Mercenary Contract!
By the reason of assassinating a flea, I became the target of terror.
I feel a sense of self-loathing, as if I had committed some incredibly trivial act.
But let's think that good is good.
Anyway, it says that no fleas will appear around me from now on.
Isn't it a small contribution to making this world a bit more beautiful?
And above all, I received the reward of Assassin Coins.
I don't know how to use them yet.
The Assassin Coin was a pure gold coin stamped with a skull symbol.
It is now resting on my palm.
The moment the system message popped up, I caught it falling from the air with a clever trick.
It sparkled with a golden glow.
Is it real gold?
I had seen something like it before, so I grabbed the coin and bit into it with my teeth.
My teeth sank in.
"What!"
Please refrain from damaging the Assassin Coin.
The system message scolded me.
Sorry.
Surprisingly, the Assassin Coin is made of real gold.
What is its true nature?
For now, since it's a coin, it seems like something to buy and sell things with...
How to use it.
Current functions available to use Assassin Coins are as follows.
1. Mercenary Contract
2. Skill Shop
What... what is what.
There are two things that look good at first glance.
I selected Mercenary Contract, and tabs appeared.
1. Mercenary Contract
2. Skill Shop
[In the Mercenary Contract, you can temporarily hire assassins to assist your actions.]
[Gender]
[Age]
[Race]
[Qualification Requirements]
[Objective]
[Additional Requirements]
→
[Final Amount: 1 Assassin Coin]
Various setting conditions lined up.
Every time I clicked one, the expected expenditure at the bottom increased.
For example.
[Gender]: Male
[Age]: 20s
[Race]: (empty)
[Qualification Requirements]: Must be capable
[Objective]: Bank robbery
[Dimension]: (empty)
[Additional Requirements]: Exclude those with green eyes
→
[Final Amount: 213 Assassin Coins]
Even with just this setting, it came out like this.
Did it increase because of the bank robbery?
Let me check.
[Final Amount: 210 Assassin Coins]
Amazing fact.
A friend for bank robbery can be obtained for 3 Assassin Coins.
By assassinating fleas, cockroaches, and money bugs, I can summon bank robbery comrades from another world!
...Probably the stricter the conditions, the more coins it costs.
The peculiar point is that there was an item called 'Dimension' in the conditions.
Can I choose the origin dimension?
When I clicked, options appeared.
[Earth]
[Ratra]
[Dat]
[Locked]
The last one is Locked even though the names are unfamiliar except for Earth.
Okay.
Since I was curious, I stopped the monkey clicking here and there.
I haven't been an Awakener for even a day.
No need to know everything.
I believe I'll know eventually.
For now, let's just know that such things exist.
By the way, other dimensions...
Actually, it's not like I didn't know that monsters come from other dimensions, like a flea.
But with the outline visible, it feels even stranger.
Perhaps I should say it feels too vast.
Suddenly the atmosphere became "I became dust in the universe" 1st episode feeling.
Actually, they are dust.
But now it's dust of dust, such a feeling.
Do other hunters already know about the existence of such dimensions?
It seems like no one has even talked about it.
Thinking about it, it's strange.
Natube, TV, internet. Or reality.
I haven't heard any hint of such stories anywhere.
In this era, it's impossible to hide something like this anyway, no matter how much you try to keep it secret.
A thought suddenly came to me, and I moved my small finger busily.
Tadadada-!
I was a bit faster at typing than others before.
Perhaps because I became a girl, my fingers became as fast as a pianist playing the piano.
Then I wrote the post and thought about it.
This is an important content, isn't it?
If I write such a post, won't black-suited agents with sunglasses come to catch me?
I was a bit worried for a moment.
...But it's okay.
Now, what can I lose? There's only me.
Even that, I'm now an SSS-rank assassin girl doing this.
If I reveal this secret, there's really nothing to lose.
After agonizing, I concluded and pressed the register button hard.
'Dimension' is not an appropriate word to register.
Aigoo.
If that's the case, my worrying was meaningless.
No.
But there is a gain.
After all, someone knows about the existence of other dimensions.
Whether the gallery is censored by the government or the gallery manager, the great Joo-ddak, is doing self-censorship, I don't know...
