148話 スキル解放
やってしまった......。
いや、やられてしまったのか?
とにかく俺は女子トイレの個室で一人、閉じ籠っていた。
「はぁ......」
恥ずかしさのあまり、茜ちゃんからベルトを受け取ることすらせずにここまで来てしまった。
「まずは、着替えるか」
下がるズボンを履いて、移動する気になれるはずもないので、俺は女子生徒用の制服へと着替える。
いつまでも塞ぎこんでいても仕方ないので『
傷心と困惑、そんなネガティブな思考を一早く切り替えるために、自然と歩く速度は速くなっていく。
「なんだ、あの美少女......」
「外人......いや、『特待生』ってあの子じゃないか?」
「性転化病って......やばいな。あの見た目で、元は男なんだろ?」
「いや、俺はむしろあんな子が見れて、性転化病に感謝だわ。目の保養すぎる」
「おい、本人に聞こえるって」
通りすがった生徒達の会話が耳に入ってしまう。
彼らに悪気はないのかもしれないけど。
きに、ズキリと胸が痛んだ。
早く、早く、
「二人とも、お待たせ」
学食の椅子に座り、スマホを何気なくいじっていた二人は、俺が声をかけるとようやくコチラに気付いた。
「ん、何だか元気がなさそうだね、訊太郎?」
学食にいる二人以外はとっくにモノ珍しげな顔で俺を凝視する中、親友達の自然な態度に内心嬉しい気持ちになってしまう。
「うん、まぁ......」
歯切れの悪い返事をしながら、俺は腰を落ち着ける。
「ったく。まぁ話は聞いてやるからよ」
「まずはお腹も減ったし、注文しに行こっか」
「おごり?」
「お前の落ち込んだ様子じゃあなぁ」
「はいはい、ボクと晃夜の割り勘でって......訊太郎、おごりって言った途端に目がキラキラしてるけど、さっきのは演技じゃないよね?」
そんなに顔に出てたのか。
でも、やっぱりおごりって嬉しいし。
「あんまし、そんな物欲しそうな顔するなよな」
クイっと晃夜が眼鏡を整えた後、俺達はそれぞれの食券を買いに行った。
「きつねうどんか」
俺の注文した油揚げたっぷりのうどんを晃夜は眺め、『ほほう』と何故か感心している。240円でこのボリュームに具材の豊富さ、申し分ない。
それに今は、やけに汁の味がたっぷりと染み込んだ油揚げにかぶり付きたい気分なのだ。
「まぁな」
こちらは250円ときつねうどんより10円高い。
すっきり醤油ベースの汁、こしのあるツルっとした麺。わかめともやしが添えられていて、その中央には生卵が、夜空に浮かぶお月さまのように浮かんでいる。
「それで夕輝はカツカレー......」
この中では一番高価なメニューだ。絶妙なスパイスが効いたコクのある中辛のルー、それらに絡まるは、ほかほかサックリのカツ。お値段なんと340円。
「うん、あげないからね」
そんなこんなで、ガツガツと食べ始めていく。
俺は油揚げを頬張りつつも、
第一目標であった、『茜ちゃんと以前と同じような友達という関係を築く』はクリアしたこと。しかしながら、ズボンが落ちて下着を晒してしまい、変態野郎として撃沈したのを吐露する。
「だから、スカートに戻ってた訳ね」
「おい、待て。山田はお前の、その、パンツを見たのか?」
「あぁ、それは重要な案件だねぇ......」
なぜか晃夜が鬼気迫る勢いで質問をしてきて、夕輝の笑みにはドス黒い陰りを帯びていた。
「いや、わからないけど。ちょっとは見たのかも? それより、茜ちゃんの前で醜態を晒したのが問題だよ......どうして俺はこんな情けない事に......」
「山田の野郎......ちょっとヤッておくか」
「元はと言えば、山田が
確かにそう言われれば、そうだけど。
二人ともちょっと穏便に済まそうね? ここはクラン・クランの中じゃないんだしさ、学校なんだしさ。もっと平和にな?
