chapter 46

Yukinari: “Me-Meguru-san?”

No way…? She should have been right next to me… the place where Meguru-san just was has few traces asserting her existence . Reduced to little more than charred remains… her hands cruelly tumble across the ground in front of me .

Yukinari: “AAAAAAAAAAAA… AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHH!?”Shigenobu: “Meguru!?”Minori: “Meguru-san!?”

UWAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA…AAAAAAAAA… n-no way… something like this… Hearing my cries, Shigenobu and Minori-san are at a loss for words .

Hagisawa: “Ku… Hanebashi!”

Even with Hagisawa calling me, I can’t get rid of the image out of my head . It’s been seared into my mind .

Ono: “So, shall we get back to it? At any rate, I was going to kill all the guys, starting with you, Hanebashi . The way you look at me from far off as if you see through everything is creepy as hell!”

Ono’s voice… causes a magma-like eruption of emotion within me .  

Ono: “Fortunately, as soon as I saw that Meguru was going to be killed, I stole her ability, so it’s all good . ”

Ono smirks . Though I’m trembling all over, I force myself to rise up . At that instant, way too late… with my ability that’s far inferior to that of Meguru-san’s, the metal turtle sword transfers into my hands .  

Ono: “Oh? So transfers can do something like that? What are you going to do with that sword? Well, transferring is a trash ability, and yours is garbage even compared to Meguru’s ability . Ain’t that the best you can do?”

Slow, too slow . Me, my ability, everything… I can’t stop feeling nauseous about it all .

Yukinari: “That power belongs to Meguru-san… return it right now…”

I declare, squeezing out the words from my shaking body .

Ono: “Return it? How would I even do that? That girl’s no longer in this world . Are you stupid? This is the end! Your life is as worthless as your trash ability!”

Ono launches the combined flame and wind abilities from before at me . I… designated a certain item to transfer… raise my head with a furious expression, and swing the metal turtle sword .

Yukinari: “UUUUUUUUUOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!”

Supon, I cut through Ono’s barrier . \nOno: “What!?”

I continue up by cutting down Ono’s hellfire and rush towards him .

Ono: “Bullshit! A Lv 1 from the base group breaking through my ability!?”

As I approach Ono, he uses the abilities stolen from Taniizumi and the others to create an attack interweaving fire and wind, but I cut through everything without slowing down . Then, once I’m in front of Ono, I take a massive swing with the metal turtle sword .

Ono: “Ku… I’ll show you my swordsmanship ability . ”

Ono crosses his swords together in order to catch my attack… Supon, I cut through both his swords .  

Ono: “What!?”Yukinari: “With this, your swordsmanship is useless . If your sword’s broken, then your swordsmanship isn’t worth shit . ”

If your sword breaks, you can’t display your swordsmanship . My skill might be inferior, but my weapon’s better .  

Ono: “Hmph! Even if I don’t have my swords, I still have martial arts . ”

Ono clenches his fist and thrusts out a punch, trying to grab my chest in a judo-like style . Except this is probably the first time Ono has used martial arts, or maybe the second or third . His movements might be good, but they aren’t sharp .  

I… remember . The experience of boxing against mamono using the gloves… my body remembers the sensation of the boxing ability . Even if the style is unfamiliar, seeing through martial arts of Ono’s level is… doable! I avoid Ono’s hand just by turning my body, slash his arm’s tendon and pierce his shoulder, before pulling back the metal turtle sword .

Ono: “AGYAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!? IT HURTSSSSSS! WHAT DID YOU DO!?”Otsuka: “Keisuke-sama! How dare you do something like this to Keisuke-sama you backwards compatible!”

As if to protect Ono, Otsuka along with the rest of his entourage rush over and try to knock me away .

Otsuka: “This isn’t anything worth Keisuke-sama’s time!”Yukinari: “Can all you guys do is just repeat and repeat the same thing over and over!?”

I see through Otsuka’s strike and avoid it, before grabbing her hair and throwing her to the left .

Otsuka: “Kyaaaaaaaa! What are you doing grabbing a woman’s hair? Didn’t your parents teach you anything!?”Yukinari: “Shut up! Do you think that a guy who resorts to violence when things don’t go his way will properly take care of women?”\nWith the same vigor, I kick Otsuka in the stomach and send her flying . Right now, I don’t care about gender!

Otsuka: “Ugu!?”Ono: “Ow… Owww… . what are you doing!? To the great me, something like this is unforgivable! Absolutely unforgivable! I’ll kill you!”Yukinari: “Unforgivable? You… what are you saying? What Meguru-san lectured you about, did you even understand what she meant!?”

