Not All Heroes From Earth Are Bad-Chapter 35

“Crunch! Chomp! Chomp!”

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Battalion Commander Doras was voraciously eating with food in both hands.

“The meat tastes even better than usual today!”

His appetite seemed better than usual.

“It feels so refreshing, like a bad tooth finally fell out!”

Usaru, the soldier he pawned off to Choi Hyun-seok.

That guy was the battalion’s troublemaker.

A hybrid between an Ogre and an Orc.

Between magical beasts and magical beings,

Usaru, who was somewhere in between, was incredibly stupid.

Despite that, his strength was so overwhelming that he couldn’t be dealt with carelessly.

‘If he had been smart, he might have risen to the position of battalion commander.’

Even now while being stupid, he’s someone who could easily crush a company commander with just his physical abilities.

If such a Usaru had possessed superior intelligence, it wouldn’t have been unreasonable for him to dream of becoming battalion commander.

“Burp!”

Doras let out a satisfying belch.

“He was like a thorn in my side.”

Too strong to drive out.

Left alone, he keeps causing trouble.

From Doras’s perspective of wanting peace, he was an extremely irritating fellow.

“Although the battalion’s fighting power will be weakened by this incident, there won’t be any problems.”

Many soldiers had deserted, and Usaru, the strongest in the battalion besides himself, had left.

Doras wasn’t concerned.

There wouldn’t be any battles to fight at Army Headquarters anyway.

The soldiers who left could simply be replaced.

“Thank you, Choi Hyun-seok!”

Doras was sincerely grateful to Choi Hyun-seok.

After all, he was the one who brought him true peace.

“Hahaha! Meat! Bring more meat!”

That night, the sound of chomping echoed throughout Doras’s office all night long.

***

“Two hundred sixty-seven. Two hundred sixty-eight. Two hundred seventy! Exactly two hundred seventy creatures!”

The previously quiet mess hall was now bustling.

The newly recruited cooking soldiers were gathered in disorder.

“Including the original ones, that makes about three hundred in total.”

This should be enough to get things started.

“Ahem! Everyone, attention!”

Choi Hyun-seok shouted loudly.

“Let me introduce myself again. I’m Choi Hyun-seok, the handler of Bobo, who will be in charge of the mess hall!”

Choi Hyun-seok finished his brief self-introduction.

Of course, he didn’t forget to create an intimidating atmosphere by mentioning Bobo.

“Kwaaang!”

The quick-witted Bobo roared impressively.

The soldiers who had been forcibly made into cooking staff looked at Bobo with fearful eyes.

It was a good start.

“From now on, we’re reorganizing the unit. Forget the old framework! Our cooking company moves by its own rules!”

Choi Hyun-seok wore the Combat Power Meter and examined the soldiers.

“You, you, you. And you. From now on, you’re platoon leaders.”

He selected platoon leaders mainly from those with strong fighting power.

“You over there too. Yes. Galum, Digdon, Krong, you guys come forward too.”

He selected soldiers dedicated to cooking, centered around the existing cooking staff.

“Phew, the organization is roughly done.”

In the end, about 100 soldiers were assigned to cooking duty and 200 to hunting duty.

“If anyone has complaints about the current organization, step forward. I’ll transfer you.”

As soon as he finished speaking, the cooking duty soldiers raised their hands en masse.

“I want to hunt too.”

“If we don’t hunt, we can’t eat meat!”

“We want to eat meat!”

The soldiers shouted like children throwing tantrums.

Choi Hyun-seok shook his head.

‘These guys don’t know their place.’

He had deliberately assigned weaker soldiers to cooking duty.

Because mediocre soldiers would be of no help in hunting anyway.

“Those who raised their hands, line up in front of me in order.”

The soldiers hoping to transfer lined up in a single file.

“I’m going to hit you exactly twice. If you can endure it, I’ll transfer you to the hunting team.”

Then the goblin standing at the front, right in front of Choi Hyun-seok, blinked his eyes.

“Eh? What does that mean…?”

Before he could grasp the situation, a low kick struck.

Crack!

The goblin who was hit in the thigh spun 360 degrees in the air before crashing to the ground.

“Ke, keck…! My leg… My leg…!”

“Ah, maybe I kicked too hard.”

The goblin grabbed his leg while crying streams of tears.

It was probably broken.

