Volume 4 Chapter 13 Editor Skill
Edited by: Kanaa-senpai
Sat cross-legged on the soft hay, trying to mimic meditation.
As for me, I’d rather sprawl comfortably and think all sorts of things, but if I do something like that, Lady Uno’s special training course will start, saying I’m slacking off in my training.
True, I gain a lot from the training, but getting nearly fatal injuries once a day is enough for me.
I know she’s doing this for me, and I’m grateful, but am I just being a baby to think this schedule is too hard?
I’m just pretending to cultivate my spirit to escape the painful training.
I can fool Lady Uno’s eyes, but not my heart.
Back in Japan, I’d pretend to study in my room to avoid getting scolded by my mom.
Since being summoned, I’ve remembered a lot, and I regret not trying harder.
But am I going to make the same mistake again?
It’s shameful… but it’s too painful, and I can’t help it, right?
No, that’s wrong.
Now is the time for me to judge things comprehensively on my own.
As for me, I’d rather use up my accumulated proficiency points than get stronger.
Let’s decide on that.
I just tried a method to quickly dump a large amount of proficiency points and got scolded a lot by Lady Uno, but the skill I accidentally got seems quite interesting.
It’s a simple skill that lets me record memories.
In other words, it’s like a memo pad function in my mind, saving bits of thoughts like files.
A memo pad is a common feature on computers and phones, nothing special, but it’s still convenient to have.
If I imagine a bit, I can even make it display in Japanese, which helps to jot down ideas before I forget them.
Moreover, I can attach images or videos of what I see to this memo pad.
It’s like my eyes have turned into a high-performance camera.
The storage limit is unknown, but it seems fun to capture memorable scenes and edit albums or home videos.
But no one else can see them but me.
The memo app──if you wanna get fancy, it’s just a text editor.
I’ve decided to call this skill the “Editor Skill.”
One of the requirements to get it seems to be dumping a ton of proficiency points, but I don’t really get the connection.
There was this one time──my uncle kept wasting money so badly that my great-aunt finally gave him a family budget ledger as a gift… Maybe the gods are hinting I should use proficiency points wisely?
In the end, my uncle only scribbled on the first page, then quit.
He said spreadsheet software was way better, anyway.
Messing with stuff, I kind of figured out how to do spreadsheet-ish things, too.
Not that I’m some expert──the only spreadsheet trick I know is auto-summing numbers.
Even the computers here have that built-in, so it’s not such a big deal.
The most useful thing right now looks like the video function.
If I record my training with Lady Uno, I can probably do some top-tier image training later.
I think Lady Uno moves slow on purpose, just to match my speed.
And still, I can’t dodge her for the life of me.
She’s always slipping through the gaps in my guard.
When I try to go on the attack, she smacks me down like it’s nothing. So I figured, fine──I’ll wait for her move instead. But then she mixes in tricky feints, and I fall for them every time.
Even if I know it’s bait and stubbornly stay put, I’ll just get sliced clean anyway, unable to move.
Makes me wanna yell──”What the heck am I supposed to do?!” But I guess that push-and-pull is what fighting and martial arts are all about.
Stuff like this… Yeah, talent you’re born with probably matters a lot.
People who can become a fighter right out the gate, no bonuses or cheats──they’re just built different.
Still, even if you weren’t born a genius, with enough effort you can reach a decent level, I think.
I mean, I can absolutely tell──I’m a whole lot better now than before I trained with Lady Uno.
If a normal guy like me actually busts his butt, maybe I can beat a genius who slacks off.
But if the genius is busting their butt too, then yeah, no way──at least if we’re playing fair.
If you don’t care about being nice, there are tons of ways to get things done.
Ambush, sneak attacks, poison──take your pick.
Not like I’d ever actually do something like that myself.
But you mess with the weak, you might end up getting wrecked instead.
In the end, no matter how strong you get, you’re never truly safe.
I’ll just get a little stronger, nothing crazy.
Even Lady Uno gets that much──she’s only teaching me ’cause she knows.
Still, for me, it feels like staring at some huge wall I gotta climb.
Sword matches come down to a split-second──if your gut doesn’t kick in, you’re dead meat.
I don’t think fast enough for that stuff, honestly.
But maybe if I watch replays, pause and figure out patterns, I can scrape by.
This editor skill’s handy, for sure, but evolving it takes a stupid amount of experience points.
Guess it’s a hidden skill or something, but if it really eats that much XP, who’s gonna find it?
Nobody’s dumb enough to just chuck all their hard-earned points away.
I only have this pile of XP ’cause Lady Uno messed up my starting stats.
Anyone else?
They’d have to grind for a lifetime and they’d barely have any.
Just adding one new function guzzles XP like crazy.
Normally, I’d call that a huge flaw… but for me, right now?
Honestly, it’s working out.
The real issue is Lady Uno might scold me again for wasting my XP stash.
She doesn’t let mistakes slide──even says stuff like, ‘Second chance?
That’s a one-way trip to Hell.’
But it’s not like I’m doing anything wrong here.
Sure, throwing those points away was a dumb move, and yeah, it was rude to Lady Uno too──so, lesson learned there.
But leveling up the editor skill is seriously useful… probably.
Computers, too──folks used to think they were pointless junk before they got popular.
The answer’s obvious: I just gotta show Lady Uno that this skill actually helps.
In other words──a proper presentation.
If I want her to get it, I need something dead simple and convincing.
The video recording tool’s my big shot.
I should really push how it helps break down battles.
I’ll tell her it’s basically a skill to record any move you see, just once──and hey, it’s technically true.
”Oh, a skill editor, huh? Handy thing──just one look at an enemy’s skill and you can crack it.”
Lady Uno was way more interested than I’d expected.
Not that it’s called a skill editor… it’s actually an editor skill.
But whatever.
If Lady Uno likes it, that works for me.
”If Saburou’s sudden move-up lately is thanks to that skill, then it’s more dangerous than I thought.”
I hadn’t really noticed much difference myself, but Lady Uno had already figured it out.
Just replaying moves over and over is good mental training anyway.
I guess this editor skill really is worth it.
Now that Lady Uno’s given it the green light, I can drop the act.
No more holding back.
Time to go wild and evolve this thing like crazy.
Dumping a ton of skill XP into it feels amazing.
It’s like punching in the infinite money code in a game.
Sure, if you go too far, you wreck the balance and things get boring fast.
But this skill doesn’t make me any stronger in a fight or anything.
With most tool programs, you update and stuff you never use just keeps piling up, and it actually gets worse to use.
But the editor skill only gets better, exactly the way I want it.
Nothing bad about it at all, really.
Got cocky and dumped almost half my astronomy skill XP into it.
Now my head spins, like my blood pressure crashed.
But there’s this clear, dizzy happiness buzzing through me.
”For starters, try analyzing this magic.”
Lady Uno tossed that out──and then fired a magic arrow right at me.
My body moved before my brain did.
I caught it with my right hand.
The shock was brutal, like getting slammed with a metal bat charged with electricity.
The shining arrow shot straight through my arm, turned to dust and vanished, but the ruined flesh it left behind stayed right there.
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Edited by Kanaa-senpai.
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