Chapter 134

The Swimsuit Beauty Pageant's explosive popularity exceeded the imagination of everyone who organized this event, and the main reason for this was that the prize money for rankings was generous enough, and the judges' scoring was also bizarre enough.

Allowing even women who weren't beautiful in the usual sense to have the qualification to compete for money-winning placements in this pageant.

Plus, since there was no registration fee either, it caused a large amount of women within Axel to gather here and participate in this beauty contest.

However, while the contest was booming, there wasn't much progress on the original purpose of holding this event.

Ever since the beauty pageant started, two days had already passed, the number of participants who had taken the stage had already exceeded four hundred, yet Broly still hadn't found a new wife.

【Perhaps, there is no new wife in Axel after all.】

Just as Broly was thinking this, the afternoon session of the beauty pageant arrived at the moment of Darkness's debut.

This young lady of noble birth, wearing a conservative orange bikini, stepped onto the Swimsuit Beauty Pageant's stage.

Darkness's face was bright red as she stood on stage; she had never appeared before the public in such a revealing state, and this made her feel both shame and excitement.

"Contestant No. 3-164 Darkness, she looks like a shy girl, yet one wonders in what way she will display her own beauty."

The host had already been swapped out; the beauty pageant was too popular, there were too many contestants, and it was also very taxing for the hosts who had to introduce the appearing contestants.

The contestants' appearances were uneven; by the time it reached noon, quite a few audience members had already started yawning, falling into aesthetic fatigue.

However, when Darkness took the stage, it still invigorated countless people; it was very obvious that Darkness's looks alone surpassed many of the other contestants.

"Miss Darkness, please use your own way to display your beauty!"

Dust interjected.

And Broly beside him had already raised his scoring sign.

【Capture target discovered, Lalatina Ford Darkness, current Happiness Value 2, rising】

A new wife had already appeared; Broly directly gave a perfect score of ten.

"It's not time for scoring yet."

Luna, sitting on the left side, had to remind this boy.

"Oh!"

Hearing this, Broly put the sign down.

【So shameful, those lustful men's gazes, staring at my body~】

Darkness didn't respond, just hugged her arms and started panting heavily on the ring.

"Ah, this?"

Many contestants had taken the stage; some who planned to make excessive moves, directly performing fully nude talent acts, those weren't nonexistent either.

However, like Darkness now, clearly not having done any behavior at all, yet able to perform a reaction as if she had been done many things to, it stunned the entire audience.

"Hey hey hey, did that person get heatstroke?"

"Why is she clearly wearing a conservative swimsuit, but looks like she's wearing revealing lingerie and has been seen through?"

"Tsk, don't you all feel that Contestant No. 164 is currently emitting a scent of eroticism?"

【No good, Lalatina, you have to pull yourself together, you have to perform the act of displaying your own beauty, only then can you make these desire-filled beasts criticize you better, only then can you not betray Eris-sama's Divine Revelation...】

Darkness, her body somewhat stiff, encouraged herself, took a deep breath, brought over a large stone slab, and publicly did something similar to the first Protein Queen this morning.

And after finishing the act of shattering a large stone on her chest, she also did some bodybuilding poses similar to the morning Protein Queen, somewhat shamefully.

The audience had originally been somewhat immersed in her beauty, but didn't expect Darkness to suddenly pull this.

This one move instantly evoked countless people's impressions of the morning Protein Queen contestant; the heated atmosphere directly cooled down as if a basin of ice water had been poured over it.

"5 points, can't give more, if I give more I feel I'll have nightmares tonight."

In the scoring segment, Dust raised his sign, indicating he was already defeated. Being able to give 5 points was still on account of Darkness's figure and looks being impressive enough.

"One can tell she's imitating the first contestant's muscle beauty this morning, but unfortunately the muscle mass is too lacking, I can only give 7 points."

Sena said this and also raised her sign; she had given the first contestant 8 points this morning.

【Darkness, remembered as one of the few Advanced Class Adventurers in the Guild, has she returned from subjugating Goblins?】

"Although muscle mass is insufficient, she is full of charm as a woman, I give 9 points."

Miss Luna is relatively lenient towards contestants with Adventurer identities, because what she needs to consider is not just the simple beauty pageant, but also matters of strength as Adventurers.

As an Advanced Class Adventurer, although she is a Crusader with quite a few problems, on her side there are still decent bonus points.

As for Broly, there's no need to ask at all; his perfect score sign was directly raised the moment Darkness finished her performance.

"I really like your muscles, especially the abs faintly showing their outline on your lower belly."

When it came time for Broly to speak, he directly and frankly evaluated Darkness's muscles.

【Uh ah~】

Darkness covered her chest; clearly receiving the boy judge's high praise, yet she couldn't be happy at all.

Clearly she had watched her diet, adding a layer of fat outside her abs as camouflage, yet it was still seen through at a glance.

Are her abs really that obvious?

"Thank you... for the praise."

Darkness, who earned thirty-one points, laboriously thanked Broly for his evaluation, and walked off the ring with a dejected look.

The male audience watched her speechlessly; just the act of imitating the Protein Queen's talent performance was enough to make most of them, with normal aesthetic sense, lose the majority of their interest in her.

Returning to the changing room, Darkness put on her clothes preparing to leave, but was blocked by a blue-haired girl.

"Hey hey hey, your name is Darkness, right?"

Aqua asked.

"I am Darkness, may I ask what business you have?"

As a noble, although Darkness often has episodes, at normal times she is still very polite.

"You got a ten from Broly, right?"

Aqua asked again.

"Broly? You mean that boy judge? That's right, I got scored a ten, so what?"

Darkness was a bit confused.

"Hehe, congratulations, contestant Darkness, you've obtained an Unexpected Reward!"

Aqua pulled out a Party Popper from who knows where, and fired it directly at Darkness.

"Eh?"

Sprayed in the face with Party Popper confetti, Darkness looked at her with a don't-understand expression.

"I'm Aqua, Broly is my Disciple, we are the Major Donors sponsoring this swimsuit beauty pageant, and any contestant who can get a perfect score played by my Disciple will be able to obtain a share of Unexpected Joy."

"Uh, what Unexpected Joy?"

"This..."

Aqua originally wanted to say 【become my Disciple's wife】, but thinking of how Broly said directly saying wife might scare the person away, and that she needed to start from being friends, she said instead: "That is of course obtaining the friendship of my cute and powerful Disciple, you can be friends with that kid Broly!"

"Eh, friends?!"

(Chapter End)