Chapter 7

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I couldn’t believe I had such a hidden ability. I was reincarnated in a different world, but I was still so excited.

Beside me, Sonia said, “Well, you can skip the chants, but your attack magic isn’t that powerful, so it might be not a strong ability–no, kind of weak.”

I couldn’t blame her for pointing out the reality of it all. Even still, I wanted to retain this good mood for a while. I sighed and smiled as I said, “It is weak, isn’t it?”

“Well, I’m still not good at magic,” Sonia hurriedly said. “I don’t know much about spells, but I’m sure you can pick up that knowledge in no time!”

If you look at it one way, she was saying, “You can do this now, Haru,” or if you look at it in another, “You don’t have anything I couldn’t do already, Haru.”

“Thank you, Sonia,” I said as I looked back at my prey.

I was certain I’d killed the pyon-pyon with my Fire Arrow, but there was no blood at all. I thought and was ready for there to be quite the mess but the corpse only had a few black burns.

In games, you often collected loot or important body parts from the corpses of monsters. In this world of magic and adventurers, I was sure something like that existed, too. The only question now was how was I supposed to do that.

Sonia walked towards the frog. I wondered if she was going to loot it for us—then she pulled out her sword and stabbed it into the pyon-pyon’s belly.

“… Huh?!”

Blood spewed from the wound, Sonia returned with some of it splattered all over her. Then, the corpse exploded into light. I was so shocked that I couldn’t say anything.

“Ah, sorry about that, Haru,” Sonia said. “It wasn’t dead, so I just did as I usually do. Next time I’ll let you finish off your kill.”

It seemed Sonia mistakenly thought I was hesitant to deal the killing blow, an apologetic look on her face despite all the blood.

“No, it’s fine,” I said. I silently decided to get used to this grotesque reality, this world’s “normal”.

“Well then, shall we get going again, Haru?” Sonia asked as she started walking off.

I followed after her. When we neared the West Gate, we encountered a second pyon-pyon. I used a spell Sonia had taught me along the way:

“Fire Spear!”

A single, powerful lance of flame appeared and pierced the pyon-pyon’s stomach; it quickly disappeared in a scattering of light.

“Okay, that time you killed it!” Sonia hums.

Seeing blood bothers me, so I was quite happy that the body so cleanly disposed of itself. If I had to touch and carve it up, I wasn’t sure I could continue my career as an adventurer. Once again, I expressed my thanks to that facet of this world.

“Congratulations on your first monster kill, Haru,” Sonia said as she walked up to me, wiped off the splatter with a handkerchief.

“Thank you,” I say, staring at the spot where the corpse was a while ago.

Sonia noticed and said, “You’ll find it stored inside your book. You can surrender them to the guild and make some money off of it, so we can do that next time we’re there.”

I was thankful both to Sonia’s unprompted explanation and my book. But then a thought occurred to me: “Why don’t you store your things there, too?”

Currently, Sonia has a heavy-looking sword on her waist and a small bag on her back. If our books have an inventory function, she could probably store them there.

“You see, Haru, it takes a lot of time to store and take things out,” Sonia explained. “Only monster corpses can be stored without needing to authorize it. So, we keep weapons and other important items on-hand.”

It made sense. In this other world where murder and violent crimes are so commonplace, you’d be in danger if you couldn’t whip your sword out the moment you needed it. Most of the items in her bag are her wallet and healing items, too.

“Ah, Sonia, how do you store things into your books?” I asked Sonia.

“Go take it out,” Sonia replied.

“Okay. Lend.”

“There are blank pages after the status page,” Sonia says after we open it up. “Put a hand on it then the other on what you want to store.”

I touched a nearby rock with my right as I put my left on a blank page.

“Now say ‘Store’.”

“Store” probably involved whatever storage places or warehouses were called in English. The more I thought about it, “Lend” makes my book appear, so that might have meant something similar to “borrowing” or “giving” in that language. It seems English had quite the incredible powers in this world.

“Okay: Store,” I say.

The stone disappears in a scattering of light, just like the pyon-pyon’s corpse. At the same time, a coloured image of it appears on the blank page.

“Yes, just like that!” Sonia said as she gently patted my head.

My cheeks felt hot. I looked down and whispered, “Thank you for teaching me.”

“You can store anything that an adult could lift,” a passing adventurer said.

“I can?” I asked. What incredible magic power.

We continued onto the West Gate but didn’t encounter any more monsters. “We should get onto the main road that leads from this gate, the Grand Library is just up ahead,” Sonia said.

Speaking of it, I wondered just what a library in this world would look like. It should be huge since it has “Grand” in the name. I imagined something like the open-air sections of a university campus.

We passed through a giant stone gate and onto wide brick roads, just like the North Gate. However, there were a lot more people than there, probably due to having much more storefronts. “These streets are crowded, so make sure you don’t get lost,” Sonia said as she started walking down the main road.

I hurried on after her.

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