MURABITO DESU GA NANI KA? - Chapter 35
Chapter 35: Interlude ~Lecture On Humanity’s Strongest~
“The strongest of humanity…? Hmm, that’s an interesting topic isn’t it?”
Dragon King’s room- Sitting on a throne at the end of the crimson carpet was the Dragon King, and in front of him, a human with his head lowered.
“When we surveyed the opinions of experts from various fields from the capital’s adventurer’s guild… we came to this conclusion.”
“Are you asking me to name the candidate of humanity’s strongest… in terms of strategic individual value?”
“Naturally, strategic, not tactical. Being able to influence the results of a massive war, taking on a country all by oneself, that level of strength.”
The Dragon King sat relaxedly on his throne and swirled the wine glass in his hands.
A black suit with a rose-patterned cutter shirt. On the throne was a Japanese sword.
Lute jokingly called him ‘Host Samurai’, but he really gave off the feeling of a ‘Host Samurai’.
Setting that aside.
With asymmetrical silver and golden hair, the Dragon King said while laughing.
“Hmm… for now, you?”
“Ha… Did something happen? Lord Dragon King?”
Then, the Dragon King swirled his finger.
When he did so, a young maid in a gothic outfit entered the room with a bow.
As she was, she placed an uncorked bottle of wine in front of the human.
“There’s something nice I want to see…”
Thinking for a while, the man looked at the Dragon King and the bottle alternately.
“Hmm… Something nice you want to see… Is it?”
“It’s about another world… In a beautiful garden… There’s apparently something called a host club.”
The man frowned with suspicion.
“A host club… Is it?”
“There are rituals in that place. That’s why- I want to see.”
“That’s why… What… Just what do you want to see…?”
“Anyway, it’s fine, if you drink it all at once”
“Drink it all at once… is it?”
The Dragon King nodded.
“Yes, that’s right”
“What happens if I do so?”
Hmm… Thinking for a while, the Dragon King put a finger to his chin.
“…”
“…”
For about thirty seconds.
The Dragon King grinned and nodded as he said.
“There if you… Show me something good…”
“If I show you?”
“After that-”
The Dragon King continued with a wink.
“It’s ‘Let’s Party Night’!” 1
“…?”
“Blank or vacant, well, that’s how it is.”
Ignoring the troubled human, the Dragon King clapped his hands together.
It seemed the farce was over, and he was about to get down to the main topic.
“So… Humanity’s strongest, was it?”
“Yes, that’s exactly correct.”
The Dragon King gazed into the air for a moment before nodding.
“Well, it depends on the bounds of ‘humanity’.”
“Beast people or Elves. Are you asking whether they would be included?”
“It’s natural to include them, since they’re human sub-species. Normally, we don’t look different from humans either, is it fine to include dragonkind too?”
“Dragonkind, would be a bit different, though?”
“Why? We understand human languages and fundamentally take on the same appearance as humans?”
Here, the man shook his head as though giving up.
That said, he understood what the Dragon King wanted to say.
“It’s fine if you add Dragonkind into the question too.”
The Dragon King nodded.
“Well, then as the strongest of the dragonkind… I must be one of the candidates.”
“So, you say, but you forcibly added dragonkind at the end there?”
“Well, when you’re talking about the strongest, you feel like putting yourself in, right?”
“…Ha.”
The Dragon King laughed villainously.
“So getting back to the topic. After me, would be the person who strove to be a god while they were still alive, the truth Seeking Hermit of the Polar Regions: Luumi”
“A famous sage. I’ve heard they’ve been alive for over 500 years…”
“To be precise, they aren’t quite a sage yet. Also, it is in fact a little over 800 years old. Almost the same as me.”
“So, you say…?”
“Well, various things happened in the past. Anyway, they’re not a sage. A sage is one that discards one’s flesh and exists naturally as a spiritual being, an unusually spiritual state.”
“…?”
“To put it simply, they are existences which are waiting for apotheosis and for their bodies to decay at the same time.”
“I feel like I get it, but I don’t get it…”
There, the Dragon King clapped his hands together again.
“The next one I can’t forget is the demon world’s forbidden magic user, Dark Elf: Merlin Onyx. Despite being a human he lives in the demon world with the demons, rather, would it be more accurate to say with the devils.”
Next, the Dragon King opened his mouth.
“Undefeated in the east, victorious of 2000 battles: Itou Retsuji. And then, chaos of death and rebirth, the elven sage of healing and destruction magic: Limuru Kieth.”
Hearing these words, the human said with disappointment.
“They’re all famous people, huh?”
“The heroes of this era aren’t quite adults yet after all. Well, this is my expectation, but the Hero of the West: Olsted Yogsten, still falls largely short of the top, but has room to grow being only eighteen years old.”
This time, unsatisfied, the human said.
“After all, they’re all famous people.”
There, the Dragon King smiled.
However, his eyes weren’t smiling at all, and blue lines from comics could be seen.
-Apparently, the Dragon King was a man of low tolerance.
“Then, shall I pull out an unknown name?”
“An unknown name?”
‘Yep’, giving a big nod, the Dragon King said.
“Lute Macklen.”
Thinking for a while, the human asked the Dragon King.
“Who is that?”
“-The world’s strongest villager.”
“A villager…?”
Unable to tell what was going on, the man just held a confused expression.
“You’ll understand one day. He chose to walk alongside the hero.”
“…?”
“If that’s the case, he’ll have to stand on stage even if he doesn’t like it, and etch his name in history.”
“His name, in history?”
To the human who couldn’t say a word, the Dragon King said with a full faced smile.
“You’ll understand someday. Also, quite a few of the names I listed, including me, are probably going along with him.”
“…”
Saying so, the Dragon King pointed to the bottle of wine in front of the man.
“For the time being, I want to see something nice.”
“…Drink in one go… is it?”
Grinning, the Dragon King nodded.