Inferior Magic Swordsman: Using the Skill Board to Become the Strongest
Chapter 6: Soul Reaper

Chapter 6: Soul Reaper

Toru, who was about to leave the house, was suddenly beaten up by a trio of men who broke into his house.

Not knowing what had happened, Toru was very confused.

But the confusion soon subsided.

This is because the men's attacks didn't hurt at all.

He was shocked by the attack but the pain was just as painful as a baby's pat.

Toru, who knew he was not endangering his second life, calmly observed the other person.

The man who broke into the house was a man in his late twenties to early thirties.

His hair color is the same as that of the villagers, and his body looks stronger than that of Lid.

Toru didn't want to incite the other person so he asked the other person directly.

(--Hie!?)

Tohru took a breath as he looked at the men.

Their eyes were bloodshot, and foam had accumulated in the corners of their mouths. The appearance is similar to a person possessed by a demon.

The aura around them was strange.

In fact, the Intuition skill felt that they had something not quite human in them.

Lid's memory tells us about the three-man group that was attacking Toru.

They were villagers named Clement, Robert and Tuck.

They are the people who killed Lid this morning.

He is also one of the people who killed Lid's parents.

When Lid's memory conveyed that, Toru's brain was calm.

But behind that calmness, < thought trace > begins to activate at high speed.

(The reason why these guys are weird is that they are being manipulated by someone?)

Toru didn't think they were ordinary villagers.

There is magic in this world. Toru knows very little about what magic can and cannot do. However, it is thought that there may be "magic to manipulate people."

Therefore, Toru pretended to have fainted.

Even if they continue to beat him like before, Toru will not die.

So Toru let them proceed and observe what they are doing.

If you want to kill with their weapon, he can just run away.

But if they head for the person who uses "mind manipulation magic"...

Toru has to confirm it for Lid's sake.

The men are murmuring something.

Toru was unnerved by their constant murmuring repeatedly saying “kill” endlessly.

(They're being scary!)

On the other hand, Toru feels elated that < language comprehension > is working properly.

He was worried if he could talk to the other party, but now his worry has been resolved.

Toru's first word from the people of Eargard is "Kill". He is feeling anxious about his future.

The only thing left is whether or not the other person can talk normally.

(Are these people able to make a decent conversation?)

I could not help holding such concerns.

After leaving for a while, Toru felt that he had returned to the limestone cave that he had just been on.

(Why are they back...)

Apparently Toru was just over thinking.

They had no such instructions.

They killed Lid and his parents at their own will.

Discouraged by his disappointment, Toru quickly escaped from his restraint between Robert and Tuck.

"I wonder what I'm going to do they are going to kill me again. I don't ever learn." (Toru)

"...Ah, eh?" (Clement)

Hearing Toru's voice, Clement turned around and looked completely astounded.

"Oh, hey, Robert, Tuck! Lid is awake! Why didn't you restrain him properly!!" (Clement)

"Oh, I did! But when I realized it, he pulled away from my hand." (Robert)

"Dude!" (Tuck)

The sound of teeth clenching can be heard from Clement.

"What do you feel good about Lid? There are three of us and you are alone. Even if you resist--"

Clement is filled with murderous intent.

The next moment.

The figure of Robert next to Clement disappeared.

"Wow!"

""-!?"

Robert fell from a cliff.

The head fell on the ground, making a smashing noise and his skull broke open.

"One down, two to go."

"...!"

Clement had no idea what Lid did.

But what happen seems that Lid probably kicked Robert off the cliff.

However, Clement's known Lid is by no means strong. He was a person who could be defeated easily if surrounded by three people as strong as Clement.

A strong adult who has been trained in farm work.

On the other hand Lid is just a boy who has never done farm work and had trouble eating.

From a common sense point of view, the formershould be stronger.

Therefore, Clement could not accept the fact.

"What did you do?" (Clement)

"What the hell did you do?" (Tuck)

Lid looked at Clement.

Clement's body froze when he was stared down.

There is no hate or murderous intent on Lid's face.

However, he was staring at Clement and Tuck as if they are not people.

Perhaps I have touched some thing I shouldn't have.

But it was too late.

While thinking about what to do, Tuck fell over the cliff.

An unpleasant sound of smashing meat echoes in the limestone cave.

The sound reverberates, but Clement keeps his eyes on Lid.

"You cursed child...!" (Clement)

"What? Should I die if my eyes and hair color are different from you?"

Lid's hand, which swung down, suddenly had a black sword in his hand.

