Chapter 420 part 2

「Now then, I’d like to tinker with Swordbreaking Parrying Dagger with Auto-Defense function and the Gauntlets for indoor combat, and the rapier catalyst also needs more durability~. Fighting people is such a pain. And it’s even worse when it’s an honest clash, so you have to consider every possible trick that can be employed?」

(Jiggle-Jiggle)

I don’t know how many more tricks are needed, but each one is a lifeline. Unlike the clash of brute strength that happens in combat versus monsters, this is a battle of traps and wits, once you run out of options, it’s over. That’s why having more options than necessary is just right. And as for explosives, if you chuck them all, you won’t have to worry about leftovers, or anyone being left over. So, mass production it is.

Still, even if it’s just a disguise for them, doing a reggae dance while dressed as nuns… with those sexy nun outfits, things could get out of hand! There would be a flood of potential converts and onlookers!

「The parrying dagger’s auto-defense is quite a trump card, but with its insane mana consumption it’s basically limited to being an anti-ambush or anti-assassinations tool~? Even with an external power source, like a magic stone, it still won’t last?」

(Bounce-Bounce)

I keep crafting while taking snack breaks. It does feel kinda lonely without the Demon Scythes around. I sent them to escort the Geeks and Idiots, so they won’t be back for a while. Since the Geeks and Idiots have no countermeasures for aerial combat, I left it to the Demon Scythes. The Geeks aside, the Idiots were actually quite good at javelin throwing, even though they never threw their boomerangs. They were also great at hurling halberds and axes. They even threw swords and pinned monsters with them, so why do they always end up just bashing things with the boomerangs in the end? I know they were personally requested, but was it really okay to appoint someone like that as instructors? Kinda worried about the future of the First Division.

My body feels light and I want to train, but if I’m being watched with concern, I need to pretend to rest, or they’ll get even more worried. But I’m a Great Sage with Regeneration LvMAX and both 『Healing』 and 『Cure』. What exactly are they worried about? There is『Resurrection』 so even if I die just a little, it’s no big deal, right? Even if something gets torn off, it’ll grow back right away? And snakes are coming out too, y’know~?

That’s why, if I could, I really wanted to go alone.

「Or rather, I understand the girls, but I always thought it was weird how even Armored Pres-san and Dancing Girl-san were trying to stop me from getting stronger, so I was wondering if I was at my limit and about to break down… is this what it’s all about~?」

(Jiggle-Jiggle)

The item that I put into the Soul Ring, 『Orb of Life – Transmutation, Body Refinement through Alchemy and Arts of Bedchamber, Requirement: Alchemist, Great Sage』, 『Body Refinement』 might refer to enhancement of abilities, a boost to physical stats, but it’s a dangerous item that could turn you into a cyborg or a sage-immortal. And the it’s just giving off insanely shady vibes, especially with that 『Bedroom Arts』 part. I already had Alchemist, and once I got the Great Sage title, I met the requirements to use it.

Still, I’d been hesitant. I kept thinking, 『If I use this, am I quitting being human?』 But now it felt like if I didn’t, I might be quitting life entirely, so I finally gave it a try. I did feel an increase in physical ability, but once I tried unleashing all my abilities, my body easily broke down as usual, so I thought it was a bit of trash, but this lightness in my body that I’m feeling right now is something else. I can feel vitality and mana surging and circling through my body as if all of my cells are being reborn, reconstructing me from within.

At first, I thought it might just be supercompensation, like a rebound from pushing my body to its limits and then letting it rest. But this must be the beginning of 『Physical Refinement』. My body is being rebuilt, stronger, tougher, and it’s absorbing stuff, mana, effects, skills, magic, and something I hadn’t noticed before.

Armored Pres-san and Dancing Girl-san had both opposed using it, probably because great power always comes with a price. Even so, they forced me to rest for the sake of this super-recovery. My body must have really been nearing its limit. I’d been compensating for my low stats by juggling and stacking skills, effects and equipment to somehow balance things out, but I think they realized that my body wouldn’t survive the further self-inflicted damage. That’s probably why they allowed it.

