Why did you come here? What happened?
I'm sorry, I'm so sorry. You didn't come back, so I thought something happened to you.
Come to think of it, I can't believe it. She's really only wearing a towel covering her body. Well, I can't lie to myself, she has a nice figure. I'd love to have her as a girlfriend, I could curl up on her lap and sleep for hours. wait! Oh, right, I'd heard something that girls get really annoyed by. I'd have to keep that in mind.
Stop staring! For God's sake, I know I told you not to peek, but you still came. Well, you're a guy after all.
She's really nagging me a lot. She just focuses on telling me that she knows I'm a guy, that men are curious, and that she knows she's cute. She also knows that a lot of men are looking to marry her, wait, marry?!
Are there men looking to marry you, Tari?
Are you saying that who would want to marry me, Yuzuru?
I'm sorry, I'm sorry. I mean, I know you're pretty, but I didn't know that a lot of men were asking you to marry them.
That's right, Yuzuru. Day after day, during the dungeon, when I'm eating, even when I'm fighting, they come day after day asking me to marry them.
So Tari gets proposed to day after day? Not that you should be surprised, she is cute after all. Come to think of it, she must have had someone she likes, who will be her ideal guy? It would be nice to know, but asking her now will surely make her suspect I'm desperate or something. I should ask another day.
Again, Yuzuru? Yuzuru? My God, this boy... I'm scolding him and he doesn't listen to anything. - thought Tari.
Again, I'm sorry, Tari-san. It's really not that I didn't want to see you. You're cute, very much, but I just came because I was worried. I thought something happened to you, that's all, it's the truth.
I get it, Yuzuru. No need to apologize.
He's not like that, or maybe he is, but I feel he's telling the truth. Someone worrying about me a long time ago... Someone wasn't telling me that. - Tari thought.
Okay, wait for me for a few minutes, Yuzuru. I'll come with you and we'll come back together.
Tari-san turned to look at me with a smile on her face. That smile gives me peace of mind. I don't know why, it really brings me peace, but I think I want to be with her. She makes me feel that all this time maybe wasn't in vain for having met her.
Twenty minutes pass, and she's finally ready. "Okay, I'm ready, Yuzuru. Let's walk," Tari-san says.
She finally took 20 minutes. I really don't understand women well. - I think to myself.
In the end, Set didn't come back. He said we would meet him on the 7th floor. He said he had an unforeseen event and had to leave the tower. He asked us to go ahead.
A message on the tower, how can you do that?
It's with animals, they're called familiars. They can go through the floors of the tower, and Set, well, being level 7, he can do it.
A familiar... Tari-san, could I have a familiar?
You could, but it would spend a lot of mana to make the contract. If I'm not wrong, you should at least reach level 4 to have a familiar.
Level 4... Just thinking about it makes me sad to know that I'm a long way from reaching that level.
By the way, Yuzuru, how much mana do you have?
I've never really wondered that before.
On your arm, as we all have, the stats are marked. There should be a mana section there.
Let me see it... It's 20 mana. Is that good?
Of course not, Yuzuru! It's pretty low. With that alone you could cast spells with very little power.
But, Tari-san, should I increase my mana? Do I have to level up?
Because you're telling me like this... I don't really use much magic.
That's not the case. You know there will be times when you'll have to use it, and if it reaches zero and you use it, you might die.
DIE?!? Are they serious?
But don't worry, Yuzuru. I'll help you level up. I promise.
Tari-san is a very good person. She advises me, takes care of me. To tell you the truth, I finally feel that after everything that has happened to me, I can trust someone. I can move on, I can let go of what has happened. I think I can do it.