Chapter 49
Capture Target
Translator : PolterGlast
The game's capture
target.
Looking at me say
that, Lotus, with his arms crossed, widened his eyes slightly. He was a knight
of Cloudy Country, and when the protagonist, the Saint, fell into Cloudy
Country, he become the protagonist's partner. Each country had one such
character. Therefore, Soleil also had such a character.
The young man named
Veda was a little older than Lotus, twenty-three years old, and the
protagonist's partner in Soleil. Despite his young age, he was a high-ranking
official in the tower, in other words, the vice-director. He was a man who
could simply get things done, a man who "understood" everything, and
he possessed numerous magic tools. And he handled them better than anyone else.
That was his unique skill.
Magic tools could only
be used within the leaf of Soleil. And although there were individual
differences in compatibility, with some being better at using them than others,
Veda was beyond that level. Even though he was supposed to be using the same
magic tools, their performance improved dramatically, as if they were
completely different things. From his monocle to his shakujo, all the
decorations on Veda's body were magic tools, including the glowing bracelet
that the innkeeper had seen.
In fact, that bracelet
was a monster detection bracelet. If an ordinary person used it, it would only
have the effect of making them slightly aware of their surroundings right
before a monster attacked. But when Veda used it, he could constantly scan for monsters
in the vicinity, and red circles would appear blinking on the map screen in the
lower right of the game. While those circles were blinking, pressing the R2
button would make him dash and then beat the monster from behind with his
staff, giving him the advantage of a preemptive turn in battle. After that, it
was just a world of beatdowns.
"Boko-boko ja
boko-boko ja," I muttered, my blood of a former gamer stirring, as I
remembered the satisfying feeling of ending a battle in one turn and did some shadow
boxing by myself. Lotus, as always, furrowed his brow deeply, crossed his arms,
and stared intently at me. His calm eyes often cooled down my brain. I
straightened up and looked at Ichi and the others, who were bouncing in the inn
room.
In any case, Veda was
one of the reasons why Soleil was called easy mode. A convenient cheat
character was useful in many ways. After explaining all that to Lotus, he
nodded in understanding, scratching the back of his neck and saying, "So,
he's a really capable guy." I nodded. Glad he understood quickly. Ichi and
the others, who had been listening, were having fun mimicking the beatdown,
throwing punches and dodging each other with swish-swish sounds and squishy
movements while making noises. Above all else. No, wait a minute.
"............Ah!"
--When Veda used the
monster detection bracelet, he could constantly scan for monsters in the
vicinity.
While explaining and
thinking to myself, I suddenly realized.
In other words, even
now, Veda could pinpoint the location of Ichi and the others.
Lotus and I
immediately grabbed our luggage (including the slimes) and dashed out of the
inn like professional movers. The bill had already been settled. "El's
eyebrows look kind of thick, don't they?" Ichi's questioning voice rang
out, but in my utter confusion, the skin on my face seemed to have thickened in
contrast to the waterfall of sweat in my mind. By the time we had completed our
great escape from the inn with all our belongings, I had collapsed in
exhaustion on the log in the plaza, back near the initial entrance to Kasei.
That being said,
Lotus, who had been carrying most of the luggage, had a cool expression and was
holding Nii under his arm, but he nodded deeply as he looked at my collapsed
form.
"Well, it's
better to change locations, but if he can really always know where Ichi and the
others are, wouldn't he have already come to catch them again while we were
relaxing?"
"You're
right~~~!!!"
I shouted, holding
Ichi and San in both hands.
Ichi and the others
were giggling, saying "Sura-sura-sura~~~!" What was with that way of
laughing? I had never heard it before.
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