The Death Mage Who Doesn't Want a Fourth Time

Chapter 316.1 - V13 Character Summary (1)

Vandalieu has finally enrolled at an Adventurers’ School. Because Darcia is an honorary countess, he has been documented as a noble’s son.Please visit fr𝐞𝐞w𝒏.𝒸𝑜𝔪 website to read fastest update

He is also carrying out his plan of using the Tamers’ Guild to make the world recognize exceedingly rare, previously-undiscovered monsters like Eisen; bug-type monsters like Pete and Pain; as well as Undead, as monsters that can be tamed.

He was boldly invited inside by a haunted mansion, which ended up in him taming the entire mansion. Although he only has a very faint awareness of this, he senses that this has caused much trouble for the important nobles who rule the Orbaume Kingdom, such as Prime Minister Tercatanis and Marshal Dolmad. However, he believes that he and his companions are not at fault, as they merely purchased a mansion that had been shown to them by a real estate company.

At the entrance examination for the Adventurers’ School, he succeeded in achieving relatively good results while keeping his true ability hidden – though he stood out significantly during the process.

In Origin, he fought against Rikudou while protecting Mei and Hiroshi through his split entity Banda, and the incident reached its conclusion. He had optimistically thought that this would mean that he would be far less involved in Origin after that, but the exact opposite happened instead.

As a result of Rikudou’s plot to overturn international order, Vandalieu ended up taking Mei and many other individuals from Origin into his care, but that was all part of the plan. However, a part of him becoming a part of the God of Origin was not.

Rather than being far less involved in Origin, he is now destined to constantly be involved in Origin forever, or until Origin’s people forget about him.

As for the cause, it is because he descended upon Origin in order to prevent Rikudou’s attempt to indiscriminately wipe out Origin’s entire population, and because he guided Sergei in his dreams, resulting in Sergei broadcasting Vandalieu’s form and identity to the whole world.

One could say that he reaped what he had sowed, but he blames everything on Rikudou Hijiri for doing such a stupid thing. He is now seething with anger and intends to meticulously destroy Rikudou if they ever meet again.

Now, he watches over Origin with his eyes that resemble those of a dead fish, plays with Hiroshi, Mei, and his other friends inside his ‘Inner World,’ and fears psychological attacks at the Adventurers’ School in the form of teachers asking the students of his class to form pairs or groups with whoever they like.

Although Naruse Narumi (now Amemiya Narumi) had a faint admiration for Vandalieu when he was Amamiya Hiroto, he doesn’t feel anything for her. She is only of value to him as ‘Meh-kun and Hiroshi’s mother.’ If she wasn’t, he would have treated her like Baker, Iwao, or any of the other reincarnated individuals that he hasn’t guided – with indifference, as long as she didn’t die.

That was why he considered making alterations to her brain if she were to neglect Mei and Hiroshi. She made a good impression on him by showing affection and attachment to her children.

Incidentally, he has become even more stubbornly insistent that he is human, and one can even sense a quiet madness in him when he states this.

Pauvina Zakkart – Half-Noble Orc, 9 years old, female

Someone who is like a little sister to Vandalieu. She has gone from being an enormous toddler to being an enormous prepubescent girl, and she came to Orbaume with him to take the Adventurers’ School’s entrance examination.

The guards at the gate found her suspicious, but Vandalieu pushed his way through by insisting that she’s a person who is capable of acquiring Jobs, drawing a lot of attention.

She was rather unsuccessful at holding back during the entrance examination, achieving better results than Vandalieu, but she succeeded in earning the admiration of a noble’s son who initially tried to start some trouble.

Incidentally, this is also why she was placed in a different class from Vandalieu.

Amemiya Mei – Human, 3 (nearly 4) years old, female

Also known as Meh-kun. She was victorious against Rikudou, who had been aiming to capture her. However, Banda ensured that she wasn’t exposed to anything gruesome (by his standards), so she didn’t have much of an awareness that she was fighting against Rikudou. She simply believes that they went to meh the bad uncle.

She has been able to see spirits since she was an infant, so she has very little aversion to Undead. She is completely fine with seeing gruesome corpses that any ordinary person would turn their gaze away from. Now that she has been given transformation equipment (a wand) by Banda, her first thought would be to try and turn them into Undead.

