《Getting a Common Game Ability on Normal Life [Revised]》 Prologue 2 years after people gained abilities, when I was thirteen, my little sister got a gold bar from her [Daily Spin]. Oh boy, I remember the light that shone from my parent eyes when they saw the glittering gold bar. Without further ado, my father immediately ran to the nearby jewelry store and traded the gold for 4.3 million yen. Later that night he bought us many presents and also took us to a fancy restaurant. Both my father and my mother wore theirbest clothes. My father with his grey trousers, uncuffed, with stripes on the leg seams,a plain, stiff-fronted shirt, and a black blazer. My motherwith her flower pattern day dress. It felt like we were going to attend a wedding ceremony. It was the first time I¡¯d eaten so many weird kinds of food. I had an anxious feeling when I saw a big plate with a small amount of food at its center and a layer of forks and knives that had been organized neatly. "Take it from outside," my father said calmly, even though his face clearly showed that he was also nervous. Classical music that I never heard, the chattering of people that wore the same kind of clothes as my father and even the waitresses moved their body elegantly. Though, for me, everything that I tasted was bland. In my life I¡¯d never seen this many people with a red dot shown on [Mini Map]. This ... [Mini Map] was a curse, even when I closed my eyes the [Mini map] was always there. Heck, even everything I saw inside my dreams had a [Mini Map] blocking it. As for [Mini Map]¡¯s usefulness, I read the [Tutorial]. It showed a white dot for a normal human, a golden dot for a human with an ability, a green dot for a monster, a red dot for someone that really, really had bad intentions, and a black dot for people that had killed others. And not an ordinary murder, but people that murdered others purely for self-satisfaction, either for revenge, fun, or money. These kinds of people will be shown as a black dot in my [Mini Map]. Killing another black dotted person, killing for self-defense, or by accident won''t turn a human into a black dot. Even though you can escape being judged by [Mini Map], you can''t escape the laws for killing another human. No ... sorry, I got carried away, let me continue my story. Yadda yadda yadda, all the food that I ate was bland, I felt as if the inside of my stomach was tied in a knot. There were eleven people with red dots and three people with black dots. This was everything that got scanned on [Mini Map]. People that sat in the corner didn''t get scanned. They were outside of [Mini Map]¡¯s radius. Though I was nervous, dinner ended without any kind of trouble. The five of us walked back to our home. Too bad my youngest sister Yuzu could not eat hard food yet, but I envied her for being too young to remember what was going to happen. Pretty far from us stood one of my father colleagues, he was another person with an ability. A nice man he was,he always talked about this, that, and everything related toabilities. If I wasn''t wrong, his ability was [Auto Mode]. This would automatically let him do his job, even though he fell asleep. Yeah, it was a high-level sleepwalking. My father greeted him as usual, with his stubble beard and a stupid smile on his face. But when we got closer, precisely when he was inside [Mini Map]¡¯s radius, a red dot was shown at his location. He took something from his trench coat and pointed the gun toward my father. It was a black revolver with a brown handle, later I found out the type was a Smith and Wesson 29 Classic. "...Eh?" This was my father¡¯s last word. Fucking Eh! The next thing I knew, the red dot changed into a black dot, and my mother and my other sister, Ume, screamed and I was petrified because of fear. I didn''t know whatmy father¡¯s colleague was thinking right now. He pointed the gun toward my mother, cocked it and fired it. Another loud sound echoed in my ear, blood and some meat splattered onto my clothes and face. Warm blood, freshly delivered from my mother¡¯s head by my father¡¯s colleague. Next, he pointed the gun at me. I surrendered to my fate, but he opened his mouth and said, "You! The little girl! Come with me and I''ll let your siblings live!" In confusion, none of us answered his demand. Tears filled my eyes, everything became blurry and from out of nowhere a young girl even shorter than me stood in front of us with six red balls on her belt and a blue and white colored uniform. She threw one of her red balls, a green dot appeared in [Mini Map] and I saw a dog with blue fur, a dark blue mane, and at the end of its tail, there was yellow star-shaped stone. She pointed her index finger at my father¡¯s colleague and yelled, "Spark!" A blue electric ball gathered around the blue dog¡¯s mouth. Before the dog was able to do anything, my father¡¯s colleague fired another bullet toward me. I closed my eyes when I heard the loud sound, but there was no pain. Slowly, I opened my eyes and saw the girl standing in front of me. My body already sat on the ground and more fresh red liquid covered my face. She crouched down while holding her right eye.After this, an electric ball fired from the blue dog¡¯s mouth and hit him, and the smell of burnt meat pierced my nose. The girl turned around and said, " ... Big bro, wake up goddammit!!" ** "Urgh" I woke up from my dream. Even though four years had passed, I still had that dream almost every night. "Oi!! goddammit! get up and eat your noodles or it will be soggy!!" My sister, Ume, yelled at me.Unauthorized reproduction: this story has been taken without approval. Report sightings. " ... In a minute," I replied. [Status]was what I said following my words. After I said that, a black screen with white letters appeared in front of my face.
Name Title Level Equipment Condition Resistance
Kamiya Nashi ---- 1 (0/300) T-Shirt +2% Cold Traumatize Cut +21%
Hit Point(Regeneration/m) Magic Point(Regeneration/m) Stamina Point(Regeneration/m) Shorts +1% Cold Lack of Sleep -20% Sp/R Stab +40%
38/38(0.22/m) 58/58(0.26/m) 59/59(0.37/m)- (0.074/m) Bash +3%
Strength Endurance Vitality Earth -31%
9 8 6 Fire +30%
Agility Dexterity Luck Wind +35%
14 12 15 Water +95%
Intelligence Wisdom Charisma Metal -94%
8 10 13 Lightning -40%
P. Attack P. Defence Critical Damage Nature +59%
12-21 8-14 160% Ice +64%
Critical Chance Speed Visual Acuity Light -74%
7.5% 32+14 Km/h 1.00+0.34 Dark +85%
M. Attack M. Defence Debuff Resistance Mental+30%
16-29 10-23 26% Force +20%
Ability
Mini-Map (1/5): Mini-map has a diameter of 4 x Wis m2
[Once again, the government announces another recruitment for Guards and Adventurers ....] I sat on the floor and ate my noodles when suddenly Ume talked to me. "Isn''t one of the government agents supposedly coming to your school today?" "Hm? Yeah," I nodded and finished my cup noodles. "It doesn''t matter though, there is no waythey want to recruit someone with my kind of ability." 1.1 Nothing special Notice A special lecture will be given from Government agents Location: Gymnasium Time: 09.00-11.00 Ability user must Attend! I checked the bulletin board, *sigh* what the hell, last year they made every Ability user sat on the separated seat and asked this and that anything about the world condition. Seriously, what kind of answer they were expecting from the high schooler. I remembered there was another [Ability] user at my year, his Ability was only a little bit better than mine, the whole school laughed at him when the Government forced him to show his Ability, Ah, speak of the devil, the same guy appeared right next to me. Heread the announcement with a disturbed face. "Kyo, ready to become another clown?" I mocked him on purpose, he shifted his gaze toward me and frowned "......urgh, shut up, at least they were reacting to my Ability, i can even hear the chirping of cricket when you were explaining yours" Aguni Kyotaro, glasses, long hair and thin. One of the unlucky people that got another useless Ability. His [Ability] was Background Music or [BGM] it can play any kind of song that he already heard. The joke part? whenever there was a Flag or Event, his ability will be activated by itself. If he sad a melancholy song will be played, if he angry a rock song will be played. I personally think whether or not an [Ability] was useful, they were a curse, if a person had a dangerous Ability they will be shunned and if people had useless Ability they will be mocked. Only some that had cool and valuable [Ability] will be accepted into the society and what i meant by society was School environment. And for worse, every [Ability] user was prohibited to join any kind sports activity. Reason? Unlike normal human our body was physically enhanced by [Status], There wasn''t much of a difference when we were level one, but once we went to level two the difference is pretty obvious. After homeroom, every student went to gymnasium. Chairs neatly organized and at the stage there were the other seven chairs. Three people with blue and white uniform stood in front of the podium. One of them was Aoi Nana,a senior that got recruited from the last year test.If you find this story on Amazon, be aware that it has been stolen. Please report the infringement. The lecture began, though i knew this wasn''t the reason for other student attending the lecture. A guy with slick hair started to speak. "Six years ago people gained [Ability] out of nowhere, the existence of Monsters also began to appear. Thus we need a promising youngster like you to join the Guards and Adventurers. As you may know, Guards duty is containing [Ability] users that uses their ability wrongly and Adventurer duty is subjugating Monster" ....Exposition warning, haaaah, the lecture didn''t change at all from the last year. I wanted to sleep, my eyelids were heavy, this lecture was a lullaby for me, if only I didn''t sit on the ''Special Chair'' I sure I already fall asleep. "And now these friend of yours are one of the little people that have an [Ability], if you please, please explain and demonstrate your [Ability] to the audience, starts from the 3rd grade." " [Bronze Key] this allows me to open any kind of safe box" he explained in a confident tone. Yes, that was useful [Ability]. If Nana didn''t exist. He will be the one recruited for the Government. Next was Kyo turn. ".... [BGM] i can play any kind of music that i already hear," Kyo said this in a low voice, some students giggled and one of the students yelled "Oi!! Walking Jukebox!!." other students laughed their asses off when they heard this, personally, I didn''t find it funny, at least he can prove that he had an Ability. Next was me "[Mini Map] to know location." same as last year there was no reaction, one of the first years raised his hand and yelled "That''s all!? proof it!!". I ignored him and sat down once again. I really curious about the next person. Next was the first year turn, there was four first year that had an [Ability]. The first one to speak.... i didn''t know how to explain this, twin-tail braided hair and freckle on her face and she brought... a white chicken with her. "um... Kita Ikuko... [Immortal Chicken] this girl here can''t get hurt as long as she near me" What? her voice was too small. I only heard the immortal part so it might be a strong one. But what was her deal with the chicken??. I saw the students at the hall also gave a complicated face, maybe because they confused or can''t hear what she said, none of them made a joke about the chicken. "I have [Craft], I can craft anything as long as I have the blueprint and the necessary material" a short boy with silver hair explained. "....[Cat Folk]" Next was a gloomy girl, thin and short, long black hair dropped down on her right shoulder, her skin was as white as snow and she sat back without explained anything. " [Fire Ball], its simple i create fire and control it" the next one talking was a boy. He showed off his Ability while he was talking. He flicked his finger and small fire created, like a conductor in the orchestra, he moved his finger left and right and the fiery ball followed. His gang members cheered him from the spectator seat. Yup, i had zero chemistry with this type of person. As usual, next was the Q&A section, nothing important in this section. When i thought everything was over, the spiky-haired agent opened his mouth "Now, as for the new recruitment program, until lunch over, the [Ability] user will play ''Hide and Seek''." "Eh?" every student inside the gymnasium including me, making this dumb sound. 1.2 Hide & Seek " What? you all know what is a hide and seek, right? to simplify this, the seven people in the front will hide, while one of our agents will become "IT". This is the recruitment method for this year. now wear this bracelet, one more thing, each one of you must have four bracelets to pass the test." Said the spiky-haired guy We had 5 minutes headstart to hide, each one of us left the room at the same time. *sigh* I was planning to go to the infirmary, didn''t care about this stupid game, at least i can sleep inside that place, but "[Fire Ball]" I felt hot air behind me, didn''t need to see what was happening, I sure that fucking first year shot a Fireball toward me. I was planning to crouch down, but something pushed me out of the way. The fire went past us, it burned the ground and became a pillar of flame, my vision covered in black smoke, then an announcement can be heard "Ah, please limit the destruction in the surrounding area" The smoke slowly disappeared and i saw the gloomy girl, with cat ears and tail on her head and waist colored in black, both of those tail and ears covered in a black fur that seemed fluffy, her black obsidian colored pupil became golden-colored. I remembered her [Ability] was [Cat Folk]. Her tail was waving and her ears twitching, "...Be careful"Said the gloomy girl before she ran again. But damn, was that kid planning to kill me!? the others looked at this incident with a complicated face, but none of them said anything and continued to run. I also got up and ran, while the Fireball person clicking his tongue. While running, I realized something and muttered "my bracelet is gone, I see, that cat girl took it back then huh". I stopped running and thought this time I can sleep at the infirmary or something like that since i already lose. On my way, [Mini Map] showed me another Golden dot, thinking that this was an ambush, Islowly walked while raising both of my hand and said "My bracelet already gone". Though unexpectedly it was Kyo, he sat on the floor, looking dazed, his bracelet was gone. "Dude, what happened?" I walked toward him and said this. "The silver-haired boy attacked me," Kyo said this while rubbing his forehead with his right hand. "Hoo~ looks like all the first year is in high spirit huh," I said this nonchalantly. "So, what are you going to do?"Support the author by searching for the original publication of this novel. "Well, since we already lost, might as well sleep inside the infirmary" I replied to his question, but another announcement can be heard. [ I forget to say this, even though your bracelet is gone, you still in the game, the game will stop once two people have collected four bracelets or the one that has the most bracelet until 1 p.m] "What a timing, well whatever, you''re joining me or what?" Kyo nodded at my word, i helped him stand and we walked toward the infirmary, [Mini Map] showed another golden dot inside the infirmary, i tried to open it but the door is locked, no, it still shaking a little bit, i guess this isn''t lockedbut blocked from the inside. "Someone already inside *sigh* let''s eat at the cafeteria" Those guys took this seriously huh. I and Kyo walked to the cafeteria, and from outside the window, I saw the chicken girl met Nana, yup what a surprise to know that Nana was the ''IT''. We stopped for a moment and watched them. The space distorted around Nana right hand. She put her hand into the distorted space and took out a katana. Yup, that was [Item Bag] one of the most useful Ability, while the girl putting her chicken down. The chicken was clucking while running toward Nana. Nana put the Katana at her waist, took a ''Sha No Kamae'' stance and did a vertical slash. The chicken jumped and blocked it!? That surprised me when I saw the blade didn''t pierce through the chicken neck. The chicken was enraged, it screamed "bwok bwok bwok" while fiercely pecking Nana. A serious fight between a government agent and a chicken happened in my schoolyard. "....what the fuck do I see?" While we were watching the fight of the century. I saw another Golden dot closing in to our direction. Imoved my head toward the Golden dot, three seconds later the Catgirl appeared from that direction with a pale face and sweats falling down on her temple. After she passed us, I felt the air becoming hotter, instinctively I pulled Kyo collar and ran following the Catgirl he still leisury watched the match between ''Chicken vs Samurai'' . Different from the last time, this wasn''t a fireball, but a long streaming of fire coming like a snake. It hit the wall, some of the flames separated and flew through to our last location if we still standing on that spot, there was a high chance we''ll get burned. "....IS THAT KID CRAZY!??" Kyo yelled in a panicked tone, yeah i totally agreed with him, that was crazy, using fire inside the building. But with this, i knew that at least he is level 2. The sprinkle activated when it noticed the smoke that coming out from the flame. Soon after the crazy kid came in, he ran in our direction and said "Hand me your bracelet!!" I raised my handto show that my bracelet was gone, Kyo also did the same. "Tch!" he clicked his tongue and saw the fight between a chicken and samurai, in a rush he ran toward the yard when he passed us I realized that his bracelet was gone. "hee~ that catgirl must be the one that took it huh, if this goes on the cat-girl and the silver-haired boy will be the winner," I said this while watching the fight. Though, because of that incident, my uniform was wet. Soon after, the crazy kid joined their fight and started to shoot the fireball. Right now, it was a battle royale, while watching the fight in my wet uniform, i left the scene "Where are you going?" Kyo asked me. "Duh, of course changing my clothes" 1.3 Random Encounter "Seriously, what the hell did they think, making student fighting each other" I was talking to Kyo while changing my clothes, no I mean seriously, did they think this was some kind of dystopian future where the student must kill each other?... Though, the order was to play hide & seek, not fighting with each other. I guess we were the stupid one to do thing this way. When I finished changing into gym uniform, I saw a Golden dot coming to our location. The door opened, a short figure with silver hair came in with a pale face. Sweat coming down from his forehead, his breathing was heavy, he closed the door and blocked it with anything he could find, chairs, locker box, mop etc. Seemed like he didn''t realize there was another person inside. Not long after this, a Green dot appeared in my [Mini-Map]. My eyes opened wide, we were inside the school building, (how the heck a monster got in here!?) I kept repeating that question inside my head until I realized that I must help him blocking the door. "Kyo! Help me blocking the door!" I yelled I didn''t notice that my action can invite the monster to come to our direction, it was a reflex. Kyo seemed aloof for a second, but he helped by giving random thing while asking "What happen!?" "A monster!" I talked back, soon we heard a loud sound, the door vibrated, it created a sound " *BAM!!