Author note :
Well, everyone said that my grammar is not good but understandable and that is after cross check with grammarly. now without it, I wonder is my grammar still the same or becoming worse. well, you guys will read this so I will wait for the review.
someone : Thanks you for the review, for the skips I probably won't do a big time skip and only did it only when I'm confused how to do transition well. Though it mostly because at this point of story everything is planned, I don't know what will happen when I'm not planning thing.
sleepmat10 : Thanks you for the review,
about more wriggle time well...I too want to do it but getting confused if there are a lot of them unlocked so it probably won't happen again and each touhou character will probably only appear once, unless my mind decided not too.
About the personalities I'll try to match the canon (or fanon) everytime he transforming into them.
And here you show me, how bad thinking that omitting something just because it's hard to continue from there is a good idea. If only i'm not removing the part where he sees the bug as a tools and the part where I emphasizing (that the right word right?) that the dungeon monster is an existence that will attack everything that come near them. you probably saying different thing.
Anyways, the part that I need to explain that here, means my thinking still wrong and thanks for showing me it. This time I removed less part of the story and at the bottom note I'll tell you which, so If you guys think it best to remove it or not you can put it in the review.
Sorry for the long note, I hope you enjoy this chapter too.
"Why oh why, I'm very unlucky! My status is low, my cheat skill is hard to use, that roach don't want to give anything to me and now, when I just want to collect honey, the army comes." I contemplated to myself.
"Hmm...I wonder if every bad thing happening to me is because my low luck status. If that is the case then transforming into Tewi should fix that. Let's see her requirement."
Tewi Inaba
Unlock conditions:
- RP 3000 ( Current : 4020)
- Tricks people into believing what you have said ( 0 / 15000 person)
- At the rabbit beastman's town.
"Of course, as usual it was another hard to fulfill conditions. Why every character must have requirements to use their skill! It should have been me using their skill immediately without putting any effort, just like those protagonists that I read!"
I'm resigned to the fact that nothing will change no matter how hard I protested and just accepting that I must put an effort, "Grr! Fine I tell lie to a lot of people and ended up like the boy who cried wolf."
Then I'm looking at the other condition, "At least this one is very easy to do. Well that is if, the rabbit beastman town is exist and easy to reach. But if it is exists, I should try to seduce one of the bunny girl and making them my harem's member. After all, it is a must for a fantasy story to have a party of various race members."
I'm stopping my walk and start daydreaming about my adventure with the ideal party for fantasy story. Though not for long I slap both of my cheeks with my hand to get me back to reality.
"Nope, that won't happen if I'm not strong enough and becoming a hero. I should work hard first, to unlock every character and get their skill. Then beat the demon lord with ease, so everyone will praise me. That remind me, I still didn't check if my status getting better and what I get from transforming into Wriggle. 'Status open'"
Status | Unlockable Item | Unlockable Character | Insects
Name : Iyan Gilder
Race : Human
Level : 15
RP : 4020
FP : 0
NP : 5040
MP : 550/550
AGI : 65
STR : 114
MAG : 340
INT : 250
LUCK : 39
PHY Def : 129
MGC Def : 111
Unique Skill :
Eastern Project lvl 1
New Active :
- Wriggle : Insect summoner lv1, Paralyze Immunity.
New Title :
A Bug of Light Wriggling in the Dark
"Now, I have a paralyze immunity skill! This will be useful if only I have it a little while ago. Well whatever, at least I can use this for later. It looks like my Summon Insect is becoming level 1, then again that's not a bad thing since I don't have a lot of mana, yep...I have very low mana. *sigh* I wish my status remain even if I transform back. Ugh...Let's stop brooding over that nothing good will come out doing that. It's better for me to find out what I could summon with this level."
I opened the insect tab at my status panel. When I'm looking at it, most of the insect picture is having a lock image on top it. The only that don't have it are the normal one and there's another thing added on their images.
"What's this about maintenance cost? Does it mean I need to expend mana per 5 minutes to keep the summoned monster alive? Wait is the monster that I summoned as Wriggle is calculated too or they disappearing now?"
I'm concentrating trying to found the answer to that. Then my mind feel connected with many insect and they are waiting for my order. I break my concentration and frowned since knowing that they are still alive and can't be canceled. The reason I'm not happy the insect still alive is because they are the biggest proof that I'm Wriggle.
"At least they didn't drain any mana from me. So this summoning skill is useless, there's no useful monster that I could summon and I can't spam them since my mana is very low."
