Ch.369The In-Laws’ Country (9)

PABABABABAT-!!

Kana’s frog charged toward the male frog with incredible speed.

“No! Block it!! Come on!!”

The girlfriends immediately began cheering enthusiastically for their frogs.

PAAAAAT-!

The other frogs quickly blocked Kana’s frog. Wait. Do these frogs actually understand human language?

PAAAAAT-!!

Three muscular frogs blocked Kana’s frog, but Kana’s frog demonstrated excellent pressure evasion. It was Iniesta-level evasion in his prime.

“Where are you looking? That’s just an afterimage of my frog.”

Kana seemed genuinely excited with victory in sight.

The frogs were dealing with Kana’s afterimage and lost track of her actual frog.

“Victory is mine!!”

Kana shouted.

However, it didn’t last long.

“Ribbit…!!”

Kana’s frog stopped and collapsed.

CRACKLE-!!

A burning smell came from the implant in its spine.

“AAAAH!! The implant has been overused!! It’s putting tremendous strain on the body!!”

The MC Frog-man shouted.

“Now’s our chance!!!”

Umi’s frog, which had been smiling like a cheetah, rolled its body and rushed toward the male frog.

“Umi!! No matter what, I won’t give up!!”

Eri’s tanned frog pounced on Umi’s frog.

“You can’t go! This is a gyaru battle!!”

Aki, another gyaru heroine, jumped in. Suddenly, the three frogs began a three-way battle.

SQUIRM-! SQUIRM-!! SQUIRM-!

A wrestling match between the three female frogs unfolded. If they were humans, it would have been quite a suggestive sight… but they were just frogs.

After a while, a suggestive atmosphere developed among the three frogs.

Soon after, the three frogs headed to a corner with suggestive expressions. And then the three went off to build a new love nest together.

“AAAAH!! Unbelievably, all three retire!!! These frogs have awakened to a new sexual preference!!”

Frog-man shouted.

“Eri, Aki, Umi… are you into that sort of thing?”

This… my harem members could become love rivals?

“No, we’re not?!!!!”

The three immediately became serious and got angry.

———-

That’s right. Umi wasn’t the smiling cheetah. There was another cheetah.

Mika’s frog opened its mouth wide and shot out its long tongue.

SWOOOOSH-!!

The tongue wrapped around the male frog like a tentacle. Then it diligently pulled the male frog away.

“Victory is mine!!! Me!! I win!!”

Mika let out a childish victory cry.

“Hah…!! Me too!”

Tina’s frog also bound the male frog with its tongue.

“Let go!!”

“Release it!!”

The two ended up in a tug-of-war over the male frog.

“RIBBIT!!!”

The male frog was experiencing hell being pulled from both sides.

“I have no choice. If everyone is going to play dirty… I’ll play dirty too!”

Ms. Aiko’s frog also wrapped its tongue around the male frog.

The male frog was nearly being drawn and quartered. It was being pulled in different directions by three tongues.

‘Is this…?’

It was like that Solomon’s judgment thing. The one who lets go first has true love… that one should rightfully claim the male. I was already preparing to make such a heartwarming judgment.

That’s when Kirtan’s frog intervened.

Kirtan’s frog took a different approach. There was no need to pull with the tongue. The male frog was fixed in the center. So it could just mate with it right there.

PAAAAAT-!!

Kirtan’s frog simply made a bloodless entry toward the male frog.

“RIBBIT! RIBBIT!!”

The male frog, still bound by tongues, began enthusiastically shaking its hips toward Kirtan’s frog.

SQUIRT-!!

And soon after, the male frog fired a bullet from the pistol in its lower body.

“AAAAH!!! The real cheetah was hiding!!! The winner is… contestant Kirtan!!!!”

With Frog-man’s shout, Kirtan let out a resounding cry.

And so, Kirtan became the winner.

“UHAHAHAT!! This means I’m destined for a lifetime with Shota, right?”

Kirtan laughed heartily.

“…………”

The other girlfriends became stone-faced.

“Uh… shall we go to a good restaurant?!”

I immediately clapped my hands to ease the tension. When the mood gets tense during travel, eating something always helps. In the end, good food is what remains.

——–

Surprisingly, Humbalt Village had a rich food culture.

“This is delicious.”

My favorite was the seasoned grilled frog.

“Ugh… Shota. Are you really eating that?”

Eri had a shocked expression.

“Hey!! Don’t be prejudiced based on appearance!! This is really delicious!”

Countries like France eat quite a lot of frog. Now I understood why. The legs had the texture of meat, but the overall flavor was similar to seafood. It was the ultimate food combining the best aspects of meat and seafood.

“No… but still, frogs are…”

Umi made a disgusted face.

“This is why gyarus!!! If the appearance doesn’t pass, you won’t even talk to it! Face-obsessed!”

I immediately launched into a tirade about gyarus.

“Shota… you’re also face-obsessed. If we weren’t pretty, you wouldn’t have hit on us, right?”

Mika quietly ate her pancake while making a counterpoint.

“That’s right. Both us and Shota are face-obsessed. Let’s get along as fellow face-obsessed people.”

Aki said with a sweet smile.

