The Skill Collector

"Don't be a jerk anymore!

"I didn't do that. Hey!

I ran into a scene where a little girl and a boy were fighting.

I'm on my way to a certain place, but I'm not in a hurry, so I slow down and turn my awareness to the kids.

"Why are you doing all this to me and doing all this nasty stuff!

"Damn, how annoying is that?"

You just don't look like you're close, but you're more of a boy.

Kids...... I can't be honest with the emotion that I like, especially when I'm a boy, and people I like do things I don't like. That's what I want you to do.

Because it's the most scary thing to be ignored by someone you like.

"Are you a jerk, I miss you"

When I was a kid, my sister used to trick me, too, and she said, "Stop. You'll be angry if you do any more! I resisted," but for some reason I couldn't dislike it.

Now I think my sister, unlike this child, has no affection there, though the strong may have just been playing with the weak.

"Baka, baka! I hate it!

The one word the girl released as she ran away seemed to work and the boy is in tears.

I guess I can't manipulate my emotions well right now, because getting bigger makes it a little better. I walked away from the spot, comforting the boy in my heart.

Where am I headed, when Princess Sleep summons me to her mansion?

When we got to the mansion less than five minutes after that, we seemed to have been contacted well in advance, and the gatekeeper let us through without any suspicion.

When the maid leads you to your room and opens the door, there you will find a sleeping princess sitting in a window chair and an upright immobilized, next to you - Maechir the informer.

Speaking of which, while we were looking into Sleep Princess, we were told that she had been taken in. They're using each other in a cooperative relationship now.

"Do you want to scratch?

"Wa Ru. Say nothing. Yeah. Don't tell me anything..."

The Sleeping Princess laughs glossily as she sideways confirms Maekil, who can kneel (kneel first) on the spot.

"Mr. Maechir is helping me."

"Speaking of which, you have a name as an informant."

"Did you know? Hello, from Mr. Maekil?

As the Sleeping Princess narrows her eyes softly and pours a cold gaze, she shakes her body loud once and for all, and Maekil rushes away from her eyes.

Hmm? Now Maekil... didn't blush her cheeks slightly?

"Ha-ha-ha, something's odd. After being beaten up without skin as an informer, and then scorned with those cold eyes, I couldn't stop being freaked out and thrilled."

There's something in him that you shouldn't wake up...

If it doesn't interfere with your activities as an informer, let it go because it sounds interesting. As a result, if I remember any unusual skills, shall I let them buy them away?

"So, what can I do for you?

"It was. We've been doing a little research on collectors since then, but you seem to have been active for a long time. What if a collector is a hereditary?

"Yeah, it's passed down from generation to generation. That's one of the special abilities of this one-of-a-kind skill called" buying and selling. "

"Shall I leave that to you?"

Were you listened to lightly?

I'm asking, but you seem to know everything.

I look at her from the front, but she hides so much inside that I can't spot her in 'Psychology'.

Young but brilliant.

who possess superior abilities even without skills. Neither is he of the incompetent, but she hasn't relied on her skills alone either.

"Wye gave me that information..."

"Did you say something, Mr. Maechir?"

Sleep Princess smiling without her eyes laughing.

Bikun, Maekil rocking his body vertically.

"Ah, Akan. If you let yourself go like this, you might open up a new path."

That's a bad way to go if you go.

I know you're doing half of it with a joke because it's about Maekil, but I think... as far as those eyes and expressions go, you're a total jerk.

"Do the special play later. So, what's wrong?

"No, I know the collector is looking for something, but he won't answer even if he asks me what it is."

"Whatever reward you get, talk about it. If you really want to hear it out, step on Wye's ass with that leg first -"

You're talking silly, but you seem to keep your promise to me.

Sounds like you remembered that if you broke your contract, you would recover all the skills you gave.

"I've got a lot of money, but my mouth is tougher than I expected and I'm in trouble. Loyalty doesn't seem to have any shards on your face."

"Huh, to that extent cursing doesn't even make me excited! Stronger and more intense, more and more verbal blame!

He crawls on all fours and puts his ass to sleep. Maekil is shouting at the princess, but he ignores it without even looking.

"Left behind and... This is it..."