Pluto’s actions coincidentally caused her to fulfill the requirements for learning death-attribute magic, and she used death-attribute magic to turn the corpses of Rikudou’s discarded experimental subjects into Undead.

Also, she was born with ‘Death-Attribute Charm.’

As always, she loves wriggly objects and even when meeting Vandalieu, Banda’s main body, she found it disconcerting that he didn’t have any wriggly parts, so she thrust her hand into his mouth and pulled out his tongue to stretch it out. It seems that for her, it’s only natural for Vandalieu to be wriggly.

Amemiya Hiroshi – Human, 8 years old, male

Amemiya Hiroto’s son, and Banda’s (Vandalieu’s) sixth or so apprentice. He has learned no-attribute magic, and he is a young mage who is capable of casting ‘Hollow Cannon,’ though it requires the aid of transformation equipment.

Cheat-like abilities are bound to the soul, so he has not inherited any such abilities from his parents, but he has inherited their talent for magic and exceptional physical characteristics.

Combined with Vandalieu’s divine protection and guidance, as well as Banda’s extreme teaching methods (in origin, typical educators do not teach offensive spells to children), his talent is blossoming rapidly.

He hates studying, but he is not unsuited for it or unintelligent. It is simply that he likes having fun more than studying.

Although he is still young, he has relatively good common sense and often makes reasonable objections to Banda’s (Vandalieu’s) absurd statements. However, there are times when he doesn’t, as he knows that they will go unheard.

He admires transformation equipment as any child would, and the one he was given is a defense-specialized type that turns into something resembling the final boss of a horror game. Unlike its design, its function is tremendous. When he concentrated his Mana, he produced a ‘Hollow Cannon’ rather than a ‘Mana Bullet,’ and despite being an amateur when it comes to unarmed combat, he was able to defeat an combat-specialized artificial spirit created by the ‘Shaman’ Moriya.

Thus, Hiroshi has no complaints about its functions…

It seems that he didn’t have much luck in making friends at school, but he gets along with his father’s companions like Ulrika and Joseph, as well as Gabriel and the others who are of similar age.

Joseph Smith – Human, male

A reincarnated individual with the codename ‘Druid’ whose mental wounds were healed by Vandalieu’s guidance. Due to his rapid recovery and frequent visits to the Amemiya Residence, Rikudou Hijiri was wary of him, suspecting that he had made contact with the entity lurking there (Banda).

This resulted in ‘Sleipnir’ being sent to kill him, but with the help of Youdou and Nanamori, who have also been guided, as well as the special mold that Banda and Mei gave him, he succeeded in fending the attack off.

He has been given transformation equipment, a specially-made one that produces not only a body suit, but a helmet and cape as well when activated. Its performance is significantly superior to the generic transformation equipment given to Amemiya Hiroto and the others, but… its design seems to cause him much embarrassment.

Following the incident, he chose to stay behind in Origin and support the Amemiyas.

Ulrika Scaccio – Human, female

A reincarnated individual with the codename ‘Echo.’ Although she is a tall, Northern European beauty with a dignified appearance, she has a sensitive and delicate heart, and her mind suffered greatly from the gruesome events and sights she witnessed during her work with the Bravers.

Her symptoms were worse than Joseph’s – to the point that she needed medication just to be able to leave her home.

However, she encountered Vandalieu in her dreams after Mei’s third birthday party, and with his guidance, she has recovered… supposedly. Now, she does not need medication and is just a little prone to panicking.

However, her mental health is reliant on Banda (Vandalieu), Mei, and Hiroshi, so from an outsider’s perspective, it may appear that she is still mentally ill.

‘Echo’ is a cheat-like ability that reflects any attack directed at Ulrika. It is perhaps best described as an ability that creates a barrier around her that reflects attacks. It does not actually stop attacks to reflect them, so theoretically, it is capable of reflecting any attack, no matter how powerful – grenades, missiles, or even attacks from orbit.

However, the ability cannot reflect poisonous attacks that aren’t specifically directed at her, like poisonous gas.

Following the incident, Ulrika moved to Lambda with Mei and Hiroshi, but she is at risk of debuting as an idol due to Kanako, whom she has met again for the first time in years, and a certain Princess Guider that she hasn’t met yet.

