Vol 1 Chapter 16 (2/2)
“Ah…… Ah………”
Karen’s katana was rattling in her both hands. Tears welling up in both of her eyes——
“NOOOOOOOOOOOOO———————!”
She came running at me. It felt like a crying brat that comes at you just to repeatedly ‘punch’ you with his fists.
But she had a sword.
“…! WAI——”
*SLASH*——! The shockwave almost hit me.
“HIIIIII—?!”
“A MAN! A FILTHY MAN!”
Every time she recklessly swung her sword around, she scattered flowers.
I was driven into a corner.
“Wait! I’ll die! I’ll die for real!”
“FINIs.h.i.+NG BLOW—!”
She raised her sword above her head.
I lost it and—just leapt in front.
We collided. I didn’t know what happened. My head had gone pure white.
“…”
When I came to, I realized—I was straddling over Karen.
I was straddling right above her chest. Right in front of my trunks was the tranced face of Karen.
Huh? This… is a bad position, isn’t it?
“…Mm…”
Karen’s face grimaced, and she seemed to be about to open her eyes.
And then…
My trunks, *rip*, fell off too.
Karen opened her eyes.
…The abundant amount of flower petals that were soaring in the air came raining down spinning like windmills.
And they fell down onto me, making me look like I had just been born.
How should I say… It felt like the Garden of Eden.
It was like some extremely avant-garde flower arrangement.
“〇＊＃★＝＄％＆！ （๑╹ω╹๑） ” Q＃｛’ ＞／’ ～、 （）＃☆※”
Her pupils widened quickly and her iris lost its light.
She had pa.s.sed out.
Behind the school building, a j.a.panese sword was pointed at me.
“I’ve got something to ask the likes of you.”
“…Eh?”
I had been prepared to be cut down swiftly, but this kind of outcome took me by surprise.
Actually… Wait, she’s glaring at me… She probably just wants me to say my last words are.
Since I had shown her my Eden, I didn’t think she’d let me off the hook.
“You—— among the commoners, how strong are you?”
“Ha…?”
“Answer!”
She had a sharp glint in her eyes.
“Well… I think I’m rather weak…”
“…What… did you…”
Karen gulped.
“THAT CAN’T BE—!”
The edge touched the back of my neck.
“HIII—?!”
“Your last move, the one that beat me, it was clearly martial arts!”
“Haa?! I didn’t do anything, I don’t even know martial arts!”
“Y-You’re feigning ignorance?!”
“It was all by chance! Like when you outdo your own strength in the eye of death!”
“—————…”
Karen opened her eyes wide and slowly lowered her sword. She bent slightly forward.
“……Well then, so it’s like this? You’re an amateur with no knowledge of martial arts whatsoever?”
“Yeah.”
“And you’re the weakest among the commoners.”
“No… I wouldn’t go that far…”
“And I lost to such a guy…!”
She clenched her fists, seemingly frustrated.
“The [Karen Sword Style] that I’ve thought out in self study lost to the weakest among commoners!”
“That was self study?! Isn’t that quite incredible?!”
“As—— AS IF I COULD ACCEPT THIS!”
*Ds.h.i.+NG*—! She prepared her sword.
“Revenge! I’ll cut you down on the spot and recover my honor!”
“EEEH—?! WAIT A SE—”
“DIE—!”
*RAISE*, she held her sword above her head—— and…
*scatterscatterscatter*…
Karen’s uniform scattered.
A cute bra and panties with a bunny print. For some reason, she had written her name, ‘Karen’, in big, childish letters on them.
“…………”
Still with the sword raised above her head, Karen was in shock.
“…I didn’t even see that commoner’s attack come…”
——Eh?
“No, that was probably your own technique earli————”
*RATTLE*…
The blade slipped out of Karen’s hands.
“………Complete defeat………”
Dejected, she fell to her knees.
“He’s the weakest? Dreadful… what dreadful people those commoners are…!”
“I didn’t do a thing! You did that all yourself!”
“I, myself…?”
“Yeah!”
“…I see…”
“So you finally get it…”
“You mean that the essence of martial arts is to make the opponent beat themselves without even raising one’s hand against them? ——It’s no use, our levels are way apart—!”
“Nonono?!”
“…I understand.”
While she teared up, she positioned herself in perfect seiza.
“I shall acknowledge the likes of you, who has bested me, as my master.”
“Are you some kinda summoning beast?!”
“However, you shall remember this! The second the likes of you grow weaker than me, I will take your life!”
“On top of that, the type who gnaws at their master?! Are you a nether dragon[1] or something?!”
“Until that point, you can use me in however way it pleases you…!”
Her tears fell while still in her bunny underwear.
Thereafter, even though I tried to solve the misunderstanding a dozen times, it only grew worse in the weirdest ways.
The next day the rumor spread that I had subdued Karen and turned her into my manservant with brute force alone. And of course talk like ‘Commoners are amazing’, ‘He sure is a brute, but it mysteriously makes my chest tighten’ etc. arose.
Translator notes and references
[1]Either another Final Fantasy or Yu-Gi-Oh! reference, or something else entirely. I don’t play either, so tough luck.
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