Instant Death Chapter 30

Chapter 30 - I just need to kill him before he can use it

Underground Ruins - First Floor
Yuuki was currently on his way to the exit when he sensed the sudden death of Lisa.

"Master, is something the matter?"

The two personal guards next to Yuuki, Euphemia and Stefanie, immediately noticed that their master had just sensed something.
Ignoring them, Yuuki called up Lisa's action log and saw the mysterious crumbling of her magic, then her death. Shortly after that Chelsea joined the battle only for her dolls to be rendered useless, upon which she lost her will to fight. Still alive, Chelsea told the two classmates all the information she had regarding Yuuki's side.


"Well, not like I ordered her to keep things secret."

The degree of mind control his personal guards were under was exceedingly small, for the simple reason that living dolls that could only say yes wouldn't have been very interesting companions. Furthermore, Yuuki didn't consider it a problem for the Dominator class' mechanics to be leaked. There was no weakness for his enemies to discover, and the more they would find out about his class the deeper they would fall into despair.
However, the current situation was simply unpleasant. So far he had considered the kidnapping of Tomochika a trifling matter, but with the way things were going he now decided to go all out with it.
He ordered all the insects in that hotel's vicinity to search for Yogiri and Tomochika, soon finding them still in the middle of going down the emergency staircase. Yuuki decided to keep watch on them in real time from now on, so that wherever they may go, thousands of eyes would follow them.

"He says he can kill people just by thinking about it, what do you think?"

Yuuki told Euphemia about what happened and asked for her opinion. He didn't feel like remembering all the details of this world's inner workings, so whenever he was curios about something he would ask one of his personal guards.

"It's a rather absurd claim, but I suppose it could be achieved in a handful of ways. One possibility is the interference of an individual that ranks higher in the hierarchy of the Sages' blessing."

The system, called the sages' blessing by this world's natives, was continuously passed on over the generations, beginning at the maintainers of this world. This inheritance essentially was the same as the install that the students had undergone, making people awaken to special powers but in return locking them into a power relation that strictly placed them below the sage their power originated from.

"Is that related to how the sages can restrict my skills?"

"Yes. When receiving the Sages' blessing a kind of restraint is placed upon you, making it impossible to go against them. That restraint is also what makes it possible for them to render skills unusable, or even lower one's resistance to instant death magic to zero. That said, I believe it's highly doubtful that either of these two might rank above Lisa and Chelsea in terms of hierarchy."

"Yeah, even if they were lying about being ungifted, at best they should be in the same position as me. Or wait, is it possible to upgrade your blessing's standing or something?"

"It's certainly possible for a person's blessing to be altered, but even so I can't imagine them somehow ending up with one that puts them above Lisa and Chelsea."

"Alright, so what other explanation is there?"

"An extreme difference in level would make it possible. In that case, making a fight look like the opponent's magic had been rendered useless and killing them so one-sidedly it looks like instant death wouldn't be difficult. However, on top of their regular strength the girls received additional power from you, Lord. I don't see how they could possibly outlevel both Lisa at level 70 and Chelsea at level 56 to such a degree."

"True, without using a leveling method like mine rapidly increasing their levels like that shouldn't be possible."

One's level represents the aggregate amount of energy one's existence holds. That energy is necessary whenever one tries to make use of the system, and absorbed when killing a being that also has the system installed in them. As such, in order to quickly raise one's level it was necessary to kill as strong as possible enemies at an as fast as possible rate.
There was no way for Yogiri and Tomochika to achieve such a feat, so it was impossible for them to outlevel Lisa and Chelsea in the few days they had been in this world. Under normal circumstances gaining a small handful of levels in that time was already the best one could do.

"The third possibility would be the use of an unknown power. I suppose this is the most likely explanation."

"That's hardly an explanation, is it?"

"You are absolutely right, but doesn't it suffice as a reason to give up on Dannoura-sama? There is no need to go head to head with a power we don't understand. In your case, Lord, further contact with them would be easily avoidable."

"Are you telling me to sneak around hiding from someone? No way that's gonna happen."

Although he kept his jesting tone, Yuuki did get a little irritated by that. It just wasn't what a true ruler would do, he believed.

"Well, doesn't matter what kind of amazing offensive power he claims to have, I just need to kill him before he can use it. So, any ideas?"

"Hm, in Lisa's case her reliance on magic is what doomed her, and in Chelsea's case it was her reliance on dolls. After all, as far as physical ability went they weren't that much stronger than a normal person. I believe that sending in someone with a class that excels in melee combat may prove successful, someone at level 50 that can move at a speed faster than a normal person could perceive."

"That doesn't sound like someone very easily preparable."

At present, nearly all of his military power was busy with hunting. His first priority was the collection of resources, and he still believed that to have been the right course of action. After all, a fight within the city could hardly have been anticipated.

"Guess I'll start by ordering everyone that seems useful to head to the city. Actually, do I really have to bother with something roundabout like melee combat? Can't I just blow him away with some flashy long range magic?"