Immediately after seeing the sword, Clement spine shivered due to an unknown fear.

Don't touch that.

A "voice" in Clement's head screamed at him to run away.

"Then you who has a different color than me means that I can kill you?" (Toru)

「…………」

Already, Clement's throat was silenced.

He was stunned and frozen by the overwhelming intimidation from the eyes of Lid.

(What on earth am I facing...)

If there is an evil god or a god of death in this world, I'm sure they would have such an eye.

Overwhelming pressure deprived Clement of freedom.

"Woooooooooooo!!" (Clement)

However, Clement still raised his voice and desperately moved.

The other party is not an evil or god of death.

It's Lid. It's human.

By any means, this guy can be killed.

(Kill! Kill!)

"Kill"

"Break"

"Dye everything in darkness"

According to the voice in his heart, Clement jumped at Lid.

However,

"Ah?" (Clement)

Clement fell when he noticed the shock from his chest.

Almost at the same time, the voice that filled his heart until now disappeared completely.

It's as if he didn't hear such a voice from the beginning.

Clement crashed into the ground and looked up at the cliff, nearly fainting in pain.

The figure of Lid looking down from the top of the cliff with his black sword in hand made him look like a completely different person from the one he knew for some reason.

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Clement and others had an extraordinary murderous intent in their eyes.

Toru fought against a large caterpillar and was used to murderous intent to some extent. But their blood-lust was different. The blood-lust swirls in blackness as if it were not human.

(Maybe all the people in this world are so dangerous?) (Toru)

Toru was intimidated.

?

If he was a weak person like when he was on the earth, he must have been frozen.

On the other hand, an unfamiliar urge was born in Toru's chest.

The impulse is

"What do you feel good about Lid? There are three of us and you are alone. Even if you resist--"

With Clement's words, an unidentified urge exploded.

Toru left the impulse and kicked Clement and three others off the cliff.

When kicking off, Toru also slashed them with a [Magic Sword].

This is to attract the caterpillars that are attracted by the smell of blood.

However,

"That's weird. I should have cut them properly." (Toru)

[Magic Sword], which Toru had swung through, slashed the wrists of the three people as intended.

There was a slashing feeling.

If Toru's [Magic Sword] was working properly as a blade, their wrists would have been cutoff from their bodies by this time.

But their wrists were still on their bodies.

The [Magic Sword] has passed through the body.

"Why?" (Toru)

Toru was a little confused.

I slashed the caterpillars a lot, but this never happened.

"Hmm. Right." (Toru)

Toru threw his doubts at ease.

Although they could not be cut with the [Magic Sword], Robert's head broke when dropped.

From the cracked head, everything that shouldn't come out spreads-out.

With this, Toru's aim can be fully achieved.

When Toru was is in Japan he has never seen a cracked head. Nevertheless, when I saw Robert's head from the top of the cliff, I felt nothing.

Ordinary people may look a little pale, but even that does not happen.

Toru accepts the discovery of a new side, as he was tolerant to harm.

Clement, who fell under the cliff, was hardly injured, probably because he had a good place to land on.

However, the attitude changed from the previous one and he has calmed down.

"Li, Lid... What is this all about?"

Clement's expression when he asked was as if he had lost his memory because of a bad place to hit.

The dark expression he wore before was completely wiped out.

Are you acting pitiful because your position has reversed? I thought so, but it seems not only that.

(They more likely to get angry when pushed down by me)

"Oi, Lid, answer me!" (Clement)

"Clement, do you really not know why you are there?" (Toru)

"I don't know, I'm listening!" (Clement)

"Hah. Clement doesn't remember trying to kill me or actually pushing me off the cliff?" (Toru)

“That's what we………? Why did we try to kill Lid!?” (Clement)

The situation is strange. They don't have the capacity to pretend.

I was in a rush that I had forgotten about it.

No matter how you think about it, the situation is strange.

"Hmm...I was right." (Toru)

However, Toru does not confirm their true motives here.

It is true that they killed innocent Lid and his parents.

And I tried to kill Toru.

This is not earth. It's a different world.

There is no law in which Toru has to save them.

"Hmm, what is this sound. What is there?" (Clement)

With a small noise, "Mozou...", a large swarm of caterpillars appeared from behind the cave.

A barely conscious Tuck was stunned by the appearance of the caterpillar.

"Dude, is it a monster!!" (Tuck)

Clement, on the other hand, hurriedly approached the cliff.

