The Skill Collector

Kick the earth and move forward to fly forward.

Run on the surface of a huge lake, climb a vertically cut cliff, and continue down a roadless path.

He hasn't hesitated to enter the woods where vicious demons are said to live, kicking through the disturbing trees and demons in the direction of progress and rushing the shortest distance in a straight line towards his destination.

A month's ride from the city where I'm based is a distance I have to be prepared for, but I jumped over an obstacle in "Leap," ran faster than a horse in "Handsome Feet," and "Super Recovery" allowed for an insomniac run.

Half of this...... no, I can cut back more time.

Yi (Haya) feels like hitting the ground, only his head is trying to calm down, but he was aware that there was no sign that the blood that went up his head would ever go down.

Three days have passed since I jumped out of the city and ran out for a village when I heard the information brought to me by Sleep Princess and Maekil.

"Come on, we need to calm down."

I whine to myself as I gently wave my arms and grind the demon that jumped out of the shade.

I'm not willing to stop my leg, but I just want my judgment back to normal.

"The Virgin."

The information we got from both of them was a rumor story about a small village located south of the continent.

The village is inhabited by a woman called the Virgin. They work in the village as doctors and advisors, and are familiar with them by the villagers.

There's nothing wrong with that, but the woman is in possession of an 'appraisal' and also has a free 'appraisal' for villagers and travelers.

The most caught on is the disappearance of some of the competent skill holders who headed to the village. That's the information.

I further checked the skill levels of those who had returned safely from that village - the levels were dropping.

When I get this far, I associate people with whom I don't like it.

I owned Rare Skills' Robbery '- my sister.

Skill levels cannot normally be lowered. Unless you take away your skills with 'trafficking' or 'robbery'.

There are possibilities for new skills that I don't know about, but this situation is the same as what my sister used to do in the village where I lived.

- From there it is likely that you are my sister. But my sister, who hasn't even shown her tail before, does something so easy to understand? The question remains.

... Even if this is a trap, I dare to jump in.

Distracted years passed from that tragic night. The first valuable information I've gotten since then. - Thin thin thread leading to my sister.

I can only follow this fine thread that's going to cut a thousand times now, but I don't have the skill right now.

I take out my portrait with my sister, who I carry with me, removed from my chest as I run. There's my sister smiling gently and me when I was incompetent.

After watching for a while, my mind stirred up just a little bit, so I went back into position.

"We have to stay alert."

Breathe deeply to calm down, gripping Auga's head with his right hand. The rusty smell of iron flows into my lungs.

We need to wash the blood out.

It seemed that he was unconsciously crushing his enemies and his whole body was red stained with blood and the smell of blood was stained all over his body.

A few days have passed since then and we have finally reached our destination.

I gathered information about the village on the road because my head was cold on the boulder, but I just realized the excellence of the two intelligence-gathering abilities, not much like what I was getting from them.

As for the new information, I was curious about the stories I heard about drinking in the liquor store.

"I went to that village about a week ago. I haven't been feeling well since then, so I made a series of mistakes. I have 'woodworking' skills, but I feel really heavy."

And when I asked the man who was tilting his neck about his skill level, it was that he had never looked into it.

When asked if she made the skill level story the Virgin, she said, "I think we talked about it. Before I got the appraisal for free, they asked me a lot of questions. What kind of skills do you have," he replied.

In other words, it is also considered that a large number of skill levels were taken from people who do not know the skill levels….

The more the conditions that are my sister are aligned, the more severe my heartbeat becomes and my breath becomes painful.

The joy of seeing you and the fear of your sister. And - anger.

Various emotions intruded and I try to activate 'psychotic tolerance', but it didn't go far enough to contain the emotions.

Is that all that bothering you?

I came as far as I could see the village without an answer. Now I'm peeking in 'Chili Eye' from the high ground where I can see the whole village, but people's faces seem bright and secure.

"There seems to be no rumored Virgin."

I was more relieved than sorry I couldn't see that.

I'm still pissed off at myself for coming so far and saying that all these years have gone by.

In the village, you take your skills away from people one by one, while you take them away from the competent ones from the others in large quantities. Sometimes even if you kill someone.

If this prediction is being met, as my brother, I must stop my sister's folly.

I mean, with this hand - killing.

I was gonna be ready for that. The... I was going to.

"Saying something great to people, this kind of thing"

Sometimes I exhort people and not once or twice have I spoken great about life.

