「Hello!」
「Uwaah!!」
This black haired lolita suddenly appeared out of nowhere and greeted me, causing me to fall backwards out of shock. What if I had a heart attack?
『Answer, master has 0.000007% chances of dying from a heart attack.』
I-I know that. Well, for now let's greet her back. I may have made her wait too long for a reply so she tilted her head in confusion.
「H-Hello.」
Lips trembling in nervousness, I greeted her back while still lying on my butt. She hurriedly rushed to come a bit closer to me after realizing it was her mistake why it happened.
「Are you alright? I-I'm sorry it was my fault.」
What a good girl, I might even reward you for th– It's not what you think, Alvis! I'm not a lolicon!
「N-No, it's okay I'm fine. My name is Yukio, what about yours?」
「Matilda. But you can call me Matty. Everyone here calls me that.」
Rather than a name, that sounds more like a place. Well, I shouldn't judge people.
Anyways, I slowly stood up. Matty gave me a hand which I accepted without hesitation.
「Do you want to play?」
Play? Alvis, is she asking me to play with her? Like running around with the kids? Or...
『Answer, reading her facial expressions and heart rate. Her current emotion is not lust so rest assured she didn't mean what you were thinking, master.』
Wh-Whatever are you talking about, Alvis? Ofcourse I knew that. How would a kid from an uncivilized world know about that kind of stuff anyway? Hahahaha!
W-Well, anyway...
「I'm afraid I will have to decline, Matty-chan.」
That's right, I'm not going to play. I'm not a kid anymore.
「Y-You won't?」
She started sobbing while saying that and gave me the puppy eyes sort of thing that I heard from legends cannot be ignored.
H-Hey! What are with those puppy eyes? That's already cheating even when we aren't playing yet! Crap crap crap. She's attracting attention. The other kids are now looking at me.
「Hey! Hey! This new guy is making Matty-chan cry!」
「Yeah! Who do you think you are?」
What the hell is with this situation? I wanted to make friends not enemies!
「He wouldn't play hide and seek with us...」
Oh, so she was talking about hide and seek. W-Well... I mean... It's just hide and seek... my friends and I in the previous world used to play it in some celebrations like birthday parties so I guess I'm okay with it.
「Keke, maybe he's just scared of losing to us.」
What did you say brat? Now you've done it! I'm a professional at playing hide and seek, you know. Just you wait and see.
「Fine, I'll play.」
I'm not going down, kid. My pride as a grown up and the hero won't let me allow it!
And so, I accepted their offer. In our first match, I was the seeker. I turned my back on them to face a tree.
It seems like the hiding places in these parts are limited according to our game's rules. They can only hide within the orphanage building and a limited area in a nearby patch of blueberry growing bushes.
There was a frantic cantering from behind me as they hurried to find a place for them to hide in. Because I have already started counting the seconds from 10 to 1!
「5... 4... 3... 2... 1!」
Finished counting. Now where can those little brats be?
I turned my head in all directions and stood still. Listening for any sounds or voices that I could pick up. Kids their age tend to giggle while they play hide and seek, easily exposing their location.
Heh, they're pretty good. I'm not picking any sounds up. Theres no other choice.
Alvis!
『Master...』
I know I know. This is not cheating, don't worry about it.
『Master, this is cheating no matter how you look at it.』
Come on! Do it! I must not lose or else my pride as a man will vanish!
Seemingly overwhelmed by his master's desire to win, Alvis gave a sigh and just did what he was thinking.
『Activating navigational function of the"Auto-Pilot". Analyzing the area within 1000 meters in diameter.』
The radar popped up in my sight again. With this I can easily win this war! Listen, Alvis... We definitely cannot lose! This is war!
『Master... only kids take these games seriously.』
Ignoring her insult, I started "Hunting" down the kids one by one and ended up winning.
「Y-You're really good! Please play with us next time!」
「Yeah new guy, you're really good at this.」
That's right, shower me with praises.
