Chapter 9 Chapter 9 Players visit special NPCs at night!
"well……"
"Are you really going to take Kei to see Yukimura tomorrow? Is that really okay?..."
"Think positively, Bunta. Kei is a very good person, except for his occasional... unusual behavior..."
"Is that occasionally?" Marui Bunta couldn't help but complain, and finally took a deep breath, "For example?"
"Like...uh," Jack Kuwahara tried to argue, "Like, that, this...like?"
The two looked at each other in dead silence. After a sigh, there was only a long silence.
Just as they were racking their brains on the way home from school, trying to find some human-like qualities in Yagi Kei, the player had already finished eating half of the scallion and successfully reached the location of the last NPC.
It was worth it that the player drank two cans of JJ Cola to speed up and finally arrived!
Looks like I need to schedule triple espresso and spicy eel rice as soon as possible!
Yukimura Seiichi smiled and said goodbye to the child in the next ward, then returned to his own ward. Thinking that Sanada and Yanagi would be coming to visit with the new first-year students tomorrow, he felt a sense of emotion in his heart.
A noteworthy and interesting junior... I'm looking forward to it.
Yukimura was thinking this before he sat down when two bangs were heard at the door.
Yukimura:?
Could it be that the children in the next ward have missed something?
Yukimura went back to open the door, and when he looked down, he saw nothing at the door except a trash can thrown there by someone.
He was slightly puzzled and was about to close the door again.
The trash can suddenly spoke: "Hello."
Yukimura Seiichi: "?"
After looking at it again, I realized that this was not a trash can, but a person holding a trash can lid!
Yukimura Seiichi: "...Hello, what can I do for you?"
The person blocking the door said nothing, but just kept moving forward with the trash can hat on his head, as if trying to squeeze him in.
Yukimura Seiichi: "..."
He has always been good-tempered, especially towards children. He thought about it for a few seconds. In fact, he was more worried that he would be hit by the trash can lid if he stood there, so he dodged and moved away.
So the players began to play.
[Yukimura Seiichi’s favorable impression +5]
【Task 1: Newly arrived
Everyone is curious about you, the new guy. After all, first impression is very important.
Please say hello to the residents of Amuro Valley (Rikkai University)!
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【Congratulations on unlocking the Yukimura Seed Shop! 】
You can buy seeds here!
Oh hoo!
The seed shop that players have been looking for is actually here with the last NPC!
Luckily, the players made a last-minute decision to leave early! Hard work pays off!!
The greeting mission seemed to have refreshed other tasks, but put them aside for the time being and the player began to scan the NPC's room.
The mushroom head wandered around, stopped here and there,
[The hospital bed is very tidy.]
[An open storybook contains the most heartwarming stories in the world.]
[Drawer, where I collected some gifts given during visits.]
The player was very interested in the drawer, but unfortunately it was locked. It was probably because the NPC's favorability was not high enough, so the player had to leave with regret for the time being.
【Chair, nothing special.】
【Table, nothing special.】
[On the windowsill, there are some rare green plants, planted by the ward owner himself.]
Yukimura Seiichi was wearing a hospital gown and folded his arms as he looked at the unfamiliar faces that entered his room and wandered around.
Although the face was unfamiliar, the other person was wearing the Rikkai University uniform.
A student at Rikkai University...
But why did you come to him suddenly?
Did Yanagi and Sanada tell him that he could accurately find his room in the hospital?
All the thoughts went through his mind one by one, but Yukimura kept a gentle smile on his face until the mushroom-headed man with the trash can lid on his head came in front of him.
"Hello."
"Um... hello."
How should I put it... This kid is quite polite, but...
The player waited for a while.
The NPC just smiled and said nothing.
Players are weird.
Where's the seed store?! Wasn't it just unlocked?!
The player poked the NPC who had to wear a hospital gown for some unknown reason.
No response.
Player: Huh?
The player didn't believe it and poked him again.
Yukimura Seiichi had a gentle smile on his face, but a drop of sweat slowly rolled down his forehead.
Is this some kind of test? Why is this kid constantly tickling him? I have no idea what his purpose is...
The player looked at the unresponsive NPC in confusion, reported the bug, and received a reply that everything was normal.
Players walk over, players walk back.
The player circled around the NPC and after failing to jam the NPC into the wall, he quickly picked up the hospital gown the NPC was wearing.
Yukimura Seiichi, who kept dodging the attacks: "..."
Finally, he spoke with difficulty, "What do you want to do?"
