Chapter 1: The First Village, Part 6
Kaga Michio: Human Male 17 years old
Jobs: Villager Lv2 Thief Lv2 Hero Lv1 Equipment: Sandals
After completing the character I reset, I used Identify on myself. I now had three Jobs.
But wait a minute, shouldnt Hero be the first one? I tried switching Hero with Villager, but it did nothing. So what, you trying to tell me that only Villager and Thief can be set as the first Job? Why is that?! Eh, this sucks major ass, but no helping it I guess. Lets just set Hero as the second Job and Thief as the third one, which has apparently advanced to Lv2.
Im sorry to bother you, Michio-sama, but may I have a moment of your time?
The Village Chief came to see me again.
Sure, I dont mind. What do you need?
I dont know about you, but to me the Chiefs attitude started to feel a little bit too humble, almost as if he tried too hard to kiss my ass. I know he probably feels extremely grateful to me for saving his life, but thats going too far, even by my standards. I know that with Durandals power I was able to cut those bandits down like grass in the garden, but that doesnt make me almighty or anything like that. If he thinks that from now on my presence here is going to be everything they will need to keep other bandits away from attacking the village, then I hate to break it to him but hes sorely mistaken. No matter what, the village needs to stay vigilant. Then again, maybe that is exactly why he is like that to me. Maybe he thinks that by getting on my good side, he will be able to convince me to become the villages protector?
Ugh, this is shaping up to be even more annoying than I had initially anticipated. I wonder if theres anything I can do to avoid having to deal with such a major headache?
The breakfast will be served later, but first I would like you to join me outside. We have gathered all of the bandits equipment that was left after you disposed of them and I would be honored if you could inspect it with me and the other villagers.
All right, Ill do it.
Now this is getting interesting. Inspection? What for? Are we going to distribute the leftover bandit gear between ourselves? Because if so, then I should have the right to claim the equipment of every Bandit that I have personally slain as my own. If Im lucky, maybe some of them had some good stuff on them that I could use, but if not, Ill just allow the villagers to have it. Maybe theyll be able to sell it for a good price, which would in turn score me some brownie points with them.
Then please, follow me.
Sure, but is it really okay for me to claim part of the gear as my own?
But just to be on the safe side, I decided to ask the Chief about it.
Of course. By the right of taking, the equipment of every man you defeated is yours for the taking, Michio-sama!
Ahh, yes, thank you. Let us rejoice and praise the young hero who defeated most of the Bandits by himself! Now, these items here
I dont care.
I am not interested in the part of the items that belongs to the two villagers. All I care about is my part of the loot.
Michio-sama, do you have enough space?
Space?
Fuck, this is the terminology I know nothing about! What about having enough space?!
Oh, I beg your pardon, have I spelled something wrong in Brahim? Allow me to rephrase then. Do you have enough inventory space for all the items you are eligible to?
Hmm, youre right. It might not be enough for so many items.
I dont understand. Isnt the space in the inventory I already have enough?
Really? Isnt Michio-sama an Adventurer?
Well, something along those lines.
Does this world have some kinda special definition of who Adventurers are? Come on Michio, whatever you do now, just dont let them know that you have no clue what they are talking about. Keep your mask of deception on and dont let it fall off no matter what.
Well, then you should be able to access your Item Box. Isnt that how you equipped that wonderful sword of yours which you used to get rid of those Bandits?
Chief offered me a helping hand. So is that what an Item Box is? It would be hellishly sweet if that was actually the case.
Come to think of it, when I performed a character reset, my Durandal was unequipped off me. So based on what the Chief was telling me, it must have gone somewhere.
Item Box, open. Item Space, open. Inventory, open. Tool Bag, open.
I tried using spoken commands again, but just like last time I tried it, big fat nothing happened. Am I doing something wrong here? Or is the spelling different? Anyway, the conclusion for now is that I do not know how to open an Item Box. And to add to the list of my problems (which was growing rapidly), both the Village Chief and the merchant were giving me suspicious looks.