It looks like the Maechir I already know is dead.

There is no grief there. I don't mind if I'm having fun in person, so I'll leave you alone.

"Even when Mr. Maekil was silenced, when he connected the pieces of information together, he saw them to a certain extent. Find your sister."

"If you're going to step in any further, you're not going to be interested, are you?

When I was awesome, a sweat slipped down my sleeping princess's cheek with a smile on it.

We use each other after telling Maechir about the danger. I'm not as close as I am, and I'm ready to throw that life away sometimes.

... I am now exposed to something unusual.

"I understand. I apologize for your disrespect for trying to force me to ask without permission. But I want you to understand. That it's not just curiosity.... this body that would have been killed by my brother had it not been for the collector. Even if it looks like this, do you feel obliged?

"You don't have to give up your life when you're grateful. If you can buy and sell words of gratitude and skills, that's enough."

I'm sure she used me, but this is also a story I just took on as a job.

Few are more deeply involved with their sister. I don't want to involve others as much as possible.

"Honestly, I admit I was intrigued at first. But as I looked into it, I learned fear. Hidden in the strange shadows of the world, in the presence of someone... I thought I shouldn't be allowed to sleep."

I could see that my brow, which was piercing her faceless expression in her words, moved tingly.

Sleep Princess captured her sister's shadow... you mean?

"I can't be sure that its existence is the person the collector is looking for. But I think there's some connection."

Her determination, plus the information network.... brace your belly?

There's nothing wrong with me. I'm just talking about using it without thinking it's someone to protect.

"Can you tell me more about it? I'll tell you what happened, too. However……. Once you hear this, you can't go back. May I?

"Yes."

Her silver hair, which turned off the grin and corrected her posture, softened to the wind that poured in through the window.

Without Maekil, who looks serious and is crawling on all fours at his feet, it would be a picturesque sight.

But that makes the air I was straining a little loose.

"Well, let's talk about it. Before you do that, Mr. Maekil, please stand up. Because it's hard to be serious."

"Have you finally penetrated me? You're the best at crushing? I'm tired of acting like a pervert and deluding the princess so she doesn't know what's going on."

Maechir pays his knees pampered and stands up and stretches his hips.

It looked serious to my eyes, but if you believe in your own valve, the words and actions so far seem to be plays.

I think there's more I can do to fool them.

"Fair enough. I'll tell you what happened to my sister and me. Tell me about my beloved sister and my stupid brother."

At the end of the story, Maekil and the Sleeping Princess exhaled heavily.

This is the second time I've told him this story, but I still seem to have had some thoughts and look pale. Sleep Princess is just bloody drawn from her white face, blue-white and transformed.

Was it a failure to activate 'Speech' to create an intensity?

"That's what happened. There's no point in me saying restful words here, so don't touch them there. It was expected that your sister's skills would be 'robbery', but it's still a nasty skill."

"Let it go. It's a bad idea to take a collector's" buy and sell "and strawberries away from them without asking questions."

Yes, there's the definitive difference between my sister and me.

My skills are not activated without their consent. There are ways to get small hands on them and take them away from them, but they also need to be prepared.

But my sister's 'robbery' is not. There are activation conditions, but it is possible to take them without the consent of the other party.

"In the past, 'robbery' skills existed. Although rare, those who have gained this skill have somehow retained their name in history, so they are well known."

"That's all bad rumors, too."

Yes, 'robbery' is so famous that no one among the rare skills knows it, because the owners are all the ones who dyed themselves for their evil deeds.

They say he went up to the king alive in the ghetto and took everything away from him - the usurper king.

Bearing people's expectations as brave men saving the world, he murdered his people one after the other to take that skill and plot the demise of the world - a brave man falling into darkness.

Especially these two are famous.

There are other rumors that don't even know if it's true that "the parent balls of famous bandits possessed 'robbery' skills" and "the heads of mercenaries who do anything for money are like that" go on and on.

'Robbery' skill owner = villain. The perception is becoming more common.

If you therefore want to live in peace, you should hide through it without revealing it to anyone for life, even in case you were born with 'robbery' skills. Few people think so.

My parents thought so and tried to hide my sister's skills. The result is that tragedy.... it's ironic.

