Chapter 11
“Hmm~ Hmm♪~”
I find myself humming as I head to the supermarket to buy some ingredients and a few other things. I can feel that the way people around me look at me has changed.
Even in my prime, I was never anyone's inferior. It's just that I couldn't overwhelm anyone. I was still above average.
This chilly, weighty feeling… It's been seven years.
I lived like a recluse for five years, pulled myself together for one, and spent another as a bona fide NEET.
As a result, my looks had gone completely to seed, but now I had regained the appearance I had back then.
No, actually, I had gotten a little greedy and enhanced them several more times.
That left me short on points to spend on stamina, but I wasn't in any rush to improve it.
And since I hadn't touched the estimated cost, it was a reasonable purchase this time too.
But I hadn't made myself handsome enough for people to stop in the street and stare at me… so what was going on?
“Well, that's a fine specimen…”
“Hmph! Well, he can almost go toe-to-toe with me.”
“You? Even a passing earthworm would laugh. Haw haw.”
“Wow… Is he mixed-race?”
“Damn, he's got it all.”
“Hey, that's my boyfriend.”
“You crazy bitch! Quit staring at my boyfriend.”
“Perverts, I can hear you!”
I went home and changed my pants. I couldn't wear my old ones anymore. I would have to buy some new ones…
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I used the Cooking Skill.
“Is this… ramen? Then what the hell have I been eating all this time…”
The results were incredible!
Who knew ramen made at home could taste this good…
Cooking Skill is really something. When I see a recipe for the first time, I memorize it automatically after a single glance, and any odd parts are corrected automatically.
Once I start cooking, I naturally follow the recipe, and if I forcibly add another ingredient, I immediately make the optimal dish to suit it.
No wonder people say it's unfair when Awakened people are around. I had lived my entire life without knowing the first thing about cooking, yet I could make food like this.
Not that I should be saying that over something as simple as ramen…
Anyway, I learned that Cooking Skill worked properly. But that didn't mean I intended to register as an Awakened just because of it.
I wanted to become a Hunter, not a chef.
If I registered as an Awakened now, I could get awakening support payments right away.
But what if someone known for a cooking ability suddenly claimed to have awakened a combat skill?
I'd be cursed as a liar at first, then analyzed as an unusual case later. I wanted no part of that.
I could simply wait quietly, get a combat skill, and register as an Awakened afterward.
Besides, this round of ‘Heroine Netori’ was a classic hero fantasy set in a fantasy world.
There was a good chance I'd get a combat skill, right?
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[Using the ‘Heroine Netori’ ability.]
[Please select your desired genre.]
As when I made my estimate, I chose fantasy, then selected classic hero fantasy and harem.
Fantasy is every man's dream. Classic hero fantasy is the essence of fantasy.
And harem? There had to be plenty of heroines for me to netori them.
[Please select your desired character.]
Among the Tier 4 characters, I chose ‘Neighborhood Older Brother A’. The price was 100 points.
He was toward the lower end even among the Tier 4 characters, but I chose him because he came from the same neighborhood as the hero.
The main goal of this round of ‘Heroine Netori’ was to enjoy life in a fantasy world.
I planned to become a member of the hero's party and go on adventures with him. In other words, I intended to ride the hero bus.
While adventuring, I planned to swipe artifacts and pick up combat skills, getting the best of both worlds.
To do that, it would be best to join from the very beginning.
With my low stats, joining later would be difficult, so I planned to get into the party from the start.
What about netori? Of course I had to do that too.
But I had no intention of touching the main heroine.
If I messed with her and sent the hero into a mental breakdown, or made him hate me, my adventure would be over.
Instead, I'd help the main heroine and the hero get together, then netori the sub-heroines.
A guy who already had a girlfriend wouldn't complain about my netoring the sub-heroines, right? I might even get help from the main heroine.
[Select the items to use this round.]
As expected, I selected the ‘Inventory (3 Slots)’ and ‘Pause Ticket’ I'd seen while making the estimate.
I had prepared the items I would put in my inventory beforehand: a smartphone with its solar charger plugged in, sleeping pills, and a tent.
I prepared the smartphone for recording videos, the sleeping pills in case a netori opportunity arose, and the tent to help when I had to sleep outdoors.
Fortunately, the charger exploit worked, and everything fit into my inventory without much trouble.
After spending even 1,000 points to use the Pause Ticket, I had 480 points left…
Should I buy just four random boxes?
Just in case… Yeah, let's buy them.
Finally, I selected the random boxes too and pressed Complete.
Darkness swallowed my vision.
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[You have selected Fantasy, Classic Heroic Fantasy, Harem, and Neighborhood Older Brother A.]
[The world of ‘Heroine Netori’ is being created…]
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[Complete.]
[Mission: Netori the heroines.]
