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Tate no Yuusha no Nariagari:Web Chapter 373

2017-04-25T08:42:43Z

95.154.17.5: /* A Couple’s Strength */

==A Couple’s Strength==

“This is….” (Ren)

“Merciless.” (Itsuki)

Believing in their God.… only to be betrayed, and then terminated. Ren and Itsuki watched those Reincarnates and muttered.

I strongly agreed.

Ren, Itsuki, Motoyasu, and I ― we’ve all had the cruel experience of being tricked by Witch, so we understand all the more.

That this guy is someone we can never forgive.

“You did well to come this far. I honestly give you my praise.” (Goddess)

The Bitch Goddess declared, floating softly.

There was not a single enemy remaining nearby, with the exception of the Bitch Goddess.

Excessive cold-bloodedness…. It was a place where only sorrow and hatred swirled about.

There was only one person there, the extremely cheerfully smiling Bitch Goddess.

“But playtime is over. To tell you the truth, no matter what happened in this game, my victory was decided from the start.” (Goddess)

The Bitch Goddess made a sword appear in her hands and pointed the blade towards us, with her left hand in front and her right hand above.

“Now, dear possessors of the sacred weapons, you believe in the victory of your country, but you should just yield to my overwhelming power!” (Goddess)

The Bitch Goddess’s sword shines.

“Infinity Catastrophe!” (Goddess)

It’s a certain kill attack targeting all the possessors of the Sacred and Vassal weapons, huh?

At the same time, it absorbs the world’s magic and builds up power.

I, in a shorter time than the instant in which she fired her attack….. I cast magic in the time-span of practically zero seconds.

『Oh Spirits. Oh World. The proxy of the world commands, and asks for power. Eternity, Unconditionality, Infinity, hinder the hopeless future due to that indefinite power, manifest the identity of that selfish power, and fire the lynchpin to save this world!』

“Infinity Zero!”

The sacred weapons of the world….. Mine, Motoyasu’s, Ren’s, and Itsuki’s weapons shine and surround the vicinity.

The power to protect the world― Intent, Desire, Spirit.

Those were materialised and converted the attack on the verge of destroying everything.

“T-this is….” (Ren)

“I wonder what it is, my spear is shining.” (Motoyasu)

“I feel an amazing power.” (Itsuki)

“What―!” (Goddess)

The sound of a large impact reverberated, the instant death attack that the Damn Witch tried to invoke, and the power of world decay, was curbed.

“No way….” (Goddess)

The Bitch Goddess’s face flushed with agitation.

“You didn’t notice even though we’ve been showing you for a while now? No, you realised but were underestimating us?” (Naofumi)

“She probably thought our power was just the Spirits covering for us.” (Raphtalia)

Raphtalia brandishes her mallet, and prepares to use it on the Bitch Goddess.

“It can’t be…. you guys!?” (Goddess)

“Yeah, Raphtalia and I are on the same stage as you. At the same time, we differ from you…. We’ve become beings that specialise in the power to kill you guys.” (Naofumi)

The source of Raphtalia and my power was the world’s magic and life force, just like the Bitch Goddess.

However, the way we replenish that power is completely different.

Unless we receive the power from the world’s volition, we can’t replenish it.

We’ve made it so that it’s impossible for us to steal the world’s power from its roots and consume it.

And.… at the same time, we have the power so she can’t snatch away the world.

Now…. A total of five lynchpins have been launched to prevent the Bitch Goddess from using her power to steal this world.

Four of them are the Four Saint Heroes, and I don’t know where the last one is.

It’s the final Four Saint Hero of Glass’s world.

That one person is also fighting in a place unknown to us.

The heroes weren’t the only ones.

Everybody throughout the world was fighting as one body in order to protect the world.

The representative of that was the hero with the sacred weapon.

As long as we five lynchpins existed, the Bitch Goddess changed into a being attached to this world, unable to destroy it.

Already, this world had multiple strong, gigantic barriers spread around it.

To the inhabitants of this world, they became defensive walls protecting them from foreign enemies, and to the Bitch Goddess, they became a prison preventing her from escaping.

“Don’t think you can win against me just by having the social standing of a God!” (Goddess)

The Bitch Goddess used even more power.

However, you can’t use the power you’ve been counting on.

The spade work, protocol, and ritual have already been completed.

Next is just killing each other until we reciprocally annihilate everything.

“Now, it’s time for some arithmetic. Don’t think such unreliable child's logic like infinity, eternity, and immortality will pass by us!” (Naofumi)

Right now, a room that negates Godly powers has been created.

Including us, the Bitch Goddess has her divine powers sealed and has been bound with the reason of this world now.

