Arc 2 – Ch.21: Muscle man arrives
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It’s afternoon again.

I’ve been starting fires all throughout the night and day but fire magic still hasn't unlocked for some reason.
Also, the flammable looking parts in the interior of this shop seems to have been made fireproof somehow.

That aside, I’m in for another gruelling public shaming session now…

Elena, "the demon", just unlocked the shop’s door.

*RING ring*
The door of the shop swung open.

“KID! I heard you had something interesting in your shop! Gya ha ha!” (???)
A deep manly voice booms through the store.

“Ah! Leader, thanks for visiting today.” (Elena)

(Gulp)
I pretend to swallow saliva in my mind again.

Elena’s leader? Is the demon lord here?
This kind of character should only show up at the end of a light novel.

“Gya ha ha, you don’t have to call me that any more kid! How many times do I have to tell you? You’re not a cavern delver anymore!” (Demon lord)

“Just call me Ben!” (Ben)
What a friendly name for a demon lord.

A mass of muscles suddenly fills my field of view. He's got a beard with a huge two-handed axe on his back.
A viking!
It’s an actual real-life viking!!
This guy is huge and he looks awesome!
He’s got a large scar across his face and everything!

“Oh?” (Ben)

Real-life viking Ben spots me after looking around for a couple of seconds.
“This must be it no?! I haven’t seen this thing in here before!!” (Ben)

“He he, that’s right leade-… Ben, it’s my latest creation.” (Elena)
The demon says something blasphemous against my creator Julia again.

Now that I think about it, A lot of women that visited the store yesterday had a similar name to Julia's.
I wonder if babies are named after the gods of this world like Juliana?

Elena arrives and bends over to touch my faucet again.

MP: 0/6

No can do. I used all my mana for fire magic training.

(EEEK!)
Elena filled my crystal back up with mana again.

*Pshhht*

(Tsk…)
I clicked my nonexistent tongue.

Elena looked confused for a moment when nothing came out again, but she quickly put on a merchant’s business smile.
“When you fill it up with mana and turn this handle, water produced from water magic comes out!” (Elena)
She’s probably confused why my MP is back down to nothing again, despite having filled me up this morning.

“Hooo? Water magic huh?” (Ben)
Ben looks interested.

Elena hands the cup of my water to Ben.
The cup looks minuscule in his hands.

“It can fill up to 6 cups of water after charging it with just a little bit of mana!” (Elena)

“And that’s not all…” (Elena)
Elena looks back to me, her face begins to look a little red. Huh? What’s she planning to do? Why are you blushing?

“…” (Elena)
Elena stares at me. She briefly closes her eyes, clenches her fists and opens her eyes again.
Looks like she was gathering her determination for something?
Elena makes a slightly sensual pose at me and pulls down on the neckline of her frilly blouse.

E- even though y- you’re just a demon…
Plains! Plains as far as the eye can see! Seeing into the shirt of a flat-chested girl has a different type of feeling to it!
That said, she's as flat as a guy, wow. It's still kind of charming, but is that even possible for women at her age?
S- sh- she's not even wearing a b- br- 
My mana points skipped a beat again.

Ben frowned and gave a confused look at Elena.
"…What are you doing?" (Ben)

“!” (Elena)
Elena's eye widen, prompting her to quickly move out of my field of view with a hop for some reason.

All of my focus that was on Elena just now suddenly hits the wall of muscles that was standing behind her.
Is an 8-pack even physically possible?!

“OH!” (Ben)

Ben (♂)
AGE: 41
STATUS: HEALTHY
LVL: 74
HP: 981/981
MP: 398/398
TITLES:
- MASTER AXE USER
- DELVER GUILD MASTER
- THE PINNACLE
- ADEPT FIRE MAGICIAN
- ONE MAN ARMY
- ADEPT EARTH MAGICIAN
- THE ERUPTION

“This eerie feeling…” (Ben)
Ben grins seemingly reminiscing about something.

“It’s similar to the aura that comes off of a well-trained master sizing you up before a fight!” (Ben)

Suddenly his smile disappears.
“…” (Ben)
Ben looks at Elena with a stern expression that’s ready to boil over into anger.

“Kid. Are you messing around with forbidden magics?” (Ben)
Huh?
I f- feel like the g- gravity in here just got denser?
W- Why am I st- stuttering? Am I… s- scared right now? What’s happening?

“N… no… t- this is an item retrieved from Alcazar’s place.” (Elena)

Oh! It’s gone! Gravity went back to normal.
That was odd. Is this world's gravity going to be ok?
Wait, was that Ben? Was the pressure coming from him?! Is this guy a real-life anime character or something?

“Hmmm… from that master magician that got snuffed out huh?” (Ben)

“…” (Ben)
Ben looks at me again.

(Gulp.)

“H- he he! It can do something even scarier though!” (Elena)

“Though… I’m ashamed to admit that I haven’t figured out how to trigger it.” (Elena)

“Is that so? Hmmm…” (Ben)
Ben reaches for my faucet with his huge hand.

The image of a man’s precious sexual body part snapped in half just flashed in my mind.
It's just a faucet, but for some reason, I responded by instinct-

(D- DON’T TOUCH!!!)

*DON~*

MENTAL activated.
5 MP converted.

My transmitted emotion feels a little stronger, apparently, I accidentally used all my leftover mana compared to the usual 1 mana point.
The radius of the mental ability was somewhat larger than usual too.
I hit everyone in the building it seems. 2 people and 2 souls.

Elena nearly drops to her knees but catches herself by holding onto some nearby store furniture before she falls.

Ben’s eye twitches as he jumps back to create some distance and reflexively goes to grab the axe on his back.
“Hm?! Kid!! What was that?!” (Ben)

“E- Eh?! T- That was it!” (Elena)

Oops, I had another accident.

“T- that was the scarier thing!” (Elena)

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