Not as bad of a cliff hanger this time. I"ll try and do 128 by tonight/tomorrow morning no ETA though if it"s tonight it"ll be within 3-6 hours if not within then 20~ hours later. Also slight 18+ warning on this chapter. It"s nothing that big but it might feel a bit uncomfortable to read this chapter with family sitting next to you. Small note by author on the tongues of elves being like snakes at end of chapter but totally don"t feel like translating it.
Year 7444, Month 5, Day 27
"Ah, I guess that"s..great."
While looking at Chizumagurol"s face on their knees while looking up at me with a starving glare saying things that I don"t get like "I remembered", I somehow got a nostalgic feeling from it.
However, I can"t remember well. This face, I"ve seen it somewhere...
"Ffu.....Talking...Nn...Saw face...Suddenly various things..Ah...I remembered but..Uu...G.o.d..this..sort of thing..Han..Kka..Kawa..ki,san..I am.."
Eh? This person, just now, they were about to say my name from my past life right? They know me...
Who is it?
Miki? there"s no way that should be the case! Their facial features are completely different after all, and they were about to call me "Kawasaki-san. In the first place she would never have such a disgusting color like this. There"s no way she should! She must not!!
Yumi? My girlfriend from high school? No, it"s probably different. I"ve seen her face at high school reunions since we both were adults but at that time she called me "Kawasaki-kun", I think.
"I..I"m hungry..so..Yeah!!..a bit..tired..a aa...th..is..ku..n..wa?!!"
Ryoko? My girlfriend after that? I think that"s even less likely. I"ve heard that Ryoko married and left the country with her husband who works overseas.
"P..lee.ase..an!!..and..fa,fa..st..u..ku..."
The Dark Elf is embracing their body with both arms like they"re trying to endure it.
...
"Nn!!" they faced down.
......
"A..aa!!" They raised their face and looked at me. Their eyes were wet with tears.
.......!
Is this..Shiina?
"You..are you Shiina..?"
Putting aside that unnerving light violent skin color there"s some facial features remaining from Shiina my subordinate in my past life, or at least I feel like there is. Since I don"t know her face from when she was 15 or 16 I couldn"t remember right away.
"Nn..Yes..It"s Shiina.. Ngu...And...Fu...I was...finally able to...meet..aaa..Cu..cute..wwaaaa..Nn..Su...Subordinate...re..reward..Nnn!!"
I thought she was enduring it but it seems she"s groping her chest with her left hand. After all it"s Shiina.
"Sorry but there"s nothing to eat and no matter what the situation I have no intention of embracing you. Though if it was about three hours ago it would have been dangerous."
I ruthlessly declared to Shiina as she was suffering from mana exhaustion and drooling with her 10 cm or so long characteristic pink forked tongue for elves sticking out with about 3-4 meters between us on the other side of the {Light}. Just going off of the details from Identify there"s no she"s a useful talent and I believe I"ve already got an understanding of her personality and tendencies. As long as she hasn"t changed a lot I can trust her as well. Probably even among everyone I"ve met up until now, no, since I still don"t know of any other reincarnated people I haven"t met yet.. so she should be the person I can trust the most on Orth.
"Th..That..can"t be..a..aaa..nn..kuu...Already..already..."
Even if you look up at me with that sort of heartrending face, things that are no good are no good. Even if your face has gotten quite a bit better looking from the Elf blood mixed the inner-company romance of Greed Company (for the time being my three slaves are automatically, and the rest of the members are for convenience sake employees) already has it"s stomach full with Bel and Toris. In the first place, it"s too soon for me to get with a single woman.
"P..Plea..please...I can"t...endure...nnnnn!! Aaah!! Always..endur..fu~aaan!!"
She bit the fingertip of the glove on her right hand and took it off and then moved that right hand between her legs and started moving it. Ah, I guess I was just like this until a short while ago?
"So...So..many years already...Aa!! Ku!!kuu~n!"
While making sure to be vigilant so nothing suddenly attacks, I pick up the stone that was shining with {Light} cast on it in between Shiina and I while saying.
"Yeah, that is, hmm. I"ll look that way so do something about it yourself. After that you should go to sleep right away. I"ll sleep as well. Alright?"
