Overlord ch40

OVERLORD 40

Sebas' tense urgent audience!


01
Sebas: -I sincerely apologize for my lateness.
Ainz: That is fine. Pay it no heed, Sebas.
Ainz: The fault was mine for coming without prior notice.

Ainz: More importantly...
Ainz: There is no reason for you to be standing there with your head bowed, is there?

02
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03
Demiurge: I feel it would be better for you to stop there.

Ainz: Now then.
Ainz: I shall begin by asking you a question, Sebas.

04 (p94)
Ainz: Do you require me to explain the reason for my presence here?
Sebas: ...No, there is no need for such a thing.

Ainz: In that case, I would like to directly hear the answer to this question from you, Sebas.
Ainz: While I have not received a report about it, I hear you have recently acquired an adorable little pet. Is that the case?

Sebas: (As I thought...)
Sebas: Yes!

Ainz: ...You were slow in answering, Sebas.
Ainz: I ask you again: did you pick up an adorable little pet and are you currently raising it?

Sebas: Yes! Indeed, I did do so.

Ainz: Good.

05
Ainz: In that case, I would like you to explain something-
Ainz: Why did you not report this to me?
Sebas: -Yes!

Ainz: What is the matter, Sebas? It seems you are sweating most profusely.

Ainz: If you require a handkerchief, I can lend you one. Will you not take it?

Ainz: I grant you leave to make use of it.
Sebas: Yes! Thank you very much!

06
Ainz: ...Well
Ainz: It is not that it is stained with the blood of your pet or anything like that.

Ainz: I simply felt that watching you perspire was quite unsightly.

Sebas: Yes...
Sebas: I offer my apologies for showing you such a disgraceful side of myself.

Ainz: Now then, Sebas. When I dispatched you to the Royal Capital,
Ainz: I ordered you to report each and every thing you saw to Nazarick.

Ainz: That is because the value of intelligence is difficult for a single person to determine.
Ainz: In fact, the reports you submitted included news on the level of town rumors, did they not?

Sebas: Yes, they did.

Ainz: In that case, Demiurge
Ainz: Did any of Sebas' reports mention this adorable little pet of his?

07
Demiurge: No, Ainz-sama.
Demiurge: They did not contain anything of the sort.

Ainz: Very well.
Ainz: ...Then allow me to use that as the premise for my next question.

Ainz: I would like to know the reason why you disregarded my orders and did not mention it in your report.

Ainz: -Do the words of Ainz Ooal Gown no longer serve to bind you?

08 (p98)
Sebas: Certainly not!
Sebas: It was simply a thoughtless, independent decision on my own part not to report such a trivial thing to you, Ainz-sama.

Ainz: ...In other words, it was merely an exercise of your foolish judgement... am I correct?

Sebas: Yes. That is exactly the case, Ainz-sama.
Sebas: I seek your forgiveness for my foolish error.

09
Ainz: Hm. I see...
Ainz: ...Yes, I understand.

Ainz: Solution.
Ainz: Bring Sebas' pet here.

Solution: Understood.

Sebas: (If only...)

010 (p100)
Sebas: (I had let her go sooner...)

Solution: I have returned with her.

011
Ainz: I bid you enter
Ainz: Oh pet that Sebas has picked up - Tsuare.

Ainz: It took courage not to flee.
Ainz: Or did Solution tell you that your subsequent actions would decide Sebas' fate?

012 (p102)
Sebas: (This would not have had to happen)
Sebas: (If I had handled this better)

013
Demiurge: Kne-
Ainz: Enough, Demiurge.
Ainz: In recognition of the courage she showed in not fleeing from me
Ainz: I shall forgive the disrespect she has shown me, the ruler of Nazarick.

Ainz: I shall begin by stating my name.
Ainz: I am Ainz Ooal Gown.

Ainz: The master of Sebas, who stands over there.

Tsuare: Ah... I, I'm...
Ainz: Enough.

Ainz: I know of you to some extent. You will soon understand why you have been summoned. Stand there and be quiet.

Ainz: As for you, Sebas...

014 (p104)
Ainz: I believe I said something to you about acting in a discreet manner?
Sebas: Yes.
Ainz: Even so, you disregarded my orders and invited trouble upon us for the sake of this meaningless woman.

Ainz: Am I wrong?

Sebas: Not at all.
Sebas: I profoundly regret the displeasure that my shallow considerations have brought you, Ainz-sama. I shall take great care to ensure that such a thing does not-
Ainz: -Enough.

Ainz: Anyone can make mistakes.
Ainz: Sebas, I shall forgive this foolish mistake of yours.

