HP1 kara Hajimeru Isekai Musou - Chapter 32

The Making Of A Broken Character Part 10

TLN: I know I said there wouldnt be a chapter today, but the last chapter also ended up leaving off on a sort of cliffhanger. Im running on fumes at this point though, so Im actually going to take a short break. Chapters will resume on the weekend, hopefully.

How many times has he been hit?

She had been able to deal with things so far by following the textbook.

Specifically, she could parry Higures giant sweeping right hook. She could also elbow strike him in the Adams apple whilst doing a leg sweep on him.

How many times had Higure fallen over?

 

So far, as if natural, he had been getting up while carrying a sneering smirk.

Ten minutes had already passed.

She had gotten fed up with having to repeat this exchange, unleashing her fiststens, perhaps even hundreds of times.

Within this, Ruri had some points of question.

Again, Higure attempted to send a body blow to Ruri.

He raised his arms, readied his joints, and threw his own body down.

He carried it out way too smoothlythere wasnt a single danger to it.

In the beginning, there were several moments that gave her the chills when he had managed to properly handle himselfbut as the number of attacks accumulated, his handling became more smooth.

In other wordsRuri gained confidence of herself.

Are his movementsgetting slower? I dont understand whybut I can manage things with this speed.

Higure clicked his tongue while making an expression as if he had some leeway still.

Oh, what a nuisance. I didnt think that a meathead would make it this far. Hmphat this rate, that guy is actually going to wake up.

While lightly swinging his arm, light particles began to coil around his right arm.

Such shame it is, but this farce ends here. Since this puts a heavy load on my body, I didnt want to use it for such small fry.

A sword of light immediately formed.

Ultimate Defender, a skill that adds 20% of Higures defense power to his attack power.

Certainly, if she was hit then she would be driven into a corner, unable to fightbut Ruri opened her mouth,

Ive already seen that skill just a while ago, but theres no point if you can hit me.

Higure held the sword over his head and threw it down.

By dodging with a side step, Higures back was now exposed.

Just like that, she grasped hold of Higures body and performed aUra nage (a suplex).(TLN: Ura nage is a throw done in Judo)

At that momenta scorching shock ran through Ruris side.

Wha?!

Higure pierced Ruri, who had moved behind him, by stabbing through his own body, piercing his own stomach in the process.

Youdeliberatelyleft yourself opento.stab mein a suicidal act*cough**wheeze*

Then and there, two people collapsed in bloodshed.

Ruri could not comprehend has had just unfolded.

He pierced his own body for a surprise attack. She could understand thatbut for Higure to do such a thing

Wwhy?

The difference in the levelof our Auto Recovery. It is Iwho willrecover sooner

Ruris Auto Recovery was Level 7 and Higures was Level 10.

To get out of the unwinnable state of the battle, he understood to make use of the difference in recovery time.

Not thatThatsnotwhat Im askingWhydid yougo so faras to let yourself take damage?

Oww, how painful this isIll tell you thatthe reasonis forsoulsconverted into points.

The souls?

I saidthe souls. They have become a portionof their former selves.

Slowly, Higure stood up from his spot.

His torn flesh seemed to regenerate and it was clear that the recovery process had begun.

If I cannot force someone under my will, then I cannot convert their soul into points. After all, didnt they originate from someone else?

With a cold sweat, he continued.

Yes, their soul has to submit to me. So, do you know whats necessary in order to place them under my

servitude?

Finally, Ruris recovery process had begun.

However, Higure had already recovered a majority of his pierce-inflicted wound.

In my case, I use my overwhelming pride to change the very vigor of their soul. I have placed hundreds of souls under my domination.

With a derisive feeling, Higure smiled and plainly stated,

I was able to suppress and bind to the weakened soulsof those people from a while agowho were crushed down. You realized that my movements became duller, right?

Youre saying?

I commend you. You were able to drive to a cornerjust a bit. Its possible for the souls Ive converted into points to run away from me, and so my own power was in the midst of declining. Well, it had gone down by 10%.

Rubbing his stomach with his palm, Higure lightly nodded.

So, although there were some minor setbacks, as you can clearly seethis is my definite win.

With, Higure raised his legs as high he could, trying to stomp on the head of Ruri.

While coughing blood, she rolled sideways then unsteadily got up.

