The Status Window Is Weird
Status window? That's weird.
“Huaaam.”
I slept a long sleep at Noah's house and thought I wouldn't feel sleepy, but after cleaning up and eating chicken and lying down, I fell asleep right away. When I woke up, it was around 4 a.m. I decided to do the things I had planned to do.
Buy clothes! I only had one set of clothes I could wear, so it was inconvenient. I ordered clothes online. I wonder if the size will fit.
Ring—
After ordering, I was spinning around on the computer chair playing around when a strange alarm sound rang out. Ah, what is this? It doesn't seem to be from my phone or computer. Then there can only be one possibility.
“Status window?”
A hologram unfolded right in front of my eyes. Previously, I could only read the skill contents, but now it was like a game-like interface with strength, mental power… something like that. It seemed because my body and mind had fully accepted the awakening.
Where did the alarm come from—when I looked, the level in the top left was weird.
[LV.2 / EXP: 0.8%]
Eh? No one did anything, but the level is 2? I didn't do anything that would gain experience. I didn't catch monsters that jumped out from the gates, and I didn't clear the quests that the status window gives. Or maybe there was a quest that I didn't know about.
“Umm… what is this. Did I level up by using Mental Synchronization?”
Even though the level went up, it didn't tell me why. While I was thinking about the reason for the level up, the hologram flickered, then suddenly started flashing.
“U-uaah! What is this?!”
Without any manipulation, an abnormality occurred, so I got startled and sat down. Fortunately, the bed was behind me, so I didn't do that hip-thrusting thing like last time. The hologram was still flickering and created a rectangular chat window.
[Due to the effect of the Passive, Empathy, a certain amount of mental pollution has been recovered, so the level has risen!]
“Eh, so the level up happened just from doing friendship stuff with the Passive?”
Even without a reply, I talked to the status window. Apparently, level-up alarms come like this. This is information I didn't know I had. If my courage isn't good, I'll be startled like me… and I briefly closed and opened my eyes and got startled again, raising my shoulders.
[Yes. Even just by influencing others with the Empathy effect, you can gain experience and level up.]
What? Did the status window understand my words? Well, when I call it, it responds, but I didn't know this was how conversation works. And I didn't hear of it. After the awakening, it seems there was no pre-knowledge to apply! Ever since the awakening, my life has been a series of surprises.
“Umm… so if the level goes up, the maximum mental power also increases, right. How much does it increase?”
Mental power… in other words, mental, unless using the Association's equipment, doesn't come out as a fixed number. It just floats like this: [Current mental power: 79%, normal] I want to know how tough my mental is.
[If you expected a significant increase in mental power from gaining one level, it is regrettable.]
“……Yeah, I didn't expect anything to change just from reaching level 2.”
The status window is stingy. If I could show this status window to others by screenshotting it, it would be cool, but ah, it's a pity. It's only visible to my eyes.
It seemed like the rough Q&A was over, and the hologram went back to the original interface. At least it was a fun and surprising experience, so I should write about it in the gallery. Maybe I'm not special, or maybe it's that the status window can talk to me.
[The status window gave me an insult!]
Author: HunterJowaeyo
Because the level rose, I asked like ‘How strong have I become?’ and the status window replied like [Just reached level 2, what do you expect, no big difference] it gave me an insult like that, please punish me.
Comments
Wolha: Woke up early and not fully awake, go back to sleep.
HunterJowaeyo: I slept a lot of naps, so I'm full of energy now.
Wolha: So it was morning vibes making me hallucinate, pitiful.
HunterJowaeyo: ???
SunriseFirefly: When the status window talks, I want to do last-word matching when I'm lonely. I want to do last-word matching with the status window when I'm lonely.
Wolha: Don't do gallery stuff and do patrols instead.
SunriseFirefly: You do it too lol
Ah, I guess I'm special. Hehe. Everyone is giving negative reactions to the status window talking. Since it's morning, only two people commented. Maybe no one commented because the content of the post is nonsense.
“First, I'm special. Status window?”
I called the status window again.
“Show me the chat window like before!”
No response. Is it dodging?
“Let's talk. Or should I ask a question? My 2nd skill—what is it exactly, when does it activate?”
