Ch.227The Butterfly Effect-Observing NPC. (6)

“Pure love is not evil!!”

“Are you insane?! I have a wife!!! This isn’t pure or anything…!! AAAAGH?!!”

“Come here!! I’ll give you a hug!!!”

“No, I don’t need it!! Who the hell are these guys…?!! ARRRGH!!!”

“Truth is, I’ve been looking for a man like you for a long time~!!!”

“You’re a man too?!! Why are you looking for a man…?!! P-please spare me!!!”

The city guards’ levels, which Jack had checked through his status window, averaged in the high 100s. No one could have predicted that they would be so helplessly overwhelmed by the enemy’s surprise attack late at night.

And Jack, who knew the status window levels better than anyone, was watching the scene from the inn.

“Hey, you terrorist bastard. What the hell is that?!”

“I-I don’t know!! This has absolutely nothing to do with me!!”

“…Jack, m-men are pouncing on other men?”

“H-humans are scary…!!”

Thinking this situation couldn’t possibly be coincidental, I grabbed the terrorist by the collar and yelled at him. Beside me, the Chikuyo and Miho sisters, looking out the window, drooped their tails and ears in fear at the horrific sight they were witnessing for the first time.

“Don’t bullshit me!! Then why did that wall collapse?! No matter how I look at it, that was an explosion…!!!”

“I-I don’t know!! It really wasn’t us!! The b-bomb was brought by that comrade earlier, and I didn’t even know where it was…!!!”

“J-Jack… that wasn’t an explosion just now…”

“What?”

After the bell tolled, a wall not far from the city gate collapsed. As what looked like followers of the Demon of Jealousy overwhelmed the guards who had rushed to stop them, Chikuyo continued.

“S-someone punched it like you do. And they swung with such tremendous force that even my ears could hear it!!”

“S-sister? Are you saying there’s someone as strong as Jack on the enemy side?!”

“I don’t know! But they’re definitely much stronger than either of us…!!”

Chikuyo, whose hearing was better than Miho’s, seemed to have heard something and looked at me with slightly frightened eyes. I knocked out the terrorist with a blow to the neck and looked outside again.

“Ahahaha!! What a fine woman!!!”

“Honey, run away…!!!”

“Kyaaa?!! H-honey?!!”

“I know how to love a good man too!!!”

“AAAAGH!! Honey, run away!!! Quickly!!!”

“Mommy…!!! Daddy!!!”

“You’re just a child?! Children should be cared for with love?! Come here, child!!!”

“WAAAAAAAAAH!!!”

[Being Consumed by Demonic Power: Level 423]

“Holy shit.”

How is it that we can’t have one peaceful stop on this journey?

Moreover, these guys are different from the Jealousy followers. Those were just natural-born gay men, but these ones are trying to pounce on everyone—women and even children. Fortunately(?), the city men and guards are desperately blocking them, so only men are being attacked for now, but if this continues, every space in sight will become R-rated!!

But, a power that makes people bisexual? Fuck, could it be…

-BANG!!

“Haha!! Two beautiful women?! And a handsome man too?! I’ve hit the jackpot!!!”

“J-Jack?!”

“T-this person is strong…!!”

[Being Consumed by Demonic Power: Level 408]

A crazed woman who broke into our top-floor room shouted. Chikuyo reflexively drew her sword and Miho clenched her fists threateningly, but the woman just laughed louder at their resistance and approached.

“Haaa!! I’m excited!! A woman’s strong resistance is so thrilling!!! And beast-folk?! I’ve always been interested in interbreeding with this race…!!”

-THWACK!

“Shut up. Lunatic.”

“?!!”

-CRASH!!!

I grabbed the face of the woman who was spouting nonsense and slammed her into the wall, then finished her with an elbow strike to the solar plexus. She died without uttering another word. Damn, if all the enemies are above level 400, Chikuyo and Miho won’t be able to handle them alone.

“…Gulp.”

“Jack, this is…”

“It seems like these enemies are beyond what you two can handle.”

“!!!”

When I stated the situation plainly, both of them stared at me with eyes as big as saucers, their mouths gaping. This isn’t because they’re weak. The enemy’s level is just too high.

The difference between Siltra (ep.2) and Ponia (ep.4) is equivalent to two episodes. While Miho and Chikuyo’s levels are far higher than [Siltra], they’re not high enough to dominate in ep.4. Here…

“J-Jack!! W-we won’t get in your way!!”

“T-that’s right…!! We absolutely won’t hold you back…!!!”

