CH 75

[Everyone is Stoopid!!!! Yuri Corps!!!!!!!]

—While the baldhead died nobly in the extremely fierce battle and Crutteruo fell for the clever trap, the battle of the self-proclaimed hero Yario continued.

He was facing off against the ex-PK girl Seele.

According to the intel he had received from his commander Zansword, the level and abilities of this Seele girl were one step below the top players’, mainly because her playstyle was ganging up on weaklings.

She was not weak, per se, but she was not exceptionally strong, either. Yario believed that he would never lose to such an opponent.

He was someone who could always pick the best move to win.

If his enemy was not good at close combat, he stabbed them with his spear, and if they were weak at long-range combat, he would throw at them his spear. When he found himself at a disadvantage, he ran away at full speed then waited for an opportunity to launch a surprise attack and won in the end… he was a player who could follow the playbook to a T.

He was completely different from the stupid silver-haired, huge-breasted girl who liked to fight with her fists even though her weapon was the bow and who poked holes in the system when cornered.

Indeed—because of his stable playstyle, he had no weak points.

There was no chance Yario would lose to Seele, who was inferior to him in overall combat power. She might lead an army of NPCs—who, for some reason, wore their hair in mohawk—but he got allied players on his side to deal with them.

Well, time to end this. As the NPCs and allied players fought, he faced Seele one-on-one. He calmly read the trajectory of her greatsword as it swung at him, dodged it, and gradually shaved off her HP.

I’m sorry, o maiden who has forsaken good and embraced evil, but I will turn you into a fallen flower that decorates my heroic path!

He didn’t have a hobby of beating women, but since she was a follower of the player whom people fearfully referred to as Demon King, then it was a different story. It hyped him up, in fact, since he was roleplaying as a hero.

Just as Yario chuckled inwardly and was about to finish Seele off, however…

“Haa… guess I’ve got no other choice. I’m sorry, my underlings, but I’m killing you guys.”

With that, she stabbed her greatsword into the back of one of the NPCs with a mohawk who was fighting a player—!

“W-what are you doing?!”

Yario was shocked by her sudden action.

Her greatsword also pierced the player fighting NPC, killing him, but why now? Why did she do that in the middle of fighting him?!

He was perplexed, but at any rate, this was his chance, and he wielded his weapon.

She needed to take a few moments to pull back her greatsword and used it as a shield. If he struck with his spear within that period, he’d win!

Considering the speed Seele had been displaying, he was sure that she wouldn’t be able to defend herself in time. He was going to finish her for real this time. Yario grinned.

However.

“Whoa, that was close.”

“Whaaat?!”

Chiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiing, a high-pitched metallic sound rang. To Yario’s shock, Seele somehow managed to pull back her greatsword and guard in time.

Furthermore…

“You’re pretty strong for a guy with such a plain face, I’ll give you that. So, I’ll quit fighting fair and square.”

Seele swiftly jumped away from Yario, then swung her sword like she was performing a dance and started massacring everyone around her!

The other players were naturally bewildered as well. There was no way they could have predicted that the enemy commander would start slaughtering everyone regardless they were her ally or enemy.

“N-no, get away from m-aaargh?!”

“Uwaaaaaaaaaaa?!”

“What’s with her, has she gone mad?!”

In an instant, the battlefield was filled with screams and spurts of blood.

Since most of the players were entangled with the mohawk-haired NPCs, they had no way to escape Seele’s sudden rampage. Heads, limbs, and torsos danced in the air like falling cherry blossoms, creating a hell-like scene.

The NPCs were acting strange too. Even though their leader had begun to go on a rampage, they just grinned from ear to ear and started screaming while holding the players.

“C’mon, Seele-neesan, cut me to pieces—!!!”

“Me next!”

“Slaughter us along with the enemies—!!!”

In response to the NPCs’ voices, Seele picked up her massacring pace…!

The battlefield was thrown into chaos. She even prioritized killing the NPCs on her side rather than her enemies.

