Chapter 5
Translator: True Detective
Chapter 5
The Treatment Orphan Sois Receive
“Orphan Soi bastard. You are the latest one.”
I heard the broadcast. Was it ‘Sois, start work quickly after eating’? No wonder there was no one in the computer room where people usually gathered during lunch hour. Everyone had resumed work as quickly as possible.
I might not even work starting tomorrow, but I was on the early side too. Yet, I was the latest. It made me think, ‘The reality for Sois is truly shitty.’
I didn't know I had to take action to this extent.
“I apologize. I will start work immediately.”
“That's not it. Orphan Soi bastard. Do you not know because you're an orphan abandoned by your mommy and daddy?”
“Yes?”
Shit? That really pisses me off? I think my personality is getting worse since coming here.
“What you need to do is kneel right now.”
Tap tap.
That guy hit my forearm with the back of his hand. His expression looked as if he had touched filth, seemingly reluctant to even make contact with a Soi.
According to what other colleagues said, this guy didn't receive a title. Everyone just walks on eggshells because he is a noble's son.
They say just being a High-Rank Ability User grants you a noble title and people try to recruit you. I am at least High-Rank, probably Saint-Rank. I'm going to become a noble soon, so is there any need for me to bow and scrape to that guy?
I made eye contact with the silver-haired girl looking this way. She looked restless. There's no need for her to step up and receive this kind of treatment for no reason. I shook my head. Don't interfere.
“Kneel, you said? I don't want to.”
Because I'm going to fight this guy.
“What did you just say? Orphan Soi bastard.”
“I am not an orphan. If you say that mommy and daddy crap one more time, you might die?”
Astonishment washes over the silver-haired girl's face. Yeah, it's okay. Stay right there. Because I'm not going to let this guy off.
“Uha, uhahahaha!”
The guy laughed loudly without his eyes smiling.
“I've lived long enough to see a mentally ill orphan Soi. Oi.”
Tap.
He hit my arm again.
“Oi!”
Tap.
I can step up around now, right?
“Oi!!!”
Whoosh~ Crack!
“Kuaaaaaaak!!!”
Just as I was thinking that, the guy threw a punch at my chest with his full weight, and I didn't budge an inch. Instead, perhaps because his arm broke, that guy rolled around on the floor screaming. As expected, my current physical abilities were completely different. I took the hit on purpose.
But, what? Is it ending like this? Just me getting hit?
“Ow~ I was just about to start! What am I supposed to do if you collapse already!”
Even while rolling around, that guy gibbered, ‘This shit, this orphan bastard.’ I can't listen to this anymore. Just as I thought I should land a soccer kick on that face.
Uh? I can't do that?
The reason that guy is in pain like that. Because that guy hit the entire ocean. The reason I can't kick that guy away. Because the entire ocean would crash into that guy's face.
That guy's face would explode. Fragments that even his brothers wouldn't recognize would fly. Ah... what about my foot? In an instant, I realized again.
I can't withstand it either. My foot would also explode. But my foot regenerates.
“Man~ I can't just leave this be either!”
If I hit him even once, he'll die, and I'm pissed off, but I'm not confident in controlling my strength yet. Especially in this mood, if I do anything, I'll definitely end up killing him.
“This orphan bastard! You can't join the work from now on. No! You're expelled! Try living outside as an incompetent orphan Soi! Ah, shit, it huuuuurts!!!! My arm!!!!”
“Please shut that mouth!”
I created a water mass on that guy's face. It's funny seeing him flail and struggle for air, startled by the sudden event.
“Hahahahaha~ Serves you right~”
He struggled and tried to dodge, but I didn't miss a single moment and generated it dozens more times. If he tried to pull his face to the side, I generated it there again right before he pulled away. No matter how much the guy jerked his head this way and that, he couldn't escape the water mass. Since that guy's actions looked quite slow to my eyes right now, it was entirely possible.
Thud.
Before long, the guy fainted.
“Wow, he's re~ally weak.”
***
Serin couldn't help but be astonished watching Saklasi's current actions. Until just a moment ago, she debated, ‘Should I reveal I'm a noble?’ Her infiltration to ferret out demons would be broken, but she wanted to help Saklasi.
Saklasi wouldn't know. That Deputy General Manager was fairly strong in his own right. Though he was beneath her, a Lieutenant-Rank. She intended to step in when that Deputy General Manager tried to throw a punch with full force. If it hadn't been for Saklasi's relaxed face. And now. She understood why he had that expression. Because Saklasi was far stronger. Would Serin be that fine if she took the Deputy General Manager's punch?
‘Uh? Maybe Saklasi is stronger than me?’
“No way!!!”
At Serin's voice, Saklasi looked over with an expression that knew nothing, as if saying, ‘Huh? What? Are you saying that was too harsh?’
At first, he was a prime suspect for being a demon. Then, it was only yesterday that she directly witnessed his ability manifestation.
Looking at the ability Saklasi showed today, his hierarchy was at least Lieutenant-Rank. Wouldn't it be infinitely close to High-Rank?
Serin wondered, ‘Just what on earth is he?’, but she really didn't know. It would almost be less surprising if he were a demon.
Turns out he's twenty. Turns out he's an ability user. Turns out he's a Lieutenant-Rank ability user close to High-Rank. And all that in just one day?
She saw Saklasi receive a huge shock at his first ability manifestation yesterday. He was shocked because he was a Water Ability User.
‘That was acting?’
