episode_0095

95. Settlement

“Ughh …

“It’s taking a while.”

“I see?”

The blue light surrounding Sia’s body lingered longer than expected, and while Claude and I were wondering, Lauren glanced at us and asked us.

“Pa…what is that blue light, Cain?”

“White light means level up, blue light means status has increased, and red light means a quirk has been created.”

“Aha…”

Sia, who had been shivering with her legs tightly shut and her head bowed, leans on her cane and slumps as time passes and the light disappears from her body.

“Huh….”

It seems like Sia’s status has gone up quite a bit since she felt more sexual pleasure than I thought while sucking and biting me.

“Then, since Sia has come over safely, let’s go to the union and renew it.”

“Ugh…”

“Claude. I’ll support Sia and go slowly, so go with Lauren and exchange some magic stones.”

“Okay.”

“Lauren Za, the magic stone pouch.”

“This…this is me…”

“I should try exchanging money for the first time.”

“Thank you…!”

Lauren, who was new to party activities, was excited to accept the bag of magic stones I gave her, saying she would be happy to take care of the magic stone exchange business.

Even though Lauren was building a wall, I pretended to distribute the personnel so that Claude and Lauren would stick together, and Claude winked in gratitude and headed to the combination first with Lauren.

“Are you okay, Sia?”

“Ugh… I feel like this is hihi…”

“Is it similar to when you get a massage?”

“Yeah… Okay…”

“That’s the original deal.”

“Isn’t that weird? Wasn’t it like that last time?”

“Everyone changes over time.”

“Ah.”

“Come on, grab my arm.”

“Yeah!”

I took out my cane and moved it to my arm, and slowly headed towards the union with Sia leaning on me.

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“Mr. Lukewarm.”

“Mr. Cain. You’re here now?”

“Yes, Sia’s status has increased, but she looks a bit tired, so I came slowly to support her.”

“Aha. You can go right now. Shall we go, Sia?”

“Yes, sister!”

As I entered the union, I saw that Mion was preparing to renew her card after finishing her currency exchange business, perhaps because Claude and Lauren had already talked about raising Sia’s status.

Originally, it was okay for me to go alone to renew my Explorer Card, but Sia said we should all go together, so all of our party members headed to the renewal location.

“Oh? Oh!!! Congratulations, Sia!”

“Huh? Wow!”

Mion-ssi was amazed when she saw Sia’s card and congratulated her, and Sia was also surprised when she saw the changed contents of her card.

“Cain!! Look at this!!!”

“Huh…? Huh?”

As I approached, I was momentarily taken aback when I saw Sia’s Explorer card, which she handed me with a proud expression.

Name: Sia

Level: 3

Status

Strength: 2

Agility: 2

Stamina: 4

Horsepower: 7

Special Status

Luck: 10

Gaho: Recovery, detoxification, healing

Quirk

– Dependency-Strong (Cain)

Sia’s status increased by 1 in strength and 2 in stamina.

There… From the addiction pill to the river? Where did the middle go and jump straight into the river? Maybe it was automatically adjusted as Hitomi’s stats for me increased, but it seems like the red light doesn’t come out even though the existing quirk is strengthened.

Mion-ssi also couldn’t properly see the strange wall and was so distracted by the fact that her status went up by 3 that she was congratulating Sia.

“Oh… The training was worth it, Sia.”

“Yeah!!”

“Congratulations Sia.”

“Thank you, Lauren!”

“Congratulations, Sia!”

“Yeah. Thank you all!!!”

Everyone in the party gave Sia a brief round of applause, and Sia blushed and scratched her head in embarrassment as she expressed her gratitude.

“Then I’ll go a little early today, Mr. Mi-on.”

“Yes, everyone worked hard~”

After winking at Ms. Mi-on without anyone noticing, we parted ways and all returned to our quarters together.

“Status window.”

Name: Cain (Kim Seong-hu)

Level: 3 (42.55%)

Status

Strength: 3.23

Agility: 5.90

Stamina: 6.99

Horsepower: 2.55

Special Status

Technique: 14.32

Guardian: NTL(EX)(See more), Hitomi, Awakening

Quirk

– Theft

Experience points only went up by 1.5% and statuses barely went up at all.

At the hotel, he gave Cain money and sent him down to order dinner for the party. He organized the household accounts alone and muttered to himself. The status window he opened had barely changed since the last time he checked it.

Since we explored with Lauren at the forefront, most of the other statuses grew without even being noticeable.

However, there is nothing special about stamina other than the fact that it is certain to increase immediately during the next exploration.

