Chapter 2: Putting in Effort as an Adventurer
Chapter 2: Putting in Effort as an Adventurer
I decided to stay at the inn that was recommended to me, the “Griffon’s Nest.”
The name called forth some complicated feelings since I had just passed straight through their territory, but... well, it’s just a name.
It was 8 silver a night for those staying with familiars. There was a shed in the back for familiars just like before, so I had Fel head there.
As for me, I went to my room for the moment to prepare for dinner — that is, to buy the ingredients for tonight’s menu with my Online Supermarket. Normally, I’d need about an hour to marinate the rockbird meat for the main course, but I could probably cut that down with a little prep work to make it easier for the flavors to sink in.
In the meantime, let’s spread my futon out on the bed, aaand... great.
It’s about time; if I don’t head over to Fel soon, he’ll probably force his way in here.
I took my bag, in which Sui had been sleeping this entire time, with me to where Fel was waiting.
“Sorry to keep you waiting, Fel.”
“You are late. I am so hungry I am not sure what to do with myself.”
“Ah, sorry. But it might take a little longer.”
“WHAT—?!”
Please don’t make that pathetic face at me like you’ll start wailing any second now.
I felt a little sorry for him, so I went ahead and bought ten packs of menchi katsu for him.
《Food—?》
Ah, Sui woke up too. I’ll get another five for it.
“You two, eat these for now and wait.”
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Now then, first is the broccoli for the garnish. Slice the broccoli into appropriately-sized pieces and run them under water, then boil in water with a little salt added in. Once the broccoli is finished boiling, take it out and let it cool. If you cool it in the water, it’ll turn soggy, so I’d recommend against it.
If asked why I chose broccoli, I could only answer that it was because I like broccoli. Broccoli goes well with mayonnaise. I’ve always used broccoli to accompany this dish I’m making.
As for the main dish, I’m thinking tandoori chicken.
Inside a vinyl bag (prepared earlier in my room), marinate the meat in a mix of plain yogurt, grated garlic and ginger (both from tubes), as well as salt and pepper. Add in powdered curry, and mix.
Then, cut the rockbird meat into appropriately-sized pieces and poke with a fork to open holes in them before putting the meat in the bag and massaging. Leave it to marinate for a while and the meat will be ready.
Heat a pan with olive oil before putting the meat in and frying starting from the skin side. Once both sides are browned, the meat is done. Stack the tandoori chicken on a plate with the accompanying broccoli and a lot of mayo, and the dish is complete.
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“It’s done—”
Fel and Sui both rushed over and started eating as if they’d been waiting their whole lives.
“This is a strange taste, but it is still delicious.”
《Yeah. Sui likes this too!》
Curry flavor, with its abundant spices, might be an unknown flavor here. But still, I figured it would go over well.
I bit into my share of the tandoori chicken.
Ahhhh, delish.
Eating this made me want to eat curry. There really were times when you just really craved it. For my part, it wouldn’t even have to be the fancy type; I preferred homemade-style curry.
In my case, I liked to use two different kinds of curry roux. One would be half a portion of my usual roux, and the other half would be some new store-bought roux. I always felt like doing it that way made the taste fuller, more varied. It was just a little habit of mine.
Thinking about curry only made me crave it more. I guess I’ll have to make curry with a larger portion of meat.
Fel and Sui both ate a surprisingly wide variety of stuff, so it would probably be fine. And I could always just cook some steaks if they started complaining.
《Master— more.》
“Me as well.”
Sure, sure.
I cooked up another serving of tandoori chicken. I also enjoyed the taste of curry after a long while as I cooked it. Of course, even the boiled broccoli and mayonnaise on their own were tasty.
Next time would be a real curry rice.
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After returning to my room and putting Sui to sleep, I started thinking of the future.
First, I wanted to do something about my adventurer rank. I’d definitely need their butchering services in order to obtain meat, so just withdrawing is not an option. But still, as a G-rank, my deadline for taking a quest or the revocation of my registration was only a month.
