Chapter 8: …Why are you coming out here? – 2

Chapter 8: …Why are you coming out here? – 2

…Christie’s office inside the defense force’s office, which I came to with Christie, was more cozy than I thought.

It was moderately large, and it was a place that clearly showed Christie’s personality, which I had seen several times in the novel.

At first glance, it’s a clean and tidy room, but… if you look closely, there are lights hidden in the corner, or a small succulent pot placed on the bookshelf…

It was a place with a lot of cute details in many ways.

“It’s not a very rigid place because it also serves as my office, so relax a little.”

“…But, what exactly are you doing?”

“It’s a background check, right? At first glance, it’s confirmed that you don’t have an ID card to prove your identity, so I’m checking if you’ve caused any accidents before.”

When I see this, I also think it’s fortunate that I came to the past, vaguely before the novel started.

……Where did the person who complained about why I was dropped in at this point just a few minutes ago go?

Well? Didn’t that person leave the center of the capital following Elena along with the person who bit their tongue and was in pain?

Anyway. The point is that it’s fortunate that the inspection is loose because it’s the point where the novel started, that is, before the danger of war began to be seriously discussed.

In the novel, if you don’t have an ID card to prove your identity, you’ll be kicked out right away.

I was waiting for Christie’s inspection to end quietly, but her expression wasn’t good.

But, it’s not like this body has caused any accidents… it’s a body freshly made yesterday.

……I think the expression is a bit strange, but it’s true.

In other words, it means that I couldn’t have caused any accidents.

“…I don’t remember causing any accidents, but is there anything strange?”

“It’s strange… it is. It’s too clean.”

“Huh?”

“It’s really too clean. Like it fell from the sky, too much.”

“……”

At Christie’s words, I quietly closed my mouth.

It’s not much different from actually falling from the sky, so I couldn’t say anything.

“Hmm… this, the situation is very ambiguous. Have you been in the capital for a long time?”

“Yes? Ah, no. I came yesterday.”

“Alone? No, before that, how old are you?”

For a moment, I thought about the physical age of this body, but I quickly made an answer.

Let’s just subtract 2 years from my original age and say it.

Thinking about it with the appropriate full age applied, it seemed like the age roughly matched the appearance of this body.

“I’m 19 years old. I’m old enough to take care of myself, right?”

“…But it’s hard to come to the capital from the countryside alone at that age. In the first place, how much are the house prices in the capital? There’s no way you can earn that much alone at that age…”

“…I didn’t say I live in the center of the capital.”

In fact, the capital of the empire is very large, and there are many abandoned areas.

…The house that the system prepared for me was also in such a place.

When the empire was at its most prosperous, all the places were densely packed with houses, but in the end, only the center of the capital where the nobles and the imperial family lived developed dramatically.

And, this born noble naturally thought that I lived in such a center.

“Ah. That could be true. Then… um. Okay. I definitely don’t need to send you to a shelter.”

“…Was I being treated like a runaway girl?”

Christie quietly avoids my eyes at my words.

It was obvious that she thought so.

I stared at Christie for a while and then got up from my seat.

…I have to go home and make more potions to sell tomorrow.

“Wait, wait a minute! Don’t you want to get an ID card?”

At those words, my steps stopped automatically.

Originally, an ID card is something that can only be obtained when the person’s identity is confirmed.

In other words… I have to go to Christie every day and say various personal stories and even my movements, etc., and appeal for a long time that I am harmless to the empire to get it.

And, I don’t want to get involved with Christie any more than this.

You can tell the reason just by one nickname that readers gave Christie.

‘Mobile Assault Generator.’

It’s Christie’s most representative nickname, and it’s a nickname that becomes a character trait in the later part.

Really, 90% of the humans who attacked the hero party, including the protagonist, were because of Christie.

The only daughter of the Duke’s family in the empire? Of course, it’s a position that nobles don’t like.

But, such a person even supports the imperial family, not the nobles? Even the Duke doesn’t make any special restrictions?

Of course, among the nobles of the empire, only the members of the imperial family and a few enlightened nobles like Christie.

That’s why she’s in a very low position as the commander of the defense force, despite having excellent skills as a skilled high-ranking noble.

