Free Web NovelChapter 311: 311 Bunker Life 14
[Ending Cyberpunk: Edgerunners world.]
[Settling rewards.]
[Lucina Kushinada – Bond Level 10]
[Judy Alvarez – Bond Level 7]
[David Martinez – Bond Level 7]
[Sasha Yakovleva – Bond Level 7]
[Faraday – Bond Level 6]
[Julio – Bond Level 6]
[Rogue Amendiares – Bond Level 6]
[Maine – Bond Level 5]
[Dorio – Bond Level 5]
[Vincent (V) – Bond Level 5]
[Viktor Vektor – Bond Level 5]
[Rebecca – Bond Level 4]
[Pilar – Bond Level 4]
[Jackie Wells – Bond Level 4]
[Claire Russell – Bond Level 4]
[Gloria Martinez – Bond Level 4]
[Yorinobu Arasaka – Bond Level 4]
[Wakako Okada – Bond Level 3]
[Regina Jones – Bond Level 3]
[Adam Smasher – Bond Level 3]
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[You have earned 28,412 points as a reward for progressing through Cyberpunk: Edgerunners.]
The reward was smaller than I thought. I could roughly guess the reason — probably because I didn’t catch Adam Smasher. But it was a choice to make Cyberpunk 2077 more fun, so it couldn’t be helped.
Lucy had a bond level of 10. As expected, she was a woman with strong possessiveness and passionate love. Given the environment she grew up in, I thought it couldn’t be helped. So she also had many fears about losing those she loved. Still, I think that as she meets more people and lives with me, she will gradually get better.
"Putting aside Sasha, who got back at her enemy and has been doing well, why are Judy and Faraday’s bond levels like this?"
Judy seemed to have fallen for me at first sight in my transformed appearance as White. But the problem was Faraday. That bastard — I will have to kill him with my own hands. Very brutally.
"Status Window"
[Park Taejin] Strength: 376 (+1428) | Stamina: 369 (+300) | Agility: 350 (+300) | Intelligence: 313 (+2252) | Mana: 652 (+4000)(+669/0)
Points held: 77,789
I had enough points for 50 consecutive draws. This time as well, I raised my luck with magic and proceeded with the draws.
Duplicate abilities were: [(SS) Barrier], [(S) Emotion], [(A) Physical Resistance], [(S) Reversal Technique], [(S) Sniping], [(S) Black Flash]. New abilities were: [(S) Essence Understanding], [(EX) Restoration], [(A) Dream Intrusion], [(S) Emotion Manipulation]. This time as well, duplicate abilities were automatically merged, raising in rank or being absorbed.
[(S) Essence Understanding]
Increases understanding of a target.
[(EX) Restoration]
Restores a single target to its optimal state based on the user’s standards.
[(A) Dream Intrusion]
Allows intrusion into another’s dreams.
[(S) Emotion Manipulation]
Manipulates one’s own or another’s emotions.
"Oh~! Restoration — a good ability came out!"
But I didn’t have enough understanding of [Restoration]. The description says ’single target’, but I don’t really know the criteria. Although I haven’t obtained it yet, the ability [Time Manipulation] exists, so seeing that [Restoration] is a separate ability, it is clearly a different ability. So I need to check the difference, but for now, I decided to first check what came out from the draws.
The items drawn were: [Ability Upgrade Ticket], [Penalty Removal Ticket], [Random Devil Fruit], [Replay Ticket], [Bond Level Upgrade Ticket]. For food, [Delicious Seafood Jjamppong] x100 came out.
Because I had been in Night City until just before, I had limitations on eating various seafoods, and seeing that jjamppong came out, I immediately took it out from my inventory and ate it while continuing to check the items that came out.
There was nothing special in equipment, so skipping that, interesting items were: [Bust Enhancement Pill] x10, [Futanari Pill] x10, [Johnson 251-AT] x10, [Obesity 10kg Pill] x10, [Sensitivity Increase Cream] x10.
I knew what the others were, since they had come out before, but I didn’t know what the newly appeared [Johnson 251-AT] was, so I took it out from my inventory. Then a certain robot came out — it had a giant dildo attached to its important area, and when I pressed the start button, it began moving its waist back and forth. As accessories, there were various attachable dildos — from very small ones to huge ones as large as the super‑large dildo I had obtained before. Speed could also be adjusted freely. freёwebnoѵel.com
’They really have all kinds of things.’
