Shujinkou Janai! - Ch 18

[……Fumu.]

Squinting my eyes as I walk, I use <Inspect> to every single person I pass on the street.

Enjoying the Status Windows that appeared one after another, I nodded.

(<Inspect> really is great.)

It’s easy to learn because it’s an ability that could be learned in the Scout Line’s Initial Job.

It’s a general skill that doesn’t consume MP, so you can use it even if you’re under the effect of Silence or Berserk.

And most of all……

(Seeing people weaker than me is so refreshing……!!!)

By looking at the nondescript people in town, I feel the emotional wounds brought on by Resilia’s high stats heal.

Of course, even Rex being an A-Rank Adventurer isn’t just for show.

If you compare him with those of his level, well…… They’re hardly passable, but at the current time, Rex is more than strong enough.

No, describing Rex as the strongest at the moment could no longer be described as an exaggeration.

[You look like you’re in a good mood, what are you doing?]

[Ugh.]

Hearing the voice of the girl beside me, Resilia, made me involuntarily stiffened.

There’s no way I could just tell her that she was too strong that I became depressed, so I’m looking at the weak guys for mental stability though.

[W- Well, it looks like my <Inspect> is special, so I was just testing it out.]

It was an excuse uttered out of bitterness, but Resilia nodded in understanding.

……Right.

I asked Resilia about this, and she said that normal <Inspect> is known as a skill to measure how strong an opponent is compared to you, rather than something you use to look at the Status.

This is definitely my Hero bonus!

……is what I’d like to say, but the roots of both my <Inspect> and their understanding of <Inspect> are probably just the same.

As the in-game description of <Inspect> states, it’s a skill that allows one to “see through the strength of the opponent you’re facing”.

However, as someone who has been playing pc games on a daily basis for as long as I can remember and who has seen the Status Window in B&B, the game this world was originally based on, I have received the ability to “see the strength of an opponent” numerically. On the other hand, the people of this world, who have no connection to anything digital, let alone games, “see the strength of an opponent” through their senses, which brings this situation.

And so, the <Inspect> session I was conducting to relieve myself of stress was unexpectedly rewarding.

[There were a number of things that I noticed. For example, the man wearing a Mage’s equipment over there.]

I pointed to the Mage-looking man standing across the street in a way that he wouldn’t notice me.

[His ability points would be something like this.]

[This is……]

Looking at the Status chart I had written down, Resilia’s brows slightly furrowed.

[You can see what I mean, right? His profession and aptitude clearly don’t match.]

Even though a Mage requires MGC and FOC the most, his ability trend is heading almost the opposite way.

The growth rate of a person is basically determined by “his own aptitudes + occupation correction”.

For a Magic Line Job to have stats like this, his base MGC Stat must be quite low.

(Well, that was just how it is in the game.)

In this world, the aptitudes of ordinary adventurers are completely random.

“”

This may be the reason why there are many characters whose stats look like complete “train wrecks”.

There were those who looked like Warriors, but had unusually low VIT, and women who completely looked like Priests, but had high MGC and low MND.

As Resilia nodded in understanding, I seized the opportunity to point at someone with my gaze.

[In this world, physique and appearance aren’t directly related to their aptitudes. That’s why, for example……]

Saying this, I casted <Inspect> on the bearded large man who just dexterously passed by……

……Ahh, unnn.

This guy seems like he’s growing up just fine like that.

Rather, even though he’s 16 levels lower than Rex, what in the heck is…… N- No!

I- I bet this guy is some kind of famous A-Rank Adventurer in the town or something.

Even his name sounds strong, unnn, he’s definitely someone like that.

[……Umm?]

I wonder if she felt uncomfortable with my silence, as Resilia curiously looked at me.

I shouted “Anyway!” loudly to cover it up.

[With this, I’ve figured some things out.]

It’s true that there might be people in this world that have superior aptitudes.

But from my point of view, who had been planning and training them with data in hand, the people of this world aren’t good at character building……

[If I give people advice, they would definitely be stronger.]

And one more thing.

I realized something else that I had been trying to escape from reality, but still, I couldn’t help but notice it.

————–I, Rex, am incredibly weak.

Certainly, Resilia’s initial value is, to put it bluntly, “abnormal”, and her growth rate is miraculously high.

It would be inevitable that I’d end up being defeated by her.

However, even compared to ordinary adventurers, Rex’s abilities are just too low.

Generally, a character’s growth rates are decided based on their “personal aptitudes and class correction”.

In other words, you can determine a person’s aptitudes by subtracting the class correction from their growth rate.

In the game, a fortune teller, commonly known as the “Aptitude Auntie”, evaluates a person’s potential in six levels: “Awful, Bad, Normal, Good, Great, and Genius”.

