Author: 夜州 (Yashu)
Mathias’ face stiffened at Cain’s smile.
“You lot, lower your swords! W-well if it isn’t Count Silford… how come you’re here…?”
Mathias asked, his voice trembling, but Cain answered coldly.
“First off… an apology. I might be young, but I am the head of a noble family. It is rude and unbecoming of one to address the head of a noble family as ‘boy’, especially in front of other nobles. I can but use Lese-Majesty…”
Hearing that, Mathias turned to Corgino, his whole body trembling. However, Corgino had no choice but to nod, as Cain, while young, was indeed the head of a family of nobles.
Mathias knelt down and lowered his head.
“W-well… Count Silford… I am really sorry. Please forgive me…”
Cain dealt another mental blow to the bowing Mathias.
“That’s enough for me, but… Earlier, you called that noble’s daughter over there ‘young girl’ didn’t you? At least, that’s what I heard…”
“No… that was…”
“While she might not be the head of a noble family… she’s the sixth imperial princess of the Baisas Empire, Her Highness the Imperial Princess Liltana. You spoke abusive words to the Imperial Princess of our neighbouring country, did you not? Marquis Corgino.”
At Cain’s words, both Corgino and Mathias were shocked.
Liltana hated being high-profile, so when she had arrived in the Kingdom, the people who had welcomed her were only the king, Magna, and Eric, and other than them, only a few people knew what she looked like.
This was also Corgino’s first time seeing her.
“N-no way… she’s Her Highness the Imperial Princess…!?”
“N-no way…”
While the two were still in shock, Cain looked at Liltana, who nodded.
Then, from her pocket, she took out a gorgeous metal plate with the coat-of-arms of the Baisas Empire engraved upon it.
“I am the Baisas Empire’s sixth imperial princess, Liltana van Baisas. I have witnessed all of your doings here. I will also report directly to the king about how you kidnapped my… friend, Palma!”
Said Liltana with a strong tone of voice, making Mathias tremble even more.
“W-what!? What am I supposed to have done!? I have no recollection of such things…”
Cain and Liltana frowned at the smug Mathias.
“You kidnapped Palma and you know that very well! I have also seen the underground cells you have. I also know that there were a number of other children there.”
“Uggggh… Marquis Corgino…”
Mathias squeaked, looking at Corgino, but all he received in response were unexpected words.
“Mathias! You have sunk low enough to even do kidnapping!! I can’t believe it!! I knew nothing of this!!”
“Eh… what…”
Mathias had a surprised expression, as he was supposed to have found help there, but had instead been pushed away.
And at that moment.
The doors opened, and a large number of guards stormed in.
“We have information that a kidnapping is happening here!!”
The captain of the guards, who had gone in ahead said, his sword drawn, then froze at the strange sight that was taking place.
Mathias, the chairman of the company, kneeling in front of a boy and girl, bodyguards standing around and protecting someone who was most likely a noble, and adventurers lying on the ground.
Not one of the guards who had entered could comprehend the situation.
Then, Darmeshia appeared out of nowhere behind Cain, and whispered into his ear.
“I’ve called the guards.”
“Nice work, Darmeshia, thank you.”
Now knowing that it had been Darmeshia who had called the guards, Cain nodded, then opened his mouth.
“Good job, guard-sans. This company has been kidnapping people. The girl behind me is also one of their victims. We came to save her. There are other kidnapped children in the back. Please go check on them.”
The guard captain frowned. The people who had already been on the scene knew who Cain was, but the guards didn’t.
“You… These people lying on the ground… did you do this?”
“I did it. They pulled out their swords at me, after all.”
“Is that so… then… you’re the bodyguard of the noble’s daughter there…?”
While Liltana would be recognised as a noble’s daughter on first glance, Cain was wearing his adventurers clothes. The guards assumed he was her bodyguard.
“I am Count Cain von Silford Drintor. The one next to me would be an imperial princess of the Baisas Empire, Her Highness the Imperial Princess Liltana.”
“I’m Liltana van Baisas.”
At the two’s words, the guards all froze. Then, the guards who had understood went down on one knee.
The guards all sheathed their swords and knelt down on one knee, the guards’ captain, at the very front of them all, looked up.