“If Shota wasn’t healthy and didn’t have abilities, he’d just be a spiky-haired weirdo.”

Taiga said something rather harsh.

“That’s too much!!”

But in the end, doesn’t that mean I was chosen by beauties? Honestly, I didn’t feel bad about that.

“Right. We all… have perfect compatibility in this regard. Then let’s all eat frog meat together and strengthen our friendship.”

I immediately ordered additional frog steak.

“Not eating it.”

All my girlfriends refused right away. That’s harsh.

———

Anyway, I think everyone had enjoyed the sightseeing enough. Just doing unfamiliar things in an unfamiliar country was enough to raise one’s spirits.

“But… they’re not coming. Those witch people or whatever.”

Kana said while stroking her sword hilt. Still thinking about that? Do you want to reach level 99 that badly?

“Right. I wish something would show up.”

Taiga also said the same.

“You guys… if you keep saying things like that, something might really appear.”

I tried to stop my girlfriends. You know, in this world, there’s something called a flag.

That’s when it happened.

WEEEEEEEEEING-!!!

Alarms sounded throughout the village.

“Ah!! Is it the witches?!”

“Everyone hide!!”

The villagers (frog people) who were going about their business immediately jumped into nearby ponds with splashes. It was quite a novel evacuation method.

CLATTER-! CLATTER-!!

A thick fog appeared in the distance. More than 100 cavalry were charging toward us. They were knights in jet-black armor adorned with skull patterns.

KIGIGIGIGIK-!!

Ice began to form in the forest along the knights’ path. Cold air seemed to cling only around where the cavalry moved.

‘This feels familiar…’

Then, part of my past life memory surfaced.

“Death Knights, huh.”

I knew these beings. They were an elite combat group composed of the Demon Lord’s elite demon race or elite undead. Known as the spear of the Demon Lord’s army for their outstanding combat ability. Despite being knights, they used all sorts of dirty tricks like ice magic and undead summoning. If you’re a knight, fight properly with a sword.

‘These guys… they’re from the fantasy world I experienced in my past life?’

Why did they come all the way here? That was the question.

Anyway, their levels were around 80 to 90 on average. Quite strong.

“Fuck!! Experience points!!”

“Experience points!! Kill them all!! Gather them up!!”

Before I could say anything, the combat members of my harem all rushed toward them.

“W-wait!!”

Umi!! Taiga!! You can’t use your psycho-robo during the day!! It’s dangerous!!

“Damn it… can’t stop them…!!”

I sighed, then immediately grabbed the Hero’s Sword and rushed toward the front.

KWAAAAAAANG-!!!

Before I could even reach the front, Death Knights were being slaughtered from all directions.

“KHAAAAAK!!”

“KUHEOOOK!!!”

They were being swept away by Kana’s sword strikes.

“HYAAAH!! I want levels too!! Please level up!!”

Kirtan swung her sword and dealt with enemies in front. Occasionally shooting her gun to dismount approaching Death Knights was a bonus.

KWAAAAAAANG-!!

Tina, who had already reached max level but always itched for a fight, was blowing away Death Knights along with their horses with a single punch.

“Die!! Just die!!”

Despite not being able to use her psycho-robo, Taiga was beating down Death Knights one by one with a bat. As expected of a delinquent… her tenacity was incredible.

Since it was recognized as a party battle, experience points were also going to Umi who was just sucking her finger. That’s a healer and a freeloader for you.

“There he is!! The one with the Hero’s Sword!!”

Some of the Death Knights charged toward me, swinging their swords.

The moment they targeted me, their fate was sealed.

FWOOOOOOOSH-!!!!!!!!

As my sword strike emitted light, the group of Death Knights simultaneously burned to ashes.

The Death Knights were plenty strong, but we had become too powerful. With good positioning, we could one-sidedly slaughter them.

———

At that moment, the Demon Lord of Earth #30979 had a bewildered expression.

“Hey!! This isn’t what you said!! You said with elite troops like Death Knights, we could crush a country like this?!! They’re getting cut down instead!!”

The witch was angry.

“What… are there such strong warriors in this weak world setting?”

The Demon Lord looked genuinely confused.

Then, the Demon Lord’s gaze fixed on one spot.

That familiar spiky hair, that figure slaughtering monsters in a frenzy… it was familiar.

It was that hero who had killed him.

“………”

“Hey!! Demon Lord!! Answer me!! If I revived you, you should earn your keep….”

Before the witch could finish shouting, the Demon Lord screamed with tears and snot flowing.

“KIEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEK?!!!!!!!!!!!”

The Demon Lord let out a loud scream.

It was the “Hero Reality Shock” effect—when seeing the actual hero, one takes tremendous damage due to the fear of heroes being firmly imprinted. Whether it’s abbreviated as WRS phenomenon doesn’t matter.

“Hero?!! Why a hero?!! KIYOOOOOOOOOT?!!!!”

The Demon Lord immediately tried to flee while shedding tears.

“Wait!! Stop!!!! You crazy bastard!!!!”

The witches tried somehow to calm the Demon Lord’s mental state.

Was this the end of the Demon Lord’s fate? Shota discovered the Demon Lord who was screaming loudly.

Soon, Shota began running like mad toward where the witch and Demon Lord were.