The Skill Collector

I was looking for blind skills while posing as a pedestrian in a village of quite a size, but I didn't have the skills I wanted you to call this.

I insisted on selling "young making" because Mrs. Murakami was coming to an impasse to see if she had any "rejuvenating" skills. Actually, I also own a 'rejuvenation' skill that can change my physical age to the youthfulness I want, but rare skills are valuable so I'm not willing to sell them.

(i) Should I be prepared for at least three days, even if I am to return to the village where I am based after work, because I have come quite far?

"If you mean it, it won't take a day, but there's no reason to rush it."

I would like to go home to the inn soon and relax, but I didn't feel like going back immediately.

My neck is tingling and my chest is pounding. After years of experience, I can only deal with these feelings in a hurry.

When I tried my best to activate my 'Intuition' skills, I felt chilly as if something was crawling around my spine.

This sensation is a foretaste of something that doesn't happen. I don't know what that is, but if you're going to get yourself into an unexpected situation, you better stay away from the inn.

... I don't want to get them involved.

Off the maintained streets, go the plains where the short length weeds grew.

Spacious plains with no shields. Even if you lurk in the grass, this length will give you a full view of your back.

It's not a place for the enemy to hide.

Whatever happens here, it's easy to deal with.

There are several patterns of events that occur when you have a bad feeling.

Fight against demons.

An encounter with a bunch of people being attacked by bandits.

The foretaste of a natural mutation.

It's classic to get involved in sudden incidents such as this.

But this time the feeling is stronger than usual...

Get caught up in something bigger, unexpected. I don't feel that way.

As I kept walking around the plains on guard, I saw a shadow in the direction of the path.

A woman in a pure white piece stands where no one was until just now. I don't know my face because I wear a straw hat deep in my eyes.

One woman in a plain like this wears it everyday without a weapon. Even though it is suspicious enough, the reason for stirring up the suspicion is that there is no sign of it even though I can see it.

My "Sign Detection" is also high level and can be detected by even small bugs if activated at all costs.

Even so, I don't feel anything for that one-piece woman. uncomfortable as if a thin picture were placed there.

- Even so, my whole body hair stands upside down and my knees tremble into small pieces.

I can't see your face, but I know you... No, I knew.

The hard looking mouth smiles gently, and stands softly in the wind blowing on the plains even at first glance.

From the last time I saw it, it looks a little taller and more adult, but it doesn't match the looks of the past years.

Swallow spit to dampen dry tongue and throat at at all.

I've been waiting for this day.

I'm also getting ready.

Even so, does it disturb my mind to this point?

Just a few seconds but I forgot to breathe much stunned. Inhale heavily and never speak your intentions to me.

"Sister......"

The smile of the woman who raised the side of her hat was undoubtedly the face of her sister, the only blood relative.

"Long time no see, how have you been?

A warm tone. That's the right word for a flesh parent I haven't seen in a long time.

If that was a normal relationship, I wouldn't have felt any discomfort. If you are a normal common sister and brother.

Hold your sweaty hand and breathe quietly and deeply.

Calm down, don't lose your cool.

You knew that. My sister owns a 'search' skill. As long as I have an array, I can find my place anywhere.

Once again, there are shortcomings in 'search' skills. That goes off the 'search' if the subject is lost... I mean, you can't escape the 'search' unless I die.

"It's been a long time since I've flown away."

"Oh, that's another way to talk to my sister. Sister, I'm so sad."

I stare at my sister, who is pretending to stand aside and cry and imitate.

I laugh bitterly at myself for the same tricks and voices that I used to have that I would be alarmed about.

Drop your sweet aspirations. I'm your sister. Teng himself who slaughtered the villagers and took his skills from me.

The same thing as before means that the madness that lurks in my sister... think of it as unchanged.

"Oh no. You're not responding well. Let's break up with my beloved brother, you've had ten years."

"Digits are different. The digits. It's like a breath disaster, above all else."

"Looks like you were fine, too. Looks like they got along."

They worship my sister, who's been giving me a hand. You mean the two only-skilled people?

"Thanks to you. One of them blew himself up."

"That's the kid. I was a little blind and scared. I just asked you to see what happened to my brother, and you ran off on your own, and I'm sorry."

Hands together, tongued out, and apologized with a light nori.

You almost killed me, and one of my men is dead, and the upset doesn't even show dust.

