Chapter 4
It was Popping
Translator : PolterGlast
Is it possible to be
so overwhelmed with the desire for revenge after regaining memories of being
Japanese that your skill doesn't improve and you can't escape, leading to a
dead end?
Yes, it happened. It
happened right here.
"I-I'm
stuck..."
I could hear the sound
of my lifespan ticking away. "I-in this case...!" I thrashed around a
bit.
"Humans! Hatred!
Suffering! Envy!"
I threw out my hands
and did some shadow boxing. A beautiful blonde girl was flailing around. My
slightly longer hair swished. I had a feeling the birds had spread their wings
and flown away. "Torment! Grieve! What should I say... Torment!!
To-torment!!" My vocabulary was poor and repetitive. It was just the
result of exhausting myself. I tried tapping the illusion skill while crouching
down, but the level display didn't change at all. Detailed explanation:
【Can be used a little if magic power is consumed. Turns
conviction into power. Can be used in conjunction with other skills】
"Conviction
level, huh?" A dry laugh escaped my lips. "Can be used in
conjunction" probably meant I could fly while using illusion. Putting that
aside, what is magic power? It seemed I could explore further items, so I
tapped.
【The power of magic】
"I know
that!"
That's a lie, I actually
don't know. It's confusing. What is the power of magic? I thought I had heard
it somewhere, and then I realized it was the opening song. Love love, prism,
magic power. The anime of a heroine overcoming difficulties with her companions
to lighthearted music played in my mind. Eldorado was the one being defeated.
In reality, only the heroine's physical attacks should work, so the opening
must have exaggerated things to avoid spoilers. I wish they wouldn't.
The reason I was
flailing around and stamping my feet like this was because I had luckily fallen
off the cliff and glided to this place. When I noticed the smell of water, I
first desperately searched for a water source. Cloudy Country was always
cloudy, and it rarely rained. That's why water sources were precious, and the
lakes in the forests were said to be the spilled water that a god had scooped
up with both hands to give to the World Tree.
Maybe that's why,
animals and monsters around the water were quiet and rarely fought. If you got
lost in the forest, head for a water source – that was the iron rule. In other
words, conversely, it was very dangerous to leave this place. It wasn't that
there were particularly ferocious monsters, but after all, I was a young girl.
Just surviving alone would be difficult. I pursed my lips into a straight line
and stroked my forehead with one hand. Escape. Die. Don't escape. Get found and
die. I was stuck from the beginning. Stuck!
"W-wasn't there,
like, even a little more option?!"
If only my memories had
returned a little earlier, I might have been able to do something, but I could
only stamp my feet at this unavoidable situation. While I was trying to escape
reality, my skills were activating on their own. Flight and illusion were
special abilities unique to demons, but I didn't think the cleaning skill was.
Demons could obtain more power than humans. That's why they were feared.
In the game, the
protagonist acquired new skills as she repeated actions many times, in addition
to her special ability, "prayer." The party members were the same.
There were two types
of skills: powerful unique abilities and normal skills that anyone could
acquire. However, the skill display could only be seen by the eyes of people
from another world. "Am I being counted as someone from another
world?" I wondered, as my hands moved on their own with a
"shalala." Cleaning Lv. 3. Higher level than flight. Sadness. The
pebbles around the lake were disappearing, and the weeds were vanishing.
Wonderful skill. As expected of Lv. 3. The surrounding animals were keeping
their distance.
"This is not the
time for this!!"
I had to call myself
out on that. My hands were still clutching weeds. "Hiss...!" A slime
next to me jumped. I was the one who was surprised at the same time. It was a monster,
although it was said that it was less dangerous and could be defeated by a few
children.
"Oh, it's just a
slime..."
But I quickly relaxed
my stiff body. Because it was just a slime.
A bright red sphere
floated in its semi-transparent body. "That startled me," I muttered
to myself, satisfied, and decided to continue escaping reality. Pulling out
weeds. Throwing them away. The slime melted them. Digging up pebbles. Throwing them
away. The slime ate them. It was helping me. "No, why?" I turned
around. The inside of the slime's body was bubbling. It almost looked like it
was proudly puffing out its chest, but maybe not.
Come to think of it, I
heard that there were several types of slimes, ranging from ferocious types
that attacked humans to slimes that loved cleaning. The more aggressive they
were, the thicker their liquid became, so this transparent slime must be a
cleaning slime. Maybe it was mistaken me for a comrade after seeing me using my
cleaning skill. "Haha, well, that's..." I shook my head. Then I
stared. The inside of the slime's belly was still bubbling, looking like it was
in water.
Demons and monsters
were different things. No matter how red my eyes had turned, that couldn't be.
...Couldn't be?
I sat down in front of
the slime, and it continued to wiggle its body. My hair, which had grown only
two centimeters due to the illusion, had already returned to its original
length, but the skill section of the window was glowing.
【Can be used a little if magic power is consumed. Turns
conviction into power. Can be used in conjunction with other skills】
"Can be used in
conjunction..."
That was the
explanation for illusion. I tapped it to confirm. I checked the other skills as
well. There was no such description. It was specifically written only for
illusion. When I acquired the flight skill, I had already obtained the illusion
skill. Even though the Lv. 1 flight skill was only about 【May float slightly】, was it possible to somehow manage after falling from
that high cliff?
When I was on the
verge of life and death, did I 【believe】 that I 【could use the flight skill】?
"Turns conviction
into power."
The slime was swaying
softly. Before I knew it, there were two of them. If I moved away from the
water's edge, they would probably disappear somewhere without attacking me. If
I became a comrade of the slimes. Then I could live with them. The flight skill
was just Lv. 1, though. But the cleaning skill, which I was good at, was...
"Level 3."
It shone brightly.
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