“It’s another world, awesooooooooooooooomeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee!!!!”
When Katou left Yumina’s house, there was a fantastic scenery spreading out.
The first thing that came into his view, was an old Western castle on a cliff.
The castle was eroded by greenery, probably because it was quite old, and there’s the danger that it’ll likely collapse at any time.
It’s such a magnificent view, that is likely to appear in one scene of a movie.
Honestly, Katou always thought that the scenery would be just the same, but with this, his thoughts about it changed.
His heart is pounding with excitement.
The truly wonderful scenery may not only deprive him of his view, but also his heart.
When Katou was overwhelmed by such scenery, belatedly, he noticed that something was circling over the old castle.
“Nn? What is that?”
As he looks closely with his eyes, he can see that it’s a dragon? It was quite far away, so he’s not sure, but perhaps it was.
From its black body, four wings were sprouting, it was a super huge bat.
Such huge bats formed multiple herds, and were flying over the old castle.
He thought that it was just an uninhabited old castle when he saw it, but he thought that maybe it’s something like, the Demon King’s Castle.
This raises his tension.
Katou immediately, started running to see that old castle closer.
With the unpaved, bumpy mountain path, forgetting that his limbs and clothes was getting dirty, Katou goes there in delirium.
As he went a long way, Kaitou found an old bridge.
It is a big bridge made of stone, that can be seen as sturdy with just looking at it.
At the end of the bridge, stands the old castle that Katou was aiming for.
Kato screams out his voice in pleasure, but unfortunately, the bridge that was the way to the old castle, was also brilliantly collapsed from the base of the bridge girder.
Perhaps, a fight occurred here before.
The evidence is that there were traces of a bonfire, and the remnants of such things as ropes and broken arrows are left near the bridge.
Well, maybe it was something Yumina used, but either way, in order for him to go to that old castle, he seems to have no other way but to fly in the sky or climb that cliff.
Now that he has come this far with great force, even if it is impossible to capture it, he wanted to explore its inside for a little bit, but it’s a shame.
“It can’t be helped. Let’s give up this time.”
Well, as one would expect, the old castle capture suddenly become too high of a hurdle.
Speaking of cheats that I got from the goddess, it still was only the Elixir, so let’s not overdo it.
Katou concluded that, and then he confirms the card he received from the Goddess.
It was a relatively solid card, just like a credit card.
Certainly, the goddess said that this card had the information from another world and the power to understand the languages of all races.
It was quite an old information though, so I was told not to over-trust it too much, but it’s worth seeing.
But, how do I see it?
Katou at once, touches the card at random.
Then suddenly, something like an image appeared on the card.
Holograph –––– is this a 3D image?
If he wants to express it in an easy-to-understand manner, then it’s the same as a window screen like the ones in a game.
Kato intuitively uses his fingertips, to touch the screen.
Then the screen changed.
As expected, the screen appears to react with Katou’s fingertips.
Katou operates the screen with his fingertips, and looks at the information.
As he looked at the information in it, he learned a little about this world.
“–––– Well in other words, this world is a game-like world.”
It is written that this is a world with levels, skills, and such elements.
There are a variety of skills here, not only ordinary general skills, but also such strong combat skills that can be acquired by satisfying certain conditions, and it was said that there are rare production skills, too.
This raises his tension.
However.
“Hmm. But I wonder what should I do.”
It’s not because he has nothing that he wants to do
It’s because he has too many things that he wants to do.
After all, what seems to be the easy path, would be to get stronger little by little while being on an adventure theoretically?
Of course, if he gets stronger, he’ll save money on personal requests and quests in such things for clans and guilds, and the more money he has, the more options he will have.
Alternatively, it might be good for him to take a very good look at production jobs rather than combat jobs.
In MMO and consumer games, Katou only exclusively chose a combat profession, but it’s possible for him to take this opportunity and get involved in production jobs.
There are many other things that he wants to do.
For example, as is often the case with games.
『Eh!? I can make this character my companion!? 』
There were a lot of things like that running in Katou’s mind.
Due to the absolute rule of the creator, the main character (beautiful girl) regretfully dies.
A charming villain (beautiful girl) who can’t be captured no matter what.
Or a sub-character (beautiful girl) who is more popular than the main heroine who has no route.
But it’ll be different here.
In this world, Katou is free.
In other words, whoever they are, they can be welcomed to his Harem.
That’s why, even the Demon Lord may be welcomed to my Harem.
What a blessing.
I cannot thank Yumina enough, for calling me into this world.
Katou was moved by that, and was delighted with tears, but suddenly from there, he came across the extreme sentence of her.
“Prevent the resurrection, of the Evil god……?”
