ð There must be some benefit to giving up on Pheromone
Translator: Skythewood
Editor: Hiiro
Day 23 Morning Forest Depths
This has gone beyond maniacal training, sorry for being so arrogant. But thanks to that, my MP remains full, I must be an expert at conservation. And mastering 'Hollow or Real' is a great result. Instead of gaining momentum by acceleration from afar, I can shorten the distance, and instead of colliding with my foe, I can transform the momentum into a slash.
Transfer the instantaneous acceleration into attack power, conserving all the momentum into one step forward with a slash. I needed to master all that and control my body perfectly, and my efforts bore fruit.
I’m Lv 10 now, and gained the Martial Arts 『Hollow or Real Lv 1』. It is meaningful and gives results… although the results aren’t good.
By the way, does every technique that I think of, create and use becomes a Martial Arts or Skill? In fact, the name 『Hollow or Real Lv1』 is exactly what I had in mind. This never happened before, is this a coincidence or a feature? No, now that I think about it, I’m lucky that the things I tried didn’t become Martial Arts. Like 『Human cannon』, 『Human missile』 or the Skill 『Walking Traffic Accident』 will piss me off! I’m glad that didn’t happen, let’s avoid creating new moves in the future. Let’s seal away the 「Scalding Bald Hell」, I hate it, I will definitely Seal it. But if causing a high speed traffic accident gets a cool name, can I accept it? I will collide with others anyway, so let’s pick a nice name… not Multi-Wolf Traffic Accident though… Now’s not the time to think about that.
I finally got to Lv 10 after the number of monsters I defeated reached 4 digits. If everyone needs to hunt 1,000 monsters to get to Lv 10, the monsters will go extinct, right?
Maybe it’s not just the quantity of the monsters, but the quality that matters. Did I level up because I defeated those Goblin Kings? Or maybe it’s both, the road is long ahead~ But I don’t have the time to check my Status!
I finally leveled up and can only take a peek. Instead of a lack of time, the timing is the problem! While I’m happy about leveling up, an enemy appeared deeper in. Not a King, but a Goblin Emperor. I’m celebrating with glee at reaching Level 10, and it’s Level 50. This isn’t just pouring a bucket of cold water on me, it’s hosing me down! I finally got through one Level Wall, and it’s four walls higher than me. This is hyperinflation, the value of Level 10 is plummeting. I was so happy… learn to read the mood!
I have been dodging the whole time, it’s attack is so powerful that I will be sent flying with just a brush.
So I can only dodge, I don’t think slashing or shooting it will be effective.
It is just swinging its club around, but it’s really fast and shows no opening. The club attacked from all sides and bounced all over the place. I can’t find an opening to escape or even pull away.
Hence, I have been dodging since just now.
I tried attacking when I dodge, but there’s no effect. I also freeze it with ice and burn it with fire, but that didn’t even slow it down. As for it’s head… it was already bald.
A mere Goblin has the same SpE as me, that’s cheating! Foul play? And it can recover too… No wonder my attack wasn’t effective, it recovers the cumulative damage I dealt to it!
The situation is deteriorating, I will run out of mana first if this continues. Mana Wrap consumes very little mana, but my consumption rate is higher than my regeneration rate, and I tried to cast some spells earlier, so my mana is slowly depleting.
If I can slow it down with ice magic or stun it with Lightning Magic, I can formulate a plan, but I got nothing since both of them didn’t work.
I would be dead if I didn’t buy the 『Evasion Cloak SpE+20%: Evasion UP (small)』 from the suspicious shop. Giving up on Pheromone and affection points is worth it. It must be─ (sob)!
Ehh, uwah, the attack brushes my hair! There’s a burning smell, what if I turn bald!?
I have been observing while dodging since just now.
There’s an opening, but I can’t get in unless I clash my weapon with the Orc Emperor.
It’s almost noon, I dodged as I took out dried mushroom, chewing on it slowly as I continue to dodge. But I don't have the opportunity to pour Soy Sauce on it!
─I aim for the moment it’s attack ends.
When it swings at me with it’s club, I can’t even deflect it, much less block it.
So I didn’t block the club, but strike it’s club after it’s attack.
I evade the attack with the club swinging by me, and strike that club while evading.
I keep repeating and repeating and repeating endlessly until it works.
I almost succeed a few times, but I fail to unbalance the Goblin Emperor.
It’s not just simply striking, I take a half step forward when I attack. This made my opponent lose it’s balance, creating an opening.
「'Hollow or Real'.」
This attack didn’t decide the match or injure it seriously, it will recover with time.
Goblin Emperor A HP: 282/456 MP: 56/97
My mana is down to half, I can’t defeat it if I don’t deal an effective hit, so I use smaller and quicker movements to attack with 'Hollow or Real' repeatedly. I focus more on speed than power, stepping forth while I dodge, slash, step forth again while dodging, slash. I keep on slashing...
The rest is up to luck, that’s the only thing keeping me alive. The odds of my survival is a hundred to one, I will die if it’s a thousand to one. Sorry for what I said before, LuK, you are actually super useful! I have transcended good luck, and is a super lucky man, my LuK MaX (Limit Break) is showing it’s effect. Speaking of which, why am I always scolded even though I did nothing wrong? That’s an unsolvable mystery.
I naturally stepped forth with a slash without being mindful of it, and the Goblin Emperor finally stopped moving. It wouldn’t be a surprise if I died hundreds of times today.
How much time has passed? I lost my sense of time, was that battle long or short? I almost forgot that I had lunch during the fight!?
But it’s not over yet, next will be the Kobolds. Even if I linger on the verge of death for a thousand or ten thousand times, I can’t stop. My arms aren’t severed, my legs not crushed, my eyes not gorged, and there isn’t a hole in my stomach. So it’s not over, it’s not over yet...
ð Then I said the night is long because it’s the fault of the earth’s rotation, and got scolded
Day 23 Noon White Weirdo Inn
We didn’t get a conclusion, but still decided to head to the forest to scout before deciding. We hunt monsters to raise our Levels at the entrance and observe at the same time. That’s just an excuse, we just want to be nearer to where Haruka-kun is. We split into 5 parties and advance in a closed wedge formation.
「There isn’t any monsters at all, we can’t raise our Level?」
There really aren't any, we are in the forest but there’s no battles. The monsters had been completely wiped out. The clues and possible suspect all points to one culprit.
「Shall we go deeper?」
Everyone goes deeper in as if we are possessed, and continues no matter how much I stop them.
「I don’t think it’s convincing when the one stopping us is walking at the very front?」
I got criticized. No, Haruka-kun must have a reason to stop us from going closer, so we shouldn’t do that.
But everyone wants to go forward as much as possible, as far as possible, and maybe we can reach Haruka-kun? If we don’t advance further, will he disappear…?
Even if I want to raise my level, there aren’t any monsters, so we go deeper.
It has been more than 3 hours, we already passed the planned time.
But no one says they want to go back, no one is willing to say that. So I have to say it, no matter how much I don’t want to. However, Haruka-kun recognizes me as a Monitress and says I did a good job, so I have to say it.
