Chapter 9 (1/2)

After Wu Yan’s done was.h.i.+ng up, he walked out of the.

He sincerely wished he hadn’t stayed a night at such a inn.

The reason’s simple, he’s broke…

Yesterday, after he mentioned he didn’t have money on him, Lulu magnanimously said she would cover the fee. The judging look on the innkeeper’s face at that time, how he wish he could find a hole to hide then.

Right after walking out, he saw the Lulu and corps all dressed up and ready to depart.

Lulu zoomed to his side while unhappily complaining about him.

“So slow.. why did ya have to sleep so long, completely like a pig.”

He just rolled his eyes at her, this by his standards as a former home security guard, is already exceptional. He can sleep until noon before, unlike now where he has to wake up so early.

“Mister Wu Yan, what do you plan to do after this? I heard from Lulu that you don’t seem to have a place to stay…”

What really happened, was that she told Fei Fei that he’s a mountain dweller who came out looking for food and got lost. Fei Fei merely romanticized for his sake.

“Yeah, where do you plan to go after this? Why not follow me home!”

His face changed drastically sour after hearing that. The h.e.l.l? Picking me up like this to your home, are you a bandit lord trying to bag himself a waifu (TL: husbando in this case)?

Fei Fei on the other hand is shocked at her request, this would be the first time she has invited someone to her home isn’t it?…

He thought it over deeply. Honestly, he hadn’t considered where he would go. He’s just an ex-hikikomori who came to this world for just a month. Even back on his world, he hadn’t go out much, much less to be said of this world where he completely doesn’t anyone or anything to rely on.

“I’ll go look around at the mercenary guild i guess.”

He came up with this after thinking for a while. Going along with her is a good alternative, but not to mention how that would be sponging off someone else (TL: not sure to translate as per original meaning, the original meaning carries a rather s.e.xist notion, to rely on a female for livelihood among other things is considered to be “eating soft rice” or being “little white face”), the main issue is that he would lose his chance to level up. To level up is not just to kill the enemy, but to spar with someone, unless it’s a real battle (TL: to the death kind of context, real animosity, the series will explain upon this further in later chapters but i figure it would nice to mention beforehand since it might be confusing left unsaid), he won’t get a sliver of exp because the system is quite astute at this…

Moreover, he would most definitely summon a few 2d shoujos later down the road, should he remain by her side, a sudden increase of people would probably slip off Lulu’s radar but definitely not Fei Fei.

Thus, being a mercenary is the best alternative, one can nab the awards, and level up as well as farm up some points, and it’s also very unrestricted.

“Is mister planning to be a mercenary?”

Understandingly she nodded, given his position, without anywhere to go, being a mercenary would be a good choice.

“A… why’s that, ne, are you really not going home with me?”

Fine, there is still a protester to this.

She still can’t get enough of how he’s so mysterious. To her, he’s a very useful playmate while killing time, now that the ‘thing’ is about to go away, she’s feeling kinda reluctant.

He doesn’t know what she’s thinking, but he had a foreboding feeling that if he followed her, nothing good would come of it!

“Young miss!”

A band of about 100 knights appeared, the leader seems to be a male of a similar age to Wu Yan. Although he’s not wearing like Gilgamesh, but his armor is pretty fancy, the knight sword on his waist tells him that the sword is more of an aesthetic purpose than practical.

Slime: (lv25)

Other than him, the other knights were around level 10 +/-, sure their number are greater than Lulu’s corps but their overall quality is on a lower magnitude.

He don’t know why but when he saw Slime, he felt trouble brewing.

After the sound of clanking metal and footsteps came Slime. He walked towards Lulu.

“Young miss, the airs.h.i.+p preparation is ready, you can depart anytime!”

“Why did you appear here?”

Not pleased with the fodder who disrupted her plans to keep Wu Yan tied down. Her ‘beautifully thought out plans’ painfully weaved together in her mind went poof because of Slime’s interruption.

Girl please, you should save your thoughts for thinking about what to eat for lunch, it would be more realistic that way….

“Rylu, they are the guard sent by your father to escort you home, I have just received the news yesterday…”

Sure Fei Fei’s been at her side for a very long time, but regarding this particularly air-headed girl, even she does not know what she is thinking about sometimes. She don’t know why Lulu’s not happy so she could only bitterly laugh.

“My father is so…., I’m not a kid anymore…”

If i were your father, I would be worrying about whether a half klutzy daughter like you would get lost….

A certain otaku who was lost for one month thought in his heart.

Now, Slime’s occupied with sliding his eyes all over Lulu, showing a hint of l.u.s.t and enraptured expression now and then.

Coincidentally he was noticed by Wu Yan who’s busy a.n.a.lyzing people using system identification.

Curling his lips, even using his knees he could guess what the slimeball was thinking. Maybe she didn’t notice but Fei Fei knew it would go like this, she’s not showing it but her eyes looked at him with utter disdain.

Well, none of my business, as long as Fei Fei’s with her, nothing could happen. Because she’s a tier 7 super not to mention a rare magician at that!

He only knew this after hanging out with them for one day.

“Lulu, Fei Fei sis I guess we part our ways here.”