I caught a glimpse of Shiina who is almost sitting in seiza while rubbing her legs together restlessly and I went to pick up Toris"s long sword. Give up.
"A, aaa! Th..This is!!"
Uwa!! What is it so suddenly? Don"t surprise me like that. Shiina moves her limbs like an inchworm as she crawls along bringing her face close to ground a bit nearby. What is she doing, this girl? I"m a bit interested but since it"s not related to work, and furthermore since she"s currently suffering from mana exhaustion I know it"s nothing good.
"N..suu~!! Nwaaaa~!! Th..This scent is, chestnut flowers!? Coul..could it be tha..aro..around here Kawasaki-san did!!?"
Shiina is rubbing her face against the ground while snorting her nose smelling the scent.
"Uoohey!! Stop that!!"
I spontaneously yelled but without even paying attention to me, Shiina continued to move her right hand stretched out between her legs at a high speed.
"Aaah~ Wuun!! It"s already dry..it"s not remaining anymore..a~n!!Kuun!!"
s.h.i.t. This is no good. I can"t watch anymore of this!
"Aa!! I..I can"t stop! Ah, this..co...coming~"
In a panic I threw the sword and stone to the side and rushed up behind her. I grabbed her left hand that was groping her breast and her right hand that was rubbing between her legs while she was licking the ground(!) and grabbed Shiina by the hair before forcibly pulling her away, then used a hand-to-hand combat choking move to apply pressure to her carotid artery. I quickly grabbed Shiina"s long hood that was on the ground nearby and after spinning that up thin I tied up her wrists behind her back, just in case I also pulled out her short sword and threw it in a place a bit of distance away.
Around 30 seconds had pa.s.sed by that point. It wouldn"t be strange for her to wake up at any moment. I quickly felt around her body to see if she had anymore weapons and after all she had weapons hidden all over the place it seems. 8 knives, four throwing darts, a strange pipe..is this a blowgun? What"s up with this girl, she has a mountain of weapons on her.
"Ha!!!?Aaah!! Th..that can"t be to tie me up!! Tying me up of all things~!! Bohe!!"
After waking up right away Shiina for some reason was looking at me with wet eyes filled with expectation. That idiotic looking face for some reason rubbed my nerves in a very wrong way and p.i.s.sed me off so I put in a light kick to her stomach and shut her up.
"Shut up!! I don"t have those sorts of hobbies~!! Stop saying it so cheerfully!"
After all this girl, might be person I should avoid putting any faith in the most...
She"s twisting her body and I can"t really determine if she"s enduring the pain or enjoying it but I gathered up all of the weapons I could from there and turned my back to Shiina who was making wet puppy-dog eyes that looked like they were clinging on me along with an expression filled with l.u.s.t as she was breathing heavily, and then walked away from there.
"Aaah!! That"s so cruel!!"
"Shut up~! Idiot! Just go to sleep already!! This is an order!!"
Shiina continued saying something rolling around in agony but after a short while it finally got quiet. Since both of her hands are tied up she shouldn"t be able to do anything. In any case obediently go to sleep.
I considered using 1 more of my remaining 2 MP to use {Light} once more and check her condition but since there wasn"t much meaning I stopped. I wonder if it"s because my remaining MP is so low? I thought about keeping watch but somehow I suddenly felt like it was just idiotic.
Just in case, I used the {Cantrip} Alarm clock to wake me up in 5 hours and after moving outside of the range of Shiina"s Infrared Vision (Shiina is level 10 so if I move further than 30m she shouldn"t be able to see me but I moved over 50m away) and then laid down on my side and closed my eyes.
I thought it was a bit careless but everything other than that just started to feel idiotic.
..........
Year 7444, Month 5, Day 28
I opened my eyes hearing the Alarm Clock {Cantrip} ringing in my head. I think it was around 4pm that we fought against Franken. After that I rested for about 3 hours and just now I rested for another 5 hours or so. I guess it would be just around the time the day changes? It"s only obvious you could say but there"s still nothing but darkness stretching out. I wonder if it"s because I put some distance between us but I don"t seem to have been attacked by her..desires?
