I wake up to hugs from Nora and Nina, who are right and left of me.
“Mr. Alex. Good morning.”
“Alex, good morning. Breakfast will be ready soon.”
“Good morning, everyone.”
Lydia and Ellie are already making breakfast, and the delicious smell tickled my nose.
I get out of bed with Nora and Nina…
“Good morning, Master.”
“Good morning, Monica.”
“What would you like to drink? We have orange juice and apple juice.”
Monica, dressed in a maid’s uniform, stood by the table and asked me what I wanted, like a maid.
“Monica, is something wrong?”
“No, I’m just trying to get you a drink as a maid in the service of Master, though”
“…… then, I’ll have an orange juice.”
“I understand …… ah! ……Here you go. Orange juice.”
“Ah, you’re going to squeeze it now. I mean, I’ll do that?”
“N-No! It’s my …… my job as a maid!”
No, I don’t think maids make juice by squeezing oranges with just their grip.
…… Don’t tell me that if I had answered “Apple,” you would squeeze that by hand, too!?
“I mean, why did you suddenly start doing this? You’ve been cleaning while sneaking all this time, haven’t you?
“Oh …… you noticed? Kuh ……! Then give me a reward too!”
“What!? W-What’s wrong?’
…… I was puzzled by the gap between the naked style when she woke up yesterday…
“…… I felt like Alex and Nina and Nora were getting even closer to each other yesterday. And it seems that Ms. Monica seems to want to get along with Alex, too?”
Ellie, who had a tremendous cold look in her eyes, explained Monica’s behavior to me.
But this is …… I guess she’s still dragging on about Nina and Nora hugging me naked yesterday.
I have a feeling that Ellie would not believe me if I told her about the extra skill in this situation.
When I was wondering what I’m going to do about Ellie’s cold look…
“Well, I thought I was getting along with Monica, but …… maybe she doesn’t think so?”
“N-No, that’s not what I meant! Um, I …… I want to hug you naked like Miss Nina and Miss Nora!”
“No, that’s just plain wrong.”
“What!? No way.”
When I listened to Monica, I heard words that were diagonally opposite of what I expected.
But it’s unexpected. I was surprised that Monica wanted to do the same thing as Nina and the others.
The reason is the same as Nina’s. Is it because she doesn’t want to be left out of the group ……?
However, the meaning of Nina and Nora playing with me in the bath and Monica hugging me naked is totally different.
Even her current maid outfit that emphasizes her breasts is too much of a stimulant for me, but …… yeah, absolutely not.
It would be a bit too much for my mental training and I might go berserk.
I’ve seen Nora mimic Me and Lydia kissing, and if she sees me doing that …… okay, let’s forget about this. It’s too dangerous.
“Thanks for dinner.”
Ellie’s cold look …… continues while we eat breakfast, and this is going to take forever to explain …… That’s right!
“Well, for today’s activity, I have to go to Shelly’s place for something. Ellie and Monica are going with me, and Nora hasn’t seen Shelly yet, right?”
“No. I haven’t met a person named Shelly yet.”
“Then, Nora will come too. That means Lydia and Nina are the only ones left ……”
Without finishing his sentence, he notices Lydia’s sad look at her.
“I-I’ll go too!”
“Big brother. Nina’s going to go with you too!”
Lydia and Nina raised their hands and said they would go too, so in the end, we all decided to go together.
When we entered the underground cave, Monica and I took the lead, with Nora and Nina close behind. Lydia and Ellie were at the end of the line.
I patted the scared Nora’s head as we went along…
“Hey, Shelly. Can I talk to you for a minute?”
“Hey …… Alex. Did you guys come to see me? That’s sweet of you.”
“Yeah, I had two things to talk about, and the first is to introduce you to our newest member, Nora.”
We arrived at Shelly’s shrine without incident.
“Uhm …… I’m Nora.”
“I’m Shelly …… you don’t have to be so frightened, I won’t go and eat you, you know?”
“I’m sorry. Nora is a little shy …… perhaps? Once she gets used to it, she’ll talk to you normally.”
Nora, who got off me and greeted Shelly, clung to me again with great speed.
I mean, isn’t she in a higher position than usual?
Usually, she’s got her face buried in my chest, but Nora’s face is right next to my neck.
“Mmm? Don’t tell me you always hug each other like that? I envy you …… Ahem. So, Alex. You still have something to tell me, don’t you?”
“Yeah. I just want Shelly to take a look at me for a second. If I got any new extra skill or something.”
“You mean the God’s skills ……? No, it’s just like the last time I saw you, only two of them are …… or rather, it’s great enough when you have two of them.”
I knew it.
I guess what shined through when I kissed Lydia and the others is the skill that activated when I eat existing monsters to make me stronger.
For starters, now that I know the identity of the skill is what I thought it was, I was about to explain it again to Ellie and Monica.
“But, Alex. I know that the skill works by eating monsters to make you stronger, but what kind of monsters did you eat? The earth spirit magic, the tree climbing skill, the Storage skill that can store minerals only, and peerless …… Ahem. You’ve got a lot of different skills in a short period of time, you know?”
“Spirit magic!? Me!? And the mineral-only Storage skill …… you mean Nina’s storage skill!?”
Shelly told me about the normal(?) skills.
But spirit magic would be Lydia, and tree climbing would be Nora?
I wasn’t sure about the last one, but it’s not every day you get more skills, and I think they increased after eating an S-class Orc King.
As I was thinking that…
“Wait a minute! Putting Peerless aside …… for the moment, the other three skills that Ms. Shelly mentioned, could they be Ms. Lydia’s, Ms. Nora’s, and Ms. Nina’s ……”