Pioneering the Apocalyptic World - Chapter 10

Chapter 04: The girl with amnesia

“Its’s delicious, Its’s delicious… seconds please!”

“He-here.”

I put the limp girl back on the bed and gave her the soup I had prepared.
The girl put her nose close to the soup that was handed to her and cautiously sniffed it, then drank it at an incredible speed and spoke the previous phrase.
I was so overwhelmed by her spirit that I ended up giving her another serving, but I wonder if it’s okay to eat so suddenly when she still recovering?
In the game era, even if you recover SP from 0% to 100% all at once, there was no penalty or something like that… but here is the reality. I wonder if I can make some stomach medicine.

“Puhaa, it’s good! really good, but…is there any meat?”

“… if it’s just salty taste only yakitori I can make it .”

It sounds good to say that the taste of the ingredients is being brought out, but it is simply a lack of seasoning. That’s why I can’t produce that good food, but it seems that it was enough for the girl, and I can’t help but make it if I’m stared at with eyes full of expectations.
That’s why I’m grilling it now… Aah, I want soy sauce… I want to eat yakitori with plenty of sauce… I wonder if it would be delicious to drizzle it over a grilled fish… I think, every time I cook. I feel like I’m just thinking about things like this.

“The food is ready”

“Thank you!”

The girl gleefully eats the freshly made yakitori, even as she cries out with a burn tonge for eating it too fast to cool down.
When she can eat something that’s just grilled and sprinkled with salt while looking like it’s so delicious, I’ll want to collect good ingredients and seasonings, raise my cooking skill level, just to give her a really delicious food to eat.
While thinking about such things, I myself was eating breakfast and while looking at the girl.

Lizards have various colors such as red, blue, and green, but I’ve never seen black before… i supposed to never seen one, but…
Black hair, black scales, gold eyes, red horns… this coloring, looks like something I’ve seen somewhere before…

“Thank you for the meal!”

After three requests for more refills with clear, puppy-like eyes, the girl finally seemed satisfied.
……Even if you put aside the fact that you’re hungry, you probably have more than double the amount of SP I have…for such a small body, how much you are capable of eat?

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After tidying up, I didn’t have any tea, so I served hot water and calmed down, and then I faced the girl again.
When i briefly explained how the girl came to this house, the girl bowed her head deeply.

“Is that so, you saved my life… and on top of that, you served me a feast, I can’t say enough thanks to you.”

“I just did what I could. I’m glad you recovered.”

I’m so glad I just had to do a simple CPR and warm up her body. If the injury is not too deep, it can be managed with medicine, but it doesn’t make effect in someone who’s drowning…
However, she uses a strange mode of speaking, and because she looks so young, there is a huge gap……I was thinking unnecessary things in my heart.*¹

“Um, can I ask you a question?”

“Umu, you can!”

A carefree smile, the small fangs peeking out from the edge of the mouth… this girl is so cute…wait, wrong thinking.
For a lizard, it seems like my initial friendship level is quite high, isn’t it? In others region they are hated, but in this region is peaceful, so the other races are being not hostile to them? or perhaps it’s just the effect of saving her life?

“It’s a bit too late, but nice to meet you. My name is Rion. What is your name? ”

“Name……?”

Before asking about the circumstances, I first asked her name… wait, why are you tilting your head there?
The girl crossed her arms and looked upward, raised her eyebrows and groaned for few tens of seconds.

“I-I don’t know…”

“Eh…”

A unexpected memory loss in this time……..? No, in certain ways this too is a cliche…?
I was wondering if I could find out more about this world…

“Umm, can you see the your status?”

“? What is that?”

“Ah… as thought so, you don’t have it. Then, isn’t there something in your item box?”

If you can see the status, your name is listed there, so the problem wull be resolved in one shot, but it seems that there is no status window for residents (NPCs). I wondered if it would be possible to residents see it in this world, but it seems that only Miko(players) can use it.
But she definitely had an item box. Although it was a degraded version with only 30 items per frame and only 10 frames.
Later, I looked into the clothes that the girl was originally wearing (it was just a kantoi and pumpkin pants like simple clothes*²), but they were made of common linen and didn’t have any regional characteristics, so there weren’t any particular clues.

“That’s all that was inside!”

“……A bracelet?”

The girl who was looking through the item box for a while, showed me a ring made of black metal(?) with a diameter of about 5 to 6 cm, as if it was on the verge of reaching zero endurance. It was clearly tattered, cracked and partly missing pieces.

If i tried to apply even a little force, it will probably break very easily.

I tried to examine it carefully so as not to break it any further, but I still couldn’t figure out what materials were used. Color-wise, the closest thing is obsidian, but… no, maybe.

“?”

I glanced at the girl, more precisely at the scales growing on the girl’s cheeks. They appear to be the same color.
I see, in the game era, there were only item recipes for weapons and armor, but I wonder if it would looked like this if was made into accessories.
As long as you know the material, you can fix it with the repair skill… it’s not like that, my skill level is not enough to process the scales of a lizard. Also, at this point, I’m hesitant to say “Give me your scales”.

“Oh, there are letters engraved on the inside…I can hardly read them because they’re chipped or scraped…”

In the game era, a original language and characters was being used. At first we didn’t understand what was written, but after a while the players figured out the logic behind the language. Well, it wasn’t that difficult, it was just replace the characters with the corresponding letters in alphabet and read it in romanji style.
Aside from the village signs, the characters written in old books and carved on the walls of the ruins sometimes gave casual hints, so as I read through the correspondence table, I naturally learned it. It just takes a while to translate in my brain.
However, the decipherment of this characters was soon finished. Because there were only two letters left.

“UR… ura? uri? uru?”

“Ah!”

While I was muttering, the girl suddenly raised her voice. Surprised my hands trembled and I thought I was going to break the bracelet… It’s was dangerous.

“I just remembered, my name is Uru!”

“Oh?”

Perhaps it was something like a key item, the girl remembered her name rather easily.
But seen that was all that she had in her memory drawer, I hoped she could remember something else, but she didn’t come up with anything more.

“I’m sorry…”

“No, it’s fine. Don’t worry about it so much.”

The girl motion was so exaggerated that anyone could see her disappointment, the girl??Uru slumped her shoulders, and I couldn’t help but let out a wry smile. she expresses her emotions quite frankly, i thinked.
Lizards were very skeptical in the early stages, and I was a little wary that everything up until now, even that she has no memory was a acting but, now I’m starting to think that is just her being normal.
That said, I don’t want to make enemies of the Lizards, and although I want to increase their friendship, I still can’t let my guard down for my own safety. When I was thinking about what to do… I came up with an idea.

I’m sorry for her, but let’s try it out.

*¹translator note: Uru speaks like a samurai

*²translator note: kantoi(???) is a simple style of clothing a early prototype of a kimono consisting of a large piece of cloth with a hole in the middle for the head.