Free Life ~Record of the Struggle of a Different World General Merchant~

"Artificial Virgin?

Artificial... made out of people's hands or whatever that means? Huh? Can you make a Virgin?

I inadvertently parrot back to words I can't hear. Seeing me like that, Melissa giggled and continued her words.

"You've never heard of it, have you, Artificial Virgin? 'Cause normally,' Virgin 'is all you need. But, you know, I'm not. I wasn't the Virgin... I was forced to be the Virgin."

"What? How...?

"That's... look at this"

"hey!? Stop, stop, stop!!

Say it fast, or Melissa starts unbuttoning her chest. Hey, hey! This guy, he wasn't a Virgin, he was a crazy bitch! Unsullied maiden busts are still too early for mankind!

"Right? Look..."

"I don't know! It's a big deal that girls of all ages show their breasts!

Melissa, an artificial crazy bitch who desperately turns away from me and tries to get into my sight somehow.

Hmm? Artificial crazy bitch...... something horny.

... not! How about that! Thoughts are dyeing pink! Somebody stop this guy!

Such a vague wish of mine, Melissa has grabbed my face disappointingly and forced me to look at her own breasts.

"Look, here... look"

"Oh, you're taking my virginity away from me today... Hmm? What the hell."

Melissa's breasts in pale white peach cleric clothing. There's, like, three fumbles... three?

"Huh? What is this? Carata O Mar?

Between the two hills wrapped in a dairy belt, slightly around the top from the center of the chest, a round stone is embedded...... eh, really what is this? Are you even gonna beam out of here?

"What's a color-O immer? A different way of saying dungeon core?

"Oh, is this Dungeon Core? I thought you saw it somewhere recently, but that's why. The other day, the old man from the first school director was messing with me. I see..................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................... Da, dungeon core!?

Dungeon Core!? When it comes to Dungeon Core, you can make a dungeon if you have one!? You're resting deep in the dungeon, sucking up magic vegetables from the ground, and you're creating demons and items!?

What are you doing, letting me stick it in your chest!?

"Hey, it's dangerous! Take it off, take it off!

I can't reach the girl's chest or anything, and I panic when I wave my hand warm. I can't believe you're embedding Dungeon Core! I don't know what's going to happen. That's what I thought, take it off, I said take it off...

For some reason, Melissa just smiles with a sad face.

Why...

"I can't take this off. They're fusing with me, so if you take this off, I'm dead too."

"Ha!?

Exactly a kao timer. Wouldn't be huge, this guy......

"You know, I got to level 250 because of this. You don't have to do anything, magic vegetables keep coming into my body...... researchers say, 'Success!' I was happy, but I knew if I failed, I'd be a demon, so I was scared, scared... me, I'm still scared."

"So, but when the level reaches 250, there's no more magic in you. You don't have to be a demon with a massive amount of magic."

When I said that, Melissa laughed sadly again.

"I can't believe you're at level 250 with a scary demon."

"Ah..."

Sure, yeah. Kanst level is synonymous with monsters. I know that well enough. I know that because I'm at Canst level too. But...

"If you don't use your powers, you're with normal people"

Yes. You don't have to use too much force. If you don't want to be called a monster, you don't have to use the power of a monster. That's right, like me, having a normal life...

"Can't you do that? Because I, I can't disobey orders. The Dungeon Core embedded in me has a function like that."

"Huh!?

In short, is this what this is all about? A church researcher said he embedded a dungeon core in those girls to make a modification to an artificial Virgin who wasn't sure if she would succeed or not. So, even the controller put it on to control it.

The more you ask, the less you dare. In every world, you can see the dark side of religion......

"You know, I've been made to do things I don't even want to do. Defeat the big, scary demon. On a battlefield like there's only blood red, healing almost all the dead people with healing magic. They made me dispose of the 'failures' of the artificial Virgin... I didn't like it. It was very, very nasty."

... If there's a Kanst-level guy who listens to anything, don't let him use you down like that. Maybe all Melissa's talking about is just one example. Orders given by humans who are used to using people are harsher and have no rest.

"But with this power, I found you. You're just like me."

"Really....................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................... Oh, I'm not an artificial Virgin!?

What are you talking about, this girl!? You think I even looked like a woman!? If I don't have a chest, I don't have a color timer!

"Dull... you'll see. Taka Hiro is a boy. But just like me, level 250. Even though he's not a brave man, he's a normal person, level 250. With me."

"Oh, yeah, that's what I mean"

Heh, I was in a bit of a hurry. Now I'm like, "Takahiro's an artificial saint, too, right?" or something like that, it's just a radio... "

"The scary people are making me work, too. With me."

"... scary people?

"Look, a bad fairy slamming Takahiro with a whip and a scary dragon...... Takahiro is being used by those guys, right?

"Yeah?

