The inn that the guard had directed me to was big enough to accommodate many travelers at once. Even from a distance, it was considerably large.
I moved forward, following the wave after wave of travellers.
[This is kinda awesome….]
All kinds of shops were established on the annexes, so people could get mostly everything they needed without having to go far. It might’ve been done in consideration of the limitations being put upon the travellers in this city.
Whilst still carrying the sleeping Myne on my back, a facility employee called out to me.
2500 was too much. There was no lodging place like this even at the royal capital. The largest I’ve seen only has 1000 rooms at most.
The employee thought for a while, then nodded.
After climbing up the stairs and arriving at the front of my room, the employee told me something good.
[Customer seems to be a warrior, judging from your equipment. If so, how about going sandman hunting? The city will hand out prize money for doing so]
The room was not too wide, just a simple room with two chairs and a table as furniture. Sitting there, I learned more about the sandmen.
The way I heard it, this sandman hunt was a matter of life and death to the people of this territory. That’s why once the employee saw a warrior, he will immediately recommend this job.
I accepted the job readily. The sandman is a nocturnal creature, which means I’ll have to go to the desert at once.
[The sandman has a red core inside its sand body. It’ll be defeated if you manage to break through and crack the core. The core will turn from red to blue when it dies. You can then exchange those cores for cash. Now then, pleased to work with you.]
Can’t be helped. Let’s just leave a written note. I’ll write that I left for the desert east of the city. Afterwards, looking at the sleeping Myne’s calm face….I suddenly gave in to the sudden urge.
Entering the desert, I’ll put on the skull mask, and begin hunting the sandmen grandly. Should I also wear the long black overcoat too? Moreover, if I also changed Greed’s form to that of the scythe… No matter how I think about it, I’ll end up looking more and more like a lich. Well, I don’t really want to go that far though.
Other than that, I have to limit myself to exchanging up to only 10 sandman cores at a time, then it will be a perfect coverup.
Greed then spoke to me,
Let’s be careful so as not to disturb them. I don’t want anyone to obstruct me from my meals. It’s been a while, so I’ll hunt to my heart’s content this time around.
Eh? Why am I so energetic about it all of a sudden….Having this bad feeling, I used Greed as a mirror to look at my right eye… and as I thought, it’s already dyed in red. I had fallen to a semi-starving state.
Greed, that’s easy to say, but it’s hard to resist this instinct-like desire that tries to take control of my body. Sometimes I even mistake it for my own will.
However, there was nothing else that I could do. If I didn’t absorb even a tiny fraction of power……at that time…..everything that had been me would have been swallowed instead. I understood that much.
『If you don’t manage to find a way to properly handle the Glutton skill each time it gets hungry, sooner or later, you’ll lose yourself and cease to be ‘you’.』
Greed’s words weighed heavily upon me.
