" So your wish is to be the most popular man in the world"
The god ask me.
" Yes" I answer without any regret.
" All right, you will be reincarnated to new world to be the most popular man in the world"
And the light consume my view, left only the blank space before the whole different view appear before me.
" Do you hear about the most popular man in the world" the pretty female sit in front of me in the busy tavern.
"No, who is that, I have no idea" I wave my hand panically.
"I hear he was voted the most wanted man in the girl survey, he must be quite a playboy" The girl look at me seductively with her big eye and her cleavage is in view.
I swallow my food in nervous. The deadly glare from the male adventure around my table give me a chill. It is the same jealous look I have when other boy sit with pretty girl.
" I wonder" I laugh awkwardly.
"I wonder if you are that legend handsome man"
"No, no way, I don't know who you are talking about but I bet he must be really handsome right" I look downward with my head cover in sweat.
" You are right, no way someone is ugly as you can be the most popular man, Acius" the girl laugh mockingly at me.
" but I really wish to be his girlfriend and you know, let him do anything to me" she whisper into my ear lightly. Her breath tickle my ear.
" Haha, what a virgin, you are so easy to tricked, what a loser" she reveal her true face.
She throw the cup water into my face mercilessly.
" what a waste of time, look the info was wrong after all, no way a legendary man was this much a loser" she look at me in as if I am a lowly trash.
She then leave me, and head to the exit of the tavern.
" Let go guy" behind me, almost half of the bar stand up and follow that lady.
" Guess our target isn't here today"
Finally i can enjoy the simple food I just brought.
" Hey, anyone know where the most popular man in here" the energetic voice cause everyone in the bar looking away from their food. The lady who was trying to charm me earlier also turn her attention to the new arrival.
" Can I even have a decent meal" I whisper.
Without looking, the new childish looking fellow bump into the boss lady.
" Apologize to my boss" one of the boss lady's underling threaten the kid.
" I am sorry for my friend behavior" another woman who look hurried as she enter the tavern.
" Are you kidding me"
" You think that much would be enough, you know who we are, simple apology isn't enough, little girl" the underling kick the nearby chair.
" you better give us some compensation if you want to leave this town safely" Without any proper reason, the bandit quickly skip the whole pretending and try to rob in the middle of day light.
" Actually I see what a nice equipment you have there, if you give it to us, then I think we can protect you from bandit in the town"
The boy ignores the bandit and continues to look around.
" Hey kid, look at me when I talk, who do you think you are"
" I am sorry, my master is a little absentminded, I hope you can forgive us and look over this" the new girl who dress as a noble, politely bow her head.
" Where are you hiding Acius" The small boy yell loudly.
" You should give up on looking at that man, it have been a long time I last hear him, the man who was rumor the key to defeat the demon lord 10 year ago, and even one handed stop the army of demon lord" The boss lady come upon to deliver a bad news to the young boy.
The boy look straight to the lady boss's eye.
" Hahaa, what did you just say, Acius, that man stoping the whole army, this much be a joke or something"
The boss lady blush as the young boy laugh at her.
" Are you laughing at me"
" Of course, you are so dumb,..."
Before the boy can continue the noble girl quickly jump in and block the boy's mouth.
" I am sorry for my master's behavior, he is just a kid after all"
The noble girl bow her head continuously.
" I was just thinking about letting you go, but I changed my mind" the boss lady make a gesture for her underlings to approach the boy and the noble girl.
" You too would make us a lot of money, your people who live in money have to pay something, right?, what a spoil brat" the boss lady smile.
"What did you just call my master"
" spoil brat, of course, grow up without any need to worry about their life because your parent already do it all"
" I think you are mistaken" the noble lady look angrily, and surprisingly scary unlike her innocent face.
" I remember you are talking about getting our equipment right, let me show you the reward if you can defeat me"
The noble lady summon a giant sword, but glowingly and a strange symbol glow on it.
