August 06, 2022

Isekai Meikyuu de Harem o - Harem in the labyrinth of another world

In the market for a trash hentai isekai? We've got right what you're looking for here.

Hero McProtagonist blows right through the warning screen on this new VR game that says he won't be able to log out, and wakes up in his track suit in a barn. (Sheesh, even Al Sharpton eventually gave up his track suits). He's barefoot though, and he sees a pair of sandals in the corner of the barn, puts them on, and is rewarded with the Thief job class. (The game has multiple job classes that you can equip up to 5 of, in a ranked order). Fortunately he spent a lot of his character creation points on a hugely overpowered sword, and a few other skills he wasn't sure what they were for. Apparently there's no tutorial stage.

Bandits attack the village, and while the villagers try to fend them off, he debates entering the fray, but after identifying the leader, he jumps in and beheads him with his overpowered sword and proceeds to one-shot most of the other bandits, even as they're running away. The village elder puts him up for the night, and reveals a storehouse full of the loot from the bandits, although our hero notes that the special bandana the leader was wearing was replaced with a plain one. The Elder brings forth the culprit, and our hero finds out that regular justice is the guy is to be sold into slavery. He'll get half the proceeds as the victim, and the culprit's family gets the other half as compensation for their loss of a strong back.

Yikes!

The elder also shows him how they summon someone's character card from their left hand with a chant, but if you can't do that, well, chopping off the left hand and presenting that to the knight's guild will let them retrieve it and determine if there was a bounty on it.

Double yikes!

The elder gives him a lift to town with a wagon load of booty, which they sell off, and their thief, whom they also sell off. He warns him off the dangerous parts of town, and the Brothels. Although for a virgin gamer like him, the prospect sounds very enticing. After the Elder departs, McProtagonist gets invited back inside by the slave trader, who sees him as a pigeon ready to be plucked, er, as a potential customer. Figuring him for an adventurer, he tells him about two ways to make money. Either the labyrinth that recently sprung up outside of town, or hunting bounties. Bounties being possibly more profitable, but more dangerous, he suggests the labyrinth. Adventurers, he tells him, often buy slaves to fill out their party. Then the trap is baited by the pretty wolfkin slavegirl in a maid outfit named Roxanne who serves them tea. Then he springs it by pointing out that slaves can't betray their masters (As in they die with you unless you have a will that frees them), that since she's a wolfkin he can fuck her without her getting pregnant or any diseases, and that she's already consented to getting freaky with her master. This apparently pushes all of his buttons. She can be had for a mere 422,800 "Nars". Mind you, they only got 30,000 for the village thief - good thing nobody asked him where he got the sandals... That price also includes the maid outfit.... And he gives him 5 days to raise the money.

(Strangely, the subtitles asterisk out the translation of "Onna Dorei" (Female slave) even in the supposedly uncut version I found.)

So he goes into the labyrinth, kills a bunch of 1st level tree monsters, retrieves the stick remains they drop, and turns them in for cash, and quickly figures out he'll never make the price at that rate. He does learn a bit about some of his skills and the costs of the game system. So he decides to go into the slums and kill some bandits. But first, he does some scouting.

One advantage McProtagonist has is that he is fully into "When in Rome, do as the Romans do" and has absolutely no moral compunctions brought with him from Japan. After all, he wants to buy himself a big-titty slave girl to bed and adventure with, so getting into the bandit gang's house and killing a bunch of them asleep in their beds and lopping off their hands is no big deal.

Needless to say, he makes enough cash, buys the girl, and is quite a bit nicer to her than she expects. He even asks her consent when he shifts from foreplay to the main event. And is only momentarily bothered when he wonders if that really counts when she can't refuse him as a slave.

She is useful in the dungeon. She's great at sniffing out monsters.

And that's about how far we get in 5 episodes. Which doesn't leave a lot of time to fill out the rest of the harem.

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I have questions though....

Posted by: Mauser at 07:21 PM | Comments (4) | Add Comment
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1 I skimmed through the original web novel when this was first announced, and it took him a long time to build up the slave harem. I think he spent at least as much time fiddling with his cheat powers as with his women.

What I found most impressive is how everyone in the world understands that their job as NPCs is to give as-you-know-Bob explanations of everything Our Hero needs to know about his new world.

-j

Posted by: J Greely at August 06, 2022 07:43 PM (oJgNG)

2 I guess that's why they had a brief scene set 10 years in a "Possible future" where he jumps back to the original village with the full harem and give a kid with hair suspiciously like his a sword.  Just so they could show that there are other girls.

Posted by: Mauser at August 07, 2022 12:05 AM (BzEjn)

3 I'm enjoying the manga, although all the gamer stuff goes right over my head.

Posted by: Pete Zaitcev at August 08, 2022 08:19 AM (LZ7Bg)

4 This is funny, over at the J-List blog, they did an article about favorite monster girls, and Roxanne was on the list, and they used my picture from above. (Well, I DID tweet it on one or two of their threads).

Posted by: Mauser at August 20, 2022 05:33 PM (BzEjn)

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