## Chapter 42 – New Equipment (2)
As we exited the armor shop, Noah exclaimed, “Ah!”
“What’s wrong, Noah?”
“Hey, Rent, couldn’t we just put the gauntlets in our inventory instead of carrying them in our backpacks?”
“Oh, you’re right.”
Even with the inventory, I had been putting things in my backpack as usual.
“Hey, Rent, let’s try putting the backpack in the inventory. I’m curious how the inventory stores things!”
“Should we?”
Honestly, I was also curious about how this small pouch could store items.
“No, you can’t.”
But then Elsie stopped us from testing the inventory.
“Eeeh~ Why, Elsie~”
“There are too many people here. If someone sees Rent has an inventory, they might try to steal it.”
Elsie was right.
Inventories were said to be extremely valuable and rare.
And this one had five times the storage space of a normal inventory.
We couldn’t rule out the possibility of someone trying to steal it.
“But if you think about it, Uncle Kelban already blabbed about it at the Adventurer’s Guild.”
“W-Well, even if that’s unavoidable, I don’t think we need to increase the risk ourselves.”
I thought Noah and I had been careless this time.
“Okay, Elsie. Noah, let’s test the inventory in my room at the Fox’s Rest.”
“Hmm~ Okay, let’s do that. Ah! Come to think of it, I need to buy a spare dagger too!”
“Then let’s stop by the weapon shop as well.”
“Okay!”
We headed towards the weapon shop.
Inside, Noah was looking at the daggers on display.
“Hmm~ Considering the price, should I buy just one… or should I buy two just in case…”
It looked like she would be pondering for a while, so I decided to look around the shop.
There were various weapons on display.
Daggers, one-handed swords, double-edged axes, and even axes that looked like the logging axes I often saw at home.
There were also knuckles, bows and arrows, and staves.
Seeing the staves reminded me of Solisine’s statue.
The naked statue of Solisine.
I remembered the staff that statue was holding.
Divine magic was still magic.
Wouldn’t using a staff increase its power?
“Elsie.”
“Yes. What is it, Rent?”
“Aren’t you going to buy a staff, Elsie?”
“Ah, I don’t have the money for that…”
“Are staves that expensive?”
“Yes. The gems that amplify magic power are special, so they cost a lot.”
“But you can afford one now, right?”
Elsie had more than 3 gold on her now.
Even if they were expensive, she should be able to buy one staff, right?
Just then, the shop assistant spoke to us.
“Are you looking for a staff? Oh my, you’re a priest! Then how about this one! It’s the most popular staff among priests these days!”
The staff the assistant pointed to was very similar to the design of the one Solisine’s statue held.
It was no wonder it was popular among priests.
“How much is that one?”
The assistant smiled brightly and said, “It’s 3 gold.”
“3 gold…”
“See the emerald gem embedded in the staff? It’s specially processed to amplify magic power, increasing both the number of times you can use magic and its power! It’s an excellent item!”
“Hmm, Elsie, do you want that staff?”
“Huh!? W-Well… as an apprentice, I do want to have one as a priest of Solisine… but it feels presumptuous for me, who is still inexperienced, to use a staff that looks like Solisine’s…”
In other words, she felt too unworthy to use a staff that was the same as the revered Solisine’s.
Elsie might still be an apprentice, but she was promoted today and learned a new spell.
If she had a staff, it would be a great help to her.
I had spent some money on armor and gauntlets, but I could afford a 3 gold staff.
Besides, we were going to the dungeon to hunt kobolds tomorrow, so if we worked hard, we could earn more than 1 gold.
“Then I’ll take that staff…”
“R-Rent!?”
Elsie grabbed my hand tightly as I tried to buy the staff.
“W-What are you doing!?”
“Elsie, you want the staff, right?”
“Y-Yes, but why are you buying it for me! I’m fine!”
“Huh? What’s wrong, Elsie?”
Noah, who had been choosing daggers, heard Elsie’s voice and came over.
