I Walk My Own Path
[ 4 : 58 ]
A number suddenly appeared in the bottom right of my vision and began to slowly shrink.
Is this the remaining duration of the blessing?
‘No, but why is the blessing in this state?’
The blessing that extremely boosts luck. The effect I expected wasn’t this, but it certainly looked good. Still…
‘I can’t stick it on anyone’s nose for 5 minutes.’
I had to stay in this lecture hall for another 20 minutes, so the very point of this blessing would vanish if I used it.
I racked my brain as quickly as I could. How could I make use of this half-conscious blessing?
‘Since it boosts luck… I should buy a lottery ticket? No, I don’t even have money on me right now, and I don’t know if I can even win within 5 minutes.’
Everything was fine except that these 5 minutes were truly pathetic. No matter what I wanted to do, the time was too tight to do it properly.
‘Boosting luck…… This is really hopeless. I should just go somewhere and do a gacha pull?’
Wait, gacha?
My mind suddenly snapped awake. Yeah, that was it.
I recalled one of the items from the achievement store that I often used when games got stuck.
‘If it’s that, I might be able to pull a jackpot with this blessing to the fullest.’
But to use the achievement store, I had to go to an uncommon place. If I used the achievement store here, I could show off the miracle of creating something from nothing to everyone.
Moreover, another person using the achievement store, Charlotte, was already here, so I might accidentally reveal my identity to her.
It was still too early to tell her that I came from Earth. If she realized there were other reincarnators besides herself, I had no idea how she would react.
[ 4 : 13 ]
Oh shit. Already almost 40 seconds had evaporated. I no longer had any time to waste. I had to get out of this place as fast as possible and do whatever it took—something, anything.
As Merquin returned to the podium and all eyes turned toward him, I sprang up from my seat.
“Shion-kun? The event hasn’t ended yet.”
The moment I suddenly stood up, Shina, who had been nearby, stopped me.
Looking at her with a serious expression, I said,
“Shina. I’m stepping out of this place for 10 minutes to truly understand the meaning of this world.”
“The meaning of the world? Could you say that again?”
“I don’t even remember what I said! Anyway, excuse me for a moment!”
Kyaaah, run.
Everyone in my class except Shina stared at me like I was an idiot, but I paid them no mind and dashed out of the lecture hall.
— Thud thud!
Outside, the rain was pouring down heavily.
“Umbrella…… Ah, screw it!”
I’d just wash it later. I decided to run through the torrential downpour.
I squeezed my eyes shut and sprinted forward, but then…
“Um? Rain……”
It wasn’t raining. No, more precisely, it wasn’t raining where I was. It was as if there was a hole in the sky.
“At least the performance is reliable!”
In the torrential downpour, the feeling of being the only dry, fluffy thing felt oddly satisfying.
As I kept running and my breathing grew labored, I found an alley that seemed untouched by rain.
I stepped into the alley, caught my breath for a moment, and checked the remaining time.
[ 0 : 42 ]
42 seconds left.
“Quick, quick!”
At the speed of light, I opened the achievement store and rapidly scrolled down to find what I wanted.
And soon I found it.
[Big Random Box – 2500 points]
[Items of General to Legendary grade will appear randomly. Good luck.]
A box whose contents were determined solely by the user’s luck—the Big Random Box.
“Could be a dangerous gamble……”
Right now, I was a man loved by luck.
“I love gambling!”
[Big Random Box (2500 points) x 4 purchase complete]
I emptied all my points and bought four Big Random Boxes.
[ 0 : 29 ]
Hoo…… Let me take a deep breath.
“Now!”
I opened all the boxes!
I hope at least one hero-grade item……!
[Box opened]
[Beautiful hair pin (normal) acquired]
[Box opened]
[Master Key (hero) acquired]
[Box opened]
[Parkour Trait Stone (rare) acquired]
[Box opened]
[Wanderer Transfer Certificate (legendary) acquired]
— Boom!
As I opened the boxes, countless items poured out in front of me all at once.
A butterfly-shaped hair pin, a bulky key, a single beautiful bead, and a somewhat worn book.
“Wait, legendary?!”
I glanced at the messages for a moment, then my eyes widened and my mouth fell open.
Legendary grade. An extremely rare grade that most people fail to obtain no matter how much they try to get it.
“Oh my crazy world.”
By this standard, even Charlotte, Pascal, and the Jeremy I was raising as a killer assassin didn’t have legendary-grade traits. Ah, Shina was the exception.
In short, this was a once-in-a-lifetime jackpot. I was about to take off my clothes and dance if even one hero-grade item came out, but a legendary-grade item came out instead, so I didn’t know what to do.
Should I take off my clothes and lose my grip on reality and dance? No, taking off my clothes and dancing was already losing my grip on reality, wasn’t it?
My brain was flooded with excessive endorphins and I had no idea what I was even thinking right now.
“First…… I have to take all of these with me.”
I didn’t have a backpack, but that didn’t matter.
From the game features I had been given permission to use for the past 4 days, I had confirmed that I could use the inventory.
I decided to put the items from the Big Random Boxes into my inventory with both hands, and the items instantly left my hands and vanished.
“Hoo, I’m glad I didn’t have to say ‘Inventory!’ out loud.”
Now that the business was done, I should head back for now…….
At that moment, a red crack appeared on the wall of the alley where I had been.
‘Eh? This is……’
It was a sudden phenomenon that would normally be shocking, but it was far too familiar to me.
The crack grew large enough for a person to pass through and then widened with a stretch.
Between the gaps of the crack, I could only see darkness, and from that darkness, a girl slowly emerged and appeared in front of me.
“You have too much talent for annoying people? Where the hell are you going all of a sudden.”
