Chapter 9 – Revenge and Beastization
I didn’t go out of town to catch monsters on a dark night.
Knowing my subject, it was to set off during the day.
I am weak.
Objectively, Jonah is weak.
Didn’t you fight on an equal footing with Yuna, who slaughtered powerful adventurers in an instant?
That’s because that stupid monster woman was in a state of carelessness + weakness + lust.
“It’s a miracle to be alive.”
Suddenly, she puts her hand on her own chest. Her heart is beating
Games you’ve played before.
In some of those games, you can activate just thinking about it, but taking advantage of the fact that it is virtual reality, there are many cases where you have to perform certain actions to activate the skill.
Among the severe ones, there was a skill that requires you to feel and handle something like mana yourself and apply it to activate it.
Cutting off Yuna’s head is the game I enjoyed the most in the past. The unrecoverable sword used in Assassin Cruiser. I used to call it a slicing knife for short.
Although the cutting power is fraudulent and it is a scary technique that cannot restore the cut… That too has its limits.
Enemies who wore regenerative weapons did not die just by cutting off their heads, but were only incapacitated when her entire body was hacked to pieces.
Was Yuna a monster under the direct control of the demon king?
If she was that kind of a monster, she might have put her head back in her place in a day.
The reason I didn’t go out of town was because I knew my subject, but I thought that a monster with the taste of being an idol might be waiting for me.
At least until daylight when visibility was secured, I thought to stay still.
I was bored of staying still, so I thought I would leisurely watch the notification windows that came to my mind when I fought with Yuna… How did you bring out the interface that came to mind then?
I was talking about what a great feat or that I had a skill…
As before, I named this and that, but I couldn’t come up with an interface. I wrestled for a while, but it didn’t come out, so I gave up once.
It’s still a long way until dawn, so what do you do to pass the time?
Then let’s imagine a happy dream.
Imagination of how to destroy Ulysse, for example.
I’m not merciful enough to just kill you.
At least the misery I felt. Humiliation… I want to feel even half of those negative emotions.
I want to make you feel regret.
He doesn’t know where he is now, and the Hart family seems to have a lot of power, so revenge must be a long way off, but having a clear sense of purpose isn’t bad.
And I have to take revenge on that goddess.
My teeth were grinding.
I think I roughly understand the meaning of the smile that bitch showed at the end.
According to Yuna, they are called strangers… Like me, people from the world I was in who fell into this world seem to receive some kind of privilege.
Whether it’s a legendary weapon, skill, or pet, it has at least one cheat-like power.
Is it just a perk?
It was clear that he was being injected with the basic knowledge needed to live in this world.
But I have nothing like that.
I wondered if this was a privilege in that it was possible to implement it by swinging the swordsmanship of the previous game as I remembered, but it is not.
It is a power that requires training points that require a high level of concentration to use skills, but it is unlikely that they gave it as a cheat. Cheat is something comfortable and strong, right?
Besides, if you gave me such comfortable and powerful power, there’s no way that Goddess of Love Heart would have smiled like that.
Just as there was an unknown power called Ki in Assassin Cruiser, there was a similar unknown power floating in the air here, so I was able to barely implement swordsmanship, and that saved me.
If it wasn’t for the experience I had in Assassin Cruiser, I’d be dead.
I left them to die in a world like this at will…
Teeth are grinding
Ulysse was the most fucked up, but Love Heart, that goddamn bitch, was also fucked up.
But that bitch is a goddess.
Is there any way to get revenge…?
It seems like they’re trying to do something by inviting people from another world, so it doesn’t seem like they’re completely omnipotent…
…For a moment.
This is a different world, not a game.
Then… Then… Those guys who suddenly disappeared at that time… No way.
…
…No. Overthinking
If you think about other goals in a weak state, you won’t be able to eat rice or porridge.
First of all, let’s think only of the immediate goal, revenge against Julis.
While I am thinking about various things, the dawn of the dawn dawns.
I slowly got up and walked out the door.
The guards glanced at me and turned their heads.
You probably don’t want to get involved.
On this side, I am grateful that I did not fight and lose my strength.
Adventurers were diligently moving from this early hour.
Some, like me, chose to walk, but most of them were traveling by horse-drawn carriage.
There was nothing good about being involved with them, so I kept my distance to the point where I couldn’t see their faces.
Based on the information I heard from the staff last night, I head to the hunting ground.
However, there was an unwanted encounter in the middle.
“Ah.”
It was as if someone recognized me.
The moment I was about to ignore it and pass by, a thick voice stuck in my ear.
“Aren’t you ashamed?”
“…?”
A voice like a child I’ve ever heard.
There was a woman called Elle and a flat staring at me with a stunned face.
