It’s finally over.
“Thanks for your hard work. Next ti, I’ll prepare so sweets.”
“Okay! See you later!”
After chopping wood at so nice auntie’s house, I replied to her as cheerfully as I could and left her house.
I’ve been going around chopping wood for about four hours since noon, I had to match the quest form and the map, and after I finished chopping wood in the sixth house, I walked through the village to the next house.
“I don’t know if it’s because most of the people are older, but they treat like a child.”
Even the gatekeepers in the towns and villages have nas and personalities, and each NPC has its own history, rather than being an AI-infused…, it’s as if a person’s soul really resides in them. {tln1}
Since the player has a virtual avatar with consciousness, I wonder if the NPCs also have a person inside.
“By the way, I’ve been quietly chopping firewood for all this ti… I’m fine since I enjoy doing it, but isn’t it boring for everyone else?”
< It’s cracking beautifully, so it’s satisfying to see.>
< It’s almost like background music for work.>
< It’s not often you get a chance to watch soone chopping wood for hours on end.>
“Oh…., that’s what Rin-chan used to have her maids do.”
In open-world crafting gas, clearing a mountain or digging it down to make a flat area was not uncommon.
If I were asked if I wanted to do it in VR, I definitely wouldn’t, but in consur gas, it’s normal to do that.
If you dig up a mountain, you can get materials for it. It may not be efficient, but at least it’s not a waste of ti.
After a while, you will get so sense of accomplishnt, so it wasn’t that bad.
By the way, when Rin-chan had the maid help her flatten the mountain, she was scolded by Toki afterward because she practically slowed down the maid’s work.
Similar to flattening the mountain, I also got an experience point and a few items called [Moonlight Tree Woodchips].
I’m sure it could be used for fuel or sothing, but at the mont, I don’t know what this is for.
“The next stop is over there…?”
As I checked the map for my next destination, I saw a white fox walking through the village.
“Hey, it’s a white fox.”
< You’re right.>
< It’s really pure white.>
“Rare character?”
I’ve never seen one before. If there were other players around, I could have asked them, but unfortunately, there were only NPCs around right now.
From a distance, at least, it didn’t look like a monster.
The inhabitants of the village only occasionally follow it with their eyes, exactly a reaction when soone sees a stray cat, just as the viewers said.
It’s cute. I hope it won’t run away when I approach it.
I was born to be feared by the animal, you know?
It frustrated so much, and I’ve never been in contact with an animal before, to the point that it feels like a miracle for when the water dragon at Trillia spoiled .
“I want to touch it.”
“There’s no way I’m going to kill it!”
I won’t kill animals that don’t try to attack !
“Okay, here cos nothing!”
“Aren’t you guys too quick to turn on ?”
You talked about comforting just a second ago…
I ignored the viewer’s teasing and made my way towards the fox with firm determination, and to my surprise, the fox noticed and made its way towards .
I crouched down to adjust my gaze to the fox’s height, and the fox sniffed eagerly as it circled around .
I knew that in the ga, animals were not afraid of . Still, I’m happy when this happens.
It spun around in the air. Just as I thought it was being trained to do the trick, there was a puff of smoke, and then the fox turned into a beautiful woman.
“…… slls good. You sll very, very good.”
A pale blue kimono embroidered with snowflakes. She has lustrous black hair and beautiful jade eyes.
She does not have ears in the sa position as a human but instead has two fox ears standing up on her head and a soft tail around her hips.
It’s what they called animal ears(kemonomimi)? And she is beautiful. A woman with an appearance that would charm anyone, she then smiled.
“What’s your na?”
“I’m Sukuna.”
“Alright, Sukuna-chan. I’m Sekka {Yukihana -Snow Flower}. Nice to et you.”
When I accepted her hand, she made a suspicious movent.
I’ve been getting a lot of skinship through my hands today, whether it’s from Akagane or this woman.
While I was thinking about this, Sekka sniffed again, as she continued, her cheeks turning red, and said,
“You sll so good. It’s almost debaucherous.”
“Yes…? does I stink that much?”
WLO is an amazing ga that recreates slls, but I’ve intentionally cut out about 90% of my sense of sll, so I don’t know what my own sll is.
But there’s no sweat or anything like that in the ga. I guess the players could sll it just dirt, dust, and iron.
When I questioned her about this, she said it was a mistake to take it so seriously.
“Yes. You sll really good, Sukuna-chan. You have a very intense sll of money.”
I couldn’t help but reply in reflex.
“Sll of money.”
While watching the audience laugh out of the corner of my eye, I sighed softly, wondering what to do with the captivated fox-eared woman in front of who was almost drooling.
☆
“…… I see, so Sekka is from the youko tribe (fox demon).”
I was taken by the sniffling Sekka to her store in the corner of the village.
“Un~. The oni tribe and the fox tribe get along well, so we can co and go as we please. Myself, in particular, is a sorceress, so I regularly co to the village to sell my talisman(Jufu).”
“I see. It’s just like what Kohaku told .”