“I’m terribly sorry for this. Your Highness the Imperial Princess, Count Silford… I still haven’t understood the situation yet. Could you please explain?”
“Ah, right. You know how a girl from the Sarakhan Company was kidnapped, right? Her Highness Liltana went to give a report, I believe.”
“Yes, I have heard about that. We guards were searching for her.”
Cain nodded and continued.
“That girl was being held in an underground prison by this company. Upon finding that out, I came over here. The Sarakhan company sells the products I create for me, after all… it’s only natural I’d look for her.”
“Count Silford, you yourself…?”
The guard captain couldn’t understand why Cain would search for her himself. The heads of noble families basically always only gave out orders, they themselves never moved.
He didn’t expect one of them to move by themselves, nor engage in combat.
“You find that strange…? I know, how about this?”
Cain took out his guild card, glinting a platinum-silver, from his pocket.
“I am still an S-Rank adventurer, after all.”
“Wh-!!”
Seeing the guild card Cain had taken out, Gelta, who had regained his consciousness, became speechless.
Gelta had been an adventurer for a long time, and had eventually risen to B-Rank. He himself knew best what hardships he’d faced.
He also knew about the power needed to become S-Rank…
Adventurers who exceeded A-Rank and were in the domain of S-Rank were all called ‘monsters’ by other adventurers.
Of course, the guards’ eyes also widened at seeing the colour of the guild card.
“Is that so… Understood. Then, everyone, please stay here while we go check. You lot, search the back of this place.”
At the guard captain’s orders, a number of guards went into the back.
Amongst the ones left, only one wanted to go home.
“I’m going home. As I have nothing to do with this.”
“I’m terribly sorry. Please wait here for a little bit…”
“No! Shut up! I am Marquis Corgino. I have nothing to do with this incident! I just came here. How rude of you!!”
Corgino left the building, ignoring the guard captain’s words.
“Cain… is this okay?”
Liltana worriedly asked Cain, but he simply nodded with a face that said they had no choice.
“…I can’t stop him in this situation. He’s a higher rank than me. And one of the country’s ministers. I can’t stop him without any proof.”
Liltana made a face that said it was regrettable.
“Buuut… if Mathias talks, it’s a whole different matter…”
Cain looked down at the kneeling Mathias and grinned.
His fat body trembling at that gaze, Mathias looked down at the floor, breaking out in a cold sweat.
TN: rip Mathias you won’t be remembered
Europa is a cool moon 
Cain’s a better person than me, if I were in his shoes, boy would I go on a man-slaughter with these corrupt a-holes as a hobby. 🤧
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Man I can’t wait for this rotten pig to die! Please let it be brutal and I want to read every single word of his suffering 😮💨
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So my problem is with the King now, MC for the incident with the Saint, his tax exempt was removed. But what penalty get that fat ass noble, as his still till today is of higher status the MC. So author just forget his penalty??
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Jajajaja muy entretenido el capítulo
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TN-sama is so mean.
He’s right though 😆
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Thanks for the treat.
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finally he used his title and adventure rank properly..
he has grown a lot.. *sniff*
thank god.
thank you for the translations~
stay safe and healthy everyone!
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You will be remembered. But forgotten until the chapter before this 😂😂😂😂
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Thanks for the chapter.
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Why won’t he just kill him in his sleep and make it look natural, like using magic to stop his heart?
Corgino has caused so much trouble for him and yet, Cain doesn’t even do anything.
I think the author is doing this on purpose to make us feel angry and annoyed at Cain’s stupidity.
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I think let Darmeshia do his work to let that pig talk is better, remember Darmeshia can command “black devil G ” 🙂
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No; it’s just bad writing disguised as good writing.
If Cain didn’t have status and god blessings, along with being OP and experienced, then this would all make sense.
But the author decided that it was a smart idea to give Cain too much status, too much power and experience in battling monsters and past life but giving a story that doesn’t fit those tropes at all.
And I do actually like the OP character trope while I’m saying this.
But, this story would only have been good if Cain wasn’t OP… and I swear, 90% of this story would still hold up if the author didn’t make him OP.
This story would be drastically better if the author just removed the OP elements.