“Anyway, you’re too weak so it won’t work. Come back when you’re stronger.”

Choi Hyun-seok said coldly.

He turned his head to look at the next soldier.

“Next. Come here.”

Behind the goblin stood an orc.

He silently returned to where he was originally standing.

“Where are you going?”

“Suddenly I don’t want to hunt anymore.”

“Alright then. Next!”

The situation remained the same after that.

After seeing the goblin with his leg destroyed, most soldiers returned to cooking duty out of fear.

Of course, there were a few persistent ones who remained.

Crack! Crack!

“I-I think it’s better not to hunt!”

Two low kicks of negotiation were enough to make them realize their place.

Within less than 5 minutes, all cooking duty soldiers returned to their positions.

“Don’t be too discouraged. The cooking staff will get meat too. Actually, you’re better off, right? You get to eat meat without having to hunt.”

The cooking staff’s eyes sparkled at the mention of getting meat.

‘Well, I’ll only give them a mouse’s portion.’

Choi Hyun-seok smiled wickedly.

Getting even a little was better than nothing.

“Now the organization is really complete.”

Choi Hyun-seok wiped away nonexistent sweat.

The general framework seemed to be all set.

‘It ended faster than expected.’

The soldiers followed orders more readily than anticipated.

It was surprising since he thought they would be resistant to having a human superior.

[You have commanded soldiers with excellent leadership, reorganized and stabilized the unit]

[Hidden stat Charisma has increased]

[Ability Command rank has increased]

Choi Hyun-seok’s eyes widened.

This was completely unexpected gain.

‘No wonder the soldiers were being too obedient, was it because of these?’

He had been wondering why the soldiers were following orders so readily.

It seemed insufficient to attribute it just to fear of low kicks.

After seeing the system alert, he finally understood why.

“These turned out to be unexpectedly useful.”

The hidden stat Charisma and ability Command that he gained from being a slave master before.

Honestly, he had thought they were completely useless until now.

But that thought was wrong.

These two powers showed their true value when the moment called for them.

▫Ability: Command(D)

Charisma increased from 30 to 34.

Command rose from E rank to D rank.

It was quite generous compensation for such brief hardship.

“Excellent!”

Just as Choi Hyun-seok was smiling with satisfaction,

An unidentified strange cry was heard from outside the mess hall.

“Usa~ru!”

“Ah… I forgot about that guy.”

Choi Hyun-seok sighed while holding his forehead.

Name: Usaru!

Height: approximately 5m.

A hybrid between an Ogre and an Orc, no less.

His characteristic is always carrying a club about the size of Choi Hyun-seok’s body.

“Usa~ru! Bored!”

Estimated mental age is roughly kindergarten level.

Communication is possible, but that doesn’t mean he listens well.

“Sigh, what should we do about that?”

“Yeah…”

The problem is that Usaru is too strong.

He’s unnecessarily, incredibly strong despite not being properly controlled.

Choi Hyun-seok put on the Combat Power Meter again and looked at Usaru.

[Combat Power: Measurement Impossible]

“This piece of junk says ‘measurement impossible’ whenever it feels like it!?”

Choi Hyun-seok irritably took off the meter.

[Warning! This meter cannot measure Combat Power above 50,000]

[Continuously observing unmeasurable targets will rapidly consume the meter’s durability]

“Ah, so that’s what it was?”

Now that he looked at it, it seemed the meter could only measure up to 50,000 Combat Power.

Come to think of it, no reading had ever exceeded 50,000 until now.

“So anyway, that guy’s Combat Power exceeds 50,000.”

“That’s right.”

“Unlike the others, we can’t make him listen by beating him, this is troublesome…”

Just then, Usaru recognized Choi Hyun-seok and shouted.

“Choi Hyun-seok! Usaru is bored!”

“Hey, call me Chef. I’m the captain, captain. You know what that means?”

He tries to initiate dialogue first.

“Captain! Usaru is bored!”

It seems about half successful.

Choi Hyun-seok fell into contemplation while watching Usaru.

‘Since it’s come to this… Should we go hunting right away?’

Maybe that would be better.

“Do you want to go hunting? You know what hunting is, right?”

Usaru’s eyes lit up at the word hunting.

“Usa~ru! Hunting! Want to go!”

“Okay okay. Let’s leave right away while we’re at it.”

