Overlord ch 32

001
Caption: Oppressed and trod upon.

002
Sebas: ...Could you please take your hand away?

SFX: hair rustling

Sebas: ...Are you in difficulty?
Sebas: If you are, then-
Guy: -Oi, gramps, where the hell did you come from?

SFX: door creaking

003
SFX: lantern being set down

Guy: Oi oi oi, gramps, the hell you looking at?
Guy: Get lost now and you can go back in one piece.

Guy: Oi, gramps, did you hear-

SFX: smile

Sebas: Hm...

SFX: gulp

004

SFX: footstep

Guy: Oh, oh
Guy: Oh...

SFX: footstep

Guy: What-

SFX: Grab

005
Sebas: *What* is she?

006
Guy: Sh-she's one of our employees...

Sebas: I asked *what* she was.
Sebas: And in response to that, you answer she is an "employee"?

Sebas: ...No, some of my comrades treat human beings as objects.
Sebas: If you had viewed her in the same way, then surely you would feel no guilt.
Sebas: However...

Sebas: You answered that she was an employee. In other words, your actions were carried out on the basis that she was a human being, am I wrong?
Sebas: ...In that case, let me ask you one more time.

007
Sebas: What will happen to her after this?

Guy: Sh-she's sick, so I'm taking her to the temple-

SFX: grip tightens

Sebas: I dislike being lied to very much.
Guy: Guwaargh! Aieee!
SFX: grip tightens more
Guy: Stop...

Guy: Yeea-

SFX: punching

Sebas: Would it not be better for you to give me an honest answer?

SFX: creaking of bones

Guy: Guwaa-

008
SFX: fabric sliding
SFX: dropped like a sack of shit

Guy: Guh-waaargh

SFX: heavy panting

SF: cloth rustling

Guy: Just.. ha-hang on a minute!

SFX: scooching back along the street

Guy: I...
Guy: I really was just going to take her to the temple!

009
Sebas: (He's still lying. His will is unexpectedly strong...)
Sebas: (Is he really that worried about letting the truth slip out...)
Sebas: In that case

Sebas: I trust there will be no problems if I take her there myself? Please entrust her safety to me.

Guy: How do I know you're really going to take her there? There's no proof! Al... also...
Guy: Yes! She belongs to us by law!

Guy: If you lay your hands on her, you'll be breaking the country's law!
Guy; If you take her away, that's kidnapping!

010
Sebas: (The orders I received from Ainz-sama were to blend into human society and collect information...) Sebas: (Causing a disturbance here is not what he would want.)

Guy: I don't know which noble guy you serve
Guy: But I'm sure you don't want to cause trouble for your precious master, right?

Sebas: ...Do you think my master would be troubled by someone as insignificant as you?
Sebas: The rules exist to be broken by the strong, do they not?

Guy: ...You... you want to try your luck, then?

Sebas: ...Hm.
Sebas: (This bluff isn't working at all...)
Sebas: In that case...)

Sebas: ...Indeed, it would be quite troublesome in a legal sense.

011
Sebas: However

Sebas: The law states that one must render aid to anyone who asks for it within the limits of one's ability. Even rescuing someone by force will not be punished.
Sebas: I am simply adhering to that point of law in helping her.

Sebas: In the first place, she is unconscious
Sebas: So she must be taken to the temple for treatment, am I wrong?

Guy: Muuu...
Guy: No... that...

SFX: thinking

Sebas: (I just made that up... as I thought, that's the only thing he knows.)

SFX: rustling

012
Sebas: Do you want to be saved?

SFX: breathing
SFX: air leaking between knocked-out teeth

Sebas: (I want to help you as much as I am able...)
Sebas: Do you want me to save you?

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013
Sebas: (If I rescue her)
Sebas: (There's a high chance I might get embroiled in some very nasty business)

Sebas: (If I did that)

Sebas: (Would the Supreme One forgive me for it?)

014
Sebas: (Is this not a betrayal of the Supreme One's will?)

Sebas: (I...)

015

SFX: whisper

Guy: Heh...

SFX: whisper

016
Bugatti-chan: ...Save... me..

017
(N/A)

018
SFX: gulp

Sebas: I have no intention of rescuing someone who sits idly by like a plant that soaks in the rain,
Sebas: Praying for someone to come to their side and rescue them.

Sebas: However...
Sebas: Someone who struggles for their survival...

Sebas: Forget your fear and rest well.

019
Sebas: You are now
Sebas: Under my protection.

020
Guy: No way...
Guy: I didn't hear anything-

Sebas: Are you calling ME a liar?

SFX: glare

Sebas: Are you saying that I would lie to the likes of YOU?

Guy: Ah... no...
Guy: Er...

021
Sebas: In that case, I will be taking her with me.
Guy: W-wait! Please, wait up!

Sebas: What is it? Are you trying to buy time?
Guy: N-no... if you take her away, it'll cause a lot of trouble

Guy: Someone like you... someone like you wouldn't want to cause your master trouble, no?

Guy: You've heard of them, right? Heard of Eight Fingers?

022
Sebas: (If I'm not wrong, they're a criminal organization which controls the Kingdom's underworld...)

Guy: So how about it, huh? Just pretend you didn't see anything
Guy: If you take her away, they'll punish me for fucking up my task...

Sebas: I am taking her with me.

Guy: Come on man, give me a break!
Guy: They'll kill me!

Sebas: ...Then why don't you run away?

Guy: It's no use, man, where am I going to get the money to run...

023
Sebas: (It would be safer to just kill him)
Sebas: (But if he flees with all his might)
Sebas: (He might be able to buy time for me to take her to a dafe place)

Sebas: (-Why)
Sebas: (-Why am I taking such a dangerous course of action?)

Sebas: (Anyone from Nazarick would be easily capable of just abandoning her to her fate. Yet, for her sake...)

024
Sebas: (For the sake of helping her)
Sebas: (Where did these ripples in my heart come from...)

025
Sebas: (I should not be thinking about this now.)
Sebas: I do not consider money to be more valuable than a life. Thus, I shall pay.

SFX: clatter
SFX: clatter

Guy: This is... a platinum trading coin...!
Guy: God knows how many gold coins this is worth...

Sebas: Use that to hire an adventurer and escape like you life depended on it.
Sebas: ALso, I have several questions to ask. Do you have time to answer?

Guy: Ah, I told them I'd be a while disposing... no
Guy: Taking her to the temple. It's okay if I'm a bit late.

026
Sebas: I understand. Then, walk with me.

Caption: The ripples meet, and trace a pattern.

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