But I take one step after another towards the Cave… When we got sent to this World, we couldn’t smile or think about tomorrow. We didn’t know what to do, and can only think about why this happened, and cast suspicion towards everything. And finally, we get to relax, smile and laugh in this world. We get angry at Haruka-kun everyday, thank him every night, and look forward to tomorrow noisily. Haruka-kun is over there, he must still be there, so...
We can’t find any monsters no matter how far we walk.
No one said a word on the trip back and our footsteps are heavy. We didn’t encounter any monsters, but it’s already night when we got back to town. Even though we have to raise our levels and can’t act like this, we still return without accomplishing anything.
When I told everyone 「let’s go back」, they all looked at me with sad, pained, depressed and miserable faces, then nodded with their heads hung low and their breathing heavy… I must look the same too.
Oda-kun’s squad lodged in the same Inn as us, and to stop anyone from sneaking away, I changed the room allocation so everyone can monitor everyone else. If not, all of us will run off.
I don’t remember how long it has been since we last ate so quietly, even the poster girl is walking on eggshells. We finally linked up with Oda-kun’s squad and accomplished our first goal, but we just eat quietly and then stand around doing nothing. The girls who usually get scolded for being noisy and Oda-kun’s squad who can’t read the mood all fell into deep thought because of Haruka-kun. We racked our brains in worry and frustration, but we can’t find an answer…
Because, we didn’t know that the night was so long.
We were always making a ruckus─
And laughing loudly─
When the day ends.
Those times were too short.
There’s not enough time, give me more time.
No one knew that the night was so long.
ð Not just Goblins and Kobolds, the old men needs to be wiped out too
Day 23 Night Cave
「Haaahhhhhhh─」
The old man density has been too high recently, am I turning into an old man too? Is it contagious? I should wipe them out.
By the way, I made a Jacuzzi, used wind magic to make it bubble, and finally got to use it. It took me 10 days to use it, but I have no regrets. Not just regret, I don’t have a hint of remorse, guilt and repentance at all, because twenty High School girls had been bathing all the while! My only regret is letting the idiots use the Jacuzzi yesterday, if only I had bathed in it first...
「There’s no guests today, right?」
I enjoyed the Jacuzzi to my heart’s content, and drank berry juice after that.
「Hahh─」
I should exile the old man to stop the spread, this is a biohazard! My hand is on my hip just like an old man! Oh no, am I evolving into an old man? I’m just 16 and I’m turning into an old man? Should I look for herbs to prevent aging?
I can use 『'Hollow or Real'』 against the Kobold’s speed too. This move is just swinging a stick at the shortest distance, the range is either one step, and occasionally, half a step away. This move combines all my power, speed, acceleration, gravity, magic and Skill, purely a swing with the fastest and shortest ultimate move. If I can’t use this consecutively, then I haven’t really mastered it, since it will just be a single strike with no follow up.
Combining the one step and one swing into one complete action, I try to get used to the motion. I need to make it as natural as walking, memorize it with my body and correct it with my mind. I wrapped my mana around myself and used the move automatically.
And so, I spent my day experiencing close shaves with death, leaving the most dangerous moments in the hands of my luck. Thank you, super luck for saving me from inevitable death.
Midway through the process, I felt that a hotblooded person or idiot possessed me.
Now that I think about it, did I get infected by those idiots!? Things seem fine because my arm isn’t broken, my leg isn’t crushed, my eyes aren’t gorged out, and there isn’t a hole in my stomach. How can this not be a problem!? Just a glancing blow will kill me!
What if I get the Idiot title in my Status...
「Status.」
I finally leveled up, but it’s only two levels? So quality trumps quantity? Can someone write a guidebook, this is seriously bad. Most importantly, my Skills are all weird.
The rate of my stats increase has gotten faster as I thought, and I already confirmed that back in town. And now, I confirmed that the culprit is the Potential Mushroom.
That’s the reason why my stats are abnormally high for my levels. The Goblin Kings, Goblin Emperor and me all ate it, but I dip it in Soy Sauce to enjoy a more luxurious taste than an Emperor.
HP and MP mushrooms are high quality goods, but there aren't any Potential Mushrooms in town. It doesn’t exist, or more accurately speaking, human society didn’t know it existed. Because Potential Mushrooms are rare, and will get eaten by Goblins when they sprout, evolving the Goblins into Kings or Emperors. Humans can’t go near a place like this, so the Lady at the General Store and the purchase receptionist at the Guild don’t know about them. Only those with exceptional luck can find them, much less eat them. And I’m the only one who knows that those mushrooms match perfectly with Soy Sauce! Fufu, envy me.
As for the monsters’ bangles, the Goblin Leader is +1%, Goblin King is +3%, and Goblin Emperor gives +6%. It’s the same for the Kobolds. I stack the monsters bangle together, wondering if they can be combined, and they did. It worked, and it’s not heavier too.
Considering the experience points, it will be better to defeat a large horde of small fries, since they are numerous. The monsters deep in the forest are strong but small in number, I will die if there’s a lot of them. But the bangles are useful, if one gives me +1%, then a hundred will give me +100%, which will strengthen me more than raising my levels.
And 『Hollow or Real Lv 2』, it’s nice that I got it to Lv 2 so soon after I acquired this Skill, but on the flip side, it’s kind of awkward that I only got it to Lv 2 after using it that much. Is there still a long path ahead of me?
My equipment comes with the embedded Skill 『Instant Move Lv 1』, and I learned it after repeatedly moving at high speed and working on my calisthenics, which is the normal way, unlike my 'Hollow or Real'. My 『Ludicrous Speed Lv 5』 has risen by 4 levels, so I have been acting really recklessly.
And 『Calisthenics Lv 8』, increased by 3 levels. It seems I’m mistaken, I have been doing radio calisthenics seriously every morning, so calisthenics just means exercise… Say so then! At least add an explanation!
Because 『'Hollow or Real'』 pushes my movements beyond my limits, it raises my Skill levels up substantially. This doesn’t mean I’m great at Radio Calisthenics, and even if I max out it’s level, I won’t become a Radio Calisthenics model.
I did forcibly move my body with external Skills to minimize unnecessary movements and strength, which is a form of exercise that pushes my body hard.
What I don’t get is 『God Eye Lv 1』, is that the eyes of a God? Or can I see God? If I can see God, I will tell that old man off after I find him! I will definitely give him a beating!
My abilities are limited, and I can’t do things that are impossible for me. There’s a limit to what I can do, and there are things I can’t do. Next will be...
ð The meanest annoying guy and the strongest troublemaker, who is the antagonist?
Day 24 Morning Cave
In the end, the guest didn’t visit. I’m fine with him not coming forever, I didn’t invite him anyways.
I’m just a roadblock, like a strawman of sorts. I just need to stay here.
I don’t want to do this, and neither did the other party. He is the meanest annoying guy, and I’m the strongest troublemaker. I’m confident of that, the Monitress and the others will vouch for me!
