Chapter 37 (1/2)

Thirty-Seventh Episode~ First Party

Editor’s Corner: GrumpyWerebear here! As a test I am going to add in tables and such for Shuya’s Status, Guild Quests and other applicable things. Please let me know how you feel about the changes in the comment section after reading. So depending on how you guys feel about the changes will overall effect future chapters and whether I go back through the older chapters and add in similar changes. Anyways! Stay beautiful my friends and Enjoy!

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Early in the morning a lone person walks down a back street.

A rooster is crowing.

However, when I arrive at the main street facing the guild, I see the traffic. There are big horse-drawn carriages and travelers. Merchants are pulling carts and adventurers are pa.s.sing as well.

It doesn’t matter if it is day or night here, it really is a big city.

After walking some more I finally return to the cheap inn.

Placing the black cat on my shoulder, I quickly go into the door-less room in the back.

Now that I am back I should take a bath.

I use life magic to pour hot water into the tub next to the bed.

I am reluctant to part from the smell but I should bathe.

I finish properly was.h.i.+ng my body and soak in the hot water.

-Phew, I take a breather.

Rollo soaks comfortably in the bath with me.

I wash her with gyuza gra.s.s then I scrub and ma.s.sage her paw pads.

“Nyaa, Nyaa”

She gets angry, but I forcibly wash her body until she is clean.

Eventually Rollo escapes from the tub and shakes her body like a dog, splas.h.i.+ng water around the room.

After I dry Rollo off with leather she immediately escapes outside.

Aah, I washed her so carefully…

Maa, it should be fine though..

I dry my own body off and put on some cheap everyday wear and then like that I dive into bed.

I use my arms as a pillow and while staring at the ceiling, time pa.s.ses dreamily.

I should look for a request in the guild today.

I can easily move around with the metastasis formation.

Ah, speaking of metastasis formation, receptionist-san told me about Kuna-san. They are the magic user with the s.p.a.ce-time attribute and a shop.

After resting maybe, I should go to Kuna-san’s shop.

But first, Status.

Status Window

Name: Shuya Kagari

t.i.tle: Divine Beast Contractor

Age: 22

Race: Rusivault

Battle Occupation:

Dark Magic Spearman: Chain User

Condition: Excited

Attributes

Physical Strength

19.0→19.1

Agility

19.9

Stamina

18.0

Mana

23.0

Dexterity

18.0→18.1

Spirit

23.4

Luck

11.0

Skill Status

Acquired Skills:

＜Throwing＞：＜Cerebral Demon Speed＞：＜Hidden Body＞：

＜Night Vision＞：＜Smell Secretion Technique＞：

＜Blood Banquet＞：＜Thrusting＞：＜Meditation＞：

＜Magic Beast Riding＞：＜Life Magic＞：＜Guidance Moji＞：

＜Fighting Moji＞：＜Magic Thought Guidance Hand＞：

＜Fairy Moji＞：＜Summoning Magic＞：＜Ancient Magic＞：

＜Crest Magic＞：＜Dark Drill＞：

＜Dark Drill・Magic Break Spear＞

Permanent Skills：

＜Power of True Ancestor＞：＜Natural Demon Ability＞：

＜Torrent of Light Darkness＞：＜Soul Sucking＞：＜Undying＞：

＜Darkness Person Adaptation＞：＜Blood Magic＞：

＜Head of Household＞：＜Super Light Brain Buff Intuition＞：

＜Fighting Moji Knowledge＞：＜Guidance Moji Knowledge＞：

＜Spear Sparring＞：＜Thought Guidance Chain＞：

＜Magic Crest Construction＞

Extra Skills：

＜Language Comprehension＞：＜Crest of Light＞：

＜Chain Factor＞：＜Cerebral Demon Spine Revolution＞

As always, I wake up early in the morning.

After was.h.i.+ng my face and brus.h.i.+ng my teeth, I slap my face and get myself fired up.

I get dressed in my equipment and leather clothes then I fix my hair despite there being no mirror. I then leave the inn like Rollo.

I understand the general location of Kuna’s shop, but I might get lost so I leave hurriedly.

Wandering about I explore the city.

Then crossing the street and after traversing several byroads I arrive on a wide plot.

A horse enclosure surrounded by a fence.

There is a curtain of various sized tents on the plot and there are horse traders with bad expressions. They are looking at the horses, magic beasts and other riding steeds that are being sold.

Speaking of magic beasts, I left the popob.u.mu at the guild.

I should go visit it.

The horse fence leads to the upper right corner in a circle.

As I walk next to the fence Rollo jumps on top of the small fence and dexterously walks along the bobbing rope like she is walking a tightrope.

I pay careful attention to Rollo. (TL: D’aw, he’s worried about her.) I was going to say something, but then a conspicuous magic beast standing along the wall catches my attention and I stop.

Is that a griffon?

It has a big brown beak and wonderful bushy feathers.

The brown feathers continue over the head and mix with white downy feathers at its chest.

Oh, it spread its wings. It is a cute gesture. (TL: Aren’t griffons meant to be intimidating? Shuya has weird tastes. Like peeing cats.)

Its wings are milky white and they have beautiful horizontal stripes.

Its neck, chest and the lower parts of its body are covered in brown fur and thick with muscles.

It really is a griffon. If I can fly through the sky while being buried amongst such soft looking feathers on its back… how much fun would that be?

Oto, it has two dinosaur type legs so this one looks like an ostrich type.

It is a magic beast that appears in a certain fantasy game from j.a.pan.[ED: Final Fantasy-> Chocobo.]

