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CSA 64 - I Tried Dying Once

“Gueh!?”
“Adah!”
“Buheh!?”

Because I teleported in a hurry, we unluckily ended up falling on someone, but that doesn't matter, I'm feeling extremely sick right now... I feel my blood slowly draining away as I stagger around. Ah, this is crazy dangerous... my consciousness is getting fuzzy...

“Aaaah, this is no good... I’ll go out like a light...”
“Lotorl!”
“Lotorl-chan!”

The instant I lost consciousness, I felt a nostalgic sound and smell, but is this a variant of revolving lantern or something?

*

“Oh, Lotorl. It's a shame that you died.”
“Huh? Goddess? Eh, I died!?”
“Of course you'd die if you teleported recklessly. Now, since you died, which would you choose, heaven, hell, or reincarnation, or maybe reincarnation in another world? Oh, you can’t ask me to be your mother, okay?”
“Eeh... wait a minute.”
“Alright, so it’s reincarnation into another world again this time. I pray that you'll have a good life next time too. Farewell.”

Wait, a, aah, my consciousness is...
If possible, I would like to live in a similar world again this time... time... time...

“Well, you're not actually dead! I'll be watching over you at all times, so enjoy your life to the fullest. Also, I was the one who stole your guitar! I'm sorry!”

If you say that to me who was about to lose consciousness, there’s no way I can say anything back, no waa─y.
It's because you do things like that, that no matter how much time passes, you'll still be a little girl, you know?

“If it’s like that, I’ll change the way I call you to cheeky brat god, okay?”
“Ah, you woke up!”
“Lotorl-chan!”
“Fueh!? Lefie!? Why are you here!?”

When I woke up, I suddenly found myself being hugged by the oasis of my heart during the days at the orphanage, a beautiful girl three years younger than me, Lefie. Am I still inside the dream?

“Uuu, I'm glad you’re alive...”
“You suddenly collapsed after you teleported us from the ship. Your face turned so pale that I thought you had died, I was really surprised!”
“So Alrina is here too... if it's a dream, can I also do you-know-what?”
“It's real life, so don't do that. Or rather, don't try to do that to such a small child!”

Alrina punched me in the head, but I didn't feel much pain.
Then, is this reality? No, it's not. If so, I would be forgiven even if I do you-know-what, but I can't dismiss the possibility that this is reality. As I thought, this is reality huh, come to think of it, haven’t I undergone body remodeling?
Dangerous. If I did you-know-what, Lefie's likability towards me would drop dramatically.

“Sorry, I think I was half asleep. So where is this?”
“It’s the orphanage, you know?”
“I see, so this room that I recognized is... the orphanage?”
“That's right. Lotorl-chan and the others suddenly came falling down and squashed Lefie!”
“Ah, I see... I’m sorry about that...”

I thought I would never come back here, but in the end, does that mean that this is what I think is the safest place is...?
No, I think I can accept it if I think I teleported with Lefie as the base point... maybe.

“Lotorl, are you still feeling sick?”
“It was a mental problem, so please don't worry about it. Well, now that we've escaped the predicament, let's go back to Lycorus country.”
“Eeh!? Lotorl-chan, are you leaving already!? Let's stay together a bit more!”
“Lefie... but I refuse! If the teachers found me, it’ll be so bothersome that I’ll die, so I have to run away quickly!”
“Found you, you say? But I already told the adults while you were unconscious and they took care of you, so isn't it too late now? Right now, we’re waiting for a doctor to come, so I think it’ll be a problem if you suddenly disappeared, you know?”
“Wut!? In that case, we have to run away even more!”

I can't stay like this! I have to take Alrina and teleport to the private beach in Lycorus country and run away quickly!

“Run away where? You're not going to run away anywhere, right? Right, Lotorl?”

Before I knew it, someone opened the door and walked in, she looked like a grown-up yankee girl, with long blonde hair and wearing an employee uniform that bore close resemblance to a certain special attack uniform, I think, objectively without any preconceived notions, she looked like a beautiful savage brute, that’s Motoi-sensei.

* (T/N: special attack uniform, Bōsōzoku, that’s basically what delinquents wear.)

“S-sensei... awawawa, no way, no way, running away, you say, you must have misheard it! Ahaha, come on now. Did you lose your hearing while I wasn't looking just a bit, Sensei?”
“Ah, what'd you say?”
“Hiii-. No, it's nothing...”
“Well, it doesn't matter, but you're now a full-fledged adult. You should at least pay me for calling a doctor, will you?”
“Certainly! Kindly make the payment using this.”

I took out 100,000 El from Storage, pretending I took it from my stomach pocket, and gave it to  the ogre gorilla, I mean, to Sensei.
If this makes her mood even a little better, then that’s most satisfactory.

“Hohoo, Lotorl, you've grown up to be a very good child, haven't you? Sensei is impressed. Anyway, we're always accepting donations, so we'd appreciate your help there too.”
“Go ahead, go ahead!”

I took out an additional 100,000 El and gave it to Sensei. Please spare me with this, I beg of you.

“Hehe, Lotorl-chan is such a good girl. I'll give you a kiss as a reward for being a good girl. Muchuuuuuu!”
“Gyoeeeeee!? My cheeks are dyiiiiiiiiing!”

My body is supposed to be strengthened with aero adamantite, so why? It's piercing damage!?
This is why muscle gorilla is! Just go back to nature! I'll beg of you!

“Can I do the medical checkup now?”

The town doctor uncle who had given me health checkups during my orphanage days looked at us with a fed-up expression on his face.
Thank you for butting in before my cheeks fall off and rot.

“Oops, that's right, that's right. Hehe, I just got so happy. Sorry, Sensei. Come on, Lotorl. Hurry up and take off your clothes! You're wearing such fashionable clothes! You damn precocious child!“
“I can take it off myself! Hiiiin!”

After that, the town doctor uncle examined every part of my body, and not only did he find no abnormalities, he even started to doubt whether I am really a human. Lotorl-chan’s mental health is already zero.
When I secretly used Appraisal Skill to appraise the town doctor uncle, only “Medical Skill level 70” was displayed, ‘what an amazing Medical Skill’, I thought.

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CSA 63 - The Winds and Clouds Have Moved Rapidly

The voyage went smoothly, and we ended up back at sea near Lycorus country.

“Huh? That’s weird...”

I think we were swept by the waves while I was sleeping soundly, it's too late for regret though. Let’s just set sail.

“Pft.”

Alrina is taking a morning bath right now, so there's no one listening to me, which is a little disappointing.

“Well, whatever. Gate open! Release to the sea!”

I teleported to the place we should have traveled to yesterday using Gate, pretending my mistake of not setting up a lookout didn’t exist.

Once we pass through the gate, I see a 360-degree view of the ocean as far as my eye can see.
The land that I had seen earlier disappeared completely, as if it was a dream or an illusion.

“This should be fine now.”

Alrina is in the middle of taking a bath comfortably, so this is a perfect crime.
Right as I think that, Alrina came back from the bath.

“Phew, I feel refreshed.”
“That was quite a long bath... I won't ask you any boorish questions.”
“Boorish?”
“Eh, what’s with this kid? Are you saying she was just genuinely enjoying her long bath...?”
“You're saying weird things again... Okay, okay, let's have breakfast.”

By the looks of it, it seems she really enjoyed her long bath. It even made me embarrassed because I was having such a strange imagination?
Still, Alrina's ignoring power is increasing day by day, Lotorl is feeling lonely.

Breakfast is grilled fish caught yesterday, salad, and an assortment of fruits.
Since I have high potions, even if we get scurvy, I can cure it in one shot, so we don't have to worry about it too much, but there is nothing better than not getting it, so I think we should eat fruits every day. They are delicious even if you eat them normally.

“Hey, Lotorl... aren't those clouds weird?”

After I finished breakfast and was sunbathing on the deck, Alrina said that she had spotted a weird cloud, so I turned my gaze in the direction she was pointing and saw dark muddy clouds slowly spreading out.

“I've never seen such dangerous-looking clouds, including in my previous life, so I'd like to go above the clouds and avoid them. If we stay outside like this, we’ll just get blown away, so let's go to the wheelhouse.”
“R-Roger!”

After making sure that Alrina had entered the wheelhouse, I operated the lever installed to avoid capsizing and lifted the ship higher than the clouds.

“We should be safe now.”
“Are we really...?”
“Please stop saying things like that because it will raise a strange flag.”
“A strange flag?”
“For example, if you say something like, “Did we get him?” when you defeat an enemy, the enemy you thought you defeated will mysteriously come back to life, or if you say “Was it just my imagination?” when you see something strange, you will generally die, so please be careful.”

There are many other flag lines, such as “I'm getting married after this battle is over,” or “Forget about me, just go on ahead,” and “Get out of my sight before I beat you up,” but I don't think Alrina will say those, so I'll leave them out. I do want to purposely say them though.

“I don't really get it, but I'll be careful, okay?”
“Also, as an additional piece of information, it seems that “talking about flags” is also a flag.”
“Meaning?”
“In other words, I lost control of the ship. Also, it’s falling. Its Flight Skill is still active, so it's being pulled downwards by a stronger force. Aah, rotation has also been added... also downforce... No, downburst, or no, this is a tornado... a tornado that sucks things down... we’re not soaring up, we’re soaring down... isekai weather phenomenon, huh... I see...”
“LOTORL!!”

Alrina's scream brought me back to my senses.
It seems like I was escaping reality by trying to calmly analyze the unrealistic situation.
When you encounter an emergency situation like this, the most important thing to do is run away.

“Gate is, no good, huh... we'll abandon the ship! I'll teleport, so please grab me!”
“Un!”

I tried to teleport the whole ship using Gate, but the movement of the ship was so complicated that I couldn't get a good aim.
The ship itself is sturdy, so it will be fine even when it falls into the sea, but the impact of the fall will likely make the inside a mess.

The instant I hugged Arrina and was about to teleport, the insects crossed my mind and I teleported to the ship's bedroom where I kept the insect cage.

“What are you doing!?”
“I'm sorry. I was worried about the insects and I lost my concentration.”
“Geez!”

I wrapped up the insect cage in a cloth bag, and also put the miniature luxury battleship and travel bag that was in the bedroom away into storage, and this time for sure, I'm going to teleport to a safe place.

“Ah, the money!!”
“Alrina-san...”

Since I got worried about the insects, I can't blame Alrina for worrying about money.
There's still time until the ship crashes, so I teleport to the treasure room, quickly put away the gold ingots, gold coins, and jewelry into Storage, and then this time for sure, I’ll teleport.

“Oh, I left my clothes in the bathroom!”
“Please give up on the clothes!”
“I-I guess I should! Ahaha.”

We don’t have any more time left, so I'll teleport us to a safe place without accepting any complaint! When it’s time for teleport, we teleport!

“Here we go!”
“Un!”

As expected, I too, didn't have much time to spare, so I didn't even take time to imagine where the teleport destination would be and just teleported to the safest and most secure place for me.

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(T/N: 風雲急を告げた - to have grown tense (of a situation); to have become critical (and to be on the verge of a major upheaval) from dictionary. It’s the title, the one I use is the literal translation not mentioned in the dictionary.)

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CSA 62 - I Tore Them Off

Alrina, who had locked herself in the bathroom after eating too much crab, came back with a sullen face, so, although I don't know if this would be effective on overeating, I gave her a sip of high potion, and she completely recovered. ‘High potions sure are amazing’, I thought ‘I guess I’ll never be able to stop wasting high potions after this’.

“How childish.”
“Small orange?”
“No, nothing. Let’s raise the speed.”

* (T/N: 小並感 - konamikan - childish reaction (like that of an elementary school student); unsophisticated reaction, abbr. of 小学生並みの感想. I translated it to ‘how childish’ she’s talking about herself.

粉ミカン？kona mikan - small orange. The 粉 part mean ‘flour; meal; powder; dust’ but I translated it as small.)

I entered the wheelhouse, checked the compass to make sure we were not drifting, and turned the sub-wheel clockwise to increase the rotation of the propeller, increasing the speed of the ship.

“Alright, done. Now then, I have some free time, so should I take care of the insects?”

Arrina said she would arrange the daily necessities in each of our rooms and went to get the travel bag she had left in the bedroom.
I've bought things like stylish lamps, so I'm sure she will transform the room into a wonderful one.

I took out the insect cage from the cloth bag I had left on the deck and checked the insects inside with my Appraisal Skill, and was a little relieved to find that their body structures were the same as those of the insects in my previous world.

I wasn't even a little freaked out when the crabs turned out to be sea urchins and shrimp, okay?!

I took out aero adamantite from Storage, caught a beetle from the insect cage and synthesized the two.

Lotorl-chan, who starts mad science without hesitation, is dangerous, to say the least.

I've already done the experiment on my own body, so there shouldn't be any problems, but from a beetle's point of view, it might be wondering what I’m doing to it.
You'll be reborn in a stronger body, so forgive me.

When I checked it with the appraisal skill, it was displayed as Aero Adamantite Beetle.
It has ranked up from a beetle to a metal beetle.
Since it was reborn as a nearly indestructible beetle, it will no longer die from external causes such as being trampled or eaten by animals.
As you’d expect, if it was swallowed whole it wouldn't be able get out of the stomach, and if it fell into the sea, it would suffocate to death, but I think it’ll get spat out if it rampage inside the stomach, and since it's light, I think it will quickly float back up before it suffocates. In the first place, it can fly, so it can get back to the ship before it falls, and it is carefully kept in the insect cage, so it should be fine there.

I also synthesized the female one with aero adamantite and then made an insect cage using aero adamantite to prevent the insect cage from being destroyed.

I took out things like soil, dead leaves, tree branches and food, from Storage and put them into the insect cage, and finally put the male and female aero adamantite beetles in there.

I'm looking forward to seeing what kind of children will be born from these aero adamantite beetles.

After that too, I created things like golden beetles and jewel stag beetles, synthesized Recovery Skill with Tone Color Skill to create Sound Recovery Skill and synthesized it into a bell cricket, and separated a cricket’s body from its head over and over again in pursuit of deliciousness using Compounding Skill. They were very fulfilling experiments.
By the way, the taste of crickets is similar to that of spiny lobster. Of course, since crickets also chirp, I synthesized Recovery Sound Skill into it, and since they are also edible, I synthesized Recovery Skill into it as well.

Perhaps finished decorating her room, Alrina came back and witnessed my atrocious act, and was taken aback, saying, “Uwaa...,” but the expression on her face at that time was deeply moving.

“I made some really delicious crickets, would you like to try them?”
“Lotorl... you are a little tired, aren't you? Why don't you take a rest in your room?”
“Can you please stop looking at me like you do when your close friend is mentally ill? It just normally hurts.”

Now that I've finished playing with insects, I decided to go see how the interior of the ship has changed.

“Wow, isn't this stylish, like a movie set? It's overflowing with the feeling of antique, it’s wonderful.”
“Ehehe, thank you.”

When I think about it, in this world, the modern era is currently highly acclaimed, so antique is not a compliment. Alrina doesn't seem to notice at all, so I won't say anything unnecessary.
Also, I mentioned it being stylish, like a movie set, but Lotorl has no memories of movies.
The fact that Alrina didn't have any doubts means movies exist, so I want to see it. I wonder what kind of films exist here? I'm looking forward to it.

“By the way, what is ‘movie’ or ‘antique’?”
“So they don’t exist... please don’t worry about it...”

It seems that Alrina was just happy because of the words “stylish” and “wonderful.”

I wanted to see a movie...

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CSA 61 - I Ate Too Much

We returned to the inn and put the luggage we put in the room into Storage, Alrina carried her travel bag and I carried the insect cage wrapped in the shrinkable cloth bag and left the inn.

“We’re really going, aren’t we...”
“It’s a sunny day with a pleasant breeze, so I think it’s a good day to set sail, you know?”
“I know it won't be scary if Lotorl is here, but...”
“...The unknown is scary, but once you make it known, you can laugh at it. Though, I guess I can say that because I can do anything.”
“Are you trying to say some weird nonsensical proverb again?”
“Since Alrina interrupted me, I'll just say the punchline. Rather than regret it, let's set sail!”
“...I feel anxious.”

* (T/N: regret - koukai, set sail - koukai. Yeah, it’s a pun.)

Returning to the private beach earlier, we will hold the launching ceremony of the Lulurina.

I only know the word ‘launching ceremony’ and totally have no idea what it is, but for the time being, if I just pour some alcohol on her, there shouldn't be any problems. After all, I know that most ceremonies involve pouring alcohol.

I took out sand and grapes that would be easy to make into alcohol from storage, used Alchemy Skill to make a sake bottle from the sand, put the grapes in it, and liquefy it. I check the alcohol content using Appraisal Skill and increase the alcohol content to 15% using Compounding Skill, and the red wine is complete. Appraisal Skill displays it as red wine, so there's no mistake.

“Now then, shall we get the Lulurina out into the sea?”

When I released the Lulurina from Storage towards the sea, it floated into the sea with a large splash of water.

“And then... throw it? Oryaa!”

Suddenly, I received a radio signal and threw the bottle of red wine I was carrying at the ship, breaking it.

“W-what are you doing, Lotorl!?”
“No, I received a strange radio wave, you see, apparently this is the etiquette for launching ceremonies.”
“Eeh... I think it’s definitely wrong...”
“I think so too, but when you use Skills and magic, acting according to your senses makes it easier to use, so, wouldn't this be not that much of a mistake?”
“Is that, really so...?”

Besides, the expression on the goddess figurehead's face seems to be smiling somehow.
I won't tell Alrina though, because I'd be in trouble if she gets scared and won't ride.

The launching ceremony ended successfully, so let's board the ship immediately.

“Aah... this is nice. It feels like a fantasy.”
“Weird Lotorl...”
“Don’t you feel something too, Alrina?”
“Eeh, hmm. I think it's a fine ship, but it feels kind of boyish... ah.”
“...I'm a girl, you know?”
“That's true. Lotorl is a girl, isn’t it? Un, un.”

What’s with that? That disgusted face.
Even if I was a boy in my past life, I’m still a proper girl in this life, you know? I'm an idol after all.
How can you say such cruel things, that a ship built by such a cute idol is a boorish, lame ship built by a man?

Does this require punishment? Does it?

“Aa─h! Just now, a big fish jumped! It’s time for fishing, isn’t it?! I'm looking forward to it─!”
“...I just couldn't hold on any longer. How about we come to a compromise and I rub Alrina's butt?”
“...If that makes you feel better, go ahead.”
“Then, excuse me.”
“Nhi-!? Ahahaha! Weren't you going to rub it!? Ihihihi!”
“I'm a girl. I'm a girl. I'm a girl!!”
“Aa─n! Sorry, Lotorl─!”

I administered the punishment of full body tickling. There is no mercy.

After that, we looked around every part of the interior of the ship, and as soon as I guided us to the treasure warehouse that I made for Alrina, she let out a strange voice, took off her clothes, and started swimming in the sea of gold, and at the end she performed a mysterious dance.

“Gehehehe!! What do you think, Lotorl!? Are you having fun!?”
“Ah, yes. That was a wonderful dance.”

Alrina-san is currently mass producing her dark history.
I didn't expect her to go this crazy, but Alrina herself is dancing with a really nice smile on her face. I’d feel bad if I stopped her midway, so I'll go along with her until the end. Even though she is like this, she is still more or less my precious older sister.

I wouldn't do such a wasteful thing as erasing my memory, you know?

I use Memory Preservation Magic to memorize it perfectly, and when Alrina's memory starts to fade, let’s use Memory Projection Magic to hold a viewing party.

*

When Alrina regained her composure, her face turned so red that it looked like it was on fire, and she fell to her knees on the spot.

“Uuu... don't look at me... leave me alone...”
“Alrina was cute earlier, but Alrina is also really cute right now, you know.”
“That was not cute at all... I wonder why I did that...”
“Hmm, I understand. I'll give all the gold here to Alrina. Please cheer up.”
“...Really?”
“Really real. Lotorl won't lie.”

It’s only sometimes, but there are also times when I lie. Because self-preservation is fundamental.
Of course, Alrina has become more than half of my existence, so I will protect her no matter what, even if my limbs are torn off or my head is removed.

“...Ehehe, okay then.”

The self-interested Alrina is so greedy and cute. Let's give her a kiss.

Now that Alrina is in a much better mood, shall we start the Age of Exploration?

“You bastards, set sail!”
“That’s like a pirate!”
“Eeh, then, Ojou-sama! Let us set sail!”
“Aah, un. Set sail!”

When the wheel on the front deck was rotated once clockwise, the propeller began to move and the ship began to advance forward.
I poured a lot of magic power into the magic engine that moves the propeller, so this will probably continue to run like this for 10 years.

“Oh, it moves properly.”
“Yes... will we really be okay?”
“If it's not okay, we will return to land right away, so please rest assured.”
“That statement doesn’t make me feel reassured at all...”
“It’s fine, it's fine, full speed ahead!”

The fully open sails are inflated by the tailwind, encouraging further acceleration.

“Yo─ho─ yo─ho─, tomorrow's weather─ is clear─.”
“What a weird song.”
“Yo─ho─ yo─ho─, Alrina's ass─ will get bigger─.”
“I’ll get angry, you know?!”

As we moved away from the coast and could no longer see land, I eased up our speed.

“Huh? Was there a malfunction?”
“It’s for fishing, you know. Fishing.”
“I see.”

Since we’ve come all the way out to the sea, there's no reason not to go sea fishing.

And so, I took out aero adamantite from storage and made sea fishing rods and reels, floats, sinkers, lines, and hooks. Aah, the sinker will be made of adamantite. Because if I use aero adamantite, it will float.

“What about the bait?”
“We’ll use the torso of a cricket.”
“Ue.”

I took a cricket out of the insect cage, cast Paralysis Magic and Sleep Magic on it, decapitated it, applied a mega potion to its head and regenerated it, and repeated the process dozens of times, mass producing fishing bait.

“...It's better not to show that to too many people, you know?”
“I do have common sense, so I think I understand how crazy this act is.”
“That's fine then, but... have you ever done this to a person?”
“...If it's just the little finger.”
“Hii...”
“There may come a time when I’ll ask Alrina for this too, so please be prepared.”
“It’s a joke, right?”
“Then, how about I demonstrate it?”
“No thanks!!”

We stuck the mass-produced cricket torso on the fishing hook and cast it into the sea.

* (T/N: Japanese is a pain, there’s usually no subject in a sentence, nor is there indication whether it’s plural or not, so I don’t know if Lotorl made just one or a whole bunch of fishing rod, nor do I know if it’s just Lotorl who cast the line into the sea. But the sentences below infer that they both do it. Sigh, this part is a pain.)

“Alrina, can you do it?”
“It's okay. Wa-!? It's here already!”
“Pull upwards as hard as you can so that the hook pierces the fish's mouth. After that, all that’s left is to reel it in. As long as the fish's mouth isn’t torn off, the line shouldn't snap nor the rod should break.”

Everything was stuck together using Synthesis Skill, so the line won't come undone, it's mostly a cheat item.

“This looks pretty big! Uu─, so heavyy!”
“Do your best! Do your best!”
“Wait, a minute... Uryaa!!”

When Alrina pulled up the rod with great force, a huge crab was pulled in.

“It’s a crab!”
“Ue, a sea spider...”
“Eh?”
“Crab?”

Aa─h, so in this world they are recognized as spiders...
No, it might really be a spider, so let's examine it using Appraisal Skill.

“Big Enkoutata Ashitaraba Sea Urchin... it’s not even a crab!”
“What what?”
“It seems like it’s neither a spider nor a crab, it's more like a sea urchin.”
“Ee─h, isn’t sea urchin a fish with lots of black spines? No matter how you look at it, this is a spider.”

It seems that the perception of sea urchins is slightly different. The sea urchin is like a fish... Is it like a porcupine fish?

“It doesn't seem to be poisonous, so should we try eating it?”
“I'll pass...”
“I see. Well, you don't have to force yourself to eat it, so I’ll be eating deliciously on my own. Oops, I got one too!”

At the same time as the rod I was holding was pulled down in one go, the bitten hook was pulled up.

“Heavy-! Guoo... wai-, this is way too heavy...!”

I feel like my body will be dragged away along with the fishing rod, this is scary.

“Paralyze!”

I paralyzed my prey by using Paralysis Magic’s Paralyze through my fishing rod.
I don't think it can be helped because even if I continued to fight with my strength, I think the fishing rod would have been dragged away.
I feel a little sense of defeat.

When I managed to pull up the prey that had stopped moving, it turned out to be an extra large crab.

“Spider again.”
“Big Koubako Benizwai Shrimp... so it's shrimp.”

No matter how you look at it, it looks like a crab, but it's actually a shrimp. Well, anything is fine as long as it tastes good.

“This one doesn’t seem to be poisonous either, so want to eat it?”
“I don’t.”

If it's this big, it might be difficult to eat by myself, but if I have any leftover, I can just save it in Storage and eat it at a later date.

Personally, I'm very satisfied with two giant crabs, but Alrina says she'll continue fishing because she wants to eat regular fish, so I think I’ll make a stockpot that can hold giant crabs and boil the crabs in it.

