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I woke up quite early in the morning. Sleeping on floor was not exactly comfortable but I am more or less used to it now due to that cave, the blanket was already an improvement. After waking up I had another talk with my other self because I wanted to hand him the controls to take care of morning business but he firmly refused. It's not like I don't understand his reasons to not be in control and always act like an spectator but sometimes I don't want to deal with messy situation either.
Anyway, I was led to a lone shack near the outer perimeter of village and was given a small wooden bucket filled with water and a wooden mug to take care of my morning business. I had a bad premonition about it and it was proven true the moment I entered the shack. It was a communal toilet and it only had a hole in the floor instead of a toilet seat and no toilet paper in sight. Good thing I predicted this and had few disposable clean cloth strips but let's just say it was not a pleasant experience. No wonder none of those stories mention this part.
Or maybe you are just a creep for narrating your toilet experience?
Shut up! Or I will have you take care of it next time.
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After finishing up with the shitty business and cleaning up thoroughly I was given a powder to clean my teeth with. I was surprised to find tooth powder after seeing their other arrangements, maybe they pay more attention to oral hygiene? But I was sorely disappointed. It was just a plain old salt. Still I endured through the torture of using salt as tooth powder and index finger as toothbrush and cleaned my mouth thoroughly to remove the taste of salt. I then carried multiple buckets of water from the village well to a walled but open structure which served as bath place and took a much needed bath. I was given a underwear to change into and was assured that it was new and completely unused. It wasn't as comfortable as my own but that one needed to be washed and I wasn't going to wear a leather pant without one.
Sumila and I had a short breakfast and she also packed some of the dry bread and dried fruits as travel rations. After that she said the farewell to one villager and we ventured forth from our starting, no name village. After walking for a bit I decided to ask about her plans as I never really asked her about that.
"So...where are we going?"- Ash
"City of Tane. It's about six day on foot from here. Maybe less if we go at full speed."- Sumila
"And...why are we going there?"-Ash
"Well, I intended to go back and visit my tribe after the last mission but things have changed so I plan to continue adventuring and Tane is the closest place with adventurer guild. I also have to make a report on my previous quest."-Sumila
"We can also check the adventurer's archive for your status problem. You need to be atleast rank 5 adventurer to access the ground floor of it. The more important information require higher ranks. Be glad that this big sis is helping you"-Sumila
Ugh...Why is she puffing out her chest like that? Isn't it just a glorified library? It makes her look cuter though.
*Sigh* Because we don't have status so without her we won't even be able to enter in a city let alone the archives...?
*Sigh* That was devastating piece of information. Apparently, there are no I-card with photos here. The status works as glorified identity proof because there is no known way to fake it and you can control the amount of information you want to display to others. So displaying name and age is a way of showing identity proof here. And if you want to enter in a city then atleast one member of the group has to show 'I-card'.
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"Why were you in that cave Ash? And where do you come from? It must be some far away place or an isolated one for you to not know the common."-Sumila
Err...do we tell her the truth or lie about it?
Lying is not an option cause She might have some lie detection skill. But we can't tell her the truth either. We don't know their views on people from other worlds.
Half truth it is then..
"I don't know...I simply woke up and found myself there. And yeah, it's an isolated community. It's pretty much like a different world."-Ash
"Oh...that's sad. Do you...hmm we have some company it seems. Why don't you handle them and let your big sis guess your level?"- Sumila
The cat was probably going to ask some troublesome question but got interrupted by highwaymen. And then she bossily ordered me to take care of them. Annoying cat.
Well...since you guys interrupted the cat with a perfect timing I'll go easy on you.
Or that's what I thought. I sped up and dashed towards the one seemed like their leader. He seemed like he was getting ready to deliver the typical bandit dialogue and I wasn't exactly in the mood of it so I punched him in the face or that's what I intended but I judged the distance incorrectly and it landed on his chest. About 10% of power maybe more, It's hard to punch with less strength, I mean the whole point of punching is to smack them with full power, right? Anyway, the bandit got blasted off his feet and got smashed in a tree about 15 feet away, coughed a mouthful of blood, chest all caved in and moved no more, unconscious or dead maybe? I didn't bother to check. The rest of his party looked at me in shock for a bit before running away in different directions and it would have been too much of a pain to chasing each one so I looked at Sumila for further instructions but she only looked at me apprehensively.
Anyhow, We proceeded with our travel while Sumila gave me an earful on how I am all brawn and no brain, how I only rely on brute force with no techniques and how I am a bully. Apparently, killing bandits in fantasy world is bullying. Am I supposed to just hand over my stuff to them then? No, I only have a sword, a knife, two practice sword and my old underwear besides the clothes I am wearing. They wouldn't want a guy's underwear, would they? They wouldn't want to be called underwear-bandits, right? Let's not take any chances, Punch first and ask questions later.
But that whole thought process went down the drain the moment kitty opened her mouth. I am supposed to leave the bandits to her until specifically ordered to engage. Ugh..this kitty caused so much of my precious thought process to go to waste.
The rest of the day went by without anything interesting. We simply walked till late evening when we reached a stream. We decided to set a camp for the day so we searched for a clearing and set up a little campfire. Sumila brought out the rations and that's what I had for dinner. Still, no meat...After dinner Sumila proceeded to sleep while I stayed up to keep watch and with nothing better to do I simply watched the stars. I don't know if it was my improved eye sight or non existing pollution or maybe the combination of both, but the stars in the sky were bit clearer and more shiny than back home. None of the known constellations were there though. Sometime later in the night Sumila woke up and relieved me from my watch duties so I drifted to sleep.