1. Instead of giving over high status and over blown god blessings status, just let him stay a marquis son. That would be enough status to protect him, but not
2. Instead of making him OP, just make him powerful for his age. Talented enough that he could blow away average fighters and even get the 2 girls engaged to him. Hell, you could have the stats show some sort of potential to be OP just to increase the reasons while keeping him weak.
3. And finally, the training trip and past life experience should be cut. He should have a past life, but just ideas from it. So he could have weird ideas to catch on, but not be overly experienced.
Those 3 areas need to be changed and this would be an amazing story… it’d literally be one of the best…
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He has to be OP. Remember the gods need him to take down another god. Just being powerful won’t fit with that being the final goal.
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So what if he needs to be OP eventually? The problem is the OTHER conflicts that author is adding in.
See, almost all of the problems that happened so far should not have been a problem.
The author is trying to add conflict and difficulty that doesn’t work because Cain is too OP to be having these problems.
It’s like you are trying to make a problem with opening a locked door but you have a magic key that can open any locked door. You have two option, you don’t make opening the locked door a problem OR you only give him the magic key when it’s necessary.
But instead, what the author is doing is giving Cain the magic key AND making him not use it and have difficulty opening the door.
So far, too much of the conflict in this story didn’t work solely because Cain was too OP to have not solved it.
You either don’t give the easy answer or you use the easy answer…
If the MC is given and easy answer and doesn’t use it, then it’s annoying and bad writing.
The author is literally leaving this guy to be a bigger bad later… but the problem? This guy should have been taken out ages ago.
The conflict needs to be organic, it needs to actually work. You can’t just keep a bad guy alive when he should have easily been taken care of for no reason other than to use him later. You need a good reason IN STORY to do so.
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Note: I’m not saying being OP is the problem; I’m saying the problem is how the author is using/not using Cain’s OP-ness.
Either use the overly easy answer you’ve given in story or don’t give that easy answer.
You need a compelling reason IN THE STORY for there to be a problem. You can’t just leave characters alone or have them spared just to create a bigger problem later.
Examples include how Cain left the Saintess with people wanting to kill her when he could easily solve it or this fatass noble he could easily take out. There is no real compelling reason those threats could exist solely other than “for the plot”.
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Why are you forgetting that he has to fight Arlong in a few years?
That guy is a full-blown god with near impossible status…….
Anyone who has to grow normally or a bit faster will stand a chance……
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No, I’m not forgetting that.
Yah, the main point is “few years”… the author could let him be OP by the point he needs to properly fight the god.
The problem is the moment.
And I’m talking about making this and the previous scenes work.
See, the problem is that almost every conflict/problem that existed previously didn’t work because him being OP was such a simple solution that not using it was stupid and annoying.
If the author wants to use an OP character for a story, then he can’t make problems that the child can easily solve yet not solve them.
Either he has to make the child easily solve them and make proper use of his OP-ness OR he has to make the kid not OP until he needs to be.
For instance, this guy should have been finished off ages ago because Cain is so OP that none of this stuff should have been an issue.
The author is trying to make needless overly forced conflict that doesn’t work because Cain is way too OP.
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I’m not saying being OP is the problem; the problem is how the author is using it.
He left behind an overly easy solution to many issues but is choosing not to use it for no reason other than plot for the story.
It’s like having a magic key that can unlock any door and then making the MC have a hard time and stay in that room for no other reason than the author needing him to stay in that room.
The author needs to either not give the easy key, make a problem the key can’t solve or just have him move on and use the key.
In this context, the magic key is Cain’s OP-ness, the door is any problem he’s had so far.
It should have easily passed but it didn’t solely because author wanted stuff in the story later. But there was no good in universe reason… he just did it that way.
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hehehe, dude, I understand your points… but then this story would not be what it is.
1. He’s supposed to be a beast that does everything without problems, so that the ridiculousness of his achievements contrast with his nonchalant personality that wants to not make a fuss while living “normally” because he wants to stay within the bounds of mankind, he’s “not” human, but he wants to be human, living like a “normal” human, while using his OP’ness only when he feels it’s appropriate… if he did what you’re saying, the humor of the setting would dissolve and since the focus of the story is all a joke, it would all shatter and become something the author didn’t want to write, like… in another world with my smartphone where the story is what you just described… this is NOT bad writing, it just means you WANT a DIFFERENT story… the author is not taking anything serious, and you are.
