Chapter 153 World’s Strongest Straight From The First Day

Anyway, in a bit more than a month I will be going on a family trip for a month. Going to pause the translation during that.

 

Chapter 153 World’s Strongest Straight From The First Day

 

We’re not stopping. Rather, there’s no one that can stop us.

“Bastard! Velt Jeeha! I’ve always been irritated to you for a long time! Despite being a prisoner how the hell are you able to live that kind of luxurious life, I’ve always wanted to chop you off------“

“Fuwa Fuwa Panic” (Velt)

“HyuGOH!”

“Well, don’t be mad. I was got caught just because false charge.” (Velt)

I feel like my tension’s rising because of the nostalgic steady advancement feeling. Somehow, it’s like two years ago where I got to beat up lots of people, I also experienced this kind of feeling like I became the strongest.

“Hihahaha, we~ll, it’s my first time to be able to climb up this far. Hey hey, what should we do? Should we just release some seemingly useful underlings?” (Kagami)

“No stop stop. If we scout out more people than this I feel like going after things are gonna get really dark.” (Velt)

“Mackey, rather than increasing our number getting to the surface is our priority-zou!”

Kaa-kun stopping Kagami at a good timing is a pleasant miscalculation on my part. I’ve been getting tired having to tsukkomi everything this idiot has been doing.

“Endure it! Until the chief got here we need to hold them back at all cost!”

“Dammit, dammit just how the hell are we going to stop them!”

“Rain them with magic!”

“It- it doesn’t work! Their charge can’t be stopped!”

Anyway, including all the guards we’ve been fighting so far, they’ve been calling Kaa-kun with that absurdly famous demihuman’s name, but they must be mistaking it, right?

“Elephant Trunk Whip!”

It happened in an instant. When you thought that Kaa-kun’s nose was just slightly moving, the dry sounds of whip lashing were already echoing so many times.

A sonic speed whip.

That whip was very lively yet also delicate, that it smashed apart the approaching jailers’ weapons and rods into splinters.

“Hihahaha, I’ve expected it but you’re really kind eh~ you only did that despite you can just smash those humans from head all the way to their waist if you just got serious~.” (Kagami)

“No longer I a soldier-zou. I shan’t do pointless killing as much as I can.” (Kaizer)

“Isn’t what you just said is the thing they called hypocrisy?” (Kagami)

It started again.

“Geez, stop fighting among yourselves-zou! Heck, damn, watch where you shoot-zou. Shit, that’s just wrong -zou, hell whooaaa, cut the crap, I’m going to send you all flying!”

TL note: I don’t know the text was just like that. Maybe Velt is struggling because Kagami and Kaizer threw some techniques?

Being inside sixty floors deep underground makes me feel overwhelmed but in any case since we climbed the stairs at three steps a time we managed to going up as if we’re flying.

“Still, for a great prison housing big shot criminals this place is unexpectedly disappointing. So I was being under arrest for two years by these weak ass guards?” (Velt)

“Don’t be like that Velt-kun, thou mustn’t look down on others-zou. There be countless difficulties we must surpass in this great prison-zou.” (Kaizer)

“And well, the most troublesome one is as expected that Great Human Alliance Army’s former general, [Chief Canyon] I bet.” (Kagami)

Chief? Hmmm, I feel like ever met him when I first came here.

“For the sake of preventing the important big shots from getting out and also preventing attack from the outside, this place always has people of the same class as the Ten Heroes stationed permanently-zou.” (Kaizer)

“It’s friggin’ lame but we can’t avoid getting into battle.” (Kagami)

Ten Heroes class huh.

“Hmmm, Ten Heroes class eeh~......” (Velt)

No good, I don’t get nervous at all.

It must be because I already got hand chopped by one of the Four Heavenly Beast Demihumans, got into a fight with one of the Seven Great Demon Kings, and actually even befriending one, and also my ex wife is one of the Ten Heroes of Light.

“Yeah well, that’s only after all the commotions we made.”

That’s the only thing I can say.

I’m not saying he isn’t a threat but I don’t feel afraid after all I’ve experienced. Even if our opponent is someone of the Ten Heroes class....

“Yea, we’re gonna beat them at their own game.”

We’ll crush them to pieces. That’s what I decided in my heart.

“Pheew~  It’s friggin’ cool isn’t it, Asakura-kun! He’s hella thick headed~” (Kagami)

“Indeed, since I’ve been released it is the truth that I don’t feel angry at all-zou.” (Kaizer)

The guys who are gonna be troublesome to be enemies with aren’t my enemies right now after all.

