The Game Master has Logged In to Another World 1

“Agh!”

“Pfwnhh!”

Blood dripping from the corners of their mouths, they abandoned their weapons and went in for a brawl.

“I only need my fists to beat some delinquent back into line. You have no right to call me a savage, Hayato. The moment you threw that sword away, you came down to my level!”

They were trashtalking each other right in the middle of a pitched battle, and loving every moment of it. Tatsuma wore the smile of a fierce dragon, while Hayato resembled a bloodthirsty wolf.

“Waaaaargh!”

“Aaaaargh!”

With their fists tightly clenched, they jumped for each other, resuming the fight of titans.

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“Thunder Booooooolt!”

The robot’s voice echoed across the battlefield as a lightning bolt struck from a section of its shoulder, bringing annihilation down with it.

“Aaaaaah!”

A Sentrag soldier prepared for his death as the bolt struck toward him, but a sudden shadow passed over him, shielding him from the attack.

“Wait... huh? I’m alive?”

“Hahhh, what’s up with this damn robot? How can it use magic?”

It was Youko’s golem. A normal golem stood around fourteen feet tall, but this was Youko’s trump card, the largest golem she could create. It stood nearly twenty feet tall.

“Here, take these potions. Take the injured away while I hold it back, and hurry up... you don’t want to get caught up in what’s about to go down,” Youko said. She took hold of a bone on the golem’s shoulder and began piloting it.

She could control it at a distance, but not without some input lag. Direct touch allowed her to fully control the golem in real time. In creating this golem, Youko had used a technique avoided by golem summoners everywhere.

Her courage and bravery were what had allowed her to survive this long, and she wasn’t going to give in during the most important battle in recent memory.

Reading Youko’s feelings, the golem moved in and flung its boney fist against the robot. Caught off guard by the golem’s speed, Superalloy failed to dodge and the mecha took the strike straight to the chest.

“Dammit, you damn cheater! No golem should be able to move that fast!”

“This is simply how my spell works.”

“Yeah, I don’t care. You just sit there and wait for death. I’ll pulverize the men, but don’t worry... I’ll spare you, and any other girls in your party, to serve as my personal playthings.” Tadashi Iiyama, the pilot, teased Youko via his voice coms.

While Youko couldn’t see his face, she clearly felt Tadashi’s dirty, lecherous gaze on her body.

“Sorry, but I’m already taken. Plus, I’m not into letting pigs have their way with me.” After shooting him down metaphorically, she gave her golem the next order, ready to take Tadashi down literally as well. The golem raised its left leg at wild speeds for a golem of its size and aimed a kick at Superalloy, which blocked it with its left arm shield.

A massive thud blasted across the battlefield. Any normal stone golem’s leg would have shattered on impact, but Youko’s Giant Golem contained a giant’s bones, making it as sturdy as steel.

“Yeah, you’d like to think that, wouldn’t you? This is my game, bitch! You damn NPCs have no say in what happens next!”

When Tadashi was summoned and put in the slave collar, he figured his new world was just another game. It was the perfect place to live out his every fantasy. Even if he went on a murder spree, no one dared to face him. Unopposed, Tadashi became a monster who’d kill if someone looked at him funny, and rape any girl he took a liking to.

Unlike the other summons, he considered the world his own personal sandbox. In the game he’d come from, Tadashi had been a notoriously toxic player. His fellow players had hated him and the mods had banned him numerous times over his disorderly conduct, but none of that had ever stopped him. Here, there were no mods to ban him. Here, he ran free, doing whatever he pleased. It was his right as the mightiest person.

“What a load of crap,” Youko sighed. “I feel bad for any robot stuck with such a delusional pilot. Giant Golem, let’s release him from his suffering.”

There was no convincing him. More talk would only waste time. Youko stroked the Giant Golem’s shoulder, and the construct nodded. It dropped its hips low and swung its boney fist at the robot.