I'm still lost on what I've been worried about for years, decades, hundreds of years.

"Let's meet and decide...... No, let's decide."

Return to your usual way of speaking, albeit to yourself. This way you can see the area with a step-by-step gaze. Not as that pitiful brother, but as myself as a collector.

I'm not sure I'm still your sister. We need to decide what to do in the future first.

It is usually reasonable to visit the village as a merchant. But in this case there is nothing wrong with the Virgin unless she is her sister. However, if you were my sister, you can't call it the best course of action.

Sometimes I think waiting for the sun to fall like this, multiplying it by the dark night and sneaking in. They also have the right skills for intelligence activities such as' cover-ups' and 'sneaky feet' and 'covert'.

As a general policy, we are likely to be narrowed down to these two options.

It's possible they've already detected me, even if I sneak in.... That's grand if it stays that way.

I put out a coin to replace the amulet that I sneaked into my nostalgia.

When you play that with your fingers, you go up into the sky spinning in circles.

"From the front if the table. Do you want to disturb me in the middle of the night?"

Coins falling in the light of day and glowing stopped the movement once they fell to the ground and bounced. The result is...

"Oh, you're a pedestrian. I've come to such a remote place."

"I heard in a nearby village that this village has been vibrant lately, and I was wondering if there were any money making stories"

"Ha ha, be an honest merchant"

Speaking to the gatekeeper who was at the only entrance to the village surrounded by a fence that just pierced Marutai, he responded amicably.

Is there less demon damage here, and the gatekeeper only has two old men who seem calm.

"Is the watch okay for the two of us? What if a powerful demon shows up?"

"Well, you can call the youngsters while either of them is feeding. Whoops."

"Must be, ha-ha-ha"

There is no sadness in the faces of the old men slapping and laughing on their bread and knees. My hands and legs are thin, and I guess I don't have much use for farming or at home anymore.

Do you believe this is your last role and spend your days?

If such an idea is a village where all of the villagers can have it as a matter of course, it is a wonderful village without a multiplication.

If the Virgin is the personable person who truly deserves to be called the Virgin, not her sister, then there is nothing wrong with her.

"Speaking of which, rumor has it, there will be a Virgin,"

"Oh, are you here for the Virgin, too? I can't help it if you have beautiful golden hair. My heart, yes, and they 'appraise' everyone's skills for free every week. It also gives you advice on how to develop your abilities."

Same thing I do with my old sister. Is it impossible that someone else in red is doing the same thing...? When you do, you have to be ready.

Preliminary information also matches the story of the old man. The Virgin looks like a blonde beauty. That's the look that applies to my sister, too.

I also thought about splitting the rare skill 'robbery' in a special way, but only 'trafficking' is possible to split the 'robbery' to the best of my knowledge.

The way to do this is not to simply buy out all the rare skills, you just have to leave the level to buy them and sell that rare skill to another person.

It is also possible to multiply rare skills with this. Except I'm the only one who can use this method.

Actually, although 'buying and selling' is rare skill, not only-skills, and if anyone owns the same skill, all the considerations so far will be futile.

It is said that there are two ways to distinguish between only-skills.

One, have the same skills existed in the past?

One, do you increase your skill level?

In other words, if the level is not increased no matter how many times the same skill has been used without the existence in the past, it is established that it is an only-skilled skill.

Generally speaking, it seems to discern by whether the former had the same skills in the past.

In the first place, I'm trying to overshadow the latter's perception that the level won't go up.... Let's not think about it now.

"Where does the Virgin live?

"I'm going to live in a building outside the village. Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa. Because the Virgin can manipulate all sorts of magic."

"I'll remember your liver."

Did you teach the Virgin's place lightly because you trust her strength?

The old man next door is also consenting and nodding aloud.

I thanked the two of them and listened to the other villagers but the responses are pretty much the same.

Everyone praises the Virgin, and he hears not a word of bad talk. It is admired on a level that is not an exaggeration to call worship.

Everyone knew where the house was and told me without hesitation.

The house is on a small high hill a short distance from the village.

"You must be joking..."

When I saw a building built with potpounds on the hill, my voice leaked unexpectedly.

A house with a similar appearance, as confusing as to whether I brought my home where I spent time with my sister as it was from my past memories.

The scratches on the walls, the flowers on the flower beds, the position of the wells... are no different than memories.

Every time I take a step forward, past footage comes to mind.

One step, myself drying my laundry in anger at my sloppy sister.