* *BAM!!* *BAM!!* ". The pile of junk that blocked the door started to shift. Without said anything, the three of us pushed the pile back. The banging echoed inside the room, a few minutes later the sound changed into a roar filled with rage. The roar paralyzed my body, I recalled things that I read in Wikipedia. The cause was a roar enhanced with mana, it produced a sound far below 20Hz thus created a vibration that pierced our bones, shook our nerves and paralyzed us, though others said this was a roar filled with mental type attack. Wait, I started thinking about unnecessary things again. By the time I came to my senses, the roar was gone. The other two sat or more likely dropped their knees to the ground because of fear, it didn''t affect me much maybe because i got distracted into explaining the roar capability. I looked at the door, the surrounding wall cracked, a claw mark scratched and pierced the door, the mark itself almost as big as my head, looked like it only needed to slam the door a few more times to completely destroyed it. At least from the [Mini Map], I know it wasn''t around us anymore. "damn, what a random encounter" I talked to myself. "...shouldn''t we report this?" Kyo took his phone and said "Yeah, I''ll call the Adve-" "Kyaaaaa!!" Before Kyo finished his line, agirly scream cut his word. "What is that!!?" the Silver hair boy asked something that clear as fuck. "Duh, what do you think? of course, the monster chases another person." Now that i thought about it, that monster must sense another target besides us. In some way, we got saved because it changed its target. After quite a long pause i prepared my self and said "Kyo, silver hair, what is your [Agility] ?" "8, ah it connects, hello!", "6" both of them answered, while Kyo speaking with the Adventurer I said, "I''m going to check that girl, anyone wants to come with me?" Both of them shook their head to the left and right at the same time, then Kyo said "They''re heading here, around 5 minutes." "Sorry to be a joy killer, but whoever that is, she must be dead by now," Said the silver-haired boy I sighed and said, "Yeah, most likely, but there''s a little chance she still lives, at least go get the other Agents at the hall, Kyo, can you go get Nana?" They agreed at this proposal, .... everything was fine as long they weren''t the one coming to that monster huh. I opened the door and sugar honey ice tea, the water pipe pointed out from the ground, water flooded the floor, most of the wall shattered, a claw mark left behind at the wall and ground, a gooey liquid and strand of black hair scattered across the floor. I stopped for a moment, this was a moment full of hesitation, (Do I really want to help her? do I know that girl? What will i gain if i help her?) I repeat this many times inside my head, and then I remembered that a young girl even stood up to protect me back then. With my shaky hands and knees, I grabbed a fire extinguisher and followed the mark its left behind, while the other two going in the opposite direction. After followed ist track for some time, [Mini-Map] showed something. A Green dot and a Golden dot in the same grid, seemed like they did a close-range fight, at least the Golden dot still blinking so I knew the girl still alive, From the wall i snaked and peeked, it was the catgirl. She was laying on the ground, the monster paw held her body at the ground, it was only a moment, but our eyes met and she screamed "Heeeeelp!!". I shifted my body back to the wall after she screamed, I heard the stomping sound *BUM!* *BUM!* the Green dot slowly moved to my direction. Well, I can''t blame her for screaming like that, I knew the horror of death, it made people did irrational things, even though I knew the reason of her scream, in my head I still complained (If you have the power to scream like that use it for running!! If you want a help why aren''t you shut your mouth!?). The Green dot kept moving in my direction. the footsteps, the growling, the sniffing sound and the sound of something dripping down from its mouth becoming more and more clear. I prepared myself, slowly I pulled the fire extinguisher pin and gripped it hard it, Around a few meters away from me, I jumped out, it was only an instant but i saw the monster, it looked like a dog but it had the size of racing motor, its fur was black, it muscled body, its long fang, there was a fresh scar on its right eye, the scar looked like came from a claw but smaller than my hand. I aimed its nozzle and squeezed the lever toward the monster, a white foam sprayed out, I moved my hand left and right and covered the monster body in white foam. .....And now what!? Yup, that was all i did, I didn''t plan this right, I just thought it was a good idea to spray the monster with the fire extinguisher. It lunged at me and my body fell down to the ground, Luckily through a miracle, the fire extinguisher tank.stuck on its teeth. Slowly a drop of liquid dripped from the holed-tank and it became more and more dented. The pressure of a monster around 200 maybe 300 kg kept pushing me into the ground. Heck, I already expended all of my strength for stopping its jaw coming closer to my face, and the situation only worsened by the time its paw hit me, right on my ribs.Love this story? Find the genuine version on the author''s preferred platform and support their work! Did anyone know Dwayne rock johnson? Imagine being hit by him and multiplied the pain by two, that how I felt right now. A number flying out, Number that only each individual with [Ability] can see, it was 34! Minus my max HP, this meant I only had 4 HP left before i knocked unconscious. I knew this wasn''t the right time but I had an urge to explain HP wasn''t a parameter for someone''s life, but the parameter for someone st-- hm? The cat-girl moving to my location? I blocked its mouth with everything i had, and the catgirl jumped at its neck, urgh... another pressure added and the monster mouth became closer than before!!. It was hurt at first, but after some time it transformed the pain into another pain but with a little relief, seemed like she used her whole body to choke the monster. The monster pressure became weaker, slowly I managed to push it back. The monster changed its strategy, it shook its head left and hard, maybe it tried to throw the catgirl away from its neck, but I pulled the fire extinguisher, holding its head to stay in place. We were at a stalemate, but not for long, the fire extinguisher already flattened out and my grip weakened, the monster managed to release its head and shook its body wildly. The catgirl fell from its neck and got thrown, her body hit the wall, she passed out from the impact, her cat ears and tail disappeared. I thought this was the end, I regretted and cursed my own decision, I closed my eyes waiting for my doom, but I saw two Golden dots moving in our location with an incredible speed. " [Strong Slash]! " A woman voice in masculine can be heard. I didn''t know what happened, but when I opened my eyes, a woman with blue ponytail hair, yes it was Nana. Her katana covered in white-blueish aura cut the monster muzzle straight from the bottom right to the upper left. The monster jumped back when he took that attack, it did an unclear growl at Nana. Nana took a ''Tachi No Tori'' stance, she positioned her katana on top of her head. " [Double Slash]!! "The monster at the same time also lunged at her. This time her katana covered in a black smoke, the smoke formed itself, into another blade that mirrored the katana, the katana now had another layer of blade created from the smoke floating at the curved part. With ease, Nana did a vertical slash, the smoke-blade hit the monster head, a blood splattered from its head and the smoke dispersed,the real blade did a clean cut and split the monster head in half. Both of me and catgirl barely survived from that monster and yet Nana killed it in an instant. The sound of bell rang inside my head. I said [Status] and checked. "...I level up"
Name Title Level [2] Equipment Condition Resistance
Kamiya Nashi ---- 2 (100/600) Gym Uniform +5% Cold Traumatize Cut +21%
HP(R/m) MP(R/m) SP(R/m) Lack of Sleep -20% SP/R Stab +40%
2/38(0.22/m) - 8 58/64(0.29/m) 8/66(0.42/m)- (0.084/m) Broken ribs (2) Bash +3%
Strength Endurance Vitality Fractured ribs (Light) (4) Earth -31%
10 ¡ü1 -2 8 -2 6 -2 Dislocated shoulder. ? Fire +30%
Agility Dexterity Luck Exhaustion Wind +35%
16 ¡ü2 -16 13¡ü1 17¡ü2 Water +95%
Intelligence Wisdom Charisma Metal -94%
9 ¡ü1 11¡ü1 14¡ü1 Lightning -40%
P. Attack P. Defence Critical Damage Nature +59%
13-23 -2 8-14 -4 165% Ice +64%
Critical Chance Speed Visual Acuity Light -74%
8.5% 32+16 Km/h -16 1.00+0.36 Dark +85%
M. Attack M. Defence Debuff Resistance Mental+30%
18-32 11-25 28% Force +20%
Ability [2]
Mini-Map (1/5): Mini-map has a diameter of 4 x Wis m2
1.4 You Cant Say No In RPG A girl stood in front of us with six red balls on her belt. she wore the blue-white uniform, her long ivory hair ... She turned around,her left eye had glisteningruby color, set gracefully behindit socket. ** "ugh" I woke up from the same dream that I had in the last four years. I tried to move my body but I can''t, after a few seconds my mind became clear, I still in the corridor, my back leaned at the wall. There were three Golden dots and a white dot near me, the lifeless monster layon the ground. The slick-haired agent sat next to it with a bag full of laboratory equipment. Nana stood while she cleaned her katana and the spiky-haired agent sat next to the catgirl. A golden light covering his right palm and its flowing to the catgirl wound, if I remembered right, that was Heal]. I saw it once on youtube.There are three major regenerative abilities, the first one is [Heal] the mana changes into an organic tissue that fusions with our body and thus healing our wound. Next is [Cure] the mana changes into chemicals and cure our diseases. The last one is [Restore] it transfer mana directly to the HP. Ah right, each one of these [Ability] has their own variatio- "Oh, already awake?" While I was daydreaming, The spiky-haired guy greeted me. The golden light had gone fromhis hands, he left the catgirl, walked to me and sat next to me. He touched my ribs and my shoulder, seemed like he did an examination. " Two broken ribs, four light fracture ribs, a dislocated right shoulder, from your pupil and heavy breathing looks like you lack sleep and exhaust yourself too much " Spiky said this. " [Heal: Broken Bone] " Without any warning, the same radiating light flowing to my body, he used his idle hand to hold my body. "URGH!" I groaned, the process was too painful, it felt like someone grabbed my ribs and forcefully tied it together. " [Heal: Fractured Bone, Light] Once again without another warning, this time its felt like someone touched my ribs and put a glue it in. I heard healed by [Ability] was painful, but I never thought it will be this painful. Spiky grinned toward me and said "Hoo~ We''ve got a strong one over here, ah sorry, I don''t have anything for your exhaustion or lack of sleep. Anyhow the [Heal] will be perfected after a day or two of rest." I.... somehow I had a feeling that he did the healing process painfully on purpose!! Oh, another Golden dot came in.Unauthorized use: this story is on Amazon without permission from the author. Report any sightings. The others three agents stopped whatever they were doing and did a salute, I looked to that direction and found a man in his late 30, wore the same uniform as them, but his had black color. With gray hair almost fully covers a long, tense face. Scars reaching from just under the left eyebrow, running towards the left side of his lips and ending on his right nostril. He thoughtfully watched over the other agents for a long time. And suddenly "You are accepted!!!! ". The stern looking old man raised his thumb and said this to me. "...Pardon?" I replied, in my head, I thought (Don''t tell me this is part of a test!?) "OH, I didn''t say that loud enough huh, YOU ARE ACCEPTED!!!". My inner thought said to ignore this old man alone, I saw the other three, they made a complicated look on their face. The old man walked to my side and once again said "You, Are, Accepted! " "....Accepted for what?" "Accepted in my Adventurer party!!" This... this man a little high spirited huh? "I refuse" I replied, most likely I didn''t want it, even though I wanted it, I still didn''t want to join the Adventurer. "Oh, I might be not said it clear enough, You are accepted!!!! He ignored me!? heck, why were we going in a circle!? "...I didn''t want it" This time i told my reason. Actually, I didn''t care about all of this anymore, just let me rest. "Huh? Its fine you''re still accepted kiddo!" ".......No, i meant it, I prefer the Guard rather than Adventurer" " *Cough* Did i say an Adventurer party? I mean my Guard party." "....." I watched him in a silent. "Huh, you didn''t fall for that trick huh" Did this old man thought I will be tricked by that kind of lie!? "Anyhow, you''re accepted to my party first, You can transfer to the Guard if you aren''t like at mine" The old man... maybe gave a more convincing lie this time, or maybe its true. A ringing sound came from the old man, he took out his phone and talked. "How is it? Is the paperwork done? that''s good, I''ll be right there. *Ahem* okay kiddo, your paperwork already finished, no need to say thanks, see you next week" Huh!? Didn''t I reject his offers!? I can''t say no!? Did I must say yes!?... Whatever I was too tired. "...kay", I said in a low spirit... I didn''t know how to explain this, but was this legal!? he basically forced me to do something without my concern right!? "Good, good, everyone, give applause to your junior" The others three, unwillingly followed his order, the gave a half-hearted clap, and then the old man left us behind, WTF!? Nana looked at me with a complicated face and said "...Sorry, our captain is kinda eccentric, since you''re part of the party right now, how do we split it? is it fine if i sell all the material and we split the money in half? or do you want to take some of its material? ah, the name of that monster is Hellhound" I was overwhelmed by what was happening right now, too many things going on at once. The slick-haired guy pulled Nana ponytail "The ambulance is here" Said Slick. He took Nana away with him, leaving me the catgirl, Hellhound corpse, and Spiky. 1.5 Always A Youngster "How is theresult from Higashi High?" "They have seven candidates 3rd year, Yamada Shinichi, [Bronze Key], failed. 2nd year, Aguni Kyotaro, [BGM], failed. Cpt. Tsukiyama asks for a permission to recruit him in the training program. Reason: his calm manner, and attitude when he gives a report to C-rank Nanami. 2nd year, Kamiya Nashi, [Mini Map], failed. Cpt. Tsukiyama on his own accord recruits him to his party. Reason: able to hold back a Hellhound. C-rank Nanami and Shima also do a testimony about this matter. 1st year, Serizawa Ikuko. [Immortal Chicken], failed. C-rank Nanami asks to reconsider this decision. Reason: unique and strong [Ability], She manages to hold a for a while against C-rank Nanami. 1st year, Asato Saika. [Craft], passed with two bracelets. 1st year, Kurogane Yukino. [Cat Folk], passed with three bracelets. With a side note: Able to survive the Hellhound attack by herself, Cpt. Tsukiyama also recruits her to his party. 1st year, Katsuragi Eisen. [Fire Ball], failed. Side note: He is the only one that has leveled up, his level is 3" A stern looking old man in his mid 50 sighed when he heard the report. " *sigh* what was Tsukiyama thinking "
a girl stood in front of us, with six red balls on her belt, she wore the blue-white uniform, her long ivory hair ... She turned around, her face was a perfect description of pain, she smiled at me and said " *DING DONG* ** I woke up from the same dream for the umpteenth time. I looked at the clock, it showed 5:31 PM, my thought still scrambled, ah right, I forget to raise my stats and ability. I said " [Status] ". A black screen appeared. I looked into the list of [Abilities] that I had. While looked at this, I recalled about [Ability] set, everyone had a different set of Abilities that already prepared for them. Each of the [Ability] will branch out after they reached the Max level. Mini Map 1/5 Detect 0/5 Return Throw 0/5 After thinking for some time, I raised the level of [Mini Map] and learned [Return Throw]. *Sigh* I actually didn''t want to learn any battle-related [Ability] but if what was that old man said was true, I should''ve one or two battle-related [Ability]
Name Title Level Equipment Condition Resistance
Kamiya Nashi ---- 2 (100/600) Sweatshirt +5% Cold Traumatize Cut +21%
HP(R/m) MP(R/m) SP(R/m) Sweatpants +5% Cold Fractured rib (Light) 28% (1) -1 AGI Stab +40%
44/44(0.25/m) 64/64(0.29/m) 66/66(0.42/m) Broken rib 73% (2) -4 AGI Bash +3%
STR END VIT Earth -31%
10 8 +1 6 +1 Fire +30%
AGI DEX LUK Wind +35%
16 -5 13 17 Water +95%
INT WIS CHA Metal -94%
9 11 14 Lightning -40%
P. Atk P. Def C. Dmg Nature +59%
13-23 9-16 165% Ice +64%
C. Chance Speed (Km/h) Visual Acuity Light -74%
8.5% 48-5 1.36 Dark +85%
M. Attack M. Defence Debuff Resistance Mental+30%
18-32 11-25 28% Force +20%
Ability
Mini Map (2/5): Mini-map has a diameter of 5 x WIS m2
Return Throw (1/5): Throwed projectile will return to your hand. Range: 25m. Sp: 6
