Chapter 335

Fortunately, Rosa had prepared a backup plan in the event that her magic pendant had failed to stop Alice from tracking down her whereabouts. Although it was a somewhat embarrassing solution, it was an effective method to ward off Alice’s shameless behavior.

Since Alice would always steal a bunch of her panties whenever they met, Rosa came up with the perfect solution to stop losing them—she would stop wearing them altogether. More specifically, she would use something else to take the place of panties. Meanwhile, the item she chose was something the average person would normally never use to cover their crotch—band-aids.

There was a significant difference between the medical industry in this otherworld and on Earth. Because of the existence of mana, most medical studies were done based on the magical properties of mana. Even so, some of the more common medical items found on Earth were still invented in this otherworld. Moreover, these items were all enhanced using mana.

One example of this would be the band-aids Rosa used. They were magically enhanced to have stronger healing properties and adhesiveness.

It was precisely because of the band-aids’ excellent adhesiveness that Rosa had tried to use large band-aids as a replacement for panties. Moreover, after using these band-aids for some time, Rosa found that they worked pretty well as panties. Hence, she made the bold decision to replace all of her panties with band-aids.

Of course, Rosa only intended to use this as a temporary solution. If Alice never showed up at her door again, Rosa would definitely have to change back to using normal panties. However, if Alice were to find her, the band-aids would dismiss any ideas Alice had about her panties.

Unfortunately, Rosa had still underestimated the depths of Alice’s “perversion.”

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[Weapon: Lola Brand Band-Aid]

[Quality: Epic]

[Effect: Strength +800, Spirit +800, Control +800, Mana +800]

[Additional Effect:

Reinforced Bones (Passive Skill. Reduces physical damage received by 80%);

Spiritual Rampage (Passive Skill. People with a lower Spirit stat than you will have the spirit magic they use at you rendered ineffective);

Holy Light’s Blessing (Active Skill. Releases a light that can heal the soul.)]

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I see. Even though it isn’t a pair of panties, because it was used as panties, its evaluation also got elevated drastically? Alice thought in amazement as she looked at the band-aid she had just stripped off of Rosa. She was surprised that it had received an “Epic” evaluation. Although it wasn’t rated as an “Artifact” like ordinary, worn panties, it was still on the same level as Grant’s Radioactive Soul Stone.

While she was at it, Alice grabbed an unused band-aid from Rosa’s wardrobe and held it in her right hand. Meanwhile, the outcome of the test was just as she expected.

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[Weapon: Lola Brand Band-Aid]

[Quality: Garbage]

[Effect: Mana +1]

[Additional Effect: None]

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Evidently, a band-aid that was never worn as panties would only be an ordinary band-aid. As for the minor healing properties that the band-aid itself possessed, it was obvious that the band-aid carried so little mana that her right hand refused to acknowledge its existence. Hence, the unused band-aid was only rated as “Garbage” that did not possess any healing abilities.

This situation renewed Alice’s knowledge of her right hand’s ability. At the same time, she also couldn’t help but be confused by this newfound knowledge. Just why was her right hand so infatuated with women’s underwear?

In the past, Alice thought that her right hand would only give special treatment to actual panties. Now, though, it would seem that her right hand would give special treatment to anything that was being used as underwear by a woman.

Alice also couldn’t help but wonder why her right hand had shown no reaction to the “panties” she had made using animal hide. Was her workmanship so poor that her right hand couldn’t bear to acknowledge it as panties?

“Isn’t that enough? Stop staring at this thing,” Rosa, who had just been stripped of her “panties,” said as she looked at Alice in anger and shame. If it weren’t for the fact that she couldn’t beat Alice in a fight, she would have definitely fought to reclaim her panties.

Alice sighed and put the freshly-stripped band-aid into her panty pouch. Although this thing wasn’t an Artifact, it was still an Epic-grade weapon that came with a healing skill.

Most of the panties Alice had used as weapons thus far had come with offensive active skills of varying destructive capabilities. On the higher end was Purification Blade, a light taboo capable of destroying half of a large forest in the blink of an eye. On the lower end was Soul Strike, a spirit taboo that could destabilize the souls of all targets within a specific area.

It was obvious that the band-aid came with a healing skill like Holy Light’s Blessing because of its inherent healing properties. Unfortunately, band-aids could not be reused as panties, so Rosa had thrown away all of her used band-aids. This meant that the only “usable” band-aid Alice could get her hands on was the one Rosa had been wearing until just now.

“If you have any used band-aids in the future, can you please leave some for me?”

Holy Light’s Blessing sounded like a very versatile healing ability. After all, the ability to heal the soul sounded very over the top. Hence, Alice thought that maybe she should keep a stockpile of it and use them like Senzu Beans[1]. Thus, she confronted Rosa with such a request. She even made sure to word her request politely.

“Get out!!!”

Unfortunately, Alice’s polite inquiry did not receive the treatment it deserved as Rosa drove Alice out of her house with a voice so angry that the roof had nearly flown off. It would seem that the feelings of shame and anger in her heart had already overwhelmed her fear of Alice’s status as the Hero.

Seeing Rosa’s reaction, Alice obediently left Rosa’s house and abandoned her idea of stockpiling Rosa’s used band-aids. After her plan had failed so miserably, Rosa would most likely return to using normal panties.

Nevermind. I already got myself a versatile healing ability, so it’s not a total loss, Alice thought. She felt that “Holy Light’s Blessing” might come in handy in the future. After all, she had never learned any healing spells since most healing taboos required the use of large-scale medical equipment. It was practically impossible for an individual to single-handedly cast a healing taboo.

For example, some healing taboos required the assistance of a machine called a “mana transmitter.” A mana transmitter functioned to convert mana into light with special dialysis capabilities and send this light into the patient’s body to conduct treatment. Meanwhile, the mana transmitter’s operating principles could not be replicated by the human body.

Setting all else aside, just the mana transmitter’s first process of converting mana into special light particles was already outside of the abilities of humans to replicate with only their bodies and mana. This process required the use of a magic stone called “Trak.” Unless Alice modified her body to mimic the properties of Trak, there was no way she could take the mana transmitter’s role.

Moreover, that was only one of the many processes carried out in a mana transmitter. If Alice was hellbent on using healing taboos without the help of external equipment, she would have to stuff at least 20 different types of magic stones into her body, and there was no way she would ever do such a thing.

Hence, being able to obtain a taboo-level, or pseudo-taboo-level since the band-aid was only an Epic-grade weapon, healing ability was considerably important to Alice.

Maybe I should ask Luna to stockpile some band-aids for me?

While wondering whether she should get others to help her just cause, Alice slowly made her way to the nearby bus stop. For the time being, she planned to return to the Rhine Kingdom and wait for the Thieves Guild’s reply.

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TL Notes:

[1]Senzu Beans: mystical beans with immense rejuvenation properties in the Dragon Ball franchise.