I put that Johnson something robot into my inventory for now, and looked to see if any other interesting items came out, and ’Aston Martin DB5’ came out. This vehicle is James Bond’s car from the movie 007, a vehicle with various functions such as .30 caliber machine guns, tire cutting blades, tracking device, rotating license plates, bulletproof device, seat ejection device, etc.
’Well, they’re unnecessary devices for me, but it would be fun to play with sometimes.’
After checking all the draws and finishing the jjamppong, I went to the personal training ground I had built in Altera (Star Killer Base) and tested my newly obtained ability, [(EX) Restoration]. After experimenting in various ways, I was able to understand a few things. ’Single’ — although the criteria was a bit ambiguous — seemed to refer to one object or one living being.
And Restoration was a bit unique. It didn’t just rewind the target’s time and restore it to its optimal state as when it came out as a finished product — it also made defective items that were made incorrectly have their problematic parts perfectly fixed. But that doesn’t mean it upgrades parts that weren’t in the original. It only restores the existing parts, as they were, perfectly.
What made this ability overpowered was that it could also be used on living things. When I tested it on corpses in my inventory, I couldn’t revive them, but even torn and severed corpses were perfectly restored. With this, it seemed it would be extremely convenient even for resurrection.
I was experimenting with this and that, and wondered if perhaps Earth could also be restored, so I tried it, but it only wasted a huge amount of mana and restored only the Earth. What this means is that, excluding plants, people, animals, etc., literally only the landmass called Earth, the planet itself, was restored. This was completely meaningless. Even after restoration, it was still desert. I had expected it to some extent due to the ’single target’ limitation, but it was extremely disappointing.
’I only wasted mana uselessly...’
The fortunate thing was that all the radiation in the ground disappeared. In my opinion, to make Earth like it was before, I would probably need time‑related abilities.
I returned to Altera, gave 2B and A2 vacations as well, and while resting for a bit, I modified the ’Minotaur’ I had obtained from Cyberpunk. Not only did I use alloy to make it sturdy, but I also modified it to be strong against hacking, and added two small missile turrets on its back, one on each shoulder, to increase firepower. I duplicated the Minotaur thus made into 2,000 units with [Material Copy], storing 1,000 in my inventory, and decided to use the other 1,000 for Altera’s defense, together with drones and ’Iron Visions’.
"I’ve rested enough now — I should continue my leisure life."
This time, I decided to finish Konosuba. In this world, if you defeat the Demon King, heaven grants you one wish, so I had to see it through to the end. Moreover, there is a leveling system, so without separate training, just by killing monsters, stats like Strength, Agility, and Stamina increase, so it was a very appealing worldview for me.
I clicked on Konosuba in the leisure life works list.
Then I could immediately arrive at my mansion in the beginner’s village, Axel. Axel is, as expected, a peaceful city. Perhaps it’s because I was in Night City of the Cyberpunk world before coming here, so it feels even more so. So, for ’Sato Kazuma’ to have fallen into the cheerful Konosuba world, it should be considered lucky. Because compared to Konosuba, there are many dystopian or apocalypse worldviews that are incomparable.
’Though he himself probably doesn’t know it.’
Anyway, I went outside the mansion and freely breathed the clean air of Konosuba. While I was doing that, Chris returned home.
"What kind of work do you do that you keep coming and going alone like that?"
"None of your business. More than that, what about the Bust Enhancement Pill — what about the Bust Enhancement Pill!"
"I have good news. I found a place where the Bust Enhancement Pill is likely to be. I’ll go look for it soon."
"Really???"
"Yes."
At my words, Chris was extremely happy. It seemed it was time to give Chris one Bust Enhancement Pill as well. So I told her that. Still, from my perspective, one pill more or less seems to be about the same, so it probably doesn’t make much difference, though.
When the next day came, Yunyun, Cecily, and I moved to the royal capital, took requests, and began subjugating monsters. We faced the undead appearing in an abandoned castle. With Cecily’s skill, it was certain that we could finish the request easily.
"Wow~! As expected of Taejin and Yunyun. I was worried because there were quite a few undead, but..."
Cecily also seemed impressed by our skill.
"We also had it easy thanks to Cecily. Let’s go to the guild, eat, and then go take the next request."
"Eh? Another request today?"
"Yes — two or three a day is our basic."
"I-I see."
We returned to Axel only in the evening like that. But Cecily was grumbling. freёweɓnovel.com
"This won’t do! Twice a day! Just twice! I need time to rest!"
