How come monsters in fantasy worlds never went extinct?
I could think of it simply, like mosquitoes and other bugs, but then there was the question of how and where they got their food and reproduced.
The solution was unexpectedly simpleâŠ
No thinking needed!
âThe author created and killed them off whenever they were needed.
Simply give up on making the difficult food chain or reproduction.
After all, itâs boring~
Stab!
âHey, baby pig. Be a human in your next life.â
Thatâs right. That stuff was boring.
There was something I regretted deeply a few days prior when I was running away after being betrayed by the fairies.
Donât leave room for any future troubles!
I had to eliminate any possible threats in that fantasy world full of ungrateful savages.
âCruel bastard. How could you do that to a newborn orcâŠâ
âHey, demon. Are you gonna raise it and send it off to marriage?â
ââŠâ
âIf not, shut up.â
I hated the kind that imposed idealism others showed while not acting on it themselves the most.
Who would take responsibility if the orc grew up and put innocent humans in distress?
Theyâd complain about it regardless of what I did.
It wasnât even funny, really.
âItâs a misunderstanding.â
âWhat is?â
âYoung orcs are sold at a high price. They castrate it early to kill off its wild nature and use them as livestock.â
âLivestock, you say⊠good thing I killed it.â
âYouâre happy you just threw away a pile of money? I canât understand how you think at all.â
âThen donât.â
There was no way a demon that recovered even after getting the bottom half of their body burnt off could understand how a eunuch felt!
Of course, that didnât mean I was a eunuch at allâ
âWait.â
I didnât have room to pay attention because of all those life-threatening ordeals, butâŠ
âWhat is it?â
âWeâre doomed.â
âBecause you killed a young orc?â
âYou think Iâd be sorry over one pig after killing a bunch of other baby gnolls?â
âThen what is it?â
âDonât even try to figure it out. If you figure it out this time, Iâll actually kill you.â
[Outsider]
âI canât get agitated, no matter what.â
***
The Hero requested to treat the hand of a girl that saved him.
The Saintess questioned him with a confused face.
âWhy must I pay your debts, Hero Oh Hanwoo?â
âThat⊠thatâs⊠wellâŠâ
Hero Oh Hanwoo, who wasnât expecting to get denied in the first place, could not give a solid answer.
âIt seems you are taking the miracle of the Saintess lightly.â
âI am not!â
He couldnât possibly disregard the Saintessâ power that could even revive the dead!
âYouâre not? I think youâre greatly mistaken.â
After a look from the Saintess, her entourage opened a fancy scroll and started to read it out loud.
âOur nation would like to express gratitude to the Saintess for healing the great Council-woman, Celebless, by gifting the following: 200 ancient moonlight tree bows, 15 spirit swords that hold the essence of the forest, 600 tamed unicorns, 15 feathers of a phoenix, 3 earth dragon scales, 1 bottle of the tears of the Fairy King, 3 blessed shadow cloaksâŠâ
It wasnât just the physical giftsâŠ
The Fairy Kingdom either conceded or turned a blind eye when it came to political or military issues between the humans, whether it was big or small.
That was a Hero.
He knew the quality of the formalities was good, but not that there would be that much special treatment.
The Saintess gave a short explanation.
âMake a request after youâve proven yourself to be this valuable.â
Oh Hanwoo, thinking it would be the end if he didnât answer on the spot, stood firm and insisted.
âThink of it as an investmentâŠ! It may not be right now, but Iâll quickly become strongerâŠ!â
âThen weâll talk after youâve become stronger, like your friends.â
ââŠâ
His friends were busy laughing at him.
âLook at you now, after acting high and mighty and running off?â
âWas he hoping for a harem?â
âAn outsider doing outsider things.â
And some Heroes looked at him like he was a piece of trash, a pest.
âPerverted bastard.â
âDisgusting.â
As the Saintess had pointed out, it was because he didnât look like a comrade who got involved for âsublime intentionsâ.
âN-no Iâm not!â
[A certain male god scolds that lying is bad.]
[A certain immature god of dice is disappointed youâre not standing proud.]
[A certain evil god snickers.]
The gods looked down happily at the troubled Oh Hanwoo.
ThenâŠ
âSaintess. This may be a presumptuous request, but may I take in that swordswoman as my apprentice?â
Hero Yoo Bora butted in.
Her tidy, model student impression was the same as always, but the emotion in her voice and facial expression was completely gone.
The Saintessâ sharp eyes from looking at Oh Hanwoo turned soft.
[Name] Yoo Bora
[Level] 6
[Blessings] Hero E, Magic B, Weapon E, Fortitude F
[Curses] â
[Dividend] 3.84
Because Yoo Bora was a Hero with excellent grades.
Although Jang Miyeon was solo leading from obsessively taking care of herself after almost becoming a gnollâs victim, Yoo Bora and Choi Gangmin tied first in the comprehensive evaluation for the Blessings and individual talents.
She couldnât be disliked.
âIf that is what Hero Yoo Bora wishes, then I will grant it.â
Comrade? It would be a relief if she didnât hold back the Heroes.
But wouldnât she be useful being Hero Yoo Boraâs companion, who was having a hard time from being an outcast?
âIs what the Saintess thought.
She didnât ask for the opinion of the one getting treated.
âYour hand, Aria.â
ââŠhuh? Yes, maâam!â
âYes!â
It was a determined tone as if to say, âIâm not wasting any more time on you.â
Under pressure, the girl held back from asking if she could tell her family about it and hurriedly ran to her savior.
The Saintess turned around and spoke.
âPrince Alsus, too much time has been delayed from a useless disturbance. Please hurry along your with your plans.â
âYes, Saintess.â
The Heroes blatantly laughed at Oh Hanwoo as they walked past him.
