Vol 2 Chapter 2 (1/2)

Chapter 2: Arisa

Satou here Since my office is located in the Holy Land of Sub-Cultures, the closest eatery is a er object to being called ‘goshujin-sama’

“More precisely, I a her do froht,Sato-san?”

Looking at all the info on this girl shown by the AR, nothing suggests that she used to be japanese or was ever named Tachibana Arisa

My own status, too, does not say anything about japan or Suzuki Ichiro

“Why did you go quiet all of a sudden? Did you know that you are the second japanese I’ve met here?”

Upon hearing that,on the other bed

“It’s not Lulu, okay? I have never randfather was japanese Isn’t genetics cruel? If she was born in japan, she could have become an idol”

“How so? It’s true that Lulu has low self-esteedom, no?”

“Of course Sato-san would think so Didn’t you hear Nidoren? To people in this world, she is no beauty”

“Did you use Mind Magic to—”

“I didn’t”

I was going to ask whether she used Mind Magic to , but I am immediately shut down

“By the standards of beauty here, she has a flat, featureless face, thin lips, non-white skin, and lanky butt; the perfect coincidence of all dislikable features But thanks to that, she hasn’t had a buyer”

Huh? If typical japanese features are disliked, then wouldn’t I also be considered an ugly man?

As if reading the concern on my face, Arisa adds

“Though far from a handsome face, Sato-san, people just think you have the looks of a foreigner But for Lulu, like gears perfectly ly but almost hideous!”

Though standards of beauty are often said to differ with ti her circumstances, probably fortunate

It does not sit ith me, but let’s just say that people here don’t consider Lulu to be a beauty!

Seees the topic

“So then, Sato-san, are you a Transrator or Translocator?”1

“Stop calling me ‘Sato-san’”

“Got~it, goshujin-sama”

I don’tcalled ‘Sato’ I et that my real name is Suzuki I admit there isn’t much of a difference, but still 2

“Getting back on point, goshujin-sama, which one are you?”

“What’s the difference?”

I respond to Arisa’s question with a question Even if she asks rator” or a “Translocator”, I wouldn’t be able to tell without knohat they mean

“Transrators are people who died in an accident or of natural causes in the original world, then was reborn in this one Translocators are people ere kidnapped to this world by a forceful su A Hero would be a Translocator”

Kidnapped…

With her slightly biased words in mind, which one am I?

“Must a Transrator start out as an infant?”

“There are stories of people reincarnating into adult bodies, but you can only start as an infant in this world!”

She’s quite certain about this When I ask for confirmation with that in mind—

“When I reincarnated, God told me about this”

—I receive this kind of answer

She met a God?

If I heard such talk in japan, I would have quietly left pretending I don’t know the person, or at least question their sanity

“Is a Translocator su, items, and appearance?”

“People who are su the same clothes Of course, their appearances are also the same”

My clothing didn’t change, but h?

“Is that all hearsay?”

“I heard it directly froa Empire’s Hero, so it’s probably correct Since the only country that can sua”

Then could I find a way back if I go to Saga Empire?

When I finish doa Empire

And the other japanese person Arisa ht?

Then, what I should tell Arisa—Should I tell her the truth about me or keep it a secret?

Though she’s soic and assault me, she has told me some important clues

“I see, but I think I am neither of those! I just took a nap at my workplace, and found myself in the wilderness when I came to”

“Did you not meet God?”

“I didn’t”

Arisa crosses her arrumbles Then, while still naked, she says:

“In that case, were you standing in so Formation when you came to this world?”

“No, I was alone in the wilderness”

“Then did you start with a high level? Unlimited mana? A boatload of skills?”

“I was Level 1 with ten mana at the start No skills either!”

…Well, there were one-use Icons like Meteor Shower

“The heck, just how unreasonable is this game?”

Wait, why a questioned and sympathized with?

“Enough about me, this is about you Tellany Gifts Just so you know, that’s an ‘order’”

“I would answer even if you didn’t order me, okay?

