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Chapter 5: Wataru VS the Fourth Master! Beware the Werewolf!

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Chapter 5: Wataru VS the Fourth Master! Beware the Werewolf!

“We haven’t seen so much as a glimpse of the Demon Lord’s castle yet...” Aria muttered.

“Not a single glimpse!” Wataru agreed. After leaving the restaurant behind, the trio had been trudging through the wasteland for quite a while, but their destination was nowhere to be seen. “But we are getting closer to it! I can’t wait!” Wataru couldn’t contain his excitement as he imagined the formidable foe at the end of his journey. Unbothered by the glaring sun, he carried on, holding his head and shoulders high. Still, he couldn’t afford to feel complacent. There was one more Master blocking their way, after all. Worse yet, they didn’t know the Master’s true form or powers. This made their next foe extremely tricky and dangerous.

It was seven o’clock in the evening when Aria tiredly spoke up. “Wataru, why don’t we set up camp here? I don’t think I can walk any further.” She couldn’t shake the overwhelming exhaustion that resulted from walking through the wasteland in a straight line.

“All right, let’s set up camp around here!!” Wataru heartily agreed.

“Look,” Résistance said, and pointed to a large rock nearby. “That rock’s a good size. Why don’t we set up under it.”

The trio began to make camp by the rock.

“Leave the fire to me!!!” Wataru chucked a pile of branches they had collected throughout their walk onto the ground. He roared, “Flm!!!!!” With a sharp exhale, Wataru punched the air directly above the pile of branches. Soon, a small trail of smoke emerged from the bundle! The small ember spread and before long had morphed itself into a respectable campfire!! It was incredible!!! “Check it out! I used a super-fast punch to heat up the air and light the branches on fire! Behold the power of science!!!”

“That’s amazing, Wataru!” Aria jumped right in with the compliment, despite not understanding a smidgen of what Wataru had just said!

At the very same moment, Résistance noticed something! “Hm? What is that over there?”

Wataru and Aria followed her pointing finger to find a figure walking through the wasteland under the darkening sky. It was a very feeble-looking elder clothed in rags!

“Huh... Maybe he’s lost! Let’s help that old man!” Just as he was hot-blooded and hardcore, Wataru was a Japanese man with a kind heart! Therefore, he never forsook anyone in need!!!

“You’re right, let’s help him!” Aria loudly called for the elderly gentleman! “Hey, you! The broke-looking geezer wearing scraps!”

The elder heard the insulting salutation and wobbled over to the party!

“Mister, we thought you might be in a pickle. Why don’t you rest here with us tonight!?!?!?” Wataru proposed!

The elder gave Wataru a joyful smile! “Really? Thank you very much. I seem to have lost my way...”

“We’ve got to help each other out, out here!” Wataru said, energetically popping squats! It was such an admirable quality of Wataru that he never missed an opportunity to train!

Now, the party of four surrounded the campfire!!!!

“...So, what are you doing all the way out here?” Wataru asked the old man! It did seem strange that a man his age would come all the way out to a desolate wasteland!

“I’m a sculptor. I came to gather the high-quality clay around here... It’s embarrassing, but I’ve lost my way home. Growing old isn’t all fun and games, is it...?” The old man scratched his head, a little embarrassed!

“Age is but a number!” Wataru countered! “My master turns a hundred and twenty this year, but he’s still as energetic as ever! I have a feeling you’ll have a long and healthy life!” Wataru reminisced about his martial arts teacher back in the old world!

“H-Hundred and twenty... That’s quite impressive...” The elder was a little taken aback!

“...Résistance!” Aria called to Résistance, who had been blankly staring at the flames.

“What is it?”

“...How about a Payblade duel?”

“Ahaha, bring it on! Come to think of it, we never finished our last match!” Résistance immediately produced a hand-made Payblade arena from her pocket!

A few hours had passed! It was now ten o’clock at night!

“Grr! Not too shabby, Aria!”

“You’re not bad yourself, Résistance!”

Aria and Résistance were locked in a Payblade battle, with neither one managing to gain the upper hand!! Wataru watched them with sleepy eyes! “Oof... I’m getting tired... I’m going to bed...!!!” He flopped down to the ground, still wearing his school uniform, and immediately began sleeping peacefully! Since Wataru always kept a healthy sleep schedule of nine PM to three AM each day, Wataru couldn’t keep his eyes open anymore!

