–World transfer complete
“Yosh… Fufu~”
I grinned looking at the steel sword on my waist as I landed in the new world. At least now I didn’t have to worry about making a first impression every time. Now I’d just have to change my clothes into a little nicer gear, and I’d be seen as a full-fledged warrior in most places.
“Phew ……, normal this time.”
Next to me, Tia was muttering some unsavory thoughts. However, as someone who knew the importance of “normal,” I couldn’t help but chuckle lightly.
“Hahaha, what? Usually you’re not happy?”
“I guess it’s better than being in a box or in front of a bunch of kids, huh? Fufu~ …… So what’s this world like?”
“Ah, yes. ….”
I looked around the area, but there was nothing unique about the scenery. The place where we were standing was a sparsely forested area along the road, and once we passed through the trees, we could see a wide grassy field. Beyond that, what appeared to be a town could be seen in the distance, but it too was a very ordinary town surrounded by stone walls.
Hey hey. What’s the point if the scenery is so mundane…huh?
“This is it!”
“What the hell!?”
Hearing such a voice coming from a short distance away, Tia and I reflexively lowered ourselves and approached towards the location from where it was coming, exchanging only glances. We carefully raked through the branches and leaves so as not to make any noise, and when we moved to hide ourselves in a gap between the trees, we found three very strange figures there.
“Now, get off your ass and give me what you’ve got in your hand!”
“N-No, I won’t! I won’t let you have this!”
A woman with blonde hair in curls, which would have taken a lot of effort, and wearing a light red dress, which was not suitable for outdoor activities, thrusted her sword, in front of her, a man in a gray traveling outfit and a deep green cloak was cornered with his butt on the ground. Both were young, in their 20s or so.
“May I suggest that you hand over your belongings while Ojou-sama is being nice?”
“S-shut up! Anyway, if it’s hopeless, it’s hopeless!”
Beside the lady was an elderly man, who appeared to be in his sixties or so. Although he was dressed in an out-of-place butler’s uniform, his eyes were sharp, and his age-defying stance and appearance suggested that he had trained in some form of martial arts.
(T/N: Ahh yes, the OP butler)
(Hey Ed, what’s going on here?? Which one should we help?)
Tia placed her own hand on mine and spoke to me using [Missing Talk]. It was extremely useful to be able to communicate without making any sound at a time like this, but I couldn’t give an immediate…. answer to her question.
(Hmmm, how did that go ……?)
Since the woman’s side was quite well-dressed, the situation appeared to be that the man had stolen something and was about to get it back. However, the world was not always that simple.
In the meantime, I used [Rainbow Glass] and it seemed that the woman had more room to grow…but it wasn’t enough to say that she was the Hero.
(Damn it, why don’t I remember anything for once? But I’m not going to do nothing in this situation. What would I do? What would I have done in the first round?)
The headache that awaited me did not occur, and I asked myself with a mild sense of impatience. What we needed was information, and that information was right in front of――
“Oh, yeah. Ain’t that easy?” I said,
“Enough! Then let’s give him a little pain!”
“Hiii!?”
The woman in front of him drawed her sword lightly. She then tried to thrust it into the man’s thigh, who fell to the ground, to create a hole in his thigh, but….
“Oops, my bad.”
With a hard “cling” sound, my sword flicked the woman’s sword. The woman looked at me suspiciously as I appeared on the scene.
“Ara, Who are you?”
“Eh, I can’t give you my name.”
“Ara, I see. Then could you please get out of my way? Claude!”
“Ha!”
The moment the woman called out his name, the butler who was waiting by her side rushed toward me furiously. When I catched his fist with my sword, which looked many times bigger than before due to his fighting spirit, A somewhat less loud … sound than before, like metal clashing against metal was heard.
“What’s that metallic sound? How hard is it? I mean, no explanation of the situation or anything? That’s what I wanted to know.”
If you don’t understand, ask them yourself. In response to my actions that arrived at the extremely simple and clear answer, the woman in front of me snorted and said.
“When you interfere with me, you are my enemy. Claude, get rid of them.”
“Ha! Don’t worry, I’ll go easy on you to the extent that you don’t die.”
“There’s nothing to be relieved about! Oi Nii-chan, why are you being attacked!?” I asked the man,
“Hii!? Ah, that’s right! Please help me!”
“That depends on what you say!”
I talked to the man who was slumped down, while fending off the storm of fist blows. To tell you the truth, I could completely neutralize him by invoking [Invincible] but that wasn’t something I was willing to show here.
“The situation …… I can …… not tell you, but what I have is very important!”
“I can’t tell you…., Oi, do you understand the situation!?”
“I know, but I can’t tell you!”
If I backed out of this situation, that would be the end of it, but to honestly tell the me that ‘I can’t say’, instead of deceiving me with a proper lie, was just stupid in general, but from my current point of view, the scales were slightly tilted in the guy’s favor. However, I couldn’t take his side for sure at this level.
“Tsk. Hey, Ojou-san. If the reason why you attacked this guy is something I can understand, can I withdraw?” I asked,
“That’s!?”
I ignored the pitiful voice behind me and turned my gaze towards her, but the woman in question dismissed me with a boring look.
“No need. It will be the same if we get rid of you. Claude, what’s wrong? Clean up this mess quickly!”
“I’m sorry, Ojou-sama. This one seems to be quite skilled.”
“Kuuu……”
(Ah, this is a mess.)
In light of the new situation based on the conversation up to this point, the impression that this lady was trying to take the man’s belongings was strong, contrary to my initial impression. If we followed righteousness, we could just get rid of them both. ….but the biggest conundrum that stood in the way here was “which one is the Hero?”
If the young lady was a hero, let alone overlooking this robbery-like act, she may even need help to cover up this act. That’s why we were fighting with a degree of caution so that we don’t settle and fall into a fatal rupture, but even that couldn’t be stretched out indefinitely.
(Which is the right answer? If I make a mistake here, I probably won’t be able to change it, right?)
I didn’t know what they were fighting over, but in case we made a mistake, We won’t be able to say “We got your goods back, so let us join you.” Well, there was still a chance that we could fulfill the conditions by hanging around in the worst case scenario, but that was really a last resort.
“Ha! Huh!”
“Whoa!?
While I was thinking about that, the rain of fists attacking me did not stop. Hmmm, with such a strong opponent, if I wasn’t in the 2nd round of this world, I wouldn’t have been able to compete with him, no? So I didn’t fight in the first round? Or――!?
“Ggh!?”
“A gap!”
“Geghh!?”
Finally,…., a headache striked at the worst possible time, and my body was blown backwards by the steel fist. I hit my back against a tree and coughed violently, and the butler came at me to finish me off. …… At that moment
“Reveal yourself, [Borea slipper]!”
“Uwa!? W-What!?”
“Kya!?”
“What!?”
With three different screams, a storm blade passed by the spot. Then, emerging from the shadows of the trees, a terrifyingly beautiful elf warrior with eyes filled with fighting spirit.
“I won’t let you do this anymore.”
How heroic was her figure holding the silver sword that held the tornado? Ah, but. No, Tia, it’s not like that. It’s not like that. ….
“Haa, Haa….T…ia”
Inhaling desperately, I reached for my partner’s back. If I touched her, I could tell her. So please, let me tell you what I really–
“It’s okay, Ed. You just rest now.”
“Y..eah… Gehoo…”
Do not fight. Do not win. Because this was – this was a losing event.
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