"Within the area of celestial protection it will be difficult to use any large scale extermination magic, but if we can get them to come outside then that may be possible indeed. We would run the risk of Dannoura-sama getting caught up in it, however."

"Eh, I wouldn't want that to happen. Alright, let's just chase them around for a while then, shouldn't take long until they give up."

Thankfully his supply of slaves was near endless; for each one that died he could just send in two new ones. Even if Yogiri really could kill people just by thinking about it, there had to be some limit to how long he could keep going. The strength of numbers was bound to make him crack eventually.

"This is an order to everyone in the vicinity of Hayabusa. Kill Yogiri Takatou and capture Tomochika Dannoura."


In his whole life, Yuuki Tachibana had never known the feeling of regret, because he had never experienced true failure.
While there were some ups and downs, in the end everything had always turned out the way he wanted.
That was the source of his optimism: His continuous success had him convinced that in the future, too, he would always end up victorious.
His confidence in being unable to lose, based on no concrete evidence whatsoever, turned into one of the reasons for his success, further cementing his conviction.

That was why he viewed Yogiri's power so optimistically.
He was certain that he was currently at a safe distance from him, and even if his plan failed he could easily recover and attempt a different approach -- with that mindset Yuuki gave the order to kill Yogiri.
One couldn't blame him for his decision. To first get rid of the unknown variable and then carry out the abduction as originally intended was a reasonable strategy.

But that was a fatal error.
He acted on his intent to kill, through which his killing intent formed a concrete connection to Yogiri.
However, Yuuki wasn't given the chance to realize his mistake. In the end he never once had the opportunity to taste the feeling of regret in his life.

Stefanie's reaction was proof of her simple nature, breaking into tears as she witnessed the sudden event before her and requiring several moments to realize what it implied:

An existence that mercilessly went against their understanding of this world had appeared.

At this time, the only one to have come to that realization and tremble in terror was Euphemia.




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Thanks for reading. Special thanks to everyone pointing out typos and mistakes.

Regarding the system and its hierarchy

So far we know two ways to acquire the system:

* Inherit it from your parents

* Have a sage/sword saint install it in you

Inheriting it from your parents puts you at the same rank as them, meaning your parents can't regulate your skills nor status. It can be assumed that eons in the past, sages started installing the system in people, which was then passed on until the present day and now puts all regular natives at the same level, but below the sages in the hierarchy.
It seems that having a sage bestow it to you puts you at the same rank as regular people, i.e the bottom. As a reminder, the reason the sages bother with Japanese sage candidates in the first place instead of looking for new sages among the native population is their synergy with the system, meaning they tend to awaken to more powerful classes.

Moving up the ladder things get complicated; there's probably an agreement that allows all sages to control all regular people, but among the sages themselves there are most likely all sorts of higher and lower ranking leaders and followers.

The sword saints' blessing is also based on the system, but has its own hierarchy; whether the two hierarchies eventually fuse at the top is currently unknown.


Mind you, this is merely our interpretation of it. If contradicting information pops up this will be edited.
Sword saints are elaborated on in a future arc.

47 comments:

  1. lol the guy just went and kick the bucket without even knowing it haha~.

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  2. Sorriest death ever.
    Thanks for the chapter

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    1. Yeah! I feel sorry for him now and for those two slave... Though, i dunno why i am...

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  3. The kills make me remember one punch man everyone is making epic fights and he just hits and kills

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  4. Wha....did Yuuki just die? O_o Okay....Yogiri....you're just wicked...

    Thanks for the awesome work. ^_^

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  5. That's one hardcore defense system, someone even thinks about killing you and they go poof.

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    1. Seriously hardcore. There's not many ways around it without some form of insanity.

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    2. I dont think it's the thought of harming him alone leads to their death, but the decision to act with the intent to harm him is what alerts him. So you can hate him all you want, but the moment you decide to act on your hate, you're in danger.

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    3. Death note is not that powerful

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    4. I dont think its instant I think he notices your intent and likely if you have met him before he knows the killing intent is from you so he can select it or he noticed the sudden increase knowing it was from his slaves and being somewhat lazy he seems just said FUCK it die to the boss lol.

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    5. it's not only because of the intention, i think it's also because he is the 'one' who 'give the order to kill' our MC to his subordinate 'directly'.. this is just what i think tough.. i am sorry for my bad english... and sorry for interfering with you guys confersation.. i am such pitiful hooman being.. if there's another life i want to get reincarnated into slime...

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    6. Technically they have to put that thought into action. Directly ordering his slaves to kill constitutes that action.

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  6. "But that was a fatal error." IDK about japanese, but in english this is just ironic, because it was literal.

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  7. Damn it ... I'm happy for the death of the bastard and sad to see another Euphemia crying ... Damn ... Do not reopen old wounds ...

    Thanks for the chapter

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  8. He really should have taken the advice.