“Oh, okay, Wataru. Maybe we should go to bed, too!” Aria said!

“I think we should!” agreed Résistance. “Our battle is to be continued!”

Aria and Résistance packed up their Payblades and prepared for bed!

“Everybody going to bed, already? Then I suppose I should tuck myself in, too...” The old man produced a sleeping bag from his brown leather bag and began to make his bed!

“Yes, let’s put out the fire then.” Aria took a step towards the campfire!!!

“...Mwahahah, Wataru, you helpless fool...!” The old man’s tone suddenly changed!

“What...?” Aria couldn’t believe her ears at hearing such a drastic change!

“Aria, get away from him, now!” Résistance called out, quickly grasping the hilt of her sword!

“...Wh-Who are you...?” Aria timidly asked, slowly backing away from the old man!

The old man stood up and tossed his sleeping bag aside! He flexed all the muscles in his body! “...Me? Heh heh, I suppose there’s no need to hide it any longer!” A sinister grin crossed his face! “I am the final Master, Wolfman!” he shouted at ear-splitting volume! Brown fur began to cover his body as all of his muscles enlarged!

“Y-You’re a... werewolf!?” Aria was dumbfounded!

But who could have blamed her!? Who could have believed this feeble old man would transform into a monstrously-shredded werewolf!? He had grown close to ten feet tall, and his shirt was stretched near to the bursting point by his immense muscles! The transformation was so drastic that it had clearly violated several laws of physics!

“Gwahahahahaha! I disguised myself as an old man to get close to Wataru and ambush him while he was unaware! The absolute fool of a man fell for such a simple scheme!” Wolfman victoriously bellowed!

Meanwhile, Wataru was still fast asleep! There was no indication that he would wake up any time soon!!!

“Wake up, Wataru!” Aria yelled!

“Urm... Sleepity-sleepy-sounds...” Wataru remained dead asleep!!!!!

“Y-You’re Wolfman...! I’d heard your name before, but I never expected that your true form would be a werewolf! What a masterful disguise...!” Résistance muttered, cold sweat dripping down her face!

Please, for the love of all that is holy, IT WAS HIS NAME!! SHE SHOULD HAVE KNOWN!!!

“Long time no see, Résistance! I’ve heard about you from the Demon Lord! You’re neutral now, done with the Four Masters?”

“That’s right!” she admitted!

“Hmph! But I don’t care what you say! You’re just a traitor!” Wolfman pulled his shoulders back, stretching out his impressive chest!Rrrrrrriippppppp!!

His shirt ripped itself apart, revealing an impossibly muscular torso completely covered in brown fur! His pectorals and abdominal muscles were inhumanly jacked!! The amount of muscle mass that could be seen under the fur was unbelievable!

“Let’s begin!!!” Wolfman roared! He instantly lunged at Résistance, his picturesque mane flowing in the wind!

“Wh-What the—!?”

Wolfman’s fist rocketed at Résistance! She immediately drew her sword and braced it with both hands, blocking the werewolf’s punch with the blade! But such a delicate block couldn’t stop the full force of Wolfman’s blow!

“Rrrragh!” Even though he didn’t hit Résistance directly, Wolfman’s overwhelming strength was still powerful enough to send her flying!

“Agh!” She managed to adjust her position in mid-air and landed on her feet, but a flash of pain crossed her face! “Grr, this isn’t going to be easy...”

Werewolves were monsters with incomparably stronger muscles than humans! Résistance’s advantage of having a sword couldn’t do too much to make up for that!

“Hmph! Not too bad, Résistance, but I’ll play with you later! First I have to take care of him!” Wolfman grabbed the sleeping Wataru by his ankle!!! “I’ll just swallow him whole!” He opened his jaws wide and swallowed the still-sleeping Wataru whole without even chewing!!

“N-No! Wataru!” Aria fell to her knees, devastated!

What a turn of events! Wataru was so easily devoured without even a fight! What a shocking tragedy to have befallen our hero in the midst of his quest to defeat the Demon Lord! Dear Readers, I know your hot-blooded tears are soaking into these pages or splashing on your screens right now!!! But now that our protagonist has been eaten, there is no way to continue this novel! The story ends here!

Farewell, Wataru!!!!!

