Let's try not to get injured.

That simple scratch on my shoulder didn't particularly end well.
It's now throbbing and was now wrapped in clean cloth I found from their supplies.
As much as I realized how powerful the first skill set of the "Little One" actually is...

Right now...
I'm literally one of those so called Glass cannons that will die if a monster sneezes on me.

Let's try and avoid dangerous encounters for now...
Anyways...

We were lucky that there isn't a creature like a dragon suddenly appearing.
That would be too crazy and cliche.

I'll probably start cursing the bastard who sent me to this world at that point.

Haa...

My mind stats is probably the only thing keeping me sane right now.
How am I still thinking so clearly, when all this bullshit is happening to me?

(It's definitely the only reason that i'm not sobbing or going crazy like a normal person thus far...)

It's like the difficulty of the game turned into HardCore state save file.

Death = permanent.

But I soon realized I obtained a new skill without realizing it.
After bringing down those goblins.
After counting them there was around thirty of them.

 [Unique Skill: Soul Tap] - [Type: Utility]

[The Little One communicate with wandering souls of the recently deceased.
Requirement: A single object favored by the deceased.

WARNING: some souls possess the possibility of being evil entities that might attempt to attack you.]

(That warning tag does look rather scary.
On the other hand, Soul Strike seems to be built to take down these summoned dead.
Why do i feel like i'm meddling in something I shouldn't?)

Tilting my head it felt rather natural to me.

It's only been a day and the sla- err imprisoned folks ended up following me aiming towards the next town.

Without the collar's around their necks, they don't look like they had been in debt or in a state of slavery.

I felt rather good to be honest.

There is however...
A total of eight of them.
I had told them to gather the supply if they want to eat till we reach the next destination.

Three young girls, two little boys and two women and one man.
They each carried a sack of pilfered goods in the bags of the guards.

Some of them were carrying the spear's like I told them to...

While other's simply threw them away because they were too heavy.

They looked rather dirty, so i didn't want to get too close to them.

However this boy seems to be quite brave and shameless enough to approach me.

But to be honest...
I myself feel rather dirty myself because I slept on the hard ground and not a single sight of water.
I felt grimy thanks to the dust and dirt in the air.

So i can't just say, I can't let this person get close to me cuz he's dirty.

Yet the real issue right now...

(I really want a bath.) 

I hoarded all that my inventory could gather but...

Due to my piss poor Strength stat:

The best I could muster was pretty much food/water, some gold coins and...Weightless bones.

Why are the bones weightless?

I don't understand!
It doesn't make seeeense!

it literally has [0 wt.] below it.

When i remove it...
It doesn't float but actually drops down with gravity in it.
What the fuck... i place it back and it acted like it has no weight around it.

(A part of me felt like my life reality had fallen apart.)

Even the supposed currency had turned to bones.

How many? [There's no point in counting as I had a limitless supply of it.]

Can't i just summon my own warriors when I was a part of the necromancer?

I missed my old skills.

LET ME SUMMON!

I cried these words internally, but the old skill set I had won't come back.

This character feels more like a sorcerer what the heck!
I turned my head to one of the slaves who was fearlessly following me.

"Hey..."

"Hii!" He flinched.

"How exactly did you guys end up like this?"

"Ah..." his went went down as he told me his story.
A simple story, how a father is a drunkard and his mother was abused and was later sold due to debt.

(That I wished I hadn't asked...) regret on the first day with one of these folks already.

"You said we were free...
But where do we go now?" when he asked such a question.

I could only frown.

"Do i look like, I have a home myself?"

"But your strong."

"Being strong doesn't save you from hunger and lack of money, kid."

"Your a kid too aren't you? what about your family?"

"I have none." when she said those words it was an honest thought.

[Eddy Brown was an orphan.]
[Lived a normal life.]
[Gained success through sheer hard work and good luck.]
[Able to play games to get back his lost youth.] And now... [stuck in another world.]

It was messed up.

She sighed while thinking about what happened to her.

"Life is weird you know..." she said to the young lad which the boy simply gave a wry smile.

Undoubtedly I took the youngest age height in the game.
All characters can look rather bulky and gain specific stats from it.
Which made things rather interesting...

Due to my poor physical stats my interdimentional pocket is crippled.

• Being able to only carry water/food/a few gold coins.
  So I opted with carrying trinket with food instead.
  When I wanted to hoarde all the goods I saw from their storage.

What a big loss.

"Well yeah... in a way."

"So... what's your name?" the boy asked.

My name? Originally I named myself as Ria in the Avatar Screen.
Reason: I had a crush with that name once... It was simply, done in a whim.
But I rather not use that name if possible.

It would be awkward to use such a name.

"I don't know." I shook my head.

It would be even more hideous to use my male name as well.

[Eddy Brown] the man who dissappeared while playing a mind dive game.
Or probably died while playing the device.

Transmigrating to another world (Hahahaha)
As If i could just say that to this kid.

