Chapter 239
- In a villainous world full of cunning, the clumsy will not survive (5)
“Welcome, Master.”
No, I want to go back.
“I’ve been waiting for you.”
The person smiling brightly at me is my disciple but… she’s from a different class than the guys I’m looking for.
The ones I’m searching for were my second disciples, but this person is a third disciple.
“Why are you here…”
I asked sincerely.
Why is this person here?
This person was like the final boss in the first volume of a novel!
She shouldn’t reappear after being defeated!
“Well, I manage most of the evil organizations on this continent… no, most of the evil organizations on the whole continent.”
“Uh…”
But Sia leveled up properly and returned as an even more powerful boss.
Now she’s truly a boss.
“Most of the continent?”
“Yes.”
And she’s reached a position like the dark lord ruling the underworld of the continent!
She’s practically the final boss!
The day is the princess’ and the night is yours?
-Who’s your lunch then?
-Is that important now?
-Of course! I’m very curious who else follows the master around!
Hey, I’m struggling to keep my legs from shaking here, and that’s your reaction to the master’s crisis!
“It was difficult. But I did it all thinking only of you, Master.”
“Oh wow!”
“Amazing, Boss!”
“Grr…”
“You…”
I see my former disciples applauding while sitting and cheering.
You see her as your boss but not me, huh?
“Instructor! It’s time to show your manly side!”
“That’s right. Marrying a much younger woman! Haha! As expected, our master is skilled.”
“If Instructor has no skills, then who does?”
“Right, of course. He even made the bat.”
“…”
“…”
“…”
They started chattering among themselves and it turned into mutual flattery.
And taking advantage of that gap…
“Where are you going?”
“Haha! Shouldn’t I be with my old friends after meeting them again after so long?”
The former disciple who created this damn situation was trying to sneak away.
“You wanna die, Verul?”
“Haha! I, I didn’t lie! I only told the truth!”
Yeah, that’s right. It’s true you brought together your old friends, and only brought members of the organizations.
The issue is that you also brought the final boss who unified those organizations, but you didn’t lie, didn’t lie.
“But… I never said I wouldn’t hit you either.”
“Eek!”
I swing down the Metal bat.
Verul twisted his body in weird directions trying to dodge.
“Think I’d let you?”
“Ugh!”
If my previous batting was just regular batting, this time it’s sincere batting.
I may go bald but I’ve trained this body!
Do you think you can dodge when I sincerely swing this thing?
-I’m the one moving it, so why is the owner acting so smug!
…But the Metal bat just hits on its own.
“Die.”
“P-Please spare me, Boss!”
“Sorry.”
“Ah, no!”
My former disciple begged for his life from his junior, but his junior Sia did not listen.
Tch! I was trying to lure him in as bait and escape.
For now I’ll have to be satisfied with neutralizing a powerful force.
“Do you feel better now?”
“No.”
As Verul’s public execution ends, Sia approaches me with her smile still intact, in stark contrast to the seniors trembling while sitting.
“What is this?”
“What is this… I’m just realizing your teachings, Master.”
-Just what did you teach!?
-I, I did nothing wrong!
-The fact you immediately say that means something hit a nerve!
“Love permits everything. Therefore, love also permits greed.”
She says it seriously but the content makes me shudder.
-Don’t blame the master!
-I, I don’t remember saying that!
-You’re clearly lying!
Really. There’s no way I said something so twisted. No way.
“After my training under you ended… When I went to confirm my restless heart, you told me this. I… cannot forget those words.”
But the more I listen to Sia’s words, the more I feel like I should remember something…
-It’s so specific!
-Was it… dawn sentimentality?
Right. Around when Sia finished her training, I was still in my 30s.
When I was in my 30s I might have said such nonsensical things in a moment of dawn sentimentality!
-Master was 39 then…
-Quiet!
I didn’t have any incidents in my life, nor should I have… but today one has appeared.
-Aren’t there many others?
There aren’t! If it’s not in my memory then it doesn’t exist! So it doesn’t exist!
-Master, it’s fine to have incidents at night but can you really choose that bedding?
Hearing the Metal bat words, I regain my senses and look at Sia.
“Haven’t you gone through so much hardship because of all the strange things that happened?”
Though it doesn’t seem intentional, Sia looks at me with shining eyes after inflicting serious mental damage.
What’s with that gaze? It’s really uncomfortable.
Can you not look at me with those eyes?
And… can I not just leave?
“I’ve heard it all. You changed Yugrasia into the best academy but were chased out by the Empire’s princess. You wandered and settled in various places but were attacked by demons….”
There were no mistakes in what she mentioned one by one.
“In addition, you went to the demon continent, saved the next Demon King who was moderate, and defeated the next Demon King who was hardline.”
