Chapter 21: Epilogue 2 – Sisyphus

On a certain mountaintop, high above the clouds, a hero and a villain were having a grand battle.

Or about to—it hadn’t started quite yet. First, one had to have time for monologues and such. Can’t really be a proper final battle without those.

And so it was, that Jerome the level 60 [Hero] stared a villain in the eyes, and shivered.

“What did you just say?” He asked, still reeling from disbelief at what he had just heard.

The villain, a red-skinned demon of orange jade with a red ruby mustache laughed, glintstone eyes glittering at his panic. “Do I really need to repeat myself?” The demon gestured at himself boisterously. “I used the same teabag to make 666 cups of tea, and gained the power of [Infinite Tea], becoming the [Infini-tea Demon]!”

Jerome blinked his eyes and gripped his sword harder. “

You can’t be serious.”

The villain looked at him coldly, all the humor gone out of him in an instant. “Oh—I am deadly serious.” He reached into his breast pouch, taking out a small bag that smelled of crystalline herbs. “Using my [Infinite Tea Technique], I will drop this bag of tea into the ocean, and convert all of the world’s water into tea!”

Jerome remained calm and readied his sword. “I won’t let that happen, because I am a [Hero]! Taste this! [Overwhelming Sword Attack of a Reasonable Amount of Destruction]!”

The demon sneered and launched his own torrent of mana at him. “I think not! [Abyss of Infinite Tea]!”

Jerome smirked, having fooled another demon with his fake sword. It was a handy trick, because most enemies always expected a [Hero] to fight with a blade in hand, but Jerome was different.

Jerome was special.

He wasn’t like any of the other [Heroes]. He had come to this world without any special boons or cheat abilities and had been forced to fight his way forward with nothing but grit and his own ironclad will. And he had succeeded, becoming the greatest [Hero] in the land.

Because… he actually did have a little advantage. Just a dash of cleverness and improvisation in the right skill set, and you could make all the difference in the world.

See, Jerome actually remembered some things from his high school physics and chemistry classes. He sort-of knew that water was made of something like molecules, and had like… little bonds in there. Or something like that.

Using that knowledge, he had naturally been able to surpass all of the expert [Gemstone Mages] of this world and created an overpowered water magic technique.

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A technique that he now unleashed on the unsuspecting demon.

“Fool, you fell for my trap! [Water Beam That is Actually Made of Like Molecules and Stuff]!”

A gigantic beam of water roared out of his hands, and struck the demon’s beam of tea, creating a thunderous clash in the center, where tea fought against water.

Jets and sprays of liquid were sent all over the landscape, carving through the clouds below, and shattering the rocky mountaintop.

To Jerome’s dismay, the demon just laughed at his beam. “Hah, you think this technique can defeat me? The power of the atom is finite, while the power of tea is infinite.”

The beam of tea started encroaching forward, slowly but surely winning against Jerome’s beam. More sprays were sent all over the landscape, and rocks were sent flying into the air.

Jerome panicked, trying to visualize the atoms and bonds and stuff in the water, because for some reason that made his magic stronger.

Then—suddenly, out of nowhere—a small rock fell from the sky and hit the demon in the face.

BONK

Jerome blinked.

The demon’s beam of tea winked out, just for a second.

And Jerome’s beam of water struck the villain at his core, vaporizing him at the spot, and sending the small pebble that had given the assist careening off to the side.

Jerome stared at the corpse, the only remnants of the villain being the stylish leather boots he had left behind. Even now, after spending over two years in this world, the sight of death still sent him just a bit off-balance.

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