Worthless Skill Escape (WN)

Chapter 68

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Chapter 68 – High Human-sama (Lol)

“Kuh, let me go! You mere humans! Do you think you can touch my noble body?”

The man I grabbed just turned his face to me and shouted like that.

By the way, he and I both speak Japanese.

“You talk like you’re not human, huh?”

“Don’t lump me in with those mere humans! I am a proud…”

“High human, huh?”

“Wha…”

“You’re disguising your status to hide your true identity, aren’t you? If that’s the case, why don’t you come up with something more plausible to hide it? If you can’t let people know you’re an elf, why not just be a human?”

“How can a proud elf call himself a human, even if it’s just for a short time!”

“Even though it is a false identity, you were not satisfied with the ‘human-like’ appearance. So you call yourself a ‘high human’ who doesn’t even exist in this world? As expected from the proud elves, you do things differently.”

At this rate, he might have exaggerated his level and other statuses as well.

“You bastard! You, a mere human, dare to mock the elves?”

“It’s not the elves I’m mocking. It’s you who are trapped in a sense of superiority.”

“Curse you!”

Clovis roared like a ferocious beast.

But I’m not holding him so that he can escape.

“Haruka-san, are you hurt?”

I look up and ask Haruka-san.

“Thank you, Yuto-san. I was having trouble with his stubbornness.”

“Who is this guy?”

“He’s an elf who drifted into this world from the same world as mine.”

“Do you know him?”

“Yes, well…”

Haruka-san nodded bitterly.

“I! I am the fiancé of Princess Harukafia!”

The subdued elf-man exclaimed.

“Fiancé? Is that true?”

“Former fiancé. Before, I was mated with a human man.”

“That’s…”

When a human man takes a beautiful woman like Haruka-san, it is not hard to understand why his blood would boil.

But with a man like that as her fiancée, it is only natural that Haruka-san would want to run away.

…I don’t think Haruka’s behavior will change whether she has a fiancée or not.

“Don’t get me wrong! That’s not only the point! I’m on a noble mission as an elf!”

“A noble mission?”

“Yes! To leave this unholy world behind and return to our forest world!”

“Can you do that?”

“That is not your concern!”

Well, of course, it is.

“What about you, Haruka-san?”

I asked her something I didn’t have to ask.

“I have no intention of returning to that world. Honoka grew up in this world.”

“If you leave that filthy girl with human blood in this world――gugagaahh!”

“Be careful what you say, you proud High Human-san.”

The words cursed at Honoka-chan; I just couldn’t help but put a lot of power into my hands.

“Haruka-san says she won’t cooperate. You should withdraw quietly.”

“Why should I take orders from a human―kaahhh!”

“Don’t you ever learn, you proud elf?”

I pulled Clovis’ arm roughly and made him stand.

Then, pushing him off his back,

“――Get lost. Don’t show your face here again. Next time, I won’t let you get away with it.”

“A-a mere human telling me what to do…!”

“Blaze Lance.”

I shot a spear of white flame at his side, and it scorched the ground.

“Wha… Such an advanced skill for a human!”

“Try Appraisal. You should be able to tell if I’m someone you can compete with.”

“Damn, Appraisal―Le-level 3241!?”

Clovis looked at my status and was absolutely stunned.

What Clovis just saw was a fake status made up by Disguise.

The level is 3241, which makes me look like an excellent explorer with a full set of magic skills.

It’s such a strange status that it doesn’t show up in the level rankings.

At first, I wanted to make it more modest, but then I was told, “You’re going to raid A-rank dungeons solo, right? If that’s the case, you need to have a reasonable status, or people will be suspicious of you.” Serika and Haitani-san pointed out, “If the identity of the Kurotengu is revealed to be Kurashiki-san, you will be suspected unnecessarily if your status is too low.”

Taking their opinion into consideration, it was decided to use Disguise for my status, along the lines of “a mage-type explorer who could have soloed an A-rank dungeon.”

The status was thought up by Serika and Haitani-san, who know a lot of explorers, so it should be pretty plausible.

…Even though Clovis disguises his status as level 4700, he is surprised to see that my (disguised) level is 3241…

I guess he must be exaggerating his level quite a bit. Too high for his pride.

“I see that Princess Harkafia likes to consort with lowly men. After the previous man died on the side of the road, you switched to this lowly man who is only of a higher level, huh? What an incredible bitch you are!”

“That’s enough! Don’t impose your selfish expectations on Haruka-san without knowing what she’s been through!”

“…Tch, but at such a high level…”

Clovis seemed to think for a moment.

Unlike his previous single-minded arrogance, he seems to be calculating something…?

Is it just my imagination?

“I-I will remember this! I’ll make you regret this, Kurashiki Yuto!”

Clovis himself runs away with a completely underling-like sentence.

At the moment, he only pushed Haruka-san forcibly, so there is no pretext to hold him by force.

While it is not impossible to claim that he assaulted Haruka-san, as the victim, Haruka-san is also in a position to not have her identity questioned by the police.

“Are you okay, Haruka-san?”

“I’m so grateful for your help, Yuto-san. He caused me a lot of trouble.”

“It looks like trouble, but I got involved.”

I’m surprised that there are other elves in this world besides Haruka-san.

“This is the first time he’s shown up here today, right?”

“Yes. I wonder where in the world they sniffed me out…”

“You have no idea?”

“No.”

“What did he want?”

“He said that there were other surviving elves and that they were working together to return to our world.”

“If they want to return, why don’t they?”

“It seems that their plan requires my help.”

“Does that mean Haruka-san is special?”

“Thanks to my bloodline, I’ve always been particularly adept at sensing spirits among the elves. By attuning me to the spirits of our original world, they want to use me as a guide to the other world.”

“Is that possible?”

“No, it would not be that simple. It would require a special ritual. Even if it were possible, I would never make it back alive to be able to sense across the world.”

“So he wants Haruka-san to become a sacrifice and return them to their original world?”

“He didn’t say it directly, but that’s what he meant.”

What an amazing story.

“Speaking of which, if he is also an elf, won’t he have some problems adjusting to this world?”

Even though her complexion is better than before, Haruka-san still can’t get rid of the elixir.

I’ve heard that it’s because the magic in this world is thinner than in her original world.

“I don’t understand it either. I wonder if he found another solution.”

“If so, why doesn’t he tell you the solution first? He was trying to take advantage of Haruka-san from the beginning.”

But on the contrary, he never used that as a bargaining chip.

So maybe this is a method that Haruka-san can’t use.

“Do you think he’ll give up now?”

“I don’t think so. He’s always been stubborn.”

Then, I’d like to have a way to find out his status.

The skill Kudave used on me is called Fathom.

I hope I can get it somehow.