Volume 2 - CH 33

Chapter 2-33. Uchikage’s Skills

Hello there, good morning.

I haven't use this kind of greeting for a while, Ouren reporting.

Well, the princess was still in a bad mood after dinner and it was hard ...

She was good until she ate the dinner, but ... She can't take a bath, there isn’t any wall, she don't have her futon, so she starts making some noise and then she is tired.

Perhaps the roots of this problem starts from her words cut off by Uchikage, she was strangely aggressive against Uchikage.

Even her own mother can’t calm her down.

Heck, even Tenda failed to calm her down.

So the final weapon is me.

I managed to get rid of her bad mood by always right beside her.

When she started yelling, I tried to calm her down by gently stroking her head with my tail or by rubbing against it.

She is an Oni and you know what happens if she rampages.

It was extremely easy to calm her down, but the difficulty was hella lunatic.

I don't want to do it again.

By the way, I went up to level 48 with a meal.

It may be possible to evolve around noon because the LV will max out with only one meal.

No ... but it may be better not to evolve even if I can.

It’s gonna be chaos if I evolve among the Onis.

Yeah ... let’s not do that.

The princesses are still sleeping.

Well, it's still early in the morning.

The sun has just come out.

All that is happening now is the onis  are the people who are on the fourth shift.

There were no particularly noticeable monsters, so my sleep wasn't disturbed.

However, when I see her sleeping, she looks like a normal princess.

She doesn't feel like a shrine maiden.

It seems to be a lie that she was so selfish.

"White snake-sama"

Uchikage appeared without any sign.

I don't think he was anywhere nearby before ... How did he come out like that?

By the way, Uchikage was one of the last watchmen.

"I'm sorry for disturbing your sleep."

He speaks to me in a very quiet voice so as not to wake up others.

"It's about the princess ... but what you did was very helpful. Thank you. I couldn't thank you before when the princess was awake ... I'm really sorry."

Uchikage kneels and bows before me.

It seems that he was very concerned.

Certainly other onis wouldn't have had time to thank me.

I thought he was pretty hard to approach, but he is actually a good guy.

It changed my view on him a little bit.

It's better not to judge only by appearance. Yep.

The princess's chokehold is weakening now, and it seems I can get out of her. (* it may sounds weird, but literally it’s not chokehold, but bondage, because it looks weird so I changed it)

I don't know when the princess will wake up if I stay like this.

Let’s get out of her hug.

I managed to get out of the princess and make an arrow with water.

It means to go over there and listen to his story, but Uchikage instantly understood it and followed me.

Maybe he doesn't understand it perfectly, but he knows that I'm trying to go there.

A little away from the place where Uchikage can speak in a normal voice.

No one would wake up if he spoke with his normal voice.

"As you can see from White snake-sama ... We are having a hard time with the princess. The lord and his wife weren't so blessed with having their offspring, so for the princess who is the only daughter. They pamper her a little bit too much. That's why I think she have that kind of personality ... I wish she had a little more dignity as a princess ... "

Long story short, she is too pampered and the only child, that's why she is quite selfish.

It must have been difficult until now.

It can't be helped because she is still in the childhood phase, but I definitely don't want to see an adult become that way.

She is lightly in contact with me, the white snake they believe in, in front of their kind.

Do they think I was annoyed by her behaviour ...?

Maybe it's okay because she is in front of the people who know the princess now, but if she enters Zenki-village, she should stay low for her own sake.

Probably because their object of worship (which is me) is the same as the demon kin.

Should I stay away from the princess from now on?

No, that's going to make me feel bad for her ...

Aaaargh- what a pain!

"Thank you for bearing with the princess's selfishness. Because we don’t know what to do with the princess for a few reasons ..."

I knew it by looking at it.

After all, the hierarchical relationship is troublesome.

In particular, it seems that Uchikage was the enemy in her eyes, so I think he couldn't say more.

When I think about it now ... I think he was against hiding in that village.

It's easy to imagine.

It looks like he is still struggling, and does he want to be with me a little longer?

The reward is to feed me rice when I become a human!

"By the way ... what kind of skills does white snake-sama have? It may be rude to ask you, but ... as an escort, I want to be a little stronger. I don't really have a chance to talk to White snake-sama. Oh, of course, I won't tell the others. "

There is no problem for me.