“Huh? What are you talking about? Just stay behind me and focus on protecting yourselves without fighting directly.”

I frowned and cut them off as they suddenly started insisting they could fight too. Chikuyo and Miho looked at each other in surprise, then back at me.

What’s with them?

“…Oh, okay.”

“We thought you were going to tell us to hide here…”

“Are you crazy? These guys attack both women and men, and they’re extremely strong. How could I leave my women behind and go anywhere?”

‘You stay here while I go clean up the situation?’ Did they think I’d make such a stupid choice? When we don’t know how many enemies there are or why this situation erupted, and enemies have already invaded the inn—if I told my women it was safer to stay here and left them, that would be like praying to get NTR’d.

Sorry, but I have zero interest in that and no intention of letting it happen.

“Let’s go downstairs. We’ll help people while taking down as many enemies as we can. Once your safety is secured, I’ll help the guards alone.”

“Got it!!”

“Alright. We definitely won’t hold you back…!!”

The two made their declarations with determination, and I nodded in response before heading down the stairs. As soon as we descended, I saw the innkeeper who had made sexual jokes to me earlier…

“Butts!! Let me see your butt!!!”

“AAAAH!! Honey, run away!!!”

“Sir!! Stop!!! Someone help…!!!”

He was being sexually harassed by another woman right in front of his wife. I rubbed my face in utter disbelief, then immediately leaped forward and kicked the woman’s face, turning her into wall decoration number two. After telling them to run away quickly, we headed outside the inn.

“…Damn. I’ve used up all my MP today.”

With low intelligence and only 1 MP, plus a mana recovery rate of just 1 per day, activating my radar skill is impossible. It’s really unfortunate that the Veteran Ranger’s detection effect is gone.

“Chikuyo. Miho. I’ll take them all down, you just focus on helping the people being attacked.”

“Okay!!”

“Phantom Blade!!”

I focused on clearing up the chaotic situation before us and helping people escape. Most enemies were in the early 400s, with the weakest around 390. Miho and Chikuyo had already activated all their skills to fight the enemies, but they clearly couldn’t win easily…

“Wow! Beast-folk!! Interspecies breeding for the first time…!!”

“Sister?!!”

“What the hell?! What kind of power…!!”

“Get away from my woman, you bastard!!”

I kept watching their backs as we fought, but the situation showed no signs of improving. However, we somehow managed to evacuate all the civilians who couldn’t escape on their own.

“Damn. Can you two still stand?”

“Grr… Sorry, even in half-beast form I can’t win.”

“What’s going on?! How can they dodge blade attacks from behind without even looking?!”

Chikuyo’s follow-up attacks and Miho’s half-beast transformation were just enough to not lose to these guys. Considering their levels, they’re making up for a 100-level gap, which is by no means weak, but they were inevitably getting exhausted at an alarming rate. Sigh, can’t be helped.

“Let’s head to the gate. I wanted to fight while saving as many people as possible, but this seems endless.”

“Grr, sorry. I said I wouldn’t hold you back.”

“Mew, I never thought demon followers would be this strong…”

“No, it’s not your fault. You both fought well. Let’s move to end this situation.”

The two sisters started to look dejected, as if they hadn’t expected to be this outmatched. But from my perspective, they truly fought well. Honestly, we saved every citizen who was being attacked in front of us, and I’ll stand by that no matter who says otherwise.

So, as we started moving quickly to end this insane situation—

-Ears perk up!

“Jack! It sounds like that ranger from earlier is fighting near the collapsed wall! It seems like there are more enemies than the ones we just faced!”

“…Alright, let’s go right away. You two don’t need to fight. Just protect yourselves.”

“Okay. But I’ll support if needed?”

Thanks to Chikuyo’s good hearing, we could move to where the enemies were invading even without my detection skill. If I go there and clean up quickly, surely the guards can handle the rest…

“Senior?!! Why are you doing this?!!”

“Hahaha!! I’ve always thought whenever I saw you!! That your well-trained body is so beautiful!!”

“Senior Peck?!! Aren’t you getting married the month after next?!!”

“Johnson!! Come join us and become one with us!! It feels amazing right now!! Rangers should marry the mountains after all?!!”

“…Jack? Don’t tell me all of them…”

“Are all those people rangers?”

“Ugh… fuck. I don’t want to believe it, but it seems that way.”

The people labeled as “Being Consumed by Demonic Power” that Johnson was holding off—it appears they’re all rangers.

Watching Johnson struggling alone against seniors who were all above level 400, I sighed before immediately joining the fight.