CH 145

“As it was in a certain game, I think it's important to have an infinity mechanism.”

Translated by Dawn

Edited by Dawn

“As it was in a certain game, I think it’s important to have an infinity mechanism.”

—Slash, plop, slash, plop…

Just the sound of slashing and being sucked into something echoes out to sea. No need to mention, it was the sound of me cutting off the tentacles of the Octopus and retrieving it into storage.

“I’m sorry. Um, can you forgive me?”

“Yes?”

Since then, I had noticed the [regeneration] skill of Octopus, and I thought that I could obtain a tentacle permanently by using that skill. It was the so-called one, infinite mechanism.

There was a famous game in which it was possible to create a facility where you could continue to obtain items indefinitely by combining certain items. This was the result of a verification based on that game.

The verification was possible only because I knew that the monster I was using this time was not an item but a monster with the skill of 【Regeneration】, and that part of its body was an ingredient, but I did not care about the details and proceeded to retrieve the octopus, the ingredient for takoyaki.

For the first five minutes or so, it was bluffing and said, “Do you think such an attack will work on me?” But after 30 minutes or an hour, it seemed that even if the octopus regenerated physically, it did not recover from the mental damage, and now it was begging for the attack to stop as if its initial bravado was a lie.

“What are you talking about? This is going to go on for another two hours, okay? So I need you to do me a favor. Don’t ever die. No, even if you do, it doesn’t matter. I’ll heal you with my healing magic…”

“Hiii, h-help me.”

“[Stonewall]…where do you think you’re going? Come, let’s have a fun and enjoyable Takoyaki festival!”

“P-please stop!”

As a result, I did not stop. Since then, as I had declared, I continued to cut and retrieve octopus tentacles, cutting and retrieving them endlessly, healing it with recovery magic when its strength was in trouble, and simply continuing to retrieve octopus legs without stopping.

No matter how strong of monsters they were, it was inevitable that creatures with intelligence enough to speak the human language would become mentally exhausted if they were forced to do the same thing for a long period of time…

“Fwoosh, thud…”

“What a pity. I can’t believe you can’t stand an endless mechanism for a mere three hours. But at least I got enough octopus legs to last a lifetime, right?”

In the storage room, there were hundreds of millions of tons of octopus legs. This was the result of the endless storage of octopus legs since the storage limit ran out when I learned Conversion magic, which was a higher level of Space-time magic.

At any rate, I was able to get an octopus, which was one of the ingredients for takoyaki, one of the purposes of my visit to Marine Trill. Now I just need to get other seafood to complete my mission. …Hm? I feel like I’m forgetting something, but I’m sure it’s just my imagination.

“[Ex Heal]”

“Haa, w-where is this!?”

“Hey, you awake?”

“Hiiii, h-help me.”

“You have the same reaction as before you fainted. Well, it doesn’t matter. Well, Octopus. You have two choices.”

“C-choice?”

As a matter of fact, the octopus leg collection over the past few hours had somehow given rise to a new skill called [Torture], although it is very…regrettable. I’d like to spend an hour or so asking the system when I tortured him, but the important thing now was to find out about the other skills I had learned, so I’d leave that for another time.

In addition to the torture skill, a new skill called [Summoning Technique] which I have no idea how this skill was generated.

Upon closer examination, it appeared to be an ability to make a contract with a monster to summon it whenever you wanted to, an ability that often appeared in a certain national RPG [Final Fantasy]. 

If I could use this, it meant that Octopus could be summoned as I summoned it and the octopus legs could be obtained at any time. …isn’t this really wonderful?

“The first option is to let me kill you. I’m an adventurer who originally came here to defeat you. The people of the town are in trouble because an octopus has come, and they want us to do something about it.”

“T-that’s a bit…I just moved to a place where I feel comfortable…”

“Then why don’t you move to a place where people don’t live?”

The Octopus…or rather monsters, had their own circumstances, and it might be harsh to blame only Octopus because the place where humans lived nearby happened to be a comfortable place for it. Even if humans lived there first, the monsters did not need to take this into consideration; if they were hostile, they would simply destroy them.

However, in this case, there were humans who were stronger than the monster and were interfering with the lives of the humans, so the monster was the target of extermination, but even I did not feel any resistance to killing the monster with whom I could communicate.

Well, it had turned on me once, and I could have beaten it without question. If only the skill of [Summoning Technique] had not manifested itself in this battle…

“Well, and for the second option. I’ve just acquired the skill of [Summoning Technique]. If you want, I can keep you alive. But only as my summoned beast. What will you do? Become my pet or be killed by me?”

“There’s really only one option for that! What’s more, it’s the worst option!!”

“It’s a hell of a lot better than being killed, don’t you think?”

“D-devil…there’s a devil here.”

How rude of him. Now I could understand how Nobunaga Oda, the “Demon King of the Sixth Heaven,” felt. Oda Nobunaga was famous as a diabolical warlord who burned down Enryaku-ji Temple on Mt. Hiei, but he actually followed the proper procedure.

In the first place, Oda Nobunaga burned down Mt. Hiei because Enryaku-ji was sheltering the Asai and Asakura families, who were enemies. In response, Oda Nobunaga demanded that the Asai and Asakura families be handed over to him, but Enryaku-ji stubbornly refused.

Nevertheless, he did not give up and sent several letters demanding the handover of the temple to Nobunaga, and as a final notice, he gave the temple a proper notice, saying, “If you do not hand over the temple, we will burn it down.”

It just so happened that the temple was powerful at the time, and since no other warlords had ever burned down a temple, Nobunaga who openly and unashamedly burned down the temple was seen as the bad guy.

In the first place, temples at that time were so powerful that they were in a state of public disorder, with the appearance of armed and powerful monks and soldiers, and the indulgence of alcohol and women in spite of the need for liberation from worldly desires.

Nobunaga might have thought that he had to give them a good punishment for that as well. I believe that this was the reason for the burning of the castle. I feel like I’m in a Japanese history class. …It’s beginning to sound like a Japanese history lesson.

What I was trying to say was that what might seem like a terrible thing to say was actually kindness that took the other person into consideration. Yes, no doubt!

Therefore…

“Pet or die, choose whichever one!”

“Hiii, I understand! I’ll be your pet!”

Thus, with the newly acquired infinite octopus mass production machine…I mean, the Octopus became my companion. What a joyous occasion. …wait, is it?