I'm an absolute idiot.
Yeah, this morning when I woke up I suddenly realized that, about the "energy" business, I didn't have to all that stuff to Myella...
I could've just hugged her and release the Charge gradually.
I didn't really know how I felt about the solution, resulting in misjudging the way of doing it.
That's why, I was made to seiza first thing in the morning.
Myella's giving me a lecture on how to be gentle with women.
And yes, I am taking mental notes with that feature I recently found.
I've always been bad in handling women.
Now with a body that doesn't have any emotion, it just kind of became worse.
For example, I'd feel pretty pissed if I directed an insult I had given others back right at me.
But in this body, even if I thought about how people would feel about my actions, I just couldn't sympathize and understand the emotions at all...
Anyways, we'll just be more careful next time doing a battery recharge for Myella...
If you asked me, I'd say I still feel...no not feel...judge that Myella is pretty strange.
That's just a rational thought running through my mind whenever I think about the reason why would she follow me around...
She grew attached to me too fast, one wouldn't help but think it is rather strange.
Well, that aside, I gave the matter of traveling some thoughts and decided that we'd need more money.
Striding through the lands and countries without a good amount of money would be pretty stupid.
Then what should we do?
We use the pseudo-guide book and found out something pretty interesting.
"Free Requests" at the Adventurers Guild.
Free Requests aren't requests that you don't get paid and do it for free.
It basically means that anyone can take it and receive rewards.
One does not have to register as an adventurer to take on these requests.
Why are there requests like those?
Well...they're all shady requests that the Guild couldn't determine the difficulty.
So they were left behind for people who would risk their life for a gamble.
Of course the Guild won't bear any responsibility for these kinds of requests.
But that's OK with me, Myella also does not disagree.
Let's go then.
We strode through the shopping district and made a few turns before entering the Adventurers District.
The amount of weapon shops and armor shops, as well as utility item shops rose drastically compared to the shopping district.
I guess that's just natural for a place containing people who constantly fight.
We finally arrived at the Free Request Board.
There were a bunch of memo notes-like papers pinned on it.
Ranging from subjugating an unknown monster to assassinating a shady criminal.
All kinds of things were present.
"What should we take?"
"Hmm...how about this?"
『Subjugation of an unknown monster deep inside Ashtelle Woods that is killing the forest』
Oh?
Interesting, it's true that the forest was dying very slowly.
But it was because of a monster?
I think I want to know about that monster.
I can't say that I'm interested, but I do have a tiny bit of curiosity.
That said, we informed the Guild and left towards the Ashtelle Woods again.
On the way, we chopped down a few low level monsters and collected the drops for more money.
Everything's going just as planned, except for one thing.
Myella's not clinging to me anymore.
Ehh... she really is mad isn't she...
I can't say that I suddenly felt lonely, because I didn't mind at all.
But I judged that it was strange of her to distant from me after a few days of constant clinging.
Well... I don't know.
Let's ask her then... my nonexistent face skin is pretty damn thick with this undead body...
"W-what kind of woman do you think I am?"
"Succubus..."
"Kuu!... uuu... such a meanie... a sadist!!! Hmf!!"
...
Um... that again?
The reminds me of a goddamn familiar person.
But I guess it's only a coincidence.
This is a different world after all...
Hmm...
I wonder how would Aoi-chan react if she sees me again in this appearance...
What a convenient body, I can now think about Aoi without getting a panic attack.
In the past I used to break down onto my knees in the middle of the streets if I accidentally think about her...
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I guess God gave me a chance to move on from that trauma...
Anyways...
Here's the entrance to the forest.
"Where should we start looking?"
"I... don't know..."
Did her voice just become a bit colder?
Nah, probably just my imagination, I can't feel anything from her even if those words were piercing my heart...
Wait, isn't that actually bad...?
Please... the God who took me here, I don't really care, but I don't judge being a dense protagonist is good either...
Back on topic.
We searched around everywhere before I noticed something strange.
Charge: [...]; Corrosive Damage[10... 20... 30... 40...]
I was receiving damage over time...
What? Why?
"Did you notice, Myella?"
"Yes, I'm coating myself in a barrier..."
"Can you find the source?"
"I think it's... over there..."
"Alright, let's go"
We headed towards the direction Myella pointed out.
The more I got close, the more damage I received every second.
My flesh and clothes slowly got torn.
This creature is troublesome.
I mean, monsters that damage you just by standing next to them are the most annoying ones in RPG's right?
No? Well, it's just me then.
Not that I care at all in this situation though.
I get more stray damage to release on people without Karma if anything...
"We're getting closer"
Yep. I can feel the damage.
No not feel, the hell am I saying...
I saw the numbers going up quite drastically.
Charge: [...]; Corrosive Damage[4,000... 4,300...]
Wen enter a cave where the magical corrosion came from and entered it.
"Eh?"
"Interesting..."
A child was lying inside.
I looked at the child and asked myself, but no information came.
So I woke him/her up because I'm not scared of anything.
"Hey..."
"Hu...? Hiiiii! ! You look so scary!!! Bad guy!! You're definitely a bad guy!!!"
Please...
I don't feel hurt, but I'm a little curious of how that kind of stereotype is also available in this world...
"If I was bad I already murdered you while you were sleeping..."
"*grasp*... No! Please don't kill me! I didn't mean to do it!!!"
"Um... we are supposed to kill you according to the request... but let's hear the details from you then..."
Apparently, that child was a little girl, a tomboyish one.
She's the youngest daughter of Demigod of Dragons... surprised!!(monotone)
Well... that was surely absurd, but somehow I felt like it was as expected.
Anyways, she was born as a Time Dragon, and she couldn't control the powers.
Thus anything coming close to her would degenerate over time.
And the kid was exiled from the Holy land of Dragons as she damaged other kids when she was at school.
Being the Time Dragon, her body requires no nutrition or any kind of basic necessities.
She can just froze her own time and become immortal, quite a dangerous fellow...
But in my eyes now, where no pity could be found, there was a flash of opportunism.
"Kid. Follow me, I'll take you everywhere and protect you if you're obedient, how does that sound?"
"Eh?? M-Meanie-san!!"
I dropped the bombshell right in front of Myella.
The kid stared at me for a while and just nodded blankly.
"Well... I know I can't hurt you... and you definitely can't hurt me either, physically... so I'll take up your offer"
Nice.
Being with this girl, I can soak up damage all the time and is always prepared to dish it back out on anyone.
She never meant to damage me, that's why it isn't her Karma.
The corrosive damage became stray damage without any limits on Karma.
With this, I'll hide her from being hunted, and I get to soak in more damage.
It's a win-win situation so everything should be fine.
"Now I need to chop off your horns as proof that I killed you, you can grow them back right?"
"U-Um... yeah I can..."
I told the girl to stay exactly where she is while we go back and complete this request.
We got ourselves 200 gold coins for that, wow(monotone).
Now that we're back at the cave of the Time Dragon Child, let's think of a way to temporarily suppress her corrosive AoE...