What happened?!
This wasn't just Rize's question; it was Yuki's and the others' too.
"Th-this..."
Kazuma pointed at the crater Hayashi had smashed into the ground, his lips trembling, unable to form a coherent sentence.
We're brothers who hang out in Kabukicho together. How did you turn into a human natural disaster?
"That's ridiculous!!" Iori exclaimed.
Iori was also astonished by Hayashi's catastrophic physical strength.
Compared to the two of them, although Yuki was also shocked by Hayashi's physical strength, what surprised her more was Hayashi's previous action.
Again and again! It was Russian Roulette!
Kazuma and Iori might not know, but how could she not recognize it? The revolver in Hayashi's hand was his cursed tool.
Yuki had initially thought he would trick Rize into gambling against him.
But Yuki never expected that this guy, Hayashi, would choose to gamble against himself!
He can actually do that! Directly betting his own life!
Win and gain strength; lose and die instantly!
Insane, simply too insane! But their Anomaly Control Division needed exactly this kind of talent!
But... he dared to fire two shots in a row!!
Was the Goddess of Fortune his personal maid? He managed to win a gamble with odds like that.
Just as the three of them were marveling, the fight on Hayashi's side seemed far from over.
Relying on the [Ghoul]'s powerful vitality and recovery ability, even though her face was pressed to the ground, her skull was ringing, and her vision had blacked out, Rize quickly recovered.
Terror and the rage of being counter-killed by her food surged in her heart, and her four kagune simultaneously unfurled, striking towards Hayashi's face.
But the next moment, amidst a groan originating from the depths of her pupils, her eyes became completely clear.
Hayashi still hadn't released the hand pressing down on her face.
His other hand grabbed the four kagune like pulling noodles and easily ripped them off.
"Agh—!"
Having her kagune violently ripped out, even the [Ghoul] Rize couldn't help but scream.
The anger in her heart vanished completely.
Only fear remained; she dared not resist anymore.
"Finished."
Looking at the beautiful woman beneath his hand, whose eyes were now as clear as a spring, Hayashi nodded in satisfaction. Sure enough, he was skilled at "subduing people through virtue."
The wisdom of the ancestors is truly useful!
At the same time, the Containment System sent a notification sound.
[Detected that the [Ghoul] Rize has been completely subdued. ]
[Congratulations to the host for acquiring the [Ghoul] bloodline.]
'[Ghoul] Bloodline?'
Hayashi showed clear disdain for this bloodline that required eating humans; he didn't want to stop being human just because of this trash bloodline.
It seemed the system detected Hayashi's disgust toward the [Ghoul].
[Would you like to purify the bloodline and convert it into pure physical strength?]
'The system has a function like this? How thoughtful!'
Without any hesitation, Hayashi confirmed it mentally.
Boom!!!
Instantly, his flesh rippled, emitting a terrifying sonic boom.
"Agh!!"
As if she were being high-frequency vibrated by a crane acting as a massage gun, Rize, whose face was still in Hayashi's hand, felt her brain turn into mush.
No, that analogy was wrong—it really was quickly turning into mush!
Yuki and the others in the distance also felt a gust of strong wind blow past, and at the same time, a terrifying sense of dread arose in their hearts. ... "Is that an illusion? Why does Hayashi seem like a Great Terror right now?"
Yuki asked with a dry laugh.
"It's not an illusion. The sonic booms caused by his muscle spasms have reached us!!!"
Kazuma said, his eye twitching.
Before today, he felt quite confident. Although something went wrong when he transmigrated to a different world—the goddess Aqua was lost, and he ended up in the wrong world.
But regardless, he had still acquired the Adventurer class.
He possessed Class Cards and mastered skills like Steal, Snipe, and Life Absorption.
But facing Hayashi's utterly unreasonable strength, Kazuma felt that if he fought Hayashi, the odds would be 1:9.
If Hayashi merely stuck out one finger, he would be sent flying nine hundred miles!
Putting aside the surprise of Yuki and the others on the other side.
"Perfect!"
Ignoring Rize, whose brain matter was nearly shaken into a smooth consistency, Hayashi contentedly sensed his own power.
Unlike Yuki's guess that only his strength would increase, after using the Gambling Authority to put his life on the betting table, Hayashi's increase was not limited to just strength.
It was an all-around boost: physical strength, neural response, and mental power.
One shot increased it by 6 times, two shots by 36 times, three shots by 216 times... There was no upper limit under the Gambling Authority; as long as Hayashi dared to gamble, he could keep increasing it.
Furthermore, this was multiplication applied to his base attributes.
For example, right now, after extracting the [Ghoul] Bloodline, Hayashi's physical fitness immediately increased tenfold. Tenfold physical fitness multiplied by 36.
That was 360 times his physical strength.
The terrifying aura Yuki and the others felt just now was the aftermath of Hayashi momentarily failing to contain his rapidly surging physical power.
"I'm leaving her to you two!"
Hayashi tossed Rize, who looked like a dead dog, to the two guys beside him who were currently envious and jealous of his physical strength—Kazuma and Iori.
He then left with Yuki.
On the way back, only the two of them remained.
Yuki's beautiful eyes barely left Hayashi's body.
"Your eyes are practically glued to me!"
Hayashi teased.
"This little girl is just curious about how strong your physical power is now!"
Yuki's charming eyes sparkled with curiosity, and her slender hand unconsciously lifted. Her desire to reach out and touch him was incredibly obvious.
"Yuki-san, curb your infatuation!" Hayashi said, adopting the demeanor of a proper gentleman.
"As the sages say, appetite for food and sex is nature!"
Yuki was not shy. Seeing Hayashi's pretense of seriousness, she still couldn't suppress her curiosity.
With a flushed face, she reached out and touched Hayashi's arm.
"It's so soft; how can it be so strong!?"
Yuki clicked her tongue in admiration.
'Could his future girlfriend handle that catastrophic muscular strength!
Just imagining it...
Stop! Can't think about it anymore; it's too terrifying!'
Although she was only touching his arm, Yuki's breathing couldn't help but quicken. She wasn't sure if it was the instinctive attraction of a disaster-level body to a female or something else.
Yuki felt she was losing control.
Relying on immense willpower, she finally withdrew her hand and reverted to the dignified appearance of a noble young lady.
Hayashi, who had been observing the changes in Yuki's expression, smiled slightly. So Miss Yuki had a side like this, too... Soon, it was the next day.
Under Yuki's guidance, Hayashi officially joined the Anomaly Management Bureau and received his official credentials.
However, it was a pity that he didn't get to see a certain pink fat lady.
He heard that Elysia was out on a mission.
Hayashi felt a slight regret about this, as he was very curious whether the real Elysia was... well, full of "substance," as rumored.
But since she wasn't there, he couldn't do anything, and his attention immediately shifted to the Bureau's mission board.
Since he had joined the division with the highest degree of freedom, he could choose whether or not to take missions.
Soon, one mission captured Hayashi's attention.
A mission to interrogate a living dead person!
What attracted Hayashi's attention was naturally not just a mere living dead person.
Rather, it was the symbol on the person.
A muzzle-like symbol, with three arrows inside pointing toward the crosshair.
This was... the symbol of the SCP Foundation!
The moment he inexplicably saw this symbol, Hayashi recalled the doomsday warning left to them by a certain Emperor.
Editor's Notes:
The number of collection increasing...
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