Volume 4 - CH 3

When I returned to the inn with Akari, Asshimar hurriedly started packing up her things.

“What are you doing?”

“I didn’t expect you to bring her home immediately….. I’ll be out for about five hours, won’t I? And, um, I’d appreciate it if you wouldn’t use my bed and workbench……”

Asshimar eagerly tried to leave the room with a tearful face. Are we doing this again?

“’Well, wait a minute. …… you still have a brain like a launch rocket.” 

“What about my heart?”

“…Both of them fly too far and go to space.”

“I’m mad…”

“Shut up”

Akari, who was anxiously watching our boring exchange, rushed to explain to Asshimar,

“Akari-san, don’t you think i should leave…? Won’t it be a hindrance if I’m here?”

“I don’t think you’re disturbing me. I’m sorry for asking so suddenly. Nice to meet you today.”

…i don’t know, but it seems that’s what happened.

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Clanking…

When I open the door of the skill book shop diagonally across from the inn, it’s hard to tell from the outside.

“Oh! Onii-chan, it’s been a while!”

Pointing at the customer, the crazy shopkeeper let out a loud voice.

“Usu. It hasn’t been a while… I just didn’t come yesterday.”

“I’m worried when there’s a one-day gap after you coming here every day! Nya?　 Nyaa?”

Cocona, the store owner who seems to have only a quarter of Cait-Sith blood, twitches her cat ears and makes her gaze swim behind me. The target is neither Asshimar nor Kobotaro──

“…Reina?”

“Good morning Cocona-san.”

After Cocona blinked her lively cat’s eyes

“Onii-chan… did you netotta cheat Yuma?” (Yuma, netotta?)

“Really, you shouldn’t be delusional.”

She is a woman who says outrageous things. By the way, Cocona is one year younger than us, and she seems to be 14 years old. It’s not like she can’t know something like NTR.

“Yuma”, who appeared in a delusion, is the top caste of the class, the face of Excalibur that sits at the top of the class, Yuma Kedoin. Since Akari is always with Kedoin, Cocona seems to have thought of such trivial things.

“Ashigarayama-san, can I ask you a question? What is netotta?”

“Wah… It’s not something that Akari-san can hear clearly…”

Behind me, Akari tilts her head with the world’s most barren intellectual curiosity. Good luck Asshimar! Akari’s pure heart is in your hands!

“This is white sand.”

Cocona’s eyes lit up as Kobotaro gently dropped one of the leather bags he carried on his shoulder.

“Oh, it’s thanks as always♪ Is there still demand for leather bags?”

“It looks like it’s still there for the time being. I’m in trouble with the lack of leather bags every day.”

“That’s great!♪”

This is separate from the purchase of the skill book, but Cocona bought 30 units of Orpheus’s white sand for 2 silver and a leather bag. It is now a valuable source of income, and I am grateful to have more leather bags, which are very useful for collecting, transporting, and storing. 

“Let me go get the skill monolith, so wait a minute!”

However, this amount of 2 silver usually disappears in an instant.

The owner of this store started selling me skill books as soon as I got my money. She’s a seriously outrageous woman. I’m not going to say it out loud because I don’t know what kind of cruel way she would kill me if she heard such words from the innkeeper, Cocona’s mother, somewhere. I can’t die for free, can I? 

“What will Reina do?”

“I’m sorry, I don’t have much on hand right now, so I’ll refrain from doing that.”

I felt a little sorry for accompanying Akari, who doesn’t have money, with her shopping, but she was happily looking into Asshimar’s skill monolith, so it’s okay.

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Toru Fujima

26 silver

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▼──────Status

(New) HPLV1 30 copper

SPLV2 60 copper

Physical strength LV1 50 copper

(New) Agility LV1 50 Copper

▼────── Automatic Recovery

☆ SP automatic recovery LV1 4 silver

▼──────Battle

Combat LV1 30 Copper

▼──────Magic

▼──────Summon

(New) ☆ MP decrease when summoned LV1 5 Silver

(New) ☆ Summon MP Saving LV1 5 Silver

(New) 〇 Summon fatigue reduction LV1 1 silver 50 copper

▼──────Curse

(New) Curse LV1 30 Copper

▼──────Production

Mixed LV1 30 Copper

▼──────Behavior

Walking LV2 60 Copper

Run LV1 30 Copper

Sprint LV1 30 Copper

(New) Rest LV1 30 Copper

▼──────Others

Calm LV1 30 Copper

Patience LV1 30 Copper

Resolution LV1 50 Copper

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“Hey… i’m really improving in so many ways.”

