Chapter 137: Towards the Mahl Republic・Preparations

「Guh…munya…」(Siesta)

「…」(Hind)

Immediately after logging in, there was a furball on the bed of my private room inside the guild house…wrong, there was a girl with long wavy hair sleeping on it.

Why is she sleeping here?

Anyway, I tried to wake Siesta-chan by shaking her.

「Hhnn….」(Siesta)

When I thought that she would roll over to the other side with a light moan, this time she was laying there facing upwards with a face full of delight and kept sleeping.

The moment she turned over, there was a certain part of her that shaked like crazy…as always, this girl is bad for my heart.

「Hey, please wake up. Did you need something from me? Hey!」(Hind)

「Huaa…?」(Siesta)

While propelling her upper body upwards in an unsteady manner, she started rubbing her eyes and finally woke up.

Once I entered her field of view, she loosened her face with a smile.

「…Good morning, Senpai.」(Siesta)

「Morning. Why were you sleeping in my room?」(Hind)

「I was thinking about ambushing Senpai so I entered the room, but then I noticed that the bedding looked really comfortable so…

Also, this room smells really nice.」(Siesta)

「Well the futon was made with the feathers that I collected after all. Since we can’t really get a high quality one in real life, I got the urge to make one in-game. The source of the smell should be this? Herbs and a mixture of Adeniums.」(Hind)

「Supi…」(Siesta)

「You were the one that asked! Wake up!」(Hind)

「Sniff sniff…uhehe…」(Siesta)

「Stop that! I’ve only slept there a few times but…stop it!」(Hind)

It’s not like my smell will linger in the futon but…it doesn’t change the fact that it’s embarrassing.

I needed about ten minutes to pull Siesta-chan, who clearly had come to prank me, from the bed.

Once we left the room, we headed to our usual meeting spot, the lounge.

Siesta-chan was grabbing the hem of my clothes and was pulled along as I walked.

My Shinto Priests’ robes are going to stretch! Wait, I guess maybe they won’t since it’s a game? I’m curious.

「What about the other two?」(Hind)

「They are already here. Besides, I think Senpai is the last one to come from Migratory Bird. I stealthily went to your room as soon as the little sister came.」(Siesta)

「Really? I just couldn’t stop after I started cleaning the kitchen.」(Hind)

「Senpai, you are saying the same kind of things my mom does…」(Siesta)

Started with the drainage, then the oil stains on the wall, filter of the ventilation fans, stains in the grill…

I was only planning to clean the drainage at the beginning, but I ended up cleaning all the small places.

Baking soda is really useful.

「That being said, Senpai’s room was really comfortable. Is your room in real life like that too?」(Siesta)

「As you’d expect, there’s no feather duvet though. I do keep it clean and since there’s not many things in it, I guess it would be pretty similar.」(Hind)

To begin with, there’s a great difference when it comes to keeping the room clean.

The one in-game won’t get dirty, and you can place a big amount of items inside the item box.

For the record, the room came only with the item box, so you could say we needed things to make it seem like someone was living in there.

In RPGs like this, I believe that things that are not particularly important to progress in them are important.

「I see, that’s nice. I, I want to live in Senpai’s house.」(Siesta)

「…That, you say that because even if you did nothing, I would take care of you?」(Hind)

「Yes yes. You are good at cooking, you also would probably clean up my room. Also, unlike my own, you would wake me up gently in the morning. I wonder if the little sister would switch positions with me? Change.」(Siesta)

「That’s quite the cruel reason. Why don’t you try asking Riizu? Though she will probably get angry.」(Hind)

「Probably. I’ll refrain from doing it, for now.」(Siesta)

What’s with that statement that had a deeper meaning, I’m getting really uneasy…

Once we entered the lounge, as Siesta-chan had said, there were six people in there.

Luckily tonight, all the members didn’t have anything else to do and were able to meet up like this.

Like this, we’ll be able to start moving at the same time.

However, since we don’t know if we’ll be able to proceed smoothly like this from tomorrow onwards, I hope that we can get as close as possible to our objective tonight.

「You are here, Hind! We don’t have time, let’s depart immediately!」(Yumir)

These were the first words coming out from Yumir’s mouth while she was impatiently moving her legs from her seat.

Judging from how long it took us to come here from the desert, I can understand why she’s in such a hurry.

Riizu tilted her head when she saw me and Siesta-chan entering the room at the same time, but expecting this, Siesta-chan told her 「I met him by chance while wandering around」in a calm manner. Yeah, no comment.

「Sure thing. I guess the members of Baby Bird are fine with coming along with us?」(Hind)

「Yes! I believe it would be nice if we could also help with the Raid battle!」(Lyco)

「Umyu. I’ll just be a parasite.」(Siesta)

「Hey, Si! Eh, we’ll do our best…」(Cineraria)

「Alright then. Let’s do our best.」(Hind)

I have gotten used to their usual back and forth.

