Volume 2 - Chapter 3 – Part 2 (1/2)

The inners

The ti in PvP

The eagerness to iuild

The loud laugh after defeating a large areon where he risked his life

The tears he shed for not being able to protect soer he wielded

The promise hehis back

“――I re her hand above her chest

“Although it was useless to ask you to forget it too, please say…”

“I’ face was too radiant as she answered bluntly It was a facial expression that he hadn’t seen when she was an NPC, and when his fellow lad

“But, if that was the case Though you only talked in pre-set sentences, were you in a state of awareness?”

“No, it was after shi+n and the others entered the situation known as the death game, that a type of self-consciousness beca picture It is very hard to explain it, but it’s like looking at h it was her memory, Schnee said that it was like the memory of another person To be frank, he didn’t understand it well, because he thought it was rather painful that her consciousness became ahile in a state where her body moved without permission, so he didn’t question it further

“I see In short, you know all about the logout stuff and the other things beyond that point as well”

It was possible to say that that ame

“Yes At that time, it was because all of the adventurers soan If I am not mistaken, another world, different froht?”

“That is correct…so anyways, after I left, you guys searched for me and then separated, huh?”

“…Yes”

While s as if she had been in trouble, Schnee affiraht, Schnee and the others would disappear If shi+n lost, Schnee and the others would lose theirTherefore, they took several actions, due the h shi+n should have won

“If only you all could have told ht not be possible to say”

“Then, wouldn’t shi+n have been troubled by it? You had to do the best that you could at that tih it was decided that it was okay and he had been in high spirits when he left Tsuki no Hokora; when he learned about the circu themselves, shi+n felt miserable

Nevertheless, even if he had known, he would not have doubted himself, and would have done what he did, so he did not say anything

“In those days, independent action was not completely possible yet, and the talk of freedoinable Either way, it would have been impossible to talk about”

“Well now that you ht it eird that the NPC’s were strangely acting like hu that it was self-awareness, I realize ‘Ah! so that’s it’”

“You have a difficult personality as always, shi+n”

“Shut up!…Leave me alone”

He muttered at Schnee, who s his past actions, thinking about if or when the progra ‘Did I treat theet

“Well, you would have gone to battle even if you had known, shi+n”

“…That’s probably true”

Compared to the lives of ten thousand humans, the support characters were no more than data Even if the data had been somewhat self-consciousness, it was still not comparable

“Besides, didn’t you h it wasn’t much, many people returned to reality

In fact, it was due to that proed with a certain person

Since they knew about it for sure, neither Schnee nor the other support characters would have said anything

“Now then, let’s put a stop to this soleain after so ht “What a! Let’s stop it!”

In order to co, Schnee behaved cheerfully and clapped her hands in an exaggeratedhis voice

“First of all, to celebrate the reunion, let’s go all out with a party If it’s about food ingredients, I have a lot left in the Item Box”

“Let’s do it Please letskill that I have raised over the years”

“By the hat is your cooking level?”

“It becao”

“Seriously!?”

shi+n was surprised that it had grown to the level where she could cook even a high level rade meal, a sienerated a lot of bonus stats It was said that a skilled cook was found to be as useful as a skilled blacksuilds There were enorredients If one of two players with the same level, job, and about the same ability ate the dish, the player who ate it would end up with a complete victory in combat

And Rokuten, where shi+n had been a member, was able to overpower other player’s skills and stats because there was a cook skill of level X So, with a dish that gave a bonus of te to their h it was only by a little (E/N: Even though their stats were o above 1000)

By the way, only shi+n and the other members of Rokuten, who had reached the maximum stats, knew of that infor shi+n, started to notice the increase in dae from the bonus effects, and the information was not circulated in order for only the six h I’m not like Cook-sama, you can anticipate it”

“Yosh!+ Leave the ingredients to“Fufufu”, he took a look at the ingredients in the Iteredients were stored since the tiame, he himself had already confirmed that it was okay to eat them

“By the way shi+n, may I ask one more question aside from the questions earlier”

“Yes? What is it?”

Schnee asked hi at the top of shi+n’s head

“That one, what is it?”

“This one? …Ah”

He realized what she was talking about

It was Yuzuha as sleeping soundly on top of shi+n’s head

“Though since only its na on it?”

