Chapter 14
Leave It to this
Little Girl
Translator : PolterGlast
【Conditions have been met. Releasing a portion of
abilities.】
"Conditions...?"
"What's
that?" That was my one and only thought.
I retracted my hand
that had been poking the slime and tilted my head. It couldn't be a meaningless
phrase, could it? Outside, the sun was gradually setting. There were no lamps,
and as I was wondering what to do, one of the slimes dimly lit up its body from
within.
The room was enveloped
in a faint orange glow as I looked down at the slimes. Convenient.
In any case, this
would make things easier to see. Since it said "abilities," the
window must be the key, I thought, and when I fiddled with the edge of my
vision, it seemed I had hit the jackpot.
The menu display I was
currently seeing was supposed to be just the three: 【Name (Age)】【Title】【Skills】. But now, an unfamiliar trophy mark had appeared.
"Achievement
display...!!"
As if remembering
something, I involuntarily voiced my thoughts, and the three slimes tilted
their heads, bending their bodies into a < shape. They were skillful.
In "The Tale of
the Five-Leafed Country," the protagonist, Yuko, who was a saint, would
choose an option at the beginning, and the country she was summoned to would be
decided from that choice. As a perk of being summoned from another world, she
had the eyes to see everything. That was the same as my status display.
In the game, there
were more detailed displays than what I was seeing. But that was only because
it was a game, and this was reality. I hadn't particularly worried about some
differences, but now a new achievement display icon had appeared.
"Right, in the
game too, achievements could only be earned after the tutorial ended,
right?"
Achievements, as the
name suggests, were earned when the protagonist's actions and their frequency
were counted within the game, and the achievement would be unlocked upon
clearing certain conditions. As a reward, abilities and other bonuses could be
obtained.
The tutorial ended
after Yuko met her escort knight in the summoned country, for example, Lotus in
Cloudy Country, and joined the party. The first achievement was 【Add a companion to the party】.
I see, so in my case,
these slimes were my companions. Just like Yuko, now that the tutorial was
over, the first achievement must have been unlocked. Come to think of it, when
I was riding on the slimes in the forest, going forward steadily, it might have
been closer to just "being together" rather than being companions.
Companions.
I somehow sat up
straight, feeling a subtle ticklish sensation as I stared at the slimes that
were dimly lighting up their transparent bodies. They fidgeted their bodies
against each other and looked away. No, that wasn't it. I had to check what
kind of bonus I had received from unlocking the achievement.
【Fixed skills can now be used on party members.】
This is. Could it be.
Was this what I had
been hoping for? I fiddled with the skill display. Fixed skills must refer to
the Illusion and Flight skills. I could turn them on and off in my head. But
the target was still only myself. That was weird. "...Hmm?" An arrow
extended from the window skill display with a myoin sound. I tried selecting
it.
【Cleaning Slime A】
"Whoa, I can now
see explanations for things other than myself...!!"
A speech bubble popped
out from the blue window, giving an explanation. It was just a name display,
not as detailed as the status display, but in that case, I tried using a skill
in this state.
【Status: Using Illusion】
"Ooooooh."
After much struggle, I
managed to successfully apply the Illusion skill to all three slimes. If I
split my abilities, the things I could do would decrease accordingly, but
making the already transparent slime bodies even harder to see, plus changing
my eye color, didn't seem to be a problem.
"W-with this,
somehow...!!"
"Did something
change?" The slimes, who didn't seem to understand it themselves, were
floating about, but it was a big change. I did it.
***
"Aaaaaah!? What
the hell, Sutra-chan isn't here!?"
There was a male
customer with a bad attitude. "My kid's got a bad leg, so cut us some
slack!" It was just about the time when the rush of customers at the
restaurant was dying down. The landlady was being harassed by a bald-headed
adventurer, but she was bravely raising her voice. Otherwise, a diner full of
adventurers like this probably wouldn't last.
"Shut up! Then
she's in her room, right? I came here because I wanted to see her! No way I'm
going home like this! Get out of the way, hag!"
"H-hey, just a...
hyaa!!"
What a thing to say.
His language was absolutely terrible. I struck a pose firmly above my head. Nin
nin. At that moment, as if they had been given their cue, the three slimes that
had disappeared shot towards the man and the landlady with a shurun. Two of
them became cushions for the falling landlady, and the remaining one slipped
under the man's feet, making him slide.
"Huh?"
"Huh?"
The voices of the
landlady and the bald man overlapped.
The landlady, who
should have fallen, was standing straight, and the man hitting his head on the
ground happened at the same time. It was just a coincidence that he bounced up
and hit his head several times, but perhaps the location was bad, as he was
foaming at the mouth and seemed to have fainted. Looking down at the customer,
the landlady exclaimed, "Oh my!?"
Nin nin.
The words I wished
for, "Withdraw," were conveyed to the slimes as they were. Like
ninjas, they slipped away.
"H-hey, El, did
you see what just happened? It was kind of strange."
"Ah, well. I saw
that adventurer over there get so excited that he tripped and fell."
When I told her with
an innocent face that he had been unsteady on his feet, she tilted her head,
saying, "Is that so...?" but then hurriedly went back to work,
realizing this wasn't the time for something like this. The fallen man was
later picked up by some regular customers who had come later. While wiping down
the tables with a cloth, I whistled softly.
Leave it to this
little girl.
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