It makes absolutely no sense. No matter how much of a genius, reaching this hierarchy the next day is impossible. Then Serin recalled that the Emperor was a Transcendent as soon as she was born but...
Since Saklasi kept acting strangely, she dismissed it, thinking she had become strange too.
“Sigh.”
Is it okay to keep sending reports on just one Soi who has nothing to do with demons? Serin's mind became complicated.
***
When I left the unconscious guy and started working as if nothing happened, other people who were watching joined in as well. The silver-haired girl looked at the unconscious guy, said, ‘Fortunately, he's alive,’ and moved him aside. Seeing how she was restless and tried to step in earlier, she seems like a kind kid.
I still don't know her name. I'll have to ask later.
“You manifested an ability, so why did you come here?”
While I was sorting packages, the girl who asked me if I was a senior spoke to me.
“Yeah! You seemed really strong!”
When one person spoke up, other girls gathered too.
“Actually, there's a mistake.”
The problem is that the mistake is coming inside a novel.
“Wow~ That must be nice. Becoming an ability user too.”
“You became incredibly handsome! I heard Water Ability Users get really good skin. Is that why you became this handsome?”
“Right? Anyway, it's much better than before! You became totally handsome! I can't even remember your face from before!”
Giggle! Giggle!
They are making a fuss among themselves liking that I'm handsome, but the feeling that they are dissing my face from my previous life is, how should I put it...
No! From now on, this face is me!
“Then are you leaving here now?”
“If you're an ability user, can't you come as a manager too? You looked incredibly strong. That person is so annoying! Always saying orphan Soi bastard.”
“Really! The Deputy General Manager is so annoying! It would be great if Oppa came instead!”
Huh? Oppa?
“I'm not an Oppa. I'm twenty? I manifested my ability yesterday!”
“““Whaaat~!?”””
The women gathered around were momentarily surprised. I forgot. They said Water Ability takes a long time to rise in hierarchy.
“That just now looked incredibly strong!? That hierarchy in just one day? Liar!”
“Tell us honestly~ Or we'll tell you to call us Noona?”
“How did it happe~n?”
Chatter chatter. Buzz buzz. The girls spoke endlessly, subtly tapping my forearm, saying I'm muscular unlike how I look, and wouldn't leave, keeping asking how it happened.
Yes, you are Noonas. I don't know well either. The friend who made this world is in another world so I can't ask him.
***
“This orphan Soi bastard!!!”
Had about an hour passed? While we were working for a while, the unconscious guy must have woken up.
“Kuaaaak! My arm! This trash-like bastard! What did you do to me!”
Looking at that guy, I walked over, step by step. That guy flinched for a moment, but when I stood right in front of him, he threw a punch at me.
I dodged easily. It was a punch I wouldn't have been hit by even when I was normal. After dodging a few times, I drowned that guy's face in water a few times again and let him go.
“Want to keep going?”
Oh! He's glaring murderously. The blood vessels in his eyes might burst. Still, he has to answer~
“Answer.”
“I will stop.”
“I won't let you off a second time.”
That guy staggered away clutching his own arm.
***
Work resumed again, and the girls were still next to me. And a surprising fact.
My goodness! The number of Saint-Rank Ability Users was not even 10. Half of them are Imperial Family members.
“Whyyy~? Water Ability takes much longer than other abilities, so if you're a Soi, you can never become High-Rank?”
“Our little brother Saklasi~ You dream big, don't you?”
“Reserve Manager Saklasi~ You absolutely have to come as a manager, okaay~?”
Those girls from earlier haven't left since then until now.
“Uh... since work is done now, can I go look up about the Imperial Family for a bit?”
“Little brother Saklasi... You really chase after looks. This Noona is disappointed.”
“Reserve Manager Saklasi~ The Imperial Family cannot marry. How about finding a real woman~?”
“Uh oh~! Do you watch the broadcasts too? Who is your style? You aren't like, a member of the Imperial Princess Fan Club, are you?”
That's a setting I haven't heard. Do the Imperial Family members act as idols or something? What kind of world is this, my friend... I'm having a hard time adapting.
***
I finished work and came to the computer room.
High-Rank Ability User Gallery
Title: If a Saint-Rank Ability User loses an arm
Author: Ruler of Water
Content: Can they spew fire and restore their own arm?
oo: Looking at the nickname, looks like a Water Ability User. Saint-Rank must have looked like a god to you, ahem. It's not to that extent. *Proud proud*
oo: Yeah yeah, coochie coo, our Water Ability User, come here!
oo: Cute.
oo: Are you an Elf?
oo: (Method to ask if they are a woman in a roundabout way but actually asking directly)
oo: You're a man, right? You're a man, right? You're a man, right? You're a man, right? You're a man, right? You're a man, right? You're a man, right? You're a man, right? You're a man, right? You're a man, right? You're a man, right?
oo: Is it a small and cute otter Beastkin? *Slurp* Is it a small and cute otter Beastkin? *Slurp* Is it a small and cute otter Beastkin? *Slurp* Is it a small and cute otter Beastkin? *Slurp* Is it a small and cute otter Beastkin? *Slurp*
oo: User above-above, you sound weird.
oo: Isn't the one right above formidable too?
oo: That one is openly weird though.
Ruler of Water: Is everyone a Saint-Rank Ability User?
oo: That, we don't know?
Ruler of Water: Why?
oo: Do you even know who the Saint-Rank Ability Users are? Would people like that come here? More than that, you are banned for 1 year. Violated Notice No. 3.
Ding.
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