Chapter 245 This Is Convenient Or What?
"Looks like it's really dead. What should we do about this?"
Maya-chan is poking it with her foot. It seems like she's checking if it's just pretending to be dead. I poke it with my foot too. Just to confirm that it's not alive.
"Yeah. It's not 'pretending.' It says 'corpse,' so it looks like it's really dead."
"I see, I see. You're so good with your cheat skills, Maya-chan!"
"Well, you know. It would be nice if this worked like in manga and went into an inventory."
"Right? If we could 'store' it──whoa! What the heck is this?!"
"What's wrong, big brother? Ah..."
The minced meat I was poking with my foot has disappeared.
The minced meat that went into the inventory has turned into an item and even has a name now.
"'Corpse (Quorem Vaiera),' it says."
"Wow, seriously?!"
Seeing me and Maya-chan shocked, Mother asked with concern.
"What's wrong? Did something happen?"
"Um, the minced meat that was at our feet, I mean, the corpse..."
"Yeah. Brother's inventory, ah, yeah. I was able to store it with the magic of Space Attribute too. Oh, Mother (Privia)."
"...Huh?"
I quickly explained what happened.
"Look, Mother (Privia). If you poke this while saying 'store'..."
The minced meat that Maya-chan was stepping on disappeared. So, it seems she has the same function in her inventory as I do.
"Ah, ...oh. It really did disappear. This is surprising."
She didn't look just surprised; she really seemed shocked. Mother's tail fluffed up. Tails really do show how someone feels. Just like a cat.
"Yeah. I can even tell the name. It's 'Fulmeta Vaiera.' Oh, is that the relative of the one big brother stored earlier? The last name, no, the family name is the same."
"You can tell the name too, Maya-chan?"
"Yeah, I was surprised by that too."
"That's handy, no need to ask.
"'Store,' oh, but hey, big brother."
"What is it?"
"By the way, how many slots does big brother have now?"
"Hmm, maybe about 30 left? I haven't counted, so I'm not sure."
"Right. Maya only has 20 left too, but... this. We can't take all of it, right?"
"That's for sure. Yeah. If we could buy more slots, I'd want to do that."
"Yeah, I totally agree."
Maya-chan has probably shot down over a hundred by now.
"Is there a good way to do this? Hmm, oh, this!"
I took out something from my inventory that was piled up in the slots.
"...a barrel?"
"Yeah, yeah. Before, I had trouble with water while moving, so I bought these whenever I found them. Since they stack in the slots, I think I have about 3 hundred?"
A wooden barrel. It's about a meter in diameter and height.
"What are we going to do with this?"
Mother (Privia) looked interested too. Alesion and Centrena were curious as well.
"I'm going to do this."
I opened the barrel lid and reached inside.
"A corpse (Quorem Vaiera), whoa, that's gross."
"I see. Are we going to roll it around, big brother?"
"Nope. I'm going to 'store' this, oh, just as I thought."
"What is it?"
"Hey, Maya-chan, why don't you try it too?"
I'm placing the barrel in front of Maya-chan and saying, "Go ahead, go ahead."
"Corpse (Fulmeta Viera). Oh, it fits perfectly in the barrel. I'll put this in storage? ...Oh. So that's how it is?"
"Yeah. Is it the same for you, Maya-chan?"
"Yeah. It's a 'barrel (with corpse) (barrel-shaped with corpse inside)' now, right?"
I take out 2 barrels, giving one to Maya-chan. I use my toes to store the minced meat, pull it out, and shove it into the barrel. I store that barrel. Maya-chan tries doing the same.
"Oh."
'Oh.'
Maya-chan and I exchange grins.
"What's up?"
'Gu?'
'Ku?'
"They overlapped."
"Yeah. They really did overlap, Mother."
"Overlap? What does that mean?"
"Um──."
I explain the inventory system to Mother, saying something like 'this and that.'
"I see. So in that one slot, you can store up to 999 items?"
"Yes. You can keep that many. Oh, Mother (Privia)."
"They must be panicking. Those Celestial Race guys."
"Yeah, they probably are. They wouldn't expect their comrades to disappear like that."
Mother smiled slyly. Yeah, it was a fierce smile. A scary but really nice smile.
From here, while Mother and Alesion are watching for their move, Maya-chan and I got into a flow of work, yes.
Maya-chan lightly steps on the minced meat on the snow with the sole of her shoe, storing it. I pull out a barrel from the inventory, and Maya-chan sticks her hand into that barrel to store the minced meat. After that, I 'store' the barrel.
"Step on it, 'store'."
"Take out the barrel."
"Put the body inside."
"Okay, barrel 'stored.'."
It's a boring task, but the remains of the Celestial Race, which should have been in plain sight, are disappearing cleanly.
"How many have you done, big brother?"
"Um, over 50 now."
The count of 'barrel (empty)' in the inventory is going down, while the count of 'barrel (with body)' is going up. It's just a simple task.
The Celestial Race moved a bit earlier, but Alesion shot a beam, so they seem to have calmed down again.
"How's it looking, mother?"
"Looks like there's no movement. Well, maybe they realized that if they move, Alesion will attack them?"
"Ah, that one is merciless, you know, mother."
"Is that so? Yeah, it does feel a bit excessive."
While chatting like this, the minced remains that had fallen from the crumbling outer wall seem to have disappeared from sight.
The Space Attribute skill 'Resurrect (Resurrection Spell)' stores everything without leaving a drop of blood behind. Since barrels are originally meant to hold water, there's no worry about leaks. So, the snow around here looks as if it was 'never there'──completely white again.
"Mother, it's mostly cleaned up now──?"
"Well, what should we do? They probably know we're here after that attack."
"Yeah, I think so."
"I think so too."
What should we do now? Just then, we were having that conversation.
"Oh? Who are you all?"
"Huh?"
"Huh?"
I turned around with Maya-chan. There, we saw Berberiguru and Dorchuneta, both looking a bit embarrassed and smiling awkwardly.
Ah, I see. Normally, they would be the ones to call out to us first, but Mother noticed them before they could. That's why we ended up in this situation.
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