Crossover anime, a daily life that begins with hunting supernatural beings.

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"In anger and resentment, he picked up the half-open scroll from the ground."

"What's recorded in the scroll..."

"It is that being called a mermaid, an immortal being."

"So he thought, why not make those with prophetic abilities immortal?"

"Wouldn't that allow for unlimited prophecies?"

"In that case, wouldn't we be able to absorb strange powers without limit?"

"With this in mind, he began further, more insane experiments."

"He persuaded the rest of his tribe."

"Experiment, experiment, experiment."

"Try again and again, without stopping."

"He made people eat both the flesh of a man and the flesh of a mermaid at the same time."

"However, for beings whose lifespans have an end, the pursuit of immortality is inherently taboo."

"The attempt by mortals to foresee the future is also a taboo that cannot be ignored."

"Moreover, what that fanatical family is pursuing is..."

"To simultaneously master two taboos within one person, and thus explore the path known as infinity."

"The accumulation of taboos leads to a desperate prisoner's cage of inaccessibility and impossibility."

"Such madness, such greed, is something even the family that amassed immense wealth by foreseeing the future could hardly achieve."

"The number of victims who died after consuming two types of meat at the same time has increased significantly."

"No matter how much time passed, the experiment was never completed."

"Failure, failure, endlessly repeating the ending called failure."

"It cost a great deal of wealth and nearly all of the clansmen were lost."

"This wild idea of achieving instant success has still not been realized."

His tone was impassioned, as if he were reciting a play called Don Quixote; the bartender's voice was fervent and full of joy.

just like...

What he was talking about wasn't the carnage and bloodshed brought about by those consumed by desire, but rather a joke meant to amuse those who came after and to elicit a laugh.

certainly...

For the bartender, this must be an incredibly interesting story.

For Sakurai, who was directly involved, it wasn't much different from the story.

Why? Because he doesn't have a complete memory.

"This mad nightmare farce came to an end with the destruction of that once-prosperous family and the death of that mad patriarch."

"The living abandoned their immense wealth and wild dreams, left their homeland, and went into hiding in a remote village to begin a new chapter."

"This smile, which should never have appeared, has gradually been forgotten."

"However..."

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

"It can never be completely abandoned under any circumstances."

"Time flies, and hundreds of years later, the descendants of that family, still lost in dreams, painstakingly and secretly collected the flesh of a mermaid and gave it to their descendants to consume."

The bartender smiled, recounting the story from the past with disdain and indifference.

this...

It was wrong from the start...

A story that should never have happened.

"But what that madman didn't know was that, hundreds of years later, in addition to humans and monsters, another kind of existence appeared in the world, a world of opposites to living life, called the 'supernatural'."

"She was deceived. The meat she painstakingly searched for was a remnant left behind after the extermination of the supernatural beings called 'the Piece' and 'the Mermaid'."

"It still contains the ability to foresee the future and the immortal mermaid, but it cannot be used directly at all."

"But with her limited experience, she simply couldn't recognize that; what she didn't know was that..."

"The probability of death for this batch of meat is 100%."

"Her tragic wish deviated from the past from the very beginning."

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

The bartender's lips curled into a mocking smile...

That overconfident old man, consumed by greed.

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

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

It makes no sense.

He doesn't have much of a relationship with that person now.

His name is Sakurai, Sakurai Yuuto.

54. Sakurai is the only guy who orders milk at izakayas.

The bartender pursed his lips, clearly annoyed that he hadn't gotten 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..."

"This experiment, which should have been buried, was restarted."

"This time, perhaps it's a long period of sacrifice exchanged for that almost zero possibility, or perhaps..."

"That child was born different from others."

"What I swallowed was clearly inedible meat."

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

"Perhaps it is different from what that family hoped for, or perhaps it is a completely different situation from what that old man predicted."

"But at least..."

"An being that possesses both the immortality of mermaids and the ability to foresee the future, and can devour the power of other beings without limit, transforming it into a powerful entity, was born."

"He came into this world as an existence between humans and non-humans."

"This is a once-in-a-lifetime miracle that cannot be replicated."

"certainly..."

"The name of the [other] that he can devour is [the supernatural]."

The bartender, his eyes burning with fervor, poured out all the pent-up words he had been wanting to say and confide in Sakurai.

It's like watching...

That unprecedented and rare treasure.

"The miracle itself is right before my eyes..."

"Sakurai-kun, do you know how amazing, how..."

Does it possess infinite possibilities?

"You are the only life in the world that survived after ingesting something that wasn't food."

"Moreover, it is the only one in the world that has stolen the power of the other after consuming the flesh of both [the object] and [the mermaid].

Sakurai simply stared indifferently at the bartender, as if the miracles achieved through endless sacrifice and bloodshed in his stories were not his own.

after all...

Sakurai didn't care about his past; he just didn't want the bartender who had tricked him to feel good.

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

"Why would that family, whose name is forbidden to be mentioned, which finally achieved their long-cherished wish, allow my existence to be exposed to the outside world?"

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

"Bartender, treasure, useful tool, or toy to play with when you're interested, it doesn't matter what you think of it, to me."

"In this short period of time, the only friends I have are you and Mafuyu-nee."

"As a human being, I received care from a teacher named Kirisu Mafuyu in the Eternal World."

"As an outsider, I received care from a bartender who claimed to be a businessman in the Otherworld."

"I will always remember this gratitude and kindness."

He downed the milk in one gulp, then poured the remaining half-cup of watermelon juice into the bartender's glass, his voice barely registering.

Even if he knew the origin of his abnormality, so what? He...

Wasn't it him?

The answer is no.

He is still Eito Sakurai.

They are anomalies that feed on the supernatural.