Chapter 78

**Chapter 78** is the seventy-eighth chapter of the *Dead Mount Death Play* manga.

## Official Blurb

With Shinjuku prepped and ready as his stage, Corpse God reaches out to an old friend for assistance.

## Synopsis

Civil A. Sabaramond dismisses Takumi Kuruya's blackout of local surveillance cameras as futile in the wake of his attacks' casualties; the sheer number of corpses littering their battle's purlieu cannot be ignored. Corpse God replies that Civil is mistaken: all the corpses have thus far not been made corpses this day. To Civil's shock, the corpses in the vicinity—many wearing old-fashioned clothes—rise and begin walking toward them. Corpse God declares that there are no living people left in Shinjuku. Meanwhile, across Shinjuku's various metro stations, arriving people decide to turn back. As Civil grapples with the idea that Corpse God has set up some form of a force field to repel people, he is charged by Corpse God's dragon—a rampage that Corpse God can allow, as there is no need now to worry about curbing his power.

Takeru Shinoyama, disturbed to see none of his Shinjuku video feeds working, calls Taipei in the hopes that Taipei can provide him with on-the-ground information. Taipei, sheltering behind a wall, apologizes that he cannot move close to the action as a sniper is "on him" A bullet slams into the road outside the mouth of his alleyway, punctuating his point; he remarks that the sniper seems more interested in keeping him contained rather than killing him.

Atop a place with a guardrail, Hīro Horojima turns his binoculars two alleys to the right, spots two people, and prompts his sister Rinne Horojima to shoot. She does, though she wonders as to the point of it all. As far as her brother figures, the point is the "good pay." Elsewhere, various Youtoukorou employees handle others at the fringes of the battle's purlieu: one bars a few police officers, the bouncer handles a man, and the swordswoman stares down other fellows. Back in Youtoukorou, Lisa Kuraki declares that her people shall not allow either the police or any affiliates of the Shinoyamas into the area that Corpse God is in. Her people shall "prepare the city" for this affair so that Corpse God can do as he pleases.

While fending off the dragon, Civil complains that Corpse God is just like "the bat" and asks why he refuses to change the world—for to not change it is "sheer laziness" or even "insulting" considering the amount of power that Corpse God wields. Corpse God denies this is the case, for someone "far, far more powerful" than he wished for peace: someone strong who called Corpse God his best friend despite Corpse God's own idiocy and involuntary actions as an unwilling assassin. That someone he summons now with a spell, asking him—his friend—if he does not mind lending his support in this time of crisis. The late emperor of Byandy Empire, Framrodia Byandiraz, steps out of the spell in answer, much to Civil's shock; Civil had read that Corpse God was guilty of high treason for the emperor's death, so the apparent pact that the two have made confuses him.

Framrodia reminds Corpse God with a smile that he and the empire are on Corpse God's side; from the depths of the spell, Leuf Vellize and others emerge. "Necromancers!" Civil exclaims. "Are you telling me you're holding onto a fallen empire...!?"

The late emperor warns Civil not to underestimate either Corpse God or the imperial court sorcerers from his country.

## Trivia

* The others who appear in the spell with Leuf Vellize have been seen before as silhouettes in previous chapters. *Specific chapters to be located.*