Vandalieu was her last hope, but he is actually in favor of Ulrika’s debut, and Mei and Hiroshi are unlikely to make great efforts to stop it, either, so she is already doomed to this fate.

Shihouin Mari – Human, female

A former Braver with the codename ‘Metamorph.’ After being brainwashed by Rikudou Hijiri and forced to act as his body double, she was used as an experimental subject for research into the death attribute and given the codename ‘Black Maria.’

She has lost her affinity for the other attributes, but is now capable of using death-attribute magic. She was sent to kill Amemiya Hiroto and several other Bravers, but… due to Vandalieu’s guidance, she had already regained her sanity (?) by that point, and she successfully killed the ‘Sahadeva’ Da Long, who was supposed to be supervising the experimental subjects. With the help of the other experimental subjects, she wiped out the entire force that had been deployed by Rikudou before Amemiya Hiroto even arrived.

She has gained the ability to use death-attribute magic as a result of the experiments performed on her, but like Rikudou, she doesn’t possess ‘Death-Attribute Charm,’ so she is unable to create Undead (including Golems). She also hasn’t learned ‘No-Attribute Magic.’ Thus, she has actually become weaker in combat than before the experiments on her.

However, she lost her self-awareness due to Rikudou brainwashing her using magic and drugs, and her mind was altered when she was guided by Vandalieu, so she has become able to directly think using her soul rather than her brain. As a result, ‘Metamorph,’ which was previously only capable of transforming her into another person, has also changed.

She has become able to create duplicates of vital organs such as her brain or heart, allowing her to survive heavy wounds to her head or her chest by preparing replacement body parts in advance.

By combining this with ‘Danger Sense: Death,’ she is almost certain to survive any assassination attempt through methods such as a sniper rifle.

However, she must use parts of her own body to supply the necessary materials to create spare body parts, so she cannot make an infinite quantity of them. For example, she can only replace her head twice without a meal to replenish her body.

However, she is now capable of thinking using her soul, so even if her brain suffers significant damage, as long as her bleeding is stemmed, she can stay alive for several hours.

And because she has chosen to move to Lambda, it is only a matter of time before she willingly transforms into a race other than human, so it can be assumed that she will overcome her ability’s flaws in the future.

Like Ulrika, she is being threatened by Kanako’s evil influence, but she currently intends to participate in the suggested activities, as they will provide a convenient opportunity for her to get to know Vandalieu’s other companions.

Incidentally, she has changed her appearance using ‘Metamorph’ so that she appears to be somewhere in her late teens.

When she acquired death-attribute magic, her Mana was approximately thirty thousand. Her Mana increase was less dramatic than Rikudou’s when he was reincarnated as ‘Arch-Avalon’ because the process was carried out on her while she was still alive, whereas Rikudou actually died in order to achieve reincarnation.

Incidentally, she refers to Amemiya Mei as ‘Mama.’ Her personality collapsed in the past, and just before it did, she clung strongly onto her memories of her deceased mother. Her mind has been reconstructed with those memories as its support.

She understands that Mei is a different person from the person she called ‘Mother,’ but she sees no contradiction between that fact and calling Mei ‘Mama.’

Yukijoro – Human, late teens, female

An Asian girl with skin so pale that she looks ill. She was one of the experimental subjects that Rikudou gathered for his death-attribute research, and as a result of the experiments performed on her, she is capable of freezing people to death with waves of icy air.

Her ability does not directly manipulate ice or cold air; it creates cold air that saps the target’s body heat. Thus, she is unable to cool down inanimate objects or freeze water that contains no living things… though this is perhaps an unimportant distinction, as she can freeze any inanimate object that is in contact with any living organisms and water that contains microscopic organisms such as bacteria and plankton.

She also has an ability… or rather, a special characteristic, that prevents her from freezing to death herself. This characteristic merely prevents her from dying of hypothermia; it doesn’t actually prevent her body from being frozen.

If she were to be shut in a freezer, she would stay alive even if she were frozen solid.

Of course, she can be physically wounded by ice if it is thrown at her, and she would die if she were to be broken into pieces after being frozen solid.