“N-Noah! Please stop Rent!”
“Stop him?”
Noah smirked and gave a sly smile.
“Did Rent secretly touch your butt or something?”
I did not touch it.
But I want to.
“No! R-Rent is… trying to buy me a staff!”
“Oh, what? Rent’s buying a staff? That’s generous, Rent!”
“D-Don’t be impressed, stop him!”
“Why~? Isn’t it good if Rent buys you a staff? Hey, Rent~ Don’t you have anything to buy for me~?”
“Noah!”
“Okay, okay~ I got it. Rent, why are you trying to buy Elsie a staff?”
“Because Elsie seems to want one. And if she has a staff, her magic power will increase, which is good for us too.”
“Yeah, that’s true. Elsie, why don’t you just accept it? You can think of it as a gift from Rent for your promotion.”
“B-But that would be too much of a burden on Rent…”
“Hmm~ Then… ah, Rent, how much is this staff?”
“It’s 3 gold.”
Noah raised her index finger on her left hand and her index and middle fingers on her right hand.
“Then how about Elsie pays 1 gold and Rent pays 2 gold? That way, Rent’s burden will be reduced, Elsie will feel better, and Rent will be happy to buy it for Elsie.”
“T-That’s…”
Noah put her hand on Elsie’s shoulder, who was hesitating.
“Elsie, accept Rent’s kindness at times like this. If you keep refusing, Rent will be discouraged, you know?”
“…Okay.”
“Okay, it’s decided then. I’ll take this one. Oh, and a dagger, plus three throwing daggers.”
“Thank you, sir!”
Smoothly, Noah picked up the staff, the dagger, and three small throwing daggers and went to the counter.
I paid 2 gold, Elsie paid 1 gold, and Noah paid for the dagger and throwing daggers. We left the weapon shop.
Noah adjusted the newly bought dagger at his waist, and Elsie was clutching the staff tightly with both hands.
“I, I bought it… even though I’m still an apprentice…”
“Hehehe, it suits you well, Elsie. Right, Rent?”
“Yeah. I think it suits you too.”
“Ugh…”
Elsie’s ears turned red, embarrassed by the praise, and she lowered her head.
Cute.
Especially the way she’s clutching the staff tightly with her hands is the highlight.
“T-thank you, Rent… I, I… I’ll be more helpful with this staff that Rent bought for me.”
“Yeah, Elsie.”
“Even though Elsie paid 1 gold.”
“I could have paid for it all.”
“N-no, if Rent paid for everything, I’d feel too indebted!”
Elsie, looking shy while holding the staff, was really cute.
Is it because she’s holding the staff that she’s even cuter?
…The staff.
Elsie blushing.
Two simple elements, but enough for a simple fantasy.
Elsie, who hasn’t had any sexual experience yet, but is very interested in sex.
Having accidentally discovered the pleasure of masturbation, Elsie becomes addicted to it.
Her main method of masturbation is rubbing her clitoris with her fingers.
But something is lacking with just her fingers.
However, she’s hesitant and scared to mix bodies directly with a man.
That’s when her staff caught her eye!
Her curiosity about sex led Elsie to come up with a new idea for masturbation.
Elsie discovered the new pleasure of rubbing her vagina against the staff, which had the perfect hardness, by placing it between her legs!
Her staff masturbation becomes more and more intense day by day.
Eventually, the pleasure of that masturbation becomes insufficient, and Elsie encounters my penis, a shorter but much thicker staff of destiny!
Just as I was about to start a fantasy of class-changing the masturbation-addicted Elsie into a sex addict.
Noah stretched his arm high and shouted.
“Alright! Let’s go to the dungeon again! There’s still plenty of time before dinner, so let’s test out our new weapons!”
“Yeah, let’s do that. I’m also curious what it feels like to hit with the gauntlets on.”
At least it won’t have that lukewarm feeling when taking out magic stones.
“I, I’m also… curious how much the power of my holy magic will increase.”
