Chapter 62
Chapter 62
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Translator: Vine
Chapter: 62
Chapter Title: I'm a Transmigrator
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The academy was in an uproar.
The reason was that a Demonic Human had appeared during a practical training session that was supposed to be safe, having been created by a professor.
Even setting that aside, the very fact that a Demonic Human had appeared within the academy was a major problem.
It was an unprecedented event since the academy's founding.
But I still didn't know why a Dullahan had appeared this time.
"Hey. That monster isn't from the original story. You know anything?"
I asked Arthur, who had gone in before me.
Even if I hated the bastard, I was still curious.
Arthur replied as if he didn't know much about it either.
"…I don't know."
"What the hell do you know?"
If you, the protagonist, don't know, then who the hell does?
As I considered slapping him on the back of the head, he muttered to himself as if he'd just remembered something.
"Come to think of it… they said the magic tool inside the dungeon had a lot of mana, so it was able to summon a stronger undead than expected…"
He seemed to be talking to himself, but unfortunately, I heard everything.
So, the reason a Dullahan appeared instead of that weak-ass swordsman from the original story was because the magic tool inside had too much mana.
The magic tool had a lot of mana.
The reason for that was because the professors used more power than usual.
And why did the professors use more power than usual?
Because they were impressed by the hero who solved the marquisate incident.
So, that means the marquisate incident had a domino effect that led to this.
And who was the hero who solved the marquisate incident?
'Me, right?'
So, in conclusion.
"It's my fault?"
Heh heh.
It's fine. As long as I don't say anything, no one will know.
***
Right after we came out of the dungeon, Arthur's group was called away by the professors for questioning and statements.
Regardless, we left the academy.
We'd only gone to provide support, and Arthur was the one who encountered the incident first.
On our way out, we ran into the Headmaster, Lucia Merigold, but we just exchanged simple greetings and went our separate ways.
She wouldn't have time for idle chit-chat when a Demonic Human had appeared in her academy.
And that evening.
Before heading to the inn, we stopped at a restaurant for dinner.
We sat at a large table and ordered a ton of food and a ton of drinks.
Since we'd ordered so much, I figured the food would take a while, so I was thinking of having a drink first.
Just then, Luna threw out a topic to chew on.
"Luke. There's something I'm curious about."
"What is it?"
"Earlier, before we entered the dungeon, you said there was a Demonic Human inside."
"Yeah."
"How did you know?"
"Ah! I was curious about that too!"
Yui jumped on the topic Luna had started out of curiosity.
"I told you before. I read about it in a novel."
"...You're still sticking with that story?"
"If you're not going to believe me, don't ask. It's a waste of breath."
Luna still didn't seem to believe him, but our pure Yui appeared to take him at his word.
Unlike Luna, who had already lost interest in the topic, Yui's eyes were sparkling as if she wanted him to say more.
"Yui, you're curious?"
"Yes! I'm curious!"
She's curious, so I should tell her.
It's not like I had anything else to do before the food arrived anyway.
With the feeling of an adult reading a fairy tale to a child, I slowly began to speak.
"First off, Yui, you die."
"...Huh?"
***
Watching from the side, Luna thought that Luke was spouting nonsense again. He often said things she couldn't understand.
Apart from that, she had always been curious.
How did he know such things, acting as if he knew everything at times?
And now, he'd just bluntly told Yui—who he'd offered to explain things to—that she dies.
This was why she couldn't believe him.
No, in the first place, saying he'd read it in a novel was something no one would believe.
Unless it was a book of prophecies handed down by a god.
"I... I die...?"
"Originally, you should have died long ago, but I went and overdid it."
Luke scratched the back of his head, adding, "Te-hee."
"Yui, do you know what transmigration is?"
"Um... is it when a soul or something enters a body and controls it?"
"Yeah. That's me."
"...Huh?"
Why hide it? He came out as a transmigrator right then and there.
There was no reason to hide it, either.
In other novels, the protagonist can't give his heart to the heroine because he'll have to return to his original world when everything is over, or some excuse like that.
'But I have no intention of going back to my original world.'
Who's gonna make me go back?
I've already discovered the joys of transmigration, so if they try to force me back, I'll kill myself and get reincarnated in another world again!
"The world you're living in is a novel, and I came from another world."
As he was talking, the food they'd ordered began to arrive one by one.
Luke took a big bite of the freshly served food and mumbled.
"It's like... I thought it was a fairy tale, but now I feel like I've peered into the abyss..."