His existence itself is bad, while I did it on purpose, an expert in pulling off the meanest move. The Monitress and others can guarantee that too, I really can’t tell who is the antagonist.
Time is on my side, and dragging this out will be disadvantageous to my opponent.
But even so, he is still not coming. He is watching from somewhere, collecting information and still calculating. So I will train myself and get stronger during this time. It might be pointless, but maybe I can make something out of this. It’s better than not doing anything, at worst, it’s just meaningless. There’s a very good chance it will be meaningless, but there’s no downside to this. So I might as well do so on the off chance it helps.
Let’s go after having fish for breakfast. Eating grilled fish with bread feels strange, but there’s no rice.
How do foreigners eat this?
If the lady from the General Store finds some rice, it will make everyone really happy.
I will pick mushrooms and hunt Goblins and Kobolds today too.
I can’t raise my level to 20, or even 15, my opponent won’t let me get that strong. The most he will permit will be Lv 14 before he shows up.
I finally got to Lv 11, so he doesn't have much time left.
My level might be rising slowly, so he can still wait and observe. However, the Monitress’ group will be raising their levels in the meantime. The Geeks are probably leveling up like crazy, what if their geekiness levels up? The idiots will be fine if they go to the Monitress, they can just get scolded in my stead. So come at me bro, you will run out of options if you wait any longer.
Maybe the Geeks will raise to a safe level? Without knowing the level of the opponent, the best course of action is to widen the gap as much as possible. But they will probably become the strongest without reading the mood.
However, that’s only on the condition that they are not obstructed, so I just need to obstruct the person who might obstruct them. Which is what I’m doing right now, getting in each other's way while the others leave us in the dust.
It will take time for him to digest a sacrificial pawn like me, but I will get in his way if he doesn't get rid of me. He must find me annoying, after all the work he did to divide the class.
If he tries to bypass me, he will get attacked by me. If he doesn't pass through, he won’t make it in time, it’s a real pain. Even though he did everything to isolate us.
Your luck is really bad since the one staying in this Cave is me. Your luck is too low.
I’m really lucky to find this Cave. Luck is the strongest and the best.
Regardless of luck, we will only encounter each other here. This is the worst outcome for him, the result of my strongest luck .
This was destined to happen, and will continue to be like this until the very end.
And as expected, this is the worst thing that can happen for the both of us.
My life is in peril, while my opponent’s fate is doomed.
Even though he worked so hard to divide everyone with his 『Mental Manipulation』.
The Monitress’ group is already united.
You are watching me, right? You don’t need that high a level to kill me.
But our classmates will widen the level gap against you. You might be anxious, but lack a decisive means to settle this.
You must be troubled, think I’m a hassle and can’t stand me. That makes me feel so happy and wonderful.
I walk aimlessly today, just walking around and hunting any monsters I encounter.
I will run in the afternoon, for now, I will walk. As if I’m checking and probing as I walk.
There are only small fries upstream, numerous in numbers and great for leveling up. In that case, the opponent might be Lv 30, but knowing this detail won’t help much. Walk, hunt, walk some more. I eat as I walk, it’s been a while since I had jerky, and it tastes nasty as usual.
Alright, it’s time to stop walking. Let’s try running.
I sprint and hunt freely in the forest. In the end, I fall back to this, but I have to hunt because I can’t win.
I don’t have enough strength, and have to win through speed. I will launch a surprise attack if I’m far enough away, and use 'Hollow or Real' if there isn’t enough space. It’s the same for everyone, we are all doing just one thing.
'Hollow or Real' put on a facade of strength, but is actually only strong for an instant. Simply put, it uses all my Skills to attack at the fastest speed to strike the enemy. Only at that moment and short distance, it is the strongest attack.
I have been interacting with the Goblins for almost a month, but our friendship isn’t blooming. Normally, won’t the enemy who fought in the beginning show up as an ally to help you later? But if that really happens, I will need an exorcist, since I killed them all.
Well, story wise, Taming Goblins and fighting Kobolds will fit a normal plot development better.
But no! Because I killed all the monsters! I’m on the same level as Kobolds that goes 「I will bite your head off」? For some reason, instead of becoming a fluffy Master, I’m turning into a Mean Gals Master? How did things turn out this way!?
Anyway, I just need to keep hunting, which will keep my opponent from leveling up, and with some luck, I can level up myself. He needs intel, while I need Experience Points. It won’t trouble him in the slightest even if I level up, and I don’t mind him observing me.
I lean forth and relax my body, shifting my body weight to my knees with my body close to the ground. I took half a step forward at the same time, and attacked at the end of my stride. Gravity, acceleration, mana and breathing are all combined in this strike. I don’t want to get bitten if I fail!
Yes, I can kill the Kobold King too. It is fast, but I can still kill it. Because I absolutely don’t want it to bite my head! No way!
It is fast enough to leave after images, It also uses combo attacks from different directions, but it is still trying to bite my head off… I’m not harmed, but I still suffered psychological trauma.
Well, I can’t win against something like a Kobold Emperor. It’s not good to leave the Cave too far, let’s make a detour and go home.
You’re still not coming? Don’t blame me if you are too late. You underestimate the Geeks’ inability to read the mood. The idiots have the power of idiots, and the girls have the threatening prowess of lecturing people. The class you worked so hard to divide is united now. They will become the Braves and Heroes of this world, and head to a place beyond side characters like us… Definitely.
Are you mistaking something?
ð There are noises from the rooms in the Inn at night, is it haunted? I got scolded after I said that
Day 24 Morning Dungeon
Fighting─ we will keep on fighting, that’s all we need to do now, and to keep it up. We have to raise our Levels as much as possible, because that’s what Haruka-kun wants. We can’t do anything for him, so we have to at least meet his expectations.
「Hah─ Hah─ Hah─」
「...Lamaze breathing?」
Who is giving birth!?
Oda-kun’s squad has been raising their level at the most efficient holy ground for training, a mystery of this world─ Dungeons.
No one in this world knows why such things exist. Oda-kun said it’s a cliche, and it got accepted just like this.
There’s no need to understand, we don’t know anything, we just know we have to get stronger. We don’t want to understand but follow them here anyway, because that’s what Haruka-kun wants.
「Why did that snake come out of nowhere!? It’s squirming around!」
「As you just saw, some monsters can evade your Sense Presence, so you need to stay on your guard at all times.」
Under Oda-kun’s squad's tutelage, we fight, converse, and fight again.
「Vanguard switch, erm─ Triangle +1, Lightning Wall is prohibited.」
「「「「Huh~」」」」
We will have Skill lessons during breaks, adjust our Status Screen to efficiently use our SP to learn new Skills, optimizing our fighting methods. Oda-kun’s squad explains with a long lecture, as if it is natural that they know all this. Are they really from Japan? Why do they know all this so well? So Haruka-kun means it when he says that they will 「seriously try when they go to a Different World」.
1F are Goblins, it’s an easy win.
2F are Kobolds, no match for us.
