Chapter 194: In exchange, when you come to the room, I want you to keep me company on the bed, is that okay?

[A/N: We are just a few more golden tickets away from reaching another milestone!]

"Maybe that ring... a Magic Trinket or something?"

Asked by Kazui, Uraka answered.

"Yeah. It eats aura, but it’s one that changes into various weapons, convenient when the sword you’re carrying breaks and such."

While showing the ring, she asked him a question.

"Are you interested in Magic Trinkets, Kazu?"

"I’d never seen the real thing before."

While looking at the Magic Trinkets fitted on Uraka and Liz’s fingers, he continued words.

"Thinking that when you dive dungeons, interesting things like this are found, interest welled up."

"If it’s Magic Trinkets or things found in dungeons, I have various too, but if you’re interested, want to come see them in the room?"

"I’ll go!"

After answering immediately, he added.

"Also, while I’m at it... if I could hear talks about dungeons and Virgo and such, I’d be grateful?"

"Fine, to Kazu going to a labyrinth city for the first time, a senior will teach various things."

In a joking tone, she asked a question.

"In exchange, when you come to the room, I want you to keep me company on the bed, is that okay?"

(She’s saying something similar to Liz.)

After muttering in his heart, he answered.

"That’s fine, as long as you’re not teasing."

"Uraka... you’re saying the same thing as me."

"Liz said it too..."

Uraka made a slightly embarrassed face.

"Neither I nor Uraka have third shift until Virgo, so after 10 PM, you can come to the room anytime."

Uraka added.

"If it gets too late, we might be sleeping though."

Third shift was the shift from 10 PM to 6 AM.

"Ah, also... other crew members might want to do it with you like us, but if it’s fine, could you keep them company?"

At Uraka’s sudden words, he widened his eyes in surprise.

"Not just us, I think there are others who have accumulated frustration. If only we enjoy it with Kazu, it’d be bad for everyone, right?"

Liz inherited Uraka’s words.

"So, if it’s fine with you, I want you to keep the others company too."

"Is it okay to do something like that?"

While puzzled, he threw a question at the two.

"They made it a women-only ship so as not to have troubles over men and women, so if I do something like that, wouldn’t it be bad?"

"It’s fine."

After answering immediately, Uraka added the reason.

"There’s no way there’d be someone who tries to cause trouble with Kazu, a benefactor to our ship, and if you keep all the applicants company, there probably won’t be troubles between crew members either."

Following Uraka, Liz opened her mouth.

"Of course, only if you don’t dislike it."

"I don’t dislike it. If there are such people, for me it’s to the degree of being grateful."

The crew members he had seen on the ship were all adventurers with Orbs. For him, if he made them sex partners, he could obtain skills and experience points, so it was a grateful talk.

The crew members all did not have bad appearances. It was common to adventurers, but since they needed to train their bodies occupationally, there were many with good bodies that could be said to his preference.

"Then, until arriving at Virgo, including us, the crew members’ company... please."

"Likewise, please."

The talk settled, and the heat of the body also calmed, so the three decided to do the aftercare of sex. Not only washing the body but also rinsing the area that might have been dirtied by sex with the hot water of the shower and such.

While washing the body with the shower, he casually performed a check of the skill list. Then, he could confirm that two skills he had not owned until now had increased.

(Yes! General Appraisal!)

The information that could be read was few, but General Appraisal could be used on various targets such as humans, monsters, items and such. The interpersonal appraisal ability was low, and what could be known by appraisal was only slight information such as level and occupation, maximum and current values of basic abilities such as aura and mana... stamina and such, and things related to status abnormalities.

The appraisal ability for objects and monsters, unlike interpersonal, was reasonably high and could be said an effective skill. Since it had the ability to discriminate the danger of items, for adventurers diving dungeons, it was also said to be one of the skills required at minimum.

Acquiring multiple high-performance middle-class or higher appraisal skills or specialized appraisal skills specialized for specific uses took great effort and time. That was why many adventurers tried to acquire General Appraisal as an appraisal-type skill.

It was said that around level 20 one could acquire and use it, so even he could use it. Since it was a skill he had wanted from before, he was happy that he could copy General Appraisal.

