My Parasite Skill System

My hands plunged in my pockets and produced a handful of silver coins.

And they let them fall on the ground.

I paid what I needed to pay for.

–Let's just get out of here!

In the total silence that ruled over there, only my loud steps were to be heard. And that, only for about the next 10 seconds that followed.

"He just got lucky, he just got lucky, he just got lucky, he just got lucky…" I murmured constantly, sliding the right door open.

I wasn't ready to admit it.

"Oh– oh!" and some people cried out from outside the door. "Someone opened it up, folks!"

"They finally getting out of there…?!"

"Whatever happened in there, yeah…"

And what was this again? What are they all gathering here for?

Out of my face, humans!

The door no longer hindered me from getting out, and now it's about these creatures??

After I slid it to the side, there were many of them. About a good and numerous thirty people. I'd just opened the door, and there they were, waiting for me to come out! Don't stand blocking!

I angrily sighed, standing in front of the lowly humans. I heavily frowned, and sighed again, looking at these two big people right by the entrance.

"Move … humans," I said, while they both looked down on me. "My stature is too tiny, my stature is too tiny, my stature is too tiny," and I went on gloomily whispering to myself.

I have to figure something out. I have to. He only won 'cause I was tiny. That's all there is to it. I didn't lose–I didn't.

"So, who's actually out, guild masters!" another voice came forth from behind the two.

"Ho– hold on a second, folks!" and one of the big guys by the entrance turned, explaining, "it– it's just a kid … for some reason … what could even have happened there, eh?" and then hesitantly turned to his counterpart, asking and wondering.

"I mean … we all haven't gathered here for no reason!... that loner of a 'guild master' must've torment the kid here to–"

"–Enough! Move it, humans!"

Whatever they talked about. Forcing my way in between the two, I moved them by myself and managed to squeeze myself out of them.

"–Wait, kid–" but one of them still managed to grab myself by my arm, telling me to hold up a second.

I'll kill this one, too!

"No, you leave him be," interrupted his friend, "he ain't got much of any wound, he strong, don't need us–let's just go and talk to that swordsman."

"Ah– sure."

After them, I was left to be whispering again–"I'll kill him, I'll kill him, I'll kill him…"–with only that crowd of people to deal with.

I started down the stairs, when, "… You fine folks behind scatter around–there's nothing actually that bad, here!"

"I'm not weak, I'm not weak, I'm not weak, I'm not weak…"

The witnessing people, after quick words were being exchanged at their core, quickly spread around and I wasn't hindered by anything at all anymore.

–Tsk. And now that I think about it, I'd planned on getting these 'two things' done by the end of this day–and look at me, now.

'Two things' you don't know about.

During my long stay of about two weeks at the Academy … and even during what was before these two weeks of intense boredom, actually … so right after we'd settled down with Old Sipping and Leafana into the capital: I had thought.

I had thought a lot. A lot and a lot and a lot. I insist: a lot.

What would be about the continuity of my life's journey?

The System. I needed to get it figured out.

And the main 'mandatory' quest (I think that's how the Game's calling it)–I needed to get it done, but figured out first, too.

On today's day, after I ran off from all this tedious schooling and whatnot–I went for the first of these two things I'd want to get done.

That was to say, the system, my skills, how to get new ones, how to even get to know them, where was this giant 'Skill Interface' or something from back when I'd got my character created and the game started … where to go from now?

Many questions for many purposes.

Where was the Game going?

❮ 'What lies behind the story…?' Mandatory Quest – Follow the princess to her apartments and get all comfy with her. 0/1 ❯

Tomorrow, tomorrow, tomorrow.

After I got out of the training grounds–I think that's how you'd call them–I was headed out right away. I didn't plan on staying here any longer. This wasn't necessary.

And so I took off from where I came here. The Guild Bureau was inside of the same area as the training grounds. That's how I came here. Following the same path, I got back to it.

But this wasn't the place to stay either. Still following the same path, looking around with wonder, I saw that, even at this time of the day, there were still people busying themselves around here.

Be it adventurers or actual guild persons. And by the time I was out in the open city again, I noticed I had calmed down pretty quickly and wasn't all that moody anymore.

Stretching myself and yawning, "Yawn~, so it also really works this way, huh. Gotta sleep, sleep, sleep. Will help me top up my mana after all of this sun's efforts."

I felt sleepy.

But, not for now, I thought. Being sleepy also requires me to be working still. Can't sleep right here among the people, after all. Where the usual spot at, standing from here?

In front of the main Guild Bureau, which I just got out of, there was a plaza. This plaza was huge and gave on many streets, that all came from far away joining up with each other here, where plenty of room lied for everyone.

In between each of these streets, there also were your usual buildings and houses of any kind here and there.

Standing from the middle of the plaza, what I did was run to my fastest towards one of the greatest constructs, and climbed it up, making sure no one would see me in the process, somehow.

I didn't want people to call me bizarre and improper, you know.

Once upon the flat roof of this bigger inn, I could see pretty much all around me. The faraway distances weren't so hidden with this much height by me.

And, spotting myself a direction, I headed one way, jumping from each sturdy roof to the next, up till I reached the borders of the city center.

I arrived.

As I said, many questions for many purposes.

The day is about to be over real soon, by now. And me, I haven't gotten anything of what I needed to do done. This is very sad.

But that wasn't so important now: "Yawn~"–that was what was important.

Sleep was one of the few things that mattered the most in life. I could tell!

There, on that flat roof, I let myself lie down in between an old-looking chimney cap and some weird-looking brick on top of a folded over metallic grid.