The Raven Dark Hero 14

Chapter 14 : Just a Passing By Hero

TL:SummerPeanut

Thanks for the patrons Faisal Alqatami, Hawk, and Rodolfo

Author’s note:

※While strictly in its genre, this webnovel has raised to the 3rd in rankings! This is thanks to everyone!

One week later.

Whenever he had free time, Kouki would go to an unpopulated forest about five kilometres away from his house to train himself.

He had been training his body with various martial arts, and now he could activate his Speed Star for 10 minutes. ...after that 10 minutes, he would be so exhausted that he would not be able to stand up though...

The Invisible Slash's area of effect could extend to a radius of about 10 meters now, and its power is now enough to cut through a 10 mm thick steel plate. By the way, the further the slash, the weaker the power.

However, he believes that it’s still far from being able to win against Saejima.

What if Saejima’s Invisible Slash effective range is more than 10 metres? Thinking so, he can never feel optimistic at all.

At the same time, he also realized that the Speed Star has a good compatibility with Invisible Slash.

As long as he was not ambushed in surprise, he could just run around so that he wouldn’t be restrained after all.

Even so, there is a possibility that Saejima can predict his movements before launching his Invisible Slash.

...Overall, he was reminded again that his combat experience is overwhelmingly lacking.

(Actual combat experience huh... But it's no go if my identity got exposed...)

Kouki thought about it. If he were to engage in a real battle, his opponents would have to be either specialists from the National Defense Forces, police, the filths, including the strays. Normally, the ideal opponent would be phenoms, who poses the least likelihood to expose his identity, but the area where the phenoms are found require permission to go and that permission is rarely granted to ordinary people.

If he makes the NDF our enemy now, there is a possibility that he will be targeted by Saejima or even more powerful specialists. Kouki really wants to avoid that situation.

As for the filths, he is worried about the possibility being marked down by the organization of the filth he defeated.

Thus, if he wants to bring the fight to them, it is ideal for him to be stronger first.

(...... Okay, let's find some stray filths!)

Stray filths are those who do not belong to any organization and are treated as criminals by the government.

(......wait? Doesn’t that make me a stray filth now?)

Although he had decided his future plan, he noticed one big issue. ...that he doesn’t know where to find any stray filths.

The NDF and the police are always on the lookout for stray filths. Even so, they only found one or two in a month. There is no way for Kouki who has no authority nor network to be able to locate stray filths.

(Damn~, so encountering that Kurosaki is really just a rare coincidence after all)

Kouki returned to his home since there was nothing he could do about it.

Night time in the city.

The current Kouki who had manifested his gift doesn’t feel like going around the streets to pick fights like back then but fact is, he was only able to encounter Kurosaki because of that.

(Do I have to spend all my time in street fights again? But I can't bring myself to do that now.)

As a gifted, Kouki is already incomparable to ordinary people. Although he was disillusioned with the NDF, his image of hero is someone who doesn’t bully the weak. Inevitably, Kouki swears to himself that bullying the weak is out of the question.

Unable to put his thoughts together, he walked through the city and saw the "Ton Quijote", the place for cheaply priced miscellaneous objects.[1]

"............this is it!”

Kouki had a flash of inspiration and entered the Ton Quijote and looked for something.

“...there it is!”

Located there was a section with countless masks and cosplay costumes.

It would be bad if he’s identity is exposed. But he wants to be able to experience real combat between gifteds in secret. Then all he needs to do is hide himself! ...that kind of  short-sighted idea was what he thought up after seeing this shop.

He pondered. Buying a mask is a fine idea itself but there will be a record of the purchase and since not many people actually buy masks, there is a risk that the person who bought the mask will be identified by surveillance camera footage. The same goes for costumes.

So wouldn’t it be better to disguise himself with something that many people buy.

(......... Okay, let's do this!)

After shopping at Ton Quijote, he went home and locked himself in his room.

"Wear it like this...then this here...put this on... and I'm done!”

Looking at his reflection in the mirror, Kouki smiled with satisfaction.

He was wearing a tight sports-type inner wear. On top of that, on his upper body was a protector for motocross bike competition. His hands were equipped with leather gloves.

For the lower half of his body, specifically from the knees down, he wore the motocross bike protector with sports shoes for the ease of movement.

His mask is that of ninja-style with his eyes exposed but his mouth hidden by a cloth, and a forehead patch wrapped around his head.

...while there might not be that many people who buy protectors, so although there is the risk of being identified from purchase history, he decided that it was an essential item for his protection during combat.

