《I'm clueless in another world.》Chapter 5
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She wore a white shirt covered with a dust and dirt. A dark green striped tie loosely hung below her neck, awkwardly falling in the middle of her bosom; her skirt had the same colour and pattern as her tie. On her waist, she tightly tied a greyish silver jacket and doubling it down with her dark grey blazer.
Her hair was as red as a wine, softly dispersing the light of the sun, making it turned darker; each strand from her shoulder lengthed hair moving hinderingly in a jungle of convoluted hair. With eyes of a blue ocean under the stormy day, covered with a fog. From the way she sat she kinda gave an adultery, calm and polite aura, but the way she munched the meat using both of her slender, dirty fingers was barbaric. The meat juice and oil were sticking on her dry crackling lips, some of the juice was dripping into her shirts, and a small piece of the meat was clinging into her white, pale white cheek.
I silently watched her finished her food, completely stoned by the way she ate it. Though... I guessed that was normal, considering I could only see bones wrapped in a skin, there was no way she would care about the table manner.
Just a second before she finished her meal, I raised another meat skewer. "Can...can I have another?" She asked with the same sentence, same intonation, same juncture, and same hoarse voice.
Words left my mouth as I turned my eyes to her right side. A mountain of bones, completely clean as it was being washed by a washing machine.
Though, as I walked and handing her another meat skewer. Her hands were floating, searching for the skewered meat.
Yeah, she was blind. I should've known when I saw her foldable aluminium walking cane.
I did have a concern about this, but that wasn't my biggest concern. As I directing the food toward her hands I frowned when I saw her feet.
Yes, my biggest concern was her shoes, it was an indoor canvas shoe.
I'd gotten transported into this place when I was working my part-time job, somewhere around six pm. But considering her apparel, was she got transported when she was at her school?
I wanted to ask that, but as I said, words left my mouth whenever I saw her gulping the meat.
After finishing the meat, she asked again, and again, and again. Damn girl... it wasn't like I didn't want to give her the food, more likely I was amazed by the fact that both of us, two people, already eating more than half of the goat meat.
But I guessed this was a better choice, considering I didn't have any way to preserve the meat.
Anyhow, we spent most of our initial interaction by silently munching the food. And after I heard a small burp coming out from her cracked lips.
She was opening her mouth but this time I couldn't hear her saying a word.
"Ah... wait a moment."
I left her and began searching for the slimes, a few minutes later I walked back, using my shirt as a bag to contain the slimes, five slimes to be precise. Though, I had a feeling that these weren't enough.
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I took one slime, the smallest one, putting it on top of her palm and explaining how to drink from the slimes.
Much to my surprise, she casually did that without a slight moment of hesitation. She was biting the slime from the top, ripping its outer skin, and she sucked the water out of the slime's body.
Maybe because she realized it was a legal water and not some kind of weird substance, she raised the slime and gluttonously filling her mouth with the water, spilling most of the water from the corner of her mouth, letting it drenching her face and her clothes.
After three slimes dried down, she finally managed to get some of her voice.
"Thank you... ah, I haven't introduced myself, am I? Sorry, how rude of me. My name is Natsuna Natsume." She stopped for a while to clear her throat. "*Ahem* thanks for your kindness, mister...?"
"Oh, Tsukasa Tsutsukakushi." I nodded even though I knew she wouldn't notice this.
But sitting in front of me, she tilted her head, while trying to repeat and say my name.
"Just call me Tsukasa." I said, considering most of my friends were having a hard time to call that.
"Then, feel free to call me Natsuna." She said in a low, calm, hoarse voice.
And then there was an awkward silence, the awkwardness made my blood went numb. I tried to open my mouth, but..
"So... / May I ask a question?"
My timing was bad. We spoke at the same time, making it more awkward than before. And we were spending most of the times excusing the other to speak first, rather than did an actual talk.
And just when I about to give up, and asking the question.
"So.../ Then, Tsukasa."
"What? / Please go first."
And another cycle of throwing the permission started again. Was talking with a girl always this hard?! I didn't know why but I feel stressed about my current condition, it was just... it was weird to talk to someone when their eyes were watching into the distance, yes... I fully aware she was blind but.
"Hm~ do you feel more comfortable if I close my eyes?" Natsuna said as she was closing her eyelids and curling a warm, meaningful smile on her mouth.
Damn, how did you notice?! No... that wasn't important, the most important part I somehow felt I just did something rude, no... I did do something rude... maybe? argh... I had this sudden urge to grab my head and hide away from her face.
I Inwardly sighed. "Sorry... It's fine, just do whatever you're comfortable with."
"Hm~ then please excuse me." She said as she slowly opened her eyes, showing off the foggy blue pupil for a second before she closed it again. "Hm~ please pardon me, somehow my eye-lids feels heavy."
She was trying to be considerate, right?
"Then please let me ask my question first, back then... what you mean by slime is a 'slime' slime? you know... the 'slime'?" I could see she was trying to hide the doubtful expression on her face when she asked that.