One step, myself watching my sister in the garden doing photographs and getting paid.

One step, myself desperately grabbing my sister from behind who was about to fall into the well.

Many times I tried to forget. My memory of when I was happy appeals to me to forget.

"How long are you going to be sweet to my sister......"

Shake your head. Shake off your stupid thoughts and memories.

There is a door to the house in front of me. He exhaled loudly and put his hand on the door knob.

Increase your alert rank. No need to be chronic, alarmed, or reckoned with.

Inhale heavily and push momentum open.

The interior is a familiar home...... not just an empty room with no chairs, no tables, no one furniture.

And one woman standing in the center of that room smiling gently.

Long blonde hair with yellow-brown skin. Her eyes are as thin as thread, and her red, little lips have a glossy grin. Is he about thirty years old?

He stares seriously at the woman in a pure white piece and exhales in a small, reassuring breath.

"... you're someone else"

"Are you relieved?

A woman who is not my sister has spoken to me intimately, despite the first encounter.

A woman who talks like she saw my heart.

The appearance is similar. I can't say from a distance that I can't possibly mistake it for my sister. But it's someone else. Definitely someone else in red.

That's why you can't be alarmed. Because I'm sure he's a bad opponent.

"Are you the one you call the Virgin?

"That seems to be what they call it in the village. You're a collector, right?"

I'm asking, but it looks like I'm checking after I know the answer rather than the question.

My grin deepens when I snort silently.

- It's a disgusting laugh. It looks like a seemingly perfect grin as to whether 'acting' is highly skilled. But I can't feel my heart there. Only the upper side of the made smile.

It's like... it's like my sister.

"Skills are what I don't see...... No, you own a great relic that inhibits appraisals."

"Thank you."

When the Virgin got her hands on her chest, she pulled out a form of magic prop that mixed three triangular cones together. Here is also a great relic that prevents therapy and the 'appraisal' that the prince had.

If you go through it three times just in the near future, you'll be pinned immediately.

"I'm not willing to ask around. What's your relationship with your sister?

I wasn't willing to play with words, so I suddenly cut to the point.

My eyebrow butt is picky and my eyes open.

"Oh, it's because of you. My lords need to show me a little room to put on. How can a conversation between a man and a woman draw the other person's feelings? That's where it matters."

"I'm single until I'm this age, so guess what."

I can afford to hang out with a light mouth about that.

Being not my sister nearly drove me to a sense of impatience, but more reassurance than that created room for winning hearts and minds.

"You don't like rushing against women. It's a waste of time to fall in love here, so I'm clear. The collector's sister is my goddess."

Did you lightly acknowledge your relationship with your sister?

- Connected. Finally with my sister!

"I admire you...... right. Did my sister even launch an emerging religion?"

Calm down, don't forget to calm down.

Push and kill Dawn's emotions, pretend to be calm and continue the conversation.

"Would you stop doing that with religion and all that? Though your brother, I can't overlook the insult to that one. We just admire ourselves."

I even feel madness in the words of the Virgin, who puts her hand on her chest and speaks as a joy.

He denied it, but he's an enthusiastic believer. - It also has a "fanatical" on its head.

I have previously been involved in a suspicious religious community that believes in evil gods and seeks to destroy the world, but I am no different from the followers there.... No, the Virgin is worse than they are.

"Smart but beautiful, noble and beautiful, beautiful to possess the power of omnipotence and to be beautiful, to be at the apex of all living beings"

"It's beautiful. It's cheap."

"Though I thought you said you wouldn't tolerate insults, my brother?

The Virgin, looking up at the ceiling with a lucid look, kept talking about things that didn't matter, stares at this one.

"Where is that beautiful sister now?

Decide that a decent conversation is not possible and switch to a policy of asking only about your sister.

Seemed satisfied with my statement, the Virgin gave a full grin.

Seems surprisingly easy to handle.

"I don't know that. Because we are just waiting for the trust and doing it."

That's my sister's instructions, isn't it? You're treating your sister like a god while you deny it.

If idolatry is so terrible so far, it is possible that my sister's information can only be obtained at the minimum necessary.

What's bothering me more than anything is what you say "we". It would mean that there are multiple troublesome people worshipping their sister.

"Do the deeds in this village imitate my sister?

"Yeah. Because that's what you've been entrusted with. That one lives the way he wanted. Tell me more about how you spent your childhood. He graciously held my hand and whispered," I can only count on your skills, "with his lips like a wet rose (bulb) in the morning dew. It's an honor to emulate your life."