I close the status panel and then continued my walk toward the kingdom. It was evening when I reached the kingdom's gate. Unlike a while ago, I'm always transforming into Koishi when nearing the gate, this time I walk toward it without transforming. Fortunately, despite my luck there's nothing happened, the gatekeeper just asking for my ID and then letting me go inside after I show him my adventurer card.
After I'm inside I was planning to go the adventurer guild. But looking at the time it's better for me to find an Inn first. Luckily, I found one not far from the gate, though I don't know if it's still empty or not.
When I'm opening the door, I was greeted by a big and tall woman. The woman is look more manly than me, to the point where if this woman is an ex-adventurer I won't be surprised at all.
The woman looks at me and smiling widely, "Welcome to Twin Bird inn, you must be an adventurer right? If so, I want to offer you a special room with special price of only a single coin for a night, unlike our usual 3 silver coins. Are you interested?"
"Another fortunate event, it seems my luck status is not the problem."
"Huh?"
"Ah, sorry it was nothing. Could you show me the room?"
"Okay follow me."
The room that she led me is located at the far back of the inn. The room is just like a normal inn room, a single bed in a single room and a single desk with a lantern on top of it. Seeing how normal the room is make me wonder why it was "special", but since is cheap and has "special" price I decided to take her offer.
After receiving the payment she is leaving with a happy face. While for me, I lock the door and then put my magic bag on top of the desk. After that, I'm put down my body on the bed and closed my eyes.
I'm waking up after hearing a loud banging noise at the door. I get up from the bed and opening the door. What greets me in front of the door is the last night innkeeper.
"Oh, you're still alive. Sorry to wake you up, I thought you're dead just like the last adventurer that sleep here." She said.
"Wait, did you say someone is dead here?"
"Yes, that's why last night I said this is a special room."
"So that is the reason for the special price right? Anyway, can you tell me what the cause of his death is?"
"He was poisoned, I heard he is doing insect subjugation quest before coming here."
I immediately got furious when hearing that reason, "What! You put me in the same room as someone who is poisoned!"
"Don't be angry. I have cleaned the room perfectly and look you're still alive."
"And what will you do if I'm dead?!"
"Well, that's mean I'm need to clean it again afterward and waiting for another person who wanted to stay at this room."
"So you treat me as a test subject for this room! Then should I get some kind of payment for this or at least give me my money back."
I said it not because I care about the money, but because of petty reason of wanting to get her back doing that to me. Though, her reaction is different than what I wanted.
"You are an adventurer right? How about we settle the adventurer way?" she said.
Then she looks at me while grinning widely, probably knowing that I will refuse her.
"Damn it, If only I had appraisal I can make sure whether she have detection skill or not. If not I'll accept her challenges and using Koishi activation skill." I thought.
"So what is your answer?" She asked me, breaking me from my train of thought.
"Ugh, fine you win. I won't ask for that money to back."
"Good! Anyway you better get going to the guild or you'll end up with only hard quest left."
"I guess I'll do that, then."
"Oh yes, if you want to eat you could go to dining room. I'll give you a meal for free after all you want to get something after staying in this room right? Just don't expect too much after all the food will be made from today leftover." The innkeeper said.
"I'll go there if I feel like it."
After that I'm closing the door and preparing to leave the inn. Though, when I said prepare it's just me buying Koishi's clothes at the Item tab and transforming into her so my clothes get instantly cleaned. Then I take my magic bag and go to the dining room since my stomach is growling.[1]
At the dining room I was served with a plenty food that doesn't really look appetizing. I want to refuse it, but my stomach is growling loudly disagreeing with my intention, so I decided to taste the food. Surprisingly, the taste is not so bad and because of that, I'm eating all of the food.
"I'm full! This meal is better than I thought."
"Of course, it's since I'm the one who made it," The innkeeper that appearing from behind me said. "Anyway, are you really an adventurer? I mean you awake so late in the morning and you are weak too."
"Excuse me from being weak, but yes I'm an adventurer."
"Then what's your main weapon?"
"Ah, that remind me my hammer is broken."
"You even forget about that, now I'm getting more worried about you being an adventurer."
"Meh, I will remember that when I'm taking quest so it's not a problem."
"Yea, yea whatever you say. Anyway, you better get the quest first before buying weapon or the only one left is the very hard quest."
"Really? Thanks for that. But how do you know?"
"Well, you see I was an ex-adventurer."
"Call it!" "Are the reason you stopped being adventurer is because of your friend dead or grave injuries?"
