22nd time
Luna and Baby Making Date
022 ?
Curse, curse, curse, curse… .
As I grabbed Luna’s wrist, goosebumps ran down my spine at the sight of the letters that appeared.
What kind of curses have you received? Is this how voodoo and all, and how you become an idol or totem in and of yourself?
Wait a minute. If I can lift the curse, I can definitely accumulate task points and use the task points to level up.
Luna might be like one big gold mine.
“Why, why are you like that, Hassan? Your expression is scary-.”
I must have been frowning without realizing it. Luna shrugged her shoulders as if she was a little scared. Her cheeks were slightly flushed, so it seemed like she was quite scared of my face.
“Uh, um… .”
I’m somewhat curious about the curses Luna has. However, I’m a little worried about whether it’s okay to ask her so directly, “You have a lot of curses.”
Maybe it was because of the incident with Daphne that happened the day I joined the adventurers at the Mars Guild, but I developed a hidden fear of asking other people for information.
Luna might also slap me across the face and say, “How did you know I was cursed! You pervert!”
Even if that’s not the case, reading other people’s information without permission and speaking about it is an invasion of privacy, and no one would like that.
If someone touched my wrist one day and said, “Hassan, you hit your daughter with SEX-005 last night, right?” I, too, would be so shocked that I might do a somersault.
I’m sure other people are like that too. That’s what it means to look at other people’s information.
As I was hesitating whether to bring up this in some way or just ignore it, Luna slowly pulled her cloth-wrapped hand away.
“Hey, we don’t have time to do this. The rental period for this barn is running out.”
At the same time, the letters that had appeared before my eyes also disappeared.
“Anyway, thanks, Hassan. I’ll wash the rags and return them to you later.”
With that said, we each grabbed a piece of wood and carved it with our daggers.
However, since my hand touched her earlier, a strange silence has been stickily covering my body, making me feel extremely suffocated and uncomfortable. All I can hear is Luna and my breathing, and the sound effect of the tree being dug up.
Square- square.
So I could focus more on what I was doing.
I’m already holding on to three trees. Luna is still holding on to one, so if I make one more, this strange hands-on classroom will be over.
Even though we finished the request together and even had drinks last night, there was still an awkward gap between me and Luna, and this silence made me feel so awkward.
“So, what do you use this totem for? Do you carry it around with you?”
I just blurted out whatever came to mind. I was surprised to hear my voice echoing louder than I had imagined in the cramped cabin.
Luna stops raising her hand for a moment.
“As I said yesterday, I’m going to give gifts to people.”
“gift?”
“Why, I actually ended up causing trouble differently than I intended… .”
It’s a tone that seems somewhat insecure. Knowing that you’re doing stupid things and causing trouble. Just that alone makes you an intellectual in this world. You’re smart.
“I thought that if I gave you a gift like this, it might be of some help the next time we meet on a business trip…”
I nodded my head with a sense of appropriateness, saying, “Hmm-. I see.” It seems that there are various ways to live as a low-level adventurer.
“Who are you giving it to?”
“Hassan, do you not remember anything from yesterday?”
Jirit, and Luna’s subject seems to have a sharp gaze.
At this point, I had what I would call a turning point. I was contemplating whether to pretend not to know or to tell the truth, and I chose one.
“Actually, at one point I blacked out.”
“Then you don’t remember me telling you why I became an adventurer?”
“I don’t know.”
“I had a feeling it would be like that! Anyway, I finished one! Phew-.”
Luna holds up the totem she carved. It is as small as the palm of her hand.
The shape was very similar to the ominous black statue I had seen the other day. It looked like an elephant and an octopus had been combined and then crushed with a foot.
If it was created with the intention of creating a form that would be extremely unpleasant, then it could be considered successful.
“How is it? Well done, Hassan! I put a lot of effort into making it look exactly like your face!”
What the hell? Are you being so harsh? Is this how my face came to be? I thought I was some kind of sacrificial offering to some ancient god or some false idol. Why did you keep glancing at my face?
