Kays Translations
Just another Isekai Lover~
Chapter 132: The first opponent
“Yo.”
After returning home, before taking a shower, Ishud went to the knights who had encountered the former ogre the other day and placed a head on the ground.
“Today, I was lucky enough to encounter it, so I killed it.”
“Um…Ishud-sama, this ogre… it only has one horn.”
“Yeah. Actually, it evolved while fighting me.”
“““”!!!!?””””
Ignoring the knights’ surprise, Ishud briefly explained what had happened today.
“So, such a thing happened.”
“Yeah. Just thinking about how strong that ogre could have gotten if it had trained in the wild for another year or half a year… heh, it makes me tremble for the first time in a while.”
A monster strong enough to make Ishud tremble might have been born.
No one here trembled in a bad way, imagining the worst scenario.
“Ishud-sama. Next time a monster similar to this one appears, we will definitely kill it ourselves.”
“Heh, hahaha!!! That’s the spirit. Well, all I wanted to say was that I killed that former ogre. Anyway, sorry to bother you.”
He didn’t think that they wanted him to kill the monster that had forced them to retreat.
Rather, it might have been unnecessary meddling.
Even so… Ishud wanted to let them know that he had killed that ogre.
“Ahh~~, as usual, my body is aching~~.”
Having finished dinner and his post-meal training, Philip savored the pleasure of bathing while groaning like an old man.
“But Ishud, wasn’t that Sword Demon, the former ogre, an A-rank?”
“Come to think of it, it might have been.”
“Hey… isn’t your reaction a bit too casual?”
Dustin and Adreas felt the same way.
No matter how you look at it, his reaction was too mild.
However, they soon realized why his reaction was so indifferent.
“Ishud, you’ve fought A-rank monsters before, haven’t you?”
“Yeah, I have. That was… just before my third job change, if I remember right?”
The content he mentioned so casually almost made their heads spin, but Philip and the others remembered that common sense didn’t apply to someone like Ishud, and they forced themselves to accept it and continue the conversation.
“That was before you enrolled in the academy, right? I mean… it’s amazing that you managed to win.”
“I was around level thirty… in the late thirties? The opponent was around that level. Well, I barely managed to win.”
“By the way, what kind of monster was it?”
“Whether you believe it or not is up to you, but it was an Orc Paladin.”
““”……”””
Except for Waltz, it took the other five about ten seconds to comprehend what kind of A-rank monster it was.
“Ishud, did you just say ‘Paladin’?”
“That’s right. Orc Paladin. Just to be clear, it’s not some undead servant of a holy knight who used to serve my family.”
Orc Paladin.
That was the first A-rank monster Ishud fought.
“Orc, as in those orcs?”
“Yeah, those orcs. But unlike other orcs, it wasn’t flabby but rather a muscular, buff type… like the former ogre I fought today.”
The thought of an orc having a muscular, hulking body was laughable enough, but the idea of an orc earning the title of paladin—a holy knight—was something even the open-minded Philip struggled to accept immediately.
“Wait… Ishud, wait a moment.”
“Yeah. I’ll wait as long as it takes. But try to hurry up—I don’t want to get heatstroke.”
“Uhh… Nope, I just can’t make sense of this.”
“Philip, isn’t it a bit too early to give up thinking? Today, we witnessed a sight that makes us doubt our eyes.”
“You mean the Ogre turning into a Demon Swordsman, wielding two large swords? It was certainly an absurd sight, but… Hey, Andreas. According to what Ishud explained to us earlier, it would mean acknowledging that orcs have faith.”
“Well, that’s…”
Andreas, looking very intrigued, was not the only one; Dustin and Dimna were equally puzzled.
“Looks like you’re right, Ishud.”
“Yeah… He had a very stern face, as if he not only never engaged in sexual activities but also never even experienced them.”
“Hahaha!!!”
Philip couldn’t help but burst into laughter at the sudden new information.
By the way, Waltz already had the knowledge, so he wasn’t left out alone.
“Still, whether they recognized the existence of a god due to some factor, or… whether a desire to protect the orc species emerged…”
“A desire to protect, huh? Personally, I find that more convincing.”
“Me too… Even though they’re beings with a different sense of normalcy compared to us, the idea of monsters having faith… I still can’t quite wrap my head around it.”
“I’ve got questions pouring out the wazoo too. But the first A-rank monster I ever fought was named Orc Paladin. That much is certain. And I’ll add this: it was wielding a longsword and a tower shield, though the shield was a bit smaller. And it was definitely enveloped in holy light.”
“““……….”””
Everyone, including Gulf, found it hard to imagine Ishud fighting an orc paladin like that.
“Well, for now, I understand that there are still plenty of things in this world that we don’t get. So, how was the fight with that Orc Paladin?”
Ad
“It was a brutal slugfest. A life-or-death struggle, seriously. Despite using Berserker Soul and equipping magic items with enhancement effects, I couldn’t quite overpower it.”
“Yeah, that’s hard to imagine.”
“Like I said earlier, at that time, I hadn’t advanced to my third job yet. In the end… yeah, I remember now. I sacrificed an arm to finally cleave through its shield and axe with my battle axe.”
Whether the orc turned into a holy knight meant nothing to Ishud.
However, among all the battles he had fought, it was undoubtedly one of the top five most intense fights. Every time he recalled it, a smile involuntarily crept onto his face.