Chapter 26: Day and Catfolk (1/2)

The next day, I didn’t feel like doing anything.

I stayed shut in for a whole day at the inn.

I don’t want to meet anyone.

I am scared of being involved with people.

The only way I could think of to fight against enemies that simply direct attacks to my spirit from a safe place is to hide in the darkness and stay put.

By blending with the darkness, I could disappear from this world.

Those eyes don’t reach here.

The next morning after spending a whole day in peace and emptiness.

I woke up from the sudden announcement that rang in my head.

[Chosen, today a new method to obtain points will be provided. You can now do Points Loan and Re-Random Transfer! The Point Loan can allow a max of 3 points in advance, and the Re-Random Transfer will present you 10 points for the danger it entails. On top of that, you can choose the ‘One that shall be Loved’. Please go ahead and use them at your own discretion.]

I see. It must be like a rescue system for Chosen who don’t have any points.

It doesn’t have anything to do with me though.

…There are probably idiots who would use the random transfer.

As expected of God. How crafty.

When I opened the wooden window, a soft wind caressed my cheeks.

A clear morning.

*Guuh~*

Even when I pass my time doing nothing, my stomach rang.

I was feeling appalled by how unreasonable living is, but I can’t choose death.

When I opened the Status Board, I saw that my real time viewers had lowered to around 10,000,000.

These viewers probably just have this stream on their screen in the case something happens, and are not constantly watching it…I think.

As for my daily life, they do hear some slight noises, but only the contours of the room should be visible from the darkness.

But on the other hand, if there’s movement, that information will spread, and the viewers will increase in an instant.

I can easily imagine that’s the kind of viewing style that has been popularized.

I can’t lower my guard.

(So I say, but if I stay like this, I am going to end up penniless and driven out from the inn.) (Hikaru)

I can’t let myself drop to that point.

I lift my heavy body.

The city in the early morning is lively.

It is completely opposite to the dead city late at night.

I don’t really want to go out when it is too bright outside, but I gotta secure the food while it is still bright outside. There’s practically no establishments open at night.

But it can also be said that almost all stores and food carts are open from early morning, so I can secure my food more easily.

(This really is an isekai…) (Hikaru)

Big people, small people, cat-like people, dog-like people, pointy eared people…

Truly a melting pot.

If not for my current situation, I would be surprised by this parallel world that’s completely different from mine, showed interest in a lot of things, and might have had fun.

But the current me is seeing everything gray.

A japanese person with black hair and black eyes stands out in an isekai…it is a common setting in the novels I have read before, but it looks like I don’t really stand out here. Thanks to this, I don’t gather much attention and can buy food at the carts.

If it is normal everyday life stuff like this, the viewers shouldn’t be paying much attention.

There might be Chosen in this city, but the chances of meeting them should be low. I am not one of the original Chosen, so there’s zero chance they would know of me.

I swiftly buy food and leave the morning market as if running away.

I am now not good at dealing with places where there are a lot of people.

Or maybe I am now scared of people.

At daytime I coop up in the inn, and at night I leave the inn.

At the entrance of the dungeon there would always be 4 soldier-looking people serving as lookouts.

It would be difficult to sneak in at daytime, but if it is at night, there’s no problem.

“[Darkness Fog].” (Hikaru)

At the inn, the channeling of the ability is bad, and it takes my all to fill that room with darkness, but when I am close to the dungeon, it instead channels way too well.

So I say, but too much darkness is unnatural.

I covered myself in darkness for a radius of around 2 meters and slipped into the dungeon.

I rushed through the 1st Floor with darkness still around me and headed to the 2nd Floor.

The 2nd Floor is perfect for corpse scavenging.

“Monsters appear in groups.”

“Strong-looking monsters show up too.”

“You can easily come here from the 1st Floor.”

“It is easier to get lost compared to the 1st Floor.”

These are the special traits it has, and it has the conditions to wipe out explorers easily.

It has been 10 days since I have come to this city.

I come here almost everyday, but I would find dead people at least once every 3 days.

To be more precise, ‘what might be dead people’.

There’s just an empty husk of their possessions.