War is said to be won by those who do detestable things, but this isn’t a battlefield, let alone a war . This is a place where everyone is desperately trying to survive .

Ono! This isn’t a place for you to play at being the boss monkey of monkey mountain! Ono’s trying to corner me again with his abilities… I cut through fire, water, wind, and earth .

Ono: “Ha!”

Multiple transparent barriers appear in front of me .

Yukinari: “Barriers again? Do you think something like that will work?!”

I thrust with all my strength using the metal turtle sword and break through the barrier .

Ono: “Not yet, not yet! Will you be able to stand after taking this!?”

A black lump comes out of Ono’s hand . I remember there being a sorcery ability like that . I saw those of the battle group gathered practicing in the village from a distance .

I cut it down with my sword, but it passes through and hits me . At that moment, I feel a severe pain in the tendon of my arm, and like Ono, I can no longer put any force behind that arm .

Ono: “Hahahaha! How’s that! Sharing pain through magic! With this you won’t be able to seriously attack me!”Yukinari: “You sure?!”

I wield my sword and cut off Ono’s ear . At the moment, a sharp pain runs through my ear . It’s a pain that that’d normally leave me writhing in agony, but I refuse to acknowledge it!

Ono: “AGYAAAAAAAAAAAAA!? My ear, my ear-! It hurts! It hurts…!”

I approach Ono who’s currently rolling on the ground in pain and stomp down on his legs with my heel . A good boki, rings out .

Ono: “GYAAAAAA!?”\nIntense pain runs through my legs as well, but it soon subsides . It seems that the magic that Ono stole and used on me was cut off because he lost consciousness[1] .  

Otsuka: “Keisuke-sama!”

While Ono was writhing in pain, he heals both his legs using a stolen ability . By the way, Ono didn’t steal my ability . Maybe he wasn’t interested because it’s backwards compatible?

Ono: “It seems that you transferred my attack power… ku, I didn’t realize that there was such an ability hidden within transferring . I can’t copy it!”

Ono glares at me while moaning in pain . Maybe he can’t steal it immediately? No, Ono has been stealing abilities after confirming them . Despite that, he can’t steal mine . Right now I remember that time Ono was getting friendly with the guy with the barrier ability .

I remember everyone who had their abilities stolen . Most of the battle group, part of the base group… he still hasn’t taken my ability . The base group… he chose to hang around with them despite not getting along with anyone at all . Then Meguru-san’s ability was stolen .

In the first place, Ono’s copied abilities are deteriorated ones . That’s why he’s stealing the original abilities themselves . There are several conclusions that can be drawn from this .  

Yukinari: “The condition for activating your plunder expansion ability is that you must remain in contact with the targeted person for a certain period of time . That’s why, having barely spent any time with me, you can’t steal my ability!”

Having pointed out the truth, Ono clicks his tongue and glares at me with a glint in his eyes .  

Battle group(?): “I see! Then everyone of the battle group who wasn’t that close to Ono attack together once the barriers are broken! Anyone who can fight with their expansion abilities, be prepared!”

Ono: “Chi! You’re making a huge mistake if you think I can be beaten by something like that . ”

…A huge mistake? With a large number of people?

Wrong, I’m who’ll defeat Ono!

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Yukinari Hanebashi:1) Teleport objects /Self to Earth2) Point/yen conversion . (Tells others it’s a shopping catalogue)3) Remote viewing4) Bestowal transferboxing gloves, strawberry wallaby medal, kangaroo knight medal, kitchen knifeKangaroo Punching Glove +10 | Effect : Dynamic Vision Up | Wind Punch | Wild Sense     Instant Expansion Ability : Kangaroo Step | Boxer

Meguru Hiyama:1) Teleportation2) Clairvoyance3) Material transfer (uses pillars of light)4) Transfer to the other worldMetal turtle sword

Shigenobu Sakaede1) Black Smith2) Mining Correction3) Equipment Strengthening4) Grant EffectsHammer??

Minori Himeno: Has a polite/formal way of speaking1) Healing/recover mana2) Charge with mana3) Repair (doesn’t fix missing pieces/chips)4) Item boxCrowbar??

Dai Hagisawa1) Craft things2) Identify3) Trade4) Collection ImprovementHammer??

[1] It literally says consciousness . Maybe he fainted for a second??  That or the author used the wrong word…