Even the roads that had dried up earlier swelled like a river, taking away the heat of the day.

"Oh, it's cool, but, hopefully not too much."

While coolness is welcome, it is not good if the river overflows or the road collapses.

Rotting before the taro harvest can make it difficult to survive the winter.

Although it was before I was born, I had heard of long summer rains that wiped out the taro army, causing people to starve in the winter.

"Wait until autumn and maybe make dried fish"

For efficiency reasons, it may be better to hunt a pig and then make dried meat, but even if you succeed in defeating the pig, you can't bring it back to the village.

"Instead of acting as an adventurer, you should first become a person who takes charge of yourself"

The rain gradually waned, and the western sky shimmered crimson.

The river flowing through the village does not appear to overflow the levee.

With my family's fish in my hand, I walked towards the dusk road.

As the size of the streets increases, interracial prejudice and discrimination seem to become more severe.

Small mountain villages such as Azka are rarely discriminated against because each villager has to play a role in maintaining the village.

Still, prejudice and discrimination are not entirely non-existent.

First of all, cat people are smaller than other races.

If the quarrel escalates into a wrist duel, the outcome is obvious.

I grew up often seeing my father being threatened by the cattle people in the neighborhood and forced to take on the trouble.

Physically, I'm like a contrast between an elementary school student and a big man, so it's not surprising that I'm scared.

I've also expressed my dissatisfaction with the village chief's grandson, the werewolf Miguel, and if I am challenged to fight with my wrist, I will quickly use my agility to escape.

I don't want to be easily killed after being bullied like in my previous life, and I don't want to live without the right to speak.

Miguel always defiantly called me mean and cowardly, but I wasn't going to be provoked by him.

It's not wise to go head-to-head with someone with super wrist power.

If he says I'm mean and cowardly, I'll use my agility to overcome him.

After returning from the Lair Departure Ritual, Miguel's life has been lazy for a while, but he seems to have been severely taught by his father and has recently begun to go to school seriously.

However, he doesn't seem to be trained in attribute magic, so for now, I should be able to defeat him head-on.

After about two months of training, my armor and shield also improved.

The first is the material, the strength has been greatly improved.

Plates made of the same material will still shatter when hit with sticks, but they will still bounce.

Considering that I'm a cat person, my attacks are only to this extent, so I don't think it can withstand the attacks of monsters, but it should be better than bringing nothing.

The second improvement is the helmet.

Unlike metal, the transparent material doesn't block the view, but it can cause breathing to build up and blur, so I made vents in the helmet.

In addition, if the ears are covered, then excellent hearing cannot work, so I decided to use two types of helmets: those with exposed ears and those with covered ears.

Use the type that does not cover the ears when searching, and the type that covers the ears when fighting.

The third improvement was the use of shields.

The shield is used to fend off enemy attacks, but I found that the magic fixed in the air was more powerful than I held it.

If I hold a shield, the shield will move if the opponent pushes it with more force than me, but if it is fixed in the air with magic, there are only two options: take the attack or shatter, and it will not leave its place.

Therefore, I decided to stop holding a shield and use magic to levitate it in the air.

During training, I made two small shields that moved around me, but as I became familiar with the use of tread, it seemed that it was faster to give up moving and unfold a new shield.

Faster than I perceive danger, auto-unfolding would be ideal, but it seems difficult to get to that level.

If training continues, escape and defense should reach a satisfactory level, but the problem is to increase the attack power.

Due to the small and light body of the cat people, although it is possible to create a strong and lightweight weapon with empty attribute magic, it is difficult to increase the power of a single blow even if the magic power is enhanced.

If heavy hitting isn't feasible, then speed can only be pursued to the extreme.

In order to do this, I figured out how to learn body-strengthening magic.

Body enhancement magic is magic that enhances physical abilities through magic, but it cannot be used without training.

After the attribute magic is unsealed during the Lair Departure Ceremony, it seems that it can be used immediately as if it were a memory, but I don't know where to start.

Even if you know the principle of strengthening your body through magic, you don't know how to flow magic into your body, and you don't know the basic senses.

As with the use of attribute magic, even if the magic element is injected into the vein to strengthen the attribute magic, the body will not be strengthened.

Although some people can use it on their own, they are prone to injury to muscles and ligaments due to the inability to control the degree of strengthening, and may even cause serious sequelae.

Therefore, it is best to learn at first under the guidance of someone who is familiar with the skill.

In Azca, the best person at this kind of magic is probably Mr. Zeor, who is hired by the village chief, but I heard that he doesn't teach this skill easily.

Even if Miguel, the grandson of the village chief, begged him, he did not agree to the professor.

As I now often go to catch rats and get paid, I have more opportunities to meet Mr. Zeor, but only to say hello, and from the outside, he is a strong, middle-aged man who does not know how to approach him.

The season has completely changed to autumn, and the trees on the mountain begin to dye the leaves in the red, which is the season to dye the leaves in the red.

When autumn arrives, winter arrives.

This season, the squirrels start to stock up on food for the winter, and their activities become more active, so I will also become very busy.

Before, only about five could be caught a day, but since the fall came, sometimes fifteen can be caught a day, or even three times as many as before.

As a result, income has increased, but there are always people who don't like others to make money.

On that day, when I had just been paid for fifteen squirrels and was about to leave the village chief's house, Miguel and the others were in ambush at the door.

In the past, I would have thought about where to slip away at this time, but thanks to the void magic, I have many ways to escape.

"Meow, you're cheating."

"Huh? What did you say all of a sudden? "

"You can't catch ten, or even fifteen squirrels a day, without cheating."

"No, I don't understand what you're talking about. First of all, is there any so-called legitimate method or trick to catch squirrels? As long as you don't cause trouble to others, no matter what method you use to catch squirrels, it will be beneficial to the village, and there is no reason to be condemned. "

"What do you say, guy, who do you think paid you?"

"Of course it's the village. The money of the village is not the same as the money of the village chief himself. If you want to be the village chief in the future, you still need to remember this thing. "