There are various magic beast mounts so a dragon rider may exist too.

I can see some big building to the right of the fence.

There is also a signboard on the front of the building “Present Magic Beast Firm.” So they are a firm that deals in magic beasts…

Now then, Kuna’s shop is this way.

I gently grab Rollo by her scruff and move her to my shoulder.

Then I begin to move away from the magic beast fence and go to the left.

Kuna’s shop should be around here… Oh, here. A signboard. Kuna’s Magic Tool Shop.

Is that th.o.r.n.y whip actually a thorned tail? The wooden signboard has a mark like that carved into it.

There are two large men wearing leather armor standing on either side of the magic tool store like guards, looking around the area with severe eyes.

It is early in the morning but the shop seems to be open.

There is a magic essence reaction coming from the magic tool shop.

Other than common people, there is an extremely large magic essence reaction.

I also get a reaction with Pheromone Touch.

N…there is a woman, but it is a little different… why is that?

I do not understand it, but it cannot be helped even if I worry about it.

I continue to this side and stealthily look inside to see their figure.

The men standing on either side of the store are glaring at me threateningly, but I ignore their looks and check the interior of the shop.

Inside I see the back of a woman with beautiful fair blond hair.

There is a large staff on her back attached with metal fittings to a belt slung over her chest.

The woman is writing a letter with a quill pen on a desk.

I check again with magic observing eye.

“…”

This woman’s magic essence is big.

The magic essence is spreading out from inside her robe.

As I am staring at the woman’s back inside the store, the woman turns around with a smile, and approaches.

“…Welcome.”

“Eto, are you Kuna, the magic user with the s.p.a.ce-time attribute?”

“That’s correct,” they replied with a monotonous voice.

This woman is Kuna-san? She is a cute beautiful woman.

She is inside the shop, but her long golden hair s.h.i.+nes like gold silk.

Quite a mysterious beauty.

Her hair is pushed back behind her ears, emphasizing her small lovely ears.

Thus, I follow her thinly drawn golden eyebrows. The pupils of her almond eyes are yellow, and her nostrils spread out cutely from the bridge of her nose.

Red lipstick s.h.i.+nes on her small lips. (TL: Shuya has yet to meet a woman without small lips.) [ED: It is more likely the author’s personal tastes.]

She has a beauty mark to the lower right of her lips that gives of a slight devil-like impression.

“…Thanks, I am an adventurer.”

“Nya.”

Kuna turns a smile to the mewing.

“Ara, an adventurer accompanied by a cute cat is rare. However, rather than out here, why don’t you enter the shop?”

“Ah, yes.”

At that moment, Kuna sends a sharp look to the men on both sides of the shop.

The two guards of the shop that receive those eyes lower their heads with a feeling of “understood” in silence.

The rugged pair turn to face a different direction as if nothing had happened.

Was there some kind of eye contact?

I enter to shop while suspecting Kuna’s behavior.

“Now then, how can I help you?”

“Eeh, I am looking for some magic tools.”

Then, do Kuna-san’s eyes s.h.i.+ne?

Looking at those eyes carefully, did the shape of Kuna-san’s pupils change?

It might be my imagination…

“There are a lot of things. There is a ‘recovery pill’ with a higher recovery effect than the healing potions sold in more common shops. There is also a high-quality expensive ‘Mana Amplification Medicine” that won’t lose out to smoking. There is also a high purity mana restoration ririumu potion in stock. There is a ‘illusion perfume’ magic scroll that blunts the movements of demons with low intelligence. There are also other useful ones for dungeon capture.”

Kuna-san emphasizes and explains the popular items.

The atmosphere of a magic-related store.

“…There are a lot.”

“Of course. Even though I look like this I am also an adventurer. Also because I have good connections I am confident is the selection of goods. There is actually more to the collection. However, there are things not placed in the front of the store because they are too high-quality.”

“I see, I would like to look at some goods now.”

“Yes, thank you.”

Her bewitching smile is good.

This is a woman that seems to be popular.

I am nearly drawn in by her smile, but I look at the magic tools for sale.

While I am looking, I find an item called the return stone.

The stone seems limited to the 【Magic Labyrinth Sabido Kentsiru】. The moment you pour mana into the stone ball, the curious item seems to return one to the entrance of the magic labyrinth.

It seems usable without the s.p.a.ce-time attribute.

Considering its function, it is a bargain at five large copper coins.

In addition, here is a rock jar using lorainto ore from 【Labyrinth City Pernette】 on sale.

The price is appropriate for the lorainto ore only gathered in 【Labyrinth City Pernette】. Its price is high at two gold coins for a single bottle.

However, it seems to be heat insulated.

It will be necessary for challenging the labyrinths and it will hold a considerable amount if I pour blood into it.

It really is a magic bottle so I will buy two of these.

It is a change from the leather water skin and then, I buy two of the curious return b.a.l.l.s.

“Ano, I will take this and that.”

“Yes.”

I pay the money and receive the items.

Kuna-san’s cold hands touch mine on this occasion.

“Na…”

Kuna-san seems surprised when she touches my hand, and she shows a candid reaction like that. After that she motionlessly stares at my hand… she stops moving.

“N? What happened?”

She reacted when she touched my hand…

“Ah, n- no, it’s sudden but would you tell me your name?”

What is wrong? Ma, I can tell her my name.

“…My name, is Shuya Kagari.”

“Is that so. Did Shuya-san buy the ‘Return Stone Ball’ intending the challenge the magic labyrinth?”

“Yes. I’m thinking I would like to challenge it.”