"Oh... there''s nothing significant from [Mini Map] huh, I should''ve read a wiki before raising my Ability" I muttered to myself, not that I can do anything about it since I already allocated the point, well... I didn''t like the idea to follow the guide either. Sometimes people wrote inaccurate information to mess up with Ability user.Stolen content warning: this content belongs on Royal Road. Report any occurrences. I watched some random videos from Youtube until I heard someone knocking at the door *Knock* *Knock* "Nii-chan~ I''m hungry~" Ah, a cute fat little goblin coming out from the door, a chubby cheeks, bob hair, and a missing front tooth. "hm... what do you want to eat?" "Omelet rice with a very thick egg!!" .... that was what she asked, to tell the truth, I can barely cook anything except fried rice and egg. Sometimes I wonder if Yuzu only being considerate to me or she really liked it that much. "Hm... go get your sister." and shecheerfully ran to Ume room. I got up from my bed, my ribs still hurt, not as hurt as this afternoon, but it still stung. Every time I moved my body, I felt like I breathed a fiery hot air and some kind of creature tried to burst out from my chest I went into the kitchen and chopped 1medium onion,2small carrots and 6ounceschicken, 2tablespoonsofsoy sauce, 6eggs and rice. While I stirring the ingredients, a brown-skinned girl with a very bed hair came in. "This again??" Ume said that and went into the living room. ... What was her deal? After I finished making it, I brought it into the living room. "Oh, right, there''s a package for you," Said Ume, she gave me the package... it kinda messy, seemed like she tried to peek at the package, I glared at her and she looked to the other way while whistling, that was really cliche. I checked the package, there was no sender address and I didn''t remember of ordered something either. "By the way, Aniki, the result is out, I get accepted into the training program," Ume said this important thing nonchalantly. " Iz dat true!???" Yuzuahoge raised up when she heard this, she talked with her mouth full, some of her food got scattered out from her mouth, vaguely I can see a star coming from her eyes. to prove it, Ume ran to her room and brought out a green uniform with a proudful face. " Yes~ my cute sister~ with this I have an excuse for coming late to school~." ....I pretended I didn''t hear that, when I opened my package, it was a uniform, the same one as Ume and the Agent, but it had a blue color. "..............." "WAIT!!! HOW THE HELL DO YOU GET THAT!?" After a long pause, she screamed and slammed the table, more star flying out from Yuzu eyes. "Things happen" I replied to Ume. "Why''s the color different?" Yuzu, being too young to know anything, but I guess this was a good time to explain it. "erm.. let''s see, because we have different rank, your sister has a G rank, the lowest rank, it is for greenhorn or trainee. Mine is F rank, it is for people that already complete their training or pass the test in a brilliant score, E rank is Red, and D rank is Green-white, C rank is Blue-white, B rank is Red-white, A rank is Black, and S rank is White" "I don''t get it~ but that looks fun~" Yuzu made a wide smile, she grabbed the package and took the uniform out. While Ume mumbling something and glared at me. By the time she pulled the uniform out. ".........." I was speechless. "HOW!?" Ume yelled in a very loud voice. "Wah~~~ It has white strips~" Yuzu, seemed like didn''t understand the situation. 1.6 When The MC Come To The Guild, You Know The Rest of Story The school was closing because of yesterday incident. Well, yesterday was a chaotic one. The schoolyard burned down. The east wing destroyed in pieces. An investigation had been carried out. Anyway, I went to the Adventurers office to return the uniform, this must be a mistake. From the outside, this office looked magnificent. It was made with silvery metal or maybe a pure silver. Short, wide sun windows had been added to the building in a mostly symmetric way. It shaped like a short U. I entered through theautomatic glass door. Golden dots, White dots, Red dots filled [Mini Map]. Youngsters, student, men, woman, elder, these people wore the colorful uniform and fully armed, sword, gun, chainsaw, staff, robe, plate armor, others wore the usual clothes and didn''t bring anything. Several long tables were occupied by separate groups of people, all looking serious. The other, smaller tables also occupied by people who on the contrary clearly enjoyed themselves. ....I felt restless in here. Nervously, I lined up with several other people, one of the workers, a woman with chestnut,coilyhair hanged over a full, lively face, damn... she had a hot body, she came to me andasked"Excuse,is this the first time you''ve been here?" I nodded at her, this time I got a clearview of her cleavage. "I see, I''m sorry but for what matters?If it is for registering please fill in the form and we will notify you after a few days. If it is for putting up a request please pick a waiting line number". The system was a little like a bank huh "Erm... asking a question maybe?" I replied to her. "Oh, you are that kid right?" But the one answered wasn''t her. I looked to where the voice came from and found the slick-haired guy. "Taking a request already?". "No, I comeforthis" once again I explained everything to him. He looked at me for a while andsaid"Sorry Joanne, I take this one from here." Joanne nodded at him, Slick hair took me to the third floor, It was the HR&PR room, there were several other people besides me sitting on the stainless steel waiting chair. I sat next to a girl with blonde hair and blue eyes that gave a mysterious vibe, she woreared uniform, her shoulders decorated with a metal blade, starting at the front, curving towards the back and ending in a sharp point. Herbreastplate had many layers of smaller metal pieces, mimicking the scales of a dragon. The girl noticed my stare, she turned to me and said "Hello~? Is something wrong?" "Ah... Sorry, that is a beautiful armor you have" "So you realize? fufu, of course, this is made from a Himmelskralle scale, you know it right? the wyvern with a body full of spears?" Said Julia with a smug face. "It is such a shame, I have a full set of this armor but they forbid me to use it unless I am on duty, anyway what kind of trouble do you get into? It is really annoying, right? coming this way only to get scolded, oops sorry, I forget to introduce myself, my name is Julia, so what is your story? Mine is because I accidentally damaging public property."... The mysterious vibe was gone when she opened her mouth.This content has been unlawfully taken from Royal Road; report any instances of this story if found elsewhere. "I''m only here to change my uniform" "Hee~, did you get promoted? congrats!!! what rank are you right now? if you''re E-rank how about doing some kind of request together? I heard recently there are mass appearances of Bear Shark, do you have any kind of information about it?" ... She was a naggy type, I only said one sentence and she answered with a hundred questions. "Julia it''s your turn" The receptionist called her. "Aw~ what a joy killer, ah!! what is your name? I didn''t have a chance to ask". "Kamiya Nashi" I replied to her, Julia walked in, twenty minutes later she came out with her head dropping down, a few other people came in, each one of them only took three or five minutes, lastly it was my turn. The receptionist called me, I followed her and saw several other people working with a mountain of documents, she took me to the room with glass door, from outside I saw Slick. I walked in, Slick told me "take a seat" and he ordered the same receptionist to bring the tea. In front ofSlicktable, there was a name tag printed with ''Mori Akechi''. He held his forehead and said "that isn''t a mistake, ... give it up, I can''t help you with this matter, anyway congrats for being C-rank." "Wait, wait, wait, what do you mean by that!? this isn''t a mistake? like hell I can be a C-rank, I mean.. c''mon, I looked on the Internet, Hellhound is an E-rank monster!" " *sigh* You''re already registered as a C-rank, there''s nothing we can do about this, well, if you don''t like it just go mess upthe request, then you''ll be demoted. It''s not like you can''t take the lower ranked request, right? Anyhow don''t believe everything about what the internet said, to ours, Hellhound is a D-rank monster." ...Was that fine for him to tell me that? "Well, if you put it that way, but what about [Mission]?" Yeah, [Mission] was the problem here, normally, an Adventurerstook a request, finished it and get rewarded, but once a month, an Adventurers will be given a [Mission], usually the [Mission] was a request that never completed and thus they forcefully assigned it to someone according to their rank. As for the Guards they had [Duty] A scheduled patrol. "Tch!" ... He clicked his tongue!? was this guy trying to trick me!? "Listen... I''m not that great, I don''t have the necessary combat [Ability], nor I have the experience and knowledge in fighting, even back then I regretted the decision I made, heck I can''t even stand the sight of a gun, whatever your captain see from me, he must be wrong. Anyhow, I can assure you that I am not worthy of this rank, just give me the normal one rank, ... you know what? in fact, just kick me out from this whole of adventurer thing, I only said yes because your captain kept nagging me." It''s been a while since I spoke a lot in one breath. "I already said, nothing I can do about it, just accept your fate, we will notify you about this matter, now be a good boy and leave, I am a busy person" Akechi used the hand signal, the same receptionist came and took me out, dude... the tea wasn''t even here. I went down to the first floor, There was a ruckus, and I saw Julia surrounded by a group of people. "Ah!!! That''s my party!!!" She pointed at me, the other group of people followed her finger. ".....huh?" 1.7 Obligatory Dungeon As far as I knew, they were fighting over some request. The other group had the necessary amount of members to take that request, but Julia blocked their way. So the one at fault was Julia. "See! I told you my party member is here!" And she dragged me into her mess. "So what? It is only one person, you still lacking members" "IT doesn''t matter! I can do better than anyone of you combined! Hey! Nashi, tell them to stay away!". Woah, Julia, you were adding fuel to the fire and since when we were calling each other with our first name? "Hmph! Is that so? Aren''t you just a rich kid? an E-rank uses wyvern scale as her armor, does your daddy buy it for you?" ... No good, this looked like a battle of pride. Hm? One of them turned red? I searched carefully and found the one turned red was Julia. She clenched her teeth. Her eyes narrowed, with a cold stare. I walked toward her and gently touched her shoulder "Give it up. Come on, let''s take another one". I said it wrong, from the way I said it, it looked like I wanted to help her. She turned her face toward me, and In an instant, her expression turned normal. "Okay~, Fufu~ looks like you guys get saved because of this man." She had a big mouth huh. Thank god the other group ignored her word. "Now what kind of request should we take? I recommend we take Dire Rat extermination, these vermin lives inside the sewer, and no matter how much we kill them, they keep coming back, oh how about goblin?. Lately, their number has increased a lot. OH! how about-" "Since this is the first time we are working together how about an easy one?" I cut her word, I felt like she can go on for forever "Ah, good idea, then we take Dire Rat extermination." She did all the procedure, there was some problem because I didn''t have my ID card yet, but besides that everything was okay. We took a bus and walked a little bit. There we saw a bunch of adventurer coming in and out of the sewer gate, both of golden and white dot combined into one group, some were going in alone. I changed into my uniform, only put the jacket though. I wonder what was the reason for us to change into our uniform when we were on duty. "Wait!! you''re a C-rank!?" "no, I''m not... I tell you later" Oh I only realized the others looking at us right now. "Is that okay for you to come to do this low-level mission!? I mean! This is basically a training place for F-rank! Jeez~ you should''ve said that you''re a C-rank, no wonder you''re coming here without any kind of equipment!" She didn''t listen to me, *sigh* why was nobody listening to me... "Ahaha... Let''s just go in" I had a complicated feeling, yeah my Rank wasn''t something that I achieved, I believe in term of skill and experience everyone in here was better than me. Hah... The request was "Exterminate 35 Dire Rat" for proof we only need their tail, but we still need to bring the body out from the sewer. Anyhow, we walked in with some other adventurers. "So... Kamiya-san is there a reason for you to come to the dungeon like this?" "What are you talking about, there must be some kind of high-level monster in here" "no... I''m not a C-rank" "Yer a modest one huh, ya can''t fool us, just look at yer uniform and yer emblem, ah we go this way"Ensure your favorite authors get the support they deserve. Read this novel on Royal Road. One group left, only five people left including me and Julia "What kind of weapon do you use?" "Hmph! no matter how you look at it, he must be a fist fighter like me! just looks at his arm!" "No... I am weak" "Nooooo~, I believe Nashi is a spellcaster, right!? by the way is it fine if I call you Nashi?" I nodded at Julia. I mean she already called me that since the beginning. "Really? He looks like an agile one rather than spellcaster at least for me, oi! blondy, don''t be a burden to him, we split here!" "I won''t~, all right Nashi, please guide me!" Anyhow, this was a good time, I explained everything to Julia from my Ability to this matter. "Whaaaaat, so there is a case like that, and here I am can''t even pass the D rank qualification even after 2 years working." It''s pretty dark, but I vaguely saw her pouting. "hahaha... sorry, anyhow if I''m a burden you could leave me" Julia stopped for a moment, she put her index on her chin and said "It''s fine! everybody needs to start at the bottom! But to be able to survive a hellhound, even most of the D rank can''t do that" " No... It is because of luck, " "Well~ survive is survive, anyway~ since it is clear you never have fighting experience, how about making this a training? I''m only a rank E, but I can teach a thing or two! Still, you should''ve told something like that sooner" "I have, none of you listening" "Really~?" Said Julia, while she pretending to be dumb. "although you make the right decision, just imagine the chaos that will happen if you tell everybody about that" "Yeah that''s the reason why I didn''t tell anyone about this matter, well some people know it though, ah... there''re 4 monsters at the next corner" As soon as she heard this, she took out one of the sticks that had been hanging around at her belt, she clicked it and it became a pole with pointy head. "What is that?" "A new kind of weapon that my family creates~, here use this one, this is modeled after a javelin." She gave me one stick, I followed her and clicked the button, a spear shorter than the previous one emerged. Next, she said "Alright Nashi~ try to beat these four, the Dire Rat basically just a big rat" and pushed me to the corner. In instant, the four green dot changed into a red one. yes, they were a big rat, but the size was almost the same as a toddler. The sewer smell combined with the Dire Rat smell created aputrefying stench. Under a dimly light, two of the red dot coming to me with a rapid acceleration, every step they took echoed through this tunnel, my body didn''t listen to my brain. I knew for real that I used javelin, I knew that I should have stabbed them, but I swung the javelin. "haaaaaaa!!" I swung it while yelling, I didn''t know why I did that. The sound of metal clashed against flesh accompanied by a squealing sound can be heard. I tried to catch a breath for a second and the other Dire Rat jumped at me. Against all odds, I closed my eyes, I can''t hear anything. Next thing I knew there were only 3 red dots remained, then one and zero. When I opened my eyes, I saw Julia playing around with her spear and she said "Not bad for the first timer~, but you must not close your eyes, and tips, you''re using a javelin, not a club." "Sorry..." I said in a low voice. "It''s fine~ there is 31 Dire Rat left" We walked in for a bit, this time there was another 4 Dire Rats. "Go Nashi!!" She pushed me again! I embraced myself while remembering everything she taught me (Stab, open eyes, don''t stop moving, watch the surrounding). This time I managed to stab the Dire Rat in his head. "Ugh... It stuck!!" before I knew it, I already surrounded by the others."[Jump]!" She dropped from the sky and stood next to me. "[Sonic Stab]!" A whitish aura covered the pointed head of her spear, she thrust the Dire Rat like a butter met hot skewer. next, she did a well-calculated wide-swing, only the tip of her spear met the Dire Rat body, she spun her body and did another wide-swing, the second one was a little miscalculated, rather than the spearhead some of its pole parts hit the Dire Rat body, the swung got stopped midway and didn''t reach the last Dire Rat. I threw my javelin clunkily, it didn''t fly straight like I thought. the Dire Rat evaded it, Julia without hesitation followed its path and slammed down her spear. I watched in amazement, she looked at me and smiled "Hee~ you already do better! I guess you''re a natural fighter" We did this quite a few times, each time I got better, at least I managed to throw straight, though sometimes I still made the same mistake like stopped moving or closed my eyes and to my surprise weapon was easily break, I changed mine once while Julia changed her thrice. At the twentieth Dire Rat, I managed to kill one without any trouble. When she killed the other four, I heard another sound of a bell. 1.8 When a Pet Is Flushed Down At The Toilet "Hey, I leveled up," I said to Julia, hoping to get some time for resting. "Good~, now let''s continue!" " *sigh* ahaha... nothing can''t stop you huh." We continued to walk until another green dot appeared in [Mini Map]. A thick green gelatinous goo moved around, left a trail behind it and consuming everything on its path, inside of its body there were numerous varieties of junk. Cans, boots, something that looked like rats, banana skin and several others. It had the same height as me, maybe a little higher. "Oh~ Acidic Ooze, go get it Nashi!" Once again she pushed me, there was nothing I could do about this. Now, how should I beat it? It didn''t turn red yet, seemed like a close battle was a bad decision. "[Return Throw]". A light green aura covered both of the javelin and my hand, I held the javelin near my head and threw it at the ooze. *Splash* My javelin no.. Julia javelin that I borrowed made a hole in its body. "Hey, this one is easy." Too bad, as soon as I said this, the Ooze turned red. It slowly moved to me, but the hole that I made already closing. "Return!". The javelin flew back to my hand, it created another hole on the Ooze body, barely caught it though. A slimy liquid covered the javelin, when I touched it "Ouch!" my hand burned, and once again the hole already closing. "Nashi~ no matter how much you hit it, the only way to beat it is by heating its body!" Said Julia with her playful tone. Holding my hand in pain, I asked "grh... do you have a lighter?" "Nope~ that''s why we should run! [Jump]!" A white green aura covered her feet, and she leaped like her body was made from a feather. Wait!? what about me!? I chased after her, the pain on my rib appeared again, we ran quite far though. Next thing I knew, we already at the last intersection. "fufu~ sorry, I didn''t think you''re seriously fighting it with only a spear. Jeez~ looks like there''s a lot for you to catch up, anyhow that thing isn''t that dangerous, in fact there''s a rule to keep one in every few kilometers" "Please... *cough* stop joking like that" I tried to catch my breath from all of that running, every time I breathed an air, a nauseating feeling can be tastes on my tongue. "sorry, sorry~ let''s take a breath for a minute, how about taking this time for allocating your [Ability]?" I sat down on the floor, the view in front of me was a channel with a lot of waste. "[Status]" After thinking for a while, I decided how to spent my stats and ability.
Name Title Level Equipment Condition Resistance
Kamiya Nashi ---- 3 (0/1200) Shirt +1% cold R Traumatize Cut +21%
HP(R/m) MP(R/m) SP(R/m) Jeans +2% cold R Fractured Rib (1) (light, 48%) -1 AGI Stab +40%
40/50(0.28/m) 64/70(0.32/m) 21/78(0.48/m) Dynemaa Jacket, Have enough power to stop bullet Bash +3%
STR END VIT Earth -31%
11¡ü1 (12) 9¡ü1(10) 7¡ü (8) Fire +30%
AGI DEX LUK Wind +35%
17¡ü1 (18)-1 14¡ü1 19¡ü2 Water +95%
INT WIS CHA Metal -94%
10¡ü1 12¡ü1 16¡ü2 Lightning -40%
P. Atk P. Def C. Dmg Nature +59%
14-26 10-18 170% Ice +64%
C. Chance Speed (Km/h) Visual Acuity Light -74%
9.5% 50-1 1.38 Dark +85%
M. Attack M. Defence Debuff Resistance Mental+30%
20-36 12-28 32% Force +20%
Ability
Mini Map (3/5): Mini-map has a diameter of 6 x WIS x m2. Shows the direction target facing.
