It's the 34th world since we joined Ituna and the others.
　It's been a disgusting, sleepless, otherworldly scrap rush ever since.
　Since we're all making the same kind of wishes, the solutions are exactly the same pattern.
　It's just a simple job of choosing the method that seems best based on my experience so far.

　Frankly, I'm tired of it.
　It's easy, but I don't enjoy this one one one bit.
　There's no room for me to get creative with what I have to do, and it's not something I can talk about with my wife.

'Summoned successfully.'
Okay. You, come here!　Don't grouch!

　So when I was summoned to some country's summoning room, as usual, I stopped to think about it.

'What the hell is this guy. You're looking at me like I'm a dead fish.
I don't think that would be a problem. If you are deemed unfit for service, I shall dispose of them.

　Soldiers would point their spears at me to threaten the person I had unilaterally called out to, but I didn't care.
　Even though I was handcuffed and treated like a criminal at the place where I was brought in as an adult, I didn't have the energy to disobey at all.
　I'd like to figure out what the pledge was as soon as possible and get it over with.
　That's all I wanted to do.

'The Emperor is ahead of you. ''Be rough!''

　Eventually I was brought to the fancy and badass audience room.
　A man who looked to be the emperor was on the back throne, gloomily propped up on his cheekbones, looking down at me like I was looking at garbage.

'You are in the presence of His Majesty!　Get on your knees and hang your head!

　I obey in silence, as I was getting tired of breathing in and out.

'Face up, people of another world.

　I looked up at him maturely, though I was too lazy to look up.

''I am Elrius III, the twelfth emperor of the Zachardine Empire.

　I think I've heard of Zachardine somewhere.
　I don't know when it was but I don't care.
　You don't have to introduce yourself or anything. I can never remember your name and I don't want to know what you want.

I'm the king of the world, and I have all the honor, treasure, and beauty in the world. I've got all the honors, treasures, and beauty in the world, and I can't have an audience with someone as lowly as you.

　That's right.
　I've seen many emperors who say the same thing as you do, but they're on cloud nine.
　It's amazing. I'm in awe of you.

''........Hey, I wonder if this guy is really okay. Did he use drugs or something?　You seem to have fallen in love with him already.

　The Emperor, puzzled by my appearance, overheard the next aide.

''You are so struck by His Majesty's majesty's authority that you are speechless. I know it is unavoidable.''
Well, that's understandable, then.

　I'm sure you're not the only one who's interested in this," he said, whispering with a grim face.

But I've been lied to," he said. You can't use it as a consolation prize for the soldiers like a woman. I'm sure you'll be able to find a way to make the most of your time in the city. Good.
Ha!

　The emperor, who didn't expect his orders to be in my ears as well, once again gave me a gaze that was sincerely unimportant.

''Well. What I want next, having obtained all kinds of things. Those of us of lowly means can't even imagine--
"Elixir of life.

　My apathetic and abrupt statement froze the audience room at once.

''........no?''

　I didn't mean to point this out with a smug look on my face.
　The next best thing for any worldly beneficiary to hope for is usually to make his reign eternal.
　I just thought it would be the same this time anyway.

"...you!　You spoke without Her Majesty's permission!　And you have the impudence to interrupt His Majesty's words!
Wait.

　It's a good thing that you're able to have a good time with them.
　It's a complete change from the previous day when he was vaguely scandalous, with a dark, vindictive fire in his eyes.

You are right, people of another world. You are right, I want eternal life. You are right, I've sent people all over the world to look for it, but they haven't found it yet. In the past, you have summoned a number of slaves to obtain knowledge of other worlds in this way. There have certainly been some who have the knowledge to bring prosperity to the empire, but until now, none of them have known how to become immortal.

　Once the fire was lit, the emperor began to speak passionately.
　He rose from his throne and opened his eyes with a snap.

'Do you know about this?　How to become an immortal!　How do you get it?　A pact with an evil god?　Mystic arts in the realm of the gods?　A sacrifice of over 10,000?　Whatever it takes to make the sacrifice, I don't care how!　If you know, apply!

　I don't know how to become immortal.
　I'm quick to distribute my immortality cheat, but I'm not going to do that because Eva has always told me to collect it when granting a cheat to anyone other than my wife.

'Err ... ah, this is disturbing.'

　I tear the handcuffs off without a care in the world.

'What?　You, how!
You're not listening to me!

　All around me, there was a general throbbing.
　The emperor was astonished, and the soldiers all surrounded me with their spears at the ready.

I'm not going to be rioting, so why don't you just shut up?

　Giving the scraps a glance, he took one of the vials from the item box.

''Then your majesty. Here you are.
What's that?

　The emperor looks at the vial offered to him with a questioning look, to which I reply in a tone of voice that introduces the junk that can be found anywhere.