“First is Mind Magic, Level 5 Isn’t it cool? I put every skill point I got since birth in there”

—Every single one?

Arisa is Level 11 If she’s the same as me, she should have 110 skill points by now

For Mind Magic, she only needs 10 points at most, no?

“Arisa, one question”

“Yup, askMy bra size is—”

Stuffing a pillow into Arisa’s face while she’s giving out unnecessary information, I continue my question

“When you level up each tiet? Also, how ic?”

“Mmm, sheesh, so violent! Skill points, is it? Every time I level up, I roll a 2d6 And by ‘2d6’, Itwo six-sided dice Anywhere froe The skill points needed to raise Mind Magic depends on the current level of the skill More specifically—”3

I jot dohat Arisa says in the Memo section of the Social tab

—What’s going on?

The nu up, and the points needed to raise the level of a skill are completely different

Is my case unique? Or is there some sort of rule?

“What is it?”

“No, it’s nothing”

She expresses concern, but I just brush it aside

If what Arisa says is true, then I learn skills at several times the speed of others—dozens of times even

In some sense, this is almost as broken as “Meteor Shower” or “Full Map Exploration”

I should wait until I can trust Arisa before telling her about this I’ll keep it a secret for now

“Arisa, how do you learn new skills?”

“I just pick it out from a list!”

This part is the sa

“And when are new skills added to that list?”

“The saet more skill points When I fulfill some requirement—like a certain number of skill points or a requisite skill—they’ll show up on the list They’re added when I collect half of the needed skill points, so it’s easy to decide when I should keep or use my skill points!”

Yeah, this is different too

Inskills as soon as I take any action Other than the fact that I do so irls are pretty much the same

Without irls gain skills in a different way frorators and Translocators like us are the exception

There was soression, but now Arisa’s exposition of her skills continues

“The skill ‘Self Status’, as the naests, allows me to check my own status It’s more detailed than the Yamato Stone More importantly, when I level up, I can decide how status values like STR (strength) or INT (wisdom) and skill points are distributed”

Why she could choose any skill she likes from a list, seems to be the effect of “Self Status”

Also, even her statues values can be distributed as she likes? I don’t have such a function in Menu

Maybe Menu is a some kind of variant of this skill

“‘Hide Skill’ can hide all skills that I possess Once it is active, casting analyze or using the Yamato Stone will show ‘Skills: None’”

My Menu said “Skills: Unknown” though, so maybe it’s different from “Appraisal”-type skills?

“‘Skills Check’ allows me to see other people’s statuses ‘analyze’ would work better, but I didn’t have the reincarnation bonus for it!”

I have her read out my status, but like with the Yamato Stone, it’s exactly the same as what I have set in the Social tab

According to Arisa, the skill “analyze” is the sum of all “Appraisal”-type skills like “Status Check”4, so the effect is the same when used to check someone’s status

By the way, Arisa’s “Hide Skill” seeiven by God, so no “Appraisal”-type skill can see through it

No wonder my AR would say “Unknown”

If “Hide Skill” was learned norh by “Status Check” that is at least one level higher

In ters seems be more versatile than Arisa’s “Hide Skill”, almost like an enhanced version of it

“‘Itee like what you would see in games There’s a limit to what I can store unlike the Inventory5 that Heroes noret too heavy, very convenient~”

As for capacity, apparently it can hold a hundred types of items, and a hundred each of the saame, almost

On the other hand, for things like water that don’t have a set shape, one liter counts as one unit

Her favorite trick, Arisa proudly declares, is to put s, so it would be counted by volume like water

My Storage is probably so similar to Inventory

I’m not sure whether only the name is different or also the way it works, but either way, it’s quite convenient

“I’ve talked too much, a little thirsty now”

Seeing Arisa clearing her throat, I stand up to get water for her, but she stops me

Arisa suggests using this chance to show off “Iteive her the permission to use it

“Item Box open”

As Arisa chants quietly, she raises her hand out in a dramatic manner, and a flat black hole opens in front of her

Is that the item box?

