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The Otherworld Conquest Method of a Reincarnated Porter Chapter 1

Choice

　Resignation. That seems to be the most fitting word to describe the life of a man named Takeda Seiichi. He was born in a rural village in the mountains and lived a discomfort-free life in a four-person family with his parents and grandmother.

His misfortune began when, by some ill luck, they were caught in a head-on collision with a truck driven by a drunk driver on their way home from a family vacation. It occurred when he was five years old. He himself escaped with only minor injuries, but his parents died right then and there, while his grandmother wound up with a body haunted by the aftereffect.

Seiichi was a good student and seemed to have a talent for sports as well, but these traits never got to bloom. Waking up early in the morning, he worked as newspaper delivery boy, of which had been left with no one in charge due to the low population. Once he came back from school, he had to take care of his grandmother. It was difficult for him to find time for himself.

The only thing that served as his salvation was the shrine visits he did every morning on his way to deliver newspapers. When he put his hands together and prayed to God, he felt that his mind was miraculously calmed down.

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「Sei-chan, when you pray to God, you must never ask for something, you hear? After all, you see, God hates such shallow human behavior. When you pray, you do it by putting your hands together and expressing your gratitude for being alive.」

Times and again, my grandmother taught me the etiquette of praying at shrines. What in the world do I have to be thankful for in my life? Despite these thoughts, I earnestly followed her teachings for more than 30 years, until finally she too departed for Heaven.

Although I am now left with no relatives in this world, human’s long-established habits are not something easy to change. Today, too, I put my hands together at the shrine.

I thought it’s just a part of my usual, unchanging daily life, but suddenly a voice echoes in my head. It sounds like a gentle voice, akin to that of a mother in my remembrance.

「Thank you for your selfless prayers all the time. Your continuous and wholehearted devotion to me has given me divinity. I would like to thank you, but in what form should it be, I wonder? As you seem to be someone unselfish, I wish I could do something for you, but….」

I wonder if I’ve traversed too deep into the life of misery that my head ends up going nuts. I can really hear an auditory hallucination.

「How rude of you. It’s not an auditory hallucination or anything like that. It’s real. So, is there any wish you want me to grant? Though, it’d be troubling if it’s too worldly, in fact, there’s really not much I can do.」

Yup. Looks like my head has gone nuts for real. Well, I have no lingering attachments to this life, so it doesn’t really matter, but you see….

「In that case, I hope I can start my life over. If given the choice, in a fantasy world of swords and magic, like in light novels.」

And then, along with dizziness, the world is enveloped in light.

I open my eyes. I can’t make heads or tails of what has happened. When I put my hands together at the shrine as usual, I heard someone’s voice….

Where is this? A pure white space. Not a natural white like snow, but some kind of inorganic white. Ah, am I dead? Somehow or another, I try to calmly grasp the current situation. Even if that’s the case, I’m not sad at all, huh.

「Hello there, did you notice?」

As I suddenly hear a voice from behind me, I turn around.

There, a man sitting on a chair is smiling at me. I say smiling, but that’s just how it feels. After all, the man’s face is blurry and I can’t see it clearly.

This man is not human. As my instinct tells me so, I end up being at a loss as to how to respond.

「U, um….」

「Let me introduce myself. I am a being called the god of another world. You see, one of the gods in your world asked me to reincarnate you in my world. Do you have any recollections about it?」

「I… Do. So, it is real, is it not? All of this, I mean.」

Which means, as expected, the voice at the shrine was not an auditory hallucination.

「That’s how it is. So, what to do now? If it’s now, you can still go back to the world you were in.」

「I have no lingering attachment to my former world. Please let me reincarnate.」

I answer immediately. I don’t know whether or not I’ll have a blessed life in the next world, but I have no intention of passing up this chance.

As I have a large amount of insurance money from the accidental death of my parents, I will have no trouble living my life for the rest of my life. My beautiful divorced wife whom I married could not stand the country life and ended up returning to the embrace of her ex-husband who lives in the city. Neither the money that I would never be able to use up through my life, nor my beautiful and well-proportioned wife, could make me experience what happiness was. In that case, might as well, I would like to reincarnate in another world and lead a life full of freedom, something I could not experience in this life.

「Glad to hear that. Well then, let’s get into the explanations.」

The man with the blurred face who introduced himself as a god looks a little happy. I hope he has no malicious intent.

「You see, the world in which you’ll be reincarnated is overflowing with monsters, and it is a very difficult place for you humans to live. So, I’m going to give you a job and skills to stand against the monsters, but which ones would you like?」

A string of letters appears in front of my eyes.

A column of jobs and a column of skills. In the job column, there are the staple options of hero, sage, holy, knight, magic knight, ninja, and so on. There seems to be no samurai. And then, there is a number attached next to the name of each job and skill. Hero 100, Sage 80, and so on.