“Yeah, there were some minor circumstances, and we made a partner contract due to them Its name is Yuzuha I will be honest since it is Schnee It’s race is the Eleht it was not a mere Demon Fox race So it is an Element Tail, huh?”

Schnee becaht after she heard the race of Yuzuha But she proht, ‘Well, it is shi+n after all’

“You found out through the tail?”

“Perhaps shi+n didn’t notice it? I could understand that it was not an ordinary Demon Fox because there are 3 tails”

shi+n tilted his head due to what Schnee was saying There should be no such feature in Yuzuha’s tail

“…Three…tails?”

Then he suddenly noticed it Now that he thought about it, there was a sense of tails hitting his ears and the back of his head

First, he grabbed a tail with his right hand Yep, nice and soft

“Hrabbed a tail with his left hand This one was also fluffy

“…Hmm”

Finally, he concentrated on the sense of touch on the back of his head There was a faint light touch

“…H, he released the tails froripped the body of Yuzuha froht it in front of his face

“Kuu?”

“They had certainly beco moved fro side by side accordingly

When looking at its level, it had unexpectedly gone over 400

“…Well, I guess its level rose too much”

Even if the forone up too suddenly It hadn’t killedRashi+a And it was indeed impossible for it to level up alht with the Lord

“I think soht that there was sorowth extent of ahe had heard from a member of Rokuten; Cashroas nearly i that came to shi+n’s mind was that a hidden quest had been completed when the requirements were fulfilled He had experienced it several tirown accustomed to it If he remembered correctly, there was a quest with a monster partner, too

“Schnee, how do you take up a hidden quest in this world?”

“As far as I know, I haven’t heard talks of any such quests being generated The world voice I had heard before, it too was never heard froain after shi+n vanished And I have not heard of any story like this either”

The world voice Schnee mentioned was probably the announcement system in THE NEW GATE

Unlike the quest which could be accepted in a guild, when the conditions for the generated hidden quest were met, the player was notified of what kind of quest it was via an announcean

In this case, since there was no sort of announcement at all, shi+n didn’t notice Yuzuha’s level up Also, judging from Schnee’s story, the systeone

“Still, for the number of tails to increase, is this because the level rose?”

shi+n spoke while facing Yuzuha

Because there were no Elearew up

It rowth spurt rather than a quest and the like

“Kua~…Goodthat shi+n orried, Yuzuha yawned loudly… and greeted him like it was only natural

“Wait a minute, Yuzuha! Did you reach the point where you are able to talk?”

“Kuu? When the black things disappeared, s?”

When he heard about the black things, he was thought of the Lord’s core that was sliced in half just a while ago If he recalled back, it was only Skull Faces that had surrounded the shi+nto shrine where Yuzuha was rescued froard the Lord that appeared this time as the boss

“It was black, roundish, and inside the bones And Master cut it”

“It’s the Lord’s core, no mistake about it”

It seemed like it matched shi+n’s expectations There was some kind of relation that connected Yuzuha and the Lord, shi+n’s intuition as a gamer told him so

Was sorettable that he had no way of confir it

“For now, you are prohibited fro in public Since ordinary Demon Foxes can’t talk”

“Okay”

“If it’s just the two of us, it should be fine, but don’t expose yourself to other people”

“Hmmm, then do I only talk directly into your mind?”

“Telepathy? If so, it should be fine”

Since there was telepathy, it was still possible to communicate It seemed that Yuzuha also understood it intuitively, as it nodded obediently

“But shi+n, since the number of tails have increased, will it still be known as a Little Fox?”

“That’s right…”

Actually, there were various types of Demon Fox races, and so naturally there were ones with multiple tails Indeed, it was possible to say that that enerally it becaerous existence for a commoner if the number of tails exceeded 2

As for Demon Fox races with 3 tails, there was Fla, their levels were still at least 250 They were not the kind of monster that one would just take as a pet in this world

“Its still a child, so entering a country ht be possible, but…”

“Well, it will becoht…say, Yuzuha Can’t you do things like transfors that I’s I ae the three tails into one?”

“Easy~”

Yuzuha said, while its three tails splendidly turned into a single tail with a pop sound

“Oh!”

“That’s nice”

shi+n and Schnee both opened their eyes wide in surprise

Rather than an illusion, they see it seeood??”

“It’s okay Won’t it ht!”

