CH 37

[Money in the World]

Then a problem.

“Oh? You’re up?”

When I woke up, there is a blonde blue-eyed elf sister-type heroine right next to the bed. What are you doing here?

After thinking for 0.5 seconds, I decide on the right thing to do.

“Iyaa~, that was really surprising, you know. You and Higaki-san collapsed by the side of the road.” (Ethel)

“Tei.” (Sakurai)

“Gold coiiin!!” (Ethel)

The right one is ‘to throw a gold coin to distract her – since the other party is the money-grubbing and miserly depraved sister, after all.’

“Waaah! What’s this, where’s this gold coin comes from!? I’ve never seen a gold coin with a jackal face on it, though!? Is there such a thing in a school dungeon? Uwaaaa, that means it’s a rare item, ain’t it!!” (Ethel)

I get up from the bed, getting away from Ethel Tyner, who has grabbed the coin of ‘Netherworld’ I had thrown with a jump and is happily observing it.

Looking at the interior of the room, the place I am now is a room in the hospital attached to the academy.

After all, you will remember it just by looking at it twice.

And the fact that I’m in the hospital room should means that I have managed to revive safely.

It was the first time in my life that I was being resurrected from the dead, so I got a little bit worried, but it’s great that nothing went wrong.

“Haguu… it even forms tooth marks, so it’s unlikely to be a fake gold. And it feels like its weight is similar to the kingdom’s gold coin.” (Ethel)

With Tyner – who for some reason has begun to verify the coin with a serious look on her face – at a distance away, I turn my gaze to the side of the bed, and there, is a bag filled with items that I brought out from the ‘Netherworld’.

In the game, they were normally stuffed in the item column of the menu screen, but do they appear in the real world in this way because the menu has disappeared now that it has turned into reality?

Incidentally, it would surely be convenient if the menu screen and item box were restored in some forms, right~…… It is so troublesome having to carry your tools around……

“——Huh! What the hell am I doing? Rather you, listen to what I—” (Ethel)

“Okay, here’s seconds.” (Sakurai)

“Seconds, yippee!” (Ethel)

I throw another gold coin to distract her.

In the meantime, I pick up my luggage and check its contents. After taking out a small bag out of it, I recount the number of ‘Seeds’ in it.

“One, two, threeee… oh? Ooh? Ooh! They’re increased! The ‘Seeds’ have increased! This world is bugging! It hasn’t been patched yet!” (Sakurai)

Immediately after the release of the additional downloadable content, what became the topic was ‘item doubling bug.’

This bug makes it that when you return to the real world from the ‘Netherworld’, the number of items and money you have so far be ‘doubled’; By making use of this bug, it is possible to increase the number of unique items you have, which originally you can only get once.

I don’t know how it works technically, so I can’t explain it in that direction, but an expert said, ‘When you go from the real world to the ‘Netherworld’, your character data is ‘copied’ instead of ‘transferred’. Then when you return to the real world, your character’s data in the ‘Netherworld’ is also ‘copied’ to the real world, and on top of that, the data of items you possessed in Netherworld get ‘transferred’, so as a result such a situation happened’ – or something along the lines.

Well, for more details, you can look it up yourself, it must be listed somewhere on the capture wiki.

I will use anything that can be used, whether they are the clearly unjust (cheat) codes or bugs; my stance on that is not to care whether it is should or should not be used, the important thing is whether it is possible or impossible to use. I’m not very interested in the cause.

“There is a rare gold coin in my right hand, and there is also a rare gold coin in my left hand… haah… happiness…” (Ethel)

Although this bug seems to be useful in a way, it causes a situation where even the events later on become bugged because it ended up increasing even the number of key items to progress the story.

In a certain dungeon, it caused a problem such as ‘the player being unable to proceed due to the stage gimmick not working, because the original key item that has been used stayed in unused state (due to the existence of the additional key item)’.

The bug disappeared with the patch that was released later on, and the storm that made the bulletin board site crowded for a while passed… however, remembering that in the ‘Netherworld’ made me think.

If, this world is in the state before the patch is applied, can I increase the number of ‘Seeds’ by using this bug? – so I thought.

“How many kingdom gold coins will I get if I cash this? No, rather, should I put it up in the auction as a collection? What a dilemmaaa, what a dilemmaaa!” (Ethel)

Fortunately, I didn’t have any key items on me because I wasn’t involved in the original story.

If the number of the items I owned increases, there would be no problem, and if the bug isn’t working, that wouldn’t be a problem

It certainly was a no-risk, high-return bet; and moreover, I clinched a brilliant win.

(The number of the ‘Seeds’ is now 24. It’s not enough to completely fill up the 30% difference in status, but the increased status will amount almost close to 10 levels! When I think I’ll be able to hunt stronger monsters with this… fufu, fuhihi… hyahooi!!)

I’m so happy that I do a fist pump. The fist I make is hard and strong, in proportion to my joy.

If this is the case, Uncle Bonus’s sword that Higaki is carrying should be increased to two as well, so with me getting one back, both Higaki and I should be able to end things in a good note!

Perfect, too perfect! As I though, in game, the one who has information, a spirit of challenge, and a spirit of never giving up will surely be victorious~! Fuhyahahaha!! Hyahoooooi!

“Ah, that reminds me, the cost of your medical treatment is 60 million, they say.” (Ethel)

…………………Come again?