My Reincarnation Skills Are “Playing With Dolls” and “Playing With Clay”, but What Am I Supposed to Do With These? C90

Chapter 90: Werewolf legend

Since we ventured into the labyrinth at dawn, it was still early afternoon when we returned home.

Seeing the corpses of other adventurers right in front of my eyes and fighting hordes of orcs was a very exciting half-day for me, a modern Japanese person. I want to relax a little.

When I woke up after a short nap, Carmilla was curled up next to me, and Nolte was doing all the housework, such as drying the leather armor that everyone had taken off in the shade.

"That's too bad. Is there anything I can do?"

"No, Master, you can take a nap."

After saying that, he brought me a bottle of fruit juice.

Nolte also risked her life in the fight, so she couldn't just put the burden on a younger girl. Being her slave is how this world works, but for me, my harem members are her and her family.

Since he wanted to do his laundry while the sun was shining, he decided to build a washing area in the stream near his house. I used earth magic to scrape the bank to draw in the flow a little, and used clay to set up scaffolding and stairs to use as a washing area.

I don't have any detergent, so what should I do? As I was thinking about this, Nolte brought out the vegetable broth from last night's cooking and was applying it to his heavily soiled clothes.

“Actually, it would be better if there was lye, but this seems to be able to remove some of the dirt.”

 What was that? I feel like there was a surfactant like saponin or other plant ingredients, but I don't really remember. I think it's the wisdom of people here, but it's amazing that a 16-year-old has such strength in life. It may be more valuable than combat power.

When I asked if there was no such thing as soap in this world, he said that he had heard rumors that something useful like that existed, so although it is not common, there are things like soap or detergent that exist. Maybe I will.

Hoping to at least lighten Nolte's burden for dinner, she decided to eat dinner early at a restaurant in the village. At dusk, I thought it would be crowded with other adventurers trying to eat.

Fortunately, I was able to enter a small cafeteria on the street in front of the government building. Are you an adult after all? It seems like the adventurers are a little slower. It's still early, but they drink beer one by one. Nolte is still groggy as usual, but Carmilla turns red after each sip. It's a contrast. Vegetables are the most delicious thing in this village, but that alone is not enough. According to Carmilla's request, I also take a roasted bird and share it.

On the way home, I asked at the general store and they sold lye, so I bought one in a jar.

Actually, I wanted to take a bath, but Lina's MP, or mine, was pretty low to boil a large amount of water, so I just wiped myself today.

That's fun though.

Shortly after sunset, we rolled into bed.

Let's have fun already, right? Tonight, I wanted to talk to Carmilla first.

I feel like Carmilla's language ability has improved rapidly, whether it's because she's been forming a party and communicating with her for a long time, or because she started talking to us a lot before that. So I thought it would be nice if I could ask him about his past experiences smoothly.

"Master, do you want to know about Carmilla?"

"Yes, I told you that I was reincarnated from another world, right? I also want to know about Carmilla."

"Yeah, let's talk about Carmilla, okay..."

Then we started talking, and Carmilla's upbringing was also full of ups and downs...

I don't know how many werewolves are left in this world right now.

It seems that there used to be so many of them that they even created kingdoms. However, 200 years ago, the Werewolf Country was destroyed in the Demon King's War, and the remaining Werewolves were scattered around the world.

Some choose to live among humans and hide their identities, while others retreat deep into the mountains and cut off contact with other races in order to protect their werewolf pride and bloodline. As a result of this separation into smaller groups, the blood of werewolves became diluted, or gradually overpowered by humans, orcs, and other demons, and became more and more weakened, and now they live in small tribes or clans. , it seems that encounters with other companions are becoming rarer, and as a result, the number is decreasing.

Werewolves seem to be organized into polygamous packs in which a male leader subjugates multiple women and children, and Carmilla was raised in the presence of such a strong chieftain, probably her father, and multiple women and children, including her own mother. Apparently it was a group of people.

Carmilla's group had a loose relationship with the village of human settlers, and they used one mountain as their territory, bartered with the people of the village, and had built a fairly good relationship with them.

However, just when Carmilla was about to become an adult and leave the herd, a stray dragon attacked the area.

The humans abandoned the village and fled, and the werewolves fought against the dragon and were defeated. All the adults, including the head and mother, were killed, and the children were told to run away and were left alone. For a while, Carmilla lived by traveling from mountain to mountain and catching prey on her own, but about a month ago, she got into a fight with a party of adventurers who had come to subjugate the desolate region. He says he was captured.

