Orc Harem Vol 1 Chapter 5

Chapter 5: The Secret Story of Ork’s Birth That Was Finally Disclosed

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After I finished my daily training, Tou-san called for me, saying that he had something important to talk about. Kaa-san was also beside him.

Tou-san and Kaa-san’s atmosphere was strangely stiff. Tou-san was wearing orc’s native dress that was a formal dress while Kaa-san was wearing a knight uniform.

「Ork, please listen to us carefully. Okaa-san and Otou-san has been hiding something from you all this time.」

「……It must not be anything decent anyway.」

「It’s something that is a good news for you, but it’s also a bad news. It can be said as both.」

Even though usually Kaa-san would act comically at this point, this time her serious atmosphere was staying unbroken.

Tou-san opened his mouth solemnly.

「Ork, you, weak, so, you trained human technique, but……aah, enough, there’s no way I can have a long talk this way!」

「No, Tou-san. So you actually can talk normally!?」

So what I saw when the training had just begun at the start wasn’t a dream.

No, I had vaguely suspected it at that time when the first thing the god of merchant said was something like the Hero of Azure Thunder.

「You see, in the past Tou-san got called with a title like demon king. I have retired from that job a long time ago, but various things happened and it would be bad if my identity get found out. So I transformed using my ability to change my appearance, but strangely my voice is the only thing that I can’t change. It can’t be helped, so I try to at least change my way of speaking.」

As soon as he said that, his huge body shrunk and his appearance became similar with a human.

「What’s this, you came out so casually but what you said was actually really outrageous!」

Tou-san’s skin was deep green, and his body was lean and muscular. His appearance seemed similar to me.

「Furthermore you suddenly transform!?」

「This appearance and my appearance before are both my forms. Both of them are convenient you know? That form that is specialized for power and toughness, and this all-purpose form. Well, I use them depending on the situation. I always looked like this at my demon king era.」

「No, it’s just strange that Tou-san can transform.」

「It’s easy to do something like transform. After all I’m an orc.」

「Who can do that!? There isn’t a single orc in this village who has that kind of appearance!」

All the guys in this village of mine had the appearance of THE orc that was clear from a single glance.

Although they had excellent physical ability, they couldn’t use ki or mana. They also had no special ability.

But, Tou-san was different.

It looked like his physical ability had dropped compared to his previous form, but he could skillfully use ki in this humanoid form. The flow of his mana was also like a magician.

……Furthermore they weren’t just at the average level.

The quality and control of his ki and mana rivaled my teachers. In other words Tou-san was the equal of mankind’s strongest level.

As for the amount, he surpassed my teachers to an overwhelming degree.

There was no way this kind of orc could exist.

「I never told you Ork but, our village isn’t a village of normal orc. Even orc has multiple types. Lesser orc, orc lord, orc warrior, orc wizard, orc general, and many other types. As for us, we are Evol Orc.」

「Evol? You mean evolution?」

「Well, something like that. By impregnating the female of other race, the next generation of child will be born with the advantage of that female’s race. Evol Orc has accumulated strength by welcoming mothers from different races for hundreds of generations……within my blood, the blood of elf, the blood of dragonman, the blood of wolfman, the blood of dwarf, the blood of kobold, the blood of human, countless types of blood are flowing, and consequently I possess the advantages those races have. The transformation that I showed you just now, and my ability to use ki and mana even though I’m an orc, they are nothing more than a fragment of my power.」

What kind of monster was that?

Taking in only the strong points of the parents and strengthening the next generation even further, that was already far beyond the level of being thoroughbred.

「……No, you must be lying. Certainly Tou-san is really like in that description, but then what about the guys of this village and me?」

Tou-san formed a self-depreciating smile.

「Evol Orc become stronger as the generations add up, but we have a fatal flaw. If we have a child with our brethren, then the bloods that we have accumulated will be reset, and the child that is born from that union will be just an orc. Well, even then that orc will be several times stronger than the normal orc, but that’s all.」

「So all those efforts of thousands of years will be blown away just from getting intimate with a brethren even once huh.」

「Yeah, all the Evol Orc at my great grandfather’s era chose to do so except the village chief’s lineage……that’s why, other than us everyone in the village became orc that is simply strong. Though it will be a different story if they start taking in females of other races again.」

That sounded like a waste.

How could the strongest race abandon everything that their ancestors had accumulated and simply became normal orcs?

「Why did they do something like that? It shouldn’t be an inconvenience to be powerful shouldn’t it?」

Surely among the bloods that they had accumulated there was also ability that could be used to seduce female smoothly. With that advantage, it wouldn’t be difficult to obtain female.

