Rebirth Online World

Episode 10: Nina the thief ④

I am now frustrated because I am in a disadvantageous position. Although I gained more than what I originally thought, hunting with the presence of others is uncomfortable. However the quest rewards have been flowing into my pockets easily.

Because goblins sometimes kidnapped humans and destroyed, the quest to subdue them is always high. For killing ten goblins I could get 1 silver moon coin. My daily income from goblins are 3 silver coins.

On top of that, I was now hunting inside a cave. I didn’t know about this before even if I usually come near the area to gather herbs. This place isn’t exactly a simple cave. It was a labyrinth or a dungeon. If one explores it without caution, there are poisonous traps scattered around. It will be a suicide for me to enter, but with Nina here, she could disarm the trap.(PR notes: not sure about the sentence structure, has someone a better idea?)

Inside the dungeon, there are not only goblins. Orcs, War bats, goblin soldiers, goblin knights, and thanks to that I could deprive their skills. My stats have increased tremendously.
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Status window
Name:	Yu Sato	Race:	Human

Job:	None	Level:	8
HP:	52	MP:	63
Strength:	16	Agility:	23
Vitality:	20	Intelligence:	29
Magic:	16	Luck:	1

Passive Skills

Swordmanship:	Lvl. 2
Physical strength up:	Lvl. 3
Awareness:	Lvl. 2

Active Skills

Body Enhance:	Lvl. 2
Black magic:	Lvl. 1
White magic:	Lvl. 1
Sword strike:	Lvl. 1
Blacksmith:	Lvl. 1
Alchemy:	Lvl. 1

Special Skills

Unknown World Magic Eyes:	Lvl. 2
Depriver:	Lvl. 1

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[Swordsmanship] increased from Goblin soldiers, [physical strength up] from orcs, and [awareness] from war bats. (TL notes:I wonder why blacksmith and alchemy are active skills? And awareness is kind of a search area skill)

Since I got [awareness] Nina couldn’t stalk me easily anymore. From this one month, I gained more than I could have wished for.

“It was a good idea to team up with you.”

“See, what did I tell you!”

“It probably wouldn’t have mattered if I had partied up with others.”

“You..! Humph..”

Nina then pouts.

However I wouldn’t make any party with anyone else. I didn’t trust them. I still don’t trust Nina either.

In one month, 80% of the bath is completed. It won’t be long before I finish it. Although it was easy to get wood from the forest, but designing and putting it together is another thing. In this one month, there’s no increase in [blacksmith] and [alchemy] too. Is it normally this hard to increase a skill?

When the bath is finished, grandma Stella is the one who is really pleased. I added an iron plate on the bottom of the tub so that it can produce warm water if heated.
……..
When I finished making the bath, I heard someone arguing inside the forest. I find Nina with two people. It was the Mishe brothers. They used to be in the same party as Hage.

“Nina, won’t you tell us what happened?”

“Why should I?”

“I want you to listen to us. You don’t want something to happen to that brat or that old woman don’t you?”

“You don’t even know where he hides.”

“You think we’re a fool? You go with him to that cave everyday.”

“We know Hage’s missing, he has something to do with it.”

Hages gone missing has been finally linked to me. I used this time to inspect their statuses.
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Status window
Name:	Nuts Mishe	Race:	Human

Job:	None	Level:	8
HP:	75	MP:	20
Strength:	35	Agility:	16
Vitality:	41	Intelligence:	9
Magic:	10	Luck:	7

Passive Skills

Spear mastery:	Lvl. 1

Active Skills

Body enhance:	Lvl. 1
Spear strike:	Lvl. 1

Special Skills

None

———

Status window
Name:	Coco Mishe	Race:	Human

Job:	None	Level:	9
HP:	81	MP:	13
Strength:	50	Agility:	13
Vitality:	47	Intelligence:	9
Magic:	13	Luck:	7

Passive Skills

Axe mastery:	Lvl. 1

Active Skills

Body enhance:	Lvl. 1
Axe cleave:	Lvl. 1

Special Skills

None

———
just looking at the status, Nina would have no trouble running away.

“Bam”

With a sound, Nina fell to the floor, she has a nosebleed.

Why is she lying (TL notes:bc she just fell to the ground?) there like an idiot?

“If you don’t want to tell us anything then you could keep silent.”

“No one will know what is going on right?”

The brothers are smiling with lustful eyes.

“Why are you protecting that boy?”

They asked that while kicking her.

“There’s no benefit for you right?”

Nina just curled up there with a bloodied face.

