4-7. Satous Secre (1/2)
4-7. Satou's Secret
Satou's here. I have finished doing self-analysis and self-development during the days of job hunting.
I'm reluctant to look back at it.
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I sit on the bed while putting the bag on the side.
Arisa is taking off her mantle as soon as she enters our bedroom, and when she started to take off her clothes too, I stop her with a chop to her head.
”Ouchie~ What, didn't you lust for me?”
”Let's decide that after 10 years.”
”No way~ This is a chance to violate the precious body of a boy...”
While chattering pointlessly, Arisa still proceeds to wear her clothes back and sits on the opposite bed.
”You said something about consultation at noon right? Did anything happen?”
”Wonder where should I begin...”
”Why don't you tell me all about it? They said that the king has donkey ears~.”
Doesn't that story end with everything coming to light?
”Then how about removing the thing that you don't want to say? Though I couldn't tell it to anyone anyway if you order me not to~.”
”That's right...”
The disposable long-range skill that I had when I first got here? Then I change the story a little by only telling that it was used to annihilate each communities of scale tribes.
I speak in quite a firm tone, but Arisa wryly smiles for some reason.
”What's wrong, I'm not bragging you know?”
”I understand, but unique skill is our trump card, you should hide it properly.”
”Sorry, I'll be careful.”
”Then, what is the consultation about? Were those scale tribe communities members of Liza's race?”
Arisa listens while hugging her knee on top of the bed. Since her new skirt is long, I'm relieved that her underwear isn't visible.
Liza's tribe lived in wetlands far away from here, they were wiped out after a dispute with the weasel tribe many years ago, Liza told me the story during the frog grill party back then. It seems that she was kidnapped by the slave-hunting human when she was wandering with her family. She also said that she and her family were fearful with Dragon Valley so they didn't dare to get close to it.
”No, it's not that, it's just that even though I accidentally annihilated a whole tribe, I don't feel any guilt. I feel like the guilt was easily and completely turned off like an ON/OFF switch. As if someone is manipulating my heart...”
If I didn't almost got manipulated by Arisa, I probably wouldn't think of this either...
”They call this Paranoia in my old life! but that won't satisfy you, right”
”It's different from paranoia, it's as if the feeling of 『Guilt』 is vacuumed into closet... It's hard to explain.”
”I'll talk about it later. Rather than that”
”Do you want to know the cause for the ON/OFF switch feeling?”
Arisa who covered my words with hers, subtly smiles mischievously.
”Perhaps your MND (mental strength) attribute is too high?”
”It's certainly high but...”
”If your VIT (Durability) is high, you become able to take many hit right? MND is the mental version of that. In the first place, you're purposely letting yourself be tormented by guilt, unless you're a masochist, it should disappear fast.”
Is that so?
I thought that it was someone's doing, but it was merely a problem of my stat...
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”Then the next.”
”Ou ke~y, come at m~e”
Arisa is playing around, but it's reassuring to have someone to confide in like this.
”Based on the logic earlier, if I have high INT (Intelligence) then I should have good memory, yet I feel like I become extremely more forgetful than before. What is the meaning of this?”
”Uwah~ eh~, you have amnesia even being this young?”
I'm about to chop her but Arisa quickly takes a guard.
Because her flustered posture looks cute, I'll let this one slide.
”I'm joking, even though comprehension and memory do go up with INT, it doesn't mean that they go up equally. If high INT means that you can't forget then there wouldn't be any careless scholars right?”
No way...
My mentor was a professor extremely close to getting a Nobel prize. His careless episodes, like a revolving lantern, cross my mind.
”...That means, I was really just being paranoid?”
”Looks like it~.”
Arisa throws herself onto the bed and laughs.
Speaking of which, I originally became paranoid because of this girl's mind magic attempt...
Even while thinking that, I'm not childish enough to utter it on my mouth.
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”Hey Arisa.”
”What? Do you want to get sticky?”
”I'll refrain from that.”
This girl really likes to utter one word too many.
”What are levels and skills in the first place?”