After waking up from yesterday's events, I feel my body being carried. Based on the skin and the way I am being carried, I conclude it's Christina again. I wonder where we were heading as I try my best to open my eyes. Please tell me we aren't going to train again, I've had enough of that shit after the first time. Then, I hear a door open with the sound of steam in the air. Before I could react, I am stripped of my clothes and thrown. *Splash*. 

"What the fuck." I say as I try to surface from the water. By the looks of things, I am in a large bathtub you would see in Asia. It looks nice with it's marble surface and great lighting. Or I think it's marble, I can't really tell because of the texture and arrangement. Well, at least my eyes are open at least. I look up to see Christina already changed and covered in a towel.

"Let me wash you hero." she says.

"No thats fine I can alre-"Before I can finish, she picks me up and dumps water on me. Okay, this is strangley starting to sound like those animes that Ani talked about, with mixed bathrooms and girls washing your back, whats next, her towel flie-, and I've spoken to soon. Christina takes off her towel and throws it aside. She then starts scrubbing my back using something while pouring soap like liquid on to it. Isn't this to cliché? This is great and all but come on, at this rate, all of those scenarios that Ani talked about will come true. Well, what can I do, might as well enjoy it since it's already happening.

Couple seconds of thought pass by

Hold up, I reconginize the texture of the thing from anywhere. Christina is using her chest to wash me. What the heck is with the anime scenarios happening here. It's like Ani prepared me for everything. Wait... please don't let me have that one rival that somehow always block the way, that would be so annoying with my sta-. Shit, I just remembered about my stats, then I remember about yesterday's incident.

{-5 stat in [Ego]}

{[Ego] now at 68/1000. You are suffereing a debuff called [Inferiority]}

"SHUT UP SYSTEM." I say out loud.

"What hero?"

"N-nothng." Fuck, I just said something out loud. Let's hope that [Ego] doesn't go down again, or else I am going to have trouble once I get a stat up to more than 1. But my mind is still clouded with the softness of Christina's chest, it feels to nice on my back.  Is it normal to want to touch them, or is it wrong? These are new feelings for me despite having a harem in my past life. No, I don't want to be like those other guys in my past life. I am a hero, I am supposed to be good-hearted and have a loyal harem of girls who will fight for me to survive. What would other heroes do in a situation like this.

"They would probably try to cause an incident to grab my breast."Christina says. How did she know what I was thinking, it's like she's a psychic. I wouldn't be suprised if she could predict my future, or bend spoons with her mind. Waiit, I forgot to ask what's my purpose was, why go through interfering with the summoning process? Augh, I'm so confused with all these signals going through my mind. I really have to get my priorities straight don't I. I will have to deal with that later but first,

"Christina, would you mind giving me a tour of the castle today?"

"Sure, no problem hero. After the washing of course." I am afraid to see what's behind me. If I heard her correctly yesterday, she said she was a child of a steam mephit and a medusa. I don't know what a mephit is, but I know what a medusa is. She would probably turn me into stone for looking at her body, and that wouldn't be good now would it. I feel something on my back that isn't soap, which is weird since that should be the only liquid on my back. Normally I would touch my back to see what it was, but I am afraid  of touching her chest. What the fuck is going on behind me?

She is finally done with washing me, and she is already in her maid uniform. How does she do it, I will have her teach me someday since I could probably do it with armor, if I can wear some at least. She hands me new clothes since the old ones had a lot of holes from the spider legs tearing them. At least these clothes are a nice fit, and look better. They look like clothes that a high class peasant would rare, which I have no idea how to imagine that. She then picks me back up to tour the castle, but instead of the usual princess carrying, she gives me a piggyback ride. I never imagined doing this again, I thought you only did this to children. Does this mean she considers me a child now? 

We arrive at the first destination. From the looks of it, we are in the dining room. There was a long table in the front of the room made of mahogany with a carpeted area and chandelier. In the middle of the table was a candelabra with fresh-looking flowers surrounding it. Now everything else was stone flooring with wooden tables and chairs surroundign them. The floor were littered with crumbs and meat and the seats were stained with many types of sauces. There was a huge contrast between the sections that even a blind person could point them out. Christina then lead me to the front of the room and pulls me out a chair and then goes to the kitchen. Few moments later I hear yelling similar to Christina voice and pots and pans crashing. Christina then exits out of the kitchen to bring me a plate, fork, spoon and a knife. She then calls out the chefs and the bring a cooked bird, wine and a cooked egg.

Just looking at the food entices my appetite. I haven't ate ever since I died, I wasn't even able to eat my luxurious lunch because of that damned spoon that ended my life. Christina then signals me that I am allowed to eat, so I dig in. I first go for the bird which had crunchy skin but soft meat. Each bite was delicous even has it started to lose heat a bit. Then once I reached the inside, some stuffing fell out. Not wanting to waste food, I pick it up and eat it. The stuffing seemed to be made out of assorted vegtables and a cheesey like substance. I was half way done with the chicken until I remembered the egg. I grabbed the egg and cracked the inside into the stuffing and ate it. The flavor increased dramtically and I started to eat faster. The egg added a rich texture while providing more flavor to the stuffing as it seeped into the chicken. I then drunk the wine, which I assume is high quality because of the food it came with. I drank wine during parties and gatherings but none of this quality. I finally finish the chicken and the wine and exited the room, with a bit of intoxication from quickly drinking all of that wine. I've never been drunk before since I always just sipped my wine because father always told me 'Never get drunk, you'll ruin the family name." I didn't know what that meant until I saw father passed out in the middle of the mansion barfing, as he kept on saying it was because he was drunk.

