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Chapter 26

BeanSprout Alliance

Translated by NotBlueYet
Edited by Kingavent

“Ah!

“I can’t let you go to Kenya-kun, can I?”

“You’re one of his friends!　What the hell are you?

“What? What is it? I wonder what it is.

Standing there was a man in a suit with shiny black glasses.

It was Issei Tanaka.

Raising his glasses, he ponders Sato’s question.

“What is my relationship with him? Business partner?　Hmmm, not quite, it’s not just that kind of profit-loss relationship.”

“So what the hell!”

“Hmm.”

I groaned, thinking.

He thought there might be a better way to put it.

“Ah, yes!　There’s a good word for that!”

Tanaka then makes a gesture of inspiration by clapping his palms.

Then he changes his atmosphere, looks straight at Sato, and replies.

“Alliance partner.”

Sato is momentarily intimidated by the unknown pressure.

But then, as if to blow away his fear, he orders in a loud voice.

“Don’t play around!　Get him!

The men strike Tanaka.

He’s just the president and a businessman.

He can’t do anything against this amount of explorers and will be beaten to a pulp.

“Sato, you didn’t win by force of arms, so you are right to have stronger force.”

It should be a critical situation, but Tanaka doesn’t make any moves.

It’s as if he’s waiting to be hit.

“Well, it’s a little stuffy, but rightly so, an eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth, and military force for military force.”

Then, on the verge of being hit, he replies.

“More overwhelming, more powerful force, you know.”

And the explorers who hit Tanaka are blown away and fly through the air.

What happened? Silver and gold-class explorers are blown away, a man appears from them.

“Issei-san, I don’t have time for this.”

He was slack-jawed, with a cigarette in his mouth.

A nice middle aged guy who carries a large sword as tall as he is on his shoulder.

THE big brother with stubble, but still muscular.

What he really is….

“Te, Tendo…Ri, Ryunosuke!”

With a trembling voice, Sato realizes and backs away.

Everyone who is an explorer knows who he is.

He is the only person in this world for whom the phrase “there is always someone better than you” does not apply.

He is the leader of the top guild [Yoi no Meisei], the person who has reached the highest level.

His titles are many and legendary.

But even so, the title that he is called the most simply describes him.

He is the only one in the world who is allowed to use this title.

The [world’s strongest] explorer.

A man standing in front of Sato and the others with that laughably obvious sign pulled out of his hand.

“Well, don’t be like that. It’s for the sake of your friends who will eventually fight with you.”

“Heihei.”

The man then took a step forward.

He looked languid, as if he were cleaning out the trash.

“It’s self-defense, Ryunosuke. Just knock them out.”

That’s why I pulled him in just in time and suppressed the evidence.

Well, that’s not the purpose of this video.

“Hic!”

Sato and the others back away.

Silver class?　Gold class?　There is no way such a thing could be his opponent.

Because he is Japan’s first Diamond Class adventurer.

…

“Ba, monster…!”

In a matter of minutes, Sato’s army of 30 men all fell to the ground.

The violence of status had changed the battle from numbers to individuals.

In the face of the mighty individual, the titans were no better than ants in front of an elephant.

Sato, who was watching the battle, was still unable to comprehend what was happening, his mouth agape.

The only thing he can understand is that that monster is taking the side of that incompetent.

Why take his side?

Why do you take the side of that incompetent?

Sato no longer remembers the fact that he was beaten to a pulp by that incompetent.

“What the hell, what the hell!”

And the last one, Tendo, stands in front of the already battered bad boy.

“What the hell is going on!”

He is no match for them, and loses consciousness from the blow, as if he is about to receive the judgment of the heavens.

“Well, that’s all taken care of. Then let’s head for the final touches.”

Tanaka happened to be here?　With Tendo?　It can’t be.

On the day of that contract, Tanaka, who was worried about Kenya, who was being treated as a special A-level employee, and investigated, noticed Sato’s presence.

What is more, this rough man named Sato is the son of the president of that rival company, to his surprise.

He was struggling to find some weakness in the rival company for a certain purpose, when the opportunity presented itself.

And with a report from the subordinate who had Kenya under surveillance, Tanaka’s plan was set in motion.

(You’re not very thorough at all, Kenya. Well, thanks to that, the plan went smoothly…)

Tanaka thought as he watched the fallen explorers.

If all of these explorers had gone to Kenya, they would have been left alone.

That would have been a possibility of death.

The daredevil and straight-laced boy would have acted according to his own will.

(Well, it’s okay, this kind of backstabbing and scheming is my role.)

Tanaka did not rise to this level only by being a clean-cut man.

He has done many dirty things.

There are times when such things are necessary, but still….

(That’s fine for the explorer)

I will take on the dirty roles.

So you can do as you wish.

Follow your dreams as you wish, as you desire, as your desires lead you.

(That must be it.)

Tanaka looks at the tower rising high in the sky.

Then he looked beyond the invisible clouds.

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(It should lead you to the top of that tower.)

Blood, bones, tears, despair, and dreams.

(It should lead you to the top of that tower, where desire swirls.

(But for now, for a little while, I will lead you there.)

Tanaka laughs and murmurs as he looks at the sky.

“As a senior who also grew up with bean sprouts.”

And Tanaka went on to his final fill.