Chapter 235
- In a villainous world where cunning schemes run rampant, the clumsy cannot survive. (1)
I gained unexpected benefits.
“Please save me!”
I thought it was similar, so I tried it, but I had no idea it was real.
“It won’t kill you.”
“Please just kill me cleanly!”
Crawling on the floor and speaking, he looked extremely miserable.
– Just what did you do?
What did I do, I taught to the best of my ability.
If my disciple went and died somewhere, I felt like my bed would become restless.
– So you’re saying you beat him properly!
– That’s right!
He was one of my disciples who never met The Metal bat, but instead fully tasted The Wooden bat.
– Is that all?
– It’s hard to say it was ‘just’ that much, I hit him a bit too excessively with the best bat.
If you just count the number of times he was hit, he’s the disciple who was hit the most.
Since the first year students graduated in a year, I was also a novice instructor when I taught that guy.
But unlike the first years, the second years had a Wooden bat.
-What did you do when I wasn’t there!?
Nothing much. Just a novice instructor was too enthusiastic in training. I just used The Wooden bat, the best bat, a bit excessively.
Back then he was too arrogant. No matter how much I talked, he wouldn’t listen, but after The Wooden bat came about, with just a little bit of the bat love, he listened well.
“Please, just not the bat!”
I looked at my former trembling disciple.
He seemed to have fought properly like my disciple, but it was too much for a cheater against a hero who hadn’t even reincarnated once.
Come to think of it, wasn’t cheats a privilege of reincarnators? Why don’t I get any?
“You seem to be in a lot of pain.”
Seeing my disciple with blood trickling from the corners of his mouth, tears clouded my vision.
I had raised him telling him not to go around getting hit.
– The guy who hit him was also raised that way, so it can’t be helped.
– Spear and shield I see…
The strongest spear and the strongest shield fought and the strongest spear was victorious!
From this I can conclude that the vanguard is the best!
– I don’t think that’s it…
Well, maybe not.
That’s not important right now.
“Ah, it doesn’t hurt! It doesn’t hurt at all! Th-this is just tomato sauce!”
“Where is there tomato sauce that is this red?”
“It’s the new type!”
It’s really an appetite killing sauce. I should clean it up quickly.
“Stop! Please! Just not the bat! Please have mer- huh? Uh!”
Space is limited by law.
As the guy crawling on the floor looked at the wall blocking his way, he started begging me to save him.
“Huh, it’s gone?”
He mumbled vacantly and then suddenly started laughing like crazy.
“Ha… Hahahaha! Hahahahaha!”
“What is it?”
“I think he’s gone mad.”
It seems so.
“It’s gone! If that cursed bat is gone, then no matter if you’re my master I can take you on!”
Ah right. The Wooden bat didn’t have that function.
“Verul.”
“It’s too late!”
As if saying ‘I was crawling on the floor to gain momentum!’, my former disciple sprang up from his spot and charged at me.
“Come on.”
I swung my hand as is.
“Huh?”
The Metal bat hooked on my wrist naturally transformed into the shape of a bat.
“What is this!”
Oh my… As expected of my former disciple.
Even though it was a sudden attack, he quickly twisted his body to dodge.
During the Howling days I trained him as a mage except for some close combat, but to think he had such wonderful movements!
Since he seemed to use a sword-like thing against that hero earlier, it looks like he became a magic swordman.
Wow! A magic swordman nearing grand mage and swordmaster! You’ve grown up well!
However!
“Can you dodge this?”
I modify my wrist and the bat path.
“You’ve aged!”
But it looked like my former disciple barely avoided my attack by a paper’s width and was preparing a counterattack.
“I have aged.”
It wasn’t just a saying, I really felt my age.
No matter how it’s been almost 10 years since I left active duty, my wrist already hurts after swinging the bat a few times. I couldn’t help but feel the merciless passage of time.
“Hup!”
The air resonates. It’s the sign that the magic is being completed.