Do you mean you live here following my sister's instructions?

If the words are not false, what does my sister do that for... And there's another thing that bothers me.

"Knowing what my sister was doing in the village, are you imitating it?"

"Yeah, because I'm better at imitating than anyone else. While taking skills away from incompetent villagers one by one, all mesmerizing skills are taken away. Evidence is obliterated. It's great behavior when you're young."

I had a little sympathy for whether it was my sister's victim, but it seems like an outer road that is intoxicated and blind to my sister.

There is no longer any need to add a hand or heart to a woman called the Virgin.

"Do you know my sister's purpose?"

"He said his brother was going to come. Because I believed that word and I just spent my days."

Was it still an act to lure me out? It's about my sister, she might be watching this sight somewhere.

I run my gaze around and release "Sign Detection" at its maximum level, but I don't feel any sign of being a sister.

"What have you done?

"No, I don't know what to do after that"

"I'll leave it to my discretion," he said.

Holy Virgin with her mouth horn hoisted and white teeth protruded for the best laugh of the day. No one will ever call me the Virgin if I see this evil smile.

It's all about questions today, but this is going to be the last time.

"So, what's the Virgin's answer?

"Whoever will be shackled by that one... Is it elimination?"

"I see. Did that happen"

It was the answer within the assumption, so I also distort the beating and the mouth. Unlike the other person, it's close to a bitter laugh.

I never thought my sister's followers would worship me the same way from the edge.

Same as the villagers in my hometown. Whoever approaches my sister hates me.

It's not just a matter of me being an incompetent skill owner, it's just that I can't tolerate the presence of the opposite sex that my sister cares about. Even if it's a blood connected brother.

By then my sister had been attractive. Now I think I most likely possessed the skills of the "charm" system that makes them jealous.

Now that hostility has been established, there is a mystery to be solved first. - It's a virgin skill.

If you were depriving them of their skills, like your sister, you would normally consider 'robbery' skills. He also said in an earlier conversation that his sister told him, "This can only depend on your skills".

... Want me to put some tears on it?

"But I never thought anyone would have the same rare skills as my sister."

Just because I didn't know, 'robbery' skills may not be rare with several existing skills at the same time. We can't deny that possibility either, so we'll see how they react.

"I can't believe you have the same skills. 'Robbery' has to be the only unique skill. Mine is..."

Put your hands on your mouth deliberately, and shut your mouth.

I'd like to hear from you first, but you don't seem willing to talk.

I decided that that wasn't a lie in "Psychology," but I can't believe "Psychology" all the time without seeing her skills.

Years of reckoning, however, make the decision that she's not lying. That's what my experience as a collector complains about, not my skills.

So what's the skill? I intend to understand most of the skills that are around the world, including rare skills. If you have skills you don't know, it's...

"Are you an only-skilled"

"Your answer. Even if you rot, you're that brother of yours. Do you understand the key competencies?

Looks like the same thing you did to me has disappeared.

To be honest, I have some anticipation. The tip was in her conversation.

"Perhaps in skills that are capable of imitating the other person's skills, such as copying, duplicating, imitating, etc.?

"Eh."

Finally, the grin disappeared from the Virgin Marquis. He opens his mouth and exposes himself to a dumb surface.

Did you get the right answer?

A statement that you can only ask your sister's girlfriend. Confidence in the act of imitation was hidden. If she blindly believes her sister, she would happily execute it if she were told to imitate 'robbery'.

I can't think of it that way. I originally said the most likely ability, but it apparently centered me.

"Hmm. I just found out that my skills are 'imitation', and you don't know the terms and detailed abilities of that. Come on, I'll imitate all your skills too!

Indeed, if 'imitation' is capable of imitating multiple skills, including levels, it won't let me win cheaply.

But 'imitation' is not so powerful or omnipotent in itself. - I think. Even if it is possible to perfectly imitate all their skills, they are not willing to lose.

I silently pack the distance at once. The shrinkage was activated to travel instantaneously, from the front door to the center of the room.

If she's a normal opponent, she can't handle my movements, and she's stuffing about a blow to the belly, but she jumps backwards and points her right hand at me at the same time.

"Play it!

Red particles converging in the palm of your hand emit dazzling light as well. I aggressively activate the "jump" and fly to the left with all my might, smashing the window and retreating outdoors.

A red light penetrated my spot until just now and pierced the floor causing a huge explosion.

