After Crushing the Final Boss, I Got Infinite Mana and Returned to Earth ～With Cheat-Level Power, I’ll Rule Both the Game World and the Real World～ - Chapter 10: The Evil Dragon Got Bought Off by My Little Sister, No Big Surprise

Chapter 10: The Evil Dragon Got Bought Off by My Little Sister, No Big Surprise

That place was the dangerous forest zone from Final Stories—the one you only reached near the end of the game.

Powerful monsters roamed there, and any ordinary person who wandered in would be dinner in no time.

I had teleported the guys into that forest by force.

“W-Where the hell is this!?”

“This is the Gilna Forest Zone.”

“Y-You’re that guy from before!!”

They pointed knives at me, but I kept talking like nothing was wrong.

“There are tons of monsters in this forest.”

“Huh? Mon—monsters…?”

“I’d really like the two of you to be eaten by the monsters here.”

“W-What are you talking about!? Put us back right now!!”

“Yeah!! You think you can get away with this!?”

“Shut up.”

My voice had slipped into a harsher tone than usual—anger got the better of me. I normally tried to speak calmly because loud, aggressive words made you look weak, but I couldn’t hold back this time.

“Anyone who messes with my family gets killed, no exceptions. I’d appreciate it if you struggled a lot before you died, so please put up a fight. Oh—look, here they come.”

“Huh?”

A thunder of footsteps came from deeper in the woods—a huge red bear monster was approaching.

It was a Red Grizzly, a brutal beast with massive HP and attack power. This wasn’t something two tiny pocket knives could handle, and the guys froze in pure terror.

“GRUUUUUOOOAR!!!!”

“Oh? It’s coming my way. —Torch.”

“Gruo!?”

I dialed the power back a notch and blasted off one of the Red Grizzly’s arms with my Torch.

Monsters, you see, were way smarter than ordinary animals; they knew when picking a fight was a bad idea.

That hit should have taken me off the grizzly’s target list. So who would it go after next? Yep—the guys.

“Gruoooooar!!!!”

“N-No, don’t come here!!”

“Hey, wait!!”

“Oh?”

One of them tried to run first and turned his back. Terrible move. Didn’t they know a bear instinctively went for the one with their back turned? And at night—no moonlight, barely any visibility on the forest floor—running through the trees was practically impossible.

The grizzly caught up to him in an instant and sank its teeth into his arm.

“Wah!! H-Help—stop it!!”

With a sick, squelching sound, the guy’s arm was ripped off. Bright red blood sprayed everywhere. He screamed so loud he even chucked his only weapon—the knife—and started swinging punches at the Red Grizzly, but those blows barely phased it.

If anything, he made the beast angrier, and the grizzly tore off the other arm too. The struggling slowed, then stopped. He went completely still.

“W-Why—how can you do something this cruel!?”

“Hah? Pfft… fufu… hahaha…”

“W-What’s so funny!?”

“N-No, sorry. It’s just… you were planning to do awful things to my family, right? And you weren’t even hesitating—just saying your dad would make everything disappear for you.”

“That—that’s—”

What I was doing certainly wasn’t noble. I was killing people in secret—probably worse than them in the eyes of some.

But the Suzuki household—always waiting with smiles whenever I came home—was the only place my heart felt safe after the crap I’d gone through back in Magiluke. I wasn’t about to let anyone take that away or harm my family.

Still, I wasn’t completely without mercy. That was why I’d given them a way out: a chance to walk away. They’d thrown that chance away, so I had no reason left to pity them.

“Ah, looks like this isn’t the time to chat, is it?”

“Eh—hiiii!!”

The Red Grizzly, finished with its first meal, turned its blood-dripping mouth toward the second guy.

He was already half-mauled, and now he looked at me, begging for his life.

“H-Help!! Please, help me!! Spare my life!! I don’t want to die!! I’ll change, I swear!! I’ll never do bad things again!! So please, please save me!!”

“Hmm, you certainly sound like you’re reflecting on it.”

“I-I am!! I really am!! So please—”

“In your next life, try to make good on that lesson. For now—farewell.”

The Red Grizzly devoured him, and that was the end.

“Gruaah!!”

“You’re done now. —Torch.”

“Gyaaah—”

I finished off the Red Grizzly with a single shot and returned to my own yard.

Shiva tilted his head at me like “?” so I gave him a quick pat before stepping back inside.

Aoi, still chewing karaage, looked up.

“Onii-chan, you’re late! The karaage’s already gone cold!”