Square square square-

“412 lowest grade magic stones 41 silver 20 bronze…”

This exploration was completed safely without any other drain on money aside from consumables, so there isn’t much money to drain.

“10 days of accommodation cost 14 silver, minus 3 silver for Claude’s installment… Well, I’ll set aside 20 silver for the rest and divide the remaining 21 silver and 20 bronze.”

Square square-

Public money is 10 silver and 60 bronze, which is half.

And if you divide 10 silver and 60 bronze into four, you get 2 silver and 65 bronze per person.

“Claude only takes 10%, so 27 bronze. The rest is 2 silver, 65 bronze. If 90% of Claude’s distribution is recovered as public funds…”

Party Funds – 1 Gold 36 Silver 47 Bronze

Personal finance

Cain [1 Gold 96 Silver 65 Bronze]

Sia [54 Silver 65 Bronze]

Lauren [2 Silver 65 Bronze]

Claude [27 Bronze]

The cost of the equipment I lent to Lauren has already been paid back by 50 silver by Lauren, who trained in the morning and went out to gather with Sia in the afternoon until the day before this exploration.

I paid off the 40 silver that was deducted from the public treasury out of the total 90 silver for the equipment, and paid off 10 silver out of the 50 silver that I personally lent.

“Lauren will have money by next month.”

First of all, the prices of the items purchased from the workshop were expensive, but since Lauren was working hard to pay off all the equipment costs, it seemed like she would have enough money by the next month even if she bought a new shield.

“First, I need to spend the remaining days of this month organizing and figure out how to proceed with my exploration plan for next month.”

Since Lauren is our new companion, we should explore in short bursts like usual until Lauren reaches level 2 to better match Lauren and our party’s synergy.

“By the way, it would take Claude 3~4 months to go to the tail room with his own money.”

Then, since it’s so pitiful, I should let him go once a month.

“Whew.. Did Mr. Hawk decide to pay me back this month..?”

I wrote a promissory note, but I didn’t pay attention and went out to meet women, so I don’t remember much. Well, I said I would pay back the 1 gold anyway, so I’ll check later.

“Is Tanya pregnant…”

It’s been a month since I had sex in front of Roy and had three days of irresponsible sex with him, so I think he’d have stopped getting his period by now or would have realized that he was pregnant.

“Camella seems to be almost at the stable stage.”

Camella is now about eight weeks pregnant, so her anus is starting to ripen.

I haven’t seen you for three weeks, so I think my belly is starting to stick out a little.

“I’m really looking forward to Camella Anal.”

It took some time for the method of expanding anal in this world to get beyond the primitive level, but it is now time to harvest.

Even after exploring for 20 days, I’m still busy.

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“Cheers to everyone’s safe exploration!”

“””Cheers!!”””

When I came down after finishing organizing the accounts, the party setting was already finished and the drinking party had begun in earnest.

Uncle Frank must have grown attached to Lauren as he watched her train with him, so he asked Claude to set up a drinking party with 3 silver coins as a deposit. The food and drinks were more plentiful than expected.

Claude, the nominal host, started the party by singing and everyone clinking their beer glasses together.

“Do you remember the headache you had last time? You have to eat it in moderation?”

“Yeah! Hehe, unnie!! Here you go!!”

Sia, who has a secretly big appetite, feeds Lauren some snacks.

We’ve become closer than I thought.

Lauren and Sia, who had become close friends while going out to collect things together, started drinking and eating snacks together while making noise.

“Cain, how much do I…”

“27 Bronze.”

“Ugh..”

“I’ll check later and send it to you appropriately, so be quiet.”

“Thank you…”

It was surprising that Claude, who normally likes to run wild, meekly gave in to Lauren in this exploration.

Well, there was the intention to score points with Lauren, and there was also the fact that he was holding back because of the huge accident right before, but still, considering that Claude and I only caught 100 out of nearly 400 monsters, Claude was very cautious.

“Leave the party to me, and you just think about paying off the debt and becoming stronger.”

“Thank you Cain.”

“Instead, since Lauren is already in, let’s try raising Lauren’s level by 1 and challenge her instead of aiming for the 3rd floor for the time being.”

“Yeah.”

“Trust me.”

“He’s dependable, as expected, he’s the pillar of our party!”

Tamar-!

While Claude and I were drinking beer one after another, Sia and Lauren, who had been chatting for a while, spoke to us.

“Cain! Cheers!”

“Yeah, both Cain and the leader worked hard.”

“Okay, shall we have another drink?”

“Uncle Frank, please give me four more beers!”

It seemed like Sia would drink too much today, but everyone continued drinking beer in a good mood.