Translator: Tsukii
Editor: Lilia
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Chapter 46 – It was Before He Became Oidon…
“My apologies, Haruto-san, Sharon-dono. We ended up having to move to another location because of me.”
“I-it’s okay…”
“I’m fine… with this…”
As commotion erupted in the bar, Sharon chose to retreat.
We moved to another place that didn’t seem to have many people, and now we were at a quiet bar.
The only other person beside the three of us lined up at the bar counter was the bartender, who served us drinks without raising a brow upon seeing our weird group composition.
Perhaps I shouldn’t have brought Sharon, who was still a student, but she seemed very interested and pushed her opinion over ours, so we ended up in this bar.
Well, as long as I didn’t let her drink liquor, it should be okay, I guess.
If I thought about it calmly, it was hard to understand why we visited another drinking place after having a bad experience of being dead drunk just earlier.
Well, something like that wasn’t uncommon.
“I don’t usually have this appearance, so I’m a little troubled by the attention gathered.”
“No, I think your previous appearance would also gather attention.”
It was true that this paladin was too handsome.
So handsome that we had no choice but to switch bars.
It pissed me off. My appearance was also that of a perfect prince, but the impact wasn’t as big.
Sir Braveheart, holding a glass next to me, truly looked like a historical painting.
Even Sharon, who was sitting next to me on his opposite side, looked like a young lady taking a break.
If there were other customers, there was no way they wouldn’t call out to them.
“Damn it… even I am supposed to be popular… right, Sharon?”
“HAH??”
It really── really made my whole body shake.
The voice that Sharon uttered sounded as if it were coming from the ends of the earth, the depths of hell, and it made me wither in fear.
“No, it’s nothing.”
I shrank back in my counter seat.
Sir Braveheart had a wry smile on his handsome face, and he clinked the ice in his glass.
“Kuku, it seems even the Descendant of the Hero is helpless against a maiden of her age.”
“Please don’t tease me about it…”
“Oops, I’ve been wanting to say this for a long time, but it’s not necessary for you to use formal language with me. Sharon-dono too, I don’t mind if you speak casually.”
“Really? Then I’ll do just that.”
You sure are quick to adapt…
“O-ouh, then I guess I’ll do that as well. If that’s the case, you should stop using formal language in your Oidon state.”
“When I’m in that appearance, I can’t control my own manner of speech, actually.”
“You are actually forced to speak with that gowasu tone?!”
The mystery only deepened.
I guess I should just ask directly.
“In the end, why did Sir Braveheart end up in, err, that state?”
“There are so many things I want to ask, that I can only ask vague questions, but I think I might end up asking the same question…”
A human’s skeletal frame couldn’t change that easily.
Moreover, everything about him had changed, down to his speech.
Wasn’t that completely a different character altogether?
“Aah… that appearance and tone you heard earlier, it’s the state when my curse is active.”
The paladin lowered his gaze a bit and answered quietly.
The reason was more logical than I thought.
“So does that mean the curse has been lifted now?”
“What happened this time isn’t what I expected at all… to be honest, I was so drunk that I don’t recall triggering the lifting of the curse.”
What did he mean, that he actually lifted his curse while drunk?
“Is it okay to ask you for more details regarding that curse?”
“It’s going to be a little complicated, but if you’re fine with that, I don’t mind.”
Sharon and I nodded at the same time.
As expected, if the mystery was left as it was, I doubt I would be able to sleep at night.
“It all started with the conversation with the bard, Aias-dono.”
“Perhaps that is sensei’s rumored classmate?”
“Indeed.”
So that man was actually the cause!
My classmates were really problematic children…!
“I met him at a bar before.”
“Well since it’s him, I’m sure he could appear at any bar.”
Sir Braveheart tilted his glass and his face became melancholic.
“At that time, I guess you can say that I was mentally cornered… I didn’t have much leisure back then, and he was concerned about me.”