I’d only felt this while traveling, but on the road, a month tends to pass by in a flash. So, I was thinking of raising my rank while I was staying in town. I’d finally arrived at the stable country of Leonhardt, so I’d like to go around and see the sights, but it wasn’t like I was in any particular hurry. If I made F-rank, I’d have three months to play around with, so I should have enough leeway for travel.
In other words, I was planning to stay here until I reached F-rank. One could call it luck, but thanks to making the acquaintance of Lambert and Phoenix, I’d gotten quite a few people I could rely on here.
Only, since I never actually intended adventuring to be my main job, even if I planned to raise my rank, I didn’t really have any idea what the best way to go about that would be.
That was why I was going to go to the guild tomorrow and ask about it. The number of requests taken definitely had an effect on ranking up, so I was planning on taking a request as well.
I guess there’s no other way than to just work up steadily, bit by bit, by gathering herbs.
What am I doing, me? It’s not like I really want to become an adventurer...
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Ohhh shit.
I’d almost forgotten again.
That thing, the tribute to that disappointment of a goddess. I was about to be complained at again.
Let’s just get it over with quickly and go to sleep.
“Uhhh, open the Online Supermarket...”
I wonder what would be good...the last time I went with a smorgasbord of western confections, so this time Japanese sweets would be good.
First up is red bean daifuku, strawberry daifuku, and manjuu, I think. Oh, they have manjuu with a whole chestnut inside, let’s get that too. I should also get these skewered dango with the sauce, red beans, and sesame seeds. Uhhh, after that is... castella, and some dorayaki again since the theme this time is eastern sweets. I’ve offered dorayaki before already, but knowing that goddess, she won’t complain. Ah, and an entire block of youkan, just to clinch the deal.
“Right, this should be enough.”
I paid for the stuff I was going to offer as tribute to that disappointing goddess, and placed the goods on my cardboard altar.
“Oh great Goddess of the Wind, Ninrir, please accept these humble offerings of mine. I am grateful for the divine blessing you have bestowed unto me. Please continue to watch over me in the future.”
While offering my prayer, the goddess’ voice appeared in my head.
＜Oohh, I have been waiting! If you were any later, I was thinking of sending an oracle to warn you.＞
Hey, didn’t I offer quite a lot before? Are they really already gone? You’ll get fat if all you eat is sweets, you know? I have no idea if gods can actually get fat, though.
＜A-A god such as I would never get fat! I-I am forever beautiful!＞
Huh? What are you stuttering for?
＜Sh... Sh-Sh-Sh-Shut up. It’s not like I ended up finishing those sweets in three days because they were too delicious!＞
Goddess, you really are a disappointing person (god?), aren’t you? You’re basically telling the world yourself. That can’t be good.
You’ve been saying that there’s no way you’ll get fat, or that you’re beautiful, but there’s no way I can trust you on that. From your stuttering, I can tell that even gods probably get fat if they eat too much. More than that, eating all that food in three days will definitely make you fat no matter what.
＜Grrrr, this topic is over. More importantly! What are you offering this time?＞
Yeah, I’m glad I’m only hearing her voice. It’s just sweets, how excited can you get? If the goddess were here in person, she’d definitely be tripping over herself to get right up to me to ask.
＜What did you say? ‘Just’ sweets? YOU FOOL! Sweetness reigns supreme!＞
S-Sure, you don’t have to get that mad.
...Wait, I’d noticed this before, but you’re totally just reading my thoughts, aren’t you? Stop that. This is definitely an invasion of privacy.
＜Hmph, what ‘invasion of privacy’? I am a god. There is no such thing as privacy in the face of a god. If I wanted, I could view your life from beginning to end, even understanding your thoughts is as easy as picking something up off the ground. I am a god, after all. Am I not great? You should worship me.＞
......’Zat so? It might be awesome, but hearing it out of your own mouth is...