In other words….. Lv and HP and Magic and such float into her field of vision, and when those numbers become Zero, she will die.

Naturally the numbers ticking away will probably be enormous, but they’re not perpetual, nor infinite, nor immortal.

“Don’t fuck with me!” (Goddess) <ref>T/N: Of course not, don’t be such a slut Bitch/Witch.</ref>

The Bitch Goddess had on a furious facial expression and chanted a spell.

It’s magic with another world’s logic.

The absorbed magic inside her body is kneaded together and fired towards us.

“Defence Link! Meteor Wall!” (Naofumi)

My defensive skills obstruct her magic completely.

“×0 Mallet!” (Raphtalia)

Raphtalia swings her shining, huge mallet down on the Bitch Goddess.

“Gubu!” (Goddess)

With a *thwack*, it hits the Bitch Goddess heavily and blood flows from her temple.

“You, you, you! How dare you injure the noble me!” (Goddess)

The Bitch Goddess uses one hand to slash at Raphtalia in anger.

Even if she’s rotten, she’s the being called ‘God’ who split her soul into various worlds, so she probably has some sword skills.

“My sword has infinite speed and is the infinite ultimate strongest sword technique! You shouldn’t be able to see through it!” (Goddess)

How do you infinitely double infinity?

The word infinity isn’t a number.

Well, she probably wants to express that it’s that fast, but….

The Bitch Goddess’s sword reaches Raphtalia.

Yeah.

Fast, it’s certainly fast…. However―

“Infinite speed? Infinity shouldn’t have a limit, though. The unit you should be using in this situation is this. Approaching zero without end…. No, something like speed is unnecessary― a Zero-second attack….” (Raphtalia)

Raphtalia’s movements blur and she passed behind the Bitch Goddess.

Immediately afterwards, she uses a single strike and a loud sound reverberates.

“Wha-!? She transcended infinity with her own speed and I, the ultimate supreme being who even surpasses time was―” (Goddess)

“You just returned to the past? Is it time leaping? In that case, I’ll also attack there!” (Raphtalia)

Zero-second attack.

Something similar would be Firo’s High Quick, huh?

It’ll probably be easiest to understand if I said it was close to that.

High Quick is a magic that raises one’s own speed to its utmost limits temporarily.

However, Raphtalia’s Zero-second attack has no need for speed.

Zero seconds… it’s an attack that disregards the flow of time.

No matter how fast one can go, the attack can’t be overtaken by a being who’s just fast.

Even the sound of this one shot, this sound contains the continuous attacks of tens, hundreds, thousands of strikes all within zero seconds.

Receiving such an attack, the Bitch Goddess faints in agony.

“Ugu..guu…… aaaaauwahh!” (Goddess)

“The innumerable grudges against you are as many as the number of stars in the sky. If only you didn’t exist, I wouldn’t know anything and have lived in peace…. Everyone around me wouldn’t have cried with unreasonable grief!” (Raphtalia)

Raphtalia doesn’t slacken the hand attacking the Bitch Goddess.

Or rather, I wouldn’t let her slacken it.

“Do you even know how much you did? You manipulated and tormented the world at will, ridiculed the people who were struggling to live, and raised calamities…. And the end is this! Never… it’s not a problem of ever forgiving you!” (Raphtalia)

Good grief.

If this fellow wasn’t here, then this world…. No, although eight other worlds were fighting, there probably wouldn’t be such an harsh battle like this.

Even if there was, it should be nothing more than a problem of one’s own worlds.

Nevertheless, the world was assimilating relentlessly, and there was enough fighting even if it wasn’t.

Raphtalia and I did such a thing and we’re here now in order to stop this fellow.

Even if we’ll be subject to nothingness for near eternity, we just can’t forgive this guy.

The power for the sake of that….

Needless to say, I’ve established myself as the shield’s proxy and can’t do anything but defend.

Of course, I’ve been assigned to protect everything from the enemy’s annihilating powers.

The current me can’t even use the fighting method I employed when I lost my shield.

In terms of stat allocation, I’ve given up on all my attack and have specialised in nothing but defence.

In contrast, Raphtalia has completely abandoned the concept of defence, given that I will protect her.

Her method was similar to this, but the invader known as God has made her stats omnipotent, her infinite and eternal power reaching an unattainable domain.

Of course, she wasn’t able to attack, and it’s not like she had the ability to kill us in one shot.

However… It’s for this reason that Raphtalia and I were supporting each other.

Relying on each other and abandoning the other components, splitting the remaining parts between us.

Me with the shield and― Raphtalia of the hammer.

One can’t be complete without the other.

Even so, if the two are together, then no matter who… it’ll become a power to destroy everything irrational.

…..It’s nostalgic.