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But from the way she asked that, it seemed she hadn't met any monster. Anyhow I replied with a yep, and then she asked me another question.
"Where are we?"
"Dunno, but I'm sure this isn't earth."
"I see, that's kinda explaining what happened." She muttered. "Then, do you mind to explain everything to me?"
Once again, I stupidly nodded and I briefly explained about how I get here, my current condition, the status screen, the skill point, the monster I'd met.
Then again, Natsuna was a good listener. No matter how simple or absurd the content of my explanation, she only nodded while giving me this 'I believe you' look.
Anyhow, there was one thing that made me wondered though. I urged Natsuna to open her status screen, and she faithfully followed my word.
"Status screen." Natsuna said as her hoarse voice slowly turned normal. "Does it appeared?" She tilted her head and continued her question.
I see, even though she had a status screen she couldn't see it. "Yes." I replied to her.
"Hm~" She muttered as she tilted her head. "Tsukasa~ I never played a game, so may I bother you for a moment?"
I nodded, waiting for her confirmation... until I realized what I just did. "It's okay, I don't mind." I said and saw a glad expression coming from Natsuna's face.
"But it isn't like what I know is true either. So don't believe everything I said." I continued.
And then the brainstorming process started. She kinda asking everything she could get from my previous explanation, from the most basic question such as "What's Health? What's Summoning?" to the "How does the regeneration work? Can I grow my limb? How long one stamina point could last? If I raise my vision can I see?"
Yeah, I also wondered about that... anyhow after spending some amount of time, I told her I didn't know anything about the more detailed question
And just when I thought she already made up her mind.
"Tsukasa~ may I ask for another favour?" Natsuna said with a calm voice.
And my eyes widened when I heard her favour.
After clearing the bone, I was sitting on her right side, holding her small smooth hand, helping her with the direction and telling her the skills that appeared on her screen.
Shouldn't she more or less have some guard against me? We practically didn't have any distance or personal space right now. I meant, hello? I could smell your body odour right now, it wasn't the most fragrant one... but it still had this womanly smell lingering on it.
Wait, wait, wait... since when I have a smell fetish?!
"Am I making you uncomfortable?" Natsuna turned her head and facing my face, seemingly noticed I was acting weird.
I could feel her blowing her warm breath into my skin and I knew my face was lobster red. "...it's fine." I said while trying to keep my calm.
Natsuna Natsume: Summoning 0 → 1, Divination 0 → 1. Skill point 2 → 0.
Summoning
- Summon Dog: Summons dog (6 Health.) It can continue fighting for one minute even though its Health reduced to zero. Duration: 24 hours. Cost: 13 Magic.
- Summon Raven: Summons raven (4 Health) It can telepathically communicate with you. Duration: 30 minutes. Cost: 12 Magic.
- Summon Pony: Summons riding Pony (13 Health) It has 45 km/h running speed and comes with a bit and bridle and a riding saddle. Duration: 2 hours. Cost: 17 Magic.
- Summon Fire Beetle: Summons Fire Beetle (1 Health) it has glowing glands to provide light in a 3 meters radius. You can destroy the fire beetle to create a blinding burst of light. Duration: 12 hours. Cost: 4 Magic.
Anyway, thanks to her seemed like summoning was focused on... summoning, I wondered whether or not we could eat the animal from the summoning magic.
Next Natsuna took the Divination, it seemed Guidance really piqued her interest. Then again, I never used it but from the description, it was true that we didn't need to use our eyes.
Divination
- Detect Magic: You sense the presence of magic around any creature or object that bears magic or the magic itself. Duration: 10 Minutes. Range: 30 meters radius. Cost: 10.
- Detect Secret: You grant yourself magical perception that greatly enhances your ability to uncover hidden objects, Detect Secret only tell the hidden object presence, not the actual location. Duration: 10 Minute. Range: 10 meters radius. Cost: 7.
- Guidance: Allow your mind to guide your attacks. Duration: 1 minute. Cost: 8.
- Insight: Gain a general idea of the target's combat capabilities as compared to your own. Duration 1 minute. Cost: 2.
Truthfully I prefer if she took another skill, the one that I hadn't taken with. Not only it opened a new information, but it could also act as future references.
Then again, it was her decision and her skill point. Moreover, a few metres away from my position, Natsuna was experimenting with her new found skill, and when I watched her using Detect Magic her lips curled into a smile, a big blinding radiating smile.
I didn't know what she saw or felt or sensed, but whatever that was; seeing her expression, I was also infected with her happiness and smiled.
Ahem
Speaking of which, raising Summoning Magic increasing her Magic by 4 and its regeneration by 2, adding the one from the divination, she had plus 6 magic and magic regeneration as the bonus.
Level 1
Health(regen per day): 18(4)
Magic(regen per day): 33(18)
Stamina(regen per hour): 30(4)
"Ah, sorry I forgot. But doesn't Tsukasa wanted to ask something too?" Said Natsuna, funny enough she turned her head and was directing her face toward me when she said that, no... that might be exaggerating but at the very least I knew her face was facing straight to my position.
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