With this, I have gained my first ever friends! E-Even though they're kids...
It's been a whole week since I've started living in this orphanage and I got myself a few friends. And ofcourse, most importantly some new skills.
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Name: Yukio Katakana
Class: Hero
Level: 1
Age: 11
Race: Ningen
Height: 157cm
HP: 10,000
MP: 10,000
STR: 8,000
AGI: 8,000
INT: 999,999,999,999,999,999,999,999,990
DEF: 8,800
Unique Skills:
"Skill Creation"
"Auto-Pilot"
Skills:
"High Heal"
"Dimensional Storage"
"Processing"
"Elemental Barrier"
"Craftsmanship F"
"Masquerade"
"Unattraction"
"Cooking F"
It's not much but they're dead useful. The reason why I've only gotten myself 4 in 7 days was because of the Craftsmanship and Cooking skills. It turns out that these types of skills have their own rankings from G, F, E, D, C, B, A and lastly, S. The first time I obtained the skill, it started at the lowest rank, G. It took 15 hours for"Skill Creation"to finish recharging. So as an experiment, I tried doing it again by thinking of the same details all over again. This time it took 37 hours and 30 fricking minutes but it ended up raising the skill's rank. That's the longest ever recharge my"Skill Creation"has ever had. So, afraid of wasting too much time, I saw it best to get a few more skills before I upgrade it again. Theres no need to rush, I will only use it for making something for the kids anyway.
『The"Skill Creation"skill will be available in 2 more hours.』
I see, that's good to hear. I guess I'll make a utility based skill again.
「Hey Yukio! Lunch time!」
Heh. You can't fool me this time, Renald.
Two days after I arrived, the kids started to become good with playing hide and seek and once they caught me by telling a lie about lunch. How detestable.
『Master, you're much more detestable by using a radar to find them when you're the seeker. And avoid the seeker when you're the one to hide.』
Thanks for the compliment, Alvis. I really needed it.
「What are you doing outside instead of eating lunch, Yukio?」
The voice came from above me. So I looked up. This is heaven, I'm sure of it. Between two huge mountains wrapped in white clothing, stood the sister, Heinley's beautifully matured face.
「Eh? What's wrong, Yukio?」
Heinley-san's mountains sure are heavenly.
「Never mind that, you're just imagining things. Let's go eat lunch, my future wife.」
「F-Future wife?!」
I held the sister by the wrist and made her follow me to the tables. I'm curious, can sisters get married in this world, Alvis?
『Answer... yes.』
Hmm? Why do I feel like that answer was a bit late? She always answers instantly a second after I asked her a question. Atleast now I know we can be married legally.
And so, we sat on the tables to eat. Like always, our food are two pieces of bread and a cup of milk but like a hungry wolf, I ate them indiscriminately. I'm not that picky in food.
「...Bread everyday. Why do we eat only bread?」
One of the children in the orphanage complained. Just from hearing that, Heinley looked sorrowful and full of shame.
The reason for this was simple. We're poor and there are not much people who come to donate money to this orphanage and their only supply of money was the donations from the church.
I can see this town isn't thriving.
That's why–
I started cultivating the craftsmanship for my plan. I plan to fix this issue before I become an adventurer and leave this orphanage.
Sob... Sob...
Huh? Who's crying?
I looked from my left where the sounds were coming from and found a grown woman in her teens crying her tears out. Heinley?
Realizing that many eyes were looking at her including mine, she forcefully stopped her sobbing and left the table to go to the head sister's office.
From what I'm faintly hearing, theres a ruckus out there. I can hear shouting and an unaudible argument. Please don't tell me they're fighting.
To be sure, let's eavesdrop on their conversation. Alvis, please make the sounds I'm hearing comprehensible.
『Understood. Preparing to adjust and articulate the "faint voices" to recreate the travelling longitudinal waves. Adjusting the hearing senses to maximize the sound being heard by master.』
Awesome. I drank my milk while listening to their conversation.
