Chapter 4: Reven the Avenger Executes His First Revenge

“Kozah… I’m grateful you’re such scum.”

Reven said this to Kozah while cracking his neck.

“Huh?! Don’t get cocky, you piece of trash!!”

“If you weren’t scum, I wouldn’t be able to press the single character for ‘grudge’ upon you bastards as an avenger… Here I come, Kozah.”

He drew his two swords and lunged at Kozah.

“Hyahahaha! I don’t even need to deal with trash like you myself! Oi, you lowlifes! Crush the intruders!”

“Y-Yes! Die!”

With those words, Kozah’s underlings attacked Reven and the others.

“Oh, buying time to escape?”

“Move aside.”

Pushing aside Reven, who was acting relaxed, Roaks drew his sword.

“Hiyah!”

Then, he released a shockwave from his sword and defeated Kozah’s underlings in one strike.

“A sword skill, huh… Not bad.”

“Heh, well, I appreciate the praise for now.”

Kozah trembled at seeing his subordinates defeated in an instant.

“Im-Impossible… According to Oikawa’s report, he was supposed to be a useless rookie…”

“Hmph, Kozah. You were so internally aware of your own weak abilities that you overlooked talented individuals. Yes, just like when you expelled me from this party… you yourself were the greatest incompetent.”

“Y-You bastard! A nobody like Reven getting all cocky…!”

Seeing the enraged Kozah, Reven smiled fearlessly and said:

“But thanks to that, I was able to acquire the power of revenge. I’m grateful to you. As thanks, I’ll make you understand firsthand just how useless of a man you are!”

“What?!”

Reven readied his swords.

Yes, he was about to unleash a Bayakaho Dual-Sword Secret Technique.

“Take this! Bayakaho Dual-Sword Secret Technique, ‘Grudge Slash’!”

He slashed at Kozah with a black strike.

“Gwah!”

“Now, understand. Your true incompetence…”

When Kozah came to his senses, he was in a school.

“Wh-This is a school?!”

Before he knew it, he was surrounded by children.

“Teacher, help me solve this problem!”

“Shut up, you brat!”

Just as Kozah was about to attack the student—

“Oppose child abuse disguised as corporal punishment by teachers!!”

BAGYAAAAAAN!

“Gubooooooh!”

Kozah was punched with all of Reven’s might.

Reven then slammed his head hard against the teacher’s desk.

“Now, Teacher Kozah! Let’s help the students grow!! If you can’t, I’ll kill you!”

“Guuuuu! Why do I have to go through this…”

Though covered in blood, Kozah looked at the student’s problem.

【In triangle ABC, where AB=5, BC=6, CA=7, find the distance between the incenter and circumcenter of triangle ABC】

“I don’t know because I’m a humanities major!”

Having lost it on his own, Reven sliced Kozah to shreds with his two swords.

“Guoooooooh! You don’t know either!!”

“We’re not done yet!!”

Next up was Roaks.

“Teacher. I don’t understand this problem.”

“Huh? What the hell are you doing here too?!”

Reven punished Kozah for not fulfilling his duties as a teacher.

“Look at it properly!”

Reven grabbed his head and slammed his face into the blackboard.

“Gubooooooooh!”

The reason for slamming him into the blackboard rather than the desk was consideration—since the desk is made of wood, blood would stand out, but on a blackboard, bloodstains would be harder to see for the colorblind. Not really though.

“Ora ora ora ora!”

“Hibu, stop…”

“Fulfill your duties!”

After thoroughly beating Kozah, he (forcibly) made him look at Roaks’s problem.

【”Why?” I was startled by that worried voice. I was in the middle of cooking, but I turned off the heat and looked at her. Even though it was daytime, the room felt as dark as night. Question 1: Why did I unintentionally stop cooking? Write an appropriate answer based on this description. Question 2: “Even though it was daytime, the room felt as dark as night.” Based on this description, what kind of feelings does “I” have? Answer.】

Seeing this, Reven answered:

“Figure it out yourself!”

Reven chopped up both of them with his two swords.

“Gyaaaaaaaaaaa!”

“Guooooooh! Why me too?!”

Then grabbing Kozah, he began using his head to break all the windows in the school.

