Chapter 4

A/N: No editing, lazy chapter.

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"Hm..." Ninya looks around.

"What is it?" Kazuki asks.

"The Wise King of the Forest lives in this area, doesn't he?"

"The Wise King of the Forest?" Kazuki raises an eyebrow.

"It's a legendary creature that has lived hundreds of years..." Nifrea comments.

"Interesting..." Kazuki says, then mutters under his breath, "Bet it would make a good pet..."

Only Yuri heard what he said, and small smile came onto her face.

'Bet it would also raise my reputation if I captured it.' Kazuki thinks to himself.

As they reach Carne Village, without any trouble, they are greeted with goblins, who are guarding the village. It's the first time Kazuki sees them in person, as well as Yuri, but they aren't surprised with the encounter, unlike their party members, and the goblins. After all, Enri was given a horn that calls a small horde of goblins, and Kazuki told Yuri about them. While everyone was busy with their own things, Kazuki walked away to contact Xuri.

Xuri is an NPC made by Kazuki himself, just like Yumi. Unlike Yumi, Xuri is a male, and level 58, and like Pestonya Shortcake Wanko, he has a dog head, though. He's a level 15 druid, so in his opinion, the job he has for him is perfect.

-Xuri BIO-

Name: Xuri Pirlo Xavi Origon

Gender: Male

Racial Levels:

- Homunculus (15)

Job Levels:

- Druid (15)

- High Druid (10)

- Stalker (5)

- Etc (13)

Total Level: 58

Karma Level: 180

-Story Continue-

The forest is big, he has no idea where the Forest King is residing and he needs to be the one to fight it. Xuri is perfect for the job. As much as he's not a planner, more like the 'I will improvise while I am fighting to death'; he knows that he can't really take such risks anymore, as this isn't a game, but real life.

Now all he has to do, is wait for the alchemist, Lanky Boy, and he's done with the task.

And back onto Enri, she immediately recognized Kazuki, but he told her with message, to not mention him.

Kazuki also noted, in his mind, that she's looking at him with much gratefulness, and, he could also smell arousal on her, but didn't say anything about it.

To Kazuki, she does look nice, but not enough to shake his world. He wouldn't mind taking her as a concubine.

He also saw that Nifrea was talking with Enri, and he was also blushing, so he came to the conclusion that she was the girl he liked, the one he talked about. While Enri was nice to him, he saw that she didn't feel the same way. This caused Kazuki to smirk, feeling superiority, which felt nice. But it seemed like the alchemist was too dense to notice.

'Hehe...I might cuck him to day...No, no, stop, you lustful degenerate me!' Kazuki shook his head, and cursed his dirty mind. 'There is no time for this now. Maybe later.'

As Kazuki is leaning against one of the walls of a house, with Yuri standing next to him, he sees Nifrea walking out of a building. He goes over to the lanky boy.

"I'm guessing you're done here?" He asks him.

"W-well...Yes. I am." He nods.

"Alright. Let's go then, so we can arrive back by today." Kazuki start walking away, but is stopped by Nifrea.

"Um!"

"What is it?" Kazuki turns back.

"Is...Is there a chance that you know of Ainz Ooal Gown and Kazuki?"

Kazuki freeze in place, but it's for a split second, before he goes back to being natural.

"Ainz, and Kazuki." He pretends to think for a second before shaking his head. "I don't know. Should I know about 'em?"

"Well, I haven't heard of him, but...You have the same kind of potion as him."

"What you mean?" Kazuki crosses his arms.

"Well, potions are blue. But yours is red. It's way stronger, it's perfect. It's said to be the blood of gods." He explains.

But to Kazuki, it's just a simple minor healing potion. But Kazuki is forced to think again.

'If they are rare, we should produce more of them, otherwise I'll be found out soon.' He rub his chin a bit.

"Can you reproduce it?" He asks him.

"Eh?...I-I'm not sure. I've never tried, it always have been just a legend."

"I want you to try, if you can. I'll give you resources, and in exchange I want to hear your progress."

"Well, I'd love that. I cannot promise anything, but I'll do my best." He nods.

"Alright. The others are waiting, so let's go." He start walking again.

"Yes!" Nifrea exclaims.

As they are heading back to E-Rantel, Xuri contacts him via message, to let him know that the Wise King of the Forest has been awoken. Shortly after, a flock of birds fly away.

"I can hear weird sounds...Roars?" Lukrut comments. "They're resonating in the whole forest."

"Indeed." Dyne nods. "There seems to be disturbance in the forest."

"It couldn't be..." Ninya shakes her head.

"The Wise King of the Forest?" Kazuki pretends to be concerned.

"If that's the case, then we're in big trouble." Ninya says.

