Chapter 22 - Severe Farming Addiction
“Healing, blessing, courage.”
While distributing blessings to her fellow heroes every time her holy power charged up, Yohena glanced at Ark through her clone’s eyes.
…Why is he dancing?
At that ridiculous sight, Yohena unknowingly let out a “pfft” laugh.
Well, even though he seems to act without any thought.
In the end, when you think about it, it’s all for us.
For the growth and happiness of the heroes.
Yohena thought that perhaps those strange dances had their own meaning of support.
She would never be able to understand that it was actually a gesture full of pure malice and teabagging.
And.
‘I wonder what that is…’
Yohena began to feel a slight sense of discomfort.
As the saint who serves the goddess most closely.
Just as she was the first to recognize the Revealer and guide him into the heroes’ embrace──
Yohena could clearly see with her eyes what other heroes could only vaguely sense.
When she first met him.
And the Revealer who immediately left her.
Along with the faint radiance embedded in his body, a halo floated like a crown above his head.
Like an angel from mythology.
And.
Because there was no radiance embedded in Ark’s body, she denied it at first.
However.
Above Ark’s head, who took off his hood and handed her the contract, faint fragments of a halo swirled.
Surprisingly, when he put the hood back on, its presence immediately disappeared.
So she asked him to wear the hood as much as possible to prevent any problems that might arise because of it.
She also agreed with the other heroes, but.
‘Tsk.’
A frog-like man who tries to take off his hood at every opportunity.
“The stars whisper today too. It will be a lucky day.”
While sighing thinking of Ark, Yohena quietly recited a prayer feeling a smile on the corners of her lips.
Ultimate skill. ‘Whisper of Stars and Goddess’.
As if the goddess had descended behind her, infinite holiness welled up──
“Kyahaha, clingy saint! Die!”
“Myong myong, woof!”
“Thank you, Yohena.”
Yohena smiled as she saw her companions’ drained health recover swiftly and become even more energetic.
“Tinya? See me later.”
“Hieeek…! Cancel, cancel!”
Watching the tide of battle firmly solidify like that.
Continuing her contemplation.
This time turning her gaze to Ark’s side.
To the Revealer from another dimension with a red and blue expression, as if dejected or indignant.
Above his head──
There was no halo.
But, a faint radiance was with him.
After several, a dozen or so battles like that.
She was able to meet Revealers from other dimensions without halos but with radiance.
And Revealers from other dimensions with both halos and radiance.
What could be the difference?
I should read the Revelation again when we return.
“Woof! Demon, stop right there woof!”
“Hieeek…!”
Break time.
The guild house lounge.
To me, who was blankly watching the spectacle of Lumi chasing after Tinya to bite her tail while myong-myonging.
“Ark?”
Yohena, who had been immersed in reading as soon as we returned to the room.
Started pouring out questions.
“…But there was nothing related to that in the Revelation either. I thought Ark might have some idea. Do you sense anything?”
The studious Saint-nim explained her doubts in an orderly manner.
I perfectly understood the question, and the situation.
Aha.
I see.
While enthusiastically doing the teabag dance and watching.
There were guys whose reactions were too ‘human-like’, like falling backwards with a death cry of ‘Aaaaaargh…!’
Is she talking about that halo? I guess that means they’re logged in.
…That guy who first cried out about reroll failure would have had both halo and radiance too.
I’m not a true Revealer.
But I’m not perfectly treated as a player either, so I have a half halo, and the app is a DEBUG app.
Something like that, I guess.
I was just going to explain to Yohena exactly as I understood it without thinking, but.
“Ah, about that. ───, ──, ───.”
Hmm.
This again.
“Is that so… Knowledge that can’t be told to the current Yohena… Ack! Aack! It hurts, it really hurts…!”
Yohena kept kicking my shins with her shoes.
I guess I should restrain my isekai Japanese-style speech and chuunibyou a bit.
What other concept would be good?
“It’s not a joke, it’s really true…! Arknoi… I can’t explain my knowledge──Aaack!”
The tutorial guidebook (Revelation for Saint-nim) was stuck in my head.
I saw stars for a moment.
It wasn’t a comic exaggeration.
“Huff… Please use a calm and normal way of speaking.”
“Yes.”
Eep.
Saint-nim is scary when angry…
Anyway, that’s how it was.
In the past, when I first met Yohena and tried to explain about smartphones, I couldn’t fully express my thoughts in words.
And earlier, when I tried to talk to those friends, whatever Revealers from other dimensions, I couldn’t ask what I wanted to ask.
“It’s not a joke or teasing, really, when I try to explain that knowledge, it’s like something gets stuck and my voice won’t come out.”
“A taboo… I see…”
Saint-nim finally understands when I speak seriously.
Well.
I actually didn’t think much of it.