This is... my sister.

"No, never mind"

"I thought you'd always be my cute little brother, and you've grown into a man in public. I've become more and more the man of my choice, heh."

"It would be an honor. Your sister hasn't changed much, has she? Looks like he's gaining a little height."

"That means you're still young. Oh, I'm so glad. He's grown up quite a bit, except for his height, his chest and all."

He's trying to lift his chest, put his arms together, and he's showing it off.

It does seem to be growing more than before.... I don't care.

"By the way, what's your sister doing here?

"Shirabara already. I told you I'd see you again. You've been collecting skills for me, keeping your word, haven't you? I'm here to collect it from a collector -"

Speak up that line without even thinking about it.

On the contrary, I don't feel malicious from words and deeds...... horrible.

"Do you honestly, disciplinarily, think you're going to hand over your skills?

"You used to be an honest, good kid!

He shakes his hair and pretends to be upset, but his eyes are calm.

I was only frightened by my sister's madness then, but after much experience I was able to see my sister calmly to some extent.

"What does your sister want to do with her skills?... No, what are you doing in your current progression"

Ever since that day, I've been collecting information about my sister, but I couldn't even grab her tail.

I've heard several cases that I think might have involved, but no confirmation exists, only to the extent of rumors at best.

"What do you say? Robbing all of you, my brother. But I still can't take my only-skilled though. I've been trying to get more of my One-Skill buddies and see if I can get any of them, but I'm getting better levels and still can't get them."

The trick of tipping your little neck with your finger on your cheek might have looked cute if you didn't have the insight.

Those eyes. The expression is laughing but my eyes are not laughing. What madness do you have in the depths of those eyes?

"Is that why your sister is gathering only-skilled holders?"

"That's right. You don't know when, what, and only skills will be able to rob you. Because experiments are necessary to do this."

Exclusive appetite, it's not easy.

Do you think my sister is alive to take everything from me?

"Why are you so focused on me? If I were your sister now, I'd do whatever I wanted."

"It's not. No, I want all my brother's skills."

My sister dyes her cheeks to the Lord and stares at me with her fingers folded.

Is this the personality my sister was born with, or is it the effect of her 'robbery' skills?

Historically, those who have gained 'robbery' skills have taken everything away from them.

It is a country, a woman, a wealth.

The higher the level of skill, the more effective it is.

My sister's "robbery" would be higher than the previous owner's. How far is the spirit of my sister, who continues to be affected by such skills, contaminated and insane?

I can't turn back anymore.

I can't go back to my old sister anymore.

It's not like my previous sins will disappear where I could...

"Sister, what have you done to train 'robbery'?"

"Ugh. You want to know? I don't know what to do, let me tell you. Don't look so scared. 'Cause I'm gonna teach you right."

"You wouldn't even be a cute little girl."

"Terrible. If you say that, I won't tell you."

Don't wink with your hands on your cheeks. Yeah, give me a hundred-year-old.

I notice myself laughing bitterly again unconsciously, tightening my expression.

My mind was about to soothe again in an exchange that reminded me of the old days. Come on, let's learn.

"After I broke up with my beloved brother, I fell all over the place. I went around the villages in the same way and found someone in the city with a high skill level, and I got skills."

Do you want it? Take it, don't you?

I don't need to ask you how you got it, but I'll make sure.

"How did you get it to give way"

"You took it so you wouldn't find out without asking questions. If you find out, you'll have trouble spreading the rumors, so I'm sorry, but it's just like where you were born... the evidence is gone."

Does that mean you destroyed villages and towns?

"I've done my best to get attacked by bandits and demons."

Thumbs up and pokes at me, irritated by my proud face.

I've already had experience not feeling guilty about killing people. I will try to understand that it is useless to ask my sister for ethics.

- My sister now looks alarmed and filled with gaps, but would you like to launch an attack?

Bend your knees just a little and replace your skills with an offensive system.

"Oh, are you going to flirt with your sister?

"What are you talking about? Don't be silly."

You've been detected?

I killed the upset and pretended to be calm, but when I put those eyes in front of me, I felt like I was being seen through everything.

Even if my sister owned the "appraisal," replacing her skills can be prevented by "cover-up".

Even if my sister's skill level was above 'cover-up', she wears one of the great artifacts as insurance, a necklace that prevents' appraisal '.