「I can grant you any job or skill you want, but there is an upper limit. It depends on the capacity of your soul vessel, and your soul vessel is, amazing. It’s 250.」

「Is 250 a lot?」

Could I actually be amazing? I wonder if I can be peerless with cheat abilities.

「Generally, it’s between 80 and 200. Maybe it’s the first time I’ve seen someone with 250. But even so, the world you’ll reincarnate into is one that’s very difficult to live in, you see. I’m looking forward to see how far you can go.」

I see. I wonder if it is thanks to my habitual shrine visits? Guess just thinking about it will not get me anywhere. Let’s take a look at the list of jobs and skills.

First of all, hero is a big no. If I choose to be a hero, I will not be able to live freely, will I? I was imposed with restrictions that kept me from living freely in my former world. In the next world, I will live freely. My life was one where I hardly ever left my village in the countryside since my birth. In the new world, I would like to travel freely to different towns, countries, and continents. The job I need for that is… A question occurs to me as I look through the job and skill columns, so I try asking him about it.

「Umm, I cannot seem to find a skill called Infinite Storage, which is a staple in fantasy worlds.」

By the way, there is Appraisal. It is 50 points.

「The storage skill is a unique skill of the Porter, after all. There are items such as magic pouches and bags, but they have low capacity and are pretty rare.」

Hmmm. By all means, I would love to have the storage skill. Going on an adventure in another world and defeating monsters while carrying a large amount of luggage would simply be impossible, would it not? Not only equipment, you would have your hands full simply from carrying change of clothes and food, no? All the more so if you want to bring back the monster materials. I suppose I could just look for a Porter for my comrade, but as someone who has lived my whole life without relying on others, I have this strong opposition to the idea of entrusting my items, my lifeline, to someone else. Not to mention that the other world is probably not one with a law-abiding society.

I was intending to ask a lot of questions, but for some reason I feel like I shouldn’t ask about them. Are my thoughts being manipulated?

Err, the points required for Porter are, to my surprise, 0. When I put my finger on the Porter option, various stats and unique skills appear.

Porter               0 points

Vitality              B

Magical Energy E

Strength           C

Agility               E

Defense           C

Spirit                 E

Intelligence     E

Unique Skills: Storage, Automatic Recovery

Incidentally, if one were to choose the Jobless option, all the stats would be D. Which means, a lot of Porter’s stats are lower than those of Jobless, huh. Oh dear. As for the hero…

Hero                  100 points

Vitality              A

Magical Energy B

Strength           B

Agility               A

Defense           A

Spirit                 A

Intelligence     B

Unique skills: None

This is a complete cheat job. Sword saint, holy knight, and sage also have abnormally high status values. There are even ones with S stats. It seems like they will be able to become peerless even if they don’t have any unique skills.

There is a writing that I don’t quite understand below the list of jobs. Increases each stat by 1 rank, 20 points. The heck is this? I try asking about it. This question seems to be fine.

「By spending 20 points, you can, for example, turn Strength C into Strength B.」

So that’s how it is, huh. In that case, even a job with a low status value can be made plenty strong. It’s just that, if I do that, I will end up running out of points for acquiring skills. What to do now?

This time, I take a look at the list of skills. They are easy to understand since most of them are staple skills. After 20 minutes of deliberation, I finally finished choosing the ones I wanted. What I chose were…

Porter

Vitality              B

Magical Energy E → C (40 points)

Strength           C

Agility               E → D (20 points)

Defense           C

Spirit                 E → D (20 points)

Intelligence     E → D (20 points)

Unique Skills: Storage, Automatic Recovery

Skills: Fast Learning (100 points), Appraisal (50 points)

I spent 100 points to increase the status values of Porter, the sole job in this world with a storage skill. With this, I guess I am slightly stronger than the Jobless, huh. In addition to the staple appraisal skill, I also acquired a new skill called Fast Learning. This is a skill that gives correction to the speed at which skills are learned. Aptitude also matters, but as long as it is not a unique skill, we are able to acquire any skills depending on our effort, that’s why I chose this one.

It’s not like I am aiming to become peerless or become the strongest man in another world. I just want to travel freely around the country and the world, doing labyrinths exploration and the like all the while.

「Hahaha. You sure are interesting. I’ve transferred a number of people before, but you’re the only one who chose that job.」

I can read that he is really happy.

「Transfer? Not reincarnate?」

「Yes. I suppose this is the first time I’m reincarnating someone. Oops, looks like I’ve talked too much. Well then, may you have a good reincarnation.」

There are tons of questions I would like to ask, but the atmosphere is not for such a thing, and the surrounding area is enveloped with light.