“However, Velt-kun. Other than Canyon, we be have another thing of concern-zou.” (Kaizer)

“I knoow right. Once we got out from the underground of this place we’ll be surrounded by seas in all directions, this place is exactly an exiled island in the middle of the sea. Moreover, because there’s a strong magic barrier stretching all over the island, other than people related to the alliance army it is difficult for others to sneak in or get out.” (Kagami)

“I bet so. But we’re gonna make it somehow right? The fact that those related to the alliance army able to get in and out means that we can catch those guys and make them spit it out. Or we can just find the place that looks like a control room that manages the opening and closing of the barrier.”

“Yeah, that works.” (Kagami)

“Indeed, I also of the same opinion-zou. Though it may be impossible to destroy the magic barrier but I of mind that the thing that controls it resides in this prison-zou.” (Kaizer)

I don’t feel that much impression from the barrier that gonna appear after this. Once we go there, we’ll manage one way or another. That’s what I feel.

However, things just simply happened outside of my predictions.

“Huh! I sensed a presence-zou!” (Kaizer)

“Hiiik!”

When I thought there won’t be any jailers or barricade again for a while, from behind a sound of climbing up the stairs can be heard, Kaa-kun hit the wall with his nose in intimidation.

At that moment, a very pathetic shriek echoed over, a very plump pig..... no, a jailer I knew of rolled down in front of us.

“Hiiiiiiiik, ple, please save me-nandana! Ple- please just spare my life-dana!”

He spouted poison in one go.

This person who let out such a shameful appearance that it even can erase killing intent as he does dogeza tremblingly is Kimomen.

TL note: Anyway Kimomen usually use –dana suffix in almost all his sentence. I kinda confused how to translate it so I’ll take example like how they did it in Death March. Anyway, I usually found “–dana” added to a word to ask for confirmation, like “kore dana?” means “It’s this, right?”

“Ooh, it’s you.” (Velt)

“So- so it’s Velt-kun nandana! Wh- why did you do something like this-ndana! If- if you do something like this, it’s going to make me responsible for taking off your handcuffs-dana!” (Kimomen)

“Yea, now that you said it, that’s right. Hmm~ my bad! I got carried away.” (Velt)

“Please give me break-ndana! Wha- what am I to do now-ndana!” (Kimomen)

No well, don’t cry, also don’t come near me, you reek of sweat, it’s disgusting. Even Kaa-kun drew back a bit against this Kimomen. However, only Kagami next to me was different. He stared at Kimomen’s face then hit the palm of his hand with a [Ah].

“Ooh, aren’t you Olband Kimomen the li’l master from a duke house of Empire~” (Kagami)

“Eeh, umm, who are you-nandana?” (Kimomen)

“Aah~  You can’t  recognize me because of my beard and hair are friggin’ bad right now? It’s me It’s me, Mackey.” (Kagami)

TL note: Eh, hasn’t he already cut them? Dunno maybe a mistake from the author?

“Ah.... President Mackey!” (Kimomen)

Eeh? They know each other? Towards my voiceless question, Kagami nodded.

“Yup yup, when I was still the organization’s president,  he’s the super client-sama that always make a high  winning bid all the time at the slave auction♪Yeaaah~ you made me earned big bucks.” (Kagami)

“President Mackey, it’s been a while nandana! It’s been terrible ever since you got arrested-dana! The auction got abolished, the organization has changed too, even those time when I used Love and Peace a lot in the past got exposed to papa, it made me got disinherited-dana! I was walking on the elite path, but look at me now-dana!” (Kimomen)

“My my, I give my friggin’ deepest apologize for causing trouble to you~” (Kagami)

“Velt-kun, you requested me to look for president Mackey but actually I also wanted to meet the president and say my complaints-dana!” (Kimomen)

Whoah, so there’s this kind of connection too huh.

“Hence, what shall we do about him-zou? If you come to capture us, we’ll resist-zou?” (Kaizer)

“HIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIK! That’s, that’s impossible dana! I, I was just trying to escape to the head office immediately....” (Kimomen)

So he’s trying to set us up or something. It’s too stupid, even Kaa-kun was quite amazed by it as he held his head.

TL note: Velt was about to say蛇の道は蛇 (A snake’s path is snake?) which is a Japanese idiom meaning “set a thief to catch a thief”. Though he didn’t finish the idiom since he seems forgot the rest of the idiom.