015
Sebas: I am deeply grateful to you, Ainz-sama-

Ainz: However-

Ainz: Mistakes must be paid for-
Ainz: -With death.

Sebas: ...May... May I know of what you speak...?

Ainz: I speak of negating your mistake.
Ainz: If you leave the source of your mistake intact, what kind of example will it set for the others?

Ainz: Sebas.

016
Ainz: Are you a loyal hound of the Su- of the Forty-One?
Ainz: Or perhaps, are you one who considers your own will to be correct?

Sebas: I-
Ainz: I do not need an answer.
Ainz: Show me your conclusion through your actions.

017
Sebas: (-I am a butler of Nazarick)
Sebas: (I am nothing else beyond that.)

018 (p108)
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019
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020
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021
Sebas: What?

Sebas: What is the meaning of this interference?

Ainz: Sebas, stand down.

022
Ainz: Cocytus, was that previous attack intended to kill?

Cocytus: There. Can. Be. No. Doubt. It. Would. Have. Been. Instantly. Fatal.

Ainz: In that case, I declare that Sebas' loyalty is now beyond question.
Ainz: Well done, Sebas.

Sebas: Yes!

Ainz: Everyone, do you have any objections?
All: None at all.
Tsuare: Hahh...

Ainz: Very well. Then we shall move on to the next topic.

023
Ainz; I have determined that we have gathered sufficient intelligence from the work of Sebas and the others.
Ainz: There is no longer any reason to remain here.
Ainz: We shall vacate this property and return to Nazarick forthwith.

Ainz: I will leave the disposal of the woman to you, Sebas.
Ainz: ...That said, you might want to think carefully about releasing her.

Demiurge: I concur.
Demiurge: We ought to minimize any possible leakage of information while there is an unknown enemy about.

Ainz: Umu. Sebas, the fate of this woman will be decided shortly.
Ainz: While I do not wish to kill her, I cannot entirely rule it out.

Ainz: I will return with Victim. Give him to me.

024
Ainz: [Greater Teleportation!]

025
Sebas: ...I believe she needs to rest for a while in her room.

Sebas: May I escort her there?
Sebas: I trust there will be no problems with that, Demiurge?

Demiurge: ...Indeed, you have the right of it, Sebas.

026 (p116)
Sebas: ...I do not intend to apologize.
Sebas: However
Sebas: It was my mistake which led to me being ordered to dispose of you.

027
Sebas: If I had handled the matter differently, this conclusion could have been completely avoided.
Tsuare: Sebas-sama...

Sebas: I am a loyal minion of Ainz-sama - of the 41 Supreme Beings.
Sebas: If I am ordered to do the same thing again, I will act in the same way.

Sebas: ...That is why

Sebas: I would like you to find happiness in the human world.

Sebas: I will entreat Ainz-sama to the best of my ability... to use his ability to manipulate memories.

Sebas: Let him erase your bad memories and then live well.

Tsuare: ...What about my memories of you, Sebas-sama?

028
Sebas: I will ask him to erase the memories of me as well. No good will come of remembering me-
Tsuare: And what, may I ask, is good for me?

Tsuare: My happiness is to be with you, Sebas-sama.
Tsuare: Therefore, please take me with you.

Sebas: ...It seems you feel grateful for a little kindness I have done you. it is simply that your heart was numbed by a hellish experience.
Tsuare: ...I...

029
Tsuare: I do not think this place is a hell of any sort.
Tsuare: I was able to eat my fill
Tsuare: And I was given honest, proper work.

Tsuare: ...I grew up in a small village.
Tsuare: Life there was hard.

Tsuare: Our stomachs growled all the time as we worked the fields. Our lord took almost everything we grew and left us precious little to eat.

Tsuare: On top of that, we were like toys to him.

Tsuare: No matter how much I screamed, he kept laughing as he raped me.

Tsuare; He laughed, you know?

Tsuare: I was-

030
Sebas: -I understand.

Sebas: But you may die, you know?

Tsuare: If I must be killed by you, Sebas-sama
Tsuare: By someone who made me feel warm again when I was nearly dead...

Sebas: I understand, Tsuare.

Sebas: I will plead with Ainz-sama to let me take you back to Nazarick.

Tsuare: Thank you very much.

031
Sebas: I wish to confirm one thing with you.

Sebas: Are you sure you have no more ties to the human world?

Tsuare: ...I have... a younger sister...
Tsuare: And I do miss her a little...

Tsuare: But the feeling of not wanting to relive the past again is stronger than that.

Sebas: I understand.

Sebas: Then I shall go to meet Ainz-sama again.
Tsuare: Yes...

