Headhunted to Another World: From Salaryman to Big Four!

Hear your master's call!

Assemble, my Four Elite Generals!

The Inferno Assailant, Ulmandra!

The Archmage of Storms, Sylphid.

The Earthen Bastion, Gnome!

And finally,

one whose skill will bolster both the strength

and conviction of our armies as we vie to claim this world.

Newest chosen of my Elite Generals.

A soul summoned forth from another world!

Vessel of the Big Four and Master of Water

descend upon my land and rise in my heaven!

Manifest before me!

The Overseas Manager Dennosuke Uchimura!

What?

I, Dennosuke Uchimura,

am an insignificant salaryman.

TEIOH WORKS CORPORATION DENNOSUKE UCHIMURA

After struggling through job hunting hell,

I began work with a hopeful heart.

-A gift. -I hope you don't mind me...

However, while my colleagues

were steadily rising up the ranks,

my efforts went wholly unacknowledged.

Then, one day, I was transferred overseas.

That's the overseas factory construction plan, isn't it?

I heard the manager pulled some strings

and had it pushed onto him.

-Aw, man, that's brutal. -

Like Sargasso,

it's a graveyard for losers.

Hmm.

We're lacking in equipment and manpower!

We need more resource--

Just shut up and get it done!

No matter where you are,

there's always something you can do.

Believing that I got to work.

The challenges were innumerous

and the sheer toil they demanded

just about killed me, but...

Hm.

Just as things were finally taking off.

What, I'm getting transferred abroad again?

But why?

Who am I even doing this for?

What is it all amounting to anyway?

- -

You got it!

EPISODE 1

TIPS ON HOW TO PASS THE ENTRANCE EXAM IN ANOTHER WORLD

Where am I?

What is this? Hell?

Another world?

The shores of the River Styx?

I welcome you, Dennosuke Uchimura!

How do you know my name?

Because it was I that summoned you.

Last of the Four Elite Generals,

the Overseas Manager.

My job title doesn't sound at all strange to you?

Wait a general?

Who me?

A demoted salaryman?

Dennosuke Uchimura,

you were assigned abroad after your fifth year.

There you learned the local language,

trained the rudderless work force,

and successfully led the business to profit.

He ran a background check?

Upon reviewing your career records,

I was convinced that you would make

the perfect addition to my army.

Glad he approves of my resume,

but going from international to infernal?

That's putting in my notice with humanity!

It's not climbing the ladder, it's falling from it!

We welcome you to join us

as an Elite General, with full benefits.

Full benefits?

You will have pull and pay akin to that

of your world's department managers.

Department managers?

You may select your own subordinates

and will be furnished with your own office.

Those terms are so good I could almost cry!

Of course, should you decline the offer,

you will be returned to your own world.

I cannot force you to accept.

He's pro workers' rights, too?

What a cool Overlord!

What say you Uchimura?

- - Tch!

You should have just kept your mouth shut

and done as you were told.

Honestly.

Thanks for the hard work and all,

but I'll be taking it from here.

-Be a team player-- -Have materials

on my desk by tonight.

I'm afraid my efforts weren't valued by my past employer.

In other words, I was not able to meet

the company's expectations.

Those who fail to pull their weight

are considered little more than trash.

And someone like you surely has no need of refuse,

Demon Overlord.

I think you should find someone more qualifie--

Do not accept the judgment of fools,

Uchimura!

Fools put value only in what they can see.

They pay no attention to work done

behind the scenes.

They are ignorant, yet I have gazed deeply

and witnessed the iron of your resolve.

I knew immediately that I had to have you,

that with me,

your true potential could be realized!

Hear me, Uchimura, it is not your place

to judge yourself worthless nor theirs'

who designated you so.

It is mine!

I, who summoned you here for need of your worth.

Now, decide, Dennosuke Uchimura.

Will you serve a fool and be crushed,

or will you serve me and rise up?

Decide but I'm still not sure.

I must object to this.

Ulmandra?

Please forgive my insolence, My Lord, but

I cannot fathom how a pitiful human like him

could function as one of your generals.

Indeed, I concur, My Lord.

No human can shoulder such weight.

It's exactly as they say.

Sylphid and Gnome,

you object to this also?

Very well,

a trial!

A trial?

We shall test your abilities

before a decision is made.

That should quell your concerns, yes?

But Demon Overlord, sir!

-I don't have abilitie-- -An outstanding idea!

Ugh!

They say otherworldly humans

have special powers!

-Ugh! -Well let's see

how special they are,

by how well they withstand the force of my deadly blow!

Oh, I am so about to die.

Kindly restrain yourself, Ulmandra!

Why did you stop my attack, My Lord?

When your emotions catch light,

they consume you and strip your awareness.

Look at the man.

He has fainted from the shock

of the impending blow.

Uh, seriously?

He fainted just from that?

One might think he was a normal human.

Because he is a normal human.

What? You mean he doesn't possess

some powerful magic or special ability?

None.

Just an ordinary man.

You'd make a human

one of the Demon Army's Elite Generals?

Indeed.

Unacceptable!

With all due respect, My Lord,

you cannot mean this!

The Demon Army is but monsters.

A frail human pushed into this war

between demons and demi-humans

would be figuratively and literally eaten alive.

That said, it's largely the unruly

demons giving rise to the conflict.

What'd you say?

It's you demi-humans and your complaints

-that make things tense! -See, unruly.