Chapter 51: The First time beginning Joint work Part 1 (2/2)

「I guess you aren’t like a certain someone, who doesn’t seem to know anything 」

With a bitter smile, Taiyou continues his tedious work.

He creates a character, determining his status and then deleting the character.

He creates a character, determining his status and then deleting the character.

Suddenly, Taiyou remembered the days when he used to play the game. This particular game decided the starting status points randomly. The average status point you would get is about 50, however if you continuously rolled the dice, you would be able to start the game with an advantage.

At that time, Taiyou would relentlessly reroll his status points until he got the perfect figure, but right now his purpose in playing this game was to level up in real life, nevertheless he was seemingly able to make plenty of characters that exceeded the average value by far.

Naturally, he would delete all these characters. This is obviously because his purpose was to level up in real life, not in the game. The sun had set completely, and the vicinity became dark.

The three people moved under a street lamp that was some distance away. Suddenly, Kohaku who was looking at the phone screen together with him raised her voice. The bonus point displayed in the screen actually reached 99, which was the absolute highest value.

「Ohh, isn’t that a really good figure? It’s the kind of figure that would allow you to make a slave harem–」

「Like I said, Please restrain yourself with making those kind of jokes!」

He immediately countered her joke which was approaching dangerous waters, and he completely erased the character.

「What a shame nou」

「It’s fine, after all this game is just a stepping stone for me to level up in real life」

「Well, I suppose that is true jyana」

Kohaku spoke with a tone of voice that seemed to drop towards the end.

「Hey, do you mind it if I ask you a serious question?」(Kohaku speaking)

「What is it?」

Taiyou was continuing to work as he asked her what was up.

「The thing that Juniishima Sakura talked about….Are you truly going to undertake it?」

「If you are talking about kidnapping Yurikago? Then yeah, I’m planning on accepting her offer」

「Is that really alright? Doesn’t this mean that you will make that girl into your enemy?」

Kohaku was asking him with an earnest expression. “Wasn’t she someone you’ve fought with in the past?”…… Kohaku’s question had that kind of implication to it.

「It should be fine. Or more like. It’s better if I was the one who did the kidnapping. I don’t really know what Sakura intends to do with her after she has kidnapped Yurikago, but if I am there, I can at least protect her when push comes to shove」

「I see, is that why you are doing this」

「Taiyou-chan, are you planning on putting Yurikago-chan into your harem desuka〜? Are you going to make her your third wife nanodesu?」

「That’s not it. Think about it, if I know that she is about to be kidnapped I can’t really just ignore it, right?」

「Fumu, that is true jyana」

「Rather than completely disregarding the fact it will happen, being the one to kidnap her will bring a more favorable outcome. Thankfully, Sakura-san doesn’t know that I have a connection with Yurikago, so we will be using this to our advantage」

After saying this Taiyou removed his eyes from the screen, and for once he stretched out his limbs and neck.

「Umu, in regards to this matter, it all started with you trying to help the three sisters. And it was only later that you accepted to work together with Yurikago」

「She also hid her face from Sakura-san」

「That’s true. Well, even if Sakura did see her face by chance, it shouldn’t be too much of a problem, in any case, no one would ever suspect that a mere schoolboy is connected to the princess of the Juniishima Clan jyana」

「Yeah, I am also planning to use that fact. Well, if we are able to capture her successfully and secure the safety of her body, then it will be the best outcome」

「You might be in danger if you choose to do this jyazo?」

「Rather than pretending not to see anything and feeling the immense guilt that comes with it, this is a much better alternative」

「Is that so?」

Kohaku nods and the conversation is cut short at this point. Taiyou continued to work under the veil of darkness pressing buttons on his smart phone whilst the two women continued to watch over him. This kind of scene continued for quite some time. Until—

「Tereretetete〜♪ Taiyou-chan, you levelled up! You have now reached level 9 nanodesu〜」

「Have I increased in level already? This time around it was also really fast wasn’t it?」

In that way, both he and Kohaku confirmed the rise in his abilities.

「As usual, the thing that seems to increase the most is my strength」

「I suppose you are just that kind of character jyaro. Oh yeah, maybe it will be good if I bring you a wooden mallet from the jungle?」

「Please stop right there」

Taiyou replied to Kohaku with a wry smile but he still imagined the scene of himself wielding the wooden hammer. “That may not be such a bad thing” he thought.

「Well, what’s next? It seems that we are about to hit level 10, what do I need to do this time?」

「Is it perhaps putting dandelions on sashimi and then removing it one by one?」

Kohaku suddenly intervenes from the side as she tried to predict the next set of work Taiyou needed to do. At any rate, it was the norm by now that increasing his level had something to do with doing useless work. Even if the first half of the work had some sort of meaning, the second part of the work usually nullified any benefit from the first action. Taiyou thought that the next thing he needed to do was surely going to follow the same sort of principle.

「We might do that a little further down the line nanodesuyo〜. However the next thing we have to do desune〜 is the Princess Carry (Himesama Dakko) nanodesu〜」

「Yes?」

The words that came out of Hera’s mouth was just something he would never have expected.