I Became a Raid Boss-Chapter 167: Love’s Match (4)

The sword slid in with little resistance.

It went in so easily, I almost felt like I was stabbing a soft pudding with a fork...

It was still much easier than when I attacked its ankle.

As the giant shrank along with its body, I thrust the sword into its eye, and a violet aura burst out like a flood.

Spin-

Crunch!

As a bonus, I spun the sword around, and with a disgusting sound of its eye being crushed, the energy pouring out became even stronger.

"Yah."

I swiftly jumped to dodge the shadow approaching from behind.

The hand reached out to grab me while I was midair, but it missed, not even posing a threat.

Thanks to that, it was easy to parry as well.

I deliberately brought my sword in contact with the punch that swiped by my side.

Clang!

The moment the punch collided with the sword, I tilted the blade to the side and let the force slip away.

There was no shock transmitted, but the power in the punch sent my floating body flying backwards.

Thanks to that, I managed to retreat far enough that it couldn’t reach me even as it extended its arm.

I landed lightly on the ground and kept my eyes on the giant.

With one hand clutching its eye, the giant writhed in pain.

The other hand groped around to grab me, but I was already far enough that it had no chance of catching me.

Meanwhile, the ground was left in craters where it had struck blindly.

How many people would it take to fill all of that, and how long would it take?

‘...Flattening?’

‘Yes, yes!’

‘But why are we doing this?’

‘...They don’t have a training facility for us to use, so we have to make a new one. They say it will take a long time due to a lack of manpower, so they asked us to send help...’

‘...’

‘...Captain? Where are you going?! Please stop for a second! Captain!!’

"...Hmm."

For a moment, a bad memory came up.

It was one thing to boast about increasing the royal knight order’s personnel, but...

Not only did they want to take away the training facility we had been using, but they also wanted us to build a new one with our own hands?

It was clear they were trying to break our spirit.

So, I thought, "Alright, let's see how you break us" and stormed the royal knight order, turning everything upside down.

As a result, I was able to protect our precious training facility...

Precious...?

Anyway, I managed to keep the training facility we used safe.

As a bonus, the buildings and facilities they were using were completely destroyed, and I watched with pleasure as the noble knights, who had previously claimed ‘lack of manpower,’ were now forced to work on a construction site, drenched in sweat.

An unpleasant yet enjoyable memory.

"Ah."

I found myself lost in thought without realizing it.

Staring at the faded photo, I put it back in the box of memories.

Maybe it was because I had returned to a place where I spent quite a long time, but random thoughts kept flooding my mind.

Of course, even if I scrubbed my eyes clean, I wouldn’t be able to find the old scenery, but just being in the same space still brought a slight nostalgic feeling.

"If it were back then, I’d have supported it, but..."

Could I really mess with the royal knights, who hid behind the castle walls, boasting about how brave they were in the middle of a fight with the enemy?

I wouldn’t stop them, but I’d be more than willing to subtly help them out... But unfortunately, the royal knights were long gone.

By that giant.

Which meant that there was no longer any reason to let that monster’s crimes go unpunished.

"It’s time to leave now. If you leave quietly, I’ll let you live. What do you say?"

But the giant didn’t listen to me.

I even doubted whether it understood what I was saying.

It looked like the thug on stage wasn’t planning to leave, so I had no choice but to remove it myself.

Just as I thought about pointing my sword at it, the giant’s hand moved.

"...?"

Despite my vigilance, the enormous hand didn’t even come close to touching me, nor did it approach.

Instead—

Thup—

Crunch!

The giant grabbed one of the scattered wreckages and threw it into its mouth.

Then it chewed on it eagerly—

"...What is this?"

Wait, was that wreckage actually a snack?

It seemed absurd enough for me to think so as the giant chewed away.

I stared, dumbfounded, and watched as the giant swallowed all the debris, then grabbed another piece.

It didn’t stop there, as it eagerly chewed it up again.

Chew, crunch.

"Really, what is this?"

There’s so much food in the world. Why would it eat something like that?

Was the building something tasty?

‘That can’t be it.’

I quickly corrected my momentary confusion and shook my head.

Unless it had suddenly developed a crazy hunger, there’s no reason for it to act like that.

As I watched its actions closely, I soon found the reason.

"I see, its wounds are healing."

It was such a subtle recovery that it wasn’t clearly visible, but every time its throat gulped, the wounds healed slightly.

As proof, the amount of violet energy pouring from its eye, which I had previously disrupted, had decreased.

