Volume 3, Chapter 14 – The Surprisingly Disappointing Gray-Haired Man Who Was Supposed to Be Super Cool

The more he said that, the more Yisi wanted to look. Even in “Ragnarøk,” the Evil Eye wasn’t a particularly strong monster. With her level 427 strength, the Evil Eye shouldn’t be able to pose a threat to her at all.

Yisi lowered her head like the other adventurers, then stealthily moved her eyes to glance at the Evil Eye flying in the sky—just as she had seen from a distance, the Evil Eye was a grotesque creature with a huge white eyeball, lacking limbs, and possessing only wings and a rat’s tail.

As if sensing Yisi’s gaze upon it, the Evil Eye turned its eyeball and looked directly at Yisi below.

Then.

Their lines of sight met.

The next second.

Like a person turning around on a mountain road at night and suddenly seeing a ghost, the massive eyeball that made up the Evil Eye’s body rapidly filled with blood. Its wings flapped desperately, its body began to tremble uncontrollably, and then, as if it were a balloon being inflated, the eyeball part swelled at a visible rate while filling with blood. The black, veiny skin, having reached its stretching limit, tore open with several fissures that spurted blood, but even that couldn’t stop its expansion.

Anyone could see that the Evil Eye was about to explode.

Huh?

Yisi blinked. She had only met the Evil Eye’s gaze for a moment, but it wasn’t her who had a problem, but the Evil Eye? She hadn’t even used any magic.

Her curiosity lasted only a second before her expression turned sour.

If she let the Evil Eye self-destruct just like that, she would definitely be implicated afterward.

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Yisi quickly patted Ainos hard on the back, with so much force that it even dented the armor on his back.

“Ainos, go! Now’s your chance, finish off the Evil Eye!”

“Oh, ooh! I don’t know why the Evil Eye stopped moving, but thank you for the reminder, Miss Yisi!”

“Damn it! Bastard! Ainos, how could you let a cute and beautiful girl on the front lines! Young lady! Let this great man save you! Oooohhhhh!!!!”

A loud, imposing voice came from behind. Then, under everyone’s raised gazes, a young man with long gray hair tied back, holding a fiery red greatsword, appeared above the Evil Eye. With a clean and decisive motion, he cleaved the Evil Eye in half from top to bottom.

Splat—

Bright red blood instantly splattered across the grass. However, the gray-haired man didn’t stop there. Instead, his whole body charged into the monster horde like a whirlwind. Any monster that touched his greatsword was either split in two or simply turned into a pulp. Only the sturdy monster bears could make him swing his sword a few more times.

The large slimes that had been launching monsters at the city wall also stopped their actions at the man’s appearance, turning their aim to the gray-haired man with the red greatsword instead.

But the gray-haired man acted before the large slimes could launch their projectiles. He channeled strength into his calves, then forcefully pushed off the ground and leaped into the air. Then, his body, along with his greatsword, lit up with a red fiery glow. Like a spearman hunting a mammoth, he poured all his body’s strength into his right hand, his torso twisting dramatically as he faced the slimes and forcefully threw his greatsword.

“Take this, my secret technique! [Greatsword Throwing Technique: Meteor!]”

Carrying a force as majestic as its name, the greatsword, transformed into a red meteor, shot straight towards the three large slimes with a wind pressure that uprooted the grass.

BOOM!

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It didn’t just pierce the three large slimes; it directly blew up the ground where they stood. The three large slimes, along with the monsters they had devoured, were all annihilated in that single blow.

The entire plain instantly fell silent, with only the sound of the breeze rustling through the grass.

The man, who had casually tied his long gray hair with a ribbon, slowly turned around. Not towards the rescued adventurers, but casting a scorching gaze towards Yisi. With a gentle smile, he extended his hand towards Yisi like a gentleman.

“Miss over there, are you hurt?”

Although it looked for all the world like he was talking to her, Yisi didn’t think that was actually the case. First, she didn’t know this gray-haired man, and second, Yisi didn’t think this ridiculously strong man would strike up a conversation with her.

Objectively speaking, if one disregarded his crude use of “this great man” to refer to himself earlier, just based on his gentle appearance, this man was the handsome and charming type.

But then again, what was with this combat power? He was way too much stronger than anyone she had seen before.

To avoid being detected by counter-detection magic, Yisi didn’t use her Omniscient Map, but directly appraised him with ‘God’s Eye’.

The man’s name was Clementine, level 19. After the previous battle, his HP had dropped by 20 points, and his MP was—

Zero.

In other words, that seemingly powerful throwing technique was actually his ultimate move. The man had used up all his magic without considering the possibility of enemy reinforcements.

Is he an idiot?

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Yisi couldn’t help but let her thoughts show on her face, but that would be too rude. Considering that the other party might be a person of status, Yisi lowered her head, not looking at the man’s face.

However, Yisi’s concern was clearly unnecessary. The man walked up to Yisi with very gentle steps, extended a hand wearing a white glove, knelt on one knee, and his gaze towards Yisi was still full of concern.

“If you’re scared, it’s okay to cry out loud. For a beautiful lady like you, my shoulder is always available for you to borrow.”

Isn’t that voice a bit too close?

The overly close voice made Yisi frown and look up, where she saw the face of the man named Clementine.

“What’s wrong?”

The quite handsome Clementine tilted his head slightly.

So he was talking to her after all.

Yisi finally realized the truth, and then recalled Clementine’s earlier words—”If you’re scared, it’s okay to cry out loud. For a beautiful lady like you, my shoulder is always available for you to borrow.”

How disgusting.

She was about to vomit up her breakfast along with yesterday’s dinner.

Even if Yisi could understand how attractive the Count’s eldest daughter’s appearance was, that expression was just—too nauseating.

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Yisi even felt her stomach acid churning.

Since Yisi didn’t react, Clementine thought she had been scared silly by the Evil Eye and couldn’t help but add.

“Are you alright? If you’re not feeling well, you can rest at my guild for a while. A girl like you, sculpted by the gods—”

“Bleargh—”

Finally unable to hold back the churning in her stomach, Yisi turned her face to the side and threw up. Then, Camilla, who had witnessed the whole thing from behind, walked up.

SLAP.

She gave Clementine a resounding slap across the face.

“Shut up, you maggot. You’re disgusting my sister.”

Only then did Ainos, who had been standing next to Yisi the whole time, come back to his senses. Beads of sweat appeared on his forehead as his eyes darted between Yisi, Camilla, and Clementine, finally settling on Clementine, who was standing there stunned, one hand covering his face.

“G-Guild Leader?”

Translator Note

pfft bwahahah— this is no man zone clementine :3