CH 83

Even So, I Don’t Want to

Translated by Mlzkzr

Edited by Mlzkzr

“Nephew-chan!”

The door to the study was thrown open roughly and Kaori entered the room.

Her lips are pouting, her hands are on her hips, and she is making an angry sound.

What the hell was going on—— without even having the time to think about that, Kaori quickly walked up to me, jumped on top of the desk, and approached me.

“Niece-chan told me about it.”

“A,about what?”

“Is it true that nephew-chan doesn’t want to get serious?”

“What’s that about? Ah, that’s right――”

“That’s strange!”

I should say an excuse ―― or should I say, the problem before the excuse?

Before I could even finish saying that she was right, Kaori pressed further.

“Why won’t you get serious? Hah! Is it possible that nephew-chan was also told something by his mother?”

“It’s not like that——”

“Then I’ll go and kill that woman, and make her break the ban on my nephew-chan’s seriousness by force. Don’t worry, I’m a demon king, so I’m good at that kind of thing――”

“Calm down!”

I slammed a chop into the top of Kaori’s head. I heard a nice popping sound.

Incidentally, it is a reasonably fast and strong chop, considering that she can avoid it, and I put enough force into it that it could tear open the shadow of the Dragon King with just a single hit.

“That hurts…… what are you doing?”

Kaori held the place where she was hit and got a little teary-eyed.

“First of all, the fact that I don’t show my seriousness has nothing to do with my mother, and she’s gone in the first place.”

“Then why don’t you get serious?”

“That is……”

How should I respond.

I don’t know if I can honestly answer “since it’s troublesome” here.

I have learned a lot about Kaori’s personality over the past while we have been together.

In a word ―― she’s unpredictable.

As much as I’ve come to understand her very well, I really can’t predict what will happen when I say it.

I can only predict her unpredictability.

Yeah, oh well.

“Since it’s troublesome”

I decided to answer honestly.

If I hide it badly, there is a big chance that it will get troublesome.

It has been that way until now, and I’m sure it will be the same with Kaori.

So I answered honestly.

“Troublesome?”

“Ah, it’s annoying”

“I see, I understand. After eating 100 pieces of cake, I too find it tiresome to move, and I end up falling asleep.”

“If you eat that much, then you’ll become sleepy! Or rather, you eat too much!”

“But it’s okay! Tarararatara!”

Kaori took out something that looked like a pill while making strange sound effects with her mouth.

“What was that sound just now?”

“It’s what my father taught me, it’s a show of respect for masters to make this sound when you produce some amazing item.”

“No, I don’t understand what you’re saying.”

What is Kaori’s father thinking? Or rather, he’s also my ancestor.

“Rather than that――tei!”

Kaori suddenly punched me in the abdomen.

It was so sudden that I couldn’t avoid it and got hit.

I was in a bit of agony, and when I opened my mouth, she threw the pill into my mouth and covered my mouth.

While I was mumbling, she made me drink it.

“Puhah――, what are you doing?”

“Did you drink it properly?”

“You made me drink it precisely! What was that just now?”

“This is a medicine made from a fragment of Hikari-anesama.”

“Hey, wait, did you say fragment? Isn’t this Hikari-anesama human?”

“Humans who will swallow it will automatically wield power.”

“Listen to me―― heh?”

What did she just say?

Automatically…… power?

Could that possibly be …….

Doki!

My heart jumped loudly, my consciousness momentarily faded away.

“It’s all right, even if you wield your power, you won’t wield it in a way that will harm your body. Humans drink alcohol and go wild, but it’s a safe version of that.”

Kaori still seemed to be mumbling something, but I could barely hear it anymore.

No, it comes to my ears as a “sound”, but it feels very far away and I cannot understand the meaning of the words she spoke.

Bad, this is bad.

It’s not poisonous, so it’s bad――

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Hermes stood up quickly.

“Oh? Did the drug work?”

Kaori, still sitting on the desk, peered into Hermes’ face.

Hermes looked into the eyes of that kaori.

“Evil intent…… I can’t feel”

He mumbled in an emotionless voice, completely devoid of anything, and turned around and headed straight for the window.

“I can hear …… a voice of grief”

Immediately after he mumbled something, this time he burst through the window and ran outside.

He jumped out and as soon as his body started to fall, then he kicked the empty space at breakneck speed.

He kicked one after another through the empty air and flew at a tremendous speed.

Hermes ran out of the city of Pindos and arrived at a single carriage surrounded by bandits.

The guard of the carriage had already been cut down, and some young lady riding inside had been dragged away by the bandits.

“Stop! Somebody! Someone, please help me!”

“Resign yourself! Don’t worry, we won’t kill you until we get the ransom money. Right, guys”

“Uhehehehe”

The young lady’s face pales as she feels various crises from the men’s disgusting laughter.

Then Hermes landed there.

“Ah? What are you, when did you show up?”

“Evil deed, I’ll stop it”

Without telling anyone, Hermes drew the sword from his waist and raised it from below.

It was just a single swing ―― right after that single swing which the lady and bandits could see, more than 10 bandits present collapsed, with blood spraying out of their entire bodies and faces of disbelief.

“A,amazing……”

The young woman did not know what had happened, she only understood the helping hand she received and its transcendent power.

“Uhmm! Thank you for saving me ――”

“I can still hear it.”

“Eh?”

Not even receiving the word of thanks from the young lady, Hermes kicked the ground again and ran through the air to the next voice.

He flew to a farming village.

This is a farming village where the bounty of the earth is abundantly growing in the fields before the harvest.

“Dammit! The harvest is almost here!”

“Idiot! Hurry up and run away!”

“Uwaaaaaaahhhn, moooooooooom!”

What would normally be a tranquil farming village had now become a scene of carnage land of bellows and screams.

The cause was ―― the sky.

Hermes guessed that there must be a “main culprit”, since it is something that has been happening a lot for a while now.

The meteorite was falling straight down.

Hermes landed directly under that meteorite.

“What are you doing, get out of here!”

One of the villagers yells at Hermes.

Hermes ignored it and thrust both his hands straight up.

“Perish!”

He casts a spell without chanting.

A black, surface-discharging sphere was launched toward the meteorite.

It was about one-tenth the size of the meteorite, but the moment it hit, it suddenly swelled up and swallowed the meteorite whole.

When the villagers saw this, they forgot to flee.

“What was that just now……”

“Amazing……”

And they were immensely impressed by the power that Hermes has wielded.

“I can still…… hear it”

Hermes again flew toward the next voice.

The drug that Kaori gave him, which she called “a safe version of drinking and running wild”, was in some ways correct and in some ways incorrect.s

In the sense that one’s mind becomes so excited that one can no longer save one’s actions, this is very similar to the intoxication caused by alcohol.

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However, there is one critical difference.

(Uwaaaaaahhh, stop it already! I’ll be exposed, exposed to everyoneeeee!)

An alcoholic beverage makes a person drunk and renders them unconscious, but what Kaori made him drink only retracts his consciousness, which remains as it is.

Hermes felt as if he was looking at himself from a little distance.

And regardless of his own consciousness.

Hermes was driven by the voice of grief he could hear until the effects of the medicine wore off.

One after another, he saved people and showed off his power in public.