Madman in a Fantasy World – Chapter 44

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Translated By Arcane Translations
Translator: Vine
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After defeating the Iron Golem, there was a commotion about who should take the golem’s corpse.

But it had already disappeared into my inventory, and when I told them to try and take it if they dared, no one stepped forward and they all slunk away, glancing at me.

Afterwards, we went to inform the Count, who seemed busy with the aftermath, that the missing persons case was closed.

As promised, since we solved it in one day, we were able to receive three times the reward.

The proof of the resolution was Yui herself.

Yui proved she was a vampire by demonstrating her blood magic, and her testimony about the events served as evidence.

And as a thank you for solving the missing persons case and helping to defeat the Iron Golem, the Count provided us with a nice lodging for a day, so we decided to rest there before returning to the empire.

After all, even if we returned, all we would do is hunt monsters.

Since we were resting, we came to the seaside, which is famous as a resort.

A clean sandy beach where you can’t find a single piece of trash, as there are no fireworks in this world.

The sea is also clean and not dirty like the Korean seas.

Since it was a special place, we couldn’t just go in wearing our usual worn-out armor, so we bought some comfortable clothes to change into.

Being the quickest to change, I was the first to finish and was playing with the sand.

There were many other people on the beach besides us, and a boy who was playing excitedly came up to me and asked.

“Hey, mister! What did you make?”

“This is called the Neo Armstrong Cyclone Jet Armstrong Cannon. I made it based on the real thing.”

“Wow…! That’s cool!”

“Hehe. You have a good eye, kid. You’ll be someone great when you grow up.”

To recognize the greatness of this, he must be someone who will surely succeed in the future.

“What are you teaching a child…?”

“Luna, you know better than anyone, don’t you? The greatness of this object.”

“C-cough…”

The privilege of the experienced that the inexperienced cannot understand.

A terrifying artifact that can turn even a pure girl into a harlot.

Normally, it should be sealed away and not used carelessly.

When I turned around, I saw Yui in a frilly one-piece dress and Luna, who had changed into ordinary commoner’s clothes.

It’s a shame there are no bikinis or swimsuits, but beautiful people look beautiful no matter what they wear.

Both Luna and Yui were more beautiful than not, so.

“Damn… I’m impressed with my own insight in selecting slaves.”

“Th-thank you…”

“…By the way. You came all the way to the beach, but why are you staying here instead of going into the water?”

Why am I not going into the water?

I’m just observing the situation for now.

I made a mess of things, but I have a feeling that guy won’t just let this kind of event pass by.

And not long after.

As expected.

That guy really did come.

With bandages wrapped all over his body and crutches under both arms.

And a bunch of heroines hanging behind him.

“Extra. You really did a number on me yesterday. But I’ll forgive you with my generous heart. You and I are different in value as men, haha!”

What is this guy?

Did he come here to brag about his heroines?

“Oh. Really?”

Then let’s see if you can forgive this.

I got up from my seat.

And I approached not Arthur, but Tia.

“Hey, Tia.”

“What is it? I don’t really want to talk to you.”

“Have you already kissed Arthur?”

She just blinked at my question, and then her face turned red.

“Wh-wha, wha, what are you talking about?!”

“From your reaction, I guess not yet.”

I grabbed the chin of the embarrassed Tia.

And then.

Smooch━!

“H-hmph!?”

“Wh-what…!”

I kissed her.

As the struggling Tia pushed my chest away, our lips parted.

“Your first kiss isn’t with Arthur!! It’s with this Luke!!”

“Y-you crazy human…!”

She seemed like she was about to slap me, so I moved first.

I reached out and grabbed Tia’s chest.

“Kyaa!!”

“Wait…!”

“Your first breast isn’t with Arthur either!! It’s with this Luke!!”

Then I groped her butt.

“Hgyak!!”

“Stop it!!”

“Your first butt isn’t with Arthur either!! It’s with this Luke!!”

Then, Tia, burning with shame and on the verge of tears, raised her hand as if she were about to use magic.

But I was one step ahead and kicked off the ground.

“No you don’t! Shoulder Tackle!!”

“Kyaak!!”

Who would wait for someone to prepare magic right in front of them?

Tia fell on her butt from my shoulder tackle, and Arthur waddled over and stood in front of her.

“What are you doing!”

“You came to brag about your heroines, so I just tried them out.”

Isn’t that why you brought them here?

Arthur was fuming, but he couldn’t do anything with crutches in both hands.

Honestly, it’s more surprising that he can move at all in that state, considering he’s the protagonist.

Well, I understand bragging about heroines.

In a world centered around the protagonist, the protagonist’s heroines are naturally among the most beautiful in the world.

But the recent trend isn’t to make the other heroines look like squids compared to the main heroine, but to make even the sub-heroines or uncapturable heroines super pretty.

The most common example is something like, ‘Daughter! Please give me your mother!’

As proof, Yui, who should have been dead, and Luna, who isn’t even mentioned in the story, are just as beautiful as the main heroines like Riche and Tia.

And if you came to brag, you shouldn’t have been glancing at Luna’s chest while talking.

I can’t even call this guy a beta male. He’s a gamma male.

When I looked around, everyone was looking at me like I was trash.

I bowed like an orchestra conductor on a podium greeting the audience.

“Thank you for the compliment.”

The best compliment you can give a gamer is ‘You play like shit,’ right?

So that kind of scorn is actually a reward in this industry.

“You crazy bastard… If my arms were fine, you’d be dead.”

“Oh, I see your arms aren’t fine. What happened?”

“You did this to me!!”

“Did I?”

I know, actually. I just said it to piss him off.

In the end, Arthur couldn’t do anything and left with Tia, who looked like she was about to self-destruct, and the other heroines towards the sea.