A female Braver with the codename ‘Angel.’ She is Hiroshi and Mei’s mother.

She simultaneously learned of Rikudou’s betrayal and the fact that Banda had existed for years in her own home. But despite the shock of these revelations, she had to fly all over the world in order to help save it. Although she learned that Banda’s true identity is Amamiya Hiroto, Banda disliked talking about this matter in detail, so she wasn’t even given any time to process it.

Banda thought that this was the most reasonable course of action, as it would be extremely troublesome to be mentally shaken by such unimportant matters right before the decisive battle.

Her feelings for Amamiya Hiroto are but a memory to her now. Those feelings were what began the romance between her and her husband, Amemiya Hiroto, but that is precisely why she still remembers them. Thus, her encounters with Banda and Vandalieu were very shocking to her.

However, she isn’t particularly disappointed in Amemiya Hiroto (the issue of Amemiya Hiroto lying to her for a while after their first meeting was something they resolved before they married), so her relationship with her husband is unaffected. And she does have some sense of how Banda (Vandalieu) feels towards her and her husband, so no soap-opera-like developments are likely to happen.

Although Banda told her and Hiroto that they would ‘leave the discussion for another time,’ but in the end, the discussion never happened.

Derrick Sander – Human, male

A muscular Caucasian man with a visibly fiery personality.

He is a reincarnated individual with the codename ‘Chiron,’ born in the Federal States. He possesses the cheat-like abilities ‘Increase Learning Ability of Target’ and ‘Promote Improvement of Target.’

He was a high school teacher on Earth, but unlike Murakami, he still felt responsible for his former students to some extent. However, because they are all of the same age in their current lives, he maintains an appropriate distance.

Before he joined the Bravers, he avoided drawing attention to himself, making a living as a personal trainer at a sports gym and only using his cheat-like ability to help his clients succeed in their dieting.

After joining the Bravers, he generally worked behind the scenes. After gaining the skills and knowledge needed to teach others, he served as an instructor for the other Bravers as well as police officers and rescue team members all over the world.

However, Derrick himself is by no means a weak individual; he is significantly more capable than an ordinary member of an elite military force.

He was shunned by Rikudou Hijiri due to having a similar cheat-like ability to his and even being able to target others with it. Rikudou deliberately stopped him from becoming a prominent and well-known figure, but Derrick wasn’t bothered by this at all.

Other Bravers describe his personality as ‘an Asagi who understands the concept of personal distance.’ And because Rikudou kept him working behind the scenes, he has strong personal connections with police organizations and rescue teams all over the world.

With Rikudou and his subordinates gone from the Bravers organization, he is likely to become a high-ranking member.

Rikudou Hijiri – Human → God → Former god, male

A member of the Bravers with the codename ‘Avalon.’ He supported Amemiya Hiroto and the others since the formation of the organization. He possesses the ‘Increased Learning Speed’ and ‘Unlimited Development’ abilities, and he is either the strongest or second-strongest among the Bravers in terms of magic use and skills in combat without the use of cheat-like abilities.

However, rather than operating in the field, he served as the Bravers’ leader in the shadows, in charge of the administrative work and information warfare… or so it was believed. In reality, he was a manipulator who became obsessed with researching death-attribute magic and betrayed his companions.

He gradually eliminated his companions that were a hindrance to him, such as ‘Inspector’ and ‘Urer,’ and he and his subordinates took control over the Bravers. He had Amemiya operate in the field while he secretly continued his research into death-attribute magic.

On Earth, he was a serious individual with good conduct and high grades, but ever since he was a child, he was gripped with a desire to become special. But on Earth, he decided that becoming special was impossible and tried to convince himself that he was satisfied with a safe path to becoming as special as it was feasible for him to become.

However, after he was reincarnated in Origin with cheat-like abilities, he decided to try and become truly special. However, the abilities he gained were abilities that allowed him to gain strength proportional to his efforts – something that is difficult to objectively observe and measure. He was unable to become special like a hero himself, and so he tried to convince himself that he was satisfied with being the person in the shadows who directed those who had become heroes, such as Amemiya, like pawns.

But upon learning about the existence of the death-attribute, he realized that he could become a special, one-of-a-kind being in this world by acquiring it, and he was eventually consumed with an ambition to become a new god.

