Chapter 387: Natural Enemy, and the Orphanage.
Just what happened to that girl.
Without a doubt, that’s the power of the variants; the power of the evil god.
“That is…”
“Ah, this? A while ago, I was attacked by so weird golden monster, you see? They would regenerate no matter how many tis I cut them. I began to feel a sense of familiarity with them since they’re like . And as we kept stabbing into each other, sohow, this happened.”
“Wha…!”
What does this an? Could the super regeneration of the purple [Crown] reacted in so way with the variants and took their power in for itself? Or…
“I beco just a bit more brutal when I’m using this power, but if it’s To-yan then it’s alright, isn’t it?”
“… Did you beco the evil god’s henchman?”
“‘The evil god’s henchman’? What’s that?” (Note: while Touya used the proper terms—“evil god” and “henchn” were written in kanji—Luna simply parroted the pronunciation back in katakana.)
Luna was making a blank face… Guess she hasn’t been possessed by the variants.
“That power belongs to a twisted god called an evil god. It’s best if you throw it away right now.”
“Don’t wanna. I want to play around with To-yan with this power. Like this!”
The golden spear extended towards like a certain golden cudgel. I drew Brunhild from my waist, and parried it away with Blade Mode.
However, the spear changed its course midair and ca at again from behind. As I dodged by jumping to the side, the spear plunged into the ground where I was.
“Ahn, a sha. I still can’t move this proficiently yet.”
That movent earlier was just like the arm-blade used by the Phrases and the variants… A troubleso fellow got her hands on a troubleso power, damn…
As I was cursing in my mind, Viola ca attacking with the large scythe poised in its hands.
I received the tallic handle of the scythe with Brunhild, and let it slip past . Towards Viola, who pulled out the scythe that pierced into the ground and tried to attack again, I activated magic; specifically, at its feet.
“[Slip].”
“Gii!?”
Viola slipped and fell down face-first.
“Ahahaha! Viola, you look so stupid!”
Leaving Luna who’s pointing at her partner and laughing aside, I took out a crystal broadsword from [Storage].
Raising it overhead with both hands, I unleashed a [Gravity]-strengthened slash on the prone Viola.
With a loud impact sound, the slash—which is more of a smash than a slash—shook the ground.
Viola, who received that attack, was gruesoly crushed in half from its head down to its waist. As expected, it shouldn’t be able to regenerate anymore with this.
Honestly, I feel bad for this. In terms of appearance alone, Viola resembles the black [Crown], Noir, as well as the red [Crown], Rouge, that I’m familiar with, after all.
Even though they’re machines, it doesn’t feel good to be doing this kind of thing to a golem with its own consciousness.
“Eii, Viola’s grudge—!”
“Wha…!”
Luna changed her right arm’s tallic portion to a broadsword, probably to mimic .
Even though it’s rather large, Luna swung it around easily as she ca at with a horizontal slash that threatened to slice in half. She might not feel the weight since it’s beco part of her body.
“[Shield]…!”
I noticed my failure only after activating the magic. Even if it’s a sham, that broadsword still carries divinity with it. A regular [Shield] wouldn’t do anything…!
“Guu!”
Together with the easily-broken [Shield], I was sent flying to a wall nearby.
I should’ve used my weapon to ward it off like earlier, instead of using magic.
Luna jumped towards as I was trying to get up. Pushing her knees down on my shoulder, she got into the so-called mounted position on top of .
When I looked up, my eyes t with Luna’s, which have a suspicious glint in them.
“I’ve~ caught~ you~. Kufufu. When I’m trying to kill each other with To-yan, my body gets hot, you know. Is this love? It’s love, isn’t it? … Ah, I’ve thought of sothing good.”
“Eh? Wai, whaa!?”
While staying in her mounted position, Luna smoothly untied the ribbon around her chest, and began unbuttoning the buttons one by one. Her black lace bra was slightly peeking out.
“Whu, what are you doing!?”
“It’s alright. Since I heard it doesn’t hurt for the boy. It apparently hurts a lot for the girl; I’m looking forward to it.”
“What talk is this!?”
While breathing roughly, Luna looked down at with a flushed face and an enchanting smile. The tongue that peeked out slightly as it licked her lips looked strangely bewitching.
Wait up wait up, what the hell is this!?
While panicking, my arms were suddenly grabbed by soone. The owner of those small and cold hands was looking down at , who’s on the ground, in reverse from above my head.
Over there was the purple [Crown], Viola, who I supposedly crushed monts earlier.
“Wha, don’t tell it can even regenerate from that state!?”
