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Pandora of Fantasy And Reality Chapter 28

Added 2022-09-30 08:00:13 +0000 UTC

Malicious Player

The orc group riding on donkeys.

Alfie raised her fist and hit Prey who was carrying her under his arm.

「M-my queen, you don’t need to reward me like that, we――afuu!」

Dume glanced at Prey who was rejoicing from getting hit. He was carrying a huge sword that was like a lump of iron, bigger than even a great sword on his back.

The donkeys were running fast even though they were carrying huge orcs who were armed with such huge weapons. The players around who caught sight of them were shocked from how fast they were going.

「You bastard! What are you doing getting rewarded by yourself like that! Hand over our queen to me! I want to get hit!」

Alfie yelled at the orcs who were still true to themselves regardless of time and situation.

「Let go of me already! I’m going to back up Ponsuke!」

But Prey wouldn’t let go of Alfie even after hearing that.

「……No. I have promised Ponsuke-kun. We will deliver the three of you to the adventurer guild without fail.」

Alfie looked down and stopped resisting. Prey looked a bit disappointed.

Alfie too could understand what Prey was saying.

They would be able to safely clear the quest if someone stayed behind to buy them time.

Mariela slipped out from the orc’s arm and got on his back to look around.

「I see it!」

The adventurer guild came into view from between the gaps of the buildings. They would be able to arrive soon.

Nanako who borrowed the donkey from Ponsuke also felt relieved when the goal finally came into view. But she recalled Ponsuke’s situation.

「Will Ponsuke-san be alright?」

The other orcs were running side-by-side with them to protect them from harm. They looked troubled for a bit before they decided to speak the truth.

「……The enemies are malicious players with level restriction. When attacking someone, there will be penalty if the level difference is too great. They understand that and attacked you guys after restricting their level to 60 which is just barely the acceptable limit.」

In other words the enemies were experienced.

「Ponsuke-kun will revive after buying us some time. That’s why he’ll be fine.」

The donkey neighed when Nanako casted her gaze down. The neighing sounded different from a horse. It was as though it was consoling Nanako.

The donkey was kind to other races even though it was so harsh to orc.

But Alfie noticed here.

(Eh? But, even though we had helped Nanako-chan to level up, her level compared to us is clearly――)

Yes. Nanako’s level hadn’t been maxed like Ponsuke and others.

Alfie lifted her face.

「That’s strange. Why then those guys are targeting Nanako-chan――」

The others didn’t know what Alfie was going to say because she said something that was an extension of her internal thought.

The donkeys made a sharp turn. Their body tilted diagonally until the limit as they rushed through the corner. The entrance of the adventurer guild came into view from there.

There was a plaza in front of it. There were also other players there although their number was fewer than the morning or noon.

「We arrive! With this――」

One orc spoke up in relieve when he suddenly got blown backward from the donkey’s back.

「Gheetooo!」

Dume yelled as the orc with pineapple head rolled on the ground and burst into light.

The leader Prey jumped down from his donkey and held a large shield in front of his body as he confronted the smirking four players before them.

The quartet with hairstyle like hosts in male host club were sporting hideous smile on their faces.

Alfie was carried under Prey’s arm so she got off the donkey together with him and readied her weapon.

「What is Gheeto’s level!? His level shouldn’t have been maxed like you guys right!?」

Alfie wanted to check something with the orcs. Prey answered her while keeping his gaze fixed on the four in front of them.

「He’s beginner but, he had already reached level 30 in no time at all. Right now he should be――around level 36?」

Prey seemed to have noticed it too.

Yes……the four enemies didn’t get any penalty at all from killing Gheeto even though his level was too far below these four.

The man with great sword languidly held his weapon in fighting stance. The corner of his lips rose as he looked at Nanako.

「Fo~und you. That orc got in the way, but it was totally pointless. Hey, how does that make you feel?」

The quartet declared that Ponsuke’s sacrifice was pointless before laughing. The eight of them couldn’t move in front of these four.

Then the donkey struggled and forcefully put Nanako down.

「Kyah! M-Mister donkey!?」

Then the donkey dashed off to somewhere and vanished from view.

(……Did I lose?)

It was a pitch black space where there was no gravity. Ponsuke floated there as he recalled the faces of the four malicious players.

Ponsuke clenched his fist in frustration. He felt the muscles of his hand and arm strained like they would rip apart. And then his body turned hot――yes, it felt hot.

It felt like something hot flowed into his body while he was floating weightlessly.