On a separate note, there was a fairytale in Wataru’s world called Little Red Riding Hood. While there were some variations in the telling depending on the region, here’s the gist:

One day, a little girl called Little Red Riding Hood is heading through the forest to her grandmother’s house on an errand. However, her grandmother had already been eaten by an evil wolf. Having disguised himself as the grandmother, the evil wolf tricks and eats Little Red Riding Hood, too. Then, the wolf falls asleep with a full stomach. A hunter happens to come across the scene, and cuts open the wolf’s stomach to rescue them. Happily ever after.

Now, allow me to present a hypothesis. What if Little Red Riding Hood’s hobby wasn’t anything cutesy like playing with flowers or dolls, but sumo wrestling? What if Little Red Riding Hood’s grip strength was nowhere near 10 or 20 pounds, but an unbelievable 500? What if Little Red Riding Hood was no little girl, but a Hot-blooded Fighting Teen? ...The result is self-evident. Any wolf who let this Little Red Riding Hood into his stomach would regret the day he was born.

“W-Wataru...” Aria groveled in devastation!

“Grahahahaha! Wataru is no more!” Wolfman declared gleefully!

“Grr...!” Résistance glared at Wolfman as she readied her sword!

They were positively doomed! No one was going to save them now!

“Now, Résistance... You’re next...!” Wolfman growled ominously, and grinned as if to show off his sharp fangs! His beastly eyes stared into Résistance’s!!

“Hmph! I’d like to see you try! I won’t go down so easily, Wolfman!” Résistance tightened her grip on her sword, and raised it above her head! She bravely leapt at Wolfman!

“Rahahahahaha, bring it on!” Wolfman squatted down, and held out his right hand!

“Aaaaahhhh!” Résistance swung her sword down straight at the werewolf’s face! But Wolfman quickly swung his arm, deflecting the sword with his sharp claws!

Clllllllankkkkkkkk!!!!!

Sparks flew, and the sound of scraping metal echoed through the wasteland!

“I’m not done!” Résistance persistently readied for her next attack! She lunged forward at Wolfman once more!

“Nice try!” With a cocky grin, Wolfman used his extraordinary leg muscles to leap high above her!

Résistance’s attack missed! Her sword cut through nothing but empty space! “Grr!”

“Playtime’s over!” Wolfman used the downward momentum of his fall to put extra force behind a kick aimed at Résistance!

“Watch out, Résistance!” Aria cried!

“Urm!” Résistance jumped to the side, just in time to dodge Wolfman’s kick!

“Huh, you’re a fast one!! But how long can you keep it up!?” Wolfman taunted, still maintaining his victorious expression.

Résistance frowned as she raised her sword once more! Beads of sweat adorned her face! It was clear to see that her endurance was close to spent! Still, she showed no sign of giving up! “No... I’m not done yet!!” she shouted, and charged the werewolf! “Rrragghhh!!!” She closed the distance between them in the blink of an eye, and went to kick the werewolf in his side!

Wolfman anticipated the attack, however, and swiftly reached out with both arms!

Catchhhhhhh!!!

Wolfman spectacularly caught Résistance’s kick in his hands!!!

“I got you now...!”

“Grr!!”

He yanked Résistance around by her leg and violently tossed her entire body into the air with the ease of an Olympic hammer thrower! Even though Résistance was a small woman, she was still wearing heavy armor! This only served to reestablish how much strength Wolfman packed in those fur-covered muscles!!

Résistance crashed into the ground 10 meters away! “Rrragghhh!!”

Dust erupted into a cloud as a sharp pain wracked her body! Résistance could not even make a sound in her agony! Her eyes widened, and she struggled to climb to her feet, but to no avail!

Having watched the fight go down, Aria could only mutter “R-Résistance...!” Of course, she wanted to run to Résistance as soon as she could to heal her with magic! But that would have been suicide, with Wolfman standing between the two of them!!

“Grahahaha... You’re journey ends here...!”

They were in absolute, mortal danger! Was Wolfman about to devour Aria and Résistance, too!?

“Rrh!!!!!” A shout was heard coming from Wolfman’s stomach!!!

Gsh!

A section of Wolfman’s stomach suddenly bulged outwards, then snapped back with a heavy vibration!

“Wh-What the!?” Astounded by the sudden shock of pain, Wolfman could only stand there, aghast!

Gggshhh!!!

Ggggggshhhhh!!!!!