Most of the slaves wore rag's clothing which had patched up holes in them.

In comparison to mine...
Well, surprisingly It was made to be cute.
Too bad it's now riddled with... huh?

-I just realized that the clothing I had didn't receive any stains or blood in them.
As a matter of fact, when my shoulder got injured, the blood didn't stick to the cloth.
Nor did it get cut or torn by the arrow.

"Don't tell me?"

"Huh? Oi! What are you doing?"

I attempted to remove the clothing I had.
But the way how my hand touches the silk felt too easily moved that my suspicion and worry faded away.
I didn't want to be viewed as a pervert by this kid so...

Let's try and do it another time.
Hopefully, when I am alone.

I thought, I had to bath while I had clothes on due to the system mechanic of the game.
That would be seriously awkward as I prefer to scrub my troubles away.

But the real reason for the worry was simple because...
Specifically, when all equipments are removed they return to their base clothing on character creation screen.

Which is what I am currently wearing...

(That would have been annoying as heck.)

I gave a sigh of relief.

"Ah... now that I think about it."

It's already getting dark...

...

...

...

-Night time-

We ended up camping near a water source.
Thankfully there was one close to the road like before....
It feels like these roads were built beside them for ease of transporation.

We made a small fire pit and placed watchmen.
Whether it is kids or man/woman.

Having a bit of safety is good.

But there should be one thing I had forgotten that I've never used for a long time.
So I decided to test it out while I was idling trying to rest my eyes.

[Analyze]

A Box of Text appeared.

[This is a otherworldly bone from the Inventory.
It tastes like chicken but isn't actually from a chicken.
Munching on it doesn't provide any nutrients but it's better than nothing when your starving to death.]

Analysis spell, regarded as the one of the basic abilities in the game.
It can solve puzzles or lead players to them though, It took me a while to remember it.
Up until now that is...

This thing still shows rather blunt description of it's target.

I aimed at the dry bread to test it out a second time.

[Hard Bread]

[Shockingly made with alot of flour and little water there is no butter nor any spices that would at least give it taste.
How does one eat such a thing? Normally sold by poor bakers.
But enough to fill one's stomach.]

It was definitely hard bread...
Ah... the first taste of life in this world was as hard as this bread.
How poetic.

Finally I aimed it at the young boy who keeps following me.

[Dexterity and Perception insufficient]
[Requiring information and knowledge to complete missing details.]

I sighed...
This is where the two stat in pair comes to show it's power.
It's often used to analyze rare material or can even analyze NPC's including the players in the game.

DEXPER is the nickname to this stat.

Specifically it only shows their stat and gears.

Not that special but very handy if it could analyze everything...

Curse you game restriction!
You were my only hope!
To have a secret cheat code to success!

It can also determine whether an NPC is lying or not.

Making this ability ridiculously useful in certain scenarios.

Especially when someone wants to unlock a hidden part of the story within the game that cannot be found except by those who had high [dexper]

Unlockable hidden quests existed within the game.

All that hard-work of finding special items with cheat abilities.
Vanished and turned into freaking bones. Why?

I shed a single tear while thinking about it as I closed my eyes to sleep.

...

...

...

Next morning.

Everyone prepared themselves to get ready.
Those who was showing exhaustion will now had to endure this long walk.
While traveling together with these folks.

They now finally calmed down and tell me a few things.

"What did you do to those goblins though?
That flashy dim glowing thing?"

"You mean this?" as the sphere floated the man flinched.

I used analyze on it.

[Spirit Sphere]

[Technically made out of magic of light and darkness.
It is difficult to discern its true nature but its true form is made out of pure magic power from its master.
Currently: The Little One.

Requires a high level mind stat to perform any peculiar damage with it.]

As expected... I should have used this ability sooner it should tell me more when dealing with unknown objects.
Sadly, when it comes to people it's relatively useless

"Um... could you please take that away." the man fidgetted while saying so...
He was shuddering just by seeing the sphere that crushed a horde of goblins.

"Gimme a coin in exchange, showing it ain't free."

"Your kidding right, kid?"

"No i am not." I showed a serious expression with a wide smile.

"Tch!" He clicked his tongue and tossed me a silver coin as I canceled the spell.

"Thank you for your patronage."

"I never asked for you to show it, In the first place you bully!
but you saved our lives so i'll let you can keep that..."

"He-he...
So tell me about this place."

"What is there to tell you about this place?
We are in the middle of the damn road heading towards the City of Taire."

"Taire?"

"Taire is a city well known for bussiness.
And slave trading is included...

I would watch yourself when you reach that place.
Alot of sinister folks are there and it's not a great place to stay in either."

"What do you intend to do there?"

"Everyone here knows that place is dangerous for normal folks like us.
We can simply just use the coins we found to travel anywhere except by staying there..."

"So... It's actually really that bad?"

"That's right kid...
I thought, I was finished when the goblins ambushed us and the guards ran for their lives.
But looking at how you took down all those darn goblins on your own.

