Web Novel

Death March to the Parallel World Rhapsody (デスマーチからはじまる異世界狂想曲, Desu Māchi Kara Hajimaru Isekai Kyōsōkyoku) is a Web Novel written by Hiro Ainana at user-generated content site Shōsetsuka ni Narō in 2013. It was later adapted into a light novel in 2014, inspiration for the manga and then anime.

Original works can be found at syosetu, it released every Sunday JST. After that the unofficial english translation will be started and the finished translation can be found at sousetsuka blog.

Volume 10
Chapter 10-1 Sea Travel Chapter 10-2 The Two Earldoms Chapter 10-3 To the Labyrinth City Chapter 10-4 Explorer Guild Chapter 10-5 To the Labyrinth Chapter 10-6 Passage of Death Chapter 10-7 Labyrinth Exploration Chapter 10-8 Labyrinth Exploration (2) Chapter 10-9 Labyrinth Exploration (3) Chapter 10-10 Labyrinth Exploration (4) Chapter 10-11 The Value of Safe Return Chapter 10-12 Courtesy Calls Chapter 10-13 Courtesy Calls (2) Chapter 10-14 Mansion of Ivy Chapter 10-15 Red Iron Plate Chapter 10-16 Guild Disturbance Chapter 10-17 Temporary Residence Chapter 10-18 Temporary Residence (2) Chapter 10-19 Manager of the Mansion Chapter 10-20 New Hunting Ground Chapter 10-21 New Hunting Ground (2) Chapter 10-22 New Hunting Ground (3) [Revised] Chapter 10-23 Residences of the Mansion Chapter 10-24 Explorers Chapter 10-25 Explorers (2) Chapter 10-26 Dinner and Personal Connections Chapter 10-27 Dinner and Personal Connections (2) Chapter 10-28 Princess and Lost Thieves Chapter 10-29 Lost Thief Extermination Chapter 10-30 Lost Thief Extermination (2) Chapter 10-31 Fiend Drug Chapter 10-32 Fiend Drug (2) Chapter 10-33 Fiend Drug (3) Chapter 10-34 Fiend Drug (4) Chapter 10-35 Selection Test Chapter 10-35-2 Banquet and the Truth of Beria [Revised Version] Chapter 10-36 The Man in Black Clothes Chapter 10-37 The Man in Black Clothes (2) Chapter 10-38 The Man in Black Clothes (3) Chapter 10-39 Training Chapter 10-40 Training (2) Chapter 10-41 Magic Metals Chapter 10-42 Mithril Plate Chapter 10-43 Mithril Plate (2) Chapter 10-44 The Face under the Mask Chapter 10-45 Mithril Plate (3) Chapter 10-46 Mithril Plate (4) Chapter 10-47 Mithril Plate (5) Chapter 10-48 Dog-Head Demon Lord Chapter 10-49 Dog-Head Demon Lord (2) Chapter 10-50 Floor Master Chapter 10-51 Floor Master (2) Chapter 10-Intermission 1 Mochi Pounding Chapter 10-Intermission 2 Pochi and Tama's Part Time Job Chapter 10-SS 1 First Carbonated Water Chapter 10-SS 2 Fortunate Children Chapter 10-SS 3 Daily Life of Explorers [Ant Wing Silver Sword] Chapter 10-SS 4 Tama's Stroll Chapter 10-Intermission 3 The Adventure of Ninja Tama Chapter 10-SS 5 Lulu's Kitchen Knife Chapter 10-SS 6 Hamburg Steak Fraud Chapter 10-SS 7 Letters to Yuni Chapter 10-SS 8 Liza's Buying and Eating Chapter 10-SS 9 The Trick to Enjoy Food Carts Chapter 10-SS 10 Very Popular Chapter 10-Intermission 4 Golden Knight and the Caged Birds Chapter 10-Intermission 5 The Journey of Zena Squad Chapter 10-Intermission 6 The Journey of Zena Squad (2) Chapter 10-Intermission 7 The Journey of Zena Squad (3) Chapter 10-SS 11 Hot Sand Extra Hard Training Chapter 10-SS 12 Hot Sand Extra Hard Training (2) Flying Boots Arc Chapter 10-SS 13 The Melancholy of Leriril

Volume 13
Chapter 13-1 Ascending Peerage Chapter 13-2 New Year Works Chapter 13-3 Royal Academy Chapter 13-4 New Year Special Training Chapter 13-5 At The Royal Castle Chapter 13-6 Royal Academy (2) Chapter 13-7 Scattering Bait Chapter 13-8 Princess of the Forbidden Library Chapter 13-9 Fujisan Mountains Shrine Chapter 13-10 Arrest Chapter 13-11 Arrest (?)[both the titles are the same] Chapter 13-12 Luncheon with Earl Seryuu Chapter 13-13 Evening Party at the Royal Capital Chapter 13-14 Evening Party at the Royal Capital (2) Chapter 13-15 Royal Capital Sightseeing, Downtown Arc Chapter 13-16 Royal Capital Sightseeing, Downtown Arc (2) Chapter 13-17 Royal Capital Sightseeing, Downtown Arc (3) Chapter 13-18 Satou and Kuro Chapter 13-19 Nanashi and Arisa Chapter 13-20 Nanashi and Arisa (2) Chapter 13-21 The Princess's Tea Party Chapter 13-22 The Princess's Tea Party (2) Chapter 13-23 Outcome of the Tea Party Chapter 13-24 Secret of the Red Rope Chapter 13-25 Secret of the Red Rope (2) Chapter 13-26 The Third Auction Day Chapter 13-27 The Third Auction Day (2) Chapter 13-28 Orb Chapter 13-29 Behind the Orbs (1) Chapter 13-30 Behind the Orbs (2) Chapter 13-31 Demon Lord Shin Chapter 13-32 Demon Lord Shin (2) Chapter 13-33 Demon Lord Shin (3) Chapter 13-34 The King's Request Chapter 13-35 Escort Chapter 13-36 Inauguration Chapter 13-37 Inauguration (2) Chapter 13-38 Inauguration (3) [Typo] Chapter 13-Intermission 1 Want to Practice Magic [Orb Arc] Chapter 13-Intermission 2 John Smith Chapter 13-SS 1 Liza the Magic Spear Chapter 13-SS 2 Satou's Inspection Chapter 13-SS 3 The Phantom Underground Empire Chapter 13-SS 4 Excursion Chapter 13-SS 5 Southern Island Chapter 13-SS 6 Tifaliza

Volume 14
Chapter 14-1 Sightseeing Base Chapter 14-2 At the Labyrinth City Chapter 14-3 At the Labyrinth City (2) Chapter 14-4 Yowok Kingdom Chapter 14-5 Yowok Kingdom (2) Chapter 14-6 Holy State Parion [Revised] Chapter 14-7 Holy State Parion (2) Chapter 14-8 Holy State Parion (3) [Revised] Chapter 14-9 Racial Difference Chapter 14-10 Rumor about the Apostle Chapter 14-11 The Territory of Marquis Ganika Chapter 14 ss (?) The Territory of Marquis Ganika, Later Chapter 14-12 Territory of Duke Oyugock (1) Chapter 14-13 Territory of Duke Oyugock (2) Chapter 14-14 Bolhart (1) Chapter 14-15 Bolhart (2) Chapter 14-16 Muno Earldom Chapter 14-17 Muno Earldom (2) Chapter 14-18 Muno Earldom (3) Chapter 14-19 Muno Earldom (4) Chapter 14-20 Snow Kingdom (1) Chapter 14-21-SS Snow Kingdom (2) SS Chapter 14-22 Snow Kingdom (3) Chapter 14-23 Snow Kingdom (4) Chapter 14-24 Snow Kingdom (5) Chapter 14-25 Snow Kingdom (6) Chapter 14-26 Snow Kingdom (7) Chapter 14-27 Journey Across the Eastern Countries Chapter 14-28 Water Peach Kingdom (1) Chapter 14-29 Water Peach Kingdom (2) Chapter 14-30 Water Peach Kingdom (3) Chapter 14-31 Water Peach Kingdom (4) Chapter 14-32 Water Peach Kingdom (5) Chapter 14-33 Research and an Act in Daily Life Chapter 14-34 Wyvern Kingdom (1) Road to the Dragon Shrine Chapter 14-35 Wyvern Kingdom (2) Meeting at the Dragon Shrine Chapter 14-36 Wyvern Kingdom (3) Shippu the Lesser Dragon Chapter 14-37 Wyvern Kingdom (4) Lesser Dragon Bouryu VS Liza Chapter 14-38 Wyvern Kingdom (5) At the Black Dragon Mountains Chapter 14-39 Wyvern Kingdom (6) Silga Castle Chapter 14-40 Wyvern Kingdom (7) Turmoil at the Checking Station Chapter 14-41 Wyvern Kingdom (8) The Fake Apostle Chapter 14-42 Wyvern Kingdom (9) Cleaning-up Chapter 14-43 War Kingdom (1) Scientific Weapons Chapter 14-44 War Kingdom (2) Dragon Riders Chapter 14-45 War Kingdom (3) The Weasel's Aim Chapter 14-46 War Kingdom (4) Interrogation Chapter 14-47 Follow-up Processing Chapter 14-Intermission 1 Ancient Dragon Continent and Primeval Magic Chapter 14-SS 1 People of the Ancient Dragon Continent Chapter 14-Intermission 2 Immigrants of Governor Pendragon Chapter 14-Intermission 3 Satou's Research (1) Chapter 14-Intermission 4 Satou's Research (2)

Volume 15
Chapter 15-1 To the Weasel Empire Chapter 15-2 Parish Chapter 15-3 An Ordinary Village Chapter 15-4 An Ordinary Town Chapter 15-5 An Ordinary Town (2) Chapter 15-6 Temple Knights Chapter 15-7 Dejima Island Chapter 15-8 Dejima Island (2) Chapter 15-9 Phantasmal Labyrinth Chapter 15-10 Phantasmal Labyrinth (2) Chapter 15-11 Phantasmal Labyrinth (3) Chapter 15-12 Hero in the Labyrinth Chapter 15-Intermission Hero's Break Chapter 15-13 Hero in the Labyrinth (2) Chapter 15-14 Hero VS Demon Lord Chapter 15-15 Hero VS Demon Lord (2) Chapter 15-16 Hero VS Demon Lord (3) Chapter 15-17 Celebration Chapter 15-SS The Melancholy of Dungeon Core Chapter 15-18 Intermission Chapter 15-19 Weasel Empire, at the Imperial Capital Chapter 15-20 The Empire's Subjects Chapter 15-21 Brains Chapter 15-22 Audience Chapter 15-23 The Forbidden Science Chapter 15-24 Trazayuya Chapter 15-25 Dungeon's Function Chapter 15-26 God's Breath Chapter 15-27 Divine Punishment Chapter 15-28 Divine Punishment (2), the Power of Science Chapter 15-29 Divine Punishment (3), Satou's Identity Chapter 15-30 Divine Punishment (4) Basis Chapter 15-31 The Golden Knights' Deployment, Preparation (1) Chapter 15-32 The Golden Knights' Deployment, Preparation (2) Chapter 15-33 The Golden Knights' Deployment (1) Chapter 15-34 Golden Knights' Deployment (2), Seryuu City's Boy Knight Chapter 15-35 Golden Knights' Deployment (3), Little Hero Chapter 15-36 Divine Punishment (5), The Forbidden Knights Chapter 15-37 Divine Punishment (6), Hero Meiko Chapter 15-38 Divine Punishment (7), Hero Vs Demon Lord Chapter 15-39 Divine Punishment (8), Dog Hero Pochi Chapter 15-40 Divine Punishment (9), Reinforcements Chapter 15-41 Divine Punishment (10), End Chapter 15-42 Mastermind Chapter 15-43 New World (1) Chapter 15-44 New World (2) Chapter 15-Intermission 1 Hayato Masaki Chapter 15-Intermission 2 At the Eastern End of the Continent (1) Chapter 15-Intermission 3 At the Eastern End of the Continent (2) Chapter 15-Intermission 4 At Muno Earldom Chapter 15-Intermission 5. At Muno Earldom (2) Chapter 15-Intermission 6. A Peaceful Day [Arisa] Chapter 15-Intermission 7. The Journey of John Smith Chapter 15-Intermission 8. Rumor of Demon Lord Slayer Chapter 15-Intermission 9. Divine Punishment Day, Front Line Chapter 15-Intermission 10. Ruin Exploration

Volume 16
Chapter 16-1. Effect of Slaying Demon Lord Chapter 16-2. The Royal Castle's Salon Chapter 16-3. Imperial Princess Marriage Chapter 16-4. Inspections Chapter 16-5. Various Conclusions Chapter 16-6. Holy Shell Mobile Armor (1) Chapter 16-7. Holy Shell Mobile Armor (2) Chapter 16-8. Ringrande's Homecoming Chapter 16-9. Sera's Resolution Chapter 16-10. Behind the Ceremony (1) Chapter 16-11. Behind the Ceremony (2) Chapter 16-12. A Conversation with God Tenion Chapter 16-13. End of the Assailants (1) Chapter 16-14. End of the Assailants (2) Chapter 16-15. New Journey Chapter 16-16. To the Country of Sun (1) Chapter 16-Intermission 1. Royal Capital Then Chapter 16-17. To the Country of Sun (2) Chapter 16-18. To the Country of Sun (3) Chapter 16-19. Heraruon Temple Chapter 16-20. Sania Kingdom (1) Chapter 16-21. Sania Kingdom (2) Chapter 16-22. Sania Kingdom (3) Chapter 16-23. Land King's Subjugation Fight Chapter 16-24. Sania Kingdom (4) Chapter 16-25. Garleon Union (1) Chapter 16-26. Garleon Union (2) Chapter 16-27. Garleon Union (3) Chapter 16-28. Garleon Union (4) Chapter 16-29. Garleon Union (5) Chapter 16-30. Garleon Union (6) Chapter 16-31. Garleon Union (7) Chapter 16-32. Garleon Union (8) Chapter 16-33. Garleon Union (9) Chapter 16-34. Garleon Union (10) Chapter 16-35. Earl Seryuu's Foster Daugther (1) Chapter 16-36. Earl Seryuu's Foster Daugther (2) Chapter 16-37. [Judicial Nation] Sheriffald  (1) Chapter 16-38. [Judicial Nation] Sheriffald  (2) Chapter 16-39. [Judicial Nation] Sheriffald  (3) Chapter 16-40. [Judicial Nation] Sheriffald  (4) Chapter 16-41. [Judicial Nation] Sheriffald  (5) Chapter 16-42. [Judicial Nation] Sheriffald  (6) Chapter 16-43. The Four Heroes (1) Chapter 16-44. The Four Heroes (2) Chapter 16-45. Pier Rock Kingdom, Oblation Contest (1) Chapter 16-46. Trial of Zaikuon (1) Chapter 16-47. Trial of Zaikuon (2) Chapter 16-48. Trial of Zaikuon (3) Chapter 16-49. Trial of Zaikuon (4) Chapter 16-50. Vampires Chapter 16-51. Guardian Dragon Chapter 16-52. Sage's Tower Chapter 16-53. Sage's Tower (2) Chapter 16-54. Sage's Tower (3) Chapter 16-55. Sage's Tower (4) Chapter 16-56. Sage's Tower (5) Chapter 16-57. Sage's Tower (6) Chapter 16-58.Intermission 2. behind the incidents Chapter 16-59. Sage's Tower (7) Chapter 16-60. Sage's Tower (8) Chapter 16-61. Sage's Tower (9) Chapter 16-62. Holy State Parion, again(1) Chapter 16-63. Holy State Parion, again(2) Chapter 16-64. Holy State Parion, again(3) Chapter 16-65. Holy State Parion, again(4) Chapter 16-66. To Saga Empire Chapter 16-67. To Saga Empire (2) Chapter 16-68. Saga Empire, Battle at the Imperial Capital (1) Chapter 16-69. Saga Empire, Battle at the Imperial Capital (2) Chapter 16-70. Saga Empire, Battle at the Imperial Capital (3) Chapter 16-71. Saga Empire, Satou's Battle Chapter 16-72. Intermission: The House-Sitting Team and Small Accidents in the World Chapter 16-73. Intermission: The House-sitting Team and Small Accidents in the World (2) Chapter 16-74. Saga Empire, Battle at the Imperial Capital (4) Chapter 16-75. Saga Empire, Battle at the Imperial Capital (5) Chapter 16-76. Saga Empire, Battle at the Imperial Capital (6) Chapter 16-77. Saga Empire, Battle at the Imperial Capital (7) Chapter 16-78. Repatriation Chapter 16-79. Saga Empire, Satou's Battle (2) Chapter 16-80. God Keys