“Ahahahahahaha! Ahhhhhhhhhhh this is it, this is the feeling! Massacre rocks!”

“W-what in the world…” Faced with her frenzy, Yario paled and trembled.

So did the other players. The NPCs shouted “Kill, kill!” excitedly and Seele laughed maniacally while her lewd dress gradually turned red from blood splattering on it… the downright insane scene had many of the players freeze or run away in terror.

Things aren’t looking good. At this rate, we’ll all be swallowed up by fear. Wait, could that be what that Seele girl aiming for?! It has to be!

Having made that conclusion, Yario started running, half-impatient.

He had to kill her. Right this instant. His gamer instinct, which allowed him to always choose the best move, kept screaming at him to stop her as soon as possible.

“Activate arts, ‘Stealth Move’! ‘Boost Attack’! ‘Flash Thrust’—!”

Steeling his resolve, Yario immediately activated a number of arts accessible to the all-rounder job ‘Brave Lancer’.

With a combination of an auxiliary art that weakened his presence, a buffing art that increased his Strength for a few seconds, and an attack art that unleashed a sharp thrust, he intended to kill the frenzied Seele with a single blow.

This is the end!

He quickly closed the distance between them and was about to thrust his spear into Seele’s back—but at that time…

“Graah, killing you one by one is troublesome! I’ll just wipe you all out altogether!”

The next moment, Seele slammed her greatsword into the ground.

…Then, the end came. As if a giant meteor had struck, the ground exploded, causing a massive tsunami of soil!

“H-huuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuh?!”

Even Yario couldn’t avoid it. Along with many other players, he was sent flying high into the sky by the burst of soil and rocks.

As he fluttered in the air like a piece of trash, it dawned on him. After killing one NPC, her speed had increased, and after slaughtering nearly all of them, she became able to unleash such a ridiculously powerful blow… which meant…

“She raised her stats by killing her allies?!”

“That’s right!”

Seele appeared in front of Yario, whose face stiffened.

Seele had thrown her greatsword and jumped on it to arrive in front of him. Her stats that had been buffed over and over again let her pull off such an illogical feat.

“Our guild’s craftsloli is kinda insane, see. She gave me broken equipment with high Strength and Agility boost but almost no Defense and made me a dangerous accessory. The more ally I kill, the higher the temporary stat buff it gives me.

“‘A dark female knight who slaughters her allies is cool’ she said… I dare bet she scored 0 on moral.”

Just exactly what would you expect from a girl personally brought in by the Great Demon King, Seele grumbled. However, she just bathed with the blood of her allies. She was no less insane from Yario’s point of view.

And there was nothing wrong with his opinion.

As Yario paled, Seele grabbed the head of a mohawk-haired NPC who was fluttering in the air and grinned widely. “Then again, though morally this accessory should receive a failing grade—from a PK’s perspective, it deserves a perfect score!

“Well, this has dragged on for too long, so die, plain-faced hero! Forfeit your life for my entertainment, oraaaaaaaaaaaaaaa!”

Aiming at Yario who was directly below her, Seele threw the mohawk-haired NPC with her super-buffed stats!

Worthy of a final blow, the thrown mohawk-haired NPC instantly melted due to the air resistance and left pure energy that turned into a several thousand degrees Celsius scorching laser beam!

“Ugyaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa?!”

Taking it directly, Yario screamed as he died.

Regardless of how good his gaming skills were, regardless of how good his gaming instincts were to always choose the best move, they were meaningless in the face of stats that had been buffed to the extreme at the sacrifice of morality and allies.

Faced with Seele’s, by all standards, violent playstyle, Yario was reduced to dust.

Ahh… I don’t care if people call me plain anymore. I swear I’ll stop playing hero and never get involved with Demon King Yuri’s gang again…!

He determinedly vowed to himself at the end…!

――And then, a few moments after he was eliminated, Yuri killed Zansword, who had fallen to his knees, despairing in the face of defeat.

Yuri then proceeded to destroy the Guild Core and the long war finally came to an end.