When I Was Reincarnated, All the Heroines Were Stolen by the Fake Hero ~ The Guy Who Dominated With Original Story Knowledge, and Me Who Dominated With Talent. It Seems the World After the Ending Is My One-Man Stage ~ - Episode 68 (Third-person)

Episode 68 (Third-person)

After Nergo and the others were told the truth about Hyurandel…

In the back of a shop located in an alleyway in the royal capital.

In his own room, a shrill, strange scream echoed.

“Kieeeeeeeeeeeee!!!”

Hyurandel smashed an unopened bottle of expensive liquor against the wall, kicked a luxuriously decorated chair, and swept the documents off his desk.

Without the slightest concern for the customers downstairs, he stomped his feet and scattered his anger.

In the end, he even bit the collar of his fine clothing and groaned with an unintelligible, “Fuguuuuuuuuu!!”

Hyurandel was breathing heavily through his shoulders. After throwing a full tantrum, he approached a middle-aged man in a waiter’s uniform who was quietly standing in the corner of the room.

The man didn’t move a muscle, even amid the uproar. And he kept both eyes closed.

“Retreat… It’s a retreat!!”

When Hyurandel shouted that, the man quietly opened one eye.

“…And the payment?”

“I paid you plenty, didn’t I!? When I hired you, I gave you a big pile!!”

“That was advance payment because you said, ‘it will definitely make money,’ wasn’t it?”

“That’s why I said that if we sold off that elf, we’d get it back, didn’t I!!”

Shouting rapidly, Hyurandel kicked the desk again.

With a deep sigh, the man pulled a short rod from his waist.

With a quick swing, the rod extended and instantly transformed into a long staff.

“I’ve had enough of dealing with you. I’m quitting.”

As he said that, a magic circle appeared at the tip of the staff. And his body began to be enveloped in a pale light.

“Ah, wait!!”

Hyurandel shouted. But it was already too late.

“Teleport.”

With that muttered word, the man vanished from before Hyurandel in an instant.

—

Left alone in the room, Hyurandel twisted his face with hatred.

“Kuuuuh!! Even though I even stirred up that stupid hero, why is nothing going well!!?”

He covered his face with both hands and trembled violently.

“Heh—stupid hero, huh…”

At that moment, a low voice rang out from behind him.

Hyurandel spun around as if jolted—and there stood a man who shouldn’t have been there.

It was Nergo.

“N-Nergo-san!? Wh-why are you here!? You were supposed to be in the Vixel Domain…!?”

“Huh? Oh, I just asked my beloved wife to teleport me here. …More importantly, I heard it all, Hyurandel.”

Nergo slowly approached Hyurandel and grabbed his cheek tightly.

Hyurandel’s face was completely overtaken by fear. His body was trembling visibly.

“You… Former lord of Vixel Domain? Bought a beastkin girl as a slave and tortured her? Imposed heavy taxes on the people and ran away? Even tried to kidnap Rururii-chan using poison? And then forged fake evidence that Yutaka stole my wives? Tricked that dumb hero, didn’t you?”

With every word he said, more strength entered Nergo’s hand.

“Th-th-that’s wrong! I-I-I’m a different person from that Hyurandel. And I only said there was a possibility to you, Nergo-san—”

Hyurandel desperately tried to excuse himself. But his words were cut off by a blow to his stomach from Nergo.

“Gah!”

Exhaling sharply and coughing violently, Hyurandel collapsed on the spot.

“It’s been a while, Hyurandel-sama.”

At that voice, Hyurandel raised his face—and there stood his former butler, Sebas.

“Wha!? S-Sebas!?!”

“Nergo-sama. There’s no mistake—this man is the former lord of Vixel, Hyurandel Vixel.”

At Sebas’ words, Nergo looked down at the unconscious man.

“…I see. So? Got any more excuses, Hyurandel?”

Saying that, Nergo slowly drew the holy sword from his waist. Its tip gleamed as it caught the light.

Hyurandel looked up at the approaching Nergo and the shining holy sword. And in a final act of desperation, he screamed:

“W-w-wait, Nergo-san! Ah—right! The elf! I found the place where the elves live! Is it really okay to kill me now!?”

But Nergo, without a word, poured power into the holy sword and brought it down toward Hyurandel.

“Hyaaaaaaaaaaaa!!?!?!”

Hyurandel’s death-scream-like shriek echoed throughout the room.

However, the blade of the holy sword stopped just barely at his neck.

By that point, Hyurandel had fainted from sheer terror. He was foaming at the mouth.

“Is it done?”

From the entrance of the room, Yutaka peeked his face in.

Nergo hoisted the unconscious Hyurandel over his shoulder like a sack of rice and muttered with irritation,

“…Yeah.”

Then, turning to Yutaka, he rapidly spoke in a flustered tone. His face was bright red.

“You heard it just now, right!? So I was just tricked by this guy, I’m not the bad guy—in fact, everything bad was this guy’s fault—!”

“Yeah yeah, I get it. That’s enough already.”

Yutaka sighed deeply and waved his hand as if exasperated.

“Damn it! I’m going home! Ugh, now everyone knows I went to that shop. Svea’s definitely gonna hate me. What the hell am I supposed to do now…”

Grumbling to himself, Nergo left the room still carrying Hyurandel.

“…Is that acceptable?”

Sebas asked Yutaka.

“Well, he’s still a hero, after all. If he got arrested at a time like this, the whole country would panic. Besides, Svea told me to leave the rest to her. I’ll just keep an eye on things for now.”

“If you say so, Yutaka-sama…”

Sebas quietly bowed.

“Let’s go home, Sebas. We shouldn’t keep Ulrika waiting outside too long.”

With those words, Yutaka left Hyurandel’s wrecked room together with Sebas.