Volume 17
Chapter 17-1. Ceremony Chapter 17-2. Garden Party (1) Chapter 17-3. Garden Party (2) Chapter 17-4. Purple Mound Chapter 17-5. To Realm of Gods Chapter 17-Intermission 1. The Melancholy of Liza Chapter 17-6. To Realm of Gods (2) Chapter 17-7. Reason Behind the Taboo Chapter 17-8. Growing Purple Mounds

Novel Summary This is done for those who wish for a short summary of the story. The summary will be derived from the WN because all forms of release have a slightly varying plot but they are all other forms are drawn directly from the WN

Chapter 1 the story begins with a certain programmer working on a MMO for a certain computer game company. He then gets ordered by his slave driving boss to go through a rigorous debugging session. After falling asleep from fatigue from debugging for several days straight, he wakes up inside what he perceives to be a game world, mainly from the computer game-style menu he has in his vision as if it were an AR. He takes a look around and akins the environment to something along the lines of the Grand Canyon. He then takes out his cellphone but before he notices he can't get any signal, he sees his own reflection and notices that he has become significantly younger and uses this as evidence to believe that he is simply dreaming. He explores the new menu that is in front of him and looks at the personality tab. His character is listed as "Satou" a common name he uses for debugging and is listed as a 15 year old male with the occupation of "management". He then finds 2 different spells in his toolbar, [All-Map Exploration] and [Meteor shower]. He immediately activates the {All-Map Exploration] and the map opens up and shows a large unit of level 50 lizards heading in his direction while being denoted as enemies. To be on the safe side, He activates the meteor shower and several moments later, a large number of meteorites fall from the sky, completely annihilating the lizard unit and pretty much everything behind it. After the meteors stop falling, Satou passes out. He awakens an undisclosed amount of time later and checks his exchange column (identity page) and suddenly sees that his level has become 310 in addition to gaining a large number of titles. He then continues to look around and finds the [Log] there it shows a near infinite number of 'Defeated xxxxxxx' including slaying many different dragons and it is only the last 2 entries that gain his attention. The first is [God Slayer], where the log states that he has defeated the dragon god Akonkagura. The last message is one of "<<>>" which states that since he has defeated all enemies, all the loot has been dumped into his inventory. He then opens up the map and activates map exploration again after adding 10 skill points to the skill/spell. There were only 10 levels possible and 1 level costs 1 skill. The newly updated map shows a nearby city called Seryuu and he starts walking in that direction. After about 3 days of walking non-stop, noting that 1 day costs 100 stamina, of which he has 3100 health, mp and stamina, he starts investigating the items in his inventory and sort them by category before taking a look at them. He firsts investigates the money. Nearly all of it happens to be called Ancient Dragon Coin, numbering just over 10 million. He pulls out one of the coins that almost weight as troy ounce and by comparing the weight with the number in his inventory, he determines that he owns about 303t of gold (worth almost $13b). The next were called Furu empire crimson treasures and they have the appearance of a ruby colored metal but still looks like a coin, numbering around 40k. The rest are composed several thousands of individual copper, silver and golden coins of about a dozen different countries each. He then goes on to check the weapons, he finds many expected fantasy items such as magic swords or holy swords like Excalibur. But is surprised to find items like guns, which aren't compatible with the MMO's he is working on and thereby shouldn't be dreaming about. He looks at wearable items, which list over 300k jewerly type items should as clothes, tiaras, bracelets and even ornamental swords. While taking out a robe to swap out his dirty shirt and jeans. He also finds some magic items that include a magic bag (bigger on the inside) and other useful commodity type items such as a self heating poker to create fires. He then takes a look at the corpses that also have been stored in his inventory. Among them he also finds a large number of gear that the lizards that had attacked him earlier had, although most of it had been broken due to the meteor shower. He attempts to discard it, but decides to leave it in his storage as discarding all of it would mean the creation of a literal mountain of garbage. Afterwards he analyses the corpses of thsoe he slew and manages to find a large amount of dragon scales in his inventory, about the size of A4 piece of paper. He then finds a water bag that creates 30 litres of water per day plus some sky deer jerky, which he subsequently consumes and then goes to sleep using folded cloth in his storage as a pillow and blanket. The next morning he wakes up and wonders about how a person can sleep in their dreams. He then spends a few more days traveling until he comes to a village. On the way in, he finds a sign board written in fantasy language. But when he tries to decipher it, his log indicates he gains a skill called "Shiga Language". He then puts on a few skill points and then he is able to read the road sign, which merely states the distances to certain locations and their names. He then arrives at the village hoping for some human contact, but his map shows that the village is empty. Upon further inspection, he determines that the village had been invaded by dragons about a year ago and the citizens simply refused to return. He then goes to investigate the concept of skills. He walks over to a farm near the road and pulls out a vegetable and in the process he gains the cultivation and the farming skill. He then pulls out a nearby weed and gains the weeding skill. He then walks into a nearby house and picks up a stick and then pulls a knife and starts to sharpen it, gaining the woodcraft spell. Then he attaches some leather and gains the leather craft skill to make a broom and starts to sweep the floor, but doesn't gain a cleaning skill. he then continues on towards the city and arrives at dawn the next day. The guard that operates the inspection booth at the main gate asks for money for a visa to stay in the city and asks to be shown his ID. Satou replies that he doesn't have an idea, the guard replies that it isn't an issue and takes him inside. He tells Satou to put his hands on a platform with a octagonal stone in the middle called a yamato stone. He then asks him to state his name and when he does a character profile not much different in style from the one in his exchange column appears except that the details on this one happen to be from what he saw before he used the meteor shower, not the one after as it was now. The guard writes down the details and hands it to Satou in addition to a carved tag after making him pay for the visa and the service. He then walks into town looking around until a certain young girl with large breasts pulls his arm and drags him towards and inn. The girl (named martha) calls out her mother, saying that they finally have a customer and the landlady comes out. Satou judges her as a woman would pursue if she were 20kg lighter and unmarried and she asks what she can do for him. Satou requests 10 days in a single room along with some food. After the meal he asks for places where he could shop. He negins his shopping experience by looking for some food and he overhears a women haggling with a fruit merchant and afterwards does the same, gaining the estimation, haggling and overhearing skill. He then goes around looking for more things to buy such as tableware cloth making equipment. Afterwards he heads towards a tailor for some new clothes as he can't continue wearing the damaged ones. But on the way he sees a cart filled with young girls wearing some rather questionable necklaces. His AR determines that these girls are slaves that are going to be sold. One of the girls on the cart with purple hair catches his attention as she is level 10 with unknown skills and has the title of [Ruin Princess], bu he loses interest when the cart moves out of sight. He orders 2 new robes along with both traveling and confort shoes, but one of the robes he buys looks rather gaudy as he had to make up a quick excuse as he had been distracted by the breasts of the shop lady. He then travels to another shop down the street from some pre-made clothes. Afterwards the sun has already start to set and after dinner he goes outside to have a bath. While using the water pouch to fill the tub, another women staying at the inn comes out aswell and sets up a partitioning screen with a nearby lamp, causing an outline of the naked women to appear on the screen. Satou strains his eyes and gains the spying and poker face skills. While trying to act normal, he uses several different actions to gain the opportunity to continue to glance at the woman. The next day, Satou travels to a jack of all trades service center and asks the lady attendant for a tour of the city. Although surprised, she gives him one. After giving the basic layout of the city, she shows him a certain cafe halfway through the tour and makes a jealous face. Satou then gets the hint and then offers to pay for a sit-down at the cafe as payment. After drinking some rather expensive tea and eating some just as expensive cookies, Satou notices a certain ruckus outside involving a certain demon and asks her if this is part of the cities attraction as well. She replies by telling him not to be so stupid. Then the demon outside tosses a carriage towards the soldiers fighting the demon but it flies over them straight towards Satou. He then grabs the lady and then kicks up the marble table between them as cover. The carriage doesn't reach them but the lady faints from the shock and Satou rushes outside carrying her and tosses her inside a nearby taxi like coach and gives the coach man a golden coin, telling him to look after her. Satou then jumps to the roof and pulls out a silver mask and red robe, which were included in the things he bought yesterday and prepares to fight. He then pulls out one of the magic guns and takes aim and fires. But misses by a wide margin. After a few attempts he finally scores a hit and gains the skills, shooting, aiming and sniping. But while Satou maxes those skills, the demon notices Satou and fires a lightning bolt at him, which does only 5 damage and unlocks the skills: lightning magic (demon), lightning resistance and paralysis resistance. He then goes into the shadows to re-organize while the knights take the demon's attention, and fail. While in the shadows, he gains the spy skill and pulls out a spear. He then attacks the demon when he has an opening and gains the spear skill. He does damage, but he gets thrown back by a counter attack of the demons tail, taking only 1 point of damage. He then pulls out a shield and sword. He attacks again but the demon stops him with his claws, which allows Satou to gain the shield and parry skill. He then attacks with both the sword and shield and gains the shield bash and sword skill. The demon then attacks with acid and destroys the weapons while Satou gains and maxes the poison resistance skill. Satou then pulls out a dagger and throws it at him, gaining the dagger and throwing skill. Then the demon counters with petrification magic, causing Satou to gain the petrification resistance skill. Satou then pulls out dual wield hammers and clobbers the head of the demon and gains both dual wield and one handed hammer skill. Meanwhile the magic soldiers and wizards of the military open fire on the demon along with Satou since they don't know who or what he is and they both suffer minimal damage while Satou gains resistance to fire, ice, water, light and wind. Satou then pulls out a great sword and chops of an arm gains the appropriate skill. Then he pulls out a great hammer and gains the appropriate skill plus the head splitter skill because he aimed for the head. Afterwards he notices that soldiers are pulling out a rather large magical cannon and as such continues to keep the demon occupied until the cannon is loaded. He then jumps out the way and gives the local captain a nod and he fires the cannon. The cannon spews out a large amount of magical buckshot and shreds the demon. However the demon survives and Satou stabs him through the heart while he is laying on the floor and makes his escape afterwards. But in the log it states that he has been awarded the Hero title. Chapter 2 After the battle is done, he removes his disguise and walks back towards the inn. On the way back he sees a corpse dangling from a tree and does a traditional pray for the deceased. But when the corpse starts calling for help, Satou jumps on the tree. On closer inspection, the corpse is in fact a girl that is still very much alive albeit suffering from multiple fractures. Rather than risking to compounding the fractures by jumping from the tree to the street, Satou decides to jump up to the roof of a nearby house and then move from roof to roof to a temporary relief camp setup nearby while carrying her like a princess. After he drops her off and she says her thanks, he opens up the radar to see what else he could do. He notices a book store that has been severely damaged and has its owners and their family trapped inside. Satou immediately rushes over and starts clearing all the debris and starts ferrying the injured family to the relief station one by one as a way to curry their favor. Afterwards he does the same with several other stores. The next day, after receiving a book about life magic, he decides to spend the day studying at a nearby cafe. After eating some food and starting to read, he is interrupted by the lady from the jack of all trades. She thanks him and Satou asks about a cane which would help him in the chanting of magic as stated in the book. She shows him to an alchemy store and he asks for some wands. The gnome that mans the store shows him several of which he buys the cheapest 2. He notes that he already has an entire arsenal of wands in is inventory, but their level is simply to high in order to safely practice magic. While he is there, he asks for some simple gear and books about alchemy. And the gnome happily offers up beginner books that explain the basics along with some beginner recipes, however Satou notices that one of the things shown is a fake, to which the gnome admits it was a simple test as he doens't want to give things to simple wannabees and only to those who are willing to work hard. He then shows him 3 magic bestowing stands, which he explains are required to complete the final step of adding magic to the mixtures to create potions. He shows a shoddy one, a worn out one and a fancy one. Satou chooses the Worn out one, having identified the fancy one as a fake and the worn out one as something that is regularly used. The gnome offers it at reduced price which shocks Satou, who immediately guesses that Satou has the appraisal skill, which while commenting that he doesn't gains the skill. The gnome says he's fine with reducing the price for people who are willing to put in the effort for alchemy. He then goes to collect his clothing and then goes to the bookstore to look for ways to help him with his chanting, since he has continually to fumble in the chanting on the way over. However, the granddaughter of the store says that unless you have a natural gift (or have been given skill gift orbs), chanting usually takes 3-5 years to get it right. While walking around dejected around the city, he is interrupted by the female soldier who he had saved previously. While commenting on the nice dress that she is wearing, they are interrupted by the squad mates of the girl, named Zena. They are rather surprised to see the prudent Zena wearing fancy clothing and a skirt no less, believing that Zena has finally grown up and started to man-hunt. Zena immediately becomes flustered while trying to explain that its merely repaying the favor of her helping him. But the girls simply increase their teasing. But they eventually give it a rest and one of the girls gives her something and Zena blushes. Although its not stated what it is, it was implied that it was contraception. Satou then takes Zena to a nearby fountain and asks for some help in chanting. Zena also explains that learning to chant is a difficult process and in practical terms it took her her whole life to do, but she does say that reading poetry and picture books out loud in addition to singing is quite a big help. Satou then asks her for a tour of the city and she leads him to the market district and shows him different stalls of food, of which Satou buys them some. A few stops later, they come to a open place where a priest is holding some kind of meeting. He calls out to people in the crowd to purchase holy stones and then toss them to supposed followers of the demon god (3 demi human species) in order to show their faith and not suffer retribution, of which the "starfall" (Satou's meteor shower) is interpreted as. While Zena intervenes in the public spectacle, Satou opens up the map and identifies the owner of the slaves as the one who is selling holy stones. He checks the salesman and finds that he is part of a criminal guild whose members are stoking the crowd. So he marks them all on his map and starts knocking them out with neck-chops and gaining and utilizing the abduction skill and then tossing them into alleyways. After the rest are all dealt with, he grabs the salesman and then tosses him in front of the crowd. He reveals the spectacle as nothing but a scam and adds on a false charge (along with gaining that skill) that he was trying to cause a rebellion, causing the citizens to turn on the salesman. But before they can grab him. The chopped of hand from the demon the day before bursts out of the salesman and states that he is grateful for the actions of the crowd that in turn have caused the entire area to be baptized in evil energy that he can use. While another priest tries to fight the demon hand, Satou tells Zena to hurry and gather reinforcements, which she does. Meanwhile Satou goes over to the 3 slaves and tries to free them from the stake that holds their chain. But the slaves stop him, saying that they were ordered to stay there no matter what and if they leave, the collars will tighten and kill them. Satou then looks at the AR and sees that they have no master, now that the demon hand has killed him. Satou pulls out the stake, but when Zena's reinforcements arrive, the demon hand has finished his spell and Satou along with a large number of those present get teleported away. Satou lands in an underground room with the 3 beast girls and then he hears the sound of the demon arm, saying that he has created this place for his master but in the interest of fairness and the desire to create more dark energies, every person that has been put down here has a path that leads outwards and satou activats the map exploration, confirming that they are near the bottom of the dungeon. Then Satou takes a look at the 3 demi human girls, they are a dog kin (dog ears and tail), a cat kin (cat ears and long cat tail) and a lizard kin (large lizard tail that almost touches the ground and scales on the forearms and shins) named Dog, Cat and Lizard respectively. Satou asks if they are actually their names and Lizard replies yes. Lizard then asks if Satou would provide names for them that would be easier to use. Satou bestows the names Pochi, Tama and Liza respectively. Satou then hands out clean cloth and food to the trio and then goes to take a look at the passage leading out, but the trio quickly stop him and beg to take them along, even if they are only used as meat shields. But Satou assures them that he is only trying to look ahead and that they should focus on eating and cleaning themselves. Some time later, Satou and the trio are moving through the dungeon. Satou gives Liza a dagger for defense as she is    level 3 and the only one with a skill of the three, a spear skill. Satou then hears some weird sounds. Satou tells the three to stay behind while he goes to check it out. He spots a giant insect munching on a dead human while wondering what to do, Liza interrupts his thought and says that they should just sneak by while the insect is preoccupied. While lamenting his own incompetence, Satou pulls out a magic gun and starts firing on the lizard, killing it. While telling the girls to stay silent, he takes a look at one of the legs of the insect and then cuts it off, gaining the demonology skill. He then uses the already gained skill to fit together pieces of insect, leather, wood and a knife to make a spear, using the newly demonology skill to understand the nature of the insect and using its natural body chemistry as something that naturally binds the components together. Then Satou raises all the relevant skills to the max and then begins the process anew, creating a high quality improvised spear for liza. Meanwhile liza cutting the insect. While Satou mentions that the insect probably wouldn't be any good to eat. Liza states that she is trying to get the monster core. Liza then explains to the confused Satou that all monsters have a monster core that can be used in the making of magic tools and that they sell pretty well, so Satou as a merchant would find good use for them. Satou then hands of the new spear to Liza while she hands over the dagger to Tama. After leaving the room, Satou notices that none of the girls have gained any experience so far, so he aims to do something about that. He tells liza to stay at the back and make sure they aren't attacked from behind and he tells Pochi to be on the lookout and for Tama to collect throw able stones. Pochi uses her nose and notices a bug hiding on the ceiling, Satou then shoots it down from the ceiling and orders Tama to throw a few stones and after a few more shots, orders liza to take stab at the insect and then Satou finishes it off. He then notices that all the girls have their exp counter go up (which he can see from the AR). He then tells Liza to teach Tama how to collect magic cores and for tama to hand her stones to Pochi while they go on ahead. Satou notices in the AR that there is another bug up ahead and order Pochi that once he gives the signal she is to throw a few stones at it while running and then go run back to Liza and Tama. After doing so, Pochi runs the wrong way and after killing it Satou rushes out to stop her. Satou tells Pochi that running is fine but panicking is not allowed. Afterwards Liza and Tama have collected both magic cores and put them inside Satou's magic bag. Afterwards, Tama spots something weird on the ground. Which Satou identifies as a trap, he tells Pochi to throw a stone on the other end of the hall. When she does, a group of rats run towards them and activate the trap in the process. Giving Satou the trap dismantling skill which he then utilizes. They the come to a fork in the road which satou detects as having the same amount of monsters and both reconverge after a certain distance. But he spots that one of the paths has a room in the middle and so he moves in that direction to check it out. In the room was a house that was pulled into the dungeon by the teleportation spell. Satou and the trio look inside and find several stashes of magic tools, potions, money and a macthing pair of swords and shields, which are given to Pochi and Tama. He then leaves the trio to deal with a large and weak frog. Liza then asks to cook the frog as the meat of its legs are quite tasty. After she is done cooking, she accidentally spills Satou's bottle of infinite water and begs to be scolded. But Satou says its alright and then notices on the AR that the girls are all exhausted so he orders them to take a nap after they are all done eating. After the girls go to sleep with Satou on guard duty, he notices that the girls are all growing nicely. After clearing 80% of the dungeon. The girls are all level 13 and Pochi has gained the throwing, one handed sword, dismantling and enemy search skills while Tama has gained the one handed sword, collecting and dismantling skills and Liza has gained the thrusting, cooking and dismantling skills. They then come towards a room that has been turned into a spiders nest, with some of the victims still alive. Before they can free them, the spider returns to its nest and the group prepares an ambush. Satou draws its attention while Pochi and Tama attack the legs and Liza stabs it right in the head, but it still keeps moving, so Satou finishes it off with his magic gun. While Tama goes to loot the corpses, Satou frees a noble viscount, who then frees his daughter, Liza frees a slave trader and Pochi tries to free a citizen, but he starts to act racist towards her and she gets scared. Pochi steps back in fear and while Satou frees him, the viscount threatens that he he makes a disturbance, he will kill him. When they near the exit, they are attacked by skeletons and the racist is injured. But Satou isn't one to just let people die so he gives him one of the magic potions he found in the house. The group then comes up to a room and Satou sends Liza and Pochi ahead to scout, while already knowing so that he can think about a way to deal with whats ahead. Liza and Pochi report that there are a lot of skeletons and a large flying bat like creature are in the room up ahead. But Satou knows that the bat is infact a demon and that most of the skeletons are level 15 except for 2 who are level 35. While the viscount believes it to be nonsense, Satou rebukes that the dungeon was made by demons and so there would be a large force near the exit. Satou then proposes a strategy to use thrown stones towards the skeletons to lure them here and then the viscount would use his fire magic to set the corridor alight so that the skeletons would reach them heavily damaged and would be easily dealt with by the beast girls. The viscount agrees and executes the strategy, while the rest are occupied with the small fires, Satou pulls out a few copper coins from his wallet and flicks them in secret to completely obliterate the demon and the 2 strong skeletons. After its all over, the girls start to sense the outside world, but before they reach it, a level 40 undead breaks through a secret wall and leaps towards Pochi. Satou manages to dive her away but before the undead reaches Satou, a wind spell courtesy of Zena who had rushed into the dungeon drives it away, then a priest from another group which just joined behind them activates anti-undead magic and the undead crumbles away. The scene ends with Zena happily crying into Satou's chest

