Ankoku Kishi Monogatari ~Yuusha wo Taosu Tameni Maou ni Shoukansaremashita~

[wuhugm]

Original Title : 暗黒騎士物語　～勇者を倒すために魔王に召喚されました～ (Ankoku Kishi Monogatari ~Yuusha wo Taosu Tameni Maou ni Shoukansaremashita~) <Dark Knight Story ~Summoned to Defeat The Hero~>
Author : Nazeki Takeru
Status : 138 WN chapters
Length : 1.1 Million Japanese Characters

Webnovel : Syosetsu | Magnet | Novelba

Novel Updates : NU

Spoiler for Synopsis:

Kuroki was summoned by Maou to protect them from Yuusha Party
Initially uncomplying, he finally agreed after promised to be given artificial goddess
When he faced them in battle, he found out that his childhood friend Shirone is part of Yuusha's Harem Party

Spoiler for Summary/Chronology of 1st Arc:

- 1 week after his childhood friend, Shirone, and her friends went missing, MC Kuroki investigated the villa she went to and summoned to isekai
- The summoner was Maou and he was asked to repel Yuusha party
- Yuusha party is a "harem party" lead by perfect ikemen Reiji which is also Shirone's group that went missing
- Kuroki disguised himself as Dark Knight Diehart and fought Reiji one-on-one, defeated him and gave him fatal blow
- Yuusha party escaped and Kuroki was promised a reward that is Artificial Goddess (Just like Maou's Wife)
- Later Kuroki wanted to check the condition of Yuusha party so he infiltrated Holy Lenaria Republic
- Discovered that the loss from him make Yuusha party want to be returned to Japan immediately
- Invaded The Goddess Shrine to interrogate the Goddess herself
- Met the Goddess Rena, the main heroine, for the first time. Discovered that the return magic is flawed and might send them to limbo, so he destroyed the ritual items and left the shrine after making Shirone cries.

Spoiler for FAQ:

1. Is the MC OP?
Yes

2. Is this a harem?
?

3. Is there snusnu in this novel?
Yes

This is real good stuff

[sasuke706]

This is another one I read. Well, haven't read it for a while, but still.

The story itself doesn't really go anywhere.
It's basically hero group causes problems, the girls in hero party all have misunderstandings about protag, and chaos ensues.
The hero party and protag often find themselves working together, too.

But yeah there is actual snusnu.

Spoiler for :

And he has a baby—unknown to everyone but the mother—with the scum goddess.
Also, the main heroine is a clone of the scum goddess. And heavy yandere.

It's fun to read now and then but isn't something to get really invested in because since the story itself isn't all that serious.

But yeah it is a bit hard to call it a harem for sure.
Several women clearly fall for the protag but nothing ever happens with them save for two people.
I think I recall some mob heroines getting some too?

[cabman11]

I'm confused here.
Also you sure that's enough sisters right? Looks like you miss something at the end with the goddess

[Ruki0089]

.....what is this?? What happen to childhood friend??

[sasuke706]

^Nothing?

The hero beat the protag in a kendo match or some shit when they were younger and childhood friend thought that he was cool, so she started hanging out with him.
Protag is the gentle, hard-working ikemen type while the hero is the wild, easygoing, womanizing ikemen type who manages to do everything naturally with no practice.
Childhood friend is so used to the protag (AKA she's dense and blind) that she thinks he's normal looking and wimpy (he's pretty docile around her due to her boasting about how great ikemen guy is), on top of she thinks he's worse in kendo than her despite him never stopping kendo when she did stop.
Eventually she and hero (and several other of the hero harem) get summoned to fantasy land, and protag gets later summoned to stop the heroes from invading demon territory.

Childhood friend is the only one who actually has the hardest time accepting that the protag isn't the weak wimp that she thought he was.
But she thinks that the demon lord and/or his new girlfriend is brainwashing him to joining the demon lord's side, so she wants to 'help' him. While his girlfriend is absolutely the brainwashing yandere type, she actually hasn't done that specific illegal activity (to him, at least). Just numerous others, unknown to the protag.

The hero is a womanizing scumbag, but apparently he hasn't actually done anything with childhood friend due to her thinking they're just friends and that his advances are jokes or whatever.
Protag thinks hero and childhood friend are going out though.

Childhood friend is nosy and overprotective but I don't think she has any romantic feelings for protag.

That about sums up the gist of her entire role in the story.
She clashes a lot with the protag's girlfriend but is otherwise generally more a hindrance to the protag than helpful. The misunderstandings generally don't ever get cleared up, either.
She does have a heroic mentality of sorts and tries to help people all the time, though.

In short, both protag and childhood friend have bad taste in the opposite sex.

[soularc55]

Wait, how did the mc shag the enemy goddess, and why is she an enemy in the first place if she got shagged in the first place?

[sasuke706]

^Goddess is the one who summoned the hero party and wants them to slay demon lord.

Spoiler for :

She's...sort of? not an enemy to the protag.
The reason she wanted the the demon lord to be killed was because he made a clone of herself and has it serve as his wife.
Now if that wasn't enough, when she sleeps at night, she gets to experience things from the clone's point of view. Of course, the demon lord being the ugliest thing in existence, she wants to deal with this pressing issue.