The machine raised its shield to block again, but Youko had put considerably more strength into this strike. The impact pushed the mech back, giving Youko a chance to press forward. She had the golem swing from the left, landing a clean hit on the robot, and blasting it back.

“Gwaaaaargh!” Tadashi’s scream echoed across the field.

The surrounding area was already clear. The soldiers had retreated so as to avoid the clash of literal giants. Youko shouldn’t have needed to worry about additional casualties. She shouldn’t have.

“You damn bitch! Die! Burning Beaaaaaam!”

The robot’s upper body snapped into position as it released a burning beam of light from its eyes. Tadashi recklessly allowed it to bounce all over the place. He wasn’t aiming at Youko, or even at anyone in particular. The beam struck a group of Imperial soldiers behind Youko, and their bodies dissolved into a cloud of crimson vapor.

“What’re you doing?! At least try not to hit your allies!”

“Shut up, who cares! They’re just NPCs! There’s enough of them to go around!”

“They’re people, you sick bastard!”

Youko had seen countless people die fighting for freedom, their lives, or simply fighting because they’d been ordered to in the Empire’s all-consuming war. To see someone treat those lives like a kid treats an anthill enraged her beyond anything she’d felt before.

“Giant Golem... get ready to crush him.”

The golem answered Youko’s cold, rage-filled command with a deep nod and moved in to block Tadashi from evaporating any more soldiers.

“The only one getting crushed here is you! Imma kill you!” Tadashi rushed in with a scream, ready to take the fight head-on.

What came next was an earth-shattering crash! that shook the very battlefield.

Tadashi’s mech had ten feet of height on Youko’s golem, but the golem was made of particularly heavy material. Tadashi was betting on being able to crush the golem by pressing his height advantage. Both combatants’ feet sank into the ground as Superalloy overwhelmed the golem, forcing it to its knees.

“Hold, my golem! You can do it!” Youko cheered.

“Just give up and accept death!” Tadashi jeered.

Youko tried to lend her golem some extra strength by pumping more mana into it, but Tadashi didn’t let the opening slip by. He headbutted the golem with his mech’s horn, tearing a huge chunk of material from the golem’s head.

“Nghhhh!” Youko held fast to the golem’s shoulder and managed to stay on, but Tadashi didn’t let up. He headbutted the golem until he’d torn half its face off.

“And that’s all she wrote!” he yelled.

Youko turned to the giant iron fist, powerless before of its might. With a mean laugh, Tadashi lifted her frail body with his gigantic robotic hand.

“Nghhh! No!” Youko cried.

“Hahahaha! Finally it’s time to have some fun in this battle! Show us what you’re hiding under those robes!”

The robot, surprisingly nimble for its size, pinched her clothes and pulled on them. At that moment, Youko’s body became mud and dry earth, and crumbled between Tadashi’s metallic fingers.

“What?! Wait, no way, is this—?!” he screamed.

“Heyho, I’m right here! It took me a while to wrap my head around this thing. Though, I did expect to struggle with things from beyond my world.” Her voice came from the center of the Giant Golem where its core, the thing that gave it life, lay.

A powerful magical barrier and a number of sturdy giant bones protected the core, however it was not impenetrable. A couple powerful, focused attacks could destroy it, ending the golem’s and Youko’s lives in the same moment. Youko had made a dummy golem that looked just like her to draw attention from the core.

“What do you mean it took some time?! Hey... wait, why can’t I move?!”

“He was crying to me, you know. He was made to uphold peace, not to slaughter innocents.” She finally revealed herself, nestled in the golem, stroking the motionless robot’s head. She was kitted out with special equipment, a robe called Arbiter which boosted her abilities. There was one more notable difference from her usual appearance: she was currently sprouting three tails instead of one.

During the battle, she’d extended her mana into Superalloy’s mech, attempting to find a way to take control. A proficient spellcaster could’ve detected the mana strings as she attempted her takeover. Tadashi, however, was by no means a studied mage. Only able to see through cameras, he had no chance to catch Youko’s plan until it was too late.