I took out iron from storage and used Alchemy Skill to create an extra-large stockpot.
I filled the pot with water using Water Magic, sank a Fireball in the water and brought it to a boil. While the Big Enkoutata Ashitaraba Sea Urchin was boiling, I created another extra-large stockpot, filled it with water, and brought it to a boil with a Fireball. And then I boiled the Big Koubako Benizwai Shrimp.
I adjusted the size of the Fireballs to prevent the crabs from burning.

“Now I just need to wait.”
“It’s here! It’s here, Lotorl! Fununu!”

The reel feels lighter than before, so I hope it's a fish.

“Yaa─h!”

When Alrina pulled hard on the rod, catching the most disgusting thing with raw wiggling legs and slimy human-like lips, eroding my sanity as I looked directly at it, so I released it with no question asked.

“Let’s pretend we didn’t see it.”
“Yes, let’s...”

Alrina, however, seems to be undeterred and continues fishing. That’s some nerve, alright.

*

“Tuna, bonito, and salmon, Alrina, nice!”
“Ehehe!”

By the time the crabs finished boiling, Alrina had caught three fishes and was extremely happy that she could eat a decent meal. Good for you, Alrina.

As for the crab, I put the boiled water in storage (I planned to use it as soup stock in the future) and used Water Magic and Ice Magic to cover the boiled crab with ice water.

“I guess it’s good enough now?”

I took out aero adamantite from Storage, made two large plates that can hold the giant crabs, placed the crabs taken out of the pot there, and was about to eat them directly just as is.

“Itadakimasu!”

First of all, let's start with the Big Enkoutata Ashitaraba Sea Urchin.

“Or I tried to but... it won't break at all...”

If it's this hard, it would be difficult for a normal person to eat it.
However, I'm the can-do-anything-Lotorl-chan, I can liquefy the shell and eat just the body.

“Amu, munch munch, SO GOO─────D!!”

Sea urchin! crab! Sea urchin!

The harmony between sea urchin flavor and crab umami spreads throughout my mouth, making this the most delicious thing ever! Too delicious!

* (T/N: I checked Wikipedia, apparently, umami is savoriness, but I'll still use umami, because the wikipedia entry use umami.)

“Is it that delicious?”
“Alrina too, don’t just hate it, try it! It's the most delicious, you know!”
“R-Really? Well, I guess I’ll try it?”

I used Alchemy Skill to liquefy the shell and gave one of the legs to Alrina.

“Itadakimasu. Amu, munch munch, mu!!”
“How is it, Alrina? Delicious, isn't it?”
“Delishios... it's so delicious... Lotorl, can I have some more?”
“Go ahead, go ahead, Alrina also caught some fish after all, don't be shy and eat as much as you want.”
“Thank you, Lotorl! Amu-amu, mmm─! Sho good!”
“Now then, shall we eat the Big Koubako Benizwai Shrimp?”

This crab also has quite a hard shell.
It's not unbreakable, but each leg is huge, making it hard work to break. It doesn't matter to me though.

I liquefied the shell and tried eating one of the legs.

“Amu, munch munch, ooh, this one is delicious too!”

It has a hybrid taste of sweet shrimp and crab. It might have tasted better raw, but this is delicious in its own way, so it's not a problem.

“Me too, me too!”
“Go ahead, go ahead.”
“Aa─mu, mm─!! So good!!”

Seeing a beautiful girl eating deliciously sure is soothing to the soul.
And then, if you do that while also eating, the meal will taste even better, so everyone, please try eating with a beautiful girl when you eat. If you can find one, that is.

They were so delicious that I ate both of them in one go, and my stomach swelled up like a pregnant woman's and I was in pain.
Alrina was also the same, she locked herself in the bathroom about 30 minutes after eating.

Being too delicious made it poisonous. That's the lesson. I genuinely just ate too much, though.

My body is made of aero adamantite, so if it’s just eating too much, I think I can digest it without any problems, but my stomach still bloats and hurts just like before. Urp.

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CSA 60 - I Made a Ship

I woke up refreshed and am now having breakfast at the inn's dining room.

“We’ll look for a ship today.”
“Hey... what about the option to live here?”
“None.”
“I see...”

After eating, let's leave for the harbor.

The ocean, bathed in sunlight, the soothing sound of waves, the chirping of seabirds, the sound of ships scraping against the shore, and the smell of the sea breeze.

“The sea is nice, isn’t it?”
“Yeah, it is.”

Together with Alrina, I spread my arms wide and took a deep breath, filling my lungs full.

“Okay, let's go.”
“Un.”

*

“Dragen Island, huh... it's impossible for us.”

“Dragen Island... go ask another place.”

“Dragen Island? ...if you’d ask me, I could go, but... no, I can't after all, I'm sorry.”

“Dragen Island, my father bragged about going there and coming back, but then he suddenly left after that... I don’t know if he went there or not.”

“To go to Dragen Island, you need at least a large caravel ship that has navigation-type Skill, magic, divine protection, or blessings. If I had to be greedy, a galleon would be a good choice, but those don't come into this port very often. And most of the ships that are currently in port are fishing boats and small merchant ships circling the nearby waters. In other words, if you really want to go to Dragen Island right away, it's faster to build a ship from scratch than to wait for one.”

We asked the sailors at the port if they could take us to Dragen Island, but they all refused.
Every time I get rejected, Alrina smiles more and more, so I think I'll rub her all over later.

“That's a shame, isn’t it, Lotorl.”

Alrina looks like she's desperately trying to suppress her smile, but the corners of her mouth are twitching.

“I suppose so, then, let's start building a ship.”
“Eh?”

If you don't have one, make one, that's Lotorl School's secret of success in life.

I had the experience of making a plastic model of the battleship Yamato in my previous life, but it would stupidly stand out if I made it here, so I'm thinking of ripping off the design of a sailing ship parked nearby.
After examining the structure of the ship with Appraisal Skill and memorizing it perfectly with Memory Preservation Magic, I headed to a deserted coast.

“This area should be good enough. Now let's start building the ship.”
“While saying that, you go on and erase rocks, what’s that supposed to mean?”
“I'm collecting materials for the ship though?”
“Using rocks... so it’s a ship that’ll sink?”
“You can make a ship that won't sink even with rocks, but well, just take a look.”

Leaving the skeptical Alrina aside, I put every single rock that was lying on the shore in Storage, transforming this place into a sandy beach.

Now that I’ve secured an area the size of a small private beach, I synthesize the rocks I have collected with aero adamantite, mass-producing it to secure a large amount of aero adamantite.

“All right, now that I have this much, I won't be troubled for a while.”

I place the lump of aero adamantite I produced earlier on the sandy beach that I opened and process it into a sailing ship. (This takes about 10 seconds.)
I didn't clap my hands and hit the ground with them, you know? It’s true, you know?
I did snap my fingers to make it look cool to Alrina though.

“Amazing...”
“Fufuu─n!”
“Lotorl can really do anything!”
“Fufufufu─n!”

Arrina complimented me, so I used my Body Modification Skill to physically lengthen my nose, but it made her feel uncomfortable instead. It’s a bit depressing that my gag isn't taken as a gag.

The ship design is still a rip-off, so let's start adding some originality to it.

“If I make it too flashy, we might be targeted by pirates, maybe a ghost ship... I guess it’ll stand out instead, huh? How about I make it look like a run-down ship that looks really poor?”

I rework the sails to make it look like they were patched together and change the overall color of the ship to a gray color to make it look like it faded over time.

“Eeh... even though the ship was so beautiful.”
“This is a safety measure. The exterior will look shabby to reduce the chance of being attacked, but the interior will be furnished to look like a luxury liner, so please rest assured.”
“Hmm... but, when I thought about getting on this ship, it’s a bit...”

It seems Alrina's aesthetic sense doesn't really like the terribly run-down appearance of the ship.
I don't want to demoralize Alrina, who hates sailing itself, even further, so should I let her design the ship however she likes?

“Then I will design a ship that Alrina would want to ride, so please tell me what you want it to look like.”
“U-umm... I can't think of anything even if you suddenly ask me.”
“If you don’t say anything, I’ll go with the run-down boat, you know?”
“Wait a minute! Um, uuhh, first of all, the color of the ship will be light brown that clearly look like glossy grains of wood, and the sails will be pure white with no patchwork, and then add a statue of the goddess on the bow, and put as many big cannons as you can. And then, and then...”
“We'll do it one by one, so you don't have to say it all at once.”
“O-okay.”

After that, I processed the ship according to Alrina's wishes, and I should have stopped when we started fussing over the details of things like handrails and window frames, but I also started getting carried away, and in the end, the extreme modification turned it into a luxurious battleship that could be ridden by royalty.

“So beautiful...”
“So cool...”

Looking at the ship, or rather, the warship, which was modified so completely that it was hard to believe that it was originally a small sailing boat, I muttered to myself, “There’s no way I can ride something like this...”

“Now then, that’s enough playing around, shall we start building a proper ship?”
“Eh?”
“...Even if I don’t say anything, Alrina already understands, right?”
“Lotorl... that's too sad...”

Seeing Alrina's face that looked too sad, I couldn’t possibly rework this warship and make it into a different ship.
Besides, if I did something like that, I would deeply hurt Alrina's heart.

“Small.”
“EEEHH!?”

And so, I used Universal Magic Skill to use magic that reduce the size of the target, and turned the luxury battleship into a 1/100 scale miniature and handed it to Alrina.

“Please take good care of it.”
“...Even if you say it like giving me a pet, but I'll accept your feelings.”

The sight of Alrina cradling the miniature luxurious battleship as if she was holding a baby was so full of compassion that it would be no exaggeration to say that she was the Virgin Mary herself. It looks as if a halo is shining on her from the direction of the sunlight.

...When I think about it, I feel like Alrina is a bit too greedy to be called Virgin Mary, but if it's just her current appearance, I think it's okay to call her a Virgin Mary... probably.

After that, I safely created a sailing ship that looks like it could be found anywhere.

The main deck has magic cannons installed both on the left side and the right side the combined number being six, which will fire magical cannonballs when loaded with magic power, on the bow and stern, they each have one large magic cannon installed, and although it takes a little time to fill up with magic power, it is powerful enough to sink a blue whale in one hit, and the figurehead is not the little girl god, but a goddess. It has two masts, each having three-tiered sails, with a triangular sail on the front deck, and an auxiliary sail on the rear deck, and a rowing boat on the left side of the main deck. And the wheel on the front deck.

* (T/N: how did Lotorl make the magic cannon work?)

There is a wheelhouse on the rear deck with a sub-steering wheel, a huge compass, a world map, and a flight mode lever to avoid capsizing. Finished by synthesizing Fight Skill with the ship.

On the second deck, there is a guest room and toilet in the front (Alrina and I don't use it because we are idols), a dining room and galley in the middle, and a bedroom and bathroom in the rear.

On the third deck, there is a treasure warehouse for Alrina, filled with various kinds of jewels scattered about, gold ingots arranged like a pyramid and a mountain of gold coins. The deck also has a magic engine room at the rear, and a propeller at the bottom of the ship. Although I said it was a sailing ship, I never said that the only power source was wind.

* (T/N: Like I said, how did Lotorl create the magic engine? I suppose a reasonable explanation would be, she synthesized a skill or magic into something.)

“Finally, give it a name and we're done.”
“Lulurina.”
“You already thought about it huh?”
“And this one is Rinalulu. They’re sister ships.”
“...Ah, yes.”

* (T/N: the ships’ names are actually Lulurina-go and Rinalulu-go, but I feel like the ‘go’ part is just an add-on or something. I don’t know how it works though.)

The highlight disappears from Alrina's eyes as she strokes the miniature luxury battleship.

A muddy feeling sprouted about her little sister's child seeing the light of day before her own child who she has raised with such care, but she has yet to notice that muddy feeling yet, or something like that.
This’s just my own imagination though, I don't actually know what kind of feelings Alrina is feeling right now.
If I do a poor follow-up, I might stir up a hornet's nest, so it would probably be best to stay silent here.

Let’s leave aside Alrina's smile that has lost its light for a moment, it’s time for an experiment to see how big an object can be to fit in Storage.
If it fits, it’ll be lucky, but even if it doesn't fit, I can use magic to make it smaller. Its actual size is 30 meters long and 24 meters high with the mast, when I tried putting it away into Storage, it fit easily.

“Lotorl...”
“Ahaha, as expected, I won’t do this in public.”

With my fine play (you might even call it a rare play), Alrina's expression returned, so all is well!

Now that the preparations for the voyage are complete, all that is left is to vacate the inn and depart.

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CSA 59 - I Gave Her a Present

Now that the work is done, let's cancel the Clone Magic.

“No, I still want to live... Please Lotorl, don't erase me...!”
“You worked hard. Thank you. Please take a good rest.”
“Aaah... I'm disappearing... I'm, disappear-...”

I was just trying to say the lines I wanted to say when a clone sprouts a sense of self, but is ruthlessly erased.
The pitiful Clone-chan didn’t exist, so please rest assured.

As the clone turned into particles of light and disappeared, I suddenly had an idea.

It might be a good idea to rent out my clones to make money.
Rental Lotorl instead of Rental Kanojo. Or perhaps Subscription Lotorl.
My job is to rent them out to only women (male daughters are allowed), and to help them solve this and that that they can't share with others.

“Fuhehe...”

Isn't being able to fulfill beautiful women’s you-know-what request for that thing and even get paid for them the best!

“It might be good... No, it’d be really good!”

Alright, let's add a Rental Lotorl shop to my future goals.

‘I thought of a good idea, so it’s about time to go back,’ as I thought that, I looked up at the sky, but the sun was still high in the sky.

It's still too early to go back to the inn, so another thing to do would be...
Ah right. I want to mass-produce Elasticity Skill and synthesize them into my clothes.

I took out the cloth bag from Storage, liquefied and synthesized it into a grape seed, used a high fertilizer potion until it bore fruit, and harvested them.

“Shortening Skill, Contraction Skill, Extension Skill, Expansion Skill, Flexibility Skill, there are a lot of them, huh.”

Shortening Skill is a Skill that makes an object shorter, while Contraction Skill is a Skill that makes an object smaller.
They sound like similar Skills, but if you compare them using a skirt, Shortening Skill would make it into a miniskirt, while Contraction Skill would make it into a child's skirt.
By the way, I'm in the Shortening Skill faction.

Extension Skill is a Skill that makes an object wider, while Expansion Skill is a Skill that makes an object inflate.
...The belly of a pregnant woman. No, it's nothing.

Flexibility Skill is a skill that softens an object, and when used on clothes and the like, it would probably make them fluffy and comfortable.

Let’s stop explaining the Skills here and start collecting a large amount of Elasticity Skill that I’m aiming for, and first synthesize them into my own clothes.

I'm still completely naked now, so I took out the clothes from Storage and synthesized the Skill into each of them.

“Umu.”

When I try to move lightly, there are no more snags in my clothes, and I can move my body smoothly.

...The work was completed in an instant, I see.

“Ah, right. Let's make something with the gemstone.”

As expected, a ring would really stand out, so something like a necklace might be better. You can hide it with your clothes after all.

I took out the lump of gemstones from Storage, or rather, I placed it on the ground with a bam, and used Alchemy Skill to extract some gemstone in colors that suited Alrina, and then put the remaining lump of gemstone back into Storage.

“First, shall I make the string?”

I could make a chain out of gold, but thinking of the texture, let's make the string out of my own skin.

Even I myself thought it was crazy.
But I'll do it. Because I think it’ll feel good on the skin.

I use Body Modification Skill to stretch the skin of the tips of my fingers into strings, and use Alchemy Skill to liquefy and cut it off. It hurt a little.

I heal it with a high potion and move on to the next step.

“Spiral structure, beetle, jewel, processing, beetle, design sense, beetle, cross, magatama, star, flower, beetle, ring, planet...”

It's hard to throw away the beetle, but let's go with a safe flower design.

I use Alchemy Skill to process multiple gemstones such as emeralds, aquamarines, amethysts, and garnets into flower petals, and use Synthesis Skill to attach the contact points of both ends of the skin string to the gemstone petals.

“Is this a kid’s toy...?”

How can I improve my design sense?

The word ‘diamond cut’ suddenly appeared in my mind, so I decided to try cutting the surface of the jewel.

“I guess it's better than before... I'll just learn about this at a jewelry store or something.”

I'm sure Alrina will jump with joy even with just this, so let’s give it to her as a present later. I'll make one for myself another time.

Perhaps because I struggled with cutting the jewel, the area was completely in evening color.

“Before I go back...”

I took out grapes and every kind of gem from Storage, synthesized them, planted them on the ground, and sprayed them with high fertilizer potion.

“Wow, so pretty...”

The grapevine bearing various jewels reflected the setting sun and sparkled, making me feel as if I had wandered into a fairy tale world.

...Now that I have a body made of adamantite, I can easily eat them, but it probably won't taste good.

“But I’m eating it. Chomp... crunch crunch crunch, peh! It's so bad! I'll never eat it again!”

I do think I can make it delicious with my Compounding Skill, but I don't think it's something I should go that far to eat. Jewels should only be looked at and admired.

I put the remaining jewel grapevine in Storage and return to the inn where Alrina is waiting.

By the way, I tried making a potion out of the jewel grape, but it seems that if you drink it, your feces and urine will sparkle. I'm an idol though, so it’s already sparkling usually.

*

“I’m back. Alri...na?”
“Kyaa!? Lotorl!?”

When I returned to the inn and entered the room, I saw Alrina posing in the mirror wearing only her panties.
What’s with that erotic pose?! Who are you planning to invite?? Is it me??

“Hey, are you planning to do some lewd things?”
“I’m not!?”
“Even though you’re doing such an indecent pose?”
“Don't say anything! Just pretend you didn't see anything!”

Alrina seemed really embarrassed and turned red all the way to her ears as she crouched down, hugging her knees.
If I tsukkomi too much when she’s really embarrassed, she might dislike me, so let's change the subject.

“...Ah, that's right. I have a present for you, Alrina. Here, this.”

I took out the necklace with flower design from Storage and gave it to Alrina.

“Eh, this is...?”
“I made it from scratch. It’s fine if you jump with joy, okay?”
“...I'm so happy. Thank you! Lotorl!”
“Owa-, I won’t be able to hold back if you hug me while naked!”
“It's fine right now! Because I'm really happy!”

Dazzling, you’re too dazzling, Alrina-san.
Alrina's pure and innocent smile seems to erase Lotorl-san's evil intention. (I didn't say it would disappear)

“...If you're happy with that, that's good enough.”
“You don't have to hold back...”
“Th-that's right. Let's have a meal. By the looks of it, you skipped lunch, didn't you?”
“Ehehe, I got too absorbed in changing clothes...”
“Do you want to eat out somewhere?”
“Nuh-huh, let me make something today. It’s not like this is for a thank you, but I also want to do something for Lotorl.”
“I see. Then, I’ll take out the ingredients, so let's rent the kitchen.”
“I’ll do my best!”

Alrina, who is not a senseless human being who walks around the inn wearing only panties, tried to change into a V-neck white blouse and gingham check skirt so that she could show off the necklace I had given her. But I advised her, “You're going to be kidnapped if you show off your necklace, you know?” and she changed into a fluffy white T-shirt with a petite high neck, leaving the skirt as it was.

“The string on this necklace, it’s strangely squishy and soft, it feels like it’s alive, you know?”

Alrina picked up the necklace that she placed on the desk so that it would not get in the way of her changing clothes. Perhaps feeling something strange about the texture of the string, she tried pulling it and squishing it to find out what it was, and she tilted her head.

“Ah, it's made from my... special material so that it feels nice against your skin.”
“Heeh. It's certainly nice to the touch, but it feels like I've touched it somewhere before...? Hmm, I can't remember...”

I almost said, “From my skin,” but then I stopped myself, thinking that she shouldn't have to go through a sanity check.
Well, when she eventually realizes its true identity, a forced insanity event will be waiting for her though.

Without realizing the true nature of the necklace's string, Alrina hung it around her neck and began standing in front of the mirror and admiring herself wearing the necklace from various angles with an enraptured look on her face.

“So pretty...”
“When I looked at it again, I wanted to increase the number of cuts, encase the jewel, and add decorations to the strings, but... mumumu.”
“Thank you so much. Lotorl.”
“Next time I will give you something better, so please look forward to it.”
“Un!”

Alrina herself seems to be very satisfied with it, so this is fine for now. Revenge will come at some point.

Alrina put the necklace inside her T-shirt and we went to ask the innkeeper if we could borrow the kitchen, and he complimented us saying, “You girls, it's admirable that you can cook.”

Leaving Alrina aside, I, who was a shut-in and a NEET Otaku-kun in my previous life, couldn't figure out how to react to this, so I just smiled wryly.

We entered the kitchen and I took out ingredients for dishes that seemed easy enough for Alrina to make, such as fried eggs, steak, and salad, and left the rest to Alrina alone.

“All right, here I go!”

Cooking idol Alrina! Is starting!

* (T/N: yuru yuri reference.)

*

With Cooking Skill at Level 3, Alrina made a number of perfect dishes that don't even need to be compared to other heroines who are bad at cooking.

“Am I going to become a mama?”
“Did you say something?”
“No, it’s nothing.”
“I see?”

Rather than being a mama, I feel like I'd rather have Alrina as my mama, but for now the older sister position is good enough, so I think it's okay to keep things as they are.

As I was having a gross delusion, even if I say so myself, the food seemed to be ready, so let's deliciously eat it.

“Munch munch, delicious! Munch munch, seconds!”
“I’m glad. Go ahead and keep eating!”

After enjoying the stir-fried meat and vegetables and salad with boiled eggs until I was full, I obediently went to bed.

“Good night Alrina.”
“Good night Lotorl... how about the bath?”
“Snoree... whistle─... Snoree... whistle─...”
“Geez!”

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(T/N: starting this chapter, ‘Level’ will be italicized, I just suddenly thought I should.)

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CSA 58 - I Went Through a Sanity Check

With the dejected Alrina in tow, I went to a butcher shop and other places to buy groceries, and then returned to the inn.

I entered the room and took out 10,000 El worth of gold coins from Storage and gave it to Alrina. Also, I took out the clothes and travel bag. Also a full-length mirror. Also every kind of pilot suit.

“I'm going out for a while to make some potions and such, so Alrina, please freely do as you please.”
“Umm...?”
“Wouldn’t I get in the way if I stayed?”
“Aah... I see.”
“Then, I’m off.”
“Take care!”

Arlina blushing and stretching her voice as if trying to cover something up is also very cute.

I don't think checking your spoils of war with a friend is a bad idea, but as I thought, I think you’d be less reserved if you were alone.
I am the kind of person capable of such consideration.

I left Alrina, who might be holding a solo fashion show, at the inn and went to the nearby forest.

“Now then, shall I work on replenishing my high potion stock?”

First, I’ll use Appraisal Skill to find the medicinal herbs that should be growing in the area, harvest the medicinal herbs so that the roots remain, take out high fertilizer potion from Storage, spray it, and repeat the harvesting until a certain amount has gathered, and create high potions to fill my Storage. For now, let's aim for 3 stacks of 900 bottles.

I worked silently and alone, the monotonous work progressed in the quiet forest, until I realized that I had created about 1,200 high potions.

“Wouldn’t it have been more efficient to create a fruit tree with a healing effect and make it into a potion?”

It's too late, but since I came up with an idea, let's make it.

I took out an apple from storage and nibbled it whole.
I synthesized the leftover apple seeds with high potion to create apple seeds with healing effects.
I planted it in an open area, sprayed it with high fertilizer potion, and let it grow until it bore fruit.

“Good, good, it has a healing effect.”

Now that I have an apple tree with a healing effect, I take one of the apples and use Potion Creation Skill to create a high potion.

“Huh? Mega potion?”

For some reason, a mega potion was created, but when I think about it, I grew the apple seeds that have the healing effects of a high potion using a high fertilizer potion, so, isn’t it possible that they grew better?

“Well, I guess I'll just have to count myself lucky.”

I put some apples in Storage and made the rest into mega potions, trees and all, making about 700 of them.

“It's truly a money tree! ...Ha!?”

Wait a minute... That kind of thing, is it possible...?
Wouldn’t that be dangerous after all? It’s dangerous, right? It's so dangerous that I might leak...

“But I’m going to do this, aren’t I? This thing.”

I synthesized apple seeds with gold.
I planted it in the ground and sprayed it with high fertilizer potion.
An apple tree shining golden is visibly growing.

“Ooh... I think Alrina will go crazy if I show this to her...”

The golden apple.
They appear in myths and legends in every part of the world, and are truly the height of fantasy.

“This kind of thing, there’s no way I can show this to anyone...”

It's no more than something that would spark a war, so I mustn’t make the mistake of selling it at a store.

“It's a waste, but I'll dispose of it.”

With that being said, before I dispose of it, let’s try making a potion out of it.

“Gold potion. Umm, if you drink it, your excrement and urine will turn into gold...”

A real golden water... should I try making Alrina drink it...

Joking aside, let’s consider the golden apple a special-grade dangerous item, and use my Alchemy Skill to turn it into a gold ingot and store it in Storage.

