Chapter 313: It seems like it would be dangerous if the over-nutritioned gluttons, whose growth period is ending, grow up quickly.
Day 75 â Nighttime, The Capital, Souvenir Store Orphanage Branch
Aah, what a bother, what a drag, I can already feel the time stretching like a cheese, speaking of which, how about some noodles with it? No, even if I ask how about, I still havenât gotten to proper ramen, and thinking of curry is even more absurd, even so, itâs such a drag.
The ball is exactly the place for the person known under the pen name of M-san to make an appearance and go on guillotine-swinging rampage, which actually sounds a lot more fun! I mean, itâs such a pain, but Royal Girl and Merimeri-san said they are going to stay here for tonight, so I wonât be able to make an escape. Or rather, the girls seem to be looking forward to it a lot, practicing dance even now with zealous enthusiasm.
Getting it canceled would be too much of a pity, so I have no choice but to go.
Ending up in such a world they kept going from one battle with monsters to another, and this time even got involved in a war, going through lots of hardship, so it should be fine to have a bit of fun. They are that overjoyed about this, so letâs put up with a bit of trouble. Holding hands with a girl is embarrassing for a highschool boy, you know? But tentacles seem not allowed.
Iâm also not letting the Geeks and Idiots get away tomorrow. Iâve just tied them up and threw them into the underground jail to prevent them from escaping, so it should be fine. Yeah, they were trying to run away on their own, can you imagine? I knew theyâd try something like that, so I had Demon Scythes monitoring them, and turns out I was right. They arenât going anywhere.
Well, I have no intentions or desire to dance, but since I might get scolded I learned the dance anyway. Yeah, all I had to do is observe it with ăRajingană, record it withăWisdomăand then move my body with ăMuppetăandăBody Controlă, so it was easy. After all, itâs simple motions (dance) that donât involve any magic power, skills, or unique body manipulation.
ăWell, a necktie, or rather ribbon tie, or rather, Iâd like to fly away, or rather, I wish I was a butterfly? Not really, but my white ribbon tie is being a butterfly, flapping around due to the butterfly effect? So itâs annoying? Just who came up with this? What exactly is the fun part? I struggle to comprehend. Well, getting close and personal with the girls might be fun, but if that was the point then I wouldâve been better off in highschool girl body pile, with a closer than close contact with added bonus of disheveled clothes, threatening to send me on one-way trip to paradise with densely squished bodies, which is a bit of an open secret of sorts, not like Iâm trying to hide it though?ă
Since itâs a social dance, it must involve socializing, but I have no business getting chummy with the Kingdomâs nobles. It also serves as a place for young nobles to make acquaintances, and meet potential partners, but it has nothing to do with us since we are not nobles. What did Playking call us for? What if he only wanted to say LETâS PARTY?! Damn that Playking, unforgivable.
However, while Dancing Girlâs dance surpassed all imagination, Armored Pres-san was also amazing. The Dance Goddessâ dance combined the incredibly blazingly hot dynamic feeling like that of a high pressure boost of twin-turbo and peaceful tranquility as if the time itself has stopped. A pure and passionate dance, so captivating that it seemed capable of taking the very souls of the viewers. Naturally, she is good at the other types of dance too. An intense struggle for the place of the champion is taking place every night. Yesterday she surprised me with a powerbomb, with ăNomăas a finisher while maintaining the hold!
Slime-san memorized all the dances in one try. But while I can understand a waltz, was there a need to learn tango too? I think the break dance at the end was unnecessary too. I mean, the only person who did break dance in this world was Poster Girl? But while Poster Girlâs windmill was amazing, Slime-sanâs reply with flare into swipes was also crazy. Now that I think of it, dance battles back at the inn might be way more impressive than a ball!
