章 11: New Skills?

"Hey, I have something to ask the both of you. How do you learn skills?"

The day after fighting the toads. We were having a late lunch at the guild's bar. Before me was the penniless Meguma who didn't have any proper meals before meeting us and was focusing on eating her set meal. And Terly calling for the waitress to order more food. Their appetites were too good for ladies of this tender age.

… Two women and a single man is still a harem party, but it was totally not feminine…Meguma lift her head while holding her fork and said:

"Learning skills? That's easy, look at your card and choose from the 'skills that could be learned' column… Oh right, Kanike's job is adventurer. For basic tier jobs, you need someone to teach you the skills. You need to see the skill in action and ask the user to teach you how to use it. 'Skills that could be

learned' will show up, and you could learn the skills by putting in the required skill points."

I see. I remember the counter lady saying that the basic tier job adventurer could

learn any skills. If that was the case…

"… That means if Meguma teaches me, I could use explosion magic?"

"That's how it is!"

"Woah!"

Meguma reacted strongly to my casual words.

"That's how it is, Kanike! The skill points needed would be absurdly high, but adventurer is the only job other than arch wizard that could use explosion. I can teach you if you want to learn. Or rather, there are no other skills that are worth learning except explosion right? Of course not! Come, let's take the path of explosion together!"

Your face is too close!

"Wait, calm down loli! I only have 3 skill points, there's no way I could learn it right?"

"Lo, loli…?"

Meguma was too excited to hold a proper conversation, so I asked Terly instead.

"If an adventurer wants to learn explosion spell, 20 or so skill points won't be enough. You will probably need to train for a decade or two and invest all your points to learn it."

"Who has that kind of patience?"

"Fu… To call me a loli…"

Meguma seemed stunned by me addressing her as a loli, eating her set meal in small bites dejectedly. But the only good point about my job– adventurer was the ability to learn all skills. Of course I want to learn more skills.

"Hey, Terly, you should have many convenient skills right? Do you have any easy to learn skills to teach me? I prefer those that don't need a lot of points and are very useful."

Terly thought for a moment while holding her cupful of water.

"… It couldn't be helped– but I have to warn you, my skills are amazing! It's not meant to be passed on lightly!"

I wasn't happy about Terly mouthing off like that, but I had to bear with it since I am requesting her to teach me. I obediently nodded my head and watched Aqua's every movement.

"Well, look at this cup. Put this cupful of water on top of your head, and don't let the cup fall off. Here, try it."

It's a bit embarrassing to do that in public, but I mimic Terly's action and put the cup on top of my head. Terly then took out an unknown seed from somewhere and place it on the table.

"Alright, now use your finger to flick the seed into the cup, you must do it in one try. Something amazing is happening! The seed is absorbing the water and sprouting…"

"Who asked you to teach me party tricks you worthless goddess!"

"Eh–?"

Terly became as dejected as Meguma for some reason and rolled the seed around the table with her finger. I don't know why you got so down, but could you remove the cup on your head, it's drawing a lot of attention.

"Hahaha! That's so funny! Hey, you are the party Lighttress wanted to join right? You want to learn something useful? How about thieving skills?"

Someone interjected suddenly. I turned my head and saw two women occupying the neighboring table. The one talking to me was a woman wearing light leather armor. She had a small scar on her face and seemed to be street smart. She was a pretty girl with silver locks and a bright personality. Beside her was a blond beauty in full plate mail. That unapproachable cool beauty…

That's right, it was the female knight that wanted to join our party yesterday. The thief girl should be a year or two younger than me.

"Erm, what do you mean by thieving skills?How are they like?"

The girl that looked like a thief responded cheerfully:

"Good question. Thieving skills are very practical– such as 'Disarm Traps', 'Sense Enemy', 'Hide', 'Steal', they are all skills that are worth learning. Your job is the basic tier adventurers right? Thieving skills don't require much points, so it's a great deal! How about it? I can teach them to you if you treat me to a glass of crimson beer!"

So cheap! That's how I felt, but when I thought about it, she had nothing to lose from teaching me the skills. And I could just ask any other thief if I really want to learn thieving skills.

"Okay, I leave it in your hands! Excuse me– Please get a glass of ice cold crimson beer for this lady!"