I cross my arms and look at the {creature} who"s lukewarm body temperature I can feel from my back sleeping facing me on the lower right side. It seems the tentacles from such a {Creature} had stretched out to my body. Since I was surprised just in case I checked my pants but all of the b.u.t.tons were still properly done up. Nn? I feel like something is covering my body..The robe huh? This girl..even though I should have tied her up, she somehow managed to untie it at some point. I thought about using the spell {Light} to make it bright but it"s already been about 5 hours since then. I might wake up Shiina...Well I guess it"s fine. I"m sure she"s slept plenty as well.
I use Identify and use the spell {Light} to light up a rock that"s about 20m away and after gently removed Shiina"s left hand from my body, I carefully crawled out of the robe that was covering Shiina and I and after crossing my arms I took another look at her. Since I moved away from her Shiina"s expressionless face is facing the right as she sleeps almost as if she"s dead.
I don"t know the common sense of dark elves but as usual her skin color still looks like a disturbing light violet color as if she"s a rotting corpse. Well, since the light violet color is uniform throughout her entire body rotting corpse might be saying too far. The dark elf that I saw previously in Rombertia had a much deeper skin color, a violet that was closer to black and their hair color was pure white with not much pigment but I guess this is because Shiina is a reincarnated person?
If I look closely there were a lot of old scars remaining on both of her hands after her gloves were removed. I wonder why she didn"t use a {Cure} type spell soon after she was injured? Putting aside {Cure} if she used {Cure Light} or {Cure Serious} then she should have cleanly been able to heal them before the wound turned into a scar. It"s difficult to imagine that she couldn"t use healing magic with this much MP and level of magic skills.
I didn"t notice it just now but there"s a deep cut wound that seems to have healed from her left nostril up along her cheek to her ear. Other than that I guess it"s because she has the similar blood that Toris does, her facial features are quite good looking. I think that Shiina was decently good looking in her past life but soon after she entered the company my impression is too strong of her when she was always nervous, didn"t properly say things, looking downwards, and had a dark impression so I"ve never thought of her as beautiful or cute. I"ve only ever treated her as a subordinate and a good spirited friend. Of course, thinking she"s my cute subordinate and thinking she"s cute or beautiful as a woman are completely different things to me.
"Fu..."
I let out a sigh and stroked Shiina"s short hair that doesn"t even go down to her shoulders. I only got a glimpse but she has some large wounds down the right side of her forehead as well that were already healed. Come to think of it this girl, she better have properly recovered her MP before she came over here?
【Midu~ritto.Chizumagurol/5/3/7441】
【Female/14/2/7428 ・ Dark Elf ・ Lail Kingdom Commoner {Lilac}】
【Status： Blunt Trauma】
【Age： 16 Years Old】
【Level： 10】
【HP： 105(110) MP： 252(252)】
【Strength： 16】
【Speed： 24】
【Dexterity： 19】
【Endurance： 17】
【Unique Ability： Unit Organization (Lv. 6)】
【Special Ability： Earth Magic (Lv. 4)】
【Special Ability： Water Magic (Lv. 4)】
【Special Ability： Fire Magic (Lv. 4)】
【Special Ability： Wind Magic (Lv. 4)】
【Special Ability： Void Magic (Lv. 5)】
【Experience： 139298(150000)】
Hn? It"s only vague but I feel like Speed and Endurance are high. Since she has that many wounds all over her body I thought her HP would be pretty high but...All of her magic levels are about to level pretty soon as well. Her skill levels aren"t that high taking into consideration her MP (even though I say that, they"re still at a level capable of using it with her fingertips so it"s still plenty good) I wonder if there"s some sort of reason for that?
【Unique Ability： Unit Organization {Party-zation}; the user can organize a unit {party} with them self as the leader when in contact with any target. The number of people that can be included in the organization is equal to the level of the ability plus one. In other words, the maximum number of people is the user plus ten, for a unit organized with a total of eleven people. Furthermore, the duration of the ability is a number of hours equal to the level of the ability plus one.
The user can reuse the ability during the duration in order to extend the length of the duration as well. In that case the remaining duration will be cut off. Furthermore, the user can cancel the effects of the ability at anytime during the duration and freely exclude any member of the unit.
It"s necessary for the target to open their heart towards the user in a way similar to that of a friend or family and must focus their awareness towards the user. During the effect of Unit Organization the members of the unit will gain the following privileges. However, the leader that is the user of the ability can freely select whether or not to provide the members with below privileges.
