The next day I attended the cram school of the old man. After attendance was taken, my level rose once again. What to increase? Because it had floated up in my head first, I chose dragon.
Because I imagined it to be similar to the level 1 skill of flame breath, I put off confirmation for the time being.
“By the way, what should I teach today?”
“Wilf-sama.”
“Oooh….who are you again?”
“It’s Callus. Is there another job change item available?”
“……”
“Wilf-sama?”
“Grandmother—-”
“How does one acquire an item to change jobs the most quickly?”
“One of us wants to change their job.” I made some exchanges that had already become commonplace. Claire felt nervous to the side. I asked the old man who had returned to sanity about this information.
“After defeating a monster in cave, sometimes a job-change item will appear.”
“A cave?”
“There is one located outside of this village. Because it is maintained by the guild, one cannot enter without permission.”
“That is troublesome.”
I want to give a job-change item to Claire.
“Since it’s the guild, who do we ask for permission?”
“To enter it?”
“Yes.”
“Alright then. We are now going to have an extracurricular class.”
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Accompanying the old man, we travelled to the cave that was quite a ways off from the village. A gate-keeper was present at the cave’s entrance.
“Well if it isn’t the sage. How are you doing today sir?”
“I am needing to teach an extracurricular class in this cave.”
“An extracurricular class? It’s a shame that I’m too old to be a student of his.” said the gate-keeper as he let us pass.
“Please. While it may be unnecessary for the sage, but please take care of yourselves in there.”
The three of us, Claire, myself, and the old man entered the cave. I’m in front, and am followed by Claire and the old man who is carrying a torch to the rear.
“Callus-kun, here….. is it okay?” I understand Claire’s concern. In the dusky cave, I began to fell uneasy as well. This cave, I’ve never been in it before.
“Callus-kun! In front of you!” I advanced for awhile, and proceeded into an encounter. It was a short stocky little guy, who was about the size of a kindergartener.
In short, it’s a hairball with arms and legs coming out of it. It is carrying a club.
“Is that a monster?”
“Pillings are the weakest monsters in this cave. This monster has the highest population in here. There’s a chance that a job-change item will drop if you defeat it.”
The old man has returned to teaching mode. The Pilling attacked suddenly. It rushed with incredible speed while waving its bludgeon. Claire protected the old man and lowered her body. This is bad. I’ll have to fight it. How will I do it? I have the skills. I remembered that I had them.
I vomited a gout of flame from mouth at it. The temperature in the cave increases suddenly. The Pilling flared up and struggled, but ultimately fell down to the ground before too long and stopped moving.
“I did…..it?” I was puzzled over exactly what I had plainly defeated. I didn’t think I’d be able to one-shot it so easily.
With this, my confidence rose. As I thought that, a scraggly sound could be heard. I turned and saw that Claire had pulled a large quantity of leaves from her pocket and began to eat.
“Are you alright?”
“Yeah……I can recover if I eat thirty leaves.”
“30 leaves?”
“Yeah, I’ll do my best.”
“…..I see.”
Said Claire as she ate the large amount of leaves with tears in her eyes. I felt a little sorry for her. We wandered through the cave and I quickly defeated any pillings that we came across. It was easy, but then I had the Dragon job.
Using the ninja skills, the shuriken were ineffective and because it took to long to defeat them with more than two shots that didn’t always hit, I tried using Stealthy Step and the Firey Escape Jitsu for easy wins. On the other hand, using the flame breath and the new skill freezing breath would take one down in a single blast.
On the other hand, Claire kept on getting injured when I tried out the ninja skills. Although she was injured, she was able to eat some leaves and heal up fairly quickly. Because I felt sorry for her, I decided to defeat pillings using only the dragon breath weapons.
Once I started doing that, it wasn’t as dangerous for her anymore. With that, we explored a great deal of the cave’s interior. Defeating pillings became an easy job.
“Callus-kun! Over there!”
“Yeah?” Claire was pointing at the pilling that I had just turned into charcoal. In the ashes, I saw something sparkle.
“That’s it.” said the old man. I went over and picked it up. Though it had the same shape as the club that it had carried, it was much smaller and had a silver color. While it was an ordinary sized bat before, it’s now half the size of a baseball bat. Perhaps it’s similar to the scale that I had received from the old man.
“Wilf-sama, what job does this change into?”
“Warrior.” Though a warrior is pretty common, it is much better than a hairy caterpillar. I handed it over to Claire.
“Hey.”
“Is, is it okay?”
“Here, you can have it.”
“Thank you so much! Callus-kun!” I was thanked with all her might. I didn’t feel bad about it.
“By the way, if sold, the money would cover the cost of living for a single month.”
“Eeeeeeeeeeeeeee!? C-Callus-kun, It’s that expensive—–”
“I’m fine, you take it.” Because I feel bad about her only being able to eat leaves to heal, I gave her the item.
“Thank you!” the more she thanked me, the better I felt.
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