っと、そういえば大事な説明を言い忘れていた。
「スキルが発現したっぽいよ」
「宮ノ内の奴......確かに『とぐろ巻く紫電蛇』って言ったのか?」
「そのアビリティは、ムチスキルLv5で習得するモノだね。相手への微弱なダメージと動きの阻害、稀に
俺の見たまんまだ。
「紫色にも光ってた......」
「おいおい......なんでクラン・クランを始めたばかりの宮ノ内が、スキルを現実に持ってるんだよ」
「全くの謎だよね......」
「うんうん......それにしても、この油揚げは美味しいな」
「おいおい、今はそんな悠長に油揚げの感想を言ってる場合じゃ......ない...?」
、ちょっと真剣に考えて......る?」
ん、親友達の語尾が不自然に途絶えたので、俺は『どうした?』と二人の顔を見る。見慣れたイケメン達は、口をアングリと開けていた。
「なぁ、お前ら。あんまり言いたくないけど、口の中の食べた物が丸見えで、ちょっと汚いよ」
しかし、二人は俺の親切な注意をスルーし続けた。
なぜか、俺の頭と腰のあたりを何度も何度も、視線を交互に見返すばかりだ。
「なんだよ......なんか俺の頭についてんのか? そばとカレーが冷めちゃうぞ?」
「こっちも、あんまり言いたくないんだけどね......」
ようやく夕輝が開けっ放しの口を閉じて、厳かに返答してきた。
次いで晃夜が大きな深呼吸をした後にこう言った。
「早い話......お前、耳と尻尾が生えてるぞ?」
お前ら、何をそんなバカな戯言を......何気なく、自分の頭を触った俺の右手は、確かにふさふさふわふわを感じ取った。
「これは......ガチなやつだ......?」
自分で自分の言ってる事がわからない。
「落ち着け、訊太郎」
「騒がない方がいい。とにかく、落ち着こう」
混乱しそうになるのを、どうにか二人がいた事で抑えられた俺だけど。
にはならず、俺達はすぐに学校を後にした。
というのも、まず尻尾と耳は意思の力で出したりひっこめたりすることが可能だったからだ。
あれから親友たちと一緒にいそいそと俺宅で集まり、あーでもないこうでもないと議論をぶつけ合った。
結果、なぜ急に耳や尻尾が生え、茜ちゃんがスキルに目覚めたのか推測を立てる事ができた。
まず、俺に耳と尻尾が生えたと同時に、
錬金術ができる、と。
「なぁ、これ何だと思う?」
帰宅してすぐに俺は親友たちに告げた。
右手をかざし、『魔導錬金』と念じたのだ。
すると、ゲーム内と同じ現象が俺の
その場にある素材となりうる物体は本能的にわかった。
俺は黙って水道の蛇口をひねって水を出した。普通なら垂直に落下するはずだ。だが、放出された水はステンレス台に触れず、重力を無視したカーブを描き、手の平にある立方体へと吸収されてゆく。
その光景に驚きを通り越して無表情になる仲間たちをよそに、俺は淡々と次の作業に取り掛かった。
冷蔵庫を開けてリンゴを左手で持つ。
どこにでもある普通のリンゴだ。
それを立方体の方へ寄せると......水と同じくスゥっと溶けてなくなるように吸い込まれていった。
物理学や化学では到底説明できない世界を目の当たりにしたせいか、親友たちの口が半開きになったのが目に入る。
だけど構わずに俺は作業を続けた。
だって、この作業を行ったのは今日が初めてではない。ちょっと異色ではあるが、これは錬金術の一つだ。他の
俺が何度も当たり前のように見てきた『日常的な風景』。だから、俺はこの現象を冷静に見つめることができた。
ただし、ゲーム内での『日常』ではあるけど。
そこからゲームと同じく、立方体の一面が四カ所に割れ、透明色と黄色っぽいパネルへと変化した。おそらく水とリンゴの果肉部分の色が元だろう。
このパネルを脳内でルービックキューブの要領で回転させ、各面の色を合わせるパズル的な作業を行う。
そしてコップを取りだし、立方体の形状解除を念じると――
リンゴと水だったものを入れた箱がシャッターを押すように消失した。そして代わりに小さな花火のように舞う黄色い水の粒子が、煌めいた。
パシャッと黄色い液体がコップの中に落ちていく。
「これ、多分だけど、リンゴジュース......」
黙ってこの現象を見ていた親友たちに、おそるおそるリンゴジュースの入ったコップを向ける。
「お、おう......」
信じがたい現象に思考が停止しかけた友人たち。
俺も驚きだ。
「早い話......ありえないよな」
「こんな光景、絶対にね......ありえないはずだよ」
「だけど、これが日常になるのかもしれない......俺達の世界で、これが当たり前になってしまったのかもしれない......」
子供の頃に憧れていた魔法が現実にやってきた。しかし叶ったら叶ったで、それは恐怖以外の何物でもなかった。
なぜなら、ただのコップに怪しげな製造法で生み出されたリンゴジュースが平然と注がれるように、俺達の現実が未知なるものに浸食されていく実感が否応なしに湧いてきたからだ。
更にスキル『魔導錬金』と併用して発動する、『
ただの『合成』などに関しても、錬金キットがあれば実現可能だと確信できた。