It felt like his crumbling body was trying to be reborn to be tougher. And then something wild tried to worm its way into Ponsuke――Akito’s heart.

(Loathsome! Crush them! Kill those guys!)

The feeling was like a ferocious nature that orc inherently possessed.

Ponsuke felt like his heart was going to be swallowed in when……he felt something warm in his clenched hand.

It was the rock called “Kind Heart” that he obtained from a quest.

(……The rock from that time?)

His heart greatly calmed down, and then the orc’s wildness vanished to somewhere. In exchange it felt like his fist……his arms and legs had become slightly bigger.

Right after that he felt that he was dropped on his back and opened his eyes.

「Tsu! ……A dream?」

Was he dreaming just now? Ponsuke wondered like that and tried to open his right hand. There on his palm that had gotten slightly bigger than before was a rock.

He slowly got up and looked around. He noticed that he was in a shrine.

「I revived huh.」

He got down from the stone bed and immediately checked his weapon. His weapon was broke and even the spares had turned into unusable junk.

He practically had no equipment. Now he was an orc in only a loincloth.

「……Gotta hurry.」

He tossed the rock into his item box and broke into a run. It felt like he was able to run faster than usual.

Perhaps his anxiety and excitement were helping him to move his body better.

Strength filled his body. It was like his body was overflowing with it.

He made a large jump from the shrine’s entrance. He flew over the head of several players and landed on the ground.

He broke into a run again without stopping. The players went pale seeing that but he paid them no mind.

「Excuse me! I’m in a hurry!」

Then a donkey came and ran beside Ponsuke.

「You!」

The donkey moved its head to tell him to get on.

「……I got a better opinion of you now!」

Ponsuke jumped on the donkey’s back. The donkey neighed once before dashing in full speed.

The other players gave way to Ponsuke and the donkey. All of them continued to fix their stare on the orc’s large back even after he had passed them by.

In front of the adventurer guild.

「Guh!」

Dume got shot by a gun. His huge sword was destroyed and he fell on his knee.

Gido, Deidada, and Mob had already vanished. Only Prey and Dume remained.

They fought hard to protect the three girls, but in the end they were helplessly done in.

And then――.

「Stop screwing around! ――Dammit, again!」

Other players had come out from the adventurer guild and attacked the quartet. They saw what happened and moved to assist Nanako and others.

However even those players were cut down by the two swords guy and vanished.

Warning panel would pop up sometimes when those players attacked, which made their body stopped moving. The malicious players would cut them down at that moment of helplessness.

Mariela too got a warning when she drew her bow because she was currently not being attacked.

「What the hell! Why am I the one getting warned here!」

There were also other players around them who were contacting the GM, and players who were only watching from afar.

There were also players who didn’t want to get involved and left, and even players who weren’t interested at all and leisurely picked a quest before leaving.

But the commotion kept getting bigger and the area in front of the adventurer guild was getting crowded by a lot of players.

The man with great sword looked displeased seeing that.

「Are you guys deadbeat who got nothing better to do huh? This ain’t a show.」

He said that and pointed his sword to the surrounding, but the hunched player with short sword was cackling.

「This is the best show though! There’s nothing better than watching weaklings begging for forgiveness while crying!」

The man with large sword got a look of understanding from hearing that.

「Aa, I see. Besides it looks like these guys don’t have enough stimulation in their life. Even though something like this is just normal at 10 PM until 2 AM timeslot.」

Originally they were playing at 10 PM to 2 AM timeslot where there were a lot of players logging in. Then gradually the players there started to look down on players from other relaxed timeslot.

「They should have fun more. These honor students like to yap don’t do this, don’t do that……we gotta teach them that this game Pandora is a far more extreme game.」

The four looked at the gathered players without a care in the world.

Mariela gritted her teeth, and then she felt dubious about the four’s action.

「……Why are these guys being left alone? And not only that, why aren’t they looking concerned at all even after gathering this much attention?」

Someone who went wild like this would be bashed online, not only inside the game but also in real life’s internet. But these four didn’t look worried about that.

Alfie stood in front of Nanako, sword at the ready. There were also several other players standing at Alfie’s sides.

「Oi, you already called the GM right!?」

Alfie nodded to the player who was helping them.

「I did. And it wasn’t just me, I also asked other players to call the GM. But……」

Even when she looked around, there wasn’t any sign of GM or staff coming.

A player who was holding his left hand over his ear turned pale.