By the way, a golden apple is too hard for an ordinary person's jaw to eat. I don't think it would be delicious even if you eat it though.

*

When I looked up at the sky, the sun had moved past the peak, so it seemed like about three hours had passed.

What a terrifying concentration.
I was a little taken aback, if I say so myself.

This should be enough for the potions, but I want to kill time until the evening, so let's move on to other tasks.

I take out aero adamantite from Storage and try synthesizing it to my nails.

“Hohou. Aero adamantite nail, is it...?”

It has become something that is definitely impossible to cut with a normal nail clipper, but if I process it with Alchemy Skill, there will be no problem. Its appearance has not changed in any particular way, so it should be fine.

Next, I thought about synthesizing aero adamantite with my bones, but I thought that liquefying it before synthesizing it would make even my skin hard, so I used Body Modification Skill to expose the bones of my left arm.

“Uugh, so grotesque...”

My sanity has dropped drastically, but not enough to make me go crazy.

I synthesize aero adamantite with the exposed bones.

“Aero adamantite bone, a light and hard growing metal bone... fumu.”

There is no change in appearance here either. I don't feel any pain, but it feels as light as a feather compared to my right arm. If it's only this much change, I’m sure I’ll get used to it quickly.

With that being the case, let’s synthesize it into the bones of my whole body.

“As expected, my back is difficult...”

I’m mostly finished with the bones that can be seen, but the one in my own back is impossible.

So I would like to create another one of myself.

“Clone Magic”

I tried summoning another one of myself using Clone Magic of Universal Magic Skill.

“...Fufun.”
“...CutE.”

Even if I cloned myself, it doesn't seem like my thoughts are dispersed. At best, it makes multitasking easier.

* (T/N: meaning, she’s still one person, just with two bodies. Not like Naruto clones where a clone is fairly independent of the original.)

...You-know-what will be making progress, though.

“What do you think about graduating using both of our bodies?”
“As expected, I want to dedicate it to someone I love, that’s what Lotorl thinks, right?”
“I know right?”

It feels strange to have a conversation with yourself.
You can get a clearer answer than if you think only in your head.

“Then, I leave my backside to you.”
“Rog.”

There is only one thought process, so there is no need to talk every time, but somehow I feel like I have to.
I think it feels more like talking to a family member than talking to a mirror.

When I took off my clothes and used my Body Modification Skill to open up my backside, I went through a sanity check because of my clone's shared vision.

Let's make a 100-sided die from dirt using Alchemy Skill, and if I get a roll of 50 or more, that means I’m crazy.

“Hoi.”

The dice I threw rolled around on the ground and stopped at 90.

Lotorl was crazy.

“Ehe, ehehe, ehehehe. Lotorl-chwan, let’s kiss, chuu~”
“Uwa, it's even grosser than seeing in the mirror.”

Since it was myself, I enjoyed the french kiss without any restraint.
I'm scared that I'll end up getting addicted to pleasures that I can't experience with the mirror. My lips are too sensitive.

Enough joking around, I also synthesized aero adamantite into the bones on my back side, resulting in the bones of my whole body being updated to aero adamantite bones.
Lotorl has evolved into an Aero Adamantite Human!

“For now, it’s time for an experiment. Please hit me as hard as you can.”
“Toryaa!”
“Auu!”

My clone punched me in the face as hard as she could, but it hurt just like normal. My clone's fist hurts too.

“I guess I also need to strengthen my skin, muscles, and internal organs.”

I don't want to synthesize aero adamantite with my skin and muscles because it might take away human warmth and make it difficult to do lewd things, so should I try using aero adamantite silicone?

I synthesize aero adamantite silicone with my upper arm and check how it feels.

“Hmm, I guess it feels more squishy? Try biting it.”
“Gobble, chew chew chew.”
“It’s moderately painful. If you bite any further, I feel like your teeth will break, so I guess this is enough.”
“Sure thing!”

And so, I synthesized aero adamantite silicone with my skin and muscles.

“All that’s left is internal organs, huh... I'm worried about whether I can maintain my sanity...”

I think I can synthesize aero adamantite silicone with my internal organs, but would it be possible to see them directly?

“Just do it, it’s easy for Lotorl, right?"
“What a troublesome thing. Another one of myself, that is...”
“I’m sure anything is possible with Lotorl!”
“It's hell from here, you know...?”
“Let me see! Lotorl!”
“...Yes, you don't need to tell me, I know I can do it!!”

After a discussion between the me that wanted to do it and the me that didn't want to do it, I decided to do it.
Well, I’ve already decided from the beginning that I’ll do it, so it’s only a farce though.
I just wanted to establish my determination.

Using Body Transformation Skill, I opened up starting from my chest to my stomach, exposing my internal organs, and synthesized aero adamantite silicone into each of my throbbing internal organs.

“Ugh, it's too grotesque... I feel like throwing up...”
“Please do your best, me! I'm almost done!”
“I suppose I'll never forget the feeling of a beautiful girl's internal organs for the rest of my life.”
“A priceless experience!”

Heart, lungs, stomach, liver, kidneys, gallbladder, pancreas, spleen, intestines, bladder. As I used my Appraisal Skill while synthesizing the things in that order, I realized something.

“...As expected, messing with that is...”
“If it's just a little...”
“That's, true... then, just a little.”

The instant I touched it just a little bit, an electric current ran through my brain.

“Ah.”

My memory from that point on is vague.
There is no doubt that I lost my sanity and went crazy because I looked too closely at my internal organs.
In the end, I had to use a mega potion.

“We overdid it. I reflect.”
“But it was amazing! Let's do it again!”
“I won't!”
“Eeh, come on, let's do it?”
“Let's erase our memory.”
“Uuu... it's such a waste...”

I don't need the kind of pleasure that only the insane can attain.
I erased it, leaving behind only the painful memories so that I would never do it again.

“Now then, next is the head.”
“Uee...”

I opened up my head to expose my brain and synthesized aero adamantite silicone into it.
The color of a beautiful girl's brain was a beautiful pink. Don’t say that she only thinks about erotic things.

Things like my eyeballs, eardrums, semicircular canals, and tongue are synthetized with aero adamantite silicone, while my teeth are synthesized with aero adamantite, and all work is completed.

“Oh, I forgot about the hair.”
“Let's liquefy it and synthesize it with aero adamantite silicone”

In a familiar process, I synthesized the liquefied aero adamantite silicone into my entire hair.

“It's even softer and feels even better to the touch.”
“Should I call myself The Complete Lotorl, or maybe the Perfect Lotorl?”

It's wonderful workmanship, even if I say so myself.
With this perfect body, even if I am in fire, water, or hit by a meteorite, I won’t even flinch.

I’ll suffocate though.

“Please try hitting me again.”
“Oryaa!”
“Auu.”

It kinda hurts, it kinda doesn't, I guess it hurts just a little.
Next, let's make an iron bat and take a full swing.

I took out iron from Storage and used Alchemy Skill to form it into a bat. Then, I passed it to my clone.

“Hmph! Hmph! Here I go!”
“Come at me!”
“Toryaa!!”
“Gyann!?”

I took a full swing to my head with an iron bat, but it didn't hurt as much as I expected.

“The bat broke.”
“Scary!”

Even though it's my own body, to think you can bend an iron bat that hit you with such force, Lotorl, what a terrifying child

“Next, let’s try a knife.”
“Kya─, it’s a self-murder─!”

I used Alchemy Skill to process the broken iron bat into a knife with a blade length of about 25cm, and had my clone body stab me.

“Then, go ahead!”
“Oujou Seiya, come and die!”
“O-!”

I tried to stab my abdomen as hard as I could, but the pain was as bad as being poked with a toothpick, and it didn't even penetrate the epidermis.

“The knife is curled up I see.”
“All right, next, let's try using an adamantite knife.”

I took out adamantite from storage, made it into a knife, and tried to cut at my index finger.

“It won’t cut.”

Now I know that aero adamantite silicone skin is harder than adamantite.
I knew from my Appraisal Skill that the material synthesized into my skin was harder than just adamantite, but there are things you can't know until you experience it.

“Next, should I try attacking with magic?”
“Fireball.”
“Hot!?”

My whole body was engulfed in flames from the fireball, but it was only as hot as when I was in a sauna, so there seemed to be no particular problem.

“Pft!”
“Aah!?”

Because of the clone's vision sharing, I noticed that my eyebrows and eyelashes were burned away. Or rather, to think I was laughing at myself when I saw my stupid face, how horrible I am!

I took out high potion from Storage and sprinkled it on my face to regrow my eyebrows and eyelashes, then synthesized aero adamantite silicone into them. With this, it’s perfect.

Just to be clear, I'm completely naked now, so my clothes aren't on fire and things like me screaming ‘Noo!’ didn’t happen.

Nn? Being completely naked even in a deserted forest will make you scream ‘Noo!’? That’s true.

“Next, let's try dropping lightning.”
“Thunder.”
“GYAAAAA!?”

IthurtsIthurts!? It hurts so bad!?

“Og, ooggg...”
“I'm glad we don't share the sense of pain...”

Although I didn't have a single wound on my body, I felt a sharp pain that felt like static electricity running through my entire body, and I collapsed on the spot.

“It won't kill me, but electricity is no good, I see.”

Aeronium, adamantite, and silicone are not supposed to be conductive, but it is possible that they became conductive because they were synthesized into my skin and the like.
Or rather, the body moves by having electrical signals sent from the brain, so it’s obvious that it’s conductive. In fact, if it becomes nonconductive, wouldn't it be pretty bad?

“Lotorl won't die. I'm here after all.”

The clone will not disappear on its own until its magical power is exhausted, so it's a little troublesome, but as long as I compound the clone back into my original body, everything will be okay.
If you are prepared you don't have to worry! As expected of me!

After that, I tried using physical magic such as Wind Magic and Earth Magic to see if they would hurt my body, but I was very satisfied because none of the magic could hurt me.

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CSA 57 - She Was Precious

“Welcome back Lotorl. That was quick.”
“I'm home, Alrina. For the time being, I'll hug you, so please pat me on the head.”
“O-okay?”

What I need right now is healing.
I hugged the confused Alrina while she patted my head.

“Did something happen?”
“I was extorted by a scary onee-san...”
“He-heeh... that was scary.”
“Yes... I was very, very scared...”
“...There, there, Lotorl did her best.”

Ah... I’m healed... Alrina is the high potion of the mind.

Once I've calmed down, we start talking about our future plans.

“About my plans after this, since my high potions were completely bought out, I’ll gather materials and create various potions. After that, I'll look for a ship to go to Dragen Island and begin the Age of Exploration.”
“...I think it would be better to prepare for something or the other a little more, don’t you think?”
“I suppose we need a fishing rod for sea fishing.”
“That's fine, but let's gather the bare essentials like clothes and food.”
“Fumu... shall we go shopping then?”
“Un, un. That's good.”
“Could it be, you just wanted some new clothes?”
“I-I didn’t, I didn’t! I didn’t want some at all! It’s not like I got tired of only using Lotorl’s hand-me-downs, okay?!”
“I see, I see. Then, shall I give all my clothes to Alrina while I buy some new ones?”
“Uuu... Lotorl is so mean.”
“Alrina, let's be faithful to our desires. Things like pretense and pride, you can just throw those in the trash. It's a life that has been saved at great pains, so it's a loss if you don't do whatever you want, as much as you want, right?”

Since I have already died, it is not only ingrained in my bones, but also in my soul, that I won't do anything I don't want to do in this life until I die.
There is a saying that ‘too much of anything is just as bad as not doing enough’, so both doing too much or too little is not good though, let’s keep that in mind.

“Th-then, I want some cute clothes!”
“Only clothes?”
“I want beautiful accessories like rings and necklaces!”
“Other than that?”
“Um, umm, uu─n? That's all I can think of right now.”
“CutE...”
“Eh, what?”
“No, no, it’s nothing, then let’s just take a look around the stores and if you find something else you want, we’ll decide then.”
“Roger!”

After quickly finishing our breakfast, we headed to the shopping district.

* (T/N: The ‘CutE’ part is actually かわヨ or ‘KawaE’ in Japanese. Since E in english is read as i. And that became a meme. Although it’s not actually E but katakana ‘yo’, but it’s just reversed E.)

*

“This, this, and this, this one is cute too! Lotorl!”
“Yes, yes, how much are these?”
“The total will be 20,000 El.”

I took out the cash from Storage and handed it to the clerk onee-san to complete the payment.

“Next is that place!”
“Yes, yes.”

The moment we arrived at the shopping district, Alrina’s desire to shop exploded and she headed straight to the nearest clothing store, filling our shopping cart with clothes she liked one after another.
Even though each piece was cheap, I thought about stopping her when she bought over 10, but Alrina's smile was so dazzling that I have no regrets.

I shove the purchased clothes into Storage and head to the next store.

“So pretty... 1 million El!?”
“It doesn’t have any Skills enchanted into it... if it’s just this, how about I make one for you?”
“Is it okay?”
“It’ll make you more likely to be targeted by bad guys though?”
“Ugh, then I'll stop.”

When we entered an accessory shop, I saw Alrina's face entranced by the sparkling and beautifully shining rings, earrings, necklaces, and bangles, making my face entranced as well, the clerk’s smile twitches when she looked at my face, so I decided to head to the next store.

“Depending on Lotorl’s mood, the boat trip might become long, so we need to buy various daily necessities.”
“Like an aquarium to put the fish I catch?”
“I have to get my act together.”

As Alrina acts as a guardian and buys the daily necessities that we might need, I feel like I'm being drawn to something, and as I get closer to that something, I pass by the item that I think draws me without looking at it. It seemed like it would raise some weird flags after all.

If I didn't have All-Resistance UP Skill, I might have been manipulated unconsciously, but I don't want to waste time in a place like this when I'm about to have a fun boat trip. I’m glad I have it, the All-Resistance UP Skill! One All-Resistance UP Skill per person! Thanks to my praise, my All-Resistance UP Skill leveled up to 2!

“Enough experience points to raise the Skill level... scary!”

I suddenly started to feel scared, so let's finish our shopping quickly.

“Thank you very much!”

After buying a travel bag full of daily necessities for 200,000 L (including the travel bag), we headed to the next store.

When I put the travel bag in Storage, it was treated as one stack with the item name being ‘travel bag filled with daily necessities’.
Since I discovered a secret way to use item box-type Skills, I feel like I could make money by writing a book about it.

“Next, let's go to the pet shop!”
“You can't keep one, you know?”
“I’m just looking.”
“Then, okay.”

I followed the very excited Alrina to the pet shop.

There are not only cats and dogs, but also mice, owls, squirrels, snakes, turtles, and more. Crammed in narrow cages.

Animal abuse? There are no animal welfare laws in this world where human slaves are common, you know?

“So cute!”
“So pitiful...”

“Eh?”
“Eh?”

Oops, not good. The common sense of the past life is the nonsense of this life. Let’s try not to think too deeply about this.

“The cat is so cute. There, there.”
“Nya─n.”
“Do you like cats?”
“I love cats!”
“You like animals, I see.”
“Ehehe, un!”

Aah, what's with that innocent smile... are you trying to make me die from preciousness?!

After Alrina finished petting the cat until she was satisfied, she started petting the cat next to it. ‘This would take a while,’ I thought , so I decided to look around the shop.

“Heeh, so they also sell beetles... stag beetles, jewel beetles, whip spiders are gross, something that looks like a tarantula, a mysterious huge larva, swallowtail butterflies, moths, bell crickets, crickets...”

The price tag says 500 El each.
I guess I’ll buy some male and female rhinoceros beetles, stag beetles, bell crickets, crickets, and enough food for one year.
I don't buy things like large insect cages or leaf mold for breeding because I can use whatever I have in my Storage.

“Thank you for your purchase!”

I put the large amount of food into Storage, and put the insect cage in a cloth shopping bag. The cloth bag was enchanted with Elasticity Skill, so it seems like it would cost a lot of money, but they seem to be service items. After this, I’ll duplicate the Elasticity Skill and synthesize it with clothes and the like.

“Neko-chan fluffy fluffy.”
“Alrina, let's go back now.”
“Eeh, can’t we stay a little more... wait, what did you buy?!”
“They're beetles and crickets.”
“Didn’t you say we couldn’t keep them?!”
“If it’s just insects, we can keep some.”
“Unfair! Unfair! I'll keep one too!”

Alrina stamping her feet on the ground on the spot is so cute, as befitting of her appearance, it makes my heart flutter.
A 13-year-old in this world should be a little more mature, but Arrina is fine as is. Should I drug her...?

“Insects?”
“Kitty...”
“Isn’t it pitiful for the cat if you take it with you on a boat trip, or rather, on any trip?”
“That’s true, but... ah, then, a dog!”
“A dog, is it...”
“Un!”
“Can you discipline it?”
“Uu, I can...?”
“I see. But I don't think there are any ships that will take a newly bought untrained dog, so even if you train it from now on... well, I guess I can stay for about a week, can you train it during that time?”
“I-it’s impossible...”
“If it's insects, you can keep some.”
“I don't want them...”
“Then, let's go back.”

The dejected Alrina is also cute. If she has animal ears, they would be drooping. When I try to imagine it, it looks really cute. Should I try growing them...?

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CSA 56 - I Was Ripped Off

“I'm really sorry, Lotorl!”
“I don’t mind at all since it's Alrina.”

I pretended to clean up Alrina's vomit with Cleaning Magic while putting most of it in Storage. They’re treasures. I think I’ll secretly use it later. As for what I’ll use it for, I'll leave it up to your imagination.

“Then let's go to an inn.”
“Un.”

It's getting completely dark now, so we look for an inn.

“What a beautiful city.”
“I think so too.”

This cityscape gives a completely different impression from the cities I've seen so far, things like signboards are being illuminated using magic.
It's a little different from a neon city, but it does give off a cyberpunk feel to it.
Because it looks cool, I think I'll just honestly copy these when I open a store or something like that.

Unlike Stra and Furia continents, the civilization level of the Yggdrasia continent may be slightly more advanced.
Isn't finding these differences the true charm of an isekai tour?

We found a random inn, rented a room, and ordered dinner at the dining hall, when a dish of insects was served and Alrina screamed.

“Insects!? It's insects!? Lotorl!?”
“They look delicious. Itadakimasu.”
“Eeh...”

If it’s Lotorl who had no memories of her previous life, she might have screamed and fainted, but in my previous life, I’ve eaten things like locusts tsukudani and hornet larva, and when I was a child, I ate things like honey ants that were walking on the roadside while they’re still alive. So I was able to eat them deliciously without any problems.

In consideration of those who are not good with insects, I will not depict those insect dishes. Please be understanding.

Leaving jokes aside, if this were a manga or anime world, the food on the table would probably be covered in mosaics. I wish they’d remove the mosaic and give a realistic depiction when they made it into a disc. No one would buy it? So I want the story to be shown as is, so what?

“Uiii... the larva... it's still moving...”
“It's sweet, creamy and delicious.”
“This one is a cicada...”
“It's almost a shrimp.”
“Even a spider...”
“It has a hybrid flavor of crab, shrimp, and chicken. Delicious, delicious.”
“Uuu... I feel like throwing up again...”
“I'll accept it anytime, so come at me with all your strength.”

It seems like it's still too early for Alrina to eat insects, so I took out a plate and an apple from Storage, grated it with Cooking Magic, and handed it to Alrina.

“Shouldn’t they just go with things like these... why bother with insects...?”
“Which do you prefer to eat, curry-flavored poo or poo-flavored curry?”
“Eh... I don’t want either...”
“In short, it’s like that. There's no need to force yourself to eat these.”
“U-un... no, what do you mean?”
“You don’t understand? I was just saying something like that, it doesn't really mean anything. But, between poo and curry, it's better to eat curry to not get stomach ache, right? Even if it tastes like poo.”
“That’s rude.”

* (T/N: I don’t get that either.)

After finishing our meal, we returned to our room and were about to go to bed, when Alrina asked me in a roundabout way if there was no bath, so I casted a Cleaning and Purification Magic on her.
There’s no way I’d build a bath in a place like this. It would be troublesome if it became a commotion.
I put the disgruntled Alrina to sleep with a tickle attack, and went to sleep that day thinking about tomorrow's plans.

The next morning.

“I’m going to go to the Merchant Guild for a bit to earn some money.”
“Eh, un...?”

Not having enough money in hand makes me nervous, so I head to the Merchant Guild to sell some potions.
Alrina is house-sitting. It's not hard to imagine what would happen if she saw a lot of money.
It's fine when it's just the two of us, but I'm worried that Alrina's honor will be damaged if other people see it.

The innkeeper told me the location of the Merchant Guild, and when I headed there, I arrived at a castle-like building full of heart symbols and a suspicious-looking exterior that looked like a love hotel.
I checked many times to see if this really was the place, but the signboard said it was, so it seemed like there was no mistake.
Honestly, I wish I was wrong...

When I timidly opened the door, I saw a group of lascivious women busily at work, their bosoms exposed to the world in all their glory, so I quietly closed the door.

“Arere─? How strange─? The signboard says it's the Merchant Guild, but it's an adult store inside.”

It was a good decision not to bring Alrina. It's still too early for that girl.

“Araa? What's wrong? It's too early for a girl like you here, you know?”

I heard a gentle voice calling out to me from behind, so I turned around and I saw an onee-san with a nice bon-kyu-bon body, leaning forward as if to emphasize her boldly open bosoms, so I unconsciously hugged her.

* (T/N: bon-kyu-bon, probably meant hourglass figure, calling it hourglass figure is too proper, any other fitting word?)

“Aahn. What's wrong? Are you lost?”
“Ha!? I'm sorry! I was unconsciously sucked in!”
“Ara ara, it can't be helped. Mugyu─.”
“Ahee!?”
“We can stay like this until you feel better. You must have been lonely all by yourself. Good girl, good girl.”
“Ohoooo!”

Apparently, I was mistaken for a lost child, but I judged that there was no need to purposely correct her.
Since I’m happy now, that's fine, isn’t it? It's human after all.

Now that I've had my fill of the nice body, let's get back to the main topic. Fuhehe.

“I came to the Merchant Guild for some business, but, um, I didn’t think it was that kind of shop. So I was wondering what to do...”
“Are you an aspiring merchant?”
“Rather than an aspiring merchant, I'm registered with the guild, so I'm here to sell potions.”
“Selling potions... with that age, could it be that you are from a foreign country?”
“That’s right, that's right. I'm traveling from Mebon country of Stra continent.”
“From Stra continent... that’s quite a long way you’ve come from. Very well. If you want to sell potions, please come here.”

I was led by hand into a small building at the back of the guild, and the nice body onee-san went behind the counter.

“Welcome to the Merchant Guild! My name is Sara, and I'm the guild master. Today we'll be purchasing potions, so let me take a look at your goods right away.”
“Eh, ah, my name is Lotorl. Here are the goods I want you to buy.”

I was taken aback by her sudden change from calm and gentle atmosphere to a businessman's tone and face. This person, she’s capable...!

When I took out a bottle of high potion from my stomach pocket Storage, I felt a shiver of fear run through me, and when I fearfully looked at Onee-san, she was looking at me with a smile on her face.

“I-I won't taste good even if you eat me, you know...?”
“...What do you mean?”
“It means I can always escape.”
“...I see. Then we won't do anything from our side.”
“I appreciate it.”

I did say I'd run away, but if I really ran away, I'd feel like she would chase me everywhere, that’s really scary. My legs started shaking. Calm down, me.

When I mustered up the courage and put the high potion on the counter, Onee-san silently placed a cash bag that seemed to contain 1 million El on the counter.

“Eh?”
“Is this not enough?”
“No, in my country it was about 100,000 El...”
“I see... It seems like you were pretty ripped off... Or maybe it was a really poor country?”
“I think it's the latter since it's a small country...”
“Hey, won’t you be my exclusive?”

The instant Onee-san said that, I felt as if my heart was held tight in an eagle grip, and goosebumps appeared all over my body. It's so scary... I want to run away already...

“...I’m on a journey towards Khizr country, it’s impossible.”
“Ara, a shame... then just give me as much as you have.”
“...Yes.”

I know being stupidly honest and taking out everything is dangerous here. So let's keep it to about two.

Just as I was about to take out two bottles of high potion from Storage and place them on the counter, my arm was grabbed.

“Ueehii-!?”
“Give me as much as you have, okay?”
“Yyees...”

I can't take this anymoreeeeeeeeeeee!!

Like a frog being glared at by a snake, I did as Onee-san told me to and put out all the high potions that were in my Storage on the counter, and Onee-san started counting out their number with a big smile on her face.

“...21, 22, 23. I'm buying them all, so 20 million El is fine, right?”
“...Yes.”
“Thank you. We got a good deal.”

She nonchalantly took back the cash bag containing 1 million El that had been placed on the counter, and in its place put a large, heavy-looking bulging cash bag that seemed to contain 20 million El on the counter.
It's hard to tell if she’s being generous or being greedy. (I lost 4 million El, so she’s being really greedy, by previous life.)

My mind wouldn’t hold up if I stayed here any longer, so I put the cash bag in Storage and ran outside as quickly as I could.