"No way...So close to the end..." Peter says.

"Don't worry. Me and Yue will handle it." Kazuki says, and starts heading into the forest.

"Are...Are you sure?" Peter asks concerned.

"If someone can do it, it's Kazuki-san." Nifrea comments.

"Indeed." Dyne nods in agreement.

"Wait there." Kazuki shakes his hand, going deeper in with Yuri.

...

Once they are in deeper inside, they meet up with Xuri. It's also Yuri's first time meeting him, as Kazuki's NPC always stayed on the 3rd floor, near his mansion, doing whatever. They didn't get much jobs, as they aren't really high level.

Kazuki's highest level NPC is level 80. The only reason he didn't make a higher level one like the others, is because he didn't have the time to farm for necessary things to make NPCs, like the others.

Kazuki stops in his walking, then Yuri as well. "Come out, Xuri." Kazuki orders.

As soon as Kazuki said that, a figure dropped down from the tree, and landed on his knees. "Nice to see you again, Kazuki-sama."

"Get up, my boy." Kazuki says, and Xuri does as his creator said.

"Xuri, meet Yuri, the second in command of the Pleiades, and my future wife." Kazuki gestures to Yuri, who blushes at the 'future wife comment', then gestures to Xuri, "Yuri, meet Xuri, my very first creation."

Xuri's eyes widen at the mention of 'wife'. "My, my." He smiles. "Kazuki-sama decided to marry? I can't wait to meet mini Kazuki-sama and/or mini Yumi-sama." He smirks. "Anyway, nice to meet you, Yuri-sama." He smiles, and gives her a light bow.

"Eh?!" Yuri yelps in surprise and blushes, at the mention of children, which makes me chuckle. "Nice to meet the first creation of Kazuki-sama as well." Yuri gives a light how as well, after getting herself together.

"Xuri. How you've been?" Kazuki asks.

Xuri, like Pestonya, has the head of a dog, and below that, he's fully human, except that his whole body is covered in fur. He's been based off the look of a Husky. His fur is jet black, with bright, almost glowing, blue eyes. He's wearing equipment made by friends outside of guild, though he had to make pay handsomely, just like for Yumi's equipments.

Most of his money was spent on the game either way, so he was like 'why not?' and spent almost half a million dollars in a few years on the game. Spent on equipments for himself, his NPCs, on his mansion on the 3rd floor, etc. He had to stop though, because he could barely afford food at some point, and because the guild members started to worry.

Back on Xuri, he wears a navy blue cloak, adorned with gold stripes on the sides, and with his guild logo on the back, colored gold. He wears light brown boots, no shirt, and a pair of black smart pants. He has an obsidian necklace around his neck, as well as 4 jade bracelets on both his wrists, 2 each.

Xuri's most interesting setting, which is worth mentioning, is that he's in love with Pestonya, and wishes to make her his wife, but strangely, she's playing hard to get which frustrates him. This was talked out between Kazuki and Yamiko, the creator of Pestonya Shortcake Wanko.

"Eh, fine. Though we've been a bit bored. It wasn't nice of you to not call us to the Throne Room meetings, by the way." He smirk with mischief in it. "But we're fine, thank you for asking." He bows.

"Good." Kazuki nods. "I'll give y'all more tasks later on, but for now, let's focus on this so called forest king."

"Yes, Kazuki-sama." Xuri bows, and leads the way to the Wise King Of The Forest.

While walking, Kazuki decides to ask about his progress with Pestonya. "So...How's things between you and Pestonya?" He asks with a smirk.

"Huh? Oh! Uh..." He runs his fingers through the fur on his neck. "Eh, still doesn't want to give in...Not gonna give up though!" He says with a purpose in his voice.

"That's my boy!" He rub Xuri behind his ears, which causes him to make a sound, showing it feels good, and his tail sways left and right as well.

After a while, Xuri stops, and points toward it's resting place. "It stays there, not far now."

"Alright. You can go back now. Good job, my boy." Kazuki says and pat his head.

"Thank you." He bows. "See you later, Kazuki-sama. It was nice meeting you, Yuri-sama." He runs off, back to Nazarick.

While they are walking, in the forest, the forest king takes the initiative, and attacks him. However, Kazuki reacts in time, and casts {Shield}, which deflects the monster.

"Fufufu...Well done, protecting yourself from my attack." Says a giant hamster.

Kazuki is standing there, mouth agape, not believing the sight.

"Is see you're left speechless, can't say I'm surprised." The hamster says.

"...You're a Djungarian Hamster, aren't you?" Kazuki asks.

"Eh?! How do you-" before it could ask how does Kazuki knows about its species, Kazuki cuts in.

"And you're the so called Wise King of the Forest, right?"

