The Golden Experience Point [Part 1]

Chapter 22: "Inventory"

"Oh, that's right, Boss, that uh... 'in-vin-tor-ee' thing from before, tell us more about it."

"Ah, yes, that's right."

Damn, she actually remembered. It's probably because her INT went up. But what Rare had said before was just something random she concocted because she didn't feel like explaining it.

"If we could use it too, then we coulda brought this thing back without damaging its hide."

Now that she looked at it more closely, there were many little tears in the tanuki all running in the same direction. Since it was even larger than Hakuma, they probably had to drag it back here. True, if they had access to an inventory, that would solve this problem perfectly. If all the girls had an inventory, the convenience would be immeasurable. However, the inventory was part of the game system. Players could use it right from the start, but NPCs could not.

For the time being, she could just describe how it felt for her when she used her inventory. If they were unable to understand it, she could think about having them learn [Space Magic] sometime down the line. Not that [Space Magic] had been confirmed to have any particular relation; it was unclear if there was a skill that functioned similarly to the player inventory.

"Let me see... I think I said before, but it's like there's an invisible bag that's either right next to me or kind of overlapping my body. I open the mouth of the bag in the palm of my hand, then I can put whatever I want into it. If it's too big and I don't think I can 'put it in,' then I can do this and 'cover' it with the bag."

While explaining, Rare put the tanuki pelt into her inventory.

"And like so, it goes in. No need to use force. The bag's mouth is very large, very flexible, and, well, it's just a very convenient thing to have."

It's something that couldn't possibly exist in real life; it could only be actualized in a game. Trying to be any more specific would be difficult. Rare felt that her own explanation became increasingly vague and useless the more she talked, but there was no real other way to explain it. She really had no idea what she was talking about anymore, but if she thought of it as deepening her bonds with her followers, then it didn't feel so bad.

"Vowf!" All of a sudden, Hakuma barked.

Rare blinked in dumbfoundment. The meat that had been laid out right in front of him was gone.

"He didn't... eat it... did he? Yeah, that's not... Huh? What the hell? Did he really eat it all?"

Just as she was about to shout at him in anger, the meat appeared in front of Hakuma. She could scarcely believe her eyes, but it looked like he had just taken it out from his inventory.

An NPC—or actually, an ice wolf would probably be classified as a regular monster—had just figured out how to access its own inventory.

"Hey look! I can do it too!"

Marion cried out next. The white cylindrical things she presumed were the tanuki's bones were blinking in and out of existence. Rare was having trouble following the situation, but if she suppressed her common sense, then if Hakuma was able to do it, it would follow that Marion could too. The system didn't discriminate between NPCs and monsters, after all.

She was still reeling in confusion, but Rare started to feel more excited than she ever had before.

It was common sense for only players to have access to an inventory.

However, no player had ever proven that to be an absolute fact.

Normally, one could not prove that something was "absolutely impossible." This was the so-called Devil's Proof. There was always the possibility that someone out there could do the impossible but pretended that they couldn't. During the closed beta, whenever a player used their inventory, the NPCs always reacted in surprise, saying "I've never met someone who could do that." That was why players always believed that only players were able to use that system. And truly, no one had ever met an NPC who could use their own inventory.