“See you later, Lotorl-chan.”

Ignoring the voice that seemed to viscously stick to me, I ran back to the inn where Alrina was waiting.

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CSA 55 - It Was Upper-Bottom

The next morning

“It’s wet...”

I woke up feeling strangely lukewarm, and when I rolled up the blanket, I saw a world map drawn on the bed.
Alrina seems to be having a nightmare, she's hugging my arm so tightly that her nails are digging into it.

“Alrina, please wake up. It's morning.”

I gently shake Alrina and wake her up from her nightmare.

“...I'm sorry...I'll do it right...Please forgive me...I'm sorry...”
“Cock-a-doodle-doo!”
“Hin!?”

It seemed like she was having nightmares about her time as a slave, so I hurriedly woke her up by shouting loudly in imitation of a chicken’s crow.
As for the reason why I woke her up by imitating a chicken's crow, because it was morning.
I could also have imitated a dog's bark, but in that case it’ll come with the option of licking Alrina all over her face, wouldn't she hate it if she woke up from a nightmare only to find out she was in another nightmare?

Eh? I should have just woken her up normally? Going with normal even after coming to another world is... heh (laugh).

“Lotorl...”

As Alrina woke up drenched in night sweats and holy water, she called out to me and my half-asleep head cleared up.
Everything I had been thinking about earlier was completely wiped, and now I am hugging my frightened older sister and calming her down.

“I'll protect you. I'll always be by your side. So please don't worry.”
“Thank you, Lotorl... please... stay by my side forever...”

As Alrina-san's eyelids went on to slowly close, making up her mind to go back to sleep, I groped her body and forced her to wake up.
As a lady, I can't allow her to go back to sleep on a wet bed.

“Coochy-coo chy-coo chy-coo.”
“Uhii!? Noo, wait, stop it, I’m weak there, Hiiin.”
“Please wake up so I can clean the bed and prepare the morning bath.”
“Au... sorry...”
“It's okay. Anyone can wet their bed even at the age of 13.”
“...Thanks for the follow up that wasn't a follow up.”

I got up from the bed, used Cleaning Magic to clean the bed that Alrina and I wet, removed impurities from yesterday's bath using Compounding Skill, boiled it with a fireball, took out grapes from Storage, made them into bath salts and mixed them in hot water, and bath preparation is complete.

“A morning bath is nice too isn’t it.”
“So true.”

This time, I don't hug her and take a bath facing her normally.

“...Your memories of your slave days, shall I erase them?”
“That's... it's a painful memory, but I think it's because I have this memory that I'm able to realize how happy I am now. So it's okay if you don't erase it.”

Alrina's face looked so dignified as she looked straight into my eyes and answered so strongly, and it made my heart tighten. Is this love...?

“Lotorl?”
“Huh? Ah, no, I understand! If Alrina says it's okay, I won't do it! I won't, okay?!”
“O-okay...?”

It's better to cool my head down and collect myself.
I'm not an easy heroine. I'm not an easy heroine. I'm not an easy heroine. All right!

“Now then, shall we go now.”
“...You aren’t sticking to me today. Is it because I'm a bedwetting girl...?”

Heaaaaa! ? Why are you saying such a meek thing at this timing!?
Saying such things while using upturned eyes is cowardly, you know!?

I stopped trying to get out of the bath and timidly hugged Alrina.

“Somehow, you’re more reserved than usual, aren't you? Maybe it's because bedwetting women are dirty?”
“Alrina is clean, you know...”
“Do you really think so?”
“I do.”
“Hmm. Somehow, this is different from usual.”
“It is the same.”
“Usually, you touch me in a more lewd way, but today it’s like you’re touching a tumor.”

Why are you coming so strongly at me only today? And I'm sure I’ve never touched her in a lewd way even once before. Although I did have evil intentions.

“It's just your imagination. Well, that's enough. Let's have breakfast.”
“Weird Lotorl...”

Arrina also has the qualities of a Newtype I see. She is sensitive to the changes in my feelings. She is a former slave though, so there is a possibility that she is an enhanced human.

For breakfast, I left Alrina to make the salad and I grilled steak.
I will definitely try eating dragon steak someday.

“Then, let's depart.”

After finishing our preparation, we set out to cross the canyon.
When I checked the map, I found that the canyon isn't that wide, so I think we'll reach Aribia country by the end of the day.

“I want a mask.”
“That's not a mask, it’s called a helmet. Also, you should get used to being in the flesh, you know?”
“...Cheapskate.”
“It won’t work even if you puff out your cheeks cutely. Come on, let's get to flying.”

If you rely on cheat equipment, you'll be in trouble when you don’t have it after all.
If Skills were nullified, someone like me would die immediately.
It might be better to acquire skills that are not Skills while I have the chance.

...For example, like synthesizing aero adamantite into my bones...?

“That might be good......?”
“Did you say something?”
“I’m talking to myself.”
“I see.”

Let's try it as soon as we arrive in Aribia country.

While flying along the river, I put materials that caught my eye (gravel, moss, etc.) in Storage, and when we got tired from flying, we took a break and enjoyed leisure activities such as river fishing. At dusk, Aribia country came into view.

“Shall we go down?”
“Eh, it’s still a long way off, you know?”
“If two beautiful girls were flying in the sky, it would stand out in a bad way, you know.”
“Beautiful girl... are you?”
“...Please answer honestly. In Alrina's eyes, am I beautiful? Or am I ugly?”

The people at the orphanage kept telling me that I was ugly, but I started to wonder how my looks were to people on other continents.

“Yes... Y-you are beautiful, you know?”
“Shall I read your memory?”
“I guess it's upper-bottom... I'm sorry.”

Was I ugly on this continent too? Ha, that's tough.

“I see... By the way, where do you place yourself?”
“Eeh, I can’t tell that myself. Maybe somewhere in the lower middle?”

Alrina, who is cute at a level where there may or may not be one in the school, is in the lower middle...?
The values of isekai seem profound.

“Thank you for your valuable opinion.”
“C-come on! Other people's sense of beauty is different from person to person!”
“But what’s important is accepting reality and figuring out what to do from there.”
“Th-that's right! I think so too!”

I wish you’d stop with the poorly made follow-up. It makes me feel miserable.

I took pleasure in Arlina's desperate attempts to follow up on me and intentionally ignored her as we walked to enter Aribia country before being stopped by the gatekeeper.

“Two children... no particular baggage... suspicious.”

He's an old man with a husky voice. He’s wearing a full plate so I can't see his face.

“All my luggage is in this pocket.”
“Item box, huh... it's getting even more suspicious...”

What do you want me to do...?

“For now, why don't you come to the guard station?”
“Eeeh......”
“Um, we're just travelers. We've never committed a crime, nor are we planning to.”

Alrina said that, but didn’t you cause an attempted murder case by strangling me in the neck? Are you saying all criminal acts against me are null and void by extrajudicial measures? Please elaborate.

“Even if you say that, you know, if it’s just saying it, anyone can do that, right?”

From the outside, he is a gatekeeper who takes his job seriously. But as the concerned party, it’s just a pain in the ass. It’s true that two children traveling together were suspicious though.

“Mu─...”
“Anyway, I'll check your identity at the guard station, so please don't resist.”
“Haa...”

We were taken to a guard station near the gate and were questioned one by one.

“Why did you come to this country?”

Since I’m a girl, he was replaced by a female guard.
Although she doesn't wear makeup, she is quite beautiful. The female guard uniforms are also quite good!
But what’s the purpose of the slit design that shows off her beautiful thighs? Is it to bewitch the villains?

By the way, I'm bewitched by it, so if that's what its purpose is, it has successfully pulled it off.

“We’re planning to go to Lycorus country using the Gate.”
“If you have something to prove your identity like a guild card, please show it to me.”
“Here you go.”

I took out the card from my stomach pocket and handed it to the beautiful guard.

“You've registered with quite a few different guilds I see.”
“I just tried going in there.”
“I see.”

It looks like she's taking notes, but I can't see it from here.
The skill section should still have Disguise Magic applied to it, but if she looks at myself using Appraisal Skill, I'll be out in one shot. I'm starting to get anxious inside.

“Can you take out everything inside that item box?”
“Eh?”
“Nn─?”

Please stop giving me that suspicious look. I’ll get excited.

“Taking out everything will be a lot of trouble, is that okay?”
“Do you have something illegal in there?”
“A large amount of sand, gravel, minerals, plants, precious metals, etc. those can easily fill this room to the brim.”
“...How much did you put in there?”
“It's a Storage Box, so I just put things in randomly. Collecting materials is my hobby, you see.”
“...For now, try taking out what you can.”
“I understand.”

I took out things from harmless and inoffensive daily necessities to material and ingredient items to the table.

“Th-that's enough. Please put them away.”
“There's still a lot more, you know?”
“I just want to make sure you don't have any dangerous items, so that's enough.”
“Dangerous items... like knives?”
“If you’d just taken that out first, we wouldn't have wasted so much time.”

I lined up things that could be used as weapons on the table.

“A tattered short sword, a kitchen knife, a frying pan?”
“It looks like it could hurt if you hit people with it.”
“I see... is there anything else?”
“I'm not very good at keeping things tidy and in order, so there may be others, but if I have the materials, I can make things on the spot, so I guess you could say I'm a dangerous item.”
“...I see, I understand. You can put them away now.”

The beautiful guard wrote on the notes while grumbling, after which, she left the room, but just a few seconds before she left the room, the beautiful guard exposed her backside, so I stared at her toned butt.

After waiting for a while, the beautiful guard came back with Alrina.

“While you are staying in this country, you will be monitored. If you act even slightly suspicious, you will be immediately arrested and detained, so please be careful.”
“Ah, I understand.”

The event flag of being involved in an incident is standing high, so let's head straight to the Gate without sightseeing in Aribia country.
It would be fine if it was just me, but I have Alrina with me now, I can't cross such a dangerous bridge.
How many protagonists and heroines got involved in incidents because they were arrogant and thought things would be okay if it’s just a little bit...
The knowledge of Otaku-kun from my previous life sure is useful in times like this.

We left the station and headed straight to the square where the Gate was, holding Alrina's hand. On the way, Alrina said, “Let's go sightseeing for a bit,” that death flag, which I broke with no questions asked, and at the permit counter, I bought two travel permits to Lycorus country, paying a total of 400,000 El, and entered the Gate.

“Oeeeeeeeee!!”
“Aaah...”

The moment I passed through the Gate and arrived in Lycorus country, Alrina vomited into my stomach pocket.
It happened so abruptly that I didn't even have time to activate my Storage Skill, and now, the lukewarm feeling of vomit was slowly spreading in my stomach.

“Cough! Cough! Ueee... sorry, Lotorl...urp! Oeeeeeeeee!”

A beautiful girl sobbing... a beautiful girl's vomit... Alrina... Why do you make me like this... Ehe, Ehehe, Ehehehehehe.

“Haa... haa... Alrina, you don't need to hold back, just vomit it all out on me. That’s why more... vomit it out more on me...”

Make me feel good!!

“Hiee... that ojou-chan’s face...”
“Don’t bother... just ignore that kind of person.”

Until Alrina's condition calmed down, I continued to look after her gently and carefully, desperately trying to stop myself from going crazy from climaxing over and over again.

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CSA 54 - I Made Her Angry

In the end, we crossed the desert in less than an hour and have now entered the volcanic area.

“Amazing.”
“It's a great spectacle.”

Magma is spewing out from everywhere, the sky is covered in smoke, and volcanic rocks of all sizes are raining down.

“Passing here in a horse-drawn carriage is an impossible game.”
“It seems there is a well-maintained carriage road, but I don't know where it is.”
“Hoe─.”

There are pioneers everywhere, I see. I truly respect them.

Flying too high looks dangerous because of volcanic ashes and toxic gases, so we decided to fly at a moderate height.

“Something is swimming...”
“It's a firefish. It's the first time I've seen it.”

Schools of fish were swimming in the magma and were jumping around.
The kind of body structure that allows it to survive without being burned by magma is mysterious, but more than that, I ended up thinking about how to cook it by boiling it or something, which made me want to retort to myself that there must be other things to think about.

As we were advancing smoothly while I collect magma and other materials into Storage, we found a waterfall with a large amount of magma flowing down, and my game brain said that there must be a treasure behind the waterfall, so I said to Alrina, “I’m going to take a look,” and went around to its back, discovering a super-gigantic chunk of crystal the size of a single house.

“Oh, amazing... wait, this isn’t a crystal, it’s a gem!?”

To be more precise, it seems to be a collection of gemstones with some crystals mixed in.

“Diamonds, aquamarines, alexandrites, emeralds, rubies, sapphires, garnets... wow... this has everything...”

I took a quick look at it with my Appraisal Skill, but I also saw names of other gemstones that I had never heard of even in my previous life, such as Desua, Mingi, and Lascadasca, so I wondered if those are isekai gemstones?

“Let's put it into Storage... wait, before that, let’s show it to Alrina...”

I grabbed Alrina's hand as she was getting bored and brought her to the back side of the magma waterfall, whereupon she let out a scream so loud that her jaw might fall off.

“EEEEEEEHHHH!? Lo-Lotorl!! Amazing! This! This big gem! Rich! We are rich! Lotorl!!”

Satisfied with Alrina's surprised look as she waved her arms wildly, I spoke in a low, emotionless tone.

“...Alrina, since when were you under the illusion that this gem was a shared property?”

“Eh...?”

“I'm the one who found this gem, and I'm the one who can bring it back, so Alrina can only watch, can’t you...?”

“What, what are you talking about...? Lotorl...?”

“Alrina, if you are going to fight me and claim ownership of this jewel, I don’t have a big enough heart to go easy on you just because we are sisters…”

“Lies... lies, lies, lies! Lotorl won't say such mean things! I won't luxuriously say half of it! Just enough that I can hold it in my hand! That much is fine right!? Because... there is this much already!!”

“Alrina”

“No, no, no!! Lotorl, that gentle Lotorl, doesn't make that scary face! Lotorl is going crazy because of the gem in front of her right now! So come back to your senses! Go back to the always kind Lotorl!!”

“...I, have never been kind.”

Ruthlessly, cruelly, and mercilessly, I put the whole giant chunk of gem into Storage.

“LOTOOOOOOoooOOooRL!”

Alrina, who was so angry that the whites of her eyes were exposed, rushed forward and grabbed me with force.

“UNFAIR UNFAIR UNFAAAAIIIIIR!! LOTORL IS UNFAAAAIIIIIR!!”

Alrina grabs me and slams me into the ground over and over again as she goes wild, the sight of her is, it's the best, to say the least. I couldn't help but shout out a moan and almost come a little.

“LOTORL LOTORL LOTORL LOTORL LOTOOOOOOoooOOooRL!”

Alrina doesn't even notice my moan and continues to go wild, she’s a beast now. How cute.
I’m starting to feel sorry for her now, so it’s about time I tell her it’s a joke.

“GIIIIIIIIIIIII!!”

In a fit of rage, Alrina forcibly removed my helmet and strangled me with great force.

“Wai, stop strangling me, ugh... oh, oh, oggh.”

“AAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHH!!”

“That’s, not, it, Alrina, ooh, ogh, oogh, please, listen, to me, gu, gumming, I’m cumming...”

“LOTOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOORL!!”

C-cummmiiinnngggg!?

I thought my head was starting to flicker, but suddenly a light sparked and a huge amount of something erupted and pleasure hit my whole body.

“Og, oooggh...”

When my body jerked up unconsciously, Alrina seemed to have come to her senses and loosened her grip on my neck.

“Ah, aah...!? No, no, I, I didn't mean to, do something like this...!"
“Cough! Cough! Haa, haaa... I'm sorry, Alrina. I went too far with the farce.”
“Eh...?”
“I was just going to tease you a little, but I got so happy when Alrina showed so much bare emotion that I missed when to stop. I'm sorry.”
“What are you, talking about...?”
“I’m saying that, Alrina’s strong feelings directed toward me are more valuable than any gem.”
“...So, are you saying you didn’t have any intention of keeping the gem all to yourself from the beginning?”
“If you want gems, I can give you as many as you want.”
“U-UEEEEENNNN, LOTORL YOU IDIOOOOTTTT!!”

While Arlina was crying and screaming as she repeatedly hit me, I held her and patted her in the back to calm her down. As expected, it was too much. I reflect.

“Haah... I don't think Lotorl will die in a good way.”
“I almost got killed by Alrina who misunderstood me after all.”
“It's Lotorl's fault... It's Lotorl's fault that I...”

Even though it was sudden, Alrina had a murderous intention towards me, so let's make fun of it so that she isn’t tormented by guilt.

“Alrina's strangling felt really good, so I'll ask you to do it again sometime.”
“P-pervert, pervert, pervert! Lotorl is a pervert!”
“Thank you very much! Thank you very much! Thank you very much!”
“Uuuu, Lotorl you idiooot.”
“Ehehe.”

I might have awakened to a new fetish called neck strangling, but I was able to make up with her safely, so it's all good! Yes.

After cleaning my soaking wet suit with Cleaning Magic, I equipped back my helmet and we resumed our volcano sightseeing.

“Are there any other gemstones?”
“Do you like gemstones that much?”
“Rather than like it, I just want to have a lot of it, I guess? You can never have too much money anyway.”
“Greedy older sister”
“Mu.”
“Lustful little sister.”

I groped my older sister's tender buttocks.

“Lotorl!”
“Ehehe.”

My older sister slapped me on the butt. Let’s stop with the sexual harassment.

After that, our journey went smoothly, we discovered a magma lake, trees that continued to burn, and a bipedal, smooth-looking lizard with only its tail on fire.
Even if I get the lizard, I didn't know how to raise it, so I patted it on its head and patted its belly and parted ways. Even though it was a wild animal, it's as if it has no sense of caution. Will it be able to continue to survive without caution like that after this?

After parting ways with Lizardmon and flying for a while, we ended up in a place that looked like dragon territory, and the moment the dragons saw us, I hugged Alrina and ran away in a panic using line-of-sight teleportation, forcing our volcano sightseeing to end. Volcanoes are accompanied by dragons. That’s isekai common sense.

“I thought I was going to die...”
“I'm scared... I'm so scared that I can't stop shaking...”

I gently stroke Alrina's back to calm her down as she clings to me and keeps shaking.
To be blunt, my heart is pounding and my breath is crazy rough too. My heart rate might be about 200 right now.

“I heard that dragon steak is delicious.”
“...Nn.”

I tried joking to calm myself down, but Alrina just shook her head and didn't seem to have the composure to say anything.

Since we already entered the canyon, we decided to go to an open area near a river, build a hut there, and calm ourselves down for a while.
Just in case that a dragon comes and attacks, I made the shelter hut out of aero adamantite so that we will be okay even if they do.

I took off my pilot suit and changed into regular clothes, but Alrina wouldn't take hers off at all, so when I forced her to take it off, I found a puddle of water inside the suit.
It seemed like she let it out, but I kept quiet and cleaned it up using Cleaning Magic and put it in storage.

“Shall we enter the bath?”
“...Un.”

Since being outside was scary, I built the bathtub indoors, filled it with water using Water Magic, heated it to the right temperature with a fireball, took an apple out of storage and used Compounding Skill to make it into a bath salt and mixed it with the hot water.

“Fuii...”
“...”

Alrina is hugging me and not letting me go, as if her fear will come back and she’ll start shaking if she doesn't cling to something. I'm also happy with this, so I'll leave it as is.

“Shall we sleep in the same bed tonight?”
“Un.”

I did have some evil intentions, but I’m actually quite traumatized, so if I can sleep hugging Alrina, I can feel at ease.

Just remembering the way the dragons looked at me makes me tremble violently. They truly felt like a superior species of living creatures. Scary scary.

We got out of the bath, had some food, and, although it was a little early, decided to go to bed.

“Su─ha─, su─ha─.”
“Your nasal breathing is noisy.”
“I'm sorry. I got excited.”

The two of us were hugging each other and sleeping in the same bed, so my nasal breathing became heavy.

“Don't rub my butt too hard either.”
“It felt so good that I accidentally put in some strength.”

It seems like she’s recovered enough to give a tsukkomi, so I'm going to obediently sleep.

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CSA 53 - It Was Risqué

“Morning, Alrina.”
“Morning, Lotorl.”

Today we will finally leave the desert and enter the volcanic area.

“I think it's going to be really hot, so I think I’ll make fire-proof and heat-resistant equipment.”
“So Lotorl can also make equipment. In that case, I've heard that volcanic ash can damage your lungs, so maybe we need masks too?”
“I see, then let’s make those too.”

In that case, should I make it look like a spacesuit?
If it's short and stocky, it will be difficult to move, so let's make it look like a pilot suit worn by people who fight in giant mechs.

I took out aero adamantite from Storage and used Alchemy Skill to stretch it into a thin cloth and make it into something that looks like full-body tights.
If it's just this, we’ll just be a pervert, so I’ll add decorations and mysterious lines to make it look fashionable.

“Hmm. Lame...”

I tried wearing it, but it's a little baggy, I think it would be easier to move around if it was a little tighter. Also, the design is not much different from the cosplay costumes for kindergarteners’ play parties.
I want a Design Ability UP Skill if it exists. Sincerely.

“I think it’s cool, you know?”
“Is that so?”

If Alrina says it’s cool, I should rank it up to as high as the drama club's school festival.
However, I am a very picky person, so I would like to do my best a little bit more.

*

“This might be good.”

After making several prototypes, such as something similar to the Universal Century, something similar to a Super Long Distance Emigrant Fleet, and something similar to the Galactic Alliance of Humankind Army, I finally made something that I can accept.

* (T/N: reference to Gundam, Macross, and Gargantia on the Verdurous Planet.)

It is a pilot suit with gaming color lines that shines in rainbow colors on the white base that appeared in Neo Genesis.
It is not a rip-off as it incorporates designs that I have previously used in prototypes. It's a homage.

The completed pilot suit is made of aero adamantite, so it has excellent fire and heat resistance as it is, but just in case, let’s synthesize All-Resistance UP Skill.
Of course, the Skill level is not 1, but the perfected one.

“Alright, complete!”
“What about the mask?”
“I completely forgot.”

A mask, or rather, a helmet huh?
Is something like a goldfish bowl good?
And glass... I feel like it’s made from sand.

Since we’re a desert, I might as well just mass produce glass and make things like tableware and furniture and sell them, it should make a good profit.

I went out of the hut and absorbed a large amount of sand around here into Storage to gather the materials for glass.

“...I wonder if sand can be made into a potion?”

Suddenly, I thought of something like that, so I placed my hand on the sand and activated my Potion Creation Skill, and was able to successfully create a sand potion.

“Getting liquid from sand is... thinking about it is pointless huh?”

When I looked at it with Appraisal Skill, it was displayed as silicone liquid. What is sand potion...?

I remember silicone not melting even when put in the microwave, so I think it could be used as a material for helmets.

“Let’s also mass-produce sand potion, no, silicone liquid.”

As I created potions from sand and pushed them into storage until I’m satisfied, my Storage Skill level increased to 3, and I can now store 300 types of items and 300 individual items of the same type in one slot.

As its level progressed, my understanding of Storage also improved and I realized that if I die, everything in my Storage will be thrown out on the spot, so I give my condolences to the people who happen to be present at the site of my death.

Ping - I just thought of this, but if I were to feel like it, one slot of my Storage can fit every sand from within the visible range, so I can fill up every slot of my Storage with sand, and I’d have secured enough sand to destroy an entire country. I won't do it though.

In the first place, 1 ton is enough to make glass, and unless you're making a huge aquarium, you don't need that much sand.

“That’s it, let's build an aquarium.”

My thoughts are starting to go off track, but I want to build an aquarium someday. I wonder if dolphins exist in this world?
...I feel like I could have said it a little better.

* (T/N: she’s probably talking about this pun; dolphin = iruka, to exist = iru.)

Anyway, now that I’ve finished collecting materials, let's go back to the hut.

“Ah...”
“Eh...”

Alrina was wearing the most risqué of the prototype pilot suits I made, one that resembled the suit worn by security personnel of the cyber world when they were operating in their real world bodies.

* (T/N: I don’t know the reference. Ghost in The Shell, maybe?)

“This is, um...”
“If Alrina likes it, I'll wear it too.”
“Stop nodding like saying ‘I understand’.”

At first glance, the risqué pilot suit that Alrina is wearing looks really revealing, but I’ve decolored the exposed parts and made them transparent using Compounding Skill, so there is no problem even if magma jumps at her. If there’s a problem, it would be about being embarrassed if people saw her.

* (T/N: so compounding skill can remove color.)

“You can wear what you like, when you like, and how you like.”
“Even though you look like you’ve attained enlightenment, I won't wear it outside, okay?”
“Wear it.”
“No way.”
“This is your chance to return the favor!”
“Guh... how cowardly!”
“Things like pride, just throw it in the trash!”
“Gunununu.”

In the end, she gave in to my push and ended up wearing the risqué pilot suit.
I feel like Alrina, who looks like she dislikes it, but kinda doesn't, and is a little reluctant, is more of a closet pervert.