“To think that fellow is actually able to show concern to others…”
“I’ve been thinking for a while now, but isn’t sensei’s evaluation of that Aias person too low?”
I couldn’t help but put on a serious expression as Sharon pointed that out.
She could say that because she didn’t know that fellow well enough.
“Listen, Sharon. That fellow lacks consideration for others, is selfish, only loves money, women, himself and his poetry, goes on blind dates eight times a week, and from what I heard, is now stealing my personal information and selling it for money.”
“……Is there anything praiseworthy about him?”
“His face.”
“That’s the worst.”
Since that kind of man was the cause, I could only feel dread while listening.
“Hahah, as expected, you’ve known each other for a long time. He also speaks as he likes about you.”
“Yea yea, I guess we’re both like that… so, what did he do to you?”
“When I asked what I should do to retrain my mind, I was introduced to the Temple of Trials, where spirits live.”
Ah~ so it was that leveling map.
Many players had stayed for a while at the Temple of Trials due to the endless number of enemies and the high efficiency of EXP per mob.
If a player wanted to have a solid margin of power and proceed safely, they would definitely visit that place often.
“Sensei knows what that place is?”
“I’ve been there before. I was turned away by the spirits, but my comrades all cleared their trials.”
Those spirits seemed very angry as they said something like, “Someone like you mustn’t be allowed to enter the temple.”
Screw them. They didn’t even tell me the reason to be booted. 1
“……Well, my comrades cleared their trial and came out normal, but what did you do that you ended up in that Oidon state?”
“I requested the hardest trial from the spirits and managed to clear it. Then the spirits seemed to be offended.”
“Aren’t they just unreasonable…!”
Sharon was astonished, but as someone who was previously banned, I had a bitter expression on my face.
Their sense of value was really different from humans after all, so they could suddenly be upset over something incomprehensible.
“First of all, I lost my height.”
“That’s serious harassment.”
“Then my voice and manner of speech were changed.”
“Did that really happen at the Temple of Trials?”
No matter how I thought about it, I could only see it as a consequence of making a shady deal with the wicked devil.
“Finally, they changed my appearance into something funny.”
“Wait a minute, does that mean on the second stage, you ended up changing from this appearance to that height with that gowasu tone?”
“Indeed.”
I thought the second stage was probably the most interesting.
“That’s how I ended up as a 1.5 head-to-height proportioned body with a gowasu tone. At first, I was thinking about ending my life.”
“No seriously, it’s amazing you still managed to become so strong from that point on…”
“Umu. It’s a good thing that there’s no evaluation for appearance for the paladin exam.”
You actually become a paladin after being changed into that appearance?!!
“So that bouncing combat style is something you developed after being cursed…?”
“Indeed. It’s something I desperately tried to acquire and it looks unsightly, but that’s the optimized state of my sword.”
This handsome paladin said with a serious expression that a human bullet bouncing about in combat style is his strongest sword…
“Err, let me summarize it a bit.”
I organized and summarized the details of what he told me.
In chronological order…
- Sir Braveheart wanted to train.
- That scum bard suggested him to go to the Temple of Trials.
- Sir Braveheart overcame the most difficult trial at the Temple of Trials.
- The spirits were pissed and cursed him.
- Sir Braveheart, cursed as that Oidon existence, became a paladin.
“Isn’t this all about how strong and adaptable you are?”
When I spoke my honest opinion, Sharon nodded in agreement.
After all, he was cursed and his entire body shape altered, yet he still managed to become a paladin.
He was just too badass.
“No no, that’s not true. Of course, I’m stronger in my current appearance than my usual one.”
“Ah, so it’s like that after all.”
“However, my stupidity in the past was truly irredeemable. I was really beyond saving, that I had to face the steel-like brilliance directly in order to realize my own shallowness…”
After giving a self-deprecating smile, he gulped down the liquid in the glass.
……I certainly hadn’t heard the reason why he decided to go to the Temple of Trials to begin with.