“Then, Kimomen, we’re about to escape from here, isn’t it better for you to just go and hide if you don’t want to die?” (Velt)

“Eeh-----! So you’re really going to escape-dana? Bu- but, i- if you’re escaping then this responsibility going to fall on me!”  (Kimomen)

It feels a bit bad to bully on him. And it’s not going to help anything with just glaring at this lacking in exercise fatty. Probably, with him being very panicked right now, he’d even go as far as licking my shoes with vigor.

“Hihahaha, still, to think that the li’l master and Asakura-kun are such a good friends.”(Kagami)

“Cut it cut it, it’s too embarrassing to be a friend with someone like him, so don’t say it.” (Velt)

I denied Kagami’s allegation as he is holding his stomach in laughter. Well, there’s just that transaction  though.

“.........Hm?” (Velt)

However, at that moment something caught my mind. Yes, it was a transaction.

“Hey, Kimomen. What do you guys do to pass through the magic barrier enclosing this prison? Like when taking in a new prisoner.”

“Eh? Tha- that’s.... if you done the magic registration and taking a staff along....” (Kimomen)

“Hooh.” (Velt)

“...............eeh----! No way no no way no way!” (Kimomen)

“I still haven’t say anything.” (Velt)

“Y- you’re trying to use me to get pass the barrier right? I can’t, l can’t, if they found it I’d be also became a criminal-ndana!” (Kimimen)

“Yeah~, then it’s fine, we won’t say anything. Just say that the escape was all Mackey Mouse’s plot. You can say you’re just got caught and being forced into it.” (Velt)

“Please, no-dana!”

If we can use him it feels like we can make it somehow. Well, of course in the end we have to breakthrough with brute force but I’ve prepared myself at least that much for it.

“So I see-zou. Indeed if we do it like that we can make it somehow-zou.” (Kaizer)

“Hihahahahaha, yea well, you won’t be dying so stop the crying, li’l master♪.” (Kagami)

There’s no objection from Kaa-kun or Kagami.  So we dragged Kimomen as he sobbed in denial, then begin climbing the spiral stairway up once again.

“As I thought, Asakura-kun, you’re really one of those that [have] after all.” (Kagami)

“Hah?” (Velt)

“I mean~ isn’t doing jailbreak usually needs years of secret planning, staying hidden for so many years digging up tunnel, and in the end of that living a honest life? But this, despite being one hell of a random jailbreak, you managed to bring along the strongest bodyguard and somehow even secure a way to escape, totally unusual right?” (Kagami)

As I was at the front while climbing the stairway, it was quite mysterious as there were no guards, and as I was wondering about it slightly, Kagami then spoke as if mouthing off.

“Have it? I don’t have it. It’s just, when I realized it things already went down like this.” (Velt)

“Hihahahaha, is that so? But since our reunion two years ago, I’ve felt that kind of air around you. That never came to my mind when we’re at highschool though. You were born under quite the lucky of a star.” (Kagami)

“Even after these two years I’ve spent in that lenient jail, I never thought something like that, it’s worthless. I’ll think about that kind of thing after we’ve conquered the world. “ (Velt)

Now that he mentioned it, it’s something of a fad in the previous world huh, that [have] stuff. If I really one who have it, around this time I won’t be have to work together with this kind of mad guy and this hardy demihuman.

However at that moment, Kaa-kun cut into our conversation as if he felt something unusual with the present condition.

“Still, isn’t right now unmistakenably a good fortune in a way or another-zou?” (Kaizer)

“Kaa-kun?”

“Have you noticed it-zou? For a while now, we haven’t met any jailers at all. But despite that, we also haven’t seen any signs of traps.” (Kaizer)

Aah, I’m curious about that too. Rather, not only we didn’t meet any attacks from the jailer, we also haven’t seen any of them at all. It’s true that things gonna take time because there’s so many stairs to climb but right now everything’s very smooth.

But still, having come this far, rather than good fortune I got more of a bad feeling.

“Hey, Kimomen, what’s going on right now?”  (Velt)

“I- I don’t know-ndana!” (Kimomen)

Kimomen replied in an instant. However, suddenly he seemed to remember something and then raised his face.

“Ah.....” (Kimomen)

“What’s wrong?” (Velt)

“Eh, ah, no, that.... just now, it’s not about you guys escaping and made a big uproar but.... now that I remember it,  there was a kind of telepathic message from the head office..... but I was panicked and didn’t manage to hear the message at all.” (Kimomen)

Panicked? Of course you’d be panicked with these kind of three people jalibreaking together right?

