I ran gleefully from the place I had ravaged earlier while humming happily. The memories of every stab and blood spurting from it were still vivid in my head and strangely enough, I didn't feel any regret for doing that. I then stopped my legs and looked down.
"Bona, should I change my attire?"
My whole body got itchy due to the dress being soaked in blood. It was sticky and the putrid stench that came from it stung my nose.
[If you want, I can make you new clothes. You got a lot of materials from those humans you killed before, along with their equipment scraps.]
I completely forgot to even check my status. But that would be saved for later. My priority was to change clothes and cleanse myself.
"Can you show me all the materials? Make it as simple as it can be, please.", I sat down and took my dress off. "Oh, can I dump all the useless materials away?"
[You need to throw things you don't need into a lava pond or something.]
Wait, did she just suggest that I should litter? How could she say something like that casually?
[Everything'll be burned down into nothing, so what's the problem?]
"Huh…?"
[Hmmm?]
She was irredeemable. I sighed and continued assessing the situation.
"Guess I need to do it manually, huh?"
I looked around and spotted a small lava pond about 100 meters away. I stood up and walked towards its direction. When I arrived at the shore, I thrust my spear into it and checked how deep the pond was. I couldn't reach the deepest part of it so I assumed it was quite deep.
"This should be good enough. Take everything out, Bona."
[Okay. Wait a moment…]
Bona paused her words. A moment later, a huge pile of stuff appeared in front of me.
[You got Human Meats x208, Regular Bones x619, Metal Scraps x132, ugh… You got too many items!]
Ignoring Bona's complaint, I turned my gaze to the pile of meat. Each one of them was perfectly butchered in ready-to-cook size.
"Save the meat. The people in the camp need those."
[Aye-aye.]
A moment later, the whole pile of meat vanished and a notification popped up in my head. It was all stored in Bona's dimensional pocket. Then, a big pile of bones entered my sight.
"What should I do with these bones?"
[You can craft some equipment from them, but you already have metals and that ridiculous spear so you don't need them.]
She was right. I imagined myself equipping boney gears and it made me shudder.
"No, no, no. Bad idea."
I dragged the whole pile and dropped it into the pond. It then made bubbly sounds and burnt smells. It was like grilling some BBQs, and my stomach growled in response.
[Your appetite increased, even after all those things you devoured…]
"Ah, come on!"
I decided to hold my hunger back and continued rummaging the pile. There was still a lot of junk remaining.
"Hmmm? What is this?"
I stumbled upon a shiny sky-blue ball-like object. It was similar to the Infernal Core, but blue. By the time I remembered about the cores, my body flinched a little.
[... What are you thinking?]
"N-No! Nothing!", I gulped my saliva. "Appraisal."
[Freezing Core
Rarity: Common
Effect: A synthetic core produced by compressing sea salts and coolant materials. It can be used to lower the temperature of a 12x12 room for 3 days. The effects may vary depending on the natural climate of the location. Company use only.]
I never expected to find something like this. Even in all my past lives I had never encountered a high-tech thingy. This little thing single-handedly solved the problem I had for conquering the deeper floors in my previous lives, heat. People in this life really had it good, didn't they?
[This isn't a technology mankind should know of yet. Those Norse idiots have done it now.]
Bona's tone was full of anger and disgust.
"Oh, speaking of technology, the bugs I killed earlier were operating modern machines. I remember seeing them in the book I read as a child before."
Big colorful screens, pads full of buttons, boxes that went bling-bling, and so on. At that time, I couldn't care less since I got to kill all the bugs as quickly as I could. What they had been operating was definitely from the lost technology before the Abyss introduced its existence.
[Tsk. This is really annoying. If only I wasn't stripped off my title…]
So that was what actually happened.
[Didn't I tell you about it?]
"No. You told me nothing, by the way. You just appeared in front of me and entered my body. That's all."
[...]
Bona didn't respond. I then threw the blue ball into the pond and continued sorting the stuff in front of me. I then found some layers of black fabrics. I took one of them and started looking at it.
[How are you so unfazed by all of this? Don't you have any fear that I may have tricked you or something?]
"Why should I?", I lifted the black fabric and pulled it. "It's not like you've got something bad to do to me, right? Wow! This fabric is so elastic! I wonder if I can craft my new clothes from this…"
To be honest, I didn't even think that Bona would harm me in any way possible. I didn't know where my trust came from, I just trusted her instinctively.