"Huh? Are you saying that because you’re tired? Surely there were no difficult requests today?"
"It’s not that it’s hard, but I need time to play with Yunyun and Megumin for healing, and to leisurely bathe in ’Umou Slime’!"
Umou Slime here refers to agar slime, and it is edible. The feeling of it going down the throat is addictive, so it was a quite popular drink, but unfortunately, like rice cakes, there were cases of elderly people and children dying from choking on it, so it became a banned item. Cecily likes eating that Umou Slime, but she also really enjoys bathing in it.
"Umou Slime — wasn’t that a banned item?"
"Fufufu, there are ways! I brought a whole bunch of it in powder form."
Then Yunyun spoke, as if realizing something.
"Come to think of it, among the things Cecily brought, there were some strange sacks — so that was Umou Slime powder!?"
"Right! I spent my entire fortune buying it, just in case. Yunyun, do you want to enjoy it with me?"
As expected of the Konosuba worldview. People all have something a bit loose. And on top of that, Cecily is from the Axis Cult, so it’s even more.
"Um... I’ll just bathe in regular water."
Yunyun refused, embarrassed by Cecily’s invitation.
"Umou Slime is fine as long as you don’t distribute it, but then the bath will become a mess..."
"Don’t worry about that. I’ll clean it up well."
At those words, I thought for a moment, then spoke.
"Instead of that, let’s build one more building next to our mansion. A bathhouse exclusively for Umou Slime. Then it should be fine. If you spend time cleaning slime, other people’s bathing will be delayed."
"Oh! Will you really do that?"
"Yes. If it keeps my party members in good condition, it’s worth investing in. But hold on until the bathhouse is finished."
"Wow! I’m glad I came! Taejin is really generous, isn’t he!"
Cecily was extremely happy and tried to hug me, but seeing that, Yunyun quickly stopped her.
"I like being hugged by Yunyun too!"
"Eep!"
A day passed like that, and the next day, we went to the merchant guild to request the construction of the bathhouse. But because Cecily made picky demands, it took too much time, and in the end, we had no choice but to give up taking requests that day.
For the newly built bathhouse, I gave my ideas, and we decided to also build a space underground for disposing of the used Umou Slime. I ordered them to make it so that the remaining Umou Slime after Cecily bathed would be drained downward through wide pipes for easy cleaning, and to also make the space for going down underground large, so that the accumulated slime could be used as fertilizer.
I tried to cover the construction cost myself. I have more than enough money now, so even if I did that, it wouldn’t matter. But Yunyun also said she would contribute a bit, and Cecily also said she would pay it back by earning money through requests, so I just told them to do as they wished.
When the construction started, Kazuma’s party came and asked why they were suddenly building. I explained exactly as it was, and Kazuma and the others who heard it were, as expected, extremely incredulous.
"Ha... I wondered what they were building a new building for, and it’s a slime bathhouse..."
"Cecily said she absolutely wanted to enjoy it, so what can I do — I have to build it for her."
"Ugh... you’ve got it hard because of your party too. Well, I understand. I’m going to have a drink with Taylor’s party today, so I’ll eat out for dinner."
"Okay."
Lately, Kazuma’s motivation had dropped considerably. He didn’t take requests often — probably because they had caught a Demon King general and a considerable amount of money came in, so there was no need to struggle to earn money. So he was often lazing around at the mansion, but he did still do some training in the morning, at least.
So Luna was also troubled by that problem.
"Haa... Kazuma’s party, you see. Lately, they seem to have no motivation at all. They don’t want to take requests... Kazuma’s party causes problems, and you can’t tell whether they’re skilled or not, but still, they’re a capable party that solves requests decently, but I can’t just leave them to idle..."
"Everyone has times when they’re unmotivated. Won’t they take a break and then start working hard again?"
"That’s not enough! Since Taejin’s party started working for the kingdom, there’s been no party to take on the big requests in Axel village. And even the higher‑ups are worried about it."
If even the Adventurer’s Guild in Axel was worrying about this, it seemed that there really was no adventurer to take on the big requests besides Kazuma’s party.
"Should our party take on the big requests for the time being?"
At my words, Luna thought for a moment, then spoke.
"Hmm... that would be good too, but in the end, it’s a temporary measure. Besides, Taejin’s party also has requests entrusted to them by the royal palace, right? I can’t bother such a party. So we’ll have to somehow inject some motivation into Kazuma."