“Hahaha.. Brother she is not resisting. We could ‘do’ her.”

They tried to tore off her leather armor.

“please.. Stop..” Nina is crying and trembling when she said that.

“Don’t worry. We will make sure you get a lots of love.”

“Just listen to us and be an obedient girl.”

Suddenly they feel blood lust coming from behind. They quickly took their spear and axe and readied themselves.

It was Yu, he is holding a long sword in his hand.

“Yuuu…. Why.?”

Nina couldn’t believe that he came to save her.

“I just happened to be passing by.”

“Ooh.. Look what we got here. You can’t run away.” Coco said.

“You.. That long sword and leather armor! It’s Hage’s!” Nuts shouts at him.

While enraged Coco lunged forward to attack Yu. “This rotten brat, that garbage Nina! I’ll kill you!”

Yu isn’t wavered. He activates the [sword strike]. It was a skill that attacks twice. He aimed at the neck and belly.

*Clank*

The blow to the stomach was parried by the axe but the blow to the neck was unexpected. Blood was splurging out from the clean cut and soon Cocos body fell.

“You! That’s a [sword strike]! How could you use that. You didn’t even take a stance before activating it.”

Nuts hasn’t recovered from his shock. His brother was killed in front of him and the young brat used a skill.

However Yu isn’t a patient boy. He approaches him and swing his sword downwards. Nut’s on reflex tried to block the attack but a spear is not a weapon for parrying or blocking.

“Wait.. Wait!”

Nuts was saying that when Yu’s sword sliced through the spear and planted it down on Nuts’s head.

“Yu…. Yu….”

Nina is clinging to Yu while he takes out a cloth and wipes her face.

“Why didn’t you run away? Why didn’t you fight back?”

“You know.. I have a trauma towards man. I hate them!”
(TL notes:it seemed her experiences in Vivid village is an attempt of rape (Pr notes: now we are 18+ bitches!;-) however the author didn’t explained further)

Yu then laughs. “You know. The me who helped you is a man too.”

“That didn’t count!” she pouts.

They fell into silence while Nina is smiling. Yu who said that is confused.

“How could you smile while in this situation?”

“because..”

“what?”

“You came to save me.”

“we’re friends… It’s natural for me to help you.” when he said that, the edges of Yu’s mouth curved a little upwards.

Episode 9: Nina the thief ③

(TL notes: I was having a headache from the author POV.. It’s like third person, changed to first person from Yu to Nina without explanation @,@)

The time when Yu usually went to gather herbs, now he uses it to hunt goblins.

Using the long sword and armor set from Hage, it becomes easy. What’s more the equipment set size is changing by itself to suit the wearer.

However hunting goblins was merely throwing rocks and killing them from a distance. While nearby goblins could be easily handled because of [swordmanship].

After killing the goblins, he collected a magic stone. Sometimes when a monster gets killed they will drop their magic stone. It could be used later to power a ‘magic tool’. He also didn’t forget to cut off their ears. Even if he couldn’t reimburse them at Resser village, other guild halls will accept them.

“Fireball!”

I also practiced using magic but the damage is still low. The goblins face is burned down and I “Heal!” to recover the ear. I then casted fireball once again. The cast time isn’t so bad.

He tried it again but on the next battle he couldn’t cast the fireball. There’s an issue of concentration. Attacking, defending and casting magic at the same time isn’t going well. He decided just to simply cut it’s neck.

“You’re pretty strong.”

I was raising my guard from that comment. I look at my surroundings and there is Nina.

“Hey Yu! How can you use magic and sword?”

She stands three meters away from me. When hunting in the mountains, I always raised my guard and when facing goblins it is further increased. Where did she come from?

“You.. Where did you come from?”

However there’s a more pressing issue.

“Please forgive me and forget what happened yesterday.”

“I’ve been here all along for 1 hour. About yesterday, Stella already told me about it.”

What? I didn’t notice her for one hour?

“I’m sorry.. After I talked to grandma I found out about what really happened. She asked me to apologize to you.”

(TL notes: it seemed he could be controlled by his grandma lol.. And I’m curious how could he learned about ‘fear’ from her lol.. Is grandma Stella a witch? Hahaha)

“I really don’t want to forgive you, but I respect Stella. However I’ll forgive you if you become my friend.”

“Friends.. You and I? Ha.. Ha…”

Yu glares at Nina. He couldn’t care less about her and what he did to her before.

(TL notes: slapping her ass and running away lol)

However, he respected Stella. Only her.

“Friends?”

Yu said that and ran away again.

