Gather Divine Coins and Gacha! - Chapter 70

 Following Elena to Seriana’s room, I found Alec there too.

Even if he’s technically an escort, he is still a man, so he usually tries not to come in much—so this is rare.

“Perfect timing. Here, Alec.”

I wasn’t going to forget, but I’ll hand it over first.

“Ah… you saved me.”

The errand is complete.
Now come on!

“So, what did you pick up? It doesn’t seem hostile, but… it’s a monster, right?”

That’s a difficult question.

“…It’s probably a monster, but I don’t know what it is.”

I rolled up my sleeve to show them, but… it wasn’t there.
I rolled up the other sleeve, but… it wasn’t there either.

“Get down from the 【Floating Orb】 and turn around.”

As I looked over my body here and there thinking, Where is it?, I was told that.
Is it on my back or something?
Well, whatever. I got down from the 【Floating Orb】 and turned my back to them.

“…Hey.”

Seriana lifted my skirt, and even the shirt I was wearing underneath, exposing my back.
Yeah… right… I’m wearing a one-piece… aren’t I…?

“Ah, there it is. What is this, I wonder? Do you two know?”

Ignoring my protest, the three of them were staring at my back.

Don’t make me blush…

“Alec, this is…”

“Yeah. It’s a Burrowing Snake…. Sera, order it to move to your hand.”

So Burrowing Snake is its name, huh? All right, I’ll try it.

“Come to my hand, come to my hand, come to my hand…… oh?”

I didn’t feel it moving across my body at all, but it slid along my left arm with a shuru-shuru and appeared on my palm.

It’s about 20 centimeters long, but it pulled away from my hand and showed its snake form.
With red eyes, it’s pretty adorable.
Unlike the part wrapped around me, this part has about the thickness of a rope.
Just like when I found it.

“A snake… how strange.”

Seriana stared at the snake on my palm as if it were something mysterious.
This young lady seems fine with snakes.

When I give it simple instructions, it listens properly, which is interesting.
It’s pretty smart, isn’t it?

“So, where did you pick it up?”

Come to think of it, was that building a warehouse?
If so, it should have an owner…

It’s not a noble’s place, is it?

“Hm…”

After I explained what happened, Alec and Elena fell into thought.
They look a bit serious—was there something odd about it?
Seriana looks unchanged, though…

“The Burrowing Snake itself shouldn’t be a problem. It listens to Sera, and given how it was found, it should already be tamed. If you apply at the Knight Order headquarters later, you should be granted permission.”

Elena began explaining what was bothering her.

Apparently, a Burrowing Snake slips into a living being’s mana, and survives by absorbing the surrounding miasma in that state.
When I found it, it probably couldn’t take in miasma and was weakened.

And the reason I could tame it was because 【Shadow Sword】 and the Burrowing Snake were highly compatible.

Normally, you capture it first, feed it, and in the end use magic tools and the like to form a contract. But apparently, if you have a gacha-derived item, the monster may rarely approach you on its own.

That’s exactly what happened this time.

When it was nearly dried out, it found someone with power similar to its own and called out.
That strange sensation I felt must have been that.

…Man, I’m pretty lucky.

“And?”

Seriana urged her to continue.
She’s right—if that’s all, it ends with “no problem.”

“Burrowing Snakes live in deep mountains and forests, and they coexist with the monsters and beasts that claim those areas as their territory. And they rarely move from there.”

“So it’s strange for one to be in the royal capital? For example, could it have been with a hunter or an adventurer and gotten separated?”

“I can’t say it’s absolutely impossible, but it’s said they won’t change their symbiotic partner unless one of them dies. Whatever that building was, given it was weakened despite people coming and going, that seems unlikely.”

“Alec, what do you think?”

“I think it’s odd too. Maybe I’m overthinking it, but we should tell the master of the house.”

“They still haven’t returned… I’ll tell them as soon as they do. You two, be there as well.”

If it’s going as far as telling the old man… maybe this is serious?

That’s a problem.

Tilting my head as I looked at the snake, it tilted its head the same way.

What a good kid!

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Sera・【Hideout】【Prayer】【Mira's Blessing】・【Floating Orb】【Shadow Sword】【Scarlet Bee Needle】・6 cards


Seriana・【Area Identification】・【】・19 cards


Elena・【】・【Green Fang】・0 cards


Alec・【】・【Red Shield】・1 card

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