The moment I saw them abandoning me and running away, something almost snapped in my head, but I managed to hold it in.
And asked in a calm voice.
“You…”
“Sah, you’re alive!”
Flat was delighted, and then she ran over and grabbed my hand. I was frozen in an unexpected situation, but L spoke again in a thick voice.
“Wait flat! Isn’t there anything nice you can do for such a cowardly renegade?”
“Ah, no L. That’s…”
Platt looked at El and me alternately and broke into a cold sweat. What. Do you feel like something is not fitting?
But she’s been cursed at, so she’ll have to pay it back.
“In the middle of a battle. Do you have anything to say to me on the subject of passing out comfortably?”
I was going to speak rudely, but changed it to respectful.
Here’s some advice an old man gave me.
Being respectful makes you cool and at the same time shows the opponent’s weaknesses.
I checked El.
I thought I was going to go crazy right away at my words, but L was so… She put on a look of indignation.
“…Heh. You lost money as expected. Let’s go back flat.”
Loss? What? However, L tried to go without paying more attention to her, and I also had no particular regrets.
However, Platt seemed to have no intention of leaving.
“Will you go first and wait a minute, L? I have something to talk to this person.”
“What? I hate it! Talking to such crap will have a bad effect on Flat!”
A pon bird talking about a fucking bitch…
“L.”
Elle flinched when Flatt gave her an angry look, and she turned into a decapitated puppy. Seeing that, Flat smiled, so El looked at her and she said.
“Finish quickly and come.”
Flicking her hair, Elle moved away, and I shook Platt’s hand, which was still holding mine.
“Uh…”
Seeing the flustered Platt, he raised a gloomy voice to intimidate him.
“Ulith. Where are you?”
There were many things I wanted to ask. Things like why did you stay silent when you framed me…
There are some guesses. A place called Heart must be strong enough to be harsh with the lifesaver.
Platt didn’t answer my question and gave an erratic answer.
“I’m sorry, Julis. I didn’t expect him to act like that…”
“…”
“I’m really sorry.”
Flat with a 90-degree waist bend. I didn’t know that an apology would come before an excuse, so I was stunned.
“…Why didn’t you correct the rumors? Everyone, not just you.”
“That’s… Because he feared retaliation from the Hart family. Lady Julis is a direct subordinate to his successor, Lady Gold. He has a considerable position within the Heart family.”
Was it too…
“Please wait a little bit! As soon as the problem between me and El is resolved, I will relieve Dre-sama’s injustice!”
“Problem?”
“A month no matter how strong the Heart family is. Ah, no, two or three months is all it takes…! Right now, El doesn’t know the details and the situation is bad, so he’s on edge, but he’s a righteous kid by nature, so if you explain it, he’ll understand. !”
I don’t know what’s wrong with her, but she seems strangely insecure.
I guess you can’t expect it.
I asked again.
“Where is Ulysse?”
“I don’t know. After she spread her lies about Lady Dre, she took her stunned Lady Gold and left. Perhaps she went back to Sers, the capital of the Hart family home…”
“…All right.”
As I was about to leave, Platt raised his hand to grab me and stopped. Feeling that, I stopped and said.
“…Thank you for your apology.”
“Ah, no! As an aspiring knight, even if there were circumstances, I endured this kind of injustice… I’m ashamed of myself.”
Platt is sincerely apologizing.
If this is acting, I will never trust people again.
“Ah! It’s weak, but…”
Platt removed the pouch from his waistband and handed it to me. When he received it, he was very heavy.
“Is it money…?”
“It’s not much, but… It looks like you haven’t solved the problem properly, so I hope it helps. Next time I see you, I’ll give you more.”
I felt like I was getting the right thing.
No, it would actually be the enemy ship.
I shook my head.
“It’s okay. I’m earning too.”
“Uh, uh…! Please accept this money! Otherwise, my conscience… Oh no, what about my conscience…”
I pray
Most of the unpleasant feelings about the punitive force that ignored you were relieved by Flat’s apologetic appearance.
“Then thank you. I will definitely return it next time.”
“Uh, where are you going?”
“I’m going for a walk. Then see you next time.”
Flat, who was flustered, waved his hand and shouted at the top of his voice.
“Sah, take a look! We’re still staying at the light fairy in Mirf Village, so if you have any business, come visit us anytime…!”
Leaving Platt’s urgent voice behind, I walked out.
I felt a little relieved.
The destination is a forest where the road has been cleared in its own way.
If the level is low, it seems like they usually sell items obtained through gathering, but that’s really like a squirrel treadmill, earning a day and wasting it in one day.
I also have my own powers… My choice was hunting. No, there will be nothing but that.
This forest is a place where moderately dangerous monsters appear.
To be precise, it’s a place where guys who are fast but have idiotic defenses appear.