しかし、今は手元に合成釜はないし、そもそも現実世界にあんな不思議セットがどこにあるのやら。だから俺が使用できるのは、MPを消費して発動できる『魔導錬金』だけなわけなのだが......どうやら俺にはMPらしきモノが備わっているらしい。詳しい数値や量やらはわからないけれど、スキルを使うと体内の中の見えない力が抜ける様な感覚を味わう。さらに、尻尾や耳を出している状態だと非常に増大している事が把握できる。ゲーム内での装備、『銀狐の耳』と『狐巫女の一尾』はMPを増大させる効果も付いていた。仮にこの体内に感じる不思議な力をMPと仮定すると、それらが増えた点もクラン・クラン内の装備能力と同一だとわかる。
これらの事をまとめ、俺達が気付いた結論は......スキルが現実で覚醒する条件、というか原因となったのは『スキル
もスライムたちに飢餓を植え付ける時、『進化の原理がどうの』とか言ってたし、これらの現象を匂わす種は既にあったのだ。
しかも、現時点で確認できている範囲内で、茜ちゃんと俺がスキルに目覚めている。という事は、『スキル
の油揚げ』を使用し、なおかつ
げを現実で食べると、スキル能力が得られる。
しかし、俺の声はむなしく室内をこだますだけで、手に入った力と現実は何の変わりもしない。
「今後、誰かが『スキル
がさっと俺の耳をもふもふしながら、難しい顔で呟いた。
「くっ、くすぐったいから、やめれ!」
150 148 Stories Skills Unleashed
I did it......
No, they did it to you?
Anyway, I was alone in a private room in a women's bathroom, in a closed cage.
"Ha..."
It was too much embarrassment for me to even get my belt from Ceci to get here.
"First, do you want to change?"
I change into a female student uniform because I can't possibly be willing to move around wearing pants that go down.
I can't help blocking it forever, so I'm going to go to my best friends who will be waiting for me at the school meal along with a report on the "Talent Holder" thing.
To switch between heartbreak and perplexity, such negative thoughts, nature walks faster.
"What, that beautiful girl..."
"An outsider...... no, isn't that the 'special student'?
"Sexual metastasis... sucks. That look, you're a man, aren't you?
"No, I'd rather see her like that and thank her for the sexually transmitted disease. Too much eye care."
"Hey, he said it sounded like him."
The conversation between the students who came through gets in my ear.
Maybe it's no offense to them.
The whisper broke my chest.
Hurry up, hurry up, I want to go to Yuki.
"Both of you, please wait"
The two of them, sitting in a chair of school-food and casually messing with their smartphones, finally realized cochlear when I spoke up.
"Hmm, you don't seem to be feeling well, do you, Shintaro?
As I stare at me with a face so rare except for the two of us at school food, I find myself heartily happy with the natural attitude of my best friends.
"Yeah, well..."
I calm down while I reply badly with my teeth cut.
"Damn. Well, I'll listen to you."
"I'm hungry first, let's go order"
"A treat?"
"I'll see how depressed you are."