With a quick look, the boss lady realize what the symbol mean.
" No stop" before she can stop her underlings, they already charge toward the weak looking girl.
" she is the legendary hero of sword" as she yell, the expression her underling turn from confident to fear.
" You are too late"
And under one swing, the tavern is split in half.
" We retreat" the boss lady quickly retreat first, left her underling try to crawl over each other to run away from the noble lady.
Time to go. I quickly mix in the crowd and go with the flow.
" My food" it have been a day I have eat something properly.
" There you are" the boy's yell make me my heart jump.
I urge myself not to look back. But somehow I feel a pressure on my back.
Somebody climb on me.
" Hey kid, you get a wrong person"
I turn my back in fear.
But turn out it wasn't a kid but a still violent scary noble girl in killing mode hug me.
" Eh,.." the girl snap out and look confused about why she is hugging a man.
" Get him Malinda" the boy point his finger at me.
" Noooo" the girl scream as she use all her force to push me. I feel myself travel mile away in such a short distance.
"No, I can't marry now" the noble girl blushingly sobbing.
" Good job, Malinda, you got him" the boy give a thump up.
" So we got you, the most popular man, or to the hidden side of the Great Conquer 10 year ago, the World Cheater"
" That isn't even truth, I don't even cheat"
" Master, no, you shouldn't reveal his identity here" the noble servant girl look nervously.
" Wait, the world cheater is here!!" One of the village stand near, speak in a loud voice.
" Now you have done it, Master Arthur" the noble lady sigh depressingly.
I kind of getting what she mean.
" Open the World's communication channel, contact the Space speaker" One of the town merchant quickly order his staff.
" Also contact the guild of Merchant and blacksmith, increase staff, from other county is all right" the town Major quickly step into action.
" Waiter for hiring, thousand coin for each day" the paper print out are quickly stick onto the wall with the money for the S level quest.
" Request a Kingdom guard, for safety and order"
" Increase production of housing and also expand the town and use some weak monster site to make more space"
Numerous policies are passed immediately as well as each private sector try to increase production.
" How can you believe it"
" What do you mean, even the hero of sword come here, what do you think, but who care I will be rich after this, we better make this before other people com here and make business out of it"
Every member of the town run around to finish their job.
" Let me go"
" No, get him, Malinda" and somehow the girl got stuck hugging me again.
" This time I won't let you let it go"
" No"
Even the nice pressure behind my back, I can't stop myself from running.
" It is already on the world new, what thousand kingdoms already request for private teleported, they even let us demand the fee"
The teleport engineer is busy with his hand on the machine.
" The village is full, can't process anymore teleport" the error log show on his small hologram computer.
" Are you kidding me" the engineer look outside, and to his surprise, the town was cover with people with no space to stand.
" all the fraction and the hero are here"
The person stand next to the engineer quickly recognizes the other major fraction's elite soldier.
" No, get off me" I try to pull the girl off. Luckily I find myself a nice carriage with a dinosaur like but was cover with armor.
" Where is the World cheater" the sound of everyone try to figure out the target they try to look for.
" Dont think I let you get him"
" He is on that Dinorage"
And the whole crowd, if not try to crawl over each other, run toward me.
" How it is feel to be the most popular man in the world"
The voice echo in my head.
" Of course, it is the worst thing ever in the world"
You probably wonder how the heck I get into this situation. I don't really know to tell it to you. Of course, The god is true to his word. I am the most popular man in the world, both man and woman, do any trick to have me. If you think I am the most wanted man that is with a bounty of a treasure, you are close to right. But I do nothing wrong, and no one put me up for something illegal. I am nothing but a nice young man, who is plain, and normal. I bet you think I am probably the most powerful man in the world with the strongest stats.
" Nope, you have stats of a mouse, with everything is close to 10"
" What the heck" I yell loudly.
" I thought you make me the most popular man in the world, how I am so weak, and can you explain me how I am always level 1"
" That is your max cap" the god answer without much of expression.