Until now the only appraisal-type skill he had was Sexual Appraisal, so regarding appraisal he had relied on adventurer work companions. For him riding alone into Virgo, a situation where he could not rely on companions, obtaining General Appraisal at this timing was truly grateful.

Incidentally, most appraisal skills could not be used unless at close distance. Sexual Appraisal also could not be used unless in a state where the face could be identified, but this could also be said a restriction of the same type.

And powerful monsters with high rank symbols often owned appraisal interference-type skills. That was why the rank symbols of powerful monsters were normally confirmed with sun marks.

For example, the Brigadier-class Vice owned an appraisal interference-type skill that turned all information into meaningless characters even if trying to appraise. Due to the influence of that skill, when he copied Sexual Appraisal, it became a garbled state.

Incidentally, when Aquila was attacked by the Brigade, the one who first discovered Vice was an adventurer named Hartley who was in the upper ranks of middle-class. Hartley used farsight to visually confirm the sun marks and confirmed it was Brigadier-class.

Hartley owned General Appraisal, but at the point of noticing it was Brigadier-class with farsight, she gave up approaching Vice. If she approached Vice alone to a distance where General Appraisal could be used, it was clear she would lose her life.

(The other one is... Blitz. This is probably Liz’s magic skill, but one I can’t use.)

Blitz was a magic skill for long-distance attack, and unless a middle-class or higher magician, it was difficult to master. It could release multiple high-speed fireballs that exploded like bombs if direct hit, and attack multiple enemies at the same time.

Most martial artists did not acquire magic skills, so he understood that he had copied it from Liz. It was a powerful attack magic, but for him with low mana, currently there was no way he could use it.

(No, magic skills have increased quite a bit too, so it’s a waste not to use them, and after this matter ends, maybe I’ll try training in magic too.)

This matter was the Iron Maiden rescue. There were not zero martial artist adventurers versed in magic, so after this matter was settled, he began to think of putting effort into magic training to a certain degree too.

Even while lost in thought, the speed of washing the body was faster for him as a male. He finished washing his body before Uraka and Liz.

"Then, I’ll go ahead!"

He called out to Uraka and Liz and headed toward the bathroom entrance.

"What we talked about earlier, please!"

Following Uraka, Liz returned words.

"I invited to the room before Uraka, so if coming to the room, mine first!"

"Liz, you..."

While hearing Uraka and Liz’s talk with his back, he moved to the changing room. He took the provided bath towel in hand and wiped hair and body to remove moisture.

Putting on the underwear and denim shorts he brought, and wearing the black T-shirt, he arranged his hair at the washbasin. The cat-ear-like cowlick could not be helped, so the arranging was rough.

Holding the bag stuffed with laundry in hand, he headed toward the entrance. Placing his ear on the door, he probed the state of the passage.

(Better to go out to the passage when no one is there.)

If someone saw the scene of coming out from the changing room, then that someone entered the changing room, it would be exposed that he had been in the bathroom with Uraka and Liz. That was why he thought it better that no one saw the scene of coming out from the changing room.

(No voices heard, no sign of people, so fine?)

What was heard was only the sound of the washing machine in the adjacent laundry. He separated his ear from the door, opened the door while being careful just in case, and immediately confirmed the state of the passage.

(Lucky! No one there.)

He went out to the passage, immediately closed the door and confirmed the door knob. A towel was tied to the door knob.

(Before flowing aura, let’s try if it can be removed.)

Reaching a hand to the towel, he tried to remove it from the door knob. But as if stuck with robust adhesive, the towel did not unravel and did not come off the door knob.

(Really doesn’t come off. Then, shall I try flowing aura.)

Without generating aura, he flowed a little of the aura that had remained in his body to the towel. Then, a small white magic circle appeared on the towel, then shattered and disappeared.

When he tried to unravel the towel again, this time it easily came off the door knob.

(Came off! Amazing, just as Liz said.)

While surprised, he hung the removed towel around his neck as is.

(Then, shall I go do laundry.)

He began walking the passage and moved to the laundry adjacent to the changing room. The design of the magic-type washing machine was one that felt retro to him, like a drum-type washing machine.