A blowing blast brings the flames together, raging wild as it crushes the rubbled house.

There is no harm done to me because I left the blast site with all my might, but there is a huge smudge in the place where my former home was located.

That's one of the advanced magics. Mixed magic that can only be unleashed on wizards who have mastered wind and fire attributes.

"Was it avoided? Too bad."

The Virgin appeared intact from the flames of the blast. He said he was in that flame, but he doesn't have a single burnt eye on the piece.

A troublesome opponent. A quick retreat to the rear was also an unnatural rate of evasion that could only be considered a combination of several combat-based skills.

Did you imitate someone else's "advanced magic" in "imitation," or did you turn into your sister's "robbery" and take it away? I'd love to know the answer to that, but that's behind us.

"Do you think you can beat me with some skills?"

"Is it a fig? It must be about you."

I was going to use it as a reference when I confronted my sister sooner or later, but I'm not the one to be alarmed by, whether imitating things or not. If so, only fast-track battles.

Also pack the distance with 'shrinkage'. Nevertheless, this skill has a shorter travel limit distance, so when activated with a distance farther than just now, it stops a few meters in front of her.

If you point your gaze at me like that, now you stick out your left hand as well as your right.

I guess you thought I misjudged you and showed you the gap.

When the opponent puts his hand in his nose before unleashing magic, he throws it in the face of the Virgin, holding it without letting go of his skin.

"Such a flying tool, geez ⁉"

She takes it face-to-face without avoiding that it was possible to just skew her body aside a little bit.

The blunt sound turns my head backwards. Slipping into her nostrils with one foot, she slammed her fist into her abdomen.

With that blow she glances white and collapses to the ground.

I threw it at him - picking up the painting my sister and I were painted and returning it to my nostalgia.

Precision painting of the person you worship. If I had followed my movements with my eyes, I thought I could make an aggressive decision about what the picture I threw at me was.

It was an expectation to the extent that I should have invited upset, but I didn't expect you to take it face-to-face. Seemed to be a sweet look at her faith heart.

Remove the magic prop that was falling back from her neck when she lost her mind and look it up in "Appraisal".

There are 'imitation (robbery)' skills there, and other highly leveled and beneficial skills lined up all the time. The fact that other skills look normal means that they are not imitated by 'imitation'.

In other words, can this skill only imitate one skill?

It sounds like an interesting skill, but I have to say it would be subtle if asked if it was powerful.

Okay, I just want to pull out a lot of information, but she won't crack her mouth that easily. However, there are plenty of interrogation-related skills, so it is not impossible to ask.

She has plenty of combat-based skills, but few that affect her spirit. There are ten skill slots, but all of them are filled.

With 'control' like I do, it's possible to switch skills or reduce the performance of negative skills, but without it, it's impossible to manipulate skills that exceed the number of slots.

"Though there is no element of me losing this skill and level. You're concerned about this' contract '."

The letter 'Contract' in the Skills column. It is understandable that the magic of the contract was exercised and embedded in the slot, but the problem is its content.

Perhaps it was my sister who exchanged this' contract '. I don't get secrets from my sister about possible contract details, etc.

When that happens, we have to start somewhere where we buy out the 'contract'. It gives me trouble.

"Ugh. I lost..."

The Virgin with her head shaking her upper body seems to have immediately understood the situation in which she was placed.

"Yes, I've shown you my skills, so you won't win when you rematch."

Lift the necklace of the magic prop you took from her.

The light in her eyes weakened when the Virgin Mockingjay smiled mocking herself when she saw it.

At that moment, the 'Intuition' skill sounds the alarm violently and tells me the crisis.

"Goodbye - Dear"

Immediately after activating the 'junction' before thinking, the vision is dyed in red.

A wild blast outside the junction would have deliberately - rammed - the advanced magic she unleashed on me. The power is not the ratio we just had.

When both the blast flames and the wound dust disappeared, the ground that burned in bright red who became like lava was just spreading on one side.

"Contract to self-harm. … or your own judgment"

There is no longer any way to find out which actions touched on the contract.

If you think you've finally grabbed my sister's tail, it's only one tail that's innumerable, and you've severed it and gone away again.

Take the portrait out of your nostalgia again and look at your sister's painting.

When I turned my gaze from picture to sky, there was a cloudless sky.

When the villagers heard the explosion, they perceived the imminent signs, and I walked away.

It is unacceptable to stop walking.

We have to take another step.

The long and long journey in search of my sister is not yet over...