Shirakome Arifureta: From Commonplace to World's Strongest: Volume 4

1. Auflage 2017
ISBN: 978-1-7183-1106-0
Verlag: J-Novel Club
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 383 Seiten

Reihe: Arifureta: From Commonplace to World's Strongest

With their business in Ur concluded, Hajime and his party return to Fuhren. After getting Yue, Shea, and Tio their Status Plates, Hajime decides to rest in the city for a while. But as always, if he doesn't go to trouble, it manages to find him. During a date with Shea, he runs afoul of a shady underground organization. There he rescues a girl named Myuu and becomes... her father!?

Autoren/Hrsg.

Shirakome, Ryo

Weitere Mitwirkende

Takayaki

Ningen

Leseproben

Hajime pulled a set of dazzling jewels from his Treasure Trove and transmuted them onto Shea’s collar. Furthermore, he rearranged the gems already on there. Shea’s collar had served the purpose of making it look like she was Hajime’s slave, so he hadn’t spent much time on its initial design. Because of that it had come out looking rather plain. It had just been to avoid trouble after all.

However, if Shea was going to keep wearing it because she liked it, Hajime felt it deserved an upgrade in the looks department too. That was why he retailored it to suit her appearance more.

Her new collar had white and blue ornaments adorning the simple black fabric. Furthermore, he had transmuted a fragment of his now spent Divinity Stone into a luminous sky blue cross, and transfixed it to the front of her collar. It now resembled a fashionable choker from his old world. No one would think it was a simple collar meant to identify a slave.

Hajime nodded in satisfaction. Shea had lost herself in the sensation of Hajime’s fingers on her neck, but she snapped back to herself when he handed her a mirror. She excitedly looked at her neck. The beautiful choker was a huge improvement from her old collar. It seemed the color of the cross was the same as her eyes.

“Wow~ This is the first time I’ve ever had something so pretty.” Shea beamed happily as she played with the tiny cross. Until recently, Shea had never left her village, much less the sea of trees. She had never owned fancy things like jewelry. Of course, that didn’t mean she hadn’t liked them. She’d always been jealous of the girls she’d seen in Verbergen. The ones rich enough to afford the scant amount of gems that could be found in the sea of trees.

And now she finally had jewelry like that of her own. She was ecstatic. Doubly so because it had been gifted to her by the boy she loved. Her bunny ears hopped up and down with joy.

“Thank you so much, Hajime-saaan!” She hugged his arm and buried her head in his chest with a smile. Her ears rubbed against him and her tail twitched happily.

Hajime simply shrugged his shoulders while Yue sidled up, smiling faintly, and started patting Shea’s head. When Tio tried to do the same, Hajime slapped her away.

The sight of them all flirting brought the onlookers to their senses, and they looked at the party with a mixture of emotions clouding their faces.

The girls all sighed, admiring Yue, Shea, and Tio’s stellar looks. They didn’t even have it in them to be jealous. Meanwhile, the guys were split between being entranced by Yue and the others, extremely jealous of Hajime, or fascinated by his artifacts and looking to see how much they could potentially make off them.

None of them had tried approaching him yet, though. The merchants would have walked up to him, but they were too busy keeping each other in check while waiting for the perfect opportunity to give the others the slip and approach Hajime first.

The gaudily-dressed man was comparing his own girls to Yue and Shea, and was clearly displeased. He then attempted something that could only be called rash.

“Hey, you two. Would you be interested in—”

“Get your filthy hands off her, scum.” He’d completely ignored Hajime and walked up to Yue and the others. If all he’d done was talk to them, then Hajime would have just activated his Intimidation and made the guy faint. However, he’d gone one step too far, and tried to cup Shea’s cheek.

Though his outfit was needlessly ostentatious, he was actually a rather handsome man. His confidence in his looks had given him the mistaken belief that any woman would swoon before him as long as he walked up to her and said some pretty words. Shea glared coldly at the man and made to swat his hand away, but before she could, Hajime grabbed the man’s head in a vice grip. If looks could kill, the man would already be dead.

“Hiii!?” The man shrank back, a pathetic whimper escaping his lips. Hajime lifted him up and threw him as far as he could toward the town. He landed on the ground a good thirty meters away. He fell face-first, sliding across the ground for a good ten meters. Then, he did a headstand for a few seconds before flopping to the ground.