"What did Takahiro do, get to level 250? With me, they embedded Dungeon Core? Or something scarier? But don't worry. Because I'll help you. So... Takahiro, help me, too, right?

I knew it was this guy, Wave. What you're saying is flying.

Huh? That I'm with you and that someone scared me is manipulating you? That they made you kanst levels? Off-target…….

"... your husband. My job today is to do this and this and this and this and... '

"Taka Hiro! On my way home, get me some chocolate danish. Then you're going to encourage me to do my job. '

... Unfortunately, I'm not wrong! My life, can you even interpret that from someone else's point of view! Whoa, whoa... what... what...!

"Are you crying? Taka Hiro. But it's okay. From now on, we're gonna help each other live. I can't believe we're scared, let's both get rid of each other. 'Cause we're in the same situation..."

It's a secret that you took Melissa's hand holding me gently and almost got away with it! Especially for the two of us in the house...... Ugh, the slave guts are stained.

"Yes!? So Takahiro is a normal person!? Normally I just defeated the demon, level up, and got to level 250......!?

"Well... right. That's what I mean."

When I did it, I explained the situation to Melissa, who stared at me with tender eyes, and I was surprised. Well, it's a tough business in this world to normally level up to 250. But if I tell you the truth, that's what I'll do, because it's getting more and more confusing to talk about.

"Then I can't believe Takahiro was used by anyone..."

"I'm not here. I'm free."

Though I really have all sorts of marks! But I'm more free than Melissa. I'm relieved just to think that I'm absolutely obedient to other people's orders.

"Oh no... I had company... I thought this would set me free..."

After all, life being manipulated to the will of others must be pretty tough. Melissa, who had her eyes shining in hope, is now sitting down without a single force.

"I thought Takahiro was being manipulated too... so I tried to free you from domination and even used [Blaine Wash]..."

Is that what happened? You thought my spirit was dominated by someone, so you wanted to wash away someone's influence with [Brain Wash] first.

And now that I'm free, I'm trying to get Melissa to kill someone who can give me orders.

... Oops yeah!!

Poor kid, I almost thought, but I knew this guy, oops! Madness Virgin!

"I'm sorry to bother you... you can't, me. Just early. Gutsy, dumb... annoying people all the time..."

Uhm... Still, I can't have the girl soggy. Do something and get better......

"Hey, Takahiro."

"Yeah?"

Melissa with a dark face has been staring me in the eye. Shit. It's not a matter of getting better or anything. These eyes...

"Kill me?

I knew it!? I thought it would come because you have eyes like me who was dying or Yumiel when we just met... that's pretty straightforward, dude.

"Saint certification... Yeah, I came out saying I'm going to brainwash the good guys and go home, so when I get back like this, Takahiro-kun's identity will be broken. I'll never talk, but if I'm ordered to, no. But I have to... I don't want to bother you, Takahiro"

An artificial Virgin laughing at me grabs my right hand and takes it to her own throat.

"Besides, I, I don't want to do anything I don't want to do any more. I don't want any of this to happen by forcing a soldier screaming to die to live to fight, or by fighting a scary demon and his hands and feet. If you can't be free... I want to die already"

My left hand is on Melissa's throat, too. I wonder if you can keep using your strength and break my neck bone. If you're at Kanst level, Melissa complains with her gaze that you can do it.

"Because you are ordered not to die on your own...... please, Takahiro. Kill me."

And Melissa, who closes her eyes. You're young, but you must have gotten tired of life. Tears flowing from both eyes tell the truth about it.

Well, death would make it easier. You don't have to do anything you don't like anymore. That's for sure.

But... but life, it's not such a curtain, is it?

"Barca."

"Ahhh!?

At the age of fifteen, who desires death, I will twitch his fist bones. You want me to kill myself? Come on, don't joke about it.

"Hey you, what a favor to do to me. Who do you think I am?"

"Huh? Huh?

What the hell is this guy? You came to see me without even knowing that?

"You don't know? Well, I'll tell you what. Just remember."

That's what I'm gonna tell Melissa. What I am. Who am I?

A former adventurer at Kanst-level? No, it's not.

Gentiles from Earth? That's different, too.

I... if you say me right...

"I am Nobita Sayama, a freelancer of everything."

You'll run out of this.

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Still dreaming.

It didn't take long... it happened in a moment.

Being an artificial Virgin, for five years...... in the meantime Dungeon Core, which was also a medium for dominating me and giving me terrible power, was quickly removed.

Takahiro-kun drew my hand and came to the underground labyrinth of the Royal Grand Feria School... where I was associated with a single figure.

"Ahhh, I can't believe you used Dungeon Core in this way... don't even put it on the wind of Dungeon Creator. This is why the church people don't know what aesthetics are..."