Come to think of it, just before I was summoned to this world, the goddess who’s the one who gave me this card, felt like she was saying something about something like that.
Even though Katou tries desperately to remember it, his memory is vague, and it may not be accurate, but the goddess surely said that this world, was a considerably high difficulty world.
That it’s, a dangerous world where the Ruler of the Underworld exist, who is comparable to the Gods ––––
“………… Well, let’s go!”
However, Katou was thinking very optimistically right now.
I don’t know if it’s the Evil god, but well, I can manage it somehow.
Since I arrived to a different world that I longed for, the first thing I need to do is to fully enjoy this world.
Katou concludes so.
“Alriiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiight! I’ll enjoy this world, to my heart’s conteeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeent!”
Kato continued to explore, the surroundings, while continuing to yell.
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When Katou returns to the hut with his whole body covered with mud, he heard a rattling noise from the back.
Looking at the situation, it seems that Yumina is still in the middle of cooking, and she was standing alone in the kitchen with a kitchen knife in her hand.
However, as he pays attention to her expression.
Yumina’s expression, was exactly of nothingness.
With an expression of nothingness that makes him wonder if anyone could express such nothingness like this in the past, Yumina stood in the kitchen.
As he follows the end of Yumina’s line of sight, he finds a black lump placed on the plate.
“What’s that?”
As he wipes his hands with a wet wipe, Katou who changed from his muddy clothes to new clothes, asks Yumina so.
And then ––––
“………… I apologize. Actually, I’m the type who doesn’t cook much…… What do I say, to the Lord’s expectations, it seems that I couldn’t meet it……”
With eyes like a dead fish, she says “I’ll throw this away……”, and Yumina tries to throw away the black mass on the plate.
“You goddamn idiot! Do you want to take away from me the classic situation where the main protagonist eats the black charcoal-like blasphemy of a dish that the bad heroine made so hard to wind all her fingers to the point where it doesn’t make sense for the main protagonist to say that it’s not bad as to not be able to cook!?” (TN: This sentence is just a bunch of gibberish things. Hahaha)
“What are you talking about!?”
“Just hand me that charcoal!”
“Ah! You just said charcoal!? This is a hamburger steak!”
“That is a hamburger steak!? Isn’t that charcoal!?”
“It’s a hamburger steak!”
It was apparently a hamburger.
As I thought, another world is amazing.
While thinking that, Katou received the charcoal from the reluctant Yumina.
Katou sits in a chair as it is, and grabs a fork with a compelling dreadful expression.
It was as if he was exactly a hero who was going to a holy war.
“……. Please don’t die.”
Yumina was saying something disturbing, but Katou doesn’t stops.
For Katou, this is a situation that he was dreaming of.
He couldn’t stop.
Kato gulps his throat, and eats his first bite first.
–––– Gori.
A sound that should not come out of a dish, echoed in Katou’s mouth.
His tongue is tingling with pain.
As is often the case in mangas, it looks unpleasant, but the taste is not so bad.
As he embraces such an illusion as much as possible, it might not have been good to put it into his mouth too much.
His body reacted negatively to it, and his convulsions didn’t stop.
Katou felt the danger of it to his body, and he put the charcoal back on the plate.
And at the same time, Katou became keenly aware of its bad effect.
“Shiiit, why didn’t I! killed my taste buds in advance!”
“Don’t kill it!?”
Katou shed tears, and lamented his own naiveness.
Even if it was a little bad, he thought that it wouldn’t be like this once he swallowed it.
But, that’s impossible.
It doesn’t pass through his throat.
To that end, this dish deviated from the track.
Perhaps, the handsome harem protagonists of the world, likely killed their taste buds beforehand in preparation for such a situation.
I underestimated them.
To be honest, Kato was underestimating the handsome Harem protagonists.
They weren’t just, flirting around with beautiful girls with cheats.
–––– It’s life-threatening.
They had thrown away one of their five senses, for an event which only increased their favorability to only a little.
Without belching the discord within them until they lose they’re palate, they have overcome solitude.
Horrible faces, were attached to them.
Katou was strongly taught by his mother that food shouldn’t be cooked poorly, but he wants her to forgive him this time.
Please forgive Japan, which is the country that throws away the most food in the world.
With his hollow eyes, Katou put his fork on the table.
It was Katou’s first defeat in a different world.
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A few hours later, the two people who had a safe dinner with the canned food in one of their rucksacks, decided to clean their bodies next.
Bathtub…… there seems to be none, so Katou was secretly trying to wash his body with a towel soaked in hot water to use it, but when he turned to his back, Yumina was looking at him strangely.
When he asked Yumina what was wrong, she said that the thing is, in this world, they can clean their bodies with magic, and that there is no bath itself.
