After ending the broadcast, I proceeded to log out as well.
When I stepped out of the connection device, the dark, gloomy night sky greeted me.
“11 PM?”
Even though various things had happened since I turned on the broadcast during the day, it was still only 11 PM.
I headed to my wardrobe and quickly changed into a hoodie and sweatpants.
Then, I took out what I had prepared earlier from the refrigerator, placed it in a plastic bag, and stepped outside.
Yena’s house, located in the same apartment, was on the 12th floor, which was a lower floor than mine, so I took the elevator down.
As soon as I arrived on the 12th floor, I could see Yena’s apartment door right away.
Ding dong~
─……
“Miss Yena. It’s me.”
─……
“Please open the door. I know you’re in there.”
─…..
“You’re not home, huh? What a bummer.”
Rustle.
I waved the plastic bag in front of the intercom camera for it to get a good view.
It was something Yena really loved…
“I brought the skewers I made! Guess I’ll have to eat them all by myself, then…”
Bang!
“…Uh. Um.”
“Excuse me.”
“Wait… no, hold on!”
Thud!
“Gather around…”
“Raise your hands properly.”
“Ugh…”
Yena, with her eyes swollen and kneeling down, raised both hands.
For the record, her swollen eyes and slurred speech weren’t exactly my doing.
“Why are you…?”
“Because I made them.”
The ‘Standard Celestial Skewers No. 77’ I painstakingly crafted were made from a tiny fraction of mana that’s extremely difficult to produce in reality.
If it were Deoen, he could make something much tastier, but this was about the best I could do here.
“Ugh. Sniff. Yum…”
“But is it that good?”
There was a significant improvement from No. 76 to No. 77, but it wasn’t enough to make anyone cry.
I’ve shared standard skewers with others in Deoen, but nobody cried over them.
“Uhhhh.”
Yena nodded vigorously.
It seems like everyone in reality is just an average person, so maybe they lack immunity when it comes to strength.
There aren’t many samples, and I can barely use my power in reality except for a tiny fraction, so I’m not entirely sure.
In reality, I’m pretty much just like everyone else.
‘It was really hard to make this too.’
It took over two weeks to make the three skewers Yena ate and the five that were left.
Still, if I develop it a few more times, I feel like I could make something memorable, even if it wouldn’t make anyone cry.
“Ugh.”
Yena, while crying, stuffed all the skewers into her mouth, chewed for a while, and eventually swallowed.
He gulped it down eventually.
Glug.
“Whew!”
“Now it’s all good.”
“…Strangely, it feels fine after eating it all.”
“That’s how you get to eat it again next time.”
I chuckled as I tilted the beer can.
I also had some skewers, but after tasting them multiple times while making them, they weren’t as delicious as Yena’s.
Yena still looked disappointed and gulped down her beer.
Thud!
“Whew… my weapon. No, it’s not my weapon, but my weapon…”
“I told you. If you don’t use it, I’ll lend it.”
“Normally, these are used as crafting materials…”
It’s a World Quest to gather a whopping eight masterpieces.
If the task is to collect eight masterpieces originating from Drak, it’s highly likely they would combine to create an ‘awesome’ item.
But since it wouldn’t balance out to give that ‘awesome’ item along with the eight masterpieces, it would probably make more sense to combine them into one.
“Hmm… So the awesome item Yena is talking about must be a combination of the eight?”
“Exactly! The Green Hermit will soon disappear from this world! It will live on as one with the awesome item!”
Boo hoo hoo hoo.
Yena covered her eyes with both hands.
Tears streamed down her fingers.
She had spent quite a long time with the Green Hermit.
Drak’s masterpieces are Soul Weapons, each with a will of their own.
To her, the Green Hermit was like a friend and a reliable companion. The one who helps her despite being such a shy hermit…
“You’re obviously faking your tears.”
“Tch.”
It’s a weapon.
To Yena, the Green Hermit holds no more value than a weapon.
“…But it’s true I’ve grown attached. Honestly, if Lady Lily hadn’t been able to collect the masterpieces, I would have seriously thought about buying it.”
“Mythical items are extremely expensive.”
“How about I give you my hovercar?”
“Eh, it won’t sell for 1.7 billion.”
In this world, a mythical dagger is worth more than a hovercar priced at 1.7 billion.
Even though Yena is the one enjoying this world the most, she still shook her head as if in disbelief.
“This is why I can’t find it… This damn world.”
“And there’s a reason I’m trying to gather them early, too.”
“What is it?”
“Isn’t the Great Cataclysm coming soon? The Great Cataclysm means a crisis of destruction.”
The day of the great disaster when the Kraken, Demon Race, and Scorpion monsters invade.
All the kingdoms of the continent, including the Empire, will face a crisis of destruction, and so will ‘Talikal.’
And only Drak’s masterpieces can be crafted when the destruction of ‘Talikal’ draws near.
In other words, if I don’t hurry to gather them now…
“…A ninth masterpiece will be born?”
“Correct.”
That means another masterpiece would be created in Talikal, and I’d have to gather that as well—a real catastrophe.
The quest requires gathering all the masterpieces, not just a few.