1. Able to grasp the approximate(10% margin of error on both angle and distance) direction and distance from other members.
2. An increase in ability values of the members of the unit equal to the number of members.
.Up to three people can gain 1 bonus point to Dexterity including an additional bonus of 1% increased experience points gained.
.Up to five people can gain 1 bonus point to Speed including an additional bonus of 2% increased experience points gained.
.Up to seven people can gain 1 bonus point to Strength including an additional bonus of 3% increased experience points gained.
.Up to nine people can gain 1 bonus point to Endurance including an additional bonus of 4% increased experience points gained.
.Only when there"s a unit of ten people can all gain 1 bonus point to all ability values including an additional bonus of 5% increased experience points gained.
.The bonuses stack.
Including the above-mentioned, the leader that is the user can freely issue orders to the members individually(to multiple members otherwise everyone simultaneously) . However, the orders can only be sentences made up of a single word and the number of times the orders can be given during the duration of the effect is equal to the level of the ability. This number of orders is only applied when a unit is organized. In other words, bear in mind that when reusing Unit Organization to extend the duration of the effect this number of orders that can be made is not recovered. Furthermore, the members of the unit have no obligation to obey the orders. These orders do not rely on sound and are issued directly into the head from the leader the moment they wish for it as they call out to the consciousness of the member, so the member will only be able to understand the meaning in a language they understand.】
Hm~n. This Unique Ability is pretty useful.
I don"t know if it decreased because I hit and kicked her or if it was lower from before that but the fact that her HP was a reduced by a bit bothered me a bit so when she wakes up it"s fine if I use healing magic on her bruise. I looked once again at Shiina"s quiet sleeping and just in case checked my status again. After making sure my MP had properly recovered just when I had stood up to go and pick up the stone I used the spell {Light} on.
"Ah..Ka..Kawasaki-san.. Just now was, that is..I showed you something very unsightly.."
"How long have you been awake?"
"Since about an hour ago or so."
Shiina lifted her body up from laying on it"s side and said while embarra.s.sed and fidgeting. If you were awake then call out to me when I woke up.
"..For the time being gather your belongings. We"ll start talking after that."
I went to the stone I used {Light} on and then picked that in order to gather my belongings scattered around, my helmet and gauntlets..Huh? my gloves and crotch parts are missing. Huh? They should have been placed together but...when I was looking around and,
"What"s wrong?"
She must have noticed it, Shiina called out to me.
"Ah, no, my armo..the pants portion of my rubber protectors are mu.."
"I was properly warming them up for you. Being the loyal subordinate, that I am was!"
While breathing heavily Shiina took off the crotch portion of my protectors. It"s true it"s warmed up by Shiina"s body temperature but...She seemed to be holding her chest high proudly when she handed it to me.
"You"re telling me to, wear this?"
"Of course. Now, please do, use it while it"s still warm."
Ah, really..Like I could wear something like this! And I really want to yell and throw it to the ground but because my MP has recovered I guess, I couldn"t put any feeling into it.
"No please don"t~ looking at the portion I was wearing so intently. Isn"t it embarra.s.sing? Ah, also please take these as well."
She took my gloves out from the cleavage of her ninja clothes and handed them to me. She"s holding both of her hands to her cheeks and twisting her body embarra.s.sed. Your entire existence is an embarra.s.sment. In the first place, this, better be dry? If it"s wet with some strange fluid I"ll seriously punch you. Well I guess I can"t afford to say such extravagant things right now...I think. I let out a sigh being unable to help it before pulling up the ta.s.sets of my armor. However, this girl, even though her waist is definitely thinner than mine and she didn"t have any rubber protectors on her upper body, how was she able to wear tis? Even if she closed the belt on the sides I think it would slide down but..Ah..She clamped down on it between her thighs and legs..I don"t really want to wear this anymore~
..............
"You"ve gathered all your belongings right? First off respond to my questions. Your questions are fine after that. Alright?"
I put on my gauntlets while saying that with a slightly serious face.
"Yes."
Shiina responded with a serious face. The time for playing around is already over.
"Did you enter this dungeon alone? Do you have any allies?"
