## Chapter 1661 – Sword and Magic Outsider – Celestial Demon Constellation

Anyway, after spewing all sorts of lies and demonstrating the difference in power, this bird-brained angel was completely in my grasp.

“Name?”
“Leorn.”
“Alright. I’m Imhotep. You can call me Anck-Su-Namun for short.”
“Short…?”
“Huh? Why?”

Leorn tilted his head at my name.

“Isn’t the last name longer?”
“What?”

Oh, for fuck’s sake.

“Are you complaining about my name right now? Want to get choked out again?!”

I never thought I’d be treated like this in my life!

“N-No, that’s not it! Aaaaaaaagh!”

I immediately went behind him and put him in a rear naked choke, and he screamed.

“You little shit. Watch it. I’m always watching your attitude.”
“I understand! Aaaaaaagh!”

He gives off a naive vibe like Mariel, which is kind of endearing, but the only reason I’m beating him up so violently is this:

He’s also a being created by the evil gods of this world. In other words, he’s like a fragment of evil, so I can’t help but feel the urge to use violence.

Once he’s no longer useful, I’ll beat him to a pulp and make him work in the sugarcane fields.

“Anyway… you don’t have any more questions for me, right?”
“I’ve… mostly understood.”
“And you understand that my power and everything else about me is kept secret.”
“I don’t know what that person’s intentions are in doing this, but I wouldn’t dare to fathom their will. I understand. I’ll pretend not to know anything about you until I receive orders.”
“Good thinking. Still, this is going well so far. Then, be on your way.”
“Understood.”

—Whoosh.

The angel immediately opened a gate.

“Leaving right away?”
“That’s the plan.”
“Hmm.”

I pretended to be doing something else while focusing on that gate.

Is the god this guy serves really there? Or is it just a simple passage? Either way, I tried to figure it out as much as possible.

“No. Well. Goodbye.”
“Don’t do anything too conspicuous.”
“You can’t even imagine that even that is intentional, can you?”
“Kuh…! I see!”

—Whoosh.

And with that, the angel crossed over the gate.

“Hehehe, you gullible bastard.”

I’ve roughly figured out the coordinates for now. I hope this one’s the real deal. Should I go right away? No. Even if I did, showing such movements right away would be suspicious. Let’s proceed cautiously for now.

Just finding a passage is a big win.

Whatever the case.

It seems like I’ll be seeing that angel often, and I should make the most of that situation.

* * *

So, while I was staying here, I often met with the angel and exchanged information. Of course, it was a one-sided exchange. He gave me all the information.

More than anything, he must have spun a good enough story to his god, because he didn’t seem to have any particular suspicions about me.

Rather, it seems he received orders to keep a closer eye on me.

“Hmm… so, as far as I know, the number of ‘those who manage this world’ is seventeen in total.”
“Wow. That many?”

Other humans were making all sorts of different guesses. Even if he’s gullible, information from an angel like this is more reliable than from humans.

“But isn’t that number wrong? Is there anything incorrect?”
“Hmm… that may be the case, but the number I know is seventeen in total.”
“So it’s not accurate. Then, do all those gods hate each other?”
“Some are on good terms, but others are on bad terms.”

I understand that the gods have different tendencies.

So, there’s a bastard who gives strange quests to support murderers, while there are also relatively moderate ones?

Well, that’s one way to think about it… but this status window thing has caused a lot of harm.

Not only do the status window users rule evilly, but it’s also common for guilds to push other incompetent people as sacrifices in death games, saying they’ll help the guild newbies level up.

Since they’ve created a world like this, good and evil don’t really mean much.

“Anyway. Then there must be a lot of checks and balances?”
“Checks and balances… of course, there are. The seventeen of them each have their own plans, so they create messengers like me to carry out their work.”
“What do they usually do?”

What is there to do in this status window dimension?

“I can’t say for sure. But what’s certain is that they eventually give power to humans and have them clean up the monsters.”
“Seems like it.”

—Glug, glug.

I picked up the beer next to me and drank it. I don’t really need to eat anything, but to look normal, it’s good to show myself eating something… Ah, damn it.

Beer reminds me of Kopson again.

Come to think of it, I’ve been too busy lately to meet this guy. What’s he been up to? I met him often after that incident in the village, but I haven’t seen him recently.

I should see him when I get back.