After calming down a bit more, he felt embarrassed from his appearance that practically screams middle-school disease.[2]

“...anyway, I should go out to test out how much I can actually move with this gear equipped!”

After he put on the clothes he had just bought, he felt the urge to go out so he jumped out of the window of his room. As expected if he went out just like that he might be treated as a pervert(?). So he took a long coat with him.

He moved along the roof while activating his Speed Star. The destination is the police station. Reason being, he might be able to get information about any troubles happening nearby. Another reason is that as long as he is not exposed and not killed, he might be able to get some real combat experience against the cops.

He came to the front of the police station, but it was quiet with only a single policeman standing in the front like a gatekeeper.

(......Doesn’t seem like anything is going to happen soon enough.... What was the point of the police again?)

Then a man who looked like a detective came out of the police station in a hurry and got into a police car.

(Mmm! The smell of a case!)

Kouki muttered so in his mind but obviously he had never smelled anything like that before. His middle school disease is getting worse.

A police car jumped out with a sudden start. He smelled an incident and there was only one thing he would do.

(All right...time to give chase!!)

The detective headed to the warehouse district in the bay. When the detective entered the warehouse by himself, he saw around 10 armed men and a woman tied up with a rope. The detective asked for the woman's release. The woman seems to be a hostage.

(Ohhhh~! It's like a scene in a TV drama!!)

A 17-year-old high school boy can't stop his excitement even though it's inappropriate.

A gunshot rang out and the detective cowered, holding his shoulder. It seems that he was shot.

Kouki was watching the scene from outside of a window so he couldn’t hear the voices. However, the flow of the scene was being corrected in his brain.

(...A woman who was taken hostage by a certain criminal organization and the detective that came in alone to rescue her... This is like those scenes of desperate situations!)

Kouki quietly took off his coat and covered his mouth with the scarf that was wrapped around his neck. Lastly, he wrapped the ninja-style headband around his forehead and...

Suddenly, the window glass in the warehouse was shattered. The men inside, the detectives, and the hostage all turned around to look at the broken window at once, only to see the broken pieces of glass on the ground...

"...I’m here..."

The men turned in the direction of the voice. There is a distance of about 20 metres between the men and detective but right in the middle of that spot, a man stood alone.

That man is in a ninja-like disguise with protectors equipped.... Beside him stood the female hostage who had been tied up with ropes.

"H-Hey, when did he?!”

"Bastard...who the hell are you?”

Their words that are similar to scripted dialogues aroused Kouki’s tension even further.

“Who am I? ...I am...just a passing by ally of justice…”

Kouki who reached the complete state of self-satisfaction forgot the very concept of cringe and embarrassment.

"...detective, I'm leaving this woman to you.”

“What? Ah...aah…”

Handing over the female hostage, Kouki turned back to the men.

(Well then, these guys are criminals regardless of what they were doing. I have no mercy for them!)

"Now...it's time to recount your sins.”

?!

The men looked around in agitation at the mysterious man who suddenly vanished from in front of them.

"Gueeg!?”

"Ahakh!?”

"Gyagh?!”

One after another, the men fall down with short screams.

"This guy... he’s a gifted?!”

“Hey! Do something!”

The man who was told to do something attracted the attention of the rest of the men. However, that man who was likely to be a gifted, could not even follow Kouki’s movement and became flustered.

“Even if you tell me to do something, I can’t even see...Ugyaagh?!”

...so he was quickly and easily defeated.

In terms of time, it was 60 seconds… In just one minute, the ten armed men were rendered incapable of fighting by Kouki.

(...So strong! I knew that Speed Star is a very strong gift! ...but my fists and legs are a little sore from attacking…)

This time, Kouki did not use Invisible Slash. He used Speed Star to knock out the men with his bare hands. However, there is the demerit of his body unable to endure the usage of Speed Star.

(I guess just regular gloves won’t do.... Maybe I should wear my MMA gloves next time.)

Kouki looked at the detective and the female hostage. They were both puzzled as to what had happened.

“...... No need to thank me. Farewell.”

Kouki, who wanted to try to say a cool line, but unable to think of anything so he walked out the window he came in.

Author’s note:

“It might be interesting?”, “Decade?[3]” “W?[4]”...those who thought so, please[5] bookmark, give rating, comment, and review!

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TL’s note:

1. Don Quijote (ドン・キホーテ)
2. Chuunibyou. I don’t think there’s a need to explain this.
3. Kamen rider decade
4. Kamen rider W
5. Help, this is not possible to be translated. I think author basically used title of a song with the same ‘yoroshiku’ as ‘yoroshiku onegaishimasu’.  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=25h6398empc