"Of course!" The hamster nods proudly. "Bow before my power!"

Kazuki facepalms. "Haaa..."

Yuri smiles, and puts a hand to her face. "It's quite cute...Do we really need to slay it?"

Kazuki puts his hands on his hips, and tilts his head. "I guess it is quite cute."

He steps closer to the hamster, away from Yuri, and decides to let some of his mana out. The pressure makes the hamster's legs weak, and makes it shakes. Almost a second later, the monster is laying on it's back, shaking and convulsing.

"Hey." He calls out to the big hamster, and it quickly shakes it's head and gets up on it's legs.

"Yes, master!"

"Carry me." He smirks.

"It's an honour, master!" It, no, Kazuki already figured it out when it lay on it big; it's a she; she says happily.

And so, they return back.

Once they arrive back, everyone is amazed by the giant hamster, and Kazuki feels proud, even though, he didn't even do anything other than let out a little bit of mana. There, he finds out that he has to register her as his pet, so he does so.

He steps inside the adventurers guild alone, while Yuri stays outside with her, sitting on it's soft furry back.

He thought it would he a bit embarrassing to ride on her, but it was surprisingly comfortable, so he didn't mind it after that.

He registers the hamster as a pet, after the clerk recovered from her shock and surprise, realizing that it was Kazuki who tamed the Wise King Of The Forest.

He names the big hamster Hamsuke, then after done, just as he was about to go and get the other party members to submit the monster ears, he hears the voice of an old woman speak to him.

It turns out that she's the grandmother of Nifrea and asks he had seen him. Kazuki tells her that they must be at their house, so he, Yuri, and the old woman, whose name is Lizzy, head there.

But, when they step inside, they're welcome with a sight that surprised all of them.

All the party members were dead, with the guys turned into zombies.

"Yue." With her name being called, she understood the assignment, and quickly dispatched the undead with her fists.

After she ended them, Kazuki walked over to the corpse of Ninya, and saw how she had multiple stab wounds, presumably from daggers, and how she had her clothes ripped.

Kazuki gritted his teeth, not liking the sight of the dead girl. 'She was a nice girl. Definitely deserved better.' He sighs.

He takes out a blanket from his 'inventory' and drapes it over her exposed body.

"Kando-san..." Yuri calls out to him.

"Yes?"

"Nifrea is not here."

"I know. I couldn't smell him when we got here. I smelled dead bodies as well...I just didn't really expect them to dead." Kazuki scratches his head.

Then Lizzy stepped inside, got shocked by the scene of corpses, and almost passing out when she heard that Nifrea was most likely kidnapped.

From Kazuki's speculation, he was kidnapped for his alchemist abilities, but couldn't be for sure.

Then, Lizzy hired them the two to save her grandson, in exchange for everything she has.

He used his excellent nose to smell out where Nifrea was taken. They arrived at the graveyard, where tons of undead skeletons were.

Kazuki and Yuri jumped over the gate, to the astonishment of the two guards who looked down on them, and rushed in among the skeletons. But not before telling the guards to spread the name of Kando and Yue.

Once far enough from the eyes of the guards, Kazuki summoned Patski, his Beta Werewolf.

Patski, as was mentioned, is one of his NPCs. He's one of the 3 Beta Werewolves he created.

-Patski BIO-

Name: Patski

Gender: Male

Racial Levels:

- Werewolf (5)

- Beta Werewolf (10)

Job Levels:

- Berserker (10)

- Fighter (5)

- Shapeshifting (3)

- Etc (6)

Total Level: 39

Karma Level: -500

-Story Continue-

Patski wasted no time, and started taking care of all the undead in the graveyard. Maneuvering, Kazuki and Yuri, as well as Hamsuke, evaded the skeletons and arrived at the place where their destination was.

Kazuki sniffed the air a few times before making sure, "Nifrea is in there."

Yuri nodded, and Hamsuke is.

We step closer, and a hooded person spoke up. "Khazit-sama, someone's here!"

"I know, you idiot!" Khazit said.

"I think the both of you just shut up." Kazuki said with an unimpressed face. Just looking at the two, he can barely feel anything from them. Not even a hint of danger. He thought something interesting could happen finally, but no.

"What?" Khazit was surprised at Kazuki's bluntness.

"Where's the woman with the piercing weapon anyway?" Kazuki asked.

"Oh~? Talking about me~?" A woman stepped outside, wearing a cloak. She has short blond hair, with...honestly, pretty red eyes. "You analyzed their bodies~? Not bad...~"

"Damn it...a woman." Kauzuki facepalms. "Let's not waste time, Yue. Take care of the woman, and I'll take care of these two clowns. If the woman could prove to be useful in anyway, since I can feel that she's stronger than these two, then don't kill her." Kazuki orders Yuri.

