CH 74

“Once Again, I Encounter a Cliche.”

Translated by Dawn

Edited by Dawn

“Once Again, I Encounter a Cliche.”

When I returned to the reception area of the Adventurers’ Guild, I found a crowd of people making some kind of noise. Looking at the center of the commotion, I saw a pair of female adventurers being entangled with a male adventurer.

“As I said–. It’s fine, just a little bit.”

“P-please stop!”

“Right, right. We don’t want to be with a guy like you.”

“W-what did you say!? As long as you’re under me, your rank will go up. Just shut up and do what I say!!”

The women involved were a purple-eyed girl with long chestnut-colored hair pinned back, and a girl with short light blue hair and yellow eyes, who was not yet old enough to have reached adulthood. They have well-developed eyes and noses and can be described as beautiful girls. They both seemed to be well developed for their age and had voluptuous, sexy bodies that men would not leave alone. ……Hmmm, D and E.

The adventurers around them wanted to help, but for some reason or another, they were not sure what to do.

“Hey, there’s a girl in trouble. We should help her.”

“No, are you kidding me? You can’t beat [Organic Powered], no matter what you do.”

“Rumor has it that he defeated an Ogre single-handedly. I wish I could help them, but the opponent is not good this time.”

I see, apparently, it’s an adventurer with a nickname who is involved with the girl. That’s why the other adventurers aren’t stopping them. ……Well, what should I do?

From what I could see, he’s a big, muscular guy, nearly two meters long, as his street name implies, but as for me, I can probably kill him in an instant. The question is, what are the advantages and disadvantages of defeating this guy? The advantage is that I will be thanked by a pretty girl, and maybe there will be ‘that’ kind of development waiting for me. But I can’t do that kind of thing yet with my immature body of a 12-year-old.

The disadvantage was that my ability would be exposed and I would be the center of attention. Rumor after rumor would spread, and if I was not careful, the information would reach the ears of the nobility and I might be summoned by them. And then, as is often the case in novels they would say, “I’ll let you serve the glorious XX family. How do you like that?”

(Well, if a girl is in trouble right in front of you, it’s natural to help her, right? As a man)

I have always thought that I didn’t want to become a person who cannot do what is natural, that is, “If someone is in trouble, it is natural to help them. If that is the case, there is only one option for me. Let’s help them.

I went to the center of the commotion, placing my hand on the man’s shoulder and talking to him, breaking into the crowd.

“”You should leave it at that.””

……Hm? I think I heard a different voice than mine, but I wonder if it was my imagination. I looked to the side and saw a male adventurer who, like me, had his hand on the man’s shoulder. I guess he was doing the same thing as I was.

“”……””

“Can I leave it to you?”

“Eh, ah, yeah.”

If he can help the girls, there is no need for me to help them. I don’t want a chance to get into a lovey-dovey relationship with the girls, so I’ll leave that bonus to him. In the meantime, the guy who was involved with the girls turns around and glares at us.

“What the hell are you doing? Are you trying to make me do something I don’t want to do?”

“They’re in trouble. That’s about as far as you can go.”

I decided to position myself a little in front of the crowd so as not to get in the way of the adventurers who had come to help. I’m not used to this kind of situation, so I decided to learn how to help in a smart way. ……Wouldn’t you like to help in a cool way the next time you get a chance?

The man didn’t even look at me as he backed away, but glared at the male adventurers confronting him and growled in an even more aggressive voice.

“You, you’re ready for this, right? You’re going to stand up against me. I advise you don’t do that. I’m willing to pretend it didn’t happen now, what do you say?”

“That’s a foolish question. I can’t just sit back and let these girls get themselves into trouble.”

“I see, I see. Then let me give you a good beating.”

“Guha.”

In response to the male adventurer’s reply, the man suddenly thrust his fist into his stomach. Although his body was well-trained, he was caught by surprise and his body flew through the air and slammed to the floor. He did not get up and passed out.

“Eh…no way.”

Watching the whole thing from a special seat, I couldn’t help but mutter to myself. It was so lame to come out looking so good and then be finished off with a single punch…How can I learn how to help smartly if I can’t even have the chance to help! What is this!!

I didn’t expect this, but I had originally intended to help them, so I walked up to the man, scratching the back of my head with my right hand, with mixed feelings.

“Oh, man.”

“What’s up, kid? You’re gonna go up against me, too?”

“Here’s your final warning. Either you leave this place quietly or I’ll kill you half to death. Choose whichever you prefer.”

I was no longer interested in the man in front of me, but I didn’t want to beat up someone who hadn’t done anything to me, so I wanted to take it as a form of self-defense when he made a move on me first.

On Earth, even if it was self-defense, it would be considered excessive self-defense if I killed him half to death, but this was a different world, so I didn’t have to worry about that. If the other party made a move on you first, you would probably not be charged with a crime even if you killed them. It would be the same as killing a bandit without question.

“Gahahaha, that’s a funny joke. Who’s going to half-kill who?”

“Me, going to, half-kill, you. Can’t you understand a word I’m saying?”

“S-stop it, boy! It’s dangerous!”

“Don’t do anything rash for our sake!”