“Luna. I asked why I wasn’t going into the sea, right? You’ll see soon.”

-Kyaaaaaak!!

Just as I said that, a scream was heard.

We all turned our heads towards the direction of the scream at the same time.

An obvious event, a clichéd monster.

Junior Kraken.

A giant octopus monster about 3m tall was holding three women with its tentacle-like legs.

Those three were, of course, people I knew.

“I didn’t go in because I knew this would happen.”

Since it’s a sub-event for the protagonist and heroines, there’s no way other people or I would be targeted.

But if I knew something was going to pop out, I wouldn’t do something stupid like going in. If I were going to do that, I would have gone in and caught the vampire myself instead of burning down the mansion.

“Does Luke have foresight or something…?”

“Luna. The author is invincible, and the reader is god.”

“…?”

But the author made me possess this body, so does that make the author a god too?

I don’t know.

I should just look at my status until the sub-event is over.

[ Information ]
Name: Luke
Gender: Male
Age: 20
Magic: 0 / 0
Level: 59
[ Skills ]
Inventory (F)
Super Strength (B)
All Attribute Resistance (A)
[ Stats ]
Strength: 49 (+24)
Agility: 10
Intelligence: 0
Stamina: 10
Stat Points: 10

Oh. I remember being level 42 before coming here.

My level increased significantly after this quest.

Both the vampire and the Iron Golem, it’s an unprecedented growth.

Maybe One Piece was hidden here all along.

I invested all my stat points into strength.

Now my strength is 59.

Adding everything that Super Strength increases, it’s 88.

The balance between strength and other stats is off, but if my stamina is low, I just need to catch them without getting hit.

If I’m slow because of low agility, I can get a buff from Luna or kill them in one hit instead of ten.

“Um, excuse me… Luke…?”

“What, Yui. I’m busy right now.”

“Those people look like they’re in danger…”

“Really? How does it look to you, Luna.”

“The monster itself doesn’t look strong… but something seems to have gone wrong.”

For Luna, who is used to most things, to say that.

I put away my status window to see if something interesting had happened.

And the scene that met my eyes was…

“That’s really amazing. Amazing.”

It was just pathetic.

Just looking at it made me shake my head.

A sub-event at sea is supposed to be an event where the heroines, who were very strong, are helpless against an obviously weak event monster, going ‘ooh’ and ‘aah’.

Especially a large octopus is a regular.

In the original, Arthur, unable to look at the explicit scene, hesitates and then saves them after the octopus has had its fun.

But if there are two problems, one is that Arthur is now a disabled person with bandages all over his body.

The other is that this idiot is just watching the heroines being toyed with by the octopus legs as if he’s watching an AV, without any intention of saving them.

That’s why the event that should have ended with a few swings of a sword is still going on.

“Let them be.”

If they like it, then that’s it, right?

That octopus isn’t a man-eating monster, and the heroines and protagonist can’t die even if they want to, so if you leave them alone, they’ll take care of it.

Looking at her, Stella seems to have already climaxed.

“Aren’t you going to catch that? You always talked about experience points? Don’t you need them this time?”

“Nah. That’s a small fry monster. It doesn’t give much experience even if you catch it.”

It was written in the author’s TMI.

It’s a small fry monster.

Logically, if you unleashed a vicious monster in the middle of a beach like this, it wouldn’t be an event, it would be a massacre, nothing more, nothing less.

The heroine’s body would have been eaten as soon as it appeared, and half of her would have disappeared.

I don’t have any desire to help, but seeing Arthur’s body, which was already annoying, being taken over by an even more annoying guy and being happy makes me want to mess with him.

I put my hand in my inventory and took out an item.

“…Ugh!”

As soon as I took out the item, Luna reflexively made a sound, grimaced, and took a step back.

On the contrary, Yui, who doesn’t know what this is, looked full of curiosity.

“What is this?”

“If you’re curious, it wouldn’t be bad to open it yourself.”

A flask I made to use when catching War Wolves a while ago.

Even though I used it so much, I made too many, so there are still some left.

And our innocent Yui makes the same mistake as Luna.

-Pop!

“Hieeek…!”

Like mentor, like student.

Luna also opened it when I told her to open it if she was curious.

If you have any sense, you should have noticed from Luna’s reaction.

I took out another flask.

This time, I took it out not from my inventory, but from the pouch tied around my waist.

“Kyaak!”

Yui quickly ran away.

Inside the flask was not a liquid but a living creature.

Mr. Cockroach.

They keep escaping if I put them in my pouch, so I put them in a flask.

They’re so resilient that they can easily survive for days without food or water.

“Why… why do you carry such things around…?”

“To torment.”

“Huh…?”

“Listen, Yui. People have their specialties. Even if someone is useless in other areas, there’s something they’re better at than anyone else in this area.”

I just happen to be specialized in tormenting people.

If you say I enjoy tormenting people, you might criticize me for having a bad personality, but what if I were a dark hero?

Annoying cancer-like people, or villains who are obviously trash at first glance.

If I were a dark hero who torments such people, I would be praised for delivering true justice.

“So, are you going to throw it or not?”

Dori dori.

Yui vigorously shakes her head from side to side, strongly refusing.

They say a strong denial is an affirmation.

“Really? Then I’ll do it.”

Whoosh, I first threw the flask of vinegar with a foul odor at Arthur.

The flask shattered upon hitting Arthur’s head.

-Ugh!!! Uweeek!!!

As a 1+1 bonus, I also threw the flask containing cockroaches.

-Ahhhhhh!!! What is this, fuck!!!!

Unfortunately, the person who possessed Arthur must have hated bugs.

“Hehehe. It’s always the most fun to torment the protagonist.”

“…”

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