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Over the Infinite – Chapter 1 (4)

 

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Translator: mii

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「Hwe?」

Yuki raised a strange voice, surprised with the unexpected words.

I didn’t say anything at all, but I was also surprised.

「Yes, since your recognition on the occupation is different, of course you reaction will be like that. The other two have already been in the Labyrinth City for around a month, and you have captured the trial, so you shouldn’t have that much contradiction in the recognition, right?

Well, there are only four people here, so I’ll accept questions and answers anytime, Yukito-san.」

「No, uhm… I’m alright. Please continue.」

Yuki casted his eyes down, his face looked somewhat awkward.

「Then, I’ll continue. In this city, labyrinth exploration is an entertainment, and adventurer is an entertainer.

There’s no doubt that your main job is exploring the dungeon, but the current inhabitants of this city recognize adventurers like idols and stage actors who provide them entertainment.

For the adventurers themselves, exploring the labyrinth is not an amusement but a proper job, so just think of what I said here as the general public perception who has little to no connection with adventurers.」

I didn’t really understand quite well, but maybe this was what the cat girl from before meant when she said, “It’s better to get popular, nya.”

「I will be blunt, but you will get popular if you have a good face.

You won’t get much income immediately when you’re still in the shallow-layer group… or after the so-called debut, but there are some people who pass through the labyrinth while working part-time, but in the middle of the popular adventurers, they are also some people who earn a fair amount of income without having to go all-out on exploring the labyrinth.

The people who are displayed on the posters in this hall are like that. Philos-san and Yukito-san are advantageous here with both of your face.」

When I looked at Yuki, he had a dejected face.

Maybe it was because we were keep talking about Yuki’s face and not him, he is was making a comical face. It was pretty interesting.

「Well, even though this is a popularity business, adventurer’s duty is still exploring the labyrinth. The treasure and drop items you can get in the deep layers are expensive, so if you want to make money, the right way is to become stronger. But of course, being an idol is not a bad choice.」

There was a matter that I couldn’t just ignore, so let’s try asking a question.

「I’m sorry, but can I ask you a question? …What do you mean with drop item? Do monsters drop something?」

This was the case when I was still outside, but when I defeated a monster, they would immediately returned into magic dust, and nothing would remain. The body would rot in no time. After it rot, it disappeared into a mist.

There were times when the monsters’ weapons remained, but monsters were mostly plundered weapons that was poorly maintained.

「Drop item is a system that only exists in the labyrinth of this city.

If you kill a monster inside the labyrinth, they might change into something that we call as a drop item. They might be a part of the monster’s body, medicine, weapon, or food.

Sometimes they will fall on the floor, and this also counts for the items that are dropped on the floor, but these items that you obtained inside the labyrinth are generally called as drop items. Selling these drop items is the main source of income for adventurers.」

The setting turned into a full-fledged game.

「What is the use of the part of the monster’s body? They will immediately rot and disappear when I was still living outside.」

「Ah, so you have experience with fighting monsters outside, huh. The part where the monsters disappear is still the same, but other items will appear separately.

They can be used for a lot purposes, for example as a weapon material, or food ingredients. Unlike their main body, these drop items won’t turn into magic dust… they won’t rot.」

「Can we eat it? I used to eat goblins as they were long time ago, but it was very unpleasant.」

That unpleasant taste was a bit to the level of a biological weapon. If that kind of thing dropped as food, I wouldn’t be happy at all.

But if I had nothing to eat, I would eat it, though.

「D-did you ever eat goblin raw? It’s not something you can just eat as it is…

There are various tastes, but what appears as ingredients and foods are basically ingestible. Some are used for medicine, so not all of them are delicious.

In particular, goblins are almost impossible to eat raw, and the meat that appeared as drop item is very unpleasant and can’t be used as medicine, so it’s the representative of unpopular drop item.

It’s like you will only grill and eat it when you run out of food inside the labyrinth and there’s no other choice left.」

Well, I didn’t want to especially eat something that tasted unpleasant, and I couldn’t sell it if there was no use, huh.

「I think most of the adventurers have experience with goblin meat, but I’m sure that everyone feel like they don’t want to eat again.

If you have curry powder, it’s not like the meat is unpalatable, but if possible, you wouldn’t want to eat it. Ah, my goblin colleagues will get angry if he heard me saying this.」

Was he talking about Gobtarou-san from before?

…No way, what did that even mean? Where would he get angry when someone said that the creature with the same race as him taste bad when eaten?

「I have a colleague who is a goblin, his name is Gobtarou, but he’s an eccentric one that likes goblin meat.

Goblin meat is the type of drop item that people leave as it is in the labyrinth, making it doesn’t circulate in the market so much, so I think the price is a little more expensive considering the small amount of demand.」

So he was angry because someone was saying that his favourite food taste bad?

Also, wasn’t it considered cannibalism to eat the same race as you? Was this normal?

「Now then, let’s go back to our talk. There are many ways on how adventurers earn their income.

Their main income is exploring the labyrinth and cash the drop items and treasures as I mentioned earlier, and other than that are,

・Complete quests and missions resented by the guild,

・Become an instructor in training facility,

・Sell newly developed magic, skill information, and rights,

・Participate in the tournament in the arena,

・Perform in fan-meeting event,

・ Appear on TV show as a star,

・ Edit and sell your own videos,

・ Sell your own goods, and other more.

In these cases, the guild will do the legal procedure, so it will not take much time.」

…Wait a thousand seconds. There were too many parts that I just wanted to comment on.

「Ah, I’m sorry. I have a lot of questions.」

「What is it? Everyone else look like you all have questions, but let’s start from Tsuna-kun.」

「Yes, uhm, I understand about the labyrinth exploration and cashing the drop items. I don’t know the differences between quests and missions, but this is also fine. Tournament in the arena is also the same.

Anyhow, I don’t really understand the information and actual condition on the training facility, instructor, magic, and skills, but let’s skip it for now.

Rather than that, what came on after that were all too far from my common sense…」

When I looked at my surroundings, the other three people were also dumbfounded. No, I wasn’t really sure about Gowen.

「The last four ways are mostly from the same category, so I’ll explain it altogether.

Just now, I said that adventurer is a popularity business, they can also do talent business. The occupation as adventurer in this city is like a star. If they have a high rank, they’ll can have fans regardless of the general public or adventurers.

It means that they can make money by selling goods that those fans as the purchasers and going to events.」

「W-what is a TV?」

I could only think TV as the television I knew in my previous world.

「It doesn’t exist outside the Labyrinth City, but there’s something that look like a box where you can see and leave a video in this city.

It’ll be hard to imagine it if you haven’t seen it before, but if you want to appear in that thing, you’ll pay for performance fee.

By doing a lot of things such as interviewing famous adventurer or appearing on a variety show that has nothing to do with your occupation, you can catch the attention of the people in this city.」

I didn’t really like not being able to understand what was happening well.

So it was really a television? No way, don’t tell me that they even have computer or internet?

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