"Wow, you have a morbid thought. No, the reason is far from that, it just being an adventurer is not profitable especially when everyone around you is better at it and you always end up with hard to complete quest."
"Well, that's disappointing story."
She then laughing and slap my back very hard. "Sorry for being disappointing. Now go to the guild."
I'm standing up and rubbing my back because of her slap, while at the same time leaving from the inn.
The atmosphere at the guild is different than usual. Usually when I come here, most of the adventurers inside the guild are being happy and telling their story about clearing a quest. This time, most of them are pissed off and talking about the same thing.
"Damn it, that new monster is really pissing me off. Why she must show up at the easy quest with the knights. That insect is really annoying, next time I will immediately kill her and won't wait for other to do that." A male adventurer said.
"Well, the feeling is the same. It will be easy for me just to collect honey if you guys never show up." I replied on my mind.
"Again! There's only bug subjugation quest! That female insect if I see her, I will complain to her while killing her." A female adventurer said.
"She won't hear you if you complained at her while killing her, you know?"
"Never thought I will miss the day where there's a killing goblin quest. They may have disgusting a look but bug is much more disgusting than they are. Why can't that monster summon something that is not disgusting, if she really is a female!" Another female adventurer said.
"What do you expect her to summon?! She is an insect."
"Oh, how I hate doing the quest of killing the bug at that newly formed dungeon! I need to protect the guild member just because the monster didn't leave any proof when they are killed and that's the only quest in the board. If only that monster didn't show up, I will have easy time like usual." Another male adventurer said.
"On behalf of Wriggle I'm sorry, I never know summoned monster behaving like that."
Hearing everyone complain is making me realize how bad if they know the real identity of Wriggle is. I really should stop fantasizing about being forgiven if they know that Wriggle is coming from a weak person like me.
"Still why they do not fear her, I mean here on the board she is considered as a disaster monster. I guess they do not believe this, even though it is very accurate. I mean she could summon insect freely and has a backing of dungeon master that could give her free items."
When I look around at the quest board, I see that the board is full of insect subjugation quest, just like the adventurers said. The only other quest that is not about killing insect is escort quest.
"Oh, there's a quest to escort to the magic kingdom Mashi. Maybe at that kingdom, there is a clue about "Abandonment Food" spell." I muttered
I take out the quest paper from the board then turn around and walking toward the receptionist counter. I'm stopping my walk when I heard the guild's door opened forcefully. At the door 2 knights are coming inside the guild. Their appearance made the adventurer silent and watching them.
The knights are walking toward the receptionist counter while ignoring the gaze of the adventurers. When they are reaching the counter, they give a paper to the receptionist lady. I wonder what they did, but not long after they are giving the paper, she seems very angry.
"Everyone!" She shouted loudly. "This would be commander said that there's an update from the king! The new monster bounty is increased to 600 gold coins for everyone inside the group that killed it."
One of the knights is looking very angry and ready to lash at to her. Fortunately, he didn't do it and decided to leave the guild immediately
"They are calmer than I thought. I thought it will end up getting physical and someone come and protect her. Yeah...someone, damn me! If only I'm strong, I will be confident that I'm the one who will protect her and she will fall for me."
After the knight leaving the guild, I'm continuing my walk toward the counter. I'm curious of what is happening in here, but not enough to ask her. So I'm just giving her the quest paper and then she accepted it. After that she is skimming the paper and putting it at the desk. Then she is writing something in another paper. After she is done writing, she is handing the paper to me.
"Here is the permit. You better hurry, it almost the time they are leaving."
I'm following her suggestion and leaving the guild to the place described by the paper in a hurry.
Not long after Iyan is leaving the guild, the receptionist realized something, "Wait, I never asked his ID. AHHH! That new monster's mess making everyone must leaving the guild and making me having a lot of job to do. I hope he is C-Rank adventurer, or at least nothing happened so no one will complain to me."
The place that is written in the paper is 'slightly at the front of the north gate'. Fortunately for me, when I'm reaching it, there's still some wagon still stationed and some people are lifting box to the wagon.
When I'm looking around to find the merchant that I supposed to give this permit, I saw some familiar group with a face that I recognized so I decided to approach them first.
"I never thought I will meet you guys again." I said when I'm near them.
The group that I mention is Eric's group. When they are seeing me, all of them are getting surprised.
Willes is the first one to reply to me, "Oh, it's Iyan you're still alive!"
Immediately after Willes said it, everyone is said something too.
"I'm glad you're still alive." Eric said while smiling.
"Thanks goodness you're still alive." Jamilla said while look relieved.
