24th Day Evening Cave
Endless exchanges of sword strikes. Never-ending repetition of combo attacks.
There are geniuses in this world. Personality and character do not matter. It is pure talent. Effort and experience are irrelevant. Just pure genius.
This Yamada-kun is the mathematical genius type. Not calculation ability, but processing ability. He had been hiding it and pretending to be normal, but it was obvious.
He is probably struggling right now. His calculations are not going as planned, so he re-runs them, stacks probabilities, but still misses.
It is useless. My Luck stat is maxed out and limit-broken.
Even if the chance of surviving is less than 1 percent, if I do it a million times, I will keep surviving below that 1 percent. It is fine to stay below that 1 percent forever. It never reaches zero. Because I have limit-broken probability theory itself, he cannot kill me with probabilities.
We are already in battle. Or from his perspective, we are still in battle. He has probably already killed me many times, yet it never ends. And I have no intention of letting it end.
I wildly knock down the endless slashes that cut through everything in every direction.
Yeah, he must be pretty confused. He cannot accept it. He probably made perfect calculations. But I will not die. Not until he spits out every skill he has hoarded.
"You sure can use a lot of skills. You must have killed a ton of people and stolen them, huh?"
It is just close-range and mid-range combat. I have no magic. It would not work anyway. All I have to do is make him use them. As long as I do not die until he runs out, it is fine.
"Haru-kun? Why won't you die?"
"Well, I do not have any death wish, and I hate getting killed? Something like that?"
He looks really dissatisfied. Really grumpy. Maybe he is low on calcium. Eat some fish.
He has probably killed me hundreds of times by now, at least according to his calculations.
"What did you do? Seriously?"
Infinite exchanges of attacks. Every time he blocks an attack, every time he dodges, his emotions show.
"What exactly do you want to ask about, Yamada-kun?"
"No matter how strong you are, at Lv 11 you should not be able to resist!"
I see. He had been calculating it probabilistically. He thought he had already killed me many times. Dozens of times.
Mathematically and probabilistically it should be impossible, but in literature, as long as it is not zero, something can be done, right?
"As expected of the mathematical genius. Did you read all the probabilities while fighting?"
Whoops. I sweep away the magic with the wooden staff and dodge the sword strikes. If he holds back he cannot kill me, right? Why is he not coming in for the finish?
"First of all, why can you move? Why can you attack? Why can you see?"
He had been acting completely normal for so long, but now he is really showing his true self.
"Ah, you mean 'Meddling' and 'Copycat'?"
"How do you know that!? Appraisal should not work! How did you…?"
Of course I did not use appraisal. I cannot see it. I just assumed he had it. Back when I saw the black board in the white room.
"Copycat's theft seems to lose a lot of performance, huh?"
"Even if it loses performance, instant death should still work on Lv 11! Why!?"
Yeah, the level wall issue is that status abnormalities cannot be resisted. But probabilities never reach 100 percent. Because
"Ah, I am 'Healthy' so it does not work on me."
It did not work on the muscle-brained idiots either. They got hit with paralysis, blindness, and poison while he used the stolen illusions as bait to apply 'Meddling' to their minds and nerves. That is why the attacks did not hit.
Their bodies were being interfered with at a level they could not notice. They were being moved on their own. They thought they were cutting straight, but they were actually dodging and cutting. That is why nothing landed.
Of course my body is also being 'Meddled' with. I am just ignoring it. No problem.
Man, body control skills are easy to get and level up nicely, I thought.
"Do you know what a wooden puppet means?"
"It means useless! It suits you!"
Too bad. He is a mathematical genius but terrible at literature.
"There is also something called a marionette, Yamada-kun. If your nerves get 'Meddled' with, you just ignore it and forcibly control your own body."
That is why attacks can hit but cannot finish me. I can still fight. I practiced controlling my body to walk and run. And with just one step I can swing a full strike. It is all truth and lies mixed together. I made this just for this purpose.
Thanks to the magic absorption from "Parasitic Ivy, Wooden Rod, Staff Enhancement, Magic Technique Absorption ? ? ?" I can absorb area magic, so I do not end up in a war of attrition. This should let me last until the end.
This guy stayed in the forest killing nonstop and was alone the whole time. I was forcibly taken to town and held back by everyone. That is the difference.
To finish me off, he will have to use every skill he has hoarded or he cannot close it out.
All I have to do is hold on until then. All I have to do is watch for magic. Illusions do not work either. Thank you, God Eye. Huge thanks to the contact lenses.
Thanks to that I can endure… until the very end… until the last moment.
"Is that okay, Yamada-kun? The theft you got from Copycat has limits, right? There is a usage limit. Is it fine to use it all up here?"
"Kh! Then I will just steal it from you!"
Oh, bingo as expected. The limit is a usage count. Meaning it will eventually run out. And there is nothing to steal from me. Everything I have is either useless or impossible to master.
If I make him use everything on me here, I win. It is decided. It is the finishing blow. After that he will not be able to beat the class rep and the others.
From the very beginning, ever since he went to the white room, he has been calculating everything with mathematical probability theory. In every possible situation, the steps to become the strongest, the probabilities, the possibilities.
If he had started with theft, at best he would be sealed, at worst killed. Either way, everyone would be wary of him.
So he calculated it. The mathematical genius multiplied probability by probability. The smoothest path, the highest-probability method.
And by splitting the classmates, the accuracy of his calculations increased and uncertain elements decreased.
Then he used Copycat to imitate theft. After that he killed the scattered classmates one by one and stole from them. What he was looking for was magic nullification, status abnormalities, and illusions.
If he had Meddling on top of that, he would be absolutely safe.
No risk of a direct clash.
Completely one-sided.
Cheat killer.
With that, his preparations were complete.
All that was left was to use Copycat's theft to steal the real theft. In short, kill the class rep. That would bring his theft up to the level of the original.
Then he would kill everyone in order and steal their cheats. He would become the strongest, invincible, peerless, perfect.
That is why the muscle-brained idiots luckily did not die. Only their fighting ability was crushed. He still could not steal perfectly, so he put them off. He did not want to waste the skills.
He probably wanted to revive Charm and Puppetry, and that is why he kept the fake delinquents alive. But the muscle-brained idiots were too strong, so he killed the fake delinquents too, used them to strengthen himself, and neutralized the muscle-brained idiots.
He also controlled the fake delinquents and normal guys by pretending to be their ally, and when he ran out of skills he would kill them and steal. That is why he is alone now.
Yet the abilities he wanted got away. If he kills uselessly he cannot get stronger. Now is the last chance to chase them. But I am in the way.
Normally, I am the weakest. He should just force his way through.
But he cannot be certain.
He cannot confirm it.
Because it is not guaranteed.
Because he cannot calculate it.
Because my skills make no sense.
That is why he isolated the uncertain element that is me, observed me, killed the last two companions, and stole Instant Death. With that he should be able to finish me off for sure with the level wall.
Yet I will not die.
Not only that, Meddling, illusions, and status abnormalities do not work.
Even though he wins in level and base stats, he has only ever fought overwhelmingly, so he is shaken.
This guy really has misunderstood, huh?