It's a potion that will make you immortal if you take it.
What?

　The emperor began to ramble and shake.
　Was he impressed?

You... if you plot against me, you will get away with it!

　Oyo, you seem to be angry for some reason.
　As he tilts his head, the emperor glares at him as if he were avenging his parents.

''How could the Elixir of Immortality be made so easily?　After many failures, we have not yet arrived at this point in time, but the dream of eternal life!　There is no way in hell that a lowly person like you could have it!

　Ah........that's right.
　This kind of hidden treasure would be suspected if you weren't wasteful or demanded huge rewards. I completely forgot about it.
　Even if you demanded it afterwards, it wouldn't clear the suspicion that the medicine wasn't real.
　I can't even think of a price for it.

It's true that I don't know how to make it, and I don't think you guys would be able to make it even if you spent your whole life trying. You have a lot of immortality potions that were mass-produced by copying and pasting, so what can you do? Don't talk about it, just drink it and make your wishes come true. I don't have time for this either.

　I began to get annoyed, and I forgot to use the least amount of respectful language and started acting like a jerk.

'You're being rude to me earlier, you!
"Your Majesty!　May I make this one understand his position?
"Mm, I forgive you!　Torture this man and make him tell the truth about immortality!

　Ah.
　Why do they have a low boiling point every time they're in another world?

　Enough.
　Let's do it the hard way.
　It's faster.

It's a good thing that you're not the only one.

　When he activated his paralysis magic on everyone except the emperor, he fell in a flurry like a domino.

''Na........silly.......''

　The emperor's face turns blue at once when he sees all his subordinates crawling to the floor at once.

''So, Mr. Emperor. What do we do now?　I wouldn't mind throwing you into an endless cycle of perpetual death.
Okay, okay. I'll drink it. I'll take your word for it.

　Hmm, if you can understand.
　He stepped over the fallen soldiers and approached the Emperor as he climbed the stairs towards the throne.

'Yes, but first,'

　I'll have to make sure I give him the proper precautions when I give him these pills.
　It's more of a follow-up, to prevent me from having to do it twice, but it'll probably be in vain this time, too.
　But that's what Eva told me to do, so I don't have a choice.

''After you take this drug, you'll never be able to die in a normal way. Even if you cut off your limbs, you will regenerate, and even if your body is reduced to a speck of ashes, you will return to this world. In other words, it will become a body that can never die, is that okay?
That's good. That's what I want!
Well, I'll give you this as a service.

　He took out a single dagger from the item box and held out the hilt to the Emperor.

''What's this?''
''The Dagger of the Immortal Killer. The Elixir of Immortality won't work on wounds caused by this dagger. If you want to die, use this to commit suicide.
'Nonsense ... we don't need any of that stuff!

　Yeah, that's what everyone says at first.

'Hmmm ... well, you can do what you want then.'

　I said my piece of advice. I don't need to question the guy who tried to torture me.

And if you want to die, don't scream at me.
Of course. Now, give me the pills, quick.

　He angrily urged me to give it to him, so I'll give it to him honestly.　
　The emperor hesitated for a while as he took the vial of medicine, but in the end, it seems that the temptation of immortality outweighed his prudence.
　He boldly gulped it down with a gulp.

''The pledge has been made.''

　The effect of the potion made the emperor immortal, so a magic circle appears at my feet.

''Mmmm.......I really did become immortal, didn't I?

　I heard the emperor's voice say something like, "I'm sorry," but I was summoned before I could answer.



　Immediately after, I appeared in a dark room.
　Frowning at the tremendous stench, I sealed my sense of smell and activated my night vision.
　The fact that I was summoned in an instant means that I'm expected to be in the same different world as before, and also within a few hundred years.
　However, I expected this to happen, so I'm not surprised.

''Zee........zee.......''

　Inside the room, a man was crucified to the wall, his hair long, and his beard stubborn, and his once imposing demeanor a shadow of its former self.
　His hair is long and stubbled, and his stubble is a shadow of his former majesty, but there is no mistaking it. It was the emperor who had just been crucified.
　He was covered in rags with stakes like stakes driven into his body, and he was bleeding profusely.
　The blood was flowing endlessly along with feces and urine, and it was flowing back to the wound as if it were defying gravity and then flowing again.
　The wound is being opened again from the side where it regenerates. It would be in tremendous pain.

　And everywhere on the walls and floor were painted with mysterious patterns in an attempt to undermine the immortality as much as possible.
　It was these patterns that served as a summoning magic circle.

''Mu........?''

　The crucified emperor noticed me and his eyes widened in astonishment.

''Oh....eh....tha....tha....tha....tha.... I'm just going to have to......... I'll..........
See? This is my favorite part.

　It turns out that the hope that summoned me is, of course, to die.
　The customary development that passes as usual causes me to sigh for the umpteenth time in recent memory.