[Tip: The protagonist, the hero, is scheduled to leave the village in six months to begin an adventure to defeat the Demon King. His childhood friend, the main heroine, who is also a saint, is scheduled to accompany him.]
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It had already been half a year since I entered the fantasy world.
Many things had happened during that half-year.
First of all, as soon as I entered this world, the parents of Neighborhood Older Brother A died.
His parents had been traveling merchants. His father was killed by bandits, and his mother brought me to this village despite her wounds before she died.
When I was left with nowhere to go, the tavern-owning couple in the village helped me by taking me in as a boarder.
Apparently, the tavern couple had been close friends with Neighborhood Older Brother A's parents.
In exchange for letting me sleep at their house, I agreed to help out at the tavern.
At first, I only did odd jobs, but thanks to Cooking Skill, I began working in the kitchen. When customers increased because of the appetizers I made, I became indispensable to the tavern.
Because of that, the tavern couple treated me like their son, and I gained a younger sister.
She was Sophia, the main heroine of this round of ‘Heroine Netori’.
Sophia initially struggled to adjust to the sudden addition to her family and argued with me a lot, but we gradually became close, and now we acted like siblings.
Meanwhile, while working at the tavern, I sometimes heard about the village's pitiful fellow, who was often brought up as barroom gossip. It turned out that he was the protagonist.
The protagonist was also an orphan and was staying with the village chief's family. Apparently, when he was young, his mother had raised him alone, then fallen ill and died.
That probably made it easy to grow close to him.
Using our shared circumstances as an excuse, I looked after him in various ways; before long, he was calling me big brother and following me around.
The time for the protagonist and the main heroine to leave the village was fast approaching, and I seemed to have built up enough affinity to join the party.
Ah, of course, I hadn't spent my days doing nothing but working.
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“Haa, ah, ah, aaah!”
“Auntie, uh… I think I'm going to come!”
It started when Auntie—that is, Sophia's mother—happened to see me bathing.
No, now that I think about it, it wasn't a coincidence; she had planned it.
In any case, after seeing me naked, Auntie seduced me while we were alone.
She was sexually frustrated, and she needed my cock.
Although Auntie was in her thirties, she still had the beauty and figure of a twenty-year-old, so I gave in to her seduction without hesitation. That was how we came to have sex whenever we found a chance.
“Ah, haa! Me too! I think I'm going to come too, ah, aaah!”
“No, I mean… Gasp, hurry up and pull it out!”
“No, uh, ah, come inside me, today… Hah, it's a dangerous day!”
Unlike the heroines, who had been virgins, Auntie was exceptionally skilled, pleasing me with unfamiliar caresses and positions.
“Are you crazy?!”
“It's okay, haa… We can just cover it up afterward, hmm!”
The problem was that Auntie always wanted me to come inside her—even on dangerous days.
She said she'd have sex with Uncle to establish an alibi, but honestly, I was worried.
“Mom! Big brother! I'm home!”
Oops, we'd been so wrapped up in sex that it was already time for Sophia to come home.
I tried to pull out in a panic, but Auntie wouldn't let me go.
“Relax your legs! Sophie is here!”
“Haaang! Ha, then… Aah! I can just come quickly and leave, right!”
“Then at least keep your mouth shut, or she'll catch us!”
“It's fine, ah! Sophie is… Hah, a little dense! She is… Hah!”
“Even so, you can't make noises like that.”
“Come on! Uh, hurry! Haa! Ah!”
When I told her to be quiet, she opened her mouth and stuck out her tongue, meaning for me to silence her with a kiss. What a lewd aunt. Her own daughter had come home, and she still wouldn't stop.
“Mmph, ha… slurp, ah…”
“Mmph! Mmph!”
“Hng… Hnnnnng! Ha… ah…”
I ended up ejaculating inside her right then. Only after filling her vagina with semen did Auntie finally release my legs.
Once I was free, I quickly pulled on my pants and ran to Sophia. I hadn't had time to put on my underwear.
“Big brother! Where are you! I have something to say!”
“Sophie! You're back? Sorry, I was just talking to Auntie for a bit… haha…”
Would she buy it?
I had appeared drenched in sweat and reeking of semen, so honestly, it was strange to expect her to let it slide like this, but
as Auntie had said, Sophia could be dense.
“What do you mean, talking? You had sex with Mom again, didn't you!”
So much for being dense.
“It's not that, it's just… haha…”
“Seriously…!”
Sophia, furious, rushed at me and promptly pulled down my pants.
My cock, slick with semen and vaginal fluids, sprang out.
Faced with this undeniable evidence that we'd had sex, Sophia let out a short sigh and shouted.
“I told you this cock was mine!”
Then she knelt down, stuck out her tongue, and cleaned my cock.
The cock that had been thrusting into her mother's pussy was being cleaned by her daughter… The insane taboo thrill made me tremble.
Naturally, my cock got hard too.
“Hmph…!”
Sophia smiled, pleased that she had made me hard.