“Strange guy! Strange guy! Strange guy! Just what Stella said to me.”

Nina remembers her conversation with Stella. It was done after Yu got out of the house. Stella tried to apologize to her.

“Well, just use this as a chance to be friends with him.”

“But… He has… Has… What am I going to do… Huhuhuhu…” she is crying and consoled by Stella. Stella patiently talked to her and explained about Yus situation. She also apologizes over and over.

“I’m sorry. Yu is still lacking common sense and his attitude looks bad but he didn’t mean to do those things.”

Nina also realized that when he did that thing (slapping her ass) yesterday, he wasn’t lustful like the other men.

“Yu is basically shy and tends to do things opposite of what he means. He is also straightforward and hotheaded sometimes. But if you know him, he is a sweet boy. Please try to be his friend. Good luck Nina-chan.”

That day after I encountered Nina and ran away again, I get back home. At home, Stella is telling me stories about Nina but I didn’t listen to anything. (tl ramblings: stella is like a matchmaker lol)

Since Stella had brought the tools I asked for, I can start working on the bath.

From that day on, Nina has been stalking me for two weeks. When I managed to check her status, it has been increased.

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Status window
Name:	Nina Levers	Race:	Human

Job:	thief	Level:	12
HP:	76	MP:	21
Strength:	21	Agility:	53
Vitality:	21	Intelligence:	16
Magic:	11	Luck:	22

Passive Skills

Dagger mastery:	Lvl. 1
Trap search:	Lvl. 1
Awareness:	Lvl. 1
Silent step:	Lvl. 1

Active Skills

Steal:	Lvl. 1
Disarm trap:	Lvl. 1
Stealth:	Lvl. 1
Stalking:	Lvl. 1

Special Skills

None

———-

Ninas agility has been increased and she has a new skill from following Yu. While Yu is trying hard to increase his skills, Nina earned them easily.

“Hey… Stop following me.”

“What? Are you ready to make friends with me?”

“Become friends with you? Why would I?”

“First, even if you kill goblins you couldn’t turn in the quest. I’ll do it for you and will give you the rewards. Secondly I’ll show you a cave that’s better to level up and earn money.”

Whoa.. This cowgirl actually comes up with such thoughts. It is good if I could get the rewards from  the guild and the monsters in the cave may give me new skills. Yu isn’t that stupid to refuse something that will only benefit him.

“Okay, I’ll make a party with you. However I don’t trust you. So don’t try to do anything strange.”

Nina replied while blushing a little.

“Not a party. We’ll become friends… And… If I can’t get married anymore.. You have to take responsibility!”

“What?”

(TL notes: it’s so tiring translating their conversation but it was fun. Hahaha)

Episode 8: Nina the thief ②

“ugh! Ugh!”

Under the blue sky, a dull thud sound and a groan can be heard.

“My name is Nina levers. I’m a thief from Vivid village. I saw a boy starting from a month ago. He was being treaded badly by the villagers. The villagers were throwing rocks at him trying to kick him out. However at that point his eyes are directed to me. Because of my [awareness] i found out his name, Seto Yu. But, it got nothing to do with me.”

“ugh! Ugh!” (TL Notes: apparently our MC is still being thrown rocks.)

“I came to this village after I ran away from Vivid village. The party that I teamed up with was trying to ‘attack’ me in a dungeon. I think they had planned it from the beginning, judging by their lustful eyes. Being an adventurer requires me to be involved in a party, but a woman adventurer is rare so I always end up with some men. That day after I barely escaped, they accused me and kicked me out of the village. I think I have the same eyes as that boy back then.”

“Ugh.. Aaaw!”

“I know how painful it is to be treated so badly.”

Today, they met again on the small road.

“Are you seeing grandma Stella?”

“What? You have a problem?”

Yu remembered the people in the Guild were saying something about Stella. Did they force her to work? Is that the reason she seemed to have overworked herself? Or did she hurt her?

“You! What have you done to grandma? Apologize!”

“What? I don’t want to do it.”

The only thing that could make Yu furious are the things involving Stella. He loves her like his own grandmother.

Yu didn’t care about their strength differences. He grabbed Nina on her waist and put down her pants.

“What? Is he going to ‘attack’ me like the guys from Vivid village?”

Nina was startled. She certainly have a trauma because the Vivid village guys ‘attempt’.

“Because grandma Stella says that I have to be kind to women, I’ll just do this for now.”

Yu moved his hand and slapped her bottom.

(TL Notes: I didn’t believe this. Did I mistranslate it somehow?)