So it seems like she's asking the head sister, Merielle permission to become an adventurer to earn money and support the orphanage
I'm sorry Heinley, even I wouldn't allow that. I can't permit you to go alone without me by your side.
Just hang in there, everyone. I'll end this soon.
The next day I went out early in the morning when the sun hasn't even risen up yet. Around 4am I guess. But before that, I stole a knife from the kitchen.
「Alvis, use the"Unattraction"skill.」
One of my recently acquired skills which allows me walk anywhere without being noticed by the townsfolk and guards. They wouldn't notice me even if I pass by them unless they're looking for me or I purposely get their attention like calling out their names or touching them.
『Understood. The skill,"Unattraction"has been successfully executed. 40 out of 10,000 mana points will be deducted every 1 minute.』
I proceeded on walking to the city gates. Noone even looked at me so far. Even the cats and dogs with sensitive smell and hearing. It was as if I'm invisible. After I reached the gate, I saw the first two humans I've met in this world. Upholding their duty as always without slacking off, they're good role models for true knights.
Like wind, I passed by them without them caring at all. I've finally slipped out of the gates. Now my real problem is, it would take me roughly an hour to get back to the Rafflecia Forest to cut down a tree to use for my craftsmanship skill.
『Question, activate limit release mode?』
Uh, what? What do you mean limit release mode?
『By using the limit release mode, master's real stats will start to show it's true value. Boosting your capabilities. All this time, master has been away from this function. Staying in your past body's statistics.』
Ohh. So that's why despite my crazily high stats I couldn't do stuff like accidentally destroying the whole orphanage.
『Master... Please don't try to destroy the orphanage.』
I know I know, I'll never do it unless necessary. So what do we do with that limit release thing you're going on about?
『By disabling the limit release skill, master's true stat will show it's worth and his true agility stat will start to show.』
「Woah! Awesome! Let's do just that!」
『Understood. Please be prepared for the sudden changes.』
「Hai!」
『Skill,"Auto-Pilot"'s stat limitation has been successfully deactivated.』
I feel a sudden urge to destroy something right now. I feel so strong that I could K.O John Cena and I feel like I can run around Mt. Fuji in just a minute.
The free winds blowing against my face somehow feels like they suddenly slow down then accelerate.
『Answer, the status system's statistics increases the power of it's users. The agility stat has an effect to slow down time in the user's perception according to their thoughts and agility value.』
So that's why... Let's test this out then, Alvis. Now focus, Yukio!
I started running while facing the Rafflecia Forest.
Feeling the gusts of wind that hit my face is my sign of when I slow down and accelerate my perception of time. The wind becomes more harder to move in while slowing down time and it becomes easier when I'm only sprinting at my human speed.
After less than a whole hour of running, we finally made it back to the forest where we were first sent.
『Answer, the correct time of our travel from Raske Village to the Rafflecia Forest was less than 1 minute.』
It's only been 1 minute?! That felt like 2 hours to me! And, trees. Trees that we can cut are all over the place now.
Just about time, it's time for my new skill that I've gotten yesterday to shine. Unlike the other super time expensive skills, this only gave"Skill Creation"13 hours of recharge time.
「"Atmos Blade"」
A pair of blades that looked like glass but were actually made of chaotic air vibrations appeared just beyond the backs of my hands. Each blade was Atleast 60cm long and 7cm wide.
『The skill,"Atmos Blade"was successfully executed twice. 630 out of 9,440 mana points was used.』
I approached the nearest tree and cut it clean in half with my blades.
Yosh. Just this one tree seems more than enough for one set. Alvis, use"Processing".
『Understood. The skill,"Processing"has been successfully executed. 40 out of 8,810 mana points was used.』
Bluish light poured on the fallen tree and engulfed it whole. A second after it had done so, it suddenly disappeared into thin air, leaving a couple of cleanly cut rectangular wood planks and four dozen cubes made of wood where the log stood.
「Now then, Alvis. Let's begin!」