Chapter 3 When they reach the surface, they exit a cave entrance in the middle of the plaza from which they were teleported from, surrounded by a palisade and 3 cannon batteries. Everyone but the viscount and her daughter are lead into a quarantine shelter and are not allowed to leave. They reveal that everyone is required to have their status's checked by a real yamato stone unlike the imitation at the main gate in order to make sure they aren't possessed by something. While all those present are in awe of the 3 beastkin girls who are now at the level of average knights, Satou was quick to forget that his public status is still level 1 and he manages to fake a status just in time. Level 10 with the skill, arithmetic, throwing and evasion. Afterwards he gets in touch with one of the officials inregards to the trio of slaves, since they aren't his slaves but their master is dead so he would like to know what is going to happen to them. The official reveals that slaves are simple property in the eyes of the law, so finders keepers. She then issues a temporary slave certificate in the name of Satou and instructs him to find a genuine slave merchant in order to forge a permanent contract. Afterwards she asks about the loot, she declares that the law of Seryuu city is now that all the cores that were found in the dungeon (formally called a labyrinth) are to be sold to the government and that since the spear was made from the parts of a monster, it will be confiscated, to which Liza freezes. Satou in turn asks if it is possible for an official appraiser to check if there was nothing wrong with the spear so they could keep it, of course he would be willing to pay for it. The official agrees and says that he can come to collect everything tomorrow afternoon. Afterwards, Satou leaves with the girls to greet Zena and her friends. While praising the girls, he says that he is going to put the girls up in an inn. But Zena rebukes, saying that the racism here is so bad that there isn't an inn that allows for beast-kins to stay. While Liza is quick to add that she is happy being in a barn or something while Satou frowns at the abuse. Satou then takes the girls into town, where he is approached by a life magician which offers magical baths and drying for those who have been in the dungeon. Satou accepts the offer and hires her to wash and dry the 4 of them on the spot with magic and then takes out the girls for some meat skewers. After finishing the meal, he looks outside and notices a slave market. Remembering that the ownership is only temporary, he goes to find a slave merchant. He is approached by the slave merchant that he had saved in the dungeon and he goes with him to set the contracts, the merchant does it for free as a reward for saving him. The contracts themselves aren't just documents but also magical spells that bind the master and the slave, but include the basic 3 rules of robots (they aren't allowed to hurt their master, they must always obey their orders and must always take care of themselves) and inflicts punishment if any of those are borken. Afterwards he wishes to show his catalog of slaves to further show his gratitude. Satou does not want to but he continues to indulge him. Satou uses this opportunity to curate his appraisal skill and as such he turns off the AR. The first lineup does have some beauties by Satou's own admission, but none of them have practical skills and as such refuses to buy them. On the next lineup, he sees a girl he deems a very beautiful japanese and the pink-haired girl he saw earlier, he re-checks her skill column but it shows "none" despite her level 10. So Satou refuses the the line again, but the slave merchant mentions that all the slaves that don't sell will be sold to the government as laborers for their coal mines. So all the girls except the aforementioned start loosing their outfits and take certain poses but Satou has none of it. But then the pink haired girl starts begging to be bought and Satou suddenly finds the need to buy her. When he does, she also asks him to buy her sister, the one he found so beautiful. When it came time for the contract, the pink haired girl introduces herself as Arisa and the other one is Lulu. During the contract ceremony Lulu promises that although she may be ugly, she will work like a horse and Arisa promises to attend to her master day and night. After getting some more food for the girls. They go to the inn. Satou arranges for the beast girls to sleep in the barn, while using some cloth to make a makeshift bed out of packed straw, he also arranges for the other 2 to sleep in the same room as him. When he starts putting on his Pajamas, the other 2 girls quickly get naked and are expecting to service their master. But Satou has none of it and tells the 2 to just get to bed. But in the middle of the night, he is woken up by Arisa who is straddling him while naked. She then crouches down and kisses him. Satou then feels himself reaching out towards the naked little girl, but then checks the log and finds out what is really going on. He quickly activates and maxes the mind magic resist skill and orders Arisa to cease all mind magic on him now and forever. When Satou asks her why she did that, she answers that because she wanted to have fun in bed. But Satou doesn't believe her and then activates the interrogation skill and asks her again. She says that she told the truth, she wants to enjoy the body and service of a young boy and Satou believes her. She then introduces herself as Tachibana Arisa, a person from Japan just like him. While he is shocked, she asks him if he was a summoned person or a reincarnated person. She quickly notes his japanese appearance and asks him if he was summoned in a circle, of if he had appeared while having a really high level, but he denies both. He then asks how and what she did. She says that with the power of her 2 unique skills, she managed to influence him with her mind magic, but due to Satou's high level (of which she doesn't know the exact detail) she was forced to use her entire reserve of unique skill charges for both the purchasing of her and her sister at the auction and what transpired just now. Satou enquires about the unique skills and she says that they were given to her by god when she was reincarnated. Apart from the ones that are given to other reincarnated person, hide skill, status check, which allows her to check the stats of others, self status, which she explains allows her to level up look at their status like Satou does and item box, which allows her to store 100 units of 100 items, acts the same way but much inferior to the storage skill of heroes. Satou then asks about the 2 unique ones and Arisa explains that the first is called {Over Boost} which increases the power of her spells in exchange for more MP and stamina and {Never Give Up] Which give her a 10% chance to ignore resistances. Satou also mentions that he noticed that she cast that magic without chanting. Arisa reveals that it is a hidden feature of self status, where if they read the last line of the spells listed of what they have cast will automatically cast the spell. She then comments that he is the second japanese person she has met, the first was the hero of the saga empire. She then asks about how the beast girls got so strong, Satou then states that they got in the labyrinth beneath them yesterday and Arisa panics, but Satou quickly settles her down. Satou then asks about Lulu. Arisa says that Lulu is her elder half sister and that her great grandfather was japanese. Then Satou asks her one final question which is she is allowed to refuse to awnswer, he asks how they became slaves. Arisa answers that when she was reincarnated, she tried to use her knowledge from her former world to improve this one with technologies such as fertilizer. Everything was improving but eventually the country of which she was a princess was hit with "divine punishment" and everything fell into ruin. A nearby country saw this as an oppotunity and invaded. Afterwards, the king, crown prince and all the concubines were all publicly executed. Then the royalty that remained was cursed with a special branch of mind magic called [Geass] and they were all ordered to live as slaves until they died. They were all locked up into a tower and every full moon, one of their sibling was taken away to the bottom dungeon in order to try and re-awaken the labyrinth that was there, as labyrinths are seen more as mine-able resources rather than threats. When only she and Lulu were left, something happened and the entire castle was set ablaze, she had used her status check on showed that their master had died and so were able to flee. After spending a few days on the road, they ran into the merchant that Satou had saved. Satou then asks her if she could have just used the mind magic on him, but she said she realized that too late. Arisa then asks if they can level up in the labyrinth is Selbira city and Satou agrees and they simply go to sleep. While she goes to sleep, Satou re-dons the disguise he used during the initial labyrinth attack and dives back into the labyrinth. He then goes around running to find the demon's regeneration room, because its original goal for building the labyrinth was to regenerate and it had the power to live on while still being an arm, then it has a good chance of still being alive. Satou eventually finds a door with 3 pictures on it, the first is a man planting a seed, the second is a man standing upright to pick a fruit from a tree and the third being a man pulling out a tree stump. He first tries breaking through with a sledgehammer but it doesn't work. While Satou likens it to the riddle of the sphinx, the answer seemed to be correct as with that thought he gained the de-riddle skill. He goes around the nearby rooms to collect the statues of a baby, a man and an elder. When all 3 statues are put in front of the door, the door opens and Satou passes through. Eventually he comes into an empty room at the end of the hallway and finds a treasure chest. But when he opens it, the demon, fully regenerated jumps out of it. While first happy with the trap it had setup, after he sees who awakened him, he is immediately dejected and Satou cuts him up with a single slash of a holy sword and then walks back to the inn and gets to bed. Intermissions: The first is about Zena after she left Satou in the plaza. She quickly rushes to the guard post where she is stationed while wondering if Satou is going to be alright. Although she trusts Satou, she's still worried about her and she continually increases her speed, agility and her parkour performances as her fear for him increases Chapter 4 The next morning the peace is broken by Martha, who opes the door unannounced to bring in Zena. But they are both quick to notice the naked Arisa in his bed and Lulu, who has some blood between her legs and is sleep-talking the words "not so rough". Zena immediately takes this the wrong way and quickly leaves the room angry. While Arisa asks for a cloth for Lulu who had a period, she tells him to run after her to clear away the misunderstanding. He quickly changes cloths with a quickdress skill and jumps out the window to land in front of Zena and quickly takes her hands. He then uses several skills to persuade Zena that he had no intention of sleeping with young girls and manages to take her mind of it by complementing her dress. After the matter is settled, he gets zena to wait for him in the inn while he gets the girls out of bed. After flicking the forehead of Arisa, he gets the rest to wake up and order Arisa to take the girls shopping for necessities among other things. While Satou and Zena go on another date through the city, Arisa leads the girls on a shopping trip with the exception of Lulu, who stays behind sick, she asks what the beasts girls are in need off, Liza responds that they have all they need. Arisa then simply rolls up the skirt of Pochi and notices that they don't even have underwear. So after Arisa buys several sets of underwear for everyone, she notices that there are no bra's on offer, so she resolves herself to make them herself as she has previous experience with in sowing. Afterwards she leads them to get both some nice interior clothes and some sturdy clothes for the outside, Liza objects to the nice clothes, but Pochi and Tama are quickly taken by the frills and both quickly get a dress in addition to work clothes. Then they go and get shoes, but Liza objects again, saying that the sandals they have is luxurious enough. But Arisa sternly objects, saying that even heroes can die from being stung through the bottom of their feet by insects, so they will need proper shoes and Liza yields as Arisa is the same race as Satou so they she should know better about his wishes. But unfortunately no shoe parlour allows demi-humans. After wards they spend a bit more on food provisions and with the remaining money try to get the remaining miscellaneous items requested by everyone. But are incapable of getting the silver mirror Arisa asks for. The girls then run into Satou on the way back from a snack break and they all go back to the inn together. On the way, Satou spots a little girl that acts as a helper in the inn and Satou decides to carry all the heavy firewood that she is carrying. Once they get back, Satou tells Arisa that he wants to have a talk with her and Liza. He asks Liza's opinion on the matter of Selbira, but she says that she will go where ever her master goes. Satou then asks her to put in her personal imput and she says she also wants to go to Selbira and Satou considers the matter settled. She tells the girls that they are going out again, but Martha informs them of a flea market that has appeared in the place where the slave market was. They all go there and the girls go buy preservable food and salt, Satou notices several peddlers with interesting items, but walks past them as they are of no use. He then runs into a person selling paper with scribbles on them and buys them as writing practice tools for the other girls. He is then asked by another merchant to take a look at his product if he wants to teach writing. He shows him learning cards, where they have images on one side and the appropriate word on the other. Satou kinda likes the idea and decides to buy the set. Then he runs into a peddler playing with a spinning top that is powered by mana alone. Satou asks if he can test it and he pours in some of his mana which in turn allows to spin for 10 minutes. After getting arisa to put in some of her own, the top also spins and Satou decides to buy the top. Afterwards, the radar function of his {AR} tells him that a enemy is rushing towards him from behind. Satou quickly jumps but the man quickly takes a dive and yells out that Satou has just broken his presious urn, but Satou quickly leaves but the man runs after him but Satou knocks him out. Afterwards he is approached by a merchant about the sale of dragon white stone, he says that he can earn quite a bit of money with this, but appraisal indicates that it is only worth 1 copper. He quickly asks the gnome running the alchemy store nearby about it and he identifies the white substance as rock salt and then quickly nabs the weasel kin merchant and drags him off. Satou then goes back to the jack of all trades store and asks where he could find a carriage to drive around. She says for that he would have to go to the taxi-carriage station at the main gate. He also mentions that he is going to use it to travel the world and that it would be kinda nice to meet and elf. The girl then goes and asks the manager to come in. She then pulls his hair back to show a triangular ear. While Satou is confused, the girl is disappointed at the lack of surprise that the manager is an elf. But Satou then rebukes, saying that elves are supposed to have long ears. This has seemingly set off the manager in an angry mood, but the girl is quick to calm him down, saying that he wouldn't know. The girl replies that the long ears he is asking about is actually a sub species of human, not elf and elves hate being compared to them. Satou apologizes to the manager and he simply replies with "forgiven". He goes to the taxi station to ask, however one of the attendants says that carriages are usually the prerogative of the merchant guild. However he is in luck as one of their senior coachman is retiring and is looking to sell his carriage. Satou manages to make contact and he offers to buy the carriage and explains that he is looking for someone to teach him and the coachman accepts. Before they get to training, Satou also buys some supplies that would actually make him look like a merchant, as he usually carries everything in his storage. During the training, he immediately gains the marshaling skill, but desides to slowly increase it over the course of the day so it actually looks like training. In the evening, he comes back with the carriage and parks it in the barn, but promises to let the coach man show him some brothels. At night, Satou comes to Arisa with some worries, he explains that he has done something terrible but without revealing what (genocide of the dragon race at dragon valley) but its not that doing the act that worries him, its that he doesn't feel guilty. Arisa explains that it is likely due to the MND stat. She explains that as vitality increases the durability of the body, the MND stat does the same for the mind, so barely anything will affect him. Then he asks about the INT stat. He asks that although he has a high stat, he does have a tendency to forget. Arisa replies that that is obvious, if INT increases IQ equally with memory, then there wouldn't be any careless scholars. He then asks about skills. Arisa replies that skills are earned through experiencing new things, not neccesarily battle with monsters. She reveals that she gained her levels through studying and that people gain 2-12 skill points per level, averaging at 7. She then reveals that each skill has 10 levels and the the difference between the effect of each level and the skill points required to get them are not linear. With level 1 being noob level and level 10 being god like. He then asks about demon lords. Arisa explains that every 66 years, 1 or more demon lords get summoned to cause terror on the the planet, so a few years prior, the saga empire summons a hero from Japan to face these demon lords. She also says that these heroes are summoned with high levels, unique skills and holy weapons to fight the demon lords. Satou then asks when the demon lords will arrive, she said that the last one was killed 62 years ago and that there is always some veriation in when the demon lords are summoned, so the next one is soon to arrive. However, she says demon lords almost always appear inside labyrinths. Satou then asks if Seryuu city is in danger now that there is a labyrinth here. Arisa replies that that would never happen, they are right next door to dragon valley. He asks why that matters and she replies that Dragons were the ancient enemies of demon lords. Satou then asks what the point is of heroes. Arisa replies that dragons have a reliable track record of defeating them, however, they always leave mass destruction in their wake, so they always send in heroes to try first. Afterwards, Satou leaves Arisa and continues investigating his menu. He finds that things stored in his storage are also frozen in time compared to things stored in item box. He then comes to find a clock in his menu skill, but finds that the days on this world are longer but the years are shorter and that the clock itself runs on earth time rather than this worlds time. He then decides to start practicing his alchemy skill. He pours open the beginners book and pulls out the materials and gears requested by the first chapter. He follows the book and creates an anti-cold mixture, which the AR indicates as the lowest quality along with Satou's name as the creator and list an effect of -3 by the appraisal skill. He then gains the compounding skill and flips the book open to the next chapter, there he is to put the mixture on the magic bestowing stand and add in a few more reagents and then pour in magic power to set the mixture. He completes it and the AR indicates that it has turned into a anti-cold potion, but it has a -4 to effect and it is listed as the lowest quality and gets the alchemy skill. He then notices that there is another tab available on menu and sees that is regards to the creation of items. It lists not just the recipe for the potions he has made but also the improvised weapons he has made so far including Liza's spear. He then repeats the same process with both the compounding and alchemy skill set to max and he creates another potion but the AR labels it as a highest quality product and has an effect of +5. He then continues to create other potions, but eventually he notices the gaze of Arisa and Martha from the door and scolds them both. The next day, they prepare for departure, but Lulu is still sick so it is postponed. Satou asks the girls if there are other things that the girls want and they each have a request of their own and Satou gives Arisa the money while he goes off with the coachman. They arrive at what appears to be an upper class brothel. The female manager showcases a few girls for them and Satou chooses the last girl, having used AR to determine that the rest are a bit to young or are carrying STD's. She then brings him to a room and takes of her clothes and lets Satou play with her breasts before they do the deed. Halfway through the night, the woman faints from exhaustion and Satou notes it can't be helped due to his high level and after he gains a few skills that he would prefer to keep off out of fairness, he falls asleep on the woman's breasts.The next morning he returns. Arisa quickly runs out of the inn but when she notices the gloss on his face, she starts getting angry and starts stomping the ground, having missed the opportunity to take the virginity of a young boy. But Satou replies that he wasn't a virgin when he got to this world. Satou then instructs the girls to say their goodbyes to everyone they know as they will be departing early next morning. Satou then goes to collect the materials he has bought from the merchant guild and then returns to the inn with the carriage where lulu and Pochi are staying behind. While Pochi goes to take care of the horses, Satou goes to the local magic shop to buy magic books. The store owner objects stating that she will only sell books to those capable and she asks Satou to touch an MP appraisal tool. Fearing destroying it and revealing his true power, Satou tries to back out and the store owner tells him to just get out. But as he leaves, he overhears the store owner muttering to herself on how she is going to get some dragon powder. Satou remembers that he managed to get some dragon powder from the house in the dungeon and offers the lady some in exchange for magic books. The woman allows it, but he can only offer him beginner class magic books in all the elements she has, as intermediate and up are all restricted by law. On the way back, one of the girls that was teasing Zena about her relationship with Satou spots the guy. While imitating Zena she approaches Satou. But he sees right through it and talks to her normally. He asks if he can talk to Zena, but she replies that she is on duty till midnight. He asks if she can relay a message that he is leaving at dawn tomorrow. She says she will deliver and the two part. But the girl is dejected that Satou didn't really love her at all. The next morning the group leaves as scheduled but as they exit the main gate they are chased by Zena on a horse. She says her own goodbyes and asks Satou if he could send her a letter once he reaches Selbira and Satou says he will. However, she immediately rejects his words and demands a pinky swear, which Satou lives up to.

