Chapter 173 – This Is Mine Now. I Can Do Whatever I Want.(3)
“Hmm, it would be suitable here.”
Guided by Home Helper Android 7, they arrived at a deserted factory. Looking around the dusty old workplace, which seemed to have been three years since the last factory started, I felt a sense of satisfaction. If it was here, people’s eyes wouldn’t reach me, so I had lighter restrictions on my actions, and I could easily reveal their true nature, so it killed two birds with one stone. After confirming that this place was suitable as a stage, I turned my head to the two pairs of wildcat-like eyes staring fiercely in this direction.
“The rules are simple.”
I brought along a can of peeled-brand paint that had been rolling around. Inside the paint canister, it gave off a nasty smell that made me want to wrap my nose around how old it was. I overturned the canister, spilling the unpleasantly colored contents onto the floor, then picked up a suitable stick and smeared the end with paint. After drawing a circle on the floor with the painted stick, he threw the stick away again.
“The time limit is 5 minutes. Whatever means you use, if you get me out of this circle, you guys win. I will pay the price. Do you agree to this?”
“…Wait. Sir Landfill, to fight you? Not that monster?”
Officially, as Landfill’s teacher, it is known that my personal strength is insignificant. But since she says I’m dealing with them myself, not the blind sniper I see as my escort, she’ll doubt if she’s heard correctly. I understand her feelings, but…
“Be careful what you say. Who is the monster? The blind sniper is a human being. At least he’s more human than thieves like you.”
I couldn’t sympathize with offending my friend who was listening to those personal thoughts.
“What? Thieves? Did you just say that? We’re not thieves, we’re adventurers!”
“We call a thief a person who threatens an opponent who is easy on their part, who does not give out what they do not want, as a thief. That is society’s promise.”
“This…!”
“Ha, even if they look down on us, they look down on us a lot, don’t they? Alright, that condition. I’ll accept it.”
At first, the people who were suspicious when I said that I was the opponent, scratched their temper just a little bit, and their eyes went straight away and they grabbed a weapon. With such easy-to-understand things, one wonders how they were able to raise their adventurer level to gold. No, maybe because of that easy-to-read, light ego, no matter how good your skills are, the gold level is the limit.
“Edric! Christy! What are you looking at? Hurry up and join the fight!”
“This is what happened anyway, let’s just fight together and win and get rewarded!”
At their words, Edric, the party leader, seemed reluctant to go on stage, but Christie, on the other hand, shook her head resolutely as if she didn’t want to join this event at all. Hmm, but that girl is worth what she looks like. Unlike these unscrupulous twins.
Tsunase Kurin also did not participate in the battle. I already own an incarnation, and there’s no benefit to be gained by being hostile to me. Well, even if that wasn’t the case, it seemed like he had absolutely no intention of fighting me from the start.
“Haa, you impatient idiots. If there’s a problem, I think it’s all because of you.”
“It’s okay, let’s finish it quickly as usual.”
“That’s right. There’s nothing to drag on, right?”
With me in front of them, the attitudes of the three adventurers were really relaxed. The twins seemed to be going for a walk lightly, and Edric, the leader of the party, had only a hint that he had just taken on a rather troublesome task. The possibility of losing to me was not considered at all. No matter how much rumors circulated about my powerlessness, it was an attitude that was hard to see unless they were quite confident in their own powerlessness.
Well, that won’t be long anyway.
“No. 7. You measure the start signal and timer.”
“Yes. Then… Let’s start now!”
With the declaration of Android 7, Edric crossed his arms in front of his torso and chanted an incomprehensible spell at high speed, and a cogwheel-shaped silhouette appeared above his wrists and the twins’ heads. Is it magic There are so many types of adventurers, there are quite a few of them who use magic. As for Kurin Tsunase, I had heard from Bain and Aine that before I met him, he had fought in a way where his spear was infused with water magic elements.
It’s not used on me, but since it’s used on my twins, it seems to be a kind of buff that increases physical abilities. After Edric’s chant continued, and silhouettes presumed to be buffs appeared and disappeared over the twins’ heads several more times, the twins drew their weapons with even stronger momentum and leaped toward me at once.
Well then… It’s time to put an end to the rumors that ‘Landfill’s personal strength is not that great’.
The reason why I spread such rumors in the first place was because I partially hid my powers to prevent myself from becoming an attack target until Landfill developed the powers to withstand attacks from other forces. As long as the friends who drove Eldland to the brink of destruction decided to join me, there would be no need to cosplay as the weak anymore.