「Oi, this is bad. It’s getting overloaded inside the game. It looks like someone flooded the GM with calls that the dev can’t keep up with their respond.」

It was bad luck――or maybe not.

Alfie turned toward the four who were grinning with composure and asked her question.

「You guys……must have done something.」

One of the malicious players whistled when he heard that and answered. He reloaded his gun and then aimed it at Alfie.

「You think we gonna answer you, stu~pid. Get lost.」

He pulled the trigger. Alfie raised her sword to block it. The bullet hit and the sword ran out of endurance. The weapon that she bought with real money vanished.

「I don’t have any more spa――」

Right after that the other players got cut and vanished.

Mariela dragged Nanako backward to protect her, but the enemy’s blade approached the two――.

「Screw off!」

A large arm punched the two malicious players flying.

Nanako yelled.

「Ponsuke-san!」

It was Ponsuke who came running on a small donkey.

Ponsuke got down from the donkey and stood in front of the quartet.

The quartet looked annoyed from the bottom of their heart.

「You again. We’re already bored of you so feel free to run off.」

*Shuh shuh* One malicious player made shooing gesture with his hand, but Ponsuke stood still in front of them without saying anything.

The furious orc’s expression contained something bloodcurling in it.

The enemies seemed to be pressured by Ponsuke’s fury too. They raised their weapon and attacked.

「Die already!」

The two swords guy closed the distance until he was in front of Ponsuke, but Ponsuke’s fist hammered into him.

Ponsuke’s large fist sunk into face and smashed him on the ground.

「That hurts! What the hell is this! Why is it so painful!」

The man let go of his sword that he held with two hands to press them on his face. He was sobbing from the pain. But actually the damage to his HP wasn’t that much.

However the four seemed to be in a strange condition.

「It hurt? No way」

「Your HP doesn’t decrease that much」

「……O-oi」

Alfie yelled to Ponsuke in front of the four who were acting strange.

「Ponsuke, they are using some kind of unfair method! It’s dangerous if you fight them head-on like that!」

The other people around them also jeered at the quartet from all the unnatural happenings until now.

「You guys must be using cheat aren’t ya!」

「Screw off you cheating bastards!」

「Someone record this, post their face on the net!」

The surrounding jeered and hooted at the quartet and started to encircle them. Meanwhile the four’s situation was getting even stranger.

「Tsk! I’ve had enough, we’ll log out forcefully after killing these guys. This is the limit anyway」

Ponsuke grabbed the arm of the player who was pressing his hand on his face after hearing the words ‘this is the limit’.

「Aa?」

The player glared at Ponsuke while Ponsuke sent one-on-one duel request to him.

It was a duel between party where each party would decide on their representative who would then decide the result of the duel.

Ponsuke forcefully moved the player’s hand to agree to the request.

「You bastard!」

Ponsuke finally opened his mouth after the player yelled angrily like that.

「It’s a match with no time limit……one-on-one fight until one side die. You guys can’t run away.」

In front of the adventurer guild.

There a faint light formed a circle around them.

Ponsuke and the quartet got forcefully moved into the circle. And then a choice screen appeared in front of the player with large sword to decide who would be the representative.

「S-screw you! I’m not gonna go along with the like of you! This is invalid!」

Ponsuke felt that the four had gotten anxious to run away after the people around them started calling them cheater. He slowly spoke to them.

「Of course you’re saying that. It’s scary right? After all the dev will react right away and investigate thoroughly when there’s cheating involved.」

The act of using cheat in online game was a very poor act.

For example using cheat to mass produce rare item. Creating powerful weapon or armor in abnormal amount would destroy the game balance in a flash.

The dev adopted harsh stance toward such act. Sometimes they would even sue the culprit if the case was serious enough.

「……Don’t run off your mouth saying whatever. Do you have proof huh? Show the proof!」

The player had an about-face and acted belligerently, but Ponsuke wasn’t moved by it.

「The dev will make the judgment for that. You guys can’t run away with this, so now I just need to wait.」

The surrounding cheered at Ponsuke.

「Yeah, show them who’s boss you orc fella!」

「Drag the cheating bastards to the dev!」

「I’ve gotten you guys recorded in video. I’ll definitely send this to the dev.」

The jeers from the surroundings fanned up the four’s anxiety. They were sweating coldly as they looked at Ponsuke but then they laughed.