"Oh, it's a miracle! You're still alive." Regnis rudely said.
"Damn it! I lost my bet." A short woman with blue robe and holding cane said.
"Why all of you assuming I'm dead!"
"It's because I heard you weak." Regnis and the short woman said at the same time.
"I'm sorry." Jamilla and Eric apologized.
"Well, you never come back to the guild after the insect invasion and since you are a reckless person. We thought you are at the dungeon when the invasion happened and got killed by it." Willes reasoned.
"Grr! Just because I'm weak and reckless don't assume me dead yet ... Actually I will assume that too, but, but –"
While I'm getting confused by my own word, Eric is interrupting me "Once again I'm sorry. But can I ask you what you're doing here?"
"Don't tell me you're here to do the quest to escort the merchant." Regnis added.
"Uhmm.. Yeah, is there something wrong with me escorting someone?!"
"This quest requirement is rank-C above adventurer." Regnis informed me.
"EH! But I was given this permit to join the quest." I said while showing the permit.
"What's your rank now?" Willes asked me.
"Still F-rank, is that going to be a trouble?"
"Well that is a problem. With your rank I think he will reject you."
"Eh! He can do that despite I have the permit?"
"Well yes! Even if the guild gave you the permit, the merchant still can reject it."
I was shocked hearing that information and because of it I have a strange thought, "Aw and here I thought, I can be with them without transforming into Koishi but I guess I don't have a choice, huh."
"Don't tell me you're thinking about sneakily following the wagon." Eric said.
"NOooo"
"Please don't do that. How about you join our party, that way he would accept you even if you weak." Willes said.
"Really!"
"Yes, but I hope you're forgive us for assuming you're dead." Willes said.
"Well, I guess that can't be helped. I'll forgive you guys."
"Just remember you're in this party temporarily! I had enough to have weak person as my companion!" The short woman said.
"Yeah, yeah."
Not long after that, a plump person with expensive looking clothes is coming toward us.
"I'm sorry for taking my time. Today the guard seems too eager in their job. They are asking a lot of thing toward me." Then he sees me. "Wait, who is he?"
"He is our member that is coming late. He has a hard time waking up early so we leave him." Willes said.
"He looked very weak."
"He is our scout, his detection skill is far better than mine."
"Oh! A scout that's better than Willes. Then with him we could detect any monster our thief that going toward us, right?" He said.
"Of course, No thief or monster is going closed to us without me knowing it." I bragged to him.
"Nice spirit! Then let's leave now, since everyone is here already."
Then we heard a scream, "HEY! WAIT FOR US!"
At the direction of the scream two adventurers that I recognized is running here. One of them are holding a cane and red robe, he is the first person that launching his spell toward Wriggle and causing the entire insect rampaging at the insect dungeon. His accomplice is a strong looking-guy with a big sword on his back.
"I'm sorry, we're late. It's because of this fool taking his time to eat." The sword man said.
"Wha! It's because you are waking up late. That's why we only have a little time to eat." The mage said.
"Are both of you bringing your permit?" The merchant asked.
"Of course!" both of them answered.
Then they are showing their permit paper toward the merchant.
He then took it and scanned it, "Well since both of you look decent enough, I'll accept both of you. Now go inside the wagon and we will depart at once."
"Lucky me, he really will reject me if I'm not join them!"
Then all of us entering the wagon and then sit inside it with the position that made me jealous. Eric is in the side where all of the female is sitting. While I sitting near the wagon exit and beside me is Willes and the previous two male adventurers. Briefly after everyone is sitting the wagon is start moving.
"It looks like Juno the fire mage is a tardy person, huh." The short woman taunted at the fire mage, shortly after the wagon is starting to move.
The fire mage Juno looked at the one who taunted him, "Oh, So Mellisa the dwarf is now leeching off Willes's party huh."
"Hey! I'm not that short! And I'm not leeching them! They invited me to join their party, because they know my talent. Unlike your party, that is now only having him as a member!" Mellisa pointed at the adventurer with big sword.
"I and Zen is enough to defeat any kind of monster, unlike our so called talented magician who can't do anything alone." Juno said.
After that they're keep bickering and insulting at each other after that. I really don't care about what they are bickering about, so I just treat them as background sound. It seems everyone doing it too and that made me curios.
"Are you not going to stop them?" I ask Willes who sit beside me.
"Nah, they are always like this when they meet with each other. Just leave them be until both of them are exhausted."
"Oh."