Its notover yet

What a tough bastard you are. However, the souls that have dispersed are once again under my dominion.

Higure threw a front kick at Ruris side- the place where she had been pierced through before.

After falling back several steps, a strange phenomenon occurred when she was about to collapse.

The impact from collapsing had softened, as if she were wrapped in a weightless cushion.

Because of that, she was able to hold her ground at that spot.

What happenedjust now

Oooooh, eyes over hereeeee! You cant kick the bucket just yet! Female Gorilla!

A left had struck into Ruris side once more.

Ruri had already exceeded her physical limit.

It was beyond the level where she could make do with fighting spirit and willpower.

When she was about to fall from behind once more, this time she clearly felt something supporting her back.

Higures mouth gaped open with a dumbfounded expression.

Ruri saw itonce she turned around.

Countless pale light particles danced around. They were accompanying her back, or rather, they were actually supporting her back.

Iwas protected?

The myriad of particles strengthened their light as if to respond to Ruris words.

Hiding his irritation, Higures countenance and manner of speech became a jumble.

The souls Ive converted into pointsescaped? How did those dead people do thisthey lack a physical body

They were the souls that Higure absorbed, all of which were participants in his death game.

Naturally, they bore a grudge against him after death.

At this time and place, it was inevitable for them to lend their power to Ruri instead of Higure.

However, according to Higures words, the body-less souls should not be able to interfere with the living world.

The reason this happenedwas because of Yuukis cold sweat from his pain.

Having a Nayutlevel vitalityhis sweat was also a source of life-force and held a special power.(TLN: Oh boy, here we go again)

Once evaporating, the water of life filled the general vicinity of the roomThen, there were also the regrets of the people who befallen to tragedy by Higure.

The two had intermingled and caused what can be called either a magical or scientific change.

 

In other wordsthe souls that Higure absorbed became as powerful as they were when they were still alive.

 

What, whats happening?! This makes no sense, why?!

Higure felt a cold sweat running down his back.

Behind Ruri he clearly saw the figures of those he had forced to die.

At first they were particles of light, but now they had a translucent appearance, glaring at Higure with an expression of anger.

They totaled tomore than 100 people.

Though they lacked physical form, the sight of them lining up behind the Ruri gave off a far too intimidating feeling.

While feeling emotions similar to panic, Higure threw a right-handed straight punch towards Ruri.

With his vector of power, she would get blown away.

In that direction,

direction, the translucent people assembled as if to become a cushion.

Though they were able to quickly dampen the impact, there seemed to be a limit to what they can do as mid-level entities.

Ruri was blown towards the wall despite the strategy to assemble.

It appears as though I lost my composureright, wouldnt you agree?

Higure stated so with a sneering smirk.

The living people of this world are stronger then the dead. The dead lack physical bodies, do they not? It would only be natural.

Just before Ruris body collided with the wallthe blow to her body was gently softened.

At that moment, a foul odor penetrated her nose.

Sister?

Youseemed to have been walking a painful road after we partedMy apologies, Ruri.

Youvecome back to your senses?

Then, Ruri noticed it.

Saoris body was being wrapped in a sacred, silver light, and that body was gradually tumbling down.

Ive come back to my sensesbut I dont have much time. I was already dead from the beginning, and Ive only been bound here against my will by forbidden magic.

Sister?

I dont know why, but theres a mysterious field of power within this place. A field of power thats purging the negative forces. Soit seems that the wickedness that had bounded me here was lifted.

As Ruri was holding Saori in her arms, Saoris left arm had turned into soil.

In the next moment her right foot turned into soulreturning to what it once was.

Sister? Youre going to disappear? Such a thing is too cruel

No, RuriI will live on within you. Together with all the souls that suffered a twisted fate by Higure.

With those words, Saoris body turned entirely into soil and crumbled down.

Light particles emerged out from the remaining lumps of earth, and entered into Ruris heart.

One after anotherthe dead once again turned back into light, and were absorbed by Ruris heart.

Heyare you serious! How distasteful this all is! What are you all doing?!

Seeing what happened, Higure broke into a full sprint.

All the leeway he had in his facial expression had disappeared and his brow had furrowed.

The points Ive harvested for my skills! Aaaah, you cant be serious!!!!

No way though Ruri.