To be honest, magic using just pure magical power doesn’t work, but that doesn’t mean it can’t kill.
For example, if you change the ground into the shape of a spear and stab with it, it will really pierce, and if hit by an explosion spell, you can die from the shrapnel blowing up.
If you can use magical power you can block it all, but…
It’s really unfair.
So I have to take him down before the magic is complete.
“Cough!”
Watching my former disciple collapse, I rolled my eyes.
“What! Gahhh!”
“Verul, this can automatically track targets.”
Well, it was my usual attack. My Metal bat thwacking while I moved it around quickly like thread.
Even though it’s the same pattern of attack, since he keeps getting hit by it there’s no reason not to use it!
“Mas…ter?”
My former disciple looks at me with shaking eyes.
Seeing him unable to pronounce properly, it seems the shock was great.
“Now, shall we continue?”
“Ah, no, ugh!”
“Ugh!”
After a long time, I beat my disciple with the Jajinmori rhythm.
“Crack! Gahhh! Thwack!”
The quick 3 weak 4 strong beat!
“I hope you go to a good place.”
Glancing over, the hero didn’t run away and was praying for the soul of the deceased.
– He said deceased! You said you wouldn’t kill!
Yes, yes, I was wrong.
Taking a life, there’s no way we would do such a frightening thing.
The Metal bat tackled saying who’s spouting nonsense, but it’s true.
At least in the last 10 years, no one’s died by my hand. By my hand!
“Please, save me…”
“Verul.”
Was it because I was lost in thought for a moment? My former disciple grabbed my ankle.
“Please, live… Aaah”
I quickly slapped his wrist away.
It may seem too cold-hearted, but for a mage, getting grabbed physically is very dangerous. He may even blow himself up!
“Verul, don’t worry.”
“Gahhh!”
As the bat restarted, my former disciple started screaming.
“This isn’t the bat you know of.”
“Then…”
Hope started to appear in his nearly dead eyes.
Reading his thoughts, it’s something like ‘Right, there’s no way that evil weapon exists!’ or ‘I can die!’.
Hehe!
“This is the new product that followed after your known Wooden bat. The Metal bat, the black bat.”
“Ah…”
With the words new product and black bat, the hopeful eyes fell into despair.
Not good.
“It will last longer.”
“I don’t wannaAAAA!”
A high note higher than a female soprano started echoing out.
– What a nice voice!
“Very nice!”
As if celebrating the start of my reign!
#1 Their Circumstances: A Certain Hero’s Circumstances
“You were raised quite well.”
“Th-thank you.”
I look at the man kneeling and trembling before the instructor.
The boss of Darkness who used considerable sword skills and magic.
From his words, the evil organization that ruled this kingdom is called Darkness.
Well, now,
“Then tell me what you’ll do from now on.”
“I will obey your orders!”
Even though he is a slave from being hit by The Metal bat!
“Do you keep in contact with any of your peers?”
“Yes!”
The answer comes as soon as the master finishes speaking.
Struggling to live.
It’s not someone else’s business, so tears flow out a bit.
“How many?”
“We’re all connected.”
I’m slightly surprised at those words.
All connected?
The master’s disciple, and they can be close to each other?
I found it unbelievable.
When we meet each other, we pretend not to know and go on our way.
Of course Mirea, No.1000 would try to grab us when we meet!
“Is that so?”
“Yes. We don’t contact each other frequently, but there are times we exchange intel from each country.”
Hearing the story, the master nods his head with a satisfied expression.
“As expected, nothing beats affection between peers.”
As someone who was hassled by a peer and crossed over to the continent, I couldn’t relate at all.
“Can you perhaps call the other guys?”
“It will be difficult. After the Demon King appeared, we’ve been laying low as much as possible…”
“I see, so that’s how it is…”
Chaos is the best stage for evil organizations to be active.
Especially in this situation with the apostle of the evil god going around, it’s the best opportunity for an evil organization!