"Lid, I beg of you, help me." (Clement)

"Have you helped Lid in the past?" (Toru)

"That is..." (Clement)

"Lid just wanted to live. He has been trying to live without inconveniencing anyone. But you rejected him. You unilaterally made a decision and drop him over a cliff. You abused me, why should I help you?" (Toru)

"So, why did you push us down? If you just wanted to live, you didn't have to push us down!!" (Clement)

"It's not the line that a person who pushed the person who just tried to live should say. And--" (Toru)

Toru let out the words inside of Lid's chest.

"Can you forgive the murderer who killed your parents?" (Toru)

"... Gu!" (Clement)

"I got the answer." (Toru)

"Woooooo!!" (Clement)

Clement started running towards the caterpillar with a screaming voice.

He made a fist and punched the caterpillar.

The force of the punch filled with muscular strength was spectacular.

However,

「―― What!?」

The skin of the caterpillar resisted Clement's punch.

Without showing any discomfort, the caterpillar aimed at Clement.

The caterpillar split the mouth in three and opened wide.

"What the..." (Clement)

The end was a moment.

The worm bite off Cleman's head in an instant.

"Waaaaa!" (Tuck)

Tuck panicked after Clement's quick death. However, that scream also attracts the caterpillar.

A large number of caterpillars appeared one after another from the back of the cave so they could be drawn by sound.

"... still so much?" (Toru)

Toru killed a lot of caterpillars, but it seems that he was still in the few. A overwhelming number of caterpillars were under the cliff in no time.

"That, ke... Ah, ah, ah..." (Tuck)

Tuck seeking for help is chewed from. Robert, whose head was broken, was also eaten away in no time.

Clement's body is gone. Only the bloodstain was left and disappeared in the belly of the caterpillar.

When their bodies were eaten none was left behind,

"--!?"

An unpleasant sign filled the space.

Toru reflexively manifests and sets [Magic Sword].

A caterpillar appears again from the back of the cave.

This time there is only one.

But many times larger than the others.

"I think it's a caterpillar boss. If I leave it as it is, it might come out." (Toru)

At present, caterpillars cannot cross the cliff. But as the numbers increase, caterpillars pile up, eventually crossing a 10-meter wall-- a stampede.

Once stampeding, nearby villages will definitely be destroyed.

Toru doesn't hate the villagers who didn't hurt Lid directly.

I don't want to be involved again, but I don't think I would die.

I wanted to prevent the stampede if I could.

However, Toru was unable to take any action.

Toru's "intuition" skill warns that he should never fight that caterpillar.

The caterpillar's parents carried the "food" that the children had secured. Then its eyes focus on Toru.

Chew, swallow. The chewing sounds echoed inside the cave.

At first glance, there are plenty of opportunities. But that is Toru's judgment as an Earthling.

Toru knows little about the strength of monsters and demons in Eargard.

Ignorance makes you recklesss.

Therefore, Toru obediently followed the voice of < intuition >, which is the power of this world.

"But..." (Toru)

There is no reason to overlook this.

Toru jumped up.

At that moment, the caterpillar's parents quickly looked up at Toru.

Just as if it said, "If it comes to me, I'll eat it similar to the other party."

--also.

Toru seemed to be alert, and the caterpillar parent was barely alert.

While gazing at the parent caterpillar, Toru uses [Magic Sword].

after a moment,

Shattering sound echoes.

Several stalactites on the ceiling began to fall all at once.

"""Eey!!""" (Toru)

A stalactite crushes a caterpillar child. But it's not enough.

"More!!" (Toru)

At the same time as before, he jumps again.

Toru chops up the stalactites one after another and smashes the caterpillars under the cliff.

Around the fifty stalactites that fell. Signs of living things diminished from under the cliff.

"...Did I do that?" (Toru)

Toru shook his head. Still not enough.

Although it was faint, I felt a sign of a caterpillar. I don't know about the child, but the parent is definitely alive.

A large amount of stalactite was cut off, which reduced the distance from the bottom to the top of the cliff. In this state, the caterpillar wants to leave the cave earlier than Toru's idea.

So Toru left the cave and swung the [Magic Sword] toward the entrance.

A roaring noise echoed and the ceiling at the entrance to the cave collapsed.

Now you can't come out easily.

「…………」

Toru meditated in front of the collapsed cave.

"It might have been extra care-"

――I killed the enemy you wanted.

Yes, I prayed to Lid's soul.

? Acquire 150 skill points

? Acquired the title [soul reaper]