The two twins, approaching right in front of me, swung their blades at me with ferocious smiles on their lips. He probably didn’t intend to kill me for real, and he probably thought it wouldn’t be a problem to cut off an arm or leg. Kurin the spearman, Edric the wizard, and the two twins who appear to be speed-oriented melee fighters. Then Christy, the last party member, is most likely a healer. Since she can recover enough with her recovery ability, she must have thought that it was no big deal to hurt her a little.
“So…?”
“Uh?!”
“Is that all?”
If you can touch my body, that is.
*
Akawiki, who brought Landfill’s teachers and adventurers to the abandoned factory, was in a very bad mood. Because of those damned adventurers, the time to get my freedom back is even delayed. But it wasn’t all bad. As a test for qualifications to obtain ‘Deliberation’, Landfill’s teacher made pushing himself out of the circle drawn on the floor as a condition for passing, so the opportunity to find out the fighting power of Ragna Armageddon, which was piled up in a veil, came.
According to Guild Master Jeong Si-woo’s personal opinion, Landfill’s teacher doesn’t have any talent for combat, doesn’t enjoy fighting, and seems to lack the experience of fighting with beings equal to or superior to him. However, it seems that the information needs to be slightly modified.
“So…?”
“Uh?!”
“Is that all?”
Poor fighting ability was not synonymous with weak strength.
An object held by the twins Emil and Enil. I wanted to see it somewhere, but I finally remembered. It was none other than a weapon he had made in the past.
An energy blade that absorbs and stores a portion of the impact as energy the moment it collides with a weapon or armor, and uses it for various functions such as deploying barriers, firing projectiles, and strengthening the cutting power of the weapon itself. What the twins were holding was one of the experimental versions of Akawiki’s energy blade.
When I briefly clashed with the guild master, as a gift of apology, he decided to hand a suitable weapon to a few adventurers he selected. Yes, those twins were the ones who took the weapon back then. I don’t think he was still using it.
Isn’t Landfill’s teacher’s power itself not a big deal? Can I say that when I see him enjoying his composure while lightly slashing the steel tower shield with an energy blade like paper cutting through an invisible wall?
“Sheesh, what! This is it! Edric, do something!”
“It’s impossible. I can’t feel the magic at all. If it’s magic, I can read the spell and dispel it, but if it’s not that, it’s out of my field.”
“It’s not magic? Then what is that!”
“Perhaps…That’s the power of ‘deliberation’.”
The energy blade I received at that time certainly had decent performance. However, the reason Aka Wiki handed over the precious weapon to his twin was because it had one fatal flaw. Because of that one flaw, commercialization failed, so when they got it, I thought it wouldn’t be used for very long, so I thought it would be replaced soon… I couldn’t believe they were still using it.
The twins vigorously swung their energy blades at Landfill’s teacher. The blade flew with a bloody whining sound, but nothing touched the teacher’s body. No, I couldn’t even get close to it. As if being pushed away by something invisible, they couldn’t even get close to it, let alone the body of the black teacher they wielded.
“Damn it, what a cowardly move…!”
“Cowardly number, isn’t that the power you guys wanted to have? Also, how did you really think you could do anything to me with a toy like a cutter knife?”
Cutter knife, that’s a bit harsh. Although each blade is divided into segments, and the length of the blade can be adjusted with the button on the handle… Even if you compare it to that, is it a cutter knife? Changing the length of the blade in an instant is to take advantage of the battle by giving an unpredictable changing ball in the range, which is the biggest advantage in combat between weapons, and the fact that the blade is divided into nodes can break the entire sword body even if it receives a strong impact. Instead of losing, it was to reduce the impact the sword would receive by separating just one knuckle of the sword.
Tung! Do-do-do-do! Ting, teeting!
“Damn it, this doesn’t work either!”
“Huh… Then, did you really think such a ridiculous prank would work?”
And above all, cutter knives can’t fire blades like that! That weapon can do that! By condensing energy at the end of the blade and firing it separately, it is an all-purpose weapon capable of long-distance attacks, albeit extremely few times! It’s one of the works I put my heart and soul into, but don’t use the cheap analogy of a cutter knife!
“Keuugh… Enil, it’s a change of strategy!”