I couldn't believe my eyes when I saw a little girl destroy that cliff!
If you were that strong, why didn't you just take down the guards?"

"I was hungry and they gave me food along with water.
I thought, I could spare them until we reached the city."

"Your... actually thinking like that to the guys who tried to sell you into slavery?"

"Hey, Its either you get turned into a slave or starve to death.
I prefer the latter and killing people isn't something I like... except monsters."

"Monster's are fair game." I nodded at the thought.

As someone who had modern ethics imprinted on me.
The thought of killing people makes me feel sick.
I'll try to avoid it if it is possible...

Hopefully I don't meet people who are horrible enough for me to commit murder.
Self defence is something i can accept...

"Sheesh, your much softer than I thought.
Who taught you how to fight like that? Surely it's a great noble sorcerer or something..."

"I don't know...
 I don't even know my name or haven't decided on one yet."

If I were to call myself Ria I feel like i'll lose something...
So I'm still deciding.

"Just call me Little One for now."

"hm? interesting, but Little one is a bit of stretch kid."

"Then what do you wanna call me then?"

"Lit."

"That's... way better than I thought so, what's your name old man."

"Don't call me old man! I'm still on my twenties! Call me Ralph."

Lit... not a half bad name to start with...
Right now, I am playing the little girl who lost her memories,
It was the perfect scenario to use for now anyways.

As I told him my situation...

"Hmm? well, I can't really help ya there kid.
Memory loss isn't something I can fix."

His eyes turned to the two women behind me who is currently handling the children with them.

"Just know, that I owe you one for this." he whispered to me.

"I hope your not thinking of something sinister." I gazed at the man with suspicious eyes.
He was now wearing one of the guards cloth after stripping one of them.
There was still blood stains but that's little problem for someone like him.

"No... I'm not!"

"Good." while squinting my eyes at him as he showed a wry smile.
His face isn't good looking, just average but feels like there's something more to it.

As we continue to walk ahead.

My feet is now feeling rather sore...
(How weak is this body? darn it!)

Thankfully the basic clothing of this character had black boots attached to it.
So it isn't too painful but how long are we supposed to walk?

As I complained internally about our current situation.

After climbing an upward hill
From a distance we saw a figure of a large city.

"So... that's the City of Taire."

"Yup the one and only.
Look pretty but sadly it's currently being controlled by the Black Duke"

"Black Duke?"

"Your really not from these lands aren't you?
The Black Duke here is regarded as the most henious fiend of society here or rumoured to be..."

"Uhuh... well, i'm not peculiarly interested in that..."

While we discussed about it.
The sound of hooves of large horses can be heard a mile a way.
It's size was a bit bigger than ordinary horses they look rather strong and bulky.

Of course, we aren't idiots and stood to the side of the road to give way to these riding knights.

But for some reason they slowed down and gazed at us.

"All of you there!" one of the horsemen shouted.
These freedom fighters were rather quick on hiding behind me.

"Is there a problem?" I asked.

"What reason have you come to Taire?"

I shrugged.

"We are wanderers who got lost.
Is there a problem if we came here looking for civilization."

But then the old geezer swiftly shut my mouth and pulled me in.
His eyes were saying: "ARE YOU CRAZY!?"

"Our stay won't be long, we just want a carriage ride to our home.
Since our last carriage broke down from a monster ambush on the way."

He was sweating alot and everyone was shaking,
I was thinking of blowing off that helmet on his head if he tries to pull out his sword on us.

"Is that so?"

He then pulled out a picture it wasn't an ordinary picture but an animated one with some kind of magic the colors are rather unique.
It was handsome man with pretty good facial features, Black hair and purple eyes.

(Why does he look like one of those BL's novel story I once read.)

"Well... were looking for a young man who is recently found wandering around here.
If you find this bastard, please capture and report him to the guards." he said.

As he nods to his fellows he wrapped the scroll with the moving picture of the man as he rode his way out.

(Wow... magic images in this world... makes me feel like i'm in a modern magical world for some reason.
Yet slavery is still on the GO! how cruel and ruthless is this world exactly?)

A bit of worry came to my head as concerns grew if people discovered my ability.
I haven't even unlocked summoning tree yet.

Which this Class should have included! since my level is probably too low, I can't summon YET!
Thankfully considering the power of 'Sacrifice Bone' I can't really complain that it's actually really darn strong.
Despite the weak sounding title of the class name.

But as they left the eyes of the man gazed at me with worry.

"Sheesh, kid are you crazy aren't you alittle too blunt?"

"Is there a problem with being blunt?"

"Yes! I thought you will tell them we were once slaves!
Those group of knights also investigates recent incidents near the territory!
Don't give us away!" he angrily shouted.

"Is that so? Well, your the idiot who let me talk first considering, i'm just a little girl."

She cheekily said to him, as he couldn't retort to that fact.

Out amongst them the Little One is undoubtedly the strongest who could defend them if things get sour.