Eventually this gets solved though. The protag's girlfriend is ALSO a clone of this goddess, and her night visions switch to this clone instead. Which is a lot easier for her to accept.
She sort of forces the protag on a date, they get drunk, and fuck a lot. Gets preggers too.

Of course she initially likes the protag because he's kind to her, ikemen, and strong.
Experiencing night life with him helps a lot too.
She didn't have much interest in the ikemen hero from the start (womanizer and all, and she's possessive as fuck), but when she learns hero is weaker than protag, she basically loses all interest in hero.
But being a two-faced goddess she still has to openly support the heroes she summoned. Even if she basically only cares about the protag at this point.

So she sort of stops becoming an enemy, but just like his girlfriend, she's a complete scumbag regardless so nothing is easy with her.

She hides from everyone that she had a kid with the protag and has high expectations for the kid.
She also sort of strikes a deal with the girlfriend about love life with the protag, since the clone is aware of her weird dream-share ability since the clone has it too for some reason (when the demon lord's clone didn't.)

It's been a while so I'm not quite sure of the proper sequence of events.

[soularc55]

You lost me at clones. Required me three times to read it over again just to get the gist of it. I think I get it. But was it she who got pregnant or her clone?

[sasuke706]

"And he has a baby—unknown to everyone but the mother—with the scum goddess."
Clone ≠ goddess.

[wuhugm]

Wiii, thanks for the explanations Sasuke~

Btw, about the Hero, it was said that he's not forcing anyone to be with him, will this change in the future?

[sasuke706]

Not as far as I know.
Not like he needs to force most people anyway.

Protag's girlfriend shows up before him as an enemy at one point and he was pretty into that, though.
Nothing that you hope for happened.

I still need to catch back up to this. No idea what chapter I was last on.
Weekly updates tend to make me put series off unless they're super interesting.

[WyrdMonger]

Does anyone else find this one kinda salty?

[wuhugm]

^Why salty?

Originally Posted by sasuke706

Not as far as I know.
Not like he needs to force most people anyway.

Protag's girlfriend shows up before him as an enemy at one point and he was pretty into that, though.
Nothing that you hope for happened.

I still need to catch back up to this. No idea what chapter I was last on.
Weekly updates tend to make me put series off unless they're super interesting.

If you disregard that he's not the protagonist, isn't this Hero a good guy?
His only bad point is he's not actively helping males

Also, has his imouto become MC's girl?

Btw, this novel recently got reader boost, +15000 people read this everyday, said author

[Ruki0089]

Wow, he should kill MC's childhood friend...

[personax]

Originally Posted by sasuke706

This is another one I read. Well, haven't read it for a while, but still.

The story itself doesn't really go anywhere.
It's basically hero group causes problems, the girls in hero party all have misunderstandings about protag, and chaos ensues.
The hero party and protag often find themselves working together, too.

But yeah there is actual snusnu.

Spoiler for :

And he has a baby—unknown to everyone but the mother—with the scum goddess.
Also, the main heroine is a clone of the scum goddess. And heavy yandere.

It's fun to read now and then but isn't something to get really invested in because since the story itself isn't all that serious.

But yeah it is a bit hard to call it a harem for sure.
Several women clearly fall for the protag but nothing ever happens with them save for two people.
I think I recall some mob heroines getting some too?

So is the goddess or the clone both pregnant.

[sasuke706]

Originally Posted by wuhugm

If you disregard that he's not the protagonist, isn't this Hero a good guy?
His only bad point is he's not actively helping males

Also, has his imouto become MC's girl?

I mean, technically a good guy? Good guy with awful womanizing habits anyway. That and his main goal is to kill a king (demon lord) who really hasn't done anything wrong.
Like he'll do anything a woman asks him to pretty much, and nothing a guy does.
Of course if it's a beautiful criminal woman he'll try to convert her.

And yeah, his little sister is basically the protag's girl.
There's also plenty of other girls who are too really, it's just they're like leagues behind the main heroines.

Originally Posted by personax

So is the goddess or the clone both pregnant.

Yes.

[wuhugm]

^Frankly speaking, many MC is basically like this hero guy, Shuuya for example Basically the same guy

Originally Posted by Ruki0089

Wow, he should kill MC's childhood friend...

But why?

[Valky]

Originally Posted by wuhugm

There are some weird parts, out of character acts, and story leapings

How weird and out of character?

[wuhugm]

^So the author inserts some chapters in between existing chapters, dunno the original flow, but found some weird parts that might be because of that :

1. There wasn't a scene that shows MC kills people for the first time (though it said he saw corpses and don't really feel a thing), and when he invaded the shrine, he didn't kill anyone. But after leaving, he was attacked by aerial corps of angel and heroes and he massacred them. Maybe it was because the osananajimi said hero is 100x times better than him and he berserked, but it feels weird to me.
2. There are episodic like chapters showing him in various places, but it confuses the timeline and me.

[Rasty]

Originally Posted by sasuke706

But she thinks that the demon lord and/or his new girlfriend is brainwashing him to joining the demon lord's side, so she wants to 'help' him. While his girlfriend is absolutely the brainwashing yandere type, she actually hasn't done that specific illegal activity (to him, at least). Just numerous others, unknown to the protag.

You have the talent for writing.

This novel actually sounds rather nice, I've been avoiding it for a while, but might try it.