Chapter 11 (1/2)
3, 2015 by Ziru
Two Reincarnated People
Ria talked with Serge in a low voice on Matsukaze’s back.
“I didn’t think that a reincarnated person would save me. Do you also have a Gift that blocks Identify?”
Serge smoothly exposed that he used Identify.
“Yeah. From what I heard even with a perfect Identify, they can’t see my status.”
When Ria lived in the imperial capital she knew of multiple reincarnated people, but avoided them.
That is, this life is her new life. If she were a slave to her previous life the way she’d think would be different, and more pragmatically there was no merit to be concerned about it.
The other reincarnated people only faintly recalled memories of their previous life. Although having knowledge of another world, for instance the scientific field, could gain someone considerable achievements, according to Rufus there would have to be a person with exact memories of it.
However, this boy seemed different.
“Even after reincarnating with great pain, without a Gift related to memories, it seems that you’ll forget most of it as a baby.”
“That’s news to me.”
He said it plainly. Memories would be broken at birth.
“What~? But Ria-san clearly remembers?”
“I don’t know if it’s a Gift related to memory, but I have various gifts including Dragon’s Bloodline. It’s probably because of that.”
“Dragon’s Bloodline? That Gift sounds kind’ve cool. How many points was it?”
“One thousand points.”
“Wha-!?”
“It was one thousand points. By the way, similar ones were like DemiG.o.d and Egg of the Overlord… they cost about the same.” [TN: Egg is a Berserk reference.]
“Eeh-! Eeeeeh!? One thousand!? I had two hundred points that they said it was a considerable amount, just what did you do in your last life!? Ma.s.s murder!?”
The two who were following them had questioning faces on while looking at the boy shouting in a cryptic language.
“Lulu-san, what are they saying?”
“Since my specialty isn’t ancient languages, I…”
Lulu wasn’t able to distinguish j.a.panese from an ancient language.
“That’s bad to say about someone. The G.o.ddess definitely said that the strength of my soul was high, and gave me a lot of points for helping other people.”
“Eeeh~, still, the points were increased? As for me, by chance I stabbed a serial killer and we both died.”
In that case, it’s both amazing and terrible.
“Because of that I was able to get Gifts: one hundred for Magic Talent, fifty for Identify, thirty for Suited for s.p.a.ce-Time Magic, ten for Disease Resistance, ten for Poison Resistance, ten for Memory Sorting, five for Appearance, and after many questions it totaled up to two hundred twenty-two points.”
“Is Identify that needed? Couldn’t you learn it easily with magic?”
“Although the magic for Identify becomes ineffective if the other person has resistance to it, unless the person has Read Resistance my Identify will work. That aside, what else does Ria-san have?”
Serge asked excitedly. Ria responded a little embarra.s.sed.
“Only Dragon’s Bloodline and Self Check. After that I raised ability scores.”
Serge’s mouth opened wide. With an amazed expression, signs of understanding appeared.
“By any chance, is Ria-san the type that doesn’t play games? Or read light novels?”
“I played up to Dragon Quest II. As for books… I liked the author Futaro Yamada.” [TN: Futaro Yamada, awarded for a prize by a magazine for writing mystery novels.]
For those aiming to fight in the way of the ninja’s practical strength and traditional martial arts, Ria would stand at the top.
After that the two reminisced about their previous lived. Surprisingly, Serge died at the youthful age of twenty.
Since he had an abundance of knowledge from gaming and the internet, it seems he challenged this reincarnation considerably different.
Rather than Gifts for close combat, he wanted the romantic Magic Talent.
Thinking about infant mortality rates, he picked up Poison Resistance and Disease Resistance.