Wolfman’s stomach distended further and further with each impact!

“You’re...!?” Wolfman was in complete shock!

Our astute Dear Readers must already realize what was happening! That’s right!! Wataru was punching his way out of Wolfman’s stomach!!!

“Rrh!!!!!”

Gggggggggggggggshhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Wolfman’s whole body quaked as an incredible shock shook through him!

“Blergh!” Wolfman heaved and threw up his stomach contents, i.e., Wataru!

“Hooooooo-aaaah!!!!!” Wataru shot out of Wolfman’s mouth! “All right!!!” He rolled on the ground and bounced right up onto his feet, standing on the wasteland sand, brightly lit by moonlight! Hot-blooded Fighting Teen WATARU was back!

Tears of joy sprang from Aria’s eyes! “W-Wataru!” Wataru was Aria’s last hope of saving her parents from the Demon Lord, as well as her comrade with whom she had survived trials and tribulations and band practice! A hot-blooded tear trickled down her cheek!

“What took you so long, Wataru?” Résistance gave a relieved smile as she sheathed her sword! Despite her insistence on keeping a neutral standing, she considered Wataru a close friend!

“...Sorry for the wait!” Wataru apologized with a breezy smile, crossing his arms!

The word “impossible” had been scrubbed, erased, and censored completely from this man’s dictionary... In fact, his dictionary contained only the word “possible”!!!!!

“D-Damn... I didn’t expect you to start beating on my guts... Quite impressive, Wataru!” Wolfman shouted as he panted in pain!

“I thought so, too! Who are you, anyway!?!? Where’s that old man!?!?!?”

That’s right! Since Wataru had been fast asleep until moments ago, he’d had no way of knowing that the old man had been Wolfman in disguise!

“Wataru! This werewolf is Wolfman, the Fourth Master! He was just putting on the guise of a deteriorated old man! He was tricking us!” Aria jumped in with the swift and accurate explanation!

Now, Wataru was completely caught up... and enraged!!! “That’s not fair... How dare you attack your opponent while they’re asleep! You’re going to pay for this!!!” Wataru shouted!

“Hmph! Did you expect monsters to play fair!? But now it seems I’m forced to fight you head-on!” Wolfman took a fighting stance with one perfect fluid motion! He squatted low, and outstretched his right arm in a dramatic tableau with the grace of a kabuki actor!

Wataru witnessed this stance and cracked a grin! “Your muscles, your stance, your aura... Not bad!!! I’m gonna take you on with all I’ve got!!!” Wataru reached into the pocket of his school uniform’s jacket! He produced a meter-long, crimson piece of fabric!! It was a hachimaki, a Japanese headband!!!

“A headband... What good do you think that’s going to do you?” Wolfman asked, still maintaining his pose!

“What...? It’s a hachimaki! What do you think!?!?!?” Wataru shouted with the face of a nio, and tied the hachimaki around his head with a swift yet passionate motion!!! “I’ll tell you what this is!!! This legendary hachimaki has been passed down through my family for generations!!! The Exploding-Blood Demon Slayer!!!!!” The tails of his crimson hachimaki danced in the wind! Wataru now resembled the Japanese folktale hero, Momotaro, or “Peach Boy”!! A hot-blooded, fighting Peach Boy, ready to slay the demon!!! “With this hachimaki around my head, my hot-blooded energy is multiplied a hundred fold!!!

Wolfman couldn’t contain his amazement! There was no telling how much of Wataru’s claims we could trust, but we must have faith that our protagonist knew what he was talking about!! By equipping said hachimaki, Wataru’s hot-blooded energy was multiplied a hundred fold!

(*Hachimaki — Our well-read Dear Readers, as intellectuals, might have read that the word hachimaki has its origins in the Japanese hachi, meaning “pot” and maki, meaning “wrap,” and that in feudal Japan, they called the wrap that kept their helmets on their head hachimaki, since hachi was also slang for the dome of one’s head or their helmets. You read wrong. The true origin of hachimaki dates back to the brilliant strategist of Ancient Rome, Hachi Maki (99 B.C.E. ~ ?). Before each battle, he provided every one of his soldiers with a thin strip of fabric to wrap around their heads in order to boost morale and to identify their comrades more easily in combat. This tradition spread around the world, and became known as the ubiquitous hachimaki we all know and love today. In Japan, the word hachimaki can be written to mean two different meanings: “pot wrap” or “hot-blooded Demon Slayer.” [9])

“Hmph! You think you’re stronger now because of some cloth around your head!?” Wolfman challenged!

