"Ehh"
The awkwardness continued, as Necro and Ace each sat on a bed nearby. They just stood there, gazing into random directions, mostly the floor in the case of Necro and Mary, for a good moment until Necro decided there was a pressing matter and made the first sound,
*Growl*
Followed by that of her stomach growling. Necro blushed in shame, as the eyes of both stared at her.
"... Did the boys leave anything behind for us to eat?" She asked, making Ace and Mary stare at each other, their eyes opened wide.
"I... I don't think they did..." Mary said, almost stuttering. "Where's your stuff Ace?"
"Bid didn't give me back any of it... What about yours?" Ace said, making it seem like an obvious thing, and asked for Mary whether she had anything to eat with her.
"It's here but... I have no food in there, only water and spirits."
'... Should I take food out?' Necro considered the possibility of taking food out of her ring, but there was still Mary around, who she didn't know whether to trust just yet. As she looked around, she noticed Ace and Mary staring onto the back of the room. She suddenly realized there were the barrels the bandits were using for storage.
"You guys wanna check those for food?"
Mary nodded with her head, and so did Ace. Apparently, the noise of her stomach reminded the two they had also not eaten since lunch. Out of nowhere, the two jumped up from the beds and quickly made their way to the back of the room, leaving Necro staring at their backs, unaware of what to do next.
"Ey! Wait for me." She said, standing up and following the two.
The girls helped each other unstack the heavy barrels, before checking what was stored in each one. As it turns out, the bandits were fond of drinking, as almost half of them were sealed and tapped.
"Alright! Let's check the tapped ones first~!" A happy response like this wasn't what they expected, but Mary always seemed to surprise even Ace when it came to drinking. Out of the twelve barrels, eight were tapped. Mary slowly made her way to each of the taps, dripping a little bit of whatever was inside and tasting. Her reaction varied quite a bit, until the last one, which was a completely flat one.
"This is water..."
"So, which were what?" Ace asked her, since she hadn't actually said what most of them were. Necro just looked at it from behind Ace.
"The fist three were beer, one was wine, two more were some kind of mead. The rest were water."
"Nice! These will sell for a good price when we get back in town."
"We are selling them!?" It felt odd to everyone else, but apparently Mary thought they'd be drinking them all.
"Of course we are! There's no way we can carry those things around." Ace stated the obvious.
"Aw..." While Mary sulked over the lost alcohol, Necro was thinking about the rest of the barrels.
"We gotta check the non tapped ones now. I'm hungry."
"Oh, sure." Mary stood up. "Do any of you have a dagger handy?"
Ace and Necro tilted their heads, not understanding her request.
"I'm serious. Those barrels are for long term storage. They don't have the hole for opening. you have to pry them."
"Ah, take mine then." Necro quickly understood what she was saying and pulled her dagger from under her dress. As she proceeded to hand it out, Mary was looking away from her. "Sorry..." She turned red once more, realizing why Mary was looking away. As she took the dagger out, she'd raised her dress almost all the way up to her thighs.
"Thank you..." A blushed Mary looked back towards her, avoiding to look her in the face, as she took the borrowed blade and pried the barrels open.
They took their time looking into them. As it turns out, there was one barrel of each food. Hard bread, dried meat, dried fruit and, surprisingly, vegetables.
"These guys... They didn't seem thoughtful enough to be bringing Vegetables all the way back here..." Ace let out a caustic remark.
"It was probably because of that guy..." With Necro's reply, Ace sulked a bit, looking towards the ground. They might have been shameless but, aside from caring for their colleagues as Necro stated, she shared something with them. In the end, she still had to hide her origin from all but Necro, whom she still hadn't shared it with.
"Well, this means we can have some decent food for a change!" Realizing the conversation took an uncomfortable turn for Ace, Mary changed the subject onto food. "There's also a large pot over there."
Thanks to her intrusion, Ace could breathe relieved, and moved on to help her place the large pot over the fire. The hut's inside had been well thought out, leaving a small area made out of stone for the fire, which led all the fumes outside.
"We having soup then, right?" Necro asked.
"Yes! I just hope we had a little bit of salt..."
"I can arrange that." Necro said, pulling a small pile of salt out of the storage ring onto her hand. Taking stuff like this was unthinkable before. But since she managed to see the inside of the storage ring, she had way more control over what to retrieve from it.
"Ah~! Thank you so much!" Unaware of this fact, Mary thanked her, putting her palm off for Necro to give her the salt.
"I'll be getting the meat then." Ace, still weary of the two together, passed behind Necro and whispered into her ear "If you flirt with her again you won't get anything from me tonight." before going her merry way to the other barrel.