âDamnit, damnit, damnitâŠ!â
Oh Hanwoo was looked down on by everyone and even got his beautiful comrade taken from him.
While he was about to go crazy, a ray of light shined upon him.
âKeep your head up, Hero!â
ââŠPrincess?â
Princess Ethena had stayed behind, watching him with warm eyes that werenât full of disgust.
âYou may not have gotten acknowledgment, but you didnât do anything wrong. It ended up looking like Hero Yoo Bora saved her, but youâre the one who carried her to the Aria temple. Thank you so much for saving my childhood friend!â
âOhâŠâ
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âThis is my gift to you in return. Please be my second apprentice.â
âOh? Okay.â
Oh Hanwoo had never gotten a magic lesson, but he still answered on impulse.
âYour second apprentice?â
As he was about to question her, he jumped in surprise at the change in his body.
[Magic]
Oh Hanwoo lacked the basic information to know this, but he had earned a Blessing necessary for mages.
âI wish you the best of luck.â
Princess Ethena gracefully bowed, holding her dress in both hands, and joined the group that was getting farther away.
Oh Hanwoo snapped out of his trance and muttered to himself,
[A certain male god applauds you for your own interpretation.]
[A certain immature god of dice gives you a ten out of ten.]
[A certain godâŠ]
Hero Oh Hanwooâs adventure wasnât over yet.
***
âYou should smile. Even Iâm getting anxious because of the moody vibe youâve been giving off.â
âItâs none of your business.â
âNo one must know Iâm a eunuch.â
[A certain god is curious.]
âYou might be happy about it, outsider godâŠâ
Since Iâd probably never stop being an Outsider.
[A certain god pesters you that theyâre extremely curious.]
âItâs a secret.â
[A certain god is complaining.]
[A certain god is complaining.]
[A certain god is complaining.]
[A certain godâŠ]
After staying quiet for a while, the god was back to spamming me again!
But I wasnât going to tell him, no matter what.
âHey you⊠are you really talking with god? You werenât insane?â
âItâs common.â
I answered nonchalantly to the shocked demon.
That was nothing in a fantasy world where giant lizards flew in the air instead of airplanes.
ââŠAre you the Demon King?â
âAre you insane? Where in the world is there a level 1 demon king?â
âIâm not insane! I asked because the only ones who can hear an oracle themselves are Demon Kings and Heroes. But thereâs no way a Hero can get a Heroâs Curse.â
âJust shrug it off.â
âYouâre a strange one, really.â
Having recovered his bottom half from the Saintessâs attack, demon Kogmos hid his horns that symbolized demons right away with magic. They werenât actually gone, he told me it was a superficial illusion.
âWhy couldnât you do that from the start?â
âThen my recovery would be slower. Plus, isnât it impossible for a human to stay alive without half their body? It would be useless for me to hide my horns, anyways.â
âYouâre actually pretty clever.â
âYouâre right, I am.â
I underestimated it because it was the second-closest city, but it took an extremely long time even though we were moving without a break.
Was it because we didnât have too far left to go?
â$#@ $#@ $!â
âPigs! Hand over everything you got!â
â%# #$! #@$%!â
âHahaha! How ridiculous for a mere pig!â
â$#! %$! @%#!â
âLetâs kill these pigs first before robbing them!â
We came across fantasy natives who were traveling in the same direction as us.
Being escorted with several carriages, they collided head-on with the orcs on their cows and horses!
Bam! Bang!
â [email protected] #~?!â
âOink~?!â
The humans and orcs screamed in unison as they got tangled up together.
But not too much time passed before the scene turned into the orcâs one-sided slaughter.
It was inevitable.
Like gnolls, orcs only go for prey that looks weaker than themâthey only attacked if they were sure of their victory.
âAre you not gonna help them out as a fellow human?â
âYou didnât marry an old demon king, either.â
âFair enough. My bad.â
ââŠBut I can get revenge for them.â
âHeartless bastard.â
Condemned by the sensitive demon, I watched the scene unfold from afar.
The humans, who seemed to be mercenaries, had their backs to the extravagant carriage and were building their last line of defense.
âI smell a female pig.â
âWeâre done! Load all the food!â
âIgnore them, hurry up and get away!â
The orcs didnât go out of their way to attack the humans with their full guard up and tried to leave as quickly as possible with the stolen carriage.
Just as it looked like the orcsâ victoryâŠ
Clunk.
Lady A and Lady B walked out as the fancy door opened.
â%#!â
Flames erupted like grenades every time Lady A, wearing an elegant black dress, opened her palms.
Bang! Poof! PoofâŠ!
âWhat are those female pigs?!â
âI think theyâll give birth to strong kids.â
âI think youâre gonna die before that!â
The orcs burned like dry straws or passed out one by one.
They couldnât escape because the cows and horses were frozen by the flame magic. It would only be a matter of time for the green pigs to get exterminated.
ââŠI donât like this.â
âAre you mad your innocent species are alive?â
âWhat do you mean, mad?! Donât say stuff like that! I meant that I was disappointed because I couldnât avenge them.â
âItâs the same thing.â
âNo, itâs not.â
Lady A and Lady B from the extravagant carriage looked like upper-class humans in the fantasy world.
I had to befriend people like them in power in order to not be distressed by those fantasy savages.
Why so?
The answer was simpleâ
âFuup!â
Taking a deep breath, I shouted loud enough for my echoes to be heard all across the plain.
âThereâs a super pretty female pig here!â
I wasnât lying.
I didnât know about the orcsâ eye for beauty, but the two ladies who went back inside the fancy carriage looked extraordinary.
Never mind if theyâre not.
âHey, what are you doing?â
âRounding up pigs.â
âCreate your own problems!
Iâd be fair and square and befriend them through fraud.