All three of us wanted to test out our new equipment.
And we headed back to the dungeon.
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The results of the new equipment were very satisfactory.
Noah bought a spare dagger, so his style didn’t change much, but he could now kill a kobold in one shot by hitting it between the eyes with a throwing dagger.
Noah said that the throwing daggers were sharper and stuck in better.
I also took out the gauntlets from my backpack and hunted kobolds.
The sensation was definitely different from hitting with bare fists.
What I liked was the satisfying thud of hitting with solid metal and the fact that I didn’t get blood on my hands when taking out magic stones, and I didn’t have to feel the creature’s body temperature directly.
Elsie’s staff was very useful in the dungeon.
Especially when we got hungry while hunting.
After dealing with the surrounding kobolds, Elsie cast Protection.
As she used the magic, light emanated from the staff, and a hemispherical barrier spread around us.
Elsie said that Protection can distinguish who can enter based on the caster’s perception.
Since we couldn’t sit directly on the ground, I knocked down a nearby tree with my fist, and we sat on it side by side and ate lunch.
Neither Elsie nor Noah were particularly surprised that I knocked down a tree.
I guess they thought I was strong enough to do that.
When we started hunting again after lunch, I asked Elsie to cast Speed on me after seeing her cast it on Noah.
Elsie readily cast Speed on me.
My impression was that it was incredibly exciting.
My movements suddenly became twice as fast, which made me feel strangely excited.
I can run fast by forcefully kicking the ground with my strength, but my body movements aren’t that agile.
But with Speed cast on me, my agility also doubled, which was very fast by my standards.
It was as if I had a 2x speed function.
The fantasy of being able to accelerate my waist speed during sex became a reality.
The sound of hitting kobolds was also more cheerful, sounding like thud thud thud.
…I was so excited that I kept pestering Elsie to cast it on me, which resulted in her running out of magic power, which was something I should reflect on.
It shortened the time I had to talk with Elsie in the evening.
Among the new equipment, the most useful was the inventory that Mr. Kelvan gave me.
When I was about to put the magic stones into my backpack, I thought it would be better to use the inventory, so I tried it out.
The moment I brought the magic stone close to the pouch opening, it disappeared and went into the inventory.
I caught another kobold and showed the scene to Elsie and Noah.
Elsie and Noah were also wide-eyed with surprise.
I tried holding a kobold corpse close, and it disappeared as well.
How do I take it out? I wondered, and when I touched the star pattern on the inventory, the items inside the inventory were listed in my head.
It was an incredibly strange sensation.
When I selected the kobold corpse in my head, the pouch opening widened and spat out the kobold corpse.
I was once again impressed by the fantasy-like item.
Since the storage capacity issue was resolved, we caught far more kobolds than we did in the morning and returned to the warp device.
When we came outside, it was almost sunset.
It was time to return to the inn, so we immediately went to the exchange to exchange the magic stones in the inventory.
There were a lot of people at the exchange, so I was worried if it was okay to show them taking things out of the inventory, but if I kept worrying about that, there would be no end to it.
Even if someone tried to steal the inventory, I would definitely catch them with my overflowing stamina and fast, strength-based running.
If it’s a man, I’ll knock him out and take him to the Adventurer’s Guild.
If I ask Lenny, she’ll tell me where to take the thief.
If it’s a cute girl, I’ll knock her out, observe and caress her body thoroughly to gather enough information for my fantasies, and then take her to the Adventurer’s Guild just like the man.
She’ll be used as a material for gang rape by monsters in my fantasies, becoming a precious cornerstone of my masturbation life.
Elsie was a little uneasy, but we couldn’t not exchange the stones, so she took out the magic stones from the inventory one by one and exchanged them.
The exchange employee wasn’t particularly surprised and silently exchanged the magic stones.
He was the embodiment of professionalism.
The exchange amount was 1 gold and 40 silver.
After dividing the money among the three of us, we returned to the Fox’s Rest.