You really are a disappointing goddess.
I’d really appreciate it if you’d keep yourself out of my thoughts as much as you can. And please refrain from watching the entirety of my life. It’s not like my life is particularly interesting. Not to mention worship? Please don’t ask the impossible. Please look back at your own actions and figure out why.
Oh great sweets-loving disappointing goddess.
＜Grnnnnnngghh, I am not disappointing!＞
Ahhh, sure, sure, you’re right. This is going to get annoying, so let’s change the topic.
“Uhhh, I’m offering Japanese sweets this time. Sweets originating from my home country. Just as you have requested, I’m offering lots of confections with the black and sweet anko like red bean buns and dorayaki.”
＜What?! Sweets with that ‘anko’?! I can’t resist that tender sweetness that isn’t too heavy.＞
As expected of the disappointing goddess. How easy.
“Just as you can see, I have also once again prepared dorayaki.”
＜Oohhh, dorayaki! You’ve done well!＞ It seemed that she’d really taken a liking to dorayaki.
“Well then, please accept the offering.”
＜I understand. Let’s hurry up and get these to the divine realm—!＞ The sweets that were placed on the cardboard altar were wrapped in a faint light and disappeared. So that was how it got transported, I hadn’t looked too closely until now.
＜Mmhooo! There’s a lot this time as well. You’ve done a fine job!＞
Again, what does ‘mmhooo’ even mean? Truly, she’s a disappointment of a goddess.
＜I’m going to eat the dorayaki right now. *Mgmgm*... Mmhaaa—! This dorayaki is just as delicious as I remember!＞
What? Now it’s, ‘Mmhaa—’?
*Sigh* Let’s stop with the comic reactions to everything she does. I mean, she’s the disappointing goddess. Now then, let’s ignore that disappointing goddess and go to sleep already.
I couldn’t stay up forever keeping her company, so I hastily joined Sui in bed.
Haahh~ Sui really was my only source of healing in this world.
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Just like yesterday, I had Fel and Sui accompany me to the Adventurer’s guild. Thinking that it would be crowded in the morning, I arrived a little later and was able get through to the service counter easily.
“Uhmm, I’d like to ask something.”
“Yes, how can I help you?”
“Excuse me, but I’m currently G-rank. What should I do to get to F-rank?”
The receptionist looked surprised for a moment, like she was thinking, “What, you’re asking now?” But she still answered me properly.
In order to go up in rank, one must succeed in requests and build up a certain number of points. Also, there were tests for promoting above C-rank. I wasn’t even considering raising myself past C-rank, so I figured the tests had nothing to do with me.
You needed 100 points to promote from G- to F-rank, but the requests a G-rank could accept usually only yielded 1 or 2 points, or 3 points at the most. G-rank was understood as being the training period for people to become real adventurers, so one was expected to learn the ABC’s of adventuring during their time as a G-rank. Those not suited to adventuring would naturally drop out, and those who would make adventuring their livelihood would learn a lot.
Taking all that into consideration, the points for getting out of G-rank were set a little high.
I see, so that’s why...
I wasn’t told any of that when I registered as an adventurer. Well, I wasn’t going to make adventuring my livelihood, but I’d already reregistered once and I’d like to get to F-rank, so I guess I would put in some effort.
“Ah, promoting from G- to F-rank usually takes around three months at the fastest, and normally around half a year. Please try your best, sir Mukohda.”
Ehh? Th-That long? I might have underestimated being an adventurer... Actually, she said three months at the earliest, but it’s pretty much a given that I’d take longer than that.
I’d be staying here for a long while at this rate: G-ranks have such a short deadline for requests, and it takes so long to get to F-rank, G-ranks really don’t have the leeway to take long traveling requests.
When I asked the receptionist about that, I got laughed at.
In the first place there were no requests available to G-ranks that needed travel. As long as there weren’t extenuating circumstances, a G-rank would never abandon taking requests to make F-rank just for the sake of travel. That’s why it was normal for adventurers to stay in the town they registered in until they got to F-rank, apparently.