“Mom’s karaage tastes great even cold.”

“Oh my, Minato-kun, you’re such a flatterer. There’s more if you want seconds.”

“Yes, please.”

“Me too!!”

When the meal was over, while Aoi and Saori were happily washing dishes together, Diabel spoke to me in a quiet voice only I could hear.

“Smells like blood, you there.”

“…Don’t tell the others that, okay? I don’t want them to get scared.”

“Hmph. I’ve no interest in the scraps of human life. I’m busy finishing my weekend anime checklist.”

“Is that so.”

Diabel—who’d been furious about almost being left at the academy—perked right up after eating karaage and watching anime.

I sat down beside him and we watched for a while. After the dishes were done, Aoi and Saori suddenly brought out a whiteboard. Curious, I stayed put as Aoi grabbed a microphone.

“Alright, Onii-chan, now that you’re full, listen to our presentation.”

“Presentation?”

“The title is!! How Badly We Want to Go to Another World!!”

“You mean the game world, not just ‘another world,’ right?”

“Same difference if it’s fantasy!! Mom and I want to escape this miserable reality and go full-on overpowered in another world!!”

And then their long speech began. 

In the Suzuki household, whenever some family issue came up, they often tried to solve it by holding a presentation like this. I had a feeling they were planning to keep giving nightly presentations until I finally took them into the Final Stories world.

Still, even if I was physically there, that world wasn’t somewhere you could feel safe. 

I couldn’t give in. So I just kept smiling and let their talk wash over me—until Diabel, sitting next to me, suddenly got annoyed.

“Hey!! You lot are being way too loud!! I was willing to forgive some background noise thanks to subtitles, but you’re ruining the emotional scene!!”

“But he just wouldn’t budge during our presentation!! Tell him something, Belaemon!!”

“Oi, kid. Don’t go calling me a time-traveling cat robot.”

Aoi had tried to recruit Diabel to their cause, but he was glued to the anime. If they wanted him on their side, they needed bait that actually caught his interest.

“Okay, okay!! I’ll give you limited merch from the show Belaemon’s watching—perfect for spreading the word!!”

“…(stares at Aoi)”

“I’ll even throw in a figure of the Hyper Squad: Super Sugoinger and a transforming robot as a bonus!!”

“…One more thing.”

“A masked-rider transformation belt!! Just take it, you thief!!”

“Hey, Georg!! Isn’t it your duty as a big brother to listen to your cute little sister!?”

And just like that, Diabel was bought off.

“…No matter how many times you ask, I still won’t agree. That world has monsters and bandits. Aoi’s strong, sure, but she doesn’t have the skills to kill them.”

“Now, now, Minato-kun. Calm down and at least hear Aoi out, okay?”

“The most dangerous one here is Mom—she wants to go to the other world even though she’s got zero fighting skills, you know?”

If anything happened to them, I probably would’ve gone and destroyed that whole other world.

But then Diabel offered a compromise.

“So if they had fighting power that worked over there, it’d be fine, right?”

“In that case… I’ll think about it.”

“Then you can just share some of my mana with the two of them and teach them magic.”

“Share your mana…?”

“Yeah. Don’t worry. Humans in this world seem to have lost mana through evolution—so they don’t carry any. If you give them some of my mana, their bodies shouldn’t reject it.”

…Huh.

If I turned down that compromise, those two would keep giving presentations forever. Maybe even Diabel would nag nonstop. That alone wasn’t the worst thing, but I didn’t want to keep getting on their bad side. Still, risking their safety wasn’t an option either.

The more I thought, the more my head hurt, and before I knew it—probably because Aoi and Saori were looking at me with those sparkling, hopeful eyes—I nodded.

“…Alright. But they’ll learn up to high-level magic in this world. So that even if I’m not there, they can protect themselves.”

“Yay!! Onii-chan, we love you!!”

“Got it!! Minato-kun, we love you!!”

Well… dealing with every danger that might come their way would’ve solved it cleanly, but this plan would work too.

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[Afterword]

A Random Tidbit

Later on, Diabel went on a binge with magical girl shows through streaming subscriptions… and ended up scarred for life with a shiny new trauma.

If you thought, “Wait, the Evil Dragon is slowly turning into an otaku,” then drop those ★s!

And if you found yourself thinking, “That tonal whiplash was insane,” or “Did he just casually say something terrifying at the end, lol,” or “Yeah, Diabel definitely watched THAT magical girl anime,” —then don’t forget to leave a comment, bookmark, ★rating, or review!