Kays Translations
Just another Isekai Lover~
Chapter 133: It’s not broken. I just didn’t know
“Lustful Pig’s Holy Knight, huh… Ishud couldn’t defeat his opponent without sacrificing one arm. I get that he’s seriously strong, but, you know, I just can’t really picture it.”
“It felt like facing an unknown monster. It’s understandable why Philip can’t quite picture it. But seriously… he had this sort of… monk-like face.”
“…Ishud, was that really an orc?”
The humanoid monster bears the name of Paladin.
That alone makes me feel uneasy.
Still, within Dimna, I could accept it if it were another humanoid monster, but an orc… and even a goblin? I find it very hard to believe.
“I saw it with an identification magic item, Dimna, so I’m serious. Muscles were ripped like the ex-ogre swordsman who fought today, but it was definitely an orc… He not only had a holy light, but also had holy sword skills, that guy.”
Holy sword skills are one of the sword techniques that even boys who do not aspire to holy occupations like paladins admire.
“…Never has my sense of normalcy been shattered as much as today.”
“I feel the same way, Dimna. However, why did that orc awaken a holy heart? Perhaps, as Ishudo says, it’s the desire to protect… the desire to protect his kin?”
“Yeah~~~… Andreas, I said something like that earlier, but I probably don’t get it.”
“Is that so? Then… could it be that the monster awakened faith, even though it’s physiologically unacceptable?”
A monster awakened faith.
This is content that Gulf, not just Andreas and the other nobles, finds it hard to accept.
“Well, who knows… maybe he noticed the greatness of females… as entities?”
“?????? Ishud-niisan, thinking too much is giving me a headache.”
“Hahaha!!! There’s no need to think so hard, Waltz. But… when I encountered the orc paladin, there were no other orcs around him. It was like when I fought the ex-ogre today.”
There were no other kin around.
Dimna quickly realized what that meant.
“So, it means its way of thinking fundamentally differs from other kin.”
“Probably. Orcs, you see, definitely get aroused by human females. But if there are individuals who don’t approve of that, no matter how strong they are, would others follow them?”
Even without a special admiration for extraordinary strength, just seeing a man driven by sheer intensity and immense power… admiring that back and heading forward oneself, it’s a change in emotions that can occur even if you’re not human.
However, individuals known as orcs love human females, explode their instincts until they bring them back to their nests and break them… that’s what an orc is.
Their actions, instincts… it’s no exaggeration to say that they were engraved in the life of an orc.
The orc paladin has come to deny that way of thinking.
Ishud’s guess about that… was magnificent, as Dimna had noticed.
“Maybe it’s impossible. If you’re told not to lay a hand on human females, and if you do, you might just get chopped down. Would ordinary orcs follow such an individual?”
“They wouldn’t follow him, I suppose. Right… if we think that way, it does make sense… As Dimna says, it feels like our sense of normalcy has been completely shattered, but it could be seen as simply not knowing about it.”
The feeling that our sense of normalcy has been shattered isn’t wrong.
It could also be seen as simply feeling that way because we didn’t know as much.
“Hey, Ishud. Are monsters like today’s sword demon or orc paladin uncommon around here?”
“I think they’re rare individuals. If such individuals were appearing left and right in the area we’re wandering around in today, that would indeed be abnormal. If we go deeper, though… it might be a different story.”
“Come to think of it, Ishudo-niisan, you mentioned fighting a monster that uses dark sword techniques before, didn’t you?”
Normally, this would be surprising, but having encountered the entity called a sword demon today and having heard Ishud’s tales of the mysterious orc paladin, Gulf and the others weren’t particularly astonished even upon hearing about monsters wielding dark sword techniques.
“Yeah, that’s right. I remember encountering such monsters.”
“…Ishud, how much stronger do we need to become to be able to fight those kinds of monsters?”
“Well, that’s a tough question~~~… For now, I guess you just have to do our best until you reach the third job? Even if the opponent is a B-rank monster, if they’re A-rank, even opponents who aren’t that high-level can be quite tough, right?”
However, no one said, “But you defeated it.”
Adreas had not gone through casual training until now.
Rather, he had undergone much harder training than his peers because he grew up in an environment where being strong was a duty.
However, compared to Ishud… he have to admit, he’s a bit lukewarm.
“And also, my primary job was a battle mage.”
“Wha…?!”
The three who didn’t know Ishud’s primary job experienced a shock for who knows how many times since visiting the Regula family.
“Is that… true, Ishud-kun?”
“Yeah, it’s true. And then, because I became a berserker in my second job, I think that’s how I barely managed to defeat the Orc Paladin? Berserker Soul is a super powerful skill that dramatically boosts physical abilities, but if you use it too much, you lose your reason. Even if you manage to return at the last moment, your performance drops sharply afterward.”
In fact, during the battle with the Orc Paladin, Ishudo barely achieved victory by using Berserker Soul to its absolute limit, but afterward, he was unable to move at all and had to use a magic item with an extremely strong barrier for safety.
“Berserker Soul… That’s why berserkers are berserkers.”
“So, are you starting to wonder about it now? Well, as for your third job… it’s your freedom to choose. Make a choice without regrets.”
Changing jobs is literally choosing a path forward.
Basically, it’s impossible to change and waiting is not allowed.