Intermissions

The first is about Earl Seryuu and his consul discussing the matters that have transpired a few days ago and their consequences. The earl asks about the oracles that were done to check upon the dangers of the labyrinth, but the consul replied that there isn't any problem. The earl then states his worry about the entrance being in the middle of the city and asks if the entrance can be sealed. The consul replies that that is a very bad idea. A long time ago, a king from a distant country had already tried that, but even with the entrance sealed, more monsters were continually created and eventually they were able to overpower the barrier and destroy the country, so sealing it wouldn't be a long term solution. The earl then proposes to send an expedition unit to selbira city to learn how they safely and effectively mine the labyrinth and see how it can be applied here and asks for 2 units of military personal, 1 unit of merchants and 1 unit of those having street smarts to be deployed to Selbira and the consul agrees to organize. The earl then asks about the hero behind the mask. The consul produces a short list but each candidate isn't likely to be the one behind it. The first is the territories strongest knight, but if it was him he would have boasted about it by now, the second is a famous explorer but he is more interested in dragons and the third only has body reinforcement magic so it couldn't be him. The earl asks if there is any more and the consul produces 4 more. The first is the bastard child of the previous earl (the current earl's father) but he is evil and lazy, so it couldn't be him. The second is the gnome achemist, it is entirely possible that he made some sort of super potion to boost his power in addition to the known silver mask in his home. The earl finds the mask suspicious but the consul states that the silver masks are used during the harvest festivals and aren't that rare and he states that the reason why he was kicked from the list was because such super potions would have a large enough side effect to kill the gnome. The third was the strongest guy from the guild that Satou dealt with to save the slaves. He says that there is an hypothesis that the 2 demon incidents are actually separate, that the demon that appeared later got here a lot earlier than the other demon and simply appeared to protect his territory/investment, The earl finds this suspicious and orders all the guild members to be arrested. And the final candidate is Satou, although he was only level 10 when checked with the genuine yamato stone, he had asked for a tour of the city, something very weird for this city. The consul also notes that he saved his viceroy. The earl imagines giving Satou knighthood and ponders about Satou as him being the silver mask would be a good story, but he quickly gets it out of his head.

The next one is about the daily life of Yuni. She wakes up early in the morning at the local orphanage and runs towards the inn for her work. She wakes up the inn lady and begins drawing well from the water. However halfway through, she is interrupted by Pochi and Tama who had just woken up from her actions. While she immediately gets scared as the ones before her are genuine beast kin slaves, the bucket falls to the bottom of the well. Pochi however, goes around Yuni and pulls the bucket up. Then after Yuni collects it, Tama tries to. As a reward for helping with their work and feeling bad about being presumptuous about them, she decided to share her lunch with them. However when she comes to the barn, she finds them eating meat and cheese and they are the ones who share their food with her. Afterwards she goes to take care of the horses and Pochi, Tama and even Liza help her, to Yuni's surprise. Afterwards she gets asked to collect firewood by martha, but on the way back, Satou snatches the wood she is carrying and carries it for her. When they get back, Pochi and Tama ask her to play the learning cards game with them. A sort of memory, where all the learning cards purchased earlier are placed letters up on the floor and everyone takes a turn guessing the picture beneath them. But then the inn lady comes out and scolds Yuni for not doing her chores. But Yuni replies that she has already done them and points to Pochi and Tama. However, the next day Pochi and Tama inform her that they will be leaving and give her the learning cards as a gift and promise to write her a letter when they reach Selbira. Yuni promises that she will write them back as she has a secret stash of 2 copper coins that should be enough to send a letter. Afterwards she teaches the learning card game to the ones living at the orphanage.

Chapter 5 The girls are then travelling on the road with Pochi and Tama being hyperactive and touching just about everything including Arisa. While Arisa complains about the treatment that she is receiving from everyone, Satou laughs it off and decides to swap driving seats with Liza to go and have a talk with Lulu. Lulu initially has trouble speaking because of her shyness, but Satou manages to get her talking by using Arisa as a topic. Eventually they decide to have lunch near a heap of boulders and he asks Liza to prepare some food while he allows Pochi and Tama to stretch their legs. After Liza is done cooking, Pochi and Tama come back with the prey they hunted. Pochi brings a bunny she caught while Tama appears to have caught a rat kin. Satou orders Tama to let the rat kin go and she throws it back towards the meadow, causing her to get scolded. Afterwards they eat and then make preparations to travel again, Satou notices an army of flying ants chasing after a group of rat-kin on radar.