Once I heard from Yumir that they had finished harvesting the agricultural area, I realized that they had already finished that because I ran late.

When it comes to low rarity medicinal herbs, it’s possible to harvest them after 24 hours pass.

However, if after they become able to be harvested you leave them for another 24 hours, they will wither.

Since we won’t be coming back for a while, it’s OK to not plant anything after we are done harvesting.

Furthermore, each person has a large amount of healing medicine, there’s only one other thing we have to prepare.

「So, before we set off, I need to consult you about something.」(Hind)

「What is it?」(Tobi)

「Everyone knows that if you go to another village or town, you are unable withdraw gold from another bank right?」(Hind)

「…O-Oh, that’s right! If you were to ask why, eh, hmmm, it’s that…」(Yumir)

「Yumir-san, please stop pretending you know…you look like an idiot, you know?」(Riizu)

「Guhah!?」(Yumir)

「If I remember correctly, each bank is like its own business right? For some reason, there’s no connection between each other.」(Selene)

「That’s right. So, we have to at least bring the amount of money that will be needed for things like renting the fishing rods and ship. There’s also the amount needed to buy healing items.

So we need to discuss about the amount of money we need to bring with us right now…」(Hind)

In this game, if an event happens in the area you decided to set your home at, there’s a few advantages.

Last time, we had an advantage because it was easy for us to know what the Queen liked, this time, the people in the Mahl Republic will have an advantage.

The bank is one of those advantages.

「On top of that, other than the amount we bring with us, there’s also the problem of dividing the money between us or having a particular person have it all. I’m expecting that PKs will take advantage of this event to attack players.」(Hind)

There’s the death penalty of losing half of your current Gold when you die, when you are defeated by monsters, that money disappears somewhere, but in case you are PK’d they can just steal that money from you.

The chances that they are able to steal your possessions is low, but they are guaranteed to steal your money.

You could say that bandits and robbers will aim for this event because the number of players that will bring a large amount of money with them will increase.

Even players that roleplay as thieves and form groups definitely exist.

「Ah, those definitely exist! I guess the developers are giving this chance for people that want to PK to have fun…though, it’s not like I hate that kind of thing.」(Tobi)

「If what Senpai thinks turns out to be true, I wonder if the reason the banks are so inconvenient was because of that? I’ve always thought it was weird.」(Cineraria)

Using this method, inevitably, it’ll increase the chances of players bringing their money with them while they are traveling on the field.

For the record, because they have increased the lv cap, little by little, the areas where you can’t PK have been increasing. There’s few worries of there being beginner hunters.

Until recently, it was impossible to PK players level 20 and below.

Other than that, they recently implemented a system that rewards you for killing PKs, PKK guilds have started to appear in order to take advantage of that and the situation in the vicinity of the Empire is quite fun these days from what I heard.

That’s mostly information I’ve gotten from the BBS.

Listening to Cineraria-chan’s opinion, Lycoris, who sat next to her, put her hands together in admiration.

「Ooh, Sai-chan is so clever! I only thought that maybe it was a bit weird or something.」(Lyco)

「Lyco, maybe you should use your head a bit more-」(Siesta)

「Si-chan you are so mean!」(Lyco)

Even though she was saying Siesta was mean, Lycoris-chan was still cheerful and didn’t seem to mind too much.

Yup, her smile is so pure and dazzling…

Selene-san was looking at the situation and couldn’t help but laugh, after thinking for a bit, she shifted her gaze and said.

「Well, it’s true that if everyone has their own money, we can just divide the risk while we are traveling. Even if we are unable to resurrect in time, we’ll only lose a small amount of the money after all. However, there’s also the case where we are going to get wiped and we can have the one holding all the money run away…which one would be better?」(Selene)

「In that case, I want to leave everything in Hind’s hands. If something were to happen, I’ll finally be able to say that thing I’ve always wanted to say at least once after all!」(Yumir)

「What’s that thing you want to say?」(Hind)

With an “Umu” , Yumir stood up from her seat.

All of us had a bad feeling about this, but only Lycoris-chan, who sympathized with her, had her eyes glittering.

「Leave this to me! No worries, I’ll clean this up quickly and go after you guys-」(Yumir)

「Isn’t that a death flag!?」(Hind)

「Yumir-san dies really fast so it’s not like it’s wrong.」(Riizu)

「That being said, didn’t you have anything better to say…? When people say something like that, they are defeated right away most of the time.」(Tobi)

「Yumir-senpai, so cool…!」(Lyco)

「「「Eh!?」」」

“Right!?” said Yumir with a big smile. Then Lycoris-chan repeatedly said “You are so cool!”.

Well, it’s true that it’s a good thing to say if you were to choose the timing correctly…but this time, it wasn’t really cool right?

Seeing that exchange between both of them, we could only tilt our heads in confusion.