Chapter 7: The Avenger Reven Breaks the Brainwashing

Kaiste was one of the members of Hero Alex’s party, and like Kozah, he was one of those who tried to drive Reven out.

He excessively embellished his career and connections in the party’s description, making himself look impressive at first glance, but in reality, he was nothing special.

He constantly sucked up to those above him like Alex and Revelio, while looking down on those beneath him. When Reven was in the hero’s party, Kaiste thoroughly ignored him or deliberately excluded him.

And he was one of those who constantly urged Alex to expel Reven.

He loudly advertised to the world that he was a member of the hero’s party, and used that “hero’s party” credential to open a restaurant in Zagig.

However, while customers came at first due to the novelty, the bland taste and aggressive pricing quickly drove them away, and now only his followers who admired him remained.

Currently, he was the kind of person who turned the restaurant’s food into lunch boxes and sold them pyramid-scheme style to the ignorant.

When he was spoken down to by Reven, whom he particularly looked down on, he trembled with rage like jelly.

“Wh… How dare you speak to me like that, Reven…!!”

At those words, Reven coolly answered:

“Huh? I’m talking to a third-rate con artist who thinks he’s first-rate, you know? You okay? Got enough ‘grandma’?”

At those words, his anger reached its peak.

“Hey, teach this rude bastard a lesson!!”

With those words, his underlings came pouring out.

“Oh? You’ve got quite a few underlings, don’t you?”

“One after another! First-rate people only learn from first-rate people!! Don’t act like you know anything, you third-rate! Get him!!”

With those words, the underlings attacked Reven.

He grinned and readied his swords.

At that moment…

“Spin Slash!!”

With a slashing sound, one of the underlings was cut down by Roaks.

“Roaks!!”

“Heh. Isn’t this a bit too violent, old man? You’ve been going on about first-rate and third-rate for a while now—it’s getting loud.”

At those words, Kaiste’s eyes widened, and he shouted at Roaks:

“You little brat… how dare you!!”

“Hehe, if ganging up is allowed, then I’m joining the fight too!”

Roaks said this and swung his sword around mischievously.

“You brat… take out that kid too!!”

With those words, Kaiste’s underlings attacked Roaks.

“Whoa!!”

He was surprised by their numbers, but Reven immediately came to his aid.

“Reven, old man…”

However, that was a huge mistake.

“Who are you calling an old maaaan!!”

“Gubooooooooh!!”

For some reason, Reven punched him flying.

“Oh my♡ This boy, getting satisfied after taking down just one!! I’ll show you how it’s done!! Bahoka Two-Sword Style Secret Technique♡”

Saying this, Reven unleashed a secret technique filled with the power of revenge on the underlings.

“‘Vendetta’!!”

With that, Reven slashed with both swords, and through illusions created by vengeful resentment, showed them their future.

Yes, the fate of pretentious people falling into ruin.

“Gubaaaah!!”

“And I’m also guaaaaaaaaah!!”

The attack dealt mental damage to the pretentious underlings and to Reven himself.

Reven in particular suffered massive damage, spewing konpeito from his entire body.

“He got hit by it too!?”

Roaks was confused, but in reality, the harsh truth that Reven was thirty-eight years old, unmarried, and had awakened to the eighth-grader syndrome power of revenge was probably too much for him.

From an outside perspective, he was completely a crazy person.

That damage far exceeded the damage to Kaiste’s subordinates.

“Guh… what tremendous power… even I got hit. But next time, I’ll turn you into low-consciousness types!! Take this, Bahoka Two-Sword Style Secret Technique…”

He unleashed another secret technique.

“‘Retribution’!!”

He extended something.

A wonderful path—being loved locally through creating things as a farmer or blacksmith.

“Yup, vegetables I grow myself sure are tasty.”

“Making tools as a blacksmith is nice~ Having a trade is great~”

Through Reven’s attack, Kaiste’s subordinates awakened to the goodness of their hometowns.

“Why!?”

“Thank you for everything~”

With that, Kaiste’s subordinates returned to their hometowns.

All except one person…

That person held a rejection letter in his hand.

Yes, Reven.

“Why meeeee!!”

“Gubooooooh!”

The letter kindly included the reason for rejection.

“Because you’re gross.”

“What kind of society is this!!”

While saying this, he grabbed Kaiste’s collar and slapped him repeatedly.

“Whoooooa! Damn it, society is too harsh!!”

Crack!

Wham!

“Guwaaaaaaaah!!”

Reven took out his frustrations on Kaiste.

“Guh… you third-rate! How dare you hit me, a first-rate person!”

“Hmph, I’ll make you realize your true self, you fraud who can’t measure yourself objectively.”

He said this and pointed both swords at him.

“You watch too, thirty-eight years old.”

“Here I go!! Bahoka Two-Sword Style Secret Technique ‘Vendetta’!!”

“Ah… wait! That technique…”

Reven unleashed a fierce assault with both swords on Kaiste.

But the attack was easily dodged.

“Hmph, did you think a technique I’ve already seen would work!?”

“What…!!”

At this rate, he would face the harsh reality of being thirty-eight with eighth-grader syndrome.

If that happened, Reven would die, unable to bear that harsh reality.

“Guh… ‘Wait, Reven-san, you’re thirty-eight and talking about the power of revenge? Eighth-grader syndrome at that age? No way. So gross☆’? Guh… guaaaaaaah!!”

Reven was told this by an ugly woman at a mixer and nearly accepted that harsh reality.

Note: He will never, ever go to a mixer.

“Hahaha!! He self-destructed!!”

“Old man!!”

But he grabbed that harsh reality in his hand.

“Just kidding—take this!!”

And then he shoved it into Kaiste’s mouth.

“Mmgoh!!”

“Opening!! Take this for real!! ‘Grudge Slash’!!”

Slash!!

Caught off-guard for a moment, Kaiste was completely cut down by him.

Negative illusions were about to attack him.