The Weakest Tamer Began a Journey to Pick up Trash - Volume 5 - Chapter 265

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Chapter 265:

I Need Countermeasures!

“Excuse me, um, Rose?”

“What is it, hon? You’re lookin’ kinda grim.”

“Are there any other skills besides the shadow one that mask auras?”

If there were many other skills like it, I needed to figure out a way to deal with them in the future.

“I think there are. Let me see…”

“What’s wrong?” Druid asked me while Rose racked her brain for answers.

“I’ve relied a lot on sensing where people are by their auras. If I can’t use that ability, I need to figure out a countermeasure.”

“A countermeasure?”

“Yeah. If I can’t sense somebody’s aura coming up to me, they might surprise us when Ciel is in its adandara form or discover Sora and Flame as well.”

Druid looked startled by what I’d said. “I’m sorry. I never thought about it that much.”

I shook off his apology.

“I see what you’re saying,” Rose said. “Ya gotta think up some other way to deal with it. Maybe there’s an item for that?” Rose also seemed to understand the problem her skill had raised for me. She rushed off to see if she had an item that would help.

“Well, this looks pretty tough.” Rose pressed her fingers between her eyes and shook her head. It looked like she didn’t have the item we need. “Oh, I just remembered another skill! It’s called spy skill, and you can mask your aura with it.”

“Spy skill?”

Spy…like a ninja? Hm? Oh, that must be Past Me. So, were there people called ninjas in my past life who had the spy skill? In a world where the dead could be brought back to life, there were ninjas who could mask their auras. Wow…what kind of crazy world did I live in before? It must have been much scarier than the one I’m in now. I mean, dead people crawled out of the dirt! Agh, now I can’t get that image out of my mind.

“What’s wrong?”

“Oh! Uh, nothing. Just thinking of an unpleasant memory…”

“Are you okay? You look like you’re going to be sick.”

“I’m fine.”

Um, let’s think of something nicer. Like, dead people crawling out of… Nope, not that. Phewww…hm? My slime bag is rustling.

“Oh, sorry, Rose, may I take my creatures out of their bag?”

“Of course, hon, take ’em out.”

I quickly opened my bag, and two of them immediately jumped out. Flame, who was fast asleep in the bag, was left behind.

“Don’t you wanna come out, Flame?”

“…ryuuu…” Its reaction was quieter than usual. It must have been really sleepy.

Huh? There’s a black stain on it again. I touched the stain with my hand, but Flame didn’t seem hurt by it. Would it disappear like last time?

“That reminds me, I heard somebody with a new skill got discovered in the capital,” Rose said.

I looked her. “You mean new skills are still being born?”

“I don’t know about that. Some of the skill scholars say that new ones are being born, but others say they’ve always existed and we just didn’t know about them.”

Aha, so nobody really knows the truth. Come to think of it, Druid’s skill is quite rare… And in a way, my “skill” is very rare, too.

“Anyway, I got in touch with some people who might know where to find what you’re looking for. Let me warn you, it’ll take a while because of the cold.” With a sigh, Rose glanced out the window. The glass was rattling with a strong breeze. It was sounding like we had another wind-howling night ahead of us.

“Thank you so much for going to all this trouble for us, ma’am.”

“Yeah, well, my items intel comes from people in and around the capital, after all. If something’s goin’ on, I’ll hear about it.”

I almost didn’t notice because she’d said it so casually, but…she got intel from the capital and its surrounding areas? Did she really have information sources as powerful as that? Rose had said it so quickly that I didn’t get much of a chance to marvel over it.

“Pretty amazing, isn’t it?” Druid asked me, looking a bit perplexed.

How should I know? “I don’t know, but it sounds pretty amazing to me.”

“Oh, it’s nothin’ special,” Rose argued. “If a bunch of item nerds get together, they sew up a net of intel without meaning to.”

Rose really was an item nerd, then.

“How long could you carry on a conversation about items, ma’am?”

“Forever,” she answered without hesitation. There was nothing more we could say at that point.

“Ha ha ha, okay, we get it. Oh, by the way, we’ve got the magic stones Flame regenerated.” Between the mysterious new skill and the items, I’d completely forgotten that I brought them.

“Oh, thanks. Wow, Flame sure outdid itself.” Rose was shocked when we handed her the very heavy bag of magic stones. While Sora, Ciel, and we two humans spent the last two rainy days lying around, Flame had been hard at work. I felt so bad about it that I made sure to clean the room thoroughly afterward.

“Thanks, Flame,” Rose addressed the bag containing the sleeping slime. The back jiggled a little…then it stopped. It was like Flame had tried to answer but changed its mind.

“Hee, hee, hee! You’re so stinkin’ cute.”

“Pu! Pu, puuu.”

Mrrrow.

Triggered by the word “cute,” Sora and Ciel stopped frolicking around the store and bounded onto the table in front of Rose.

“Aww, what cute reactions you guys have,” Rose laughed.

Sora and Ciel both protested in reply.

The three of us had a good laugh and ended up killing some time together. We were originally planning on going back to the inn before heading to Alloui’s shop, but Rose insisted we stay at her place until it was time for our appointment.

“Thanks for everything today, ma’am.”

Druid and I both bowed on our way out. Figuring Alloui would have her hands free by then, we were about to head over to her shop.

“Don’t sweat it, hon. So, three days from now, right?”

“Right. We’d like to reschedule if there’s too much rain or snow, though.”

“Well, of course. No good reason to go outside when the weather’s bad.”

We had scheduled a time to bring Rose the regenerated magic stones. I was grateful it wouldn’t be on a day it rained or snowed.

“The winds have picked up. Will ya guys be okay?”

“Yes, but they’re sure going to keep us up tonight.”

I looked out the window while Druid and Rose talked. I could hear the howling of the wind and something rattling in the distance, making me really hesitant to go outside.

“Well, shall we be on our way?”

“Sure.”

I opened the door and stepped outside, quickly closing it once Druid was also out. I bowed slightly to Rose as she waved to us from inside the store, and then we hurried over to Alloui’s shop.

“Seems like things have quieted down.”

Looking in from the outside, there were customers, but nothing like the hustle and bustle of the morning. That was great. Now Alloui and I could have a relaxing conversation. We set foot into the shop and…