Still, I can’t help but feel like it’s shaving off my lifespan or something, but if I die today, it isn’t gonna matter how much life I had left. For now, I should focus on surviving today, and when my lifespan eventually comes knocking, I’ll figure out how to deceive it, cheat it, or even kill it, something more constructive than worrying. There’s an old proverb passed down among Highschool Boys『If you can do it today, you can do it tomorrow too』. I think it was originally supposed to be a kind of suicide prevention quote, like, 『If you’re gonna die today, why not just do it tomorrow instead?』 or so I’ve heard. I think. Maybe. Or at least, I feel like I might have.

Well, in any case, if you survive today, the enemy might die in an accident or something tomorrow, so it’s clearly good advice.

Even tarot calls the wise man who gazes far into the distance, tens or a hundred years ahead, without looking at his feet and falls to his death 『The Fool』.

What matters is what’s right in front of you. The future can wait until it actually arrives. And since it hasn’t arrived yet, who’s to say it even will? Only by steadily stacking up the here and now can you reach that future that hasn’t come yet! Yeah. It’ll work out somehow? Probably? And if it doesn’t, then I’ll just deal with it when the time comes. Possibility is infinitely irresponsible and careless!

So, well, whatever?

And so, I continue every day building a watertight, logical argument that 『I did nothing wrong』setting up rational framework for my innocence, but alas, the world has yet to accept this noble and supremely structured truth. Yeah, even if I say that I did nothing wrong, I still always get lectured anyway? Is this what they call the suffering of pioneers? Or maybe it’s the loneliness of being a genius? …Or maybe no one’s listening because I’m a Loner? But thinking about that’s too depressing, so let’s not.

「Somehow, even though I’m feeling unusually good physically, it also feels like my body’s dulled in that energetic fatigue kind of way, like, 『overflowing exhaustion!』. So maybe I should just keep lazing around~?」

(Jiggle-Jiggle!)

Just when I thought Slime-san was being uncharacteristically cooperative, turns out it was just watching me to make sure I didn’t start training. But a Highschool Boy under soft house arrest in a hotel with full-time surveillance doesn’t exactly seem like something in much of a demand. Is this some kind of gender discrimination? That’s terrible?

And so with this and that on my mind, I pour in more MP to accelerate my side hustle, pushing it past its limits too. Prioritizing the urgent requests, I go down the list, making everything that’s needed, one item after another.

Still, the ring is now full, seven slots all filled. From here on, I’ll probably have to start being selective, swapping items in and out. Adding new stuff without thought can become a trigger self-inflicted damage, and removing items now just feels like a waste somehow, which I don’t like either. I wonder if it might evolve to fit ten items if I upgraded it with mithril? I still haven’t dealt with the 『Ring of Dungeon Master』 and the『Ring of Golem Maker』 is still stuck on that fake dungeon’s so-called Master Golem mountain, too.

Even though I’d been frustrated that it took so long to fill up, now that it’s full, I feel this vague sense of emptiness and dissatisfaction. Is this the influence of Avarice-san and company, perhaps?

And just as I finish up my side job and my MP is close to zero, the door opens to reveal two smiling beauties. They say if something happens twice, it’ll happen a third time, but I’m still kinda doubtful I’ll get to advance to the third year. Is a makeup exam going to isekai or something?

Beautiful legs. To think that perfection can become something so divine that it just makes you want to worship them. Legs so alluring you feel the urge to caress and lick every inch of them. Long and slender, toned yet soft, with a gentle plumpness that gives them a sensual form. Like a work of artistic sculpture, they are elegant yet supple, a paradoxical antinomy, possessing both ends of opposing beauty in perfect ambivalence.

Today, it seems they’re in gym uniform with bloomers. Handcrafted nametags with 『Ange』 and 『Nefe』 are pinned to their chests, what exactly are they learning at these girls’ meetings?