So this is what it means to devour dimensions?

"The ones I’ve seen until now didn’t do this."

Was it because I killed them too quickly, or were there creatures with abilities like this?

Anyway, watching a creature recover its strength by eating debris was a very fresh experience for me, despite all the things I’ve seen.

"If I kept it at home, I wouldn’t have to worry about trash."

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Although the problem would be that it might end up eating my house too.

And this is just my guess, but I don’t think it would only eat debris.

Animals, monsters, demons...

Humans.

I had a strong feeling that living creatures wouldn’t be exempt from being its prey.

With such a creature landing right in the middle of a city filled with people, I’m sure it would have seen it as a banquet set before it.

Even if it gets injured, it can just grab anything within reach and heal by eating it.

"Must have been quite the problem."

If there were fewer people, I could have killed it somehow.

But to fall here on the vast Ardinia continent?

If it was intentional, it was a smart move; if it was accidental, then it was just bad luck.

Anyway, I’ve seen everything I needed to.

At first, the giant was cautious and sometimes made little checks, but as I didn’t approach, it stopped worrying and focused entirely on eating.

It occasionally looked at me with its shifting eyes, but it wasn’t really on guard.

‘So lazy.’

And dumb.

Had it forgotten that I was the one who sliced its ankle and poked its eye out?

Even though it had stopped attacking for now, it could rush at me anytime, yet it had let its guard down and was just eating.

Having been told by Edel to get used to their methods, I was trying to be as polite as possible, but...

The expectation that had been tickling me suddenly deflated.

"Not fun."

I wondered if there was another hidden move, but it seemed like that was all.

When my interest waned, so did my desire to act.

But I still had work to do.

Whiz!

I lifted the long arm I had extended.

The sword I held rose to the sky along with my arm.

The giant flinched at my sudden movement.

Its mouth, busy chewing, stopped for a moment.

When it saw I wasn’t moving, it relaxed and resumed its chewing.

"Pigs have nothing on you. Try saying oink."

Who knows? Maybe I’ll spare you.

The giant didn’t respond at all.

"You make so much noise, cause all this chaos, but can’t even perform a simple trick and waste your food."

Yeah, I’ve made up my mind.

"Goodbye."

I spoke smoothly, pretending to hesitate, but my sword had already reached it.

A simplified technique of "Wind Cutting" that I used to kill Kru-mo’s shadow.

But, of course, the power wasn’t simplified.

As I swung the sword downward, two lines of sword energy marked the giant’s body.

Not even noticing what was happening to its body, the giant, lost in its feast, didn’t stop eating.

Had I simplified the swordsmanship, the power to hold space back was weaker, so if it had managed to escape, it might have survived.

But, just as the giant’s body was split into three, it never stopped chewing.

Clink.

The faint red light from the sword faded as it was sheathed.

The enormous body of the giant fell to the ground, but no sound reached me.

At the moment it split into three, its body turned to dust and scattered.

Thud.

The sound of the core falling, lost without its master, echoed forlornly.

For someone who had destroyed an entire kingdom, it was a remarkably anticlimactic end.

"Hmm..."

It was so anticlimactic that now it felt a bit unsettling.

Scratching my mask, I muttered a word.

"Is it done?"

After waiting a moment, I saw no sign of the giant reappearing, and nothing had changed, not even after reciting the resurrection spell I found online.

It seemed like this really was the end.

How anticlimactic.

"Phew."

I let out a short sigh and looked around at the wreckage.

There were no people living here anymore, but...

If anyone ever decided to live here again, they’d have a hard time fixing the ground.

I carefully approached the core, avoiding the craters.

"What did Edel say?"

She had told me it served as the heart, but I vaguely remembered some other details.

I racked my brain, but nothing came to mind.

"I don’t know."

I can ask her later.

Pushing aside my hazy memory, I stepped forward.

And with that, I slammed the core down.

Thud!

The core, bigger than an adult’s head, cracked open without resistance.

And at the same time, the ominous glow that surrounded it faded away.

With this, the task Edel gave me was done.

The dimensional barrier that isolated the giant would be taken care of by Edel, so there was nothing left for me to do here.

"...Wait."

I still had one more thing to do.

I turned my head.

After injuring an enemy far superior to itself...

The giant, having survived the meteor-like shaking of the earth, was approaching Yuki from a distance.

‘What should I do?’

As she walked toward me, I thought for a while during that short time.

And soon, I made up my mind.