Usually, adventurers don’t like this place, but it’s an optimized hunting ground for my style, where I rely on my reflexes and end it with a single cutting sword.
I hope that it will be worth it to tell the guild staff roughly what kind of monsters live there while receiving sharp attention yesterday.
I found a moderately open place with no overgrown bushes around.
I stood in the middle of the place and drew my sword.
Sereung.
Cool sound and cool sensation.
Yesterday, I checked while waiting, but even though I received hundreds of such powerful attacks, the sword did not even have a tooth.
It’s not a particularly good sword, but it’s a sword… I don’t know what it’s called here, but it seemed to be thanks to the white energy that was blown into it and wielded.
To be precise, in order to use the cutting sword, it was possible to use that power.
However, it seems that the unknown energy is more diverse than I thought.
Just what I feel right now… Three.
Mana, which is hard to leave out when it comes to aura called Ki and fantasy.
But I don’t know what the other one is.
It’s more energy than ki or mana.
…That kind of thing is fine. Let’s find out later and focus on hunting.
Scold yourself and get ready to hunt.
The monster that appears in this forest is Little Rumrat.
It is said that he has a good nose and finds people on his own.
He said he had a ball-like body and a rat-like face.
Yep, you’ll know just by looking at it.
A monster that appeared 3 seconds after I thought about it.
I wondered if I could mistake it for a ball, but I couldn’t mistake it because of the dark yellow hairballs that seemed to make me sick if I touched it.
Is the distance about 10m? Stare unobtrusively.
Quak!
Spheres rushing towards me.
It was like a bullet.
I don’t know what kind of strength that little body has that can move like that, but if you bump into that, it’s natural to feel pain, and you might break a bone.
Well, it looked slow to my eyes.
Chew!
[Talent?]
That was his will.
The sphere split in half, spattering blood.
Chii profit…
Did they say that monsters are hated by the energy of this world?
That is why it is said that when it dies, it cannot maintain its shape and burns to ashes. As he said, his corpse was gone.
However, that was limited to internal organs and blood. For example, leather and teeth did not disappear and continued to exist.
I took out the gathering bag I had obtained yesterday from my chest and put it in it.
Meanwhile, a new guest arrived.
The new Little Rumrat had even more red eyes, perhaps because he had smelled the blood of his kind.
They have no selflessness towards their own people.
It’s just that when people of the same kind die, they devour them voraciously before the corpse burns.
In other words, his driving force is his appetite.
That’s not my business
I just want to thank you for coming.
After that, it was simple iterative work.
By the time the sack became heavy, it was about to go over.
A happy miscalculation was that I was unexpectedly strong.
I’ve thought about it ‘at that time’, but it was modern and this was a fantasy world, so I lowered my strength, but seeing that Little Rumrat, who usually struggles with low-level adventurers, is not a threat at all, it seems to be strong in its own way.
…Should I do this for today?
My arms are also trembling.
At that time. Life was detected.
I turned my back and swung my sword straight at the red one that was charging at me.
A clash between a sword and something red.
Kuang!
But to my surprise, it was me who fell.
“Keugh…!”
Fortunately, there were no other abnormalities besides the fall, so I jumped up and looked at the situation.
A long shadow is cast under the setting sun.
The reason why I couldn’t distinguish his figure was because he was also red like the sunset.
Red Little Rumrat.
Color play… To say that, his eyes were burning viciously, and his mouth was covered with blood and flesh from what he had chewed.
[Kick-kick-kick.]
He even laughs at me.
He laughed and grabbed his sword.
As if waiting for that, Little Rumlet charged like a bullet.
Not to me, but to my side.
“Ok?”
Pop!
The red Littlelumlet hit the tree and bounced in another direction, and soon a series of puffer puffs could be heard from all directions.
It is bouncing and moving like crazy to fool my eyes. It was twice as fast as a normal little rumlet.
…But there’s nothing special about me?
Wedge!
Unlike the previous time when he detected the attack and managed to counterattack, this time it was a proper slash.
Grab a sword and wield it with all your might.
Perong!
Wow-!!
“Kuh…!”
Hard.
Although the attack was accurate, the sword could not pierce the skin.
It is harder than Yuna’s tentacles.
In the end, I couldn’t cut it again this time and just bounced it off.
He didn’t even look like he was hurt that much.
Puff puff puff!
The red little rumlet bounces around again and flies around.
Hmm…
Concerned, I fixed my sword.
“To be honest. It’s easier to penetrate than to cut, you know?”
[Chuck!]
A guy who rushes the same way he doesn’t know. The only difference was that this time his body was engulfed in fire. Even as a bastard, it seemed like an attack of conversion.
And.
“Huh!”
Concentrating on one point, the stabbed sword collided with the guy.
