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Identifying Requirement
「……they’re here, they’re here. Really, I’ve always been indebted to these guys.....」
This is a chance. Most of the children are receiving math lessons from sensei. It’s just a simple addition and subtraction lesson. Although children who are too young are exempt from that, they usually take a nap in their rooms. As for me, it might be because of this body’s physical age, but originally, my mathematical ability is the best in this housing facility, including the teachers. So there’s no point in learning math at this point. www.ihavesinnedtranslation.com
And because of that, I could freely roam around the courtyard without standing out. Moreover, the place I am at is the most deserted place, the trash collection point.
Naturally, the trash includes kitchen waste. With kitchen waste means ‘they’....the ‘black diamonds’ that once became my source of sustenance are there too. 1
Although I only tried the Piercing Hand once, I know firsthand how powerful it is. But I am too ignorant of this power.
Why could I steal Punos’s body, but it didn’t work with Aneros? There are plenty of possibilities. However, the likeliest possibility was whether there were empty slots or not. At that time, I was 2 years old. There were only 3 slots in total, one for Piercing Hand, one for my own body, and the last was Punos’s body. I was in a situation where I couldn’t accept anything anymore, and so I failed when I tried to use my ability.....I wonder if that’s what happened.
So although I wanted to experiment with my ability, I had to postpone it for the time being. I wanted to at least be able to speak the Fores language. And in exchange for the discarded body of Punos, I now have a language skill that has increased to level 2. I don’t want to lose this.
So I had been looking forward to my third birthday. But, I was too limited to try my ability immediately in this place. People are also watching. So that’s why I’ve waited until today.
I took over Punos’s body last year, but can I use this ability on beings other than humans? I think I can do it. As for why.....
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＜Cockcoarch＞ (36)
・Material Insect Form
(Rank 6, Male, 1 year old)
・Skill Pathogen Resistance Level 5
・Skill High Speed Mating Level 4
Empty (34)
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……my ability ‘Piercing Hand’ allows me to even recognize information from nameless insects. The fact that I can recognize, that is to say, is considered a target to take over.
Even so, what is ‘High-Speed Mating’? I still understand that ‘Pathogen Resistance’.
No, the cockroach I am looking at now must be an excellent one. It has a reasonably impressive black luster, and its six jagged legs look agile. With those legs, it can surely pounce on females. And it must have ended in an instant.
According to the book that I saw in my previous life, it depends on the species, but female cockroaches only mate once in their lifetime. That’s why the struggle for virgin females between males is so intense and fierce. This male, too, has likely managed to achieve a decent result in that kind of competition. Well, that ‘High-Speed Mating’ skill is something that a human male would want to learn in the first place. www.ihavesinnedtranslation.com
But, I feel sorry for this cockroach, as his fun roach life from now on may no longer be peaceful.
『Become my food Cockroach!』
I tried using my ability by shouting in Japanese. I might end up forgetting it if I don’t do it like this occasionally.
Incidentally, Japanese is not considered a skill. Probably because it doesn’t exist in this world.
An image of something spinning violently flashed inside my mind, and again I felt sick and an inexplicable fear. But once that’s passed, it’s done.
My ability hit the cockroach, but from what I could see, there was nothing different, and it was completely fine.
However.
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＜Cockroach＞ (36)
・Material Insect Form
(Rank 6, Male, 1 year old）
・Skill High Speed Mating Level 4
Empty (35)
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I might have done something bad. This might have led to his early death due to not being able to endure unclean environments. Oh well, can’t be helped. Since I didn’t take his form, I hope you do your best in mating. www.ihavesinnedtranslation.com
And as for me.....
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(Self) (3)
・Material Human Form
(Rank 7, Male, 3 years old)
・Ultimate Ability
Piercing Hand
・Skill Fores Language Level 2
・Skill Pathogen Resistance Level 5
Empty (0)
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I did it! I got the exact skill. The cockroach was more than 3 meters away. This is also an important analysis. How far away do I have to be from the target, and whether I could reach them.
An example of my biggest concern.....was that this stealing ability might only be able to be used once.....which turned out to be my needless fear. That alone makes me happy.
Now, does this skill that lets you get more resistant towards pathogens even work in the human body, I wonder? If it works, then this will really be a special quality I’ll be grateful for, but I’ll quickly delete it for now. If it's a cockroach, there are plenty of others who have this skill. However, before that.....
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＜Cockroach＞ (34)
・Material Insect Form
(Rank 4, Female, 1 year old）
・Skill Pathogen Resistance Level 3
Empty (33)
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What would happen if I stacked a skill with skills on top of each other and stole them? 5+3 equals to Level 8, and that’s nothing to exclaim over, but I want to try it a bit.
I pushed out my right hand. Yosh. www.ihavesinnedtranslation.com
『Offer up your soul, Cockroach!』
The female cockroach didn’t even move.
But.
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＜Cockroach＞ (34)
・Material Insect Form
(Rank 4, Female, 1 year old)
・Skill Pathogen Resistance Level 3
Empty (33)
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……there was no change in her abilities either.
Huh?
I wonder why?
Let’s list several possibilities.
First. My abilities were filled to the limit. Skills can’t be stacked, even if they are the same skill, they consume a separate slot.
Second. Abilities can’t be taken if they’re from a different gender.
Third. Perhaps Piercing Hand couldn’t be used continuously.
I wonder which one it is?
First, if it’s about the gender, then it’s simple to check.
I tried taking Pathogen Resistance skill from another male cockroach in front of me.....but, I couldn’t do it.
If it’s not possible to take from a male or a female, then the second possibility is eliminated.
Now, I will open up my status. www.ihavesinnedtranslation.com
Although I also felt it was a little wasteful, I deleted the Pathogen Resistance skill.
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(Self) (3)
・Material Human Form
(Rank 7, Male, 3 years old)
・Ultimate Ability
Piercing Hand
・Skill Fores Language Level 2
Empty (1)
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Yosh, this time.....huh?
As expected, I couldn’t take the ability. Does this mean....I can’t use this ability continuously in the first place?
So, is that the reason I couldn’t take Aneros Kukuban’s body back then?
What the heck.
Now that it has come to this, the interval becomes a concern. It’s definitely not a short one, like ten minutes or an hour. I took over Punos’s body at midnight, and then Aneros killed me at dawn. This means by calculations, it can’t be used again for at least several hours.
In that case.....I gently extend my hand. It’s a skill I learned in the past. If I feel like it, I could grab as many cockroaches as I want. Then I feel sorry for the insects, but I cut all their legs. It’ll be troublesome if they run away after all.
I will remember this time today. Perhaps it’d be pointless to use my ability a few more hours from now. I’ll try waking up repeatedly in the middle of the night and try to see when my ability will activate. Although it is fine for the ability to be usable after an hour or a few days, if I could only use this ability after a few weeks or a few months.....no, no, let’s not think about it. But still - no, it is precisely because of that - this is exactly the time I must confirm it.
And so, I quickly hid the poor cockroaches on the hem of my clothes and returned to my room.
I woke up many times in the night and focused my thoughts on the stealing ability.
Even when dawn broke, the cockroaches were still there.
It was finally in the early afternoon - after a whole day passed - that the cockroach became a rainbow-colored mist. www.ihavesinnedtranslation.com
TL Note :
- Black Diamonds-common euphimism for cockroaches in Japan
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