Chapter 79
Chapter 79
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Translator: Vine
Chapter: 79
Chapter Title: Buffet
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The magic circle had worked, but I wondered when they would arrive.
Would I have to wait at least a few days?
That’s what I was thinking.
But how was I to know it would be the very next day?
The day after my grand threesome, I was woken by a commotion outside. By then, the event had already begun.
"Hey, hey, Yui, Luna. Wake up."
"...Mmm."
"L-Luke... if you put that in, I'll die..."
Luna woke up quietly, but what in the world was Yui dreaming about to be muttering such things?
She didn't seem like the type, but maybe Yui was secretly the lewdest of them all.
Whenever I got tired, she'd let me drink her blood to restore my stamina, making her a literal perpetual motion machine.
Still, time was of the essence, so I gave her a quick flick on the forehead.
-Flick!
"Kyaa!"
"What are you doing? Get up, quickly."
"Huh, huh...?"
She still looked half-asleep.
I cracked my knuckles, acting as if I'd give her a real flick if she didn't hurry, and she shot up and started dressing.
Luna, already prepared, checked outside the window before turning to ask me a question.
"Is this the Behemoth event you mentioned, Luke?"
"Yep."
I answered while changing my clothes.
"A colossal A-rank monster, the Behemoth. Inside is a demon controlling it, and that demon is also controlling the monsters the Behemoth has swallowed."
"So we just need to take care of the demon inside?"
"Essentially. But someone else will take care of the demon, so I'm just here to enjoy the buffet."
Once we were all dressed, we headed straight out of the dormitory.
It seemed the other professors had already rushed off to confront the threat, leaving their doors wide open in their haste.
"Wow... No matter how rushed you are, you should always lock your doors."
Otherwise, you might get robbed, you know?
"Luke, you're not thinking of anything strange, are you...?"
"Strange? What do you mean?"
"Like... robbing the empty dorms."
"Robbery? I'm simply teaching a lesson to the complacent professors who left their doors wide open, unaware of the dangers of thieves. You could call it a professor's professor."
"......"
I'll personally show them why they must always lock their doors.
Even the slowest learners will get the message once they've experienced it firsthand.
"Geh heh heh."
***
We cleaned out all the professors' rooms that had been left unlocked.
Since many of the professors were nobles, they had a lot of expensive valuables.
From gold ornaments to simple coin purses.
After leaving the building, we sprinted toward the Behemoth.
Along the way, we saw some students fighting monsters.
Still, the monsters that had emerged from the Behemoth weren't that strong, so the students were managing to hunt them to some extent.
The truly powerful monsters would be handled by the professors.
The event would have proceeded just fine without me in the original story anyway, so I didn't do anything else and headed straight for the Behemoth's face.
Normally, the standard procedure is to enter after Lucia stops the descending Behemoth.
Why? Because there's no other way.
To enter the mouth of a Behemoth floating in the sky, it's impossible unless you can levitate like Lucia.
However, no student could levitate. Not even the protagonist, Arthur.
That's why waiting for the right moment was the normal course of action.
"Luna. Footholds."
But levitation wasn't the only way.
Another option would be to use mana to enhance one's body and leap, but no student possessed that much mana and leg strength.
If such a student existed, they wouldn't be a student but something beyond an A-rank adventurer.
Coincidentally, I had no mana, but I did have a slave who could cast magic for me, and I possessed strength superior to anyone else's.
And strength isn't limited to just the arms.
For an average person, leg strength is three times greater than arm strength.
In that case.
What about a superhuman aided by a status window, who is far from average?
I tucked Luna and Yui under my arms and stepped onto the foothold Luna had created.
"Hold on tight. It's not my fault if you fall midway."
At that, Yui and Luna clung to my arms. The soft feeling was nice.
I bent my knees, shifted my center of gravity, powered up my legs, and kicked off the ground.
-FWOOSH!!
"......!"
"Kyaaah!!"
With a sound that tore through the air, we reached the Behemoth's face in an instant.
"What kind of leg strength is that..."
"Pretty amazing, isn't it?"
The leg strength produced by multiplying my 150 Strength by a factor greater than three.
It was beyond imagination.
-Grrrrrrr......
-Krrrrk━━.
But there was no time to rest.
An unwelcoming party was waiting for us.
The monsters swallowed by the Behemoth. Controlled by the demon, they were radiating killing intent toward us.
Seeing this, I took out my greatsword from the inventory and spoke to the two of them.
"Listen up, Luna, Yui."
Don't let a single one get away.
We're securing our own breakfast!
"...Breakfast?"
"Yeah."
"You're going to eat that...?"
"Yep. My mouth is already watering. *Slurp*."
Author-confirmed top-tier ingredients.
Time to eat~
The battle that followed was completely one-sided.
The monsters inside were B-rank at best.
They might be a disaster for the students and commoners below, but to us, they were just small fry we could slaughter single-handedly.
In fact, it could hardly be called a battle, since all the monsters except the Behemoth knelt the moment I activated Alpha Male.
Thus, all the monsters in the Behemoth's mouth were butchered. I put everything except what we'd eat right now into my inventory.
Right after the battle ended, I took out some firewood and started a campfire in the middle of its tongue.