"I don't hate humans. Carmilla didn't kill humans, and humans didn't kill Carmilla either. What I hate is dragons. They killed the chief and my mother."

He looked at me with eyes that glowed faintly in the darkness and murmured.

"Werewolves leave their packs when they become adults, and Carmilla is already an adult, so it's okay if she can't return to her pack...but I'd like to meet another pack someday."

I couldn't think of words to comfort Carmilla, so I hugged her in silence. Carmilla licked his cheek to comfort me.

"I bought Carmilla, but I think Carmilla and Nolte are family, and family means a group. That's why I want to make sure Carmilla can live happily and not have a hard time..."

"Carmilla, it's not hard. Master, Carmilla loves me. My stomach is full. Nolte is also my friend. So it's not hard, right?"

"...Yeah, I'm also happy that Carmilla is like this."

"Carmilla, I'm friends with you too."

I died once, and both Nolte and Carmilla lost people important to them.

But I think that living like this is probably worth a lot in itself. I couldn't communicate that well with my communication skills, so I just hugged her tightly.

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In my dream that night, I saw an alchemist's level rising to 4 in the level up space.

Probably because I went to bed early, I woke up with about an hour left until dawn.

While enjoying Carmilla's soft elasticity as she hugs me, I check her status.

In addition to the "Appraisal (beginner level)" that he had obtained at LV1, the three things he acquired as an alchemist at LV4 were "Fire", "Hydrogen", and "Earth". It is classified as a skill rather than a spell. Does this mean that it's not a magic spell that can be used even if you are tranquilized?

I don't know the difference between "fire element" and "hydrogen" instead of "fire" and "water," but I guess it means something like "the element of fire or water, the source." "Suiso" isn't H2 in chemistry, right?

At the same time, I tried to distinguish between Nolte and Carmilla who were sleeping.

Nolte has risen to <Blacksmith LV5> and has newly acquired ``Increase dexterity (small)'' and ``Bow skills (LV1)''. I guess it's because I hit several orcs with arrows yesterday.

Carmilla was also uploaded to <Werewolf LV9>. He may have originally reached the point where he was LV8 and had few experience points left.

It seems that he has acquired a new skill called ``Barrier Sense''. Does that mean you notice when a barrier is put up? It's not just that you have a good nose and ears, it's like a sixth sense. Werewolves are a race that is like a senior scout.

Lina... isn't sleeping.

When I turned to look at her, her eyes snapped open and she answered using telepathy.

(Good morning, my monk job has reached level 6)

LV6 all at once? It's gone up quite a bit. After all, like me, it's probably ``double the growth rate''.

Besides, yesterday, I purposely had the monks fight all the time, and when I used purification to turn monsters into magic stones, I purposely changed the party composition so that only Lina would get the experience points for purification. In any case, it's important to increase your healing ability quickly to increase your party's survival rate.

Looking at her status, she can remember spells such as "purification", "healing", "pledge", "cure", and "exorcism". Another option is "HP increase (small)". I think this is the same as with Karena.

It was a big deal for me to learn ``Treatment'' that can cure status abnormalities and ``Demonization'' that can break through barriers. I feel like we've finally found some stability as a party.

The other thing to consider is how powerful my newly acquired magic or spell-like skills are. Depending on that, it will probably change whether Lina will continue to be raised mainly by monks or whether she will be raised mainly by magicians.

I woke up Nolte and Carmilla, had breakfast, and went to the labyrinth before dawn without being late.

From the second day onwards, it seems that the order of the parties that have not retired will be respected, and we will be moved up to start number 5.

Unlike labyrinths where this kind of strategy has just begun, there are some large labyrinths that already have dozens of floors that you can enter without any restrictions. It seems that the deep layers are dangerous unless you are a true expert, but I'll probably go there someday.

Most of the parties that didn't suffer any major damage yesterday have arrived, and Iriane and the others who decided to break through the floor at the front, as well as the six monks, are in seventh place after passing the battle with the floor master yesterday and moving to the back. .

I also recognize number 8. This is a party of men and women who started second yesterday, challenged the leader of the hierarchy, and withdrew after getting injured. The leader is a LV20 knight named Demos. The level of the members here is high, and it looks like they will try again after completing treatment.

The two groups behind them didn't enter the labyrinth yesterday.

As dawn broke, the gates were announced to open, and the second day of conquering the Ozark labyrinth began.