Chapter 29: Why the Hell Are You Here Too…? – 1

Chapter 29: Why the Hell Are You Here Too…? – 1

The contents of the letter that Christie left were simple.

She would be staying in the Imperial Palace for a while due to Defense Force issues, and accordingly, she quickly found a house and had it in a state where I could have it right away if I just signed.

Lastly, she told the administrators to officially issue me an identity card, so she told me to get up and receive it.

…There was nothing to throw away, all good news.

“…When I see things like this, I wonder if I should get more involved with the main characters…”

Although I was attacked and my future life is becoming tiring in many ways…

Main character coin… Isn’t this enough of a pump?

*Seeing you spouting strange things from the morning, it seems like you’re fully awake.*

“What, were you already here?”

*I’m the type to go to work and leave work early. More than that, it’s a relief. Our system side had no intention of restoring the house you blew up.*

“…Did I want to blow it up?”

Saying that, I was roughly preparing to go out again, and the system seemed to be strangely interested in the cardigan I was wearing.

…Ah, it wasn’t originally a cardigan, it was armor, so it might not be that strange to be interested.

*How did you get something like this again?*

“The main character coin pumped, and something a lot of things appeared.”

*It’s a pretty good item. It can’t block magic well, but it can block physical blows or slashes very well.*

“Hmm… I think it might be bad instead? I’m used to physical pain inflicted on my body, but I’ve never been hit by magic properly, so I think it’ll hurt…”

It was a half-hearted, half-joking remark.

To be exact, it also meant that I could easily endure physical pain inflicted on my body because I was already used to it and had endured it for a long time.

However… it seemed to be heard a little differently by the system.

*…You really have a talent for shutting people up.*

“Why, are you worried? Don’t worry, there’s nothing mentally wrong. Rather, it’s better because I don’t get mentally broken or afraid even after being hit by an attack.”

*That attitude itself is the problem! No matter, no matter how much you have experienced death and come back to life…*

“It’s not like I don’t hurt or I’m not afraid of death. Isn’t it obvious? I’m also human and I want to live.

However, it’s because I’m frustrated. As far as my memory goes, I’ve lived in pain for practically my whole life, but now I have to be tormented and collapse from this intermittent pain.”

One human’s stubbornness, just that kind of problem.

The stubbornness that I don’t want to kneel down to this pain when I was the one who tried to survive even when it hurt more than this.

I endured with that thought even when I was attacked by thieves and one of my shoulders was hit by an arrow.

“Geez. What kind of depressing conversation is this on a morning when I’m going to make a fresh start?”

*…Well, that’s true. Now you’ve officially become a ‘citizen’ and entered the capital. This is also a new start.*

“What? You’re talking like you know something?”

*I know it well. You know this world with limited information called a novel, but I have very detailed information.

And… soon, a branch point that may change the ‘genre’ of your life will come.*

“Is Elena causing an accident again?”

*……*

The system doesn’t answer. Of course, I honestly expected it not to answer.

It’s already a blessing that it told me that a major choice branch will come to me soon.

“Well, I’ll know the future when the time comes.”

‘And… I can forget the past someday.’

That’s why I decided to push the future to the future and the past to the past.

Because the current me is ‘Lucia’, a formal citizen of the Imperial Capital who makes potions and sells potions in the Adventurer’s Guild building, not ‘someone’ who lived in the past or ‘Lucia’ in the future.

Currently, I’m too busy to pay attention to the current things.

So let’s push all the headache-inducing future and the past that I don’t want to remember anymore to the other side.

Because living today is not ‘someone’ who lived in the past, nor ‘Lucia’ in the future, but the current ‘me’.

***

“…You can come often. The Defense Force is always open to citizens.”

“Thank you, Administrator. Thanks to you handling it well, things ended easily.”

“It ended easily because you’re so smart. I didn’t expect you to be able to read and write so well in the first place.”

Fortunately, both receiving the house and receiving the identity card went smoothly.