This pilot suit is a prototype, but since this one also has a white base, I used the suit from Neo Genesis as a reference, and changed the metal parts and black lines to a gaming color to give it the feel of being expelled from paradise. And I secretly increased the exposure of the cleavage, navel, and tailbone parts.
Of course, I will also synthesize All-Resistance UP Skill into it.

* (T/N: I don’t know what the reference for expelled paradise is.)

“Alright, finished perfectly.”
“Mask.”
“Ah.”

Forgetting things as soon as I get absorbed in one thing is my bad habit.

Let's make a helmet instead of a mask.

I took out the sand potion, the silicone liquid I gathered earlier from Storage, and used Alchemy Skill to create a round helmet that looks like a fishbowl.
Even if I put it on as it is, it won't seal properly, so I added grooves to the helmet and pilot suit, like a can lid, and tried it on.

“...I'm suffocating!”

Everyone makes mistakes.
What’s important is to learn something from them.

I enchanted Air Magic to the fishbowl helmet using Universal Magic Skill.
Air Magic is, as the name suggests, magic that creates air. It doesn't make a bocchi unrecognizable like air.
This time, I enchanted it to an object, so the effective time depends on the magic power loaded at the time.
I think it will probably last for a year.

If it only produces, it will burst, so I use Alchemy Skill to add a filter for spitting out to the back part of the goldfish bowl.

“Su─ha─, su─ha─, un. I can breathe normally.”

After that I synthesized aero adamantite and resistance up Skill into it, added sunglasses effect while I’m at it, and it’s perfect.
Once I've made another one of these, let's depart.

While I’m at while I’m at it, I made aero adamantite silicone and aero adamantite glass, so it might be a good idea to open a general store that sells almost unbreakable products.

“Hey, are we really going out in these outfits?”
“There wasn't anyone at all anyway, so I don't think there's any need to be embarrassed.”
“Aren't you embarrassed, Lotorl?”
“I’m happy that Alrina and I are matching, though?”

Thinking that it’s useless no matter what she says, Alrina let out a deep sigh as I grabbed her hand and we headed out of the hut.

“Un un. It's not hot at all compared to when it was just our flesh.”
“I'm so embarrassed that my face is hot, you know.”
“Then let’s depart!”
“...Haa, just do what you like.”

A few minutes after we put on the ero suits and flew into the air, I realized that our flight speed was on a different level compared to yesterday, probably because of things like the helmet, so it seems that we could enter the volcanic area in two hours.

“So I can fly this fast.”

When I looked at Alrina's Flight Skill level using Appraisal Skill, it was displayed as level 8, so I hurriedly checked my own Flight Skill level and found that it had become 15, so I was a little relieved, but at this rate, it was only a matter of time before Alrina surpass me, I thought as I made a wry smile.

Alrina, what a terrifying child...!

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CSA 52 - The Night Sky Was Beautiful

The flight across the desert was going smoothly, and although it was still far away, a volcano came into view, and if things continued like this, we should arrive at the volcanic area in two more days.

“We’ll stop here today.”
“Haa... haa... right. Just a bit more and I’d come though.”
“For now, please wipe your nosebleed. Lotorl is really a pervert.”

Traveling while staring at Alrina's plump butt is quite enjoyable. ‘I'm not a witch so I'm not embarrassed!’ That feeling of Inju-chan, the main character, I know it very well now.
In exchange, Alrina sends me a look of deep contempt.

* (T/N: I don’t know the reference.)

What's wrong with staring at my older sister's butt? Are there any laws or rules about that?
Hmm─, I wonder... could you please stop looking at me like I’m a bad guy? I’ll get excited.

While writhing under my older sister's gaze, I used Alchemy Skill to build a hut in this desert where there was nothing but sand, and we’ll stay here for the night.

“Would one bed be enough?”
“Please don't ask questions that have obvious answers. Also, no matter what Lotorl tries to do to me, I'm too tired to respond. I'm sorry.”
“No, um, I guess I'll make two beds after all.”

If I were to be given such a cold reception, as expected, I'd be hurt, so let’s just honestly give up.

I made a bed, dining table, chairs, and kitchen, and started preparing dinner.

“Is there anything you would like to eat?”
“If it’s refreshing, anything is fine. Also, I'm too tired to do it right now, but I want you to let me do things like preparing the meals. I won’t not say it’s for repaying you, but as a former slave, I get restless unless I do something for you.”
“Alrina is a feast for my eyes, so just by being here you’re already repaying me, but Alrina already has Cooking and Sewing Skills, so I'd be grateful if you could improve those. If there is any ingredient or material you need, please tell me.”
“Un... Want to see my panties more?”
“I didn't mean it that way, but it would be really helpful if you could lift up your skirt while looking embarrassed.”
“Master... please enjoy to your heart's content...”
“Eeeedddd!!!!!?”

Edo is the name of a place or era in Japan. Please google using Safari’s Yahoo for more information. It doesn’t seem like there is any internet in this world though.

“Now then, shall I start cooking.”
“Before that, why don't you wipe that nosebleed off first?”

For dinner today, I served somen noodles, pork shabu, Caesar salad, and watermelon for dessert.

“Everything looks delicious. Maybe I'll leave the cooking to Lotorl after all?”
“I want to eat the delicious food Alrina made, so please cook every day to raise your Cooking Skill level.”
“I don't think I can make a more delicious dish than this, but I'll try my best.”

After the meal, I made a bath and filled it not with high potion, but a potion made from wood to make a cypress-style bath.

“It smells good.”
“That’s true... and the starry sky is so beautiful, it’s the best.”

The night sky in the desert is truly fantastic. Iridescent stars gather together and twinkling like the flow of a river. If you come to see this with that girl you're interested in, her likeability rating will no doubt go through the roof.

“...I never thought that the starry sky was beautiful. It's really beautiful...”

Alrina raised her right hand to the sky, and I was struck by the feeling as if she was going to go straight to the end of the universe, so I unconsciously hugged her.

“…Are you being sullen again?”
“Let's do lots of fun things from now on.”
“...That's right. For now, I think a nosebleed bath would be fun.”
“That's disrespectful.”

Right when I tried to be serious. Aren't the blood vessels in my nose too weak?
If it comes to this, I'll drink high potion through my nose.

“To think you’d drink potion through your nose, Lotorl sure is skillful.”
“Please don't take what I did for a gag seriously!”
“Fufu, if it’s with Lotorl, I'm sure we can live happily together forever."
“I'll blow away all the serious stuff, so please feel safe and stay with me.”

I guess I’ll have to improve my gag sense so that I don't have to put myself through such a painful experience again.

...Correction. I want to strengthen my mind and heart.

We got out of the bath and quietly went to bed tonight.

*

“Morning, Lotorl.”
“Nna... why are we sleeping together...?”
“Lotorl’s sleeping face was just so cute, you see.”
“I see... then it can’t be helped, I guess.”
“Nn─”
“Eh, don’t I get a wake-up kiss as a reward!?”

“Nn─......”
“Lotorl, are you okay?”
“Nna?”
“You suddenly started groaning, did you have a scary dream?”
“It was... a dream...?”

Kuh, I was so close to kissing Alrina, but Alrina interrupted me!

“Alrina, please give me a wake-up kiss.”
“Yes... the forehead or the cheeks, which one do you prefer?”
“Lips... I'm sorry, I was just joking. The cheeks, please.”

Please don't stare at me like that. I'll be excited in the morning, you know?

“Chuu.”

A soft sensation and a slight moisture on my cheek.
A fragrant scent distinctive to a girl that tickles my nostrils.
Aah... my brain is melching...

“Have you woken up now?”
“Perfectly!”

It's great to be kissed by a beautiful girl in the morning! Gah ha ha!

“Fufu, weird face.”
“My face has always been like this. Come on, let's have breakfast.”

In the morning, we had a fruit platter that I had Alrina make along with a nut dish that I had saved from Squirrel-san’s restaurant. I thought Alrina was not ready for cooking with fire. Am I being overprotective?

“With Lotorl here, I feel like I'll be able to spend any journey comfortably.”
“We promise you a safe, secure and extremely comfortable journey.”
“Fufu, that sounds like a travel agency’s advertising slogan.”

After eating breakfast, we packed up before departing.

“It will be the same as yesterday, but once you get used to it, please try increasing the speed.”
“I’ll do my best.”

We flew over a mountain of sand that looked the same as yesterday, and Alrina started talking about the animals and plants we can see from time to time. When I confirmed them with my Appraisal Skill, I learned that her information was wrong, so I corrected her, and when I did, Alrina's expression turned sullen. While enjoying her expressions, we steadily approached the volcanic area. Of course, I put things that look like they can be used, like cactus, poisonous watermelon, and the like into Storage.

“Lotorl, I'm thirsty...”
“Understood, I will synthesize Water Magic into you, so please hold out your hand.”
“I wish you could just give me water normally...”

We temporarily got down, I gave the Water Magic Skill grape to Alrina, liquified it and synthesized it into her.

“I think you can do it by chanting Water or imagining water coming out.”
“Water, uwaa! It really came out! But I can’t drink this without a cup or a container, right?”
“You do it like this.”

I brought my index finger close to my mouth, chanted “Water,” and water poured in in an amount similar to when I twisted a faucet slightly.

“...It's kind of, vulgar.”
“Nkuh, then please think of another method and try it.”
“Hmm. Water!”

When Alrina chanted Water, what came out wasn’t a stream of water, it was a bite-sized ball of water which she swallowed. This girl, wasn’t she a genius to say the least?

“That's amazing! I'll do that too next time!”
“Ehehe.”

I felt warm and fluffy seeing Alrina smiling so proudly, and now that we had finished hydrating, we moved on.

“We're almost in the volcanic area.”
“That's true. It's crazy how hot it is here.”

If we fly for another half day, we will enter the volcanic area, but the sun is starting to set, so we’ll stop here today.
I built a hut, made a bath, arranged the interior, and now the camp preparation is complete.

“Hafuu...”
“Haa...”

Today, I used my Compounding Skill to extract only the scent components from an orange and put it in a bath.
I might be able to make a profit by selling it as a bath bomb to aristocrats and rich people.
I feel like I can use that knowledge cheat, which is rare for me.

“Tomorrow we're finally going to enter the volcanic area. If I feel any danger, I'll carry Alrina and cut through, so please rest assured.”
“I’ll be in your care.”

The two of us laughed as we talked about silly things and stayed up a little late that day before going to bed.

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CSA 51 - I Underwent a Paradigm Shift

After welcoming Alrina, a brown-skinned former slave who was dying in the desert, into their family, Lotorl’s party is still in the hut.
Or rather, I was just waiting for a few minutes until Alrina stopped crying though.

“Have you calmed down?”
“Yeah.”

Well, now, since we're sisters, it’d be suspicious if she didn't look like me even a little, so first, let's start by changing the color of her hair.

“I'm going to use magic to change your hair color now, any problems? You didn’t answer, so.”

I activated Dyeing Magic with my Universal Magic skill and changed Alrina's hair color to the same white-brown color as mine without giving her a chance to say no.

“Isn’t that horrible?”
“Do you want to go back to being a slave?”
“...Please do as you please.”

Next is her eye color.

“Your black eyes sure are pretty. Become light blue!”
“Au!?”

I also changed her eye color to match mine.

This is a test device used for visual acuity tests at ophthalmologists and the like, and the impact is similar to that of a sudden gust of wind when looking at a mysterious balloon, so it won't cause any damage to her eyesight. If it happens, I can cure it with a potion anyway. This means that it is possible to eradicate glasses-girls from this world.

* (T/N: I don’t get it.)

“Please take off your clothes.”
“Why?”
“Because I’m also going to change the color of your skin.”
“...I feel like I'll no longer be me, so please stop, please.”
“Strip.”
“I don’t want to.”
“You’re so cheeky even though you’re my little sister, huh?”
“I’m older than you!”
“We look about the same age, so it’s within the margin of error, margin of error.”
“You’re too tyrannical…!”

To a bad little sister who doesn't listen to what Onee-chan says, I forced her to undress using Undressing Magic and pushed her onto the bed.

“Horrible...”
“You seriously crying makes me hurt, so please stop.”

She really doesn’t like it, so I left her skin color as it was.

I resume our conversation while staring fixedly at Alrina as she puts on her clothes.

“Now then, let's end this farce here and get back to the rest of our journey.”
“Weren’t you quite serious?”
“It's just your imagination...”
“...So, a journey?”

What’s with those scornful eyes? Please stop that, it excites me.

“...We will use Aribia country's Gate to go to Lycorus country, take a boat trip to Dragen Island, and then head to Khizr country, that’s our journey.”
“...Let's part ways in Lycorus country.”
“No. Family will always be together! If Khizr is a comfortable country to live in, I plan to live there permanently.”
“Impossible! You'll definitely die on the way! Rumor has it that only a handful of people can cross the ocean!”
“It should work out!”
“Where does your confidence come from…?”

When I carefully and thoroughly explained to her how wonderful I was, Alrina was half in doubt, but she seemed to accept it.
Her eyes were spinning around, so she might not have understood it though.

“With that being the case, I'm going to synthesize Flight Skill into you, so please give me your hand.”
“To think you can synthesize Skills, Lotorl is really a taboo person.”
“What’s a taboo person?”
“A major sinner and blasphemer, will be sentenced to death immediately if found. Hitonarazu.”
“Will you be okay? Should I erase your memory?”
“If found, they'll kill their whole family, you know? Even if you erase my memory, I still don’t want to be killed senselessly without knowing the reason...”

The religious views of Furia continent are way too scary!
Let's quickly go to Lycorus country. Let's do that.

“Now then, when I place this completely ordinary-looking grape in the palm of your hand... oh my, how strange! It seemed to have melted away and disappeared!”
“Your tone is like a swindler’s. So what did Lotorl do to me?”
“I synthesized Flying Skill with Alrina.”
“...I see. I can fly now?”

I felt a strong will from Alrina not to push things into her anymore.
I guess it's because her adaptability is high, because she’s a former slave, her skills to ward things off are high. If I find a Ward Off Skill someday, I'll synthesize it into Alrina.

“I know someone who nearly died flying indoors.”

He must be flying freely in the sky by now. I can easily imagine him frolicking around.

“Uuu... let's go outside.”

As soon as she left the hut, Alrina flew up into the sky with great vigor.

“KYAAAAAAAAAaaaaaa............”

Oioioi, you’re going to die, older sister.

I’d be troubled if she were to die so easily after I saved her once, and even if she dies, I’ll bring her back to life, if so, I might as well make her immortal, and have her to be my older sister until I'm satisfied.
My love is heavy? Egoist? Crazy Psycho Lesbo?
So I’m just a spoiled little sister, so what?

I opened a gate right above my older sister as she ascended into space, opened the exit right beside me and I caught her.

“Fuguuuuu!?”
“Ugyaa-!?”

I couldn't hold my ground and was blown away and rolled around with Alrina, but I managed to safely catch her, so it was all good!

“Owowow, Alrina, are you okay?”
“Somehow... uuu, orororororo.”
“Hiee... it feels lukewarm, but... I wonder what this comfort is?”

With vomit draped over her back, Lotorl underwent a paradigm shift to a new stage.

Isn't getting covered in a beautiful girl's vomit a reward?
I feel like Otaku-kun from my previous life is shouting, “That fetish, I'll purge it!” But it’s already awakened, so I can only accept it as it is and rush toward the next stage.

I cleaned up using Cleaning and Purification Magic, and sprinkled high potion to heal the scratches and the like. It’s become a habit, wasting high potion that is.
By the way, a bottle of high potion can be sold for 100,000 El. I don't know what the retail price is.

“Come now, practice makes perfect!”
“It’s impossible!”
“Things like fear, you can just feed it to the dogs. There's nothing a younger sister can do that her older sister can't.”

Alrina shook her head side to side like a child in a terrible two period, but I held her in my arms and forcibly took her on a journey through the air.

“Don't let go!”
“What is fear? Not even trying to learn what you don’t know! Not even knowing what you’re afraid of! I just wanted to say some kind of cool wise saying though! But I just said what came to mind! I forgot what I wanted to say! Enough already, just flyyyyyy!”
“No waaaaaaaaaaaaayyyyy............”

I let go of my hold and flew next to the free-falling Alrina. And I encourage her while fully enjoying her expression dyed with fear.

“You can fly! You can fly! Alrina can definitely fly! Get fired up! Get fired up! Get fired up!”
“You savage brute deviiiiiiiiiiil!!”

The livid Alrina started using her Flight Skill to try to headbutt me, so I resigned myself to accept Alrina's headbutt. This is what sisterly love is.

“Goff!”

She hit me in my stomach. I’ve accepted Alrina's determination.

“Haa... haa... what’s this, it's pretty easy!”
“Nothing is impossible for a determined person after all.”

Now that we have successfully completed her Flight Skill training, let’s depart for Aribia country.

“Let me rest for a while!”
“Please don’t take the wind out of my sails.”

It can’t be helped, let’s take a break for now.

“I sweated a lot so I'll go take a cold bath.”
“Ah, then I'll make a bath, so please wait a minute.”
“...Really, you can do anything huh.”

I want to get in the bath with Alrina, so I make a large bathtub with Alchemy Skill, and since using high potions from Storage won’t be enough, I fill the bathtub with high potions made from medicinal herbs growing around here and heat it up to about 40 degrees with a fireball and it's done.
I can't stop wasting high potion, I can't cease it, I can't end it.

“Come here so I can wash your back.”
“So you really are going in with me.”
“Is there any problem with sisters entering together?”
“Just do what you like already...”

I put my clothes in Storage, took out the shampoo, and washed her whole body.
By the way, although I called it shampoo, its ingredients are actually a soap solution containing honey so there is no problem even if I use it on her body. Besides, it's made from plants, so it's also environmentally friendly.

“So this is soap liquid? This is the first time I've seen it...”
“Want to drink it?”
“I can drink it?”
“I’ll compound it so that you can drink it, so please wait a minute.”
“Don't offer others things you can't drink.”

Now that I've finished washing Alrina's whole body as if licking her all over, it's my turn. Fuhehe.

“You're good at washing I see.”
“Yeah. because I used to wash my fellow slaves.”
“I see.”
“...Should I wash your front too?”
“Please!”
“You're so energetic that Onee-chan is taken aback.”

After we finished washing each other's bodies while making out, we comfortably enjoyed the bath.

“Haa... feels so good.”
“When you say it while being hugged, it sounds like it means something else, you know?”

I hugged Alrina's back from her side as if she was a large stuffed animal, resting my chin on Alrina's shoulder as I stuck to her. It's sexual harassment.

“It feels good in both meaning.”

Even in my previous life, I don't remember taking a bath with other people.
How should I say it, my heart feels extremely content and I feel ultra happy.

“I guess you’ll never know what's going to happen in your life.”
“That's right. After all, many things can happen even after you die.”
“Fufu, you say that like you've been dead before.”
“Yes, well, I have memories of my previous life.”
“Heeh. What kind of person were you in your previous life?”
“Let’s see... a pig...?”

Lotorl's mental attack! 8000 damage to Otaku-kun from my previous life!

“A pig...”

Penetrating damage to Lotorl! If you attack your previous life, it will fly back to you!

“I guess it's not that different from now. ...My roots that is.”
“So everything except your roots has changed.”
“I was reincarnated as a girl... oops, that just now didn't count.”

I let my guard down and ended up talking about unnecessary things. Reflect.

“Hmm, so you were a man in your previous life.”
“It’s a secret”
“You pretended to be a girl and touched me all over, Lotorl is a closet pervert I see."
“H-ha!? I’m not though!? I’m an open pervert though!?”
“So you’re correcting that part... fufufu.”

I accidentally let it slip that it turns out that I was a man in my previous life, but Alrina seems to be having fun, so I guess it's fine.

After getting out of the bath and drying our bodies with magic, I took out a T-shirt, miniskirt, and white panties from Storage and handed them to Alrina.

“They’re different clothes than before though?”
“I thought it would be better to wear something easy to move in, and these are my taste.”
“The one-piece from before was easy to move in too, but if it's your taste, it can't be helped.”

I’m happy to have a good older sister who’s willing to wear clothes that fully expose my taste without a single complaint.

While glancing at Alrina changing clothes, I also put on a T-shirt, polka dot panties, shorts, and finally, attach my stomach pocket and I finished changing.

“Lotorl.”
“W-what is it? I'm not watching you change your clothes or anything like that, okay!”
“If you want to hide your item box-type Skill, then storing even that pocket away makes it meaningless.”
“Aah... I didn't notice it myself... I'll be more careful next time...”

H-how embarrassing───!! If there was a hole, I'd want to go through it and become a piece of cosmic algae!
You let your guard down too much, Lotorl!

I feel like even my ears are turning red, so I decided to take a flight to cool off.

“We're going to cross the desert after this, but I think it's going to be a bit tough for Alrina, who is a beginner at Flight Skill, so I'm going to fly closely behind Alrina, so please fly at a speed that Alrina is comfortable with.”
“Okay.”
“Then let’s go.”

The two of us flew into the sky, then I pointed to the direction we were heading, and we began crossing the desert.

*

At this time, Lotorl had completely forgotten to dispose of the high potion bath, but although the hunting that month was more difficult than usual, the animals were very meaty, and the tribes are grateful to the god of good harvest that might or might not exist.

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(T/N: changed Hi-Potion to high potion. To make it consistent with mega potion.)

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CSA 50 - We Became Sisters

It's been a while since then, but the girl hasn't woken up.

Even when I examined her with Appraisal Skill, I didn't find anything particularly bad about her, so it seems like she’s just sleeping.
Other than that, I looked at her Skills, and she has Life Force Skill, Sewing at level 1, and Cooking at level 3, she doesn’t have any particularly unusual Skills.

“I don’t know if Life Force Skill is a blessing or a curse...”

Because of this Skill, she tasted a living hell, but if it wasn't for this Skill, she would have died without ever being able to meet me... Is this what you would call happiness within misfortune? Even so, I feel like misfortune is winning too much though.
I sincerely hope that your happiness will exceed your misfortune.

“Should I synthesize a Skill that seems good into her?”

I would like to synthesize a Skill that increases luck for this unlucky child.

I went outside the hut, took out a grape with Economic Fortune UP Skill from Storage, planted it on the ground, then I sprayed it with fertilizer potion to make the vines bear fruit, used Appraisal Skill to check that the grapes have Skills that increase luck, and harvested them.

I obtained large quantities of Skills related to luck, such as good luck, bad luck, love luck, work luck, dumb luck, odd luck, personal luck, company luck, business luck, health luck, career luck, athletic ability, great luck, strong luck, intense luck, super intense luck, etc.

I nonchalantly included Athletic Ability Skill, which is very much not a luck type skill, but since it's a skill that increases your ability to move your body, let's include it as well.

In order to prevent strange event flags such as a named enemy being born due these things' mutation and committing violent acts, I liquefied the remaining vines using Alchemy Skill and disposed of them, and then returned to the hut to examine the Skills to be synthesized into the girl.

“Good luck is obvious, about love luck, maybe it’s too early? Let’s put in health luck, and athletic ability too...”

If I cram in too much, it might become bad luck instead, so I decided to go with Good Luck UP, Health Luck UP, and Athletic Ability Skills.
I compounded each of them to level 1, placed the three grapes in the palm of the still-sleeping girl's hand, liquefied them and synthesized them into her.

“All right, let’s see, un. They were able to synthesize properly.”

Using Appraisal Skill, I confirmed that the girl's Skills have increased.

“...ua.”
“Oya?”

The girl let out a small groan and slowly opened her eyelids that have long, beautiful eyelashes as she woke up. This timing might be due to the health luck Skill I synthesized into her just now.

“Where...?”

When the girl woke up, she looked around the room from the ceiling with a dazed expression on her face until she saw me, and in a weak voice, asked me that.

“This is inside the hut I built. I'm Lotorl. What's your name?”

When I asked her name, the girl looked down a little and opened her mouth as if to squeeze out something.

“I... don't have a name...”

It was obvious that there was a reason for her lack of name, so just not having a name is still within acceptable limits.
I'm curious as to why she doesn't have a name, but let's just ignore it for now.

“I see... are you hungry?”
“...Yes.”
“Then, let's eat some food.”

I supported the nameless girl, helped her get out of bed, sat her on a chair, and took out the children's meal set that I had put in Storage from my stomach pocket and set it on the dining table.

“Amazing...”
“I made these just for you, so don't hold back and eat. If it doesn't taste good, you don't have to force yourself to eat it.”
“Thank you, very much. Itadakimasu...”

Perhaps because it's our first time meeting, she seems nervous, but she doesn't seem to be wary. It might be because I'm just a kid though, if I was Otaku-kun from my previous life, she might have run away instantly.

“Delicious...”

Seeing the girl having a big smile on her face as she heartily eats her food, I was convinced that this was what they call motherhood.
A girl stuffing her mouth with a kid’s lunch, to think it could be so precious...

While quietly watching the scene (while smirking inwardly), I waited for the girl to finish eating, and then started talking.

“You don't have to say it if you don't want to, but then, I'll use memory reading magic, so please speak honestly.”
“Eeh...”
“As expected, I don’t want to take care of a criminal.”
“I, see... I understand.”