And then, at that moment, Kimomen seemed to receive a new message.

“Eh! Ah, wha? .......?” (Kimomen)

The telepathy must have surprised Kimomen. What are the jailers of this prison up to?

The next moment, as if not understanding it himself, he tilted his head.

“Ah, that, it seems.... it was from someone from the surface but.... it said all the jailers personnel underground are to assemble at the surface immediately.....” (Kimomen)

“Hah? What’s with that? Are they just going to abandon fighting us underground and just ambush us at the surface?” (Velt)

“N- no, it doesn’t seem like that.... it feels like....” (Kimomen)

At the next moment those words got out of Kimomen’s mouth. Those words that even us three can’t quite get the meaning of....

“It feels like, at this prison..... no at this island, there’s something that went and go rampaging about they said.....” (Kimomen)

“ “ “Hah?” “ “

It was so unexpected that we can’t react.

“Hey hey hey, in this stable of a period the world is in, for them to actually attack an underground prison in this kind of isolated island, is there really a stupid country like that?” (Velt)

“Hihahaha, my my, that’s friggin’ terrific.” (Kagami)

“The Seven Great Demon Kings? Or might it be, the demihumans? Someone with connections to Love and Money? In whatever case may be, if that really is the truth then it works for us instead-zou.” (Kaizer)

That’s right, it’s just like Kaa-kun said, we don’t know who’s the idiot that do something like that in this kind of age but, if the surface is in trouble right now then it’s a chance for us.

Since the time used for fighting going to decrease and with all the confusion it’s possible to make our way out after all.

“I don’t really know what those idiots are planning but before they can get inside this prison we’ll be getting out first!” (Velt)

We drag Kimomen together with us and running fast on the stairs, climbing up.

And then, as we gradually approached the surface, we then able to actually hear the sound of disturbance.

“It’s the sound of combat-zou.” (Kaizer)

“It’s quite the friggin’ tremor to be able to reverberate till here. They’re having pretty fierce fight it seems.” (Kagami)

“Fuh, with them spreading rumors about the revival of the divine race they able to interrupt the war for a moment.... but still, that condition won’t be able to continue indefinitely, seems my prediction on that hit the nail.” (Velt)

It’s such an irony. While I sympathize with Tyler, I still think of this as a good chance. And so we finally managed to fly out to the surface.

“Oh, oooh.............” (Velt)

“It’s dazzling......” (Kagami)

“It’s been seven years, since I last saw the sun-zou......”

It’s been a while since I last saw it.

The blue sky.

The overwhelming vigor of the sun.

The sea extending far beyond the horizon.

The wind that carries the scent that mixed with salt.

This nice sensation on the skin is by no means can be felt at that underground world, we three became unguarded for an instant, taking in our fill of the world.

“........Yeah... this is it~”  (Kagami)

However we returned to the reality immediately.

“A- Asakura-kun, umm, can I just say it as it is? Well there’s a big wharf right in front of us on the place where we just came out but.... all the guys that collapsed here..... aren’t all of them jailers?” (Kagami)

What would appear when one went outside of this great prison is the wharf connecting directly with it.

The captured criminals were brought here by a ship, and then they were unloaded and brought to the prison as it is.

For the sake of enabling no matter how big of a ship to dock here, the area of the wharf was so big that it can even fit in at least a whole thousand men.

Should the prison were to be attacked, the battle should be happening in this place but what appeared in front of us is such an abnormal sight instead.

“It was one sided –zou.” (Kaizer)

Rather than saying they fought, saying they unilaterally got defeated is the more correct representation of it. The ones who collapsed here are only humans that got assigned to this prison.

There were ships that got seriously damaged. And also......

“Aaaaaaaaaaaaah! Th- the, the, magic barrier has been destroyed-dana!” (Kimomen)

At the end of where Kimomen’s finger pointed at, was the sky where the barrier that concealed this island originally should be.

However, there is nothing that can be felt from there. Nothing that can be seen.

The magic barrier had vanished.

“Who, who in the world could.....”

“Still, to be defeated so one-sidedly.... moreover, with no clear sign of external wound. It’s as if they got fainted upon receiving a tremendous shock-zou.” (Kaizer)

“Hey hey, isn’t the chief here a person on the same class as the Ten Heroes of Light?” (Velt)

As I thought of that I looked around nearby, then Kimomen once again shouted.

