Kays Translations
Just another Isekai Lover~
Chapter 8: The Reputation of Otherworlders
-- The next morning
After buying water and some simple food at the inn's cafeteria, I went hunting for monsters to earn gold.
The reinforced stone with its attack power raised to 9 by the "tampering" skill, was brutal.
On the rare occasion that I encountered goblins equipped with leather armor or wooden shields, the stone would penetrate the armor and slaughter them with a single blow.
Since the goblins could be killed with long-range attacks, there hadn’t been any dangerous situations yet.
However, the reinforced stone also has a weakness.
They break after four or five throws. It seems that even if you strengthen the attack power, the durability is not strengthened.
The effect of my "Analysis" skill is: "I can acquire information by touching the status object. The acquired information can be displayed. The longer I touch the target, the more detailed information I can obtain.
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It seems that any information can be displayed if I spend a long enough time in contact with the target.
I was curious, so I used the ‘Analysis’ skill to display the status screen of the reinforced stone with its durability in mind.
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Name: Reinforced stone
State: Normal
Attack power: +9
Durability: +3
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It worked ……. It's really versatile.
As a test, I tried to increase the durability to 9 with the "Tampering" skill, but since only one character can be changed with this skill, the attack power returned to 1 before the alteration.
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Name: Strengthening stone
State: normal
Attack power: +1
Durability: +9
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Now the reinforced stone is certainly harder to break, but since they have an attack power of 1, they can hardly do any damage to monsters.
The "tampering" skill is very powerful, but it's pretty inconvenient that you can only change one character.
I decided to go with the usual style of increasing my attack power, and continued hunting goblins until evening.
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I returned to the village and went straight to the adventurer's guild.
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When I entered the guild, the guild master Hannah was talking with a man.
"Oh, this is rare. I've never seen that face before."
"Harry, this boy is an otherworlder. He came yesterday."
Hanna-san introduced me to adventurer Harry-san., an adventurer.
It seems that Mr. Harry was teaching the know-hows of an adventurer to Mr. Ken, a person from another world five years ago.
Harry invited me to dinner, so I decided to let him join me.
"Please let me just sell these magic stones before we go to dinner".
I handed the backpack to Hanna-san and asked her to buy the magic stones.
…… when Hannah-san and Harry-san saw the magic stones, they both froze.
“You surprised me yesterday too… did you defeat this by yourself?”
"Takumi, how did you manage to defeat this many monsters?"
The two were amazed.
I had 515 gold recorded on my adventurer's card as the sale of the magic stones.
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I headed to the dining room with Harry-san, whose surprise had not yet faded.
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When I arrived at the cafeteria, Harry ordered a meal for himself and one for me as well.
"How old are you Takumi?"
I don't want to expose information about my time in Japan.
My current appearance is short and baby-faced, so I guess I can go with the setting of about 15 years old.
"I'm 15 years old. How old was Ken-san, the other worlder who came here five years ago?”
"I think Ken said he was 25 when he got here... he's probably about 30 now."
That means that the ages of reincarnation in this world vary?
While we were talking, food and ale in a wooden mug were brought to us.
I toasted with Harry and had a drink. The ale in this world had a richer aroma and richer flavor than beer.
Speaking of luxury, it makes me want to drink cold beer.
"What kind of adventurer was Ken?"
“Ken became an apothecary. He collects medicinal herbs, makes potions, and sells them. I heard he was making potions before he came to this world."
I see, I guess I was a pharmacist before reincarnation. I wonder what his element of skill is, I'm curious about the elements of skill other people have.
"Harry, do you know Ken's elements of skill?"
"Takumi. In this world, it's dangerous to ask about others’ elements of skill. Worst case scenario, you could be killed."
"Killed!?"
"That's right. If you know a person’s elements of skill and occupation, you can predict what kind of skills they have. It's hard to say this to you, but many otherworlders are a bad bunch. They get strong very quickly. Then they become arrogant and do whatever they want..”
It’s easy to imagine otherworlders acting that way.
I'll probably be fine, no need to worry.
Harry also taught me about the geography of this area.
This country is Melkyd Kingdom.
The royal capital is east of here, and the closer you get to the royal capital, the bigger and bigger the cities become.
There is no such thing as a privileged class of nobility, only royalty.
Each village or town is run by its own residents, who pay taxes to the kingdom once a year.
In exchange, when the number of monsters increases, soldiers of the royal capital will come and take them down.
Rosetta village is to the west of the royal capital. If you go west from here, it’s said that there are only monsters in the undeveloped forest.
That's why the otherworlders of Rosetta village head for the town called "Barcery", which is about two days' walk east of this village.
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My next destination is likely to be "Barcery".
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It’s good that the village doesn’t judge all otherworlders as bad since it seems they know some become corrupted with power (which can happen with any human; otherworlder or not).