I am also on the run, so if this child were to be a criminal or something similar, I’m prepared to throw her into the police station immediately.
Wanting someone to be happy and protecting a criminal are two different things.

“Do you really have no name?”
“I am a slave, so I have no name until I am given one by the one who is to be my Master.”
“So you really are a slave after all.”
“...Yes.”

The word ‘slave’ made the girl look pained and her body began to tremble. She seems to be quite traumatized, but I’m going to continue asking questions.

“How old are you?”
“I'm 13 years old.”
“Unexpectedly older... I'm 10 years old.”

When I told her that I was 10 years old, the girl's body stopped shaking and she had a grin on her face.
Did she think I would be easier to deal with knowing I was younger?

Combined with my previous life, I’m the older one! I have almost no social experience, so mentally I'm still a child though!

“...Do you have any parents?”
“No. I’m an orphan.”

She suddenly spoke in casual speech. Well, it’s fine though.

“Orphan, huh? That’s the same as me.”
“...I see.”

What’s this? At first she was looking at me like I’m her own kind, but then she glared at me a little...?

Even though we were both orphans, why am I a slave while you were free, it’s unfair, I somehow felt that sense of jealousy. Am I a Newtype?

* (T/N: I don’t watch anime, so I don’t know about this but, a Newtype can read mind?)

“Why were you collapsed?”
“I was pushed away by one of the slave traders and sacrificed to a monster.”
“I, see... By the way, what is that monster?”
“The giant tribe of the desert. Their intelligence is low, but they are very territorial, and if you get close to them even a little, they will kill you. I find it strange that they left me alive.”
“You were lucky.”
“...I wish I’d have died just like that though.”

I don't know what to say to her as she laughs sarcastically, so I move on to the next question. I want to fix my communication disorder.

“...Since you were left alive, what do you want to do after this?”
“...I don’t know.”
“What about something you want to do?”
“None.”
“Dream for the future?”
“Never thought about it.”
“And your favorite food?”
“That food from earlier. It was delicious.”

Now, what should I do? Really, what should I do?
If I handle this poorly, she'll head straight-up to Hiki-NEET.
A self-indulgent life of eating and sleeping and eating and sleeping.
I have to strictly guide her well.

“I understand. By the way, what will happen if a runaway slave is found?”
“Whipped and re-educated. But I was thrown away, so I'm not a slave anymore.”
“I see. Can you say the same thing if you are found by a slave trader?”
“I... I ca... ca... uu.”
“So you can't say it.”

She’s so cute when she’s sad. I want to pat her on the head.

“Alrina”
“Eh?”
“From today onwards, your name is Alrina. Let's live together, as my slave, not, as my sister.”

Although my true feelings leaked out a bit, I think I was able to quickly correct the trajectory to calling her my sister. It would be pitiful to be freed from slavery only to find yourself a slave again, wouldn't it? Pitiful is cute though.

“...ah, uu... really?”
“Really. Onee-chan isn’t a liar!”
“...You should be, my little sister, right? ...Uu, ugh...”

She’s crying big tears, so this time I hug her and pat her head. Sniff sniff, aah... a girl's characteristic nish shmell... buhi.

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CSA 49 - I Picked Up a Girl

“First, should I try going to the desert area?”

Looking at the map, it doesn't seem to be that far, but I've never flown at night before, so I'm thinking of building a hut and taking a break before entering the desert area.

“Alright, let’s go.”

I put the map away in storage and decided to cross over the great forest for now.

*

“Big, it’s too big...”

I should have flown quite a distance, but the wetlands haven’t come into view.
To be honest, I underestimated the great forest.

“It's probably good that nature is abundant, but as expected, it's just too big.”

That's why it would take six months by horse-drawn carriage.
I think it's because this is a world with magic and Skills that it's possible to take unreasonable journeys, but if it’s the world of my previous life, I think all but adventurers and special people would refuse to do it.
Well, even in this world, I was just refused some time ago, so perhaps a carriage passing by itself is already unusual. They would be commendable people.

“I’m starting to get tired of this.”

With that being the case, let’s take a shortcut with line of sight teleport.

“No obstacles sighted, teleport!”

I think I was able to teleport about 100km ahead.

“Mu, the forest is cut off! Is it a wetland from there?”

Once again, I flew until the wetland with a teleport.

“Ooh, a herd of animals. Hippos? Elephants? Hippo elephants? That’s isekai animals for you.”

There are also other herds of deer-like and lion-like animals. Since they are isekai animals, the deer are carnivores, and the lions are herbivores. That’s quite an isekai fantasy.

“Nn, people?”

There was a group of tribesmen throwing spears at a cow-like animal. They are mostly naked and wearing masks made from animal skulls. There are a lot of women there. I won’t say what they are, but they’re jiggling up and down.

It’d be troublesome if they found me, so let's quickly teleport before then.

“The wetland was also pretty big, but it's already the desert, huh.”

It's the teleport’s fault. What’s the point of gaining experience points for my Flight Skill...? Let’s just say that it's my personal style to go bit by bit without forcing myself.

I arrived at the desert area before noon, so let's cross the desert as well.
What’s left after that is the volcanic area and the canyon.

*

“Collapsed...?”

As I was having a desert sightseeing tour from high in the sky, admiring rivers of sand flowing like rivers and waterfalls of sand falling like waterfalls, I saw what looked like a person collapsed in the distance, so I moved closer with teleportation, and found a dark-haired, brown-skinned girl wearing only one piece of rag, lying on the ground.

“Horrible...”

Her limbs were bent in the wrong direction, her whole body was covered in blood that had turned black, and her neck, hands, and feet were shackled, and the chains were torn to pieces.

“A slave...?”

Because of how much time had passed, there were only a few left, but there were multiple footprints and wheel tracks all around, as well as one large footprint that stood out.

“Did they get attacked by a giant or something?”

Perhaps, was this girl used as a decoy to escape from the monster?
What a cruel thing to do...

They say that a spirit you do not approach will not curse you, but I can't just leave this child alone. I don't want to go through the rest of my life feeling like my heart is being squeezed because of this.

No matter how you look at her, she looks like she’s dead, but I check for breathing and pulse just to be sure.

“Her breath is, none huh? And her pulse... I guess it’s there, just slightly? This means she's alive...”

Her life force is too strong...
However, when I think that she’s surviving this long in this condition, it must have been very painful.
I was so sad that tears started flowing.

“You’re all right now. I'll save you now.”

I took out a mega potion from Storage and sprinkled it over her whole body.

She’s visibly healing, but the healing process is exquisitely disgusting.
If this were a game, it would just shine and heal instantly, but this is real life, so it would wriggle around and eat away at my sanity. I suppose it’s better not to look directly at it. I'll look though.

Once her body returned to normal, I liquefied her shackles with Alchemy Skill and removed them, and then I held the unconscious girl in my arm and teleported back to the wetland.

“This is ba-!? Wait, it’s there!”

I remembered becoming completely naked after teleporting, but now I used magic instead of a Skill, so there weren't any problems.
If I teleported using the Skill, the girl wouldn’t have been judged as equipment and would have been left alone in the desert.

I use Alchemy Skill to build a hut, make a wood powder bed, and put the girl on it.

“I have to get her changed.”

As expected, it would be pitiful to leave her in that tattered clothes. Or rather, are these rags actually clothes? Even if I imagine what it looked like before it was ragged, I don’t think it would be something someone would wear.
For now, I take out a one-piece that looks easy to wear from Storage and take off her rag.

“Aah... the underwear too, huh...”

The tattered panties are no longer in the shape of an underwear.

“...It's an emergency. This is legal. There's nothing wrong with it. Besides, I'm a beautiful girl. It wouldn’t even become a crime.”

While giving a suggestion to myself, I took out a pair of light blue striped panties from Storage, took off her ragged panties and put them on. (This took 3 minutes.)

It was my first time seeing someone else's, but I was surprisingly not excited.
Something red is dripping from my nose, but I'm sure it's just my imagination.

After I finished changing her clothes, I made a wood powder blanket and put it on her.

“Now then, what should I do...?”

It's good that I decided to help, but no matter how you look at it, it's obvious that it's troublesome.
It might be a good idea to ask her what she wants to do when she wakes up, and if she doesn't have any relatives, it might be a good idea to leave her with Myaa-san or the squirrel cook. He seemed like a good person anyway.
If she says that she wants to follow me... let's love her to the very end. It's decided.

“All right, let's make some food.”

I create a kitchen with Alchemy Skill and take out pork, beef, eggs, carrots, potatoes, cucumbers, cabbage, lettuce, tomatoes, and all kinds of seasonings from Storage to make a hamburger set meal.
While I’m at it, let’s make some pudding and orange juice to make it into a kids' lunch.

First, I use Alchemy Skill to create a bowl made of aero adamantite, use Mincing Magic to make pork and beef into minced meat, mix them, add salt, pepper, and an egg, and then knead.

Since it's a bit of a hassle, I create Hamburg Steak Magic with my Universal Magic Skill, shape the minced meat, take out iron from Storage to create a frying pan with Alchemy Skill, and grill the shaped hamburg. Using aero adamantite to make the frying pan will make it have the worst thermal conductivity, so using plain iron is better. It's also good for your health because you can get iron.
By the way, the iron frying pan has a finely textured surface, making it non-stick. With this I can make healthy dishes without wasting oil. Alchemy Skill is so useful.

While waiting for it to cook, I make a children's plate, children's cup, children's knife and fork, and children's spoon out of aero adamantite and place them there. I also don't forget to draw cute animal series such as rabbits and bears on conspicuous parts such as the handle. I also prepare a dining table and chairs using wood powder. Also some towels.

Next, I use Salad Magic to cut up the vegetables and place them in another bowl I made.
I use Dressing Magic to make Caesar dressing, and lastly, I use Cooking Magic to make pudding and orange juice, and it’s complete.

“Why didn't I think of this at first...?”

I ended up making multiple useless magic, but well, it's probably okay.
By the way, cooking-type magic cannot be activated without ingredients and a recipe image.
I could have just created a magic that imitates a tool from the future called gourmet table, but it gives me an image of bad taste, so I would probably only be able to create tasteless dishes.
Image and inspiration are important when it comes to magic and skills, so if you think it's no good even slightly, it will become no good.
It's possible that it won't be bad once the level goes up, but at least it'll be bad for now.

“It's like a family restaurant from somewhere... how wonderful.”

It’s good that I made these, but the girl isn’t waking up, so let’s put them in Storage.

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CSA 48 - We Parted Ways

“Good morning!”
“Morning, Lotorl.”

After spending the night, I ate breakfast at the inn with Myaa-san.

“It's sudden, but I've decided to look after Myaa-san!”

Hyuu hyuu don don pafu pafu! If this were an anime world, that sound effect would reverberate in the air, but since it's real life, it only reverberates in my mind.

* (T/N: hyuu hyuu = flute sound, don don = drum sound, pafu pafu = trumpet sound. I think.)

“...Um, thank you.”
“I don't want to cause you that much trouble nya! I'll take care of the rest myself nya! I thought you'd say something like that.”
“That's what I actually think. But I don't think I'll be able to handle it on my own... and I think I'll be able to pay back the money I borrowed more quickly if Lotorl helps until I can earn stable money.”
“I see, then I won’t hold back and support you.”
“I’ll be in your care.”

Without “nya” at the end of her sentence, it feels out of tune or something...
I could make a tsukkomi here, but I'm sure Myaa-san has her own thoughts, so let’s refrain.

After finishing our meal, we headed to an unpopular forest.

“...How far are we going?”
“I suppose around here is okay...”

I slowly approached Myaa-san, took her hand, and pulled her face close enough that I could feel her breath.

“Um, what are you...? Lotorl?”
“You must never tell anyone what is about to happen here, okay?”
“O-okay... Please don’t hurt me too much, okay...?”
“Hurt? ...Do you think that I’m about to do something lewd to you?”
“...Am I wrong?”
“You are. As expected, the difficulty level of outdoor play is way too high, it's impossible. Wait, that doesn’t matter, after this, I'm going to give Myaa-san a Skill, so please definitely don't tell anyone about this, okay?”
“Umm... you're not joking?”
“I guess I’ll synthesize Economic Fortune Skill as a test.”

I take out an economic fortune grape from Storage, place it on Myaa-san's palm, liquefy it, and synthesize it.

“The grapes melted and disappeared though?”
“Please take a look at your card's Skill section.”
“Okay. ...Mya!?”

She’s surprised, she’s surprised. Smirk.

“With this, Myaa-san shouldn’t have to worry about money as often.”
“I-Is it okay for something like this to happen?! Increasing my Skills this easily is a blasphemy to god nya-!!”
“Ueh!? God!? Is Myaa-san a religious person!?”
“I’m not, but many beastkins are deeply religious nya. If this were to become known, Lotorl would be imprisoned, or worse, killed nya...”
“Hieee... Ah, ah, Myaa-san! Definitely! Please definitely never talk about that! If you do, I'll kidnap you and run far away!”
“There’s no way I can say something like this nya! ...Uuu, I thought you were a strange kid, but I never thought it’d be this much nya...”

W-wwwwhat should I do!? Should I run away? No, I’d have to bring Myaa-san with me too. For now, it seems dangerous if I don't move from Furia continent, where there are many beastkins, so I have to go to Aribia country and then quickly go to Lycorus country.

“I will take good care of Myaa-san, so will you come with me to Khizr country?”
“Fue? We don't have to go that far, I won't say anything, you know?”
“The destination of my trip is Khizr country, and I want to go there with Myaa-san! Is that no good?”
“Hmm... sorry. It's just so far away that I’m scared nya...”
“Is that, so...”
“...Ah, uu, really, I’m sorry...”
“I suppose it can’t be helped. ...I have no choice but to erase your memory.”

It will be troublesome if she resists when I make her drink the oblivion potion, so let's use Universal Magic Skill to activate Oblivion Magic.

“Don’t say something so disturbing nya... I really won't tell anyone, you know!”
“Even if Myaa-san doesn’t say anything, Myaa-san herself will be in danger if someone uses Skills or magic to read your memories, do you still want to remember it?”
“Aa─h, yeah. I understand perfectly. I got it nya! You can erase my memory!”
“Memory, disappear─!”
“So quick!? I’m not mentally prepared yeyeyeyeyeye!?”

I used Oblivion Magic to erase her memory of the past five minutes. It's my first time using this magic, so I hope her brain doesn’t become completely empty.

“Ah? Eh?”
“Myaa-san, don’t you have such an amazing Skill?! With Economic Fortune Skills, you won’t have to worry about money!? That’s so nice! I’m jealous!”

I will trick her with a realistic acting that is consistent with her memory of five minutes ago.
Even if I’m a ham actor, all I have to do is push through with vigor and momentum and it’ll be okay.

“Umm? What are we talking about?”
“Eh? Before I knew it, I awakened to Economic Fortune Skill nya! That's what we’re talking about though?”
“Hmm? Was that what we were talking about? Huh?”
“No waay. Even though Myaa-san is still young...”
“Mu. I have a good memory, okay nya?!”
“I see. Well then, I'll lend you 1 million El, so please pay me back tenfold someday.”

I took out my card from Storage and transferred 1 million El to Myaa-san's card that she was holding.
I've been splurging recently, so I need to earn some money soon or my travel expenses will be in trouble.

“Wha!? What are you doing nya!?”
“Eh? Didn’t we come to this unpopular forest just to lend you a lot of money?”
“Eh? We did?”
“That right?”
“Somehow, I can’t really accept it nya...?”
“It's okay if it’s Myaa-san. For now, let's stop carrying money around in cash, okay?”
“Uuu, I got it nya...”
“Then, let's go back to the city.”
“I feel like I'm being deceived...?”

We returned to the city from the forest and I parted ways with Myaa-san at the city gate.

“I'm traveling to Khizr country, so we’ll part ways here for now.”
“Ueh!? That's so sudden nya!?”

Myaa-san has also forgotten that I'm going to Khizr country, so I'll have to act perfectly so that I don't get exposed here.

“It seems that it will take about six months to a year before the gate to Lycoris country will be open, so I am thinking of going through Aribia country, but Myaa-san won’t come with me, right?”

I'll try inviting her one last time, but if this doesn't work, I'll give up on having a trip with Myaa-san.
Besides, if I get lonely, I can just teleport and meet her anytime anyway.

“Ugh, as you’d expect. Aribia and Khizr countries are impossible nya... Ahaha.”

I guess it's no good after all... Aah, uuh, I feel so lonely after all...

I can't just force her, so I’ll give up with the force of tears of blood.

“My plan is to return to Difas country in about two years, when Myaa-san will probably be making a lot of money, so please make it big by then, okay?”
“Lotorl's expectations are heavy nya... but I'll try my best nya!”
“Yes! Then in two years, in Difas country!”
“See you nya!”

With painful reluctance, I parted ways with Myaa-san and departed for Aribia country.

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CSA 47 - I Pretended Not To See

T-there’s no way I can accept something like this happening twice...!!

Trembling with anger, I questioned the innkeeper.

“Our sincerest apologies!”
“Can you settle this with just an apology? Can you? Are musical instruments really that cheap? Are they?”
“I-I will definitely find it, even if I have to put my life on the line, so please forgive me!”
“Heeh, the innkeeper’s life is really that valuable, huh?”
“Everything! I'll put everything on the line, this land, my house, my family! I'll definitely find it, so please! Please! Please have mercy...!”
“Ha... well, whatever. Or rather, I’m just venting my anger, so please raise your head. The person who stole it was the one who was at fault, Innkeeper-san was just lax with security measures, I don’t think you are that bad.”
“Oooh, what mercy!”
“Next time, please take security measures to prevent thieves from entering, okay?”
“Yes ma'am! As Thou, Most Merciful, hast commanded!”
“Nn? Yeah, do your best, okay?”

I felt like Innkeeper-san’s countenance or maybe his atmosphere had suddenly changed, but was it just my imagination? No strange magic activated on its own, right?

It was partly my fault for forgetting to put it in Storage, and there's nothing I can do since it’s already stolen, so I pull myself together and head to the gate.

“A permit to Lycorus country, please.”
“You can't go now. Come back in six months or a year.”
“Wh... what did you say...!?”

When I asked Clerk-san for details, it seems that the Gate to Lycorus country is unstable and connects in a cycle of six months or a year, and the last time the Gate was open was yesterday, and he comforted me, saying, “you could have gone if you had arrived a little earlier.”

“Is there any other way to get to Lycorus country?”
“Hmm, if you go to Aribia country, there is a Gate that can take you to Lycorus country, but you can only go there using horse-drawn carriages. It will probably take half a year to get to Aribia country, so I recommend you wait quietly.”
“Is that, so...”

Leaving the Gate behind, I sat down on a bench in a park and took out the world map from Storage to check the path from my current location to Aribia country.

“Great forest, wetland, desert, volcano, canyon... isn’t it full of places that a horse-drawn carriage can't pass through?”

If you get lost in a large forest, you die; if you get stuck in a swamp, you die; if you get stuck in a desert, you die; if you inhale poisonous gas in a volcano, you die; if you slip in a canyon, you die.
You’ll get killed by nature before monsters or thieves.
Leaving myself aside, I'm not confident that I can protect the coachman, guards, and horses.

“I guess I’ll fly... Yeah, I should. That's the only option!”

It's boring to just wait for six months or a year, so I decided to go by flying.
I’m not as good as Z-Fighters, but I can fly as fast as a high-speed train, so taking the growth rate of my Flight Skill into account, I think I can reach Aribia in a week, or two weeks at the latest.
It’d be convenient for sightseeing later if I just set up teleportation spots at key locations, so isn’t that a pretty good idea?

I put the world map in Storage and set off for Aribia country immediately!

“That’s not it nya! I properly brought my money nya! I didn’t have the slightest intention of dine and dash nya! Please believe me nya!”

I heard a familiar voice coming from who knows where, but I was so preoccupied with heading to Aribia country that I just passed through without stopping.

“Ah! Lotorl! Please stop nya! Hey!? Please don't ignore me nya! I want you to save me nya! Please, please stop nya!”

Myaa-san desperately called out to me, so I had no choice but to go back the way I came.

Well, I knew it was Myaa-san as soon as I heard her voice, but I wanted to see her troubled face, so I deliberately walked past her so she could see me though.

“Oya, if it isn't Myaa-san who left me behind? Why are you in such a panic?”
“Uh... I want you to lend me some money nya... If I continue like this, I'll become a criminal nya...”

Myaa-san's expression as her cat ears droop instantaneously and her face turns sad, is very stimulating, to say the least. It makes me want to tease her even more... slurp.

Teasing her is fine, but I shouldn’t bully her, you know? They are both the same? They are different.

“Are you this girl’s acquaintance? If you pay for her, I can stop reporting her, but what are you going to do?”
“Hmm... I can pay for her... but, well... what should I do...?”
“I-I'll do anything! I'll do anything, so please lend me the money! Please!!”

Perhaps no longer able to keep up her appearance, Myaa-san forgets to add “nya” at the end of her words as she begged me, she is just too lovely, that didn’t come out all right.

If I leave Myaa-san like this...

“Ojou-chan... your face...”
“Was there something on it?”
“N-no... it’s nothing...”

No good, no good. I almost accidentally made a dangerous delusion. Did the squirrel-faced Shopkeeper-san see me having a strange look?

“Then, how about we do this? I will pay for Myaa-san's meal, and Myaa-san will wash the dishes. How about that?”
“Well, as long as you pay me, I don’t care either way.”
“Thank you nya, Lotorl... and what do you want to ask of me nya...?”

I suppressed my desire to ruin Myaa-san with my right to do whatever I wanted, and responded with common sense.
If this goes on any longer, the beast inside me will start rampaging and it’d be dangerous.

“In order to increase Myaa-san’s work, I will also eat here.”
“Uuu, Lotorlll...”
“What an odd acquaintance...”

Squirrel-san's restaurant has a lot of nut-based dishes, so I wondered if the food was exactly what it looked like, and when I ordered it, it was quite delicious, so I ordered a large amount of small dishes and put them in storage.

“Fuu, thank you for the meal.”
“This is the first time I've had a customer eat this much! I was impressed by how much you ate, so I gave you a discount!”
“Thank you very much.”

When I received the long, handwritten receipt, I looked at the discount and found it easily exceeded the cost of Myaa-san's meal. I ordered a little too much.

“Lotorl, you ordered too much nya! If this goes on, I won't be able to finish washing the dishes even if it turns into night nya!”
“Wouldn’t that be a good way to reflect on losing money?”
“Lotorl is a demon nya!”
“Ha ha ha! Keep at it, newbie!”
“I don’t want to work here nya─!”

As expected, I’d feel bad if I went to Aribia just like this, so I waited at the restaurant until Myaa-san finished washing the dishes. While ordering more.

“Then come again!”

Myaa-san's dish washing really continued until night, the cost for Myaa-san's meals had long since been exceeded, so Squirrel-san paid for the remaining time accordingly, and I personally would like to give him a 3-star rating for that.

“My hands are exhausted nya...”
“I'll put some potion on them.”
“Thank you nya.”

I took out a Hi-Potion from my Storage disguised as a stomach pocket and sprinkled it on Myaa-san's hand.
I feel like I could have used Heal if it’s just her hands getting rough, but I suppose it's too late now.

It’s become a bad habit, me wasting Hi-Potion that is.

“It's already late today, so let's stay at the inn.”
“...I'll definitely pay you back someday nya.”
“You can just pay with your body, you know?”
“If it's Lotorl, it's fine...”
“I'm just kidding. I'll never do anything that would make Myaa-san run away again.”
“...Sorry.”

This is, Myaa-san is having a bit of a mental breakdown I see.
As expected, I don't want to play pranks on her until she gets sick, so let's keep quiet for a while.

The innkeeper of the inn I was staying in turned crazy in the head, so I decided to stay at another inn.

“I wish we were in the same room.”
“I’d be troubled if we're in the same room. Goodnight then.”
“Goodnight...”

After making sure Myaa-san entered her room, I went to a different room I had taken and sat down on the bed.

“Fuu...”

Let's postpone going to Aribia country until things like Myaa-san's financial situation and her heart circumstances settle down. I’m not in a hurry anyway.
I feel like I should hurry up a little bit. But well, I’m sure it’ll be okay. It would be scary if there were pursuers approaching though...

That night, I thought various things about Myaa-san and before I knew it, I fell asleep.

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(T/N: sometimes I’m just not satisfied with the translation, fixing it would take too long or outright impossible, so I Ieft it as is.)

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CSA 46 - Stolen Again

After eating dinner at the inn, I went back to my room and decided to try making a guitar right away.

I took out wood powder and adamantite from Storage, compounded them, synthesized them, and alchemized them to try to create the guitar prototype according to the structure I had saved.

“Alright, let's get right into it.”

When I tried strumming it, I was struck by a tremendous sense of discomfort.

“The tuning is terrible...”

Is it natural that the pitch of a guitar in another world is different from the pitch of a guitar in my previous world?