Meanwhile, I had taken one herb harvesting request after registering and left on a journey.
That was a terrible idea, huh~
Yesterday, the receptionist said, “The time limit is the shortest for G-ranks, though people like you pop up every so often.” But she might have just said that to be nice. After all, from our conversation just now, it seemed that unless a person was not suited to be an adventurer or had extenuating circumstances, it was normal to just build up points until reaching F-rank.
Hahh, it seems I didn’t know anything. I need to stay in the Adventurer’s guild, so let’s just put in some effort here. The goal: F-rank.
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I looked over the request board, thinking that I should take a request immediately.
Just as the receptionist said, it seemed that the requests that a G-rank could take were limited. Most of the requests were errands to be run in town.
The point value of requests should be written in the bottom right corner of the paper... Oh, found it.
All the requests that consisted of errands were worth 1 point. Other than that, all that was left in G-rank was herb harvesting. That was worth 2 points. Subjugation requests were basically nonexistent in G-rank, but there was one in the form of goblin hunting. It was worth 3 points.
Hmmm, there’s not a lot of choice. But still, the best one is obviously herb harvesting when you think about it. Let’s take that one.
As soon as I put my hand on the herb harvesting request paper, Fel called out to me with telepathy.
《Take the goblins.》
“What? No way. Don’t wanna. Wait, Fel you can read?”
《Who do you think I am? Reading human language is nothing for me, who has lived for so long.》
Right right, I see I see. But still, I refuse goblins.
When I once again put my hand on the request for herb harvesting, I got another, 《I thought I told you to take the goblins!》 from Fel.
“And I said I didn’t want to. The herb harvesting request is better.”
《I was listening to your conversation, and you need those points or whatever, no? If that is so, then you should take the goblin request, which is worth the most points.》
“No, I’ve decided to collect points considering safety first (carefully).”
《What are you saying. At that rate we will never make it to the ocean.》
Whaaat?! Since when were we aiming for the ocean? “The ocean? I never said one word about going to the ocean.”
《I decided to go when I remembered how tasty sea serpent and kraken are.》
What the heck?
《That is why I must have you become an F-rank or whatever quickly.》
Even if you say that, I’ve gotten nothing but traumatic experiences from goblins. Thanks to a certain someone.
《Sui, what do you think? Do you not want to fight and shoot your Acid Bullet?》
Sui poked out from my bag in response to Fel’s telepathy. 《Are we gonna fight? Sui wants to shoot a lot, like pew pew!》
《See? Even Sui is saying that.》
Grrr, he pulled Sui to his side...
“Sui, instead of going ‘pew pew,’ let’s go pick some medicinal herbs. They can be turned into a lot of different medicines.”
《Ehhhh, Sui can make medicine already, going pew pew is better.》
Ghhh, that is true. Sui had a skill that allowed it to make potions.
《Even Sui is saying all that. Just take the goblin subjugation request.》
《Goblins? The green ones? Sui wants to go pew pew and kill the goblins—!》
S-Sui?
《Just give up.》
Grrrrrr... I-I’ve lost. I just couldn’t say no to Sui going all, “Kill them all like pew pew—!”
I took the goblin subjugation request off the board and brought it to the receptionist.
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Having taken the goblin subjugation request, we had come to the forest east of town. I had heard from the receptionist that goblins recently started showing up often in said forest.
Killing five goblins would complete the mission. The reward was 3 silver, and I would get 3 points.
Let’s just kill some goblins quickly and go back. Yeah, that would be best.
After walking around the forest a little, we quickly found some goblins— three of them.
《Master—, can Sui go pew pew?》
“Sure.”
*Pew, pew, pew!* The goblins were hit by Sui’s Acid Bullets and fell with a thud. All three of the fallen goblins had a large hole in their torso.
...What power, as always.