Armored Pres-san wears crimson bloomers, and Dancing Girl-san wears navy blue. Their long, beautiful legs are boldly on display, and their subtly undersized uniforms are struggling to suppress the sensual flesh trapped within the fabric.

The outfits with exposed long limbs only highlights the beauty of their forms even more. Despite being called gym uniforms, their outrageous forms practically scream, 『This is no time for exercise!』 The cloth around their chests is taut, pushed out in perfect circles by the round fullness of their breasts.

As they move, the short hems of the shirts rise, revealing toned waists and cute little belly buttons. The snug bloomers cling tightly to the shape of their butts, digging in and wrapping around them like a second skin.

Their stunning bodies, emitting a captivating allure of both grace and sexuality fighting each other, seemed keen to burst out of those gym clothes stretched tight, hands reaching out towards me, disarming me, their vivacious limbs coiling around mine, pressing their soft flesh against me.

Slender, long, beautiful fingers tracing up and down the Highschool Boy in suggestive motions. Plump, tense thighs clamp around my legs, long legs entangle mine. Through the fabric of the gym clothes, the soft twin mounds of their breasts squish against me, pushing in circular motions.

The Art of the Bedchamber or The Art of Lovemaking. An ancient Chinese technique, named exactly for being 『techniques performed within the bedchamber』. While 『chamber』 in this case refers to the bedroom and has a sexual connotation, that interpretation came later. Its true essence lies in the manipulation of higher forms of Qi, the yin and yang energies.There are legends of a woman who reached 280 years of age without losing their beauty, or the one who remained youthful even at 200, all passed down through stories of mastering The Art of the Bedchamber, where female cultivators would appear and bestow secret teachings. Originally, The Art of the Bedchamber wasn’t about gender, it was a practice that granted great power to anyone who mastered it.

Even in Ishinpo, Japan’s oldest surviving medical text, there’s a volume titled Inside the Bedchamber that records a method known as the『Seven Detriments』. The sixth of these is Hyappei, a technique by which an exhausted man draws energy from a woman.

I focus on the forces circulating within the body, be it mana, blood, breath, or skill effects, and also something else, although I don’t know exactly what it is. It flows, circulates, refines itself, expands. That is the yin-yang Qi, and its peak form is Senki, immortal Qi, the key to the Taoist arts of Immortality. It is a path diligently explored over centuries of pursuit and study in pursuit of the ultimate truth of this world. Cultivation of immortality, The Eastern counterpart to Western alchemy, and the Art of the Bedchamber is a guiding sign pointing towards it.

Phew, I won.

Yeah, it has sexual techniques too? Soundly confirming their existence I then added 『Lewd Arts』to the mix, enhanced the them with『Alchemy』refined with『The Art of the Bedchamber』and embraced with『Sex King』effects.

And『Various Abnormal Status Effects』also could be enhanced with alchemy『Alchemy』, refined by『The Art of the Bedchamber』and applied by『Lewd Arts』. Not only Sensitivity Increase or Aphrodisiac, but even Confusion, Fear, or even Pain can be refined through 『The Art of the Bedchamber』and converted into pleasure. And even if my MP is low, I can refine『Qi』!

「Hyaaaaah! Nmmhaaaaam….mmmahh, aaah! (*Thud*)」

「Hiiiii, kuh! S-aaahh, mmmaaah… HyaahHah,mmm! (*Flop*)」

Now, let’s recover with MP mushrooms. Yeah, after all I’m taking 2 days worth of revenge, and as they say, if you haven’t met a Highschool Boy for three days, pay close attention? And hit with Highschool Boy counterattack for the first time in three days they seem to be observing so hard that their pupils stopped constricting, eyes rolled up and their entire bodies convulsing in a half-trance-like state! Alright, seems like a good time to finally invite Tentacles and Snakes to join in? Yeah, I’m feeling as good as ever. Let’s get carried away just a little bit more.

「「KyaaaAah! Uwaaah…mmmaaahhm AhhaHh, HyaaAah! mmmmH!…………(Endless?)」 Kind of?