An Old Man Restaurant Owner Is Unparalleled by Relying on His Old Tricks. It Turns Out, He’s the Legendary Dungeon Conqueror.

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Chapter 4: The Poor Lizard

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I punched the spear head-on and the spear’s tip shattered into pieces.

〈What?〉

〈Whaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaat?〉

〈The heck is going on here?!〉

〈He destroyed the spear with a punch?!〉

〈With his bare hands even?!?!〉

“Lizardman’s spear isn’t that strong. You can easily destroy it like this. The lizardman will become much easier to fight without its spear.”

〈Yeah, but how can you destroy it with your bare hand?!〉

〈Is he even speaking Japanese? I-I don’t think I 〉heard him right. 〉

〈This old man is the real deal man.〉

I stepped closer into the now spearless-lizardman and grabbed its neck from below.

“The lizardman’s fangs are sharp. Getting bitten by it would hurt a lot, but if you grab it from the neck like this, you can prevent it from biting you.”

〈He’s nonchalantly doing something so insane like this…〉

〈Isn’t lizardman a strong monster that even C-rank adventurers would have hard time fighting it?〉

〈Reminder: This old man is just an ordinary restaurant owner.〉

Still holding the struggling lizardman by the neck, I spun around like I was doing a judo throw and slammed its head into the ground.

Splat.

The head was crushed and the lizardman died instantly.

〈This poor lizard…〉

〈The real definition of as easy as twisting a baby’s hand. 〉

〈I work in a dismantling place. I’ve never seen anyone taking down a lizardman this cleanly. 〉

“The meat of a lizardman is technically edible, but it’s not as good as orc or minotaur meat. So I will just leave it here.”

〈You can eat it…?〉

〈No, wait, he’s just going to leave it there?!〉

〈Materials from lizardman can sell for a decent price!〉

〈Not to mention the lizardman was killed in such a pristine condition! The materials can be sold for a higher price than usual.〉

But then, I could hear a scream coming from somewhere.

“Kyaaaaaaaaaaaa!!”

〈A real girl’s scream. 〉

〈Is this the so-called ‘old man meets girl’ moment?〉

〈This isn’t the time to be cracking jokes! That girl must be getting attacked by a monster!〉

“Umm… It seems there’s an emergency going on. I will need to run, but I’m a bit worried if the drone can keep up with me or not…”

〈Don’t underestimate the capability of modern drones.〉

〈Even small ones can reach 100km/h easily.〉

〈Old man, speak for yourself. The drone might leave you behind instead. 〉

I see. It seemed the drone wouldn’t have a hard time following me. Good. I kicked off the ground and started running to the direction of the scream.

〈What?〉

Hm? The drone not following me? Oh, it did, but a bit slow. The drone was following me from behind, albeit slowly. Hmm… Maybe because this drone was an older model that I got from Higashiguchi. Well, neverminded the drone. I was more worried about the person who screamed earlier. Ignoring everything else, I sprinted through the dungeon at full speed.

“…There she is.”

I found a young girl who looked like she was still in her teens. She was running for her life while being chased by a big bipedal boar.

“A high orc?”

Given that the monster was clearly much bigger than a regular orc, this must be a high orc. A monster that usually only appeared in the lower levels. High orc shouldn’t appear in the middle levels yet. Well, sometimes irregularities like this could happen though, although the chances were slim.

〈An orc?〉

〈Judging by the size, it must be a high orc.〉

〈We found the monsters we’re looking for!〉

〈Wait, but this is the middle level, right?〉

〈I think I know that girl… 〉

〈Isn’t she Miku Kanamoto? A member of dungeon-streaming idol group, Phoenix Mountain 38?〉

〈She’s getting so popular recently. I saw on Yahoo News that she recently hit a million subscribers.〉

“Kyaaa!!”

Overcome with fear, the girl stumbled and fell hard to the ground.

“Hiii-!”

The high orc was quick to reach the girl. The high orc readied its big battle axe, poised to mercilessly hit the girl with the axe. Seemingly paralyzed with fear, the girl couldn’t even stand up to run.

〈Damn!〉

〈Run awayyyyyyyyy!!!〉

〈I don’t want to see a beautiful girl die!!〉

〈Fret not! The old man is here!〉

〈No, wait, he’s already there?! The heck?! He’s so fast!〉

Thud.

I stepped in just in time and caught the axe with one hand.

〈OLD MAN, YOU’RE SO STRONGGGG〉

〈YESSSSSSSSSSSS〉

〈UWOHHHHHHH〉

〈And suddenly, the old man got a ton of support from the viewers. LOL〉

After not feeling the pain from getting struck by the axe, the girl cautiously opened her eyes.

“…Huh?”

“Are you okay? I will take this guy down first, okay?”

〈Old man, you’re so cool… 〉

〈He’s living the man’s dream ngl. 〉

〈Aaaah, the idol is totally going to fall for the old man. 〉

〈There’s no way she’s going to fall for him. Stop dreaming. 〉

“It’s a bit difficult to take high orcs apart with bare hands, so I will use a weapon.”

〈Take… Apart?〉

〈Did he just say “take apart”?〉

〈Wait, he has a weapon with him?! 〉

〈I totally thought he was the bare handed type.〉

I then took out a big kitchen knife with a blade about 30 cm long.

〈A kitchen knife?〉

〈That’s a weapon…?〉

〈As expected from a restaurant owner. 〉

〈No wait, where did he pull that kitchen knife from?!〉

〈There’s no way he can take down a high orc with that thing. 〉

I swung the knife sideways and the high orc fell to the ground with is eyes rolled back.

〈Huh?〉

〈What happened?〉

〈Did it die..?〉

〈Oi, look! There’s a red line on its neck!〉

〈You’re right. If you look at it closely, you can see the neck is slightly misaligned. 〉

〈Huh? He cut the neck?!〉

〈But when?!〉

“Umm… I was actually planning to do a dissection show, but I then thought this might not be the right time for that, so I decided to just kill it right away. I will store the high orc for now.”

〈Huh?! The corpse of the high orc disappeared?!〉

〈Did he put it into an item box?〉

〈But I didn’t see any item box in his hand?〉

〈Maybe it’s some kind of skill or magic?〉

〈But he left the lizardman be LOL〉

“Ple-Please help me!”

“Hm?”

The girl that I had already saved suddenly clung to me. Her eyes were wet with tears.

“My manager… Please save my manager!!”

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