He displayed a steel-like perseverance as he worked towards this goal, maintaining his outward persona and working in secret for years while gathering people who would become his subordinates and collaborators. However, he had a ruthless side; he didn’t hesitate to resort to inhumane methods to achieve his goals. He conducted human experiments on subjects like Gabriel, and took full advantage of even the other reincarnated individuals.

However, it seems that he had a relationship of trust with Moriya Kousuke and his other loyal and capable subordinates. He killed Moriya, and two others to strengthen himself during battle, but he did so not with the sense that he was using them as disposable pawns, but with the sense that he was making them a part of his own strength; he never believed that he was betraying them.

Because he was aiming to become special, he believed that he existed at the world’s peak, and everyone else was below him. It seems that this belief grew stronger, to the point that he couldn’t hide it, after he was reincarnated as ‘Arch-Avalon’ and went from being a mortal to a god.

Believing that being reincarnated once more is necessary to acquire death-attribute magic, he created an apparatus to carry this out. This apparatus functioned as a circle of transmigration system, resulting in him becoming a god.

With this apparatus, he was reincarnated in a completely hairless, three-meter-tall, sturdy and beautiful body that resembled a Greek statue.

This body was extremely powerful, and if his only enemies were Amemiya and his companions, he would have overwhelmed them without any difficulty. But because he also had to face Banda at the same time, this battle resulted in him dying a third time.

However, his soul was saved by Rodcorte before it could be broken, and he and Moriya are currently both inside Rodcorte’s fist.

In addition to Moriya, his other subordinates included the ‘Knight’ Nabeshima, the ‘Issun-boshi’ Yazaki, the ‘Artemis’ Katherine Miller, the ‘Sahadeva’ Da Long, and the ‘Copy’ Iguchi Takeo.

Although there are many differences between him and the gods of Lambda, he was the first human of Origin to become a god. It can be said that it is inevitable for him to be different from the gods of Lambda, as the laws of physics are different between the two worlds.

Moriya Kousuke – Human, male

A reincarnated individual with the codename ‘Shaman.’ He was a close subordinate of Rikudou’s who served as something of a secretary.

He truly admired Rikudou Hijiri and truly wished for the coming of a new world ruled by him. He genuinely believed that this would save the world, and even now, he has no doubts in that belief.

His loyalty borders on fanaticism – to the point that even after his death, which was caused by Rikudou himself, his loyalty never wavered; he chose to obey Rikudou and was not charmed by Mei.

This is not because Rikudou possesses ‘Death-Attribute Charm,’ but because Moriya and the other subordinates had already sworn a fanatical loyalty to him while they were still alive.

After Rikudou’s death, Rodcorte recovered his soul while Vandalieu devoured the souls of Nabeshima and Yazaki, and Moriya was fortunate enough to have been saved as well.

He is currently inside Rodcorte’s fist, along with Rikudou’s soul.

Johnny Yamaoka – Human, male

A reincarnated individual with the codename ‘Balor.’ He always kept his distance from most of the Bravers, including Rikudou, and was thought to be a quiet person who was devoted to his missions, but he turned out to be a loyal subordinate of Rikudou’s.

His cheat-like ability drains any form of energy (including electricity, heat, kinetic energy, and Mana) from any target in his sight, and converts it into Mana for himself.

Because targets with their energy drained are reduced to a helpless crawl, his codename is named after Balor, a mythological being with a magical eye that saps the will to fight from anyone he looks at.

He is highly capable in combat even without his cheat-like ability, to the point that he was able to win a fight against a tank with his bare hands. However, Banda closed in on him before he could sap his energy, and the Demon King’s nerves were inserted into his brain while he was still alive. He was then killed after having all the information he knew sucked out of him, such as information about Rikudou’s future plans and his own credit card number.

Because Banda used a credit card that was issued in Johnny’s name, the false information that ‘the alien’s true identity is Johnny Yamaoka’ circulated for a while, causing him to become famous in an unexpected way.

Governments all over the world, including the Federal States, quickly realized that this information was incorrect, but this misinformation is apparently still circulating among the ordinary people.

