Depths of the Otherworldly Labyrinth (WN)

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Bleeding: 0.52　

 

EXP：805/100

　

Equipment：

One-Handed Iron Sword

Otherworldly Clothes

Elven Cloak

Leather Gloves

Scorched Otherworldly Shoes

Throwing Knife with a Spell Mark

 

“Ah, it changed to English.”

 

The ‘Display’ had responded to my careless remark.

It was a little awkward compared to Japanese Kanji, but readability was much more important.
I figured I should read it in English letters.

 

The first and foremost thing that bothered me was the '持ち物なし' from before.

If I took those words at face value, that meant that I was recognized to be in possession of nothing. 

 

“I have beef jerky and a water canteen hanging around my waist, though…”

 

And yet, this was what was shown:

 

【Item List】

Empty

 

I checked again, but it seemed like I really was not in possession of anything. 

 

“Well, I can more or less see the approach here… I mean, I love games, so…”

 

The point was whether or not I had met the conditions.

There were very crude, inflexible, game-like conditions at play, and I happened to not meet those conditions. 

 

“Perhaps Equipment refers to things that directly affect battle… Things that affect the so-called parameters…”

 

I felt like that meant that I shouldn’t ‘equip’ anything that didn’t change the parameters.
Or, in other words, I shouldn’t put it on or have it attached to my person—

 

“Do I have cliched bags with infinite storage or something similar…?”

 

I took another look at what I was wearing.

I tried to pull things in and out of the waist bag and my empty pockets.

But nothing happened.

 

“Then…”

 

Enter…~

 

As an experiment, I held up a piece of jerky to the empty space in front of me as I prayed so in my heart.

And when I did, the space twisted, and the dried meat was swallowed into the vortex.

 

“—?! S-scary…!”

 

I hastily retracted my hand.

The sight terrified me to the bone, but perhaps that was the correct course of action. 

 

“Okay.
Let’s check the 'Item List’.”

 

【Item List】

Beef Jerky

 

“Haha.
Yup, very game-like.”

 

What slipped out was half a laugh and half a fearful snicker. 

 

However, I then understood one of the rules of the 'Item List' storage.

If I held up an item in the air and thought of inserting it consciously, it would be inserted into some other place. 

 

Yup.

Some other place, somewhere…

 

“…This should make things easier.”

 

It looked like I would be able to loot more tools and foodstuffs that I had given up on earlier.

With a lot of trial and error, I managed to put various things into that other place one after another.

 

Incidentally, I couldn’t insert the dead bodies or the small insect.

Maybe because they were too big—or maybe because they used to be living beings.
They seemed to have been rejected due to some conditions.

And thus, my 'Item List’ had become:

 

【Item List】

Beef Jerky

Water Canteen

Hemostatic Potion

Oil

Numbing Needle(s)

Antidote

File

Auria’s Greatsword

Leather Gloves

Leather Shoes

Clothes Bundle

Wooden Bow

Iron Knife

Arrows without Mark

Lighter

Smartphone

Pebbles

Twig

10th Grade Magic Stone

9th Grade Magic Stone

 

Incidentally, my lighter and smartphone were in the pair of jeans that I was wearing, so I put them in the 'Item List' after making sure I could take them in and out safely.

I tried my smartphone’s signal, but obviously, there was no connection.
The date was off by a few years from the last time I had checked as well, so it might have been damaged during the impact.
However, the flashlight and the clock functions were still working, which was a huge help. 

 

“I’ve put a lot of things inside, huh… If anything, it helps me to have the names for things I don’t understand.
Won’t this actually make the difficulty lower… as a game, I mean.
No, well, it is helpful, though…”

 

My face slackened on its own when I saw the name 'Antidote' displayed on what looked to me to be nothing more than a powder.

 

“There’s still a lot I can test—”

“——, ————————!!”

 

Just as I was about to make a more serious attempt to test the system, the roar of a beast echoed in the corridor.

 

“B-but let’s test it later…”

 

I had been so lost in savoring the convenience that I had forgotten that I was still in the heart of a danger zone.

 

I used the high-priority 'Hemostatic Potion' (I still didn’t know how to use it, so I just smeared it on my wound after I rinsed it) and walked away while using my sword as a walking prop to distance myself from the roar.

 

Don’t be hasty and strain yourself too much…

Keep moving while carefully watching the surroundings.

 

When I checked my status in the 'Display', I found that my ‘Bleeding’ had been eased, and my HP was naturally recovering. 

I walked down the corridors of the Labyrinth, sensing that my life was no longer in grave danger.