CH 142

[Everybody Loves You, Yuri-chan!!!]

–One day to go until the War of Extinction. The largest battle event in the history of online games was fast approaching.

The top three of the Demon King’s side me, Zansword, and the baldhead, were walking around the city of Helheim with “““Hmm~.”””

“By the way, sorry for making you both help me choose my skill.”

I lightly apologized to the two walking on either side of me.

After thinking about how I should use the precious little time I had left until D-day, I decided to pick my third ‘limited skill’.

Limited skills were powerful skills that were only obtainable by exchanging them with event points obtained from events.

My ‘Arms Barrier’ was one such skill. By the way, you could only have up to three limited skills. It was apparently set that way so that players that didn’t get many event points didn’t lag too far behind players that did.

“I can delete them and pick another one, but there’s only so many opportunities to get event points. That’s why I gotta choose wisely.”

I didn’t have any glaring weaknesses that needed to be covered.

On the offensive side, I had improved my familiars by evolving them and also acquired new arts. On the defensive side, it couldn’t get better than my grit skill ‘Tenacity’, and I could summon shields if needed, too.

Compared to my starting days when I had been powerless, I sure had become omnipotent, now that I thought about it.

“…But I must give it my all to win tomorrow’s War of Extinction, right? So I figured I’d pick my third and last limited skill.”

And who’d best to ask for advice? Of course, my two rivals, who were top of the top players.

Although I said I was omnipotent, that was, in the end, just my subjective opinion. Others might point out areas where I was lacking.

Not to mention, we would be fighting together in this event, so I figured it wouldn’t be a bad idea to rely on them for once.

“Hehehe… you have made a splendid choice, Yuri. To become strong in online games, it is important to ask others for advice. If I have to point out one mistake, however, you should have relied on me alone!”

“Hah, listen to this dimwitted NEET samurai. What a load of bull. If there’s someone Yuri needs, it’s me. You should just go back to wherever you came from.”

“What did you say, you barbarian baldie?! You want me to beat you up?!”

…The two glared at each other with me in the middle. It might be a bit late to point out, but these guys weren’t on very good terms, huh? Wonder why?

“Anyway, what do you guys think I should pick?”

“You should choose ‘Sword Demon’!” “You’d best go with ‘Fists of Rakshasha’!”

――In the next moment, with ““Huuuuuuuuuuuuh?!”” the two took out their sword and gauntlets in the middle of the city.

Wait, stoooop?! I was still between you!! At least let me go to the sideline before you clashed with your killing intents! They were making crackling sounds above my head!

“H-how did things come to this…?”

As other players on the street said incomprehensible things like “Oh, it’s love battle!” “Can’t get any better when it comes to fights between men…!” I stood stock still unable to figure out what the hell was going on.

There was only one more day until the War of Extinction, yet a big fight was about to break out between two top players on the Demon King’s side…!

“Let us settle this for good! Yuri is mine!”

“No, mine (rival)!!!”

The two were going to go at it for real. I was trying to stop them when…

“Cease!” suddenly a voice rang out from behind me.

I knew it sounded cliché, but the voice was so charismatic it pierced into your heart. I had a feeling like I had heard it somewhere before, but thanks to that voice, Zansword and the baldhead instantly stopped.

“Oh, I don’t know who you are, but thanks!” I said as I tried to turn around, but then…

My shoulder was grabbed and I was pulled into a tight embrace, and…

“—Yuri-kun is mine (rival) and mine only!!!”

“Wait, you are?!”

The mysterious person who stopped the fight.

It turned out to be the enemy leader, Pendragon, the Goddess of Dawn…!

What the hell were you doing here?!