This prevents perfectly regardless of the level of the opponent, Ariaria said.

Then it is assumed that you perceived my prior behavior with another skill.

"I've been thinking too much. I know what my brother thinks!

Did they read your mind? Can 'psycholeptic' be used like this one's prince? Rare skill, but you can be convinced if you took the person you owned before the prince and killed him.

"Ma, I'm thinking about it. A habit is something you can't get out of after hundreds of years."

Did they read the habit? I can read the other person's thoughts because I'm a flesh parent... if that's proof that I'm not lying... then even I have a sister's heart...

No, I don't think so.

Oh, my God.

This sensation

Doesn't it? Am I wasting too much time just now?

Has my thoughts been confused and all the extra things come to my mind?

I've been thinking about this day for hundreds of years. It should have been well thought-out and prepared, yet......

No way - are you under the influence of some skill?

"State Abnormal Resistance" is active at the highest level. None of the mental influences are close... should be.

"Mm-hmm. No overconfidence. But splendid. Normally, you're supposed to be so affected that you're not already standing, but you're still holding out."

The biggest giggle of the day sister.

After all, are you activating a skill that adversely affects some spirit?

"Ugh. Anyway, you were thinking about different ways to deal with any situation when you reunited with me or something. It's been a long time, isn't it? What do you call an instrumentally poor idea? I took away my physical attack system, but I took away my skills to influence magic and spirituality intensively, and I kept working out."

You mean...

Assuming every situation, I kept taking on a wide range of skills.

My sister continued to concentrate and hone certain skills.

Even if you live the same age, your abilities vary greatly due to the differences in how you build your skills.

From the beginning of the meeting I felt more disturbed than I imagined, not only was I upset about my encounter with my sister, but some skill had already been activated. That kind of och.

This development was also within the assumed scope. Therefore, I also intend to work out "abnormal state resistance", but is it not enough?

"This kind of thing is more advantageous to attack than to defend. You have to think of a lot of countermeasures. I just need one thing, so I just need to get the means to surpass it.... but it's really splendid. Your heart is a little hard to hear, and you've been working hard. I wonder if I can prevent other skills in that state."

I guess I was sure of what was going to happen. My voice is full of confidence.

Spiritual agitation blunts thoughts and... even physical abilities.

Every time my sister approaches me step by step, the pressure on my body increases and I can no longer support my body, I poke one knee.

No. I'm totally swallowed as it is.

"They may have done it, but your sister still can't take her only-skilled, can she?"

"Yeah, I am. But I can take it if I'm not an only-skilled. I can take away all the skills I've ever saved! Imagine that. Hundreds of years of achievements will be lost here. Hey, regret it? Hey, sister, if I apologize, can I forgive you?

I walked in front of me, stuck my face out, and I said that.

A grin distorted by superiority. That's right in front of you.

Are you sure you are happy to win?

... Oh, now I know. - What does my sister want to do?

"Sister, you have high self-esteem in vain."

"Huh? What are you trying to say over this period?

The grin distorts even more viciously.

The shadows that were beautiful were dust-free.

"My sister doesn't want to get everything I have. I just want to wipe away my inferiority to me. I am better at being my sister than my brother. That's what I want you to know."

The expression disappeared from my sister's face. My face goes away.

He's looking down at me with his arms around him, correcting the posture he had in front of him.

- Did you say the right answer?

It's like laughing at crap for people. But I can't fool around with jealousy about my body.

So much so that the fingers of both hands are not enough in the long history, such as the story of the civil unrest that divided the country to eliminate its brothers.

I can't even talk about people. Until I found out the truth, while I was proud of my sister... I was jealous.

My sister's thoughts were just more intense and harsh than mine.

The desire to take it away from me due to the 'robbery' of my skills and the heart that has envied me since I was born. I guess the two factors mixed together to form the personality of my sister today.

"It's really stupid. Does that mean a grand sister-brother fight involving you around, which lasts hundreds of years without getting tired of it? Sister, aren't you an idiot?

A mockery that brought me back to my first childhood tone here and scorned my bottom opponent.

At that moment, my sister turns her palm to me with no expression.

"That's enough. I don't need a brother who's not cute."

When I wondered if the black light had converged in my palm, an instant black light was emitted.

My sister, who was unchanged on the surface, seems pretty upset and the pressure on her spirit is almost gone.

It was worth the provocation. If this is the case!