"Yes, yes, on the night split with me... Shintaro, my eyes are glittering as soon as I said treat, but that wasn't an act, was it?
Was it so on your face?
But I'm still happy to treat you.
"Don't look like you want something like that."
We went to buy our own food vouchers after a quick night of shaking changed our glasses.
"Tight Udon"
I watch my order of fried udon at night and admire it for some reason. The abundance of ingredients in this volume for 240 yen is impeccable.
And now, I feel like wearing a deep fried oil stained with lots of juice.
"Well."
This one is 250 yen and 10 yen higher than the tight udon.
Soy sauce-based juice, crispy noodles. It is accompanied by an understanding and sprouts, and in the center of it are raw eggs floating like moons floating in the night sky.
"So Evening Fai is a cutlet curry..."
It's the most expensive menu of all. Rich medium spicy loos with exquisite spices, tangled in them, in addition to crispy cutlets. The price is 340 yen.
"Yeah, I won't give it to you."
That's how I start eating guts.
I'm going to explain what happened to Hikane while I cheek the fried chicken.
It was my primary goal, "Build a relationship with Si and a friend just like before" was cleared. However, his pants fall and expose his underwear, exposing him sinking as a perverted bastard.
So you were back in your skirt.
"Hey, wait. Did Yamada see your, uh, pants?
"Oh, that's an important project..."
For some reason, the shaking night came to ask questions with impatient momentum, and there was a dos black shade in Evening Fai's grin.
"No, I don't know. Maybe you saw it for a second? Besides, the problem is that I exposed myself to ugliness in front of Si... how could I be so pathetic..."
"Yamada bastard...... do you want to fuck me for a second"
"Speaking of the original, it's the seed where Yamada was sown. If Yamada hadn't bothered your brother, Shintaro wouldn't have been harmed like that."
If they do say so, they do.
Let's both get some peace of mind, shall we? We're not in the Clan Clan, we're in school. More peace, huh?
All right, speaking of which, I forgot to mention an important explanation.
"It looks like you've expressed your skills."
"The guy in the Miyano...... did you say 'Tuna winding violet snake'?
"That ability is something you learn with Munch Skills LV5. It deals with slight damage to the opponent, inhibits movement, and occasionally inflicts paralysis (Stan)..."
Just like I saw it.
"It was also glowing purple..."
"Dude... why is Miyagi Nochi just starting Clan Clan having skills in reality?"
"It's a total mystery..."
"Yeah yeah...... and this fried oil is delicious"
"Dude, not if you're telling me what you think of fried oil so long now...?
"Shintaro, give it some serious thought... Ru?
Mm, my best friends' tail broke off unnaturally, so I said, 'What's up?' And look at the two faces. The familiar handsome men had their mouths angrily open.
"Hey, you guys. I hate to say it, but I can see all the food in my mouth and it's a little dirty."
But you two kept coming through my kind attention.
For some reason, I just look back at my head and around my hips, over and over again, alternating my gaze.
"What... is that about my head? The buckwheat and curry are gonna get cold, okay?
"I don't really want to say this either..."
Evening Fai finally closed her open mouth and responded strictly.
Then I said this after the shaking night took a big deep breath.
"Quick story...... you got ears and tails growing?
What are you guys doing with such stupid bullshit... casually, my right hand touching my head did feel fluffy.
"This... is the bee one...?
I don't know what I'm talking about.
"Easy, Shintaro."
"Better not make a scene. Anyway, let's calm down."
I'm the one who managed to keep the two of us from getting confused.
Unfortunately, it didn't matter, and we left school immediately.
Because, first of all, tails and ears could be put out or pulled out by force of will.
Since then, I've been snuggling around with my best friends at my house, and, uh, not so much. We bumped into each other's arguments.
As a result, I was able to make a guess as to why my ears and tails suddenly grew and Xi woke up to her skills.
First of all, it was very helpful in guiding the answer that I had an ear and tail growing on me, as well as another discomfort (...) issue to say. That discomfort is something that you could grasp naturally in your consciousness, as if it were an instinct, as if it had been prepared for me from the beginning.
I can alchemy, he said.
"Hey, what do you think this is?