It also wasn’t strange that Tou-san could become the demon king like that.

「They didn’t choose to become normal orcs because they liked it. The limit came in the end after continuing to evolve and getting stronger continuously. Their blood became unable to endure their power that became too powerful. At that time the children would be born with deformity, some would die before they matured, and sometimes there would be those who lost their sanity and rampaged……Evol Orc would perish at that rate. That was why they chose to reset their blood. They married their fellow orc and prioritized leaving behind descendants rather than strength. That matter wasn’t told to their children. It’s so that they don’t seek strength and repeat the tragedy. That is the hidden history of Evol Orc.」

The history of our village is heavier than expected!

So they weighed the pride and history that they had accumulated with the race’s survival, and in the end chose the latter.

「Then, how could Tou-san still be born powerful?」

「The bloodline of the village chief is especially powerful. It can still endure for several generations. And most of all, for the sake of Evol Orc’s pride, the village chief alone has to protect the bloods that have been accumulated regardless of the danger. But even that should have ended in my generation. I can feel it. That if I accumulate even more blood than this, the power will burst out. That was why, I planned to seek for bride from among my fellow orc but……I wanted to have your Kaa-san’s child you see.」

There Tou-san paused speaking. Silence. After that he grinned and opened his mouth.

「We did it.」

Mister serious had gone back home instantly!

「We did it.」

Tou-san and Kaa-san exchanged a deep kiss in front of me.

I felt like an idiot.

「And it was me who was born huh. ……I get the gist. I’m alive like this and furthermore I’m really weak because my blood cannot endure the power but instead of the strength exploding out, that strength spilled out of me completely instead huh.」

I finally understood the whole story.

Well, perhaps I was still lucky. At least I inherited the ability to use ki and mana from Kaa-san.

If I used ki and mana, I could overwhelm the guys in this village.

Tou-san tilted his head.

「There’s no way that’s the case. You have inherited all of Tou-san’s power, and on top of that even the power of mankind’s strongest hero is added into it too. No, Kaa-san’s power of hero was really a great help. It raised the limit of the blood itself. With this our blood can still last for five more generations. We were surprised that the hero’s power strengthened the vessel itself.」

「Yes, when the spirit king chose me as the hero I thought that it was completely bothersome, but it helped me gave birth to my cute son, so I’m really thankful for it right now.」

「Then, why am I weak then!?」

I who had been harboring a sense of inferiority all this time yelled reflexively.

Even now that I had become strong, my wound from getting bullied hadn’t vanished.

「How can you be weak or anything……you’re too strong. Certainly your blood can endure the power. But you see, it wasn’t able to go as far as controlling that power. You rampaged at your fifth birthday. You lost your self due to the power that was hidden in your blood and ran amok disorderly. You know that there is a large lake behind our village right?」

「You mean the lake where I always went to fish?」

「That spot was originally a forest. After you smashed that spot with your fist, water gathered there and became that lake. ……Can you believe it? Your father the demon king and your mother the hero, both of us worked together and used all of our trump card, even so we were overwhelmed by a five year child. The great sage Merlin Enlight locked you inside the room of mind and time to buy time so that the hero’s companions and the demon king’s four heavenly kings could come as reinforcement before we finally could suppress you.」

The hero, the demon king, the hero party, the four heavenly kings.

Outrageous words rushed out in succession.

……Because I’m a reincarnator, I already had memory since I was born. But, when I was three years old until five years old, I was constantly in fever that my memory of that time didn’t really remain in my mind.

So something like that happened at that time?

「There is still more. Both humans and monsters became scared of you. You were already that strong when you were five years old. If you continue to mature and grow stronger like that, then nobody will be able to stop you the next time you rampage. There was even a talk that you should be killed before that happen.」

「……Even I, would propose that if I was at their place. I was like a bomb that can destroy the world.」

A bomb that could lose control with a power that nobody could stop.

Something like that could only be killed.

「Tou-san and Kaa-san desperately opposed it. At that time both of us thought to run away with you……at the end the matter was settled with the great sage Merlin Enlight applying a magic formula to seal your Evol Orc’s blood. The normal you can’t use the power of Evol Orc and can only use the power you inherited from Kaa-san.」

Everything was finally connected.

The reason why I was weak despite being an orc.

The reason was just too grandiose that I needed time until my head could sort it out.

