his magic so she could treat him, but he didn't respond.  Kaori guessed that her words weren't getting through to him.  At that time, the Majin started talking to her, mistaking her as an apostle, and telling her to exterminate Hajime so they could go to the gods' world.

Shia and the others who had received some recovery magic from Kaori in case of an emergency tried to run up, but it wasn't necessary.  In an instant the soldiers of the Majin tribe were slaughtered by the chains.  Then the ordinary people were caged by the chains.  Those who begged for their lives, those who surrendered, man, woman, the elderly, the children, everyone was mercilessly annihilated.

Shia, Kaori, Tio, Shizuku, Aiko, and Liliana tried to stop Hajime from killing the trembling Majin who remained, but before any of them reached him the one who stood before him first was Myuu.



Telling Hajime to return to his usual self, she stood between him and the Majin.  Hajime told her to move.  She shook at shock of the coldness in his voice, but as a daughter of her beloved papa, she could not leave such a sad papa alone.

Myuu made an expression mimicking Hajime who stared at a powerful enemy.  She declared that she wouldn't move, and that she won't be defeated by the current Papa.  To the Majin tribe looking on she looked like the hero out of a story.

Myuu was frightened that if Hajime kept raging as he was he would never be able to come back.  The nihilistic expression that even Alv looked away from, Myuu looked straight at it.  Hajime's expression that had not changed up to now, frowned slightly.

Hajime told her to get out of the way again.  However, it was not possible to continue.

Kaori, telling Hajime to clench his jaw, punched him as hard as she could, knocking him to the ground.  Having suffered so much damage already, even Hajime could not get up immediately.

Kaori angrily told him to wake up and asked how long he would continue showing such disgraceful behavior.  She asked him what Yue would think seeing this, but it was unrelated to Hajime that gave up on Yue.

At Kaori's words Hajime's eyes opened wide and light started to return to them.

Accurately reading Hajime's thoughts, she asks him if he had even given up on rescuing Yue.  Hajime's power gradually diminished why reason started to return to him.

Shia came up and dropped her fist on Hajime's head, also scolding him about his excessive love for Yue.  Tio also with her tail, Shizuku also with her fist, both dropped their punishment onto Hajime's head.

Tio guessed that Hajime had acted unconsciously so as not to lose any of them since none of them had been hurt by the chains.  They had also prevented Alv from taking hostages.  Already Hajime's magic had returned to the usual color and reason returned to his eyes.

Kaori sat down in front of Hajime and cupped his face in her hands.  She reminded him that he wasn't alone, and that Yue was definitely still fighting.  He apologized to all of them and finally released his power completely.  The chains collapsed, the stone of the construction material crumbling apart due to the burden of the concept magic.

Everyone looked on with relieve that Hajime had returned to his normal self.  Then, a small shadow ran over and dived straight at Hajime's chest, hitting him directly in the abdomen.  Hajime was knocked unconscious.  His life was already in the minus numbers.

The girls panic.  Kaori started to immediately use healing magic while Shia, Tio, and Shizuku argue over who should give Hajime CPR.  Kaori got mad at them, saying she couldn't concentrate and that they should just attack Hajime in his sleep if they wanted a kiss.

Meanwhile, the surviving Majin tribe members wondered what they should do.

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An excellent chapter. I was a bit concerned it would end up going too dark, but glad to see the author is consistently keeping the lighthearted comedy aspect.

borisdrakoni (Some fun stuff from this chapter):

Hajime actually got two new abilities this time, the denial concept magic in the form of a chain, and the ability to use Rensei without a magic array.

Alv went down as pathetically as he deserved.

The girls knocked some sense back into Hajime and Myuu delivered the finishing blow.

Next time will be a run up story before the decisive battle, so probably our last chance for the peaceful rom-com scenes before the end.
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