But anyway, I know that saying it means "tang!" so it's fine.
Shall I look at the mercenary contract a bit more...
No. Wait a second.
Earlier, at the beginning.
The mercenary contract button was active even though I didn't press anything?
I pressed the condition reset button.
The mercenary contract button was still active.
Looking at the gold amount next to it.
[Gender]: (empty)
[Age]: (empty)
[Race]: (empty)
[Qualification Requirements]: (empty)
[Objective]: (empty)
[Dimension]: (empty)
[Additional Requirements]: (empty)
→
[Final Amount: 1 Assassin Coin]
It works!
I can do it without setting any conditions!
So, it's like contracting with a completely random mercenary.
This is crazy.
What will come out, I wonder?
I don't know who made it.
It looks like it was made by a complete fool.
...
I pressed it right away.
What kind of nation are we?
Delivery nation... no, gambling... no, the nation of challenges.
If I don't take the challenge here, it would be stranger.
What? The coins are precious?
It's okay.
I got it by catching the flea.
I hadn't seen the skill shop, but
What if I just assassinate a mosquito or something!
With that mindset, I pressed the mercenary contract button hard.
Boom-!
Black smoke exploded like fireworks from the air.
The black smoke flew as if it didn't want to go to the bathroom, then rushed towards the floor in the middle of the room.
And disappeared like that.
Kiieeing-
From the floor where the black smoke disappeared, a single line appeared.
A red line that felt somewhat ominous.
The red line slowly moved and started drawing something.
Slowly from top to bottom, from right to left.
The red line was drawing a star.
And finally, when the star was completed, the room was filled with light.
I had already reflexively fled to the bathroom to avoid the flash.
Thanks to that, I could avoid the afterimage.
When the flash that filled the room subsided, the first sound I heard was the sound of women's shoes.
Clack, clack.
"Interesting world~"
"Just drawing straight lines. What is this? Even the stiff guys from the magic tower didn't have such grotesque design sense."
It seems he's looking at the scenery outside the window.
I used stealth to peek.
No, even if so, since it's a mercenary contracted, I should face the face directly.
Peeking my head out from the bathroom wall, there was clearly -
a mage.
Not an assassin. A mage.
As if already noticing my existence, leaning against the window, looking this way.
"Hello~?"
"Who are you?"
Even though I knew it was the mercenary I summoned, the question that came out involuntarily was natural.
No, that's not it.
It said an assassin would come out.
Why is such a pretty mage coming out?!
"What? Ahahaha!"
The mage burst into laughter as if my question was funny.
Then, putting her hand in her sleeve, she took out something.
It was the Assassin Coin.
The same one I had until just now.
How did she know?
...It was visible.
The bite mark.
Thanks to the enhanced vision from awakening.
The small bite mark engraved in the center of the Assassin Coin's skull symbol was clearly visible.
Did she see that too?
Please, please not...
"Coins with bite marks are really rare to see~"
"Kyaak!"
I screamed like Gwanwoo without realizing.
So embarrassing.
I wish there was somewhere to hide.
The mage nodded as if she understood everything.
"No need to be embarrassed. I did too."
But the smile on her lips didn't disappear.
"...I never imagined it was real gold."
"Assassin coins that are this valuable wouldn't use plating."
The mage's tone seemed to know something more than me.
But I couldn't ask.
I didn't want to show that I didn't know something.
" Honestly, I doubted it, but it seems real. You are my client?"
"Yes."
"Where did you get it? The coin. It's not something easy to get..."
"Easy?"
"Should I tell the truth?"
"Ah! But to tell in advance, the mercenary contract is much safer than you think, so don't worry. But the rule is to tell only the truth between us, so you must keep this."
Even if you know what I'm worried about, you have to believe...
"Contract established, and my coin is now yours? I think I have the right to know if this coin is clean or not?"
"Assassin coin, is there clean or not?"
"Yes, there is. But first answer my question. Then I will tell you everything."
...Can't help it.
With that said, I have to tell the truth too.
"I got it by killing bugs."
"...What?"
The mage's expression, which had been relaxed all along, showed surprise.