“Viola won’t die from sothing to that degree, you know? Since it can’t feel pain, its regeneration is even faster than , after all.”
I had definitely crushed its brain, the [Q-crystal], and its heart, the [G-cube], so why…!
Suddenly, the sound of sothing dropping to the ground with a *pasa* entered my ears; and when I turned my eyes back from Viola, the figure of a fully naked Luna straddling , backlit by the sun, entered my eyes.
“Hyowaaaaaaaaah!?”
My whole body goes rigid from shock, or sothing else. Could it be because of the heat from her red face, Luna’s glasses have beco clouded; her smile now looks sowhat obscene. Under the scorching sun, the blinding naked body glittered from the sweat drops rolling down.
“Wai, wait wait wait! What are you doingggggggg!?”
“Ahn. Don’t struggle so much.”
When Luna had opened up my shirt, she lowered her waist on my exposed stomach. It’s obvious, but Luna isn’t wearing anything. Which ans, on top of my belly, there’s—
“T, te, [Teleport]!”
“Harya?”
I escaped from that spot with a [Teleport] without even setting a target coordinate. I dropped down in a rolling position onto the desert ground about ten ters away.
Th, that was scary… In a lot of ways, scary…
“Nmou. A shy one, aren’t you, To-yan?”
“That’s not the problem!”
I can’t do this. This girl is too dangerous. She’s like a natural enemy for . If I’m caught, I’ll definitely be done in!
And anyway, since I’ve already completed my purpose here, there’s no reason to stay any longer!
“Farewell!”
“Ah, mou…”
While hearing the voice of Luna echoing in my ear, I used [Teleport] to transfer directly to the holy capital.
I had intended to exit in a backstreet alley, but probably because I was still flustered, I ended up on top of the roof of a building instead.
Amidst the voices of children and yelling of old n that I could hear from below, I cald my rough breathing while lying down on the roof as-is.
“That was scary…”
I felt what it ans to be a frog being stared at by a snake, or sothing like that… My heart’s still beating away at a furious pace, you know. I was about to have sothing precious taken away…
My throat’s dry… I took out so chilled fruit water from [Storage] and gulped it down.
Haa… Delish. That cald down a little.
Fo, for the mont let’s just go back. I’ve gotten what I ca here for anyway. I’ll have Dr. Elka do so tuning up for them… Who should I entrust these two to as their new master, I wonder.
It’s fine for it to be , but since they’re from the sa series as Fenrir, it’s possible that no jamming would occur if Dr. Elka becos their master as well.
Fenrir should be glad about the new comrades too.
As I stood up and tried to transfer back to [Babylon], I rembered about the treasures I took from the bandits.
Oops, there was that too. Since I’m at the holy capital anyway, let’s go around giving those money to the orphanages.
“The closest orphanage… It’s right here?”
When I searched for [orphanages], a red pin fell down on my current location. Seems like the roof I was on actually belonged to an orphanage.
No wonder I kept hearing the voices of children and the yelling of so old n since a while ago.
…The yelling of so old n?
I casually looked down from on top of the roof.
Three thuggish-looking n were shouting at an auntie and so children.
“Like I’ve been saying, Ms. Director, the deadline is tomorrow! Can’t you just pack your stuff up and get out with the brats by today?”
“That can’t… If we’re chased out of here, then just where would the children live afterwards!?”
“You think we care about that!? Just go to the slums or sothing!”
I don’t really understand the details, but I can tell they’re trying to chase the children out.
Still, those old n really do look ill-natured. Oh?
A black golem carriage stopped in front of the orphanage’s doors. A man got off the carriage that was pulled by a multi-legged type golem.
“Boss!”
“You guys are still dragging your feet, huh. Sothing like those filthy brats, just chase them out already, you idiots.”
When the man called boss by the others took out a cigar from his pocket, one of the three n hurriedly ca forward and lighted it with a match.
He’s a rather rotund man over thirty, and wearing a Chinese-style changpao-like long gown. A pair of gold-rimd glasses that showed off his bad taste, a balding head, and two strands of catfish-like beard beneath his nose… O, ya?
What is this? I feel like I’ve seen him sowhere…
…Who’s this guy again?
“Zavit-san, I’ll definitely return the money. So please…!”
The old auntie, who’s likely the orphanage’s director, clung onto the man with gold-rimd glasses. However, the man called Zavit simply flung away the arms that were clinging to him with disgust, and spat on the ground.
Zavit… Zavit, you say…?
“Don’t touch with your dirty hands, grandma! Do you really not understand the fact that this place already belongs to us [Papillon]!? I’ll give you ten seconds. Disappear right now along with those dirty kids over—”
“Aaaaah! I rember now!”