He stayed there in a cloud of dust, unmoving. Everyone’s gazes went from the man, who had just flown an unbelievable distance, to Hajime, their jaws hanging open in shock. The man’s two female servants gave Hajime one last fearful look before running away screaming. Hajime gazed at the gathered onlookers with a stare that could freeze hell over.

The merchants who had a second ago been trying to stop each other from being the first were now eagerly pushing their fellow traders forward instead. Hajime’s gaze promised the same for anyone else who tried anything.

When he saw no one else came forward, he smiled in satisfaction and returned to ignoring the crowd.

“Hawawa, Hajime-san got mad for my sake. Have his feelings toward me started growing? Just a bit more and we’ll finally be real lovers!”

“Shea, good luck.”

“Yue-san... thank you. I’ll do my best!”

“Hmm, despite what he says, he truly seems to cherish you. Master, when will you start cherishing me so? I would love it if you could throw me like that man.”

Shea clapped her hands over her cheeks and squirmed with happiness. In truth, Hajime just hadn’t been able to stand how the guy had walked around as if he owned everyone and everything. Though it was also true that he held Shea dear, so he couldn’t exactly deny what Tio had said either.

As an aside, when Tio expressed her desire to be thrown as well, Hajime simply slapped her again. She fell to the ground, moaning in ecstasy again. Hajime glared at her, but that only made her more excited. Giving up, he sighed dramatically and decided to ignore her. Will alone sat in the back of the truck, hugging his knees. He was trying his best to pretend like he had nothing to do with the group up front. Just then, a huge commotion broke out at the front of the line.

Hajime looked over, spotting the gate guards heading this way. They’d probably spotted the earlier altercation and had come to see what had happened. Or maybe they’d just seen the man lying on the ground and wanted to find out what had occurred.

Three men in armor had ridden out on horses and were questioning the nearby merchants as they made their way toward Hajime. One of the merchants pointed to Hajime, then to the man lying on the ground. Then, one guard barked out orders and rode over to the collapsed man. The other two headed toward Hajime and the others, who were still flirting on top of Brise’s hood. Their gazes hardened. Not because that was their duty as guards... but because they were jealous.

“Hey, you! What’s all this commotion about!? And what’s that black box thing!? Explain yourself!” Though he was addressing Hajime, his gaze kept shifting over to Yue, so he didn’t really sound as intimidating as he intended. Hajime had expected this, so he answered without hesitation.

“This is my artifact. It’s a vehicle that can move without horses. As for that guy... he tried to lay a hand on my companion, so I sent him flying. He was trying to rape her. Can you believe it? Look at how scared she is now... Honorable guard, surely you don’t mean to take the side of that rapist. Me and my friends would never feel safe coming into Fuhren, knowing that the law protects criminals like him... You understand, right?” Hajime spun his tale without batting an eyelid. Shea was clinging to Hajime, and depending on how one interpreted it, it could have looked like she was terrified.

Will glared at Hajime from the back.

“Silver-tongued devil,” he muttered. However, Hajime ignored him. The nearby merchants all whispered things like “Rape her? He barely even said anything before he got sent flying,” or “She doesn’t look very scared to me. In fact, she looks pretty happy,” but Hajime ignored them too. After all, between a man dressed in tacky clothes and a group of beautiful girls, it was obvious who the guards were going to believe.

“Why, that’s terrible,” one of the guards exclaimed, without even bothering to verify the truth of Hajime’s statement. However, the other guard tilted his neck and examined Hajime. Suddenly, a look of realization passed over him and he started whispering to the other guard.

“Come to think of it, you’re right,” the other guard muttered, as he looked over Hajime.

“Could you three be Hajime, Yue, and Shea?”

“Hm? Yeah, we are, but...”

“I see. Does that mean you’ve returned from the quest the branch chief sent you on?”

“Yeah, that’s right... Do you have some kind of message from him or something?”

The guards nodded. They’d been informed by Ilwa to let Hajime’s party through right away. Thanks to that, Hajime wouldn’t have to wait in line. He started up Brise and followed after the guards. The rest of the travelers watched with curiosity as Hajime rode into Fuhren for the second time.

Once they were inside, the group headed straight for the adventurers guild.

They were let into the same waiting room as last time. There, they greedily devoured the tea and cakes they were offered while they waited. Five minutes later the door slammed open and Ilwa Chang stepped into the room.

“Will, are you...