When they are back on the road again, Liza and Lulu ask to be taught how to drive the carriage while Arisa is humilitating Pochi and Tama in the learning cards game. Eventually Lulu spots a dark cloud over the horizon and Satou instructs everyone to get ready for battle. When everyone is prepared, Satou spots a group of rat-kin riding large boars away from a large swarm of flying ants. Some of the ants divert towards Satou and co.. Satou orders the beast kin trio to defend the wagon with their weapons while Arisa slows them down with her mind magic. The tactic works for the first wave but when the second wave approaches, he gives crossbows to Pochi, Tama and Lulu to shoot them down from afar. Afterwards, Satou checks the radar and sees that all but 3 of the rat-kin have been killed and are coming this way, along with the rest of the ants.

While one of the rat kin leaves the other 2 behind, he rides his boar along side Satou. The rat-kin asks for help in several different languages and Satou replies in elvish thanks to the newly learned skill. The rat-kin replies that he is grateful to have run into someone who knows elvish and then tosses a package into the carriage, telling Satou to take good care of the princess. Afterwards he returns to his comrades to fight of the ants, but is slain. The rest of the ants are coming towards the carriage. But Arisa asks for permission to use the overboost unique skill, which she is granted and she subsequently defeats two thirds of all the flying ants. But she uses up all her stamina and MP in the process and collapses. After the rest of the group manages to defeat the last of the ants. Satou then parks the carriage and while the beast kin girls go collect some magic cores among with some other usable loot, Lulu makes some tea and Satou unloads both Arisa and the princess.

When the trio come back, Lulu tells Satou, who has been passing the time by making some more potions, that Arisa has awoken and subsequently foils her plan to make Satou feed her medicine mouth to mouth. Afterwards, he removes the package from the princess to reveal not a rat-kin but an elven girl by the name of Misanalia, to the disappointment of Arisa who had put in the effort of making a cheese platter. After she wakes up, she immediately gets scared of her new surroundings. Satou manages to calm her down by saying that the ants have all been dealt with. But she instead asks for Mize, the rat that was transporting her. But Satou has to inform her of their passing and she begins crying. After feeding her dinner, Satou goes to clean up the road of corpses since leaving so much waste behind would cause trouble, so he puts them in storage while being accompanied by Pochi and Tama. Afterwards he spots a gargolye on the map and tells Pochi and Tama to take cover after asking them to collect some stones for them. When the gargoyle flies overhead, Satou destroys it with the throwing stones and Pochi and Tama go sing some weird core collecting song while they go over to the corpse of the gargoyle.

Afterwards, Satou splits the group up for night watch duty and Satou decides to feign sleep so that he could keep an eye on the radar. After the first shift, he sees a shadow stalker appear on radar and he prepares for a fight. While been the only one on watch, Mia wakes up and notices that she only speaks with a few words per sentence and she saks Satou why he is protecting her but satou replies that there isn't much to it. Mia then replies that it is dangerous and that even Mize and the others died. But Satou asks her about Mize. She replies that he was once saved by Mia's parents from a goblin attack and stayed with them for a few years until returning to the rat kin village. Then Mia explains that she was abducted from the elven village by a wizard and forced to become the master of a maze. Then Mize managed to come across Mia by accident and rescued her from the maze and hid her in the village, but the village was destroyed in the oncoming pursuit and Satou knows what happened after.

After the conversation, he gets Pochi to wake everyone up and tells them that enemies are on the way. When Arisa wakes up, she notices Mia clinging to his arm and she starts an argument about her "relationship" with Satou. After the girls notice that they have been surrounded by owls, a mage teleports in in front of them. Satou identifies the man as Zen, a level 41 with unknown skills. Zen tells Mia that he has come to pick her up but Mia refuses. Satou puts himself in between the 2 and ifdentifies himself. Zen says that he has no business with a merchant and Arisa warns him that Zen is to powerful to mess with. Zen in the mean time chants shadow magic and coils up Satou in a shadow whip. After gaining the shadow magic and resist skill, Satou frees himself and opens fire on the whips with magic guns. Satou asks him why he wants Mia in the first place, but he replies that it doesn't matter to him and that if he wants to free him, he is going to need a hero. While they were talking, Zen coils up all the girls and drags Mia into a shadow portal. Satou tells Arisa to get back to the city when morning comes and then dives into the portal.

Satou then finds himself in a void, that the AR indicates as shadow prison and indicates that the place is an area that doesn't have a map. Satou makes his frustration heard and with that, the shadow prison shatters, to the surprise of Zen. Satou lands in the middle of a throne room and sees Mia sitting on a throne an sees a big breasted women with the same face as her taking care of her, with the AR indicating that she is an homunculus. Zen then tells him that one must earn the right to be in this room and he teleports Satou to the bottom of a well. Satou manages to climb out of it and uses his map to find his way around. He finds a hidden room filled with books and materials. He takes a look around and finds that the room belongs to an elf called Trazayuya. In the books its written that he build the maze to imitate a labyrinth for the sake of training elves in the art of self-defense as elves tend to have a weak opinion on life itself and thereby aren't ones to protect themselves. After collecting what he needs, he climbs back to the surface to find a barren wasteland.

He spots the maze in question off in the distance but before he reaches it, he is called to the side of a fox onee-san. But Satou asks her to skip the illusions, having already checked her on the AR and knowing that she actually is a dryad. The dryad removes the illusion to reveal her true form as a green small girl. She asks him for some of his mana and Satou agrees as long as it doesn't cause any permanent damage and the dryad responds by kissing him on the lips and sucking out 300 MP. He then breaksthrough the entrance and looks at the map, he sees that maze is 20 floors tall with multiple levels on each floor. He makes his way up and to the halfway mark to find a giant golem and a women similar to the one he saw in the throne room. She congratulates Satou to making it this far and promises a reward if she can pass the next challenge. She then orders the golem after Satou, who eliminates it with one shot by erasing the E in the word EMETH on its forehead. Satou then asks about the reward but the lady isn't sure, since she never expected Satou to get this far and Satou just knocks her out. He then races up back up to the throne room to find Zen waiting for him, surprised at the short time it took Satou to get back. He then states that the power of a hero lies in between the edges of life or death and that he will have to overcome a great trial to make it. He calls out 3 more iron golems and 6 more big breasted ladies and sets them on Satou, but before the battle begins, he casts a spell and removes the limits of the women, causing them to slowly start to transform into demonic creatures. While dodging all their attacks, he manages to destroy the 3 golems but isn't capable of incapacitating the demonic ladies and they die due to having their limits removed. Satou then moves forward towards Zen. He then gives his greetings to the Hero but Satou asks why he needs a hero. Zen then explains that he was born into this world over 1000 years ago after reincarnating from Japan. He says that he had a nice family and a beautiful wife, but a jealous noble imprisoned him on false charges, raped his wife and kill the rest of his family. He managed to raise his family from the dead and get his revenge, but after it was done, he put his family to rest but the power he was bestowed from god prevented him from joining them, so he sought out to create a hero. He then gave a holy sword named Gjallarhorn to Satou and asked him to kill him with it. Satou obliges and cuts him down. Afterwards, a talking purple orb flies out of the corpse, Satou tries to cut that as well but sword fails to cut it and it flies towards the sky.

After Zen's death, the maze begins its self destruct sequence and Satou rushes towards Mia. Mia wakes up and begins looking around the room in fear but Satou assures her that he has been dealt with. Satou then tries to get Mia to operate the controls but she fails to stop it. Satou then picks up Mia and rushes down the floors. On the way down, he remembers that one of the servants of Zen is still at the halfway point and he decides to pick her up as well. He reaches her by jumping towards the central pillar in between the pillars and with an unconscious Mia on 1 shoulder, he pulls out a sword from storage and stabs it into the pillar and it carries him down to the halfway mark. After having only 30% of the maze left after some parkour, some boulders land near Mia, causing her to take damage. The control system of the Maze that is still in effect notices this and sends out a system message saying that the injured elf will be teleported and Satou takes himself and the homunculus along with.

Satou lands on the outside of the maze and sees the whole thing collapse. The log reports that everything in the area has been killed and it has activated the Automatic Loot. He then looks at the map and sees that the girls have disobeyed his order and are almost back at Seryuu city. Satou uses some supplies to make a structure on his back to support the 2 unconscious girls and then runs his way through the forest, gaining the offroad and 3D manuever skills and makes it back to the city before sunrise. The beast girls spot Satou off in the distance and they ride towards him and they all jump into Satou's chest while crying. Arisa and Lulu then stumble towards him and Arisa scolds him for doing something so reckless and demands he never does anything like that again. Satou then puts the girls down and unwraps Mia while Arisa notices the homunculus and gets a bit depressed at her big breasts. Meanwhile Mia has woken up and asks if she is dreaming and Satou replies that she is not and that she is saved. Mia then starts talking in long sentences and says that even though she has lived with her mother for 100 years, she doesn't no how to say thank you. But then she tells Satou that he has her gratitude and kisses him on the forehead. Afterwards the homunculus wakes up and Arisa, Mia and Lulu looks at Satou like wives having caught their husbands cheating. Satou then asks the woman if she knows what has happened and she replies she does. She then says that she has standing orders in her library for when her master died and states that Satou has the qualification to become the new master, which he accepts. Afterwards the group goes to the jack of all trades, where Mia reunites with the manager and they have a conversation with 1 or 2 word lines where she explains that she was kidnapped and rescued by Satou and he explains that he moved to seryuu city from their hometown to deal with the mess one of his uncles left behind. Afterwards Mia states that she wants to go back to their hometown with Satou. Before they leave, Satou gets the manager to use his [Fake Patch] skill to hide the fact that the homunculus, now named Nana, is not a human from any status check like skill or yamato stone. He also gives some money to help pay for the journey to the elven village and Satou accepts.

Intermissions

The first is about Lilio, one of the girls that Zena works with. First she teases Zena on her eventful date with the boy that rescued her and teases her on all the nice things that she had received. While she goes on watch duty, she goes to walk around and notices Satou, who then asks her to give a message to Zena about moving to Selbira city. She accepts while being disheartened that Satou doesn't seem to really care about her. The next day they receive requests from the Consul about the expedition to Selbira city and she tries to goat all the other members of the team to go along with her so that she can earn some extra money and so that Zena can be with her boy again.

The second one is about the elf sage Trazayuya. This story is about how he got expelled by from the elf forest. While he was living in Selbira with some of his students, his students ran into the labyrinth without his permission. he runs into the labyrinth but finds it infested with thousands of demi-goblins so he leaves his home in the care of Giril and runs after the students with his dwarf assistant Dohar. They manage to come across the first wave of goblins and find one of the elfs dead and one other still alive. But the duo has no choice but to push forward. After continually cutting them up with magic and with weapons, he manages to find the last one and only 2 of the elves survive. This incident causes Trazayuya to be kicked from the Bornean elf clan and he resolves himself to create a safe training environment for the elves.

The next is a POV from Tama about the events thats transpired. She is happy to have a kind master and Liza and Pochi to have a nice family. She answers with a "nyan" to herself, but she keeps it to herself because although Arisa said that Satou would be happy if she used that, Satou didn't look all too happy. She then picks out clothes for herself that matches that of Pochi while leaving unimportant matters like money to Arisa. After they leave the city, Tama is surprisingly happy and Arisa asks her about the time before she came to the city. She says that before she met Pochi, all she knew was warmth and fur. After she met Pochi, she could only speak in groans so she decided to teach Pochi how to speak, since she is the onee-chan. She is then taught by Arisa many different games and as a reward she decides to hunt some prey and give it to Arisa as a reward. When reaching the boulders, she starts to look around and finds a bouncing bunny. After not managing to catch it the first time, Pochi catches it and Tama starts to look elsewhere. After chasing after some crickets and a dragonfly, she finds some prey to sneak upon. When she jumps on him from surprise, it faints from the shock and Tama is dissapointed. She brings it back to Arisa but she tells her to throw it away, but when she does Satou scolds her. So Tama resolves herself to make sure that Arisa doesn't lie, since she is the onee-chan.

The next one is about the managers and the female assistant of the jack of all trades shop. They make their way over to the rat-kin village to bring back the artifacts that Satou managed to recover from the rats that died protecting Mia. The manager uses fairy magic to open the forest and create a road directly to the village. After opening the road, he notices something strange and then goes to ask the forest about it using magic, where they reply that there used to be a strong monster reigning terror in the forest, but a running hero destroyed it. Once he reaches the village, he shares the food he has to gain the friendliness of the rat-kin. Afterwards he talks to the village head, where he hands of the remaining artifacts, where the village head then confirms that his brother was the one who died. He then notices that the entire village is in shambles and asks the village head about. He replies that they were attacked by an evil mage and that the mountain around them started to wither. The manager then summons a dryad to ask what is going on. The dryad replies that the evil mage was operating the maze and was sucking up all the magic energy from the environment but he has now been destroyed by a certain young man who from she managed to suck some mana.

The next one is about Yuni and the playing cards. The merchant who sold the learning cards happened to find the orphans playing the learning card game. He goes to ask them about it and they reply that they learned the game from Yuni and that some of the orphaned boys managed to make a few copies of the sets. He asks one of the girls to lead him to the guy that made the copies and she does. She asks the guy if he could hire him to make more. He says yes, but he says that he will also need the materials. After getting the required materials and some additional children who can read, he goes to Yuni to ask permission to reproduce the set and game, to which she replies Yes. The reason he does this that although there are no intellectual property rights in this country, the merchant guild is one to keep score.

The final one re-tells the story but from Arisa's perspective. After she sees Satou while still riding the cart, she falls for him at first sight and tries to use mind magic on him but the cart moves out of range. She then sees him again when the slaves are paraded infront of him and uses her mind magic to make him buy her. Then after messing with the slave contract, she prepares herself to be attacked at night. But to her surprise that didn't happen and creeps into her bed instead. The story then skips to the fight against Zen and she states that Zen is too powerfu lfor them to beat and then contemplates giving Mia up to save themselves. But Satou then jumps into the shadow portal and then everyone begins to panic. She then calms everyone down saying that their master will be fine and leads them back to the city. When they reach it, Tama spots Satou in the distance and everyone rushes towards him. Arisa cries in Satou's chest and demands he doesn't do anything like that ever again. But noticing that Satou just keeps apoligizing without repenting, Arisa promises that she will become strong enough to protect him.

Chapter 6

The next day they are on the road again. In the morning, Mia ask Satou to wipe her down while Liza tries to make breakfast. Satou tries to seek help from Mia in how to chant, but it is another day of failure as he keeps getting the rhythm wrong. After nailing the tongue twisters he was given thanks to the tongue twister skill, Satou then tries again but gets the rhythm right but not he pitch. After a few more attempts, Satou realizes that he has tone deafness.

