Zongman, daily life starting from hunting the supernatural

"In anger and reluctance, he suddenly found an inspiration and picked up the half-opened scroll on the ground."

"The scroll records..."

"It's the immortal mermaid."

"So he thought, wouldn't it be nice to make people with the ability to predict the future immortal?"

"In this case, wouldn't it be possible to make unlimited predictions?"

"In this way, can't I swallow the strange power without limit?"

"Thinking of this, he began further crazy experiments."

"He convinced the rest of the tribe."

“Experiment, experiment, experiment.”

"Time and again, non-stop attempts."

"He made people swallow both the flesh of a piece of meat and the flesh of a mermaid."

"However, for beings with a limited lifespan, pursuing immortality is a taboo."

"It is also a taboo for mortals to try to predict the future."

"What's more, what that crazy family is pursuing is..."

"To master two taboos at the same time in one person and explore them is called the infinite path."

"The accumulation of taboos leads to a hopeless cage of prisoners who cannot explore or reach."

"Such madness and greed are difficult to achieve even for the family that has gained wealth comparable to that of a country by predicting the future."

"The number of victims who died after eating both types of meat at the same time increased significantly."

"No matter how much time passed, the experiment never came to fruition."

“Failure, failure, and the endless repetition of the ending called failure.”

"It cost a lot of wealth and almost all the tribe members."

"This crazy dream of reaching the sky in one step has still not been realized."

The tone was passionate, as if he was reciting a play called Don Quixote, and the bartender's voice was fanatical and full of joy.

just like...

What he was talking about was not the bloody massacre that would be brought to the desire devourers, but just a joke to please those who come after him and earn a laugh.

certainly...

For a bartender, this is indeed a very interesting story.

For Sakurai, the person involved, the story was not much different.

Who made him not have complete memory?

"This crazy nightmare farce came to an end with the demise of that once-famous family and the death of that crazy family head."

"The living people abandoned their wealth and crazy dreams, left their homeland, hid their identities and came to a remote village to start a new chapter."

"This smile that should not have happened has gradually been forgotten."

"However..."

"The curse and taboo of pursuing immortality and the future still entangles the bloodline of that family."

"No matter what, it can't be completely abandoned."

"Time flies, and hundreds of years later, the descendants of the family who were still in the dream took great pains to secretly collect the meat of the mermaid and gave it to the descendants of the family to eat."

The bartender smiled as he told this story from the past with contempt and indifference.

this...

It was wrong from the beginning...

A story that should not have happened.

"But what that crazy person didn't know was that a few hundred years later, in addition to humans and monsters, there was another kind of existence in the world, which was completely opposite to the living beings, called the "supernatural"."

"She was deceived. The meat she had spent so much effort to find was the remains left after the spirits named [Item] and [Mermaid] were defeated."

"It's still the [Item] that can predict the future and the [Mermaid] that is immortal, but I can't use them directly at all."

"But with her experience, she couldn't discern this at all. What she didn't know was."

"The possibility of death for this meat is [100%]."

"Her tragic wish was completely different from the past from the very beginning."

"The woman at that time didn't know about this matter yet."

The bartender's mouth curled up, he sneered and laughed...

The overconfident old man who was consumed by greed.

Sakurai didn't say anything. He tapped the empty glass and signaled the bartender to bring another glass of milk.

He didn't have much to say to the old man.

It makes no sense.

Now he doesn't have much relationship with that person.

His name is Sakurai, Sakurai Yuto.

54. The only person who orders milk in a pub is Sakurai

The bartender curled his lips, feeling unhappy that he didn't get the reaction he wanted from Sakurai.

The bartender took out another glass of milk from under the cabinet and handed it to Sakurai, then continued speaking.

"But, shockingly..."

"After this experiment, which was supposed to be shelved, was restarted."

"This time, maybe it's a long-term sacrifice in exchange for a near-zero possibility, or maybe..."

"Because that child was born different from the others."

"You obviously swallowed [meat] that was inedible."

"The experiment was unexpectedly successful, and the family's long-cherished wish that lasted for hundreds of years was finally realized."

“Perhaps it is different from what the family expected. Perhaps it is completely different from what the old man had predicted.”

"But at least..."

"A being that possesses both the immortality of mermaids and the ability to foresee the future, and that can unlimitedly absorb the power of aliens and transform it into a tool, has been born."

"He came into this world as a being between humans and non-humans."

"This is a one-time miracle that cannot be replicated."

"certainly..."

"The name of the [Alien] he can swallow is [Spiritual]."

All the suppressed words that he had been wanting to say and pour out came out, and the bartender looked at Sakurai with fanatical eyes.

It's like looking at...

That unprecedented rare treasure.

"The miracle itself is right in front of me..."

"Brother Sakurai, you know how amazing it is that you exist here right now, how..."

"An existence with infinite possibilities?"

"You are the only life in the world that survived after swallowing something that was not food."

"He is also the only person in the world who ate the flesh of both the [item] and the [merman] at the same time and stole the authority of the other party."

In response, Sakurai just looked at the bartender indifferently, as if the miracle in his story, which was exchanged for endless sacrifices and blood, was not the same as him.

after all...

Sakurai didn't care about his past at all, he just didn't want to make the bartender who had cheated him feel good.

"I won't ask what role you played in this story, nor will I bother to ask why I lost my memory or why I'm here."

"Why did that family that couldn't even mention their name, which finally fulfilled their long-cherished wish, allow my existence to spread out?"

"It's as if I've never asked about your identity."

"Bartender, it's a treasure, a useful prop, or just a toy that you can play with when you're interested. It doesn't matter what you think of it to me."

"In this one month of memory, you and Mafuyu-san are the only friends I have."

"As a human, I was taken care of by a teacher named Kirisu Mafuyu in the normal world."

"As an alien, I received care from the bartender who claimed to be a businessman in the other world."

“I will always keep this gratitude and kindness in my heart.”

Sakurai picked up the milk and drank it all, then poured the remaining half cup of watermelon juice into the bartender's glass without making much noise.

Even if he knew the origin of his abnormality, what would it matter? He...

Isn't it him?

The answer is no.

He is still Sakurai Eito.

It is a species that feeds on supernatural beings.

He is the student that Kirisu Mafuyu saved.

It was the customer who ordered milk at the izakaya.

In that case...

What else is there to care about?