Chapter 147: Announcement from God and Distance from that world (1/2)

After renting a property, we bid farewell to the guild staff member and headed to the marketplace to buy things for our livelihood.

The minimum required furniture was already readied in the property, but we have to prepare all other things ourselves. If we are going to use that house just to sleep, things would be simple, but just trying to cook for ourselves would require quite a lot of things.

Well, I have some surplus in money, so it should work out one way or another.

After a few hours of getting miscellaneous stuff for our living, we returned to our house.

Shadow Storage really is handy at times like this. I can just throw it in, and even decently big stuff can be stored.

The beds have already been provided, but there’s no mattress or a futon spread out, so it will be the day after tomorrow that we will be able to begin actually living here.

The climate is warm around here, so a towel-ket might be enough to cover ourselves, but whichever the case, we lack way too many things to begin our living here.

There’s no big store where everything can be found there, so it takes time.

Our new place has a lot of rooms.

We decide our own rooms from among those, and bring our things in.

Mine was the room at the right after going up the stairs, and Jeanne was the left one.

I put down my luggage and left the room, and it was right at the time when Jeanne left too.

“Kuro, do you have Points?” (Jeanne)

A completely out-of-the-blue question. You could say that’s just like her.

“Eh? What brought that all of a sudden? I have 0.” (Hikaru)

“Zero?! You are one reckless guy… Points can serve as a safety measure, so it would be better to leave as much as possible, you know?” (Jeanne)

“I know, but I had my own circumstances.” (Hikaru)

By giving Rifreya the Panacea that cost 3 Points, I have been completely emptied out of Points.

I also only have enough for 1 Point in terms of Crystals. It is true that in terms of safety margin, it would be dangerous, but all Points I have used until now have been necessary expenses.

There should be no problems if I just accumulate them again.

“I make sure to always leave 6 Points the whole time.” (Jeanne)

“6 Points?! That’s impressive.” (Hikaru)

Jeanne is always keeping a high number of viewers, so she probably gets a lot more too.

Even so, leaving 6 Points the whole time is impressive.

“That’s why it is okay to use them when it goes over 6 Points, but I am thinking about getting a mattress for now.” (Jeanne)

“Isn’t that okay? I don’t really mind the beds of this world, but the ones that you can bring out with Points are all high quality.” (Hikaru)

The mattress at the inn had stuff like straws inside of it and it prickled. It might be something that bothers a girl.

“Yeah. By the way, the big sized one is also worth the same amount of Points… I can buy it for 1 Point. Kuro, want to sleep together with me?” (Jeanne)

“Eh? Wa?” (Hikaru)

“We are going to be room sharing here. I would feel bad monopolizing the good bed. I don’t know how big a queen size is, but it should be enough for two people to sleep, and it would allow us to quickly react in emergencies.” (Jeanne)

Jeanne said this rapidly while looking straight at me.

Eh? Didn’t we decide on our rooms just now?

“N-No, I will be sleeping on my own.” (Hikaru)

“Hm? I see… Right. Well, that’s fine too.” (Jeanne)

Jeanne looked away and entered her own room.

What was that just now…?

Well, anyways, it looks like it is fine to order only my mattress to the artisan.

Also, the tools that revolve around water, and I would like a bit more furniture. Personally speaking, I would like a bit more clothes for myself too.

We bought the chairs and table, but would it be better to have a sofa too?

There’s still 6 more days before the dungeon opens, but taking it as time to prepare for the house would make it just right.

We finished setting the things we bought, and at the time when I was about to head out for dinner with Jeanne…

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The usual nonchalant voice suddenly said.

The total number of isekai otherworlders showing in the Status Board is 700. They are most likely to replenish the numbers. I don’t understand well what God is trying to achieve here.

Just that, the livelihood of the Chosen have stabilized to a certain degree, so maybe they are simply trying to replenish it with more members because the adventuring is lacking.

“Muuh…it has come already, huh. It was faster than I thought.” (Jeanne)

“What do you mean by that?” (Hikaru)

“There’s a lot of deaths in the Chosen. You also thought that the numbers have been decreasing steadily, right, Kuro? Of course, it might stabilize somewhere, but there’s no doubt we would have been lowered to half in 1 year at this pace. Then, I was sure that God would replenish the numbers sometime.” (Jeanne)

I see. I did also think that the number of Chosen was lowering pretty fast.

Though I wasn’t thinking much about replenishing those numbers.

“…Anyways, it would be better to be careful .The new guys will know how to efficiently manage their Points, and most of all, they would have information about us, right? Especially you and me, we have a lot of viewers. Our fighting style, items we have, and most of all, it is better to think that our weaknesses have been laid completely bare. If they want to live efficiently in this world, they can kill us first and get our items to make their lives easier from there on.” (Jeanne)

“What are you…no, I see… That might be true.” (Hikaru)

I have faced the evil of humans to a degree I come to hate.

If you kill a Chosen, you can get items and equipment that can’t be obtained without Points. If it is a situation where they can kill us easily, there’s no assurance there’s no people who will target us.

I don’t know what tools Jeanne has in detail, but a single High Heal Scroll would be enough to drive someone to kill and be rewarded for it.

The announcement continues.

<<With the 2nd group incoming, the message system will be frozen temporarily. There’s way too many using the messages for evil purposes or abusing them, so this is to adjust the functions. This is also in order for the new Chosen to enjoy the isekai purely without the advice from Earth. It will be 50 days from now.>>

Message freezing…

For someone like me who doesn’t read the messages at all, this doesn’t affect me at all, but it will have an effect on Jeanne and the other Chosen.

I don’t think there’s many people who are living in this world while completely cutting themselves away from their original world.

“Hooh, God really gets it.” (Jeanne)

“Eh?” (Hikaru)

“It would be stupid to be controlled by the voices of the original world when they have come to a different world after all… It is weird coming from me who used the messages as the basis for my actions though.” (Jeanne)

“You were making them the basis of your actions?” (Hikaru)

“Complete freedom unexpectedly makes it hard to know what to do. I used them as a tutorial of sorts. Now that I have gotten a comrade, I don’t need that anymore.” (Jeanne)

“I see…” (Hikaru)

Jeanne said that she hasn’t met any other Chosen aside from me.

And with that, she went to villages, listened to their problems, and would solve them as she aimed for a big city.

Now that she has decided to conquer the dungeon, those tutorial quests are not necessary -that must be what she means.

<<Also, there’s changes in the items and powers you can obtain with Points and Crystals, so confirm them! Now then, have a good isekai life!>>

With that, the announcement ended.

Jeanne was operating the Status Board at once.