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Chapter 129 – God’s Concern
After exiting the portal, I came to the now familiar torii gate and stone stairs―the dungeon shrine.
“This is very convenient.”
I mutter to myself as I look at the gem in my hand.
Mayoiga no Magatama.
The gods create this item to sell (or give away, since it’s a shrine) at shrines.
The effect is as follows.
If you equip this item and dive through the portal, you will be transported to the Dungeon Shrine.
God lent me this item, which is still under development, considering my special circumstances.
However, I also paid a substantial rental fee to avoid favoritism.
The effect of being able to teleport to the shrine is well worth it.
Especially for me now.
The sky over the shrine is already dusk.
I climbed up the stone steps among the researchers, who were more sparse than at the peak of the day.
“Ara, Yuto-san.”
Haruka-san said, noticing me.
“I heard you weren’t exploring today… are you here to see God?”
Haruka-san seemed to have heard from Honoka-chan that there would be no exploration today.
I was in a bit of a cold sweat, but I had a good excuse.
“Yes, I’m here to talk about a job.”
“Oh, I see. It’s almost done, so you can wait in the office.”
I put my dusty equipment in my magic bag and waited for God in the shrine office.
After about fifteen minutes, God appeared.
“Oh, welcome.”
“Sorry to bother you.”
To tell you the truth, I still feel uncomfortable that God looks so busy.
“So, what do you want to discuss?”
“Of course, I want to change my job.”
“Hmm? You mean change your job to a higher rank? However, I told you that it would be dangerous if the rank of your current job is not high enough…”
“The usurper rank is now S.”
“What? …Mm! It really is an S!”
There was no sign that I was being appraised, but it seemed that God saw through my job rank at a glance.
…Just a random thought, but what would happen if I used the usurper’s unique bonus of “Can disguise one’s status with reasonable strength” against God?
Even in my original world, there was a Disguise skill to fool Simple Appraisal and Appraisal, and there was a Fathom skill to detect Disguise.
So, is there a skill that can fool even the Fathom skill?
And is there a higher level skill of appraisal that can detect even that skill?
To expand the idea even further, if I can grow a “reasonable (in strength)” expression of the degree of the unique bonus, it is possible that I can fake my status against Fathom.
No other explorer in the skill world (at least as far as I know) has the Fathom skill besides me, and Clovis is the only one who has the Disguise skill.
But what if there was an explorer with Fathom?
Or what if there was someone with a unique skill that would be a higher-level skill in the appraisal system?
And what if that explorer belonged to a government-affiliated intelligence agency or was a personal associate of Seiji Tozaki?
You might think that I am worrying too much, but if it is possible to take countermeasures, that would be the best thing to do.
But that’s not important right now.
“H-how did you manage to raise your rank to S in just one day?”
“No, it happened naturally while I was fighting the floor boss in the S-rank dungeon.”
I don’t think it was natural, and if anything, I think it was unnatural.
The usurper’s skill summoned a large number of Trehobis, and each of them fought like a bandit job itself, and the opponent was an S-rank dungeon floor boss of a higher level.
As a result of the combination of all these conditions, the usurper’s job rank reached its maximum level much faster than I had expected.
“What kind of recklessness would cause such an extreme increase in rank? You are not desperate because you cannot return to your world, are you?”
God asked in a somewhat concerned tone.
“I’m not saying I’m not doing something reckless, but I’m doing it with my safety in mind.”
“That’s fine then… Don’t do anything that will make Haruka, Honoka, and your other party members sad, okay? If you get too reckless…”
“I know. You say you can’t keep my secret, right?”
God has kept the fact that I am another “Kurashiki Yuto” from another world (?) a secret.
I’ve asked God to keep it a secret from Honoka-chan, Sayuki, Haruhara, and Haruka-san.
“If you understand, I will not say anything. I heard about your urgent situation.”
God said, half to herself.