When the girls found out that I was going to fight, they tried desperately to stop me. Of course, anyone would stop me if they saw a child, who looks like he is not yet an adult, fighting with a two-meter tall man…….

As if agreeing with them, the adventurers around us shouted, “Don’t do it, kid,” and “You’ll get killed.” In the midst of all this, a man, annoyed by my words, snapped his neck and came forward while announcing his name as if to show off his skills.

“My name is Bordeaux-sama, a C-rank adventurer. My nickname is [Organic Powered].”

“Hmmm. What does it matter?”

“Haah, there’s no way that a low-ranked kid like you can beat me, a C-ranked. What will you do? If you give me all the money you have right now, I’ll let you go.”

“I don’t care what you think, just get on with it. Or are you too scared to move?”

“…I hear that a kid won’t understand unless you hurt him once. Fine, don’t regret it when you die.”

With that one word, the fight between me and the man finally began. He was smiling a hideous smile, not even defending himself, as if he thought I was a small child. I, on the other hand, had checked his abilities using Analysis just to be sure, but they were lower than those of Gyrmzak and the others, and the only praise I could give him was that his Physical Enhancement was level 3 at best.

However, in a battle, not everything was decided by the numbers you could see, so I wouldn’t let my guard down, no matter what kind of small fry he was. Let me show you the performance of a C-rank adventurer in the labyrinth city of Orargrand…….

“…..”

“What’s wrong? You won’t come?”

(W-what’s with this kid? Am I the one who’s scared? No, it can’t be, it can’t be!)

As I had just reached the rank of C, the man sensed my strange mood and struck a firm fighting pose. When one becomes a high-ranked adventurer, one’s fighting prowess is unparalleled, but there is one skill that should be singled out. That is the ability to avoid danger.

Being an adventurer is a job that requires one to do just about anything and everything, but most adventurers make their living by wholesaling materials obtained from defeating monsters to guilds as their main source of income. In such a situation, it is not uncommon for them to find themselves in dangerous situations, and they need to have a keen eye to know when to back down.

High-ranked adventurers naturally acquire the ability to recognize such dangers, and in particular, they are able to sense the difference in ability between themselves and their opponents. The man in front of me was probably using his intuition as an adventurer to tell himself, “This guy is dangerous, don’t mess with him.”……

“Uwoooo”

“Muh.”

“Kyaa.”

The man, driven by an unexplainable fear, shot an uppercut in agony, hitting me in the left cheek. One of the girls screamed when she saw it, and the other adventurers were thinking of the worst. But from my own point of view, it didn’t matter how many punches I received.

I patted the spot where the man had hit me, showing that it had no effect, and told the upset man.

“There’s a mosquito…….. What did you do to me?”

“R-ridiculous. That’s ridiculouuuss!”

There, while dodging the man’s raging attacks, I look for the right moment to settle the score. Let me tell you in advance that I purposely avoid the man’s attacks. I was not even wounded by the man’s attack, but I thought it would put more mental pressure on him if I didn’t get hit by his attack.

Whenever an attack was avoided, his face would gradually become impatient and fearful, and he would finally fall into a frenzied state.

“I….this me, there is no way I can lose to this kiiiddd!”

(Here it is. I’ve been waiting for this moment)

As the man swung a large straight right, I avoided it minimally by shifting my body by half a step. Then, taking advantage of the gap created, I entered the man’s chest. Then, activating the power equivalent to Level 2 Physical Enhancement, I thrust my outstretched right elbow into the man’s solar plexus.

Naturally, the attack was made with the utmost restraint, and the damage was limited to the extent that it would accumulate without blowing up the man’s body. With the man fainting in agony on the spot from the attack, I applied physical reinforcement to my legs and moved around behind him.

“Soru…hoi” (+)

“Guahh.”

I moved behind the man as if I were in a famous manga, and with a light shout, I slammed my back fist into the back of his head, which was full of gaps. The man slammed to the floor and seemed to have passed out.

Most of the people in the room would have thought that the man had suddenly collapsed. However, they did not understand for what reason the result was caused, and all of them were stunned. The only thing they could figure out was that the result had been brought about by my hand.

“B-boy, are you alright?”

“Yeah, it looks like you two are out of luck. I can’t believe you two got tangled up with this guy.”

“T-thank you for helping us out?”

In the midst of the stunned state of those present, a girl who had been entangled with the man approached me. One of them was concerned for my safety, and the other was not sure if I had saved her or not, but she was somewhat at her wits’ end to thank me.

“What’s all the racket?”

As I was doing so, Isabella, whom I had just met, appeared and asked what was going on from the guild staff. When Isabella understood what was going on, she came up to me.

“I heard that you boy stopped this idiot. As the guildmaster, I thank you.”

“Well, it just happened. So, what are you going to do with him?”

“He had bad behavior, to begin with. I warned him that if he caused any trouble again, I would expel him from the guild. Now I can get rid of this troublesome person.”

“I see…then, I’m going to take my leave. It’s getting too loud around here.”

“Leave the rest to us.”

I bowed lightly to ISABELLA’s words and started to move away from the place. It seems that the two girls involved in this event were trying to talk to me, but I refused to take any more trouble, so I left the guild without further ado.