Since it’s chaotic, scams work well, and you can commit all sorts of crimes but there’s little risk of getting caught since all the soldiers are off at war.
However, this wasn’t the first time an apostle of the evil god appeared.
Getting hit once, then again.
Whenever the evil god appeared, scoundrels and those looking for opportunities made their move, and problems started arising internally.
Internal problems soon spread externally.
If you look at historical records, while the soldiers were fighting the apostle of the evil god, the younger brother staged a coup, killing his brother the king and usurping the throne!
And the king’s father-in-law, who was fighting on the front lines, turned his troops back when he heard the news.
Thanks to that, even the front line fighting the apostles collapsed, it’s said.
Despite the dissuasion of each religion, human greed was endless, and as similar things repeated, each kingdom started cleaning up internally first whenever the apostle of the evil god appeared.
But the opponent was an evil organization. Existences with the vitality of cockroaches.
Escaping even if it meant abandoning their base!
“Somehow try contacting them.”
“Yes!”
But seeing the caught pitiful boss of the evil organization and senior, the old saying that justice prevails came to mind.
“Oh…”
“What’s wrong?”
“It’s nothing.”
It’s said there’s not a single wrong word in old sayings… Doesn’t that mean the instructor who’s the victor is justice?!
If that’s how the world is, it may be better for the Demon King to destroy everything.
“Worried?”
Fortunately, the master who doesn’t have the ability to read minds looks away and back at the senior again.
“How many secret passages are there in the underground?”
“There are 3.”
“Any that the other guys don’t know about?”
“In preparation for emergencies, I secretly made 5 passages that only I know of!”
“Excellent.”
“It’s all thanks to being taught by the excellent master!”
Seeing the obvious flattery and the senior patting the master’s shoulder, tears cloud my vision.
Because I acted like that…
“Flattery is unnecessary. Quickly send the info to the other guys.”
“Hehe… What info should I send?”
“The Demon King’s route of movement.”
“Huh?”
The senior’s body froze for a moment.
“Does the Demon King have a route of movement?”
The apostles of evil gods originally appear and destroy everything in the world. Just a symbol of destruction steadily moving forward and smashing everything.
But this time is different.
“Yes. There’s someone the Demon King is looking for.”
“Just what is that guy doing to make an evil god come looking for him?….”
Shhk.
The senior’s gaze drops down on the master and The Metal bat in the master’s hand.
“Could it be….”
“That’s the theory”
“Oh….”
The senior blankly nods with his mouth hanging open.
“As expected, it’s master.”
It was truly a phrase packed with various meanings.
“Want to get hit?”
“Then I’ll contact them right away!”
Seeing the senior quickly running away as the master raises his hand, a pathetic sight.
But I can’t complain because…
“Follow him and confirm.”
“Yes.”
I’m in a similar situation.
#2 Their Circumstances: A Certain Evil Boss’s Circumstances
“I see, so you’re my junior’s junior.”
“Yes.”
Hehe! To think there’s a warrior among the juniors who beat a dragon.
Howling was an incredible place as expected.
“Gonna run?”
“How could I run away?”
I try talking to him subtly, but his eyes are empty. He seems to have tried escaping several times but failed.
“If possible?”
“Of course I’ll do it.”
“If you fail?”
“Yes. And I’ll get beaten by the bat for a week.”
To get hit by that thing for a week… I’d rather just commit suicide…
“Even if you commit suicide, he’ll revive you.”
“Is that so?”
My junior says it as if he’s already tried it, so I shake my head.
“You’re done for.”
“My life is already over.”
Seeing a guy who looks like a warrior disparaging himself, I should have realized. That such abnormalities only exist around the Instructor!
“Well, it can’t be helped.”
I raise my hand and write on the message paper for contacting.
Contents about having found intel on the Demon King’s route of movement and suggesting meeting up.
But there was one more hidden meaning.
<Found him.>
Junior, you think I’m the senior for nothing?
You don’t know, but I still have life left in me.