“That’s good, Sui. I need to take the ears back as proof that we killed the goblins, so no hitting them in the head. Hit them in their torso like you did just now.”
《Got it—》
That was no lie; I had to bring back their right ears as proof of subjugation. Ughh, I don’t wanna do it. But I can’t not do it......
I took my knife and plunged it through all at once. I put the ear in a jute bag I had bought from a general store on the way here.
Agghh, it’s disgusting. Let’s just find our equilibrium and go.
We once again set off through the forest to find goblins.
“Hey, there are five over there.”
I found them easily when I turned to where Fel was looking when he said that.
《Can Sui do it?》
“Wait, Sui. You do it this time.”
Fine, fine. We were in a forest, so I should use Stone Bullet instead of Fireball here, I think. Right, let’s concentrate.
“Stone Bullet!”
The Stone Bullets hit the goblins. Two of them fell without a fuss. It didn’t seem to have much of an effect on the other three, though, and they rushed over while raising their clubs and screaming, “Gugyah gugyah!”
“Stone Bullet! Stone Bullet! Stone Bullet!”
The goblins that rushed me fell over.
Whew, I somehow managed to win. So there’ll be some left alive if I don’t shoot at least three at once. I’ll need to be careful.
I timidly went to harvest the right ears of the dead goblins.
So this makes eight. Somehow I managed to get through it.
“We got enough for the request, so let’s just go back...... Fel?”
I called out to Fel, but after sniffing around at the ground a little, he gazed at something far off.
“What’s up?”
“There is a goblin settlement over there.”
“Huh? Settlement?”
“We are going.”
“Don’t ‘we are going’ me — I’m not going.”
“What are you saying? Is it not true that we will get points by hunting goblins? If so then we will get many points for going to the settlement and hunting all the goblins there.”
That’s true, but I have really bad memories of goblins — no, goblin settlements in particular.
“Sui, you want to fight more, do you not?”
《Yeah, Sui wants to keep going pew pew!》
Grrnn, this bastard’s drawn Sui to his side again!
“Huh? Sui, that’s enough already, so let’s go back to town.”
《Ehhh? Don’t wanna. Sui wants to keep shooting like pew pew— Master, please—》
My precious Sui, just why did you become so warlike? Even though you’re usually my only source of healing, so cutely jiggling and jumping around...
“It is settled. Stop this useless resistance. Hurry up and get on.”
Ghh, I’ve lost again.
《I can go pew pew? Yay—!》 Sui looked happy as it jumped up and down around me. It jumped into my chest, jiggling, and said, 《Master, thanks! I love you—!》
Khhhh... Sui’s so cute! I don’t even care that it likes fighting so much anymore. Sui’s cuteness is unbeatable.
“Oi. Hurry up.”
Fine, fine. Even though I was finally able to enjoy Sui’s cuteness.
Getting Sui to enter my bag, I hopped onto Fel’s back.
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Peeking over at the settlement while making sure the goblins wouldn’t notice me, I found it swarming with goblins, of course. “What do we do?”
“What do you mean, ‘what do we do?’”
“No, I meant, how are we gonna attack the settlement?”
“Of course we are doing it the same way as before.”
The same as before? You mean just charge right in? Nonono. No way. There’s gotta be a plan or something, right?
“Stop spacing out. We are going.” Without even waiting for my response, Fel raised a howl.
Of course he would—!
Fel’s howl caused all the goblins to rush over. A huge number of them were heading this way wielding clubs, swords, axes and the like.
“I have made a barrier around you two, just as always. I will go hunt the high ranked ones, and leave the chaff to you and Sui.” Fel dashed away, leaving those words behind.
WHY IS THIS HAPPENING AGAI———N?!!
《Uwah, there’s a whole bunch of green ones! Master— can I go pew pew?》
Sui crawled out of the bag. That’s right, unlike before, Sui was here now.
“Sure. Go pew pew a lot. Sui and I are gonna kill all the ones here.”
