VOLUME 1
Chapter 2: The Quest
Part 9
The day after Jun joined up with Kasumi Yukasaki and Eri Inui.
Jun, on his way down the stairs, smelled an extra savory breakfast.
Kasumi had borrowed the kitchen and was cooking.
“Hey Kasumi, do you remember exactly what you did during the Birthday?”
Eri grinned widely at him.
“Hmm… I think I was learning how to cook in a world without even gas ranges. … Everybody was sighing, stumped about how to go about making delicious and healthy food.”
“… Such a saint…”
“How passionate!”
Jun and Eri exchanged glances and smiled. They saw how much fun Kasumi was having. She was humming.
Kasumi’s cooking was incredibly delicious.
The dressing, gently slathered onto the salad, was made from her own original recipe. She baked bread, churned milk into butter to be used as a spread, and used some Altaria Berries to craft a sweet jam. Jun took a deep breath, enamored with Kasumi’s wonderful cooking.
“You’ve surely been cooking for a long time.”
“I guess. … Anybody want seconds?”
Jun’s group had reserved the barroom.
Since Kasumi and Eri had some muscle pain in the morning, they ended up using the inn as a classroom.
In any case, no other guests were in the barroom . They sat in a circle.
“Before we start, I’d like to take a look at your status window. Can you show me your tablet?”
“Humph, so you can know our dirty secrets?”
“Eri. We’re trying to make the most of our time. Enough with that.”
“I’m just kidding! Please take a look at my status window.”
When he received Eri’s tablet, Jun examined her items. Earlier, she hadn’t been carrying anything of much value. Compared to that of people on other islands, her defense power was awfully low.
“It’s kind of shabby, right?”
“That’s just cause you’re a white magician fighting alone. Support personnel have to stay with their groups. … Hmm. Hold on a sec.”
Jun tapped his tablet and his infinite capacity bag appeared. Items stored inside would not drop even on death. Items could be withdrawn from and deposited into it.
However, it could only be used in safe places such as inside an inn. Consequently, players adventuring outside of those areas had to acknowledge the risks and limit themselves to necessary items.
“… How’s this?”
Jun opened his bag and took out a few items. Some were quest rewards. Others were monster drops. Some were even items that he just happened to be lucky enough to find lying randomly on the ground. Even though they were much better suited for other classes, for some reason, Jun had kept them all this time.
“Hmm… that should be good. Hey, uh, Jun… this item’s rarity is 7.”
“There aren’t any rare items until the 5th island ring. If you take a few items from this island and use them in conjunction with each other, you should be able to double your defense. If you’re lucky enough to get an item with enmity reduction, it’ll make healing much easier.”
“Thanks so much… but… this is making me feel like a beggar.”
“If you really feel indebted to me, why don’t you return the favor and do my bidding?”
“Yeah, yeah, yeah. I’m your servant. Master, do you have any orders?”
“Anyways, Kasumi-san. Here’s some equipment that can help increase monsters’ enmity for you.”
“You’re ignoring me! I offered to do your dirty work!”
“You should never run away or allow the back lines to be targeted. From now on, you should start getting used to being very careful.”
“OK! I’ll try my best!”
Kasumi then handed over her tablet and Jun assessed her stats.
“Humph… You’re using a weird skin.”
When battling in MMORPGs, one had to manage many little pieces of information and act accordingly. For that reason, if a player found the game interface at all uncomfortable or confusing, it was common for that player to use a different skin to help present the information more clearly or in a more manageable way. Jun used his own customized skin.
“Uh, Sakuya-chan said that I should use this one…”
“Your friend, huh. I get it. It could make the information much more organized. Lemmie take a look at the source code…”
After a cursory look-through, Jun dropped his jaw.
“Yep. It does make information more organized and easier to understand.”
“Huh?”
“Eri doesn’t even have this skin. Eri only uses a default skin. The icons on her screen are too big, and the damage window isn’t very well organized. You probably haven’t noticed this, but this skin is far superior in many ways. This makes me wonder about the kind of person that close friend of yours is…”
“Oh, I get it. … uh, how does one transfer a skin?”
