Nov. 19, 2022 09:15 Aincrad Standard Time

You know, Pina? I think this world isn't actually all that bad. *sip* This soup isn't bad either... Mm, oh yeah! I made sure this time! It only has canips and hortuga! ... whatever those are. But! but no weird animal parts in it!

Anyway, there's no school, so I just go talk to NPCs every day and do quests! And if I do enough of them I can eat whatever I want! At least, that's what I overheard from some people. Apparently what you eat in here doesn't carry over into real life. I think that makes sense. So then! That means, every day I can have~~ peach custard pie with strawberry glaze and~ and blueberry crême brûlée and~~~ *smack* Ahem, anyway!

So yesterday, after I bought my new clothes~~ well, it's really simple clothes so it's nothing cute or special. Um, so um, yeah! Listen, Pina, this quest was really interesting. See, apparently there was this spirit in someo-... well actually, I didn't know that at first, otherwise I wouldn't have accepted it, ahaha! Um, yeah, so I was trying to find a quest for an hour and then I accidentally tripped over a flowerpot... Nn, well it wasn't my fault! It just suddenly appeared! I think the spirit put it there! .. Well anyway, so then the owner of the pot, who was this really old guy with this really creepy face came outside of his house and started shouting at me to pay for the pot by doing him a favor, and I was just so scared that I accepted the quest right there! Haha, now that I think about it, I could probably have just left since he was an NPC.

But since I accepted I had to go to his backyard and look after his dog. Which was really nice in fact! Even though it was scary at first because I kept worrying that I would squash it by accident. So the thing was, every few minutes it would run away and start barking at the neighbor's house, which was the original problem. And then! Here's the cool part. I figured out that it was actually barking at the neighbor's attic! I feel smart now! And so I went to talk to the neighbor, she was really short, I think she was a dwarf or something, and then we went to explore the attic. And then, and then! It really was a spirit! And it was crying, and! ... uh, hehe, and then I ran away, so I don't know what happened after that... I don't really like ghosts all that much...

So then the really funny thing was! I was still running when suddenly I get the quest complete screen! I'm not really sure what happened. Apparently the quest was called "The Lost Spirit." Yeah, and then I got 60 Col! So I guess it didn't count as a very difficult quest. Or maybe it's just because that old man is so mean.

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Uh.. and then that's it.

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Okay, bye Pina!


Author's Note: I just had a thought: when Kirito and Asuna went back to the Starting City to find Yui's parents, they met a guy who waited under a tree all day for a yellow fruit that could be sold for 5 Col. Doesn't that imply that I'm being too generous with my quests here? It almost seems as if quests should be sparse and should not pay well (like maybe they take several days to complete and yet the profit is 30 Col or something). I was originally basing the reward off of the fact that Frenzy Boars give 30 Col each.

On a separate note, I'm also not sure if apples exist in Aincrad either.