The Skill Collector

The sight of red blood scattered over the thin, lingering snow and the rolling corpses of countless demons was a tragic but somewhere fantastic sight.

The bodies of intermediate-rank demons are like folding mountains.

Climbing up that mountain and standing at the top and looking under his eyes, there were three adventurers at the end of their gaze, seated upright on the snow and trembling.

"So can you listen to me?

"Ha, ha! Hey, what is it, a collector!

I guess the cold isn't the only reason you're rattling and shivering with your bloody face.

Where did you go when you met him? I was scorning the incompetent. The thought-provoking attitude...

"We were hunting down one more step, you scoundrel Frost Giant! That's why incompetent people are scumbags!

An adventurer man shouted in an inn in an inn in the village at the foot of the mountain (foot).

The face appears to be dyed red with quite a bit of drunkenness, with empty jocks lined up on the desk.

"Right. We're supposed to have been helped. He just took the delicious part. Still, I don't know if the hit was the limit."

"Have mercy. Let's talk about it. Gehahahahahaha"

What I like to talk about is fellow men.

He seems to be a pair of adventurers with quite a bit of strength, but it was his appreciation in the Adventurer Alliance that there was an overconfident and reckless side.

They're the ones I wouldn't even want to be involved with if I were you, but I couldn't miss hearing what you just said.

"When you're incompetent. Whoa, if you squeak out and die on your own, I won't take care of you!

"Yes, they do! Even if he hadn't come in to help us, we could have defeated him!

"In vain, in vain!

By shouting up in the liquor store like this, I guess I'm desperate to twist and bend the truth about that event.

Trying to get rid of the fact that he was helped by an incompetent old man who is a friend...

Three adventures saved by an old man's life in Snow Mountain. That's them.

Ha...... Don't you need to hear any more of these deaf people's bullshit?

"Aren't you the famous trio of adventurers, the Dark Lightning?

That's a name that embarrasses me just to say it. The mere fact that we name this squarely shows the thickness of the skins on their faces.

"Oops! What the hell? Look, merchant, what can I do for you?"

"Yes, I would love to hear your bravery and courage, and I would like you to do me a favor."

When he said something that looked like it while deceiving the other person, he took on the request in an upbeat mood.

Its content is simple and lucid, the demonic exorcism near a certain mountain.

Since the death of the old man who was incompetent, there has been no one to crusade the demons and demons have developed abnormalities in the neighborhood.

His residence was on the border with a zone where demons were occurring in large numbers, and the exorcism of demons every day allowed nearby villages to have peaceful days.

The actual story, the absence of humans to handle demons, has destroyed several villages.

The people who have become slaves to whom I have met in the past are also inhabitants of villages that were protected by him without my knowledge.

Ever since I found out about it, this is how I've come to crusade demons in his place, but I never thought the day would come when I'd be reunited with the trio, which the old man saved with his life.

When I asked him for more information, he left here immediately after he was helped, and he hasn't been back in a long time. It was quite a serious injury at that time, so my memory seems vague (ambiguous), and I don't even remember me at all.

However, I remember being helped by an old man clearly, but we were not willing to admit the fact and were trying to conveniently alter our own memories.

There's no way I'm gonna let that happen.

He didn't even want to sell his thanks. I would have challenged Frost Giant without these guys. But I didn't feel like leaving the ones who insulted my friend's death behind.

"Oh, you, who the hell are you ⁉ What makes a merchant so strong!

It was a bunch of intermediate-rank demons waiting for those who headed for this crusade without even knowing what was going on in the mountains.

It quickly broke between the beaten ones and the demons and kicked them lightly to this day.

"I don't care about that. Well, I have another request for you."

"Duh, what do you mean? The request is for a demon crusade here, isn't it?

One of the men stood up and complained to me.

They still don't seem to understand the situation they're in.

"Yes, that's right. And the next time I break my leg... I'll cut it off by deciding I don't need it."

