'I look badass.'

You've been debuffed!

All stats have been reduced by 50%!

HA! HOW BADASS ARE YOU NOW?!

I use "Cure higher Curse" on myself, rendering the debuff useless.

TACTICAL RETREAT!

'That's what I thought.'

The six giants continue to attack Estelle. If I didn't craft her a new armour she would definetly be already dead by now.

Name: Painfully Hard Fullbody Armour of invincibility

Rank: Legendary

Defense: Varies

Option: 1. Wearer can regulate how much pain is felt.

2. The more pain is felt, the more "Defense" this armour gets. (Ratio: 1% of additional pain = 25 Defense)

3. HP Regeneration +250%

Magic circles: If at 5% health, regenerate full HP (only once per day); May sacrifice 50% health for a burst of life force, inflicting 1500 damage to nearby opponents

Durability: 15000/15000

Description: Only a lunatic would wear this piece of equipment. Like paper if you don't like pain, but at it's best it could even defend the hit from a half-god. For real, why would you wear this?

Her completely emerald armour shines in the bright light from the sun. This picture would look majestic, if only there wasn't one other thing.

"COME ON! HIT ME HARDER! IS THAT ALL YOU'VE GOT?!" (Estelle)

'I've done a great job on that armour. A masterpiece if I had to say so myself.'

I pull out two relatively normal daggers out of my inventory and enhance my whole body. With that I start to participate in the fight.

I teleport in front of a giants feet and stab two knives into her. I pull myself up on them and continue to build myelf a ladder of knives until I reach her head.

'Now, to finish my work of art.'

I stab two knives into her eyes, which in return makes her stop attacking Estelle and instead scream out in pain.

"AAAARRGGGGGHHHHH!" (Giant with massive tits #1)

I lock my fingers and the knives, which were imbued with lightning, send a shock from bottom to top. The first giant falls down.

'Damn, I feel like I'm out of a certain show with titans as enemies of mankind when I'm defeating those.'

Just say Attack on Titan. It's no use hiding it when you make it this obvious.

'Shush. The Gods of copyright might hear you!'

The taunt of Estelle wears off and the Giants lock their eyes on me. Some of them summersault over their companions (ever seen a Giant doing flips?! Damn that's terrifying) and surround me in no time.

"Now this may look like you've surrounded me, but check again!" (Me)

I flick my fingers and teleport outside of their circle... is what I would say right now, if it actually activated.

All movement spells have been blocked!

'That's actually pretty inconvenient.'

"This is where you die, human!" (Giant with massive tits #2)

"Talk like a caveman while you're at it. Not that you already look like a hobo with your dirty looks." (Me)

She lifts her foot up and prepares to stomp me to the ground with it. I already start my preparations to counterattack, but in that moment, Belka comes to my aid.

"DON'T IGNORE ME, PREY!" (Belka)

She jumps up the giant and scratches her eyes out, which makes her foot miss me. The other Giants try to get Belka off by slapping her away, but she dodges resulting in the others just slapping their comrade.

'That's actually pretty hilarious.'

One Giant focuses on me again, which is the right strategic decision, but boy, was it wrong at the same time.

She lifts her foot as well in an attempt to stomp me, but I open a huge warphole in her trajectory and redirect her kick to her own face. With my "Counter Attack" skill, it does even more damage than it would've done to me.

Confused, she gets stunned for a second. In that second I open a second warphole, which takes away her last supporting leg and she falls down like a cut tree. Me and Belka finish her off. We barrage the downed Giant swiftly with continuous punches and soon she's knocked out.

"Only 4 to go! This is easier than I thought!" (Me)

And you complain about Aline and her death flags?

Just when I said that, I regret it. From behind me, a sorcerer from the audience hits me with an unusual spell.

You were hit by a curse!

Can not be cured for 5 minutes!

All stats decreased by 50%!

'Would ya look at that.'

A Giant tries to swat me away from her companion, but I dodge by jumping over it. Landing on her hand, I activate "Lightning step". I sprint up her arm and, with the gained momentum, manage to get in a good hit. But it isn't nearly strong enough to make enough damage, due to the debuff.

Since the debuff makes me only half as strong physically, I switch over to more... tricky things.

'There is one thing I wanted to try out.'

I teleport about 40 meters into the air.

"YOU'RE GONNA LIKE WHAT'S ABOUT TO COME!" (Me)

I let both, Belka and Estelle, fall through a warphole to a safe area. I do the same to one of the giants, but this time, I teleport her close to me.

'I call this move "Human Cannonball".'

You... you're not... right?

'I think you know the answer to that.'

HAHAHAHAHA NICE!

What does master mean by that?

What? You still don't know, Bird? Alright, let me explain. First, he's gonna let her fall a bit.

I let the Giant fall for a while.

Then he's gonna boost her a bit with "Gravitation" magic.

I boost the Giant with a bit of Gravitation magic.

He teleports the individual back to him and repeats this a few times.

'Okay, this is getting boring.'

I do exactly what he just said and repeat this a few times. After I built up enough momentum, I shoot the Giant towards another Giant.