"From what I've looked into, 'robbery' is a state of awareness of the skill of the other person, who touches the other person and speaks the skill he wants to acquire. I hear that's a condition to take away.... I'm sure you already know the collector."

"Yeah, I know that. Additionally, if you are willing to resist the opponent, you will not be able to take skills above the level of 'robbery' skills."

After I got this information, I put my back into collecting skills. Rare skills are difficult to level. Because I thought it was an effective means of counteracting my sister.

Since then, I have been actively buying up the same skills for leveling purposes.

"There may be other 'mental resistance' that works. There may be another means of resistance, but we are told that two rare skills do not exist at the same time, so we cannot try them"

What Sleep Princess is saying is not a mistake. No statement existed that two owners of rare skills existed at the same time, no matter which literature they examined.

Nor did the erudite Luio, formerly an old sage, the great relic Aria, and the cuyoli, who lived for a thousand years, affirm such a fact.

"Rare skills are riddled with mysteries, too. As soon as the owner dies, it's too much trouble for a new owner to show up."

"Right. It also wakes someone from all over the world suddenly to their abilities. Age, gender, race, whatever."

They're both doing a lot of research on me.

It is unclear whether other rare skills are the same, but 'robbery' skills move to someone when the owner dies. Whether we move on to death or a few years from now, only God knows that.

However, rare skills can also be made to exist in two simultaneous periods if special methods are used. I think you can tell that by looking at my 'domination' skills. But this can't be because it's a special way of using 'buying and selling'.

Was my sister also born to own it, or did she wake up just before she was appraised... If the previous owner survived, my sister...

... Let's not. If I tell you what, I don't have a kiri. Because the past cannot be changed.

All I have to do is look to the future and move on.

"Common skills are often handed over to children, but rare skills don't apply. I can't say that at all."

When I am a collector, I inevitably often relate to skills, and I have the opportunity to touch the mystery of skills. In general, skills may be taken over, but the theory is that the odds are around 50%.

Aiming for it, the bourgeoisie and the powerful welcome leading skill holders, regardless of their status, as wives and son-in-laws, to give birth to an outstanding skilled lineage.

For there are more than one concubine in the king of one kingdom, and many sons are made.

Although this is a hidden information that is generally not widespread, it is calculated to combine skills and skills to evolve into higher skill, confirming the phenomenon that children are born in possession of higher skill as a result of the inheritance of both parents' skills.

The prince of this country was born with 'mental sensitivity', also now that I think about it, considering the combination of skills...... Is that too much to think about?

There are many mysteries that have not been solved in skills, and little research has been done, especially on only-skills. If the owner dies, he will never show up with the same skills again, so I can't help it.

"I don't know what skills are. Sometimes you get tangled up in the spirit just because your abilities are simply enhanced?

"It's famous, it's a desire system, isn't it?" Appetite, "" Sleep Lust, "" Sexuality. "You also apply 'laziness', 'fear', 'languish' and 'cheerfulness' related to your personality."

"It's also a part of there that hasn't been figured out yet. I've spoken to a skill researcher I met on my journey before, and he said that the mental system is triggered by our strong feelings. For example, the boy who got 'appetite' did not get a satisfactory meal and wanted to eat something stronger than anyone else. A girl who wanted to fix her inner personality 'cheerful'."

The Sleep Princess is smiling bitterly at my remarks.

You must have realized that you fit into that example. Strongly hoping to sleep, to myself awakened by 'Sleep Greed'.

"I have skills to make my wish come true. I know it sounds good, but there's no such thing as an incompetent person for it, and I don't know why."

"Let the religious say, it's God's mercy, though. The same goes for the incompetent, but given also the existence of negative skills, rather than mercy..."

I guess you decided it was careless to mouth ahead of you from there. Sleeping Princess whispers.

You wanted to get rid of the quiet air, Maekil dared to say this in a shattered tone.

"I don't know about skills. Add or subtract one teaspoon of God. That's what fate flirts with."

It's a statement that would matter if there were people of faith, but those here never pursued it in depth just shrugging their shoulders.

Prank......? That's not the kids this morning, I'm sure my sister did it to me. Malicious play, performed by the overwhelming strong against the weak.