" Are you kidding me, how Level 1 is anyone max cap, so I can upgrade"
" Nope"
" How weak am I"
" Can't even defeat a mouse in the game"
" Are you trolling me"
" Yeah, but I don't lie to you, I indeed make you the most popular man in the world"
" How, no power, then I must have some pretty cool ability"
" No, your ability is F grade and don't even do any damage, also you can learn new ability but can't use it due to the level cap"
" Are you even want to kill me then"
" So How can I be most popular man, no awesome power, no ability and not even ability to wear a weapon, also you don't even give a nice appearance" I yell in despair.
So how I become the most popular man in the world, that is a good answer.
" so what is my job class"
" Oh, your is pretty popular, it appear in any game out there in your world"
" I guess it is fighter"
" You think?"
" No way fighter can be that weak"
" Let me give you a hint, what job class is so universal but is so weak"
I think hard, but only one answer hit me.
" Did you just turn me into a village class job"
" No, I almost forget one hint, it is the job class that the person own it is wanted by everybody"
The class log like in the game appear before me. I look at where the job section is.
" Hell no you didn't just give me ,...."
" Stop him"
" S class Roaring thunder dragon" One of the yellow mate summoned a giant thunder in the shape of dragon and struck the ground where large number of adventure located.
" Don't blame me, good luck revive in your castle" the made look satisfied.
" Queue of teleportation: 1222244 in 1000099" the male look at the number next to her.
" How the heck I died too" the mage realize she is back into her kingdom and in queue to teleport.
She look at the news
" Massive crowd teleportation toward the small village of Lakeside, the most wanted man is located" the newsman announce in shock.
Unauthorized tale usage: if you spot this story on Amazon, report the violation.
" Queue: 139300/12949399"
The number of people want to teleport to the village quickly jump up to 10 time the normal the second the news is on.
" The teleported is crashed due to overwhelmed traffic"
" Damn it, I don't care, I got to teleport to the main city near it, wait what its teleport is also crashed, people already one step ahead of me, I don't care, Rider get me one Chicksi" the mage quickly jump on the Chickis ready to travel restlessly for a week.
" Get off me" I try to pull the girl behind me out as I continue try to dodge the Aoe spell flying at me.
" No, I can't, you are the world cheater, the most wanted man in the world"
" Stop call me that, I hate that name so much" I yell at the girl.
Behind me, number of main hero aside the adventurer continue to wipe out the weakling, while the strong remain strong, but don't focus to fight each other.
" Hey, Hero of bow, you are here too"
The young boy who find out Acius greet the splendid, elf like creature with a glowing bow.
" Are you sure you should be here"
The hero of bow show a little surprise when he see the boy's presence.
" look like the rest of this generation's hero is here, totally 7 right" the boy smile.
The boy stand on top of the hill look down at Acius being chased by army of adventure from famous one to little one.
" You know, we should play a game" the boy turn toward the rest of 5 unknown figure stand next to him.
" Here is the queue number, let see who reduce more people"
" That sound good"
" It is nice training anyway" 6 people agree to the proposal.
" Let show them this generation of hero"
" No, damn it, even this dinosaur run at his full speed without me rushing it, how much killing intend is behind me" I whisper.
" report: the percent of population try to capture Acius have reach 79% more than 23% participation rate in demon lord war" the news on my watch show.
" Isn't there guy should care about defeat demon lord than get me" I sigh depressingly at this world's problem.
" Queue:0/0" I look surprisingly at the number of queue of transportation.
" Of course we won't let there small fries take our reward"
Behind only 7 figure left, and the crowd of adventure completely disappear.
" Seriously, this is way too easy, now I get how unfair is being summoned and reincarnation than being a adventurer from square one" the shadow approach.
" Since this is finished, I guess it is time to show which hero is better, right, and winner get that guy"
The small boy I see before reappear again.
My ride is completely exhaust and collapse.
