With everything settled, I left Lord Aldora’s room.
I’d be leaving at the start of the next season, so for the two days the dungeon took to repair itself, I was free.
But I couldn’t afford to just laze around! I needed to prepare for the journey. After all, I’d be traveling amongst humans. I probably needed to plan ahead for every possibility.
I looked beside me. Pekora, the coppélia, was sitting there. She was going to be my underling. She looked like a cute girl in adorable clothes, but apparently she was a doll.
So she’s like a ball-jointed doll? I can kinda see the joints. It also seemed like she could open and close her mouth, so there must have been musculature there too. She doesn’t pass as human at all! It’s so obvious as soon as you get close to her!
So I needed to think of a way to be able to disguise her. Just another bit of homework to add to the pile.
Urggh, I’m getting worried about the future...
“Who do you think you’re looking at?”
As I was staring at Pekora and wondering what to do, she spoke up.
“Oh, sorry. I was just thinking about how I’d be able to disguise you.”
“Huh? Don’t get so familiar with me.”
“What?”
“You’re just a weakling. Don’t get so full of yourself.”
*Krshh, thud!*
I fell on my behind.
I was so taken aback that, for a moment, I couldn’t process what happened. I’d actually been kicked by Pekora and lost my balance.
“I have no idea what Lord Aldora is thinking, sending a mimic who just happened to get their hands on a legendary item to EliMon.”
“What? Uhh...”
“How dare you, a piece of level 15 trash, talk to me? I’m level 128, for goodness’ sake,” Pekora said coldly before quickly disappearing somewhere.
Uhhh...wasn’t she supposed to be working under me? What’s with her attitude? Ahhh, yeah...so I guess that’s happening. That won’t slide with me. I’m no wimp—I’ll show her who’s on top! I’m gonna kill her! It’s payback time! Wait, where did she go?
I couldn’t see her anywhere.
Well, even if she’s pissed off with the arrangement, an order’s still an order. Lord Aldora commanded it. Pekora’ll probably show up when it’s time to leave, at least. She will, right...? Anyway...
I regrouped from that blow and started walking through the castle towards the accountant. I was going to get my points.
I found a random inorganic monster to direct me and managed to reach the accountant safely.
I saw a service window, so I tried walking up to it.
“Good evening!”
To explain—the season always ended at midnight on the last day, so it was still late at night. Well, to be fair, this place was a little ridiculous. I mean, even though we were underground, there was a sky with a moon in here. Who’s to say it really was nighttime?
“Hellooo, are you here for points? I suppose you’re new,” a wriggly sort of woman with snakes for hair replied.
“Yes. My debriefing dragged on pretty long.”
“Okay then, first you need to install the Wallet plug-in.”
I did, and a pop-up appeared in front of my eyes.
Installing Wallet plug-in. Y/N?
There was a yes and a no button, as well as a help window to explain what it was.
“So should I just choose ‘yes’ here?”
“Indeed, but be careful—while you don’t have to worry about it this time, you should make a habit of checking the provider when you install plug-ins. Make sure you know whose control it’s under.”
True, but there’s no point in suspecting this one.
I opted for the yes button. These pop-up windows were controlled by the mind, so you could operate them by just thinking about what you wanted to do.
I waited while it was installed. It finished without consequence.
A small zero was now displayed in the upper corner of my status window, so I figured it worked out fine.
“All right then, I’ll deposit the point—” The receptionist did a spit take.
*Splat!*
Large globs of saliva—both from her human mouth and all the snakes’—splashed onto me.
Ewww!
“A million?! A million?! What?! Wait just a second, please!” the lady shouted in a panic before retreating to a back room.
I didn’t know the market value of a point, but that amount must’ve been really strange.
I waited a little while, but she came back quickly.
“I received confirmation; it seems there was no mistake. I’ll be depositing the amount into your account then.”
Accounting requests to deposit 1,000,000 points into your account. Accept?
I wasn’t enough of a cynical joker to try selecting “no” here. That was my long roundabout way of saying I accepted. Once I did, suddenly the zero gained a bunch of friends, and a one was added all the way to the left.
Ooohh, my first paycheck! Awesome!
“Sorry. This is the first time I’ve ever seen anyone earn a million points in a single season, and you’re new, on top of that. I was surprised, to say the least.”
“How much would be normal?”
“I think you’d be doing well at around a thousand.”
I see. Well, I did get a lot of them, so this might be correct.
“I can go shopping with these points, right?”
“Yes, you can. Trades between monsters are done with these points.”
“Thanks!”
Then let’s go shopping!