It was a little disappointing, but then, Katou decides to have Yumina use that magic on him.
“Oh! Cool!”
When Yumina casted her spell, his sweaty and sticky body was refreshed like it was a lie.
It was too convenient.
If this magic was brought back to Earth, and if it is popularized, it has a level of convenience which will make a lot of companies cannot avoid going bankrupt.
While being impressed by that magic for the first time, Katou changed into his pajamas, took out two cans of juice from his rucksack, and he handed one of them to Yumina.
“It’s an unusual drink. …… However, it’s really delicious.”
It’s probably her first time having a carbonated juice.
Yumina shows a surprised face every time she drinks it, perhaps because it’s bubbling in her mouth.
I don’t know if it would suit her mouth, but apparently, she was pleased with it.
“Come to think of it, I didn’t give my name. My name is Katou. Katou Noboyuki.”
“I’m Yumina. Yumina Carrise.”
“Nice to meet you, Yumina. So, I have a question right away, the magic that Yumina casted for me just now, how did you memorize it?”
“Eh? Magic, is it?”
From the bottom of her heart, Yumina asked back in wonder.
“Right right, that magic.”
“…… Is it alright to say that you’re talking about general magic? Then, you can learn it by using a skill card.”
“Skill card?”
“Yes, this card.”
Then, Yumina shows Katou a card.
It was a little bit like the card, that he received from the goddess.
Yumina’s name, and a number that seems to be her level were written there.
“If you consume your skill points on this card, you can learn skills and magic.”
“Heh! I want that too!”
“Fufu, if we go to the royal capital, you can buy it in a simple procedure. It can also be used as a substitute for an identification, so let’s depart from here tomorrow, and aim for the royal capital.”
“All right! That’s settled!”
Most likely, his goal for the first day was decided.
Then, let’s go to bed now, in preparation for tomorrow.
“Then, it’s time to go to bed.”
Katou said so, and turned his eyes to the only bed.
“Tsu!? That’s right! It’s already late at night, so I have to go and sleep!”
Then Yumina makes her face bright red.
“……………………………………………………………………………………”
To Yumina’s expression, Katou had an answer which is close to conviction.
Katou, who has read through numerous romance manga, came to understand it as if he was picking it up with his hand.
The answer is, in other words,
–––– Yumina clearly has a liking for Katou.
It was that.
Katou is not so insensitive, to the point that he doesn’t understand it.
However, right now he can’t touch Yumina here.
It has been proven by many Harem protagonists with their bodies.
Why can’t they never touch, the heroine in a situation where they can reach out?
Is it because they’re a young man?
Is it because of morals?
Is it because it’s embarrassing?
Wrong.
It never was such a rubbish thing.
They aren’t that naive.
Then why?
They are merely, afraid.
Calling it an individual route, once it was entered, you will never be able to go out of it again, it was an existence of fear ––––
In a game, the thing called individual route was, like proof of pure love, to keep loving one heroine.
But for a Harem protagonist, this individual route literally means death. (TN: Nice boat ending)
In games, if you make full use of save and load, whether it’s an individual route or a bad end, there shouldn’t be any problem.
However, in a world where such things don’t exist, it’s impossible to start over.
In such a harsh world, the harem protagonists of the world were living in a deadly manner.
Even if he wants to put his hands on her, he can never put it.
It’s like having a feast every day through a glass case in front of a man who is on the verge of starvation.
A world that is too hard and harsh.
It can be said that it’s exactly the road of carnage.
The harem road, was such a road of carnage.
Nonetheless, they had to endure it.
Only those who have endured it, can open the true harem path.
“Nobuyuki-sama …….”
The sweet voice of Yumina.
It’s an inciting lustful voice that an ordinary person would not be able to endure.
––––Putun.
“…………………………………………………………………………………………”
The moment Katou heard her voice, he decided to touch Yumina’s breasts.
Well, today is their first day.
Boobs would be safe.
If that’s the case, he was certain that he won’t enter an individual route, and today marks hist first year in a different world, so it’s kind of a reward for himself.
Let’s aim for harem in earnest from tomorrow on. (TN: In the end, he gave up. Hahaha)
Katou concluded so.
“…… Yumina.”
Katou approached Yumina, and gently reached for her two big boobs.
However,
“A,as I thought, it’s embarrassing……!”
“Fugoo!?”
Suddenly, a severe pain ran through Katou’s abdomen.
When he looks at his stomach reflexively, Yumina’s fist is deeply embedded in it.
“No,Nobuyuki-sama! My apologies! Nobuyuki-sama!”
In his fading consciousness, Katou’s outstretched hand extended into the sky.