…This situation also had a great influence on Christie following the hero protagonist.

…In the end, she meets a bitter ending, even being killed by the imperial family she was so loyal to.

The digression was long, but to summarize it easily, the moment you become close to Christie, you will be plagued by attacks from all kinds of nobles who hate Christie and want to keep the Duke’s family in check.

I, who have never fought with animals, let alone monsters that can be called monsters, will fight well with people.

…For that reason, I’m trying to keep as much distance as possible from Christie.

“I want to have it, but I don’t want to go through that troublesome, long, and difficult procedure.”

“Then if I skip the procedure a little? Then would you like to receive it?”

“…How?”

At those words, Christie smiled and opened her mouth as if she had been waiting for this answer.

…I think I’m in trouble, this.

“It’s simple. The things you sell. You just have to show them to me and get them inspected for a week before selling them.”

“…Do you buy them if you like them after inspecting them?”

“If I need them? It looks like you’re selling handmade items, and if it’s an item that helps the empire, I can give you extra points in the ID card screening.”

At those words, I immediately prostrated myself and bowed my head.

What? Mobile Assault Generator? Who made such a slander!

What’s in front of me now is a savior who will give me an ID card that will allow me to freely pass through the entire empire without worrying about my identity!

Anyway, soon it will be difficult to enter the center of the imperial capital normally without an ID card, but here’s an offer like this?

Christie, is she a god?

“Thank you! Sis… Sister!”

“Huh, huh?!”

“Then I’ll come tomorrow!”

I quickly bowed once and ran out the door.

…It’s not for any other reason, I was a little embarrassed.

……A little, a lot.

***

Thanks to a slight sense of elation and most of the shame that I didn’t know from when I parted with Christie, I ran straight home without resting.

…The blanket was going to have a hard time tonight.

‘It’s a problem because I have a body that’s strong enough to actually do what I only thought about in the hospital…’

It felt like one of the internal control devices had disappeared.

I’m the type of person who sometimes has a screw loose and suddenly goes on a rampage…

Originally, I couldn’t do it because I was sick, but now that I can actually do it, the situation of ‘the body is doing what I was only trying to do in my mind’ was created.

*Are you proud of that? That?*

“No… I mean, it can be a little like that, people.”

*…Well, anyway, the reaction was good in many ways, so I’ll let it go. The higher-ups saw your such, to put it nicely, unique, and to put it badly, screwed up behavior as interesting.*

“The higher-ups? They saw it?”

*We have to make money and live, too, right? Just think of it as part of the business. More than that, what are you going to do now?*

As I said, I ran away from Christie halfway, so it’s not even evening yet.

…And, there’s still nothing to eat in this house.

……It’s not time to do anything else, I need to get something to eat?

“I can’t go back to the market… I came out like this with a conscience.”

*But you’ll start to get hungry if you starve? Your body is strong, but it’s not free from appetite.*

“Then what do I do? Should I go outside and pick some edible greens? …Does the system tell me how to season greens?”

*……Just hunt. Why are you thinking so hard?*

“Ugh… I hate killing things. …I stepped on and killed a lot of ants when I was young, though.”

No, I honestly think disgusting insects and bugs are an exception to killing.

Even if the bug crawls around on its own and gets stepped on?

Wouldn’t it be logically correct to be an exception to killing?

As I finished thinking in my head and nodded at the conclusion that I thought was reasonable, the system was just typing *…* over and over again as if it was pathetic.

*…Anyway, you’ll have to kill something a lot in order to survive in this world in the future.*

“Really? It’s not like I’m crazy about fighting…”

*Do you think potion ingredients come out when you dig in the yard in front of your house? And above all, there will be many cases where you have to kill to live.*

I was almost scared at those words.

Kill to live. This is not some kind of fighting arena.

…Could it be that? Later, the system drags me to the Colosseum as a gladiator and forces me to fight…

*It looks like you’re having a strange delusion.*

“…I wasn’t thinking strange things?”

I just made a reasonable inference. …Maybe.

Anyway, that’s how the first fight and hunt began, combining my past life, present life, original world, and this world.

The reason why I ended up doing it even though I hate hunting? It’s simple.

……Appetite was an excellent fear suppressant, so it easily suppressed the fear of killing something.