Nishikaga Yoshihiko – Human, male

A Braver with the codename ‘Sleipnir.’ He piloted a state-of-the-art Federal States fighter aircraft to shoot down the transport aircraft carrying Derrick, Joseph, Youdou, and Nanamori, but his missiles were blocked by Youdou and Nanamori’s combined efforts. He then met a miserable end, eaten alive by mold created through Joseph’s ability.

The criminal that Derrick and the others were supposed to escort in South America never existed to begin with. The entire mission was a fabrication to have them all board a transport aircraft.

Nishikaga possesses a cheat-like ability that improves the performance of anything he rides; if he were to be reincarnated in Lambda, he might become a capable tamer.

Incidentally, he was previously a racecar driver. He did try his hand at rodeo, but improving the strength of the bull he rode simply resulted in him being easily thrown off the saddle. He apparently swore never to ride a bull ever again after that.

Sugiura Nanaya – Human, male

A Braver with the codename ‘Ares.’ He pretended to be a close friend of Amemiya Hiroto like Iwao and Baker, but in reality, he was a loyal subordinate of Rikudou.

There was a plan to draw Amemiya and several other Bravers out on a fabricated mission, then kill them with a surprise attack from the experimental subjects ‘Black Maria,’ ‘Gabriel,’ ‘Yukijoro,’ and ‘Bokor,’ as well as the ‘Artemis’ Katherine Miller and the ‘Sahadeva’ Da Long. Sugiura was a backup measure planted in Amemiya’s team, to finish the job in the unlikely event that the ambush failed. This was the perfect plan to get rid of Amemiya Hiroto.

But ‘Black Maria,’ also known as Shihouin Mari, regained her sanity and worked with the other experimental subjects to betray Katherine and Da, causing the entire plan to go up in smoke. Sugiura was also killed as a result, falling victim to Gabriel and Bokor’s combined abilities.

He possesses the ‘Double Power’ cheat-like ability which doubles the power of any magic or weapon he uses; if an ordinary battle had taken place, he might have proven to be quite a powerful enemy.

Orlock Tweiss – Human, 58 years old, male

The Guild Master of the Tamers’ Guild headquarters in Orbaume Central. He is currently a good-natured old man, gentle and thoughtful, but in his youth, he was a hot-blooded, up-and-coming tamer and adventurer who often got into quarrels with the Guilds.

But with the experience that he gained over the years, he retired from field work and joined the Guild to provide instruction for the next generation, and came to realize that there are different opinions and perspectives that he understands now that he is a part of the Guild. He is now the Guild Master, but he was recently presented with Vandalieu’s report that he has managed to tame Undead monsters.

He was then asked to inspect Pete and Pain, who shrunk themselves to the size of Rank 1 monsters.

He is a member of the Guild who understands the troubles of the higher-ups, but at the same time, he understands that the Guild exists for its members. He is willing to fight royals, nobles, and government officials who bring complaints in order to protect the tamers that are a part of the Guild, which makes him very popular among the Guild’s staff and tamers.

That conviction ended up in him being used by Vandalieu, but… perhaps he was destined to be involved with Vandalieu, known as the ‘Genius Tamer,’ ever since he arrived in Orbaume.

Jetavo – Human, 37 years old, male

The man who serves as foreign affairs minister, responsible for diplomacy and foreign affairs. He is the head of the Jetavo house of earls, one of the so-called foreign affairs noble houses that take turns every five to ten years to fill this position.

Because there are no other nations on the Bahn Gaia continent other than the Amid Empire and its vassal nations, which have been considered enemies since the kingdom’s foundation (the Demon Empire of Vidal hasn’t been recognized as a nation), the position of foreign affairs minister is a relatively leisurely one compared to being the marshal or the internal affairs minister.

However, because he is responsible for exchanges with the other duchies and nations outside of the continent, it is not an entirely leisurely post.

As the current foreign affairs minister, Earl Jetavo is neither particularly capable nor particularly incompetent; he is a very ordinary foreign affairs minister. He is a man who relies on his common sense, in both good ways and bad, which causes him to suffer headaches caused by the behavior of useless and foolish nobles who are panicking over the large changes that have recently been taking place in the nation.

He wishes that he could live in peace until his term as foreign affairs minister comes to an end, but given that Duke Alcrem has begun to push his reforms, he has all but given up on that hope.

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