Otherwise, I’d have to run around again trying to collect them.
“I have to go around here and there to do it, you know.”
Yena, with her face slightly reddened, shook her head vigorously.
“…But can’t we just have it made without crafting? I have a feeling if we make it, we won’t be able to make another masterpiece again. Isn’t that a loss?”
“Well, it might sound a bit harsh, but you have a point.”
If a craftsman of that level keeps making numbered weapons, the users’ skills would certainly increase too.
But there’s no thought of changing the decision.
“I’m curious, so I have to try making it. You wouldn’t really not give it to me, would you?”
“Of course not. If I get hit here, I can’t even escape.”
“That’s true.”
Deoen has log out, but reality doesn’t have a log out.
That doesn’t mean Deoen isn’t reality.
Gulp Gulp
Ah~
“…Seeing this reminds me of when I first met Lady Lily in reality.”
“Are you a stalker?”
“Hey! A stalker? I was just curious, okay? If I see Lady Lily, I think everyone would think that way!”
“Usually, that’s what we call a stalker.”
If everyone who was curious could follow, there wouldn’t be a term for stalkers in this world.
Yena nodded with a sulky expression.
“Okay! I admit it. But I helped a lot, right? Admit it?”
“Are you trying to balance the help with guilt?”
“Hey! You’re being really cold again.”
“……”
“…I’m sorry. Was that a bit too much?”
“Yeah. Quite a bit.”
“Oh, um… yeah.”
An awkward silence fell.
Yena fiddled with the beer can, lowering her head.
“Um… Lady Lily, you must have experienced this a lot, especially it must have been uncomfortable in reality. I’ll return the weapon right away. I’m really sorry—”
“It’s a joke. You fell for it.”
“…! Lady Lily…!”
I’m serious!
“Gosh! You startled me! I thought I made a mistake!”
“Yena, your expression just now was hilarious.”
“……Ugh. This won’t do! Weapon confiscated for a week!”
“Can you handle that?”
“I can always use my escape skill, right? What can you do against my escape skill?”
“Hmm.”
There’s definitely no way for me to block the logout skill.
Even at level 4, I can’t stop the logout.
But.
“How are you going to escape here?”
“…That’s true.”
Yena won’t be able to escape from me with her physical abilities.
After all, Yena has already been flipped by me once.
Click! Yena opened another beer can.
Then she began to gulp down deeply.
“Drink slowly.”
“Hehe… I might get drunk and run away.”
“Then you had better come back the next day.”
“Heh. What if I drink again the next day?”
“Then… I’ll have to wake you up forcibly.”
While it’s unreasonable to blow away the effects of alcohol with nothing, I could at least create a strong hangover remedy using what exists in reality.
It might taste terrible, but if she drank it, she would probably wake up even if she didn’t want to.
“……”
Gulp Gulp
Gulp!
Taang!
“…How can you flip a person like a doll with those skinny arms?”
“Because I’m an alien?”
“Aha.”
…Suddenly!
“You illegal alien! Get out of Earth!”
“I have an ID.”
I pulled out my ID and showed it to Yena.
Suddenly standing up, Yena snatched the ID and looked at it once. Then she stared at me with wide eyes twice.
“Lily Elbrite… 21 years old…! Huh? What? You were 21?!”
“Kind of?”
Since my body stabilized at 20, I can say it’s about right.
Of course, in reality, I’m just an ordinary human, but even now, a few months later, I don’t feel much has changed.
“We agreed to make it 23 when deciding the age, right?”
“That’s right. But it says 21 on the ID.”
“…? It says so? Did they make this in some alien headquarters or something?”
“Yes.”
“Then what’s my real age?”
“20?”
20 sounds more appropriate.
Yena wore a blank expression before she let out a giggle and sat back down.
“Then I’ll call you ‘older sister’!”
“Older sister?”
“Of course, I was calling you that at 23 too, but it wasn’t certain back then; now it’s official, right?”
Alright!
“Try calling me older sister! Lily!”
“…….”
“Say ‘Yena, older sister~’ Come on?”
“Older sister.”
“Yes! Aaaack?!”
Yena flipped out.
“The world has turned upside down!”
“Seeing the world upside down can be quite interesting, right?”
“Help me…”
“Help you?”
As I dangled Yena’s ankle with one hand, her body flopped around too.
She was wearing light clothing, but maybe because the house was so warm, she had on a short-sleeved shirt and shorts.
Yena’s hair was all flipped around, hidden beneath her short sleeves.
“Please save me… I can’t get blood to my head…”
“Older sister, the world doesn’t always turn normally. Sometimes a ‘shift in perspective’ is needed.”
“It’s not a shift in perspective, it’s just my view is reversed. Ugh.”
“?”
Swish.
Sre.
As I let go of my hand, Yena flopped over like a ragdoll.
She fell asleep, as if fainting.
What on earth is happening now?
Did the mana from the painkillers cause another chemical reaction like it did with the skewers?
But she was fine when eating.
‘Flipping the body? Did the reverse cause an anomaly?’
Whatever it is…
“How interesting.”
Experiment 77 seems to need a bit more testing.
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