“Figures. That sound was from the l

“Figures. That sound was from the level up. Anyway, my MP sure has an amazing gain. It went up by 25 in one level. Well, not that I’m complaining.”
Though he complained a bit about not recovering the health upon levelling up. Some games did that, so he had preferred it here too.
On his way to the “Clair Forest”, he kept defeating the appearing slimes.
He reached the “Clair Forest” alright, but he had no clue where to look for the goblins. As slimes had appeared various times, he was level three now.
With no other ideas, he advanced into the forest precautious and left marks on the trees as not to lose his way. He would use them as landmarks on his way back.
Then he heard the brushwood rustling and took a stance, thinking it was a goblin, but it was just a slime again.
“…’nother one of you.”
Although he was sick of them already, he killed it instantly as he was already familiar with them. The quest was to kill ten goblins. As proof, he had to bring the “goblin fang” back with him.
Incidentally, slimes dropped “slime substance” as part of a hunt quest, but he ignored it as it was too disgusting to touch.
Going through the forest, he encountered another slime. The moment he felt annoyed about it, something appeared from the bush to his side. And it attacked him with some kind of weapon.
WHOOSH!
He dodged it by bending his body at once, but he broke out in a cold sweat.
(C- Close call… I see, that’s a goblin.)
Its appearance was identically to the picture in the reference book he was shown. A stature small like a child, but an ugly face and a club in its hand.
“Must hurt to get hit by that…”
When he glared at the goblin, he received another attack on the back and groaned. He had totally forgotten about the slime. Moreover, the goblin used this chance to attack too.
(Damn. Goblins come in groups, I can’t waste time here!)
He parried the club with his solid knife. The goblin let out a creaky voice like grinding one’s teeth, with drool spilling out of its mouth. Hiiro definitely didn’t want to get bitten and sent the goblin flying with a kick.
(Fuh, a humanoid demon… Will I be able to kill it…?)
Speaking to himself, he narrowed his eyes as he stared at the goblin. Needless to say, he never killed anyone when he was in Japan. He had killed bugs, but never animals, so he was insecure about whether he was able to kill a living creature with a human appearance, even if it was a demon.
“…Hah. Well, I gotta survive here.”
He muttered as to convince himself.
“Sorry… but you’ll be a stepping for me.”
Saying so, he rushed at the goblin with all his might. Hiiro had a lot of agility, although he didn’t know why. The goblin didn’t move as it intended to take him on upfront.
SLAAAASH!
He cut down the goblin. That made him somewhat sick in the stomach, but he swallowed it down and glared at the goblin.
“You’re next!”
Afterwards he defeated the slime, whereupon another level up sound resounded. His level turned to four now. It was going well.
The his joy only lasted for a moment as one goblin after another appeared in front of him. The earlier battle seemed to have attracted them.
However, Hiiro had waited for them. He concentrated his magic power into his finger tip and quickly draw a word onto the ground. The group of goblins came at him all at once.
(Good… Come here!)
Just when the goblins were right before him,
“Activate!”
He shouted and the electrical discharge occurred in the word. In the next moment, various sharp objects appeared from the ground and pierced the goblins.
“Haha, it worked.”
The goblins desperately tried to move while grimacing in pain, but they couldn’t. After a while they stopped moving as they died.
The word Hiiro had written was “needle”.
The area of effect was roughly 6.5m² wide, just like with the word “hard”. He had waited for the goblins to enter that area. The ground had turned into a cactus and killed all the goblins on it.
(Kuh… It’s more tiring than I thought.)
Lot of blood was flowing out from the pierced spots of the goblins. Seeing that, Hiiro painfully became aware that this was a real battle, that he did this and that he could have turned into this himself if he was careless. It was taught to him in a forcible manner.
(Fuh, anyway, first things first)
He took action again right away. There were still goblins around, but confused by his weird attack, they were reluctant to attack him.
“Then let’s try the next one”
While saying so, he picked up a stone and wrote onto it the word “stop”.
If all went well, it might stop the goblin’s movement. He threw the stone at a goblin. The moment the goblin was hit at the shoulder, he activated it. However, only the stone was stopped. It stopped right in midair.
(Mhm, so it can’t emit magic)
As he had written it onto the stone, probably only the stone itself was influenced.
Hiiro had hoped that the effect from the stone would affect the goblin too, but sadly that wasn’t the case. Only the stone itself was affected, leaving the goblin unaffected.
(Okay, next one!)
Next up he wrote “extend” on the blade of his knife. Then he readied the knife and turned his body like a spinning top.
“Activate!”
WHOOOOOSH!
In a flash, the blade extended manifold and the goblins in the distant were cut. Three of them went down at once. As far as he could tell, that left three more.
“I only need two more for my quest, but I won’t let anyone escape.”
He slaughtered the goblins by swinging his extended knife around and was so immersed in it that he didn’t notice the level up sound during it.
After he defeated all of them, he collected the “goblin fangs”. It was the only sharp tooth on the upper jaw. But before that, he transformed his knife back by writing “origin” on it.
As soon as he finished collecting them, exhaustion befell his whole body. His MP was empty too, so he ate “honey toffee” to restore it.
(Oh right, I gotta fix the ground too)
With his MP replenished, he fixed the ground by writing “original”. Anyway, it had been a while since he moved around so much and he somehow endured that battle, which was akin to a massacre, albeit of only demons.
“Puh, never thought I was this emotional”
He sighed while saying that as he didn’t expect himself to get worn out mentally to such an extent. It really made him realize that this was not a game.
The smell of lots of blood, the sensation of cutting through flesh, the dying screams and corpses. All of that gave Hiiro, a citizen of a peaceful country, a dreadful shock.
Feeling more exhausted than expected, he sat down on the spot to rest. But a rustling sound announced the arrival of something. It was a goblin.
“Fuh~ Guess I can only keep going until I’m used to it…”
He made a resigning sigh and glared at the goblin.
“Then bring it on! Come at me! Until I get used to it!”
Somewhat out of frustration, he swung around his weapon.


“Aw~ I’m pooped~”
Hiiro had returned to the town, but took a rest on a bench on the street. The slimes and goblins had attacked him without rest. He had defeated them while their blood splashed onto him, so he was completely out of fuel now.
(Though I quite raised my level thanks to that)


Hiiro Okamura
Lvl 7
HP 31/65
MP 34/250
EXP 222
NEXT 87
ATK 25 (35)
DEF 21
AGI 46
HIT 20
INT 37
≪Magic Attribute≫ None
≪Magic≫ Word Magic (Single Chain Unlocked)
≪Title≫ Innocent Bystander, World Traveller, Word Master