Graduated from Witchcraft Institute

Satsuki, who put him to sleep and restrained him with a rope - I'm not sure if I can call him Satsuki in his current condition, but for convenience I would call him that - decided to carry him to a point a little further away from the village, first as he was.

It was the mountains that wanted to take a break using village houses and such, but taking a break in this land where the zombies folded up in large quantities, even though they stopped moving, makes my liver a little cold.

The undead in the village have probably exorcised, but there is no certainty.

With the current situation of drastically shredded power, it was the summation of me, Cyril and Mi that they wanted to avoid going any deeper into this village.

Nevertheless, I hope you're not out of luck when you get rid of the goblins.

Ghost is a monster unfamiliar with being represented by a monster rank, but as a convenience rating it will be D-ranked.

Though I'm not supposed to be what you rarely see on the E-rank quest.

Most importantly, the ranking of quests by the Adventurer Alliance tends to be based on the perceived threat, so there is no choice but to have some unexpected occurrences.

If the "Visible Threat" is assumed to be about a hundred zombies, it's never strange to be rated E-rank assuming a hit and away tactic.

I myself, reflecting that I may have taken risk management a little too low this time - but what we need to think about now is what we're going to do.

I'll take Cyril and the two of us to carry a tartaro state satchel and put it to sleep in the grass by the street, a short distance from the village.

And while we set the fire there, the rest waited for Satsuki to wake up.

"Huh..."

After a while, Satsuki slowly opens its eyelids.

It's an awakening in a rope-wrapped potato worm state, dressed up rolled in the grass.

"What... I, the hell..."

Satsuki slowly looked around - eventually my gaze matched that of me in front of the bonfire.

"Did you wake up? How you feeling, buddy?

"... Huh!

Satsuki tried to rave without responding to my inquiry.

But it's rolled in a potato worm state, so I can't move much.

"Calm down. Let's talk first. You were in that village, Ghost, right?

"... yes"

Satsuki has noticed or quickly quieted down and replied.

The tone is not like that of the usual satsuki.

I'll run into the girl with further questions.

"You are possessed by Satsuki's body and trying to serve some purpose of your own. Right?

"... Yes. The owner of this body, Mr. Satsuki? That's a great force. With this power, we can kill them. ─ ─ Please, miss it. I have to kill those guys."

Satsuki has complained that way, lodging a hatred in his eyes.

I turn to the girl and give her my thoughts lightly.

"Unfortunately, I can't do that"

"─ Why not! You see us like this! So how can they be alive? Don't be ridiculous! There is no justice or God in this world!?"

To the girl's words, Cyril reacted with Pickle as she kept her back in a nearby tree and watched as she armed herself.

"... you give me a lot of words. Who are those people you're talking about in the first place?

Cyril said she serves Ahatna, the goddess of light and justice, so I guess there's something to think about.

Satsuki, in a taro state, moves his body and gaze and looks more at Cyril.

"... I'm a bandit. I have nothing else to say. Crude, violent, shitty scumbags. Suddenly lived nearby and took everything away from us. Killed everyone in the village, raped the woman, plundered the whole village. Even I, over and over again, am not one of those people! I'm with the monster! I'll smash you to death, tear you to pieces, drag you out of your bowels (annoyed), skewer you over and over again and kill you!

Cyril's eyes narrow softly as she hears the girl's hate words.

Mi, listening nearby, was sadly shaking her head to the side.

It is said that ghosts are those who die with strong untrained, strong resentment and hatred for this world.

No further conditions have yet been clearly elucidated, as have the naturally occurring conditions of zombies, but I guess she matched those conditions and became a ghost.

Ghost is told that if its purpose is achieved, the soul will be purified and extinguished.

In that case, now that she has taken over control of her body, Satsuki will also be able to return to her original state.

Based on that, I'll give this opinion to the girl in front of me.

"I generally understand the circumstances in which you are placed, and your aspirations. But still, I can't swallow your demands."

To my response, the girl turned her eyes round and next thing I know, she bumped into a protest screaming.

"Become... why not! Are you on their side too!? Don't be ridiculous! Why, why should we be the only ones to see this!

"No. We're not on his side with the bandit, we're not holding his shoulders. The only thing that matters to us is Satsuki, which means you're in control, the owner of that body."

"... Huh!

The girl breathes.

I want to say something, but I can't.

As the sound of the flames and the blast of fire echoes, I speak further to the girl.

"A bandit attacked your village and wiped out all the people in the village - so I recognised, but how many of them were bandits?

"... I don't know. Maybe twenty or thirty, that's about it..."

"Well, I guess that's the place. It raids and wipes out a village made up of hundreds of people, so even assuming a minimum of skill and armament, there will be at least that number of people. ─ ─ You seem to appreciate that if you have the strength of Satsuki's body, you can kill all of them, but calmly speaking, both of them will have a force of five fifths or so. If there's a handful of bandits out there, they're more likely to get paid back."

"Ku......!

A girl looking satsuki bites her lips off with regret.

And note that I scream in a voice filled with hatred.

"─ But still, I have to send more of them to hell, even if I stab them wrong!

"So that's unacceptable to us. Satsuki is one of our most important people. For your sake, I have no trouble taking my life at will."

"... then"

The girl stared at me with her sitting eyes.

"Then help yourselves. I don't care what happens to this guy called Satsuki."

It was a threat.

There's blood on my head, and I guess I'm not going to choose the means.

But...

"You may be meant to be a threat, but that's void, and it's counterproductive just to reverse our nerves. Because this one has the power to wipe you out."

"What...?

"There is a spell called mental destruction (mindblasting). You want to give it a try?