Chapter 7: Preparation
[Edited by: Arthur300000]
[Proofread by: ArchmageNaoki]
[Deathbricks somehow snuck in here]
“You see those warriors from Hammerfell? They’ve got curved swords. Curved. Swords.” I heard this in my dream repeatedly last night. The strangest thing is, it felt like the guard spoke those words directly to me.
This is my third time waking up in an unfamiliar place. The same crumbled and moldy concrete ceiling is nowhere to be seen. Yup, I lived alone in a smelly, damp, dark and unorganized rat hole for the last 15 years of my previous life.
Right now I found myself in a tidy room with a lot of stuffed animal dolls arranged on the shelf. It’s hard to accept, but it's a girl's room. The pink curtain fluttered by the breeze of fresh morning air, the ray of sunlight slipping through the gap in the curtain being the culprit responsible for waking me up. I'm not a morning person, but thanks to this world having 26 hour days I could wake up rested in the morning.
“Yup, I'm still sane” I felt relieved after feeling the lace texture of the bra on my head. It’s a most beautiful masterpiece of art that I enshrine on my head as a reminder of my sanity. The most exquisite design and texture reminding me that my mind is still that of a man.
After escaping from the shamefully pink flying pig patterned blanket, I search the closet for my favorite jersey sports wear that didn't exist anymore. Right now, I am wearing cosplay cat pajamas that my sister vehemently insisted on me wearing.
“I went with the flow too much yesterday” I realized the seriousness of my situation while holding my head. Yesterday was too eventful for a 30-year-old-shut-in-guy like me to handle. If I were to recount the story, I wouldn't even know where to begin.
I banged my head on the closet a few times then randomly picked one of “my regretted past” and went down the stairs. Luckily, my house has two restrooms so there won’t be any scenes of me accidently seeing the “Curved sword” of some dude when I ran to the toilet.
“Good morning, Kuro-chan~” The source of my regret, my sister greeted me while I was brushing my teeth. Well, I couldn’t go against her anyway. She is the first person in my two lives that was kind to me. Even though she is my elder sister, I saw her as my daughter. And of course, I doted on her very much.
Today, I am wearing a three piece casual wear composed of a black and white striped mini skirt with a pink T-shirt and small pink jacket, and my hair was still filled with vanilla scented shampoo I used yesterday. Yup, I bathed with both girls of my family. Hallelujah!
“Good morning, Kuro-chan. What would you like to eat?” My mom, whose name I found was Catherine asked me when I arrived in the dining room. She had a kind of normal name, so I concluded the strange name of my family came from father's side. Yup, my dad, also greeted me but please don’t mind the insignificant detail.
The dishes in front of my father looked delicious. So I asked for the same. It’s scrambled eggs with bread, big mushroom, and cherry tomatoes. I also smell butter, chives, pepper and something else from the eggs. Isn’t that Crème Fraîche?
The texture is creamy and smooth. Is it related to how my mom moved the pot in and out of the flame? The eggs smell and taste a bit different from chicken eggs. Nevertheless, they are still delicious. My mom is not only beautiful but also skillful at cooking. Father, if you ever make her cry, I will skin you alive.
Luckily, the episode of unconscious reactions to male pheromones doesn’t happen again. It’s a good thing, but I wonder why. Not to mention the thought of a relationship with a guy. Just remember myself flushing from a guy creeps me out.
“What are you planning to do today Kuro-chan?" My dad asked about my plans for the day while reading something from his tablet like device. Today is Sunday in this world. The week system of this world is the same, 5 working days and 2 weekend days.
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“I want to see the device shop like the one yesterday.” If I want to defend myself better, I need to understand weapon from this world and its technology.
“That’s right. If Kuro is going to defend herself in Adventure High School, she needs to familiarize herself with this world's technology as soon as possible” Mr. Know-it-all-brother of mine, said while walking into the dining room. I feel he understands me too much. By the way, yesterday my family revealed a shocking truth that he and my sister are actually twins. Looking at them, who would have thought?
“Mama! I want pancakes!” My sister jumped into the room and ordered breakfast loudly. She almost spilled my PoroPoro juice. Jeez, have some manners sister. What is PoroPoro juice? It’s written on the box as the blood of some kind of lizard. However, it tastes like tomato juice with some mint and lemon juice in it. It’s hard to believe that a lizard's blood would have this kind of refreshing taste. ‘Fresh from the tail of lizards’ is what was written in big captions on the box.
“I could drop you off at yesterday's department store. Then I will come pick you up at six.” My dad also has to work on weekends. It seems suspicious but as they say, ‘Innocent until proven guilty’ or is it another way around?
The taste of mother's cooking is delicious to the last bite. Father had to share some of his with me to stop me from licking the plate.
Along the way to the department store, my brother explained the basics of magic devices as following.
Magic powered device or “Device”
Definition: A device that assists user's spells with the power from the user themselves or monster core.
Assist Power (GSops or Giga Symbol operation per seconds): Amount of symbols that can be offloaded from user’s brain per seconds.
Capacity (KJuiz or KiloJuiz/spell): Energy capacity that device can contain before spell released.
Gain(dP or deciPall): A logarithmic scale of spell intensity amplification compared to the spell that user was cast without the device.
The tricky thing here is “spell intensity”. In Skyrim, most spells, especially the destruction branch originated from the user. Usually, you must throw a fireball or ice storm from user to the target. However, here, if you overpower the spell intensity of the target you can destroy the target’s guts from the inside with a fireball.
The problem is the spell intensity is reduced logarithmically along the distance. For example, if you can cast a spell with 100dP intensity. You can conjure fireball up to 100 meters away from your body. However, in a different medium such as water or concrete, the range reduces dramatically. Moreover, to conjure spell inside other creature, you need to overcome their natural defense value. In the case of the target being a human, 1,000,000 times or 60dP is required in close range. Thus, if you want to set off a fireball from inside the target at 30-meter range, you need to have 90dP of intensity. However, those values don't factor in the chances of the target having a protective gear or spells.
The strategy of having high intensity isn’t meant to blow the target up from the inside but to attack the target from multiple directions. Having a fireball shot at you from the back or other blind spots is harder to dodge or defend than the one shooting directly in front, right?
While my sister and brother animatedly explained those theories to me, we arrived at the device shop. The store looks the same as yesterday, but there are some new staffs.
“Before we start choosing any devices, we should come up with a strategy first” My brother suggests. According to my brother, usually, a battle group in high school is a 4 person team. However, my sibling's team has only 3. The members of the current team are my brother and sister and another girl named Sophia. With me coming into the picture they have a full party.
The battle style they use is, my sister use dual close range weapon type devices to combat in the front while Sophia supports the team with medium range attacks and provides auxiliary support while my brother uses two gun type devices and attacks from the back of the group.
As expected of my brother, he formed his harem party nicely. Let's the girls do all the manual labor while he picks the enemy off from behind, what a sleazy bag job fitting for a harem king position.
Wait...... Aren’t I also one of my big brother's harem members?