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  10. Thanks for chapter~~/
    Really, Yogiri's power is unbeatable xD
    He can kill instantly (if he wants), and he can kill people who want to kill him..
    And to kill someone without intention is very hard...If you able to mask your emotion to kill, but you are targeted by Yogiri, then you still die anyway xDD

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  11. Huh.. just thinking you want to kill him.. you'll die.. w/ no distance restriction.. what the hell,, that's ridiculous.. yuuki you choose your wrong opponent...

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  12. I guess the only feasible way to kill him would be to do so accidentally.

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    1. Only thing I could think of would be ordering a lot of people in his vicinity to do an innocuous (but possibly deadly) action at the same time.

      Like when Yogiri is walking through a street, order everyone who lives there to throw their ovens off their roofs at the same time, and hopefully one would hit him.

      The person who gave the order would likely die though, since he orchestrated it to kill Yogiri. The people doing the action are just doing it without any real intentions though, so the action should go through without them dying (unless Yogiri manually kills them).

      So even if you can make other people "accidentally" kill him, the one who set it up would probably always die.

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    2. In previous chapters when he is in the train, it state that killing intent does dot express fully how it work. He can sense the sage stray bullet because it will affect his life without the requirements of the sage killing intent. So, yeah, random ovens cannot kill him.

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    3. Nah, he can kill anyone directing their killing intent to him, and detect area with deathly lines, but it doesn't mean he can avoid them all, or overtake something moving very fast

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    4. He can see the outcome of every danger in the form of lines before it happens, meaning that he can always kill it before it goes off.

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  13. and he didn't even realize what kill him... or how...
    poor B-villain....

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  14. Wow... I didn't realize that yuuki is dead there...

    -He acted on his intent to kill, through which his killing intent formed a concrete connection to Yogiri-
    That line, is that means yogiri could kill some one that has killing intent to him where ever they are? I mean the power of instant death is connected to killing intent of thw target?

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    1. It meant that him acting(by ordering his slaves to kill, with them being an extension of himself due to his dominator class) on his intent to kill is why he was instant killed.

      Had he just had the intent to kill without acting on it, then Yogiri wouldn't have been able to insta kill him from so far away. Him acting on the intent was what made the connection.

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    2. Though, we don't know for sure yet if the "acting on killing intent" causes automatic death or if it only informs Yogiri after which he chooses to make the other die.

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    3. Think it let's him choose. Being automatic he would.never need to sense intent the moment someone had it for him they would die. Hence he would never really get a grasp of it since people would die to quick. Plus killing intent is shown a few times by the girls he didn't kill all of them but when they start to fight the should be unleashing it at him which if it was automatic would again have them dead to fast for anyone to notice.

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  15. Just had the thought but with how he was successful with weakening his skill to body parts or inanimate objects, couldn't he target a person's gift and their system?

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  16. wah wah i didn't realize it lol he already died

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  17. Now that the distraction is gone, lets get to this undead horde that's about to be unleashed.

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  18. "But that was a fatal error." i shall add " ..that brought peace to the world?"

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  19. in this case, it's not only because of the intention, i think it's also because he is the 'one' who 'give the order to kill' our MC to his subordinate 'directly', and those subordinate 'take an act based on that'... this is just what i think tough.. i am sorry for my bad english... and sorry for being conceit.. i am such pitiful hooman being.. if there's another life i want to get reincarnated into slime... cute slime with ability to transform into cute shota..

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  20. That is utterly terrifying. Wonder what it means for that undead commander dude.

    But seriously this surpasses OPM. Never thought I'd say that....

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  21. And if the mc just planted the seed on first encounter, sensed the killing intent now, and blowed it up?

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  22. This story fit in the horror section 😱

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  23. People are mistaking something, anyone with the intent to kill him DOES die automactically but when he is focused he can stop it besides that the reason it didn't respond to yuuki slave in the previous chapter is simply because she only intended to injure them

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  24. This really ruins the story. Its such bullshit! I understand his OP in that he can say the word die and the person in the vacinity dies. But to kill someone thats way off out of sight, only cause he showed killing intent on a target is bullshit writing. The whole meaning of killing intent is just some vague notion which helps us readers/watches understand someone having the feelings to kill. The fact he can use it to kill people long range is just terrible. Feels like the author is pulling it out of his ass cause he says so. Unless Yogiri is a god, or hes already marked his target with a curse. Its just BS.

    Authors just made him too godly and I dont like it. I liked him as a dark horse, still having to be careful against sages. Make a wrong move and hes still toast. But now he can kill anyone from miles away. Takes out the fun of it. But I still wanna see how this story goes :/

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  25. I don't like that. I am probably sounding pretty dark but the high and mighty type characters should be tortured and broken down to tears. Then the MC should destroy them with no effort, that is how it should go.

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  26. I'd like to feel sorry for the guy but I just can't...

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  27. I just realized that Takatou inherited his power from his parents.

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    1. That is if he had parents...

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  28. Died in two sentences and had 2 chapters worth of screen time

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