Shadow and The Jester
Chapter 16's
Chapter 16: Leveling & Further Goals.
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(POV Souji)
Waking up in the morning, before the sun could be seen appearing on the horizon, I immediately washed my face in the river near here.
Right after I finished washing my face, Shinomiya-san could be seen starting to wake up from her sleep.
"Ohayou, Shinomiya-san."
"Ohayou gozaimasu, Shimotsuki-kun."
After that, Shinomiya-san was seen washing her face as well, before she decided to take a walk around this place with me.
On our way, Shinomiya-san decided to ask me a few things.
"By the way, Shimotsuki-kun. Do you think that my Kendo skills will be useful in this world?"
"Why are you asking me that?"
Although at first Shinomiya-san was a bit hesitant to say that, but she still decided to say it in the end.
"That's... It's just that, after seeing things that have happened over the past two days, I'm starting to feel like they don't seem to be useful at all."
I only glanced at her for a moment, before I stopped and looked at her with all seriousness, which seemed to have managed to make this girl come to a stop as well.
"Listen, Shinomiya-san. Those things aren't useless at all. It's just that you're just lacking confidence."
"What do you mean, Shimotsuki-kun?"
"I mean that, you just haven't tried it yet, and make sure, whether it's true or not."
"In addition, you also have Unique Skills that strengthen all the talent you have. I'm pretty sure, your fighting skills, especially your Kendo abilities, will definitely become very powerful, thanks to your Unique Skill."
"Is that really true?"
I could only sigh after I got back to that pessimistic question.
"OK, okay. If you don't believe me, why don't we just try it? All right, we're going to invite the others as well, to raise our level as high as possible, so that we're still in this forest."
After receiving a positive answer from Shinomiya-san, the two of us then continued our walk, until the sun in the sky appeared.
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After finishing breakfast, I then decided to immediately tell the others, about my plans with Shinomiya-san.
"By the way, I and Shinomiya-san will want to kill the monsters that are in this forest for leveling. Do you want to come with us?"
Not long after I said that, everyone who was here immediately gave their own answers.
"Finally you decided that too, Sou-chan. I don't need to be so curious anymore with all the Unique Skills I have."
"That's absolutely right, Miyouji-Senpai. Sanada was actually very eager to try out his Unique Skill."
"Sensei also actually wanted to propose this thing anyway, but since you've already decided it first, what can you do, right?"
"Then, when are we going to start, Souji-san?"
"Later, after we've finished digesting the food we just ate." I immediately replied to the question asked by Kyouya.
Then, we spent our time for the next few dozen minutes talking about random things, before we finally decided to go raise our level.
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Our first destination was a ferocious and sinister looking monster, whose body was enormous, with its skin red, while a pair of horns could be seen sticking out of its forehead.
Not only that, this monster was seen carrying a large baton in his right hand, with his own clothes only in the form of tattered pants.
Yup, that's absolutely right. This monster was [Ogre], a Rank D monster that lived in the depths of any forest, provided that there was a sufficient concentration of Mirumcules, aka Mana, within it.
"Now, kill him, Kyouya."
The teenager then immediately rushed towards Ogre who had lost both of his arms, where he deftly used his sword to stab the heart of the Ogre.
Of course, not long after, the Ogre immediately roared quite loudly, before he fell to the ground, and seemed to have died.
Yup, just anti-******* once. Perhaps, this is because I helped him to kill the monster.
It's just, because now the priority is to level up quickly, and not their fighting experience, so I don't really care about that.
Therefore, we all then spent our time until lunch, only to repeat the matter, until each of us had finally killed at least three different monsters.
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(POV Third Person)
While Souji's group began to level, on the other side of the Continent, it was seen that the Dafa group was busy with their respective affairs.
Where, while Sora was still so focused on studying the Magic that existed in the World, Akane was busy with her Unique Skill, and Rafi was still busy with her Magic abilities, on the other hand, Dafa can be seen to have successfully completed his artificial arm.
Although it is said to have been successfully completed, but actually it is still just a prototype, considering that Dafa still lacks some materials for its manufacture.
Moreover, considering that in this World there is no internet network at all, where it makes it difficult for Dafa to give some of the things he wants into his artificial arm.
But, even though it is still just a prototype, it can be said, if the artificial arm already has a lot of functions in it.
Like that example, it can be used as a rifle, releasing high concentrated energy, so it can be turned into a sword.
The point is, after successfully solving the problem with his right arm, now Dafa decided to start focusing on his next plan, namely...
"Let's go to town."
Everyone who was there immediately became a bit surprised, after hearing what Dafa said, but they were quickly able to calm down, just because they were already somewhat able to guess in which direction this thing would go.
"Then, when are we going to the city?" Akane decided to ask this question, moments after she managed to calm down.
Where, Dafa initially just kept quiet while holding his chin, before he finally said; "Fast tomorrow anyway. That too, if nothing unexpected happens to us."
After hearing this, they consulted each other about what they needed to do, when they later went to the city.
And it ends up being like this;
First, they would most likely register as members of the Trade Union, aka the Handeln Guild, it was because Dafa was planning to open a bookstore.
Later, the bookstore will be built similar to a Cafe, where they will be used as their information gathering base, while the castle belongs to Orobas, they will make it their main headquarters.
Where will they get those books? Of course, it was from them alone, which they would later re-copy almost the entire picture story book they knew.
Although indeed, there will be the possibility that people in the Kingdom of Groxia will be suspicious of it, but it has been thought of a way out by Dafa, he said, if only that possibility really happened.
After successfully completing the first goal, Dafa then intends to build a base of information gathering from the Underworld in this World, where it will be assisted by Orobas.
In fact, it can be said, if the only one who knows this is Orobas, just because Dafa does not want the others to have to stain their hands, he said, if only in his second plan would it be necessary to commit murder.
And, for the third one, Dafa still did not tell the others, just because he thought, the time was still not right, where they still have to focus to finish first and second, before he will tell the third.
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After deciding on these matters, they all focused on their own affairs, with Dafa deciding to go for a walk around the castle, along with Sora, who had been out since when, and who had been around, already walking beside him.
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In this chapter, it is shown quite a lot of things related to Souji's group, and Dafa seems to have succeeded in creating his artificial arm.
In addition, even in this chapter, we are shown two main purposes of Dafa, from the hundreds of goals that are in his head.
And, later Souji will still meet the Niji, even though he does not know, if it will still be in the twentieth chapter, or not.
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