Feeling content after that battle we head down the mountain

I eat some snacks while making my way down town I mean the mountain,

‘’t-that was. Fun. It helped me level up s-some of my s-skills’’

it seems like side enjoyed that snowball fight quite a bit, considering she took the initiative to talk for once,

‘’Yeah! It was heaps of fun! We should go again in the future’’ I reply, who knows what sort of havoc I can wreck in the future and the skills I would have by then

‘’f-future? Y-you mean, you want us to s-s-stay t-t-together!’’ she stutters covering her mouth and fidgeting

huh? ‘’we’re a party now aren’t we?’’ of course we will stay together in the future, preferably with more people to make things interesting,

side gets even more flustered, if she could, her face would be bright red, ‘’y-y-yes! Please take care of me!’’ she yells accompanied with a bow

I feel like I'm getting better at reading body language by talking to her, judging from her reactions she probably misinterpreted me or something

‘’Yup, me too, now that I think of it, have you been in any parties before?’’ she instantly deflates, metaphorically speaking, d-did I say something bad?

‘’no other parties wanted me in their groups. T-they d-d-didn’t w-want a b-burden l-like me. I'm too weak to be of use to anyone. I just slowed them down…’’ she trails off looking down with her back slouched

d-d-don’t cry! ‘‘It’s alright! You’re super useful! Yup! You help me all the time!’’ don’t grovel on the floor!

She looks up shaking ‘’r-really?’’ aww come on don't do the puppy dog eyes... wait, she can't

uhh ‘’yeah! Totally, remember all those times you saved me (that I ended up finishing) you’re really smart and know lots of things I don’t! (I can ask identify things anyways) and you can use magic (even though I can use magic now too) and uhh you are great company?’’

now that I think about it, she is pretty useless too, b-but! I'm also pretty useless! And I can use a little company? I can get lonely?

‘’sniff, o-okay…’’ she slowly drags her body up, sniffing an imaginary snot up her imaginary nose

Like that we walk down the mountain, i-its so awkward! But at least the distance between us closed a bit and after that

I feel like I can trust her, but still, I hope something pops out to break the ice SKREEEE

Loud Bird woman, level 30 threat 36%, classified as a monster technically. likes to feast on the flesh of men, you should be fine though. uses wind magic

Flying in the sky above us is a naked girl with wings for hands, l-lewd!

Imagine all the things I can- NO focus!

‘’side, what do we do?’’ I look over to side, she seems to have snapped out of her melancholy and is now focusing on the harpy thing above us

‘’t-that thing is a harpy, i-if you kill it the rewards are better than usual monsters a-and the feathers are good for potions and other magic items’’ huh, so even though they look human, people still kill them for items

‘’what does it taste like?’’ would it be okay if I only eat the bird parts?

Side just looks at me and sighs, w-what? It's an honest question

‘’I heard the meat of all humanoids all taste pretty bad’’ then why do monsters eat humans then? if they don't taste good and there are other monsters why do they eat people and raid villages?

‘’i-its not like I would eat the harpy or anything!’’ and plus, fighting a flying naked lady is one of the things I would most definitely feel bad about,

side is shooting wind magic at it like nothing, don’t you feel bad about it? It's practically a human! At this angle I can see everything, hehehe NO I need to contribute in this fight,

I pick up a nearby rock and ditch it, the rock flies through the air slamming directly into the harpies head knocking it out cold,

The harpy drops from the air like a sack of potatoes, probably due to the lack of consciousness and flapping,

I walk up to the out cold harpy. do I have to do this? I really don’t want to do this, I look over to side ‘’do I have to kill it?’’

to which she replies with an air cutter to the neck, chopping off the harpies head with a sickening shwik. the body spasms a little bit as blood pours from newly made stump,

I'm feeling a little bit sick, was side always this... cold? indifferent?

side crouches next to the dead harpy and starts to pluck off its arm wing feather things, Hurp,

I look again at how human the body is, for science and totally not for the view, I am a growing boy, or not since I will stay this way forever,

every time I look at the fountain pouring out of the dead bodies stump I get sick, this is a completely different feeling than killing wolves, golems or animals, I vacate my stomach into a nearby bush after the smell of fresh blood permeates the surroundings,

Level up

Side comes back after a while with an arm full of feathers and one feathery meat thing which I presume to be an ear, probably the subjugation proof,

she seems happy for some reason ‘’with this I can make so many things!’’ oh, so its something to do with magic, weren't we gonna sell it?

she does get really excited whenever the subject involves magic, she hands me the feathers so I put all of them in my item box

Item box levelled up

Good! I've been using my item box for a while now in front of side and I explained it to her saying its some storage thingy,

so leave all the baggage carrying to me, that’s why I'm the one carrying everything since her storage thing isn’t as big or something, she didn’t really explain her storage thing either,

SKREEEE I look upwards and see 5 harpies, oh no, it seems the first one was a scout,

Now its time to get somewhat serious, side continues to fire wind magic while I collect the mana in the air using suck,

after I've compressed it enough I launch it towards one of the harpies knocking it quite a distance away, I guess straight up mana isn’t very deadly, is this why mages have to change it to other elements? making it spin would also up the damage.

Sigh, with my long range fancy mana shots down I use my tried and true rocks,

I hurl a bunch of rocks into the air but the harpies keep flying around erratically, dodging them all,

side keeps missing as well for some reason, ROCKS YOU FAILED ME!

the harpies begin their counterattack launching wind blades of their own, I run around in an attempt to dodge them but that proves futile compared to the might of five harpies spamming air cutter,

spinning around and dodging invisible air wooshes got me dizzy, and eventually I slip up, getting cut on my back and trip over making my wounds hurt even more,

AAAHHhh one of the harpies manage to get a hit on side, cutting off her right arm,

‘’NOOO!’’ now you’ve done it! I don’t care about holding back for experience anymore,

I aim suck on their necks and apply stacks upon stacks, cracking their necks, bending their heads backwards and pulling them directly to the ground in breakneck speeds,

with a loud CRUNCH all the harpies are dead, with broken necks and splattered on the floor like they got run over by a truck, I head to Side to check up on her

Cheat skill: Succ levelled up

When I reach side she was holding her chopped off arm like it was no big deal

‘’are you alright?’’ I ask her worriedly

‘’don’t worry, stuff like this happens all the time, with my repair skill my arm will grow back in no time’’ huh? She gets her limbs cut off regularly?

‘’one of my earlier parties… used to cut off one of my arms for the campfire…’’ she said while looking down, an even more vacant look than usual seems to hang around her somehow

o-oh god, ‘’Don’t worry, I’ll protect you’’ I won't let people take advantage of my party members.

Level up Status for now Name: Sucksuke Level: 47 Race: Beastkin - Cat Class: Assassin HP: 1413.775/1413.775 MP: -- Str: 103 (+25.75) Sta: 58 (0) Spd: 48 (+4.8) Agi: 35 (+10.5) End: 48 (+4) Vit: 47 (+6.35) Int: 33 (-19.8) Wis: 4 (-2.4) Unspent points: 15 Skills Cheat skill: Succ lvl 24 Regeneration lvl 17/50 Sharp claws lvl max Item box lvl 7/20 Night vision lvl 4/15 Translate Identify Feline reflexes Mind resistance large Feline intuition Luck down Feline curiosity Accuracy lvl 3/10 Titles Otherworlder Beastkin - Cat Character creator Cheat skill holder Sucker Main character One who stared into the abyss Scaredy cat Black cat Retard MEDIC! I NEED HEALING! cut me some slack Pyrophobia Superhuman strength Snowball warrior