3F are Blue Wolves, just a little trouble.
4F are… 4F are bugs! Enormous Water bugs stood up and came our way...
Normally, this will cause an uproar and everyone will scream in chaos… But we calmly wipe them off instead. Disgusting… too disgusting to touch, and it will squirt out juice when cut… But we still calmly dispatch them.
The enemy isn’t strong, just disgusting. We won’t die to such an opponent, we don’t have to resolve ourselves for death. I won’t allow myself to fear such a fight.
5F are Orcs… We vent our frustration at our opponents. Because the bugs just now are too disgusting!
And now we are in the 6F, the enemy are Green Snakes. They could ignore Sense Presence and launch surprise attacks, but it’s fine, we aren’t that weak. We just need to defeat the monsters attacking us.
There’s still some distance before we reach the stairs to the 7F, our goal today is 20F. Be it hard or reckless, we just have to move towards our goal, since that’s the only thing we can do.
It’s fine, everyone looks fine, and doesn’t look like they are pushing themselves.
It’s almost time to turn back, but we only reached 17F. I heard that the monsters between 10F to 25F don’t have too much of a difference in Experience Points yield, so it’s fine for our goal to raise our Levels.
Everyone is venting our rage at the monsters and this world.
「It seems the Mantis on this Floor is fine too.」
17F are also bugs, and it squirts juice too. It’s a little better than 4F… But it looks just like a Johj! Don’t come here! Don’t stand up!
<TL: cockroach>
「The time is up, let’s head back. Switch vanguards, we will sweep through the place with two parties.」
「Yes─」「Got it.」「OK!」「Understand.」「Where do I go?」「The right flank party is there.」「Where?」「There!」「Oh~!」「Where’s my right?」「Hurry.」「Yes.」...
It’s fine, everyone looks at ease.
We will be Lv 50 soon, Shimazaki-san’s group who gets experience points from Haruka-kun are over Lv 60, they will reach the level of Oda-kun’s squad in 2 or 3 days.
No one knows why we have to get stronger, but we just keep training ourselves… Is that really fine?
It will be alright, everyone looks energetic.
Although I can hear sobbings in all the rooms at night......
Day 24 Evening Cave
Hmm, I got a great harvest of Goblins, Kobolds, Fish and mushrooms.
Walking makes the most sense after all.
I didn’t raise my Level, but I got a new Skill, which might be useless, but probably has some meaning to it. A few of my Skill Leveled up, which isn’t meaningful, but will create some threats.
I thought my opponent would manipulate the naughty kids to attack from the rear.
But the idiots are too strong, so there will only be one guest… There’s only one person placing the traps and setting it off right from the start, a male student who is so normal that it looks fake.
There’s nothing left in the forest, so he had to pass through here. My opponent must have gathered all the gears, but I will stop him from putting the gears into place, and end his delusion of grandeur. I will pull away one crucial piece of his tightly laid plans. It’s time.
Do I need to welcome him? He can come if he wants to, and have to come even if he doesn't want to.
It’s getting late, I have eaten dinner and taken a bath, today is a good day.
Today is also the worst day.
「Long time no see, Tanaka-kun. You sure are late~? And it’s too late to do anything now. So, what will you do then?」
ð Of course the Idiots in tattered attire and mumbling nonsense got detained by the gate guards
Day 24 Evening Omui Town
After leaving the Dungeons, we walked towards town and was about to go in when I saw 5 boys in tattered attire looking at us. I put my guard up for a moment, but...
「Kakizaki-kun? ... Why do you look so beat up… isn’t Haruka-kun with your team… Oh...」
「Oh, Monitress!」「「「「Sorry for being an idiot!」」」」
The five boys in tattered attire are Kakizaki-kun’s team, the musclebrained sports idiots according to Haruka-kun. Haruka-kun said he’s going to check on the five of them...
Dark hair and black eyes, and they looked battered. The gate guards don’t know what they were saying, so they got detained. The boys used up all their stamina and are too tired to move.
It seems they pushed their exhausted body and ran all the way from the Cave without sleeping. They munch on Vitality Mushrooms and run here without rest.
An armor is missing an arm, a big hole in the stomach, pants missing below the knee, their limbs, torso and head are all battered.
Their bodies recovered, but their equipment wasn't repaired.
They were beaten harshly, and held their opponent back despite their battered bodies, almost dying for our sakes. That’s why Haruka-kun wants to return, but we stopped him. As a result, Kakizaki-kun’s team almost died, so Haruka-kun left. They pushed their exhausted body to come here and relay this message to us. They were as good as dead back there… And Haruka-kun is there now.
This is the worst news, someone cried as we listened. We never thought things would turn out this way, so it’s only natural that Haruka-kun left us behind and went back.
We will die immediately if we follow him, and there’s no point in levelling up now.
I thought the enemy were the delinquents, Katsuyama-kun’s gang.
And the other boys just turn weird for a moment. We still can’t trust them, but there’s a chance of making up.
I thought the problem was whether we can kill people, and was confused by Haruka-kun who felt it was necessary to go alone. Can’t we help to settle the problem too?
As long as we have the resolve to kill and not hesitate, we can deal with it, right?
We were too naive, if we go there with such thoughts on our minds, we will get killed in no time.
Because the problem has nothing to do with resolve, it’s the worst situation where we can’t even put up a fight.
We don’t even know why Haruka-kun had to go, we are hopeless.
「He’s a monster, not only proficient with the sword and spear, he can also cast numerous spells.」
「Was that trash’s name Katsuyama? When we were fighting that gang, he attacked them from behind. Katsuyama’s gang of six was attacked by their ally, and they all died...」
「Yes yes, he then used Illusion which Katsuyama used earlier, and is a monster.」
Killing someone and plundering their Skills can only be done with my 『Robbery』. Why can he use it?
「Our attacks can’t hit, and the attacks from the 5 of us are all useless.」
「Magic doesn't work on him either, what can we do? Just how many Skills does he have?」
「And he paralyzed us, blinded us and poisoned us, we would be dead if we didn’t have the mushrooms.」
「He should be a production type Magic caster, so why can he use spears?」
「After killing Katsuyama, he can use swords along with Katsuyama’s Skill.」
「His Skill are different every time he attacks, there’s no way to predict things, damn it!」
「We will get hit no matter how we dodge, which is preposterous.」
They can’t beat that opponent. Kakizaki-kun’s team are Lv 43, and they already have exceptional physical abilities, instincts and their Cheat are the strongest Super Speed, Limit Break, One Hit Kill and Seventeen Slash Combo...
They should be invincible in close quarters combat, but got pummeled one sidedly and were forced to retreat. The other twelve boys got wiped out. Even though everyone had Cheats, they got wiped out by one of their companions.
It sounds so strange and incomprehensible. We only know he can use Robbery, is immune to abnormal status effects, can’t be hit in a direct battle, render spells useless, and has an unavoidable attack.
