Arifureta Shokugyou de Sekai Saikyou (WN)

Cursed Black Glasses That Was Thought Legendary

「Come to think of it, Princess. I heard that there’s an artifact that can take picture.」

After Hajime and co went through battle in the demon king castle and temporarily returned to the kingdom’s palace.

While everyone was moving to prepare for the final battle, Hajime went to ransack the treasure warehouse of the kingdom in order to create various artifacts like the high speed vehicle to send people to various places as envoy. He suddenly asked that question.

「……」

There was no reply. Princess Liliana’s eyes were rolled back. Only the white of her eyes were visible as though she was a corpse.

It couldn’t be helped. After all the national treasures, secret treasures, important cultural objects, royal family’s mementos, etc. All of them were getting disassembled into mere materials. At first Liliana accompanied Hajime here to choose which artifact was to be given to him but,

──Mankind’s future and treasure, which one is more important!

She got scolded in monotone like that, and she even clung on his waist while yelling 「Please spare at least this oneee!」, and yet Hajime still took away the treasures and mercilessly changed them into raw materials. At that point the princess’s soul went away and vanished into the ether.

「Oi, don’t just daydream over there.」

The brutish king slapped *slap slap* the princess’s cheek without hesitation.

「HAH!? What were I doing? It looks like I were seeing a bad dream. Yes, my honorable ancestors were screaming at me angrily from the other side of a river……」

「Are you half-asleep? Yosh, one more time.」 Hajime moved his hand to slap her again but,

「Funnuu-」 Liliana defended with all her strength. It was a wonderfully sharp movement like she was a boxer. She was putting up a cross guard beside her cheek.

「Hajime-san. Don’t call me “princess”, call me “Lily”.」

「It might not be my place to say this, but that’s not the thing that you should retort at.」

It seemed that such thing was more important to Liliana rather than the matter about the royal family’s getting looted down, or rather than the matter of slapping a girl without hesitation. She was tough.

「It seemed that Shia-san was also treated extremely roughly, and Tio-san has completely gone off the rail and learned the special technique of turning pain into pleasure. Taking those past cases into consideration, I also have to make a lot of effort.」

「My bad. I’ll treat you kindly so spare me from another case of Tio.」

Liliana rubbed her cheek before she squinted her eyes and moaned 「Nn~」 in pleasure. Conversely Hajime’s expression became extremely complicated.

In order to change the mood, Hajime asked his question before this once more.

「Aa, that one. “The cursed black glasses”.」

「No, I was asking about an artifact to take picture though?」

「Yes, that’s why, it’s the “Cursed Black Glasses” artifact.」

The two stared at each other for a while. It seemed that the two’s perceptions weren’t deviating from each other.

「By the why, it’s this one.」

Liliana took out a black rimmed glasses from between her small breasts.

「Just now, were you thinking……I’m amazed it hasn’t fell off even though you don’t have the breasts to hold it in place?」

「Am not.」

「Bewitching beauty store everything in the valley of their breasts. I longed for that and had a pocket sewed at the inner side of my dress at the chest area.」

「I didn’t ask.」

Did your heart skip a beat? The princess’s gaze was filled with such expectation. Hajime ignored that and accepted the glasses. He analyzed it while trying to put it on. But,

「Don’t-」

Liliana’s slap came flying. Hajime stopped his movement and dodged.

「You actually resent getting slapped just now right?」

「How could I. More importantly I mentioned just now how it is a “cursed” glasses. Why are you trying to put it on carelessly then!? You were almost getting controlled by the glasses!」

「What’re you saying?」

Liliana kept saying danger danger and took back the black rimmed glasses with an extremely serious expression.

And then she said 「Listen well」 while raising up her index finger and started explaining.

「One of the legends that are being passed down through the royal family say this」

According to the legend, the person who put on that black glasses would obtain great power to rule the world. But the black glasses would try to take the wearer’s body as the compensation for that power.

「I understand now that the royal family’s storyteller is a prankster.」

「Rude! This thing is really cursed! Actually there was one of my honorable ancestors who put it on, and it seemed he was never able to take it off ever again.」

In addition, that ancestor became abnormally fixated to the glasses and he started recommending to the people around him to also wear glasses. Before anyone knew it, that ancestor had completely considered “the glasses as his actual body” or something.

「But, that ancestor then apparently became able to see for thousands of miles and through all creations, see through the truth of this world, and not only that, he could also blind those who harbor malice toward him and also fire laser of destruction from his eyes.」

「Other world’s glasses is awesome. If that’s really true then it won’t be strange to do something like conquering the world.」

In contrast to his words that sounded disbelieving, beads of cold sweat formed on Hajime’s forehead. His cheeks were slightly twitching. It seemed that he was unable to quickly analyze the glasses thoroughly even after using “Analysis Skill” and “magic eye stone”. Even though he had awakened to a derivative of Limit Break “Transcendence” and became the world’s strongest craftsman!

「According to one theory, far away in the past there were apparently 108 black glasses in existence but……」

「The creator’s intention of making something will be suspected if the number is the same with worldly desires like that y’know.」

Hajime made a disgusted face. Liliana looked puzzled about what he said while continuing her explanation with a conflicted expression.

「However, apparently the glasses met “glasses hunting” because of their abilities that were too wicked.」

「Glasses hunting」 Hajime unconsciously repeated the words slowly because of how out of there those words were.

「Yes. Because of that at present this glasses is the only confirmed one in existence.」

At least it wouldn’t cause any problem if it wasn’t worn. Apparently only its functions to take photo and print photo were usable in that state, so sometimes it was taken out from the warehouse because of how convenient it was.

「Print function?」

「Yes. How about we try using it for a little?」

Liliana opened the black glasses’ temple part and pointed the lenses toward Hajime.

「Oi, is that okay?」

「I have used it many times so there is nothing to worry about. The photos of girls like Kaori or Shizuku sells like──cough. It’s nothing.」

「Just now, I heard some words that I can’t ignore though.」

「It’s just your imagination! Now, here I go! Smile widely~ “maidd!”」

*Click*

「Wait a second. What’s with that word just now?」

「It’s the spellword to activate the photo function?」

So that was it. Not many people could directly manipulate their magic power, so it was understandable that a spellword was necessary. Though he was extremely bothered why that activation word felt very familiar to his ears but also not, like he should know the meaning of the word……

「Then, if I do this next……」 Liliana turned the lenses toward the chest part of her dress and spoke 「”Buest!”」, certainly the lenses flashed like rainbow and Hajime’s face became printed on the dress.

It was truly amazing. It surpassed the modern camera or printing machine. Hajime wanted to question her why she went out of her way to print the picture on her chest, however something else prickled his curiosity even more.

「Hey, what’s the meaning of the activation words?」

「Eh? That is……I do not know. It seems to be ancient language.」

「To me they sounded like “Maid the best” though?」

「Ahaha, there is no way that is the case! You made it sounds like the great creator of the black glasses was a maid maniac who created this in order to secretly photo maids for eternal preservation, sheesh-」

「Thanks a lot for the concrete hypothesis. It sounds really possible to be the case yeah.」

It felt like this “Cursed Black Glasses” was obsession toward glasses and maid that had been sublimated into concept magic after going through millenniums of time.

Hajime thought. Wasn’t it looking similar with the glasses that was worn by the master of Orcus Great Dungeon that he saw in the past? In that case, perhaps calling it the glasses to rule the world wouldn’t be that much of a lie.

「Perhaps it’ll be better to destroy it……」

Liliana who heard that mutter naturally ran away like a fleeing rabbit while yelling 「!? Just this one is not allowedddd-」.