Afterwards, he begins filling up the skill he has with the large amount of skill points he has and noting that he won't run out of skill points even if he maxes every skill he has. He then notices that some of the girls in the group have skills he doesn't so he decides to learn them. He first gets Liza to show him how to cook and dissect the prey caught. After doing one trial run, he takes over cooking for dinner and creates food that the girls can't stop giving praise too despite him only having raw ingredients. Then after dinner, he gets liza to show him the thrust and heavy blow skills, with her showing a feint red light over the spear as she does them. She shows him how to do heavy blow and thrust skills with her spear, but he is incapable of reproducing the red light or gaining the skills. They then go to bed and he fakes sleep until it is Tama's turn to take the night watch. He then asks her about the [Enemy Search] Skill. And she explains in her own way that it is about noting the unnaturalness of the surroundings. He then takes Liza's spear and heads to the forest where he notices some monsters while turning off the AR.

He then gets on his knees in the middle of the forest and closes his eyes to analyse the surroundings with the rest of his senses. After noticing some monsters, he dodges them at the last second, he gains several skills including enemy search and space grasp. He then maxes the 2 mentioned and dodges the attacks of the monsters. While dodging by jumping between branches, he gains the 3D manuevering skill and then positions himself behind the monster and does the thrust and heavy blow to kill it and gains the skills. He then notices a second monster up in the trees and jumps towards it while doing the reverse of the thrust skill and in turn gains the spiral spear attack while killing it. However, after maxing the skills, he notices that he still isn't capable of reproducing the red light that Liza created. After remembering that Liza's MP went down after creating the red light, he tries to put MP into the spear and it starts to glow red, gaining the Magic edge skill. Satou then tries to see how far he can go and he slowly puts in more MP and the red light grows brighter. But eventually the MP proves to be to much and the spear starts shaking and cracking after putting in 200MP and Satou hastily pulls out the mana, but the damage on the spear remains. He then tries it with other weapons, but find that they aren't capable of storing anywhere near as much mana as the spear.

He then returns to camp ready to face the disheartened Liza, but after she picks up the spear, she smiles with joy that Satou has upgraded her weapon and that it is now very easy for her to put in mana to create magic edge. After breakfast and the usual morning greetings and Arisa's perverted antics. The group is back on the road and spots a group of thieves further ahead with the map. He informs the group to get ready and the cart comes towards man and a woman. While they try to put their story together, Satou just tells them to get on with it and the beast kin girls rush out of the cart while Mia and Arisa cast magic. After the thieves have been defeated, Satou wonders what to do with them while Arisa and Liza vote for the option to kill them and take their heads to the nearest city for a reward. But Satou overrules them and gets Mia to cast sleep magic on them and tosses them into the carriage towards the nearest city.

After arriving at the city, Satou hands over the sleeping thieves to the soldier at the guard post at the main gate and he confirms with the use of the Yamato stone that the people he has caught are in fact criminals. He then calls for a slave trader from the city and negotiates a price per thief to be sold to the slave trader based on the stats shown by the Yamato stone and then gives the money to Satou in addition to a reward for subjugating the thieves in the first place. They then decide to do a little shopping in the village and while Arisa and the beast kin go shopping, Mia and Lulu stay at an inn and Satou goes to a magic shop with Nana. When he enters the store he finds that the clerk has a glasses with the Status Check ability, so he tells Nana to stay outside in the small chance that the glasses can see through her fake patch. He begins to ask for reagents for potion making and she provides them while asking for magic cores. He then asks to buy stabilizers and she asks for magic cores as payment, so he provides some from the Ants that were sent after the carriage. After she examines them, she calls out a magic floating board carrying stabilizer powder worth twice as much as the cores he provided. She explains that next month a massive tournament is going to be held in the bordering dukedom which in turn drives up demand for potions and magic cores. She then asks for more magic cores and offers Satou much more stabilizers. He pulls out some more magic cores and as a test, he pulls out one of the cores he got from a much tougher monster in the maze and puts them amongst the cores of the ants. The cleck notices it immediately and offers one of the scrolls on the shelf next to her as a reward. Satou says that he doens't need scrolls since he already has books, but the clerk rebukes since magic in books require chanting, but scrolls are one off spells that don't need chanting and Satou immediately realizes he has found a treasure. She then offers 3 scrolls, magic shield, sonar and short stun. Satou chooses to take the shield and asks for more. But the clerk refuses since she isn't allowed to sell more than one per person.

Afterwards, Satou leaves the store and then while Nana grabs his arm and Satou walks towards the inn with a soft feeling on his arm. He then finds the rest of the girls at the inn and they begin to have dinner. While the smaller girls start fighting for spots on his lap, Mia has an issue with using chop sticks and so he picks it up and feeds her. The rest of the girls make the same 'annn' as Mia and Satou feeds them in turn. Then Nana holds out food to him with while making the same sounds, since as a few month old homunculus, she can't have solid food and he eats it, Arisa imitates but he rejects him. Afterwards, he overhears about the Muno Barondom. He hears about strict search policies and taxes and restrictions about emigration.

The next day, the group then decide to travel to the Muno Barondom. At the border station, Satou notices that most of the guards have a criminal record in their Status's and gets Arisa to infect their minds with mind magic so that they can pass through without a problem. But as he uses map exploration when he gets into the territory, he finds that there is a demon here. The next day, he tests out the shield scroll and finds that the spell used in the scroll has been used in the AR and as such he can use the spell again chantless while gaining the nature magic skill. He maximises the skill and then gets the girls to attack him while he only receives minor damage. Lulu then casts the same spell and Liza manages to break through with just 2 hits.

The next day, Satou attempts to make magic tools. He takes out the instruction manual and finds that all that is neccesary to make a magic tool is to carve a circuit using molten metal to create magical phenomenon when MP is poured in as a substitute for chanting. He grabs a board of wood and carves out a cirlce and then pours a molten metal mixture into the carving. Afterwards he tells Arisa that he has created a magic tool and tells her to pour in magic power into the circuit. Once she does, the metal begins the shine brightly, being a psuedo MP size checking tool. Then he gets some magic cores and then crushes it with his fingers and sprinkles it on top of the magic board. He then pours in magic power and the powder explodes with a force greater than gunpowder. Afterwards, he gets some wood boards and carves another circuit in them and then pours in additional magic and finds that it produces a good amount of heat, so he installs it inside the carriage under the floor boards to act as a heating element for bed. He the dissasembles the spinning top that he was given and copies the circuit into a wooden handle. He then creates a cylindar of metal plates containing the heating element circuits and put it infront of the handle with blades attached. He then gives it to Arisa who pours in magic power and sees that Satou has managed to create a hair drier.

After several more attempts by thieves, Satou just decided to strip them of their equipment and tie them to the trees where they fought them so that military patrols can just collect them. But he sees on the map that the next attempt isn't going to come from thieves but from children, so he tells the girls to sit tight. Eventually, he comes to a blockade of 3 young girls lying on the side of the road. There the boy that leads the kids calls out from the trees, saying that they have 10 archers aiming at them and that they are to leave behind all their food if they want to live. But Satou just jumps out of the wagon and tell Pochi and Tama to move the girls of the road. At first they hear one of the girl's stomach growling, so they give her a bit of jerky and carry the girl of the road and the other boys start making noise demanding all kinds of food. Afterwards Satou throws the second girl into the bushes and the boys start to get angry and start to appear out of the forest, but Satou notices how she weighs just as much as pochi or tama, despite being lulu's age. As he moves to the third girl, she tells him to just run her over as she would just die from starvation later. However Satou still throws her into the bushes and he and Pochi and Tama jump back into the carriage and simply ride off while Arisa throws a few bags with food to them. Afterwards Pochi and Tama get scolded for giving away things given to them by Satou.

He then meets a man and a couple of girls sitting on a tree down the road. The man asks Satou if he is wiling to buy the girls as slaves. Satou refuses but the man gets desperate. Satou asks the man what is going on and he explains that in addition to there being a bad harvest, the tax collector from the city came to their village demanding 30% of their winter savings as a tribute to celebrate the wedding of his daughter, leaving them in dire straits. Satou gives the man and the girls some food so that they won't have to sell themselves, but he also asks who the daughter is marrying and he replies that he was told that she was marrying the Hero from the Saga Empire. Satou then in turn asks about the ages of the daughters and he replies that they should be 17 and 21 years old. As he leaves, he knows something is up as Arisa had already told him before that the hero is a massive lolicon. Later he decides to make camp near a river and sees a circle of elderly people sitting by the river. He asks them what they are doing there and they reply that they are simply waiting for god to call them. One of the other elderly explains that they left their village of their own free will so that the girls in their village won't have to sell themselves and that the children won't be kicked from their homes. He decides to help them out and give them some food.

Later on, the kids that had tried to rob them earlier come to the elders on the river bank to share the food that they received but see Satou and co. there. They immediately apologize for their actions but Satou says its fine and he gets Liza and the newly practicing Lulu to cook for them. After dinner, he asks them about growing different kinds of foods here but they explain that the soil around here is rather poor. But Mia interrupts them and points towards a nearby forest, having sensed the quality of the soil, but the elderly reply that there is a massive spider type monster that live in those woods. Satou then asks what they grow around here, but the elderly reply that it isn't the type of year to properly grow food. Satou then asks about the Gabo fruit that is deemed a weed simply because how fast it grows and they reply that they are restricted items, so there is no way that they would get them. Afterwards Satou decides to go for a walk, but Arisa tries her best to stop him.

Once he gets in the forest, he goes on a walk for a little bit and then pulls out Durandal and starts cutting up trees to make a 300m by 300m clearing while putting all the trees and tree stumps into his storage. He then starts running around the area and starts pulling all the weeds out of the ground thanks to his weeding skill and then he puts them to the side as to be used as compost. Then he pulls out a hoe and then he starts plowing to create a workable field. But he immediately finds rocks under the soil, so he opens the map and uses map exploration to find all the rocks hidden in the soil and then he simply digs them up. After plowing the field, he puts some Gabo fruit to the side along with some tools so that the villagers all have what they need. Then he gets on to the monsters. He finds 6 spider bears with levels 20-25 on the radar and kills all but one of them by surprise. He lets the last one chase him towards the river and the girls in the group deal with it efficiently.

He then tells the villagers a made up story and believes that they will find the farm ground eventually. Afterwards, the Arisa scolds Satou for his actions and the next days the group departs the river bed. The next day, Satou goes through his items and finds that one of the papers he had found for writing practice is worth 100 gold coin according to the AR but he finds only scribbles. He then asks Arisa about it and she finds that Satou has to read the paper vertically instead of horizontally. Satou does this and finds a recipe for holy swords. The only real difference between this and normal magic tools is just a single curcuit in addition to other magic circuits and that the circuit must be carved from a dragon powder mixture. Satou uses dragon powder from the dragon scales he still had from the dragon valley incident. After dissasembling one of the many swords in his storage from that incident, he finds that the magic circuit is not embedded in the sword, but in the handle and so he tries to do the same with the current sword. After finishing, the iron sword glows blue when magic power was poured in.

On the way, they run into a military patrol who asks them about an eloping noble couple. Satou replies that he saw an abandoned cart on the way over and the soldiers split up to investigate and report back to the city. But Satou notices that one of the 2 groups is running towards a thief ambush. Satou and the rest of the girls jump in to free the knights caught in a net and begin fighting back the bandits. But eventually one of them comes out with a female hostage, most likely the eloping female noble. One of the knights was about to go through the female noble to get the bandit behind him but Satou stops him. Afterwards the second knight sneaks up behind the bandit but Satou stops him too, noticing that the bandit in question is in fact the eloping male noble. After the fight is over, Satou asks the woman while her husband is unconscious about it and she replies that they have their daughter hostage in their camp and she wants them to rescue her. Satou and Mia sneak up in the camp while dressed as bandits and quickly eliminate them and take all their loot, including the scrolls which Satou immediately uses. He then finds another horse and very surprisingly, a unicorn that had its horn cut off. He tries to let the unicorn go but Mia objects, stating that a horn is used by the unicorn to both cast magic and to communicate with other unicorns, so letting it free won't do any good. Mia subsequently mounts the unicorn and takes it with her to the camp while Satou jumps on the other horse while carrying the baby.

Back at the camp, Satou finds that the husband has woken up and they ask him to take them to the nearest city he agrees and then decides to feed them. However, when Liza comes to bring the food, he immediately begins acting racist towards the beast kin girls and Satou divides them up with the Beast kins and the smaller girls eating at one table and the couple, Satou and Nana eating at the another. On the way to the city the next day, Satou begins examining the loot he received from the thieves hideout and he finds a rather fancy dagger among them. The couple notices that it is the dagger of the male noble's house and he asks for it to be returned. But Arisa intervenes, saying that the law states that those who clear out thieves have the right of property of what ever they find on them. The male noble named Toruma finds this unfair but Arisa states that if he wants it, he is going to need to offer up a reward. He offers up 5 gold coins but the AR tells Satou that the dagger is worth 30 gold coins and demands more. Toruma replies saying that they don't have anything else to give. Satou then asks them about their noble houses and Toruma replies that his family runs a workshop about magic scrolls. Satou, having found his gold mine, makes an offer to return the dagger in exchange for them to promise him to make him a large amount of non-repeating magic scrolls. Before Toruma grabs the dagger, Arisa gets them to write a formal contract with the seal on the hilt of the dagger.

When they arrive at the city, there are 2 carriages waiting for them and the noble couple with their daughter enter the first and head to the estate of the reigning baron first. Afterwards, Satou asks everyone to go to a nearby village to collect stones that could be used to create all purpose antidotes, but Arisa refuses saying that there is something dangerous in the city and the fact that he doesn't let them enter is proof of that. While refusing to answer Arisa, he uses the slave contract to force her to obey, but she falls out of the carriage and crawls towards Satou while the slave collar is slowly killing her, saying that a maidens love isn't so weak. Eventually Satou gives in and all the girls minus Arisa and Pochi in disguise as a guard leave the city and head to the village. The trio then get into the carriage but halfway to the castle, the carriage runs over a young lady. The carriage just keeps driving but Satou jumps out and tries to give the girl magic medicine. The coachman tells him to just leave her, but Satou then drinks the potion and feeds her mouth to mouth, saving her life and earning the saint title. Afterwards the friends of the girls apologize for everything, making him use a magic potion and that they have no way to repay them for what he has done. He tells them that they can just claim damages from the government, but the girls reply that obstructing formal carriages is illegal and will get the girl sold into slavery. Satou then makes acts out a play, saying that it was a shame he couldn't save the girl and as he gets back into the carriage, he shakes the hand of the coachmen with money and subsequently gains the bribing skill.

Afterwards there is a flashback about the second daughter of the Baron. She explores some of the ruins of the castle they are living in now that she has finally been able to give her maid the slip and finds a room filled with entiques. However as she is searching around, she is called out by a talking tiara. It asks her to make a contract with her and offers her his powers. She asks why and it responds saying that its previous master told it that after his death, it is supposed to offer its help to someone who could really use its help fighting evil. She accepts and she puts on the tiara. She then asks for its name and it responds with Raka while she replies with Karina. Karina then asks what he can do and Raka replies that it can boost her with enchant magic and create defensive barriers in addition to the ability to sensing evil. Karina then asks it about the evil that it sensed and Raka says that the consul is a demon in disguise. Karina then tries to go out and fight it but Raka stops her saying that the power he provides by using her stamina isn't enough. However, it states that it does sense some being in the forest that are strong enough.