*BOOOOOOOOM*

'This takes a shitload of mana, BUT DAMN IT'S EFFECTIVE!'

I do the same to the other two Giants and finish the fight with that.

I think that was your most impressive move by now.

'Considering all the omen, this was actually easier than I thought. It took a bit of mana to make all those portals, but training the space element lowered the mana cost tremendously. Thank God that these guys in the audience are not as good as I thought they would be. I mean, they were most likely sent by the king or whoever that might be. I assumed that they were at least a bit stronger.'

Now you're just getting cocky.

'You call that cocky? I'll show you cocky.'

Every single Giant I either used as a target or as a cannon is now squashed and at the brink of death.

I land on top of the Giants and take on the position of a hero, with my knee at a higher position and my dagger pointing forwards.

'This is-'

At that moment, someone interrupts my moment of posing.

"YU!" (Hajime)

"FOR FUCKS SAKE! I HATE YOU MORE EVERY TIME I SEE YOU! NO ONE HAS EVER MANAGED TO DO THAT UNTIL NOW!" (Me)

Hajime stands in the audience, surrounded by 30 or so children, each about 5-6 years old.

I SAVED THOSE CHILDREN YOU WERE TALKING ABOUT! THEY REALLY WERE IN A HIDDEN CHAMBER INSIDE THE COLOSSEUM!" (Hajime)

'Oh right, there still was that. I completely forgot.'

Was it the knife you inconspicuously threw in his direction, which told him that there were children being kept as hostages who were used to blackmail those guys you just defeated?

'...you just had to take that moment of glorious explanation away from me, didn't you?'

Come on. You only used one line to describe an action, which seemingly didn't seem to be very important, and then someone from exactly that direction, where you threw the knife to, does something in your name. You can't even expect someone to be surprised about that and say shit like "WOW, I DIDN'T EXPECT THAT!"

(Authors note: I swear to christ, I already know that at least one of you twats is gonna write that.)

'Blame the author for using those obvious plot points. He's the one without imagination.'

(Authors note: So we're doing this again, huh?)

'Fight me.'

But why would you even save those brats? I don't think you did that purely out of good will

'Good will? HA! What's that?! The reason why I did that, is the following.'

The giant under my feet starts to shift. Even under her cracking bones, she still manages to look up to the saved children.

"You- you're saved. But who-" (Giant with massive tits #1)

I jump down from her head and land in front of her eyes.

"Don't worry, I took care of those. You don't need to be afraid of losing." (Me)

'Now that I think about it, if those kids hadn't showed up about now, then, if it would have gone after the standard script, those Giants would've probably gone into some kind of rage "to save their kin". That would've been pretty annoying, so Hajime gets one plus point for today. Only about 59832 to go.'

The Giant breaks out in tears and slowly shrinks back to her normal size.

"I *hick* am so glad. I can't *hick* thank you enough." (Giant with massive tits #1)

The other giants follow her example and also start crying.

"I'll only be needing one favor from you in the future. Just one." (Me)

"I'll do anything you ask for! You saved my brothers and sisters from death. For that I would even give up my life!" (Giant with massive tits #1)

'I... I planned to use her position, as seemingly an important person inside of her country, to make her help me getting the throne of this one, but now I'm... torn.'

"Let's say I need 2 favors." (Me)

"I promise, by my name Isabelle van Jötun, that I will fulfill those favors. Under all costs." (Isabelle)

'Pretty nice words, considering that I just used her as a cannonball to attack her own kin.'

*Pop!*

The sleep bubble from the commentator popped, signaling that he just woke up.

'Oh wow, so we're even gonna use that cliché? Let's just use every japanese cliché there is, and in the future, when I finally get to see some "action", then I'll just be fucking shouting ITADAKIMASU!'

(Authors note: You know what?)

'No, you won't.'

(Authors note: I'm gonna use that.)

'This story loses quality by the second.'

"Huh, what? Oh, it's already over? I didn't even notice it. I didn't miss something, did I?" (Commentator)

"Oh no, of course not. Only that someone here broke practically every rule there is and used that against me, while you were sleeping. But nothing important." (Me)

"Euh... so nothing important... nice." (Commentator)

"YOU FUCKING TWAT! I NEARLY DIED!" (Me)

'I didn't, but who doesn't love to make things a bit more dramatic, just to make that person feel bad?'

"Oh... I guess... sorry. I owe you one, I guess." (Commentator)

'Oh, got another favor. A useless one, but still a favor.'

"Yeah, so... the team of the human kingdom won against the team of the Ice Giants." (Commentator)

'Oh, so they were Ice Giants. Cool.'

The audience breaks out in cheers, while the hooded men run away.

'I'm gonna kill them anyway when I get the ugly bastard, whoever that might be, so there's no need to ruin my good image right now, by chasing after and killing them.'

The now patched up team of female Ice Giants run towards their family and they embrace each other in a heartwarming hug.

"That's so sweet." (Lydia)

'I feel sick.'

"And they were only able to reunite because of you, Yu! You really are a good person." (Hajime)

"Excuse me, I need to vomit for a second." (Me)

"Haha! Funny as always!" (Hajime)

'God, I hate him.'