Volume 4 - CH 9

“Wow, you’re doing pretty well, trash merchant. Honestly, I expected you to be much, much weaker.”

It’s not that I’m weak, Miss Priestess. You are just too strong.

“And this series of coin attacks on my knights of light… if you are able to do this from the start, why didn’t you attack me, the caster, directly? Are you making fun of me?”

“I am not making fun of you. As for attacking you, I didn’t do it because I knew it would fail. And I’m not going to waste my energy on something that’s pointless.”

Hearing this, the priestess sighed.

“I am liking you less and less. But if I let this go on, This won’t get anywhere. So I’m going to take you down first.”

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As the priestess said this, the sound of writhing tentacles could be heard once more. The chain to the Lecher Beast was broken. In other words, all of the priestess’ hundred percent power will now focus on me…

“Don’t worry. I won’t kill you. It might hurt a little, but I know you can take it.”

Saying this, the priestess gathered light in her palms and formed each streak of light into an arrow. It grew from ten to dozens, hundreds to more than a thousand, all the arrowheads pointing at me.

No, no, no, that’s too much, Miss Priestess. If I were to be hit by such an attack, I would die without leaving a piece of flesh behind.

“This lady, her beauty is mesmerizing. It makes me want to touch her more…”

“Mmmh… mmmhhh, mmhhh…”

Meanwhile, the Lecher Beast, unaware of what’s happening on his backside, let his tentacles crawl around the daughter’s white limbs, making them glisten.

“Don’t look away, or you’ll die, okay?”

The priestess’ words brought me back to my senses, and countless arrows of light rained down on me. If yo u ar e ab le to re ad thi s me ss age, y ou ar e rea di ng from an unaut hor ized aggr ega te sit e. Rea d at my Wor dPre ss at sta bbi ng with a sy rin ge. ho me. bl og to s upp ort me and my tran slati ons.

I risked my life to block the arrows, using my abacus as a shield.

“Guoooooooohh!!”

Miraculously, I dodged them all. But if I had to do it all over again, I’m pretty sure I wouldn’t be able to.

“You… unharmed?”

Crap. It seems that this maggot me has hurt the priestess’ pride. She collects the light again and produces arrows with more power than before.

I mean, hey, can you please hurry up over there? I don’t know how complicated this method is. If this keeps up, I’m not going to make it!

“Guh… yes, I have the woman’s egg… now all I have to do is inject my sperm into it, cast magic on it to protect it, and concentrate on developing the embryo…”

“Damn it, Miss Priestess! Could you be a bit more lenient? He’s not even hurting anyone, can’t you see!”

“A monster is a monster! And how can you guarantee that the child will have the same behavior as the father! We are talking about a wild, Lecher Beast who is neither educated nor trained!”

“Then can you just train them? Ah, right, they’re not Andersen citizens, so why should you bother?”

Despite my grumbling, the priestess’ arrows continued to gather as if she intend to reduce me to dust.

This time it is absolutely impossible to stop them…

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Just when I thought that, something worse happened.

“Nn…… mmmm….”

The Minister woke up.

“Ohh… ooaaaaaaaaahhhhh!!!”

He saw the hideous figure of the monster dissecting his daughter (or so it looked to him) before him, and after screaming with a pale face, he ran recklessly toward the monster. It was literally a charge without any plan at all. And if I let this go, no matter how well the Lecher Beast behaves, the Minister will die. Because the Lecher Beast is now at the stage where one wrong move and he will fail.

I have no choice but to do something. But before I could even move…

“If you had just stayed unconscious, you would have lived longer… I’m sorry.”

Seeing this new threat, the beast immediately plunged its tentacles through the attacking Minister’s heart.

“Guuuhh!!”

But I was the first to step in front of it, using my abacus as a shield to block the beast’s attack. Th is ch apte r tran slat ion is ma de poss ib le by st abbi ng wi th a sy rin ge t ransla tions. Ch eck on ly up-to-dat e trans lat ions on my Wo rdpr ess si te.

It worked!

I thought for a moment.

Then the top-quality magic ore abacus cracked open, and the beast’s tentacle pierced my solar plexus.

Why? This abacus, which even withstood the attack of the priestess… No, no. The previous attack had already ruined this instrument – it makes sense when you think about it.

I fell down. And as my consciousness fades, regretful thoughts swirl in my strangely calm head.

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I woke up three days later.

I was taken to a hospital called Andersen University Hospital for surgery. But even though I made it out alive, I had a frown on my face. As a foreigner without insurance, I was sure I would be charged for the eye-watering medical expenses later.

I was told that my injuries would normally have killed me, but thanks to someone who immediately and continuously applied an extraordinary level of restoration magic, I managed to survive.

I stared at the ceiling, pondering the outcome of this case, which I had not yet seen.

However, I realized that there was only one possible outcome in this situation.

I sighed but felt relieved.

I was told that I would be discharged within seven days, but then, for some reason, on the morning of the sixth day, I was forbidden to leave the hospital.

It was out of the blue and suspicious. So I made a quiet plan to escape.

It wasn’t really an escape, to put it mildly. I just left the hospital after paying my medical bill. Then, after asking for directions at the nearby police station, I made my way to my destination – the square in front of the cathedral.

The winter sky was truly clear and refreshing, but in contrast to the scenery, the smell of a corpse wafted from the area around the square, along with a black haze of something rising from the center.

Beneath it lay a blackened, charred hunk of flesh. These were the remains of what had once been a Lecher Beast.