Activate "Handsome Feet" and "Leap" and jump to the right with all your strength.

When the black light clashes to the ground, a black blast flame with lightning spreads.

I flew over ten meters at once, but I get caught up in this!

Set the skills you need to activate magic to activate 'EarthAttribute Magic', the most skilled magic.

A large, thick dirt wall appears in the front and takes all of it.

"This is cruel!

But the dirt wall is already cracked and about to collapse.

Two more in a hurry.

"No, three!

Arrange another dirt wall in a row.

The first one collapses. The second one also has cracks running and exploding across the whole area.

Cracks began to be seen in the third sheet as well, near the limit.

And just before the last one breaks, the explosion flames out. At the same time, the dirt wall collapsed.

I can't afford to be relieved that I was critically helpful here. Due to the smoke, I have already rushed backwards with all my might.

Now he has lured his opponent's anger and managed to escape under his influence, but the winning eye is thin if he doesn't do something about his sister's response to the mental attack.

It's a pitiful story, but if this happens, there's only one way to escape.

"Leap" and "Handsome Feet" kick the ground vigorously and run to fly.

These two are used from day to day to reduce travel times as pedestrians. I have actively bought from people who own the same skills.

My sister can catch up with me on this.

Though it was an unexpected encounter with my sister, my thoughts were sweet.

My sister sent me an assassin to find out what skills she has. I understood that. So I've avoided using as many skills as possible to win so that I don't look in my hand with concern for my sister's eyes.

Even so, this situation?

"No use."

My sister's cold voice echoes directly into her brain.

Is this the power of skill? If you normally hear voices, you can measure the distance and the position of the target, but you can't sense where they are.

Signs remain non-existent.

I'm prepared to run with my back to my sister, who has taken all the measures against me.

Runs irregularly left and right to avoid being targeted by magic, widening the distance.

So far there has been no pursuit. Did you get away with it? I won't be alarmed that...

Don't interrupt your alert. That sister couldn't have given up so easily.

In response to such an idea, the ground in the direction of the path flourishes, wondering if vibrations have been transmitted from underfoot, and huge walls fill the field of vision.

A huge wall of tremendous length that seems to reach me from the edge of the plain.

I also looked up high. This neck hurts so much.

"That's unusual magic!

Sometimes I just say that I've been working out magical associations. Your abilities regarding magic are different digits.

But my physical abilities are exceeded. I just have to believe that.

Put 'Climbing' in the skill slot and climb the wall in front of you.

That alone takes time to climb. This one also generates scaffolding on the wall with 'earthly attribute magic' to try to climb through the wall while also utilizing 'leaps'.

Turning back here or running along the wall is their idea. Only if you dare run straight away!

"So sweet."

A spear of dirt with a sharp and pointed tip pops out of the wall and scaffold trying to pierce me as I land on the created scaffold of dirt.

"I knew it!

Align skill slots for escape.

"Leap," "Climb," "Handsome Feet," "Handsome," "Instant Power," "Intuition," "Cursive Arts"

This will allow any attack to be carried out. Then, add "Dodo" to improve dodging and provoke the opponent.

If you're only winning with physical ability, that's all you focus on.

If my sister is catching it with her eyes, she can see me in her sight trying to jump and dance and avoid it.

I hope this makes me frustrated and less accurate.

It's supposed to be quite a distance open, but the attack with dirt spears is precise. This is more likely to be reading my signs than seeing them.

The level of "sign detection" is considered to be unusually high. "Cover-up" is activated, but still exceeds the target's "Signal Detection".

Signs are like the power, the life force, that flows from the person's flesh.

So my body, which took me hundreds of years to build up, has pretty strong signs compared to the others.

By analogy, the signs between the champion and the general public differ about as much as a huge chunk of flame and a candle fire.

The effect of "cover-up" becomes weaker than people's is that there is no choice.

"If we don't do something about this, we won't get away with it."

I'm skilfully climbing the wall avoiding dirt spears, but my distance from my sister, who's also following me, shrinks while I'm doing this.

The increasing number and accuracy of earthspears is proof of this.

I can see the top of the wall, can you reach this? ⁉

When I bent my knees and built up my strength, I jumped at once.

Along the way, he grabs a dirt spear that pops up trying to pierce me, uses it to spin his body and let go of his hand. Use centrifugal force to jump further up.