“it hurts!”

It was a strength that couldn’t be coming from a boy. The pain and the shame, it was unbearable.

“Hey cowgirl, I’ll only say it once. Leave grandma Stella alone.”

After that Yu ran away as fast as he could.

“Why did he call me cowgirl? Is it because of my chest? How dare he do this to me. I’ll make him apologize!”

When Yu arrived home, Stella asked about Nina. When he explained what happened.

“WHAT DID YOU DO?”

He learned about something called ‘fear’ from Stella.

After some time has passed, he talked to her meekly.

“Grandma, I want to buy a saw, hammer and nails.”

He has to ask her because the villagers won’t sell him anything.

“Are you going to make something?”

“yeah, you will definitely be pleased.”

“Oh! I’m looking forward to it.”

He still has some money from the rest of gathering herbs, for the time being he wanted to make a bath in the house. If he has access to water it will be easier for him to practice blacksmithing later. There’s a spring nearby so it won’t be a big problem.

For increasing alchemy, he needs to have the correct ingredients before he could refine a potion. He also needs to learn about the recipe. Seeing no way to learn about the recipe, from tomorrow he will go hunting goblins, practice magic and create the bath.

Episode 7: Nina the thief ①

Kast is the guild branch head of the Resser village. He is dissatisfied with leading a guild in a remote village. He is blinded by greed and asked Hage to extort a small boy named Yu.

Why?

Because he wants Yu to gather herbs for free. It’s either he complied or gets kicked out. Originally Yu should have gotten 9 cooper moon coins but he gives him only a third of it. Because the qualities of the herbs that he brings are superior, the original reward is increased. Seeing that kind of free money, how can he not be blinded by it?

Suddenly, the guild hall door is opened.

“Fat uncle, I’ve come to take what should be mine.”

He saw Yu barging in with a flat expression on his face.

“I want to claim all the rewards that you didn’t give to me.”

Kast thinking hard, “why is his attitude suddenly changed? Why does he act so haughty? If Hage saw him he could be killed.”

Yu takes out something from his back. It was Hages long sword.

“You, how can you get a long sword?” ( does the tool shop sell him a sword? Wait, is that blood on the sword?)

But Yu didn’t say anything. He takes out his guild card and puts it in front of Kast.

“I know that this guild card is fake. I wonder what will happen if I make a complaint to the Guild hall in the capital.”

“Huh? How could you even reach the capital?”

Kast knows he will be in trouble if Yu really makes a complain, but how can a small child like him make a travel to the capital?

“Then, you mustn’t have realized whose sword this is.”

Kast eyes widened when he saw that.

“Did you kill Hage?”

“I don’t have an obligation to give you an answer. Just give me my rewards or I don’t know what might be happening to you.”

Kast is sweating bullets. The cause is a young boy that he wants to exploit, now their positions have been reversed. Because he has a good relationship with Hage, he is using him to threaten Yu. However since Hage is now no longer around and might have been killed by Yu, Kast realized the situation he is in. He silently puts the reward that he cuts off from Yu on the table.

“If only you were being honest from the start.”

While taking the money, Yu didn’t forget to make sure that Kast is feeling deprived in the future. He activated [Depriver] and manages to get [blacksmith Lvl 1] and [alchemy Lvl 1].

He didn’t want to take those skills but he thinks of it as an ‘interest’ from holding back his reward.

“Don’t come again to the guild hall! It’s better when you don’t even come again to the village!”

“Even if you didn’t say that, I don’t want to come again.”

Yu took the back door to exit the village.

“Now, what should I do? If I think again, blacksmith and alchemy may come in handy in the future. It will allow me to craft various things.”

He is thinking while heading home when suddenly, he saw someone. It was the woman that he saw before. But at that time he only saw her from afar.

The woman has fiery red hair and the body is clothed in leather armor. Just in case, Yu looked at her status.

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Status window
Name:	Nina Levers	Race:	Human

Job:	thief	Level:	12
HP:	76	MP:	21
Strength:	21	Agility:	52
Vitality:	21	Intelligence:	16
Magic:	11	Luck:	22

Passive Skills

Dagger mastery:	Lvl. 1
Trap search:	Lvl. 1
Awareness:	Lvl. 1

Active Skills

Steal:	Lvl. 1
Disarm trap:	Lvl. 1

Special Skills

None

——–

“She is even stronger than Hage? Even her status is better.”

However Yu didn’t know that fate brought them together. They will have a long relationship, but will it be hate or love? This first encounter will determine it.