There’s no way such an ability exists. However, Haruka-kun who didn’t have Cheats did the same thing, claiming that he will die if he gets hit but dodges all attacks. His attack power is mediocre, but he can defeat an enemy in one blow.
Both of them are unfathomable, cannot be beaten, and are in a different realm─ That’s why he left us behind, since it will be a completely different fight.
Haruka-kun’s last message is 「Sorry for being an idiot」... Which means...
ð The probability might be less than 1%, but it will be fine if it stays below 1% for 10 million times
Day 24 Evening Cave
I dodge the continuous assault of blades and parry the endless flurry of attacks. However, there seems to be no end to my opponent’s Skills.
There are geniuses in this world, personality and character not withstanding, they are geniuses in terms of abilities. It has nothing to do with hard work or experience, but purely innate talent. Tanaka-kun is probably a genius in mathematics. He concealed his calculation prowess in school and pretended to be a normal person, but I saw through his facade.
He must be feeling troubled since things didn’t turn out the way he calculated. Even if he tries to recalculate and increase the probability of success, he still can’t hit me. It’s useless, my Luck is at the Max, and limit break.
My chance of survival might be below 1%, but even if he did this a million times, I will still survive as long as it stays below 1% but above 0%. Since my Luck has broken through the limits, it’s impossible to kill me with just high probability.
From my opponent’s point of view, the battle is still ongoing. According to his calculations, he should have killed me numerous times, yet the fight isn’t over. Because I don’t want it to be over.
I casually knock away the slashes from his Skill coming at me from all directions.
Hmm, he’s confused and can’t accept this. His calculations are perfect, but I’m not dead.
He is wasting the Skills he went through so much to collect, so he is getting anxious and frustrated over his miscalculations… So I taunt him:
「You can use a lot of Skills, huh. So you killed plenty of people and plundered their Skills.」
We are fighting purely from short to mid distance. I didn’t use any spells since it won’t work on him. I just need to force him to keep using his Skills until he runs out.
「Haruka-kun? Why won’t you die?」
「Well, I don’t want to kill myself? Or get killed?」
He looked really annoyed. That’s a sign of calcium deficiency, he needs to eat more fish.
I should already have died a thousand times by his calculations.
「What did you do? Damn it!」
The endless stream of clashes rang out between us, whenever I dodge or parry an attack, he showed the arrogance of a genius even more blatantly.
「What do you mean, Tanaka-kun?」
「No matter how strong you are, this should work on a mere Lv 11!」
I see, he is calculating the probabilities? He should have killed me thousands of times. Probability wise, I shouldn’t be alive. Literature-wise, there is a chance if the probability isn’t zero.
「As expected of a Mathematics genius, you saw through the probability of this battle?」
Woah. I swing the 『Staff of Tree?』 to deflect his spell and dodge his blade. You can’t kill me if you conserve your Skills, why isn’t he using a lethal move? I’m covered in wounds, but he is still attacking in a roundabout manner.
「And why can you move, why can you attack, how can you see? This is too weird!」
He was pretending to be normal all this while, but is finally showing his true colours.
「What’s confusing you? Are you talking about 『Compel』 and 『Mimic』?」
「Why do you know that!? You shouldn’t be able to Appraise me! How did you...」
Of course I didn’t use Appraise, and I can’t see. I just thought this guy would choose those Skills when I saw it on the board in the white room.
「The Robbery that you mimicked is degraded, right? Does it have a usage limit?」
「Even if it’s degraded, 『Instant Death』 should work on a Lv 11! So why are you still alive!?」
That’s right, because of the Level Wall, I can’t negate abnormal Status effects. But the probability isn’t 100% because─
「Oh─ It didn’t work because I have the 『Health』 Skill, I’m really healthy, you know?」
Even the idiots fell to this move, and got paralyzed, blinded and poisoned. He then used the Illusion he robbed as bait, and used Compel on their mental state to make their attacks miss, and their evasion fail.
Their body would receive interference without them noticing, nudging them slightly. Their vertical slash will swerve away from their target and miss.
Naturally, my body is also under the effect of Compel, but I ignored it.
Hmm, no wonder my body movement Skills are learned and leveled up so easily.
「Genius-kun, do you know what Blockhead means?」
「A useless guy, right!? That suits you just fine!」
Unfortunately, you get zero points. It seems the literature standards of this Mathematics genius is too low.
「Blockhead can also mean a stringed puppet, Tanaka-kun. If you cast Compel on my nervous system, then I will just ignore the signals in my nerves and forcefully control my body.」
That’s why my attacks can land on him, I can’t win, but I can fight. I practiced using Blockhead externally to walk, and I can use 'Hollow or Real' by taking one step. I created this move for this reason, combining all my Skills and using the strongest attacks while I forcefully destroy my own body.
I also used 『Parasitic Mistletoe Vines: 【Wooden Stick, Strengthens Staff】Spell absorption ? ? ?』 to absorb the spells around me, so my mana won’t run out, and I can fight til the very end.
This guy stayed behind in the forest by himself to murder his classmates, while I’m forcefully taken to the town and compelled to stay. This is the difference between us.
And so, he has to use all the Skills he saved up in order to kill me.
I just need to fight until that moment. Even if my legs are broken, I will be fine if I can see his spells, illusions don’t work on me.
I have to thank Contact lenses, and 『God Eyes』 for that.
That’s why I can hang on, even if my arm snaps, I will forcefully move it to the last.
「Is this really fine, Tanaka-kun? There are restrictions on the Robbery you learned through mimicry, right? Are you fine with expending the usage limit here? The Monitress and the others are really strong.」
「Tsk! I just need Robbery!」
Bingo. So the restriction is the usage limits? So it will run out one day. And he can’t rob anything from me, since my Skills are useless or hard to master.
I will win if he uses all his Skills on me here, which will guarantee his loss to the Monitress and the others. His innate Cheat Skill won’t be strong enough for him to defeat them… I won’t let him conserve his Skills.
He must be calculating the moment he got in the white room, scheming the way for him to become the strongest. Calculating, the probability and exhausting all the possibilities.
If he picks Robbery right from the start, he will be lucky if it gets Sealed, and killed if he is unlucky. Others will definitely be wary of him, he calculated all that out. The Mathematics genius multiplied the probabilities, calculating the best moves with the highest chance of success. He keeps calculating the surest path of winning.
He divided the class to increase the accuracy of his calculations and minimize the uncertainty factors.
He used 『Mimic』 to learn Robbery, then robbed the Skills of his divided classmates one by one. His goal is probably 『Magic Immunity』, 『Abnormal Status spell』, and 『Illusion』.
Along with 『Compel』, his plan is perfect and safe.
The danger of an upfront fight is gone, leaving a one sided massacre─ that’s how he became a Cheat slayer.
The preparations are complete.
He will then use the Robbery he learned through Mimic, to rob the real Robbery, which means he will kill the Monitress. That will make his Robbery as good as the original.
After that, he will kill everyone and rob their Cheats, making him the strongest, perfect being.