032
(no text to ruin the mood)

033
Tsuare: It's prickly...

034
Tsuare: That was my first happy kiss.

Tsuare: I shall wait for you here, then.
Tsuare: I leave the rest in your hands, Sebas-sama.
Sebas: Ah... ah...

Sebas: I, I understand. Please wait here for a bit...

035
Demiurge: Is something the matter? You look a little flushed?

Sebas: Nothing is the matter, Demiurge-sama.

Demiurge: There is no need for such honorifics, Sebas.

Sebas: Just like before, you may address me as an equal before Ainz-sama, our one and only master.
Sebas: Cocytus, what do you think?

Cocytus: I. Do. Not. Mind.

Sebas: Understood.

036 (p126)
Demiurge: Thank you for coming.

Ainz: Well then,

Ainz: Demiurge, I told you you were being paranoid, right? With all that about Sebas betraying us and so on...

Demiurge: I am profoundly grateful that you would acknowledge the opinion of one such as myself, especially when it ran counter to your own judgement, Ainz-sama.

Ainz: It's fine, even I make a few slips from time to time. Besides, I can relax because I know you're checking on what I do.

037
Ainz: Now then, have you decided how you wish to deal with the human girl, Sebas?
Sebas: Yes.

Ainz: Ah, if we let that woman go
Ainz: We might end up leaking information about Nazarick, right?

Demiurge: Indeed. How shall we handle this?

Ainz: In that case, why don't we fiddle with her memory, then give her some money and release her in an appropriate place?

Demiurge: Ainz-sama.
Demiurge: I feel that killing her outright would be the best way to make sure.

038
Ainz: Enough of that, Demiurge.
Ainz: I am not fond of pointless murder. If she lives, she can be used.

Demiurge: In that case, why not have her work at the farm which I am overseeing?
Ainz: The one where you're raising Chimerae?

Ainz: Incidentally, can you grind them up and use them as food?
Demiurge: ...regretfully the quality of the meat is poor and they are not suitable as a food source. Well, if you mince up the dead beasts, the others will eat them up.

Demiurge: However, the Abelion Sheep are omnivorous, so may I request some wheat to mix into their feed?
Demiurge: Relying on plunder alone places us in a somewhat precarious situatiion.

Ainz: They're the source of the crucial parchment, and I have no wish to let them go hungry either...
Ainz: Sebas, before you leave, buy a large quantity of grain and turn it over to Demiurge.

039
Sebas: Understood. In that case, I beleive we can rent a warehouse to temporarily hold the grain
Sebas: But how shall we ship it back to Nazarick?

Ainz: Ah, yes... Shalltear can transport it with [Gate].

Ainz: Can you handle it from there, Demiurge?
Demiurge: Yes. I will take over the transportation from that point on.

Sebas: -Ainz-sama.
Ainz: Hm? What is it, Sebas?

040
Sebas: If you would permit it-
Sebas: Could you perhaps consider the possibility of having Tsuare work within the Great Underground Tomb of Nazarick?

Ainz: I asked the same thing of Cocytus earlier, but... what merits does this proposal hold, Sebas?
Sebas: Yes. Firstly, Tsuare can cook.

Sebas: Currently, only the head chef and the sous-chef can cook within Nazarick.
Sebas: After considering the future course of Nazarick, having more people who can cook might be beneficial.

041
Sebas: In addition, we can use her as a test case to evaluate the merits of employing human beings. It would set an excellent precedent if we could demonstrate that even the inferior lifeforms known as human beings can be useful. Moreover-
Ainz: All right, all right, I get it, Sebas.

Ainz: Indeed. we have few people among us who can cook. It's definitely worth thinking about.

Demiurge: However, Ainz-sama. Can she make food which is truly worthy of Nazarick?

Ainz: He has a point.
Ainz: What say you, Sebas?

042
Sebas: ...Tsuare is capable of home cooking. As for whether it is worthy of Nazarick... I find it difficult to answer that question.
Demiurge: Home cooking, hm.

Demiurge: I doubt steamed potatoes or other such basic dishes
Demiurge: Will be of any value in Nazarick.

Sebas: I am compelled to point out the shallowness in Demiurge's thinking.

Sebas: With the aid of the head chef, she will be able to master other dishes, if not now, then in the future.
Demiurge: In that case, why not have her help prepare food on my ranch?
Demiurge: Mincing meat is very hard work.
Sebas: I...

043
Touch Me: Ulbert-san, have you forgotten that we were going to kill the Fire Giant boss Surtr for his rare drops?
Ulbert: Touch-san, aren't you the one who's forgetting something?
Ulbert: We have people among us who need to hunt Devil Dragons to meet their class change prerequisites, no?