“Just wait and see!!!!!” Wataru switched to his fighting stance! He lowered his center of gravity, and spread his feet wide! This is a universal fighting stance found in the likes of sumo wrestling!

“Are you ready, Wataru!?” Wolfman shouted!

“Yeah! Bring it on!!”

“Aaarrrrooooo!!” Wolfman howled, his brown fur standing on end! He lunged at Wataru, raising his right arm as his mane fluttered in the wind!!

“Wataru! Watch out!” Aria cried out!

Wataru was in danger!!!

“Hraaaagh!!!!!” Wolfman charged Wataru at incredible speed! The werewolf was nearly 10 feet tall, while Wataru stood at six foot four! This wasn’t looking good for our protagonist! Much to everyone’s surprise, Wataru showed no sign of dodging the attack, but only let out a deep exhale! “Woooooragghh! Take this!” Wolfman’s fist was fast approaching!! At this rate, Wataru would be defeated not long after his miraculous return from the werewolf’s belly!!!

Just as Wolfman’s fist was about to reach his face, Wataru shouted!!! “Dflct!!!!!”

Braggghhhkkkt!!!!!

An explosive sound echoed through the wasteland! But it wasn’t Wataru who was blown away, but Wolfman!!!

“Wh-What the...!?” Wolfman was dumbfounded, even as he was still in the air! Who could have blamed him for it!? Wolfman had just experienced being deflected by some sort of invisible wall the instant he was sure his fist would land on Wataru! “Th-This isn’t over!” Wolfman regained his balance in mid-air, and landed on his feet with a heavy thud! He swung his right arm again, charging dauntlessly at Wataru!! “Rrrrrragghhhh!”

Still...!

“It’s no use... You can’t set foot in my territory...!!!!!”

Braggghhhhhhkkkkrrrrrgggggrrrrrkkkkk!!!!!

There was another reflective sound, and Wolfman was turned aside once more! Wataru was moving too fast for him to understand what had happened!

Résistance, too, failed to follow! “This fight is far beyond me...! I don’t have a clue what’s going on, but there’s no way Wolfman can win!”

Aria cried out, elated! “Wow! You’re incredible, Wataru! You’re taking out your Payblade faster than humanly possible and spinning it on the ground to create a tornado-like wall of air to deflect Wolfman!”

“What!? That’s what he’s doing!?” Résistance couldn’t conceal her shock at the ridiculous tactic! And did Aria just suggest that Wataru might not be human...!?

Aria responded! “No idea! I just made it up because I couldn’t see what he did at all!”

“Stop making this more confusing than it already is! I wouldn’t put it past Wataru!”

Allow me to explain what actually happened to some of our Dear Readers who lack the superhuman eyesight necessary to follow Wataru’s tactics!!! Wataru just employed the Supersonic Shoulder Thrust, a legendary karate move that had been passed down for centuries in Osaka, Japan!!!

(*Supersonic Shoulder Thrust — A move invented by a young man studying karate in Osaka. The physical movement is almost identical to that of an ordinary punch, but the user flexes their shoulder muscles to the very limit of the human body at the moment of impact to boost the damage of the attack. In one all-too-famous example, a karate fighter used this move to obliterate a cannonball fired by the Tokugawa army during the Siege of Osaka in the winter of 1614. [10])

Wataru used this move to strike Wolfman with a supersonic punch while keeping his own movement to a minimum! This attack was no less than an invisible punch! That’s why neither Aria, Résistance, nor even Wolfman could observe Wataru’s attack with their naked eyes!

Wataru stood with arms proudly crossed as his crimson hachimaki fluttered in the wind! “You’re out of luck, Wolfman!! You never stood a chance against me!!!”

“H-How could this be...!? I’m defeated...!” Wolfman conceded from the middle of an arc through the air, having been blown away once more by Wataru’s Supersonic Shoulder Thrust! He crashed into the large rock by their campsite!!! The rock promptly exploded!!! One of the pieces stabbed Aria right between the eyes!!!

“Grgrglarghhhgaaaahhhhhhghghghghghghgh!!!!!!!!!!” Aria shouted, blood spewing out of her face!!!

