The Dual Swordsman Who Lost Both Arms On Stream to Save His Doomed Party Gets Exiled—Then the Heroines Go Yandere - Chapter 11: The Girlfriend Who Can't See Her Boyfriend's True Strength

Chapter 11: The Girlfriend Who Can’t See Her Boyfriend’s True Strength

――――【Yuki’s Perspective】

“Come on, Yuki. Don’t hold back.”

“But…”

“Nezha wouldn’t ignore you if you became cuter.”

“You think so?”

“Definitely. No guy hates cute girls. I guarantee it.”

I let Soma-kun talk me into it, and we went from beauty salon to optician, nail salon, and boutique. The service fees and price tags at these luxury places I never set foot in normally made my head spin, but Soma-kun…

“Charge it to this.”

“Yes, sir, Master Amiro.”

The staff took the black card from Soma-kun with both hands bowed and settled the bill.

He was a student with a black card. Even though we went to the same school, we really lived in different worlds.

“Look, Yuki. Honestly, haven’t you been reborn?”

“No way!? Is that me?”

Soma-kun told me to look in the full-length mirror, and when I did, I was shocked. The mirror showed me looking like a model from a magazine.

“It’s not a lie. You had potential all along. Be confident.”

“Um, yeah…”

My long, messy hair was now a short bob, and my dull black hair was dyed lighter. Changing from my clunky glasses to contacts made me look completely transformed.

“See you, Yuki. Show Nezha your pretty new self and scare him.”

“Yeah! Thanks, Soma-kun.”

A car with a driver dropped me off right in front of my house. Soma-kun opened the window and held out his fist toward me. I timidly held out mine too, and we bumped fists.

I had been on guard, wondering if he would try something weird, but Soma-kun was a perfect gentleman.

The next day after school, I walked home with Nezha-kun for the first time in a while.

Nezha-kun looked surprised at my new look, but his face seemed somehow unhappy. Maybe he was jealous because other boys were looking at me.

If so, Soma-kun’s plan worked perfectly.

“Nezha-kun, look! The views on that last dungeon clear video passed 100,000! Soma-kun really is amazing, huh?”

I showed Nezha-kun my phone screen, and he stared at it fixedly.

On the screen, Soma-kun slightly turned his head to compactly dodge the stone spear thrust from a werewolf. He grabbed the spear shaft with his left hand and used the momentum to throw it.

The werewolf’s belly was slashed open by the long sword in Soma-kun’s right hand, leaving it critically wounded.

He dodged and attacked at the same time…

When I saw Soma-kun’s fluid movements up close, I couldn’t help but admire him as the leader of an S-rank party.

Meanwhile, Nezha-kun was on lookout duty, checking if monsters were coming from behind.

When he joined, I had assumed Nezha-kun was shining in the party, but seeing his plain role made me a little disappointed.

Even so, Nezha-kun casually supported Soma-kun while talking with Alicia and the others. I could understand why Soma-kun got mad at them.

Soma-kun drove his long sword into the downed werewolf’s chest to finish it off. Nezha-kun watched until a good stopping point and then spoke.

“I see. Then that’s good. We can earn even a little for Hinako’s treatment and help Mom.”

Serious Nezha-kun and flashy Soma-kun.

At first, I didn’t understand why two complete opposites were in the same party, but Nezha-kun had apparently joined after Soma-kun offered him money from dungeon streams.

Soma-kun had laughed and said about Nezha-kun, “That guy’s my perfect foil.”

Nezha-kun said, “I didn’t want to put Yuki in danger,” but maybe he didn’t want me to see his uncool side.

Plus, even though Nezha-kun talked about clearing dungeons with the party, he sometimes left us midway and went to the bathroom for a long time…

Compared to how cool Soma-kun was, Nezha-kun started to seem a bit pathetic.

――――【Nezha’s Perspective】(Behind the 100,000 Views)

I made up some excuse about my stomach hurting from nerves and temporarily left the party. By now, Soma was probably badmouthing me in front of Yuki and the others.

But I didn’t care about that. I had deliberately chosen Soma’s rich party to earn money for my little sister Hinako’s treatment.

I put on a mask and pulled up my hood.

Dressing like an assassin always stirred up my inner chuunibyou.

I wore this so the recording drone wouldn’t catch my face—it would cause problems—but when I went down to the next floor, the red light on the recording drone suddenly went out. At the same time, the stairs connecting the floors rose upward.

A pack of werewolves surrounded me, as if mocking a poor explorer with no escape.

A trap floor…

As I had suspected, there was a trap on the exploration route Soma planned. If you got heavily injured, you were lucky to make it back; at worst, you had to prepare for death.

Good thing I checked.

Soma’s unique skill was [Emperor’s Throne Mounting]. It gave him a buff when he had the advantage, but a debuff when things turned against him—a troublesome skill.

The werewolves slowly closed in.

One more step…

The moment what seemed like the leader—a werewolf with its left eye scarred shut—entered my attack range, I drew my sword.

Gwaaaah!!!

The one-eyed werewolf howled. A deep cross-shaped wound carved into its torso.

Killing the monster in front made the werewolves flinch for a moment, but they were not cowardly enough to run away from that.

They tried to overwhelm me with numbers.

Their spear hedge closed in, but I barely dodged with a jump, and the werewolves nicely speared each other.

“I have nothing against you guys, but I’ll hunt you for my mom and Hinako.”

I just mowed down the necks of the stuck werewolves with both swords—an easy job anyone could do.

As I kept dodging their wave attacks and hunting them, the momentum slowed.

If Soma triggered the trap floor, he would panic, and everyone but me might wipe. He couldn’t handle the unexpected.

So I secretly cleared the way, then returned to the party like nothing happened and staged the stream where Soma went unrivaled.

Taking care of reckless Soma was a pain, but a good-looking guy like him rampaging sold better than plain me working behind the scenes.

If Soma found out, though, he would throw a fit. He would definitely get upset, so I had to act like he never knew.

The werewolf encirclement thinned gradually until only one remained.

I felt resistance in its torso, but the werewolf fled from me.

《Trap Floor Released》

Hologram letters floated in the air, and the raised stairs rumbled down into the ground with a loud noise. Now I could rejoin the party.

If Soma finished off the monsters without suspecting anything, channel subscribers would go up—a win-win.

I just could not let Alicia, Misato, and Lemon die because they got dragged into Soma’s vanity.

No matter how much Soma mocked me, I planned to keep clearing the way. Until the day Soma lost control and challenged the raid boss, the cursed dragon…