When I generated "intimidation," I panicked and sat down.

The other two said something, too, but it looks like they found out about the recklessness by looking at their people.

"Then it's a new request, but now winter and spring are coming to an end. So you're free to use the house at the top of this mountain, so survive until spring in a month."

"Become ⁉"

You're opening your mouth so big that your jaw's about to come off. It seems that the meaning of my words has permeated me over time, and now I'm closing my mouth and seeing each other's faces among my peers.

"This demon is awkward, I want you to live here on your own. ⁉"

"Of the incompetent who helped you with the mediation, he survived by himself for decades, didn't he? If you're skilled and capable, you can afford it, right?

Smile gently as you speak.

The emotions that float alongside their three faces are two letters of despair.

"Oh, you know. What if, if, what happens if I refuse that request?

"You'll just be friends with the demons scattered around you."

That seems to have been enough, and the threesomes are shaking their heads up and down as quickly as they can see the remnants.

It was a little forceful, but you should know a little bit about how awesome he was when he cursed at incompetence.

First day.

We send them to the old man's house and watch them as they lurk nearby.

A few hours after nightfall, they finally showed up from the old man's house.

"Damn, it's not cold!

"Why are we doing this?"

"Let's get out of here. It's been a night. He's not staying wild and watching while the snow's still here, either!

Too bad, I was using my skills to stay in the wild.

With "Cold Protection," I wouldn't suffer from this degree of cold at all. It is as easy as not having to sleep to feel tired, and if "super recovery" is activated, it will heal instead of becoming tired.

"Let's get out of here! I don't know if you're gonna find me, but if you're in there, you're not gonna find me!

I nodded, agreeing. I threw an axe under the feet of the guys who tried to run out with me.

Use that axe effectively for salary scales and timber collection.

He's in a hurry to look around, but he can't find me. One of you owns "Sign Detection," but you can't see my "Cover-up" on that level.

"Duh, duh, duh, where are you!

"What will you do! Hey, what are you gonna do?!

"If you run, they'll kill you! They're gonna kill us for sure!

Now I hope you give up your escape, until you repeat it as many times as you want to.

Running into the cabin in contention with my people never came out of it today.

Let me show you how much pull life goes on.

A week later.

For four days, trying to escape again and again, the people who threw handmade spears and round-tails at me and broke their hearts managed to continue their lives.

I prepared food for the three of them to spend the week, but it was time to get food on their own.

His cabin leaves handmade drawings and materials such as what can be picked in the neighborhood and what can be eaten. That is proof that he searched for the possibility of waking up to new talents and scratched desperately.

If martial arts don't get you to skills, believe in artistic possibilities......

The drawings I wrote at the beginning are terrible, but as we got to the second half, the paintings had evolved into precision and brilliant performance.

"I'm gonna catch a fish. According to that, you can fish well near East Falls"

"Well, I'll find some mountain vegetables. The map is this way."

"I... will go out with picking mountain vegetables. There's a lot of demons out there. It's in that book."

Apparently, you're going to be able to live with yourself. Is his material also utilized?

How does it feel to be helped by someone you despise as incompetent?

I want you to touch his life and know a little bit about the agony of the incompetent. If that still doesn't change, I can also give up that it's those people.

So far I'm crusading demons, but it's time to add new conditions.

Two weeks later.

"Damn, he's gone that way!

"Whoa, whoa!

"Cover me!

A monkey-shaped demon covered with bright white body hair all over his body, a threesome is struggling against Yeti opponents.

If it's three against three, they're better at strength.

However, there is still snow here in the mountains with poor scaffolding. I have to stand around, paying attention underfoot.

They would have been defeated before, but in their lives here they found out the horrors of the mountain.

If you're strong now, you can't lose. I'm willing to come in and help if I have to.

It is not voluntary action that they have begun to exorcise demons. Because you left the paper I wrote you a new request when you snuck into the house.