Geek.
It was so hard that it couldn’t be pierced at once, but the pushing force of the left hand holding the hilt and the right hand supporting the hilt and the acceleration of the guy interlocked… The sword was gradually embedded.
And, the slicing sword is activated.
Whoops!
Penetrated
[Queek…?!]
That was the end of the man’s futility.
Blood splattered the guy limp.
“…It’s tough.”
I almost ran out of stamina with this one.
It seemed like I won easily, but if I made a mistake, I would die.
Is this the boss of Little Rumlets…?
Because the body had not disappeared, I wondered if he was still dead, but it wasn’t. It just seemed like the body didn’t evaporate unlike the others.
He thought about taking only the teeth and hides, but decided to just take them whole because he didn’t have the proper dismantling skills.
Rustle.
At that time, he felt a subtle sign and immediately went into a state of alert.
“Hey, hey, hey…”
“…”
However, what was heard was not a monster’s roar, but a woman’s thin voice.
Something transparent moves between the bushes.
Before long, the scenery shimmered as if peeling off, revealing the figure of a woman wearing old-fashioned round glasses.
Twintails with red hair close to pink? Did you say side up?
Her glasses were so big that I couldn’t tell her face, but she seemed pretty.
“Do, help me…”
Ignore.
After all, that woman is also a guild adventurer.
Must be one of those guys who laughed at me hard before.
There was a way to help her raise her reputation, but I didn’t really want to do that. Isn’t life all about life anyway?
She won’t do her any harm, but she won’t help either.
It’s enough to get stabbed in the back of the head while doing a favor.
“Hey, please… I’m running out of mana and Ryunar now~”
…Ryunar?
Is this energy more than mana called Ryunar?
Ignoring the woman following me in her haste, I walked and walked.
She was walking pretty fast, but the woman followed well. No, maybe she was faster than me.
…Should I separate it?
I had a nasty thought, but I didn’t.
So we continued to move while maintaining a strange distance.
And the village we arrived at.
Before I knew it, the woman next to me had a depressed face.
“Haa…I met them for the first time today…But they passed away like that…”
“…”
“It was said to be a dangerous area, but I went there fully prepared… But still, oh… Ha… Pitiful people…”
They chatter like birds even though I don’t deal with them.
Girl, don’t you know me?
Does not matter. Your attitude will change when you arrive at the guild anyway.
When I arrived at the village gate, the guards looked at me with gleeful faces and at the woman next to me. Made a face.
Ignore it or not and move on and eventually arrive at the guild.
Squeak
It was getting dark, and the guild was full of people.
Perhaps because of the stench that came from my body, people with twitching noses recognized me and made faces full of hostility. Did you like
I walked briskly to the front of the receptionist. But not the one who saved me… But the woman who followed me as well.
“What’s going on, adventurer? And the customer next to me. I’m sorry, but could you wait in line? Uh…”
The employee’s smile hardened. What is it, did my bad reputation grow so much that this person’s poker face shakes?
But it wasn’t like looking at me, it was like looking at the woman next to me. She gave an aww and then she pointed at me and she said.
“This man saved me! Add it to my credit!”
“Uh… Rescue?”
“Yes!”
“I’ve never had that.”
He pushed the woman away and held out her sack.
“This is?”
“Little Rumlet’s teeth and skin. There’s a whole lot… How much would it be if I exchanged it?”
“The bluff.”
A voice came from the next table. Ignoring it and holding out the sack, a middle-aged female employee checked and wow… She exclaimed.
“Definitely, this is the material of Little Rumlet. I’m not an appraiser, so I can’t pay the exact price, but… You’ll get 5 bronzes for each tooth and 3 silvers for each leather.”
When the staff member guaranteed it, the eyes around her changed.
“Huh… A whole bunch of Little Rumlets? Is that trash?”
“Well, since you’re at that level of skill, you’ll be able to attack the Heart family…”
Yeah fuck it
She covered her ears and was obediently delighted with her amount.
Are you saltier than you think?
I was admiring the great amount of money for a day’s hard work, and I suddenly remembered the red Little Rumlet.
As she took it out from her own bag, the female employee frowned at her.
Ah… Was it okay to show the body?
“Hey, how much can this guy get?”
“A corpse covered in blood that much will sell for less than its original value.”
“Oh, is that so?”
What the fuck I got it really hard.
“But sometimes the skins of monsters whose corpses don’t evaporate are rare, so if you dismantle them well, the price will increase… Huh?”
The employee rubbed his eyes. Then he put her face close to her corpse. The moment you get closer and closer, it becomes burdensome. She said in a trembling voice.
“Les, redlet?!”
…
Red mouse cub. It must be called Redlet.
I guess hey, something is great?