“Ah, chief!” (Kimomen)

“Eh, so that’s Chief Canyon the Ten Heroes class guy? He got beaten!” (Velt)

At the end of where Kimomen’s finger pointed at, in the middle of a great number of personnel, a lone man was laying down.

And then, as if reacting to Kimomen, the man who was called the chief regained a bit of his consciousness and moved.

“Uh, guh, gah, ah.....”

“Chief, what happened here-dana!” (Kimomen)

Despite Kimomen running close to him, the man he called chief is still in a hazy state.

However, the words that barely escaped from his mouth were....

“To, too......... st........ rong....... that, monster........”

Too strong? Monster?

Wait a sec, this guy who was called as of the Ten Heroes class has been made this terrified by something that came and attacked this place?

“Chief, th- the enemies, from which country is it nandana? From which race are they-nandana?” (Kimomen)

We gulped our breaths and wait for the answer of that question.

And then...

“one........... person.......”

Hah?

“Not...... a country...... a person..... just one, person...... it’s him....... that, one two years ago...... he appeared in the world suddenly..... the mysterious, vagrant....... demon.....”

It was at that moment.

――――♪♪♪♪♪♪♪♪♪♪♪♪♪♪♪♪♪♪♪♪♪♪

I’m hearing something strange.

This sound.....

“The adults said it, there is no true freedom in this world they said. It fucking ain’t it! Look at us! Our freedom is here! Freedom truly exist!”

The strange song...... riding on the guitar tune......

“.............................................”

My mouth unintentionally gaped open.

Please, stop with the surprises already.

I don’t know whether I should be happy or confused, everything’s just so incomprehensible that I can only hang my head.

However, it’s different with the other guys.

“Hiiiiiiiiiiiiiik! It- it’s him!  It’s him! The SS class bounty! The Vagrant Ogre Demon, Kishin!”

Punk rock n’ roll style in black leather. He strummed the pure white flying V guitar as he sing, the ogre bastard.

“Eh, eeh!? Ki, Kishin, it’s him right! That one! I don’t really know him but, he’s that right, one of the Seven Great Demon Kings!” (Kagami)

“Why is it-zou! Why, the Jigoku Demon Kingdom’s king, Kishin is here!” (Kaizer)

Even Kagami showed a rare serious face as he’s surprised, oooh, this is precious moment.....

“Eh, Seven Great Demon Kings? What are you saying-dana? The Demon King of Jigoku Demon Kingdom if I’m no mistaken is...... named [Kiroro], a young Demon King-dana.” (Kimomen)

“.........Huh? What are thou saying-zou? It’s of impossibility a human like thou not know him-zou.” (Kaizer)

“What do you mean with Demon King-nandana? There is no one named Kishin in the generations of Demon Kings in the Jigoku Demon Kingdom-dana.” (Kimomen)

At that moment, as the disconnected conversation between Kimomen and Kaa-kun went on, the rock ogre stopped strumming his guitar, and then laughed in self depreciation.

“Fufu, Demon King Kishin...... it has very been a while since me last time heard it. Since two years ago...... the moment the world forgotten of me’s existence, me thought that there’s no one that would call me by that name again.”  (Kishin)

Just a little bit, he gave out a sad air about him, however he immediately winked and smiled.

“But, me don’t have any attachment to the Demon King title. It is because, even if the whole world forgot about me, the friend who calls me by me’s true name is right here.” (Kishin)

That’s why I returned that smile.

“With no destination in mind, me have been escaping from the pursuers, and then two years has passed like that..... sorry,  Ryuuma. However, when the day me came to rescue, Ryuuma you also made an escape of your own, nothing less to expect from me’s best friend.”

“Rather than saying it circumstance, it’s more like a good timing..... Milco.......” (Velt)

“Hm, that look, it seems you’ve hardened your resolution.” (Kishin)

“Yeah.” (Velt)

When I realized it, we already exchanged a powerful high five.

The dry sound it produced really made me felt reassured.

As we did that, Kimomen and Kaa-kun stiffened unknowingly.

And then.....

“What what what........ Milco is...... Eeeeh, eeh, eeeeh, doeeeeeeh! Is something as friggin’ like this even possible?” (Kagami)

Kagami held his own head with various meanings.

“Yup, Asakura-kun, you’re really kinda [have] yeah. After all, the day you decided to conquer the world, you already managed to make this strongest in the world kind of team, right?”

With lots of groan, Kagami said that to me.

 

 

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