Tentacle Monster Reincarnation: I Will Protect the Heroines

After confirming the figure of Knuckle charging at high speed into the Monster Villain and punching it away, I finally began to regulate my breathing.

“—Hah, somehow… it worked…!”

While exhaling rough breaths I directed my gaze at the tentacles I had used in place of a slingshot.

Footprints carved into them, knots crumbling boro-boro. The light that had overflowed when Knuckle stepped in had completely destroyed my tentacles.

These two won’t move properly, I stored them inside my body while using the remaining four tentacles to race between buildings.

We had escaped the worst situation.

But it remained true that we were still in a desperate spot.

Because I knew.

The combat abilities of the two Monster Villains.

(The Black Knight is a degraded Sacred Knight. He doesn’t have the insane performance of an area attack & all-status buff for allies at the start of every turn, but he can stack buffs on allies and is a fire-attribute attacker usable at both long and short range. The Growth Monster Villain is a close-range power fighter and tank whose stats go up every time it takes damage, becoming more and more unmanageable.)

These two teaming up? I involuntarily clicked my tongue.

In the original the Black Knight was an enemy unit. Like Alter he served the queen, but once Alter began driving back the Sacred and being recognized by the queen he went mad and attacked.

’The princess—no, no, the one who offers loyalty to the queen is me! You’re in the way, die here, Alter Native!’

’The likes of you killing me—the likes of a Monster Villain barking well. If you can do it, try it—!’

When I was playing the first loop, he had attacked in the early game while I was still using Knuckle as a piece and fighting Saber, so I remembered it well.

The lines of the protagonist Alter had been full of confidence, but as the player I had been screaming “Don’t fuck with me, stop iiiit!?” while the Black Knight kept burning my Monster Villain units to death.

The Black Knight’s desire was “offering loyalty as a knight,” so he had harbored jealousy and killing intent toward Alter who kept raising achievements. From the fact that making Sacred fall to darkness and using them as pieces raised the Black Knight battle flag, I think “Alter taking the upper hand against the Sacred” had been the trigger for his frenzy.

—But the current Alter had not been able to defeat the Sacred like in the game.

He had probably only raised achievements on the same level as the other executives.

Therefore the Black Knight harbored neither jealousy nor killing intent—maintaining rational thought, he was moving to eliminate the Sacred for the queen.

The result was a combo of an enemy unit and a powerful Monster Villain unit.

(—But it doesn’t make sense.)

The Black Knight who was strong himself and could strengthen allies, and the Growth Monster Villain with powerful power and self-regeneration.

This combo was certainly strong. If it had appeared in the original game, there was a possibility of losing even on a second playthrough used to the game.

But—it was by no means strong enough to defeat Sacred Knight in a head-on fight.

Combat in Magical Warrior Sacred Knights Monster Villain Uproar was basically set so that you could not match the Sacred in a head-on fight. The exceptions were the newcomer Sacred Knuckle and Sacred Arrow in the tutorial against the queen’s close aides; crushing the other Sacred head-on was the kind of thing for completionist play, not a proper strategy.

Because the basics of this game were weaving wicked schemes, trapping the Sacred, weakening them, and “trampling and violating beautiful girls you originally could never defeat.”

Precisely because of that I could understand—the level of the Black Knight and the Growth Monster Villain could not defeat Sacred Knight.

The Black Knight’s flame would be nullified by Knight of the same attribute, and the Growth Monster Villain was a power fighter but not enough to compete in strength with Knight.

Therefore the Black Knight, like Alter in the original, had overthrown the Sacred with wicked schemes.

I did not know how.

Since my irregular intervention had begun a branch that did not exist in the game, it was impossible to read the opponent’s movements in advance.

Someone smarter, or someone who had thoroughly read the story, could probably read the next action from the opponent’s behavior and character settings—but unfortunately I was neither. I had been a sloppy player who only played because I wanted to extract scenes, and I was not the smart type either.

Therefore—think with what I have, think, think, think.

I don’t have a high-spec body that can crush the enemy’s plans and advance.

With insufficient knowledge, with an insufficient head, even so do everything I can—me.

I leaped through the air. Like the spider-man from movies I jumped up and fell just like that in front of the abandoned factory.

I generated lotion from my feet. At the same time as landing I slid vigorously and forcibly killed the momentum while pressing tentacles against the ground.

“Looks like I made it.”

That was in a double sense.

Sliding to the side of Saber and Knuckle who were standing as if protecting Sacred Knight, I put force into the tentacles and stopped suddenly.

In front were two Monster Villains. Growth and the Black Knight were standing quietly.

“—Atel Octo, and Knuckle. I’m sorry, thank you. Thanks to you we were able to save Knight.”

“I couldn’t have done anything without Atel-san’s power, so thanks are unnecessary.”

“Don’t mind it on my side either; I did it because I wanted to. However—”

I directed my gaze behind.

There was the figure of Knight who, while being protected by the two Sacred, showed no sign of standing.

It was not because the damage was large.

Perhaps Saber had healed her; the wound on her nape was already sealed. No other wounds could be seen, and it did not look like bones were broken.

The only thing broken was the heart.

In that figure staring into empty space with vacant eyes, the severity from when she had tried to burn me away could not be seen.

A candle whose flame had gone out—it looked like that.

“—So you’re the rumored Atel Octo. I see, you do indeed look like a Tentacle Monster Villain.”

The Black Knight observed me with interest.

Monster Villains were unique existences. Since they transformed by Seeds of Desire and were reborn as new life, that was an absolute law.

Even if categorized as Tentacle Monster Villains, basically each one was a different kind of living thing. Precisely because of that Monster Villains had a strong desire to reproduce and increase.

That setting was also adopted in the game; even the same type of Monster Villain had stats that changed to a certain extent by random numbers.

But even so they basically fit into a rough framework.

A figure like mine, who had transformed from the desire to violate women yet was fighting together with women, could only be called irregular.

“…Is that really so?”

——?

For an instant, it seemed as if a feeling like yearning mixed into the Black Knight’s voice and expression.

But such a thing vanished like foam, he put on a gentle smile—yet began twisting the corners of his mouth as if mocking.

“Well, fine. Either way, what I must do does not change—long time no see, Sacred Saber. I’m glad to see you. When you were a child you often came to play at the mansion, right? I thought of you the same as Knight, like a little sister.”

Knuckle’s expression was dyed with astonishment.

And I myself as well.

There was also that I had skipped almost all text except erotic scenes—but in the original there had been no scene where the Black Knight and Sacred Knight fought.