Chapter 237 - Curse House (1/2)

[You received 4800 SO]

Nik's expression instantly darkened as his dark blue Medallion only graced him with system origin. Sighing loudly, a red medal with a skull imprinted on its surface emerged in his hands.

[Red Medal

Description: Kill a host, gain a medal. You get three tries to pick something out of the inventory of the dead host. Use them well.]

”I'll go second.” Elizabeth instantly spoke up while Shigure continued, ”I call... first...”

”Wait, that's simply not right.” Nik shook his hands and activated the red medal that instantly disappeared into a hazy red mist with a small portal forming in itself.

”You didn't... call it...”

Shigure eyed Nik casually and put her hand into the portal before whispering.

”Don't worry... as a weaponsmith... I can find better... items...”

Shigure spoke while Elizabeth affirmed.

”She isn't wrong. As a weaponsmith, she has experience in creating sharp weapons of various shapes and sizes.”

”Fine, fine... I'll just remember to call my turn next time.” Nik huffed and leaned back on the table while Shigure kept reaching out for various things. Some felt like food and some were extremely strange to be even described in words.

'This... is it!'

Shigure's expression turned intense and instantly, she pulled out a beautifully carved... lamp from the portal. For a moment, Elizabeth's and Nik's expression froze before bursting into a fit of laughter.

And as fate would have it, the lamp was no extraordinary item. Maybe a luxury item, but nothing useful to Nik at the moment, but he still pulled the lamp into his inventory and also pulled Shigure on his laps to consoled the indignant shinobi.

”I wasn't in my... best form...”

”Yes, yes, of course.” Nik's smile remained that of a heavy mocking while he continued to hug her waist as Elizabeth looked at the red mist and pushed her hand into it. Since Shigure's earlier attempt already revealed it that luck played a major role, Elizabeth didn't take long before finding something sharp and pulling it out of the red mist.

And lo behold, it was an extremely long and pointy hat!

This time, nobody smiled. In fact, the trio narrowed their eyes and came to a similar conclusion.

”That guy filled his inventory with random crap as the means to safeguard his items in the event of his death...”

Nik sighed deeply and extended his arm into the mist while Elizabeth nodded, ”Now that I think of it, don't you have the snacks from your homeworld? When are you going to share them?”

”Ohhh! Nice reminder!” Nik smiled in excitement and took out a packet of potato chips sporting a lucrative design with a base green colour.

”This is one of the more basic flavours... just a word of caution, I don't have any tomato flavour on me... if you want to taste it, I'll bring it to you guys next time.”

Elizabeth took the packet from Nik's hand while his other hand kept searching in the inventory space created by the red medal, trying to find anything useful.

Meanwhile, Elizabeth popped open the packet, instantly allowing the scent to burst out of the packet as even Shigure's cute little nose twitched and she focused her attention on the packet instead.

”Me, too.”

Getting out of Nik's comfortable laps reluctantly, Shigure sat in front of Elizabeth and waited for her master and caretaker to take the first bite out of the item. With anticipation building in her heart due to discovering an entirely new product, Elizabeth gulped as her free hand entered the packet and gingerly picked up a crispy treat before bringing it closer to her mouth and taking a little bite of the potato chip.

Electrifying taste filled her mouth and her eyes narrowed in comfort while Shigure's hand moved in impatience and took out a rather large slice of the chips before taking a huge bite.

”Oh, forgot to mention that this is the Peri-Peri flavour. Quite a teasing flavour in my opinion.”

Nik smiled as his words rang true. The new snack was spicy! Extremely so and even then, the girls continued taking out one chip at a time before eating it whole as the tongue-numbing sensation filled their bodies with desire for even more.

”Alright, I'll go with this.”

Deciding on a particular item, Nik pulled it out in one motion and finally, a dollhouse of mysterious origin fell appeared on his hands.

”Oh... my devils...”