Oh! He's talking! It really takes a few more pokes to work!
The player immediately answered: "Seed!"
Having lost his hospital gown, Yukimura didn't dare to argue with him any further and immediately took out all the seeds he could find in the drawer.
The player looked at the unfolded seed store catalog and fell into deep thought for a moment.
Including the previous tasks, the player now has 3300 yen. In the afternoon, he looted the kelp head NPC and obtained another 2762 yen. Rounding it off, the player now has 6000 yen!
Although I really want to buy them all at once, I still need to save some for buying strawberry seeds for later festivals.
100 yen a piece of strawberry seeds is a huge sum of money for today's players!
The player was thinking hard, and what caught Yukimura Seiichi's eyes was a strange face in front of him with a trash can lid on his head, staring at the seeds he had found.
Could it be that there are no seeds he wants? So what exactly does he want... No, the more important thing now is who this child is, right?
Why did you just barge in and start buying seeds from him?!
Yukimura fell into an inexplicable logical circle, and the person who had been in a daze started to move.
Yagi Kei: "I want 100 potato seeds."
Oh... soil, potato seeds?
Yukimura searched around aimlessly and actually found exactly one hundred potato seeds in the seed pile.
I wonder if he's ever bought potato seeds before? He has no recollection of it...
I feel like the more I think about it, the more I'll have to think about it. No matter what this strange person wants so many seeds for, or where or how to plant them, I'll just give them to him first.
Yukimura not only gave him 100 potato seeds, but also gave him 20 tulip seeds as a gift.
The player held up the seed bag and his dead fish eyes lit up.
...It's not that profiteer Pierre! !
The player looked at the newly born seed shop owner, Yukimura Seiichi, with great satisfaction, and decided to patronize his business more often in the future and improve his favorability.
The player stuffed 120 seeds into his backpack and turned away.
Hurry up, hurry up, otherwise you won’t be able to get home before two o’clock in the middle of the night!
Yukimura, who was forced to pay 5,000 yen: ...
He was silent for a moment and said casually, "By the way, the hospital gown...why not return it to me?"
The dead fish-eyed mushroom head with the trash can lid on its head turned back and stared at the NPC.
Although players want to refuse, after all, what players take away belongs to the players!
But... this NPC will issue a separate quest!
[Emergency Mission: Please return the character anchor of [Yukimura Seiichi].
Reward: Favorability +5
...It's actually a character anchor! Then it seems I have no choice but to return!
Mushroom Head, who was holding the lid of the trash can, took out a hospital gown from somewhere, stuffed it into Yukimura's arms, and turned away.
Yukimura: "..."
He slowly put on his coat and said, "Give me back the green plants... too."
Yagi Kei: "..."
After doing the same operation again, Yukimura successfully had more than a dozen potted green plants in his arms, on his head, and under his feet.
The player continues to turn his head and——
Yukimura glanced around the empty ward and took a deep breath. "There are also art collections, storybooks, tables, chairs, and flush toilets..."
Player: What’s going on? This NPC has been plundering players’ property all the time!
I take back my previous compliments about him, he is a profiteer, absolutely a profiteer!!
Finally, the bed was returned with a loud bang, and the player angrily left the hospital with 120 seeds and 5 points of favorability.
Yukimura finally felt that the ward was full again, standing outside the ward and smilingly dealing with the nurse who had come to check on the ward quickly after hearing a loud noise.
Turning back to open the door and seeing the tables and chairs piled together, Yukimura couldn't help but fall silent.
He could actually hold so many things on his head. Could this strange Rikkai University kid be...
After a night of rapid travel, the player finally returned to the dormitory at 1:50. He also rummaged through several trash cans on the way and picked some dandelions, wild wasabi and daffodils, and quickly went to bed.
3, 2, 1...
At 6:00 A.M., the player jumped out of bed on time.
[Ding! Fishing Level 1-Level 2 up!]
[Obtain recipe: "Bait"]
[Tennis Level 3-Lev.4 up!]
[The 'School Ranking Tournament' is about to begin! ]
【Save successfully】
Punch card punch card——
[This is rare. The elves are very indifferent today.]
【Tomorrow will be sunny and windy! 】
Leaving the student dormitory, we were in a precarious situation.
The players shed tears of emotion.
——It’s finally raining! Farmers can finally free their hands for a day!
…
Even though training was suspended today due to rain and it was also a rest day, the regular players of the Rikkai University Tennis Club went out half an hour early.