The spear and shield paradox, huh?

Motoyasu told of such a story before.

A spear that can pierce everything, and a shield with absolute defence.

To have these two go against each other…. There’s no meaning in it.

The shield will protect everything and the spear will pierce everything.

It’s fine like that.

That’s why― Raphtalia and I as we are now…. The hammer and shield as a pair, there’s no way we’ll lose to this kind of opponent.

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==Translator Notes==
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Tate no Yuusha no Nariagari:Web Chapter 338

2017-04-04T07:35:05Z

95.154.17.5: /* Translator Notes */

==One who Claimed to be God==

“There’s a troublesome guy like that? Who could it be?” (Fohl)

Fohl bears a repulsed expression on his face that seems to stem from the depths of his heart.

Troublesome… is it?

Otherworlders in themselves are quite a troublesome existence too.

They’re arbitrarily summoned, so they can’t complain, and they end up in situations like ours.

Before coming to this world, I did look up to epic otherworldly fight sequences, so it’s a strange feeling.<ref>TL: Because this world reveres otherworldly heroes</ref>

Reincarnation, the existence you meet before you’re born anew- that is…

“It’s God.” (Naofumi)

“God… I see, so there are stories like that in Naofumi-san’s world. There was an NPC like that in a few games, but I was unable to connect the dots.” (Itsuki)

“Well, you probably get it already, but I’ll talk. To be more specific, it’s usually something that claims to be a god, I guess. Something like that.” (Naofumi)

If someone were to die in a tragic accident… like Ren, Itsuki, or Motoyasu, he would call out to them.

To those who faced such misfortune, he would say, 『Here, you died an unfortunate death, so shall I give you life once more in another world?』 He would whisper in their ears and tempt them.

Since they’re dead, there’s no way they can refuse.

If they decline, it’s 『Oh, I’ve developed a liking for you! How about I throw in a Cheat ability as well?』 forcing them to agree either way.

There’s also the possibility of forceful reincarnation without any interaction.

I’ve read novels like that time and time again.

If the one God chose was… someone like Tact, then what would happen?

He was probably a man from some world somewhere out there who played a game that resembled this world.

Or perhaps the game itself was his own creation.

Perhaps Ren, Itsuki, and Motoyasu were merely following his lead.

Then this leads to a single answer.

All God had to do was reincarnate a playing piece he could move to his will, to put those fighting the wave in an unfavorable position.

The Queen and the Granny said it.

Geniuses control the prosperity and decay of society.

Hengen Musou… What would happen if this style were to be spread around the world?

It would definitely become a threat to the operation of the Wave.

So he sent a reincarnated and cut off its lineage.

There’s no way we can confirm or deny whether someone perpetuating these events exists.

The fact that the various information about the wave spread around the world has all vanished is more proof than anything.

“God… Thinking back, I’ve heard that a religion worshiping something like that existed in the past. I see.” (Trash)

Trash seems to have some sort of idea.

This is a world that has handed down tales of the heroes for generations.

But, other religions must also exist.

They didn’t gain traction due to the Four Heroes and the Seven Stars.

…But, there must have been one who started it. Perhaps the Hero who became the base for the brainwashing daggers.

The God that the Hero publicized… may be our enemy.

Trash proposed the idea of it being an autonomous system, but I think it’s something else.

I spoke my mind.

“It appears my theory conflicts with Iwatani-dono’s. But judging by the situation, Iwatani-dono’s seems more accurate.” (Trash)

With my proposal, Trash immediately topples his own System idea.

Well, I wouldn’t say it’s impossible, but… there are way too many things that theory fails to explain.

I mean, what system would make a world where they would have to outsource to destroy it?

I’m a bit concerned about the Holy Weapons.

What? The Sacred weapons preserve the world, and God destroys it. Does that make it a malign deity?

No, no… perhaps it’s just too much work.

In the first place, what’s going to happen to him after the world falls to ruin?

“Glass, do you happen to know anything… about the worlds that have fallen?” (Naofumi)

“…We have witnessed the fall of two worlds. The first had looked as if it had the life of every lifeform sucked out of it, and it was transformed to a desert wasteland. In the second one, the whole world vanished, as if it were never there before.” (Glass)

In order to prolong her own world, Glass has experienced having to destroy others. Her words carry much weight.

Both situations seem hopeless.

Will we destroy Glass’s world, or use Ouryuu… Gaelion to stop it. We have two options.

“So you’ve never experienced complete world assimilation?” (Naofumi)

“That’s right. But I’ve heard of it in legend.” (Glass)

Before it became so serious… I guess she took some measures.

When I first came to this world, we had too little information on the wave.

Even so, we knew it was strong.

