I'm taking Phil, Gardia, and Claire to a village called Texas right now.
Me and Phil rode Gardia, and Krall was able to move smoothly using a ton of demo moves to get into my shadow, so we could get there in about three days from the starting town.
It was supposed to take a week to get there, but Gardia's foot would do less than half of it.
You look like Gardia.
And why we've come so far was because Dr. Hayakawa asked me to do some research.
"Flowers of life?
"Yes."
I logged back into Earth. I was being summoned by Dr. Hayakawa.
"Just northwest of here is a village named Texas. The village itself does not have anything particularly noticeable, but more recently we have information that the 'Flower of Life' is growing. I want you to go make sure it's true."
"Huh."
I hear Dr. Hayakawa's explanation and reply back.
When it comes to "Flowers of Life," it is an important item.
If you drink the honey that the flowers store, you think it's a cheat item that has more vitality and more HP where we say it is?
So if flowers like that are growing naturally, we'll have to investigate them.
I've also heard stories about whether the flowers can be mass-produced by the Earthlings or making varietal improvements.
For these reasons, they gather information from all over the earth about the environment in which natural products grow.
"But why would you do that to me?
"You seemed free for a while. That's how I tried to shake my job."
"... why do I seem free? I don't have a lot of time, do I?
"Don't lie to me. I don't suppose you're willing to be in full leveling for a while anyway? Besides, you must be pretty much exempt from school classes. What the hell are you doing?
"Ugh..."
It's Dr. Boulder.
You have a good idea of my current situation.
As a matter of fact, I don't have much flavor hunting around the beginning town right now.
If you stretch your legs a little, there may be a hunting ground at the right level of 30-40, but with 60 overs, my experience will be as good as tears.
The money is not in trouble now either.
So there's no reason to be more aggressive hunting than being here.
Player skills in hunting would also be too level different to train much.
Plus, you don't have to worry too much about school classes.
Sometimes we take classes in school buildings established in the town of the beginning, but we are treated more as investigators than as students in Earth.
So we were supposed to be asked to do a mission called Earth Investigation if we could build up enough power to live on Earth.
I mean, Dr. Hayakawa thinks it's okay for me to act as an investigator now.
Well, there are still things we can do here - some kind of labyrinth attack.
But I'm also worried about whether I can do it in my current situation.
... and I'm putting Mina and the others on hold first.
Maybe he's avoiding me too.
Now I won't try to force myself to talk to you, and I'll wait for you to start talking to me from the other side.
In the meantime, I'm focused on knowing my limits, so I want you to speak to me as soon as possible.
"No what. This survey is difficult for children to grasp. You don't have to worry about it."
"... I'm not nervous or anything."
When I was giving Mina and the others my thoughts, Dr. Hayakawa seemed to have misunderstood me when I saw how it was going.
It seems nervous or something.
They wrote reports about the towns and villages they had originally visited and about the distribution and habits of the monsters that appeared around them.
This investigation is also just what is on its extension line.
"Besides, aren't you supposed to owe me anything? I even lowered my head to disable the PK conflict you committed during the Akram Empty Nest case."
"Oh... did you?"
"Oh. It was."
"Heh..."
Apparently, Dr. Hayagawa was stopping me from blaming you for one thing I did too much on Meermill Continent.
Don't get harder and harder to say no to me when I hear this talk.
"... ok. I'm coming, to investigate those flowers."
"Right. Then proceed with caution. Even if you return safely from Meermill, you could lose your life if you stay alert."
In the end, I got a request from Dr. Hayakawa.
"Oh, and I'll give this to you"
"? What is this?"
and that's where Dr. Hayakawa handed me a card size blue plate.
"The Ability Jammer is based on a skill (skill) sealed item that exists in this world called 'Skill Jammer'. If this is broken, it can inhibit the mutagenicity (ability) activated within a radius of 3 meters for about a minute."
"Heterogeneous inhibition...... 'anti-ability'?
"It's something similar. In the meantime, if we had this, we wouldn't run into some spatial metastatic alien like we used to, would we?
"Right."
There's an anti-ability device on the planet that inhibits the activation of alien powers, but I can't believe we can create something close to it even in Earth.
With this, my abilities will be temporarily unavailable, too, but that's until I fight you with no incompetence.
Okay, that's all we need to talk about. We need you to get back to the investigation.
Copy that.
That's how I headed to Texas with Phil, Gardia, the foot actor, and Claire, who was also tasked with the investigation.
Gardia is a foot actor, by the way, but Claire didn't have to come otherwise.
But Claire said she was jealous that Phil and I were traveling together, and she didn't say whether or not it was a bad idea for you to travel alone again.
And we even walked around Texas, and three more days later we finally found The Flower of Life.
"Wasn't there so much blooming in the boulder?"
Behind the Guadalupe Mountains, west of Texas, were its flowers.
But there are only about 12 wheels of flowers of life growing there, and apparently this is it all.
Well, if there were a hundred of these flowers or something, you could be making more noise.
The location condition behind the mountain would also be involved, but if there were 10, would it be your word?
