âYouâre one of his friends!ăWhat the hell are you?
âWhat? What is it? I wonder what it is.
Standing there was a man in a suit with shiny black glasses.
It was Issei Tanaka.
Raising his glasses, he ponders Satoâs question.
âWhat is my relationship with him? Business partner?ăHmmm, not quite, itâs not just that kind of profit-loss relationship.â
âSo what the hell!â
âHmm.â
I groaned, thinking.
He thought there might be a better way to put it.
âAh, yes!ăThereâs a good word for that!â
Tanaka then makes a gesture of inspiration by clapping his palms.
Then he changes his atmosphere, looks straight at Sato, and replies.
âAlliance partner.â
Sato is momentarily intimidated by the unknown pressure.
But then, as if to blow away his fear, he orders in a loud voice.
âDonât play around!ăGet him!
The men strike Tanaka.
Heâs just the president and a businessman.
He canât do anything against this amount of explorers and will be beaten to a pulp.
âSato, you didnât win by force of arms, so you are right to have stronger force.â
It should be a critical situation, but Tanaka doesnât make any moves.
Itâs as if heâs waiting to be hit.
âWell, itâs a little stuffy, but rightly so, an eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth, and military force for military force.â
Then, on the verge of being hit, he replies.
âMore overwhelming, more powerful force, you know.â
And the explorers who hit Tanaka are blown away and fly through the air.
What happened? Silver and gold-class explorers are blown away, a man appears from them.
âIssei-san, I donât have time for this.â
He was slack-jawed, with a cigarette in his mouth.
A nice middle aged guy who carries a large sword as tall as he is on his shoulder.
THE big brother with stubble, but still muscular.
What he really isâŠ.
âTe, TendoâŠRi, Ryunosuke!â
With a trembling voice, Sato realizes and backs away.
Everyone who is an explorer knows who he is.
He is the only person in this world for whom the phrase âthere is always someone better than youâ does not apply.
He is the leader of the top guild [Yoi no Meisei], the person who has reached the highest level.
His titles are many and legendary.
But even so, the title that he is called the most simply describes him.
He is the only one in the world who is allowed to use this title.
The [worldâs strongest] explorer.
A man standing in front of Sato and the others with that laughably obvious sign pulled out of his hand.
âWell, donât be like that. Itâs for the sake of your friends who will eventually fight with you.â
âHeihei.â
The man then took a step forward.
He looked languid, as if he were cleaning out the trash.
âItâs self-defense, Ryunosuke. Just knock them out.â
Thatâs why I pulled him in just in time and suppressed the evidence.
Well, thatâs not the purpose of this video.
âHic!â
Sato and the others back away.
Silver class?ăGold class?ăThere is no way such a thing could be his opponent.
Because he is Japanâs first Diamond Class adventurer.
âŠ
âBa, monsterâŠ!â
In a matter of minutes, Satoâs army of 30 men all fell to the ground.
The violence of status had changed the battle from numbers to individuals.
In the face of the mighty individual, the titans were no better than ants in front of an elephant.
Sato, who was watching the battle, was still unable to comprehend what was happening, his mouth agape.
The only thing he can understand is that that monster is taking the side of that incompetent.
Why take his side?
Why do you take the side of that incompetent?
Sato no longer remembers the fact that he was beaten to a pulp by that incompetent.
âWhat the hell, what the hell!â
And the last one, Tendo, stands in front of the already battered bad boy.
âWhat the hell is going on!â
He is no match for them, and loses consciousness from the blow, as if he is about to receive the judgment of the heavens.
âWell, thatâs all taken care of. Then letâs head for the final touches.â
Tanaka happened to be here?ăWith Tendo?ăIt canât be.
On the day of that contract, Tanaka, who was worried about Kenya, who was being treated as a special A-level employee, and investigated, noticed Satoâs presence.
What is more, this rough man named Sato is the son of the president of that rival company, to his surprise.
He was struggling to find some weakness in the rival company for a certain purpose, when the opportunity presented itself.
And with a report from the subordinate who had Kenya under surveillance, Tanakaâs plan was set in motion.
(Youâre not very thorough at all, Kenya. Well, thanks to that, the plan went smoothlyâŠ)
Tanaka thought as he watched the fallen explorers.
If all of these explorers had gone to Kenya, they would have been left alone.
That would have been a possibility of death.
The daredevil and straight-laced boy would have acted according to his own will.
(Well, itâs okay, this kind of backstabbing and scheming is my role.)
Tanaka did not rise to this level only by being a clean-cut man.
He has done many dirty things.
There are times when such things are necessary, but stillâŠ.
(Thatâs fine for the explorer)
I will take on the dirty roles.
So you can do as you wish.
Follow your dreams as you wish, as you desire, as your desires lead you.
(That must be it.)
Tanaka looks at the tower rising high in the sky.
Then he looked beyond the invisible clouds.
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(It should lead you to the top of that tower.)
Blood, bones, tears, despair, and dreams.
(It should lead you to the top of that tower, where desire swirls.
(But for now, for a little while, I will lead you there.)
Tanaka laughs and murmurs as he looks at the sky.
âAs a senior who also grew up with bean sprouts.â