If it stays like this, I will only feel a sense of discomfort, so I’ll tune it to the pitch that I remember from my previous life.
By the way, in my previous life I played piano, guitar, bass, harmonica and recorder. I started playing them because of the influence of anime, so I can't really play them properly though.

As I turned the peg and pulled or loosened the string, I got closer to the pitch I remembered from my previous life.

“I wish I had a tuning magic... Ah, Creation Magic? Huh, Tuning Magic, create. Guitar Tuning.”

* (T/N: italized to indicate she casted a spell.)

Using my Universal Magic Skill, I activated Creation Magic and created Tuning Magic, and when I cast Tuning spell on my guitar, the pegs began to turn on their own and tuned the guitar.

When I played each string one by one, it sounded at the same pitch as I remembered from my previous life, so it was a great success.

Let's play a song right away.

“A love heart beats in your heart too. Take destiny head-on♪”

War is worthless, listen to my song! Like that, right?

* (T/N: reference to Macross, both the song and the line below that. I had to google it, and it was a lot of trouble.)

By the way, I can only play this here.
The only songs I can play properly are the bass of AB's Yui-nyan version of the opening song and Wakemonogatari’s BGM when Motsuki appears.

* (T/N: the one above is reference to Angel Beats and Monogatari Series, and the one below is reference to Macross. I think. I don’t watch anime much, so I can’t be sure it’s the correct references. I don’t even know who Motsuki (or maybe it’s read as Megi or Meki) is referring to.)

“Musical Performance Magic, create. Attack! Love Heart!”

I created Musical Performance Magic using Creation Magic.
It’s magic that allows you to perfectly play any song if it exists in your memory.
However, the more vague your memory of the song, the more magic power you consume.
If you try to play a song you have never heard of before, all your magical power will be consumed and you will pass out.

“Pierce through beyond the heavens. Attack! love heart♪”

I was convinced that this would allow me to make a living as a musician. I won't, though.

I enjoyed playing the guitar to my heart's content, and when I was satisfied, I soundly went to bed.
When I woke up the next day, my guitar had been stolen.

“Go... goddamned shitheeeeaaaadddd───!!”

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(T/N: all the reference here is not a full reference, just a parody, so the line might be slightly different from the original work.)

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CSA 45 - I Tried Sightseeing

Difas country.
It is a fantasy city filled with sparkling white water and overflowing with nature.

No, it's actually full of white buildings, lined up with canals, there are mysterious fountains with floating objet d'art all over, and the roadside trees are planted systematically, making it the most isekai fantasy cityscape I've ever seen.
I guess until now, it felt like I had traveled back in time to the Middle Ages. To speak badly of them, they’re old-fashioned.

For now, let’s find an inn and then go sightseeing.

*

“Remote control knife, blood splatter hammer, dragon lancer, they sure are expensive.”

After somehow deciding on a small, family-run inn, I took a stroll around the city.

I looked into a weapon shop on the street, but the items were all expensive and I didn't think I could buy them.
I don't think I need magic items after all this time though. I can make my own anyway.
Saying that I am honing my design sense might sound good, but I’m just trying to rip them off.

“Next, I guess I’ll go to a restaurant or a clothing store.”

It might be hard to move if my stomach is full, so I’ll go look for clothes first.

“Ooh, this is another avant-garde one...”

There were rows of clothing that was too avant-garde to be called native costumes for beastkins.
As you’d expect, I didn't feel like buying them, so let’s go to another store.

“There's a hole in the butt... ah, for the tail, huh. And this one in the back, for the wings, maybe?”

I went into a decent clothing store and took a look around.
Hmm, still, with this assortment, it doesn't seem like there are any clothes for humans.
Let’s just look at the design and make it myself later.

“Welcome, dear customer, how may I help you? Would you like to try them on? This one fits you perfectly and looks great! I think it would go well with what you are wearing right now!”

“Wh... at...!?”

It can’t be, I never thought it would exist even in another world...!
Guah, the memories from my previous life are!
The dead fish look in the eyes of the clerk at the clothing store I went to with my parents, it appeared in my mind!
Stop! Don't try to talk to me at the exact moment I’m separated from my parents like you were aiming for it!
It brought back the embarrassing memory of me only being able to say “ah” and “uh” when they asked me, “Would you like to try it on?” before taking off my pants on the spot!

“How about something like this...”
“Excuse me, I'll try it at another chance.”

I quickly left the store.

*

“That was, an unpleasant incident, wasn't it...”

I sit on a bench in the park and pat my head as if my previous life self was trying to comfort me.
In the end, they are both me, so I stopped right away though.

I’ve caught a the-clerk-coming-to-talk-to-me-is-scary-scary-itis, so I think I'm going to go back to the inn and rest quietly today.

“Oya?”

On my way back to the inn, I found something that wasn’t unusual in my previous life, a musical instrument store.
In short, this is the first musical instrument store I have ever seen in this different world.
I was surprised that instruments itself existed in the first place.
Even in Lotorl's memory, music was only either singing or dancing, so the concept of musical instruments itself did not exist.

“I want to see!”

The moment I said those words, I dashed into the musical instrument store.

“Ooh, guitar, piano, drums, flute, and these are violin and trumpet, amazing!”

But, however, their price is ridiculously high.
At this price, there is no way it would be sold in a rural town.
Even the cheap one is 5 million El, which is affordable for common people, but they won’t put out their money for these.

If so, let’s make them myself. Yes, let's do that.

I use Appraisal Skill to examine the structure of the instruments, and use Memory Preservation Magic to make sure I don't forget the structure I examined.
After memorizing the structure of all the instruments in the musical instrument store, I returned to the inn.

As you’d expect, I ended up staying there for a long time, so I bought a guitar pick set for 10,000 El before going back.
10,000 El for a pack of 5, as I thought, it's too expensive.

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CSA 44 - I Wasn’t Deceived

“...Good morning.”

I asked the innkeeper about the location of the Merchant Guild and went there.
Perhaps because it's the Merchant Guild, the building looked expensive and unnecessarily huge, creating an atmosphere that made it difficult for me, a child, to enter.

“Oh, what’s this? This isn't the place for brats.”
“I know right... goodbye...”
“You idiot! Don’t go around scaring kids!”
“Ouch!? It's just a joke. A joke.”
“Sorry, this lion-san isn't actually as scary as he looks, so don't worry, okay?”
“I'm a scary lion! Gaoo!”
“Hiii-!?”
“Enough already, you go to the back!”
“Ye─s.”

Just when I thought the lion and tiger started doing manzai all of a sudden, it ended right away.
Are they a carnivorous comedy duo?
Is this what they call a tragic comedy? With just the tiger.
I don't really know its original meaning though.

* (T/N: torajikomedi - tragic comedy. Tora - tiger. They’re all in katakana.)

“Do you need something?”
“Um, I wanted to ask for a carriage to take me to Difas country.”
“Difas country, is it? Are you alone?”
“That’s right.”
“Alone, huh, I guess it’ll be 100,000 El, no, 80,000 El. I think it would be cheaper if there were more people though.”
“I have the money, so please.”
“I see, then wait a little while. I'll get it ready.”

After the tiger onee-san said that, she went to the door in the back that said Staff Only.
I had some free time while I was waiting, so I looked around the guild and saw numerous beautiful furnishings, rows of large shelves filled with stacks of documents, and a lot of wooden crates.

“Thank you for waiting. Payment must be made in advance, and food, drinks, and tent supplies will be cost extra. In case you're waiting to share, we'll give you a discount based on the number of people.”

The tiger onee-san came back bringing along a fox-faced onii-san with sharp eyes. He’s closer to human, so the furry feeling is faint.
I wonder if this person will be the coachman?

“I understand. I’m fine with not waiting to share.”

I took out 80,000 El from Storage and handed it to the tiger onee-san.

“I have confirmed it. Well then, we'll guide you to the carriage. I leave the rest to you.”
“Dear passenger, please come this way.”

As I followed Fox-san's guidance, we stopped in front of a luxuriously decorated carriage.

“This? Really? Isn't it too luxurious?”
“Please rest assured, there will be no additional charges.”
“I see, then, please.”

When I did as I was told and got on, the inside was also so luxurious that I became even more worried that only nobles and rich people would be allowed to ride on it.
Is there a possibility, even at a microscopic level, that I’m being mistaken for a noble traveling alone incognito or something?

“Then we will depart, so please take your time and relax.”

Aaah, right when I thought about that, we departed...
There really aren't any additional charges, right? I can't help but feel like I'm being deceived by a fox.

We safely arrived at the village in the evening.
I stayed one night at the same inn.
The next day, we departed for the next village without me oversleeping.

After that too, while talking about business matters and making small talk, the journey continued smoothly, except for that time when I built a simple hut when we had to camp and Fox-san's narrow eyes widened in surprise, which left an impression on me, nothing special happened, and we arrived at Difas country in no time.

“It feels different from the carriage trip I expected...”

I wouldn't say stormy and full of drama, but wouldn't it be nice if something happened?
Thieves and monsters didn't do any single work.
I know it's better that way. I know, but, you know?
Well, let's accept that peace is better than being attacked by hordes of monsters.

Fox-san was a normally good person, and I have nothing but trust and confidence in the Merchant Guild. I look forward to working with them in the future, I thought.

Now that I have safely arrived in Difas country, let's do some sightseeing before heading to Lycorus country.

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CSA 43 - I Reflected

The next morning, of course, I overslept.
Or rather, it's already past noon.
I feel like this was the first time I stayed up late and overslept. I would never have been able to do that in my orphanage days.

“Haah... I got too carried away...”

When I woke up, Myaa-san wasn't there and there was a letter by the pillow. The letter contains words of gratitude and soft words to the effect that her body wouldn't be able to handle it if she stayed with me any longer.

“I'm really an idiot...”

I have now realized that it is natural for people to hate me if I caress them as I would a pet, no matter how much they look like an animal. It's already too late though.

“Aaaaah... I want to be reincarnated again...”

I think that if I could be reincarnated again, I would definitely not make any mistakes next time, but that doesn't mean I have the slightest desire to die and start over right away, so let’s think about doing that again after about 100 years.
Besides, I've already been reincarnated once, so I want to have fun in this life to make up for the fact that I was idle in my previous life.
Having said that, I was so shocked by Myaa-san's letter that I spent the rest of the day lying in bed, staring into space.

The next morning.
After a night's sleep, I felt completely calm and in spite of myself, realized how convenient a child's body is.
After paying an additional fee to the inn and waiting at the stop for the first carriage of the morning, a carriage with a bear-faced coachman finally came along, so I asked to go with them to Difas country, but he said that he isn’t planning to go that far and refused.
When I asked him when the carriage that would take me to Difas country would arrive, I was told that it might arrive once a week, and that if I wanted to go quickly, I should ask the Merchant Guild or Adventurer’s Guild in Zakal city.

It’s not like I’m in a hurry, but if the carriage isn’t coming, there was no point in going ahead, so I decided to return to Zakal city.

“While I’m at it, I might as well train my Flight Skill to be as good as Z Fighters.”

‘Can’t you just use your Flight Skill to get to Difas country?’ don't say boorish things like that, okay? Teleportation or Gate magic is not good either. A horse-drawn carriage is good, a horse-drawn carriage.

I used my Flight Skill and flew freely through the sky, and by the time I arrived at Zakal city, my Flight Skill level had risen to 10.

“The sunset is beautiful...”

For now, let's find an inn and go to the Merchant Guild tomorrow morning to ask for a carriage.
As for the Adventurer's Guild, I don't want to go near there for a while because I'm scared that my information will still be circulating there.

With that being the case, I found a random inn and went to bed immediately, falling asleep easily is a child's privilege.

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CSA 42 - I Demanded Gratitude

“Dear passengers, it’s really annoying when you do something like that in the carriage, so please don’t do it again!”

““I’m very sorry””

We got scolded by Rabbit-san. Tehepero.

The sun has completely set, so it seems we’ll stay in this village for the night.

Listening to Rabbit-san carefully, it seems that in the several weeks until we reach Difas country, we will be stopping by various villages and small towns, staying overnight there or camping out in the open.
I have Storage and can build a house with Alchemy Skill, so I probably won't need to camp out.
We will depart tomorrow morning, and if we are late, we will have to pay an additional nuisance fee, so let’s make sure I don't oversleep.

“Lotorl, have you decided where to stay?”
“I’m about to look for it now.”
“Actually, I am too.”

Mu, this is, could this be a prelude to the service scene?

“...So that’s what you mean.”
“What did I mean?”
“Lewd things...”
“Not even close nya!”
“I know right, ahaha...”

What am I blurting out to someone I just met today?

“I said I didn't have any money, didn’t I? That's why I thought it would be cheaper if we stayed in the same room at the same inn, but while Lotorl looks like a frail girl on the outside she's a beast on the inside, so I thought I'll just give it up nya...”
“Sorry for being lewd...”
“Ahaha, it's just a bit of a joke... but if we're going to do something like that, I think we should get to know each other a bit more.”
“...Myaa-san.”
“That said, I like good-looking guys, so I would never end up in that kind of relationship with Lotorl, so you shouldn’t misunderstand!”
“Myaa-san...”

The first “...Myaa-san.” contained a feeling of admiration and respect, and the last “Myaa-san...” was said in a tearful voice.

Myaa-san wanted to stay at the stable because it was cheaper, but I dragged her along as I decided to stay at an inn that comes with dinner.

“The money is...”
“If you pay with your body, I will pay the full amount.”
“You can't say it like that! We'll be in trouble if someone hears you!”

All jokes aside, I asked the innkeeper for a double room and I paid the full amount.

“Are you really okay with this?”
“I have plenty of money.”
“...It's better not to tell other people about things like that, you know?”
“I said it because it’s Myaa-san. I said it because it’s Myaa-san!”
“O-okay. I don't really get it, but I got your feelings across. Thank you.”

If you say something important twice, the other person will understand properly. Everyone too, when you say something important, please try saying it twice in a row.

The room I was shown to was snug and modest.
Well, I guess this is how a village inn would be.
In fact, we should be grateful that there is an inn in the village.

“Fuu, let’s take a break, let’s take a break.”
“Myaa-san, it’ll get dirty if you climb onto the bed with your shoes on, you know?”
“Eh? I think everyone sleeps in their shoes though...?”
“Oh... cross-cultural gap...”

My previous life is obvious, but even in this one too, I never slept in bed with my shoes on. Cross-cultural exchange is so fun!

...Honestly speaking, I don't want to sleep in bed with my shoes on. It's impossible. It's dirty, dirty, dirty.

Culture is an ingrained lifestyle habits, but I won’t say anything because anything I say will only spark a conflict.

“You look really reluctant...”
“Gugigigi, I won't say anything. I won't say anything, okay?!”
“O-okay. Maybe I’ll try taking off my shoes before I go to sleep tonight?”
“I think that's a good idea!”
“Ahaha...”

When I used Cleaning Magic’s Clean to clean the dirty bed, my Universal Magic Skill level rose to 2, making me able to use some intermediate magic.

“So Lotorl can also use magic.”
“Yes, well.”
“How nice, if I can also use magic I think I could earn money a little more easily.”
“I guess so.”
“I want attack magic or status abnormality magic, but I don't have the money to buy magic items, it sure is hard to live in this world nya.”
“Ahahaha.”

Sorry Myaa-san! I don't want to get into trouble as much as possible, so I can't talk about Skill Synthesis, sorry!

I ate dinner with Myaa-san at the inn's dining room, but it wasn't very tasty and the portions were small, so I went back to my room and took some fruit out of the Storage and shared it with Myaa-san.

“It's not a magic bag, but a magic pocket, nya? I'm so jealous nya...”
“Ehehe.”

I sliced a melon and put them on plates made of aero adamantite, and as we ate it with a spoon, also made of aero adamantite, Myaa-san’s pupils dilated and her black eyes got bigger, and she started staring at my stomach pocket. She was a little scary but cute.

Once our stomach was full, we stopped chatting and went to bed.

*

“Gugogogogogugagagaga!”
“Nhii-!? What’s that sound!?”

I suddenly heard a noise that sounded like road construction had started, startling me and making me jump to my feet.

“Gugagagaga! Supi─, fugogogogo!”
“A-a snore?”

It was such a loud snore that I couldn't believe it was coming from Myaa-san, who was sleeping with a very cute face. Could it be, is she suffering from some kind of illness? I thought.

“Appraisal... at skill level 20, it can’t tell what kind of disease a person has, huh?”

I took out the appraisal ring from Storage, equipped it, and tried appraising Myaa-san again.

“Sleep apnea syndrome, allergic rhinitis, cerebral hemorrhage... cerebral hemorrhage!?”

I hurriedly took out an all-cure healing potion and poured it on the sleeping Myaa-san.

“So cold!? What nya!? What's going on nya!?”
“I'm glad I noticed it early...”
“What do you mean?”

When I explained this to the confused Myaa-san, her expression turned pale and surprised.

“In short, I was dying?”
“That’s right...”
“Hiee... thank you so much for saving me nya!”
“No, no, you can sleep with me as a thank you. The bed got wet too anyway.”
“Eh, you can just use magic for that.”
“There is no magic in this world that can dry a bed, you know?”
“No, Cleaning Magic.”
“A thank you will be sleeping with me.”
“I-I got it nya... your eyes are scary nya.”

I moved to the bed where I was sleeping and slept with Myaa-san.
Of course, I will receive your full compensation for saving your life.

“Your breathing is rough nya.”
“Su─ha─, su─ha─, Myaa-san luv, I luv you, su─ha─, su─ha─.”
“Uuu, I can't sleep like this nya...”
“Uhehe, Myaa-san’s breasts are so soft.”
“Haa... you can do whatever you want until you're satisfied...”
“Ehehe, can I kiss you? Chuu─.”
“Stop it nyaa─!”

Like this, Lotorl enjoyed Myaa-san's body to her heart's content until dawn.

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CSA 41 - No Tactical Advantage Whatsoever

When I got into the carriage, there was no one inside. Tsk.

There’s still some time until departure, so let's make gold from the ore I used in the carriage last time to kill time.

I took out an ore from storage, used Compounding Skill to extract only the metal portion, and used Alchemy Skill to transform the metal.

“Copper, silver, copper, iron, aluminum, copper, lead, tin, titanium, gold, copper, ah, iron...”

Kuooh, even though gold came out, I unconsciously transformed it! The thing you do a lot in games!
But I now know that gold can come out, so let's continue.

“Copper, silver, manganese, iron, mithril, mercury, platinum, magnesium, copper, gold...”
“Sorry for the intrusion─!”
“Copper-ffu!?”

Nyaaaa!? Even though gold came out, I was so surprised that I transformed it!!

“Mya-!? Sorry, did I startle you?”
“No, it's okay... nnu-!?”

What... is this...!?

Even though her whole body should be hairy, her skin looks glossy like a human’s.
Although she has a cat face, her features look more human.
Cat ears and a short tail.
She somewhat resembles the brown tabby cat I had in my previous life.
She falls under furry level 4, but her hands are human. I can't see her feet because of her boots, but they’re probably human. Also, her boobs are huge. Since she has two sagging breasts, it doesn't seem like she has compound breasts. (All of this takes 0.2 seconds)

“W-what is it?”
“N-No, it's nothing. It’s not...” Grin.

No, hold back, you'll be a criminal if you make a move here... But isn’t it fine if it was just a little bit? Just a little, it’s just a little bit...

“Fuu─! Fuu─!”
“A-are you okay? You're breathing heavily, are you claustrophobic or do you have a phobia of vehicles...?”
“That’s not it, but it doesn't seem like it's going to be okay... I don't think, I can hold back anymore... Haa haa... Uhehehe.”

The catkin drew her face back.
I wonder what kind of face am I making right now?

“Haa haa... um...”
“Y-yes!? What is it!?”
“Can I touch a bit...?”
“We’re departing.”
“Ah, ye─s... um, what did you say?”
“...It’s nothing.”

What timing!

We left Zakal city behind while rocked by the horse-drawn carriage.

“...”
“...”

The catkin-san looked out the window, blatantly looking away from me.
I know very well. That you were surprised by me unusually breathing heavily or suddenly laughing in a strange way.
But it can't be helped, can it? Anyone can understand the feeling of wanting to pet a cute cat right in front of you, right!? You have to understand!

Fuu... let's do some metal transformation and calm down a bit.

“Silver, iron, steel, copper, mithril, copper, silver, damascus, iron, orichalcum, aluminum, gold, copper, ah... lead, copper, platinum, copper.”
“Um, can I ask what you're doing?”
“Eh... um, I'm using Alchemy Skill to transform metal. Pardon me. Was I too noisy?”
“No, not at all. More importantly, you have Alchemy Skill?”
“That’s right, so?”
“It's fine if you refuse, but could you please fix this sword for me?”

Catkin-san took off the short sword still in the scabbard she had on her waist and handed it to me, and I reflexively accepted it.

“Umm?”
“There’s a nick in the blade. Um, I don't have a lot of money, so I'm just using it as is, but just when I thought it was time to fix it, I met you, who has Alchemy Skill. I thought it was fate, that’s why, um, I'd be happy if you could fix it for free nya!”
“I’m fine with it, but...?”
“Really nya!? Thank you nya!!”

So ccyyyuuuutttee!!!

This Catkin-san, when she gets excited, she ends her sentence with “nya” I see. So cute nya!

“Can you let me look through...?”
“Look through?”
“Ah, that’s not it, can I draw the sword and take a look?”
“Aah, go ahead, go ahead.”

What did I just let slip?
Did I want this catkin-san to say, “It can't be helped nya... sure”? ...I really want her to say it!!

“Nn?”
“Umm, I'll take a look then.”

Calm down, me! Now is the time for patience!
When I pulled the short sword out of its brown leather scabbard, I saw that the blade was rattling, I had no idea how it could be used to get it into such a bad state.

“This is... it would be faster to buy a new one than to fix it, you know?”
“I don't have any money...”
“...I see.”

It would be trivial to just repair it, but looking at this pitiful short sword, it looks like it will fall apart again even if I just repair it, so I think I'll make a short sword made of aero adamantite instead.

“Do you have any emotional attachment to this short sword?”
“Nya, not at all.”
“I see.”

Then, let's recreate it.

That said, rather than repairing this short sword, it would be faster to create a new one with the same shape using Alchemy Skill, so I’ll just rip off its appearance. Copyright? There is no such thing in this world, right? ...There isn't, right?

I take out a lump of aero adamantite from storage and use Alchemy Skill to shape it into a short sword.

“Ooh... amazing nya...”

Since the blade is integrated into it, I textured the handle to make it less slippery, and carved a wave pattern into the upper part of the blade while I’m at it. This wave pattern does not provide any tactical advantage whatsoever, but looking cool is important.
I guess all that’s left is to engrave the owner's name on the pommel.

“I’d like to engrave your name, Neko-san, so please tell me what it is.”
“Myarmyarnya!”
“Myarmyarnya-san, is it?”
“Just Myarmyar is fine...”
“Myarmyar-san, is it? Ah, I’m called Lotorl.”
“Please take care of me nya!”
“Yes, I would like to take care of you in many ways.”
“Un? Many ways...?”

I carved a small ‘Myarmyar’ on the pommel and it's done. After that, I put it in the leather scabbard that Myarmyar-san had and handed it to her.

“Ooh! Amazing nya! So cool nya!”

As soon as I handed it to Myarmyar-san, she took it out of its sheath and began looking over the aero adamantite short sword that I made, as if licking it all over.
She looked so happy, it was worth making it for her.

“What should I do with this battered short sword?”
“Just throw it away nya! More importantly, are you really giving this to me for free, nya?”

It's a waste to throw it away, so I'll keep it in Storage.

“It’s fine. Even more than that, I got to see Myarmyar-san's happy face, so that alone was already a profit for me.”
“You sure say things that make me happy, nya! Alright, I got it nya! You can stroke my body until you’re satisfied nya!”

“...Eh!?”

Just now, what did she just say!?

“Humans are quick to treat beastkins as pets, so it’s the same for Lotorl, right?”
“N-no, I don't particularly want to treat you like a pet, well, maybe a little bit, but I don't have any thoughts of wanting to pet you or hugging you while saying ‘there, there’ at all, okay?!”
“Un, your inner voice is leaking.”
“Kuh...!”
“Just be honest and hug me. If I can thank you with just this, you can do it as much as you want.”

Really!?

“Ah... okay...!”

Now that the person herself has allowed it, I can't hold back anymore!
I vigorously pounce on Myarmyar-san and hug her, stroking her all over her body, and rubbing my face against Myarmyar-san's fluffy body while sniffing her scent that’s like the fragrant scent of a futon dried in the sun.

“Uhehe, Myaa-san, Myaa-san, su─ ha─ su─ ha─, aah feels so good!”
“Hmm, you can stop now nya... it’s starting to feel weird and it's getting dangerous nya...”
“Myaa-san cute, Myaa-san luv, Myaa-san, Myaa-san!!”
“Nn-?! Not there nya! I’m weak there nya... stop it nya...”
“Uhe, Uhehehe, Myaa-san is already mine, so I won’t hand you to anyone!”
“Calm down, nya.... auuu... calm down, nya... nyauuu...”

As we endlessly had an affair, before I knew it, the carriage stopped and we arrived at a village I didn’t recognize.

