A Wild Last Boss Appeared! Volume 4, page 23
“Y-You’re...”
“We owe you for the meal, so we came back,” Lufas said, drawing the sword at her waist.
Then, the sword extended and twisted like a snake, flashing across the battlefield. The sword bit into the wyverns one after the other, turning each one into a corpse with a single strike.
Mizar placed his hands on the ground and created golems. The artificial soldiers formed a line to protect the human soldiers. From behind the line, Megrez launched another spell, and Alioth ran through the battlefield to assault the wyverns.
“I-Is this a miracle...?”
“Hey, Dubhe, am I dreaming right now?”
“I think I’m dreaming too...”
“You forgot to make a bear pun there.”
Another epic tale was unfolding before their very eyes, and the ones who were fighting were heroes. Just four adventurers had already managed to destroy the entire horde of wyverns. The dragon returned and threw a blow with all its might, but Lufas stopped it with one hand. The blow, which was made with an overwhelming size and weight difference, caused the ground under Lufas to cave in as she received it, but Lufas herself hadn’t budged an inch. Then, she countered. In a flash, she jumped in front of the dragon’s face and unleashed a straight right. The dragon was launched backward, and Lufas followed. To others, it looked as if she’d kicked the air, and in the next moment, she was already caught up and attacking.
She continued to chase it further. Flying even faster than the dragon was, she kicked it upward before once again flying up ahead of it and punching it back down. But she wasn’t finished yet. Lufas dropped and reached the ground faster than the dragon yet again, kicking it away as it fell into range.
The dragon rolled away like it was a ball, its horns and claws snapping off and flying in all directions.
To finish it off, Lufas raised both hands together.
“I order you as your master: bisect mine enemies with your steel blade. Come, Karkinos!”
A crimson-red form jumped out of the rift in space, answering Lufas’s call. It was a gigantic crab monster that was just as big as the dragon. The crab grabbed the dragon by the neck with its pincers and slammed it into the ground. Then the pincers closed. The dragon’s hard scales, which should have protected it, did nothing as its head was easily separated from its body and fell to the ground.
With its job done, the crab waved its pincers as it retreated back into the crack in space. The literal instant kill had Alphecca dumbstruck.
Eventually, the situation caught up with some of the soldiers, and there was an uproar. As more and more soldiers regained their senses, they added their voices to the yell. Eventually the yells became cheers loud enough to shake the ground.
“W-WOOOWWWW! Amazing, utterly amazing! You’re all, uh... Anyway, you guys are great! Dammit, that’s the only way I can describe it!”
“Hey, man, is this a joke?! Did we really survive that?!”
“I’m gonna go back and confess to the girl I like!”
“The hell?! Is this a dream?! Dammit, I never wanna wake up!”
Among all the soldiers’ cheers, Alphecca couldn’t help but notice that his fingers were trembling.
Is this fear? No, it’s elation, excitement. With the threat of the dragon in front of my face, I was convinced of humanity’s loss. I thought that even the notion of fighting was ridiculous.
But... Ah, I see... Hope was right here. Here, with the heroes. We can win! As long as they’re here, humanity can win!
Later, he would swear loyalty to Lufas, and Alphecca William would later go down in history as an extraordinary warrior who stayed by Lufas’s side even in the fight with the Seven Heroes. His autobiography would say that this was the start of his epic tale. On that day, humanity bore witness to numerous miracles, and that marked the start of humanity’s counterattack against the dragons.
“On that day, I witnessed the start of a story,” was what Alphecca had written down in his autobiography.
Eventually after his death, Alphecca’s autobiography would become widespread, and in its popularity, it would raise a question and show how heroes ought to be. Every book that he wrote always ended with the same line:
“I don’t believe Lufas Maphaahl would come to an end like that. I just don’t. I’m sure she’ll come back someday. She’ll come back and once again show us countless miracles. That’s what I believe.”
Afterword
It’s been a long time, everyone. I’m Firehead. I’m kind of the author, and the owner of this bar, “Afterword.” I serve alcohol and listen to the complaints of the customers who come here. That is my job.
Oh? Seems like there’s a customer today already...
Laws of Physics: “Hey, bartender! Gimme somethin’ to drink! Somethin’ strong!”
Looks like the customer is the Laws of Physics. Looks like he’s had it rough recently, but that doesn’t change what I have to do. As he asks, I serve him alcohol.
“Hey. Welcome to the Afterword. This tequila’s on the house. Just drink it and calm down, please.”
I served up some tequila, and the Laws of Physics downed the glass all at once. He drank well. After that, his cheeks flushed red as he breathed out, and he flattened out on the table.
