I'm hearing singing birds signaling morning.Opening my eyes, I see faint light from the cloth roof. It's a bit dazzling.Ah right, I slept in the wagon because the camping ground was a wasteland covered with stones yesterday.While lying down I look down to my chest and see a hand grasping my shirt loose. I look to the side, a beautiful black-haired girl is sleeping there while hugging my left hand.I've gotten quite accustomed to it but it makes my heart jump for a bit. If there's no age difference between us, I wouldn't be able to retain my reason.Next, I turn my view toward the opposite side.There, a girl whose head is being pressed by two gigantic pairs of hills is sleeping with an unpleasant expression, and the owner of the hills herself is hugging my arm while having an innocent sleeping expression on her truly beautiful face.Since it'd be too bad to wake everyone up, I doze off while enjoying the soft and nice fragrance of women.I peek at the wide neckline of Nana's pajama
Now then, for several days on this trip, let's activate numerous skills. I wouldn't use up half of my points even if I maximize all the skills that I've obtained, but since skills like [Appraisal] encompass several other skills in function, I'll exclude skills with questionable or redundant effects.First, I had wanted to level up Weapon skills, but I already acquired enough skills needed for close combat, so I'll put the other weapon skills in reserve. For once, since I've read useful appliances for Dagger skill from many history and tales, I activate it.I enable almost all Physical combat-related skills. Since the demerit from [Reckless Courage] skill seems to be high, I leave it inactive. I don't know the usability of Shield Bash so I only level it up to 5. If it's useful then I'll maximize it.Tactic skills are another one where I don't feel the actual effects, but I activate them all following Kagari's advice.I'm told that if I combine commands and cooperation together, the par
On the evening of that day, the "Guest" came relatively close by as expected, so I got up off the bed and went to the place where Mia and Tama were doing night watch."Change?""Too early~?""The change is still a bit later."I asked Tama to teach me the way to do [Enemy Search]."Nyu~?"She folds her short arms while looking troubled-looking cute. I want to poke at the wrinkle on her forehead."Lots of sound, different sound.""Same view, different color.""Nice smell, normal smell, bad smell.""Lots of sameness, lots of differences.""So, you understand~?"I listen attentively to her who's trying hard to convey.The point is to detect the finer differences from numerous pieces of information. "Don't think, feel.", like that?"I'll go inside the forest for a bit to try it. I'll raise my voice if anything happens, if you hear it then wake Liza up for help."I tell the two so and make my way through the forest.I've thought they would follow but it seems they're too sleepy for it.I'm
""Good morning, master."""Good morning."Lulu and Liza who have immediately woken up with the first sign of morning sun give me morning greetings.I let Tama down from my lap, and take Liza to the spear to apologize to her."T, this is."Even Liza is speechless.Since externally, her important spear looks like it has been scribbled. Let's apologize first before I say, "The performance has been improved.".After I make up my mind, I step forward toward Liza-- but, she's not looking at me.Seemingly to check on the spear's condition, she tries stabbing it many times. The red light that appears when she does a heavy blow is stronger than before."Master!"After she finishes swinging the spear, she comes closer to me. I decide to listen to her complaints before I make an excuse. Her voice's tone is a bit high, would be good if she's not angry."This is, it must be a reward right!"Since I don't understand the flow of the conversation, I ask her."Kagari was saying to Lulu, 'If you prope
It was already late in the afternoon when we arrived on the street of Nouki town. The disposal of the thieves took more time than I had thought.This town is the second biggest town within Earl Kuhanou's territory, it's situated in the typical fashion of a trading town. Nevertheless, the population is not more than 20000. The land size is also only about a fourth of Seryuu city. 30% of the population are slaves, but most are general or lower slaves, while criminal slaves are quite a few.The thieves--they were confirmed as thieves with the usual Yamato stone--were sold to slave traders that the gatekeeper had called. The men were worth 2 silver coins a person. The ones with bow or weapon skills and higher-leveled were even more expensive, but the women were cheaper. A middle-aged woman was worth only 1 silver coin.As a reward for suppressing the thieves, I was given 10 copper coins per head. Was the price right?The total amount to 48 silver coins and 140 copper coins. With this much
"Thanks for waiting, Nana.""Yes, master."Uh, did I make her wait too long?Maybe thanks to the hood she's wearing, there is no weird guy trying to pick her up, but she looks quite bored. Nana picks up my arm and begins to walk."Let's go, master."We're walking while linking arms. Umm, Nana-san? My arm is in heaven.Since the long cane I bought for Mia at the beginning is being a hindrance, I switch it to my other hand."What's wrong?""I learned it when Master was in the shop."What's this, I feel a bad premonition."When man and woman walk together, they unite their arms."She's saying so while having, "How's that" face, I can even hear the sound effect.I understand what she has learned, but there's no particular reason to part our arms, so let's go shopping while being like this.Since Nana looked like she really wanted to get praised, I read the mood and praised her. It's subtle, but She looks satisfied. And I'm also satisfied with the amazing feeling.First, let's buy clothes
"Shield"A transparent shape that looks like a Shield appears in front of me who's holding a short cane. The size is large enough to cover my whole body."Here I go~ Psycho Ball."The invisible magic ball fired by Kagari got repelled by the Shield and disappeared.Oh, a new indicator has appeared below my HP bar, [Shield HP], it says. The HP is 100, and it has decreased by one from Kagari's attack earlier. I wait for a while, but it's not restoring back."Is it alright for the next one?""Come at me.""Here I go Tsubaki-kun! This is, my Overdrive shoot!"Kagari fires Shock Wave while parodying something. The Shield shooks from that attack, but it's repelled just like with the psycho ball earlier.This time the Shield's HP decreases by 3 points. So it doesn't decrease by a fixed value, but depends on the spell huh?"Then, next, please use Magic Arrow, Nana.""Yes, master."A magic circle appears before Nana's forehead and the magic arrow is shot from there.The magic arrow disappears a
After we left the town, it was peaceful for three days, but for two days after that, we were attacked by thieves three times.Since they were just small-scale thieves with 7-8 people, we had Kagari do a preemptive attack with Shock Wave, and the beast girls to defeat the thieves.At the first battle, Mia attacked with Acid Mist, but it was too gruesome so I made her use Blind Mist and Mustard Mist the next time instead.If I fought right away, I could make short work of them, but since it looked sufficient with just the beast girls fighting, I was just standing by while watching them and being ready to cover them anytime if needed. And since the beast girls had the advantage of level and fighting experience compared to the thieves, my turn never came up.We didn't bring the thieves to where people live after we learned the lesson from the last time. We made them sleep with Kagari's magic, stripped them of all their equipment besides their clothes, and left them tied with ivy rope. If