For example, according to that evaluation, Resilia’s aptitude, calculated without the correction by her Job, <Imperial Sword>, are as follows.

STR – Great

VIT – Good

MGC – Bad

MND – Good

AGI – Genius

FOC – Normal

Her excellence is obvious at a glance.

An average adventurer would only have two each of Good and Bad, and the rest would just be Normal, so it’s obvious that she’s excellent.

On the other hand, you have the <Lone Wolf Adventurer>, Rex, who traveled the world solo with only a sword, has the following aptitudes.

STR – Awful

VIT – Awful

MGC – Great

MND – Awful

AGI – Awful

FOC – Awful

The incomprehensibility of the situation is obvious at a glance.

All my aptitudes are low across the board, and even when all of them are added together, the value is about half that of an ordinary person.

Above all, it’s so incomprehensible that the highest stat value of Rex, who is supposed to be a swordsman, is his magic power, which is the most unnecessary stat for a swordsman.

However, the mystery can be solved by looking at the correction values of Rex’s initial class, <Brave Leo>.

STR – 3

VIT – 3

MGC – 0

MND – 3

AGI – 3

FOC – 3

In other words, it must be that.

My hypothesis is that the class correction for <Brave Leop> was decided first, and then they decided Rex’s aptitude later so that when they were added, all the growth rates would be uniform.

This is the exact opposite of Resilia, who gained extraordinary strength because the devs gave priority to her story.

Rex is the most unfortunate of the unfortunates, the worst of the dev’s victims, who was given the weakest of talents due to the sloppy tweaking of the devs.

With aptitudes like this, the real Rex must have been a God to have been able to climb up to an A-Rank Adventurer.

(……But with this, my course is set.)

Gathering and training allies, or focusing on myself, both have their own sets of worries.

But looking at all the data I’ve collected, my decision is already made.

As it is, there’s no point in training Rex any more than this.

I’ll just have to give up……

(————–Let’s start Rex’s training over from zero!!!)

……Well, how should I say this……

Normally, giving up here and not fighting would be the smart choice.

It’s not like I needed to be strong.

I’m not saying that I need to be strong because I need to protect myself. After all, if that’s the case, I’m already strong enough as I am.

It’s also not in my nature to be on the front lines fighting monsters.

(But you see……)

With all these unfavorable circumstances lined up in front of me, it’s human nature to want to do the opposite.

The gamer in me, whose fate had been sealed by society, was getting excited.

————–Wouldn’t making this awful character (me) into a peerless warrior feel incredible!!!?

I decided to look at this world not as an Action RPG, but as a Simulation Game.

But then again, I’m the type of person who likes to grin as I train my favorite characters in those Sim Games!

……Of course, just having will alone won’t change anything.

But in fact, depending on how I did it, I think I could have done a little better.

For example, if I’d end up having an increase of 4 in all stats, including the class correction, it wouldn’t matter even if I’m not a balanced type.

Actually considering it numerically, for example, if I could skew the Status increase just a little bit……

STR – 8

VIT – 4

MGC – 3

MND – 3

AGI – 3

FOC – 3

—-into something like this, I wonder what would have happened?

Although my other stats are a bit questionable, I can still be able to be an attacker in a party.

The reason why Rex is so hopeless is that even though his stats are low, the stats are raised equally.

So, what should I do then?

The only way to do that is to give up on this Rex and start all over again.

You originally can’t revert your level once it’s raised, and once your status had been set, it wouldn’t change.

However, I have a certain event in mind that would make that possible.

Even so, it requires a lot of preparation.

Even if I did that event and just increased my level, I would still end up with a Rex with the same Status right now.

To change that fate, at the very least, I need to collect “rare equipment that will correct the increased stat when leveling up”.

I can think of an infinite number of other things that are needed, and that would never be possible if I was just following the storyline of the game.

That’s why……

[————–And so, I’ll make the ultimate squad.]

To save the world from destruction.

To change the sad future from the original story.

And most of all, to make this game of me, by me, training myself to be stronger!

[……I don’t really understand, but it seems like you’re having fun.]

Resilia murmured, sounding somewhat astounded, but a little happy.

(This time, I’m suddenly feeling a little more motivated.)

I felt as if the gears that had been misaligned were now perfectly meshing together.

I’m a normal guy after all. I get carried away when I’m praised, a good-for-nothing philistine who envies other people and gets depressed. I’m far from being the Hero of a story.

That’s why I’m looking forward to seeing how far I can reach with just my game knowledge.

And……

In fact, I already have my first sacri——– collaborators in mind.

[————–Oiiiii, Old man!!!]

[————–Ah, Rex-san!!!]

Looking in front of the Guild, there I found Radd and his four-people party of beginners.

I walked up to them, widely waving my hand, I cut right to the chase.

[————–You guys, any interest in becoming my pupils?]