“Just have your tablets facing each other and use infrared data transfer. The file’s not too big… Hey, is it fine if I play around with it a bit?”
Knowing how defenseless Kasumi was, Eri hastily shouted, “Hey! Wait! Don’t ever tell your password to anybody else!”, and snatched Kasumi’s tablet away from Jun.
“Jun, I’m disappointed in you! How could you want to know this young lady’s secret information!?”
“What? Wait! I was just going to return her tablet so she could type in her password herself.”
“Okay. I understand… Kasumiiiiii~”
Kasumi didn’t really understand what was happening, and looked on in confusion.
“Uh… did I do something I shouldn’t have?”
“You did!”
Eri thrust her index finger at Kasumi and said, “Just listen to me.” Kasumi had been tilting her head sideways, confused.
Kasumi kneeled down, and Eri, her arms on her hips, explained the basic principles of keeping personal information private.
“… For starters, don’t tell anybody else your password. If your password includes your real name or your birthday, change it immediately. In this world, if somebody who knows your password manages to get his hands on your tablet, your life could be threatened!”
“Right. I understand. …But Eri-chan and Jun-chan, you would never do anything like that.”
“You never know. Boys can be ferocious and bloodthirsty.”
“I think it’s quite likely that Eri would be the one to mess around with it.”
“Maybe to other people I would. If I knew your password, I’d certainly do it. … I’d never do it to Kasumi though. She’s too much of a saint to even think about it.”
“You little…”
“I don’t think you should be saying things like that.”
“… The two of you are pretty good friends, huh.”
Kasumi laughed at their back-and-forth.
Eri made eye contact with Jun and chuckled.
Jun thought, “That’s right. We’re nothing but just three acquaintances on this island. Could we possibly become good friends?”
Once they made it off the island…
He glanced at Kasumi. What would she do? About the relationship between us three.
And if what she said was true…
VOLUME 1
Chapter 2: The Quest
Part 9
The day after Jun joined up with Kasumi Yukasaki and Eri Inui.
Jun, on his way down the stairs, smelled an extra savory breakfast.
Kasumi had borrowed the kitchen and was cooking.
“Hey Kasumi, do you remember exactly what you did during the Birthday?”
Eri grinned widely at him.
“Hmm… I think I was learning how to cook in a world without even gas ranges. … Everybody was sighing, stumped about how to go about making delicious and healthy food.”
“… Such a saint…”
“How passionate!”
Jun and Eri exchanged glances and smiled. They saw how much fun Kasumi was having. She was humming.
Kasumi’s cooking was incredibly delicious.
The dressing, gently slathered onto the salad, was made from her own original recipe. She baked bread, churned milk into butter to be used as a spread, and used some Altaria Berries to craft a sweet jam. Jun took a deep breath, enamored with Kasumi’s wonderful cooking.
“You’ve surely been cooking for a long time.”
“I guess. … Anybody want seconds?”
Jun’s group had reserved the barroom.
Since Kasumi and Eri had some muscle pain in the morning, they ended up using the inn as a classroom.
In any case, no other guests were in the barroom . They sat in a circle.
“Before we start, I’d like to take a look at your status window. Can you show me your tablet?”
“Humph, so you can know our dirty secrets?”
“Eri. We’re trying to make the most of our time. Enough with that.”
“I’m just kidding! Please take a look at my status window.”
When he received Eri’s tablet, Jun examined her items. Earlier, she hadn’t been carrying anything of much value. Compared to that of people on other islands, her defense power was awfully low.
“It’s kind of shabby, right?”
“That’s just cause you’re a white magician fighting alone. Support personnel have to stay with their groups. … Hmm. Hold on a sec.”
Jun tapped his tablet and his infinite capacity bag appeared. Items stored inside would not drop even on death. Items could be withdrawn from and deposited into it.