"To me, it's no different from a fairy tale."
If it had been some hopeless, abyss-like novel, I would have dropped it long ago.
"Then what do you mean, I was supposed to die?"
"That guy Arthur is the protagonist, you see? Originally, you were supposed to go berserk in the count's territory, drive it to the brink of annihilation, and then get sliced in half by Arthur."
"Eek..."
There are some things in this world it's better not to know.
But she asked, so I answered.
"For the record, that Arthur guy is a transmigrator too."
"Is that why he was making such a fuss about having to kill me back then?"
"Yeah."
For a moment, Yui recalled.
What happened during her nightmare in the marquisate.
'So that wasn't just a dream...'
And she actually felt relieved.
Instead of a past where she might have died, she was now alive, and most importantly, she didn't have to go around killing people.
While Yui was feeling relieved, Luna, who had been listening quietly, asked a question.
"If that's the truth, why haven't you said anything until now?"
Luna was curious.
Why would he bother hiding such information?
"You didn't ask."
"...Huh?"
"You have to ask for me to tell you."
"But... something so important..."
It was true that she hadn't asked, but what kind of person in the world wouldn't share such important information just because they weren't asked...?
Honestly, who would go up to someone and ask, 'Excuse me, are you perhaps a transmigrator?'
From the perspective of someone who had just seen an undead, a transmigrator didn't seem all that different.
Just an undead that was alive and could think.
Setting aside the truth of Luke's words, the events he mentioned had actually happened, so it was hard not to believe him this time.
From suddenly showing up claiming to be a vampire, to knowing there was a Demonic Human inside the dungeon this time.
It was all too real to be dismissed as mere fantasy.
"Then do you know what happens to me or you in the future?"
"No?pe."
"......?"
Why was he saying he didn't know now, after acting like he knew everything until this point?
Just as she was beginning to suspect that maybe everything she'd believed was just Luke's fantasy after all...
"How would I know about things that aren't even in the novel? Luke either goes back to his hometown to farm or he dies, one of the two. You, Luna, would have been slaving away somewhere."
"A supporting character... is that what you mean?"
"You'd be lucky to even be a supporting character."
Strictly speaking, the characters Luke and Luna weren't even minor actors.
They weren't even characters in the first place.
You can't call someone who doesn't even appear in the work a character, can you?
"Then... how does the novel end?"
"He beats the Demon God and then gets it on with the heroines."
"Gets it on...?"
"Sex. I mean sex."
He beats the Demon God, and then until the side stories, he sleeps with all the heroines one by one.
That was the end of the main story.
"Somehow... that feels incredibly anticlimactic..."
The feeling that no matter what you do, it's useless, and everything you've done so far is meaningless.
A sense of futility momentarily crushed Luna.
"It's fine. The place I came from was even more fucked up than here."
Reality is stranger than fiction, isn't it, Luna?
If you had lived in that world, you would have had no choice but to volunteer as a slave just to survive.
"But that Arthur guy seems a bit strange... Are we going to be okay?"
"We can manage to beat the Demon God even without him."
I feel bad saying this, but the Demon God, who's called the final boss of the main story, was actually really weak.
No, he was relatively weak.
In the main story, it was only because that dumbass Arthur insisted on facing him alone; if the S-rank adventurers and the elves had just cooperated, they could have killed the Demon God.
The reason such a Demon God could be the final boss of the main story was because of his various overpowered abilities, including the power to control monsters.
When an all-out war began, monsters would swarm from all directions.
Like a Zergling defense map from StarCraft.
Without them, the main body is just a slightly strong demon.
"Then what should we do from now on?"
"Have fun."
"Is that really the right thing to do...?"
"I'm going to dump all that annoying stuff on someone else and do whatever I want!"
That's what this transmigration is for.
Honestly, what a relief it is that I didn't transmigrate as the protagonist.
When you get older, you can't have fun even if you want to.
Luke grabbed his cup of alcohol and chugged it down.
"Ugh, it's bitter! Why do people drink this stuff?"
-Thud!
"......?"
What was that sudden noise?
When Luna and Yui turned their eyes to where the sound came from, they saw Luke, who had slammed his head on the table and fallen asleep.
"Uh... Luke?"
"Luke?"
Luke's body couldn't handle alcohol well.
And Luke himself had never drunk alcohol in his past life.
It was only natural that someone who had only ever chugged cola in his past life wouldn't be a good drinker.
In a word.
Luke was a lightweight.