Hmmm…How did you know that?
“And though you reformed the demon continent calling yourself the demon king chosen by the demon god, you ended up being chased by the so-called demon king, the apostle of Evil god.”
Uncomfortable gazes poured toward me. They were the gazes of my former disciples next to Sia.
“Wow, crazy…”
“Just what kind of person did we learn from?”
“Humans who went to the demon continent are unheard of… And she says you became the demon king there? We were taught by someone like that but were satisfied with being the boss of an evil organization manipulating just one kingdom…”
I see looks of shock, admiration, and respect from my former disciples.
-Are any of the master’s disciples normal?
I couldn’t refute the admiring Metal bat’s words.
Why are all my disciples like this?
Ah, of course the best among them would be,
“How hard was it? How much did you suffer? There’s no need for that now. I will serve you. I will continue to serve you, Master, for the rest of my life.”
That person looking at me with a mesmerized expression is definitely the most abnormal.
Sia only looks at me so she doesn’t notice, but the former disciples around us slowly started moving away from Sia.
“Leave the Demon King to me. It won’t be hard to get rid of the Demon King by moving the Empire.”
Sia looks at me in a frightening and uncomfortable way.
What should I do now?
Obviously run away, but is that possible?
Enemy base, underground at that.
Unless it’s an escape route I made, who knows what traps could be there in that unknown place?
I roughly remember the path but being underground means limitations when all lights are off.
I’m used to operating in the dark but the pitch black underground is very different from the surface with faint moonlight.
And my daughter is here too, so it’s virtually impossible.
Dammit! They brought me here not just because they’re after me, but also in case they can capture my daughter with her charming cuteness!
If I knew this would happen I would have hidden her somewhere safe before coming!
My only hope now is the help of that dumb-looking hero over there.
But will he help me?
No, there’s no way he’ll help absolutely.
He’s just confused about this shitty situation for now. Once he regains his senses he’ll surely surrender to Sia.
Because by Sia capturing me, he’ll be freed too.
He may pretend to help but it’ll be an act to ambush me from behind.
“You can forget everything that’s happened. From now on, I will…”
Sia’s gaze on me like the pink-haired axeman looking at Yuura is increasingly frightening.
[This is an anime related remark, I have no clue on which but most of author’s are based on anime]
But,
“Shut up!”
“Huh?”
The expression of the real pink-haired girl, my daughter, listening quietly to Sia’s word,
“What do you know, blabbering on!”
It was even scarier.
#5 Their Circumstances: A Certain Hero’s Circumstances
“Shut up!”
It was a sharp cry that shook me out of my daze.
My gaze naturally turns to the voice’s owner. And the owner of that voice,
“What do you know, blabbering on!”
With an ominous expression, the one breathing harshly was master’s daughter, Alice.
…What the, scary. I thought she was normal.
Seeing her grind her teeth, I realize Alice is also someone close to the Instructor after all.
If a gaze could kill, it would probably be a gaze like that.
“What is it?”
But there was someone meeting that gaze… As expected, she’s master’s disciple and my direct senior.
I realized it when we first met, but she’s not normal either.
“Forget everything until now? You don’t even know what’s happened until now, yet you’re babbling!”
“No, I know everything. There are ways to know.”
Feeling a gaze, I turn my head to see master looking at me with a strange expression. It definitely meant ‘Did you tell her?’.
“Ah, no I didn’t.”
I quickly shake my head in denial.
Master will probably be captured in this situation, but hasn’t this kind of thing happened once or twice before?
If I get misunderstood, I could be interrogated later. So I should clear up the misunderstanding quickly.
“Tch! You only heard about it in words! You don’t know what actually happened inside all that!”
“Is there a need to know?”
Scary.
The men in the room started shivering from the murderous spirit of the two women.
Especially Hil who looks like he’ll foam at the mouth and faint.
“Yeah, no need to know. For unrelated people.”
Alice snorts condescendingly as she looks at the senior.
“What?”
And the senior frowned at that gaze.
“Tch!”
“What’s with that look!”
The senior got angry from Alice’s snort.
What? What is it?
Was that person so easily provoked?
We only met briefly a few times, but absolutely not, from what I remember.
She’s the type to pressure others while smiling, not someone who openly shows her emotions like this.
“Boss?”
“Why, why are you like this?”
Seeing the confusion around them, my memory seems accurate.
The others are also surprised. That the senior is so angry.
What is it? What is it?
Alice didn’t say much so why is the senior so mad?
I don’t know, I really don’t know.
What I do know is,
“So what will you do about it? Think you can escape from here?”
The senior is truly angry, and,
“Crack, smash.”
Alice is truly angry as well.