However, it could only be used in safe places such as inside an inn. Consequently, players adventuring outside of those areas had to acknowledge the risks and limit themselves to necessary items.
“… How’s this?”
Jun opened his bag and took out a few items. Some were quest rewards. Others were monster drops. Some were even items that he just happened to be lucky enough to find lying randomly on the ground. Even though they were much better suited for other classes, for some reason, Jun had kept them all this time.
“Hmm… that should be good. Hey, uh, Jun… this item’s rarity is 7.”
“There aren’t any rare items until the 5th island ring. If you take a few items from this island and use them in conjunction with each other, you should be able to double your defense. If you’re lucky enough to get an item with enmity reduction, it’ll make healing much easier.”
“Thanks so much… but… this is making me feel like a beggar.”
“If you really feel indebted to me, why don’t you return the favor and do my bidding?”
“Yeah, yeah, yeah. I’m your servant. Master, do you have any orders?”
“Anyways, Kasumi-san. Here’s some equipment that can help increase monsters’ enmity for you.”
“You’re ignoring me! I offered to do your dirty work!”
“You should never run away or allow the back lines to be targeted. From now on, you should start getting used to being very careful.”
“OK! I’ll try my best!”
Kasumi then handed over her tablet and Jun assessed her stats.
“Humph… You’re using a weird skin.”
When battling in MMORPGs, one had to manage many little pieces of information and act accordingly. For that reason, if a player found the game interface at all uncomfortable or confusing, it was common for that player to use a different skin to help present the information more clearly or in a more manageable way. Jun used his own customized skin.
“Uh, Sakuya-chan said that I should use this one…”
“Your friend, huh. I get it. It could make the information much more organized. Lemmie take a look at the source code…”
After a cursory look-through, Jun dropped his jaw.
“Yep. It does make information more organized and easier to understand.”
“Huh?”
“Eri doesn’t even have this skin. Eri only uses a default skin. The icons on her screen are too big, and the damage window isn’t very well organized. You probably haven’t noticed this, but this skin is far superior in many ways. This makes me wonder about the kind of person that close friend of yours is…”
“Oh, I get it. … uh, how does one transfer a skin?”
“Just have your tablets facing each other and use infrared data transfer. The file’s not too big… Hey, is it fine if I play around with it a bit?”
Knowing how defenseless Kasumi was, Eri hastily shouted, “Hey! Wait! Don’t ever tell your password to anybody else!”, and snatched Kasumi’s tablet away from Jun.
“Jun, I’m disappointed in you! How could you want to know this young lady’s secret information!?”
“What? Wait! I was just going to return her tablet so she could type in her password herself.”
“Okay. I understand… Kasumiiiiii~”
Kasumi didn’t really understand what was happening, and looked on in confusion.
“Uh… did I do something I shouldn’t have?”
“You did!”
Eri thrust her index finger at Kasumi and said, “Just listen to me.” Kasumi had been tilting her head sideways, confused.
Kasumi kneeled down, and Eri, her arms on her hips, explained the basic principles of keeping personal information private.
“… For starters, don’t tell anybody else your password. If your password includes your real name or your birthday, change it immediately. In this world, if somebody who knows your password manages to get his hands on your tablet, your life could be threatened!”
“Right. I understand. …But Eri-chan and Jun-chan, you would never do anything like that.”
“You never know. Boys can be ferocious and bloodthirsty.”
“I think it’s quite likely that Eri would be the one to mess around with it.”
“Maybe to other people I would. If I knew your password, I’d certainly do it. … I’d never do it to Kasumi though. She’s too much of a saint to even think about it.”
“You little…”
“I don’t think you should be saying things like that.”
“… The two of you are pretty good friends, huh.”
Kasumi laughed at their back-and-forth.
Eri made eye contact with Jun and chuckled.
Jun thought, “That’s right. We’re nothing but just three acquaintances on this island. Could we possibly become good friends?”
Once they made it off the island…
He glanced at Kasumi. What would she do? About the relationship between us three.
And if what she said was true…