Upon hearing the keyword of [Papillon], I finally managed to drag the figure of that man up from the bottom of my mories. And originally, I had wanted to keep it there forever, too.
When he saw , who had suddenly raised my voice while standing on the roof, the other side also pointed towards while raising a scream-like “Hyoeeaaaaaaaaa!?”
Zavit Grant. The man who was an executive of [Papillon]… Or not, I guess he’s already the chief now. It’s reasonable for not to rember him. I had effectively only t this guy for a couple of minutes, after all.
[Papillon] was the organization that Silhouette-san and others in the [Black Cats], whom I’m working with, used to belong to.
Zavit was persistently harassing Silhouette-san in various ways in order to obtain the information managent division she managed.
I had casted a “curse” on that Zavit in order to make him shut up.
It was a curse that would slowly paralyze parts of his body whenever he or his subordinates beco involved with Silhouette-san’s group.
[Papillon], under the cursed Zavit, imdiately left the city Silhouette-san and the others were in. I didn’t expect them to run all the way to the neighboring country, though.
Compared to before, it feels like they’ve lost so degree of cohesion as an organization. That reminds , when Silhouette-san left, apparently quite a few others also washed their hands of [Papillon] as well.
I jumped down from the rooftop and landed in front of Zavit and the others.
Even as his face paled visibly, Zavit opened his mouth falteringly.
“Wh, wh, why are you bastard here!”
“Just a coincidence, really. You’re still doing bad things like before, huh. Should I prepare an even stronger ‘curse’ this ti?”
“Hii!”
Zavit made a run for it in front of my eyes. Seems like the effects of the “curse” hasn’t reached his lower body yet.
“[Slip].”
“Bugeryah!?”
Zavit fell forward with strong montum and bashed his face on the pavent.
“You bastard!”
“What did you do to the boss!”
“Shut it. I’m in a bad mood today, don’t get in my way. [Gravity].”
“““Gufuu!”””
I used [Gravity] on Zavit’s three underlings as they jumped at and made them fall down onto the ground.
“Oi.”
“Hyes!?”
“How much does this orphanage owe you?”
“T-three white gold coins; thi, thi, this is a proper collateral collection, you know!? I have the deed here!”
He pushed a piece of paper that he took out of his breast pocket towards . Fuun, it does look like the real deal… Three white gold coins, huh. Around 3 million yen?
If they cannot return that sum by the deadline which is tomorrow, this land would beco the belongings of [Papillon], apparently.
“Well, whatever. It’s money I was planning to donate anyway. Here, three white gold coin.”
“Eh?”
I passed Zavit three white gold coins which I took out of [Storage]. He’s probably aiming for the land rather than the gold, anyway. Sorry to disappoint you.
“You’ve got no problem with this, right?”
“Eh? No, wai—”
“If you have, then I guess it’s ti for another ‘curse’—”
“Hyoeeeeeee!?”
I was joking, but when Zavit heard that, he jumped up with great vigor and dashed at full speed back to his golem carriage, before escaping from the orphanage as fast as he could.
“Bo, boss—s!?”
The three hoodlums, after I released the [Gravity] on them, ran out the door of the orphanage while chasing after Zavit. They sure do run away fast.
“A, ano, just who are…”
The director-san of the orphanage nervously called out to .
I picked up the deeds of the loan Zavit dropped, and burned it to ashes with fire-attribute magic.
“I was told to donate these to orphanages by a certain person, you see. I’m planning to go around to other orphanages as well, so don’t mind it.”
“Donate…! That huge sum!?”
“I don’t know about the details as well. Three white gold coins’ worth is gone from this, but please take it. I hope this would help your managent of this place.”
I made up so random talk that would fit—not all of it is a lie, though—as I passed seven white gold coins to the director.
Now then, when I checked, there’s apparently five other orphanages in the holy capital.
Since I’ve already said it, let’s give ten white gold coins to each of them. The gold hoarded by the bandits would fall a little bit short, but if I sell so of the jewelry they had then it should be enough.
I also passed so snacks to the children on the side before leaving the orphanage. I rember director-san bowing down to deeply at the end.
Alright, let’s quickly go around to the other orphanages before returning to Babylon.
I’m going to take a break after that. I don’t feel like doing anything more today. Healing. I require healing-nano desu.
As I shook my head to try to dispel the image of a girl’s naked body that’s floating up in my brain together with the scorching sun, I opened a [Gate] that connects to the next orphanage.
- Pixel
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