Ainz: (Ahh...)

Touch Me: You can improve drop rates with cash items.
Touch Me: Surtr's drop rates are normally lower than the Devil Dragons
Touch Me: Shouldn't we take care of him first?

044
Momonga: Guys, please don't fight~

Ainz: (Back when everyone was gathered in YGGDRASIL)
Ainz: (We used to argue like this all the time..)

Cocytus: STILL. YOUR. TONGUES! YOU. STAND. BEFORE. AINZ-SAMA!

Demiurge: I apologize for this shameful display before you, Ainz-sama!
Sebas: I beg your pardon for making you witness our foolishness!

Ainz: Hm...

045
Ainz: Hahahahaha!

Ainz: It's fine! I allow it!

Ainz: Yes! You should be arguing like this! Ahahaha...
Ainz: ha...

Ainz: Tch, the emotion suppression kicked in.

Ainz: ...I understand what you're getting at, Sebas. But unfortunately, the Great Underground Tomb of Nazarick is not looking for human... beings...

046
Ainz: Come to thing of it, I'd like to see that Tsuare girl.
Ainz: Bring her here.

Sebas: Er - yes! At once!

Sebas: Ainz-sama, I have brought her before you.
Ainz: Ah, you've come-

047
Ainz: ...She looks like her...

Ainz: I am glad you have come before me, Tsuare. I have a question for you.
Ainz: If you lie, or if I do not receive the answer I am looking for, this matter will be over.

Ainz: That being the case, tell me your full name.

048 (p138)
Tsuare: Tsu... Tsuare... Tsuareninya.

Ainz: And your surname?

Tsuare: Tsuareninya Veyron.

Ainz: I see, I see.
Ainz: Then, I ask you, Tsuareninya.

Ainz: Is it your wish to live within the Great Underground Tomb of Nazarick - that is to say, within my domain?
Ainz: ...You do know that you also have the choice of accepting a large fortune and living in a faraway place, don't you?

Tsuare: I... I wish to live with Sebas-sama...

Ainz: Very good.
Ainz: Now, hear me, my vassals.

049
Ainz: From now on, I pledge my protection of Tsuareninya Veyron in the name of Ainz Ooal Gown.

Ainz: I could treat you as a guest to the Great Underground Tomb of Nazarick, if that is what you wish.
Tsuare: I. I would like to work with Sebas-sama...

Ainz: If that is what you wish...

Ainz: Then I shall appoint Tsuareninya as Sebas' personal maid. Sebas, find her some approriate work.
Ainz: At the same time, the Pleiades will shift from the Six Stars to the Seven Sisters configuration with the appropriate change in team leader.

Ainz: That said, she will not be moved from the present location. Yuri Alpha will take over her duties as leader.

Ainz: In addition

050
Ainz: Tell everyone in the Great Underground Tomb of Nazarick that Tsuareninya Veyron is protected in the name of Ainz Ooal Gown.
Ainz: In addition, she will be a fellow colleague to all of you.

Ainz: Demiurge, do you object to my decision?
Demiurge: Not at all, Ainz-sama.

Ainz: Good.
Ainz: In that case, begin the preparation to vacate this manor.

051
Ainz: Recall the security forces stationed here to Nazarick immediately.
Ainz: Sebas, Solution, as your final task in the Royal Capital, purchase the grain Demiurge requested and transfer it to an appropriate warehouse.
Ainz: Once it's gathered, have Shalltear send it over...

Demiurge: -Ainz-sama.

052
Demiurge: Did you already know that girl?

Ainz: You see, Demiurge...
Ainz: I believe in repaying good unto good and evil unto evil.
Ainz: At the same time, I also feel that debts must be repaid.

Ainz: The Head Librarian has translated and made copies of it
Ainz: But this is the original.

Ainz: It is the diary of a certain girl
Ainz: Who bore great anger in her heart after a nobleman seized her elder sister.

053
Ainz: Thanks to her diary, I learned a great deal about how this world works.

Ainz: That would be the debt I owe.

Ainz: Let me repay it to your elder sister instead.

Demiurge: Ainz-sama, I have but a single request to make of you.
Ainz: What is it, Demiurge?

054
Demiurge: After reading the documents from Sebas, there is one place in particular which I would like to visit.
Demiurge: It will only take a short time, but...

Ainz: That is fine. I trust this is for the benefit of Nazarick?
Ainz: Then go, Demiurge.

Demiurge: Thank you very much!

What lurks within the depths of Demiurge's eyes?
To be continued in October's issue.