I had forgotten all about it, but when I first t Kohaku, she used protection [talisman] to protect from magic.
At that ti, I rembered that Kohaku told that the oni tribe and the youko tribe have a good relationship.
And now I realized I did intend to buy so by the ti I reach oni village.
“Do you know Kohaku-sama, Sukuna?”
“Yes, Kohaku my [Oni no Mai] Master.”
I think I’ve heard the na “Kohaku” a lot since I ca to this village.
It’s given because she’s an important NPC with many settings: she’s the princess of the oni village, which is also a Shrine Maiden family with Kishin blood running through their vein.
“So you know a lot about sorcery?”
“Only a little. Anyone can use it if you use the talisman made by youko sorceress…”
“Hmm, that’s pretty much right. This is not exactly a talisman but a “spell mark.” Though it doesn’t matter what you call it, so you can call it whatever you want.”
What Sekka took out were five spell marks of different colors and patterns.
I see. It indeed seems to be different from the Charm (Gofuda) you can find on shrines. It’s just my feeling, though.
“You know Sukuna-chan, this [Sorceress], It’s a profession that uses a skill to put all kinds of techniques into a talisman and materialize it. Most of the spells inside talisman are sorcery, but depending on the user, even magic and warding can be made into a talisman.”
“If it depends on the user, does that an that you cannot create a talisman that contains magic if the user cannot cast it?”
“That’s right. Basically, it contains magic that can be used by the sorcerers who created the spell mark. Since the foxes are a race of sorcery, not magic, their spell marks usually contain sorcery.”
Hmm, so that’s it. If the user is a sorcerer, they can create sorcery spell marks. If they are a magician, he can create magic spell marks.
“What’s the difference between magic and sorcery?”
“First, they both use MP. The only difference is that sorcery is much more effective as support than magic. For example, this one.”
Sekka pulled out one of the talismans she was holding and threw it.
At that mont, smoke began to billow out of the talisman.
“This is a spell that contains a rudintary sorcery technique called [Youen] {Youkai Smoke}. It can be used to escape from monsters or to surprise your target, so it won’t notice you.”
“It’s too expensive to use for a simple hunt, though.” Add Sekka, crushing the burned-out spell marks.
But magic is basically a combat-oriented technology, so there’s not much to play with. There are so fun techniques in sorcery that seem rather useless.
As she stroked the newly retrieved spell marks, snowflakes flew around the store.
“This is [Oboro Yuki]. It’s just an illusion, but isn’t it beautiful?”
“Yes. It’s really not cold, and you can’t touch it.”
“It’s just an illusion. Well, this one only used for fun…”
“That’s true.”
It’s beautiful. However, it seems difficult to put this to practical use in battle. At least if it’s a hallucination of fire or sothing, I could think of so use of it.
But still, sorcery. Compared to magic, it seems to be more Japan-like, but as long as it uses MP, oni folk won’t be able to use it. This was the first ti I felt disappointed that my magic skills were so low.
“You said earlier that sorcery is good at support, but do they have an offensive spell?”
“Of course there are. It’s just not as versatile as magic.”
She didn’t demonstrate because she won’t use offensive sorcery indoors, but she probably had so in the talisman she hadn’t shown yet.
“It’s ti to do business. Sukuna-chan seems to be very rich, so we’ll have more than enough to go around.”
When Sekka operated the nu card, the empty shelves in the store were lined with spell marks.
Even at a quick glance, you can see more than a hundred different kinds of spells. It’s not like there’s one of each kind, so if you look at the number that was lined up, there are probably many tis more.
“The number and quality of the items in this store vary greatly depending on who cos to sell them. Sukuna is very lucky because you were able to visit this store on the sa day I did.”
She said this with a smug look on her face, but my first impression of her was that she was a disappointing beauty who lusts for money.
When I gave Sekka such a look, she grinned and handed a nu card.
Basically, only you can operate the nu card. The status displayed on the card and the list of items in the inventory is also invisible to others.
However, since this is only a privacy issue, you can set a card to show its contents to others. Only you can control it, though.
When I received the card, expecting sothing she wanted to boast, my eyes widened when I saw what was written on it.
Even only her status on it was enough to surprise .
“Highest-level magician…. Sekka of the [Zekkai] {Absolute Boundary}?”
Her displayed level is 221.
“Fufufu, my spellbook is a bit expensive, okay?”
Seeing my surprised expression, Sekka smiled like a child whose prank had succeeded.
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A note:
So she’s finally out, the sorceress tribe and the magician.
By the way, the sorcerer tribe is also long-lived, so if you look at Sekka and Kohaku, Kohaku is about three tis younger than Sekka. I want to get younger…
Tl note:
Shut it, author, who didn’t want to stay young forever…
And I believe I won’t need to explain what kemonomimi is… right? Well, you can google it if this is the first ti you have heard that word. Nothing too weird there, just the Japan thing.
Tln1, yeah, I feel like that too. At so point, I even suspect that this is actually an isekai story with technology involved.
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