　It's not hard to imagine what has happened to this man.
　He must have been dragged down from his throne as his authority was to last forever.
　No matter how brilliantly he reigned, he would sooner or later become an outdated old man. Then it is the natural order of the world that this man, who was arrogant and conceited, should be removed by a wicked retainer.
　He was set up by his descendants, or was he involved in a rebellion? It doesn't matter to me.
　People who mistake immortality for invincibility or something else and get carried away usually end up like this.

"Tada, mu, tanken, and...
Do you want me to kill you?

　He wields the Immortal Killing Dagger, which he hadn't yet stowed away, and lightly injures the man's chest.

''That's it!　Kill me with that tantrum, yeah, yeah!

　When the Emperor saw that the wound did not regenerate, he was in a frenzy.
　I guess he couldn't die in any way before.
　I know exactly how he feels.

　But to the man who had found hope, I only had one word to say to him, as if pouring cold water on him.

'No.'
What?　Why oh why oh why!

　The emperor yells out that he doesn't know what it means.
　He protects the flying spit with a force field barrier and laughs scornfully as he plays with the dagger in his hand.

''Perhaps you've forgotten about it years ago. You said you didn't want this dagger, you know?''

　I slapped him on his dirty cheek with my dagger belly for good measure.
　I can't feel the slightest bit of pity for this scum as I imagine the folly he must have committed.
　He's not just locked up in jail, he's suffering through crucifixion. In other words, that's how many people have resented him.
　He must have ruled the world for a long time with his immortal power, and after the end of his tyranny, he must have finally been sealed up in the land of the unseen as the source of all evil.
　Those who overthrew the emperor chose to use his immortality to inflict eternal suffering.

'Besides, I told you. Don't scream at me when you want to die.
Why? Why? Why would I let this happen to me...

　That's what you deserve, I thought, but I guess it's because my brain isn't working.
　The story of what I would do to those people who were 'begging for death' in their usual habit came out of my mouth naturally.

'To tell you the truth, I'm immortal too.

　Ignoring the man's gasp, I cut my fingertips with the flipped dagger to show him.
　But unlike the man's, the wound closed up in a flash.

''Look. My immortality is not nullified by this dagger. A body that cannot die is like a curse. Even if you try to live in one world, everyone will pass away before you. The wives and children who were given immortality will come to beg you to let them die in the end, just like you. There is no memory limit in the human brain, but the spirit or soul is not like that. Human beings are not made to live infinitely. That's why I used to wish for it. I used to wish that someone would kill me.

　I gaze deep into the man's eyes.
　I wasn't glaring at him, but I wonder if he saw a glimpse of madness in my eyes. For some reason, I started to shudder.

'But I've stopped. I've stopped yearning for death. I've done countless bad things, even if it was to fulfill my vows, and I've learned to think that I deserve it.

　Finally, he smiled briskly as he patted the man's shoulder indulgently.

'That's why I always give the helpless scum a neat immortality potion instead of a poison pill. You've done a lot of things that you can't say, haven't you?　Then you will experience the same purgatory as I did. To live forever is your punishment.

　Hearing my words, the man's expression, realizing that there is no salvation at all, becomes tainted with despair and his face turns into a crying face.

'No ... no ... no ... no!　Put me down!　Put me down, yeah, yeah, yeah!

　I muttered curtly, not lending an ear or moving my mind.

''Pledge. Ryouji Sakagagi will not kill you.



--Dismissed the summonser's request. The oath of substitute has been accepted.









''Jeez, Evil God's Household ... did you succeed in summoning him?

　When I open my eyes, I see a man in a dirty robe looking up at me in ecstasy in a creepy room that still looks familiar.

　A girl is lying on a pedestal opposite me and the man on a pedestal.
　The dagger stabbing into her tiny chest is painful.

　Apparently, the ritual failed because I couldn't successfully kill the sacrifice needed to summon the Evil God's family members, and I was summoned.
　For now, I used a life extension cheat to keep the girl from dying while casting a pain blocking spell, and her expression was at ease at once. Now I can save her at any time.

''Well. You were the one who summoned me, weren't you?

　Then I glared at the man in the robe.
　I began to play the role of an evil god's subordinate just like I did with Zado, babbling in my brain about lifting him to the edge and then pushing him to the bottom at once.

'I'll grant you any wish. There's only one price you'll pay.

　It's your life, I guffawed at the desire to continue, and asked the man while hiding my killing intent.
　He was determined to make a proxy pledge to any wish....



'Make me immortal!　I'm willing to pay any price!　Whether it's the living blood of a hundred virgins, the soul of a saint, or whatever!



　.........Hmm.
　Is this some kind of fate, I wonder.
　I turned around and replied with a big smile on my face and said, "Yes, it's my pleasure!　

"Yes, I'd be happy to!