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Translator: Vine
Chapter: 4
Chapter Title: Her Wish
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“Why are you staring like that? Is there something on my face?”
Jushia, clearly annoyed by Sei-an’s intense gaze, frowned deeply and spoke in a complaining tone.
“Wait, do you know me?”
Then, realizing he had just said her name, her eyes widened slightly in surprise.
“……”
Sei-an, however, was still trying to grasp the situation. He stared blankly at her, unable to utter a single word for a long moment.
“…Is she really a Grim Reaper?”
“A Grim Reaper? Of course! Can’t you tell just by looking?”
Her answer only deepened Sei-an’s confusion.
‘Why is she…’
He couldn’t understand how she could be standing before him in the form of a Grim Reaper.
‘Lord Shainos…’
Sei-an then let out a soft sigh to himself, realizing this entire situation must have been orchestrated by Shainos.
“Now that I think about it, can you see me? How can you see me, a Grim Reaper?”
Jushia, on the other hand, was astonished that a human could see her. She began questioning him again.
“Tell me! How can you see me—”
Smack!
“Agh!
Whack!
“Ow! Stop hitting me, Lord Shainos!”
Just then, a figure swiftly appeared beside her and began repeatedly smacking her head. It was Shainos.
“What kind of trouble are you causing now?”
“Trouble? What trouble have I caused?”
“What you’re doing right now is causing trouble, what else would it be?”
“Why is this trouble?!”
“Hmph…”
Shainos tried to scold her, looking quite annoyed, but her defiant and wronged expression left him utterly exasperated.
“Doesn’t she look familiar?”
He turned his head to Sei-an and posed a question.
“It’s you, it’s exactly you.”
She was the spitting image of Sei-an when he was a Grim Reaper.
“You Kai-like brat!”
“Oh, seriously! Who is this Kai you keep talking about?!”
“That one.”
“Huh?”
At Jushia’s next question, Shainos pointed to Sei-an. Jushia whipped her head around to look at Sei-an again.
Ever since she became a Grim Reaper, whenever she caused trouble or did something outlandish, the most frequent thing Shainos would call her was ‘that Kai-like brat.’
“…Do you know each other?”
For a moment, Jushia was utterly shocked that a human could be acquainted with the God of Death.
“What is your true identity?”
“……”
Sei-an wore a bitter expression as he looked at Jushia, who was staring at him with a gaze full of suspicion, demanding to know his identity.
He remembered her asking him the same question with that same expression before she died.
Smack!
“Agh! Ugh, seriously! Stop hitting me!”
“Ha! Now you’re even cursing. At least that one didn’t curse.”
“Well, you keep hitting me!”
Jushia, who had unconsciously let out a small curse after Shainos hit her head again, then gave an awkward smile, seemingly realizing she had gone too far, and took a step back from him.
“While I was busy dealing with the paperwork that old geezer, the Chief God, gave me, you go and cause this kind of trouble, and now you’re swearing, huh?!”
While Shainos was still busy cleaning up the mess Sei-an had made last time, Jushia had now caused trouble herself.
“Why is this trouble, I ask?”
“What?”
“They were supposed to die anyway.”
Everyone Jushia had killed were people who had escaped their fate of death because of Sei-an.
Everyone in this village, including Glomi, was originally destined to die and be guided by a Grim Reaper, weren’t they? Jushia had simply found them and brought their deaths as originally intended.
This was why Shainos hadn’t immediately realized the trouble Jushia had caused.
It was a period of cleaning up the mess caused by those who were supposed to die not dying, so the registry of those destined for death hadn’t been fully organized yet.
And while they were being moved back to the registry of the living, Jushia caused trouble.
As a result, even though those still listed in the registry of the deceased met an unnatural end due to Jushia, they were guided to Shainos without issue, and it took time for him to realize these were improper deaths.
Only now had he grasped the situation and come to this place.
“I just guided souls who were originally supposed to die anyway, so what’s wrong with that?”
“They are no longer souls destined for death.”
“But…”
“Jushia, silence.”
“……!”
Jushia, who couldn’t accept Shainos’s words and was about to retort, her voice full of complaint, quickly clamped her mouth shut.
The cold way Shainos called her name left her no choice.
“This matter will not be taken lightly.”
“…Yes.”
Jushia knew well that while Shainos usually tolerated her pranks and complaints, he could be terrifyingly cold, to the point of being suffocating.
“Go back.”
“Yes…”
Finally, Jushia answered weakly to Shainos’s command and swiftly vanished from the spot.
“……”
She gave Sei-an, who was silently watching her, one last fleeting glance.
“…What happened?”
After Jushia disappeared, Sei-an spoke to Shainos in a low voice.
“As you know, the number of Grim Reapers is kept constant.”
“And?”
“The day you abandoned your duties as a Grim Reaper, that child was the soul coincidentally guided to me.”
“So you made that child a Grim Reaper?”
“Yes.”
Sei-an’s head throbbed as he watched Shainos answer his question so lightly, as if it were nothing.
“But it seems it might have been the wrong choice.”
“What do you mean?”
“Making that brat a Grim Reaper.”
Shainos clicked his tongue disapprovingly, looking at the spot where Jushia had just been.
“Even after losing her memories, how can she still be such a wild, reckless thing…?”
“……”
“Just like you, always causing trouble.”
“Enough. Stop with the pointless talk.”
“What?! Pointless talk?”
“How does she know puppetry?”
She was clearly a child who knew nothing about puppetry. Yet what she had performed just now was undoubtedly puppetry.
“Even though her memories were erased, there was something she was drawn to.”
“Huh?”
“After her training as a Grim Reaper was complete, it was puppetry that she tried to learn on her own.”
“Surely not…”
“Yes, perhaps a faint memory of your puppetry, which she last saw when she died, might have dimly remained.”
Sei-an sighed deeply to himself as he listened to Shainos’s words.