《Sui and Master will do it?》
“That’s right. Sui and I will kill everything. Can you do it?”
《Yeah— Sui will try!》
“Then let’s go.”
《Yeah!》
After that was hell.
I just kept firing off the two spells I could use, Fireball and Stone Bullet, as much as I could. Sui was also shooting its Acid Bullet left, right, and center. Its accuracy was amazing, hitting everything it fired at.
To tell the truth, I was a little on edge, worried Sui might hit me on accident. The beams were so powerful I couldn’t help it. But I worried for nothing; Sui only hit enemies with its Acid Bullet.
How dexterous.
Sui was steadily killing more and more goblins with its Acid Bullet. I kept firing my spells so as not to lose to Sui.
Just like that, the battle ended before an hour had passed.
“Whew, I’m tired. It’s finally over.”
《We did it! Master, they’re all dead—!》 Sui was happily bouncing around.
I didn’t pass out this time, but I did feel plenty tired. Meanwhile, Sui was still full of energy. Sui’s battle potential was pretty impressive, it had killed about 80% of the goblins here. It impressed on me once more just how strong Sui was.
Looking around......... the surroundings were buried in corpses. This was no exaggeration. The ground was completely covered with a layer of goblin bodies.
“So you are finally done.” Fel slowly sidled up to us.
“What about you, Fel?”
“I finished my end a long time ago. There was a goblin king and generals, as well as mages and soldiers.”
Ahh, that so? So there was a goblin king. Well, with a settlement this big...
There were over 200 goblin corpses spread out in front of me.
“*Sigh* It’s gonna take a while to cut off all those ears.”
“You are the only one who can do it, so get moving.”
Yeah yeah, I get it. I silently got to work harvesting goblin ears.
There were a couple of goblins that were turned a ghastly pale like a zombie out of a movie due to Sui’s Acid Bullet, but I pretended not to see those and concentrated on harvesting ears. I understood then what it meant to turn your heart into nothingness.
I had finally finished harvesting all the ears at close to the three-hour mark. There were 227 in total — a terrifying number.
Wait a minute...
“Hey, Fel, did the goblin king and other evolved forms you hunted have magic stones?” I passed out last time, and so it never came to mind, but kings and the like seemed like they should have a magic stone.
“The king? It had a small one.”
So it did have one. Right then, let’s bring it back — it would be a waste not to do so. As for the others, I’m not sure, but I might as well bring them back just in case.
I stored the goblin king, the three goblin generals, two goblin mages, and seven goblin soldiers in my Item Box.
I was going to head back, but looking around, a thought suddenly occurred to me.
“Fel, is it alright to leave all these goblin bodies alone?”
“What do you mean?”
“I mean, it seems pretty unsanitary, and the smell might attract monsters, I thought.”
“There would probably be monsters that come to eat the corpses, yes. That is the natural order of things.”
“That’s true, but won’t there be too many monsters with this many corpses? And it would be trouble if there was a strong one among them. This place is close to town, after all.”
“You have a point. If that is the case, then just burn the corpses.”
Even if you tell me to burn them, with this many bodies... Not to mention, if we accidentally set the forest on fire, it’ll be a huge incident...... Ah, but we have Sui.
I realized that, with Sui, we had another option.
“Sui, can you go ‘pew pew’ on these green ones and melt them?”
《Yeah. Is it okay to melt all of the green ones?》
“You can melt all of them. Can you? Please?”
《Got it. But wait a little...》
When Sui said that, it started jiggling frantically.
............What? S-Sui?!
Sui enlarged suddenly after its jiggling fit was over. Sui became two and a half meters wide and about a meter and a half tall. It might be a little bigger than Fel, now.
I appraised Sui when Fel reacted with a, “Sui has evolved.”