ăJust what does everyone want to do at tomorrowâs ball? A waltz alone is already huge, but they said that they are going to do a slow foxtrot too? But the Viennese waltz is overdoing it, and at a momentum threatening to turn it into an athletic competition they even learned quickstep, so I guess they are planning to utterly dominate the ball? But why even tango?ă
No matter how you think about it, normally it should be just waltz, spinning around, with the skirts fluttering too⊠Thatâs the standard and the most popular dance that princes and princesses generally dance in their stories? While also being a waltz written in 3/4 time Viennese waltz is twice as fast and with more rotations, like the ones youâd seen in movies? Slow foxtrot has smooth flowing movements, going well with fancy jazz-like melodies, so I can still understand that, but Quickstep, while fun, requires a footwork with a busy rhythm and involves long strides with hops and leaps across the dancefloor, so are they planning to take over the ballroom after all? Will such an uptempo tune be played? And on top of that tango⊠While it might be a standard, does this world have Argentina? I think itâs a bit different from the west?
At the moment, 25 girls are dancing at the underground hall, and I donât think a single person capable of being their dance partner exists in medieval society? To take them on with raw stats might be rough even for level 200, like, your arms might come off!
By the way, it seems there will be another separate class on five Latin dances, is what they told me, but I donât really have to go, do I? Rather, teaching the geeks and making them learn something like Geek Samba should be more fun. Letâs give them a topknot too.
However, those super difficult, high-paced, extremely technical dances uniting modern techniques from our world and skills from this world⊠Donât seem very sociable at all! There is no one who will be able to go along with that. As I thought, letâs make a tailcoat for Vice Pres A-san after all. The Geeks and Idiots arenât thinking of anything aside from escaping anyway.
The outfits for the orphans are ready too. They are going to outgrow them right away, so I made them by pattern paper with plenty of room for adjustments, so it will be fine with just having them try the clothes on and then making just some minute adjustments. They are in their growth period while being previously malnutritioned, so this much is just fine. The over-nutritioned gluttons whose growth period is nearing its end, are dancing, burning the excessive meat. Probing with Detect Presence shows them spinning around in a crowd. Iâve got pattern papers for dresses now, so letâs make some for Poster Girl and Stalking Girl when we get back to the inn. Wait, what do the commoners do though? Folkdance? Folkdance-like dresses should sell, letâs make some prototypes.
Profits from the souvenir store are rising with the increase in the speed and quality of my side jobbing. Iâm also exporting goods to the general store back at the Frontier, and they seem to be selling extremely well over there as well. After all, one royal coin was sent to meâŠâŠ Itâs 100 million ere, just what am I supposed to do with it? Just how many stores exist capable of giving change if paid with 100 million ere coin?
If Iâm getting such enormous profits, it must mean that investments I made are beginning to pay off. The wealth has finally reached the Frontier and started to circulate properly. They finally went from poor to normal, so there is still a long way ahead. This much wonât cover even the interest for the price paid by the Frontier. I mean, Iâm the one calculating interest rates after all.
Now, I wonder what is going to pop out tomorrow. If nothing happens, the rule of the Royal Family will be set in stone. If they are going to do something, it has to be tomorrow. And the one who is going to be targeted is me.
They canât meddle with the Royal family anymore, even if they wanted to try, itâs going to be far in the future. Which means, Iâm the target. Thatâs why I didnât want to drag the girls in, but the ball is the issue. They are too enthusiastic about it.
All this time, I refrained from mithrilifying my own equipment to suppress my skills from going further out of control. If abilities improve it will reflect upon Magic Wrapping, starting uncontrollable self-destruction again. But I wonât allow them to do anything tomorrow. The staff is probably going to be the only thing I will be able to carry in. The Staff of the World Tree can change both size and shape, I can turn it into a wand, or even a bracelet.
Thus, there are three items to mithrilifyăSpatial Staff â Greatly Effective for people capable of using space magică,ăElder Treant Cane â Magic Power 50% Up, Elemental Affinity Increase (Greater), Mana Control Increaseă, andăStaff of Absolute Boundary â 30% UP ALL, Sorcery Mastery, Absolute Boundary, Seal, MP Increaseă.ăSpatial Staffăâs Space Perception is useful in searching for enemies,ăElder Treant Caneăimproves control of mana, andăStaff of Absolute Boundaryă, that I picked up, can improve detection ability through increasing control over magic, and in case of emergency can be used to createăAbsolute Boundaryă. Even if my Detection ability suddenly goes through the roof, ăWisdomăshould be able to control it since with the increase in Sorcery MasteryăWisdomăshould also get a bonus.
The body breaking down also canât be helped.ăRegenerationăwill be also buffed, so letâs put it to work. As for cladding the buffedăSex Kingă⊠What do I do if I get reported?
