The Golden Experience Point [Part 1]

Chapter 101: "YOROY THE KAHIR!"

"All right, sorry for waiting."

"Oh, it was no prob!"

The girl from before said this while touching Yoroizaka all over. From what Rare could with [Demonic Eyes], she had a good amount of MP. Not quite as much as Mental Magic guy, but it was a lot. If the other three women were the crossdressing player's followers, then she would be at least as strong as four mid-class players. Adding in those red skeletons would bump up her rating even higher. She had quite the formidable force.

"I see you're interested in Yoroizaka here?"

"So the robot's named Yoroy the Kahir!"

"Uh, no, everything you just said is wrong. I think there's a big misunderstanding here."

Rare explained what Yoroizaka was—how living object-type monsters worked, but glossed over reincarnation. It didn't seem like that part would be particularly interesting to this girl.

"If that satisfies you, let me introduce myself. My name is Rare. As you can see, I'm a player with a nonhuman avatar. I'm participating in this event on the side attacking humans. How about you?"

"Oh! I'm so sorry! I'm Blanc! I started playing as a skeleton! I picked that name because my bones were really white! I'm not very good, but I did take out two cities too!"

Skeleton. Rare couldn't see anything that would make her think Blanc was a skeleton. Was she lying...? Well, she seemed like the kind of person who couldn't lie to save her life.

"...I don't see how you're a skeleton, so did you maybe, um, reincarnate into a different race by chance?"

"Ah, yeah, I did! Um, so like, first what happened was..."

The girl—Blanc—recounted her adventures for nearly an hour. She had gone through some pretty wild stuff. It was honestly a really interesting story. At the same time, Rare felt relieved. Considering the way she had come to learn [Subordinate], it was hard to imagine any other players having gone through a similar experience.

"I see, so you're a vampire... And vampires can reincarnate their followers by feeding them their own blood..."

It was pretty costly, but since LP and MP was easy to recover, she could also see it being very efficient. The downsides, or the limitations, were that it could only be used for one's own followers, and it probably only worked on undead-type races or races connected to the master. After seeing that these "mormo" vampires could transform into wolves, she speculated that perhaps one could tame wolves and feed them blood to turn them into mormos as well.

"So, Mizz Rare, what race are you? Not the one you started as, I mean."

Rare had to think hard about how she wanted answer. She didn't know whether Blanc could be a tight-lipped person, but she at least knew that Blanc rattled on and on to Rare about information that would have been more valuable to hide. The mormos assisting her seemed rather shrewd, but they didn't make any moves to stop her either. Rather, they spoke up to help Blanc explain some things. Rare couldn't expect them to help keep a lid on Blanc. With all that in mind, it would frankly be a huge risk to tell her the truth.

On the other hand, if they were to cooperate from here on out, and, completely hypothetically, in the one in a millionth chance that they were to maybe become friends, then it would be unwise to hide things from her at this juncture. Blanc would surely find out one day anyway, and she had also been completely up-front about herself, probably. If Rare didn't respond in kind, then later, if there were such things as "friendship points," she would be setting herself up to start in the hole. That wouldn't be ideal.

"—I'm..."

The four of them were looking straight back at Rare, eyes sparkling with anticipation. She wondered if, no matter how much INT they had, followers tended to take on their master's personality.