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Arifureta Chapter 364
🕑 Added 2019-10-27 00:22:26 +0000 UTC
Arifureta After IV Demon King & Hero Arc We Aren’t Invited It Seems
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To be honest, Hajime was extremely bewildered.
What the hell……
Just what should I do here huh……he thought.
Why? The answer lay at the bunch before his eyes.
「Uh, guh……a failure, huh. Damn ittt」
「Even the device is broken-, this is the end for us!」
「In the end it’s just a pipe dream-」
Nearly thirty men and women were lying flat on the floor like heaps of corpses, but it seemed that around half of them were unconscious. On top of that, several people who were barely unconscious didn’t even notice Hajime and Kouki there. Their expressions were in despair and they seemed to be extremely busy with lamenting.
When he looked beside him, the damn hero bastard who dragged him here was also watching with his mouth wide open.
「Oi, Amanogawa. Why is the atmosphere like this even though you are summoned here? You aren’t welcomed at all no matter how you look at it.
「The, there is no way I know why isn’t it?」
After they were sucked by that “space hole” that was like a black hole, Hajime and Kouki felt like they were sucked in by a muddy stream. Or perhaps it felt like laundry that was tossed into washing machine.
And then, they were spat out into this place but……
They couldn’t find which of these people was the stupid bastard who summoned them here. Even though Hajime was already imagining lines like 「Please defeat blah blah in our place!」 or 「Save the world!」 coming out and planning to shoot first, when the lid was opened, the situation was like this.
These people were like someone who sank their very last money to buy lottery that would decide their life and obtained a huge miss as a result, which was just as they expected. The buzzer that signaled that it was game over for their life had rang out. This situation was like that.
Eh? You guys didn’t summon us? Can you see us? Look, your summoning is more or less a success you know? Hajime thought in bewilderment which couldn’t be helped.
Hajime became slightly calmer and pulled out Donner following the irritation that was boiling up inside him.
「These guys, after summoning us they are grieving & ignoring us instead. They’re seriously looking down at us. I’m gonna kill them, yosh, let’s kill them.」
「Wait-, you decided too fast! These guys look injured so for now let’s treat them before asking information-」
Carrying it out when he said that he would do it was Hajime quality. After all this man was a savage demon who would ask 「Is it okay to kill them?」 after turning a force of Dark Being into small pieces with rocket even though he didn’t really know about the situation in detail.
Kouki’s face turned white and he immediately dashed to nurse the wounded people.
Hajime ignored Kouki for the moment and observed the surrounding.
「……This place too is a bit unexpected in its own way.」
He unconsciously muttered that because he couldn’t see any kind of temple, or ruin, or magic circle which was common for a summoning place.
Or rather, he couldn’t find any fantasy element at all, not even a bit. The dark place was only illuminated by the torches or lamps lying on the floor here and there. The inside of the room was surrounded by metal walls and ceiling. There were passages extending to four directions with many pipes running on the walls and ceiling.
His first impression was that they were inside a factory facility or perhaps an old subway.
As though to support that impression,
「……This equipment」
There were heavy metal objects inside the room――they were machines no matter how he looked at them, scattered all over the place. Most of the objects didn’t retain their original shape, but they looked like computer to him.
The pedestal where Hajime and Kouki were spat out to was also awfully distorted like an eerie tree growing in a witch’s forest. It was surrounded by what might be a dome of steel frame though now it had been torn to pieces.
It looked like there was an explosion that was centered on this pedestal spreading outside.
「……」
He tried looking at the people Kouki was nursing. They looked really dirty. It was like they were wearing layers of ragged clothes overlapping each other. Their face and hands were also dirty with what might be mud, dirt, and oil. Their hairs were oily as though they hadn’t been washed for several days.
「……This is like a science fiction with a ruined world as the stage.」
Just what was going on, he wondered. Hajime let out a long sigh.
「Well, it doesn’t matter.」
In any case, it made this quick if they didn’t summon them. No, even if they summoned them his conclusion wouldn’t change. Rather it was fortunate if there was no hindrance, they could just use the compass and Crystal Key to return immediately.
Thinking that, Hajime moved his hand toward his pocket. It was then,
「Yo, you two……who are you?」
A man’s voice reached him. Different from the people before this who were only lamenting, this voice was firm even with the agitation mixed in it.
When he looked toward that voice, a middle aged man with disheveled hair seemed to return to his consciousness. He borrowed Kouki’s help to stand up even while sending them a wary gaze.
「Eerr……we are……」
Didn’t they summon them knowing who they were? Rather, it was this side who wanted to know who these people were……such bewilderment was clearly conveyed from Kouki. He looked back across his shoulder toward Hajime with a gaze that was asking him 「How should we explain it to him?」.
「Co, consulting before taking action? What’s more to me? ……You, now then, you are an Amanogawa impostor aren’t you?」
「There is no way that’s the case right!?」
Hajime-san took a wary stance. Kouki’s lips greatly twitched. A vein snapped on his forehead. Although, it could be said that Hajime’s reaction was only natural if he looked back at his past self.
And so, he firmly endured here and asked 「Enough with that, how should we answer!?」 with a stronger tone.
But, while they were making such talk, the people who fainted all woke up, and then they began to converse about something in whispers.
「O, oi. Those quality clothes……don’t tell me, are they people of the upper world……」
「Wha-, why is people of upper world here!?」
「Had they, gotten wind of us from the start?」
「That’s right! There is no way we won’t get found out when we tried our hand on this kind of “taboo”!」
「Wait! We can’t decide if that’s the case yet! Perhaps they are the “paradise”――」
「Jasper-san! What’s going on!? Everyone is here because they bet on you!」
Their whispering was gradually getting louder from the tension. It became angry yells at the end. Their gazes turned toward a single man――toward the man with disheveled hair just now.
「The “voice of heaven” told me. A black vortex opened in the air. It said that’s the path that connect to “paradise”――」
「We heard that many times already! But in reality there was absurd light right after the activation and then an explosion right after-. We almost died-」
The man called Jasper was at a loss for words. It seemed he was the leader of this people. And then, it seemed he was a leader without that much popularity. The eyes of the other people that were looking at him were overflowing with distrust and discontent.
Jasper averted his gaze from their eyes and returned his gaze toward Kouki.
「You two are……are you perhaps, someone from the “paradise”?」
He asked with a gaze that was pleading somewhere in it.
Kouki and Hajime were in a desert battlefield until just now. It couldn’t be called as a “paradise” at all. Although, if the “paradise” that they mentioned referred to “another world”, then the answer was yes.
And so, Kouki was going to answer like that……
Right before he could, *gan gan gan gan-* a sound like metals colliding on each other――countless footsteps were echoing faintly from one of the passages. Jasper and others immediately went pale. One of the people here glared at Hajime and Kouki with hatred, anger, and then terror in his expression.
「It’s just as I thought-. These guys are people from the upper world! They knew about our plan and had investigated all this time! The failure too must be because these guys got in the way!」
「This isn’t the time for that! They’re coming-, we’re running away-」
Jasper and others stood up even while enduring the pain in their body. They began to take distance away from Hajime and Kouki. Kouki raised his voice in panic to stop them.
「Wai-, wait a second! We don’t know what is going on at all! Explain the situation to us a little
