Chapter 163

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-- Chapter 163
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NovelReader (Spoiler):

Final Battle Start! in next chap. Oh Hajime, what a Tio chapter :D

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maniac88 (Spoiler):

Wooo...
Christabell heed the summons...
In a magical girl outfit suit to boot.

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he world is stained red as cracks appears in the skies. The Beginning of the End...

But first, shenanigans! Ah, a pouting Shizuku is cute too.


Some quick random tidbits cuz' why not...
El Rue (Spoiler):

They are welcomed by a grumpy Shizu-chan, the Emperor's stressing her out as usual. Though he does pamper her a bit. (Kyaa~ aggressive Shizuku is fine too)

He meets with the various leaders like Cam, Liliana & the Guild Heads. Also Christabelle. Christabelle wearing a magical girl costume. It is as brain scarringly horrifying as it is very hilarious.

Several Dragon tribesmen arrives with Tio & her Grandpa leading them. Her grandpops is apprently their Elder & Tio their Princess. Yes, everyone is pretty much shocked. They also tease her as "Princess Tio" repeatedly, she's very embarrassed by it (it doesn't turn her M switch).

Grandpa asks him directly about Tio since he's the man she picked and Hajime catches her in his arm by her waist & finally says in front of everyone there that he wants her. Congrats you M dragon you.

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Lol, you left out the funniest part.

borisdrakoni (Spoiler):
Hajime giving Gahard a choice between leaving Shizuku alone or becoming a man-woman. (With Crystabel excited about her brethren increasing. ) A good chapter all around. Glad to see the harem fully coming together with Hajime's confession to Tio, and Shizuku and Hajime finally calling each other by name. Now if only the girls could stop ruining the moment by their minds going into the gutter...

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maniac88 (Spoiler):

I find the reaction from the surrounding people when Hajime politely introduced himself to Tio's grandpa more amusing...
"someone quickly cast recovery magic"
"Demon king gone mad"
"it's the final battle and our trump card was like this... the worlds is ending" ^_^;^_^;^_^;

And it's more funny because Kaori did use her healing magic while Shia prepare her hammer to smack his head. ^_^;

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borisdrakoni (Spoiler):

Before the Decisive Battle

Having come through the gate, Hajime and the others were met by Shizuku.  She greeted them and had them follow her since the others were waiting on them.

Though it could be understood that it was built in a hurry, the scale of the fortress was such that it was not possible to think that it was built in just a few days.  This might be a result of the workmen of the king's capital and empire with the cheat earth magic user Kentaro Nomura at the top having their abilities increased by multiple factors with the artifacts of the Age of Gods magic.

Despite it being midnight, light as bright as daytime was shining from artifacts at the fortress standing in the plains before the king's capital where several hundreds of thousands of soldiers were camping.  It could be seen from the far away Hairihi king's capital and Kamiyama, but the spectacle where the shadow is seen in comparison with the light that usually shone from the outside made them remember an indescribably deep emotion.

Seen in the artificial light, the back of Shizuku's figure seemed to be in a bad mood somehow.

Hajime instinctively asked her if anything was wrong.  Shizuku halted.  Then she grabbed Hajime's arm and pushed it into her chest, urging him ahead while sticking to him.  Her bold actions left Shia and the rest blinking.

Hajime asked her what was up again, and Shizuku demanded that he call her by her given name while she would also call him Hajime.(Straight to yobisute?  How bold, Shizuku.)  To Hajime's perplexed response, Shizuku let out a tired sigh and explained her true intentions.

Gahard had apparently been a pain and kept trying to win her over to him.

Hajime told her that she just had come to him if she was troubled.  Shizuku's expression went from ill-humored to embarrassed as she hadn't wanted to trouble him with it when he was the key to the allied forces' victory and needed to come up with countermeasures to defeat Ehito.

Hajime told her not to worry about it as he could end it with a single bullet.

Shizuku chuckled saying she held back because she thought that's how he would respond.  The damage given to the leader of a country would be a rubber coated bullet, right?  Instead she would show off herself being spoiled by Hajime since the emperor would be in the conference room as well.  Because of that, she asked the other girls' permission to go on like this a little longer.

To Shizuku's apologetic expression, Shia and the others returned a smile indicating not to worry about them.

Incidentally, neither Myuu nor Remia are with them, although two Demon Rangers had accompanied them.  They had wanted to come along and do any necessary chores in the fortress, but Hajime had stubbornly refused.  Instead, to appease Myuu, he had added a remote control feature to the golems with the ability of sharing sight and sound so that they could be controlled safely from Orcus.  Papa was too sweet to his daughter.

On the way, soldiers who saw them would mutter “That is...” before shutting themselves up with a sense of reverent awe.  Shizuku was embarrassed being seen by them clinging to Hajime.  By the time she recovered to some extent, they had arrived at a large hall.

