CH 174

Chapter 174: Observation Duty That Inflicts Unpleasant Trauma

DISCLAIMER: The following chapter is entirely the author’s take on a normal guy shocked to see a gay couple in the “act”. Please consider this is fiction and only a representation of the character’s sentiments aligned to his basic characteristics so far depicted in the book. THIS IS BY NO MEANS AN ATTEMPT TO HURT THE SENTIMENTS OF READERS. THE TRANSLATION TEAM RESPECTS ALL FREEDOM OF CHOICE AND SO DOES THE AUTHOR.

Blue sea, white sandy beach. Two shadows were running along the beach, basking in the bright sunlight.

[TN: This part is cut off since it’s R-18, a literal yaoi and this isn’t R-18 section. Not that this part is important though.]

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「… Thank god I don’t see that.」

The plan to observe them was the deepest regret I’ve ever felt.

Currently, my 『Twin Shadow』 was hiding in the nearby building of the second resort hotel which apparently became the hiding place for OoyamaSugino-combi.

My shadow came riding Alfa and observing the two with naked eyes under the assistance of Rem birds. My real body was in the middle of siesta in our temporary base. I could leave my body with ease since Mei-chan who preparing our meal was right beside me.

And then, my shadow came to observe the situation wearing a handmade ghillie suit(Ruin Ver.).

When it started, I still had no idea whether I could find the two but fortunately, the two appeared on the beach and fell right inside my scope of view.

And that’s where I used up my good luck.

The two were running in their underwear. I had a really bad feeling at this point. And then, my premonition turned into reality when I saw those two come out of the hotel hands entwined tightly. I mean, that was love— no, let’s stop that.

And then, things turned into an extremely disgusting R18 scene.

Though I wanted to retort “Are you guys a couple from the Showa Era?”, I quickly realized that they’re one of those disgusting gay couples living in the modern era. Honestly, I never wanted to know those kinds of disgusting R18 scenes. MY BRAIN WAS FU*KING DAMNED.

The true hellish scene began after Sugino caught the escaped Ooyama. I cut off my connection with my shadow before it was too late. Any normal man wouldn’t be able to stand that kind of scene.

I asked forRem birds’ assistance before I left my post.

Rem was very lucky. She didn’t feel anything even if she saw that disgusting, R18 gay scene, she didn’t feel anything at all.

「Haah…」

I heaved a sigh to calm down. I didn’t want to think anything right now. Especially men’s bodies. Dammit all, I’ll make sure to overwrite those disgusting memories by leering at Mei-chan’s bombastic figure even if it would kill me. Once I return safely, I am going to look at that unrivaled hourglass figure, the round butts, and the twin melons as if licking all over it, I PROMISE!

「A~h, I want to go ba~ck.」

My motivation to continue with this mission hit rock bottom after I saw that disgusting scene.

But, I had to complete this mission since it was related to our upcoming strategy after all. There was no option of backing out now.

I didn’t want to know the details of that gay couple’s daily life, but what choice did I have?

I tried to regain my motivation, but my profile was as white as paper right now.

「Ku~n, Kyu~」

Maybe because she was worried about my loss of motivation, Alfa who stayed by my side was rubbing the tip of her nose on me.

「A~h, what an adorable girl you are, Re~m.」

She is such a wonderful pet-like existence who heals her master’s wounded heart, isn’t she? Pet is family after all!

But Alfa, please stoop a little since your color is way too conspicuous.

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Though Ooyama and Sugino managed to deal a great amount of damage to my sanity and willpower due to how often they “combined”, the monitoring system of my 『Twin Shadow』 and Rem’s information network made my job much easier.

Three days had already passed since I observed them.

The two had yet to find out about us right now… was what I wanted to believe. In the end, all I could do was observe them from afar, I couldn’t even hear their conversation.

No matter how much I used Rem’s birds, they couldn’t come too close to the two due to the unexpectedly sharp perception of the vocation holder, they might realize immediately that Rem was some sort of familiar.

They really were taking their time in the last three days. After spending a hot night in the second resort hotel, the two finally left in the morning of the third day looking refreshed.

Seeing that, my 『Twin Shadow』 rode on Alfa’s back immediately to follow them, I kept chasing after them while Mechan followed from behind with my real body. Basically, I split my consciousness and solely focused on the shadow side to get more information about the two. By doing that, my real body would enter a state akin to sleep, but it was possible to move it around by placing my real body as a piece of luggage on Arachne Rem. Honestly, I didn’t give a damn about sleeping while being carried along like a piece of luggage. There was nothing to worry about since Mei-chan and Rem-Dark Knight were right there, and I could wake up immediately whenever I wanted to.

I should measure their rough combat potential with the two observation networks that I built but… since the monsters that came out in this area were small fries such as jiras’ variant, or giant crabs, they were far from enough to properly measure their combat potential.

I feared that the only chance to get a confirmation about their real combat capabilities was once we fought them.

Sugino was dashing around unabashedly with his 『Heavy Warrior』, blasting off the approaching enemies with his giant mace. Ooyama was the 『Pyromancer』 who was firing fireball-otherwise known as 『Ignis Sagita』- and sending off support from the rear with his bow and explosive arrow.

Fortunately, Ooyama was still unarmed when using his magic without any sort of cane or something along with that.