" Hey Malinda how long you want to hug him" the boy yell to the hero of sword.
" you make me did this"
" Actually I dispel that spell long time ago"
" What!!" Malinda blush as she put me away again.
" that is hurt" I massage my butt where I land on.
" Hey little, mister, please stay there until we got this duel done all right" one of the hero who wield a long lance.
" Hey, he is mine, I got him first" the hero of sword argue. She shield me from the glare of other hero.
" Hey common, this isn't fun, I mean we all want him, all right, let make it fair you know, since we are here"
" No way, Acius please entrust in me, I will protect you" Malinda sit down a little and hold my hand. I slight blush by her bold action. Her face is close to me, that the perfume she wear touch my nose. She really look beautifully. But of course, not with her sword rise above me and ready to strike down.
" I am sorry"
Well have a pretty girl kill me isn't that fun at all.
" No way I let you do so" the sword is pushed away by a arrow.
" Don't interfere with me" Malinda use the force of the giant sword that lean to her right to rotate it and compel a circle to swing on me again. Yet another metal clash echo on the air. In front of my face, the blade is touching my forehead and only thing stop such a force is the lance that pull the sword back.
" Lancer, don't make me get you too"
" it is mine" the hero of Staff cast a thunder spell.
" I won't let you" Malinda quickly turn her sword a little sideways to run along the spear and hit the thunder with a force that cause a shockwave to release and push me away.
" My" A hero of gauntlet shove up a uppercut punch at me from the ground. The lance now is free hit downward to the ground stronger to release a giant rock upward stop the punch to connected. also something jump upward from the rock.
" Don't you think that thief shadow skill can trick us" Lancer bend the lance, and the lance flinch upward created a flying rock aim for the thief upward.
" I rather being call assassin, but hero of knife is all right" she quickly submerge into shadow again.
Then the knife was send into toward my face. But quickly stop with a arrow hit the handle of the knife, knocking it off and slide a mili meter from my cheek.
And any weapons that was be able to throw into me was quickly reject by other hero.
I see some of the reinforcement that look like they travel here by foot was also being send back to the base by the hero.
And the one on the back, realize the monstrous power of a hero, simply sit back and enjoy the show.
Each time the weapon approach me, my heart skip a beat and the image of flashback start to show.
" Please save me, either kill me or let me go" I can't handle this much heart attack.
1 hour later
"Or not" another arrow was one inch close to my heart. And I yawn in boredom.
" Please hit" I say in indifferent voice. And as I predict, the arrow was send flying.
" Whoa you are so popular, the world and its hero is fighting for you" the voice echo in my mind again.
" Don't even say that, man, I never wish to be this kind of popular"
" Hey, you there" I look at the little boy who sit next to me before I even can realize it.
" Can I kill you"
" If you can please" I knew someone was missing, it was only 7 people fighting while the small boy that discover me remind nowhere. The boy the reach out his hand ready to pierce my heart. But quickly his hand was send flying as it was cut in half.
" Well I guess that a no" despite missing his hand, the boy remind cheerful.
" Do you even think that you ever getting tired of the feeling of near death"
" I don't know, you"
" Yeah, seem like it is a thing, like honestly, you know how I expect that knife or arrow suppose to hit you, and all that expectation and flashback before death is meaningless" I hit my leg in fury. I pull my hand out wishfully to get hit by something.
" nope nothing even hit me" I sigh disappointed.
" Man, I wish i got that hand cut like you" I mumble to the boy sit next to me. His arm is already heal.
" I am so bored" I never expect it be so bored, when around me the most amazing battle is in view. Explosion and metal clash resonance around me.
" Thank you guy, you ruin my love for battle, now you make them so bored" I lay down try to sleep, but unable due to my stomach growling.
" Want some foods"
Unknowingly somehow the boy next to me get a piece of bread, and couple of dessert food.
" Yes, please, I am starving here"
" Here"
the boy throw the piece of bread toward me, but without a second on the air, split into thousand piece.
