Chapter 120: There’s no way a skill with such a stupid activation condition exists!

"There’s no way a skill with such a stupid activation condition exists!"

To Monica who snapped at him, Kazui answered.

"No, well... I get you wouldn’t believe it, but it’s true!"

"There’s no way it’s true!"

"Kazu-kun’s talk is true."

Lumia cut into the two of them arguing.

Thinking they would not believe it from Kazui’s talk alone, Lumia put out a helping boat.

Monica turned toward Lumia and asked with a surprised expression.

"Eh... is it true?"

Lumia nodded.

"...You don’t believe it when I say it, but you believe it when Lumia-san says it?"

As if a little unconvinced, looking at Monica with half-lidded eyes, Kazui asked.

"Well, if it’s Lumia-san’s talk I can trust it."

"You trust Lumia-san quite a bit."

"Well, she’s helped me in various ways, and she’s even saved my life."

"Saved your life?"

Drawn by the unexpected talk, Kazui became interested.

"When I was a newcomer I went a little too far and almost got killed by a monster..."

Monica explained simply to Kazui.

"At that time I was saved by Lumia-san from when she was an adventurer."

Turning toward Lumia, Monica bowed.

"At that time I was really saved."

"Stop it. I’ve already been thanked plenty."

Looking embarrassed, Lumia added.

"I just happened to pass by on the way home from work and ended up helping. In the same situation, even if it wasn’t me, most adventurers would have helped for sure."

From senior adventurer Lumia, Monica had not only had her life saved in the past but had been helped in various ways after that as well.

Even after Lumia retired as an adventurer, even though Monica was no longer a new adventurer, she still had Lumia listen to various consultations.

Lumia had bought this dwelling with earnings from her adventurer days rather than renting and lived there.

Knowing the room next door had opened, Monica was so attached to Lumia that she went out of her way to rent and live there.

"Ah, that’s why Monica’s way of talking to Lumia-san was polite."

Monica, who often talked roughly, used "-san" with Lumia and talked politely. Kazui had noticed that.

He understood the reason.

"If you include even hiding the skill list and show it to Monica, she’ll believe you, right?"

Lumia made that kind of proposal to Kazui.

Actually status information could be shown to another person if the adventurer themselves wanted to show it.

"Want to look at my skill list?"

Kazui asked Monica.

"...If Lumia-san says so."

Monica answered, so Kazui touched the Orb with his right hand and started a status check.

After displaying the skill list preferentially, he put the skills he was hiding from the skill list into a state of displaying them without hiding.

The hidden skills were three: Leonization, Sexual Appraisal, and Skill Concealer.

He changed the settings for Leonization, and for Sexual Appraisal and Skill Concealer he undid Skill Concealer, so each entered a state of being displayed on the skill list.

"Go ahead."

Kazui held out the back of his left hand to Monica.

Only a partner the adventurer themselves recognized looking at the same time during a status check could touch the Orb and see the status information the adventurer was looking at.

Monica touched Kazui’s Orb with the fingertips of her right hand.

Then, like it was displayed in Kazui’s vision, Kazui’s skill list was displayed in Monica’s vision.

"What’s this? You... besides Replication you only had Aura Mail and Aura Shot, right?"

Monica raised a surprised voice.

She had never asked Kazui about the skills he owned.

But in exercise matches and the like Kazui had only used Aura Mail and Aura Shot, so Monica had grasped Kazui’s owned skills.

"Native skill Replication, Aura Mail and Aura Shot, Sexual Appraisal and Leonization, Assault Mirage and Skill Concealer, Rapid Yalt... What is this messed-up skill list?"

Monica expressed it as "messed-up" because at a glance it was a skill list that normally could not exist.

What was messed-up was first the high ratio of rare skills and super rare skills.

Replication and Leonization were super rare skills with "super" attached, said to have the fewest owners.

Just owning these two at the same time could be called messed-up.

On top of that, Assault Mirage and Skill Concealer and the like were also rare skills treated as rare skills with few owners.

In other words, of Kazui’s eight owned skills, four, meaning half, were skills treated as rare or above.

Actually adventurers who had rare skills or super rare skills were a minority.

They were treated as rare or super rare precisely because there were few owners.

Even adventurers who had rare or above skills, it was normal for normal skills that were not rare or above to occupy most of the skill list.

That was why Kazui’s skill list, with rare or above skills occupying half, could be called a considerably abnormal state.

On top of that, Rapid Yalt and Assault Mirage were both skills it was normal for mid-rank and above to acquire and use.

There were cases of lower-rank adventurers around exceeding level 20 forcing themselves to use them, but in trainee Kazui’s case they were skills it was strange even to own, let alone master.

The ratio of rare or above skills was abnormally high, and skills a trainee adventurer would never acquire were lined up on Kazui’s skill list.

That was why it seemed a "messed-up" skill list to Monica.

Incidentally, classifying some skills with few owners as rare or super rare and the like was done by the Guild.

And Sexual Appraisal was at present not formally classified as rare or super rare.

Lumia evaluated it as super rare, and the Guild side reported to by Lumia was also solidifying on the same evaluation.

However, at present how to treat Sexual Appraisal was in a reserved state on the Guild side.

Opinions were split on whether there was a need to go out of the way to classify as super rare and publicize a skill that probably no adventurer besides Kazui could acquire.

That it was a skill related to sex was also a reason the Guild side hesitated to judge whether the rarity should be publicized.

Anyway, at present the skill called Sexual Appraisal was treated as a succubus-exclusive skill not formally classified as rare or super rare.

Because of that Monica also did not treat Sexual Appraisal as rare or above.

In the first place, just confirming the name Sexual Appraisal on the skill list, Monica did not even know what kind of skill it was.

Unless you were considerably knowledgeable about skills, not knowing the names of succubus-exclusive skills was normal.

"So you really became able to use Replication..."

Still with a surprised expression, Monica muttered.

She immediately arrived at the fact that it became a messed-up skill list that normally could not exist precisely because he acquired skills with Replication.

"By any chance, did you copy Skill Concealer from me?"

Skill Concealer was a rare skill, and among Aquila’s adventurers there were few adventurers who had it.

That was why Monica thought he might have copied it from her.

"That’s right. Sorry for copying without asking."

"No, you don’t have to apologize. It’s not prohibited."

Just as Monica said, copying skills was not prohibited.

It was also because there were almost no owners of the skill Replication, but there was a more fundamental reason.

The skill Replication was said to be a skill created by one of the Twelve Heroes.