That’s why the idiots survived, and only their combat abilities were stripped away. Their opponent didn’t have a perfect Robbery yet, and planned to kill them later. He didn’t want to waste the idiot’s Skills.
Actually, he wanted to kill the Geeks first to unlock the sealed 『Fascination』 and 『Puppetry』, that’s why he left the naughty kids alive… But the idiots were too strong, so he had to kill the naughty kids with his 『Robbery』, and finally neutralized the idiots.
He pretended to be the comrades of the naughty kids and normal boys, and killed them when he needed a Skill. That’s why he is the only one who survived, maybe he can kill me if he has comrades?
He went that far to get those Skills, but his prey united together and ran away. He won’t become stronger if he kills indiscriminately, and I’m stopping his last chance to kill our classmates.
Normally, I would be the weakest person, so he just needs to break through by force.
But he couldn’t be certain about that, and failed to make accurate calculations.
That’s right, my Skill is too weird, huh?
So he wants to isolate and observe me since I’m an uncertainty factor. He even killed two friends─ his last companions to plunder 『Instant Death』. So he can use the Level Wall to kill me for certain.
But I didn’t die, and his Compel, Illusions and Abnormal Status spell didn’t work.
Even though his Lv and abilities are better than mine, he has only fought battles where he overwhelms the enemy one sidedly with deception, so he is easily shaken.
He really is mistaken, huh? I’m so disappointed.
I have to break through Genius-kun’s probability theory, and stop him in his tracks until he uses up all his Skills.
Probability-wise, it’s impossible, but there is still a chance, and no one but me can do it.
His plan to kill me failed, so he will need to use everything he has got to launch a saturated attack that can 100% kill me for sure. If he uses up all the Cheat Skills he plundered from our classmates, he can’t win against the Monitress and the others. Even if I die, he will be stuck.
He should have enough Cheats to kill me for certain. Cheats that can kill me with over a 100% chance and ignore my super luck.
I just need to stay alive before he uses it all up, and keeps fighting until all his Skills are gone.
That’s what I thought, but he let me down… Instead of calculating a way to raise the chance of death to 100%, it is better to try a method with a 99% chance five or six times… As if, how would that work!? I’m still not dead, there’s no way such a way can kill me.
Well, I’m committing foul play.
「Eh~? Yamanaka-kun, right? Whatever. I’m disappointed in you.」
「Who is Yamanaka!? You have been saying my name correctly all this while!」
Huh? I seem to have gotten this wrong. But I’m not interested, so it’s fine.
「Really now, this is a fight between side characters, but you got too greedy, and can’t even be a side character. We are not the main characters, you know? This is clear from the very start.
This is the last chance for Yamamoto-kun to perform, but you are still conserving your Skills, so you are not even fit to be a side character. Farewell, nameless classmate.」
I made all the preparations and kept my guard up so he will use up all his Skills… That’s why I fended off all his Skills.
Misunderstood-kun switched all his Cheat level Martial Arts and Skills Off, opting not to use it.
After his calculations, he decided to only use 『Instant Death』 and 『Status Abnormality』 to save his usage limits. It will be a waste if Skills like 『Swordsmanship Max』, 『Spearmanship Ultimate』, 『Absolute Evasion』 are used up...
He is terribly mistaken, he thinks he is the main character? That’s so retarded.
You want to kill me with probability (LuK)? My LuK is MaX, and beyond the limit. Well, I’m committing foul play.
I don’t have any Cheat Skills, but I can commit fraud. There’s no such thing in the white room, so it’s not within your calculations, huh? That’s why I’m saying this is foul play. Because I’m just lucky.
「Farewell, Yamamura-kun?」
I took half a step forward and slash─ Oh, I killed a person, although I already forgot who he is.
Ahh! ...Oh no~ My last message is 「Sorry for being an idiot」. What should I do?
Day 24 Late Night Omui Town
Everyone is crying and yelling, we don’t know what to do, and can’t do anything, or even think about tomorrow… We then fell asleep from exhaustion.
I can’t stand it, so I will go there by myself, I don’t care about being a Monitress anyway.
Because there is no chance of success, I can’t bring everyone along.
I just want to go to Haruka-kun and die by his side.
The opponent is targeting my Robbery Skill, so I need to die before he kills me.
If I kill myself, he won’t be able to rob my Skill.
Then Haruka-kun won’t have to die.
That’s why he won’t tell me or bring me along.
Maybe it’s too late.
But I still want to go there, go to Haruka-kun and go to that Cave.
That’s enough for me.
I quietly leave the room and pass by the dining hall.
Everyone is always gathered there and making a ruckus.
And Haruka-kun is always getting admonished there.
I pass through the door of the Inn.
Haruka-kun wanted to burn the Guild after seeing the name of the Inn, and we all stopped him.
There is always an uproar everyday...
I pass through the town gate.
Haruka-kun is always getting scolded.
Everyone is always scolding him with a smile.
Haruka-kun is getting scolded even now.
Really now, it’s all because you want to sneak into town in the middle of the night… Eeeeehhhhhhhh─!?
「I’m back? I guess...?」
I don’t know how to react, what to say, or what happened. But Haruka-kun is here, he’s back. Hmmm… Let’s start by lecturing him!
Everyone is making a ruckus.
Haruka-kun is being scolded as expected.
It caused an uproar.
Haruka-kun got scolded by everyone.
Everyone is scolding him with a smile.
Welcome back.
ð If I burn the Geeks, can I escape from the grand scheme laid out by everyone?
Day 25 Morning White Weirdo Inn
The lectures last through the entire night, and are still ongoing in the morning. This is a scheme mobilized by everyone who surrounded me. Can I escape after burning the Geeks? They show no intention of helping me, so it’s fine for me to burn them, right? Or rather, I should burn them.
I keep getting scolded, but there’s no other way.
They scold me intensely, but I’m the only one who can deal with him.
They scold me sharply, but it’s the fault of that Kawashita-kun, so blame him.
My allowance got confiscated! That’s too much!!
I worked really hard, you know!?
When the meeting started, the Geeks still showed no intention of helping me. Read the mood! I will hunt them later and burn them.
The idiots are still idiots, never mind, I never expected anything from you guys in the first place...
「So what actually happened? How come no one can beat him?」
「Erm─ It’s because he used compel to affect your mental state, or something like that?」
They were manipulated mentally, along with illusions and abnormal status, so the others can’t even fight properly against him.
「So, what does he have the Robbery Skill?」
「Hmm─ he used his Mimic Skill to copy Robbery? That’s probably it.」
That’s why no one noticed, and he could carry out his plan without others being wary of him.
「He has a bunch of Skills, right? Thirteen people’s worth of them...」
「Yes~ Magic immunity, instant death, Status abnormality, illusion, and more?」
He put together the order he needs to kill specific Cheat Skill users, and which of the acquired Skill he needs to overpower his next targets. He didn’t go all out in order to keep to his plan and schedule, and died because of it.
「Why~ is Haruka-kun the only one who can fight him~?」
Ohh~ it’s shak… No, nothing, I’m not looking, really!
