Kays Translations
Just another Isekai Lover~
Chapter 233: After Coming Back to Life
Aeris, Ragune, and Ankh had fallen into despair when Tauro died, so his return to life felt nothing short of miraculous.
They were reluctant to move him while he remained unconscious and decided to spend the night in the mountains. Because all their proper camping equipment was stored inside Tauro’s [Magic Storage], they had little choice but to sleep in the open.
Aeris rested Tauro’s head on her lap, Ragune draped her cloak over him, and Ankh kept watch beside the campfire. Aeris had placed a barrier around the campsite, so they were safe from monsters, but the tension remained as long as Tauro didn’t wake.
“What happened to him?” Ankh asked Ragune. “I’m certain he was dead.”
“Perhaps Tauro possesses some kind of self-resuscitation ability,” Ragune said, recalling knowledge passed down in the dragonfolk village.
“Self-resuscitation?”
“The fixed skill of a [Grand Pontiff] includes [Automatic Self-Resuscitation Technique]. When its owner dies, it has an extremely small, luck-dependent chance of reviving them. But even if it activates, the person dies again immediately if the fatal condition remains. An area instant-death curse overwhelms the victim’s body itself, so self-resuscitation alone shouldn’t have been enough.”
Ragune couldn’t reconcile what she knew with the miracle before them.
“Tauro has [Super Recovery and Regeneration],” Aeris said. “What if it continued repairing his body until the moment he died and resumed the instant he came back to life?”
“He has an ability like that? Then it might be possible, but the chance of surviving would still be far below one percent…”
“Maybe [Good Luck] supplied the missing probability.”
The voice came from Tauro, who opened his eyes while lying on Aeris’s lap.
“Tauro!”
Aeris immediately pulled him into a tight embrace and burst into tears.
“I’m sorry I worried all of you,” Tauro said as she held him. “I’m glad everyone else is safe.”
“Good grief, Leader,” Ankh said with visible relief. “How exactly did you come back to life?”
“I heard Ragune’s explanation while I was drifting in and out, and I reached the same conclusion. When I nearly died while creating Ragune’s magic spear, I heard the Voice of the World.”
Tauro recalled the moment when excessive mana consumption had almost killed him and Aeris had transferred her own mana to save him.
“Confirmed one condition for activating special skill [&%$#]: <One Who Has Escaped Death Many Times>. Acquired [Automatic Self-Resuscitation Technique].”
Tauro had immediately understood that the ability could only be tested by dying. He had neither the opportunity nor the courage to verify it, so he had pushed it to the back of his mind without telling Aeris.
“I think [Automatic Self-Resuscitation Technique] activated, [Good Luck] overcame its extremely low probability, and [Super Recovery and Regeneration] restored the condition that would otherwise have killed me again. That combination must be how I survived. I’m truly sorry I frightened you.”
He gently patted Aeris’s back until she finally released him. Her face was red and wet from crying.
“What happened in that village?” she asked as she wiped her tears.
Tauro explained that the settlement appeared to have been a training facility for the Assassins’ Guild. The sorcerer involved in the attempted assassination of Count Dareder had apparently served there as an instructor.
He believed the guild had abandoned the facility, left behind one terminally ill boy, and constructed a large-scale trap in retaliation for Tauro’s repeated interference with its missions, including earlier incidents involving Aeris.
“Leader, the magical shriek the boy released before he died was probably a success signal to allies waiting outside,” Ankh said. “Wouldn’t you agree?”
Since Ankh had witnessed the boy’s final moments, his conclusion carried weight.
“I think so too,” Ragune said. “The sound reached across a wide section of the forest. I saw birds rising from the trees all at once.”
“Then they probably won’t return to verify the result,” Ankh continued. “As far as the Assassins’ Guild is concerned, the leader should be removed from its target list.”
“Why are you sure they won’t come back?” Tauro asked. He had been unconscious when the village burned.
“Because they destroyed the evidence by setting the village on fire. If they intended to inspect the scene personally, they wouldn’t have arranged to burn everything immediately after receiving the signal. They valued avoiding a possible encounter more than confirming the body.”
“I see. Then they believe I’m dead, which should keep them from targeting me again for a while.”
Tauro smiled to reassure his companions.