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CSA 40 - I Met a Furry

“Khizr country? There is no direct connection to there, so you’ll have to to use the Gate to go to Saishal country on Furia continent, transfer to Zakal city, travel by horse-drawn carriage from there to Difas country, then go to Lycorus country on Yggdrasia continent by Gate, and take a boat to Dragen Island. You can find a teleportation gate to Ganasaki Island of Khizr country there, so first you can either buy a permit to the Saishal country for 150,000 El, or you can go to the Saishal Country by horse-drawn carriage for 100,000 El, although it will take some time.”

“P-please write it down on paper. I don't think I can remember it.”
“Sure, just wait a bit.”

I tried asking the uncle at the permit counter if he had a permit for Khizr country, but while it wasn't as bad as the fal'Cie l'Cie Pulse, hearing the names of cities and countries I'd never heard of made my head glitch. Purge in Cocoon?
By the way, the ones I've played in my previous life are 7, 14, and 15. I only know 13 from the internet.

* (T/N: I don’t play FF13, so I don’t know if the reference is correct, at least google can tell it’s an FF13 reference, if it didn’t tell me, I would have never known, maybe.)

When I looked at the directions to the Khizr country that Uncle had written, it looked like it would be a long journey.

“Um, how many days will it take?”
“It won’t be just days. It will take at least half a year. Well, if you don’t have to worry about transportation costs, don’t have any trouble along the way, and if the horse is in a good mood and the weather is good, I think you can cover that distance in one month at the earliest, that’s impossible though, hahaha!”

Should I give up on going to Khizr country? I thought that for a moment, but I don't want to live in a country where there are people who let a large herd of monsters attack a child, so I'm going to do my best and go.

“Please give me a permit to Saishal country.”
“Here you go. I wish you a good trip!”

I show my permit to Saishal country to the staff, pass through the large gate, and depart for Saishal country.

“Gebooooo!”
“Are you okay?”

When I arrived in Saishal country, there was a person vomiting near the gate. Let’s ignore him and buy a pass to Zakal city.

“Animal ears?”

When I went to the counter, there was an uncle with dog-like animal ears.

When I suddenly looked around, weren't there beastmen everywhere?

“This is a furry’s delight, I see. Wow, there are even ones with cat faces.”

Maybe there are even furry level 7?

Furry level 7 is kinda like a talking animal. Level 6 walk on two legs and wear clothes, and the cat-faced people are level 3 or 4. The dog-eared uncle at the counter is level 2.

I got excited when I saw a beastkin for the first time, but I only like animals and am not a furry fan, so I won’t suddenly go crazy and hug them, sniff them, or kiss them all over the place.

“Haa haa... Uhe, Uhehe...”

Yes, I won't.

I bought a permit to Zakal city at the counter and went through the gate.
I’ve beat myself!

“Haa haa... this is no good... there are a lot of them here too... uhehe...”

I’ll have to travel from Zakal city to Difas country by horse-drawn carriage, so if I were to share a ride with a beastman with a high furry level, I would become a criminal.
Praying that this would not happen, I headed to the carriage station.

“To Difas country please.”
“Hii-... that’ll be 50,000 El...”

Uhehehe, the rabbit beastkin-chan is so cute. I want to hug and stroke her right now.

When I was paying, I ended up unconsciously touching a furry hand.
If it weren't for the coachman, I would have attacked her. Dangerous, dangerous.

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CSA 39 - I Learned the World

I used Teleportation Magic to evacuate to my house and ran away from that place.

“Haa... haa... I thought I was going to die...”

What was that? Was it an Ore TUEEEEEE event? Was it an isekai baptism? Or was it a reincarnated person assassination event?

“Calm down, it’s time to calm down, I’ll calm down.”

My heart is pounding and it's hard to breathe at the sudden incident.

“Su─ha─, su─ha─, fuu...”

This is just a guess, but I think she wanted to test out the unknown Skills I had. I feel like that Erofu said that she would save me if I was in danger. In the first place, I don't think it was written in the request form for patrolling around the city that someone would accompany me, so I think Stia contacted the government office when she saw my Skills.
In other words, Stia and Nrva are accomplices. God damn it!

“I was just trying to work seriously, but then something like this happens, it’s demotivating... haa...”

Add to that the fact that I was deceived by beautiful onee-sans, and I’m in shock.
I just remembered what my grandpa from my previous life used to say to me at every turn; “Be careful with beautiful women,” it’s already too late though.

For now, I’ll use Disguise Magic to erase everything except Compounding, Synthesis, and Alchemy from the card's skill section.
Compounding, Synthesis, and Alchemy Skills have already been seen in the other guilds, but no one did anything to me because of them, so I left them there.

“This will do.”

Next, killing people who know my Skills... would be too much, so... hmm... what should I do?

“Shut myself in for a while? No, that’s no good... They'll easily find out where I live anyway... uh, what should I do...”

Even if I convince them, they will probably do something to me again, and in the first place, I’m way too scared that my information is going to go to the government.

“I guess I have no choice but to move far away...”

No matter how many cheat skills I had, if someone suddenly did something like that to me, I had no choice but to run away.
When the animals were killed, I lost myself in anger, so I was able to manage somehow or another, but this time, the shock of being deceived by another person was so great that I stopped thinking, that’s not good.
If I think about it calmly, I was in a situation where I was able to do the Ore TUEEEEEE event, but in addition to my tendency to run away from my previous life, I was overwhelmingly lacking in battle experience.

“Aa aah, it really sucks to have to move out so soon after building such a stylish treehouse. Seriously.”

It seemed like there was nothing I could do about it at the moment, so I had no choice but to put the things in the room into storage, liquefy the remaining treehouse and the chestnut trees, and return it to its original vacant land.

“Now then, where should I go...”

The sea or the mountains, no no no, since I have to leave this country, it’ll have to be farther away, huh...

“First, I need a map.”

I went to the market and bought a decent-looking world map at the general store.
Having knowledge of my previous life is really helpful at times like this.
The less decent maps have things like monsters, angels, and demons drawn on them.
Since this is a different world, there's a possibility that there are angels and demons, but the shape of the continent is oddly round, so I think they’re drawn only from imagination.

“Hmm, the continents are completely different from Earth.”

I was sitting down on a bench in a park with little traffic with the map unfolded.

“Stra continent, Furia continent, Yggdrasia continent...”

The place I’m currently in is a small country called Mebon, located to the south of the Stra continent.
Looking on the world map, it seems even smaller.
I have to move to a place far away from this small country though.

“Khizr country, this looks like Japan.”

An island shaped like a dragon was drawn in the far east of the Yggdrasia continent.
The shape of the Japanese archipelago is similar to that of a dragon.
I won't know if it really looks like this unless I actually go there though.

“Should I try going there?”

If they’re in the Sengoku period, I’ll leave immediately. I don't want to get involved in a bloody conflict.
It might be good to live there if they’re in the Edo period. The end of the Edo period is dangerous though.
I’d happily live there if they’re in the Meiji, Taisho, or Showa period. It's unlikely that civilization has advanced that far though.
This is a different world to begin with, so there's a big possibility that it's completely different from the Japan of my previous life, but that in its own way is something I'm looking forward to.

I put the map in Storage, opened a teleportation gate to a deserted place in the neighboring city where the teleportation gate was located, and after I firmly confirmed that no one was there, I crossed the gate.

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CSA 38 - I’m Fucked

Since there is still some time, I go to the request board to check the requests that I can accept at adventurer level 2.

“Finding pet cat, taking care of children, helping in the fields, delivering letters, organizing warehouses, tending a store, collecting mushrooms, collecting eggs, patrolling and investigating the area around the city (combat-type Skill required)”

Fumu fumu, let’s go with patrolling and investigating the area around the city for my Ore TUEEEEEEE.
Well, there are barely any thieves or monsters around the city, so I don't think an ‘I’m strong’ case will happen, but isn’t it okay to look forward to a maybe?
It says that combat-type Skill is required, so I'm sure it will appear when it appears.

I tear off the request form from the board and go and hand it to the receptionist onee-san.

“I’ll take this request.”
“Umm, patrolling and investigating the area around the city, is it, let me check your Skills... eh?”

Kufufu, she’s surprised, she’s surprised.

The receptionist onee-san's eyes went black and white and she began to panic.

* (T/N: eyes went black and white - metaphor for panicking, flustered, confused, etc.)

“Eh? Eh? What is this!? So many skills!?”
“What's wrong?”
“I don’t care what’s wrong! I’m sure you only have Compounding, Synthesis, and Alchemy Skills, right!? Having three skills at that time is already impossible, but... wait, that doesn’t matter right now. How did you get so many Skills in just a few days!? And there are Skills I've never seen or heard of before! Who are you!?”

I'm really happy that you were more surprised than I expected. But I won't tell you.
I want to make you feel anxious about my Skills and get restless every time you see my face.
I want to see Onee-san like that. Grin...

“It’s a secret.”
“Kuh! Can’t you do something about that?!”
“Ee─h, I wonder─?”
“Please, please, please! I'll keep it a secret from everyone!”
“Hmm, but you know─?”
“Is there something you want? Onee-san will buy you anything, so please tell me!”
“I don't really want anything right now.”
“Th-then, what about what you want me to do!? If it’s something Onee-san can do, I'll do anything, so please tell me!”
“Nn, just now, did you say ‘anything’?”
“Y-yes! If you’ll tell me about your skills, I'll do anything!”
“Hmm, anything, huh...?”

If she said “anything,” won’t it get me excited? ...fuhehe.

“Please tell me Onee-san’s name.”
“It’s Stia!”
“Age?”
“26 years old, I’m single!”
“Your hobbies?”
“Listening to the adventurers' drinking stories!”
“Please imitate a cat.”
“Nyaoo─n!”
“Please imitate a female cat in heat.”
“Ha-!? ...Goronya─n! Goronya─n!”
“How cute. This is 1000 El as a thank you.”
“Thanks... wait, that's not it!? Tell me about your skills!”
“Maybe next time. I can take the request, right?”
“Gunununu...!”

She reluctantly stamped the request form.
As I thought, it's super fun teasing an onee-san.

This cheeky brat will get into trouble someday, that's what Otaku-kun from my previous life thought.

“A government investigator will be waiting in front of the town gate, so please join up with her before starting the investigation!”

I splendidly ignored Onee-san as she kept staring at me hatefully and left the Adventurer's Guild. When I arrived at the gate, I found a beautiful Onee-san with long ears and sparkling golden hair waiting for me with her arms folded. I think she's the government investigator that Stia-san was talking about.

I wonder if she’s an elf? She’s probably an elf. I’m sure she’s an elf. There’s no doubt she’s an elf. A proper elf! If she isn’t an elf, I'd be surprised instead.
Still, what a revealing outfit! It’s mostly see-through, her big boobs look like they're going to fall out, she's wearing knee-high socks in one leg, this isn't the kind of outfit you'd show to a 10-year-old kid!
Erofu is the best! YahhhoooOOoOo!

“Truly, thank you very much!!”
“...?”

It was such a treat for my eyes that I couldn't help but bow my head and blurt out my thanks.
Her confused expression is also great!

“Are you the kid that accepted the request?”
“Ah, yes! I’m called Lotorl! Please take care of me!”
“Fufu, it’s good that you're energetic. I'm Nrva. Nice to meet you.”

We shook hands and immediately set out for the investigation. She smells so good...

“The request this time is to patrol and investigate the area around the city, but if we see any monsters, we are supposed to exterminate them immediately. Although I said that, they hardly ever appear.”

An unparalleled beauty is smiling at me!
I'm really glad I accepted this request!

Thank you God!

“...? Is there something on my face?”
“T-there’s nothing! I’m sorry!”
“Really? I guess it’s fine then.”

It seems that I was unconsciously staring at her.
From now on, I have to be careful so as not to be rude! But I can’t help but get curious... I’m a girl after all.

I went on a walking date in the name of investigation with a beautiful elf while patrolling around the peaceful city, and no thieves or monsters that would harm humans appeared, and I was able to successfully complete the request, =that didn’t happen. I had set the flag. Yes, involuntarily but perfectly.

“Um, are you planning to investigate this deep into the forest?”
“...”
“Ummm...?”
“...If it gets really dangerous, I'll save you.”

After saying that, Nrva-san suddenly disappeared, and as I got surprised and dumbfounded into a stock still, the next moment, dozens of wolf-like monsters attacked me.

“Hiii-!?”

Even as I was panicking, I used my Flight Skill to jump up and escape the danger──.

“It hurts!?”

I didn't feel much pain due to my All-Resistance UP Skill, but a sharp object had grazed my cheek.

“Eh...”

A large flock of crow-like monsters was attacking me.

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CSA 37 - I Tried To Work Seriously

I finished my preparation and finally came to the Adventurer's Guild.
It seems that the member Shishido-san, who is always at the bar, is not there.

“The requests today are...”

I check the request board.
It didn't seem to be much different from what I saw before, so I decided to accept the request to gather medicinal herbs.

“I’ll accept this request.”

I submit my card and the request form to the receptionist and have her decide whether or not I can take the request.
Well, I brought it from the request board where level 1 adventurers can accept it, so I think I can accept it without any problems though.

“Okay, this is your first request, isn’t it? Here is a potion to commemorate accepting your first request. Good luck!”

After Onee-san glanced at the card and request form I submitted, she stamped the request form and handed me my card and a potion.

“Thank you very much...”

If she had looked at the back of the card, I might have been able to see her surprised face.
The Skill section is fully packed, so she’d make a funny expression. A shame.

I quickly go to the nearby forest and proceed to gather medicinal herbs.

“Appraisal, medicinal herbs for recovery.”

Appraisal is really convenient.
After that, I cut down the medicinal herb I found while making sure the roots remain, sprayed them with a high fertilizer potion to regenerate them, and repeated the cutting process until I collected the specified amount. It's a hassle to search for them one by one after all.
The high fertilizer potion should sell for more than the request reward, so this would normally put me in the red, but since I can make it for free, it's not a problem.

“Alright, let's go back.”

Not even 10 minutes has passed since I accepted the request, but I've finished collecting the medicinal herbs, so let's go back to the Adventurer's Guild.

“I've finished collecting them.”

I handed a sachet containing the medicinal herbs to the onee-san at the reception desk.

“That's fast! ...Yes, I’ve confirmed them. Congratulations on completing your request!”
“Thanks.”
“You can raise your adventurer level by completing two more requests, so do your best!”

I put the reward of 5000 El into storage and look for the next request.

“Hmm, let’s go with helping clean up.”

Like before, I handed the request form to the receptionist onee-san and headed to the request site.

“I’ve come to help with cleaning at your request.”
“Ara, a cute girl has come.”
“Yeah, I guess so.”

I'm helping an elderly couple clean their house in the neighborhood of the Adventurer's Guild.
Let's make it squeaky clean with the elementary cleaning magic “Clean.”
By the way, elementary cleaning magic has the same cleaning power as a rag or a vacuum cleaner.
For the intermediate level, it’ll be like commercial detergents, if it’s the advanced level, it may or may not make it as good as new, just like the time furoshiki used by the blue tanuki.
Perhaps thanks to the Universal Magic Skill, I feel like I can somehow understand the effects of higher-level magic that I haven't been able to learn yet, it’s like a skill tree. Just feeling it though.

I cleaned the exterior walls, entrance, kitchen, living room, bedroom, toilet, storage room, and I also cleaned the furniture and clothes while I’m at it.
They told me that I didn't have to clean the children's room, so I guess they wanted to feel the remnants of their children who had left the nest.
The elderly couple looked at me with smiles on their faces as if they were their cute grandchild, so I'd like to think that I was able to ease the loneliness of losing their children a little.

“Thank you for your help.”
“I'd be happy if Ojou-chan comes again.”
“Thanks.”

I've completed my request, so I'll go and report to the Adventurer's Guild.

“I’ve completed the cleaning request.”
“That's quick! ...Okay. I’ve received the confirmation, so here's the reward of 5,000 El. Just one more and you'll level up!”
“I see.”

I wonder if their confirmation method is through mind speak or telepathy? Well, anything is fine as long as I get my reward.

The next request I accepted was for an escort.
They’re looking for someone to talk to in the name of an escort though.

“Aah, I don’t think Onee-san would recommend this.”
“Why is that?”
“The talk is long.”
“I see... but I'll take it.”
“I see, good luck then!”

I head to the ojii-san who posted the request.
Or rather, he’s been watching me all this time since I took this request form. He’s sitting at a table in the Adventurer's Guild's bar.

“Ooh, how nice of you to come! Now, order anything you like. This will be separate from the request reward.”
“Thank you very much. It says escorting, but are you going out somewhere?”
“No, if you can talk to me here, the request will be fulfilled.”
“I understand.”

So you were completely looking for someone to talk to.
Apparently I can order food, so let’s not hold back and eat. Activate Storage inside my mouth.

“You still feel like eating?”
“Yes, I just left the orphanage and I'm hungry, so I want to eat as much as I can while I can.”

I kept ordering food non-stop for 30 minutes and put them in storage.
I more or less cut them into bite-sized pieces and pretended to chew them so as not to look suspicious.
Sometimes I ate them normally, so no one would find out.
I'm not good at conversation, so I spoke ambiguously while shaking my head up and down or left and right as I said “yes” or “no.”
The talk was mostly Ojii-san bragging in the name of a heroic tale, so there was no problem as long as I said something like ‘Un’ or ‘Sun’.

“Can I order more?”
“Aah, no, the request is complete... I'll run out of money...”
“I’m sorry, I didn’t hold back.”
“It’s okay, I’m the one who said it anyway... haa...”

I thanked Ojii-san for the meal and reported to the receptionist onee-san.

“You're amazing in various ways...”
“That was a delicious request.”
“R-right... Okay, congratulations on completing the request. You are now a level 2 adventurer.”

I receive the rewards and my card, and verify my card. It was properly written as Adventurer Level 2.

“You can move up to the next level by completing level 2 requests six times, so do your best!”

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CSA 36 - I Tried Magic Training

“Let's do the Ore TUEEEEEEEEEE at the Adventurer's Guild. Let's do that.”

After all this time, I'm starting to feel like becoming a seamstress is kinda, you know, so I decided to join the Adventurer's Guild.

But before that, I synthesized my Magic Skill into a grape seed, planted it in the ground, and sprayed it with some high fertilizer potion.

“It happened after all.”

Grapes that ripened have Magic Skills of each attribute.
There are also unusual varieties such as plant magic, air magic, and gravity magic.
I compounded and synthesized all of them, and it became a Skill called Universal Magic, so I synthesized it into myself.

“My Magic Skills have been cleaned up.”

The Wind Light Flame Resurrection Cure-all Healing Teleportation Magic is way too long after all.

Universal Magic Skill is a magic skill that allows me to handle any and every kind of magic.
That said, since it’s at level 1, I can only use the so-called elementary magic from things such as attack magic of each attribute, defense magic, recovery magic, support magic, status abnormality magic, life magic, etc.
It's already abnormal when you can use all elementary magic though.

I throw a fireball towards a boulder as a test. And smoke came out from the palm of my hand.

<Fireball is not an elementary magic. It's intermediate magic.>

I feel like that message was displayed in my brain.

“Fire.”

When I, once again, cast an elementary magic Fire, a round flame flew out and hit the boulder, causing it to shatter.

“Isn’t this too powerful?”

It seems that the power of magic has also increased thanks to my All-Ability UP Skill.

“Fire is dangerous, I see. Water.”

Water came out with great force, like a high-pressure washer, and gouged out the ground.
I don't even need to imagine what would happen if I shot it at someone.

“Hmm, I wonder if it could be used for cleaning?”

I suddenly remembered an incident where a high-pressure washer or air compressor was shoved into a co-worker's butt, causing his internal organs to rupture.
It was stupid news that I saw in my previous life, but I'm scared that there are idiots who’ll shoot magic at my butt in this world as well.
Of course I wouldn't do it. Yes, I wouldn't.

For now, let's practice magic before I start working at the Adventurer's Guild. Let's do that.

“Light.”

Uwa-!? Too bright!?

It's reminiscent of the sunlight blinding attack that bald people often use.
The problem with this kind of power is that it’ll still be too bright even if you close your eyes, and you'll be blinded by it too.

“Dark.”

Uwaa, a pitch-dark hole like a black hole opened up in the air.
Originally, Dark was supposed to be a spell that robbed the target of their vision, but this has become a different spell, hasn’t it?
This looks like it can also be used to blind people.
Rather than blinding people it feels like their whole head will just disappear into the darkness though.

“Thunder.”

The instant I chanted it, a flash of light ran to the ground, gouging it, and after a beat, a loud explosion rang out.

“Hiee...”

My vision turned white, my eardrums ruptured, and blood dripped from both of my ears, so I drank a Hi-Potion to heal them.

While I’m at it, I also tried to use Purification Magic to cleanse my blood-stained body, and my skin became shiny like porcelain, and my hair became smooth and silky, like silk.
I don't think there are many noble daughters who are this beautiful.
It looks like I have progressed further on my path to becoming a top idol.

...I removed my All-Ability UP Skill from my body through Compounding.
That I can’t handle it even at level 1 is no good.
If I had made one wrong move, I would have died. I'm an idiot, even if I say so myself.

After I removed the All-ability UP Skill, I tried activating Fire and a fireball of normal power came out and burned the weeds.

“It’s fine like this, it’s fine.”

There is a thing as too much of a good thing.
Of course, I will need this power in case of an emergency, so I made an All-ability UP ring, and put it in Storage.

“In the first place, there's no need to fight only with magic.”

I can think of various methods, such as using Compounding Skill to remove only oxygen from the opponent's body, using Synthesis to attach the opponent's body to a tree or the ground, or using Alchemy to create countless needles in the opponent's blood vessels.

“It’s pretty brutal just imagining it...”

They’re atrocious and inhuman uses that I couldn’t think of when I was at skill level 1.
Whether I do it or not is wholly up to me.

“But removing the oxygen might be a good idea because it leaves the corpse clean.”

That would be an unbearable way to be killed, but Lotorl seriously thought that if they could die easily, that would be better.

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CSA 35 - I Realized

“I woke up. Good morning.”

It has become a habit to go to bed early and wake up early even though no one will scold me for staying up late.
My eyes glaze over a bit as I remember my orphanage days.

“Maybe I'll work in the fields today?”

No time like the present.
I get down from the house and plow the area.

“Tettere─! Aero adamantite hoe~”

A hoe so light like a balloon and so strong that not even a meteorite can break it.

“Essa! Hoisa! Essa! Hoisa!”

* (T/N: that’s just a battle cry when doing work, usually when with other people to match the timing.)

I plow the ground with a hoe randomly and shape it to look like a field. I don't know the ABCs of making a field, so this only looks like a field.

“What should I plant?”

I could plant synthesized vegetables, but since I’m more or less in the city, it would be troublesome if strange people noticed me. Let’s grow regular vegetables and fruits. Let's do that.

“Potatoes, cucumbers, carrots, eggplants, green peppers, green onions, cabbage, strawberries, grapes, melons, watermelons, un. I think these are enough.”

I plant the same things in the field one row at a time, and spray them with high fertilizer potions.

“Yes, done!”

Let's snack on some of the vegetables and fruits that have ripened and store the rest in Storage.
While harvesting, my Storage Skill level increased to 3, allowing me to store more items.

I plan to leave the remaining seedlings as they are and replenish them with high fertilizer potions every time I consume them.

“Phew, it feels good to be done with a job.”

I'm also full from eating snacks, so maybe I should take a nap?

...I feel like I'm about to do something bad. I guess the trauma at the orphanage is still lingering.

“A hammock on top of a tree... that might be nice.”

I thought of a way to push the trauma away from my memory and sleep comfortably.

First, alchemize an aero adamantite into a rectangular thin fabric, form holes at both ends for strings to pass through, alchemize strings with aero adamantite, pass the strings through the holes at both ends, and then just tie them to a good place on a tree and the hammock is complete!

“Yoishotto. Ooh, this feels good!”

When I made it sway, it really felt like I’m freed from gravity.
Why didn’t I sleep with Flight Skill?
If you can sleep while walking, why not?

As I closed my eyes while thinking that, I fell asleep before I knew it.

*

“Lotorl-chan, what do you want to be in the future?”
“Eerrmm... ummm... I want to be the person who lazes around in my own house!”
“Ee─h! That's no good! Lefie, you see, wants to be a person who makes clothes!”
“Then I’ll do that too!”
“Waa─! If Lotorl-chan becomes a person who makes clothes, teach Lefie how to make them too!”
“Un!”

Seeing Lefie's bright smile, I decided then and there that my dream for the future was to become a seamstress.

*

“Nn...?”

When I woke up, the sun was directly overhead. I think I slept for about three hours?

“Nn─! I slept well.”

I stretched my body and got off the hammock.

“...Let's get a proper job.”

Most of the dreams I had when I was in an orphanage were unpleasant dreams, but the dream I had earlier was a pleasant memory even though I was in a dark orphanage, and you showed it to the current me...

I realized that if I continued like this, I would end up heading straight to the life of a Hiki-NEET, so I decided to get a proper job.

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