Worthless Skill Escape (WN)

Chapter 167

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Chapter 167 – Should We Live Together

Let’s rewind a bit.

It was a few days before I received the latest issue of Bungeikai, which featured Sayuki’s work from ‘me in the job world.’

I was lying on my bed in my room at home,

“Cough… looks like it’s going to be a long one…”

I muttered in a hoarse voice and then reached for a tissue to blow my nose.

As you can see, I had come down with a cold.

After the intense adventures that began with the Kururi Castle Dungeon, I was struck with a cold as soon as I started my vacation.

I had the full range of cold symptoms: fever, chills, headache, runny nose, and cough.

It had been years since I had a cold this bad.

It was as aggressive as a cold in the lower grades of elementary school.

“It seems that there was more pressure than I realized.

I completed the A-rank dungeon solo, fought the elf king Clovis from another world, and pushed back the invading Sphere of Destruction to keep the dungeon from collapsing.

On top of that, it took me almost four months to get back to my world after getting lost in the job world.

It’s no wonder that I got sick as soon as the tension broke.

“There’s also the seasonal difference between the skill world and the job world…”

It was May when I prevented the dungeon from collapsing in the skill world.

After that, I spent the period from May to August in the job world and then returned to the skill world in May.

While I was in the job world, I was using my body, but it’s not surprising that my body and mind would have been affected by the difference in seasons between the two worlds.

I suddenly went from a body that was used to summer to a body that hadn’t welcomed summer yet.

It would be possible to cure a cold instantly by drinking the elixir I had stored, but if the cause was a discrepancy between my mind and body’s sense of the seasons, it would probably be better to wait a while.

I also thought it was a bit strange to use an elixir that was sold at a high price as a substitute for cold medicine.

I decided to visit a nearby internal medicine clinic to make sure I wasn’t suffering from an infectious disease and then stay home and rest quietly.

Either way, I planned to take it easy for a while.

As I was fighting the guilt of lying in bed during the day on a weekday and the boredom I was feeling, my smartphone by my bedside started ringing.

I looked to see who it was and answered the call.

“Are you okay, Yuto?”

I heard Serika’s voice.

“Yes… it’s not that bad a cold.”

“You’re lying. Your voice is hoarse.”

“The fever is not that high. I’ll be fine if I take a few days off.”

“Should I not have called?”

“Of course not. I asked you to call because I’m bored.”

Apparently, the guild master, Serika, was quite busy with the recent incident involving the collapse of the Okutama Lake Dungeon caused by Clovis.

I didn’t know when Serika would have time, so I told her to call me when she did.

I didn’t expect her to call me back within an hour.

“A visit… would be a nuisance, wouldn’t it?”

Serika said as if disappointed.

From the sound of her voice, it seems like she really wants to come and visit me.

Well, she is my friend after all…

The reason why Serika didn’t visit me was because I was living with my parents.

If I lived on my own, it would have been a problem, but since I was living with my parents, I relied on my mother to take care of me.

Even though I’m no longer a shut-in, I can’t just take care of myself―even if I try to act cool, my mother can’t just leave a sick person at home.

“I understand. If I lived alone, Serika would have come to visit me.”

I never thought I’d miss such an important event as my girlfriend, whom I had just started dating, visited me.

I caught a cold.

“Jeez, don’t say that…”

“That’s right… I should have left home in the first place…”

Now that I have the financial base to support myself, there’s no reason for me to stay at home.

The only reason I’ve stayed at home is because I haven’t had the opportunity to move out.

There’s no way they don’t think I have a shut-in personality.

“I’m sorry I’m such a useless friend…”

“H-hey, what are you getting so weak about? It’s just a cold, nothing to be done about it.”

“No, that’s not it… I was thinking that I should move even if I’m thinking about exploring.”

“Yes, I think so… If you plan to explore various dungeons, it’s a bit inconvenient to stay in your hometown, isn’t it?”

“That’s right.”

When I start exploring again, I’m planning to go to the A-rank dungeons in different places.

There’s not much point in going through B-rank or lower dungeons now.

On the other hand, it would be hard to keep going solo into S-rank dungeons in the long run.

Well, I was able to do the post-collapse Okutama Lake dungeon in the job world with a low-level restriction, so it’s not like I couldn’t.

There’s also the problem of the small number of S-rank dungeons, which are monitored by the Association and the police.

I thought I’d go to A-rank dungeons first to get used to the special status I have in the professional world.

There’s still a lot I can do in A-rank dungeons.

But there are no A-rank dungeons near my parents’ house.

Although not as many as S-rank dungeons, the number of A-rank dungeons is still limited.

I’ll probably have to travel farther to find dungeons.

If I start from my parents’ house, the distance I have to travel will inevitably be long.

Even if I move to a neighboring prefecture, it’s often faster to go to the city first.

If that’s the case, it would be more efficient to move to a place with good access to the city.

If it’s a dungeon that I can get to in one day from the city center, I can also save on accommodation costs.

“What about Serika?”

“About the base?”

“Yes.”

“I have an apartment. I also go home to my parents sometimes.”

“You rent a room in the city center?”

“No, I have an apartment. A whole building.”

“The whole thing?”

“Yes. Besides the room I use as my base, I also rent out the whole building to the Paladin Knights and the Explorers’ Association. But only to people I can trust.”

It seems that Serika is famous as a Paladin Knight and has a lot of influence.

It would be nice if all the people who came to her were good people, but unfortunately, that’s not the case.

To ensure her safety, she may have had to take this approach.

…Somehow, I get the feeling that Haitani-san was trying to help Serika out.

“Um… would you like to come to my place?”

Serika asked shyly.

“Oh, you mean I’m going to rent a room in Serika’s apartment?”

It certainly seems to be safer to rent from someone you know.

Especially if it’s an apartment that Haitani-san has prepared for Serika.

However, I seem to have jumped to a hasty conclusion.

“No, I was thinking that you could live with me in the room I live in…”

“…..”

“…..”

…Eh?

“T-That’s why… My room is on the top floor of an apartment building. It’s so spacious that I can’t relax by myself… If it’s just you, you could live there with plenty of space…”

“Is that…”

“Y-yes, living together…”

“L-living together…”

A painful silence fell over the phone.

Which of them had lost his patience first?

“W-well, it’s not like that…”

“T-That’s right. There are some things you can’t understand until you actually have a base…”

“T-That’s right! Well, it’s bad to talk too long, so I’m going to hang up, okay?”

“Oh, thank you for taking the time to talk to me.”

“Not at all! Th-That’s right. The conditions for explorers to rent rooms can be quite strict, so you should probably talk to Hisui-chan as well. I’m sure she can introduce you to a guild or something. Well, take care!”

She said quickly. Serika hung up the phone.

I stared at the phone screen for a while, stunned…

…It seems that the fever I’m feeling isn’t just because I have a cold.

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