'What have I gotten myself into...' Necro though as she looked at Ace's back.
"Did she tell you anything?" Mary asked, curious.
"Nothing important... I guess she's jealous..."
"Of you and... Me?!" Mary widened her eyes and was raising her hand.
"The salt!"
"Ah! Thank goodness it was in time... Sorry." She quickly closed her hand and threw the salt into the pot, just as a precaution. She stared at Necro once again and opened her mouth to say something, but decided to keep it to herself. 'There's no reason for her to be jealous of me and you... right?...'
"If you flirt with her again you won't get anything from me tonight."
The jealous Ace is certainly cute, but this jealousy means that Ace forgot that Necro said that she already had someone (Ly) she hadn't seen in a year, who told her that she was fine with her having several lovers and that this girl , even said that she wanted to see Necro surrounded by many cute girls, right?
That, but Necro's opinion of her brother's polygamy, should have made Ace at least think that Necro wasn't exactly a monogamous girl, right?
Now that I've stopped to think about it. This shed has a room more than a room, right?
Because if not, it means that Ace intends to give Necro love outside, right? And I doubt the skeletons don't notice them making love outdoors, especially Atanase with its canine hearing.
Thanks for the chapter
Hmmm the title should've been "barrels of jealousy" ... Or "barrels worth of jealousy" or even "a barrel full of jelly"
I made it in 5s while hurrying cus I had an appointment due 10mins ago
Thanks for the chapter
Something I read, I read, I read, and I don't f*cking understand where the f*cking LITRPG is?
What do you even think LitRPG is?
I think we should start from there.
I've introduced Classes, Ranks, Guilds, Monsters, you name it. Just because you haven't seen a f*cking status page yet doesn't mean there is no LitRPG.
(Someone said this is more GameLit than LitRPG and that might be the case. I myself consider this a Lite LitRPG)
@DarkGodEM
I have read LitRPG more than one hundred and played RPG and I can imagine what it is and this is definitely not what you write. Classes, Ranks, Guilds, Monsters is not a LITRPG indicator at all, why do you even think so?
Your so-called status page looks more like a medical record: Name, Age, Weight, Height and diagnoses: Vampire, Consistent True. LitRPG has statistics: Life and Mana, Strength, Dexterity, Endurance, Intelligence, some skills, their description, titles, but what do you have?
You are absolutely right, first you need to find out what LitRPG and GameLit are and your book has nothing to do with them yet.
@HaimaUrt The status page as in statistics is only available at the Adventurers Guild and I made that a clear point in the past. What I posted was never mentioner or named Status Page. It was named as Character Sheet which is what it is.
If you go back to the first few episodes I explained what classes there are for magicians and what they are measured by. Mana amount, Mana Purity, Casting... All of those have data inherent to them and have numerical stats, the point here is simply the character hasn't yet gotten to the point where it's able to get those stats plainly and know what is happening.
I just won't start this discussion here since it's pointless as you have a very clear and black-and-white opinion saying "If I have numerical statistics it is LitRPG, if it hasn't it isn't".
@DarkGodEM @Aniel
Study this first and don't talk nonsense. The author also belongs to the article. What is LitRPG and GameLit, and what's the difference. And how are "Isekai", "Reincarnation" and "LitRPG" related? These are obscenely different three genres, but into their components. And by the way, "Speculative fiction" is a huge genre with a bunch of subgenres which include "Fantasy" "Isekai" "Sci-fi" "Space opera" etc and so no pure "Speculative fiction" exists. Read Wikipedia ...
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/LitRPG
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Speculative_fiction
"Keep quiet and you will seem smarter" ...
@HaimaUrt dude your a nit picker. wiki a open source page anyone can post to it just a opinion not a fact. He playing the LitRPG light and I like so do Many others. if you do not go ELSE WEAR!
BC right now all I see a Troll!
@dragondeathlord
Considering that no one asked for your opinion, you are the troll here.
LitRPG light is a great genre, did you come up with it yourself? Usually, idiots like you can blame anything, including an explanatory dictionary, without providing any evidence.
In one word - TROLL BLANKET.
Studying the material before opening your mouth.
@HaimaUrt LMAO Its a Public Forum not Private direct message! And you wear being a Troll! Do not Complain unless you are paying for it! I am not a Patron( waiting on my stimulus!) So are you a Patron? If not shut up your a Troll. If you are A Patron do complaints in Private or your a TROLL! LOL DO NOT COMPLAIN ABOUT ANTHER MAN'S WORK UNLESS YOU ARE PAYING FOR IT!
What you do is say thank you @DarkGodEM Please keep Writing! Or shut the f&%$ up! ;)
Its this thing called GRATATUDE!