As soon as I got home, I told my best friends.
He kneaded his right hand and thought, "Demon Alchemy."
Then the same phenomenon occurred in my hand as in the game.
Instinctively, I knew what could be the material on the spot.
I shut up and twisted the tap faucet to get the water out. Normally, it should fall vertically. However, the released water does not touch the stainless steel table, draws a curve that ignores gravity and is absorbed into the cube in the flat hand.
I went through the next task pale to my fellow faceless through surprise at the sight.
Open the fridge and hold the apple with your left hand.
It's a regular apple everywhere.
Pushing it toward the cube... it was sucked in so that it would no longer dissolve suddenly as well as water.
It is in my eyes that my best friends' mouths have been half-opened because I have seen a world that physics and chemistry cannot explain in the end.
But I kept working.
'Cause this isn't the first day I've done this work. A bit of a different color, but this is one of the alchemies. Abilities of the skills other mercenaries (players) used to fool around with.
The 'everyday landscape' that I have seen as a matter of course many times. So I could stare calmly at this phenomenon.
However, it is' everyday 'in the game.
From there, as with the game, one side of the cube broke into four places, changing into transparent and yellowish panels. Probably based on the color of the water and apple pulp part.
Rotate this panel in your brain with Rubik's Cube guidelines for puzzling tasks that match the colors on each side.
And then I took the cup, and when I thought about unshaping the cube...
The box with the apple and what was water disappeared to push the shutter. And instead a particle of yellow water dancing like a small fireworks, brilliant.
The pashy yellow liquid falls into the cup.
"This, maybe, but apple juice..."
Turn to your best friends who were watching this phenomenon in silence, perhaps a cup with apple juice.
"Ooh..."
Friends whose thoughts stopped at an unbelievable phenomenon.
I'm surprised, too.
"Quick story... Impossible"
"Such a sight, absolutely... it can't be."
"But maybe this will be the routine... maybe this has become the norm in our world..."
The magic I yearned for as a child came true. But if it did, it did, and it was nothing but fear.
Because just so that the apple juice produced by the suspicious manufacturing method is poured flat into the cup, the real feeling of our reality being eroded by the unknown has grown in response.
It was also a bad thing about "Dusting", which is activated in conjunction with the skill "Demon Alchemy".
I could be sure that it would be feasible with an alchemy kit when it comes to just 'synthesis' etc.
But I don't have a synthetic kettle on hand right now, and I don't know where such a wonder set is in the real world in the first place. So the only thing I can use is' Demon Alchemy 'that can consume and activate MP... apparently I have something that looks like MP. I don't know the exact numbers and quantities, but I feel like using my skills will lose the invisible power in my body. In addition, it can be seen that there is a very large increase when the tail and ears are being put out. Equipment in the game, "Silver Fox Ears" and "One Tail of the Fox Witch" also had the effect of increasing MP. Assuming the strange forces you feel in this body are MP, you can see that the increase in them is the same as the gear capability in the clan clan.
Summarizing these things, the only conclusion we noticed... was that the condition of skill awakening in reality, or the cause of it, was "Skill Blessings (Gifts) Oil Deep Friends".
When the two-tailed fox and the white fox planted famine on the slimes, they said, "What about the principles of evolution?" And there were already species that smelled these phenomena.
Besides, as far as I can confirm at the moment, Cee and I are awake to our skills. This means that those who use "Fried Skills Blessings (Gifts)" in the game have a thick line to activate their skills in real life. That awakening condition... Xi added that she said 'Breakfast was tight udon', and the fact that I ate tight udon too was eloquently told.
"Mina also got" Fried Skill Blessings "and used it... I didn't ask what skills she used it for..."
If you use Deep-Fried Skills (Gifts) in the game, and eat Deep-Fried Skills (Blessings) in real life, you gain skill abilities.
But my voice just sticks to the indoors softly, and the power and reality I get makes no difference.
"In the future, we have to prevent someone from getting" Fried Skills Blessing (Gifts), "right?
I shrugged with a difficult face as the shaking night softened my ears.
"Fuck, it tickles, stop it!
I Became a Beautiful Girl, but I’m still an MMO Junkie
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