Once he gets to the castle, Satou reactivates all map exploration and notices several off shoots of the demon in the barodom in addition to the demon himself in the building next door and senses that not far away, the territorial army is lining up against an army of goblins. He is then welcomed in to the ceremonial greeting room and sees the baron, his wife his daughter and the daughters fiance, the supposed hero and sees that his level is only level 9. However, the Baron is rather friendly with them and welcomes them with open arms. The eldest daughter then walks towards Pochi and Arisa finding them rather cute. However, once she touches Pochi, the disguise magic falls away. However the daughter screams cute and begins hugging her fiercely. The baron notices this too and asks if he can pet her too while Satou apologizes for the disguise magic since many nobles are racist towards the Demi humans and points to Toruma.

Satou then asks about the state of the villages and the baron replies that he doesn't know anything. He had decreed that in this bad season, all the taxes on the villages far away have been nullified. Satou then asks about the lack of military in the city, but the baron states that at the recommendation of the consul (the demon in disguise), they were as dispatched to deal with the massive influx of thieves, resulting from the bad season. Satou then asks about the emigration policies. The baron replies that he had received reports about thieves abducting girls from villages and then selling them in nearby territories, so he has instructed the border control stations to refuse to let any slave pass that doesn't have the appropriate documentation and to enforce strict search measures. The next question is about the rules of obstructing carriages. The baron admits that he is guilty as charged on that one as a few years ago, the carriage containing his first daughter was blockaded and rushed at by thieves, but Hauto, the supposed hero, rushed in and saved her along with his friends. Afterwards there were a few more incidents of the same kind and he had no choice but to create the law. As the final questions, he asks everyone about the real name of the consul as a way to expose him, but none of them know it and do not find it strange. Arisa whispers in his ears that it is possible to create a certain state of mind in a person by repeated use of mind magic without it having to show in their status as they know no better.

Afterwards, Satou hears some strange sounds and he looks at the map, he finds that the goblins and the soldiers have annihilated each other and have subsequently been raised from the dead as zombies and skeletons. Everyone goes to the balcony and sees the city gates being overrun. Satou then begins casting the remote arrow spell that he got from the thieves hideout and begins annihilating the zombies from long range due to the remote function of the arrows being integrated into the map due to his unique skills.. Arisa tells him to tone it down as it would be discovered and he replies that he has got it covered and that he is only creating 50 arrows per volley (while in reality he can do 125). However, Arisa immediately drops her jaw and tells Satou that the world record for the most remote arrows at once is 49 and that mage can only hit targets in an open field at this range, not in urban combat. While Satou tones it down even further. The consul arrives.

The consul says that the baron and his family must escape with a fast moving carriage that he has preprared while he holds the line. However, Satou calls him out for being a demon and the demon tosses away the disguise. One of the knights that he had bribed rushes towards Satou but is intercepted and defeated by Pochi. Meanwhile the supposed hero draws his sword and attacks the demon offshoot with his sword, which he calls Gjallarhorn, to the surprise of Arisa. However, the demon offshoot catches it with his claws and calls out the hero for being a traitor for attacking him with a sword he gave him. However, Hauto chants something and the fake sword shines blue and the demon off shoots claw is cut off. Afterwards it is rushed by the now free Pochi and is able to kill it outright, gaining praise from the Baron. After Pochi returns in tears, having killed someone, Satou manages to calm him down and the nobles begin discussing the situation. Toruma says that everyone should escape with the prepared carriage and leave everything behind, but the baron refuses. Satou then tells Pochi to stay behind and take care of the nobles while he and Arisa go to the roof.

Meanwhile, Karina, who had left the city to find those she needs help from, was captured by bandits who were coincidentally lead by one of the knights of the baron who left after they sensed that the consul was up to no good. She managed to convince him to let her go and escort her to where she needs to go. Eventually, she runs into a group of Tree Ent's and with Raka's translation magic, she manages to convince the Ents to help her. The Ent's then move towards the City but then they are hit with mind magic from the original demon and they begin to quarrel amongst themselves. But some of the Ent's and Karina with the aid of Raka, manage to resist the mind magic and manage to squash some of the demon off shoots but the real demon gets away, until its suddenly destroyed in a blue flash. What had happened was that while Satou was grinding down the Zombie numbers inside the city while donning his Nanashi (meaning blank/nothing) outfit, he fired a bolt containing the holy sword circuit and enough mana to make it start vibrating with a crossbow and it exploded on impact, killing the demon. But he finds something that makes the situation drastically worse, he finds that some of the girls had come back.

In the mean time, the girls arrive at the village in question and with Nana acting as the slave owner, she demands the people of the village go collect the special stones at the river. While they don't understand her at first, Liza manages to act as an intermediate and gets the children to collect the stones with food and money as a reward. While Lulu is cooking the food in question and Tama is curating the stones that are collected with [Gathering], Nana notices that Liza is on edge. Liza talks to herself that she is worried about Satou, not because he is weak, but because her strong father was once deceived by nobles and turned into a slave. Nana notices this and tells her just to go to Satou. She replies that she has orders otherwise. But Nana corrects her that his order were to make the people of this village collect the stones in question and then feed them as a reward and since that is progressing nicely, she can just go to him. Liza acknowledges and takes Mia and Tama with her towards the city.

While they rush to the city, they run into a patrol of soldiers. Since beast-kins aren't allowed to be out without their master, Liza orders the other 2 to go through them. Mia subsequently uses water magic to draw the water from their water pouches and turns it into mist then she sends the mist towards the soldiers and then controls it to create a wedge between them where they then can breakthrough. The soldiers immediately turn around and begin the chase them. While Liza tells the other 2 to ignore them, they eventually run into the massive horde of zombies and they are now stuck. So Mia then calls out to the forest for a way out and a dryad appears and says that she will, creating a path in the forest and telling Mia that she can worry about payment later. Mia directs the other 2 into the forest and the soldiers follow. A few of the zombies manages to sneak into the forest but Liza and Tama eliminate them without issue, receiving praise of the soldiers. They then appear on the other side of the forest at the side of the city, but then a hydra appears out of the forest. Liza and Tama rush towards the hydra with the support of the soldiers. While Mia protects the horses with magic, Tama manages to distract the hydra long enough for Liza to stab it in the stomach and then cut of its heads one by one. But then several more hydra appear out of another forest but the soldiers cover the girls while the trio continually kill them.

Satou manages to get to the garrison atop the main gate and witnesses Liza killing the last hydra before welcoming them back with open arms after the last zombie has been killed. While they were all celebrating and praising each other, Satou is attacked by lady Karina as the one who dealt with the demon. While dodging her fists, noticing that her breast size is just demonic and Arisa and Mia declaring her an enemy, he manages to explain that he saw the figure of the one who killed the demon on top of the castle of the city, having had Arisa arrange a hologram earlier. Raka then deems that Satou is telling the truth and she stops attacking him. After getting back to the castle, Hauto admits he is no hero and the nobles have found the real consul, Nina, who the demon threw in prison when she arrived. The consul and the baron discuss what to offer Satou as a rewards and offer him honorary knighthood. As Satou refuses it since it would just become a hastle, Karina offers her hand in marriage towards Satou instead. The consul and Baron immediately pounce on that idea and Satou accepts the honorary knighthood as a means of escape.

Intermissions: Chapter 7
 * 1) The first is Lulu's backstory. She originally was the daughter of a servant of the castle, a mother that found her ugly. After she could no longer stand her, she send her to be the playmate of Arisa, the third princess of the royal family. Initially, Arisa was angry with a overly formal playmate instead of the company of the intellectually refined, she takes note of her japanese heritage and the fact that she thinks that she is ugly, she tells her the story of the ugly duckling and they get along. Then after they reach Seryuu city, she starts to worry about her sister after she sees that her sister has found her favourite type of man and decides that she must act as the big sister and reel her in. Later, when Satou starts talking to her, she is surprised that there is a man that doesn't find her face ugly and she starts taking a liking to him. Several days later, he tries to start teaching her how to cook up to the point where the beast kin trio find her meat delicious, but the whole experience of Satou being that close to her was almost enough to giver her a nosebleed. Eventually Arisa finds out about her crush on Satou and promises her that when she becomes the main wife, she would become the second, but Lulu silently refuses her, saying to herself that she is going to need to earn Satou's favour by herself.
 * 2) The second one is about the barondom in the past. During the reign of Terror of Zen, all of the family members of the Muno family were killed. Several nobles tried to take his place but they and their families were killed as well. Eventually they ran out of nobles to send, but the territory still needed looking after, so they decided to send someone disposable, a hero loving baronet by the name of Donan.
 * 3) The next one is a POV of what happened after the battle in the eyes of one of the servants. All the maids in the castle were called together by the head maid to discuss new uniforms. The maid in question asked the maid for a raise rather than a new uniform. However the head maid told everyone one that there is no money for a raise and that the uniforms will be provided by the Chevalier. Afterwards the maids head to lunch but find the head cook outside the kitchen, saying that the Chevalier will be providing the food. After a few minutes the doors open and Lulu carriers out a plate filled with karage and all the maids begin eating it without stopping. Afterwards she brought lunch to the consul's office and sees her discussing policy with Arisa and finds it very weird that a girl that young knows so much and the implication of her sleeping with him every day. She then sees to the training of the new soldiers for the new army after the previous one was destroyed, as she was in the military before becoming a maid. She also observes Tama and Pochi having a match and noting that they aren't that far off from the strongest knight in the barondom. They also observe Liza fighting said knight on even terms. Afterwards she hangs laundry while listening to the sound of Mia playing the leaf and her eating bread. Mia then points out the drool on her face after smelling the bread. Later she is called to give a tour of the city to the chevalier and she considers this her golden opportunity, but she is saddened to find Nana, the presumed wife, sitting in the carriage with Satou.
 * 4) The next is a memory of Satou. While he is dreaming, he remembers himself getting near a shrine back in japan where he then meats a girl his age as a shrine maiden. He then begins talking about her and tells a story of a hero slaying a dragon to save the princess. The girl, named Hikaru, gets irritated to the story and points out that the shrine she works at is to a dragon goddes named Ama-no-Mizuhana-hime. She then tells a story of her practicing a dance atop a mountain, but she was spotted by a nearby exploring man, she immediately became angry and flew into the sky and made it rain for 3 days and nights until the man apologized and the rain stopped and the 2 eventually became a married couple. But when the Human's life span became empty, she promised him that they will be together again when he reincarnated. The next time they meet, they decided to play video games. In the first game similar to battleship, where they create naval units and send them to each other, Satou wins with ease and to make it fair, promises to go easy on her and even permits her to use the special powers in the game, all map exploration and meteor bullets. When the game begins, she finds his fleet with all map exploration and then destroys all but the prize battleship with meteor bullets. She then brings the battleship to her dock, but when it arrives, an army of robots bust out of the battleship and destroy her port, giving the win to Satou again. As punishment for the Trojan horse, she curses him to be with lolies for all his life. The next time they meet, Satou asks her to watch hikaru's dance and he deems it beautiful and her to have the skill of a professional shrine maiden. But after Satou wakes up back into the current world, he hears a voice in his head, telling him to seal those memories back in his heart and that they will be together soon.
 * 5) The next chapter is about the noble name Satou is supposed to choose. Satou himself has no idea so he begins asking around, the Consul suggests Donan if he wants to marry Karina but Satou refuses. He then goes to check the items in his storage and tries to put one of the weapons as his noble name, but it doesn't work out. He then goes to ask all the girls in his group, they all give him their original family names but Satou rejects the idea. Then Karina, who Satou had been dodging all day, offers an option, Pendragon, after the original Arthurian myth. Satou doesn't reject the name and he officially becomes Satou Pendragon. After the naming ceremony, all the girls try their own name with Satou's noble name while Mia is sad that it isn't Boruenan.
 * 6) The final one is about the baron before he became the baron. He is called to an audience with the king and he explains the nature of the city core. Every city is built upon a source from which a city core can draw mana. This core can then be used to fight of demons, armies and even built castles among other things. The king then gives Baronet Donan an order to re-capture the muno territory and take command of the city core there as the new Baron Muno. He travels there with the royal mage and some of her golems. He is lead down to the bottom of the castle where he finds a tunnel to the city core. He then follows it down until he hears a message in his head from Zen and that he must prove that he is a pure person before he can become the lord of the city core. He attempts to walk to the core but halfway through he passes out from the pressure of the barrier and is collected with the golems of the royal mage. He attempts it 3 more times but fails every time and subsequently gives up and subsequently rules over the Muno Barondom for 16 years. After Satou defeats all the zombies, he is invegorated to try and capture the core again but to his surprise, the mental pressure field is no longer there and he can register himself as master of the core without issue. Once he takes command, he tells the core to increase the temperature by 5 degrees.

In the beginning of the next chapter, Satou an co. depart from Muno city, but several maids and even Karina do their best to either stop them or join them. While everyone says their goodbyes and every member of the group is requested by name to stay in the city, Satou promises to be back within 2 years and Nina in turn promises to repay the loan the gave them, which were in fact golden bars he compressed out of golden dragon coin and put in a magic bag. Afterwards the carriage pulls of at a faster speed now that it has the capacity for 4 horses in addition to the horses themselves having leveled up from the incident.

Several days later, they arrive at the neighbouring Oyugock dukedom. Satou then uses all map exploration to find that the dukedom contains several cities in addition to a dozen race specific principalities which have their own cities. The first he arrives at is the principality of the dwarves. He opens up the map and find that about 2/3 of the population is of dwarves and that half of them live on the surface and the other half live underground. Once he arrives in line for the inspection to enter the city, the dwarves on patrol notice his nobility credentials and he gets preferential treatment to enter and gets to avoid inspection. He then moves to town hall where he delivers a letter from Nina to the mayor Driar. The letter details a request to send a few students over to learn dwarven blacksmithing. Since Driar owes Nina a favour, he accepts. But as he continues reading the letter, Nina notes that Satou is also a capable blacksmith and he offers Satou a tour of their facilities.

Satou, Driar and his daughter Jojori are showing Satou their main blast furnace, which by his admission is not inferior to modern day ironworks. He notices many dwarves and troll manually loading the furnace and that all other comparable modern day equipment are actually magic tools operated by magicians. He then checks the radar and notices that there is a smithy for Mithril and asks about it. Driar replies that that facility is off limits to all except the private students and the necessary expert staff for the equipment. However, Jojori replies that they might get permission if Satou passes the master smithy, Driar's father Dohar's test, a test to smith a sword.

