The Hero Is Overpowered but Overly Cautious, Vol. 3
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Seiya’s earth magic robs Jonde of all mobility, but…
“Hmph!”
He pulls his legs out of the ground with brute force.
“Oh?”
The Hero sounds impressed, but he immediately touches Jonde again.
Whoosh!
“Ahhhhhh!”
This time, he’s buried up to his waist.
“Y-you little…!”
I figure there’s no way he’ll be getting out of this one, but…
“Don’t you dare underestimate me, boy!”
…he pulls himself out of the ground once again.
“Oh? Huh.”
Seiya places a hand on the general’s head as he boldly approaches the Hero.
Bonk! Whoooooosh!
An even louder noise echoes as Jonde’s entire body is powerfully sent underground. B-but now that I look carefully, I think I can see his forehead!
“S-Seiya! Help him! His head’s the only thing not underground!”
“He’s undead. He’ll be fine. Leave him.”
“I—I can’t leave him like this! Pull him out!”
After a few moments pass, Seiya grabs the immortal general’s hair in an irritated manner and pulls him out. Jonde is on the verge of tears.
“Sniffle…! I-it was so dark…and I couldn’t breathe…! It was awful…!”
Seiya curiously stares at him.
“You’re undead.”
“Suffocating is still painful when you’re undead!”
“But I made sure your forehead was sticking out.”
“A-are you making fun of me?! I can’t breathe through my forehead!”
The queen stares coldly at Seiya, who continues making earth serpents while ignoring Jonde.
“Goddess… I take back what I said earlier. It seems you can’t use common sense with this one…”
“Whaaaaaaaat…?”
Jonde steps away from Seiya so he won’t be buried anymore; then he yells:
“It doesn’t matter how many of those snakes you make! Once word gets out that Grandleon was killed, Oxerio and the machine corps will be here!”
“‘Oxerio’…? ‘Machine corps’?”
The queen explains it to me.
“The Machine Emperor Oxerio is a monster who rules the northern continent Barakuda. The Demon Lord created powerful magic weapons known as killing machines, which make up the machine corps. They say there are tens of thousands of them, and they are even more powerful than beastkin.”
T-tens of thousands of “killing machines”?!
While I feel I’m about to faint, Seiya doesn’t even seem concerned.
“I heard about them from the beastkin while I was gathering information. I’ve already thought of how to defeat them as well.”
“You’re still not going to defeat the machine corps with those earth serpents!”
“Who said I was going to use these to fight? They’re for scouting and surveillance.”
Seiya turns his gaze from Jonde to me as if he’s made enough earth serpents.
“Rista, create a gate. It’s time to return to the spirit world and prepare for the machine corps.”
AFTERWORD
Hello, everyone. Light Tuchihi here. Fun fact: the kanji for my name is , so the characters themselves could be read as earth (), sun (), and moon (), or as Saturday (), Sunday (), and Monday (). However, it’s actually read Light () Tuchihi (). Anyway, I know it’s a little too late to be saying this, but it’s a pretty nerdy name, huh? I have no regrets, though.
Moving on… First, I would like to thank you for reading Volume 3 of The Hero Is Overpowered but Overly Cautious. This novel, which I started on the novel website KakuYomu, was only able to make it this far thanks to everyone’s support. I cannot thank the people who bought the first two volumes enough.
So now, let me briefly talk about Volume 3. The cautious Hero Seiya Ryuuguuin, who saved Gaeabrande in the previous volume, makes an appearance in this volume, of course. Naturally, the useless goddess Rista also makes an appearance, and they still go back and forth with their usual married-couple-like banter. However, if you look at the cover, you can see there is something different about Seiya. The Hero rarely smiles. In fact, it’s surprising how little he smiles. You could say he left laughter behind in the womb when he was born. So why is he wearing such a refreshing smile on the cover? Did he win the lottery? Did he eat something good? Did he get a girlfriend? I would love for you to read this volume and find out for yourself.
I hope when you read this story, it will make you laugh, maybe cry, and perhaps feel all kinds of emotions. It’s also relatively long compared to the first two volumes, so I hope it feels like a bargain. As a writer, I’m kind of proud of how I handled the second half of the story. I like to think that whoever reads to the end will surely enjoy themselves. (Where does this confidence come from?)
Anyway, I don’t have many pages left to write on, so I’m going to make this brief. I would like to thank the following people:
Everyone who worked on this project with me and helped grow this story, Saori Toyota—whose illustrations always go beyond my expectations—and everyone who has supported this series and purchased the novels. Thank you all so very much. I am only able to continue writing because of everyone’s support.
While I’m still just a novice writer, I am going to continue working hard to improve so I can make the story funnier and more touching for everyone supporting me. I want to continue creating stories that make people think, I’m so glad I read that and I’m glad I bought this. It’s the least I can do to pay everyone back. And yes, I know this is a little arrogant of me to think.
Before I go, I just want to wish everyone happiness and good health. Let’s meet again in the next volume.
Light Tuchihi
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