I check the throwing needles in my gauntlet while saying.
"I was alone. I don"t have anyone I could call an ally."
Shiina is checking her knives one at a time while placing them where they go on her body.
..I"m closely looking at Shiina"s eyes but she doesn"t seem to be lying.
"Do you know where and what floor this is?"
"I don"t know. I fell into a pitfall trap and came down so.."
So she did as well huh?
"I see..It"s the same for me. You can you talk in Ragdarios Language right?"
There"s no large abnormality with Toris"s long sword.
"Yes, I can speak it. I studied from a young age."
She confirms her throwing darts and puts them on her thighs. It seems there"s still some room to spare on her thighs so she must have already used some.
"Hn, got it. I think it"s fine right now but just in case let"s talk in Ragudarios language {Common Language} from here on out."
I use the spell {Light} on the stone where the light disappeared from once again.
"I understand."
Nn?
"What is it, you"re close. Move a bit further away from me."
"Isn"t it fine? There"s no one here other than us two. And we were reborn after the accident right? Then..it"s largely difficult for me to say but..the madam is no longer around right? Then, in that case..m..me."
Shiina slides over to me with her nostrils widening. I unkindly push her back and,
"Really, what is it, that"s true but you know. And, your {Common Language} is somehow strange. If you were to say that then it"s just "difficult for me to say"."
I said that and glared at her.
"Ha~ It"s strange? However, I"ve already gotten used to talking like this so.."
Shiina said while looking slightly down.
"..Well it"s fine. There"s no meaning if we can"t convey things. "Return to j.a.panese.""
"Yes."
"You said you remembered right? What did you remember?"
I confirm my knife with a crack in the blade and then put it into it"s scabbard before fixing it with the band.
"Things about before I was reborn. I remembered the life of Shiina Junko. Of course, I still have memories since after I was reborn as well."
"Huh?"
What is she saying?
"I"ll explain it in detail later but I didn"t remember much of anything at all after I was reborn. I only could remember j.a.panese and the names of some things. I didn"t have any memories about my life at all."
Shiina said while confirming a small knife that was hidden inside of her leggings. This girl, so that"s how she escaped from being tied up?
"Nn..That"s hard to..I guess it"s fine for now. Next. When did you enter the dungeon Baldukk? You just said you don"t have any allies but did you enter alone?"
Suddenly Shiina"s atmosphere changed.
"If you were to ask when I entered this time then it would be about one day ago. If you are asking since when I started entering then it would be around the end of the last month. Also, I only enter alone. I don"t have any allies after all."
I heard about it just before as well but it"s convenient that she doesn"t have any allies.
"So it"s not like you"re in a party somewhere right?"
"Yes."
"Then next. What floor have you entered up to?"
"The 2nd floor."
Ho~ So she made it to the 2nd floor alone..Though if I think about her MP and level of magic skills then it"s probably no problem.
"What"s your Unique Ability?"
".."
Shiina made a serious face while looking at me with upturned eyes but,
"It"s called Unit Organization {Party-ization}. Until I remembered I only understood things about the surface of it but now I think it"s a useful ability."
And said like she had resigned to it.
"I understand, for the time being up to there is good. We can slowly talk after we leave the dungeon. Is there anything you want to ask about?"
I put on my helmet and tighten it up while asking.
"Yes, there"s several things, but for starters."
Shiina made a serious face.
"Why did you suddenly talk to me in j.a.panese?"
! s.h.i.t...
"I tried remembering back to it but it seemed strange to me. Kawasaki-san is a human right? You shouldn"t have Infrared Vision..and even if you did you shouldn"t have been able to see my face. It doesn"t seem like you have Night Vision either. Even if you did have that I can"t imagine that you could see in situation with no light at all. I thought it was some kind of spell that I don"t know but..if there was a spell like that then it would be too strange that a Dark Elf {Dyulo} doesn"t know about it. Is it a Unique Ability?"
This is very bad. Shiina calmly said while looking into her blowgun pipe before returning it to her waist.
"You"re trying to cover it up I see. If I look at your hands I can tell. How many years do you think I worked together with you Kawasaki-san? The times when you"re touching the nails of your other fingers is when you"re gathering your thoughts to try and hide something."
This girl is troublesome...