“This is yours, Hassan.”
“Uh, uh, uh-.”
When was the last time you received a gift from a woman? Even if your mother and sister are family, they are out of the question. The only thing that comes to mind is the humiliation you received from Elfriede, who gave you a chain leash as a gift.
In that sense, the act of receiving something from a girl, no matter what the shape, was quite new.
“Anyway, thank you.”
I received the wooden statue.
At that moment, letters appear before your eyes along with a clicking sound effect.
『Exposure to a cursed item has resulted in the acquisition of a 『bad habit』.
『Chaos Blessing nullifies the quirk.』
Cursed item? Quirk? Nullification?
I don’t know what it was, but I felt like my head was in a geometric mess, and I screamed involuntarily.
“Ow, shit!”
“Hey, you like it that much. It’s kind of embarrassing… .”
However, Luna, who does not know my condition, blushes and licks her body like a virgin on her first night. You damn thing, you dare give me a cursed item? Are you doing it on purpose?
I opened my narrow eyes and looked at Luna. I needed to determine if this girl was trying to kill me with a curse, or if something unintentional had happened.
“Why, why are you looking at me like that?”
Luna blushes like a stupid pink haired girl, completely unaware of the catastrophe she’s just caused.
If that was the intended outcome, and this was all an act, then she’s a really creepy, mean girl.
What the heck, why is this suddenly out of the blue?
It was when I was holding the wooden sign tightly with that feeling.
Deering-.
『You can spend 100 task values to strengthen the value of one item by 1.』
『1. Strength + 』
『2. Agility + 』
『3. Stamina + 』
“Oops!”
*
Luna and I finished making all the models, packed them neatly into our bags, and headed out. I made four, and Luna made one, so the total number of totems we ended up with was five.
I decided to keep one of the ones Luna made. The stone grandfathers I made were given as gifts to Malcona Platan, the receptionist Daphne, and the innkeeper of the Nymph Wings.
Bustling, bustling-.
The inn we arrived at in the evening was as crowded and chaotic as any bar in the evening.
“Here you go again, Samaritan. I heard there was a fight in the park? You’ve gotten pretty good at it in half a day. Yeah, and the protective gear too. And the knife too.”
Shit, has the rumor already spread here? In a world without the internet, rumors like this spread so quickly.
Anyway, I handed over the wooden Dolhareubang I had made to the middle-aged man who owned the inn and spoke lightly.
“Here’s a gift from the pink-haired girl.”
“Huh? A gift? Why, it looks like something my wife would like. Anyway, I’ll take it, miss.”
With that, Luna and I sat across from each other at an empty table in a corner.
“Can I really order anything…?”
Luna asks uncertainly.
“Okay, anything under 10 coppers. I’ll buy it for you.”
“Getting help raising a child and even getting food for it? How shameless….”
Luna blushed and hesitated, as if she was deeply moved. But I simply replied as if I didn’t care at all about that kind of thing.
“You helped me earlier too. You even released the bees I was trying to sell. Just pick one.”
Of course, it’s not just because of that kind of gratitude.
In order to learn about the mysterious effects of the wooden statue Luna made, it would be more effective to bribe her! It’s a shame, but I’ll use the 10 coppers I took from the gangsters earlier here.
“Really? Then-.”
Only then did Luna reluctantly feel relieved and look at the menu inside the store with half-hearted eyes.
“What should I eat-. Hehe-.”
Of course, the excitement of getting something to eat starts to show and it can’t be hidden.
I looked at her profile and was lost in thought for a moment.
The wooden statue Luna made was an incredibly magical item that granted quirks while also allowing you to level up by consuming task points – that was my conclusion.
It seems to be the influence of some unknown voodoo or sorcery that Luna uses.
Anyway, since I had figured out that the concept of leveling up was not something that could be easily raised, Luna’s abilities were quite attractive to me.