If I ask about Uchikage’s skills, I'm probably going to say that too.

I made an arrow pointing to Uchikage.

First of all, I'm asking him to tell me first ... Will he understand that?

After thinking for a moment, Uchikage raises his face as if he noticed something.

"Ah, I’m sorry. I should show you my back of hands first. My status looks like this."

That said, he told me his status.

Apparently the status cannot be shown to others, so he will explain it verbally.

The status of Uchikage looks like this.

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Name: Uchikage

Race: Oni

LV: 43/65

HP: 203/203

MP: 420/420

Attack power: 1965

Defense: 139

Magical power: 302

Agility: 368

-Skill-

Offencive: [Herculean Feet] [Herculean Feet]

Magic: [Shadow Cover]

Defense: [Instant Resist]

Recovery: [Death Absorption]

Trap:

Unique: [Darkness Medium]

Automatic: [Assassination] [Command Reception]

-Resistance-

[Poison] [Blind] [Poor visibility]

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I was about to pass out.

What kind of broken character with that kind of attack power is he?

My attack power is only 255 now.

And his agility is also high.

Is it related to [Herculean Feet]?

However, I found out why Uchikage could approach without any sign.

This guy has the same [Assassination] skill like me.

It looks to me that he is unknowingly disappearing because of his automatic skill.

There are many skills that I'm curious about, but apparently I can't see detailed explanations unless I've acquired them myself.

I'm very worried about the recovery skill [Death Absorption] and the unique skill [Darkness Medium] ... but if I can’t get the explanation, it can't be helped.

Let's give it up.

I knew it just from his appearance, but he looks like an assassin type Oni .

He is a type of Oni that fights using his high agility.

I don't know if I can take advantage of his speed because his attack power is broken.

"I'm sorry for my lack of skills. Unfortunately that’s all the skill I have."

Uchikage, who is blindfolded, has a little gap that shows his face.

I saw his real face for the first time, but he has a very nice face.

His eyes are blue.

It's certainly similar to Tenda, but it's hard to notice that it's similar because of the blindfold and his appearance.

[Darkness Medium]

When he used that skill with his blue eyes shining, his shadow was lifted and the alter ego or rather, his shadow clone was completed.

However, it soon collapsed and returned to his original shadow.

"This skill is a [Darkness Medium]. It's one of my trump cards. The darker the surroundings, the stronger this skill is. It's a slightly quirky skill. The shadow clone has the same status value as me for a minute. "

Heck ... isn’t that skill really powerfull?

Isn't his spec higher than me?

I envy you!

But he showed me his trump card.

I also have to show off some flashy skills.

What should I do?

The [Sediment Destruction] is a little too much for show, and I never tried to use [Rock Break], so it is better to not use it.

The [Reamed Water Spear] is a little plain to use.

Then, let’s use [Water Spear Volley]!

As my level went up with yesterday's meal, so did my MP.

If this is the case, I can manipulate 40 of it lightly.

I create water with [Infinite Water Manipulation] and activate [Water Spear Volley].

This time it's just forty.

I manipulate it and stab it all into the ground.

"Gasp ...! I knew that you were dealing with water-related skills from the point where you were manipulating water, but ... I was really impressed that you could manipulate it to this level."

I thought this wasn't such a big skill ...

Is he surprised at the number that I can control?

I feel like anyone can do it.

However, forty seems like too tight.

The MP consumed to maintain them is a bit silly.

My MP won't run out even if I keep using this skill for three minutes.

Well, isn’t it fine because it was enough to make Uchikage surprised?

"Hmm ...?"

Uchikage looks back.

There was no one, but it seemed that he sensed something.

"Ah ... White snake-sama. It seems that the princess has woken up."

Seriously?

I wanted to talk with Uchikage a little more ...

It can't be helped ... Should I go back?

After that, as soon as I returned, She hugged me as much as she could and almost everything inside me was about to come out.

As expected, this kind of behaviour is unacceptable, so I gave her a small lesson.

It's just a splash of water to her head, but it's more than enough harassment for the princess today.

As expected, Shimu didn't say anything.

Other onis are pretending to not look at her.

I want the princess to work harder for these guys.