37 We Need To Go Deeper (1/2)

Editor: Crembo.

-Morning, My House -

-My POV-​

”Ugh, never again, never ever fight something that looks like it could explode at any second. ”

I applied shampoo to my hair.

”I know it was just a simulation, but still, I feel like its organs are still clinging to my head.”

It happened earlier this morning, I asked the System to 'Give me a random monster to fight' and then it gave me a balloon-like monster.

”I still can't believe it just exploded after I punched it once.”

Since it exploded and I was in melee range, it showered me with gore. As for why I didn't put up my Counter Armor in that fight... I underestimated it. I saw it was only level 19, so I thought it would be over quickly enough, and easily enough, that I didn't need to apply Counter Armor to my body. And then I paid the price for my mistake.

I rinsed my hair with the shower head.

I pinched some of my hair in my fingers and smelled it.

… It smelled nice.

”… I guess this is okay.”

I got out of the shower and started drying myself with the towel.

”Just one and a half weeks left, keep going, me!” I cheered myself up.

I wrapped the towel around my body and left the shower part of the bathroom.

But then I stopped, frozen in place.

Over there, on one side of the bathroom, there's a mirror, a bathroom mirror.

Inside the mirror, I saw my girly reflection. I knew I looked girly because I was a trap right now, but that was not the problem. The problem was I wrapped the towel all the way up around my chest.

'… Since when did I wrap my towel like that?'

I tried to look for the answer in my memory lanes.

I did it yesterday too.

I did it the day before that too.

”This is stupid. I'm a man, not a girl.”

I tried to undo the towel wrap using my hand but something happened when I grabbed the towel.

I kept the towel in place.

”Uh, uuuuh, did the system block my attempt or something?” I said while attempting to remove the towel.

Because I was determine to do it, the towel was slowly but surely getting pried open.

”Take that you dumb system! Just a little more and it will be glorious.” I smiled with confidence.

I used Pyrokinesis to heat up the left over water from the shower, and with sufficient heat, created steam out of it.

I finally removed the towel.

”Haha! I did it-wait what?! Since when is there so much steam in the bathroom?!”

The steam completely covered me from my shoulders to my ankles.

”You think this steam will stop me?!”

I used Vector Change to gather the light at the certain parts around my body, thus creating darkness that covered my chest and my private parts.

I used Vector Change to push the steam away from my body.

”Easy, now let's-…really? We're really gonna do this?”

There was darkness covering my chest and my private parts, is this supposed to be referencing anime fan service intervention? Steam, darkness, god rays, etc.

”You think this will stop me from trying?!”

I used Pyrokinesis to burn the mirror.

I used Vector Change again to fill the dark spots with light.

*PWOOOSH*

”!!”

The mirror suddenly caught on fire.

I could hear the mirror starting to crack while still enveloped in fire.

”…”

After many cracking noises, the mirror exploded into a million pieces.

I shielded myself from the glass shards with my Telekinesis Barrier.

”… Let's just drop the issue, it doesn't matter how I wrap myself in a towel as long as I'm not naked while I'm searching for my clothes.”

”*sigh* …Hm?”

'… Relieved? Why did I suddenly feel relieved?'

After a moment of thinking, I gave up.

”… Whatever.” I shrugged it off.

I started walking out of the bathroom to search for my underwear.

About the mirror, I didn't have to worry about it because it will repair itself afterward.

-Morning, Forest of Magic, Kourindou-​

I stomped in the direction of the shop in annoyance.

'This sucks, the bug moved from her stationary spot, I don't know where she went and now I lost one of my daily points, THIS SUCKS.'

I arrived at the store's front door.

'Okay, calm down now, let's just get this over with.'

I calmed myself down and got ready to knock on the door.

*KNOCK-KNOCK-KNOCK* I knocked hard.

I turned away from the door and started to move my feet.

My feet didn't touch the ground and I felt someone pick me up by the collar.

'What the fu-' I looked behind me, '…I dun goofed.' I thought.

I saw Sakuya holding me with one hand.

”Is this perhaps the morning annoyance you were speaking of?” she said while looking inside the store.

I immediately put on a glove to hide the rings on my hand.

Sakuya carried me inside the building.

One thought that appeared after I was brought inside was 'Those are a lot of junk items'.

So much Junk, junk on the floor, junk on the shelves, junk on the wall, junk on the table, junk with a price tag, this place was basically a junk store.

”Based on what just happened, she is probably the culprit behind my door knocking every morning.” said a man behind the counter.

I looked at him.

It's him.

It's Rinnosuke.

The one and only male character in Touhou that has a somewhat deep background story.

[Lv.22 Junk Keeper, Morichika Rinnosuke]

He had golden eyes, short silver hair, and wore a pair of glasses. His clothes were mixed black and blue, and he carried a small bag on his stomach.

I suddenly felt the tug on my collar disappear.

”Ouch!” I landed on my butt.

Apparently Sakuya had enough of carrying me, so she just dropped me on the floor.

”Now then young lady,” Rinnosuke spoke.

I focused my attention on him.

”Was there any reason why you knocked on my door every morning?” he asked.

I just stayed silent.

”Not gonna answer, is it? That's okay, I can wait.” he continued.

I started observing him.

He adjusted his glasses to readjust his sight on me... No, he was looking at my clothes.

'He's using his ability,' I thought.

His ability lets him identify the name and function of any item he sees. Emphasis 'name' and 'function', because those are the only things he gets from it, not 'how to use', or 'how it's made'.

But still, that was why I wore the glove to hide my disguise rings. He would know for sure why I was wearing the rings if he saw them.

”What a fine piece, 'Red Cherry' is it? So many enchantment in one little package. Even though I have become rusty in magic study, I can still recognize how amazing the clothes you're wearing are.”

He leaned toward me.

”Young lady, how about we make a deal? If you give me your clothes then I will forgive your little annoyance- *SLAP*-GUOH!” Rinnosuke flew across the room and crashed into a junk heap.

I turned my head to stare at the suspect who did it.

It was Sakuya, she slapped him very hard.

”Please don't make this hard on me, shopkeeper-san. I don't want the number of perverts in this place to increase.” she 'smiled'.

I looked at Sakuya in amazement.

”So cool!” I said excitedly.

I felt something move on my chest.