I don’t know when it started, but leaving home early has almost become a common habit.
Jack Sangyuan, holding an umbrella, comforted him, "Think positively... At least today, we didn't see anyone fishing with a tennis racket at the school gate..."
Jack Sangyuan was shocked: "He wasn't fishing at the school gate!"
Marui Bunta quickly looked around: "He's not rummaging through the trash cans either!!"
Kirihara Akaya turned the corner to overtake and look for him: "There's no one in the student dormitory either!!"
Everyone looked at each other, their expressions suddenly becoming panic and fearful.
"Could it be...that guy did something out of line again?!"
I feel a little worried, but also a little reasonable in the weirdness.
No one noticed that their brains were gradually twisting into the shape of the player.
I even thought that if Kei Yagi didn't do something abnormal, it would seem a bit unfair to them who had been hurt in the past few days.
So if that's the case... whatever this guy does seems normal?
After searching the student dormitories, the student cafeteria, and every trash can, everyone finally returned to the starting point: the back mountain.
And successfully caught a mushroom in the field, which was diligently digging potatoes with its butt sticking up and against the lid of a trash can.
Niou: "Is he really just harvesting potatoes?"
Yagyu Hiroshi: "It seems so. We can't rule out the possibility that there are bomb traps around."
Kuwabara screamed, "What the—a bomb!!"
Marui's focus shifted: "So this is how Keina-chan used the trash can lid he stole?"
Kirihara Aka was greatly inspired, "I see...it can be used this way, so convenient!"
Seeing that everyone's conversation was heading in a nonsensical direction, Sanada could no longer bear it: "Stop talking, Yukimura is already waiting for us."
Liu observed it carefully and said, "The probability of him harvesting mature seeds is 82%. You can try to approach him."
"Then the question arises,"
"Who's going?"
“…”
“………”
In the end, it was Sanada with a sullen face who was pushed forward.
As he stood over, Yagi Kei, who had just finished peeling a potato with the lid of the trash can on his head, looked up.
Huh? Hat NPC?
Players who planted a lot of potatoes were in a good mood, and their mood also improved when they looked at the NPCs.
He rummaged through his backpack and found the little trash, then raised the daffodil and glared at Sanada, then turned around and continued to dig potatoes.
Sanada, who had just come over and had a daffodil forced into his mouth, said: "..."
Niou Masaharu covered his face with his hands: "It's over, this guy Sanada was defeated too easily..."
Sanada held the daffodil stiffly for a long moment before retreating. The one who came rushing over to replace him was...
Jack Kuwahara failed the challenge.
Marui Bunta failed in his challenge.
Niou Masaharu is ignored by players.
Yagyu Hiroshi is passed by the player.
The only survivors were Yanagi and Kirihara.
Kirihara Akaya clenched his fist: "I, I, I... I'm going to do it!"
Everyone watched Kirihara run over, and after seeing Kirihara talking a lot around Yagi Kei, they finally saw Yagi Kei look up.
Everyone clenched their fists and eagerly waited for Kirihara to come back.
"What did he say??"
"What did that kid say?!"
"Hurry, hurry—Akaye, speak!"
Kirihara Akaya chuckled and gestured: "Kui means that we will leave after he finishes planting."
After getting the answer, everyone looked at the figure who was diligently holding the lid of the trash can and working tirelessly in the heavy rain, hoeing the ground and sowing seeds.
For a moment, I even admired the brilliance of labor that shone in him.
As expected of first-year students at Rikkai University, they're so hardworking and patient at such a young age. It seems they're just too lazy...
The others, immersed in their emotions, didn't notice it, but Liu, who was well-versed in details, had already discovered the blind spot.
He was silent for a moment, then slowly asked, "Did Yagi say...how much to plant?"
Kirihara Akaya paused: "Huh? It should be... it should be, just finished planting, right?"
Liu slowly pointed to the fields that stretched as far as the eye could see.
"Based on the cultivated land that has been tilled so far... 80 acres of land."
"But Yagi is still increasing the area of his hoeing… so by the time Yagi finishes planting, the probability of us successfully visiting Yukimura is 0.00001%."
Everyone: “…”
Everyone: “…………”
“Too… too lax…!”
"——Now is not the time to say such things!!" Everyone collapsed.
"Someone please go and persuade that kid!"
"Kyu, stop planting... I'm scared!!"
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Yukimura waited from day to night: Hey... everyone, are you coming back for dinner today?
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