[... You've grown, Farenna, more than I know.]
I couldn't say it for sure, but it felt like she was smiling while saying that.
[You know what? I can make you new attire from the cloth you found. A fancy one, that is.]
"For real!?", I widened my eyes. "Please, do it!"
[Count on me more! Fufu.]
She giggled happily. The next moment, a black cut-out tank-top appeared in front of me.
"Whoaaa!"
I took and wore it immediately. Together with the strapless bra I got from Dea, the combination of those 2 showed off the bottom part of my medium sized boobas. Was it what they called underboobs? It was a perfect fit too.
[Wait, it's not done yet…]
Bona cut her own words. After that, a black mini-skirt and a pair of black gladiator boots also appeared before me. Without any regards, I wore them almost instantly and started showing them off.
[It's good to see you this happy.]
I couldn't hear what she was saying due to the extreme happiness I felt in my heart. I gradually came to understand how girls felt when they received clothes as presents.
"Thank you, Bona!"
I smiled as wide as I could.
[Ugh… So precious…]
Dressed in all black, at that time, I still didn't realize I looked like a suspicious person with two menacing horns protruding from my head.
***
After making commotion over my new clothes, the hype subsided by the time I completed sorting the stuff I needed to dump.
"Okay, save these ones on the right. I'll throw the rest into the pond."
[Okay. Consider it done.]
I pulled the whole pile of useless junk and dumped everything into the pond. It then made a sizzling sound as black smoke started to ooze from the pond. I clapped my hands and started praying.
"I'm sorry, but I don't need you. Goodbye."
I opened my eyes and found out that everything was already over. I then walked towards my spear that was stuck in the ground.
[Farenna, I suggest you should look at your status now. You've neglected all the notifications.]
"Oh! I forgot about it! Status! The detailed one, please!"
Then, the usual panel appeared in front of me.
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Status
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Name : Farenna
Race : Lv. 37/100 Calamity Nymph (EX)
Status : Unsealed
Sync. Rate: 20.01%
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HP: 1400/1400 MP: 900/900
SP: 1200/1200
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STR : 82 LUK : 15
AGI : 90 DEX : 85
INT : 42 VIT : 43
Unallocated pts: 185
Bonus pts: 218
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Equipments:
· Weapon : Spear of Vermillion (EX)
· Headgear : None
· Armor : Black Cut-out Tank-top (Rare)
· Torso : Black Mini Skirt (Rare)
· Feet : Black Leather Gladiator Boots (Rare)
· Misc. : Black Leather Panties (Common), Black Leather Bra (Common)
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Skills:
· Appraisal Lv. 6
· Devour (EX)
· Bona Dea (EX)
· Crafting Lv. 4
· Weaving Lv. 1
· Weaponize Lv. 11
· Berserk (Mutation)
· Growth Boost (Unique)
· (New!) Hannibal Lv. 1
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Blessings:
· Blessing of Purity & Chastity
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Curses:
· Curse of Wrath
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Titles:
· Regressor
· Goddess' Apostle
· Rotten to the Bone
· The Little Demon Queen (New!)
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Warning! A certain God of Death is interested in your existence. Please respond immediately!
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"Ugh…", I groaned and rubbed my eyes.
[What happened?]
Bona asked me in panic.
"No, nothing.", I staggered a little bit and fixed my posture right after. "I'm just not used to seeing all those confusing things jumbled together into one giant blob of information…"
Who wouldn't? I'd prefer the simpler one, but I realized I sometimes needed to see the detailed one once in a while.
"Let's see…", I took a whole 1 minute to realize something was wrong with it. "Holy fuck what are those stat points!?"
[Wording! Your wording! Mind your words, won't you!?]
"I mean… Just look at how ridiculous this is!"
I panicked and started rubbing my eyes frantically.
"I leveled up to 37 and got more than 200 bonus stat points!? How the hell did I even manage to do that!?"
[Your skills, Growth Boost and Hannibal, are responsible for that.]
"How about my new title then!?"
[You shouldn't be shocked by that. The last notification should shock you more than anything.]
"Huh…?"
I turned my gaze back to it, squinted my eyes, and focused on the bottom part of the panel. There, after seeing it, I hyper-ventilated and gasped profusely. My legs gave out and I fell on my knees while laughing like a mentally ill person.
"This is all… a lie, right?"
[Sadly, no. And again, you being ignorant no longer surprises me no more.]
"Ahah… hahaha…"