"You're going to eat right here, right now...?"
"Yeah. I'm hungry."
I moved around a lot yesterday, so I was starving this morning.
Before getting serious, I had to try it in its original form first.
I picked up a piece of meat with excellent marbling, grilled it to a medium-rare, and took a bite.
"Mmm~!"
Top-tier beef.
Fucking delicious.
So good it could make you seize up.
To think I could eat for free what I used to only drool over through a monitor in my past life.
"Is it really that good...?"
"Yui, you want to try some?"
Since Yui likes blood, I just seared the surface slightly and made it rare for her.
"......!"
*Flap, flap!*
She started flailing her arms wildly.
It seemed to be her way of expressing how delicious it was with her entire body.
Right, right. You've probably never eaten anything this good before.
Not that our usual meals were bad, but they paled in comparison to what we were eating now.
After that, I tried a bit of everything, and each one was exceptionally tasty.
According to the author's TMI, the Behemoth flies through the sky and swallows things indiscriminately.
Sometimes from the mountains, sometimes from the sea, and sometimes while flying.
That's why this restaurant called the Behemoth was a buffet containing all sorts of delicacies from land and sea.
"Alright, the pure experience is over. Time to customize."
I took a stand and a pot out of my inventory and set them up over the campfire.
"Where did you get that...?"
"A true gourmand is always prepared to eat anytime, anywhere."
Ready to eat, anytime, anywhere. Okay.
I wasn't a great cook, so I had pre-packaged some partially cooked stew in my inventory.
First up, meat stew.
I diced the meat into large chunks, added it to the stew, and let it simmer.
-THUD!
-BUOOOOOOOOOOO━━━━━━━!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
A sudden impact caused a massive tremor, and I almost had a disaster on my hands, but thankfully, I didn't spill anything.
I assumed the impact was from Lucia's magic. There was a description of it in the story.
'Just what did she do to make a beast this huge cry out in pain?'
It was a shame I couldn't witness the fireworks firsthand.
In any case, Lucia's attack was over.
"They'll be here soon."
"Huh? Who will?"
"The toilet."
"...You mean Arthur?"
"He had a name like that, didn't he?"
How can a person's name be Toilet?
And just as expected, our toilet personally made his way into the Behemoth's interior to clean up the mess I'd made.
"You're here?"
It was the same group he always traveled with.
"What's with that look?"
"...Why are you here?"
Why? Am I not allowed to be here?
I'm a transmigrator, too. I can be here if I want.
Just because he's the protagonist, he thinks the world revolves around him.
Don't question where anyone is. Everyone has their own circumstances.
"To eat breakfast."
I tapped the pot with the ladle to show him.
Seeing the boiling stew, Arthur's party glanced back and forth between me and the pot several times.
"What are you looking at? You're not getting any. Piss off."
Look at these bastards, eyeing my food.
If it were bad food, I might have just dumped it all on them, but who would waste top-tier beef-grade ingredients?
I have absolutely no intention of sharing.
"I wasn't looking because I wanted some!"
"Is that so? Then hurry up and go kill the demon."
Killing the demon does give a skill, but nothing is more important than food, except maybe money.
What's the point of getting stronger? To survive, right? It's obvious that food is more important than a skill.
"...Could you leave just one bite?"
"100 gold coins."
"Why are you charging 100 gold coins for a single dish?!"
"Because I can."
Looks like this bastard finally remembered the author's TMI.
"If you want some, go get it yourself, you moron. There's plenty inside."
Did he think the demon, whose only power was controlling monsters, would be all alone in there?
It would have obviously kept a few strong monsters to protect itself.
If it's too expensive, they can just go hunt those themselves and eat.
"Besides, do you have time for this right now?"
The toilet has forgotten his primary duty.
When I threatened him to get lost, he grumbled and walked toward the interior where the demon was.
"Tsk. Should've listened when I asked nicely."
"But, Luke. Can they really handle it on their own?"
"I don't know."
The Behemoth appeared much earlier than it was supposed to.
It might have been too soon for the original Arthur, but the current Arthur was a transmigrator. He should know how to handle it.
"It's a bit ambiguous, I'd say."
"Then shouldn't we help them?"
"Why should I?"
Luna looked at me with an expression that said she didn't understand.
"Luna, you seem to have some misunderstanding."
A transmigrator isn't some hero meant to save the world.
And I'm not even the protagonist.
"Let someone who wants to do that kind of troublesome work do it."
The Demon God's descent? The end of the world?
I couldn't care less.
I just do whatever I want.
"I see..."
I lifted the ladle I'd been using to stir the stew.
It seemed like it was finally cooked.
"Alright, time to dig in~"
I took a bowl from my inventory and filled it with stew.
A stew made with the finest beef. I was really looking forward to this.
The time it took to get a spoon felt like a waste, so I brought the edge of the bowl to my lips, about to drink it.
-THUD!!
A battle must have started inside, as the Behemoth's interior shook violently.
And then.
-Splat.
"Ah."
The vibration caused the plate in my hand to flip over.
Not only that, the pot tipped over as well.
"......"
"Yui. Let's run."
"Y-Yes...?"