Laws of Physics: “Dammit! That Lufas, she’s finally started dissing me in the main story! ‘Laws of physics? No idea who that is.’ That’s what she said, you know?! Bartender, gimme another!”
Apparently being openly dissed in the story proper was a huge shock to him.
I silently served more alcohol to him.
Laws of Physics: “That bitch... She doesn’t know how hard I’ve had to work in the shadows! She only makes use of me when it’s convenient, like for gravity, but as soon as I work against her, she ignores me completely!”
His complaints were perfectly reasonable, but I knew someone even more unfortunate than him. Oh...? Speak of the devil. He’s here.
Law of Conservation of Mass: “Bartender, I’d like something to drink. Something really strong.”
“Will orange juice do?”
Law of Conservation of Mass: “I’ll kill you.”
Oh my, he can’t even take a joke. The world sure is harsh. I did as I said and served him orange juice, and he downed it all in one gulp.
Law of Conservation of Mass: “This is orange juice!”
Yeah, sorry. It is. This time I poured him a glass of vodka.
Laws of Physics: “Oh, Mass. What’s wrong?”
Law of Conservation of Mass: “Heh... I got canned.”
Laws of Physics: “Huh?”
Law of Conservation of Mass: “It’s a notice of dismissal. Says I don’t need to come to Mizgarz anymore.”
Ah, so he finally got fired... Well, of course he wouldn’t be needed in a world where the Twelve Heavenly Stars giganticize like it’s nothing. In fact, he’d be in the way.
Law of Conservation of Mass: “Tch! Well that’s just what I wanted anyway! Those bastards just keep going gigantic over and over and over again! As if I wanted to work in a ridiculous world like that!” he said as he downed his vodka, his face bright red.
He honestly should have just kept with orange juice, given how weak he is.
“Sounds awful, customers.”
“It’s all your fault!” they both said.
“Ouchies!”
I got hit. This world is truly illogical and unreasonable.
*dingaling*
The bell that announced the arrival of a new customer ran throughout Afterword. Apparently we have a new customer.
Mercurius: “Bartender, a martini.”
Oh my, oh my. Well, if it isn’t Mercurius, who died in vain in the main story.
Mercurius: “Don’t say, ‘in vain.’”
Mercurius downed his martini in one swig and heaved a huge sigh.
Mercurius: “Hey, Bartender... What the hell was I, in the end?”
“The perfect fool who self-destructed after worrying about things all by himself even though he just wanted the girl he liked to like him back but was too much of a coward to put himself out there.”
Mercurius: “I’ll kill you.”
Well to be honest, he did land quite the unfortunate role. All he had to do was retrieve a weakened guardian dragon’s blood as well as the elixir. It should have been a simple job, but in the end, it all turned out like that before he could react. On top of that, Luna still probably wouldn’t have noticed his feelings, even if he’d succeeded. That girl’s totally focused on Terra, after all.
Mercurius: “Man... I knew that though... Even so, I wanted to do something...”
“I mean, why did you choose that moment to do something in the first place? You could have been more cautious about things.”
Mercurius: “I mean, it couldn’t be helped, right? I was panicking and in a rush too. I just heard that Luna encountered Aigokeros and was almost killed the other day. She managed to survive this time, but when I considered that fact, I realized that next time she might not be so lucky... I wanted to free her from the fate of all devilfolk even a day sooner. I thought that Lufas Maphaahl wouldn’t bother with her once the rest of the devilfolk were gone... Even if she didn’t notice me, as long as she was happy, I’d...”
“Woah there. Why’re you making things all serious? This is the Afterword! ‘As long as she’s happy...’ And then you’d take a pose like, ‘Schwing!’”
Mercurius: “I’ll kill you.”
But he punched me anyway. How unreasonable.
Mercurius downed even more alcohol and eventually passed out. After he did, Jupiter, who’d been shamefully done in by Libra in volume 2, came to get him.
Jupiter: “As always, sorry about this. I’ll take him home, so... Ah, here, I’ll foot the bill.”
“Thanks.” Just like that, the bar was empty, and I was alone.
Oh ho, sounds like it’s about time to close shop, and by that, I mean I’m running out of space. All right then, everyone, let’s all meet again in the next volume.
See you again.
-Firehead
Bonus Short Story
A Perverted Scorpius Suddenly Appeared
Scorpius, the Scorpion of the Twelve Heavenly Stars, was a pervert. It was obvious from the way she dressed that she was an exhibitionist, and she also happened to be a sadist. Overshadowing all of that, she had an incurably heavy Lufas complex, Lufacon for short. Her feelings towards her lord, Lufas, also included the proper respect and affection for her leader, but she also held a great lust for Lufas. Basically, she carnally desired Lufas.