Detect (1/5): Detect Level 1 magic trap and hidden trap. Range: WIS x m2. MP: 1. Duration: 30s
Return Throw (1/5): Thrown projectile will return to your hand. Range: 25m. SP: 6
"So, what do you get?" She sat down next to me and treated my hand, her big blue eyes looking at me with curiosity.If you stumble upon this tale on Amazon, it''s taken without the author''s consent. Report it. "Hm... [Detect] and raise [Mini Map] level, well... I guess this is useful if we are inside a dim place like this." On the other side, [Detect] was the one that looked useless, jeez, I should''ve waited till I get internet signal for checking the Information. "[Detect]" once I said this, I felt like a something spread from my body, on [Mini Map] I noticed the area surrounded me had a ripple, 30 seconds passed and the sensation was gone. When I came back to my sense Julia already took some drink from her backpack and gave it to me. Hesitantly I took it, there was no way I can''t reject her if she looked at me like that, *sigh* with a body full of blood, sitting inside a sewer, in front of me there was a waterway flowing with a waste, next to me there was a bag full of tail, the stench of the sewer and cockroaches crawling at the wall. Contrary to her elegant look, Julia single-handedly drank it. *Sigh* Maybe I was the spoiled one. I followed her and drank it in one gulp. "Blergh.. what is this!? too sweet!!" It tastes like an energy drink, but the flavor insanely strong, and the sweetness... gah, It felt like drank a molten candy. Though I still finished all of it. She looked at me and giggled. "Hey, Nashi~ may I wear that?" "Oh? This? yeah, sure" I gave the jacket to her, she wore it happily and spinning around with it, I didn''t understand what made her happy though... hm? a Golden dot coming to our way, what a fast runner. That was I thought until he showed up, he was one of the people that split with us, his eyes widened, breaths ragged and harsh, his body trembled, he ran to me and grabbed my body, his nail pierced to my skin, he tried to say something but his words stammered "He....he...p...a...al..de..de..dead.". Julia stopped her dancing when she saw this, she came to him, she gently touched his shoulder and said "Calm down, tell me everything" "ye...yes, mo..monster at section E, it killed everyone, no... I don''t know, sorry, I run in the middle of everything, I...I never saw something like that" I didn''t know why Julia ran in the direction the man came in, she didn''t even say a single word to us. "Wait! Julia!" I yelled at her, seemed like she decided to ignore me. "Tch! ... go back to the entrance and call some help" The man nodded and ran to the entrance, while I followed the Golden dot, once I started following her, I only realized it was better for me to be the one that called for help. Unfortunately, it was too late to regret that decision. "Oi! Julia! Wait a minute!" I called her many times, at the fourth times she slowed down and said "Nashi!! what are you doing!? go back and get some help!" Yup girl, that was what I thought a moment ago. Actually, I came to stop her, though didn''t know why I said "Let me help!" "Whaaat~ sorry, it''s not like I underestimate you, but you should know your place" And she dashed again. "Oi! Damnit!" I barely able to followher, she was fast, every time I ran I felt like I could hear a crackling sound on my rib. With great effort, I tailed her from behind until I saw a Red dot, no... the size of it was unnatural, how big was it? and there was no other dot near it. "Oi! go back! they are already dead!" "You don''t know that!!" She ran to it directly, and the next thing I saw. Her body flying from that intersection and directly hit the thick concrete wall of this sewer, It cracked like a vein, Dust flew everywhere, I can''t even hear her scream. Next thing I aware, I saw a crocodile... it massive!! what was its size? It was bigger than a small truck, It reeked of rotten fish, on its back there was coral? no... a glistening dark crystal. The huge, compound eye looked like enormous crystals of cut glass, a sharp stone stuck on its right eye,its mouth alone almost had the same size as my body, it opened its mouth and I can seeits tooth that looked like a knife, there were hundreds of it. I threw another javelin at it. *Clang* The sound of metal hitting something hard can be heard, it repealed my javelin, I knew I threw it right this time, still! It looked like I threw a toothpick at a concrete wall. It ignored me and kept walking to Julia, I threw my phone, next the bag full of rat tail, this time I managed to get its attention, it turned its head, fuck... Now what!??? It snarled at me and ran to my direction, shit.... contrary to what it looked like, its fast! I started to run, my back was open wide, I didn''t need to see [Mini Map] or saw behind, from the sound of its body, I knew it chasing after me, its movement was a combination of running and jumping. Every time it jumped, the ground destroyed, and every time it ran, its body was heavy enough to crack the floor. "fuck, fuck, fuck, fuck" Unlike last time. This time I didn''t have a backup nor I knew whether or not that man reached the exit yet, even though he managed to reach it, Julia already said this was a training ground. I ran and ran and ran, my rib was hurt, my hand was hurt, I had a hard time to catch my breath, slowly the sound got closer and closer. .......wait a minute. I tried to backtrack our last hunting ground, it kept following me, its distance was less than 10 meter away from me. By the time I saw a javelin that covered in green gooey liquid, I ran to it in a full speed. The Crocodile dot suddenly became faster, what a timing! I didn''t need to see back, but I knew it opened its mouth widely. I dropped my body to the ground for evading it. The Crocodile hit... no... swallow the Acidic Ooze, even though the Ooze was far from my position, some of the Oozes got thrown and touched my skin, I can smell a meat being burned, it was hurt like hell! I felt like I was walking naked in the asphalt on midday in summer, and multiply it b- *BAM* The next thing I felt, my head being struck by something and then everything was black. 1.9 Someone Is Triggered Ivory-haired girl... and then everything was black. The next thing I knew, I was at the funeral, "Who wants to take them?" "Erm... three child is kinda" "Yeah, I don''t mind taking the other two but for the baby" "That''s why I say not to marry him" "And the money itself isn''t enough to support three children" "Do you know the other two kids are a freak?" "Yeah, it is a hot news all over the world that [Ability] thing" "Still, what''s wrong with the elder brother, it is his parent funeral and yet not a single tear falling down" (.... I can hear everything) ** I woke up and found myself in an unfamiliar room. The roof wasn''t wooden. The walls were simply cream, not peeling or dirty, just cream, there were flowers, beautiful paintings, leather chairs and soft music. On the wall was a plasma screen and the bed was comfortable. The beeping sound of machines was matching my breath. My body was numb, I tried my best to keep my eyes opened. *Creak* The door opened, it created a different sound from the sliding door of my house. A small child, chubby, with her characteristic Ahoge that move left and right every time she walked came in, followed by a brown-skinned girl in green uniform and a blonde girl with a bandaged head "Ah!! Nii-chan is awake!" Yelled Yuzu and she jumped to the leather chair. "What the hell is wrong with you, getting hospitalized at your first mission." Said Ume in her characteristic sarcastic tone. She changed the music into the one in her taste and sat down with Yuzu. "Sorry Ume~ it is my fault." The oddball here was Julia, why was she here? "Wait! it is a joke!" "....What happened?" Everything was hazy. I remembered about the giant crocodile and the Ooze plan, but I can''t remember everything after that. "Erm... they said by the time they found you, you''re crushed down by Deinosuchus tail, ah! it is the official name they give to the giant crocodile!" "....seriously? that is kinda lame." "Lame or not, you beat the Deinosuchus alone! how did you do that? Is there some kind of trick? or you''re actually a strong one?" "...No, the Ooze... I tricked it to eat the Ooze" "How? tell me the detail!" Before I able to tell Julia, someone was knocking at the door. "Come in" Said Ume, ...hey I just realized the room was too good. A slick-haired man and spiky-haired man with orange glasses came in,both of them brought 3 attache cases, they lined up at the side and the same old man in his black uniform came in. Julia raised up and gave a salute, Ume clumsily followed her, and last Yuzu also followed them. "Ho~ what a great recruit we have over here." Said the black uniform old man. "I''m sorry but can you guys leave us for a moment?" Said Akechi, dude... I just woke up.Unauthorized usage: this tale is on Amazon without the author''s consent. Report any sightings. "Yeah, sure, go interrogate a person who just wakes up." Nice one Ume! "This is an urgent matter, if you''re calling yourself an Adventurer you should know the consequence of ignoring the order, TRAINEE. and don''t worry, we bring a healer with us" "...It''s fine, Julia... I entrust those two with you" "Okie dokie~ now then Yuzu-chan~ Ume~ let''s eat at the downstairs~" Julia took both of them, though hesitant Ume still followed her, I wonder how many days I passed out. After they left, the trio took a seat, Spike put all of his cases next to Akechi, while Akechi opened his case and took out his laptop, papers and et cetera. "...So what''s the urgent situation?" When I said this, Akechi started typing on his laptop. "First, thing first, about theDeinosuchus, is there any information you can give to us?" The one asking first was Spike, hello dude, I didn''t even know your name. He moved closer to me and did a treatment. "....Sorry... I don''t think I have." "Anything is fine, how you beat it? it''s resistance, speed, is it have some kind of [Ability]? What about its exp?" ...There were too many questions, first thing first I said "[Status]". Yup, it didn''t change. "About that I tricked it to eat the Acidic Ooze, for its speed I believe it''s lower than 50km/h, though it can leap pretty far and fast, I don''t know about the exact value, as for its resistance, exp or [Ability], I don''t have any." " *FWEET* Tricked it to eat the Ooze, that''s a smart move, so, how do you know it will work?" " I didn''t, it was a gamble." "Hoo, I see, then about its body, since it is a new type, we want to take all of it." Spike gave an eye signal to Akechi. He opened the other case, showed it to me and said. "All of it is 10 million yen, this should be enough as the reimbursement and don''t worry, we will make you a new equipment from its part, just tell us the detail before the end of this week." ....Ah, No good, I had nauseating feeling by seeing that amount of money. "...can you closed it down" I forcefully moved my hand and covered my mouth, actually I wanted to throw up but nothing came out from my out except acidic flavor. I betted my eyes were watery right now. "What? are you so happy about getting thismuch until you wanted to cry?" "Just! *ouch* just... close it down."Forcibly, I raised my body, it was painful. I can hear the crackling sound from my bone. "Akechi, just does what he wants," The one told Akechi was Spike. "...Sorry" He took another case and said, "Now about the next matter, we already made the ID card for you, inside this, there were a specialized phone, laptop, tablet, the other set of uniform and don''t forget to register your bank account, it is inefficient to give money directly. Now, I believe Captain has something he wants to ask." "Alright boy! first thing first! congrats for miraculously survivestwo encounters in a week! you have a knack to get into a trouble aren''t you, gahahaha." ....I believe he was the type that will hit my back as hard as he can while he said this. Thank god I was injured... wait, I had my priority wrong here. wait again, that was all!? "...Is that all?" "Yup, now go get some rest, we the old men will excuse ourselves." Or not, even after he said thatSpike still healing me, while Akechi cleaned up his things. After a few minutes of awkward silence, both of them stood up and left the room. Haah... that was tiring... urgh... the bed was too comfortable. "Zzzz..." ** Once the Trio left the room, they went into their car and Tsukiyama said "Akechi searches some information about the boy past, don''t forget to apologize at a later time, and Shima, what do you think about this matter? Is this have some connection with the hellhound?" "Roger" "I don''t know yet, it is weird for a monster as strong as a Hellhound to appear in the middle of city, as for the new variant, I believe it can happen at random times, too bad we didn''t have any information about it, I guess autopsy is the only decision we have." "Hmph! I might be a stupid captain, but my guts telling me something is wrong, anyhow, about the autopsy, I''ll try to speak it with the Top." ** "FUCK! WHAT DO THEY MEAN I FAILED!? AND HOW IS THAT GLASSES AND THE CHICKEN GIRL ACCEPTED!?" 1.10 Persuasion Mini Game The first week was a gloomy one. Yuzu had been crying non-stop, Ume barely ate her food, none of us went to school. The house was practically a dumpster. Laundry and trash piled up, dust and food wrapper scattered everywhere. If this only the first week, I wonder how can I hold on for the next few years. ** "...That is a different one." I woke up, the familiar weary roof and walls made from wooden, faint smell of grass more close to herbal mixed in with the scent of incense, breezes of wind that came in from the crack on the wall, and the sound that penetrated through the thin wall. "Oi! Wake up!" I collected some will to live and got up from my bed, I opened the door and saw. Once again the house became a dumpster, though it gave the atmosphere of liveliness unlike the one inside my dream. I cleaned my body and sat in the living room. "The hell is this?" What welcomed me was two pieces of charcoal with a butter and jam spread on top of it. "Breakfast..." Said Ume in a low tone, I used my hand and sneakily moved that thing from my sight. On the process, I saw Yuzu put that ''thing'' into her mouth, as soon as she bit it, her cheerful expression changed into a murky one. "...Stop, don''t say anything." She stood up, took the ''thing'' and threw it away. Later, she came back with three plates of bread coated with butter. I wondered what did they eat when I was in the hospital. **** I passed out for three days, two days after I woke up I got discharged, and the school already opened again. Though, there was something strange going on right now. "Morn'' Kamiya." Who? A man taller than me and a bald head, I greeted him back though. "Kamiya-kun, morning." ...Once again who? I nodded at her. Actually, this was the 8 students that I never talked with suddenly talked to me. "Someone sure is famous." A familiar voice, his bold glasses, and messy short black hair. "Oh, Kyo, did something happen?" "Well... rumor spread around about how you and Kurogane become C-rank, and how both of me and Serizawa, you know the one who brings chicken, become a trainee, Asato, the boy in silver hair become an F-rank. though there are some bad rumors like webribe the Agent and..." "I see... that explain their attitude." "Anyhow, they suggest us to get to know each other better, and thus we usually eat at the roof, this is only the third day though. Wanna join?" "Yeah, fine by me" ****** From the left, Kurogane the catgirl ate... breadcrumbs?, At the middle Serizawa the chicken girl ate normalbentou, Asato the silver-haired boy ate a tuna sandwich and after they finished lunch, none of them talked. Kurogane watched the sky, Serizawa seemed flustered without no reason, her face became red and she didn''t want to make eye contact with me, Asato played with his phone. I moved next to Kyo and whispered "Dude, don''t tell me for the last three days these are your activity?". He took a deep breath, exhaled and replied "...Yes" "Seriously!? at least try talking with them." "I have... *sigh* why don''t you try it?" Even though Kyo said that, I was not much a talker either, but... it was still better rather than this awkward situation, let''s talked with Asato first. But before I able to speak, another person opened their mouth. "....Thanks." A girly voice, short but clear, and it was a little dulcet. I looked tothe origin of the voice, Serizawa sat in front of me, by the time I looked at her, she shook her head, then... only one person left. I continued shifted my gaze to Kurogane, she looked away when our eyes met, and rested her chin with her right hand and continued to see the schoolyard. "Thanks for what?" Yeah, for what exactly? Without turning her head she said "....saving my life." Unlike before, maybe because she rested her chin, Kurogane''s voice wasn''t as girly as before. This time her tone sounded a little cold. "Oh... that thing huh, I''m not doing anything though, the one that killed the hellhound and healed you was the other Agents." "..." And she went into silent mode, Anyhow, this was a good momentum. "By the way,how''s your wound? is it healed already?" She turned to me and slightly nodded "...you?" "Yup, it wasn''t that bad for me either." "...I see, want to do some Grinding after school?" "Can I join?" Woah... contrary to what he looked like, Asato''s voice had an agreeable trace of huskiness.If you spot this narrative on Amazon, know that it has been stolen. Report the violation. "...um....can I come too?" As usual, Serizawa''s voice was small. I faintly heard her, speaking. "And....um....Kamiya-san, you forget to close your fly" She lookedaway and said something, this time I can''t hear her at all. "Sorry, what?" "She said: your fly is wide open," Said Kyo while he fixed his glass position with his index and middle finger. "Waaa!!" I turned back and closed it, so that was the reason her face was red the whole time. "Anyhow, it was opened since you came out from the restroom. By the way, I''m joining in" Kyo added his word. "Why don''t you say anything!?" I turned back after I closed it, Serizawa face at least wasn''t that red as before, though, she still didn''t want to make an eye contact with me... I didn''t wear any weird underwear right!? "Um... I need to Toriko first, so, can we meet at the location?" I... Let''s stopped commenting her volume. In the end, we traded contact information, though there was someone that didn''t give her contact. "...Is that all? I''ll wait at the gate after school over." And Kurogane left just like that. ******** "She''s late, too late!!" Kyo tapping his foot on the ground, well... can''t blame him, we waited for 30 minutes and there was no sign of Kurogane, and she didn''t give us her contact info either. While Kyo tapping his foot on the ground, I lost count of how many times I sighed, while Asato crouching on the ground and played with his phone. "Nashi! Go get her!". "Why me? isn''t Asato better? both of them are first grade". "Hello~? [Mini Map]?, It will be faster if you''re the one searching for her." In the end, I was the one needed to look for her, even though he said that, the school was a big place where should I start!? I wandered aimlessly inside the school, from east building to the west, next the second floor, Oh... there was a Golden dot at the woman restroom, was she having diarrhea? I will say this, but... there was another 6 dots, a combination of red and white facing her. "*sigh*, Must be gossiping about some guy" and there was no way in hell I walked into the woman restroom either, patiently I waited near the restroom. The giggling sound of girls can be heard, soon one by one the other red dots turned into white and golden. HUH!? I rubbed my eyes a coupled of times, not like it will help.A couple of moments after I rubbed my eyes, the surrounding dots walked out. Holy shit, there were 3 guys and 3 girls, one of them was the Fireball kid. Our eyes met, he gave a disgusted face, like he looked at some kind of shit and clicked his tongue, "The hell you''re looking at!?" The fuck!? suddenly yelling like that. "I''m only wondering whyare boys coming out from girl restroom." "So? This is our hanging spot, have some problem with it!?" His tone changed into an aggressive one, seemed like anything I said will only add fuel to the fire. His friends whispering something at his side and looking at me back and forth. Soon, they left the scene. I still waited near the restroom though, a couple of minutes later, the Golden dot started to move. Vaguely I can see Kurogane figure. A blazer laying on the floor, her straight, long, and neat black hair now was in disarray and wet, not only her hair, her shirt, skirt, face, actually her whole body seemed like she was drenched in heavy rain, a droplet of water fell down from her hair, face, and body, our eyes met, I saw her eyes that resembled doll eyes, hollow and glassy. This with her thin figures, she looked like a broken doll. I...I was familiar with her appearance, Ume also had the same face back then. Ah, she walked past me without saying anything, even though our eyes clearly met. This only got worse, call me crazy but was that a burnt wound on her arm? It was small, and only a little circle, but in her white skin, a black circle even as small as that became contrast and hey guess what? her slipper was gone either. "Oi! Kurogane!" I called to her, a trail of water created behind her path, she stopped for a moment, and turned around, different from her gloomy and silent self at this afternoon, she put a warm smile on her mouth and said "Yes?" I...I didn''t know what I should say while I was trying to remember how I comfort Ume back then, the next thing that came out from my mouth. "I can see your bra" She covered her chest when I said this, smile weakly and said "Pervert~". Yes, it had a playfultone, but (Please... don''t smile when you are looking like that) Automatically I removed my blazer, walked at her, and put it on a body, It was oversized, right now she looked like a dried gecko and "The color is black, right?" Though,she removed my blazer "Don''t, It will get wet." *sigh* I can smell a piss faintly from her body, "Nah, it''s fine, considering it as a payment for seeing your breast, anyway it''s already wet so why not." Hesitantly, she used it to cover her body "It is big right? anyhow this isn''t enough to cover the payment." "You''re joking, right? It is a petite one, and it is only a glimpse, c''mon give me a discount." I walked into the woman restroom and grabbed the blazer that laying on the floor. ...Fuck, the smell of piss was stronger on this one, no wonder she left it behind. You were a strong one Kurogane. "Hey, do you bring your Adventurers uniform?" She replied with a small bow. "Go get change then, c''mon the others are waiting and you know, Kyo ready to explode anytime soon." She nodded weakly and walked, while she changed, I searched for a plastic bag and gave it to her. "...Sorry, I''ll wash it" Oh, her tone somewhat got back into short, cold and emotionless one. I didn''t know why I felt relieved though. ********** "WHAT THE HELL!? 45 MINUTES!? GIVE ME BACK 45 MINUTES OF MY LIFE!! TRY THINKING ABOUT SERIZAWA TOO!!" "Dude, cut us some slack, she had diarrhea" "...I''m not, he''s lying" "Senpai, calm down, calm down, anyway I already contacted Serizawa-san" ************ "Um... the others are on their way, they sure take their time, right Toriko?" "bwok bwok bwok!!" 1.11 Grinding The river was a symbol of how far everything had changed over the last six years. Back then, this was a place for recreation, I remembered watching a high schooler training with his trumpet, a guy lazily sleeping at the slope, a woman reading a book, an old man fishing at the side and a couple sitting on a cloth with square pattern. Now, the scenery filled with people with a green uniform, there were others that didn''t wear a uniform maybe an illegal Adventurers or an Adventurers that still laundered their uniform or Adventurers that like me, chose not to wear their uniform. Rather than a fishing pole or violin, most of them brought sword and spear. From couples that doing a picnic now, a guard post complete with the wall created every few kilometers, and the numbers of Slime that came out from the river was magnificent, every few seconds the slime always appeared from the river. Though the real battle was "Ah! It comes out, it comes out!" Asato pointed at the Slime rather than hit it with his baseball bat, the Slime looked similar to the Ooze, the only difference was it had a core inside its body, a fixed round shape and didn''t transparent like the Ooze. Too bad *sigh* "Oryaaaa!!" Unfortunately for Asato another high schooler like us, he wore a green uniform and covered it with gakuran, pierced the Slime with his spear. "...." Kurogane, with her cat ears and tail, like a panther patiently and seriously waiting for its prey to come out from the river, and once it came out, she jumped and punched it with her hand. *sigh* She seemed a little bit cheerful now, maybe this was her way of letting the stress out. "Wait! this is my spot! and why is a C-rank Grinding in this area!?" Another guy looked like a college student with his thin mustache and beard, seemed like he had been spending the whole day killing slimes at that spot, and then we came in and started taking his grinding spot. By the way, this was the fourth time we changed spot, looked like we will change into another one. "Toriko! do your best!" Serizawa was... no, Toriko was doing her best, she had been fought against the same Slime for about 5 minutes, Toriko fiercely clucked, and pecked the slime, yes... she might be immortal, but her attack power was zero, it might hurt being pecked by her, but... yeah, there was no way a peck from chicken can kill something in its size. "Yay! Toriko you did it!" ... I took it back, after 7 minutes Toriko managed to kill one slime, wait, who will get the exp? Wait! Serizawa can talk normally in a situation like this. Though, the problem was many people KS the Slime from Toriko and Serizawa never complained. And next... "Kyo, you aren''t grinding?" One guy leisurely sat around, he used his [BGM] and played a classical song, Greensleeveswhile watching others killing Slime, well... I was the same though. We had been sitting in this spot for 15 minutes. "How can I do that with this many people? and it''s not like I have a fighting experience nor a weapon, I was hoping you guys could capture some and let me kill the Slime, what about you?" Actually, that was brilliant, too bad in reality, there were too many people for it to actually succeed. "Yeah... ah [Return Throw]" I sat next to him and threw my javelin everytime a Slime spawn near us, it was easy since I can pinpoint their location through [Mini Map], Though sometimes I can kill it with one attack, sometimes it didn''t, and sometimes I still missed, from seven times I managed to kill four. The exp we got from slime.... 