At this point, I can’t deny that I can’t return to reality.
Following the cliché progression──
Conquering the tower might be the trigger to return to reality.
The concept itself is ‘a tower that grants wishes’ after all.
“It’s okay, I’m having a lot of fun right now.”
I’m 98% sincere.
Building a house, cooking, doing the dishes myself, earning money and giving allowances, investing all the resources that come out into growth, and occasionally providing highly effective psychological counseling…
…
I’m a housekeeper?
Still.
When I see our heroes’ faces that fill me with warmth just by looking at them.
Is there a separate paradise?
This is paradise.
Female streamers? VTubers? Cosplay?
I see them in 3D.
Para! dise! Para! dise!
I only wish the content was a bit less wholesome…
Of course, since I’m human too.
Sometimes, about 2% of the time, I overflow with longing.
“Ah, I want to drink cola…”
“Woof?”
When I’m occasionally immersed in longing for modern conveniences.
I pat Lumi’s head.
“Myong myong~”
Hmm.
A brain-melting feeling.
Cute…!
Uuu… Love…
With a bump on my crown, to melt the stamina I couldn’t melt earlier──
No, I entered the tower again for the noble mission of tower climbing.
But.
There was a serious problem.
8th floor. Zone 1.
Traps, none.
The only monster that existed.
“Kuooo… Cock-a-doodle…”
A level 8 ‘Cockatrice on the Verge of Death from Illness’ was the only one.
It’s a section where Orc Warriors and Orc Shamans should be kuik kuiking originally.
Eh, no way.
[Tower of Wishes 8th Floor – Orc Village Zone 1 Cleared!]
Zone 2.
Level 9. A flying squirrel starving for three days.
In Zone 3 too.
Level 2. A very gloomy dog that’s been neutered.
“Kiuuu… Kiuuu…”
Lumi whined very sadly.
…Could it be, she empathized?
It was a very unfortunate thing personally too, but.
I gently laid the neutered mutt to rest.
What can you do, the living must live.
And in Zone 4 too.
Seeing a level 6 ‘Freshly Caught Live Eel’ flopping around and dying on its own outside water.
“Tinya, can you call Elise for me?”
I got angry.
Owner, come out!
Why are you doing business like this!
As I was about to file a complaint.
“Oh my, have you already missed this humble one? Are you ready to accept this humble one?”
Swish.
Blood-colored haze gathered in front and transformed into Elise’s form shururuk.
Wow!
Milk jacket!
…That’s that.
What’s important now, no, it is important, but anyway the important business wasn’t breasts but a higher-dimensional problem.
“Elise, what are you trying to do now?”
“Yes…?”
I need to question what needs to be questioned.
“Stop messing around and quickly restore the monsters to their original state. I can’t farm like this. Ah, don’t set traps because it’s annoying to avoid them, just make lots of monsters appear. With some nutritious mobs.”
“Y-yes…?”
“Didn’t you say you’d surrender? Ah, right. It’s a bit annoying to kill monsters too, so can’t you just scatter lots of materials or loot?”
“Th-that’s not possible due to regulations…”
“Really? There are such regulations? You demons lack flexibility. Anyway, this is seriously negatively affecting our business, so I ask that you restore it promptly. If possible, please select and place only those with lots of materials.”
“Yes, yeeees…♡”
Why are you adding a heart at the end of your words.
With that, Elise disappeared into the air again.
[Tower of Wishes 8th Floor – Orc Village Zone 4 Cleared!]
The clear popup appeared at the same time the eel died of natural causes (suffocation).
“Let’s wait a bit before going to Zone 5. I’ve said this much, so she should understand… Hmm? Is there a problem?”
Heroes?
Why are you looking at me with those eyes?
I’m a little scared…
Yohena approached me with big strides.
“Ark-nim? Let’s have a talk for a moment.”
“Huh.”
And she grabbed me and dragged me away.
I have a bad feeling about this…!
Her strength far surpasses mine to resist…!
Lumi, save me!
“Myong…”
Why are you looking at me with such contemptuous eyes…?
Tinya?
“A master more demonic than demons…”
Why are you shaking your head and turning away…?
Saha…
“Yohena-nim. Please scold him harshly.”
Saha…! Even you…!
I looked at Ari with my last hope, but.
“Ark? No use giving me those sparkly puppy dog eyes… Let’s just quietly listen to the sermon?”
It all crumbled to pieces.
That day.
“──So, I emphasize once again that calling a demon’s name recklessly is taboo inside the tower, and negotiating with such a demon is clearly wrong behavior, and I also repeatedly emphasize that the purpose of the tower is not to mine loot but a sacred journey to climb to the top floor, so do not put too much emphasis on material meaning alone, and also──”
I received ‘education’ for a full two hours.
Knowledge increased.