On top of that, Scorpius herself had no intention of hiding that fact. For a monster like her, desiring someone meant directly acting upon those desires. In a sense, she was much more honest than humans, who tended to hide their affections. Since Scorpius was like that, of course she would try to sneak into her lord’s bed every night to assault her. Tonight she would throw herself into battle for the umpteenth time as well.
It was two in the morning. A single shadow quietly crawled through the interior of the car, which was wrapped in silence. The shadow, who was Scorpius, stuck herself to the wall, shuffling along it while blending into the darkness on her way into Lufas’s room. While Scorpius may have looked like a beautiful woman, she was currently clinging onto a wall with her four limbs splayed out and breathing hard. Put bluntly, she was more than a little creepy. A lot more.
Reaching the door, Scorpius quickly surveyed the area. She knew that she was currently in front of Lufas’s room, and that everyone else was most likely already asleep.
Getting past this point was when the problems started. Among the group was a singular being that never needed to sleep. Of course, that being was Libra. Libra, who was active twenty-four hours a day with no need for sleep, was nothing but irritating to Scorpius as she stood guard over Lufas every single night. Before Scorpius had been added back into the party, Libra used to sit guard outside of Tanaka, but recently she’d started standing outside of Lufas’s room, fixating wholly on protecting her. At the worst times, she would place herself inside the room in a specific spot that she seemed to have marked as hers.
Libra’s not outside the door, which means she’s inside...
There was no doubt in Scorpius’s mind that Libra already had her gun equipped on the other side of the door and was waiting for Scorpius to open it before she opened fire. It was a fact that Libra would shoot her comrades with no hesitation. Scorpius had been shot by her more than ten or even twenty times.
Now then, how should I deal with this...? After a bit of thought, Scorpius eventually decided to just step inside, because she was feeling pressed for time. Thinking was not Scorpius’s strong suit. She just wasn’t that clever. Using the dexterity she’d gained by repeated attempts to sneak into Lufas’s bed, Scorpius used a wire to pick the lock on the door before carefully opening it.
And...there was no fire from Libra.
Huh? That’s strange...
Even while having her doubts, Scorpius hesitantly peeked into the room. She saw a certain perverted goat trying to infiltrate through the window.
Wha—?
Scorpius froze out of surprise for a scant second. The next moment, Scorpius realized that Aigokeros had gotten into Lufas’s room before even she had. Then, she felt a rage burning inside of her that completely shelved her original goal.
“What the hell do you think you’re doing, sneaking into Lady Lufas’s room?! I’ll kill you, you rotten goat!”
“You’re trying to assault her at night again?! Do you never learn?! Today is the day I’ll have you pay for your endless disrespect!”
The two perverts completely ignored what they had just been trying to do, exploding in irrational rage at the other’s actions. Birds of a feather flock together. Fights only occurred because the two participants were on the same level. From a third-person perspective they were basically the same. In fact, they were, but the two of them couldn’t see the fault in themselves, even if they could see it in the other.
Aigokeros and Scorpius both leapt outside at the same time before kicking off the earth once again to break into a dash. Both of them were mercilessly trading blows at each other’s faces.
“You’re dead!” they both shouted.
The two clashed at high speeds over and over again. While the reason for their fight was incredibly base, their power levels were anything but. From an outside perspective, it would seem as if it were merely two shadows clashing.
This ridiculous fight showed no signs of ending even after an hour. After two hours, the area had been completely devastated, while after three they’d finally turned into their gigantic monster forms to continue the battle.
Finally, the four-hour mark had passed since the fight had begun.
“Why are these two sprawled out on the ground covered in blood...?”
“The two perverts simply crushed each other. There is no need for you to concern yourself with this, master. Not one speck or iota of it.”
It was six in the morning. Lufas tilted her head in confusion while looking at her two subordinates laid out on the ground half dead, Libra reacted with harsh words and a cold attitude.
As it happened, Libra had spent the night hiding under Lufas’s bed.
Table of Contents
Cover
Color Illustrations
Main Story
Short Story: Phecda Wants to Evolve Into an Adventurer
Afterword
Bonus Short Story
Bonus Textless Cover
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A Wild Last Boss Appeared! Volume 4
by Firehead
Translated by Kevin Chen
Edited by Kathleen Townsend
This book is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents are the product of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously. Any resemblance to actual events, locales, or persons, living or dead, is coincidental.
Copyright © 2017 Firehead / YahaKo
Illustrations by YahaKo
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Original Japanese edition published in 2017 by Earth Star Entertainment
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English translation © 2021 J-Novel Club LLC
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Ebook edition 1.0: April 2021
Firehead, A Wild Last Boss Appeared! Volume 4