"Yes, Kando-san." Yuri nods, and wastes no time to close in on the blond woman.

"Wha-" Clemetine is taken aback from the speed of Yuri, and barely has time to bring up her hands to block her punch. The punch of Yuri makes the blondy fly back, and Yuri runs after her.

Kazuki looks back at the two, what seems like, Necromancers, and wastes to time either. He casts quickly, {Grasp Heart} twice and kills them instantly. He searches the body of Khazit and the nobody underling, but only Khazit had something interesting on him.

A magic item, that can store spells, from what it seemed like.

While Yuri was taking care of the blond woman, Kauzki decided to head inside the tomb, where he found Lanky Boy, with a magic item on top of his head.

He appraised the magic item, and it is named 'Crown Of Wisdom', but if it is taken off, the person would go mentally insane. But regardless, it seemed like an interesting item, so he ripped it off the head of Nifrea.

The boy instantly screamed out, but Kazuki quickly snapped his neck. After Nifrea died, he fast revived him. When he saw that Nifrea is alive again, he put away the Crown of Wisdom.

Stepping out from the tomb, with Nifrea under his arm, like a sack of potatoes, he sees Yuri coming back with the woman on her shoulder, still alive.

"I see you kept her alive?" Kazuki says.

"Yes. She did something interesting, called Martial Arts, and I thought it could be something useful to Na-...our home." Yuri says.

Kazuki nods. "Martial Arts...Interesting. Yes, that could prove to be useful." Then he look back at Yuri. "Are you okay?"

Yuri is taken aback with the concern, and blushes a bit. "Yes." She nods. "I am fine."

Kazuki smiles. "Good."

Then, both of them head back into town, and report the things that have happened to the adventurers guild. To his surprise, the things he and Yuri done, got them both to Mythril. Despite the events caused by blondy, called Clementine and Khazit, everything went good. The name Kando and Yue started spread, and both of them are seen as heroes.

-Back Home/Nazarick.-

(8 days have passed with Nazarick have been transported to the New World.)

Kazuki, with Clementine on his shoulder, teleports himself and her, down to the Frozen Prison.

He approaches Neuronist Painkill.

"Hey, there...I've brought you a new prisoner." Kazuki says, and throws Clementine down on the ground.

"Oh~ You've brought me a new toy~ Youn and Ainz-sama are keep spoiling me~!" She hugs her body and starts twisting left and right. "It looks I'm in dire need of giving something back to you two..."

Kazuki coughs in his hand, and quietly slips back a step. "No, uh, no need for that." He coughs in his hand again, and composes himself. "Your skills and good work is more than a gift already to me, and Ainz, and the whole of Nazarick!"

"Ah~ Hearing your words of praises, makes my whole body, every inch, shiver in pleasure~!" Neuronist moans in...pleasure.

"Uh-huh." Kazuki nods. "I should go now." He uses the Ring Of Ainz Ooal Gown to teleport away to Kyouhukou's place, as much as he doesn't want to, but he asked Kazuki and Ainz if he can talk to them.

Kazuki wanted to go to Ainz and ask him to speak with Kyouhukou, while he speaks with Neuronist, but...he heard moans. From his chamber. Undoubtedly from Albedo.

'MY MAN!' Was all could Kazuki should in his mind, thinking back on the happening. He decided that he'll interrogate Ainz on how was his first time having sex.

Anyway, back on the topic of Kyouhukou, he teleports inside his room, and he immediately shiver in disgust as he steps on cockroaches. He also feels some climbing on his leg, but he clenches his fist, appearing calm, and heads toward Kyouhukou.

"Greetings, Kazuki-sama." He bows. "Welcome to my area of which I am a king. It is such an honor, to have a Supreme One come here personally. Even my children are joyful..."

Kazuki can hear crawling all around him, and unfortunately, can even see some of them. Hundreds if not thousands of cockroaches are moving around quite excitedly by his presence, which makes him feel...pleased.

Though, it's no wonder half of the guild members were scared to step inside the room.

"The human, he was called Nigun, I think, was very delicious, please give my sincerest thank you to Ainz-sama." Kyouhukou bows.

Kazuki nods with a smile. "Sure."

Yes, Kyouhukou, and his children are gross as hell, but you can't really dislike him. He's polite as hell, and nice. If only he wasn't a cockroach...

Then, Kyouhukou, speaks up again, this time with a...tearful voice?

"Because no one enters this tomb, we barely get any food, so my children are forced to commit cannibalism." After that, he collects himself. "That dinner was truly refreshing."

"T-that's nice to hear." Kazuki nods. "I'm going to go now, if that is all?"

"Yes."