"So. Are you sure I can drink this?
"I think I'm good... I'm here"
"It's rather poisonous for me."
They shouldn't pick up the flowers of life.
If this flower is not a suitable environment, it will soon wither away, and if the honey is not sipped directly, does it not work?
It is also one of the reasons why cultivation is difficult to navigate.
That's why we need to find out about the surrounding environment where this flower is growing, but we can get the nectar of the flower that turns up HP.
That's a rewarding treatment this time.
So in this case, the four of us could drink it, but Phil and Claire declined.
Krall is simply at the mercy of the Immortals, but Phil usually gives it to me.
As for me being a tank, if I can get my HP up, I'd definitely like to get it up...
"But isn't that unfair? That's why the four of us came looking for you."
"What, it's enough for me to see the outside world like this"
"Unless it's something that can boost your aggression... because if it's HP, Mr. Singh would be better off lifting it"
"... well, thank you"
If that's the case, let's hope so.
I took out the paper and started sketching around the flowers of life, Phil, and I looked at the paintings she writes and I said, "Oh!" I said a word of gratitude to Claire, who was astonished.
"Wow, I won't give you my share!
"Oh, yes, yes"
Phil and Claire declined, but Gardia seems intrigued by the nectar of the flowers.
It's not a lot of HP in this guy's case, it's just a lot of food.
"Then excuse me..."
Taking my gaze off of the devouring Gardia, I put my face closer to the flower of life and softly sipped a small amount of honey stored in the base of the petal.
"Oh..."
Then the refreshing sweetness spread in his mouth, and at the same time he was struck by the feeling that something would increase in strength.
So when I looked at the status from the menu screen, I could confirm that there was only 1 increase in HP.
Apparently, the story about turning up HP was true.
"This might not be a bad idea to walk here on a regular basis."
It seems to take more than a month for the flowers of life to accumulate enough honey.
But if you can raise HP without raising the level, it's well worth the effort to come.
"Mm-hmm. Yum."
"... Phil and Claire gave me away for once... okay"
There were twelve wheels of flowers of life here, but Gardia had a happy look drinking six wheels of flower nectar.
In her, it seemed like half the time was with me.
"Um - your husband - if that's it, have some more drinks -"
"I won't give you the rest."
Besides, Gardia didn't seem to drink enough, and she made a nasty noise, but I cut it up sputterly and started drinking leftover flower nectar in a hurry.
I can give it to you if it's just a treat, but I can't give it to you any more because this time it's an important means of strengthening it.
"Is it that good? Should I taste it too?"
Where I drank all the honey, Claire said that.
"No... I already drank everything. Say that sooner."
"Hehe, is there still going to be some place left?
"Where is it?"
As I was about to lean my neck against Krall's words, she had her arms wrapped around my neck.
Claire is licking her own lips with her tongue as she looks at my mouth.
Does this mean that?
"No, no!
"Gummy!?
Where Claire's lips tried to make contact with my lips, Phil had his hands cracked in between.
And then Phil pushed Krall's face flat in his hand, and a strange voice rose from Krall, whose face was crushed.
"... I've done it before, so it's not good."
"No, no, no! And because Mr. Singh has decided not to do that with a girl she's not dating! So, right! Mr. Singh!"
"Oh, yeah, sort of."
I was about to be kissed by a natural right now, and I got carried away, but I had sworn to Phil that I would be a solid man around there.
I've been hit by Claire once before, but that's why I shouldn't tolerate that here.
"Oh, so, but I just taste a little too... no, it's nothing"
Phil whined about something.
But before I could finish hearing it, she went back to sketching again.
I don't know what it is, but for now, let's just say no to Krall.
"Claire, if you want a taste of honey, mouth it with Gardia."
"Mmm... I don't have that kind of hobby..."
"Oh well."
Apparently, Claire's destiny wasn't nectar, it was me.
As usual, this guy can't see the gap.
"Hmm? I don't know if there's any left, but if you want to taste it, fine."
"Hmm!?
If I thought so, Gardia suddenly kissed Claire listening to our conversation like that.
And a deep kiss involving a thick tongue.
What are you doing, Gardia?
"Hmm... Was it delicious?
".................. I wasn't sure"
"Really? Then one more time..."
"! No! Enough! Because I've tasted enough! Good treat!
"Hmm? Really?"
Krall was being pushed by Gardia, who was not so sure if it was natural.
Gardia, that doesn't seem like a big deal right now, but Krall is blushing and distancing himself from her.
I guess Krall was being played by the Spirit King because he reacts like this.
By the way, she talks to Krall about the Spirit King, but she didn't talk too much, just grunting as she caught her face: "Well, well..."
I don't care what the hell happened between Claire and the Spirit King once.
But you really hit that too hard by accident.
"... Mr. Singh, your face is burning"
"... it's my fault"
Phil flied the pointer.
Looks like my face got loose after watching the kissing scene between the two beautiful girls.
"Then let's go back to the village and rest."
I was on my way home, deluding myself not to lower Phil's impression, whining "Welcome" in my heart.