Chapter 20: Ch. 19 – Literacy and Excuses

I'm back in my room.

(Hey, Jared), Elly starts, (why did you try to charm Lucia instead of charming her?)
(Did you really just go there?)
(Uh, yes, why?)
(...if I was to start a relationship I'd like it to NOT be this disgusting. It is important to me that a relationship is based on mutual attraction and not just applied mind rape.)
(Right, sorry.)
(And for the same reason I don't think I'd even want to get together with her - I'd never be sure whether I like her because of her or just because her skill forces me to. And that's not even getting into the mental age difference which makes things... weird...)
(Yeah, true. She's a couple of years ahead of you in that regard.)
(ELLY!! Do you want to go in timeout again!?)
(Uh, no thanks.)

One thing doesn't leave my mind, (do you have any idea what the point of the [Undead Bait] skill is? From what I've learned she is supposed to join the hero's party and then assist in taking down the demon lord. But that skill seems very counterproductive, like you want to keep hidden to plan an ambush but every undead in the country has advance warning of where you are. That doesn't add up.)
(I agree. Maybe someone sabotaged the skill? Half the description is bugged out after all.)
(Not sure. I don't think the system administrator would let it stand this way. They should make backups after all - ah, who am I kidding. On the off chance that backups are made half of them are corrupt anyway. Totally not speaking from experience. So much for that angle. )
(So just random corruption of the skill effect?)
I have to think about this option for a moment, (no, this seems too deliberate to me. The skill name and the effect match as far as we can see. Whatever the original skill and effect were if both 'randomly' change to something that still matches with each other this is too much of a coincidence. I wouldn't buy that for a second.)
(True. But if it is intentional sabotage why just stop there? If you want to disable the 'Holy Maiden' holder you could just as well make it an automatic self-destruction.)
(Yeah, also a good point. This whole thing makes too little sense for what we know. Well, that assumes whoever is responsible has that much control over skill effects in the first place. It could just be an incompetent hack job.)
(Also if it was sabotage why draw attention to it by giving it such an obvious name?)
(Maybe because a skill with a mismatched effect would draw more attention?)

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(Why then not disguise it as a glitched skill? Those are... widespread enough. Yeah, this doesn't make much sense either way.)
I can think of another dumb option, (what if it is the original name and only the effect got messed up by a glitch?)
(Uh, and what should the original effect be?)
(No idea. But honestly, sabotage is the most likely cause. Otherwise, it is too unlikely that the effect still somewhat matches the name.)
(I think so too but no idea what this changes.)
(Hmm... beats me. But it is something to keep in mind if we ever break the demon artifact.)

Not making any progress there either... how about, (oh, right I hit Wizard level 2 - do I qualify for an additional class by now?)
(No, you're still a ways off from 'Survivor'.)
(And any other class?)
(Err, you want to risk incurring Therese's wrath?)
(Why not? I doubt there are actually laws that allow her to dictate which classes I take. And if she could just drag me outside the law enforcement area to kill me without consequence she'd have done so already - or ordered Chloe to. So this tells me someone would still suffer consequences when they go back.)
(I don't think this counts as proof. Maybe as a mage you are more valuable than you think?)
(...damn, outsmarted again by a hallucination. Fine, I'll abstain from misappropriating the 'class core' for now. But can you at least sate my curiosity if I had any other class options available?)
(Not without a capable trainer. Speaking of, Chloe is already registered as your 'trainer' according to your status screen.)
(What? Why? It has just been three days and I don't even have the class! She has been barely around to observe my training at all!)
(No idea why but that's just what it says here.)

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