Reincarnated as an Instructor in an Adult Game

Chapter 49: ☆You can accept it...

We entered the second-hand goods shop.

The interior had a similar atmosphere to the inn — warm and nostalgic.

It wasn’t very spacious; if I had to compare it, it felt like a small café with about five table seats.

Right after entering, I spotted a familiar face behind the counter.

A man in his fifties was sitting there, gently rocking back and forth as if in a rocking chair. When he saw us, he smiled and said,

"Welcome."

"...I’ll just take a look for now."

"Sure, go ahead."

His response was exactly the same as in the game. I narrowed my eyes and smiled nostalgically. freёweɓnovel.com

I really like this old man’s vibe...

Erika and the three girls were frozen in place while looking at the displayed goods.

Minty pointed at something with a trembling finger and said to me,

"I-Instructor~! Mithril is being sold super cheap~!"

"You can only buy up to five items per person in this shop, so choose carefully."

"Sensei, this... is crazy."

"...It’s been a while since I’ve seen a Dark Knife."

Yes, this shop only allowed five purchases per person, but it sold rare finds at half the market price.

The items on display changed every time you visited.

One might think they could just come back later and buy everything, but there was a condition: you couldn’t enter the shop for about 30 days (one month). So there were no loopholes.

What I wanted was among the accessories that Erika and Satour were looking at.

I walked over to the spot where the item I had been looking for since the game days was always placed.

I picked up the bracelet and sighed in relief.

At first glance, it was a plain silver bracelet with no decorations.

It wasn’t bulky at all — in fact, it was so thin it looked like it might break easily.

Its name was [Kuro no Udewa] (Black Bracelet). It really was called that, even though there wasn’t a single black part on it and no special effects were listed.

This was a mysterious piece of equipment that had no explanation even when you progressed through the story.

However, during adventurer play, if you reached the deepest part of a certain ruin and learned a single ancient word, the description would appear.

There was no explanation of what the word meant anywhere. The large character carved into the mural was...

"Tivriera."

The moment I spoke the word, a dazzling light briefly enveloped the bracelet.

When I opened my eyes after the bright flash, the previously plain bracelet now had carved decorations.

They weren’t flashy — just elegant patterns that looked like vines wrapping around it.

Its effect was Status Maintenance.

For example, if you used a support skill to boost attack power, equipping this bracelet would maintain that buff.

If you wanted to cancel it, you simply had to remove the bracelet.

I brought five of them to the old man who was still gently rocking, finished the payment, and looked at Erika and the others.

As expected of women, they were squealing excitedly at the accessory shelves.

I smiled and decided to watch them for a while.

It was past 8 PM by the time everyone finished shopping and we opened the door to leave.

As the door slowly closed, the old man’s voice came from inside.

"Please come again."

I looked at the fully closed door, smiled, turned on my heel, and started walking toward the main street.

Erika happily held my hand and told me about all the things she had seen. The three girls joined in, and we walked through the creepy back alley laughing cheerfully.

When we returned to the inn, Fia and Leah were waiting for us.

Erika and the three girls thanked the two and headed to the bath together, chatting, since they were sweaty.

I sat down in what looked like a waiting area where the two were having tea.

As I sat next to Leah, Fia, who was sitting across from us, smiled.

I thanked them both. Fia smiled while holding her cup and said,

"Then I suppose we’ll take our reward."

"Leah too~?"

"Yeah, I bought them."

I showed them the bracelets I had purchased at the hidden shop.

Their eyes sparkled the moment they saw them. They put down their cups and leaned forward. freёwebnovel.com

I placed one bracelet in each of their palms. They began examining them closely.

Fia held hers up, spun it around, and inspected the carvings. Then her expression changed as she noticed something.

She looked extremely focused and stared at the bracelet with a serious face.

Suddenly, she gasped, looked up with a shocked expression, and said,

"This... isn’t a magic tool!"

"That’s right. Its effect is Status Maintenance... This is the thanks I can give you two."

"Status Maintenance?"

"Yes, for example..."

I gave a simple explanation using a support skill as an example. The two gently held the bracelets with both hands as if they were treasures.

After the explanation, Fia looked stunned. She looked at me with slightly trembling hands holding the bracelet.

"You..."

"I heard from Croana. That spell uses more magic power than Croana’s life-extension magic, right?"

Croana had told me that this magic was basically impossible to replicate.

The fact that her two sisters could do something similar meant they were geniuses.

She had looked so lonely, as if she had already realized she would disappear before them...

There was no way I would allow that. No way.

This wasn’t just a reward. I had always planned to give it to them eventually.

Meeting them in Santony was unexpected, but in a way, it was right on schedule.

A single tear slid down from Fia’s eyes and fell onto the bracelet in her hands.

Leah had already started crying the moment she understood what it meant, sniffling.

"Is it really... okay for us to accept this?"

"Croana and... sniff... we can stay together forever?"

"Yes, you can. Definitely longer than your current state. So please accept them."

At my words, Leah hugged the bracelet tightly to her chest and cried while repeatedly saying "Thank you."

Fia smiled beautifully through her tears and held the bracelet close to her heart.

The sight reminded me of the twin goddesses from a picture book I once read.

Their appearances were like something out of a fairy tale brought to life, and the sight of them shedding tears of joy moved me deeply.

"Thank you!"

The next moment, Fia kissed me.

Her lips touched mine again and again. I could see the hem of her dress fluttering at the edge of my vision — she must have been floating.

When I pulled her body toward me, she came easily without any resistance.

I kissed her small lips — smaller than Croana’s — over and over, and she responded in kind.

Fia’s kiss carried the faint taste of happy tears.