The contents of it are - "In the remaining two weeks, take out twenty or more of the lowest demons, like you did"

He just knows how horrible I am, and he's honestly following me.

They said it was only two weeks, but they got lucky. Your cheeks will also drop a little meat for a tough look, don't look more attractive than before.

Yeti is knocked down while he is impressed, and when they handsomely choke the body, they bracket it on a long stick and carry it handsomely.

The meat of demons can be eaten, but the flesh is hard, so I don't like it.

However, depending on the cooking method, it can be spoken without any problems. The method was also written in the material left behind by the old man.

"Really... you've succeeded"

I saw and grasped my skills for qualities from the beginning, but I guess I was sitting on top of my talents. Maybe he was desperate and never tried.

This fast-growing...... Two more weeks. Can you expect this?

Since that day, a month later.

"Isn't this Aniki the collector! Aniki's here!

"Welcome aboard! I've been expecting you."

"I'll have some tea and some baked sweets right away!

When I walk over to them who were doing salary and laundry in front of the house on Promise Day, they are welcomed for some reason.

I don't know what it means to be called Aniki by them. When did you get your liking?

He was seated in the handmade chair he was transported to and also placed a desk in front of him. Was this also recently carved and made of wood?

"You've changed, gentlemen"

"Yep. When I think of myself before, I want to hurt myself with embarrassment..."

The two people lining up behind the leader man who said so are also nodding with a strange face.

It's a more than expected change in mood. I have some anticipation of what changed them. Let's just say we wait to cut it out of them about it.

Something like a cookie was placed and the leader cut it out where the tea was poured into the cup.

"There's not a single piece of entertainment in that house, just books written down by family members when it comes to something. It also said something about Aniki, the collector. I used to read diaries and drawings in my spare time."

So when you separate words, bite off your lips and lean down.

After all, did you read that one? That changed my attitude toward me.... He must have complimented me a lot because it was about him.

"There was a spectacular life spelled (cont 'd). I am incompetent, how hard that man has worked and struggled. How blessed we have lived our lives... Really, pathetic."

"I almost cried at my stupidity"

"This life saved. We were born again, and we decided to do our best."

He may be the original susceptible type of person, but as he was placed in adversity and touched his life, he was given the opportunity to repent and review his life.

He who was incompetent rehabilitated the three?

"Aniki the collector. Until today it was a promise, can you hear one wish"

Three people poke their knees on the spot and do the front seat I taught them before.

Then he put his hand on his knee and stared from the front. Strong willed eyes.

You look like someone else from a month ago.

"What is it"

"Can't you just let me live here, like this? We look back at ourselves here and we want to work out! I'm sorry I had to re-slap myself for being so sweet!

"Me too!

"Please!

Rub your head on the ground and ask for it, their offer was... just what you wanted.

I used to crusade demons regularly, but a few times a year, but I have to go away. I regularly send crusade requests to the Adventurer Guild, but the current situation is that processing won't keep up.

I was just staying here and looking for people to hunt demons for.

As they wish,...... no, it honestly helps me to grow more than that.

"Really? Yeah, definitely from me, too. 'Cause I'd be glad if you could carry on his thoughts."

"Yes! Thank you!

The three of them are happy to hold hands together.

Even though I've never been in this place forever, this will stabilize this area for a while. Let's get them to go see how things are going from the Adventurers Guild on a regular basis.

Of course, I'm going to show my face a little too.

"Aniki the collector. What are you, incompetent? Aren't you fine as a human being just because you don't have the skills? Why didn't God give us all equal skills?"

Staring at his grave marker, which was cleaned beautifully and placed up to the offering, makes the man look serious.

The distress was also written in the diary of an old man, a friend. With that in mind, they seemed to have somewhere to think too.

"An incompetent is someone who believed that God could survive the trials.... someone with the strength to survive without having to rely on their skills. Maybe that's the incompetence."

Those who have been born with skills are better off - the original incompetent.

If so, it's also convincing that I was born with many skills...