Chapter 10: The Revenger, Reven, Meets the Beautiful Princess

The girl Roaks and the others encountered possessed a beauty that would stand out even in the middle of a crowded street.

She was a beautiful girl with stunning hair that had a red gradient like blazing flames, skin as white as snow, and pink lips that seemed to know no impurity. She wore a blazer-like uniform with red as its base color, and over that, a loose-fitting robe.

“Ugh… mm…”

The girl, who gave off a somewhat mystical atmosphere, regained consciousness to find herself surrounded by gorilla-like monsters.

(…? What is this?)

The girl couldn’t comprehend the utterly bizarre atmosphere.

(A dream? Is this a dream?)

It was natural to think so.

The gorilla-like monsters were chanting “Uhohohoho! Ah-iya! Ah-iya! Ah-iya!” in a blasphemous rhythm, preparing costumes to celebrate the birth of a new companion.

However, their ambitions were crushed in an instant.

“SHUT THE HELL UUUUUUUUUUUUUP!!”

Suddenly appearing before her was a muscle-bound man over two meters tall—yes, it was Reven.

He thoroughly beat down the gorilla-like monsters one after another and threw them out the window.

“Become shrimp in your next life!!”

Whether the gorilla-like monsters heard him or not, they transformed into crabs on the spot.

“Wha…!?”

The gorilla-like monsters, now transformed into crabs, distributed themselves into the pots of nearby adventurers.

Naturally, the adventurers’ reaction was as follows:

“GYAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH!! What the?! Gorilla-like monsters wearing crab costumes are falling from the sky!!”

“Boss!! Monsters from the sky!!”

The monsters that dove into the pot were boiled and transformed into Genocider, the Destructive Evil Emperor.

“GRUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU!!”

Born to destroy everything in this world, Genocider the Destructive Evil Emperor was a Danger Level 5 monster with the appearance of a demon sporting goat-like horns, and the dark slashes unleashed from its six claws were extremely powerful.

Its attack power was a whopping 1,630, and its defense was a high 1,320. Once released into the world, it would surely be placed in a pile in the corner of a card shop.

Then, Genocider the Destructive Evil Emperor flew off somewhere to join a temple.

The girl who had been watching this entire sequence of events thought this about the utterly absurd and preposterous scene:

(What an incredible dream…)

Thinking that, she tried to go back to sleep.

“Oi! If you sleep, you’ll die!! If you sleep, you’ll die!!”

But sensing this, Reven breathed a blizzard from his mouth.

Genocider the Destructive Evil Emperor, who had been kicked out of the temple by the force of it, froze solid.

“IF YOU SLEEP, YOU’LL DIEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!!”

And just like that, he shattered Genocider the Destructive Evil Emperor into pieces.

“SHUT UUUUUUUUUUUUUUP, OLD MAN!! A girl’s trying to sleep, so be quiet… what the hell is this?!”

When Roaks entered the room due to the excessive noise, the scattered flesh fragments of Genocider the Destructive Evil Emperor came into view.

“Stop doing incomprehensible crap driven by momentum alone!! This is definitely gonna bother her!! Absolutely!!”

Of course, as Roaks said, the mysterious girl was desperately trying not to wake up.

Roaks sighed and glanced at her.

“Still, so this girl is the princess… How should I put it, she’s mystical…”

However, perhaps due to his male instincts, he inadvertently looked at her chest.

But he must not forget the presence of the man next to him.

“You pervert!!”

Having been caught, he was punched by Reven.

“Gobuh!!”

“What do you mean ‘mystical’?! Her figure’s way too good!! You perverrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrt!!”

Reven was right.

Contrary to her delicate appearance, this girl had an outstanding figure that could be considered a man’s ideal, with a glamorous physique visible even through her clothes—quite poisonous to the eyes of impressionable young men.

“Is this woman a cow?!”

Saying that, Reven punched a nearby defenseless cow.

“Stop it, you coward!!”

“Who are you?”

However, the cow didn’t budge.

That was natural. It should be impossible to deal damage by punching a cow that weighs over 600 kilograms.

To begin with, a cow’s head itself is extremely robust, used as both a weapon and armor in headbutting fights, and if done poorly, a human hand would break first.

In other words, this was an opponent that someone like Reven, a cocky punk, couldn’t handle.

“DON’T SCREW WITH MEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!!”

Reven grabbed the cow by the collar.