“That’s the proof that Onii-chan worked hard♪”

Cocona looks into my skill monolith just like Akari does to Asshimar. At that time, I probably will never forget Cocona’s exclaiming “Oho☆” when she saw my money.

“Fujima-kun, what about me… I’ve grown a lot too…”

“I want to see Kobotaro’s equipment at the armor shop after this, so up to 10 silver per person.”

“Yeah, I understand………Haaaaaaaa!? 10 silver!? So you want us to spend 20 silver in total!?”

Everyone, including Kobotaro, was startled by Asshimar’s loud voice. Don’t suddenly raise your voice, your surprise is something of a horror.

“We’ll spend it. Twenty silver is something we can make in two days if we work hard. It’s an investment to be able to make it in one day.”

“Onii-chan is so cool…♪ I love you so much…♡”

Even if you say you love me, I don’t feel any excitement. Because it sounds blatant.

“Onii-chan is (generous) so cool…♪ (Coco-nyan loves people who spend a lot of money)…♡”

And you know what? It’s rather long on the sideline. Cocona’s eyes are already shaped like gold coins.

Pretend I didn’t hear and divert the conversation.

“I know that Arcadia’s skills are excellent.”

I can feel that the more I learn, the stronger I become. In fact, just learning the [SP] and [MP] skills made it much easier, and in addition, the [Walking] skill made it easier to go back and forth between the inn and the gathering spot.

Now, which skill should I buy…

“Cocona, can I ask you a few questions about the skills you’ve grown?”

“Anything please, nya”

[Agility] becomes agility as it is. It seems to be a very popular skill that can be used both in battle and in gathering.

The three skills that are confusing are [☆ Consumed MP reduction when summoning], [☆ Saving MP when summoning], and [〇 Reduce summoning fatigue].

[Reduce MP consumed when summoning] reduces the MP consumed when summoning Kobo Taro by 1. Currently, I’m summoning Kobo Taro by consuming 9 MP, so the MP consumption will be 8.

It seems that [☆Summon MP Saving] saves 10% of the MP consumed during summoning. It is said to be a powerful skill that saves 8.1 MP when summoning Kobo Taro, which consumes 9 MP, and also saves the MP that gradually decreases during summoning due to “summoning fatigue”.

[○ Summoning Fatigue Reduction] is a skill that suppresses the loss of MP due to the above “summoning fatigue”. This is good too.

And what bothered me the most was

“Hey, what is [Curse]?”

Combat, magic, and summoning are mixed with very ominous words.

“Curse is a technique that brings disadvantages to the opponent.”

“Are you saying it’s a debuff? How is it different from magic?”

“The most important feature is that it requires chanting. There is a cool down, but when you want to activate it, you can activate it just by chanting the skill name. Also, magic uses MP, but curses use MP and SP, depending on the type. There are many low-level curses that are powerful, so you should learn them.”

It doesn’t sound much like a [Curse], but from what I’ve heard from Cocona, it seems to be strong. It’s cheap at 30 copper, so maybe I should buy it… I might be able to help Kobotaro.

“Also, compared to magic, the number of people who master curses is extremely low nya.”

“Why? Could it be that the person himself is cursed as well?”

That’s pretty scary if that’s the case. But Cocona shook her head,

“Curses aren’t bad nya. People who can learn curses have too difficult personalities to form parties in the first place nya.”

…………Uh……?

“People who can learn curses are either harbouring darkness, or there are many dark-hearted bastards with sly and insidious personalities.”

Congrats☆Finally, I’ve been certified as a shadow character by the Arcadia system in another world!

It’s loud.