When I use Storage, there aren’t any special effects like that flat black hole

Arisa reaches into the black hole, and takes out a water jar She puts herfrom the side, her face seems quite proud of herself

The water spills and runs down her bare chest That intentionally flirtatious way of drinking water really doesn’t befit her age

How old is she for real?

As her pose is too unseemly, I say, “At least use a cup”, but she answers that since taking things out or putting things in requireso to a minimum

It take e too

As Arisa is finished with the water jar, I ask her to letinto a box where you can barely see the contents

>>> Skill obtained: “Item Box”

I don’t think I need a skill that’s strictly worse than Storage…

Anyway, I’ the yet-to-be-explained “Never Give Up” and “Over Boost” had allowed her to use her Mind Magic on me despite the 300 level difference

“Fufufu, how is it? Wasn’t I worth it? It’s not easy to find a slave with this many skills!”

“Isn’t there so else?”

“Uh…”

After becoreedy”, Arisa puts her hands in the air like a foreigner

It pisses ive her a little chop on the head

Of course, to avoid injuring her, I’ve adjusted th

“No violence! Other than those, I have two Unique Skills, okay!”

Seeing her h up her hair Despite co “My hair will be messed up~” she seems a little happy

Anyway, not Abilities but Unique Skills?

Interrupting ht, Arisa starts her explanation

“Even Lulu doesn’t know about these! The first one is called ‘Overboost’ By consu all of my mana and stamina, I can multiply the power of one hit by many fold! Isn’t it cool? It’s like a skill reserved for the heroine~”

Actually, it’s more like a one-off cannon

“The other one is Never Give Up It’s the power to never give up, no ardless of the target’s defense or the level gap between us, Magic and other attacks have at least a 10 chance of working! Isn’t it awesome?”

Awesoical defense As evidence, the log contains various “Resisted ___ Magic” entries

“But I can only use it three times at most If I use any, I would recover one use each oshujin-sama, I use all 3 tries”

What a troublesolad that she is not my enemy?

According to her, even with this skill, it is less if the opponent has coainst a fire dragon resistant all fire attacks

“Oh yeah, goshujin-sama, how many Unique Skills do you have?”

“You want to kno many and not ‘what skills’?”

“Yup Unique skills are trump cards for people like us, after all, so you shouldn’t reveal them so easily, okay?”

I thought she wanted to know, but she’s advising me not to reveal them

However, the proble called “Unique Skills”

This Menu display and the first Meteor Shower ht count as “Unique Skills”, but how could I even tell?

Looking through each tab in the Menu, I find an inconspicuous “Abilities” section under the Settings tab

Four ite it

“—Four”

“Oh~ not bad According to God, the more Unique Skills you have, the more powerful your soul”

Powerful? I wonder how the soul of an average guy like me can be considered powerful

By the way, those four Abilities are “Menu”, “Unit Creation”, “Unit Deploy”

This Menu display is an Ability? Since they seem to work the saet confusing, I’ll just call both Unique Skills

Since e, Radar, and Map, those are probably all functions of Menu

When I first got here, I thought the Menu wasn’thow practical it was inside the dungeon, I wouldn’t dare think that now

As for the two that start with “Unit”, they seey Ga” is the san perspective, maybe I need to fulfill some condition before they become available

What Undying does is probably like how you would revive in a chapel when you die in a game In that case, could the release condition be to experience death? I have no intention to try that If that really is the case, it will be a long time before I actually unlock this

Well, there’s no point gettingabout problems with no solutions, so I’ll shelf them for now

“I want to confirs”

“Fire away~”

“How did you use Mind Magic without chanting a spell?”

When she had used it in front of the inn, there was no sign she had chanted

“Well~ it’s a part of Self Status, actually As long as it is a spell I’ve learned, I can use it just by saying the Command Word in my head”

I had asked expectantly, but apparently I still have to chant successfully at least once

Is using ic scrolls the only way?

Well, it’s not like I don’t have the ical shop where I can buy scrolls

“You ic?”

“I ran into a wall trying to chant spells…”