But I think asking that would be going too far.
“…………”
I stopped talking at that thought, but Sharon, for some reason, was staring intently at me.
How to say this, it was like the face of a detective glaring at the culprit.
What did she mean by that expression? I didn’t do anything.
“Ah, that’s right. What’s the trigger to lift the curse?”
“It’s when I abandon my chivalry.”
“Certainly, when you were about to vomit earlier, you said that you would abandon your chivalry.”
“Your curse actually lifted because of that?!”
The curse of those spirits was just too random…!
In game settings, it could be treated as a buff or debuff, and as long there wasn’t some sort of weird restriction, it was safer to just remove them all using items.
Maybe if the player tried it many times, their speech tone would also become gowasu?
“Hm… this is…”
With that, Sir Braveheart placed his glass on the counter.
Then he stood up and his smile disappeared.
“What’s wrong?”
“Ah, excuse me, I’ll be fat after a bit.”
“Hah?”
It happened all of sudden.
In front of us, Sir Braveheart shrunk with a noise.
His face turned into the familiar Inakappe Taishou, and his knight uniform also shrank to fit his round body. 2
His outfit was too mysterious.
What kind of technology allowed it to fit like that?
As expected, I couldn’t help but be stunned at the incomprehensible change.
After arranging his hair neatly to look like a regent, he let out a sigh.
“It seems the time was up, gowasu.”
“This is it, yes, this is it!”
“Ah~ it makes me feel so relieved!”
Sharon and I cheered the moment we heard gowasu from him.
The bartender stiffened for a few seconds, but he silently returned to polish his glass.
I guess he chose to pretend that nothing happened. I could understand that feeling.
“Honestly, I couldn’t help but get nervous talking to such a handsome knight.”
“It really is nerve-wracking. This appearance puts me at ease.”
Seeing as we welcomed his cursed appearance, Sir Braveheart gave us a wry smile.
He then turned his gaze toward Sharon in a natural motion.
“What do you think? If it’s the me from earlier, do you think we could proceed with the engagement?”
“Ah~… let’s see. If I met that you even earlier, I’m sure I would fall for you.”
She replied with a wry smile.
“Tahaha, thank you for your kind words, gowasu.”
Sir Braveheart slapped his forehead and smiled.
I was watching them in silence while holding my glass.
◇
After we parted with Sir Braveheart, returned to his Oidon state, we returned to the school dorm.
I was sitting in a chair in the dining hall, slumped against the table with my vision blurred by alcohol.
“Geez, I thought you two went out together, but why did teach’ end up coming back drunk?”
“Your liver is just as much of a small fry as you, small fry♡ here, have some water♡ recognize your own stupidity and tremble from your hangover the next morning♡”
Erin and Kuyumi, who came to welcome us, had fed-up expressions.
Of course they would. Seeing a teacher like that would give me -5 billion points, even if it was Sir Braveheart grading me.
Even as I drank the water, I was sure I would be in agony the next day.
I wonder why people ended up so drunk when they drank liquor?
“Sensei… can I ask something?”
“Hm?”
When I was in a daze, someone called out to me.
When I looked up, I saw Sharon, who sat across from me, staring at me.
Seeing her serious expression, I decided to fix my sitting posture.
“What’s wrong?”
“You see, I… want to go to the Temple of Trials.”
Wha…?!
“Sharon, you…!”
I couldn’t help but to stand up with such a force that the chair was knocked away.
Erin and Kuyumi’s eyes widened at the sudden serious conversation topic.
Sharon said that, even after hearing what happened to Sir Braveheart.
I could feel the weight of her determination, but still.
Even so, no matter how serious she might be.
There was something I had to ask Sharon no matter what.
“Are you okay with being turned into a funny woman with a 1.5 head-to-height scale and gowasu speech?!”
“I don’t mind being turned into a funny woman with a 1.5 head-to-height scale and gowasu speech…!”
“…What are you two talking about?!”
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