1 EXP. Anyhow, my javelin pierced the Slime, it hit its core and its body started to dissolve into water. Ah... this javelin was a different one from the last one, Julia said it was more durable but heavier than before and rather than pushed the button, this one must be assembled part per part. This gave a more mechanical vibe than before. "I guess I''m done, don''t want to fatigue myself too much, want to borrow it?" The javelin flew back to my hand, I took the core, It looked like umeboshi and I gave the javelin to Kyo, yeah it was funny for [Ability] that used SP, even though I sat leisurely my breath still ragged. "Fine... I already waited for 45 minutes, at least I should get 10EXP before sunset." He took the javelin in low spirit and lazily stood up. Anyhow, there were no White dots at this riverbank since the slime had no value, aside from its core, there was nothing we can salvage from it, the core itself only useful as an alternative charcoal. Right now, I was working as a bag keeper.This tale has been unlawfully lifted without the author''s consent. Report any appearances on Amazon. "...I''m bored". My jukebox went to kill some Slime, and I already bored from watching others, oh? Kurogane walked here. "Tired already? How many Slimes did you kill?" I said and gave her an ion supply drink, this had a mild grapefruit flavor. Kurogane took and sat down next to me. "...23". *gulp* From the way she drank it, Kurogane reminded me of an idol that did commercial for this drink, the one where the idol rode a bike and stopped to drank it. She finished it in an instant thought, unlike the idol. "...You''re not gonna ask?" "About what?" "....Back then." "Nah, not in the mood." Hm? Something entered [Mini Map] radius ".....I see... anyway, once again thanks." What was that? An Orange dot? "For what? I didn''t save you back then, in fact, I should''ve interrupted them." Oh... it was fast, seemed like it hid inside the bushes. "........For not leaving me." If I remember right about Orange dot... should I investigate it? ah, I was talking with Kurogane "Sorry, what do you say? I kinda lost in thought." I stood up and looked at the direction of the Orange dot. ".....Nevermind, does something happen?" "Maybe... wanna come? I might need some bodyguard." I was hesitant but there were many Adventurers and guard posts, I guess even the worse thing happened, the backup wasn''t that far, and Kurogane nodded at my word, this mean I had another guarantee. I walked to its location, it was on the slope, the area surrounded it was covered in a slightly tall grass, well... since this wasn''t used as a recreational area, I guess they allocated the fund to maintain the post. Slowly I walked to the bushes that moved a little weird, rather than danced with the flow of the wind, it arbitrarily shook against the wind, out of curiosity I approached it. *Shrak* A shadow jumped out from the bush, "Waaa!" I didn''t know what it was, but it was enough to surprise until I fell on my butt... wait! I was on the slope! The next thing I aware, my body slowly slid downward. "Watch it!" Kurogane succeeded to catch me in time and prevented me from slid further. "....Thanks, *phew* that was dangerous, anyway what was that?" I searched the Orange dot position, and it was standing next to a golden dot, I turned myhead a little bit to that direction and I saw a Slime, but it had... a face? its shape wasn''t round either, it almost identical to a droplet of water. "Hey!! Look what I found!!" It was weird to see a man, maybe in his 30 with his muscled arm, cheerfully grabbed the Slime and spun around with it. He looked like a child that just got a Christmas present. Though, Kurogane walked toward him. "...That''s ours" "Whaddya mean!? Ooh.. sorry" His tone and face changed when he saw Kurogane uniform, reluctantly the same figure handed the Slime toward Kurogane, he looked like a grade schooler that got his toy confiscated by his teacher. Yeah... this was the rumored [Shiny]. A monster that looked somewhat different from its kind,sometimes only its color, sometimes it has additional features. I had never seen one before but, I heard [Shiny] Slime popularity had risen among the wealthy. It didn''t harmful, easy to train with, had high survivability, can eat anything they gave, can survive without food or water, and smart enough to understand what they said. "*sigh* Uncle, it''s fine you can take it, after all, you''re the one that caught it." Ah, a roller coaster of emotion can be seen on his face. In the end, he still went off with the Slime. "....Do you know the price of [Shiny] Slime" "Maybe around a million yen?" "....you know and you just give it like that!?" ...It was a lucky guess though. "Well, he''s the one that caught it right?" ".....True, still....forget it" A mixed emotion of regret and annoyed shown on Kurogane face, she looked at me with an expression of ''did you have a crayon stuck inside your brain!?'' "What happened?" Ah, the rest of the gang already gathered. "Just a little conversation, you''re finished? how much do you get?" "4..." Said Kyo while he gave my Javelin back. "One" So... besides that Slime both of Serizawa and Toriko didn''t manage to kill another. "0" Asato was drenched in water. *sigh* I wonder what happened. And the day ended, no progression and no Experience *sigh* if we were going on with this rate, this will take at least a month or two for them to reach level two, It wasn''t like I didn''t want to help, but I aware that my skill and experience itself weren''t enough. Maybe Julia knew the other grinding spot for newbies like us. ** "Oi! I get 5 people!" A masked figure in his formal suit came out from the car and met Eisen in theabandoned gas station, in his hands there was a metallic suitcase, it had a square shaped, almost as long as an adultforearm with a thickness of the brick. "We let you pass for this one, one more failure, and everything we''ll cancel everything." The masked figures handed over the suitcase to Eisen, He opened it and found 8 syringes filled with purple liquid neatly organized within the foam. "What!? It wasn''t my fault, too many variables happened on that day." 1.12 Game Boosting (part 1) In the middle of a 3000-hectare field, stood the half-collapsed frame of a skyscraper building. The building was smothered on one side by a dense carpet of brightly colored flowers. They covered the ground and pushed up the surrounding building like a snow drift. Like a sprawling bouquet, they were very varied. Some large. Some small. Some a vivid blue. Some red. Others were creamy white, with scatterings of orange-fringed crimson on the broad petals. On the other side, the vivid color of red and brown covered the ground and piled into sand dunes, the surface undulating into the distance, it was barren and desolate, winds stirred up the wispy sand, "Ouch" and got into Asato''s eyes. Several trucks and men were out there, heavily armed with big lance and tower shield, gun-sword, Blaser R8a, spiky armor, plated armor, scaly armor and et cetera. Though, the most magnificent thing was a straight line, right in the middle of the building, that precisely separated the flower field and the desolate desert. I dropped my jaw every time I saw the flowers transformed into a sand every time it crossed this line and vice versa. "Is this the first time for you guys to see the [Dungeon]?" A blondie with bluish wyvern armor, vambraces, shoulder guard, and skirt. 1.8 meters of dazzling steel formed the base of her magnificent spear. It had a bayonet attachment at the top of the folded spear tip. A lever at its middle that can be used to raise the head and a gun trigger positioned below it. "Ah, yeah, please treat us well. Yuzu~ be a good child okay~?" It was a 3-hour journey from our city to this [Dungeon], this [Dungeon] located in a city highly known for its war monument, though, now it had become the war-zone. While peddlers and street vendors selling various things from fruit, hot dog, takoyaki, kebab and et cetera near the flower garden. The desert area heavily restricted, only someone with rank C or higher can enter it. Anyhow,I called Julia asking for an advice with grinding spot, and this was what we got, no I didn''t mean it in a bad way, but this was too much! We really owed her a lot, she even took us to this [Dungeon] and gave supplies for our equipment, I tried to pay her but she declined by saying "It''s fine~ I owe you a life~ this much is nothing." Now, that I thought about it, was she the one that put me into the VIP room? but... seriously!? who would have thought that Julia was a rich girl... and I mean it! she really rich, there were 2 butlers and a maid, all dressed neatly, exclusively came to this location only for taking care of Yuzu while we were Grinding. ...ugh... my stomach, at least we must raise our level by two or three on this dungeon! Kyo put his mouth next to my face and whispered something to me. "Nashi... where did you find this girl!?" "I didn''t... she was the one that found me, maybe"If you discover this narrative on Amazon, be aware that it has been stolen. Please report the violation. Still with his iconic thick glasses and short messy hair, but now he brought a whip-rapier at his belt, this also functioned as a waist bag. With a green uniform covered with vest, vambraces, elbow and knee guards all made from a thick reddish-brown leather, Julia said even though this was a thick armor, its weight was almost the same as a sweatshirt. The others two that wore a green uniform, came in Ume wore a dark green hooded jacket with a pointed, t-shaped opening leaving the eyes, nose, and mouth exposed. Her neck covered with the same colored scarf. She brought a longbow, made from an oak tree, and each of its corners had a pulley and iron plate at its front,the bow itself almost as big as Ume upper body, and it can be folded into 30cm. On her had chestguard that became one with her right armguard, and it had a smaller pocket, on her left gloves she had a bundle of wires. She looked at me and smirked. "Hey! Make sure you date this girl!" Serizawa wore a plain brown robe, it looked thick, I felt sultry from seeing it. Though she said this was for covering her weakness in fire and ice element and she brought a giant backpack, twice of my body size made from silicon carbide, and on its back, it had a special pocket that functioned as Toriko seat. While Toriko was armed with a piece of the iron talon, her beak also covered in sharp metal beak. Asato had a somewhat military look, he wore a grey colored kevlar on top of his uniform, helmet with face cover, function belt that hadmany kinds of tools and a backpack for his ''supplies'', ah and he had..... a revolver sheathed on his belt modeled inColt New Army Model 1892. Ugh... "...Something wrong?" A calm, cold tone of voice came from my back. "Nah, I''m fine" Kurogane tied her hair and let it dropped down on her right shoulder, her armor was a little bit looked like Ume, but her''s was black-colored, the hood also had cat ears and she wore a full body leather armor, there were no traces of her uniform, rather than scarf she had a mask that also acted as air filter covered her mouth, twin daggers on her back, sheathed hidden blade at her vambraces and boots, retractable claw at her gauntlet. "Damn... isn''t that too much? how many weapons do you plan to bring?." "....Prepare an umbrella before the rain." "Sorry, Yukino~ the others thing you ask hasn''t come yet.." Said Julia.... Wait!? Kurogane still asking for more!? "*sigh* Julia, let me pay..." "Eh, it is fine~ the thought alone is enough, fufu~," Said Julia while she smiled and walked next to me, "By the way~ as I thought, that armor really suit for Nashi!!" Ahaha... She circled my body a few times after she said this. Thought, originally I already brought a standard leather armor, but Julia insisted for me to wear this. *sigh* dark purple coat, with a dim-golden strip and many pockets on its inside and outside, it can store almost 40 knives underneath it was blue uniform with a white strip, a leather chest guard that also had many hidden pockets, and a funtional belt the same one as Asato, thought mine was purple-colored, and only had throwing knives and retractable javelins Ah, our target wasn''t the dessert, but the garden area near the skyscraper, from what Julia said there was a type of monster over there wasn''t aggressive, weaker than Dire Rat and gave 10Exp per kill. "Allright~ operation Training and Grinding, begin!" 1.12 Game Boosting (part 2) "Oh, So this is the monster Julia talking about." A radish with legs and arms, it walked staggeringly, everytime it walked, the leaf on top of its head dancing to the left and right, front and back, damn... whata weird creature. Actually, this radish wasn''t the only weird one, a walking sunflower, jumping garlic, a cat that had roses surrounded its neck, and many more. "Yup~ none of this monster are aggressive, so we can leisurely kill the radish one the official name is Radiz, and remember! every other monster besides Radiz has an [Ability] and they are as strong as me, so~ do~ not~ mistakenly~ hit~ them~." The rest of us nodded, and for the greater good, since Asato and Serizawa took a long time to kill one, we split into two teams and will rotate in turn for killing Radiz. Julia, Kurogane, and Asato will be team one, while the rest will be team two. ** Once we met the first Radiz, Ume was the one that fought it, She unfolded her bow and put the string. Ume held her bow with her left hand, nocked the arrow with his right hand, straighten her back and hips, pulled the string until it met her chin... I wanted to take a photo of her face right now, her right foot facing the Radiz, she held her breath, carefully aimed at the Radiz and *FWOSH* Her arrow flying straight, the sound of wind being pierced by her arrow can be heard. *JLEB* It hit!! ...... the earth. "Wait!! Why is it moving!?" Erm... Sis, of course, it will move around, you didn''t see it walking before? By the time she released her arrow, the Radiz moved around from its original position, although I said it moved, It actually only stepped a little bit from its original position. "Nashi.., your sister sucks." ... I didn''t know though if I must say, she was doing great, well... I had some experience with throwing skill, so I knew the difference between hit stationary target with a moving one. "Who sucks!? Why don''t you try it!?" Kyo grinned, he unsheathed his whip-rapier, several metal pieces, which were joined end-to-end by rings formed a slender, sharply pointed sword, there were two triggers on its hilt, one for loosened the rapier into a whip mode, and one for retracted it back into a rapier. He ran toward the Radiz, stabbed it once slightly below its leaf, and pulled his rapier, a white textures flying out from the Radiz, he continued to trim its leaves, once the Radiz had a haircut, he mutilated its arms, cut its body in half and sliced the rest of the Radiz into thin semi-circles. "...Wait!! Why are you not using your whip!?" "Why would I? I never use a whip before, yeah I might have a whip [Ability], but it doesn''t mean I have to use it right?" Said Kyo while he cleaned his rapier with a towel. Actually, he had a good point "Still, Kyo I think it will be bad if you''re ignoring your whip skill." "Yeah, I know, I trained it later with something that isn''t as dangerous as this, don''t you see how easy for this rapier to cut that Radiz in half!?" "Is that so, well I guess you have a point, and Ume... it''s not like you''re doing it wrong either, but you might want to move a little closer, and both of you still get the exp, so no one is losing anything right.?" "Hoo.. someone suddenly become an expert, Hmph! listen, I''ve been doing archery since I am entering junior high, I don''t need your advice!." *Sigh* hard headed as always, anyhow right now was Serizawa and Toriko turn, I looked at them and Serizawa said. "E...uhm.... It''s fine, Ume-chan can take my turn if she wants it." We walked a bit and found another victim, at Ume 2nd try. She straightened her back, nocked the arrow and ... it hit, the arrow hit the Radiz right on the middle of its body, it still alive though. "Oryaaaaa!!" What the!? She dropped her bow and running toward the Radiz while her hands held an arrow. By the time she faced the Radiz, Ume stabbed her arrow at the Radiz flesh, soft and pudgy, and made a satisfying squish as the arrowhead sank deep enough, she pulled it back and a white texture splattered at her body, without mercy she stabbed the Radiz back and forth. "Hmph! easy game~!" ...That wasn''t archery though, *sigh* Once again, we met the third victim "Serizawa, you can take mine." "I...is that okay? ...thanks" She put Toriko and the ground, the calm chicken suddenly clucking and ran toward the Radiz, it squawked, clucked, flapped her wings and shredded the Radiz with her iron talon. After Toriko finished, she pecked the Radiz corpse and ate it. "...W..Wait! Toriko! don''t it eat it!" "Why? It is fine, right? I heard it tasted like a radish, and it has the same body structure as a radish either." "U...um...that''s not the problem, I want to clean it before she eats it." ...So that was the problem huh, Anyhow next was Ume turn again, "...You know~ why don''t you show how to kill the Radiz to your dearest sister?" Her tone was slightly mocking, well... I curled my fingers around the knife tip and aimed at the Radiz, as my arm wheeled backward, the Radiz stepped a little bit, I slightly moved my hand, followed its direction. Then I threw the knife toward the Radiz, I can image a clear path created between me and the Radiz. The knife spun around and precisely flew following the path I imagined inside my mind and it created a gap in the Radiz body and hit the ground. The Radiz still moving around. "See!? Told you it''s hard to kill it from a distance!" Ignoring Ume words, I aimed at the Radiz and threw another knife and another one. Both of them created another gap on the Radiz body, yeah this was easier to use rather than the javelin. Once the Radiz dropped down, I walked and picked up my knives. "Did you say something? dearest sister~?" I said while cleaning my knives and sheathed it back.This book is hosted on another platform. Read the official version and support the author''s work. "Tch!! Graaah!!" Well, well, looked like she was in high spirit huh. Anyhow, we did this for 4 hours, Ume got better at hitting moving target, Kyo... well.. still a little bit sluggish, but he''s somewhat better in his own way, Serizawa still the same. By the way, they raised into level three and I had 905 exp. Ume: Daily Spin 1/5, RNG 0/5, Knockback Arrow 4/5, and she equally put her stats into DEX and STR. Kyo: BGM 2/5, Volume 1/5, Cuffs 2/5, and he spread his stats into AGI, DEX, CHA and LUK. Serizawa: Immortal Chicken 5/5 [Call 1/5, Command 0/5], Protect 0/5, Avian Empathy 0/5, and she put her stats into WIS and CHA with 3:1 ratio. "Hee, I just know we get another bonus point when maximizing the [Ability]" "U..um..yeah, the instructor at the training ground is the one that said this." "....Mine didn''t tell anything" "You sure, Lil-Kamiya? I remembered that he told us something about it, well, it''s not like rushing with an [Ability] is a good thing either, I think for the one without fighting experience and we should be more versatile rather than focus on a single [Ability] this way, we will be ready for anything, though it''s up to you in the end." Whoaaa... What the hell!? this was new, I never knew Kyo was a wise one. "Anyhow, are you guys going back? I think I still want to do more Grinding." "Yeah, whatever, just get back in time, or we''ll leave you" Said Ume while she unfolded her bow. "I think I head back too, it''s almost 2 and I''m kinda hungry, sorry dude." Said Kyo, next to him was a bunch of Radiz corpse. "U...um...me too, I''m a little tired, sorry." Said Serizawa while she put Toriko at her bag. "Bwok!!" Said Toriko... I didn''t understand what she meant though. But, were they going to ignore her? I mean, was she this big before? Right now, she almost as big as a Turkey and she had a fluffy white feather surrounding her body. Anyhow after they left, I wandered around searching for Radiz... It was weird though, I remembered a week ago I never had any intention to become Adventurers and yet, here I am, Grinding all by myself. It was a little hard for Grinding all by myself since the other group that had more people was dominating the spot, and against all odds, after 30 minutes of grinding alone "Oh, I leveled up, let''s see.. Raised [Mini Map] by two and ooh" Mini Map: 5/5, Unlock [ Map 0/5, Ward 0/5] "It didn''t give an explanation huh, *sigh* alright, here I go"
Name Title Level Equipment Condition Resistance
Kamiya Nashi ---- 4 (5/2400) Asp Coat +50% Lightning resistance Traumatize Cut +21%
HP(R/m) MP(R/m) SP(R/m) Reinforced Breastplate, Has enough power to dampen the shock on the chest area. Stab +40%
55/55(0.29/m) 76/76(0.35/m) 35/86(0.56/m) Dynemaa Jacket, Has enough power to stop bullet Bash +3%
STR END VIT Utility belt Earth -31%
12¡ü1 (13) 9(10) 8¡ü1 (9) Fire +30%
AGI DEX LUK Wind +35%
19¡ü2 (21) 16¡ü2 (17) 21¡ü2 Water +95%
INT WIS CHA Metal -94%
11¡ü1 13¡ü1 17¡ü1 Lightning -40%
P. Atk P. Def C. Dmg Nature +59%
17-30 10-19 185% Ice +64%
C. Chance Speed (Km/h) Visual Acuity Light -74%
10.5% 53 1.44 Dark +85%
M. Attack M. Defence Debuff Resistance Mental+30%
22-39 13-30 34% Force +20%
Ability
Mini Map (5/5): Mini-map has a diameter of 8 x WIS x m2. Shows the direction target facing. Shows Known target name.