By your reasoning, Cain would have become already a king because he’s just too OP, if we follow what you consider to be “obvious reasoning” he should already be way higher in the power structure of the kingdom… the only reason he’s not is because it’s being portrayed over and over and over that the kid that hasn’t even reached the age of drinking alcohol just wants to live a “normal” life… that’s the punch line… (he never touches alcohol when in reality, no one can even begin to tell him what to do, but he still does things considering the feelings of those around him, this is an example of the author reminding the reader that the “kid” is still trying to live as a “kid”…)
2. Once again, if the author did this, the story would not be what it is, it turns, again, into a different genre and focus, he’s supposed to be THAT POWERFUL… you have to connect with the intent and characterizations of the author to realize the point is to make RIDICULOUS stuff…
3. The training was to deepen on his past life and develop the conflict he had for being an abandoned child while setting up the image of him becoming a demi god and what will follow once he grows even more, he’ll become as powerful as his master… a literal “god” of another world.
The story haves no action, no real dread and no real romance, because it’s focused to be a comedy where Cain does whatever he wants while the people around him “ooohs” and “aaahs” at his achievements, if you don’t want to read that story… I don’t know what to tell you, that’s what this story is about.
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The problem is that he isn’t doing whatever he wants. He’s completely constrained.
It’s a story that is exactly like if he wasn’t OP… but they just made him OP.
Like, if Naruto had all the power and knowledge he had at the end of the series, but every moment somehow went the exact same way.
If a character is OP, then make use of that OP-ness..
If you don’t want to make use of that Op-ness, then don’t make him OP.
Cain being OP is almost useless in this story…. randomly showing off and then useless when needed.
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Basically; the problem is that the author left an extremely easy answer to all his problems and they aren’t being used.
You either don’t give the answers or you have him use the answers. Either choice is fine.
But giving the answers and not using it is just dumb.
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Just to be clear though, if Cain was a psychopath with no morality that just wanted to see how things went out and only interfering when he is bored or something, that’d also be fine.
It’d also be a perfect explanation for Cain’s actions.
Because right now, the only point for Cain’s actions is for the author to make these “troubling” points.
Like the count. He’s fine solely because the author wants to use him later. Is it logical? No.
In universe, it makes no sense.
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Again, then the story wouldn’t be what it is, and it would become your regular “OP” story, I understand what you’re trying to say, it “doesn’t make sense that he would not use his powers to get rid of things before they happen” I agree that it’s not common sense, but “within” the world, it does make sense.
Because it’s not without reason or characterizations, he’s aloof and doesn’t consider consequences most of the time, he just doesn’t want to make a fuss and works “within the bounds of his perceived authority” granted by the King, because, it’s WITHIN the characterizations and the personality of the MC to be that stubborn to maintain the pretense and pretext of “I’m just a kid, don’t mind me”
IF you can’t see it, I don’t know what to tell you, it’s well portrayed, from the start, that he doesn’t want to be the king or in charge of those things, which make the King incredibly neurotic and frustrated with him, “why doesn’t he just become king instead of doing all those things and leaving all responsability of dealing with the aftermath to others?”
Because he just wants to keep on living “as a normal adventurer” as a “normal kid” as a “normal noble”.
No one could force him to marry anyone, but he accepts because it’s his “responsability” if he wants to pretend to work under the rules.
No one could say a thing if he goes and kill that Corigno guy, but then he would break his moral code and his overly stated rule that “he’s working within the bounds of his perceived authority” (he can’t become Judge Dredd just because of “one” guy)
No one could say a thing if he went and drank a glass of alcohol, but kids don’t drink alcohol so he doesn’t do it (that was the point I tried to make with that example)
If you can’t accept the premise, I don’t know what to tell you, that’s the whole point of the novel from the start to today, this isn’t “Naruto” or “in another world with my smartphone” or “One Punch” or whatever else… this is just a big Manzai joke!
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You know even if someone is a bad person you can’t just kill them I mean you shouldn’t just assassinate Corgino because he does stupid stuff.
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