Reincarnated as the Villain Who Experiments on Orphanage Kids – Why Are the Test Subject Girls Begging Me for "Night Experiments"? - Chapter 26

Chapter 26: Our Human Experiment

“Taaaaah!”

“There’s more where that came from!”

“Right there!”

While the three of them worked together to block the attacks, I ran out by myself.

I had been watching from the back until now, but I deliberately moved closer to Jimbara. I held the special ball in one hand.

“What are you planning? I don’t know what your trump card is, but I’m strong right now. Stronger than any executive in the Rebellion. No way a ball like that can beat me.”

Jimbara acted like he had plenty of room to spare, but he didn’t let his guard down. He was keeping his distance while staying on high alert about the ball in my hand.

I had to admit his instincts were sharp. If he hadn’t gotten his reason back, this would have ended a lot easier.

But it was too late for regrets now. Either way, what I had to do wasn’t changing.

“I’ll land the attack.”

That was the one thing I said before the experiment started. I didn’t give any other details. Just that one line.

Even so, the three of them seemed to get what I meant. They were backing me up so I could get close to Jimbara. Thanks to them, I was able to close the distance.

“Too soft!”

But he wasn’t an opponent you could take lightly. He brushed off all three of their fierce attacks and came straight at me. His target was the ball. He was probably trying to knock it away with that huge claw.

“I won’t let you!”

Priere jumped in right away.

“Out of my way!”

“Ugh…”

But he pushed through with raw power.

“How about this?”

Rafal quickly fired a binding spell, but

“Too slow!”

He dodged it with a small step.

“Fiora!”

“Leave it to me!”

Fioraia raised her sword high and charged.

The moment his eyes shifted, Priere, who had circled behind him, slashed in. It was a pincer attack. Actually, it was more like they were hitting him from three directions at once.

Because Rafal, who had finally drawn her sword this time, had already slipped into his guard.

“Whoa, close!”

Jimbara blocked the fierce attack perfectly, but his stance broke for just a split second.

“Now!”

I stepped in during that opening. I poured every bit of strength I had and charged straight at Jimbara.

“Not happening!”

His huge claw came swinging down. If things kept going like this, I wouldn’t avoid getting hurt. Even so, I kept charging forward.

This distance should reach!

There was still a bit of space before I could touch him directly, but closing in this much was enough. After all, my weapon wasn’t a sword. It was a ball.

“Go!”

While feeling the claw stab into my stomach, I threw the ball with all my might.

The ball traced an arc toward Jimbara’s shoulder. The moment the center of the ball touched him with a light tap, the button activated.

In that instant, light exploded.

“——!”

Jimbara’s movements suddenly stopped. He tried to escape on reflex, but it was too late. Streams of light wrapped around him like vines.

Sweat poured down me like a waterfall from the pain in my stomach, but when I saw what was happening I finally felt relieved.

“Got you.”

The fight was over now. Because Jimbara wasn’t human anymore. He was already a monster.

“What the hell is this!”

The vine-like light covered Jimbara’s body and started forcefully dragging him into the ball.

He braced himself and tried to resist by releasing magic, but once it activated there was no stopping it. No one could stop it now.

The scene looks way grosser than I imagined.

I thought I could capture him in a more fun, comical way, but it honestly just looked like a carnivorous plant eating him. It was the worst possible visual for a trump card. It looked more like a weapon an evil organization would use.

Oh well.

I pressed on my stomach, took a deep breath, and decided to explain how I made this ball.

“At first I wanted to make cup ramen.”

“Huh?”

Jimbara let out a weird noise. I kept talking anyway.

“Of course this country doesn’t have the concept of dried noodles. Makes sense. Preserving ramen flavor isn’t easy. But I wanted to eat ramen whenever I felt like it. So I turned to spatial magic.”

“What are you even—”

“But there was a fatal problem. Even if I stored ramen with spatial magic, I couldn’t stop time inside. The noodles would get soggy and the soup would go cold. So I couldn’t make cup ramen.”

“…………………………”

“I was shocked. It took me three days and three nights to recover. I cried every night.”

“You’re insane! You ramen freak!”

“In the end I gave up on cup noodles and decided to train at a ramen shop. I worked hard so I could make ramen at home anytime. Now, back to the main point…”

I asked Jimbara, who was getting dragged into the ball,

“Have you ever thought about the principle of trapping living things inside a ball?”

“Of course not!”

“I have. I’ve been thinking about it since I was a kid. I thought about it so much that I used to do experiments on living things… insects. Because I could catch insects with the ball.”

“This has nothing to do with ramen!”

“I get what you’re trying to say. Trapping living creatures in a ball is every guy’s dream. But I wondered if there was a ball that felt even more romantic.”