Map (1/5): Shows 3 x WIS x KM2 of surrounding area
Detect (1/5): Detect Level 1 magic trap and hidden trap. Range: WIS x m2. MP: 1. Duration: 30s
Return Throw (1/5): Thrown projectile will return to your hand. Range: 25m. SP: 6
"What the hell!! This is basically a GPS!!" 1.13 Training A sea of faces moving in an unseen current, flowing like water to their destinations like a wide river down the aisles, There were plasma screens of arrival and departure times on the wall, in the arrivals lounge there was a curious mixture of bored and excited people. Amongst them, there was a girl with a blue ponytail and a man with spiky hair. Nana held a whiteboard that scribbled with ''Akamine Riku''. Not long after, a young woman, younger than Nana, more precisely still a girl came to them, Shima welcomed her like an old friend, there was a casualness on his tone that wasn''t quite right for the VIP guest. Both of them took her to a black SUV car. Shima pushed the button on his key, a beeping sound resounded from the car, inside it was a white leather seat, and it was big enough to accommodate 8 people. Nana helped the girl putting her baggage inside the trunk, though, she only brought one baggage and one plastic bag. "How''s New York?" Said Shima with a big grin, the kind that was so wide it was more as if he didn''t bother to hide the hidden meaning "Hm? Not bad. Ah, are you new?" The girl that named Riku, took something from a plastic bag and handed it to Nana "Yes, ma''am! My name is Nanami Nana! Nice to meet you, and sorry for the trouble." Said Nana in a military tone, she acted weird because this was her first escort mission. Nana carefully grabbed the souvenir, because of the bumpy ride, their finger met, it was only an instant but Nana can feel that Riku hand was far rougher than hers, and the souvenir was (Mochi? and the package is from Narita Airport!?) Said Nana inside her mind. Shima on the other hand, looking back and forth at her with the rearview mirror. "Oh, I don''t have anything for you." A slight looked of disappointment and relieved painted on Shima''s faces. "I guess some people never change, anyhow an eye-patch again? did something happen with the artificial eye?" "Hm? Yeah, It sometimes reflects the light, making it hard for the stealth mission." A wavy, long and short, coiled around, her ivory-colored hair was a definition of untreated hair. There was a claw mark on her right cheek, and her right eye was covered in black eye-patch ** A girl, a first year she saw, walking through the 3rd floor with a plastic bag on her hand, her long hair that hanging around at her right shoulder moved elegantly everytime she walked, her white skin that resembled a snow attracted the gaze of the other male students, she stopped at the door of class 2-4 and peeked inside. There she saw a young man with a black man-bun hair, his head rested against the chair, he opened his mouth widely, a drool coming out from the bottom right of his mouth, his body slightly slipped halfway through the chair, at his side there were two others young man, one with a big body and thin mustache, the other was a tall man with very long hair and squared chin. "You''re an [Ability] user, right? are you looking for someone?" A girl with round glasses, her hair didn''t even reach the bottom of her neck, she gave a slightly maturevibe. "....Kamiya Nashi." Said Kurogane. "Oh, work related? Takuya, could you wake Kamiya up?" The same girl yelled in a perfect tone, it wasn''t loud nor small enough. The thin mustache man named Takuya made a 90-degree angle with his hand. "WAKE UP!" and he did a karate chop at Nashi head. **** My parents were shot, an Ivory haired girl turned to me, she did a karate chop at my head and said: "WAKE UP!" "GAH!? the fuck!?" I woke up because of a shock and saw a number ''1'' flying out from my body. "Tch, this is a revenge, didn''t we promised to stay single until the day we graduate!?" What the hell... I still hadn''t sorted my thought and he already said something nonsense... Ah, a Golden dot with a letter of Kurogane Yukino written above it standing in front of the door. "...What kind of promise is that?" I rubbed my head, wiped my drool, stood up and walked to the door. "Something matter?" Without saying a single word, she gave a plastic bag to me, I grabbed it and peeked inside.The author''s content has been appropriated; report any instances of this story on Amazon. "Oh, my blazer, sorry to bother, but you don''t need to come this way only to give it back." "...The others already at the roof." Ah, already a lunch break huh, I vaguely can sense a jealous look from Takuya and Daisuke. I turned my head around. "Sorry dude, I need to go with her." "Tch! you already forget about us!" Said Takuya while he pretended to cry. Daisuke was... daydreaming? He glared at Kurogane with his sharp eyes and didn''t even blink. Anyhow, we walked to the roof and had a lunch, compared to the first day, the air was far more lively, conversation flowed like a river, everything from gossiping the teacher, math, an anime, sudden surge of Bear Shark appearance and many more. "How about doing some request?" Said Asato. "We have a training schedule today." Replied Kyo. Serizawa followed his words with a small nod. "Sorry, we need to do something else either," I replied to him, yeah, last night right after I got home Akechi called me through the specialized phone, he didn''t explain anything though. "We? ah, I guess a C-rank must be busy huh, even though you guys aren''t an officer." Asato replied back at my word. "Well... you can go with Julia, she said she usually did a request and Monday and Friday." "It''s fine, I guess I''ll just playing at the arcade." "Is that so, ah right, Kurogane, could you wait for me inside your class? you have a tendency of being late after all." "...Yeah, fine." Though, after school over, I walked to the 2nd floor and only saw 3 Golden dots, well, this was a good thing right?. I opened the door of class 1-1 and saw Kurogane, she sat precisely right in the middle of the classroom, while some other student joking around at the class, she silently waited while reading a book with a straight posture. "Oi~" I called to her, some others student looked at me when I said this, I guess an ''Oi'' wasn''t a good word for calling out someone. She stopped her reading, closed her book, put it back into her bag and walked to me, a light tapping sound faintly can be heard in the midst of waves of laughter. We took a bus to the meeting place. Both of us sat side to side without saying any word, until she covered her nose and mouth with both of her hands and sneezed. A faintly high-pitched sneeze that came out from her mouth broke the silence atmosphere. "God bless." "....Sorry." *sigh* This was the only conversation we had until the bus reached our destination, we dropped down and walked quite a bit until we wereat the front of a high brick wall topped with broken glass and razor wire,a shed with a security window stood with a black-yellow striped plank blocked the way in. A man withWhite dot pointed his head out of the window, his ears were full of piercing, another piercing located at the bottom of his mouth, two on the corner top of his left eye and a tribal tattoo can be seen at his neck. "What are you looking for?" Said the tattoed man, faintly I can saw his name tag, it was written with Sada Morio, The same name written at the top of his White dot, replaced the ''Man A'' that written before. "Ah, Mori Akechi called us," I replied to him, he looked at me for a while and whispered something, it was only a glimpse but his White dot blinked into a Golden one. "Oh? Are you an [Ability] user? How do you do that?" I can''t help but ask. "Ah, you''re that [Mini Map] boy, right? I see, come in." He..he ignored my question. Morio pushed something from his shed and the wooden plank raised up. We walked in and found ourselves in the middle ofpiles of dead and broken cars, waiting to be fed into the crusher. "Keep following the path and don''t touch anything" Yelled Morio from behind. Me and Kurogane silently walked, the scenery of wasteland filled with the rusting carcasses, heaped on top of the other. " [Map] " I said and I stopped walking, A Map with39 Kilometer radius showed up, I moved my eyes, zooming it in and out, moving it around until I found another two dots stood still at the center of this iron graveyard. "...New [Ability]?" "Yep, well.., this isn''t that useful, oh, by the way, I forgot to ask, but what is your level right now?" "...3" Kurogane: Cat Folk 5/5 [Cat Claws 1/5,Cat Senses 0/5] Force Claw 0/5, Rage 0/5. She spent her stats at AGI and STR. "Oh? [Cat Folk] isn''t [Free Ability]?" "...No, it is [Mana Ability]" "Hee..." Right, the three type of [Ability] the [Free] one like [Mini Map], or [Daily Spin] we can use this as many times as we wanted, or as long the condition was fulfilled. [Mana Ability] can be used as long as we had enough MP to pay, and [Stamina Ability] with SP ah, we arrived. Akechi with his characteristic neat slick hair and next to him was a girl with red short hair seemed older than me. She wore the same colored green-white uniform, but it had the military vibe, rather than our white long sleeved shirt that etched with Rank emblem on our collar, the colored jacket, and trouser that reached down to just aboveour ankles. She wore a sleek green-white shirt with 4 Stars etched on her right shoulder,her shirt loosely hanging over her white leather trousers, a big belt tied the shirt from the outside, an additional sama colored vest covered her body and a pair of black boots that almost reached her knees. "Oh, they''re here, Leiko, stay with the girl, and you come with me." I followed him from behind, he walked further into the depth of junkyard, after 15 minutes walking, I can hear the sound ofsomething crashed down at a distance. "Oh, they already begin." Said Akechi. He lighted up a big brown cigar and turned his body toward me. "All right, let''s begin your training, it''s simple, try to turn off the fire on my cigar." Said Akechi while he removed his tie and blue-white jacket. 1.13 Training (Part 2) Kurogane Side A few minutes after Nashi and Akechi left. "Fight me." Said Leiko. "...What?" Without further warning, Leiko said " [Blink] " She disappeared from Kurogane vision, blue fragments left behind at her last standing spot, in a one-second interval, Leiko reappeared facing backward at Kurogane''s back. Precisely she hovered a few meters above the ground and easily spun her body, her right leg helped with the power of gravity, centrifugal force, and steel black bot, travel to Kurogane''s right temple. Blood trails floated at the air, following Kurogane''s thin body that flew a few meters away, even after she dropped down to the ground, her body still rolled a few more times before it completely stopped. "Already pass out?" Said Leiko in a mocking tone. "...Gh" Swallowing the pain and ignoring it was the best Kurogane could do, blood dripping out from her right temple, her vision became blurry, vaguely she can see number 12 appeared in front of her eyes, (...50 left) Was what she thought when she saw this number. "...[Cat Folk]" A black smoke appeared and shaped itself into cat ears and tail appeared on her body, her eyes turned golden. "[Blink]" The same voice said the same word, her base speed was 30, her AGI was 18 combining it with Lvl 5 [Cat Folk], it multiplied her AGI and DEX by 100% making her able to move at 66km/h. Blindly she leaped back from her spot and saw Leiko appeared and did an Axe kick that cracked the ground. "....[Cat Claws]" The same black smoke covered her arms and legs, by the time it dispersed, her arms and legs covered in black fur, she retracted her claws out from her paws. Though Lvl 1 Cat Claws only increased her STR and SP/r by 20%, plus making her had enough power to leap 8-meter without any momentum. Kurogane leaped toward Leiko, in midair, she pulled her right arm, her poker face changed into a fierce face of an animal, she glared at her prey and screamed "GRAH!", She pointed her finger toward Kurogane and said "[Lag]" without any sign of panic on her face. The next thing Kurogane aware, she already passed Leiko and her claws created 5 holes at the car carcasses, (..How!? Does she evaded it? no she still in the same position!) "Grrrrh!" This time, she did a different trick, using the mountain of iron, she nimbly jumped around, from one car to the others, every time she landed, 20 pieces of small holes created at car carcasses. Once Kurogane had enough confidence that she reached max momentum, she dived at Leiko with the speed approximately 150km/h "GRAAAAAH!!!" "Oh, [Blink]" Said Leiko calmly, "You should''ve not screamed." She was confident though it only paid by her hitting the air, without a target to reduce her momentum, her body lose the balance in midair, her right arm that she used for hitting the air was the first one that touched the ground, with a falling speed of 150km/h and the pressure from her body weight, the sound of something cracking reverberated from her arm, bone pierced her white skin, the blood followed this incident, and number ''22'' floating out, losing her balance and worsened by the pain of broken arm made her landing failed, She smashed the ground and rolled around once... twice... three following this the trails of blood were left behind at the ground, without the sign of her rolling body became slower, Kurogane crashed into the mountain of cars The mountain of cars started to rocking, the creaking sound of iron met iron became louder and louder, there was no need of fortune teller or an expert, anyone can know that soon an avalanche of iron will fall down at the top of Kurogane''s body. Leiko accurately reappeared in front of her face, far enough to evade the avalanche of cars, while leisurely blowing bubble gum, to anyone that saw this incident, it was clear that she was mocking Kurogane right now. The rumbling sound of iron became louder, her thin body leaned against the unstable mountain, Kurogane by force, ignoring all of her pain, pushed the bone back in number ''25'' floated out alongside her tears and drool fell down from her cheeks while she screaming like a fool "HAAAAAAA!!!!", The bone got back into her arm, this served no purpose, she still can''t move her arms, though from the adrenaline alone she pushed her body to its limit and managed to leap out of the car slide, a pile of dust and fractions of iron flying out.The story has been taken without consent; if you see it on Amazon, report the incident. She jumped into the only one target on her mind, A red-haired girl that stood in front of her, her left hand holding the bone, she opened her mouth widely showing off her normal human teeth but she acted like she had the sharpest fang that readied to bite anything in the world. *sigh* " [Rewind] " An orange aura, created a semi-transparent steampunk clock, she put five fingers into the slots that prepared at that clock and spun the clock backward. Slowly, Kurogane body disappeared into a mist and reappeared right at the time she performed a dive that broke her right arm, with the same speed and same direction. Though her body position was slightly changed, rather than hitting, she dived head first with her mouth wide opened, and then everything was black. "I thought she was a calm one." Said Leiko while she took out a glass bottle with blue liquid, poured it at Kurogane''s right arm and poured another one into her mouth. **** Nashi Side "C''mon I''m ready." He put up a stance, his feet perfectly had shoulder-width distance, he bent his knees, his elbows were down and in, hands were up. his shoulders faced towards me. His stomach perfectly closed because of this stance. His front arm covering the rest of his body. His left hand perfectly located, it covered the rest of his face and I knew it didn''t even disturb his vision. Even before the battle begun, I already felt I can''t win, I was no expert on martial arts, but I knew there was no gap. If I recklessly charging in, a perfect jab will be landed at my face. "What? having cold feet?" Ugh... and he still smoking like it didn''t matter, heck how can he speak with a cigar that big sitting on his mouth!? "Anytime soon, feel free to use your knives." ...He knew it huh, I made 4 hidden pocket at my school blazer and put the knives in, even though not a single person in school aware of this. Still, I took out one knife and grip it between my thumb and index, and threw it at him. The knives flew straight at his body, advice number one from Julia, ''If you''re not yet adept at using the ranged weapon, always target their heart rather than their head, this way even it misses, it''ll still hit the other part'' Though, because I can''t see his heart, the best I can do was aiming it at his forearm and he easily shifted his body to the right and dodged it in paper width. "Hoo~ not bad for a newbie." ....Somehow I had a feeling that he purposely dodged in paper width, though I still had another trick. "[Return Throw]" With my right hand, I threw another knife, it perfectly launched toward his stomach. Though, this time he evaded it by stepped his body a little bit to my right. At the same time, I shifted my right hand following his direction "[Return!]" In mid-air the knife stopped, it spun around and flew back to me. Between me and the knife, Akechi stood still, let''s see how you dodged something you can''t see. ....Ah, He bowed down at ease and avoided it and the knife flew back to my right hand. "Are you seriously think that kind of trick will work on me?" "Actually, yes." "Well, it''s my turn." He dashed at me, contrary to his defensive stance, I was surprised to see him suddenly charged at me, I changed the way I gripped my knife. Before I gripped its tip between my thumb and index finger, this time, I pointed the blade downward and locked it with fist position with my thumb sitting on top of its handle, I knew that throwing knives wasn''t that good to use it in melee, but still, this was better rather than fighting unarmed. I opened my left palm and bent my elbow. The handle now was located in front of my mouth, with its blade pointing at the front, many scenarios played inside my mind if he did a left jab, I blocked it with my palm and stab his left side. If he did a right jab, I shifted my elbow to the upside and stabbed him from the top. Still, his footwork was amazing, he was moving to the left and right like he was doing a choreographic for an action movie. And without no reason, he stopped right in front of me, why? before I knew it, he raised his right knee and extended it toward my stomach. "Boegh!!" Something sour entering my mouth, Ah.... a number 6 floating in front of my eyes. and I dropped my knife because I reflexly held my stomach with both of my arms. and my body slightly bowed down, (Crap, this is bad position!!.) Like he can read my mind, Akechi held my head with his hands and repeatably kicked me with his right knee, 6, 6, 10, 6, 5. Many numbers flying out in front of my eyes, I started to taste an iron at my mouth, at the last moment I only realized that my hand were free and blocked his knee attack. "So what?" He removed his left hand, pulled it backward and I propelled myself with full strength, pushing both of me and him to the ground, With great effort, I moved my right hand toward his cigar and gripped it down. Hot!! ''2'' urgh... So this was what Kurogane felt huh. "....shit." Said Akechi in a regret tone. " *Hosh* ..... *cough*... I *cough* win, right? ".......Somehow I didn''t feel satisfied though. "..This is only a phase one, there''s more waiting for you." Said Akechi, he stood up, took another cigar and light it up. While I was with a great difficulty turned my body so my back laying at the ground while trying to catch my breath, he poured a water on the top of my face. " *cough* the fuck!?" "This is a [Potion] shut up and drink the rest." After resting for a while, he helped me stood up, ... I didn''t know whether this guy nice or a jerk. Anyhow once we got back to the meeting place, there I saw Kurogane, her right hand was full of blood, and slightly bent in a weird position. ".....Leiko, shows some mercy." "I have, I give her two potions." "Oh, Christ... Oi! Boy! Take this other three potions and make sure you give it to her, anyhow your training is done. Go back home and rest, the next training is 3 days from now on, oh and check your tablet, I''ll send the evaluation at the night. Leiko, Warp please." " [Warp] " Leiko pointed toward open space, moved her hand in circle, a black colored circle appeared and both of them entering the circle, leaving both of us behind. ..............WAIT!!!! The hell!? were they teleporting!? why didn''t they take us!? *sigh* "Oi, Kurogane can you walk?" I slightly shook her body while I said this. No reaction... "Who am i kidding with *sigh* there''s no way she''ll be able to walk in this condition." Should I carry her back? ... I didn''t know her house either, and there was no way I can carry her if her arm still untreated like this. Hm? Another Golden dot entering [Mini Map] I looked to the back, and slightly saw a man with many piercing. "Yo, I bring some first aid." Said Morio. 