The twins, who were fiercely attacking from both sides, had already spent more than half of the 5-minute time limit in vain. Even though the two men swung their weapons fiercely from different directions and attacked, and Edric in the rear continued to use various magics to improve combat abilities and fire support, the invisible wall surrounding Ragna Armageddon showed no momentum to break through. Since there was nothing visible in the first place, I couldn’t even tell if it was the wall in the first place, let alone whether it had even the slightest crack.
“If it doesn’t work no matter how many times you attack from all sides, you’re concentrating your strength in one place.”
“I’m ready, sister!”
The twins, who were attacking the teacher from both sides, joined in the teacher’s frontal direction and faced each other with the momentum to merge their swords. As the two energy blades resonated and began to scatter stinging sparks, no one doubted that an attack of completely different power would soon fly away, even at a glance.
“Gan, daaaaa!!”
“Yaaaaa!!”
The twins, as if they were one body, simultaneously thrust out their forward swords. The energy blade scattered scarlet light, and an attack accompanied by intense sparks flew ferociously at the teacher.
And.
“Really…”
As if the teacher was disappointed, he sighed and lightly loosened his hands.
“Is that the only answer you came up with by desperately rolling that lacking brain?”
Let’s wave our hand once in the air, as if to drive away her gnats.
“I wasn’t expecting much, but I thought it would be worse than that.”
The twins’ blow with all their might, like an egg thrown onto a rock.
“What a waste of time.”
Kwajik.
“Uh?”
“Ah?”
Its invisible, sharp fangs were bitten off and shattered in vain.
“Haven’t I told you already? You guys don’t even know what you want.”
In a situation where the bottle they had spent a long time with was smashed like a tree branch, the twins whose brains couldn’t follow the situation blankly looked down at the broken blade.
“You must have already known that the power that you couldn’t penetrate and that you condemned as cowardly was the ‘deliberation’ in question.”
In the meantime, the time limit was already only 1 minute left.
“You want to have a ‘deliberation’ that I can give you? Even if I explain how that power works and what principle it is, why should I give that power to guys who can’t even remember, let alone understand?”
Akawiki realized.
From the beginning, there was no way for those three adventurers to get Landfill’s teacher out of the circle on the floor.
Landfill’s teacher watched their actions, not their strength.
When we first met, he already told me what ‘incarnation’ was, and even though he noticed that it was ‘incarnation’ that protected him during the battle, he didn’t try to properly understand how to break through, and just answered in his own way. The desperate effort to put them together blew away the teacher’s last patience.
Had he properly understood the meaning and definition of ‘deliberation’ during the exam, he would have given it a chance. But instead of aligning themselves with the unknown, the twins and Edric tried to align them with themselves. I didn’t try to understand the power he wielded in the slightest.
Didn’t the teacher tell you at first? He said, ‘He can’t give to someone he doesn’t even know what he wants’.
I don’t understand what kind of power ‘deliberation’ is, and I don’t want to understand it, but I want to have it. How absurd would that sound from the point of view of the person involved?
Aside from that, Akawiki found something in Armageddon that guild master Siwoo Jeong couldn’t.
Landfill’s teacher has no talent for fighting, does not enjoy fighting, and lacks combat experience. Yes, that’s true
However, even if the ‘combat ability’ was below the level, ‘wielding violence’ was more than a few people. Although he is inexperienced in combat, he is accustomed to violence. No, he was very good at it.
He had never had the power to wield violence against others, and was now one of the seven strongest people in the world. What if he becomes the strongest of the seven?
Can we really guarantee that the violence that has not been directed against them will still be there?
No matter what thoughts or plans Landfill’s teacher had, it didn’t matter to Akawiki anymore. He was the nightmare of the weak, and he was an evil that had to be nipped in the bud and rooted out before he could become that weak.
As soon as he regains his original body, he must use all means in Metaverse City to check his growth. His city, the city of the forsaken, was not to be allowed to grow stronger than this. Justia, the goddess of justice, was right. This person was a nuisance that would disrupt the balance of this world. In order to preserve this balance that has been restored, this human must be eliminated at all costs.
Even if the person who established the balance is on the side of this person.
“Time limit, end.”
For that day, I’ll just play an android who doesn’t know anything for now.
I am now on Android OM-07. A home helper android sent by Akawiki, the manager of Metaverse City, as a gift to restore their relationship…
*
“You didn’t think I really knew that you were inside that body, did you?”