At first I thought they won't argue a long time, but I'm surprised and amazed by what is happening. It has been 15 minutes or more after Mellisa throwing her first insult to Juno, yet they are not showing any sign of stopping.
Through their arguing, I learned that both of them are former adventurer party. The reason they break up the party is because Juno most of the time miss his fire magic, causing the monster to run away and they can't completed the quest. While Mellisa always ask for bigger share when she is the one who killed the monster, even when everyone in the party is helping her.
Even though I can understand their reason to get mad, everyone in the wagon including me wish they are stopping their argument. The coach is looking troubled too, he probably want to berate them but decided not to, probably because it won't stop them even if he did that.
"Can both of you shut up!" Zen yelling at them, "Look at everyone, they are very annoyed hearing you two arguing about who is the best! Rather than arguing who is the best, show us later at the tournament." Zen said.
"Hm! If it's the tournament I bet I will win since last year I'm ranking 2nd, while he was ranking 4th." Mellisa said.
"You become 2nd last year is because the one who get 1st rank is facing me first." Jeno said.
"So you believe you will lose to him again, this year?"
"Of course not, if he is showing up again I will beat him. Maybe you will be the one who lose against him again this year."
"I won't, I've prepared a strategy to beat him this year. But you look like you will lose to him, so this year if you facing him again, I must give up beating you in the tournament."
"No way, this year –"
"Okay, both of you stop!" Zen interrupted Jeno.
I don't know what skill is Zen using since he made tremble and both of them goes quiet too. Shortly after that, I'm no longer tremble it must be because he is stop using his skill.
Seeing both of them, are now quiet I decided to ask either of them.
"Say, both of you are good with magic right?" I asked.
"Yes, I'm very good with magic and even better than him." Mellisa said.
"Huh?! If you want to ask about magic it's better to talk to me than her!" Jeno said.
Other than those two, everyone look at me angrily like they are saying "Why do you make them argued with each other again?!"
"Okay stop, I don't care about who is better. I just want to ask if the "Abandonment food" Spell is exists."
"What an impudent person you are. If the spell that you mentioned is a spell to make you rarely hungry again then yes that spell is exists, though it won't be easy to be acquired." Mellisa said.
"I heard you need to fast for 3 month straight if you want to have it. But there's another way to get that." Jeno said.
"Oy, don't tell me you want to tell him about that. He is very weak you know."
"There's nothing wrong just telling him that. It's his own fault if he did that and dead."
"What is 'that'?" I asked.
"The other way to get the spell is asking the elder magician at the sacred mountain near the Mashi kingdom. If you reached him, he will give you one spell for free."
"That's sound easy."
"Easy, if you didn't count the wyverns and dragons living in that mountain. You are very weak so you better not doing that."
"Yeah, she is right. Other than the wyverns and the dragons, there's final test of making the Sacred White Elder Dragon accepting you. If you fail to do that you will never reach him. I have once reached that dragon while sneaking away from the wyvern, but he rejected me saying that I better fix my aim first."
"That's why I keep told you that your aim is the worst and you never believe me!"
"Well I have fixed that and I will go there again later. How about you? I bet you never reached the dragon."
"I have reached that dragon once. He rejected me with saying that I must treasure my teammate more."
"Yeah, I'm agreeing with that dragon too."
"I fixed it too! Since this time I don't have a member who doesn't consult first about going to shoot the monster and miss."
"It's not my fault when you guys taking so long just to get into the decision."
They are starting their bickering again, everyone looking very mad at me. Their face conveyed the message "What have you done!"
I'm turning my head away and pretending to whistling, hoping someone else will deal with them since I got everything I need from them. Fortunately, Zen is stopping them again and our traveling toward the Mashi kingdom is peaceful.
"Well then with this I know what I need to do in the next kingdom."
if you see this [1] then that means, it is something that contradictory from the previous chapter and something that I never explained before. Actually I will fix and explain that at the rewritten chapter. every new chapter will be written with the rewritten on mind so I don't have to rewrite the chapter. If you see anything like this again just tell me.
And below is the section that I actually want to remove
1. First section :
Yes I'm not lying that much of word I actually thought to remove. Well only after I reprimand myself, I can see how fun it is not to remove something just because transitioning is hard.
2. Eating section :
I'm still removing the cooking and the ingredient part though, the reason is because I like to read japanese isekai novel and thanks to them I REALLY HATE THAT PART. really they don't have to make a chapter just for procuring ingredient and cooking!
I'm still removing something though, like the part where the knight should be outburst into rage after getting that treatment. That removed because I think the receptionist will become too angry to accept or reject his quest.