Volume 1, Chapter 26 – Training in Life Skills

“You want to learn how to make food?”

Inside a place that looked like a food storage room, a girl with long silver-white hair, Yivrea, looked at her curiously.

“Why did you suddenly get that idea?”

“Wuu, well, since I’m only staying here for now… eventually I’ll have to learn to take care of myself…”

Tianyin answered honestly. After all, if she ever ended up hungry again and got stuck with that low Hunger debuff, and on top of that didn’t know where to find food, even if she somehow had ingredients, she wouldn’t be able to make proper use of them. Just thinking about that was dreadful.

So yes, she absolutely couldn’t let herself starve to death as an NPC!

“I see… well, in that case, if you want to learn the food-making skill, then study it properly, alright~”

“Though honestly, it’s not that hard~”

“Really?” Tianyin was a bit curious, but since Yivrea said so, she probably wouldn’t lie to her anyway…

“Of course. Technically speaking, food-making counts as a kind of skill. In the traditional sense, it falls under what we call life skills.”

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“Life skills?”

Tianyin felt like she had learned something new. Until now, she only knew about passive and combat skills. This was her first time hearing about life skills.

“Yeah, life skills. Food-making is just one of them. Aside from that, things like tailoring, blacksmithing, alchemy, those are all life skills too. There are actually a lot more types, but these are the more common ones.”

“I see…”

Tianyin thought for a moment.

“Then, Rea, could you maybe teach me some of the other life skills too?”

The reason Tianyin said that was because she had just come to a realization after thinking about it.

After all, as an NPC, aside from her pitifully low stats and skills whose effects she still didn’t understand, she basically had no noteworthy abilities.

Leaving aside that her combat power was trash-tier, she didn’t have any other means to make a living either.

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Yes, make a living.

Even if she had a small and cute body, living by selling her cuteness was absolutely unacceptable for someone who used to be a guy.

Yes.

If she could learn some life skills, then even if she couldn’t fight, she could still live well in this game world by relying on those skills alone.

So with that in mind, Tianyin made her request.

That is, she wanted Yivrea to teach her life skills.

Well, even though she said that, Tianyin couldn’t help but feel uneasy.

After all, she had only met Yivrea a few hours ago. Normally, suddenly asking someone for something like this would get rejected, right?

That thought made Tianyin feel like the odds of being turned down were pretty high.

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“Hmm, Xiaoyin suddenly saying something like that really puts me in a bit of a spot~”

As expected, Yivrea showed a troubled expression.

“Ah… if it’s troublesome for you…”

Tianyin was about to say that if it was a bother, she wouldn’t mind if Yivrea refused…

But before she could finish, Yivrea interrupted her.

“Well, I’ll agree to it.”

“Eh?”

Tianyin couldn’t believe her ears, her face turning blank and dazed, looking incredibly cute.

“Meaning, Xiaoyin’s request… Rea agrees to it~”

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“Really?”

Tianyin still couldn’t quite believe it and asked again to confirm.

After all, they had only just met, and a normal person would find such a request troublesome and say no…

“It’s true. But that said, even if I agree to teach you life skills, the learning process will be pretty tough, you know. Xiaoyin, you’ll need to be mentally prepared~”

“Wuu… y-you don’t have to worry about that, Rea!”

“Alright, since Xiaoyin’s already made up her mind, you can stay here for the time being and focus on learning.”

“Mmhm!”

You could say this was a pleasant surprise, couldn’t you?