Originally, he had planned to just organize the unit today and end it there.

He was going to start hunting in earnest from tomorrow.

But the unit organization finished faster than expected.

The sun was still high in the sky.

There was no reason to waste precious time.

Choi Hyun-seok gathered the hunting specialist soldiers.

“Everyone grab your tools! It’s time to go cut some meat!”

***

The long-awaited hunting trip!

Choi Hyun-seok led 200 cooking soldiers and Bobo out to hunt.

“Rachel. I’ve been thinking.”

Choi Hyun-seok spoke to Rachel while moving.

“How about having these guys capture magical beasts alive?”

“You’re planning to let them do all the hard work catching them, then swoop in for the final blow, aren’t you?”

Like master, like fairy, you could say.

Rachel quickly caught onto Choi Hyun-seok’s intentions.

“Hmm, it’s not a bad plan, but there’s a problem.”

“What problem?”

“Capturing them alive is much harder than killing them. Can these brainless Demon King’s Army do it?”

“As long as the magical beasts are still breathing, it doesn’t matter if we cut off their limbs or whatever. If we make nets later and teach them how to use them, I think it could work really well.”

“Oho… That does sound good.”

Rachel nodded.

“Besides, we can just recruit more if these idiots die. Let’s boost your level like crazy while we’re at it, Hero!”

“Uh, yeah… Right…”

Choi Hyun-seok looked at Rachel with an awkward expression.

Although it was his plan, there’s a difference between saying ‘ah’ and ‘oh’.

Something about Rachel’s expression was strangely rough.

Choi Hyun-seok carefully opened his mouth.

“I know I’m not one to talk… But your personality seems to be getting more eccentric.”

“Hero! This world is impossible to live in sober!”

“Well, that’s true…”

“If only we had alcohol, I’d drink so much!”

The words ‘Isn’t it your fault that we fell into this world where we can’t stay sane?’ rose to his throat.

“Uh… You must have been under a lot of stress too.”

Fortunately, he didn’t say it out loud.

After all, she was going through hardships with him.

He didn’t want to bicker about past events unnecessarily.

“Wait. Isn’t something strange?”

Just then, Choi Hyun-seok suddenly stopped.

Rachel turned around with a puzzled face.

“What’s strange?”

“No magical beasts are showing up.”

They had passed the forest entrance quite a while ago.

But there wasn’t a single magical beast in sight.

It was too strange to be a coincidence.

“Hero. Could it be because of Bobo?”

“Ah, that’s right!”

Choi Hyun-seok clapped his hands.

He remembered the conversation he had with the former chef Kulkan.

‘Lord Bobo cannot join.’

‘What? Why not?’

‘When Lord Bobo comes along, the magical beasts run away and we can’t hunt.’

When they went hunting for the first time.

Choi Hyun-seok had said he wanted to take Bobo along, but was refused.

“I thought it was just an excuse then, but maybe it was true…”

Although Bobo is still a baby, his lineage is different.

A magical beast inheriting the highest bloodline raised directly by the Demon King!

He could be considered royalty in the magical beast world.

“And then there’s this Usaru fellow too.”

Bobo alone would be enough, but now there’s also this giant Usaru who might be either magical beast or magical being.

It was entirely possible that the magical beasts were hiding out of fear.

“What should we do.”

Choi Hyun-seok pondered.

Sending Bobo and Usaru back now doesn’t make sense.

Who knows what disaster might occur if those two were sent back alone.

He would definitely need to go with them, but that would leave only the newly recruited misfit cooking soldiers here.

There’s no way they could properly carry out their duties.

A situation where neither option works.

“Hero! I have an idea!”

Just then, Rachel clapped her hands as if she’d thought of something.

She looked at Choi Hyun-seok with a devious smile.

“Let’s use bait.”

“Bait?”

“When catching fish, it’s inefficient to go into the water to look for them. See how all the fish have run away?”

“Uh… Right?”

“So we cast a fishing rod and dangle some tasty bait…”

“Where is this tasty bait?”

Rachel shook her head as if she couldn’t believe he didn’t know.

“We have plenty right behind us.”

“Huh?”

“200 pieces of tasty bait! Isn’t that enough?”

The Hero and his dedicated fairy.

A plan that would make even the Demon King weep was being crafted in their hands.

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