「Seyaa! Seyaa!」

He sent forth punches while letting out extremely spirited warcries. And then, a blazing fireball around a softball size appeared in front of his fist. His yell — was that karate? Did he use that to replace aria? That didn’t look like your average sorcerer’s style, but the 『Ignis Sagita』 must be packed with a lot of firepowers since it never missed its target.

Like when they were surrounded by jiras, he sent forth a lot of fireballs as big as a volleyball after firing himself up with his karate-like yell. And the fact that the fireball exploded when it hit its target, scattering sparks, making it even more destructive. So his sorcery might be more powerful than your usual 『Ignis Sagita』.

Currently, I had confirmed that Ooyama could use at least two spells. But at this stage, I wouldn’t be too surprised if he still had two or three more spells.

「Come to think of it, he isn’t using defense magic at all.」

Perhaps because he had Sugino to act as a tank to pull the enemies’ aggro, I didn’t see him developing elemental defense magic like the one owned by Class Rep or Souma Sakura. Pyromancer’s defensive spell should be something like conjuring a firewall, but well things might have developed into a situation like when that Orthos was decapitated by Mei-chan.

Or maybe, he has yet to learn that spell. Individual differences affect the growth of vocation, resulting in every individual learning different kinds of skills despite having the same vocation.

Since Ooyama was using a karate-like fighting style, there was a high possibility that he would develop extreme offensive magic but… let’s play safe with the assumption that he has defensive magic.

Yup, let’s keep observing them force them into showing all the cards in their hand ―― was what I thought until I saw them arriving in front of the boss room.

The boss room was a slightly open cave with a complicated creek. I had seen a lot of natural caves, but this one seemed to be made by carving the wall into some sort of temple. It looked like the Abusinbel temple of Egypt, but the pillars and statues had already collapsed, leaving none of their original forms.

But since there were numerous traces of treatment, it was obviously a man-made structure.

「This is definitely the boss room.」

「Ou, let’s kick their as*es!」

OoyamaSugino-combi entered the cave temple in high spirit.

Since they had rested well the previous night, the moment they arrived, they were in top condition. Their survival life became clear after observing them. They went into hunting edible herbivores such as Jyaja for their meat the moment they found one.

Naturally, they couldn’t cook it as well as us, but sprinkling salt over freshly grilled meat was more than enough for starving youths. At least, their meals had been centering around meat after a diet consisting of only walnuts.

They didn’t show any signs of weariness from the long survival life since they’re basically a fu*king gay couple, so their spirit remained sky-high. There might be only two of them, but this boss fight should be able to force them to show their ace in the hole too.

「Now is the only chance to ambush them.」

Those two might be able to beat the boss fairly easily. And who knows when we will be able to meet them again once they activated the teleportation. In short, these few days that I spent while enduring mental attacks called gay porn would come to naught.

「We’re going to ambush them now.」

「Uhm, leave it to me, Kotaro-kun!」

Mei-chan smiled fiercely as if she was gonna charge at once with her halberd, but let’s hold her back for now.

「Let’s aim for when they let their guards down and are exhausted from the boss battle.」

In short, we’re going to ambush them right before they activated the teleportation circle. Yeah, ambushing during such a time was the worst kind of experience. But, it’s my turn to do that now.

「Let’s use Rem to inspect the situation inside.」

Since it was a cave, a bird would be really conspicuous, thus I created a snake form for Rem from the snake that I caught in the thicket.

The had stripped, dark-reddish coloured snake of medium size; it wouldn’t too conspicuous even if it was creeping into the cave. Thus, it was fair to say that she would be able to sneak a peek at the battle inside the cave without being discovered.

「We’ll be on standby until the end of their battle.」

「Are you really okay with murdering them, Kotaro-kun?」

「Yeah, let’s kill them.」

I who still was hesitating over whether to kill them or not decided to see their strength first before making such a decision. Moreover, we were the ones who would suffer if this ambush failed because we were holding back.

Thus, we couldn’t show any mercy from the very beginning. Whether they were going to live or die, was a problem for later.

「Aim for Sugino.」

「Yes, I’m going to kill him for sure.」

If we had to choose which one we should kill first between Ooyama and Sugino, the answer would be, naturally, Sugino. His defense was really troublesome. We had to incapacitate him in the first strike.

We had to raise our vigilance toward Ooyama’s flame too, but that fella with paper-thin defense would fall easily with a single slash from a skeleton equipped with a sword. The chance of success in ambushing Ooyama was pretty high with 『Skeleton』and『High-Zombie』 alone. Sugino on the other hand was really troublesome since the disposable summoned monsters wouldn’t even be able to breach his defense.

「Mei-chan, focus on Sugino. Leave Ooyama to Rem and me.」

Though we had decided to take them down, I was still quite uncomfortable doing that toward someone who wasn’t my target.

Different from before, I didn’t kill them because of a grudge, but because it was necessary. I didn’t like it at all, but this was for the best. Even if we spared their lives, they would only cause more disadvantages to the other classmates because these two bastards were prepared to sacrifice all our classmates to survive.

Yes, the time you decided to abandon your classmates… You guys became my enemy.

「Shaaaaaaa.」

A snake returned to my side while raising a hiss. When I looked to the side, Rem-Dark Knight nodded in affirmation.

Great, the time has come.

「Let’s go.」