Thanks to the Blessing of Chaos, another grace I have, that quirk itself, which could be called a risk, seems to be nullified.
Still, it would be taboo to jump to conclusions based on the results of just one experiment. Couldn’t we have Luna make the wooden statue one more time?
“Hawaii and pizza, Mente Choco, and Cinnamon Pie-, yuck! There’s so much I want to eat! What should I choose? … Hassan?”
“Oh, yeah. You chose them all?”
“No, I’m thinking about it. Hmm.”
“Just pick something.”
The food in this world is so tasteless no matter what you order, you’re wasting your time worrying about it. Shit, it’s all really horrible.
“Then I’ll order, over there!”
After I finished ordering and was waiting for the food to arrive, I asked.
“Can you make that wooden statue anytime? I mean, a totem.”
“Moai? No, I can only make it after my karma has accumulated a bit more. Because it is made by consuming karma.”
Karma. It’s one of those peculiar settings that people in this world talk about among themselves. I vaguely understand it as the number of tasks I have, or the experience points of a game character.
Luna said.
“At my current level, I can make one about once every two months. If it takes a long time, three months…”
“Once every two months?”
“Usually, when you explore ruins or pray at a temple, that much karma is accumulated. I finish a request about once a month, so that’s about it.”
The request is probably referring to a request from the Adventurer’s Guild. Is it possible to infer that by completing about two guild requests, you will accumulate enough karma to make a wooden statue?
Even the lowest Iron Tier adventurers are known to carry out a quest once a week.
Once a month seems like too little. So when I asked what was going on, Luna answered in a very hushed voice.
“My voodoo often has unintended consequences, so no one wants to party with me. Even if they do, they’re all perverts…”
Ah, I feel like I have the general idea. Luna is not very helpful when it comes to carrying out quests, especially as an adventurer who has to overcome difficult tasks.
Luna is literally just a pretty totem. Even if you look at it favorably, she’s no different from Chikorita, who is only cute in appearance.
Actually, if someone asked me, “Do you want to party with Luna?”, I think even I would hesitate a bit.
The only thing Luna could do was probably do odd jobs like cleaning the temple. She wouldn’t get such requests every day, so she’d probably get one once a month.
Somehow, I feel refreshed as the mystery begins to mesh together.
“But is it possible to make a living by completing only one commission a month?”
“Impossible. After paying the 20 silver for the Adventurer’s Guild fee, I starved like crazy. I dug up roots and ate tree bark. That’s already been four months. In fact, I can barely eat one meal a day now.”
Luna’s eyes turned red as she recalled the incident. The guy’s slender body was not the result of training or a diet for beauty, but rather a body that was simply the result of starvation.
I don’t know what kind of hardships he’s had, but he must’ve had a hard life. I can vaguely see why he became obsessed with bees, insects, mushrooms, and herbs.
Was it simply a peculiarity of being a sorcerer, or was it a struggle to avoid starvation? Thinking about it that way, it seems a little pitiful. I know the pain of starvation well.
“So anyway, if I get the chance to accumulate that karma more often, I can make more of that wooden statue?”
“Yeah! If I solve the commissions often, I can earn more money and I can become a proper voodoo master. If I raise spiders and snakes instead of wild bees, they will be helpful in battle. Everyone looks down on me, but I will flatten their noses one day!”
Luna, who had been mumbling for a while about things that made her lose her appetite just by hearing about spiders and snakes, slowly glanced at me.
“…Hassan is strong, right? He can even trample on goblins and kill them. He even killed the adventurers earlier by smashing their heads.”
“No, I didn’t kill the adventurers.”
Even though they went to prison, they made the kids who were alive and well into death.
“Was that so? Oh, anyway. Then it seems certain that you are twice as strong as others… I wonder if you could pay more attention to at least one person… .”
Luna was very depressed, as if her back was itching badly but she couldn’t reach it with her hands. I was watching her, wondering what else would come out of her thin lips.
“Um, that… If it’s okay with you, can you form a permanent party with me?”
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