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Over the Infinite – Chapter 7 (5)

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Translator: mii

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However, after my heroic decision to protect my homeland no matter how badly they had treated me, I decided to attack the orcs with the iron sword I took away from goblin, my favourite club, and various kinds of traps.

Of course I announced the incoming orcs in the village during my preparation, but the villagers didn’t believe me. Even if they did, all of the villagers were the type that would give up and accept their fate, so I was the only one who would ambush the enemies. It was a lonely war.

In the end, I didn’t know how many orcs were there, but I was pretty sure that they reached three digits even if I was just counting the ones that I killed directly. There was no doubt that the orcs that I didn’t kill directly, meaning that they got killed in my traps, was even a lot more than that. They were too many, to the point that I couldn’t give definite number. I used a variety of traps to kill them in the cave that they used as a temporary base, such as causing unnatural landslides, dropping rocks from the top of the mountain, or killing them with suspension bridge. I killed the remaining ones with my own hand, one at a time.

Such a fight that would get rated as Adult in the action movies continued for around a week. I probably went crazy already after fighting so much in that extreme condition. As expected, even the orcs that was stupid would notice my existence, and they stopped their advance. They started to hunt me in the mountain. I got the advantage of fighting in my homeland and I was perfectly familiar with the mountain after strolling here for a long time, so I continued to kill the orcs. But eventually, I ended up surrounded by the orcs.

From the start, this was the fight where it was natural for me to die, so I started rampaging to take as many as those orcs with me. I already passed the phase when I was wondering why I was doing my best to this extent, and I continued to earnestly fight them. Blood-stained Smash Fight… Smash Me. Well, you could even call me as a berserker at that time, since I was rampaging while swinging around the fallen trees as it was.

But among those orcs, there was one orc who seemed like it was the leader of this group. I didn’t know it’s name, so called it as the “showy orc”. This showy orc was very strong. This cleared the complete composition of “a showy orc with a lot of minions” vs “me who was alone”.

Properly speaking, my death was already confirmed no matter what, but somehow I lost my memory from that moment to the next moment. I didn’t experience any erotic love making, yet my memories of the scene disappeared.

When I realized it, I was standing among countless orc corpses. Among them, I found the strong showy orc, so it seemed like I annihilated the army of orcs alone. There was still the possibility that some knight in shining armor helped me when I lost my consciousness, but I managed to avoid the crisis of the village extermination. Happy end, happy end.

By the way, I didn’t know what happened at that time even until now.

Whether the knight in shining armor really appeared or the orcs went out of order because of internal discord, I could think of many possible reasons. Even so, there was no definite reason that would convince me. I decided to believe on the theory that I woke up my hidden power.

After that, I returned to the village with triumphant mood while having the delusion of the action scene where I released my hidden power and defeated the orcs with the help of the mysterious knight in shining armor, but nobody believed on my bloody one week fight in the village. In the end, they all called me as a quack, and blamed me for not being able to find foods for one week. It was a terrible end.

Naturally, my position in the village worsened rather than improved. In the middle of that, the eldest son’s son was born, and he threw the second son and me away. …It was the general event that occured in my home village.

From being refused to be purchased by the slave trader and going around with my older brother to our connections place while prostrating ourselves, we became the servant of a bar that was treated as a slave. My days was spent with nothing but rough manual labour, and there was nothing worth mentioning until I came to the Labyrinth City. If I had to say something, meeting Cliff-san who worked for a slave dealer was the most sensational. He should be banned just for existing.

The reason I talked about this was because I used《 Intimidation of Warrior 》when I was fighting with the Minotaur, but I felt like I experienced the same thing when I fought against the showy orc. I still couldn’t remember what happened at that time clearly, but I believed that I might have activated the same or similar skill before.

…So there was no knight in shining armor, huh.

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「Well, that’s what happened.」

I was talking about such a past while sleeping my head in Yuki’s lap.

Yuki who was looking down to me didn’t even try to hide his stunned expression. He generally had the same expression to the people who I talked about this matter to until now.

「Ahh, uhm. Your story is full of things to comment, or rather, I can even comment about the story itself. I want to say a lot of things, but I hate myself for agreeing that something like that might’ve happened to you after watching Tsuna so far.」

「Well, you’re right. Even if I said all of that myself, I also think that it’s a crazy life experience. 」

「If you told that story to someone who doesn’t know anything about you, they’ll think you’re a lunatic.」

「Hahaha, I’m sure that I’ve gone crazy after experiencing a lot of extremes. …But, we managed to win because of that.」

There were many factors to this victory, but one of the factors that helped me break the Minotaur’s first attack was certainly my special mentality. So was my experience of fighting that showy orc. If I didn’t experience that, we would’ve lost at the beginning. Now that I thought of it, that showy orc wasn’t just an orc, but the Orc Leader or some kind of superior race like that. I was amazing, huh.

「That’s right… Yeah, that’s it. We won, eh.」

「Both of us are ragged, though. Your hands are burnt because of that torches too, right? The battle has ended, so you should’ve used the last potion for yourself.」

Yuki’s leather gloves were adheresing with the skins of his hand because of the heat. Yet, he used his last remaining potion to me.

「It’s because Tsuna couldn’t move anymore.」

「I will heal myself after we returned to the ground. There won’t be a problem if I crawl to the goal.」

「That’s also the same for my hands. If there’s no rule that we’ll get healed after exiting the dungeon, I won’t do something so rash. …I think I won’t.」

Is that so? I felt like this guy would also cure me even if we wouldn’t get cured after the dungeon if it was necessary, though.

「In addition, we worked hard and cleared this dungeon together, so don’t you want to dive at the goal together?」

「That’s why you gave me your lap as a pillow and wait until I can get up?」

When I woke up, I was surprised that Yuki’s face was in front of me. I was surprised once again when I noticed that he gave me a lap pillow.

It would be nice to have a lap pillow from a girl, but I deceived myself with an advanced technique to shut down the fact that he was a man from my consciousness. In fact, without that truth, this guy was a ridiculously beautiful girl (?) after all.

「I think it’ll be too cruel to lay you down on the rubble floor that is in the brink of collapse.」

「…I’ve said this already, but we managed to win against an opponent who could do this kind of thing to stone floor, huh.」

It was absurd. That probably could even destroy a castle alone. Each of its blow was an attack that wasn’t much different from a siege weapon. It could literally become a one-man army.

「Speaking of which, all of that was recorded, right? We could see our extreme struggle from the third-party perspective later.」

It was certainly interesting. I didn’t realize it from my own point of view, but I probably moved disgustingly like a jungle king, huh? …Especially when I turned into a machine that mostly avoided its attack when fighting the Minotaur.

「That means, the picture of a man giving lap pillow to another man will also get documented, right?」

「Ahh, you’re right. Well, if they’re only looking at our appearance, we look like a beautiful girl and a beast.」

This guy was seriously calling himself as a beautiful girl…

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