「……Tou-san, why did you tell me about this? It should be fine even if you don’t tell me about it forever.」

「I had talked with Kaa-san. We decided to tell you before you depart to your journey. The great sage Merlin Enlight will give you your last lesson tonight. Of how to apply the seal. When your child is born at the future, you will be the one who have to apply the seal at that time.」

「So that’s why.」

「And then, the great sage Merlin Enlight will grant you one more knowledge. That is the way to undo the seal.」

「No, it would be bad if it get undone right!? I have already grown a lot more than when I was five years old, I also had gone through special training.」

「No, you misunderstand. Rather the special training is so that you can control that power. You were trained that harshly and given various knowledge are all for that.」

So that was why Kaa-san was so insistent of making me strong. I understood now why she also gotten me taught about many other things.

「Then, will I be fine now even if the seal is undone?」

「Perhaps not. Nine out of ten, you will lose control and won’t be able to return back. That’s why, you can only undo the seal when there is no other way. When you want to protect something important, but it’s impossible to do no matter what with your current self. Release the seal in such situation……and then return back with the miracle of love.」

「Something like that is just scary, no way I’ll use it!」

It would be too scary to just rely on the miracle of love.

……But, well, I’ll remember it as the very last trump card.

「For that kind of time I recommend that you only undo the first of the three layers of the seal. If it’s you Ork who has grown strong in body and heart, then perhaps you will be fine with the first layer if it’s only for a short time. You will only be able to draw out twenty percent of your original strength, but twenty percent of the strength that can defeat the demon king and the hero at the same time is tremendous.」

「Tell me that from the start!」

Anyway, after I learned the seal, let’s try undoing the first layer in front of the great sage Merlin Enlight.

No matter what happened, that person would surely do something about it. If I could only draw out twenty percent of my strength, then he should be able to subdue me forcefully even if I rampaged.

「……Tou-san, Kaa-san, that’s, you know. Despite all those retorts I said, thank you for telling me this. Even though it’s a dangerous power, but I’m happy to know that I have properly inherited Tou-san and Kaa-san’s strength.」

「Ork, Okaa-san is really happy to hear you say that. Actually I was a bit scared. What if you bear a grudge to me.」

Kaa-san hugged me.

This person was not right in the head in various things, but her love to me was beyond doubt.

I understood that.

Kaa-san let go of me and placed her hand on her sword. Her face turned from the face of a mother who loved her son to the face of a swordsman.

I also noticed that a bit late.

I felt a mana that didn’t belong to us. This was the magic formula of Teleport.

I had seen the great sage Merlin Enlight used it in the past. It had super duper high degree of difficult. A magic that was beyond me.

Someone who barged into someone’s house using something like this couldn’t be someone decent by any means.

Who in the world!?

To come at this timing, don’t tell me, there was some kind of dangerous guy who made his move because this secret was exposed to me!?

I raised my vigilance to the max and glared at the Teleport’s magic formula.

The space split open and the caster appeared. What appeared was a small existence that was tiny like a doll with transparent insect wings. ……A fairy.

「Congratulations! Can you believe it, you have been chosen as the next hero! To the lucky you, the spirit king give you the hero’s crest and the spirit king’s power as the proof. Whee!」

「Hoot!?」

The back of my right hand felt hot. When I looked there, a red crest was engraved on it.

「Now follow my lead……wait, why is it an orc!? No, this is just strange. Is the spirit king going senile because of old age? GYAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA, I give I give I give, spirit king, forgive me, you are really  youthful spirit kingggggg, I said that you’re youthful spirit king, haa haa haa, that god really can’t understand a joke. Err, there is no mistake that it’s this guy? ……Wait, if there is really no mistake, that means I have to be an orc’s navigator. NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO」

This fairy was really amusing.

Her personality was like this, but still she was adorable.

Her size was really tiny, but if I ignored that, she had an erotic figure. She was a sight for sore eyes.

「It’s too bad, even my finger doesn’t look like it can enter inside.」

「Hiiiiiii, this guy, he is lusting for even fairy!? Orc is horribleeeeee」

「Don’t overreact like that. That was just an orcish joke.」

「It ain’t funny at allll!」

The path of orcish joke was steep.

「My, orc has grown up so splendidly that you can feel lust even toward fairy.」

「As expected, even our blood hasn’t taken in the fairy race. You have good eyes. Tou-san also feel happy for you.」

The fairy made a face as though it was the end of the world for her.

Anyway, let’s heard what she had to say.

Right now I was feeling half amused and half bothersome.

If she started saying things like hero’s mission or the like, let’s lock her inside an insect cage.

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