My Parasite Skill System

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Working?

I worked.

It lasted for the whole afternoon. It was long. So much so that, right now, the sun even started to settle down.

Yes, this afternoon, I worked.

The middle-aged woman? She offered me a job.

At the end of that job, I'd get to eat and drink. This would be my income for the day, she said.

And thus I did work under her conduct.

She was kind.

And actually, I even got to eat before starting the real job. Like, after we'd filled up on food and ingredients--things she needed for her commerce, basically--she already gave me something to eat.

I was happy.

But as I said, since she offered me a job, there would be other kinds of work, hence other kinds of food.

After we went to her stand, she gave me a new set of clothes. A shirt and a jacket. Was that part of my salary? Most likely, yes.

I could eat and even went as far as to get warm new clothes. It was actually only after that point that I started to work with her.

We had our stand--if I may refer to it that way--and we were selling things.

Greens, vegetables, flour, wheat, numerous kinds of bread, and some other things I did not inquire to her about. There were all of these. All the items here were our merchandise.

Customers would come to us in order to buy them.

That was about her work. And my work too, now.

We sold and sold many things. Ma'am was behind the counter, dealing with the clients when they came to her. And me, I was handling other things in the background.

For instance, sometimes, she needed to get some baskets of vegetables with the others which were selling at the moment.

Some other times she asked me to return some of the ones which were becoming emptier to the back, which I'd promptly do, to then fill them back up with new vegetables and greens.

To then, put them back to where they were, that is to say, within the reach of the potential clients.

And just like that, we worked as a team. Me and the kind ma'am.

"You're capable enough, kiddo. You can be proud of yourself."

Ma'am cheered me up, sometimes, during work. I could only appreciate that.

According to her, this job we were doing wasn't cut out for one only worker. Usually, she nevertheless did it all alone.

Today was a different day, though.

And I just so happened to be the difference.

Well, I was making a difference. I could help her, and she could help me.

Though even if she said it that way, "Your help is most welcomed, really, I don't know what I'd do without your tiny little skillful peer of arms, hehe!" I don't think I was of much necessity to her.

She was the one helping me the most, I think.

Thank you, kind ma'am.

And overall, this was it.

I worked the whole afternoon with her. Lots of food were mine, thanks to all these efforts I'd put in the work.

And now the sun was settling down.

This Sun was my second one.

Soon, the third one would be here any minute. Well, more like 'would be here any hour,' though. It was getting dark outside. And within a few hours, tomorrow morning, there would come a new day.

And just like the sun, the people in the street would now settle down, too. They became scarce. It was the case for the area I was in right now, for the least.

The monsters' home.

What was the monsters' home?

And where was the monsters' home?

The monsters' home was my home. Outside of the village, in the forests, monsters were lurking and going about their daily life activities.

My home was my place.

Incidentally, I would learn these facts from the kind ma'am, too. She had enlightened me.

Right now, however, I wasn't at my place.

Rather, there was an inn.

A huge inn built out of wood. Tons and tons of chunks of wood assembled into what we called 'Inn.'

And I was right next to that inn, resting on one of its facades.

"So … will you open yourself, already…?"

It's now been 5 minutes since I got here. And no, the gate wouldn't still open itself.

But just as my mentor said in regards to working patiently, 'Being patient is a quality, virtue,' I'd deal with the feeling of boredom I was feeling at the moment.

Patiently, I waited for more. My eyes were squinted as I examined the two huge wooden doors that composed the gate.

By the way, did I tell you about the gate yet?

This portal, it wasn't just any portal.

Indeed, this gate was situated at one of the extremities of Sville. Parenthetically, this was the name's village. That, I learned from the kind ma'am, too.

And following the gate's edges, there were stony ramparts.

These stony ramparts would go on circling the whole village, protecting itself from many kinds of threats, just like the gate would do, too.

These threats could be of all sorts. Be it--just like myself-- from monsters, or in some cases, from other human races or even demi-human races, too.

(Author's note: The reader is being notified that, in this novel, sometimes, when referring to humans in general, the author means all kinds of human-like races: elves, dwarfs, and so on. If it so happens that the term 'human' only applies to humans, it will be known to the reader.)

Well, that also was a new thing for me to learn. But, yes, according to Kind Ma'am, that was what they stood here for, the gates and ramparts.

Two huge wooden doors, crossed numerous times by metallic rods from its top to its bottom seemingly here to solidify its wooden parts.

"And, nah," I shook my head.

Doesn't look like the portal will be opened anytime soon.

Maybe I only need to ask for its opening, though.

In front of that gate, were standing two guards. They were on duty. The village was being guarded by the whole array of gates and ramparts. And the gates and ramparts themselves were being guarded by guards.

"Mmhm," I nodded with confidence.

"I shall call that, 'The Consistent Harmony of Protection,'" I said while, with a light push of my back, got myself walking onward.

The Consistent Harmony of Protection.

Yes, TCHP.

You don't care? Me neither. Just thought would be a cool name to brag about--Well, ahem.

I arrived before one of the guards.

I looked at him, he looked at me. Not even close, no. Rather, I stared at him insistently and he did the same, right through our eyes.

He probably didn't even know why he was doing that.

Soon, his colleague joined us, except between me and his fella, he chose to stare at me, for some reason.

Me and the one before me, both of our eyes turned to a slit. He was assessing me and I was assessing him.

What do I even need to tell the man so that he creates an opening for me…? Through the gate.

Rapidly, he crouched down and waved for me to come to him.

Hmm, maybe can he tell that I need to go out, already?

I was only a demi-dozen meters away from him. And with quick little steps, I jumped my way over to him.

Arriving before him, I tilted my head to the side. I was waiting for him to do something.

He'd just taken off his helmet and held it in his hands before he put it on the dirt. His helmet was resting at his feet next to him.

He then stuffed his hand in one of his pockets. Next thing he did was take a … candy? Yes, he took candy out of it.

Round in its form. White adorned by some yellow flashes in its colors. That was a 'candy,' yes. I could tell.

He did also take my hand with his own before he opened my palm. I just followed him doing this.

And the candy? It was to be put within my open palm.

He shot a smile at me showing his white teeth, "Here. I only have this one, I promise."

Uhh?

"Hahaha, no seriously though. I know you kids wanna play with us, the guards," he explained, scratching the back of his head. "But well, we're on duty right now. You can take the candy as a humble tribute from me, kid."

He approached my ear with his mouth and spoke further, "It goes without saying that that also stays between us but, last time we played with you guys during duty time," he grimaced, wagging his head from right to left playfully, "The boss wasn't happy about it, y'know."

Ah?

"Now now, you can go."

I mean, sure, but…

That a joke? Or something? Dunno. Maybe it is.

"Can't you guards just open the gate for me … please?"

"Tut-tut," the man tut-tutted me. "No can do, kid."

"An--And why?" I said, taking a further step towards him.

"And why do you think we're on duty this late, kid, hm?" he asked me then waited. Was I supposed to say something at that moment? Certainly, it was the case.

"Huh? You really don't know? You mustn't play with the other kids, then, huh."

"I mean, monster's lurking around. You understand? Village's isolated so that the monster doesn't escape us, your powerful favorite guards, hehehe."

Ah.

Seeing I wasn't responding, he clapped his leather gauntlet on his metallic breastplate armor and took a weird pause.

And that would cut it.

"Nah? Not even a chuckle? Well, ahem," he coughed on his hand, "And that's the reason why you can't just go playing outside right now, kid, okay?"

"You, you can't leave. But you're safe here, with us!"

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