ăSpatial Staff â Greatly Effective for people capable of using space magicăâăDimension-Space Staff â Int 30% UP, Spatial and Dimensional Magic Effectiveness (EX)ă
ăElder Treant Cane â Magic Power 50% Up, Elemental Affinity Increase (Greater), Mana Control IncreaseăâăElder Treant Magic Caneă Magic Power 70% Up, Elemental Affinity Increase (Max), Mana Control Increase(EX)ă
ăStaff of Absolute Boundary â 30% UP ALL, Sorcery Mastery, Absolute Boundary, Seal, MP IncreaseăâăHoly Staff of Absolute Boundary â 50% UP ALL, Sorcery Mastery(EX), Absolute Boundary, Seal, MP Increase(EX)ă
A certain opinion that this isnât looking good is being raised by advisory staff one after another allowing no formal objection to be made with its irrefutability. Spatial and Dimensional magic⊠Which means Dimension Slash is going to get even crazier! A dangerous move, that Iâm still struggling to control, which when used at full power threatens to drain all of my mana, got a direct buff!
However, Mastery-type skills were also improved together, and my MP also got boosted, so I could try to practice⊠Wait, the last time I lost consciousness after running out of mana I woke up stripped naked and was ravaged, so for now, letâs not. Itâs too dangerous!
Well, now I only have to slot them back into Staff of the World Tree⊠Wait? The Seven-Branched Sword also showsă7 Slotsănow? I tried taking it apart, and ăMistletoeăalso had it, and naturally ăStaff of the World Treeătoo. So the single Wooden Stick can store up to 21 items? Sounds like the best deal of this world ever? Or rather, how much equipment do I have to gather before Iâll be able to fill it up? Isnât this greedy?
If I slotted all of that and then usedăMagic Wrapăwith it Iâd probably die. Regeneration wonât help me if I explode on the spot. If I regenerated from pieces of flesh and splatters of blood that managed to gather together by themselves thatâs alreadyăSelf-Resurrectionăwith guaranteed and immediate eviction from ăHumanărace at mach speed. I donât even want to try it.
But with this I should be capable of spotting even ăAbsolute Boundaryă. Now I should be able to detect any possible danger. As long as I can deny surprise attacks and ambushes itâs all good. If I find something, I can just ăTeleportăand it should work out one way or another. Being brought to such a world and dying to an assassination is too much of a bad joke, and shouldnât be allowed, so I absolutely wonât let it happen?
Pouring just a tiny bit of into the NEW Staff of the World Tree⊠It pulsed, crap, this pattern is⊠My MP was stolen? Yup, completely out of mana. The dangerous demons are coming back. The most terrifying devils (succubi) I wonât be able to resist without mana!
ăI donât have time! Iâm also hungry, I hurriedly sprinkle red pepper onăBroiled MP mushrooms with soy sauce, the secret ingredient is red sakeă and deliciously wolf it down, which makes for quite a sight that hardly anyone wants to see, but I donât have time to waste! Ah!ă
ăWe are⊠Backă(*Grin*)
ăCame back, with the dance, over?ă(*Smirk*)
Realizing that Iâm out of mana at the first glance, I guess it should be said â as expected? Yeah, they are already holding me from both sides, carrying me to the bed?ăEeem, please be gentle?ă, tried saying, just in case?
(*Shake Shake*) (*Shake Shake*)
They are shaking their heads in refusal. Well, thatâs to be expected. Sandwiched between two beauties and completely at their mercy Iâm then treated to a full course of the peak of sexual techniques. Completely in between the two I have no chance against in terms of PoW stat Iâm forcibly taken by them, with my Highschool Boy deliciously devoured until the very last drop. If only⊠If only I had tentacles⊠Regretful, or rather, there is soft and bouncy stuff in front of my face? Yeah, I canât go no more?
Looks like Iâm not getting SkillăUnsinkableăyetâŠâŠBut Iâve got or rather was gotten skill ăLimit Breakă? What sort of skill was that?ăWasnât it a pretty cool combat-type skill?!ăNo, this is a battlefield tooâŠâŠ(*squish-squish, glug-glug*)âŠâŠ Guahaaaaah!