" God dammit, my food, how dare you"
" How about this adult magazines"
I don't that boy is old enough for that kind of stuff. Still I nod my head.
" Hey that is my,.." before I finished I realize the familiar image on the magazine before it was send into thousand piece by heros.
" How the heck you get my bag pack" I scream.
" All right, diary, gone, another magazine, drawing of a lewd girl" the big throw each of my treasure on the air and as fast as I can see, gone into the air.
" Nooo" I thought I already get used to the feeling of being near dead, that I am caught off guard of the new found pain.
" That is my collections"
" your underwear" the boy throw it upward, but weirdly it wasn't being cut.
" You guy don't cut it on purpose, right, I know you guy destroy my stuff on purpose" despite how bad I hit the ground, the pain isn't subsidized.
And one by one, my back pack is destroyed.
" Angry?" the boy ask me.
" Enough to imaging you to can't never poop even when you need to"
" I rather die than have to suffer like that"
" Agree" how can I have a stomach trouble when i can't go do my business in front of thousand of people look at you.
I don't even have much food in my empty stomach.
" This is worst than dead, kill me please"
" Of course we want to, but these idiot don't let me" all 7 hero agree.
" Why god have to troll me this much" I hit the ground crying.
It wasn't enough before the sky get dark and the ground in front of me is dent enough that make the column I stand on look like a apple core.
And not from too far, the town enjoy it new visitor's money, flourish and hire more people to increase production.
" Food for sale, popcorn" the merchant take use of advantage to sell their food with a expensive price. And all of the adventure who get here, give up on joining he fight, enjoy the food while I sit in here starving.
More like a major fight happen, it feel like a tournament where people come to enjoy the fight.
" Hero of sword quickly changed her form to ultimate, send thousand of meteor downward but quickly block by the endless rain of Arrow send flying upward, what a amazing view" even they have a commentator.
I would be amazed if I am not he end suffer in here in different temperature changed each second, the irritation is so bad.
" What is that, a giant dragon above the cloud" a commentator point its hand upward.
" Another challenger approach" I mumble as I rotate myself backward, try to go to sleep to skip time.
" I am the ......, no one deserve this better than me" a loud roar cover the whole sky.
" Shut up I am sleeping" I yell toward the new guy who is stupid enough to challenge there hero.
Somehow everybody look at me in shock.
" You dare say that to a demon lord, you deserve dead, I will kill you anyway"
" Oh man, are you serious, can't you not coming here and extend the fight, you dumbass ugly looking dragon" I insult the demon lord, who now is enraged.
" i want you"
" hey now even all the demon want you, that much popular is so rare"
The boy smile.
" that isn't even a good joke." I look at the boy angrily.
Still the hero ignore me.
" We won't let you touch him, if you get him, the humanity will end"
How important I am again.
" Even if it cost my life, I won't leave him to you"
" Don't worry we will protect you, Acius" Malinda jump in front of me.
" First that isn't evenly my name. And what do you meant protect me, you just want to kill me before that God kill me, and this instance I am talking, your sword is on my head" I feel bad how irony is my situation. The sword that Malinda swing on me is stop short by the hero.
" I won't let you take your time" other hero won't care about the world.
" You aren't any better than that demon lord, hey, demon lord defeat these guy and kill me, please, pretty please, I beg you" I am on my knee beg for this execution to stop.
What a crappy story, what is a nonsense this story deserve a minus, yes, it is, I have no ideas how this is actually happen to me, because the job class i get. When I though I can have decent life in next world, this turn to this.
This loop really bother me after all.
" What should I do" I mumble.
What should I do, like hell I know. There aren't anything like this in the book, or any kind of story. Even as the character in such a event, I still fell like this is a worst story ever that never make sense.
" Hero vs demon lord"
The commentator announce. Have the best of two world, demon lord and hero both fight for me, what kind of person am I to be able to achieve such feat