Chapter 5 is out! I've been writing chapter 9 for 3 days, someone help me.
Ari explained that she was anxious because of the equipment I gave her since it was so nice. While she was explaining she also muttered: ‘Also you are no longer scary so I did not recognize you’ in a really quiet voice. I barely managed to hear. I don’t know if I should be upset or not. Ari sat down under a tree. While I was thinking I heard Ari’s stomach.
“Grrrr…”
“O-Oh, are you hungry?”
“N-no… Grrrrr…”
When she answered, her stomach grumbled again. Her face was bright red, she was really cute but I could not let her be hungry like that. I pulled out some fruits for her to eat from my inventory and offered them to her.
“I-Is it really ok for me to have these?”
“Yeah it is ok, I have a lot.”
She quietly received them and started eating, she seemed to be lost in thought. I pulled out an apple for myself and sat down with her to eat, I was getting quite hungry myself after all. Fenri went away somewhere in the forest. But every now and then I could hear faint cries from monsters dying. ‘Huh, such a convenient wolf, what a good boy, I will make sure to pet him more.’ while I was thinking that Fenri came back, I gave him some meat from my inventory and petted him, he wagged his tail. However my inventory did not have much food to begin with, I needed to go to a town to restock.
“Yami.”
“Y-yyes?”
Ari tugged on my cloak while saying my name. Pulling me back from my thoughts I replied while stuttering.
“What happened to your tail and ears?”
“Oh, it’s because of this.”
As I said that. I took off the [Disguise] ring. My ears surged from the top of my head as if they were hidden and my tail just popped back up. It was a weird sensation. The ring rather than make an illusion, it seemed to make your body retract the desired body parts or something like that. I did not really understand how it fully worked. Ari’s face lit up and her eyes sparkled when she saw that.
“Yami! Yami, is that an item?
She asked with a really excited voice. While tugging my cloak.
“Yes, it is an item that allows for me to disguise my beastkin features.”
As I said that I took the [Disguise] ring and put it on her hand.
“I-Is it really ok for me to try this item?”
“What do you mean by that?”
“W-well aren’t items really expensive? I heard that even [Common] rarity items are hard to come by. If I were to damage it. I-I c...”
She seemed really nervous about it. And stopped talking when she was about to mention something, seeing her all worried I decided to say.
”I do not know if they are expensive or not but, yes it is ok for you to borrow it. Just try to be careful with it.”
I said while smiling, right after I finished saying that, Ari put the ring on, she started to touch the top of her head as if thinking she would grow ears and a tail. She looked adorable I decided to pat her head. She was visibly happy about it. I started thinking; [Common] rarity items and expensive did not go together. ‘The world has really changed a lot huh?’ I muttered... I decided to ask Ari for more information.
“Ari, could you tell me everything you know about items?”
“W-well if you say so.”
She blushed a bit and seemed really happy.
“From the little, I know there are 6 item tiers and there’s a rumor of a 7th tier.”
Wait… 6 tiers? rumors of a 7th tier? I do not like where this is going. Ari continued her explanation as I was thinking.
“The 6 tiers are: [Common], [Uncommon], [Rare], [Flawless], [Legendary] and [Divine].”
“What about the rumored 7th tier?”
I decided to ask something I knew the answer for, hoping for a different answer.
“No one knows if the tier truly exists or not but it is a tier said to reach the power of the gods, those items are named [Relic] tier.”
‘Ahhh…!’ I screamed internally while holding my head with both of my hands, I do not look forward to the future. Everything I wear is [Relic] tier, what will happen to me?
“Yami? Yami?!”
“A-Ah... Sorry about that. Can you continue?”
“U-un.”
Ari with a worried look nodded. In the meantime, Fenri came over to us and laid down.