A critical hand reaches the top of the wall and when the finger of his right hand is caught, he pushes his body up with 'power'.

And the moment I tried to kick underfoot with all my might and jump to the other side of the wall, the feeling on the soles of my feet disappeared.

"You don't need walls anymore."

My sister wiped out the wall.

Fall to the ground with the collapsed dirt wall.

I can't afford to be lost!

He's exposed to defenselessness in the air with no scaffolding. If they shoot my sister's magic in here!

The worst development takes my mind off it, but I couldn't imagine that.

A magical blow is imminent as the black lightning shines toward us.

"Oh, I did it"

The woman groans unfortunately, but there is no color of regret on her face in that voice.

The woman, who was good at reading the signs, felt like taking the signs of her own brother falling with the collapsed dirt wall.

Seems like he tried to delude himself by raising the level of 'cover-up' and traveled through the air with fairly little sign and magic or something, but still wasn't enough.

He fires a blow all over it, and his brother, who hits him in the air, disappears without a trace.

"That's about it, I didn't think you'd die. I wonder if I was buying too much."

Different earlier. The voice is worrying.

I saw regret in that face.

I wasn't going to kill him. It was a blow I let go of believing in my brother's strength. But the result is this.

"You're out of hope. I don't know what to do now..."

He looked up at the void his brother had extinguished, and for a while he was a sister who had blurry, vain eyes instead of doing anything, but turned his heel back and walked away from the spot.

Part of the ground on the battlefield trail, where my sister disappears and half a day passes, thrives, from where a naked collector shows up.

Dirty all over the earth, but he lived.

"That was dangerous. Did you connect with a piece of neck skin?"

Have you prepared yourself to die but managed to mislead your sister's eyes?

It was one or eight measures, but I was able to take my life.

That's when I only thought about erasing my signs. Activating the 'Cover-up' skill at the highest level won't completely hide my signs.

Then you just need to make the signs smaller yourself.

So I activated "Rejuvenation," one of my secret skills, to rejuvenate my age to the extreme.

to the fetus.

If this is all I have, I'll be dead soon. So prevent magical aftermath with 'junction' and activate 'stubborn' and 'resilience' at the same time up to maximum.

Fine vitality can completely cover it up with 'cover-up'.

But that's not enough. My sister gets suspicious when the signs disappear, and she does so much as burn this part of the country. That's who I am.

So I took another step.

Before returning to the fetus, I severed my left arm.

And he threw it away, misleading my signs.

Is this exactly what the bitter meat plan is?

I glance at my lost left arm.

Nothing from a little over the shoulder. Blood has already stopped thanks to 'resilience' and there is nothing else in life.

This tuition is quite expensive, but I know what my sister is capable of and I can go home alive. Let's think we made money.

"For a while, would it be wise not to return to base"

You'd better get out of my sister's eyes, who thinks I'm dead, and hide yourself to take action.

The only material of concern is the existence of 'search' skills, but my sister believed I was dead.

I can only hope that makes me ineligible for my skills.

"First, are you wearing clothes?"

Being a fetus caused my clothes to fall off, and all of my clothes and luggage were wiped out by the magical aftermath.

There's nothing I can do about it standing still like this, so I walk out naked.

The journey is not over yet.

Not yet, we can't end it.

Knowing my sister, my resolve hardened.

From now on, we have to find a way to defeat my sister.

"Acceptance is over. You have to attack me from here."

The next time I see my sister, I won't be upset.

I'm ready. I need no more forgiveness or hesitation.

I understood the lack of force. From now on, we need to think more efficiently and buy out our skills.

I've lived a long time, but I've had the final goal, not the vague purpose I've had.

"Recover my sister's life"

Perhaps this is my last job as a collector.

But that would still be ahead of us.

Exhale loudly as you exhale something that builds up in your chest.

Only a little, but in the midst of that battle, I was fascinated by the temptation that my long life would end in the hands of my sister.

I lived too long. I thought if my sister was going to kill me, it would have been my main hope......

"Can't you just run away?"

Shake off your stupid thoughts with a bitter smile.

It's not what my sister looks like that comes to mind, but the faces of many guests and friends.

I haven't fulfilled everyone's wishes yet.

Looks like the collector's going out of business yet.

"Is this just a new journey from naked consistency"

When you squirm in a sense of self-derision, you go step by step to end the long journey.