Charlotte crossed over the crack and approached me.
For a moment, my spine went cold at the thought that I might have been caught using the Big Random Box, but I quickly regained my composure and spoke in my usual lively tone.
“Oh? Sir Cervantes? Did you come looking for me because you were worried? I’m touched!”
“Shut up. The homeroom teacher just asked me to find you, so I had no choice but to come look.”
“Whether you had a choice or not, you came looking for me, right? I’m genuinely touched by that fact. By the way, Sir Cervantes, you really have convenient magic.”
The phenomenon that occurred just moments ago was Charlotte’s signature magic, the Rift, which created a crack in space to leap through it.
It was fast to activate, had boundless destructive power that could be used however she wanted, and was convenient to use not just in battle but for other purposes as well.
“My magic is pretty useful, isn’t it. Anyway, let’s hurry back. The event is almost over. But……”
As if sensing something strange, Charlotte tilted her head and looked around before continuing.
“It’s raining everywhere else, but why isn’t it raining here?”
“Ah.”
Wait, but how much time was left on the blessing?
[ 0 : 2 ]
Hoo.
“Sir Cervantes.”
“What?”
“Do you like showers?”
“Huh?”
[ 0 : 0 ]
[Merquin’s blessing has been dispelled]
— Shoooa
As Merquin’s blessing disappeared, the raindrops that had been falling only where I was came down as they normally should.
“Ah damn it.”
In the torrential downpour, my clothes that had been dry and fluffy were instantly soaked.
And it wasn’t just me.
“......”
Charlotte, who was completely drenched, swept her messy hair back and glared at me with eyes that looked like they would melt someone to death instantly.
“Eh? What the hell is this all of a sudden? Does the sky hate Sir Cervantes? It’s suddenly raining. Let’s hurry back.”
“Haa…… What a pain because of you…….”
Unable to endure the scorching gaze, I quickly turned my eyes away and swiftly stepped into the crack.
***
After finishing my day’s routine, I returned to the dorm and quickly took a bath.
Then, after drying my body fluffy, I lay down on the bed.
“Oh… It’s as soft as I remembered from last night.”
If I closed my eyes and traveled to a distant dreamland, it would be nice…….
But I still had things to do, so I had to put it off a bit.
Hup. With a spirit, I rose from the bed and took out today’s harvest from the inventory.
First, the hair pin. A plain yet pretty butterfly-shaped hair pin.
“I’ll have to use this only when gifting it to someone someday.”
I wondered if I would ever actually gift it to someone.
Next was the Parkour Trait Stone.
With a firm squeeze of the round bead, I crushed it and new power filled me.
[Trait – Parkour (rare) acquired]
“Ah, the bead fragments fell on the bed.”
Since there were no cleaners in this world, I had no choice but to gather the fragments with my hands and throw them in the trash.
“I can’t use Parkour here right now, so it would be best to test it later.”
I was eager to test the new trait immediately, but I didn’t want to break all the furniture in the dorm either, so I held myself back.
Next was the Master Key.
“This is really an OP item, isn’t it.”
A so-called master key that could unlock almost any lock.
Of course, as a hero-grade item, it couldn’t unlock locks sealed with the orders of high-level beings, but apart from that, it could probably break almost any lock.
I planned to use it very usefully during the upcoming performance evaluation.
“And finally……!”
I licked my lips and picked up a somewhat worn book.
A book titled ‘Wanderer’s Memoir’.
The Wanderer Transfer Certificate—a book that granted the legendary-grade class ‘Wanderer’.
In this Grand Fantasia, once you reached a certain level in each field, you would naturally acquire a class, and the grade and abilities of that class were determined by the achievements and path you had walked.
‘For example, in the future Shina wouldn’t get the class ‘World Savior’.’
To obtain the class you wanted, you really had to put in bone-crushing effort. Even minor conversations with NPCs could affect class formation.
‘Choosing the wrong dialogue option and recreating the character was a daily occurrence.’
But with this transfer certificate, I didn’t have to worry about any of that. I just had to open the book and the legendary-grade class would be granted to me.
“But this class called Wanderer…… It seems like it’s a class I remember from somewhere.”
I closed my eyes for a moment and delved into my memories, and it soon came back.
This was the level right below the final realm that adventurers pursued.
Adventurers were people who pursued truth and enlightenment. In short, beings who could be called those who found their own path.
Adventurers searched for their own truths, and the realm just before reaching that truth was this realm called ‘Wanderer’.
Hmm, suddenly I felt uneasy.
“Thinking about it, there were classes that couldn’t use transfer certificates unless certain conditions were met……”
For example, a character who changed their race to demon couldn’t use the Paladin transfer certificate. Because they didn’t satisfy the condition ‘the character must not be an evil being.’
Then, didn’t this Wanderer class also have a transfer condition?
Maybe ‘the character must be an adventurer.’ I didn’t know because I had never directly obtained this Wanderer class.
“Ehh…… No way.”
I shook my head to dispel the unease and slowly opened the book. Bright golden light burst forth from the book.
[Wanderer Transfer Certificate has been used]
[Failed to transfer because the condition ‘the character must walk the path of an adventurer’ was not met]
The golden light faded as the book began to close again.
Oh shit. Really?
Was the worry I had actually going to happen? Suddenly my vision went blank.
[.....Reverting. Traces of enlightenment have been detected in the character]
[Accepting the character as an adventurer. Proceeding with transfer]
But the message that appeared next reversed the previous words, and the book opened wide again.
The golden light gushed out violently once more, swirling around me before settling back into the book.
And in a small corner of the shabby book, a tiny inscription appeared.
— Written by Shion
[Class: Transferred to Wanderer]
Just like that, I had become a Wanderer.