At a big table, Liliana and Randell sat in the top seats along with Gahard, Alfrerick, Cam, etc, surrounding Aiko.  Aiko looked fairly strained sitting there.  At the sight of it, the Goddess of Fertility's standing could be understood.

Glancing around, there were a lot of familiar faces.  Ranzui and Bizu from the Ankaji dukedom, guild masters Barus, Ilwa, and Catherine, as well as Crystabel from the clothing shop...(as predicted ^_^;)  Along with the commanders of each country's armies and their aides, Nagayama and Sonobe were representing the classmates.  Though Randell is sitting next to Liliana, she seems to be representing the Hairihi kingdom there.

Seeing Hajime enter, their expressions seemed to say, “Did you finally come?”, although the sight of Shizuku clinging onto him made their faces develop a cramp.  What nerve making leaders of the world wait while attending to a woman.... might have been the feeling.

Mostly it is only the aides that finish their reaction with only such an expression.  As for the leaders, the clatter of their chairs could be heard.

Gahard demanded to know if it was an insinuation toward him.

Lily asked why Hajime was flirting with Shizuku.

Aiko said she thought Shizuku was a person who would do things more in moderation.  It was enviou...*cough* shameless.

Randell flew off the handle about Hajime putting his hands on Kaori's best friend right in front of her and vowed to take her away from that devil without fail.

Cam commented that it was as expected of Boss to snatch away a beloved woman and to have the new girl attend to him with composure.  Cheering up with a sumptuous feast before the final battle, eh?

Though Cam was treated among the top leaders, there was no dignity there at all.  Shia endured the shame by sinking her face into her hands.

Hajime said it was all Gahard's fault.  Shizuku was complaining about him, so he could either quit pursuing her or become a man-woman.(oh god....)

Crystabel inserted a comment about her brethren increasing again.

Hajime inadvertently sent a glance to the frilly magical girl appearing Crystabel at the side.

Suppressing his urge to pull out Donner desperately, he sent a glance to Gahard saying “I will make you this thing's companion”.  Gahard withdrew dejectedly.  The strangeness that is Crystabel seems to have been driven home.

It could not be thought that they were about to fight a decisive battle with humanity's ruin at stake from the appearance of the top leaders.  To their subordinates it looked like there may be room.  Should they be worried or not about the lack of tension?

Hajime and the others sat down.  From the position of their seats, the importance of the gods' realm infiltration group was understood.

They went over the final details of the prewar preparations.  Since humans were originally allied and had spent many years preparing for war against the Majin tribe things went smoothly.  The guild masters and adventurers could cooperate with the army since that seemed to be one of their obligations.  The issue was with the demi-humans who had their own chain of command.  It would be a bad move to suddenly force them to cooperate with the human army.  Instead, they would act as support filling in any gaps that appeared.

Presently the classmates and Haulia were at the place where the use and effect of Hajime's artifacts were being told.  Everyone could use it since it required no chant or magic formation.  In the distance, the dry explosive sound of gunfire could be heard of one strained one's ears.

Hajime expressed admiration to Aiko for the completion of the preparations that exceeded his expectations.  Lily also asked to be praised a little as she and Aiko quarreled about which one of them was more frightening in getting people to do what they wanted.  Gahard threw in a snide remark, looking like he saw something unpleasant.  The other leaders besides Cam had similar expressions.

At the end of the conference, Hajime's acquaintances all comment that though they had seen potential in Hajime, they would have never imagined the day would come when the fate of the world rested on his shoulders.  Crystabel said she had known it from the beginning.  Always presenting her with new man-women were provisions for this coming day.  To Crystabel's wink, Hajime had a cramp on his face.  Though seeing the others' expressions, he guessed their lighthearted banter was covering up their worry.  Hajime shrugged like it was nothing and put on his usual fearless smile.  He motivated them, saying that he would go to visit their towns again for sightseeing after taking Yue back and killing the self-styled god who couldn't read the atmosphere.  Seeing that attitude, the people there were relieved.

At that time a large commotion came from the outside.  Some in the conference room thought the invasion had started, but instead it was the dragon tribe that had appeared through the teleportation formation in the plaza.

Apparently the last companion that he could rely on had returned.  Hajime stood up and left the conference room with Shia and the others.  After a moment looking at each other, the rest of the people there followed.





Tio greeted Hajime and tried to dive into his chest while returning to human form.  Hajime naturally responded by shooting her with the rubber bullet, making her do three flips in the air and landing on her head.  She got up again with her usual disgusting behavior, happy to have received some punishment after three days.

Hajime finally welcomed her back, asking if they had transferred over while in dragon form as a demonstration.  Tio affirmed it, saying that the legendary race appearing after five hundred years should boost morale.  Seeing Hajime and Tio naturally moving the conversation along despite the unusual atmosphere they had generated, Shia, Kaori, and Shizuku could no longer resist putting in tsukkomis.

Six dragons began to shine before taking human form.  They were all men, wearing similar Japanese-style clothes that Tio had.  They were all good looking, though their hair color just like their scales were varying colors of scarlet, indigo, golden brown, navy blue, gray, and forest green.