“Oh, and it seems like each god has different characteristics.”
“Of course. As many as seventeen, they have different characteristics.”
“I think there’s an evil one.”

As soon as I threw out those appropriate words…

—Crack.

His face twisted for a moment.

“Especially the one that Maharn serves…!”

Bursting anger. It seems he has a lot of pent-up feelings towards that clown. I can feel a sense of kinship here. I also have a lot of pent-up feelings towards that fucking clown.

“Why? What’s he like?”
“He treats humans like toys!!!”

A heartfelt cry.

“Hey, you. Why are you suddenly yelling?”
“Ah! I, I’m sorry.”

For a moment, he sincerely burst out in anger and shouted loudly… this guy? He’s angry because he treats humans like toys?

“Why are you suddenly yelling? Tell me.”
“That’s…! Because I can’t stand that! Treating humans like toys!”
“What.”

He’s really angry?

“So… the god that Maharn serves. He treats humans like toys? And you can’t stand that?”
“That’s right! Isn’t that obvious!”

Leorn, responding to my words, continued.

“The one that Maharn serves…! He hides in a place where no one can find him, and abuses the quest system to humiliate humans! He deliberately issues evil orders, or makes them do ridiculous things! He’s doing things that shouldn’t be done with dignity.”
“This guy?”
“That’s evil and useless! Making humans fight each other and spreading negative emotions!”

Was he a nicer guy than I thought?

Just from what he’s saying, he’s in line with fusion Confucianism. As he says, it’s unacceptable to abuse the quest system to do evil things.

“You were more normal than I thought? I thought you’d be similar to Maharn.”
“Why would you say that! It’s an insult!”

Turns out, there are good and evil gods… I need to look into this further. I had already defined him as an evil god, but I was planning to interrogate him properly before destroying him.

Unexpected facts may come out, like now.

“Oh? Look at this guy. Are you upset?”
“No, that’s…!”
“Oh, sorry. Never mind. Just keep talking.”
“Well… the one I serve! His characteristics are completely different from the one Maharn serves! Don’t compare me to Maharn!”
“Okay. I won’t.”

He’s showing extreme aversion to being compared to an evil being. Is his personality righteous?

“Don’t you know! Compared to the one who pursues pleasure, Lady Lisperia, whom I serve, pursues order and peace!”
“Order and peace. Yeah. Good values. I agree.”
“Why does someone who knows that compare me to Maharn!”
“I said I’m sorry!”

I see.

This angel believes without a doubt that his god is good. And he has a aversion to issuing evil killing quests with the status window.

“But, you know. Then why.”
“Hmm?”
“Are you neglecting things like the Tower of Agoron?”
“Agoron…! That is!”
“When I went there myself, I saw that humans were abusing the Tower of Agoron.”

This Tower of Agoron is the tower where the death game took place. The very place where the clan guys were sacrificing innocent, incompetent people.

“They were trying to sacrifice unrelated visitors in a killing game to increase their power. Why have you neglected that until now? I heard that tradition is very old.”
“…”
“I didn’t like it, so I killed all those bastards.”
“That’s… Kuh!”

Leorn gritted his teeth at my words.

“It’s frustrating, but… it’s not something we can interfere with. What happens in that tower… is managed by the owner of that tower. So, no matter what happens, we can’t interfere recklessly.”

I wondered why a guy who claims to be righteous would neglect something like that, but it seems there was an inviolable treaty.

“Can’t you use indirect methods?”

Can’t you do that?

“Even that is difficult. Touching the tower is the same as declaring all-out war… Tower management is the absolute right of those people. Infringing on that is… difficult.”

That’s roughly the rule. Anyway, these guys seem to value the tower and the monsters that come out of it very much. I don’t know why, but I’ll find out when I open it up.

Good.

I’ve learned new information today, so I should stop hitting him recklessly.

Then what should I say… Ah.

Let’s try lying like this.

“Hey. That’s what I’m saying.”
“Uh-huh?”
“Why do you think I don’t have a status window?”
“What?”

Leorn tilted his head for a moment.

“Could it be…!”

He shouted in surprise.

“To secretly handle those kinds of things?!”
“Well, if you expected that much, I won’t say anything more.”
“You, you! You were a good guy, even if you were a little violent!”

Crazy misunderstanding.

“Yeah. So, tell me more about the other gods and the tower.”
“Understood!”

This guy is a better version of Mariel.