「You think we have no way out huh? Something like this will vanish right away if we beat you up. Also rather than me, the other three has killed your friends many times――」

There a very unfamiliar group made their appearance.

「――Many times what?」

They were equipped with items that clearly couldn’t be obtained in the Capital of Hope. Standing at the head of the strong-looking group was Rook.

「Yoo, Ponsuke! We’re late but we came running here.」

Rook waved his hand. Seeing him made Mariela and Alfie so relieved that their knees lost their strength.

Ponsuke raised his right hand.

「I’ll leave the three outside to you.」

Then the three other than the man with great sword got forcefully ejected outside the circle. The three then tried to attack Rook’s group.

The three players who were ejected outside.

They removed their level restriction and switched their equipments to their main set. All of them were wearing very edgy looking armors and weapons.

Rook slashed at those three.

But one of them used skill or item to rush toward Nanako.

「Nanako-chan!」

Mariela and Alfie and also the remaining two orcs stepped forward to protect her. The player with short sword grinned, sure of his victory.

However――.

「Let me tell you the type of person we hate the most……it’s cheating bastard like you guys.」

The group that was wearing hooded robe took off their hood. Then two of them moved.

The malicious player that had persistently tormented them until now got his leg swept from under him very easily. Then a spear pinned him down to the ground, restricting his movement.

「Gahah!」

The player was stabbed through by a spear and had his legs stepped on. He struggled but he didn’t manage to get away at all.

One of Rook’s friends restrained the remaining two while Rook took care of the player that tried to attack Nanako.

Rook’s group consisted of four people. Two of them didn’t take any action at all. Perhaps they were in the process of leveling up from the bottom again, where two friends with high level were powerleveling them.

The man who was armed with spear turned his gaze toward the circle.

「……I hate this kind of guys. But forget about them, doesn’t that orc has any equipment? He’ll lose right away like that.」

The player who was in the middle of leveling up again was chuckling.

「It will be too pitiful if he get defeated easily here after acting cool like that. Is there someone who has equipment to give?」

Then a craftsman player called out to Mariela.

「Oi」

「Eh?」

The craftsman――craftsmen asked Mariela about Ponsuke’s equipment.

「What’s that orc fella’s equipment style like? What is his weight limit?」

「We’ll prepare high quality armor set for him, so tell us.」

Mariela was confused, but Alfie answered in her place.

「You can just ignore the weight limit! He uses large shield and one-handed sword. For armor he mainly use light equipment.」

The craftsmen looked at each other.

「If it’s light equipment then I can prepare it right away.」

「I also have one-handed sword that will be just right.」

「What about the large shield? Is there anyone who has large shield?」

One person immediately started to make equipment on the spot when the craftsmen said that they didn’t have it.

「Someone bring me items! Give me steel! Weight doesn’t matter for orc!」

The surrounding players checked the items they had and handed them to the craftsmen. Rook took out one item after seeing that.

「This item does nothing except cluttering my item box. Use it.」

The eyes of the craftsmen sparkled.

「It’s rare item! I can prepare something awesome with this! Oi, someone help!」

Facing Ponsuke was the man with great sword.

「You damn pig. You keep getting in my way!」

Ponsuke also glared back at the enemy’s enraged expression. His grimness seemed to slightly surprise the enemy and he began to make some frivolous talk.

「What? You’re angry? What a stupid adult, getting so heated up from just playing a game like this. You don’t have any friend in RL aren’t you? Did I hit the bull’s eye? Sorry~」

His tone was condescending.

It went straight into his head, but right now there was something that Ponsuke couldn’t forgive even more.

「You attacked my important friends and killed them.」

「……Ha? This is a game, what do you mean killing? They got revived any――」

Ponsuke cut him off and continued.

「――I don’t give a damn. I’m not going to talk about lofty thing like manner or whatever to you. What I want to say is……I don’t like you. That’s why I’ll crush you!」

He smashed his large fists on each other in front of him, and then he roared.

The “Roar of Strength” resounded through the Capital of Hope. Then Mariela yelled.

「Ponsuke! Everyone made equipments for you!」

Alfie also raised her voice.

「Blow those guys away!」

Nanako also yelled

「Ponsuke-san!」

The items got transferred to Ponsuke. He opened his status screen.

The man with large sword took advantage of that opening and attacked.

「Idiot, who’s going to let you――」

Ponsuke made a big jump and light enveloped him as he landed at the opposite side.

It was an astounding jumping strength. Ponsuke turned around and displayed his figure wrapped in his new equipments.