1.14 The Night Before The Storm Morio patiently did some first aid treatment toward Kurogane arm, he applied a splint made up from rolled newspaper to the area above and below the fracture sites. He talked to me while he continued his treatment. "So... how is the training?" "I personally call this a bully," I said while compressed my face with a pack of Ice that he brought. "Hahaha, yeah, Akechi never know how to hold back." ...Compared to Kurogane, I personally thought he was holding back as much as he can toward me. "Nope, he doesn''t," Said Morio... Huh? Did he read my mind? "Yes, I read your mind." "How? Is that your [Ability]?" "Yep, it''s called [Bubble Thought] oh and about why you can''t see me as a Golden dot, that because I have [Block], anyhow I saw the way you two fight, it was surprising to know that you''re a strategist, I thought you were some kind of hot-blooded fool and it surprised me even more, to see that this girl, what is her name... ah right, to see Kurogane fighting like a beast." "Oh, you see us? how? actually, nevermind, I bet it just some other [Ability]" "And that''s your answer, by the way, I''m done, make sure she doesn''t put too much pressure on her arm and make sure to give her the potion once a day." "Thanks... Still, I am not that close with her, heck we even barely know each other, well... I guess I left her a note or something like that." ...Compared to his looks, he was a nice guy, *sigh* I guess I carried her on my back. "Kamiya, it isn''t nice to judge someone from his looks. and don''t carry her on your back, it will give a pressure to her arm, carry her in princess way." "Ahaha... Sorry... Okay..." I put one arm under her legs and the other supporting her neck like a groom carrying his bride. *sigh* I needed to walk into the city like this? "Kamiya, I need to walk back to my post, it will be weird if you permit yourself right now." "Dude, stop reading my thought please." Anyhow, we walked to the front gate, I permitted myself and started walking while carrying her in my arms. "Wait, I don''t know her address." *sigh* What should I did? should I dropped her at my house? oh... let''s just dropped her at the hospital. ".....Urgh." A girly groan came from her mouth, I stopped and watched her, if...if someone from the school watching us, I 100% sure they''ll be gossiping about us tomorrow. Though slowly she opened her eyes, a little bit teary, she looked a little bit confused about what was happening, by the time she widely opened her eyes the first word she said "...Sorry." "Eh, it''s fine, can you walk?" "...Sleepy...a little bit more Nii-san." Erm... seemed like she still daydreaming *sigh* She smiled when she said this though, different from the last smile I saw from her, this one gave a shyness combined with unexpected warmth. *GROOOWL* Her stomach growled loudly *sigh* I guess that was what she got if she always ate breadcrumbs for lunch. "...Gyoza...want it..." ...huh? I was sure her eyes were wide opened right now, why was she still mumbling about non-sense? "Why a Gyoza? *sigh* Kurogane, let''s go to the hospital first." Slowly her face changed into a serious one all the way from her eyes to her mouth, her brows creased and face tensed, no pleasure at all, no mask of coping left. She looked like completely fallen into a nightmare, though this time, the nightmare was a real world. "...You...not him." Salty drops fell from her chin, drenching my shirt, her left hand weakly clutching at my shirt, a rawness, like a pain just recently happened to her. "Hm? Maybe I''m a ''her'', wanna check?" "....." She ignored me, huh I guess that was a bad joke... Brain.exe just stopped functioning. "Sorry, that was a bad joke, anyhow, was the pain that unbearable? let''s treat it at the hospital." "...Yes... The pain... It is because of my arm." Said Kurogane while she cleared the pearls that falling down from her eyes. ".....How much did you hear?" "Hear what? I aware you''re mumbling about something and said I am not him, well, guess what, I''m a man." "...Forget it. Anyway, I can walk." Like her request, I put her down, a few moments later she walked steadily, steady like a baby that took its first step. "*sigh* Hey, excuse me." This time though, I forcefully carried her on my arms, actually, this girl was weightless, I felt like I was carrying a human-sized ragdoll, though this time she curled her head against my shoulder. Anyhow, we acted like a newlywed couple, using [Map] without the need of using a phone or hands, I became a living GPS and walked to the nearest hospital, ... this thing surprisingly useful at the time like this... no... I only justified its uselessness. This time, the real doctor treat her arm, all of it cost 278.000 Yen and she didn''t have an insurance either. By the time everything was over, the sun already sleeping. "....Sorry, I''ll pay later."This content has been unlawfully taken from Royal Road; report any instances of this story if found elsewhere. "Actually, I have some spare money, so you don''t need too." *GROWWWL* and someone stomach crying like a baby. "Ah! how about we eat together? you know, that compensated dating thing, I know a good place." "...Kay, but I still pay it back, later." There were no stars that filled the sky, its just blank, empty like what we did right now, a silent walk, none of us talking about anything. I wondered what Yuzu and Ume had for dinner. anyhow the place that I took her was a Chinese restaurant. From the outside, it looked horrible. Hard wooden planks written with ''Fu King Chinese Restaurant'' andold wooden wall made the most of this restaurant, red lantern hanging around at the door, It was near impossible to see through the dirty windows, but the lively cheered from within can be felt outside. As we entered the restaurant through the dirty, wooden door,we were welcomed by a smoke that delivered delicious scent of szechuan styled food that pierced our nose. A golden dots appeared here and there, The cook was cooking something with a great fire, even though he was busy, he still welcomed us "Welcome to ''Fu King'' OH!! isn''t that Nashi!?" A man at his early 20, slick dreadlock hair, stripped eyes, a plain T-shirt that had seasoning stains, "Who''s that girl!?" Said the cook called Bando. "An acquaintance, anyhow! Special Fried rice Jumbo portion! with an half-boiled eggs! actually, you know what I want, hey Kurogane! Don''t be shy! the food in this place is tastier if you order the bigger portion!" Ah, the atmosphere itself was enough to raise my spirit. "....Same one, make it small" "Sorry! We don''t have a small portion in here! Two portions special fried rice is coming your way!" ".....Wait." "Ah! add some Gyoza, fried gyoza, steamed gyoza and soup gyoza!" ".....So you heard." "Heard what?" ".....You''re a bad liar." "Why though? ah! that seat is empty!" I said pointing out at the empty seat, simultaneously with several other people.In that split second that will be decided whether or not we were eating while standing or sitting, I saw fire flickering on others eyes, our faces were unreadable, one thing we all knew, there were no traces of fear on our faces,In that instant, we leaped to that table, I completely forgot about Kurogane, and trough the sheer power of luck, I managed to win this brawl. "Hey! come! sit right here!" I waved my hand back and forth, signaling Kurogane to sit in front of me. She walked with her head dropped down, I can feel the heat that growing on her cheeks, what followed her was an intimidation aura from the others that didn''t manage to get the table, if the said person wasn''t a strong one, no doubt they''ll run with a tail hiding between their leg. After waiting for 20 minutes, our food came, the one that brought it was the cook itself. It was a mountain of rice, filled with nothing but meat and vegetables inside it, it took a dedication for eating this special fried rice, As the side dish was three varieties of Gyoza. I ate, ate and ate, but I never saw the bottom of the plate, no matter how much I dig in, the rice just kept spawning endlessly, and no matter how much the time passed by, steam still flowing out from the fried rice. "How about it? I already make sure to reduce the portion." Said Bando. "....Still can''t finish it, by the way, I have too many Radiz meats, do you want it?" "Oh, someone gave it to you? Radiz huh, the texture isn''t that bad, but that thing was to dry, I''ll think about how to cook it." "Ah, I haven''t told you right, I became an Adventurers" "You are!? Since when!?" "....Around 2 weeks maybe." "Jeez, you should''ve told me sooner, have you bought an armor? do you want my old one? I can sell it cheaply!" "Business as always huh, well sorry, I already have two sets of armor." "Oh, is this girl Adventurers too?" Ah, I forgot about her, I looked to the Kurogane, she barely touched her food... oh, she was having a hard time eating it with only her left hand huh. "....Yes." She nodded weakly while blowing the fried rice and trying to put it into her mouth. "Ah... Sorry, I didn''t know you can''t eat hot food." I said regrettably. ".....It''s fine." "By the way what are your rank? Since you just started it must be somewhere between G or F, right?" "C/....C," Said both of us with a slight delay. "See, my guess is right, you two are G...WAIT!! A C-RANK!?" Surprised Bando yelled, if this an old cartoon, his eyes will be popping out because of this. "Yeah, things happen, speaking of rank, weren''t you a C-rank before you''re retiring?" "I''m not pension dude, I''m just taking a break." "Yeah, three years break, you know, even Titanium canget rust." The sound of bell resounded accompanied by the yell of an old man, "Ah, my break is over, sorry, you better told me the detail later!" In front of me, the same girl still trying to eat her food, though she stopped for a moment and said "....You two seemed close." "Yeah, I often come to this place with my father." "*fuuh* ...I see." "Ah, anyway, the fried gyoza in here is tasty." Maybe because she was interested from the way I said it, or something else, Kurogane shifted her gaze toward the gyoza, she tried to pick it clumsily with her left hand. Somehow it annoyed me.... "Just use your hand." "....It is dirty." "Well, use the fork then." ".....I''m not a child." "*sigh*" I took another pair of chopstick, grabbed the gyoza and jokingly trying to feed her "Here, Aaaa..." "....*Hap*"...The fuck!? Did she eat it for real? Her small mouth can only bite the half of gyoza, and one more time, my hand still froze because of the shock and she moved her lips that covered in oil and sparkling like a star and ate the other half. ".....Yeah, it''s tasty." "...Ah! Told you, anyhow it''s fine if we don''t finish the gyoza, the steamed and fried one can last for one day." ******** "So? What''s the emergency?" Said the eye-patch girl or Riku, even though she had the same rank as Tsukiyama in a sense, she still his subordinate. "My guts telling me something isn''t right, I just want more firepower." An old man with thin mustache and stuck out nostrils replied to her. "Please stop calling me because of that, *Sigh*." "Anyhow, I got a report that you never attend the school? even though I already prepared everything first hand." "Didn''t feel like it...School is so boring~ why do I need to learn about calculus? I can live just fine with only simple equation." "....This was part of the deal, Riku, I already made a promise to your parent about this matters." "So? is that matter?" "Of course it is!! A man never broke his own promises! Anyhow, I already registered you in a new school! Make sure you attend it!" "What!? IS that the reason you called me back!?" The Ivory-haired girl stood up, walked to the door and slammed it, it created a sound that can beat the tempest. "Wait!! Nana! Go tell her about your school!" "Yes!, Senior! Wait for me!" "Oh, for god sake, [Fortune Telling] is activated out of nowhere again, Tempest... A storm." "Captain, can we report right now?" Two men, one with a spiky hair one with a slick hair, waiting in front of the door, both of them bring a mountain of reports. ************ "This, there are 8 types of [Ability] from the top left to bottom right are Ice, Lightning, Wind, Earth, Light, Body Strengthening, Sword based and Shield based." "For the reminder, no matter what, do not tell anyone about this, not yet." 1.15 Rain Is Falling "That boy, he has two siblings,one is 15, Kamiya Ume, a G-rank Adventurers, one is Kamiya Yuzu, 5 years old, his parents were murdered 4 years ago, seems like his relatives avoided the responsibilities for taking care of him, right now, only on paper his legal guardian is his aunt, and captain, do you remember the case where Riku used her [Ability] and attacked a civilian 4 years ago? the same civilian was the one that killed his parents." "...I see, what a crazy coincidence, anything else?" "He has a criminal record for stealing. And, this isn''t important, but today I trained with him and the other girl if i must say, this boy is weak, he is only good at improvisation, that''s all." "Ho~, alright Akechi, from now on I want you to give me the report of their progress." "....Sir, it''s not like I''m questioning your judgment, but he is a big disappointment." "Gahaha."a noise that came from Tsukiyama''s mouth filled the room. He ignored Akechi and shifted into the next matter. "Yes, sir! lately, there is another Deinosuchus discovered in France and Mexico, though they are varied in size, the feature and characteristic is the same one. This is only a hypothesis, but we from R&D believed this creature is man made." "Seems like we will busy again." ** Against the dark night sky, all I could see was a crumbling wall, The wind sneaked through its gap, bringing with it the crying of children. I opened the door and welcomed by nothing but a darkness. A girl curling at the corner while a baby laying down on a floor. Slowly, I reached to the curled girl that looked like a ghostthat readied to make croaking sound (If a robber broke in, I bet he''ll be scared to death.) "...Hey, Ume, Happy birthday." I put the cake right in front of her and grabbed the baby, (...What do you want? *sigh* your diaper is clean, and you don''t want to drink your milk.) The girl responded to my voice, raised her head and showed nothing but disappointment when she saw the cake. A cupcake, with one colorful rainbow candle, with a fire that weakly danced on top of it. "Not hungry." *sigh* "C''mon, just eat it a little bit, you barely eat anything." Said me, while I tried to figure out what was Yuzu wanted. "I said I''m not hungry!!" A yellsuddenly burst out from her, she stood up and looking at me and Yuzu. ".......What happens to your face?" Said Ume, though it was dark, seemed like both of our eyes already got used to the darkness. "Oh?... I hit a wall." Yeah, I hit a power pole while I was running after stealing the cake, *sigh* I wondered why my face was the only thing that became blue. "............... [Daily Spin]" Ah... I felt a lightning jolted inside my body when she used that ''thing''. The thing that came out was a music box, the type with a mirror and a clown doll that will come out when it was being played. "...Sell it" she said. She walked next to me bringing the cupcake, split it in half and vaguely, I can see her face was bluer than mine. ".....Here, eat it." and gave me the other half of her cake.Stolen content alert: this content belongs on Royal Road. Report any occurrences. **** "......" I got up and looked at my face, the bruise that had covered my face in a blue stain faded as the hue of my skins returned. I prepared the breakfast by toasted 6 pieces of bread, as a side dish I made three sunny side eggs and sausage. Though contrary to the sunny side, the weather was a perfect description of gloomy, each time I cracked the egg, the cloud turned darker. *SREG* A sound of the sliding paper door can be heard, a child, still wore her animal-themed pajama, wobbling around with her half-closed eyes, she sniffed through the air, her nose pulsating every time she walked closer to the kitchen. "*sniff* ...Nii-chan something is burning." "Ah!!" While watching her, I forgot that I was frying an egg, a black smoke slowly filled the kitchen, by the time I removed the egg its color had changed into coal. Well, the breakfast today wasn''t that bad, except for this one egg. *sigh* I guess I''ll be the one that ate it. "Morn..." Ume yawned as soon as she entered the kitchen, her mouth gaped widely. She had a slightly pink-eyed look and slouched shoulder. "[Daily Spin]" A roulette appeared at the front of her faces, it slowly rotated and once everything was over, the prize we got for today was 10 pieces of darts with an elastic rope. "What is that!?" Said Yuzu with her sparkling eyes. "Dunno, hey, you want it? I sell it for 1000 yen each." "I need to buy it!?" "Well, duh, I need some pocket money, by the way, are you going to school?" "Didn''t I just gave you!? *sigh* yes, some kind of mission about escorting VIP or something like that." (Yeah, this sucks ass, what kind of VIP needed to go into a high school?) "Anyway, since you''re taking a day off, why don''t you take Yuzu to ''Fu King'', and don''t forget about the Radiz? She was slightly annoyed but still doing it, anyhowby the time I arrived at the school, rain poured down from the sky. A golden dot, written with Aguni Kyotaro ran just in time to get into the school entrance. Drenched in water, slouched shoulder and an eye-bag. "What happened?" I can''t help but ask. "Crazy instructor, *sigh*" No wonder Ume also looked very tired. nonchalantly I walked to my class, heck, none of my friends came to the school today, the rain became louder and louder mimicking the sound of broken TV. The teacher taught us half-heartedly, well can''t blame him, even I didn''t wanna come to the school today, looks like this will become a storm. "Right, we have a new student today." Said the teacher, he walked out until I can''t see him on my [Mini Map] soon, he entered [Mini Map] radius with another Golden dot. (Ah, must be the VIP) Both of them walked in, what I saw really captivated my eyes, words left me. Everything was slow and warbled as she came in through the door, my mind was blank and my eyes wide as I stared into her burning red eye, starkly contrasting black eye patch compared to her ivory colored hair. Shiny and paledeep scar of claw exposed at her right cheek, (Should I thank her? What should I do? Should I say sorry? Is she the VIP? How''s she got that scar?) though, the thing that my brain formulate for me was. "AAAAH!!! YOU''RE THAT GIRL!!" The girl didn''t even say her name and yet I stood up, yelled like that while pointing my finger at her, if there was a mirror right in front of me, I bet my eyes were sparkling like a star. "Sorry, do I know you?" Even though the rain was hard, I can clearly hear her, Her voice was different from what I remembered, it was raspy. "Ah, sorry." "Huh, what a weirdo, ah right, my name is Akamine Riku." She sat at the most back seat near the window, and the classbegun as usual. Though, the rain sure falling hard eh, even though there were no thunder or wind... the only thing that existed was a Green dot. Huh? Its number rapidly increased, I rushed to the window, ignoring the teacher and the student on my path. 6...10...20....40.... huh? the Green dotswere that many, but where were they? "Kamiya, is something matter?" Said the teacher. ".....80...86, but where?" I kept mumbling, ignoring her words, until vaguely I saw something at the ground. A puddle, that slowly shaped itself into a woman. The other puddles slowly followed these phenomena. 