Scum-lesse Oblige, I Have Been Reincarnated as a Scum Villain in an 18+ Game World, and I Absolutely Want to Grasp the Mob Life with the Power of My Knowledge of the Original Story - Chapter 30

Necessary Sacrifices

“No, your body enhancement technique is weird, not mine. Your technique is just too quiet.”

“Isn’t it the other way around? Your body enhancement technique is just too loud.”

““………””

Enrique calmly observed my body enhancement technique again.

After a while,

“I knew it, it’s weird. I hardly feel any magic from you.”

However, from my perspective, it seemed like Enrique was wasting unnecessary magical powers for his body enhancement technique instead.

What does this mean?

We stopped our training and discussed it.

—after discussing it for quite some time with Enrique, we came to a conclusion.

It is true that both Enrique and me use our magical powers to enhance our physique, however it was clear that our efficiency was strangely different.

To make sure, I asked Enrique to go all out and show his true strength.

Enrique stands up and use his all of his magical powers to enhance his body.

I immediately notice that his magical powers were leaking out.

“Hahaha…how is it, young lord? Can you feel it!? My raging power—”

“Okay, that’s enough.”

Just as I thought.

Enrique just aggressively used his magical power to enhance his physique without caring about its efficiency.

That’s why when he goes all out, unnecessary magical powers leak out of from his body.

However, in my case, it’s the opposite.

From the beginning, I’m cautious as it was my first time dealing with magic.

I adjusted myself to use as little magical power as possible.

Instead of enhancing my entire body with my magical powers, I efficiently channel my magical powers to my specific body parts. For example, if I want to increase my speed, I would channel my magical powers only to my legs.

In other words, from the beginning, I’m already extremely careful about the magical powers I use on my body.

If Enrique is a fuel-inefficient car, consuming gasoline aggressively, I would be a fuel-efficient eco-friendly car.

“Hmm? Wait a moment.”

I suddenly said so.

“Why don’t you manage your magical powers efficiently like I do?”

It would be better to be more efficient during battle, right…?

“I see.”

Enrique says so with a complicated look on his face.

“Well, that’s only young lord’s perspective. For adventurers like me, we don’t care about any of that.”

Enrique explains so.

“In other words, we don’t really bother to improve our efficiency. In the end, we can just adjust how much magical power we want to spend during battle. People like us just care about doing our best to channel our magical powers our body.”

“I see.”

In short, even if I manage my magical powers efficiently, that wouldn’t make much different in terms of cost-effectiveness.

“However…”

Enrique crossed his arms.

“If you are a wizard who specializes in magic, you should care about the efficiency of your magical powers. But those folks aren’t be interested in body enhancement techniques to begin with.”

“I see.”

I was sorting it out in my head.

The muscle-heads who mainly use body enhancement technique don’t care about the efficiency of magical power.

The intelligent wizards who care about magical power efficiency aren’t particularly interested in body enhancement itself.

“If you can master both of them—”

Enrique looked into my eyes.

“That would mean you’re a genius who has only able to use body enhancement technique and can delicately handle magical power from that stage. In short, you’re gifted in magic.”

I see.

“So, I…”

It’s certainly the only logical explanation to it.

For some reason, I’m really good at manipulating magical power.

I thought about it for a while.

Seeing me like that, Enrique hurriedly started making excuses.

“No, it’s fine, young lord. I know I’m the one who brought it up, but when it comes to actual combat, I don’t have the luxury of worrying about the efficiency of my magical power. Besides, there are plenty of ways to become stronger more easily…”

“―Enrique.”

I interrupted Enrique.

I’ve made up my mind.

“I will go with this technique.”

“What!? But there are much simpler ways to become stronger!”

—no, this method is incredibly convenient, that’s why I decided to hone this technique.

Certainly, just as Enrique said, not bothering with the efficiency of magical power and learning other spells or simply seeking more strength might be more common and easier for most people.

What I’m doing, efficiently channelling my magical powers through my body, might not yield substantial results.

However, let’s think about it for a moment. If I were to follow Enrique’s advice, where would that lead me?

In essence, what others are doing is a fighting style where they proudly exclaim,

‘Hey, I’m really strong (laughs).’

And waste their magical powers inefficiently.

Stupid, right?

It’s not suitable for someone like me, who seeks to be a mob character in this world.

‘Last Aca’ is known for its cute girls and exciting developments, but it’s quite a terrifying world filled with lunatics and death flags everywhere.

Stand out in such a world???

Are you kidding me?

If you do something like that, no matter how many lives you have, it won’t be enough.

“It doesn’t matter, Enrique.”

“What!?”

Enrique’s eyes widened in surprise.

“What you’re trying to do is really hard you know?”

“Indeed…it’s a necessary sacrifice.”

That’s right.

Rather than standing out and attracting powerful enemies, handing my magical powers efficiently is way easier.

“Well…if you say so.”

So, I decided to make sure others can’t sense of magical powers.

I’m determined to be an extremely efficient and inconspicuous mob character.

By the way,

After the discussion ended, me and Enrique continued our training.

For some reason, Enrique got excited, saying things like,

“Hahaha, you possess delicate magical power control and strong will that doesn’t shy away from hardships for your goals. Unbelievable!!! Stillness and motion are all mixed in you! This is your true nature, young lord…!!!”

Enrique said so

‘Here we go again.’

I thought so.

I just casually responded with ‘Sure, sure’.

What did he even mean by ‘stillness and motion’ anyway?

Thus, I continued training day after day, aiming to be as inconspicuous as possible.

That’s right.

And this, indeed.

“—this is my Mob-Style Combat Technique.”

“Mob-style…? You bastard…”

Bard’s face becomes even more worried.

“What kind of fighting style is that?”

Author’s Note:

Protagonist à the creator of the Mob-Style combat technique.

Mob-Style Combat Technique à Others don’t even think about trying it since there are much easier ways to seek strength. It’s the epitome of unnecessary techniques.