Ruri put her palm to her heart and as spoke aloud as if addressing something.

Sister?

As she suspected- her older sisters voice echoed in her mind,

Now, rise up Ruri!

What doI do?

You already know, dont you? The points from the souls are all coming to you. Go and accept all of what the souls can offer.

Butmy status reached its max limit. Even if my distribute the points into things like defense or HPthere wont be any change.

What are you talking about? Youre supposed to put it all into attack.

Huh? Attack?

You still dont get it? Youve got to fight. He deals some serious damage. You probablywont be able to recover from that.

Ruri, while still down, sent a glance towards him.

As her older sister had said, there didnt seem to be any signs of being able to recover from an attack.

So, youve got no option but to do it, am I right?

But, Iwont be able to penetrate his absolute defense.

Ruri? You decided to fight, did you not?

YesIve decidedbut my status has reached the limits so my attack power wont raise

Ruri? Who decides these limits? You have unlimited potential. If you want to know why, its cause youve chosen to fight. Yes, fate has opened its paths up for you.

But

Besidesyou arent alone in this fight. You can hear voices other than mine- cant you?

Closing her eyes and looking within her heartshe could hear the voices of more than 100 souls in her mind.

Judging from the voices, they all agreed, entrusted their power and wishes to Ruri.

There was only one thing all the voices wished for.

 

In shortit was to give Higure a beating.

 

With a nod, Ruri deeply agreed with them.

Even if

them.

Even if she had no grounds for itshe gained confidence.

Yes, if one cant do something alone, then with a sisterno actually, then witheveryoneit can be accomplished.

Even if you cant do itkeep trying until you die.

Alright, lets do this. Everyone, entrust this to me

Ruri firmly got up from the floor.

Her distance from Higure was roughly four meters. There was a wall behind him, so he had no place to run.

Again, she momentarily closed her eyes and called up the status screen.

Now, Ruri owned 12,000 bonus pointsall of which were assigned to attack power.

You cant avoid your death! If you have no aptitude towards the points you converted, then you cannot exceed the imposed status limits! No matter what you do, it will be in vain, Oh hoh hoh hoh hoh hoh hoh hoh hoh!

Riding on that momentum, Higure struck out his fists.

It was the same amateur blow as ever since he focused on defense, so she could keep dodging it for however long she needed to.

However.

Ruri made a cross-counter towards Higure.

With that, she unleashed a pursuit of consecutive, consecutive, consecutive blows.

She ignored her defenses and dedicated everything to her might.

Once she had dealt around 20 rushes of blows, Ruri felt a slightly abnormal phenomenon.

Your speedis increasing? Dont tell me youre acquiring skills from the bonus points?

With Higures words of dismay, dozens of souls freed themselves from Higures heart, being absorbed by Ruri.

Worry began to spread in Higures heart, as his grasp over the souls had loosened and the souls were escaping.

She continued dealing continuous blows.

Left straight, right high, elbow strike, heel of the palm.

Several tens and hundreds of repeated blows gave Higures body a fleeting numbness as attacks were spreading across it.

The souls are leaving, my status is plummetingthis isof your doingis it not?

She unleashed more consecutive blows.

She continued the consecutive blows, and still kept dealing consecutive blows.

She continued for as long as she was still breathing, for as long as she was living.

Higures expression was colored with impatience.

At that moment, yet more souls had been absorbed by Ruri, adding to her bonus points, which she naturally added to her power attribute.

An uppercut socked him square in the chin.

Thank you, everyone. All of your wishes are definitely adding to my power.

Souls were being torn off of Higure while he was trembling.

As soon as she could, Ruri allocated points into her power attribute.

I will destroythis supposedly impossible wall that lays before me!

She whacked Higures chin as soon as she tripped him up.

Whilst he was mid-air, she brandished her fistsand sent a blow with all of her might.

At the same time, Higures expression had distress mixed into it.

Break it! Break through the limits!

Along with a pained expression from Higurea large mass of souls were absorbed by Ruri at an unprecedented scale.

She had enacted her limit break and her attack power continues to increase.

How ridiculous! The imposed maximum for attack powerhas had its limitbroken?!

Physical ability falls under the category of attack power.

In other words, without knowing it, her consecutive blows have continued to increase in speed.

