Frontiers ~Chronicles of Bucket-san’s Detailed Pioneering~

It’s also nice that they’re coming to the store to sell rare items like this.

I could try adding them to the list of people that have access to the private section of the blog, as they’ll be able to get better equipment more easily like this… And well, the better their gear, the faster they’ll clear mobs, so they’ll end up getting more good materials and sell them to me.

Let’s talk about it on the next time we meet.

… I don’t know when is the next time I’ll meet them.

I haven’t registered them as friends, after all, so I’d need to either ask around to see if I can find their clan’s base, or find someone who has registered them as a friend, or ask about it publicly on the forums…

Or well, I suppose I can also just leave a message about it with the clerks? The people from Gospel do come to sell materials often, after all.

But at the same time, it’s not like I put many items up on the private section of the blog, so it doesn’t matter as much.
At least not until I start making steel gear with Options on them.

Well, I guess it’s okay to just wait until we meet up again by chance.
I do visit the Guild often to get the items I make evaluated, so I’m fairly sure we’ll be able to meet again soon.

So, it’s only for a short period, but I’m on free time now.

As expected, I’d get tired if I went back to making steel gear right away, so let’s not do that this time.

It’s important to raise funds for advanced facilities, but it’s also important to take breaks, so… Let’s draw another Shadow Barrier Destroyer Magical Formation! My beloved Magical Formations are waiting for me!

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Good morning.
I logged in after doing my usual morning things.

I had a pretty good time yesterday, as I ended up drawing Magical Formations even in my dreams, which led to me waking up in a very good mood.

Well, it is around midnight in-game though.

In any case, I’d like to start crafting while making use of this good mood, but I saw that I had an unread message right now.
It probably arrived while I was asleep.

It must have been from the twins… Let’s see…

Yep, my prediction was correct.
They told me about the inventory expansion quest and what they had to do in order to clear it.
Just like how we had agreed upon when they gave me the recipe for the Enchanted Magic Ink.

And the contents of the quest were indeed different from the quest I took.
Seems like that disgusting guy didn’t have a weird habit of asking elementary school boys to pour drinks for him.

Instead, he asked Mii and Muu to craft some intermediate-tier materials that can be produced by Alchemy.
They were fairly difficulty to make, but it was no problem for the twins, so they successfully got their inventory expanded.

Let’s forward this result to Mika and everyone else.
With this we can be sure that one won’t necessarily need to go through the sexual harassment quest to get their inventory expanded.

Well… This was probably because Mii and Muu are boys though, so Mika and her friends might end up being looked at in the same way that I was.

That said, the inventory expansion is still incredibly important for combat-focused Pioneers, as they don’t have easy access to warehouses all the time, so it’s still worth trying it I’d say.

Having a precedent like this one is important for negotiations, so… Do your best, Mika!

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Oh?

While I was fully focused on making steel gear, I ended up receiving a message… I wonder when it arrived.
I was paying too much attention to my crafting, so the “new message” icon has probably been there for a while now.

The sender was… Mika?

But shouldn’t she be at school right now? Why is she online then…?

I checked the contents of the message, and she said she was apparently sick, so she ended up not going to school in order to rest… But if you were supposed to be resting, then why are you playing games, Mika?

That doesn’t look like you being sick at all!

I’ll have to scold her about this later, but in any case, she seems to have also done the quest to expand the inventory.

She seems to have used the knowledge of the twins’ quest as leverage in order to avoid the sexual harassment… That guy still requested one of the female members of Mika’s party to pour drinks to him at first, but after enough pressure from her party by telling him that they knew he gave a different kind of quest to males, he eventually changed the quest content to subjugating something.

A successful negotiation then.
Seems like it is not easy to convince this guy, but it is definitely possible.
Those are good news.

With this knowledge in mind, Hime should also be able to challenge the inventory expansion quest.
Well done, Mika!

… Wait a minute.
Mika’s entire party was there for this quest? Then… Didn’t they plan to go there and expand the inventory this morning in advance?

Yeah, this was definitely planned for in advance, no doubt about it.

Therefore, I replied to Mika’s message while telling her about the new Shadow Barrier Destroyer Magical Formation that I crafted.

And of course, I said nothing on the message about the scolding that she’ll receive.
It will be a surprise sermon.

Otherwise, she won’t even come to my workshop!

You have to go to school properly, Mika!