1.16 Noob "Lockdown! Teach! gather the student in a waterproof room! and you! are you an Adventurers!?" Riku yelled as soon as she saw the water woman. "In some way yes." "Good! Follow me!" Without a slight moment of hesitation, she grabbed her table and threw it into the window, water and glass fragment pouring down to my class. She followed by taking three red balls from the inside of her back and threw one of it to the outside while yelling "[RELEASE: JELLY] !". The ball flashing out with a red light, and another Green dot appeared, A green gelatinous mass that wiggled and jiggled when it touched the ground. With a single movement, she climbed onto the window and jumped. "...." I turned my gaze toward her, the wind whipped her hair, even though she was the onethat fell, my heart stopped for a moment, less than a second, she went downward at a speed that made my throat could hardly draw breath, all of the impacts from that falling got absorbed by that Jelly. "What are you doing!? Come down right now!" ...Like hell I can!! "It''s safe goddamnit! JUMP in right now before I took him out!" "..... Here goes nothing!!" I followed her, as gravity fiercely took me toward Jelly, I felt my eyes were being sucked into the backs of their sockets. "WAA!!! OUCH!" ... I bit my tongue, maybe screaming wasn''t a good idea, but still "AAAA!!"The second my body touched Jelly, it felt like I was drowning and being thrown out at the same time. "...It doesn''t hurt." "Do you need to scream like that? *sigh* this is why newbie is useless." ...She was an honest one eh. "[RELEASE: LIGHTON]" Same red flash turned back into a red ball and she threw another red ball, Ah... this was the one from back then. Though its blue mane became longer and his blue color became darker. "Why are you standing around for? Go cover the entrance." Yelled Riku, ah...right, why did I jump for!? ...ugh, I instinctively followed her. Still, I took out a knife and getting away from our position, let''s see... "[Map]" ... fuck, the right wing alone had more than 80 of this thing, and from the way it moved, was this happened on the whole city? Anyhow, by gathering some bravery, I ran toward the entrance, slipping through the mass of watery woman. *SMACK* "..Urgh!" Something smacked right at my face, ''6'' flying out from it, my vision was blurred by red color. How? I already made sure to run outside of their body range. "Are you a fool!? What''s your rank!? Naiad can use their hair as a whip." ...Should''ve told me sooner, *sigh* the blood cleaned away thanks to the rain, but damn... if I didn''t have cut resistance that will be more hurt eh. "Guh, [Tesla]" It was the same, she pointed her finger to Naiad, Lighton raised its star-shaped tail, and shot a high pitched electricity from it. It hit the Naiad and forked around to its surrounding. ...A one-hit KO, eight Naiads suddenly transformed back into a puddle. While I just threw a knife at Naiad body, like the Ooze, it easily created a gap on its body, but it didn''t seem to get hurt. "Seriously!? Naiad can only be beaten by [Elemental Ability], don''t tell me you don''t have a single one." "Yup, 100 for you." "Unbelievable! Just cover the entrance as long as you can." ...So I served no purpose of coming down? *Sigh* I began to move my feet, though this time it was easier to evade Naiad whip hair if one looked at them carefully enough, they always pulled back their head before used hair whip, though everytime I slipped through, one or two Naiad always followed me from behind. By thetime I almost reached the entrance, there were a couple of dozen Naiads swarming around at the entrance. (This is bad right!?) at my back, there were several other Naiads.Did you know this text is from a different site? Read the official version to support the creator. (Should I turn back?). " *pssst* Senpai! Senpai!" ... A baritone of someone voice reverberating through the rain and reached my ear I looked up and found someone waving around from the second floor. "Oh, Asato? Wait!! You''re not hiding!?" "I am still an Adventurers, anyway, both of Kyotaro-senpai and Serizawa is heading toward the left wing." Right, I forgot about them. "Anyhow, that''s Naiad, right? can you beat it?" Said Asato. He knew about it? I Should have studied more about this kind of things. "Give me your weapon, I''ll [Socket] it." The hell was that? Something like [Enhance]? Still I threw one of my knives upward, and he caught it... personally,I thought he will be failed to catch it. Asato Saika: Craft 5/5 [Enhance 0/5, Socket 1/5], Dismantle 0/5, Double Shot 0/5. I didn''t know what was he do, but the Naiad already here and whipped their hair. I duck under, sidestep, or otherwise stepped back, evading each and every one of their hair, though for each second passed, it became merrier. "I''m done!!" Said Asato, he threw something to the ground ... Oh, it had the same shape as my knife, but the color of its tip was darker. I ran and grabbed the knife. "Next time throw it closer! and whatever this is, do me another one!". "Sorry! Sorry! That''s the only magic stone I have." "Seriously? *sigh* Ah, Can you call Ume? I''m a little bit worried about her." Ugh... A single knife, against 17 Naiads. *sigh* let''s see, at least they weren''t surrounding me, though, If I ran a little bit to the entrance, another flock of Naiad will be coming. "[Return Throw]" A womanly shriek resonated when it pierced the first Naiad head and slightly sliced the 2nd one face. So this time they got hurt huh, but I can''t one KO-ed it. "[Return]" The same knife, flying back to my hand with the same speed I threw it, this time, it pierced three Naiad. "...Ah, the first one is dead. Yosh, Come on!!" ****** The old-fashioned restaurant was as badly in need of improvements,A rain-like sound was echoingfrom inside. Two girl, one aged 15, one aged 5 both were wearing a raincoat and brought plastic bags full of Radiz meat. "Woah, an earthquake~" Said Ume because the restaurant slightly shook because of the downpour. "An earthquake!?" Said Yuzu while shecovered her head with both of her hand. "Cut me some slack! we''ll renovate it when we have the money." Said Bando, the owner son. "Anyway, sorry for the trouble, I guess I make that Radiz into a pickle, ah have you two eat? and yesterday, your brother brought a girl." "Hoo~ this is interesting, tell me more about it." "Yuzu wantLo Mein~" While Bando made the food, amongst all the chattering, the sound of frying pan and pouring rain. A dub-step songs came out from Ume pocket. "Ah, a call? from Asato? Weird~ {Hello? I don''t like a guy shorter than me, so don''t call me again}" "...{You only one cm taller than me! *Ahem* a message from your brother, he said don''t come out from ''Fu King''}" "{...Why?}" Like a jinx, as soon as Ume said this, ''Fu King'' wall was torn apart, the rain was directly pouring down, drenching everyone inside it. Alongside it, a naked woman made from water flooding in. ".....No!! My restaurant!!" Said Bando''s Father. Though, the place that the Naiad flooding in was a restaurant, that always had at least one Adventurers eating inside it. "Geez... This is the reason why we never renovate this place." Said Bando. "Oi, Ume, you''re an Adventurers, right?help me over here and you! you have an aura of Adventurers, help me a little bit, I''ll treat you fried rice." He pointed toward Ume and another man with a face full of piercing and a tribal tattoo on his neck nodded at Bando words. "...But I don''t bring my bow!" Protested Ume. "I didn''t have it, how about a gun?" Said Bando, He grabbed a pea from a jar. "[Pea Shooter]." The pea slowly grew itself and changed into a gun. "Here, use it." It looked like a toy, A green plant, with a hole in front of its mouth, it had an appearance of a gun. "Oi, you, piercing guy, have a weapon?" "I''m fine with my [Ability] alone." Said Morio. "Alright, and Oi! Monster! Do you know that this shopping districtis sucked ass lately!? Stop making more trouble! Da! bring me chilly!" In unison, Bando''s father already brought a jar full of chilly and grabbed Yuzu that still stood around watching them. "Kick their asses, son!" "[Chilly Breath]" After he said that, he ate three pieces of Habanero chilly, his face started to turn red and *FWOOOOSH* A roaring flame of fire coming out from his mouth, vaporizing each of the Naiads that tried to break in. Peas at the size of a golf ball, flying out with the speed almost as fast as a bullet. "Tch! this doesn''t seem effective." Though, Ume lay down at the floor, and shoot the peas toward the burning wooden plank. The peas now flaming with a fire and created a smoke with hissing sound every time it touched Naiad body. "[Misdirection]" Morio, touched his temple, and every hair whip attack from the Naiad changed its direction into their own allies. 1.16 Noob (Part 2) "Guh! What the hell? Akechi! Go gather some the Adventurers and join up with the Guards and SDF to secure the perimeter, Nana! Follow the COMBAT team and listens to their order. Shima, come with me, we will help Police evacuate the civilians, Oh, Akechi contacts the other two! Tell them to keep an eye on Riku! and where is Jin!?" Tsukiyama, along with 18 other official Captain ordering each one of their members about this crisis. Next to him was another Captain of other groups. "...Mitsubishi, don''t you think this is weird? 10 minutes have passed and yet there is no official order about this matter." "Tsukiyama, I believe our priority right now is to evacuate as many citizens as we can." "You''re right, sorry." ** "[Sonic Stab!]" A white aura spear pierced the body of a frozen Naiad. "Nice Julia, .next target, the one on the left [Freeze]" "Kuhhh!! These Naiad keep coming! [Push!]" "[Ki Blast!] Leiko! Any news from the Guards and Adventurers!?" "Sorry to disappoint you, but other districts have a condition far worse than our school, [Lag]" **** " *Gasp* [Status]" Hp: 37, MP: 76, SP: 12, EXP: 1305/2400 Kh! After I killed the first 17 Naiad, they kept flooding into my location, at least the entrance was clear, but this is bad right? I was surrounded likeI was a bonfire and theywere the campers. "Senpai! move out!" Asato''s voice coming at the distance, but move where!? Ah, the sound of something breaking and the heavy smell of gasoline pierced my nose, it didn''t kill that many Naiads, but enough to make them scattered around. I dashed away from the besiege and cut through the fire. ''1'' ''2'' ''1'' *sigh* I didn''t know whether or not I should be grateful for this rain. As soon as the fire on my body extinguished, so did the fire on the ground. Though, he threw the Molotov like a rain, if this continued I guessed the right wing will be.. "Crap, Senpai! I ran out of Molotov." (....Stupid brain and stupid inner thought, *sigh* whatever, at least I had some rest), With a slightly renewed vigor, six pairs of watery whips tried to seize me again I evaded each one of it, called me crazy but was their movement became slow? For each second passed between running and slicing them, I recognized that something wasn''t right, From [Mini Map], I knew they slowly shifted their gazes away from me. after the 32nd kill a sound of bell rung inside my head and At the 38th they completely lost their interest in me. (Why? What arethey looking at?) "[Map]" I opened [Map] and scanned the area around me. "...Huh? Why are they moving toward the same direction? grouping up?"These Naiads that were fiercely attacked me 20 minutes ago now stopped moving. I checked things by stabbing one Naiad and it wasn''t reacting at all. (Well~ Free EXP!) I said in my mind while casually stabbing each one of them, at the 47th kill, they started moving to the said direction. A few moments later, the Naiad at the right wing and left wing slowly followed its predecessor. " [Map] ...Huh, the Naiads is completely gone from the school ground. Though, what is their reason for moving out? Ah, the others are coming." I closed [Map] and turned my head to her, "Did you kill all the Naiad!?" Said Riku. "What happened?" Asked Kyo, well I was wondering about the same thing. "No, and I don''t know, they''ve just suddenly stopped moving and start heading toward the same direction," I said while I was pointing toward the direction they were heading...... "The fuck!?" It didn''t getscanned at [Map] so at least it must be 50km away. A big Naiads that slowly became bigger as the time passed on, It moved its hands and readied to slam something. "A [Raid Boss]!?" Said Riku, pardon me but whoever gave this kind of terms playing too much game. "Lighton, to that direction!" She rode her abnormally sized blue dog with a mane. Its feet pounded the ground with all the grace of a wet mud, It gracefully springingits steps, the splashing noise of its paw met with the wet ground resonatedthrough the rain. "...Nashi, we need to keep an eye on her." Said Yuki, her breath was slightly ragged, her cat ears dropped down and her tail wasn''t lively, I wondered did she fight with a broken arm? "Oh, the escort mission?" She nodded weakly... "Hey, Yuki." I walked a little bit to her and touched her forehead. "What the! *sigh* get some rest, your body is crazily hot."Stolen from its rightful place, this narrative is not meant to be on Amazon; report any sightings. "....I''m fine." And then the Streaks of pure white crackled against a stormy blanket of grey clouds, In that violent illumination,the next thing I saw was that big Naiad already melted and a shrieking and thunderous sound echoed inside my ears. "Grh, what a crazy lightning... must be someone [Ability] huh. I guess that thing is dead." "....The escort." "Ah, right, *sigh* just take shelter, I''ll chase after her. Serizawa, could you?." "E..eh...ye..yes!"? Why were you stuttered so much? "....Wait, I''m *cough*" "You what? Seriously... just take some rest. [Map]" Let''s see... something that moved fast, two dots stacking on the top of each other, ah, found it,thanked God the area had been evacuated, but damn... this was only one minute and yet she already traveled for one km, how the hell I chased after her!? Even though I was protesting... I still chasing after her. "E...erm...did Kamiya-san and Kurogane-san just called each other by their first name?" "Oh, I didn''t mishear?" Said Kyo. "*Ssst* She''s still here!" Said Asato, while he tried to shut his friend''s mouth. "....So?" Said Yuki in a cold tone.
Name Title Level Equipment Condition Resistance
Kamiya Nashi ---- 5 (1130/4800) Blazer +3%Cold R Traumatize Cut +21%
HP(R/m) MP(R/m) SP(R/m) Shirt + 1% Cold R Light Cut (Face) Stab +40%
38/61(0.32/m) 76/87(0.39/m) 35/98(0.62/m) Pant +1% Cold R Light Cut (Right Arm) Bash +3%
STR END VIT Light Cut (Chest) Earth -31%
14¡ü2 (15) 10¡ü1 (11) 9¡ü1 (10) Fire +30%
AGI DEX LUK Wind +35%
21¡ü2 (24) 17¡ü1 (19) 23¡ü2 Water +95%
INT WIS CHA Metal -94%
12¡ü1 15¡ü2 18¡ü1 Lightning -40%
P. Atk P. Def C. Dmg Nature +59%
19-34 11-21 195% Ice +64%
C. Chance Speed (Km/h) Visual Acuity Light -74%
11.5% 56 1.48 Dark +85%
M. Attack M. Defence Debuff R Mental+30%
24-42 15-33 36% Force +20%
Ability
Mini Map (5/5): Mini-map has a diameter of 8 x WIS x m2. Shows the direction target facing. Shows Known target name.
Map (1/5): Shows 3 x WIS x KM2 of surrounding area
Detect (1/5): Detect Level 1 magic trap and hidden trap. Range: WIS x m2. MP: 1. Duration: 30s
Return Throw (3/5): Thrown projectile will return to your hand. Range: 75m. SP: 10. Two times use.
1.17 PvP "Hey, hey how do you guys beat the Naiad?" Asked Asato after his curiosity reached the max level. "....Sponge." "E..erm...Kurogane, you should rest some more." "Bwok!!" "....The chicken is noisy." "Bwok!?" Toriko so shocked until she can''t find the will to move her beak. "E..eh..Sorry, Toriko... be quiet" "Sorry, I don''t get it." "Naiad is just a moving water, right? So, sponge and wiper should absorb them." Kyo nonchalantly answered like it was the normal thing to do. "I see, by sponge and wiper, what!?" Yukino Lvl 4: Cat Folk 5/5 [Cat Claws 1/5, Cat Senses 1/5] Force Claw 1/5, Rage 0/5. AGI (3) and STR (3) Kyo Lvl 4: BGM 3/5, Volume 2/5, Cuffs 2/5. AGI, DEX, CHA, LUK, STR, INT Serizawa Lvl 4: Immortal Chicken 5/5 [Call 1/5, Command 0/5], Protect 1/5, Avian Empathy 1/5. WIS (4) CHA (2) Asato Lvl 4: Craft 5/5 [Enhance 1/5, Socket 1/5], Dismantle 0/5, Double Shot 1/5. LUK (6) **** "Ou~ Ume~ You ain''t that bad for a beginner!" Said Bando, while he showering Ume with other praises. "Nee-chan! You''re amazing!!" Said Yuzu with her starry eyes. "...Said the guy who kills four times more than me." Ume Lvl 4: Daily Spin 1/5, RNG 1/5, Knockback Arrow 5/5 [Bounce Arrow 0/5, Force Arrow 1/5] DEX (4), STR, INT. ******** It was one side running over the wet asphalt from the other, each time I reached her last location, she already moved a miles away. As I scanned the [Map] in the downpour, I chased her in desperation, until I suddenly realized she stopped moving. "*Gasp* Finally she stopped moving around." I was grateful by the time she stopped moving... or not. In front of her, there was another dot and then sudden spurts of speed happened, those two danced and twirled around from one building to the another like a maniac. No, I wasn''t wrong, I already keep her track many times over and there was no doubt that this was her. "You gotta be fucking kidding me!" *sigh* I closed [Map] and heading toward Akamine location, I was tired as hell, weary with the burden of clothes that became heavier because of the rain, and my bones that also became heavier every time I took a step. By the time Akamine dot and a Black dot appeared on [Mini Map], the noise of glass, the hoarse howl of a dog, the yelling of a girl can be heard. A blue spark of lightning and enormous dust making the building one by one disappeared from [Mini Map], "...The hell." With the great effort, I ran breaking a sweat and heavily panting in the least, my feet kissing the ground and the rain blinded my eyes. When I managed to see what was happening, A chestnut, frizzy hair hanged over the Venetian mask, black neat suit and derby shoes that clearly made not for moving, flying and surrounded by projectiles that were made from the chunk of boulders.This story has been taken without authorization. Report any sightings. "[Spark!]" Ah... that was the same [Ability] from the four years ago, though, this time it created faster. She pointed her finger toward that man. The blue-sparkling ball launched from Lighton''s mouth, zapping sound of electricity pierced through the rain and flying to that man. A couple of boulders moved into Man? face and blocked the spark. The blue sparkling ball met with the boulder created a white circle of smoke that slowly washed away because of the rain. Man? came out unharmed not even a single slight of dust stuck on his body. This time, Man? pretended that his finger was a gun and pointed it at her. "Crap! Lighton!" In a unison, Lighton grabbed Akamine away and Man? said "[Bang]" there was nothing came out from his finger, he only pointed it and The said location that was obliterated into nothing, created a hole with white dust coming out from it. "....This...this is how the real fight between [Ability] user huh?" This was too crazy, basically, the one that got hit first will be dead, both of their [Ability] had enough firepower to destroy the human-sized boulder. "...What should I do? Should I help her? no... I''m just going to be a burden... right, the mission is for escorting right, but how do I close in?" While hiding behind the rubble, I silently watched those two fighting, most of the time I can''t understand what was going in. Each time Man? pointed his finger, Akamine will run, Each time she used her [Ability] Man? will block it with a boulder. Though, if this dragged on, Akamine condition only worsened, she seemed ran out of a breath, even though it was raining, I bet she was drenched in her own sweat rather than the rain. On the other side, not a single sweat coming down from Man?....huh? this was unnatural right? the rain was pouring hard, and yet his body didn''t get wet. Aeromancy? no... his hair wasn''t moving. Hydromancy? that didn''t explain the boulder and flying, Vector? but vector can''t stay in one position, Gravity? it wasn''t clear but the raindrop was floating around and circled around his body before dispersed, Ah... Telekinesis can do this too, right? Yeah, most likely between Gravity and Telekinesis, still now what? both were equally bad, I can''t help herwith only that knowledge. Ah... "[Bang]" "Beugh!" The rain and dust had become enmeshed with raw pink flesh and was spotted with blood, from her right shoulder to her chest area there was no more clothes or skin, only raw and weeping flesh in various shades of pink and red. Lighton body was worse than her, its bone can be seen from the place I hid ...That looked painful, still, she stood up straight unlike the way people did when they were in pain. Holding the wound with her left hand, she tried to stop the blood poured onto the ground and soaking the rest of her clothes. "...*gasp* [Return: Lighton] *cough*" "Hoo~ you have a high magic resistance, I like it, hey how about show me the rest of your body?" Said Man? while he pointed his finger at her. "....*cough* fuck off." "Ah~ what a fierce looking eye, C''mon, stare more intensely toward me." Said the man like he was in ecstasy. He slowly descended and walked closer to her, maybe so he can saw her eye more clearly? pointed his finger at her right knee and it followed the same fate, next was her left thigh, now she was readied to kiss the ground at any time... fuck it. I faced my shoulder toward him, raised my front leg a little and "[Return Throw!!!]" and immediately running toward him. He reacted to my scream and turned his face around, yeah... it floated. "Guh!? What the fuck!?" The thing that I threw was a normal knife, but I tied my blazer with it and threw it as strong as I could. The knife floated and the blazer circled around at his face, not completely but enough to block his vision away. From the moment he flew down, it was clear that he controlled gravity, I meant was there a point for someone that could move his body with a telekinesis to walk around? this was only a wild guess though. I quickened my pace to an all-out sprint as theyelled from his mouth stopped, grabbed Akamine and ran away as fast as I can, by the time [Mini Map] shown he was facing toward me. "[Return]" The same knife that floated around at the back of his head flew back to my hand, created slashed his neck and created a trail of blood... Why? well, any kind of force at zero gravity was enough to make somethingcontinued to move, right? I didn''t know what happened after that, all that I knew, he shifted his gaze a little bit and I continued to run.