【Name】 Sui
【Age】 1 month
【Race】 Big Slime
【Level】 2
【HP】 684
【MP】 679
【Attack】 668
【Defense】 674
【Agility】 682
【Skills】 Acid Bullet, Potion Creation, Cloning
.........Sui, since when did you become a big slime? You’re already level 2, so it wasn’t just now. Not to mention, not only did Sui’s stats go way up but he’s even got another skill. It says ‘Cloning,’ but what kind of skill is it? Did Sui become bigger thanks to the skill?
“Fel, have you seen this ‘Cloning’ skill before?”
“I have not. Normally a slime would mitose once its level gets high enough, and that would be it.”
Hmmm, I don’t get it.
“Sui, it looks like you’ve got a new skill named ‘Cloning’ when you evolved; did you become bigger because of the skill?”
《Dunno. Sui can become bigger or smaller though.》
“Bigger or smaller?”
《Uhmm, Sui will try, so watch.》
Saying that, the enlarged Sui began to jiggle. Multiple small slimes split off from Sui, and Sui returned to its previous size.
《Everyone— go melt the green ones—!》 The smaller slimes all started crowding around the goblin bodies, and they popped, spreading liquid everywhere. The liquid was apparently acid, as it visibly started dissolving the dead goblins.
Not even the bones were left. Fel and I were both aghast at the sight.
“Fel, have you seen this before?”
“No, not even with my long life have I seen something like this.”
Sui, what the heck is that? “Sui, what are those smaller slimes?”
《Mm— those are also Sui.》
“‘Also Sui?’”
《Uhmm, Sui can get bigger if Sui wants, but if Sui wants to be smaller Sui splits up like that. The other ones can talk to Sui for a while, but after a long time we can’t talk any more.》
Uhh, so Sui can get bigger thanks to the skill, and can also use the extra mass added on by the skill to split? And Sui can communicate with those parts for a short time, but loses contact after some time has passed. I see, I see.
“So, what’ll happen to those slimes?” I’m curious about that part.
《Uhmm, Sui is here, so the other ones will disappear after a long, long time.》
So they disappear after a while. That means they have a lifespan. Hahhh, what an amazing skill.
Even if the split bodies have a lifespan, from what happened just now, it’s at least ten minutes. Thinking like that, you should just send your split bodies to attack as a long-distance assault, and even ambushes would be easy. And if the split bodies could even use Sui’s Create Potion skill, it would become quite a factory.
“Sui just seems to keep getting stronger and stronger...”
“Indeed. But getting stronger should not be a problem.”
That is true, but...
《Master— hungry.》
“Hm, I am, too.”
Ahh, I had thought it was about time for those two gluttons to say something like that.
“Well, being here is ruining my appetite. Let’s eat after going back a ways.”
No matter how hard I tried, I could not picture being able to stomach food with all those goblin corpses around. With that settled, I put Sui in my bag, got on top of Fel, and rode off.
After a while, I told Fel, “Around here should be fine. I’m a little tired, so are you guys alright with just snack buns?”
“Anything is fine, just hurry up.”
Fine, fine. I bought the buns from my Online Supermarket, choosing the usual jam, cream, and red bean buns, as well as melon bread and chocolate cornets. And, the necessary accompaniment to this bread — canned coffee.
“This is new.”
Fel gave the new melon bread and chocolate cornets a sharp look.
“I know I know, I’ll give you a bit of everything, so hold your horses.” I separated the food from its packaging and arranged them on a plate before handing it over to Fel and Sui.
《This is tasty—!》
“Indeed, it is delicious. The new ones as well.”
It seems Sui took a liking to the buns as well. And Fel was happy with the melon bread and chocolate cornets, too. As for me, I bit into a red bean bun with my canned coffee in hand.
Ahhh, delicious. The sweetness seeped through my tired body.
Still though, I wonder why a simple goblin subjugation turned into destroying an entire settlement. Hahh~ Well, if this turns into 100 points then it’s fine, I guess. I was prepared to stay for a long time, but I ended up finishing today. It’s a little...