Perhaps because the administrator liked me, or because I was friendly with Christie, he treated me very kindly, so there was almost nothing frustrating.

Thanks to that, I was able to go to my own ‘home’ sooner than I thought, both in the original world and in this world.

…Of course, Christie bought it, but I got the house from Christie, so isn’t it my house?

*It’s smaller than I thought.*

“…Aren’t you being too shameless? Is it okay to receive something like this?”

*Real estate doesn’t have such an expensive value in this world. Rather, the spoils that come out of catching monsters are sold more expensively.

Not to mention the items that are processed from them.*

“Then the potions I make can also be sold expensively, right?”

*That’s right. Weren’t you planning to make money quickly and give Christie back as much as the house cost in the first place?*

For a moment, I wondered if the system could read my thoughts…

*Even while you were deeply asleep, you were mumbling, “I’ve made a lot of money now, so I have to pay it back!”*

“…Were you watching me sleeping? I certainly made a lot of money selling potions in my dream today.”

*Your wake-up time is about 3 hours later than my work time.*

“Anyone would think I wake up close to 12 o’clock, not 9 o’clock in the morning.”

It seemed like it just heard me talking in my sleep.

…Well, even if it was a sleep talk, those words were sincere.

“By the way, how should I arrange the alchemy facilities…”

*As a service, we have already placed them in the attic of the house.*

“Attic? …Why in the narrow attic?”

*If someone comes in and sees those facilities, they’ll think you’re normal.

In the first place, it’s a small two-story house, so if you put the living in the first floor and the bedroom on the second floor, there was no space.*

As it said, the house I received was a two-story house that was just enough for one person to live in.

…In other words, the house is so small that if it was one floor, it would be a bizarre form with the bed right next to the kitchen.

In fact, there wasn’t much space left because the essential furniture was in place.

Still, I liked various parts of the place where I would be staying in the future.

On the first floor, there was a simple cooking facility on one side, and on the other side, there was a staircase leading to the second floor, and next to it, there was a chair and a small desk where you could sit and rest with a window.

The second floor was just a bed and a closet taking up all the space. The window placed next to the bed looked like it would be blinding every morning.

The attic… was really full of facilities for alchemy, that is, potion making.

I really liked the small round window next to the cauldron that I would use the most.

“Who did this interior? They did a very good job?”

*We arranged the furniture and such by referring to common designs.*

“…You’re not getting paid for this?”

*Well, it was also judged that there was some fault on our part due to our lack of guidance on the characteristics of potion ingredients. Just think of it as a service and receive it.*

…I was wondering why the new house had all the furniture, but the system had taken care of it in advance.

Of course, it was great for me.

There’s no reason to dislike it when the furniture and even the interior are top-notch.

Still, it was much better than the house that the system gave me by default, which I blew up, of course.

The house itself was a little small, but it was pretty. And I really liked the round window in the attic.

…Above all, I liked the fact that it was a normal house where wind and rain didn’t come in the most.

Honestly, the house that the system gave me by default was more like a ‘workshop’ than a house.

*More than that, you should start making potions soon, right? Adventurers will be looking for the guild building the most during lunch time?*

“Ah, that’s right! I was so busy looking around the house that I forgot the most important thing!”

Saying that, I looked around the facilities that seemed to have increased even more.

…There were really strange improvement devices that I had never seen before.

“What is this again?”

*This is an upgrade for you, who can’t properly measure the exact amount of ingredients. As for the other things… let’s just say that I added them in advance because you’re not going to make ‘only’ potions with your alchemy skills for the rest of your life.*

The system, which said that, showed me how to measure the exact amount of ‘Flame Stone’, the ingredient that caused the accident last time, as a demonstration,

I made a potion with the familiar amount of ingredients.

And, as a result…

*A ‘special’ Flame Resistance Enhancement Potion has been created! Special effects are added!*

For the first time, I made a new quality potion.

…I could already hear the sound of money rolling in.