However, we didn’t think we would be unable to overcome it.

But with internal discord… with a reincarnated’s intervention, Glass’s world was turned inside out.

“If your world were to end, how much time would you have left?” (Naofumi)

“At the moment, I would say we have a month at most. Though, if we had the Sacred Heroes and their vassals all gathered, it wouldn’t be limited to that.” (Glass)

“How many holy heroes and vassals do you have that can still fight?” (Naofumi)

Glass raises three fingers.

Three… I guess that’s rough.<ref>TL: Gender neutral pronouns coming up, so don’t quote me on it.</ref>

“What about the holy weapon holder?” (Naofumi)

“He was captured by the reincarnated, and my instincts tell me he’s being held somewhere. When a wave hits, it may be possible to rescue him, but that’s just wishful thinking.” (Glass)

Yep, this is serious. I can see why Glass came to a conclusion so quickly.

But, does that reincarnated have absolutely no intentions of fighting for the sake of the world?

Is he relying only on his own greed and ignoring all of the other heroes’ words?

…So people like that can get selected for reincarnation.

It depends on a god’s abilities, but regardless of the time, place, or world, there are always one or two people with a few screws loose.

I won’t say I’m a moral, upstanding human being, but I’ve seen too many people with something messed up in their heads.

If you gather up people like that and reincarnate them all, the world will definitely go into chaos.

There’s also the idea that there’s a form of brainwashing at work.

It may just be that God thought that the wave wasn’t enough to destroy the world.

And, that this was but a trivial thing.

…No, I’ve experienced it.

I’m not sure when, but when Ren and the others didn’t die when they lost, they ranted on about it being some sort of Event Battle.

I’m not planning to pin all of that on the enemy, but they may have ingrained an idea like that.

“Of course, he isn’t someone who won’t listen to reason if you talk to him… but for some reason, that reincarnated is hostile towards everyone, and he doesn’t find satisfaction unless he’s the leader.” (Glass)

Ahh… what a pain.

A man like that is moving the world at his will… In order not to stand out, did Glass leave the world with her vassal weapon? This isn’t something to laugh at.

But… is the wave truly a battle without end?

“He stains others in blood, and himself with their blood. He even turned his madness towards his own child… Perhaps even if we were to triumph here, our world would simply fall by that man’s hand…” (Glass)

She’s given up.

I can feel such emotion from Glass.

From what I see, Glass isn’t a human brought from a world like ours. She was born in her world.

What sort of feeling is it, to give up on the world you were born in?

I won’t swing a flag back and forth saying my world was a wonderful one, but…

“I beg of you. Your Guardian Beast still lives, and while our worlds have been connected, yours isn’t on the verge of collapse. Please grant permission for those of my world to take up residence in this one. For that, I’ll gladly cooperate, even in bringing an end to my own world.” (Glass)

She speaks as she lowers her head to the ground.

I understand where she’s coming from, but her idea is madness in itself.

Of course, it’s an answer she’s reached after a lifetime of hardships.

In my eyes, I see Glass acting out of madness. She isn’t acting out of any desire for self-preservation.

But anyways, I should ask.

“Are you sane?” (Naofumi)

“Of course. We’ve all lost it. We’ve gone mad over there. But there are still some things we’ve built up; some things we’d like to save.” (Glass)

Now that she’s accepted her madness, there’s something she has to do.

I’ve done something similar.

No, my rage is but foolishness compared to Glass’s insanity derived from failing to save others.

Even so, I can more or less understand her.

And, even if it’s for the world’s longevity, someone who can ask for the sacrifice of two thirds of the world with a straight face can’t be sane.

But among the Heroes, there was never a decent person to begin with.

Among our world, and her’s.

“I believe it is overly hasty for us to make that decision here and now. Until the next wave, we should clean up. Will your group lend a hand in our efforts?” (Trash)

“I thank you for your swift judgement. I swear that I won’t let this reach a bad conclusion.” (Glass)

On Trash’s words, Glass declares as such. Everyone present nods.

With the Allied forces at the lead, we first spread the information of Faubley facing an absolute crushing defeat against Melromark.

Of course, the matter of the guardian beasts was put to absolute secrecy.

As if we could spread information like that.

And so, because we have plenty of Legendary Heroes and Vassals at work here, it seems we’ve been given a bit of an extension on the time until the next wave, based on the time recorded on Melromark’s hourglass.

We’ll have to set out to deal with other countries’ waves, but there are plenty of things we’ll have to do first.

We learn that some even more troublesome things are lying around less than half a day after we transfer back to the castle.

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==Translator Notes==
Hint: Konosuba is the story or rather anime Naofumi reffers to in regards to rebirth.
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