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As I wobble a bit from the wine, Christina picks me back up and walks around the hallway for a bit so we could arrive at our second destination, the treasury. I stood there amazed at all that gold and gems in the area. There were figurines made of rubies, statues made of diamond, heck there was a chandlier that looked to be made out of 24 karat gold. It's much more than what my father had in his treasury, and he had stacks of money. If I tooke the value of each object in the room, it would be worth much more than my mansion, family value, and net-worth combined. Of course, I also took into consideration of the legality of selling 24 karat gold ahd other valuables.

Then I see Christina dives into the pile of gold like a animated duck. She then comes back out with two books called 'Sayrngroth's Almanac' and 'History and Races'. It was hard to tell since my vision started to get hazier by the minute. She hands me the book, and tells me to put it into my inventory. What inventory, what the hell is she talking about. 

"What the hell do you mean." I say.

"Just say open inventory and a screen will pop up."

"Okay. Um ... Open Inventory?"

Giving Inventory . . . 

Giving Inventory failed. Randomizing new Inventory system . . .

New Inventory system given.

Giving skill . . .

Transaction complete, Thank you for cooperating with us.

My god, it's that screen. I fucking hate this screen. Before I could complain, a ding was heard.

New Skill Unlocked

[Inventory Type: Entity]

When ever you you say 'Open Inventory', a familiar will pop up. You can put stuff inside it, as well as take stuff back. But be careful, it thinks and has morals.

Fucking fantastic, 10/10, thank you world for this wonderful oppurtunity. I now have an inventory system that might not even listen to me. Well, might as well get this over with.

"*Sigh*, Open Inventory." As I say that, a slime appears. 

"So your my master?"A voice says in my head. 

"Who are you?"

"Who do you think sherlock, the slime," it says in a snarky voice, "The name is Iro Kret, female if you haven't figured it out already. I am now your new inventory system because god likes fucking with you. Congratulations."

"Well hello, can you hold these two books."

"Sure why not, but it will cost ya." I am starting to hate her already, but I know if I don't cooperate with her she'll be resiliant later on.

"Fine, what do you want?"I sigh in defeat.

"How about that gold over there, it looks delicous."

"I don't know abou-" Before I finish she lunges towards the statue. Christina sees this and grabs Iro before she can get it.

"I said open inventory, not summon a slime."

"Well that slime is my inventory."

"What?" Christina says. Then she open her eyes wide and looks back down at the slime. By the looks of it, they started communicating with each other. So Iro can communicate with other people by the looks of it. After a couple of minutes Christina comes over to me and ask me to give her the books. I comply and give her the books. What is she going to do I wonder. She then hands the book over to Iro and she consumes it. What the fuck, how come she didn't have to do something. Can people just shove whatever they want in her while I have to pay to do it, this is unfair.

Iro then disappears looking satisfied, or at least I think, can't really tell because of slime bodies. Christina then signals me out the door and I follow. She the sweeps me of my feet and we are back to princess carrying. We then arrive at our third destination. She opens the door and we appear in the libary. It was a huge libary at the most with books like 'Uncharted love', 'Boy meets Boy', and 'Sex appeal'. Those are really strange titles for books but I was curious so I grabbed one. I start reading and end with confusion. So boys dick can stick it into other boys prosteriors if they want, but for what purpose, why do they do that? Christina looks at me with a blushed face which I don't know why. She then tells me to never look at that section again, which I was confused about but to late to think about that now. We then arrive at another section called 'Education' and hands me 4 books. One was obviously 'Mathmatics', another was 'Language of the world', third one was 'Battle tatics' which looked a lot like 'The art of war', final one was called 'History at it's finest' which sounded like a comedic title.

"Study them all by next week, then I will test you to see if you know the basics of how society is built. Also read the tooks other books in Iro." she says. I nod and start reading 'Language of the world'. I skip 'Mathmatics' since I already now everything about it since I am a prodigy, and the best out of all my classes back then. 

1 book later

That book was suprisingly long and heavily detailed despite have only having 5 languages. But it was all woth it when I heard the ding of a new skill.

Title earned

[Walking translator]

You are now able to translate any language just by looking at them. You can also listen to and speak any language you want. 

Not the best thing in the world but it was worth it for the time I spent. I now just have to read those other books... those other, probably long books. Welp, I will probably just read them tomorrow, my eyes are getting hazy. Christina is at the door waiting for me so I go back down. I look at her and realize that she is sleeping while standing up, how does she stand so tall while sleeping?

"Christina wake up." I say, but she doesn't. I forget that she is a deep sleeper so I try and carry her, but to no avail. I forgot I have zero strength so it would be impossible to carry her, but she is standing in front of the door, how the fuck am I supposed to get out? I would use my legs, but I am afraid of harming her.

After a few failed attempts of moving her, I give up. I go to a chair and rest my head as I comtemplate on what I would do. I then make a list of my priorities from greatest to least.

1. Ask my purpose

2. Get at least a stat up to 1 that is not ego

3. Get a useful battle skill

Not much but it will do. I then remember to call Iro and hand her the books. I am still curious on what changed her mind on having me pay for carrying the books but whatever. My brain is still trying to process that entire book, so I stop worrying about it and fall asleep after my 3rd day in Sayrngroth.