“Where did the ramen talk go?!”

I took a slow breath in. Then I asked the confused Jimbara,

“Here’s the question. If there’s a ball that can catch any strong monster for sure, what do you think it would be called?”

“No idea!”

“It’s a simple name. Catching is basically the same as dominating. A ball that can definitely capture and dominate. There’s only one name for it.”

“………………………………”

I told the silent Jimbara the name of the ultimate ball.

“It’s the [Master Ball].”

“…………………………………………Huh?”

“The [Master Ball].”

“What did you just say?”

“The [Master Ball].”

One day I realized something. The Holy Sword is what can cut any monster. That’s why it’s special and has enough influence to rule the country.

But you don’t actually need to cut them. If you want to stop monsters from hurting people, you just have to catch them instead of cutting.

And luckily I had spatial magic. I thought this was perfect for an experiment.

“Basically the logic is this. It forcibly stores a monster’s core into the ball with spatial magic. This ball is specialized for that. It’s the [Master Ball].”

“I have no idea what you’re saying!”

“I get why you’re confused. You’re wondering if it’s possible to store just the core.”

“That’s not even my question! It’s way before that!”

What makes humans and monsters different in the first place? The biggest thing is probably whether they have a core. Humans have hearts, monsters have cores.

The core does more than a heart. Magic power comes from it, and it’s what keeps them existing. A monster’s body and core can’t be separated.

That was the main difference from humans. So what happens if you forcibly store the core?

The answer was happening right in front of me. The body was getting dragged into the ball along with the core. That was the biggest feature.

“So this ball can catch any monster for sure. It’s the ultimate ball.”

“No way something that stupid exists!”

Jimbara shouted. He was still struggling to break free from the restraints, but over half his body was already wrapped in light. It was only a matter of time before he was fully caught.

“Of course I wasn’t sure it would work. I tried it on some random orcs, but you used to be human and turned into a monster. I really didn’t know what would happen.”

If it had failed, we would have been done for. It was that much of a gamble.

“Basically, this is an experiment.”

“Yes! It’s a human experiment!”

Priere’s happy voice came from behind. The way she specifically corrected it to “human experiment” showed how much she cared about that.

“This can’t be real. I’m getting taken out by a stupid ball like this.”

“It’s the [Master Ball].”

“I told you I don’t get what you’re saying! Damn ittttt!”

With that shout, his body was completely swallowed by the light. He tried to fire off one last blast of magic, but I clenched my teeth and held on.

“………………………………”

Eventually the light faded. When I looked, there was nothing there. Not even a piece of Jimbara’s clothes, let alone his body. It was so clean it felt like nothing had been there in the first place.

“…It’s over.”

The ball in my hand pulsed faintly. Thump thump, like a real heartbeat. It had turned a murky purple, a gross mix of meat and blood that made me frown.

“………………”

Even as the creator, I have to say it’s nasty. The capture scene looked exactly like a carnivorous plant eating, and everything about it was just ominous.

Maybe it’s because I mixed in an ancient dragon’s core for the finishing touch?

Oh well. No point worrying about the small stuff. Either way, all the problems in front of us were solved.

“Experiment successful.”

“Yes! The human experiment was a huge success!”

Priere smiled brightly.

“Hmph! Of course it succeeded with me here!”

Fioraia stabbed her sword into the yard and puffed out her chest.

“We really are a good match for experiments. Master too, of course!”

Rafal said that as she crouched down and cast recovery magic on my stomach. The pain started to fade a little.

“Still, that ball is amazing.”

“It’s thanks to the human experiment.”

“Hmph. It looks gross though.”

All three of them turned their eyes to the ball at once. After staring at it for a while, Rafal muttered like she understood.

“Since it’s Master… maybe [Master Ball].”

“No! It’s the [Master Ball]!”

I denied it right away. But Fioraia tilted her head.

“I have no idea what you’re saying!”

“That’s why it’s the [Master Ball]!”

“No. This is a weapon that can rival the Holy Sword. We should call it God Sealing Orb Sai. Sai is a god.”

“…Huh? What did you just say?”

“God Sealing Orb Sai is a god.”

“Uh…”

It sounded really off. At least I’d never heard that combination of words in my life. Pretty much everything except the pronunciation seemed wrong too. Actually, nothing was right.

That’s why I couldn’t catch it properly. But the name was definitely wrong.

“It’s the [Master Ball]!”

“It’s [Master Ball]!”

“God Sealing Orb Sai is a god.”

Each of them kept pushing their own name.

Fioraia finally couldn’t take it anymore.

“……………………Enough!”

She shouted in a piercing voice.

“I have no idea what any of you three are saying!”

And so we won the battle against the Rebellion.