My Parasite Skill System

"Ah. Okay. Sure. … But you don't have any questions for sure? This person you said filled you in on all this guild business–they also spoke of my–and yours too, now–guild?"

Still eating, I now managed to be both speaking and talking. Pretty easily, at that. I got the hang of this art and went forth: "No! Not at all, sir!"

"You don't have to call me 'sir'–I understand you might have some questions, then?"

"No! Not at all, si–ahem, not at all."

"Huh," only then did he start to pick up his food to eat. "Well, if you say so. Let us share that meal, then. … After we're done eating, we will start the training."

"Yeah … after we're done eating, I will kill you, sir–err, not sir, though"

A blank followed, "… Hah–hahahaha… You eat well."

"You … munch, munch, gulp … you too."

Picking up that crispy chicken wing, bringing it to his teeth, he tore it down and swallowed it down.

Going like this, we simply ate. Together. Just as per the Game's instructions. We played it cool and simply ate.

❮ Shared meal with the Instructor. 0/1 ❯

I didn't know it before, but sharing a meal sure was some tedious task to accomplish.

Why is that? Well, in fact, we had to go all our way through the entire eating time before it'd be ticked as a shared meal.

Very soon anyway–Ring!–❮ Shared meal with the Instructor. 1/1 ❯

❮ New instructions… ❯

❮ 'Dance with the bigger monster' Additional Quest – Training time has arrived. Let the Player train with the Guild's Instructor and learn one skill. 0/1 ❯

I ate well.

Leaning in, I placed both hands on the ground, got my knees down too, and forced my way up in a weird manner.

Right next to me, the instructor did just about the same. He looked at me and asked me whether I was ready or not.

My head nodded.

He then proceeded to ask whether I was sure or not: "Are you sure? They taught us the way of the sword, back at the … ahem, but I don't see yours?"

"Ah."

"Why?"

It's true that, at the moment, I didn't have any weapon on me whatsoever. It'd been like this ever since we actually got into this city.

Old Sipping told me I wouldn't be needing the short swords I'd collected out on the battlefield and invited me to, for the time being, always leave them home. Thing that I reluctantly did.

"I do have a sword."

And even though, that's what I said. I had no sword, but I had a sword.

After having said that, I started to walk backward as I got farther away from the guild's master.

Heh–and it came back again. From where he stood, he hadn't moved one inch. The distance he kept from me hadn't changed. The one thing that had changed, on the other hand, was that one thing in this human's eyes.

Going back with the previous illustration of us two being the bestest buds ever after all this laughing around as well as the emotional distance between us turned to nothing to the point we were super close–by now, it was the total opposite again.

The atmosphere felt chilly and oppressing again, now. I really wasn't wrong when I understood he was just like me, somehow. That human didn't lose his goal from sight, far from that.

I felt this heavy and assaulting presence on my back as I still walked in the opposite direction, finding my place here.

I sighed, but with happiness and relief.

"… You don't. Don't make me lose my time. You need a sword in order to train."

"You're really weird … aren't you, sir? … Those chilly eyes again, my goodness, heh, heh, heh."

"Let it not bother you, let it not bother you."

"Yeah. … I won't, I won't."

And then I turned back to him. "There, is good."

"Don't make me lose my time. Don't make me repeat myself. You need a sword in order to train. Why so much distance between us? I will get you a sword."

"No, no, no, sir. You won't get me any sword. I have my sword, already–"

"–There is a time for laughter and amusement. There is a time for discipline and work. … Now is not the time."

"Tsk, tsk. But you won't simply listen, sir."

He really was bent real hard on getting me to fight with him, wasn't he?

❮ 'Learning the ropes of the job!' – Goblins deal with: 10/10 – Angry wolves dealt with: 3/3. – Quest Accomplished. Accept and choose your reward(s). ❯

There was that quest, yes.

❮ Quest Accomplished. Accept and choose your reward(s). – Y/N ❯

"I will get you a sword–"

"Yes, check out the rewards."

"–Huh?"

❮ Rewards: [+1 level up] – … ❯

"Ooh, been a long time."

❮ The Player has reached level 40! ❯

"Now, now, now … what about the other stuff?"

❮ Rewards: [+1 level up] – [Beginner's Dagger x1]; [Beginner's Sword x1]; [Beginner's Wand x1]; [Beginner's Bow x1] ❯

"And so … am I supposed to choose one?–obviously, the sword, right?"

❮ The equipment [Beginner's Sword] x1 item has been obtained. ❯

Woah, woah, woah. The system's trick again?

One regular sword just sort of appeared in the air in front of my eyes. I grabbed it before it hit the ground.

Oh, there you go, I got my sword. And it's cool, too. It's been resized for me, right?

❮ [Beginner's Sword] – Level 15; +95 Attack; A sword you obtained completing one of the first quests of the Game. ❯

–Right at the same moment I grabbed it, it couldn't actually be louder as it violently startled me, "Hah, hah, hah, hah, hah, hah, hah!!!!!"

My ears hurt. Or, no, they don't hurt, but they're on the verge of aching.

Rather than a 70-centimeter sword, this one was noticeably shorter. Around fifty, I'd say. I could hold it just fine. It seemed there were no need for me to use daggers anymore … though I think I still would prefer them.

He said I needed a sword, though. So here's that.

–"Why so much … laughing around like crazy???"

❮Name: Skill❯

❮Race: Demonic Parasite❯

❮Title: Fratricide❯

❮Level: 40❯

❮Status:❯

❮HP: 2420/2420❯

❮MP: 825/825❯

❮Vit. 40❯

❮Strength 40❯

❮Agility 40❯

❮Intelligence 40❯

❮Sense 40❯

❮Unique Skills: [Boramana's Benediction]❯

❮Parasite Inherent Skills: <Dwelling procedure> <Host Copying> [Evolve] ❯

❮Passive Skills: [Consciousness] [Mana Perception] [Hoyathu Style (Swordsmanship)] [Night Vision] [Enhanced Flair]❯

❮Active Skills: <Quick Pace> <Chain Attack> <Cat Hissing> <Claw> <Eagle Eye> <Spider Web> <Howl Wolf>❯

(Author's note: sure been a long time since I showed that. I'll try not to show it as much as possible. MC's just leveled up so that's that.. Putting it there too much would just inconsistently add up words to chapters as well as the price you pay for them.)