Volume 4, Chapter 12 – You Don’t Play By The Rules!

The Evil Eye Lord.

It was a monster with a very strange appearance.

Its main body was a gigantic eyeball, and beneath that eyeball were multiple tentacles that supported its body.

Of course, although the tentacles served to support the main body, when it came under attack they would also be used by the Evil Eye Lord as weapons, whipping at extreme speed to launch attacks.

Yet even though the Evil Eye Lord existed at the Legendary-tier, it actually did not have any power that was particularly worth noting.

Its close-combat ability was extremely weak and, in a sense, was only on the level of an Epic-tier.

However, the Evil Eye Lord possessed a special skill that even Legendaries feared—Petrifying Ray.

This ray, fired from its main body, could turn even a Legendary to stone if it touched them. On top of that, when the Evil Eye Lord fought, the speed of its rays was extremely high, the angles were tricky, and the firing frequency was very high.

So when facing the Evil Eye Lord, which possessed Petrifying Ray… most Legendaries did not like to fight it.

Of course, if someone thought that its close-combat was weak and decided to just send in an army or something, that would really just be marching them off to die…

After all, even though the Evil Eye Lord could not do much in close quarters, under its crazed barrage of Petrifying Rays, no matter how many troops you sent in they would all just be there to donate their lives.

And sure enough…

Not long ago, the Evil Eye Lord had turned a Minotaur squad that had inexplicably shown up to subjugate it into stone. The Legendary Minotaur leading them had run, of course, but all the other Minotaurs who had come along to subjugate it were turned, under the Evil Eye Lord’s Petrifying Rays, into statues without the slightest sign of life.

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“Ah… what a peaceful day—”

After finishing off the enemies, the Evil Eye Lord felt its eyeball getting a little sore. It rubbed its eyeball with a tentacle and decided to sleep for a while to recuperate.

However—

It had not rested for long when a powerful aura on par with a Legendary’s came from the distance and then stopped right at the entrance of the cave it lived in.

“Here we go again. Can’t anyone let me have a good rest? What did I do to bring this on, why is there someone coming after me every single day? I don’t cause trouble, I don’t eat brains, and I even stick to a vegetarian diet. I eat grass every day, so why is there always someone trying to deal with me?”

Feeling the Legendary-level aura at the mouth of the cave, the Evil Eye Lord felt utterly exhausted in its heart.

Of course, even though it was in a rotten mood, since someone had come looking for trouble, it was not as if it could just swallow it, right?

So, with the intention of teaching the troublemaker a good lesson with its Petrifying Ray, the Evil Eye Lord stared solemnly at the entrance to the cave with that huge eyeball of its.

Tap. Tap. Tap

As the footsteps sounded, the silhouette of the challenger entered the Evil Eye Lord’s field of vision.

Long silver hair, a small body, an adorable face, purple pupils.

There was no doubt that in the Evil Eye Lord’s sight, the one who had come was a little loli who looked completely harmless and even had an inexplicable kind of cuteness…

“Mm! This is a Legendary? Are you kidding me?”

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The Evil Eye Lord, which had been all set and ready for a serious fight, lost all its will to fight the instant it saw that the visitor was a little loli.

However, while the Evil Eye Lord had lost its fighting spirit, the little loli in its sight was full of fighting intent, walking up to the Evil Eye Lord with a very serious look on her face.

“Y-You’re the Evil Eye Lord, right! I’m here today to take your eyeball, so you’d better be prepared!”

Her pale little finger pointed at the Evil Eye Lord, and the way this little loli deliberately stiffened her face to declare war honestly let the Evil Eye Lord truly feel what was called cuteness that transcended race…

“Ah, ah… I get it, little one, you’re here to challenge me, right?”

Seeing how adorable the little loli in front of it was, the Evil Eye Lord did not feel even the slightest anger at the words about taking its eyeball. On the contrary, in the Evil Eye Lord’s heart there even arose a desire to “play along” with the little loli in front of it and have a good “game.”

“T-That’s right! Hmph, what’s wrong, feeling the pressure now that you’ve seen me? I’ll tell you the truth, I know you have that special ability called Petrifying Ray, but I’m not scared of you at all!”

“Indeed… just from feeling your aura, my perception is telling me that you’re a very tough opponent to handle, little one…”

The Evil Eye Lord’s tentacles went taut, and that huge eyeball of its was full of “gravity” in the face of a strong enemy.

Seeing the Evil Eye Lord looking like it was facing a great enemy, the little silver-haired loli, Tianyin, could not help but feel a huge surge of confidence in her heart.

“If you’re scared now there’s still time to surrender. So how about it, obediently surrender and hand over your eyeball, or get beaten by me and then I’ll take your eyeball… so either way, I’m getting that eyeball of yours!”

“Mm… mm, you’ve got a point. No matter what, my eyeball is going to be taken by you… ah, that really is such a headache…”

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The Evil Eye Lord “seriously” “pondered” this.

Then, in Tianyin’s sight, the huge-bodied Evil Eye Lord very humanly raised two long tentacles.

“Then let’s do this, I surrender, so spare me.”

“Mm-hm, that’s more like… eh, eh, eh, wh-what, what did you just say?”

Tianyin snapped back to herself, a completely blank look on her face.

“I said I surrender?”

The Evil Eye Lord’s huge eyeball was full of confusion.

“Wait… I know you surrendered… n-no, that’s not it, why are you surrendering… I’m here to take your eyeball! That’s basically the same thing as killing you, you know. Why are you surrendering?”

“Killing me? That’s not right, little one, aren’t you here to take my eyeball? What’s that got to do with killing me?”

“Eh?”

This sentence left Tianyin a bit muddled…

“Taking your eyeball is basically the same as killing you, isn’t it? Why do you think it has nothing to do with killing you?”

“Mm? Little one, who told you that taking my eyeball definitely means you have to kill me?”

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However, the Evil Eye Lord’s words made Tianyin think back to how, before she came, she had been swearing up and down that she was going to kill the Evil Eye Lord.

And thinking of that scene, then thinking of the scene in front of her now, for some reason Tianyin felt like her IQ had been seriously “insulted”!

As she thought this, a fine mist slowly rose in Tianyin’s eyes…

“Wuu… y-you-you-you… you’re not playing by the rules!… wuu…”

“Ah… little one, don’t cry… why are you suddenly crying… ah ah, my bad, my bad, I was wrong…”

Seeing that Tianyin looked like she was about to cry, the Evil Eye Lord was seized by a sudden and inexplicable sense of guilt, like it was “deeply sinful.” Under the weight of that guilt, the Evil Eye Lord had no choice but to clumsily try to comfort Tianyin.

“You want an eyeball, right, little one? Alright, I’ll give you one right now, just don’t cry, okay? If you cry you won’t be cute at all!”

Then, in Tianyin’s eyes that still had traces of tears at the corners, the Evil Eye Lord swung a tentacle and then—

From beneath its main body, that gigantic eyeball, it took out a tiny eyeball that had been shrunk to who knew how many times smaller…

“Here, my eyeball… little one, things like this, I can have as many as needed. If one isn’t enough, I can take two more out for you…”

Tianyin: “…”