「Well~ he’s a Cheat Skill slayer, but I don’t have Cheats, so it works out that way?」
「「「Ohhhh~!」」」
Cheat Skills can be used automatically, which is why this foul play-like move is called a Cheat. And because of that, it’s hard to make minor adjustments to the Skill when you lose control of it. On the other hand, I only have the manual-type leftover Skills...
Even if he used all the Skills he had to kill me and take my Skills, he can’t use it to kill the Monitress and the others, my Skills are too difficult to use. He will get stuck in this game.
「And I chose to fight in front of the Cave because 『Shut-in』 gives a buff for protecting my home, so the weak me didn’t die in the forest… I think?」
That’s why I returned to the Cave, since it won’t work unless it’s my home, I can only fight there. That’s the only place where I won’t die. But most importantly...
「I thought he is a genius, but he’s actually an idiot. Probably? He can win if he used all the Skills he robbed to overwhelm me, but he won’t be able to fight against the other Cheat users if he did that. He chose to preserve his Skills and died. That’s the gist of it.」
He’s too retarded, he had a tough fight with the idiots which messed up his plans and wasted his Skill. So he killed his comrades to get their Skills, and preserved them when he fought me… And he got killed by me.
He wouldn’t have lost if he killed the idiots and took their Skills, or not conserve his Skills when he faced me. Because a side character like him wants to replace the Brave or Heroes, he couldn’t even become a side character, and got killed by another side character instead. In our fight to the death, his tactic was to go for a battle of attrition.
You don’t even need to read the first page of the story, just the character introduction page will be enough for you to know that we are just side characters, the mobs in a heroic story, just classmates A and B. I’m the weak Classmate A who got left behind in the forest, and lives in a Cave while taming monsters like Goblins. I will get killed by Classmate B who is trying to leave the forest, but Classmate B will lose his prowess because of this, and dies to the monsters before he can leave the forest. That’s how the story should be, and our role ends there.
While a side character like me is toyed around by the main characters, he thought he was the main character. That’s why his story fell apart, while I survived.
In this Different World of Sword and Sorcery, he still believes in Statistics.
A retard who believes 1＝1.
ð Bonus Story 《A letter to me who was alone and unsure of the future》
I sew two pieces of cloth together, stitching with my needle as if I’m stitching time itself together.
I got engrossed in this to distract myself from the discomforting feeling of this place.
So I can blend myself into the background, since I don’t fit in here.
This is the break time in a classroom that is an ordinary part of High School life. But the scene here is very different from other places.
I keep my head bowed, hunch my back to keep a low profile and stay quiet like I’m part of the background.
Voices filled the clean and cool classroom, but there’s no room for me because I’m too strange.
My classmates are just chatting in the same room as me… But some of them are young and accomplished artists, celebrities, and all of them are handsome and beautiful. The classroom doesn’t feel normal at all.
The sons of politicians and celebrities, famous athletes that appear on TV, and models feature on teen fashion magazines… I’m assigned to this strange class, which doesn’t have a place for me.
Stitch by stitch I sew… Why am I embroidering this pattern? A wizard in a dark robe?
I unconsciously look to the center of the class, which is a no man’s zone where there is only silence.
That person is just reading a book, but when he looks up and glares around him, the atmosphere in the classroom changes. Instead of being a man of few words, it’s more accurate to say he has erected an inviolable territory around him, and is the biggest heretic in the classroom full of strange people.
We never spoke, but he is a gentle person. One time, I almost fell down the stairs and he saved me. It’s not a romantic story, I missed a step and he grabbed the back of my collar when I was about to fall….and spun around.
I saw the ceiling spinning, then sat on the stairs… Someone must have saved me… When I recovered from the confusion caused by the spinning, there wasn’t anyone there. I didn’t even have time to say thanks, and could only see the back of a person.
I still find that unbelievable. Grabbing someone and spinning them to save someone shouldn’t be possible, and there wasn’t anyone else around. I don’t know why, but I can recognize the back of that person.
While thinking about that incident, the ground starts to shine!? I stare blankly at the multiple layers of circles and the back of that sprinting figure disappears into the ceiling, then my vision turns white… So blinding! Is the scene before me distorting?
─From that moment on, everything changed. After all, even the world is Different.
I lost count of how many times I cried, afraid of the dark forest and the creepy and terrifying monsters.
I once thought 「it’s over」, my life will end because I got transported to a Different World… Thinking I will die, I give up on everything and fall into despair.
And so… even if I told the me from back then 「Cheer up, you will definitely smile again」, my past self wouldn’t believe that I could smile sincerely in this unfamiliar World.
On that day, I thought living in the deserted forest would be impossible… but someone is already doing so without a second thought.
The image from my memories is the girls laughing and having fun in the Cave. Because the owner fled, so only the girls were left to make a ruckus.
We cried, encouraged each other, laughed and ate… If this tragedy didn’t befell me, I would still be in the uncomfortable classroom, trying to be happy in solitude while surrounded by my classmates. And now, I’m hugging and laughing with the girls that I was so distant from in the past.
As if all the fear, unease, resentment, hardship and pain aren’t real, even my solitude has become a lie. Thinking back, the heavy atmosphere I felt in class was like a dream.
I really want to tell the past me who was crying in anguish that this tragedy will become a comedy.
The solitude that tormented me felt nostalgic after that festival-like uproar.
I want to tell all this to the past me who was suppressing herself, who was suffering with every stitch that prick at her heart to escape from reality.
Tell the me who used discomfort as an excuse to close my heart, and remained aloof out of fear of rejection.
In this cruel and beautiful Different World, I can even smile when I remember the times back in that classroom.
A normal High School life, during a break in the classroom, the rowdy life in a Different World is about to begin.
I used to bow my head and hunch my back, keeping a low profile like the scenery. And now, I lift my head high to laugh and live my life surrounded by many close friends.
I realized that taking the pain I felt so seriously was too stupid.
Because… I didn’t know he was such a person! If I know, I will be laughing everyday. So I want to tell my former self who was suffering alone in pain that the cramped and grey times in the classroom would be ending soon.
If I can send a letter to myself to congratulate the start of a daily life where I will laugh heartily everyday, I will start it off like this:
「Welcome to the Different World, I’m doing well and smiling happily.」
ð 《Replacing a Tear Stained Face with a Smiling Face》
Yay, I’m having fun every day, everyone is together and I’m having the time of my life. So I have to laugh out loud and smile in this world. Even though I cry at night because I miss my parents, I want to spend every day with a smile on my face!
But in the beginning, I was depressed and crying from fear.
That’s only natural, normal people will be scared after being transported to a Different world! Of course I will cry from sadness, depression, and vexation, right?
「Shopping time!」「Dessert time!」「I’m going to buy food for myself!」「Let’s chat!」
And now, I’m living every day with a smile. I have decided to spend more time smiling than crying!
Because 「Living every day happily」 seems to be the basic norm? So if I cry, I will need to smile more to make up for it.