The scarlet haired one stepped forward.  He was a dignified man seemingly of middle years, and from his presence it was easy to tell that he was their king.  The other world leaders who came flinched a bit at his heavy atmosphere, though Hajime wasn't particularly affected.

The man greeted Liliana, Gahard, and Alfrerick, introducing himself as Adoul Clarce.  He seemed to be a man who exemplified the noble dragon tribe that Yue had admired.  Hajime and the others looked over at Tio with a regrettable expression while she tilted her head not understanding.

Adoul and the rest of the dragon tribe would go back to the conference room with Liliana and the others to discuss the upcoming invasion while Hajime and his group remained behind.  Artifacts needed to be handed over to Shizuku and Tio and it was necessary to talk about the actions they would take on infiltration.

However, before that, the indigo haired man had approached Hajime.  He seemed to have wanted to do so earlier, but knowing his place he had let Adoul complete his greetings.  He demanded to know what Hajime had done to the princess.  Confused, Hajime looked over at Liliana since everyone there would associate her with the name “Princess”, but he was in fact talking about Tio who was the princess of the dragon people.(Tio, upgraded to pervert dragon princess.  What a setting.)

Everyone turned to stare at Tio, who turned her face away blushing.  Hajime and the rest each muttered, “Princess?”, before all loudly denying it together.  Hajime, showing his sadistic side, repeatedly called her “Princess Tio”, making her writhe in shame.  With teary eyes and face bright red in embarrassment she asked him to stop since she didn't enjoy that kind of shame.

The indigo haired man was furious, and accused Hajime of using some artifact to brainwash Tio, sounding like a certain Hero.

Tio chided him(Listas), saying she liked Hajime of her own will.  Listas still tried to persuade her, finally shouting angrily that the princess of the dragon people could not be so abnormal, to which everyone there agreed.  Compared with how amazing she was before leaving their village, it wouldn't be strange to think that Hajime did something to her.  Everyone also agreed to that.

Aside from Listas's increasing vehemence, most of the other dragon tribe were just curious about the man Tio had chosen.  Adoul, Tio's grandfather, finally told Listas to quiet down, saying he didn't really care about how she changed as long as Tio was happy.

He and Hajime then greeted one another.  Hajime admitted to being the one who changed Tio, saying that he could hit him once for compensation.  Everyone there was shocked that Hajime actually used polite speech with him, thinking he had lost his mind causing Kaori to heal him, Shia to take up Viredoryukken(curing by hitting, lol), and Shizuku to cover her face foreseeing a tragedy.

Their reactions made Hajime's face twitch.

Adoul commented that from the response it seems like it's different from his usual behavior.  Hajime answered saying that because he was Tio's grandfather he spoke more politely.

Hearing that, Adoul grinned happily, his dignified atmosphere disappearing and leaving behind just the impression of a good old man.  Tio also floated a sweet expression.

Adoul says that he will specially call Hajime “Hajime-kun”, and that he won't hit him since as he said before he is content just seeing Tio happy.

Adoul then brought up Yue, who he had seen in the recording, and asked Hajime if she was his beloved.  Hajime promptly answered yes, making Listas and the other dragon people narrow their eyes dangerously.  Adoul mentioned the vow he had taken to Tio's parents to defend her.  Hajime guessed that Adoul wanted to hear what Hajime's intentions were toward Tio, especially since they were going into a dangerous fight and may never see each other again.

Hajime looked at everyone there in turn and finally settled his gaze on Tio.  Tio, blushing,  wanted to take a step back from the pressure somehow, but before she could Hajime's arm shot out and wrapped around her waist, drawing her close.

Turning toward Adoul, he gave his response.  Recently, though it was often said, he seemed more like a Maou.  He would obtain everything he wanted and get rid of anything that obstructed him.

“I want Tio.”

Tio trembled in Hajime's arms.  She watched him ardently with her eyes opened wide.

He won't let her go now.  Even though Yue is his beloved, he still thinks dearly of Tio.  She is already his.  He'll face anyone who tries to take her.

Adoul who heard Hajime's intentions burst out laughing, entrusting his granddaughter to the Maou who might save the world.  Finally he returned to Liliana and the others, apologizing for taking time for his personal matter.  Liliana and Aiko seemed envious, but regretfully returned with the rest to the fortress.

Finally, Hajime and the others were left alone along with the classmates who had appeared at some point and caused their normal ruckus.

Tio, who was happily clinging to Hajime, separated to tell him her own feelings directly, but like Shia, ended it with her mind in the gutter.

The remaining time was spent on the rest of the artifacts.  Resting was impossible since they didn't know when the invasion would begin.  Thinking of Yue, Hajime's drowsiness completely flew away, and he spent the remaining time sharpening his killing intent toward Ehito.

Before long, dawn came, and with the morning light, a rumbling came as a crack appeared in the sky above Kamiyama.  It had begun.

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