Volume 1 Chapter 28 I'll Be A Real User, But...
A strange sensation of floating in the air took over my body, and then, within a moment, gravity pulled me back and slammed me onto the ground.
The pain in my back made me feel alive. I think my defense with the spear probably worked. Otherwise, my body would have been mangled by the Kobold King's arms and claws.
──However, the price of survival was not cheap.
The spear (gram) that was supposed to be my hand is nowhere to be found. It seems that the impact just now sent him flying into the forest.
"Ggh──"
The moment I put pressure on my left arm to pull myself up, I felt a pain far worse than the pain in my back.
When I looked again, I saw that my left arm had been torn apart, barely holding its shape.
──Damn, I'm in deep trouble here.
"What...?"
Suddenly, I hear a weak voice coming from right beside me, Silver Flash. Somehow, it seems like my body was thrown near her.
"What did you come here for...?"
"Can't you see? I came to help."
But despite that, we're facing a life-or-death crisis.
I manage to support my body with the arm that's still intact.
The Kobold King in front of us has my blood and flesh clinging to its right arm claws, and it's approaching us. Its relaxed posture suggests that it's already confident in its victory. Or maybe it just wants to see our faces twisted in fear.
My left arm... it's no good. It doesn't move even a bit, and I can feel intense pain.
"Are you── are you stupid?"
"................"
"You came to help without being asked, and now you're injured..."
"If you have time to complain...why don't you try to come up with a solution? I don't want to die yet."
The pain made my voice tremble, but I endured it with great effort.
"If that's the case, then why did you come to help? If you hadn't rushed in, you could have escaped on your own."
"..............."
I couldn't even make a sound in response to that.
After all, I realized that my body had moved on its own.
But even though things had turned out like this, I didn't regret it.
"I thought you were someone who could think more clearly. Even if you were the only one to escape in that situation, no one would blame you as it would be 'inevitable.' So why... why did I say such things to you?"
"That's... obvious, isn't it?"
Silver Flash called me a 'person who can think clearly' just now.
──That was a big misunderstanding.
No one would blame me if I ran away?
That's a mistake.
If I had escaped in that situation, I would have fiercely blamed myself for running away.
I only do things that I truly need and want to do. I don't do things I don't want to do.
People might see it as being clever or tricky, but that's just how it appears to them.
So I use a spear instead of a sword, ignore the village's call for assembly and run around clearing out monsters, help a young lady who was attacked in the back alleys, become a mercenary to be with an exceptional woman.
And now... I'm standing up to protect Silver Flash even though my left arm is crushed.
These are all things that I believed were necessary and wanted to do.
It doesn't matter what others say about me.
I don't care about their evaluations.
I only follow my own will.
Who would choose an answer prepared by someone else?
──I choose what I believe I should do with my own will.
That's why I answered without hesitation.
"Because I wanted to help, I will help! If a woman is in danger, I will help without asking questions! That's why I'm here! I decided to do it!"
"W-what... for such a reason..."
"Shut up! Injured people should stay quiet and let themselves be helped!"
Although I made a bold statement, the reality was that we were in a desperate situation. If things continued like this, we would end up inside the stomach of that Kobold King (giant monster).
──And then, it happened.
"Kukukuku..."
From somewhere, a man's voice could be heard.
"Kukukuku, kuhahahahaha..."
That guy was laughing.
"Hahahahaha, ahahahahaha!!"
It was a crazed laughter, as if holding back immense delight from the depths of their heart.
It was the voice of someone I had been hearing a lot recently.
"This is fantastic, partner! I've been eagerly waiting for someone like you!"
Echoing from deep within the forest, that person's voice contained genuine joy.
"That selfishness! That arrogance! I will acknowledge Yukina as my true master here!!"
A tingling sensation, different from pain, ran through my left arm.
A sudden, different kind of heat ran through my left arm. It spread from my left arm to my whole body, raging inside me."
"I will walk with you as your weapon!!"
And──.
"Now, my master, call upon me! Call upon my name, your weapon!!"
Before me stood the Kobold King.
If the raised claws were to come down, my life would be torn apart and crushed like a Silver Flash.
However, a heat greater than the fear of death was dominating me.
I paid no attention to the approaching arms of the Kobold King.
──And, I "chanted"
"COME, GRAAAAMMMMM!!!!"
A "black light" overflowed from my body.
"──Uggghhhh!!"
That guy suddenly appeared and I tightly gripped it with my left hand, then swung it forcefully without any technique or skill.
When I swung the 'thing,' it collided with the body of the Kobold King and sent it flying just like it did to me earlier.
Silver Flash behind me gasped in awe. I felt the same way.
In a frenzy, I swung the 'thing,' but who could have predicted that it could deflect a strike that was several times more powerful than my own body?
And then, after swinging it, I looked at the 'thing' in my hand.
The worn-out impression him had when I acquired him from the weapon shop was completely gone.
It was a rough and beautiful spear, black like it swallowed light and mixed with crimson like a raging fire.
The stone embedded at the base of the tip was now shining brightly.
At this moment, I finally realized that my left arm was moving.
The arm, which should have been in a miserable state, had completely healed as if it had never been injured.
──No, there was only one difference.
"The contract has been signed here!"
On the back of my left hand, there was a bruise that had never been seen before.
"Chosen one! You shall now become a 'Hero (Eiyuu).' For your own desires, for your own righteousness, for your own domination!"
A loud declaration echoed.
"My name is 'Magic Blade Gram'!! I am the blade wielded by the 'Hero'!!"
Yukina's guiding principle is simple.
"Do what I want to do, and don't do what I don't want to do."
Although it seems to live wisely and rationally, its foundation is arrogant and insolent.
That's why, without caring about the other person, it moves as it likes.
So, if it wants to help, it will help without hesitation.
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