The person named the first school director moaned greatly when he saw Dungeon Core embedded in my chest. From the way it looked, I thought this guy might not be able to do it either... but the first director of the school, apparently, was an unusual person.

He was moaning because the use of Dungeon Core wasn't "turned into" apparently. Integrated with the Labyrinth, the Dungeon Creator, who has lived for more than five hundred years, exclaims a mourning voice: "It hasn't, it hasn't".

"Dungeonizing people leaves only the ability to suck up magic vegetables from the ground and the ability to be manipulated by the Dungeon Creator! Plus, the success rate is horribly low...... I didn't know this would waste a valuable dungeon core! I can't forgive you!

Bright red with a detached head, angry first school director. He reached out to my dungeon core, keeping the momentum!

"This, this stuff! You can't leave this stuff like this! If I knew, Takahiro wouldn't have asked me to remove it!

And the hand of the first school director was sucked into my chest... and at the same time it was pulled out, my dungeon core was also being taken out.

"Huh?... Huh?

To me, the first director of the school said.

"Heh, now you're dungeon core...... no, you're safe. Someone won't be manipulating me anymore. I just can't lower the level that's gone up. I'm sorry."

And with the dungeon core out of me looking important, the first school director disappeared somewhere...

That's all. With all this, all my troubles have disappeared.

I am free. Now I'm free...... but too sudden a development, I can't follow my head. I kind of get confused......

"I'm glad it went well. Well, the first school director lives long for nothing, and you're a labyrinth lover enough to be furious if your labyrinth is attacked. I thought you were used to dealing with Dungeon Core... but no, I'm glad I figured it out"

Takahiro walking next door holding my hand gently says something...... but what is it? I don't know.

But I don't feel bad. Very... very, very light. I feel like I've unloaded all my heavy baggage and got feathers on my back.

In my head, something nasty doesn't come to mind. I, right now, don't think about what I don't want to do. I used to think about that all the time...

In this mood, since when......

Fluffy, floating minds and feet, just walk. Takahiro will take you and walk with you on the path he will go......

But that time seems to be over. Takahiro let go of my hand.

"Ah..."

Unexpectedly, I raise my voice to include untrained.... untrained? Against what? I don't know, I don't know. Stay fluffy, I don't know......

"Look, I got it. This is my house. It's late tonight, so stay."

Take a closer look at the building in front of you, as directed. Brick and stone house... Takahiro-kun's. A very, very warm home...... but I still feel like I shouldn't be in here.

"Yeah, it's okay. I'm going back to Sacred Capital. Because there's something I have to do..."

"Oh, hey!?

Activate the transfer skill so as to cut off the untrained. My body wrapped in light as soon as possible...... this is fine. I still shouldn't be here. The demon hands of those who were manipulating me stretch so far.

So... I'm going back to the Holy Capital. to do what needs to be done. So that one day I can meet Takahiro with a smile. So I won't say goodbye. Instead, I said, "See you later."

"Thank you, Takahiro. Thanks so much...... I'll see you later"

"Hey, Melissa! Meli."

The transfer skill is activated and the view in front of you switches. Warm people, warm homes. From such a view to a dark forest.

When I'm in a place like this, I realize that I'm alone, though I'm free.

... No, it's not. I have friends. I have friends who are connected, even if they are away.

Takahiro Sayama-kun. An irreplaceable friend who gave me nothing more.

... can I say we're friends on our own? I never had any friends, so I don't know.

Next time we see each other, let's ask Takahiro.

Having so decided, I walked out to the Holy City.

"Hey, Takahiro. I'm supposed to work for a church in this city. Huh, amazing? Amazing?"

"Oh wow... it's too awesome to follow the kata yesterday today... after all, I can see the kanst level..."

"Oh no, it lights up..."

"No one can praise you!

At dawn of the night, this is Grand Feria, King Easwind's capital. I have spoken to "former and scary people" and have become clear and free. On the contrary, when "ex- and scary people,"

"I'll hear you say anything. Ugh!! If you're telling me to imitate a dog, I'd be happy to!! So, so, only life is ahhhhhhhhh!!

Because, for some reason, he asked me to cry, I was able to work in the city where my friend Takahiro lives as the "normal Sister" I dreamed of.

They're going to stop building an artificial Virgin. Apparently, all unaccompanied children who had been captured by the Institute would be protected responsibly by the Church.

It's all good! Thanks to Takahiro for that and this.

"Thank you, Takahiro."

"Horrible... I've been having power inflation lately... it's a Jaoop comic strip..."

Although the person in question is somewhat bumpy and crushed, it must be a shade of light. Damn, Takahiro is shy...... heh.

Come on, now, I wonder how we're going to live. The choices are endless. Free life is in my hands.

There is no hurry. Take it easy, let's take it easy and decide. Enjoy your free life.

I was thinking about that next to the guy who named "Free Life".