Living as an Unemployed in Another World

63 – 3. Two Adventurers (16)

16.

When I woke up, a strange pouch had formed on my body.

That wasn’t something you could see. After sleeping side by side in the same bed, as soon as I woke up, Mira made a strange expression as she saw me staring at my palms. Why did I say ‘this’ as a pocket, maybe it’s the influence of relying on the things in my nice bag whenever something happened? You might be shortening a bag to say a pocket. Actually I don’t know.

It didn’t take long to figure out that whatever I called it, it was a ‘slot’ possessed by wizards. Compared to the ‘slots’ I know, it’s very ugly, and it’s a small, at best, a bag full of one light spell. And…… Just imagining what to put in that pocket is like a miracle to me.

I squeezed and opened my hand over and over again until I wondered where Mira was in pain and put my palm on my forehead. Janice used to say that if she’s a singer before waking up, that is, when she’s in a trance state, she fills slots with pre-determined spells for the day. Am I following that routine too? In fact, I’m not sure how the order will go out with just one slot.

“Jin, are you sick?”

So I, just laughed. He hugged Mira, who was looking at her worriedly, while still holding her hand and laughing madly.

“Why, why are you like this? From morning… ….”

Even though it’s a very small, tiny possibility, it feels like I gave the witch a shot for the first time.

I can become a wizard, because everything in this world seems to affirm me.

I felt like I finally understood this world a little bit.

It was just like that.

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Then, late in the morning, I knocked on Chloe’s door to go to dinner, and she came out through the crack in her nightgown and groped over her mummy to greet me.

“Oh, hello.”

“Okay, bye.”

“What’s wrong with your voice? Why is the door covered? Could you please open it?”

“That…… “

I occasionally saw people passing by her hallway, so Mira, who was pulling the hem of her dress to cover her thighs, urged me to ask, and she looked me and Mira up and down alternately. It wasn’t that I felt bad, I just couldn’t understand why it was like that. It seems to be carefully examining the degree of confusion.

“Chloe, open the door. Are you going to keep it like this?”

“At that… ….”

Ah.

I barely realized when I saw her blushing. Come to think of it, the two of them were originally supposed to share the same room, but Mira ended up sleeping with me, so she didn’t go back to Chloe’s room. Besides, in the morning, she appeared side by side, so from her point of view, it was a situation that could be misunderstood. Actually, nothing happened.

“——Open it.”

“Yes, yes.”

Chloe seems to have no immunity at all to such acts between men and women, and she herself thinks she is at a loss as to how to deal with her who has crossed a great mountain——but already from the first meeting, the relationship with Mira has been perfectly established. Chloe opened the door right away, without any meaningful resistance. In the end like this

Mira said that she would only wear her clothes for a while, and she was about to close the door, but she suddenly peeked at me and pulled back her shirt to cover her bare buttocks before closing the door. Seeing her, she remembered last night for nothing. I bowed down on my own. Oh, again. sh*t… ….

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As the three of them descended the stairs side by side, they met Calia’s eyes as she rested her chin on the counter and sighed. Her Chloe had an expression that she didn’t know why she was looking at herself, and Mira looked at her with her face, feeling a sense of superiority somewhere in her. And I just let it go. It looks like you’re having an absurd misunderstanding, but there’s no need to deal with it. Seeing her face, which seemed a bit frightened because of what happened yesterday, gave me an inexplicable pleasure.

Perhaps it was before the lunch business started, the hall was sparsely empty unlike yesterday. We naturally searched for an empty spot, but soon found a familiar green-skinned giant and stopped.

“Jin… ….”

Chloe called me indirectly. His expression conveyed such a meaning, asking if he should hang out with that half-orc. I responded with a shrug of his shoulder and trudged toward him.

“Hello, Alphonse.”

“…… Jin, you. What else is going on today?”

“What is work? Let’s have a meal together. Here, the order.”

I sat across from him first, and Chloe and Mira sat next to me side by side. Judging by the pre-meal bread, it seems that he hasn’t even cooked yet. As the waitress of her sleepy face approached, we ordered a dish in which moderately fresh fish was her main, and bit her.

“You said yesterday. If I come to the party, I will be your colleague.”

“It was.”

“Then, come in.”

As I said that while looking at him, Chloe opened her big eyes and looked at me. Damn, I didn’t expect my mouth to say such childish things. The half-orc seemed to understand what I meant, and said, pushing the bread into his mouth.

“I only ask you one thing. Why me?”

“Because you are the strongest. At least in this area. Oh, except for Mira. You cannot compare to a warrior.”

Hearing my words, Mira shrugged, and Chloe looked dissatisfied, but didn’t deny it. That’s right, if you’re looking for a fighter (avant-garde), there won’t be any more options than this. While there was silence for a while, two maids held a tray and arranged dishes on the table.

“…… Good night.”

“Yes, even if it’s temporary, but anyway, I’m a colleague, so please take good care of me.”

I reached out first. Do the Orc tribes have different customs? No, but they’re half-human half-orcs. He stared at my outstretched hand, then grabbed it and shook it. I’m glad his wrist didn’t go out.

“After safely going to the labyrinth, yes, I will decide whether or not we will continue to be together next time…… Good. Chloe.”

“Uh, huh?”

I had no intention of continuing to act as her adventurer, so I called her after saying that first. She still looked at me with her eyes wide open. The expression that asks why you are calling. Why, I have to ask you too.

“Are you going to do it? If I don’t go, well, I can’t help it…….”

“No no no, I will! I will!”

Chloe stood up and expressed her intentions strongly, as if trying to dig between me and Mira. She knew it. It’s a request that the lord personally proposes, but there’s no reason to refuse it. In the end, all four of them accepted the request, so another adventurer party was created in East Side.

But if you look closely, there are no clerics.

The standard build-in warrior, thief, and wizard, plus the half-elf Chloe, is a warrior, warrior, thief, and wizard.

Gerald’s party also has two avant-gardes, but the roles are divided, and above all, it’s a party that trusts in Zenith’s defensive power, whereas all I know how to do is one-slot low-level magic (probably) and an ominous full of curses. It’s all about throwing items and running away.

…… Are you okay with this? I decided to go to the pharmacy and buy a bunch of potions before telling Alicia the news of her acceptance.

Is the request first or my life first? Secretly opening my wallet, I sighed deeply when I saw the fairy tale jingling in my pocket.

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After finishing Mira’s gear on the East Side, I and she took her wagon and returned to the inn in the early evening. Chloe and Alphonse are still staying in the city. Anyway, how long has this been? I’ve only spent one night outside, and I never thought I’d miss this old inn. I was staring at the sign that reads ‘Golden Mule’ with melancholy eyes when I suddenly felt a gaze from behind my back.

“…… Jin?”

Turning around, sure enough, Celine, clutching a straw woven laundry basket, looked back and forth between me and her mummy. I thought she would hear a word, but unexpectedly, she stuck out her mouth and said a word.

“What are you doing? If you come, don’t go in immediately.”

“Huh? Uh, yes How are the Coopers?”

“It’s the same thing. If you’re not tired, look at the kitchen later.”

“Ah, that’s how it should be. Okay.”

As he hurriedly entered the inn under some unknown pressure, before long, only two of them, Celine and Mira, were left at the corner of the road. Celine looked her up and down, now fully equipped in her adventurer’s gear, and then threw a cold word at her.

“Shall we talk?”

“…… Why is my heart right? I was just about to say that too.”

Under the autumn sky fading to bronze in the glow of the sunset, the foreshadowing of a storm was approaching…….