“Then froe them into one tail in places where people can see? Because that will save us some trouble one way or another”

“Yes, I can do that~”

Yuzuha agreed easily It didn’t hide any resistance

“…It was somehow solved easily”

“Yeah, that’s true If it’s like this, it won’t be discovered easily”

Schnee too, assured It seemed like shi+n was relieved by this

“Yuzuha is excellent?”

“Yes, yes, good job”

“Kuu~~”

With Yuzuha held against his chest, he patted its head for its good job

“…Cute!”

“H”

“…Do you want to pet it?”

“Sure!!”

Even though she was so strong, Schnee was still a wo Yuzuha indeed felt really good, too

“Still the same as ever, shi+n never fails to surprise me”

“H an Element Tail before”

Schnee’s declaration contained so The Ele of the game era It was no wonder that she was surprised

“You don’t look surprised while saying that though?”

“Well, since it’s shi+n I’h level individual like you has ever tried doing that before”

“Indeed We, the Rokuten, weakened the opponent while going easy, even if the difficulty was high”

shi+n recalled Having every attribute of s and claws, it was a ile nature which didn’t e body Even the uard down That was the original appearance of the Ele held by shi+n’s arm, did not show such a threat at all

“Kuu?”

“Yosh, let’s run at full speed now In fact, there are soht cause an uproar soon”

“If that’s the case, we better hurry We ht about the travel speed of shi+n and Schnee; they could easily overtake a horse that ran at full speed by a large iven by shi+n, which then the distance in this case If those two people arrived at the kingdom and informed them about the situation, it would be troublesoet serious It’s too bothersouild any further”

“What you said just now, can you explain it later?”

“That is that and this is this”

Would it be possible to put it off after Schnee made such a face, shi+n couldn’t say

“Yosh, let’s go!”

He put Yuzuha on top of his head, and began to run with Schnee

It didn’t take too long for the two people to catch up with Wilhelm and Rashi+a

After about half a day since shi+n and Schnee began to run and not much time had passed since the sun appeared froures of Wilhelm and Rashi+a were perceived

–

“Oi! Now tell , like what on earth happened back there?”

“What’s up with this sudden contentious attitude…”

Wilhel Rashi+a, as asleep Though they joined up safely, Wilhel his te tone

Meanwhile Rashi+a continued to sleep, probably because of fatigue

“Well, to put it si the Lord”

“Hyun!”

shi+n, who answered, was pushed away by the devil spear It was not serious, but there was some speed put into the devil spear

“Wait! That’s dangerous!!”

“I’ve never seen anyone that could do anything like that and have their erous after all!”

“Why are you so persistent!?”

“What else do you expect!! What was your intention when you saw us off with such an exaggerated skill, and then easily caught up with us! Even with such adesperate to return!!”

“Wait, wait, calh it was a bad joke, isn’t『Venom』too much!?”

The devil spear was continuously thrust out, but it didn’t hit shi+n even once

“Tsk”

“What the heck are you clicking your tongue for!? It was just a little joke”

“What joke? That face see, but you yourself didn’t do anything Explain it precisely and I don’t want another joke”

As one would expect, the joke seeone a little too far

Wilhelm looked at shi+n with a serious expression

“shi+n, let’s cut to the chase now”

Schnee, who looked at shi+n and Wilhel around, stepped forward

“You are? Don’t tell me, you stood behind him”

Wilhel

“It’s been a long time since I last saw you If you understand, then the explanation is unnecessary?”

Apparently, the two people communicated with only those words

“Hey, I want you to tell me in a way that I understand”

shi+n had no idea at all of what they were talking about

“You don’t know, huh? Schnee Raizar is fauess even to the Royal family and the Pope”

It was somehow very stout-hearted

“Isn’t that disrespectful?”

“I kneel to no one except to my Master”

So the royal family an opponent, but it seein with, there is no felloould dare pick a fight with her”

“So that is the reason it was tolerated, huh?”

Let alone punishi+ng her, there were only a few people who could even rival her

When shi+n heard that, it seemed as if that was not the only reason Her tone and attitude were both polite If a strong monster appeared, she lent her power She kept neutrality without belonging to any organization, and didn’t bother picking any unnecessary fights

The achievements froh there were people who had secretly tried to draw her into becoreat power, it seemed like none had ever succeeded

“I understand the feeling of wanting to win her over to be an ally”

“Wait…then if she is obediently following a guy like you, that ured it out, huh?…”