Chapter 121: I can cooperate with increasing skills, but in my case… there are quite a few skills Kazu can’t use

Among skills created by the Twelve Heroes, skills with no attack ability had all restrictions on their use forbidden by the Hero Charter.

There existed various skills whose usage methods were restricted by law because they caused problems in the past.

But because the Hero Charter’s provisions applied, Replication had its use not restricted at all.

"In short, the talk that your Replication’s activation condition is sex is true, and..."

Monica focused on the item Assault Mirage listed on the skill list.

"Did you copy Assault Mirage from Lumia-san?"

Monica knew Lumia owned the rare skill Assault Mirage.

In Aquila the only adventurer or former adventurer who owned Assault Mirage was Lumia... except the current Kazui.

Intending to confirm whether it was all right to talk, Kazui looked toward Lumia.

Lumia nodded as if saying it was fine to talk, so Kazui steeled himself to talk.

Turning toward Monica, Kazui opened his mouth.

"Yes. My Assault Mirage is one I had Lumia-san let me copy. Rapid Yalt too."

"In other words, Lumia-san and Kazu... um, had sex?"

Kazui looked toward Lumia again.

To confirm whether it was all right for him to talk about having sex with Lumia.

"Yes. I... had sex with Kazu-kun."

This time without nodding, Lumia herself confessed to Monica about her sex experience with Kazui.

"You know I was pretty bothered about still being a virgin at my age, right, Monica?"

"Ah, yes."

Monica answered immediately.

She remembered talking about that kind of thing many times when drinking at home with Lumia.

Monica herself being a virgin had also been confessed to Lumia, so the two of them could be called in a relationship of sharing secrets.

"When I heard the talk that Kazu-kun’s Replication’s activation condition was sex, I thought this might be a chance..."

Looking embarrassed, Lumia continued.

"I decided to let Kazu-kun copy a skill. Kazu-kun could copy a skill, and I could lose my virginity, so there were merits for both of us."

"No, but... was it all right for your first time to be with someone like Kazu?"

With a complex expression, Monica asked Lumia.

"It was all right. Actually from the start Kazu-kun... was my type, and I liked him."

Regarding that point Monica had actually guessed, so she was convinced without talking back.

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"What about you, Monica?"

Asked by Lumia, Monica flustered.

"Eh? Me?" 𝘧𝓇ℯℯ𝑤ℯ𝘣𝓃ℴ

"Kazu-kun had copied Skill Concealer, so I had thought maybe he copied it from Monica, but honestly... it was unexpected."

Lumia continued the talk.

"Monica and Kazu-kun seemed to get along badly, so I never thought they’d become a relationship of having sex."

"That’s, well... true. It just... kind of turned into that flow."

She had not talked to Lumia about her peeking hobby, so Monica could not speak honestly.

(She can’t talk about peeking, so she’s in trouble.)

Sensing Monica was in trouble, Kazui decided to put out a helping boat.

"Actually when I had a verbal fight with Monica, I teased her about being bothered that she was still a virgin at her age."

Without becoming a lie and without touching on peeking, Kazui explained to Lumia the course that led to having sex with Monica.

"Then I said like if you want to lose your virginity I’ll take you on... as a joke, and it really turned into taking her on. Well... like tit for tat?"

"Ah, yes yes! That kind of feel!"

As if a ship to board, Monica boarded Kazui’s helping boat.

Monica sensed that Kazui had talked while hiding the peeking talk in a good way.

"I’m the one who advised him to concentrate on increasing skills for a while, and I’m the one who advised him to find a female martial artist who would let him copy skills, but..."

Looking at Monica’s face, Lumia continued with an unexpected face.

"I never thought it would be Monica..."

"If I could cooperate with realizing Lumia-san’s advice, I’m happy as myself. It also becomes returning a favor."

"Then from now on too, could you cooperate with Kazu-kun’s skill gathering?"

After requesting, Lumia added.

"Of course I won’t make only Monica cooperate, and I who brought it up intend to keep cooperating properly too."

"If it’s Lumia-san’s request there’s no way I’d refuse! I’ll gladly cooperate!"

Without hesitation Monica accepted Lumia’s request.

The biggest reason she accepted was that it was a request from Lumia who was her benefactor, but that was not all.

Monica had noticed herself the reason today’s peeking had become less enjoyable than before.

That was also one of the reasons Monica accepted Lumia’s request.

"Is it all right? Because cooperating means... um... having sex with me, you know?"

"...I know that kind of thing."

After answering bashfully, as if hiding her embarrassment Monica declared in a strong tone.

"I’m cooperating because it’s Lumia-san’s request. Be grateful to Lumia-san!"

"Of course I’ll be grateful! Not only to Lumia-san, to you too!"

After bowing to Lumia and Monica respectively, Kazui said words of thanks.

"Lumia-san and Monica, thank you! For cooperating with increasing skills!"

"Eh? Ah... well, of course."

Told words of thanks straight, Monica was bewildered yet blushed looking happy.

Seeing that state of Monica, Lumia gave a knowing laugh.

To hide her embarrassment, Monica advanced the talk.

"I can cooperate with increasing skills, but in my case... there are quite a few skills Kazu can’t use."

"Because his level isn’t enough?"

Asked by Kazui, Monica answered.

"Skills he can use if he raises his level are impossible now but he’ll be able to use them eventually. But among my skills there are quite a few women-only ones men can’t use."

Among skills there were ones you could not acquire unless you fulfilled specific conditions, or even if you acquired them you could not use them properly.

For example, specific sex or religion, bloodline or ethnicity were those conditions.

Monica owned various women-only skills that only women could acquire and use.

"Women-only skills probably can’t be copied even using Replication, and even if they could be copied they wouldn’t be usable."

"Then there’s probably no need to worry."

Lumia explained the reason she thought that.

"Kazu-kun’s Replication can even copy monster skills, so something like women-only skills can probably be copied."

"He can copy monster skills? Seriously?"

With a face that wanted to say she could not believe it, Monica asked Kazui.

"Seriously. When I was raped by a succubus I... copied a skill."

"By any chance, is that how you figured out the activation condition?"

At Monica’s question, Kazui nodded.

"According to Iron Maiden’s Ivory-san, the skill I copied is a succubus-exclusive skill."

"Come to think of it, when I looked at the skill list earlier there was a skill I didn’t know."

Monica tried to remember that skill’s name.

Kazui had already undone the status check, so Monica could not see Kazui’s skill list at present.

That was why Monica was trying to remember that skill’s name relying on memory.