“Uooooooh! Oppose school violence! Oppose school violence! Oppose school violence!”

After finishing breaking them all, he threw Kozah out the window.

He was thrown into a certain farmer’s house.

“Guhha… Those bastards, I’ll kill them…!”

As he tried to stand up, a delicious smell wafted over.

“Oh, what’s wrong?”

Looking over, Roaks was serving him food.

“…” (Has this guy… lost his mind?)

As Kozah tried to leave with a strained smile, Roaks grabbed him.

Then he executed a backdrop.

“Get proper nutrition!”

“Gubo!!”

“Jeez, you’re going to get abilities from the goddess living in the backyard after this, right? Eat quickly.”

Saying that, he shoved the plate he’d destroyed during the backdrop into his mouth.

“Guaaaaaaaa!”

“All right! Now that you’ve eaten, let’s go!”

Saying this, Roaks dragged him by the leg toward the backyard.

When they arrived at the backyard, the goddess immediately appeared… except it wasn’t a goddess but Reven.

“Welcome ♡”

“Whaat?! It’s not a goddess, it’s you?!”

Roaks retorted at Reven who suddenly appeared.

“And you’re cross-dressing again?! Who’s the target audience for this?! A muscular old man in drag!!”

(This guy doesn’t question how he even got to a place like this…)

The lake fairy Reven smiled sweetly and said:

“Now, based on ancient pharmacy, I shall grant you a cheat ability ♡”

“That smile is creepy.”

Ignoring Roaks’s harsh words, Reven continued.

“Will it be medicine that gives you compound rib fractures, or medicine that gives you a compound skull fracture, or per-haps ♡”

“Wait a minute! It’s pharmacy, not covenant?! And they’re all terrible options! I can see the punchline already!”

Ignoring Roaks’s retort, he fired a destructive beam from his mouth.

“Perhaps you desire the Ultimate Goddess Beam!”

“That’s unexpected!”

After bathing both of them in the destructive beam, he grabbed Kozah’s head and shoved fly agaric and destroying angel mushrooms into his mouth.

“Uooooooooh!! Build poison resistance! Build poison resistance!”

“Gugagagagah!”

Kozah, having eaten those, naturally vomited blood and collapsed on the spot.

“I’m not giving a cheat ability to an incompetent like you!”

BOGYAAAAA!

Reven sent Kozah, who failed to gain poison resistance, flying with all his might.

“Gufu… why… do I have to go through all this… Huh?!”

When he came to his senses, he was in the room Kozah had been in.

Before him were Reven and Roaks relaxing leisurely.

“You’re awake.”

“Y-You bastard, what is all this…”

“Bayakaho Dual-Sword Secret Technique ‘Grudge Slash’ is a technique that makes the opponent see dreams. Those dreams are dominated by my hatred and become nightmares. You couldn’t understand that it was a nightmare you created yourself… so the damage from that nightmare rebounded directly onto you. You were just writhing around like a caterpillar by yourself. I didn’t do anything except the first strike.”

“Y-You…”

“But I also understand. You were scared too, weren’t you? Of losing your position.”

At those words, Kozah was speechless.

“With no real ability, dimly aware of your own incompetence, yet fearing the loss of your place…”

“Shut up!! What do you know about me?!”

Kozah finally got a chance to fight back.

He grabbed his beloved club and imbued it with the power of his rage.

A Barbarian is a warrior of rage specialized only in raging wildly.

“As expected of the hero’s party ‘Bravely Ignite.’ Your fighting in the dungeon was like a raging storm itself. But my resentment is nothing compared to your anger! Here I come, I’ll make you understand what it means to care for others!!”

Saying that, he drew his two swords.

Clang! Cling!

Reven clashed weapons with Kozah for several exchanges.

“Uooooooooh!”

But Kozah, who had already taken damage earlier, was barely able to keep up with Reven’s movements.

With a dull crack, Kozah’s club broke.

“Ha!”

“This is the end! Bayakaho Dual-Sword Secret Technique, ‘Blade of Vengeful Severance’!”

“Wait—”

Reven defeated Kozah with the same technique he’d used on Oikawa.

“Face your own incompetence…”

With those words, Oikawa collapsed.