“Are you all right, Aria!?!?!?”

She was A-OK, of course! She could use healing magic!

Résistance came up to Wataru! “You did it, Wataru. Now you’ve defeated all Four Masters of the Demon Lord.” She had suffered minor injuries all over her body from her fight against Wolfman, but Aria could simply heal those too, so they won’t be affecting the story in any way aside from my mentioning it right now!

“Yeah, the only one left to beat up is the Demon Lord!” Wataru untied the hachimaki from around his head and carefully placed it back in his jacket pocket!! He stared into Résistance’s eyes and mildly shouted, “Résistance... Are you still going to come with us!?!?!?”

“...What do you mean?” Résistance felt a little uneasy at how uncharacteristically serious Wataru was being!

“We’re going to face the Demon Lord for real, pretty soon! Even though you’re neutral... You might not make it out unscathed!!”

Wataru’s words lingered heavily in Résistance’s heart! It was true that Wolfman had just tried to kill Résistance! It wasn’t hard for her to imagine that the Demon Lord would try to do the same!!

Résistance stared right back at Wataru and answered without any hesitation!! “I’ll follow you... Until the very end!”

“...All right!!” Wataru said no more than that!

And so, Wataru had defeated all four of the Four Masters! Only the Demon Lord remained! In the span of less than a single volume, for that matter! What other light novel has such a fast-paced plot!? But our protagonist and his party were yet to discover the final and most fearsome adversary standing between them and the Demon Lord!!!

Meanwhile, in the Demon Lord’s castle... The Demon Lord Deus was comfortably enjoying a sugar-sweet éclair on his throne as per usual when his messenger, the blue slime, came jiggling in.

“M-My Demon Lord! There’s a crisis! Even Master Wolfman has been defeated by Wataru and his allies!”

Deus frowned and halted his éclair-munching. “...That means... Could it be...?” He paused as if allowing the realization to bounce around in his head for a few moments. “Every single one of my Four Masters has been defeated...?” Deus reiterated, with deliberate calmness and slowness. His collected tone kindled with quiet fury.

“Th-That is correct...” The slime timidly confirmed, thoroughly uncomfortable.

The Demon Lord’s Four Masters, the previously undefeated, elite warriors, had all been defeated. Much worse, one of them had betrayed her master and turned to the other side. This was an unprecedented humiliation for the Demon Lord.

Deus quietly stood and shoved the rest of the éclair into his mouth in one smooth motion.

“M-Master Deus... It-It might be dangerous to... choke down your sweets like that...” The slime suggested, concerned for its master’s health.

Deus paid his messenger no mind, and continued to chew the éclair in his mouth. “Nom nom... chomp chomp... shlip shlop... Gulp...” After thoroughly chewing and swallowing his sweet pastry, he stared down at the slime and spoke. “Slime. I am feeling some complex emotions right now. Of course, I feel sorrow and anger for the comrades I’ve lost... but more than those emotions... more than anything else...”

“Y-Yes, My Demon Lord... More than anything else...?” the slime timidly urged.

Deus’s fists suddenly began to quiver... Much to the surprise of the slime, Deus cackled. “Kah ha ha... How peculiar... that I feel ‘happy’...!!”

“H-Happy...?” the slime parroted, the question mark practically visible above the area it considered its head.

“That’s right! I am excited! I have not felt this much elation since I fought Résistance... No, much more than that!” His excited voice reverberated throughout the room.

“I am counting the seconds before I get to fight Wataru!!”

The slime gave its blue, translucent, gelatinous body a sharp jiggle. “Master Deus... Your Great Excellence will surely prevail over Wataru! May the odds be in your favor, Master!”

“I know they are!” Deus confidently confirmed.

Encountering and clashing with powerful opponents was the most sublime form of entertainment for the Demon Lord, who lived his days in boredom.

Deus clenched his fists and exhaled deeply, as if he was trying to contain his overwhelming urge to go fight his nemesis this very instant. “Phew... Hurry up and come at me, Wataru Ito...!!!”

To be continued in the next chapter, “Wataru, Confusion! The One and Only Literary Critique Battle!!!”

*Sources:

[9] Know the Facts About the Origin of Hachimaki — Isekai Tensei Publishing

[10] The Real Story that Defied Cannon: The Punch that Defined History — Isekai Tensei Publishing