They have far surpassed the speed of soundand yet they still continue to increase in speed.

From a high-speed to a super-speed, and from a super-speed to god-like speed.

Whats with this crazy speed?!

Countless fists kept assaulting Higure.

He wasnt even a sand bag at this point. As far as the eye could see, she was like a machine gun and one might mistake her consecutive blows with a round of firing shots.

Damage had accumulated throughout his entire body, and Higure already couldnt grasp where it hurt anymore.

HoweverHigure had light particles coiling around his right hand.

It was the Ultimate Defender skill.

My defense power exceeds the limits! Ill end this in a single blow!

In half-desperation, Higure swung the sword downwards.

He did that think that the think that the attack would hit the current Ruri. However

I got her!

The sword of light had sliced through Ruri, cutting her into piecesor at least it seemed like it.

It was actually an afterimage caused by her hyper-speed movement.

Too slow!

Higure heard a voice from behind him and turned around.

This bastardis going to be the end of me?

Wrong, Higure! These people that youve oppressedall of them will be your doom!

She continued,

Its lights out!

Although Higure could not perceive her attacklike a thrust spearhead, it had pierced through his throat.

Although it didnt actually penetrate his skinit had surely gouged his throat internally, and he was blown backwards in a grand manner.

Gobuhwa!

From his throat to his esophagus, blood overflowed in his mouth.

While revolving around in a tailspin, Higure flew backwards, his sight now facing the wall he was about to crash into,

Once he was thrown against the wall, he could not take an offensive or defensive position.

Thenhe was at a loss for words.

Nice pitching, shrine maiden ladyI wonder if I can squeeze in some sweet revenge.

Yuuki stood up from where had been blown away to.

With a bold smirk, he had stared straight at Higure.

Pitcher: Shrine maiden lady. Batter: myself. Right, Higure?

At that moment, Higure saw it.

He was now at this timebrandishing his fists. It was likely that he was going to unleash a blow with his full power.

In addition, when he twisted back to the limit, there was something exposed beneath his mantleSome kind of black circle was pasted on his back.

Hey, Higure? You were truly a strong enemyYouve gone and made me use my prized treasure (Pip Elekiban)!

A sudden comeback, anda Pip Elekiban.

Higure did not know why he wasusing a magnetic pharmaceutical product meant to heal ones back.

However, there was one thing he understood.

Hes going to knock me out at full force

Well then, Higure! Lets see if we can scorean extrlarge out-of-the-park home run!

Higure completely understood what was going to happen next.

To his front were the Tigers that had blown him away already.(TLN: I believe this a reference to the Hanshin Tigers, a Japanese baseball team)

Behind him were the Dragons that were about to blow him away(TLN: I think a reference to the Chunichi Dragons)

No matter what he did, he could not vision anything for him other than defeat.

So,

In words that werent really recognizable as actual words, Higure shouted with his crushed throat,

AAaaaskhkugalgaaskalaaaaaaaaaa!!!!!

In his scream he concentrated in his mind to deploy all 255 defense skills.

Getting ready to assault, Yuuki entered into attacking position and roared.

Ruri was taken aback, but was able to recognize what was happening.

In light of that, she also roared herself to overtake Yuukis roar.

Once Ruris voice completely overshadows that of Yuukisthey unleashed their fists.

Here we gooooooooooooooo!!!!!!!!!!!!! Here we gooooooooooooooo!!!!!!!!!!!!!(TLN: Both Yuuki and Ruri are saying this at once, but Im not sure how to convey that so I just wrote it twice. In Japanese you use double quotation marks, but I dont think that rule applies to English.)

Their fists approached.

Every single defense skill making up his reinforced protective wallwas broken through by brute strength without much effort.

!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

On the verge of death, the scenery around him moved as if it was in slow motion.

He saw Yuukis fist slowly approach him.

He recognized that the fist was about to sink into his face.

What Higure felt was not just pain, but what felt like an explosion.

What Higure couldnt recognize was that the impacthad explosively burst open his head.

In accordance to the vector of Yuukis power, his body began traveling backwards.

While breaking through the wall, being swept through the forest surrounding the research facility, and while being wrapped in a blue flame from the air friction heatHigure was blown away.

His consciousness blacked out once he had flown ten kilometers.

And so, Higure was blown far beyond the horizon.