No response even to the question. If someone saw this, they would think I'm a weird person talking and asking into empty air. Can I not talk when I want to… Tsk. So sad.
You don't have to! I can talk to the senior hunters in the hunter gallery… or no, unnis… anyway, I can talk to the seniors. Umm, puhaha.
“Hmph. Hmph. Anyway…”
That person named Wolha, I've posted three times in the hunter gallery and she commented every time. Ah, it's not like other galleries where people highlight comments like that. Also, because all users in the gallery are awakeners...
“It said friendship would make us close…”
Right in the comments of my post, they treat each other like they know each other. So I can treat them like I know them too! Besides, I have a unique trait of leveling up by doing friendship stuff! That's all for leveling up.
Just by posting in the gallery and talking in the comments, EXP rose 0.6%. If I do one-on-one conversation, it might be treated as close interaction and experience keeps rising.
Of course, I'm just spinning it around as “I got noticed by an awakened person and was excited.” Since I'm not a pa-ttak, to do one-on-one, I need to give a gallery login link, like Noah did to me.
“...Umm, tsk. It's too scary.”
Ah, whatever. I'll do it later. Seems like she's working now. I did only three comments, that was too impulsive. Since it's morning, I'm lonely? That's why I don't wake up in the morning. Tsk.
I switched between hunter gallery and hunternade gallery and refreshed. The hunternade gallery definitely has fewer posts. The most people, maybe 30 posts per hour? Maybe not all domestic awakeners know about this gallery. There are people who know about it but don't post.
“I'll just watch shorts and come back in the morning… Aah!”
It felt like an electric shock hit my head. I felt green noise flickering like a hologram around my eyes.
The first headache I felt made me dizzy, but I shook my head hard and cleared my mind.
“U… what is this.”
I patted my startled chest and head. What happened? Ah, right, there was a lecture I had to attend on the site. It has a week left, but since it's not bad to listen early, I'll listen.
…
“Uuu…”
To finish the lecture, I need to listen 12 hours plus quizzes in the middle. If I get it wrong, I can't go to the next lecture. This is disadvantageous for someone with no study brain like me!
Contents also include resource distribution according to gate contribution… understanding of execution authority… there was content I knew from old investigations, but it's extremely advanced. Some quizzes are descriptive, so I have to reference the related laws and precedents in the video.
But since I'll live as an awakened person, I'll carefully take notes. The third lecture is 'How to understand your own skills.' Oh, I like this kind of thing.
The lecture content basically explained unique nouns in skills, like ‘external mental damage’, ‘mental pollution’, ‘physical damage’… what exactly they are.
Among them, I focused on internal mental damage. I had experienced strong internal mental damage. So my mind went haywire and I saw some hallucination or something.
In short, when mental damage occurs from inside, it's ‘internal mental damage’, and when it occurs from outside, it's ‘external mental damage’.
For example, when I blame myself with ‘Uuuh I'm garbage, no future, an orphan without family who awakened, what can I do,’ that's internal. Conversely, if someone curses at me or causes harm and I get angry, that's external.
Among monsters, there are types that deal external mental damage through sound waves. There was also an additional explanation that external mental damage can be reduced by equipment or abilities, but internal mental damage cannot.
Guilt, loneliness of being left alone, sense of solitude are hard to erase. I know that too well. I didn't show it in front of Noah because I know it too well.
…Umm, morning vibes again! Anyway, there was also an explanation about mental pollution. When mental power shown in the hologram drops a lot, it's called panic or mental pollution.
I guess my mental power hit the bottom and came back, so Noah was extremely worried. Apparently, it's not easy to come back comfortably by closing your eyes. Maybe if it were normal, those unknown person's blood or organs or torn flesh wouldn't be sticking in my head instead of in front of my eyes.
Aaah, thinking about it makes me nauseous. There's no guarantee I'll return gently next time either, so I must be careful. I took notes on content that has nothing to do with me.
If I listen to these carefully and pretend to know, maybe I can get closer to the awakened people? I'll get praised! The monster of my inner desire for approval woke up again.
[It seems promising.]
Eh? Who said that? I don't know. Then today I'll only listen up to the sixth lecture… since Noah said she has something to talk about, I'll talk with Noah!