Because I can’t stand being laughed at, and I won’t tolerate being cared for all the time! I don’t want to lose, and this might be strange, but I want him to acknowledge me!
He is a weird boy in my class, a low profile boy who leaves a deep impression, and I think he will always be like that. Yes, he is super duper weird!
Be it in the Different World or in school, nothing changes his strange personality. He is still a weird person in the forest of this Different World.
I fought in the dark forest─ this is a forest filled with monsters, and I’m running with both hands on a short sword. I swing my short sword, twisting my body as I run in the forest dungeon. Death and fear looms, but I won’t be afraid and won’t ever cry.
Even if a drop of tear rolls down my cheek, I will insist on smiling. I already decided to keep smiling!
Because I can’t stand it. Seeing that guy disappear in his dark cloak… Without smiles, anger, or smiles, only nonchalance.
The monsters are bashed to death by that dark figure. Only the scenery around him is different… I want to go there. In the darkness which will make me cry from fear, that is the only place which is fun and interesting.
He looks cold, negative and pissed off in school, but has a normal expression in the forest. But when he is around, there isn’t fear or sadness, and the gloomy forest will look like a great place for a picnic.
Everyone has been sobbing in the Different World. We are all so scared, irate and throwing tantrums, but he built a grand mansion easily by himself, grilled delicious mushrooms and is living a carefree life! That’s what makes me so vexed.
I will probably cry in the future too. When I reminisce about the past before sleeping at night, my tears will fall. But I will smile in the morning! I will not cry and I refuse to lose!
He saved me when I’m afraid and in tears, so he must think of me as a crybaby.
I was crying as I fought, so my face must be scowling. When I first met this classmate of mine again, his dark figure was standing in a rain of fire. My feelings changed from fear to relief, and I cried again. I don’t want him to see my tear stained face.
Everyone is with me, and I have many friends, although they are just my classmates who are now my friends. Even so, I will still feel lonely, feel scared and cry… However, he’s alone in school and the forest, but he doesn't cry when he’s afraid, and refuses to lose in the face of horror. He will definitely survive alone with a nonchalant face, which vexes me!
Even though he looks fine when he is alone, he looks troubled when he is with everyone… His eyes that had a slight hint of loneliness turned warm. It’s hard to tell from his nonchalant face, but he is actually smiling troublingly.
I can’t lose either, I have to work harder. If he sees my crying face, he will think I’m a crybaby!
My father and mother always praise me that I 「looks the cutest when you are smiling」, so I want him to remember my smiling face, not my crying face! I told him my name several times, but he can’t remember it! But it’s not too bad (Satisfied smile).
I kick off a tree and flip in the air as I slit the neck of a monster, making use of the speed of my 《Sprinter》 Skill to strengthen my sword attack. It’s scary and disgusting, but I won’t lose, I will smile even if I’m afraid. I won’t let him call me a crybaby, I will use my smiles to make him forget my crying face!
God said that we can’t go back, he even bowed his head to apologize. No matter how much I cry, I can’t see my parents again or go home (Sob).
Even so, I have to smile! I will squeeze out a big smile with my cheeks, because my parents told me that my smiling face is the cutest. They will be sad if I cry, so I will smile in the Different World too! I also want to show my smile to that guy, so he will only think of my smile when he sees me! I will make him forget my crying face!
I shred the enemies with a spin and the rank smell of the blood drenched the forest. No matter how many times I see this, I always feel like crying. But even if I’m scared on the inside, I will still turn back, smile and show a V sign with my fingers. I have a death grip on the hilt of my sword, so I have to use my other hand to signal my victory.
I have lost my home and school, but I still have a place to return to─ I ran to everyone who was waving at me with a smile and returned to the place I belong to. After becoming their friends, I understand they are scared too. So no matter how afraid I am, I will smile for everyone to see.
The monster groaned. We got careless and assumed the enemy had been wiped out. The monsters are coming right for us, but got intercepted by a black Cloak far more ferocious than them, and wailed in terror… The dark figure is concealing himself, so I can’t sense him before. After sneaking to the monster’s back, he starts to whack it with amazing speed.
The merciless monster terrorizing us is being harshly beaten instead. And he is wielding… a stick. In this hellish and dark forest, the scene of someone whacking away violently looks amusing and out of place. That’s why I can’t lose, I don’t want to give in!
While crybabies like me are trembling in the grey and scary world, he is the only one smiling happily, acting so freely like he is fooling around, I’m envious of that.
When my face was drenched in tears and I couldn’t pull myself together, the sky was covered in a rain of fire, and that black figure appeared amidst the flames.
Because I’m a crybaby, so I knew that his carefree face was a farce, and he is just concealing his pain, fear and hardships!
So I don’t want to lose to him, I can’t lose to him, I have to prove that I can smile too. And I want him to remember my smiling face, I want it so bad. I feel frustration, shame and a little bitterness, I can’t stand this feeling of not wanting to lose!
「Good work─ why are you glaring at me with a smile! Your face looks scary, you know?」
「I’m smiling! And my smiling face is really cute!」
I messed up. I still need practice, but not crying is an improvement. I will show a happier smile tomorrow! I will make him remember my cute smiling face!
Translator’s comments
Hello, I hope everyone’s doing well. This is an interesting project with a very casual way of writing, filled with memes found in 2chan (Japan’s image board). Not a recommended project for translators who don’t frequent 2chan.
Hello, I hope everyone’s doing well. This is an interesting project with a very casual way of writing, filled with memes found in 2chan (Japan’s image board). Not a recommended project for translators who don’t frequent 2chan.
The grammar of the light novel version is less wild, and Haruka’s status shows up way less frequently. I created a status screen for Haruka instead of leaving it as just text to change things up. If some aggregate site steals my stuff, there will be gaps since they don’t include the pictures.
The story wraps up nicely in one volume, with the ‘weakest’ protagonist overcoming the powerful antagonist through strategy, and by extension, direct combat. It was revealed that the protagonist was an unreliable narrator all this while, pretending to be retarded as he carried out his plans. He started alone in the old and new world, and has plenty of friends and girls in the end.
There is also the foreshadowing laid out early when the protagonist remembers the name of only one person, Tanaka. The other characters might use names normally, but not Haruka, who gives everyone except Tanaka a nickname. This foreshadowing is properly resolved, giving a bit more depth to the story.
But after volume 1, we know that Haruka is just pretending to be retarded, he is actually OP and he is not alone. The worst part is him still pretending to be retarded after that has been exposed. Pretending to forget Tanaka after killing him dismisses any reason he might have for his refusal to remember names thing. Never go full retard. So if you are looking for a story with at least some depth, volume 2 is not for you.
There is another group who wants to translate this, and I said I will let them have it after I complete volume 1. They are translating the web novel version though. The end of Volume 1 is followed by C47 (ããŋãžããŠããŪã§åūŪåĶãŠåģã ãĢããããŋããŋãĻčŽãŪčļããčļãĢã), which should be translated by them if you have patience. And the manga is great too!
Be well and stay safe!
Be well and stay safe!
Skythewood
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