“Let me tell you something, you fair-weather fans of the hero’s party!! Can you bastards step onto the battlefield with this vengeful heart?! Huh?! Like some cheat character—”

Saying that, he punched the cow again.

But this was a story about whether a thirty-eight-year-old unemployed man with no work history could do anything to a cow.

“U-um…”

“Sorry!! We’re having a yakiniku party with this guy today, so can you come back later?!”

Ignoring the cute voice calling out to him, Reven glared menacingly at the cow.

At Reven’s behavior, the cow grinned.

“Moo~ (I’m not laughing at the cocky punk, I’m laughing at the real cocky behavior that sprouted from the cocky punk~ Puu, tee hee!!)”

“What did you say?! Don’t underestimate me when I can get along with a hero’s party full of nothing but crazies in a minefield!! Don’t look down on me when I’ve had tons of SAN-reducing experiences!! There’s no way I’m being cocky, don’t underestimate my phosphophyllite mental state!!”

At the cow’s provocation, Reven became even more enraged.

“It got through!! What is even happening here, seriously?!”

“I-I’m sorry…”

When Roaks interjected, the two stopped at that reserved voice.

Incidentally, the cow was butchered.

“Who’s there?”

While dismantling the cow, Reven asked the owner of the voice.

“You’re butchering it!! With those skills, you could get hired at a butcher shop no problem!!”

“Hehe, how lively.”

After Roaks’s retort, the person giggled.

Yes, the one who had called out to them was the girl.

“A-ah!! Sorry for troubling you!!”

“Is it my fault?!”

Reven got angry at those words and smashed the remaining parts of Genocider the Destructive Evil Emperor into pieces.

“Hehe, it’s alright. It’s quite lively.”

“Amazing! This girl just laughed it off!!”

She giggled at Roaks’s retort, then said:

“I am Flam. A princess of the Serenade Kingdom and one chosen by the church as a saint. And you are?”

“I-I’m…”

Roaks tried to introduce himself.

However, an intruder got in the way.

“I’M FIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIRST!! My name is Reven Avengeyan!! A former member of the hero’s party, and living solely to settle the grudge of being kicked out by them is my only redeeming quality!!”

The nearly-forty-year-old unemployed Reven introduced himself before Roaks.

Her eyes widened, and she seemed surprised by this fact.

“I-is that so? But according to what I heard before I set out on my journey, the hero’s party shouldn’t have anyone with such a history…”

“Hmph, naive girl. That’s because the hero’s party wants to erase my existence. Take a look at this.”

Saying that, Reven produced a dark crystal.

“Um, what about me?”

“Baka-ho Two-Sword Style Secret Art: ‘Dark Crystal.'”

As he said that, an image appeared in the dark crystal.

There, the image of Reven receiving cruel treatment from the hero’s party…

“No, it’s just a tortoise and a hare having a footrace!! You’re not even in it!!”

“Look closely, see.”

When they squinted carefully, there was Reven somehow serving as the goal line.

“That’s incredible!! Is anything allowed now?!”

“It was hard…”

“That was?!”

At the end, there was a token appearance of Kozah and Kaiste bullying Reven by hitting him… or so they thought, but it really ended with Alex saying to Reven, “You’re useless, so you’re fired.”

“The important part ended as an ‘afterthought’!!”

“So that kind of thing happened in the hero’s party… You must have had it rough. But why do you go that far for them?”

“She understood!!”

At those words, Reven answered:

“No education, no work history, nearly forty, no one will hire me, and on top of that, they kicked me out of the party without paying my wages. I have no choice but to hold a grudge.”

(That’s so real… If he’d just drop that ridiculous appearance, he could probably make it as self-employed…)

As Roaks made that retort in his mind, Flam turned to face Roaks this time and said:

“That must have been hard… But I’m glad you were able to team up with this person. Um, what about you? From what I can see, you don’t seem much different in age from me?”

Finally able to give his name, Roaks nodded and answered:

“Yeah, I’m ‘Kamukamu Generoid III.'”

Receiving Reven’s interference, Roaks wordlessly slashed him down.

“Well, so your name is Kamukamu Generoid III! That’s a nice name.”

“No, it’s not! I’m Roaks! I’m a newbie adventurer who just became one in this town. I just met this old guy a moment ago.”

Hearing those words, Flam smiled brightly and said:

“Hehe, how lively. Well then, I look forward to working with you from now on.”

“Huh?!”