The white-haired girl kept crying in Shami’s arms, and Shami couldn’t just ignore her, helplessly watching as the favorability of the gloomy flat-faced blonde beside them dropped from 50 down to 10.
Completely back to the original state now.
The efforts of these past days were all in vain!
Not only have we failed to understand how to increase the favorability with the Elf Race, why a barbecue boosts it more than a battle, but now even the reason for the drop in favorability is turning into a mystery.
It’s truly profound, flat-faced blonde.
Shami quickly sighed in his heart, then looked at the white-haired girl in front of him.
By this time, the white-haired girl in his arms had finished crying, her shoulders hunched inward, she stepped back a few steps, wiping the tears at the corner of her eyes with a dirty hand. Her small face, still sobbing quietly, slowly lifted, and her indigo eyes, slightly bloodshot from crying, fixed on Shami, seemingly waiting for him to speak.
What could Shami say?
All along he dared not make a move on her, even forgetting to use [Demon King’s Detection] to actively probe her. Now, his understanding of the white-haired girl is still limited to the most basic name.
[To unlock more information, please make physical contact and actively release detection skills.]
Originally, [Demon King’s Detection] is a passive skill that can be kept active continuously.
As long as this skill is active, Shami does not need to actively release it; just by touching an object, he can directly know its information and attributes.
In the few days after mastering this skill, Shami kept it active all the time, even without any reason.
After all, it consumes no mana.
One early morning, Shami kept this skill active while collecting tree sap. On the way, he accidentally stepped on a soft pile of material, splattering a bit onto his ankle.
When he absolutely didn’t want to care what it was, the skill eagerly fed him back information.
[Category: Excrement]
[Condition: Slightly loose, glossy texture, brown, mixed with undigested chives, pork fragments, starch... giving off steam, very, if not nine tenths, fresh.]
Who the hell wants to know how a pile of feces looks!
Shami threw those shoes away without a second thought and washed the splattered area dozens of times with clean water.
After that incident, Shami changed [Demon King’s Detection] to a skill that needs conscious activation.
Sometimes knowing everything is not a good thing.
He was already a mature villager and should understand what to detect and what not to. He can’t always think of testing everything, otherwise, he will certainly suffer severe consequences again.
Humans really should maintain a sense of reverence for the unknown!
"Shami, why did you suddenly show that ’I’ve achieved enlightenment’ look? Snap back!"
Beside him, the always baffled Lureya got anxious, quickly coming to Shami’s side to shake him back to reality from his short reverie.
Shami regained his senses, despite not releasing [Demon King’s Detection], he had learned more about the white-haired girl in front of him beyond her name due to the previous physical contact.
There’s body temperature; she’s not a ghost. No pointed ears; she’s not an elf. Her tuft of hair reached his chin, about 165cm in height; what pressed against his chest was soft and comfortable—she’s one of those from the D race.
His thoughts went a bit astray, Shami quickly corrected himself, while looking at the white-haired girl in front of him, he tried hard to find information related to Lina in his memory.
Effort paid off, he finally found a line of memory related to the name "Lina".
[Lina, an orphan with no parents, came from an unknown place to Yili Village in the fourth year and a half after the Demon King Luwaka descended. A year later, with the aim to protect the village, embarked alone on the road to conquer the Demon King.]
Following this memory point, Shami gradually recalled more details.
He crossed into this world in the fourth year and a half after Luwaka’s descent, at that time he had been in this world for only a month, just getting used to his villager identity when a wandering girl came into the village from outside.
The girl’s name was Lina.
Because at that time the battle against the Hero was at its fiercest, the old village chief Lugo and a group of villagers needed to receive the Hero and adventurer parties, with yellow exclamation points popping up nonstop above their heads, while Shami was just a background board NPC without even a name, his daily tasks were merely wandering around the village.
The old village chief and the villagers decided to let Shami take in the orphan girl without parents, to take care of her daily life.
Because he could avoid the work of going to the fields and herding sheep, Shami quickly agreed.
A year later, one night, at that time he was mixed in with the adventuring party, saving up a "different race wife fund" by selling second-hand beer, balloon condoms, etc., to passing adventurers.
Late at night, the girl said to him: "Shami, let’s become Heroes together and conquer the Demon King to gain honor!"
Shami looked at this girl like she was an idiot.
"Then I’ll go alone. I will make you look at me with new eyes, and you will never suffer any humiliation again."
Shami looked at himself. He was doing just fine! Where was he suffering humiliation?
"Shami! I will definitely return. Wait for me!"
The next day, the girl burnt down her house, leaving a farewell note in Shami’s room, and left the village.
Shami woke up only to see the small room beside his house on fire, with the girl’s note tucked in the gap by the door.
[Shami, don’t forget me, please!]
Shami didn’t expect she was serious.
Even more unexpected was that now she’s actually back!!!
Until now, Shami still didn’t understand why she suddenly left.
Returning to the present, in April, in the gentle sunlight of the woods, beside a clear small lake.
Shami looked at the white-haired girl in disbelief.
"You, you’re Lina?..."
"Shami, that’s great, I thought you would recognize me..."
A comforting smile appeared on the small, tearful face of the white-haired girl.
"I thought you had already forgotten me..."
Shami’s eye twitched.
Wait, besides the name, it’s totally impossible to see that the white-haired girl in front of him was the same orphan girl from back then!
Back then Lina was clearly just an ordinary village girl with short black hair, standard girl villager NPC looks.
Yet now this Lina in front of him, with a pretty face almost able to rival the flat-faced blonde, long legs, big chest, and white hair.
Even her hair color changed geez!
How’s this any different from the game’s designer switching the artist midway? Replacing the 30-yuan-per-sheet cheap artist with a 30,000-yuan-per-sheet master artist who totally gets the xp?
Is the game trying to redo Lina?
But her identity was only that of an ordinary villager!
Looking at the dirty but undeniably SSR-grade white-haired girl, Shami fell into deep thought, trying to understand all this from the perspective of game design.