They arrive at the bottom of the facilities and once Dohar spots Satou, he already knows exactly why he is hear. He tells one of his subordinates, named Zajir, to heat up one of the ignots of mithril, having sensed Satou's blacksmith level (which is at level 10). Satou then takes up his position by the anvil and strikes the mithril, but finds something amiss with the ignot. Dohar comes over and hits the ingot himself and afterwards puts the hammer down and punches the Zajir in the face, having given Satou impure mithril despite his time working with it. He then asks for another but Zajir replies that there is no more. The group then moves further down to the blast furnace but sees it inactive with many dwarves passed out around it. Dohar asks what is going on and one of the dwarves replies that both they and the furnare are out of magic power, since the furnace doesn't run on coals. Dohar then asks Satou to try and use is mana to fill the furnace. Satou walks over and puts in 300 MP, what he perceives as the human limit for a level 30 mage and it is enough to get the furnace working again. Dohar then hands Satou some light goggles that are really dark. When Satou puts them on, he gains the light alteration skills and he maxes it out so he can see normally when he wears the goggles. But that turns out to be a bad idea when the dwarves turn on the furnace, Satou is temporarily blinded until he is healed by the Self-Heal skill. One all the mithril has been purified, they return to the forge, but Dohar notices that their special powder is out aswell and calls for the resident alchemist. But Zajir replies that he is out on a meeting with the gnomes. Dohar gets angry again and calls for any alchemist. Satou answers and they let him compound the secret powder without telling him the name of the ingredients and only tell him what ingredient in what amount when, but Satou figures the rest out. After it is compounded, Satou begins smithing. After a few ticks with a hammer, Dohar calls for Zajir to bring him a phase hammer. Satou then picks up the phase hammer and notes that it must weigh over a metric ton, but thanks to his strength and dexterity, he can use it normally after just a few swings.

The next morning, the sword is already complete and Dohar says that if Satou wants, he can come practice any time. Afterwards he lets Satou rest while he takes the sword to add the finishing touches and him and the rest of the dwarves go get themselves some breakfast. After breakfast, Dohar asks Satou to stay behind and try swinging the sword. Afterwards he tries to put in some mana, the sword gets heavier, which Dohar reveals is the special property of mithril. Afterwards, Dohar pulls out a cursed battle axe and quickly corners Satou with his experience but Satou manages to block and dodge all of the blows. Afterwards, Dohar inspects the sword and notes that it doesn't have any deformities. Afterwards he congratulates Satou on his skill and hands him the sword. He then proclaims a feast.

All the dwarves sit down to feast at dinner and the rest of the girls are invited too. Satou is quick to go for the alcohol, but thanks to his high level, he doens't get drunk no matter how much he drink and he subsequently begins to slowly and unknowingly out drink the dwarves. But in the mean time, all the girls have gotten drunk too. Lulu became a merry drunk while Arisa became a sad drunk, Mia could only speak long sentences when drunk and Nana starts to feel weird thanks the to the alcohol and all the beast girls become sleepy drunks and they all fall asleep when the moment they rest on Satou.

The next morning, the youthe troup (Pochi, Tama, Mia and Arisa) all wake up hungover and Satou gives them medicine for them to recuperate. Then Satou heads down to the breakfast table, where Mia removes her hood and Dohar recognizes her as the missing elf from the boruenan elf clan. Dohar asks if she, rather than being kidnapped, was busy eloping with Satou and Mia replies yes. But Satou interrupts that she was taken by a magician and is travelling with Satou to return her to the forest. Then Dohar orders Driar to sent a letter to the elves to confirm that Mia has been found. Then Satou decides to start a tour of the dwarven city.

He first begins his tour with the dwarven magic shop in the entrance which happened to have a lot of magic scrolls for the use of mining. He gets permission from Dohar to shop there and he buys some magic books in addition to some magic scrolls. Afterwards, Satou and co. are walking through the dwarven city on a tour while being escorted by Jojori and some dwarven guards. Eventually they decide to have some lunch at the cafe with an open terrace and order some food. In the meantime, Satou notices a noble on a horse furhter down the street complaining about mithril weapons. While he comes closer, he overhears that the man has come looking for mithril weapons, but a dwarf operating a weapons stall replies that he doesn't have any mithril weapons for sale and that he doesn't know where to get one. Jojori then intervenes and says that Mithril weapons are only available by reservation for those who have letters of introduction from the duke directly or one of his viceroys. The noble hears this and immediately faints from the shock. Jojori explains that this is quite normal as second sons and lower nobles often visit the city of the dwarves in order to attain mithril weapons so that they could enter the guards of the duke as to maintain their nobility. Afterwards the lady attendant of the noble asks Satou if he is willing to sell his mithril sword, but he refuses on personal grounds and on the grounds that they wouldn't be able to afford it. The lady says that she is willing to pay anything ,but he replies that the materials of the sword alone are worth 120 gold coins. But the lady keeps pressing on to the point that Arisa reveals Satou's nobility and the lady quickly stops pestering.

Afterwards, Satou and co move towards another magic shop run by a friend of Jojori named Galhar. He buys what seems to be a large variety of life and nature magic scrolls and an intermediate level fire scroll meant to be used for smelting ore, but lacks the fire-power. Afterwards, the group continues touring, but the girls start to feel exhausted, so they start to move to the guest mansion, where Satou is peer pressured to stand in the kitchen. Eventually some of the dwarves start to smell the food and start to fill the seats at the table, where a fierce competition over the meat erupts between the dwarves and the beast kin.

The group leaves the city the next day and a day later, Satou decides to test out the scrolls. Satou manages to create a 1x1x0.05 meter mud wall, reinforce that wall with another spell and completely dissolve it with another spell. create several small sized cubes, being able to sends small signals between himself and Nana who can cast signal magic naturally, create a small and weak fence. But in the middle of the night, Satou moves past a few mountains down the road to test out his magic for real now that the magic is now in his exchange column.

Satou uses Sonar to draw in the lower level 20 monsters and the uses the short stun on them. Their shells are dented and severely injured with just 1 shot, nearly dead with 20 round and more than that they are turned into paste. Then he re-creates the mud wall and a 200x20x5 meter wall pops out, he then reinforces it with the hard clay magic and the entire wall becomes porcelain like. He then destroys it with the new sand magic and creates a long fence magic as some of the beetle wake up. The beetles rush forward and then get impaled on the fences he has created. Satou then creates the cubes and manages to create a 300x300x300m cube at most. He then manages to trap a beetle inside of it and its sturdiness is comparable to his shield magic. He then pulls out a bronze and iron dagger, put them in a small cube and then uses the intermediate smelting magic, which causes the bronze to melt in 3 minutes and the iron melts in 5 minutes while the cubes themselves are fine. With this he gets an idea.

Satou opens up the map and searches for ore. He finds a nearby vein for copper, iron and Ultz steel. He moves to the locations and then opens them up by shifting the earth with mud wall and then puts the ore in storage. He then puts the ores in cubes and uses the smelting magic to melt them. After failing the first few times with the adjustment of the temperature and the products are unusable, but thanks to the AR telling him the temperature of the molten ore, he makes 20kg of steel, 70kg of copper and 100 kg of iron. He then pulls out a hammer and anvil and tries to smith an iron sword, but fails as the method he used was for mithril, not iron.

Afterwards he gets the idea to create cubes in the sky and he uses them as a stepping stone and he climbs up into the air up till about 4km. Afterwards he sees a giant eagle in the sky and decides to try and fight it in the sky with the use of cubes as a foot hold and he manages to gain the sky drive skill. This skill is basically the same as using the cubes as the owner could use air itself as a foothold and Satou is given the title of one who flies without wings.

The next day, the cart reaches a fork in the road and Satou orders Lulu to drive the cart the long way around as the normal route would get drive them right into the course of Karina, who had left the Muno territory for some reason. The group then encounters some merchants who are watching and betting on a fight between Martial artists. While taking a rest, they are rudely interrupted by the appearance of adventurers followed by a pack of wolves. Satou waits for the girls to reach him and then builds a fence with magic, forcing the wolves to go around and running right into Pochi, Tama and Liza who deal with them in quick order. While the beast kin trio begin dismantling the catch of the day, Satou gives a diluted magic potion to one of the female adventurers that was injured and they leave.

Meanwhile with Karina, one of the maids that was travelling notices that Karina had jumped of a cliff. The maids peer over and see that she is fighting a pack of bandits at the bottom. The maids make their way down and arrive in time to clean up the battlefield. One of the maids inquirers about a reward for saving a caravan or merchants, but Karina intervenes, saying that rewards aren't needed for hero's. So the maids resort to killing the defeated bandits and sell their equipment to the merchants, who buy them at above market rates as the reward. Then one of the merchants asks to hire the girls as guards until they reach the city and the maids agree while convincing Karina. When they reach the city, they rent a room in an inn while the maids split up to do work and to find information about Satou and they reconvene at a popular cafe to eat some prized fish now that they have some spending money. The maids then overhear the conversation of the previously saved female hunters behind them. One of their "onee-chan"'s asks what happened to the girls and she tells them that they were attacked by a pack of wolves, but they were saved by a certain young noble with a lizard kin wielding a magic spear. While the maids and Karina immediately notice who they are talking about, the other nobles and merchants in the cafe immediately get up and quickly start searching for the lizard and the noble mentioned prior. Meanwhile the girls have caught on to Karina and co. listening to them. Karina replies that the noble in question is a retainer of her father.

On the next day, Satou and co see a ship going up a river nearby and the girls get all excited when a bird kin flies out of the boat and waves towards them. While the girls make camp, Satou goes to the river and pulls some water into his inventory and then uses mud wall at the camp to make male and female baths. While Arisa is quick to volunteer to wash his back, the rest of the girls shoot her down while making their own case. But Satou rejects them all while going to the male bath and the girls obediently go to the female bath. But eventually, the girls start to trickle down to the male bath to the point of them not fitting in and Satou gives into their desires to bath together. While he is unhappy by the attacks of the little girls, he does get a nice view of Nana's breasts floating on the water.

The next day, he decides to take Lulu hunting to get her level up. He hands her one of his magic guns and makes her take aim at some mid level 20's hard newt's and she continually opens fire while drinking MP recovering potions. Afterwards her level jumps straight to 13 and he is dishearted to see that she has managed to gain the chant skill despite never actually casting magic in addition to other skills like cooking. But the jump in levels prove to be to much for her body and she collapses and Satou decides to carry her to camp while she writhe's in pain. At the camp, Satou tries to give her some medicine to ease her suffering, but Arisa quickly intervenes, saying that giving medicine to someone who suffers from level up sickness will reduce the amount of skill points gained and Satou backs off. Afterwards he is forced to go on separate hunting trips with all rest of the girls minus the beast kin.

On the next day, they reach gururian city and at the wall, there is a man who exclaims that he is willing to give special privileges to those who are willing to give him magic weapons, but Arisa tells everyone to ignore him. After noticing that Nobles have their own lane for entering the city, Satou enters the city after simply showing his ID. Afterwards, the group decides to take a walk around the city while having secured a place at an inn. They eventually come across a duel between 2 men in the middle of the street. It is explained that this is part of the tournament and that warriors who meet in the middle of the street have to fight then and there and eventually the numbers get whittled down to the number send to the duchy capital for the finals. During the fight, there is a massive uproar around the corner and they see that a demon has begun attacking the civilians.

The demon throws away a civilians left and right and one of the is caught by Satou, who just so happens to by Karina. Karina immediately jumps down from Satou's arms and continues the fight. While the rest of the girls join the fight as well, Satou focuses on assisting. Satou uses short stun to intercept the punches from the demon so that the girls get openings to attack. Satou then deploys another to hinder the counter attack and the girls block the attack together and Pochi and Tama drag an unconscious soldier out. While the peanut gallery notice Satou and deem him to be an advanced level wind magic user. Satou then uses a dummy chant to create a shield to block its physical attack and Karina uses the opening and Mia and Arisa uses this time to de-buff the demon with acid mist and light flash. Satou deems it is taking to long and he uses 5 remote arrows to bring down the demon's health by 30%, noticing it is weak to magic as the demon, classified as short horn, is a melee class fighter. Arisa and Mia follow up with light dagger and water baloon but it does nothing, forcing Satou to re-think. He then uses free water to freeze the area where the water baloon hit and Liza shatters an arm of the demon. Karina then throws a barrel of water into the air and Satou cuts it up, causing the demon to become drenched and Satou freezes the demon again and Liza ends it with one blow. But what is unusual is that the demon body evaporates, leaving behind a magic core and a drop item called a short horn. Which according to the description in the language of demons, turns creatures into demons. He then walks over to a crashed carriage containing a princess.

The next day, Satou is given a medal by the viceroy of the city for extinguishing the demon. After the ceremony, the viceroy pull the man aside and he begins discussing the demons while Satou hides the fact that other short horn demons have appeared in the other cities and the short horn itself. After the discussion, he runs into the lady attendant he met in the city of dwarves. She said that they were deceived by weasels who had lend them a magic sword for the tournament. But the sword was stolen from them and they saw the weasel merchant waiting for them in the next city and immediately noticed that they didn't have the sword and they were subsequently sold into slavery. Afterwards, Satou and the group meet the princess that he had saves, Menea, a girl with pink hair. She is accompanied with 2 suspiscious japanese looking people and she asks him which japan he hails from.

Satou feigns ignorance and says that his family is traced back to the saga empire, but there is no mention of his ancestor being a hero. Satou pulls the princess aside and she explains that her aunt once died in Japan and was reincarnated into this world. Before that happened, she met god was allowed to ask for 3 powers, she asked for eternal youth, the ability to summon things from other worlds and unmatching beauty. However, she received Japan's sense of beauty and was deemed ugly by the rest of the country. When she first opened the gate, a giant monster fell through and killed a lot of maids. Then at the second attempt, a bunny popped out. After a string of failures, the royal family was approached by a weaselkin merchant and they offered them a tool that would help them connect to Japan. She then admits that they manage to summon 8 people from Japan and none had unique skills. The first and second were disoriented after the summoning and weren't able to comprehend what had happened and rushed outwards, to the point of the guards acting out on their own and killing them. The third was summoned safely after they made use of translations rings, but he snuck out on the same knight and was presumed dead after they found a monster chewing on his arm. The fourth was killed after he went mad during his training and attacked a noble. The fifth committed suicide after it was explained what she was going through and the boy and girl behind her are number 6 and 7. Number 8 was abducted by a demon after said demon destroyed the summoning equipment and killed everyone present and flew towards Seryuu city from the opposite side of the dragon valley, the day before the star fall.

Satou found that highly suspiscious, but he decides to keep a lid on it and then leaves Menea. In the evening, Satou joins a banquet and acts as Karina's escort. During dinner, he got a good sight of Karina's valley and afterwards he went to join a male group for discussions. He asks about the fallen nobles and they reply that it is quite common. Every year about 100 noble additional sons come of age and are kicked out of the house. Their only course of action to retain nobility is to join the noble guard and as such do pretty much everything to get their hands on mithril and magic weapons. After dinner, Satou and Karina are asked to talk with the son of the viceroy. But upon the meeting, they quickly find out that it is infact a girl. The girl and their entourage want to ask Satou about the fight with the demon and how he got so strong. The entourage is quick to be jealous of Satou due to the attention he receives from the girl and promises to help them all with magic practice. However, the girl in question busts into his guest room and demands to be taught magic while Satou receives scornful glances from Mia and Arisa.