14. Cheat Skill × Cheat Item

I could not stay on the little girl — the sword — so I turned to the staff and took out the ten tickets.

「Eleven times.」

He looked past me. Troubled.

Right. People with no business here.

「Uh. Sorry.」

「Is it a problem.」

「I am fine if you keep her quiet.」

「I can do that.」

When her voice was in my head, Fiona had not heard it.

Mari neither, from outside.

Only the one holding her, maybe.

I was still holding her until I understood Mari.

This girl would not leak the room.

「I will not tell anyone.」

「Understood. Then the tickets.」

He counted.

「Ten. Eleven draws.」

「All right.」

I spun the drum.

Gara gara, potoh.

Black ball.

「Participation. Hold onto the balls, please.」

「As is means this is…」

I looked at the list.

「The magic ball itself. Black.」

「Yes. Throw it at who you want to hit. It uses the attribute they are weakest to.」

「Handy. For a participation prize.」

「Disposable magic.」

「You treat it like tissue.」

I pocketed it and glanced back.

The girl had worn herself out slapping me. Coughing.

I wondered what the ball would do.

…Guilty, in that shape. Later. When she is a sword again.

「Anyone can use it. Self-defense is a good use.」

「Mm. I will give it to Miu.」

Pocket. Drum again.

Gara gara. Black.

Gara gara. Black.

Gara gara. Black.

Misses.

「Hits are not easy.」

「I am sorry. Participation is the common one…」

A small apologetic laugh. Fair.

Gara gara, potoh.

Fifth. White.

Bell.

「Congratulations. Fifth prize.」

「White magic ball.」

「Disposable, like the black. Recovery. Same use. If they are not dead, it will usually cover it.」

Elixir, more or less. Do not sit on them.

I kept turning.

Gara gara, potoh.

Gara gara, potoh.

Gara gara…

Sixth through tenth. All black.

「Hmm. Cold.」

Last one. Breath. Handle.

I was about to put my back into it.

「Hey. What are you doing.」

The girl — the sword — at my elbow. Looking up.

「Lottery.」

「Lottery?」

「You turn this. You get what you get.」

「The balls?」

「Usually just balls. Lucky, something good.」

I nodded at the list. Below the bottom two, all of it was good.

「That sounds fun. Let me.」

「You want to.」

Last draw. Fine.

I looked at the staff.

「Fine. Decide who owns what comes out.」

「All right.」

One pull. Participation or fifth, most likely. Nothing to lose.

「Hold here. Turn.」

She glared.

「What.」

「I cannot reach.」

「Eh?」

「I cannot reach. You can see that!」

Hands up. Handle too high.

「Cannot be helped.」

I took her under the arms and lifted.

「Na—」

Face red. I was only carrying her.

Hassle. I hurried it.

「Come on. Come on. Heavy. Come on.」

「Do not be stupid! I am not heavy right now.」

「Yes, yes.」

I played along.

She muttered and turned it.

Gara gara, potoh.

Red ball.

「Congratulations. Second prize.」

「Really?!」

I had not expected a hit.

Same feeling as dumping stones in a gacha and letting the cat tap the last one.

The staff brought the prize.

「Second prize. Warp feather. Instant jump to a place you have been once. Not consumed. Note: it only works for the one who accepted it just now.」

Forest. Night already.

Feather in the left. Sword back in sword-shape in the right.

I took the feather out.

Anywhere I had been.

Mansion. Use.

The scene changed.

Like changing a channel.

Home.

「……Amazing!」

Theory was one thing. Doing it was another.

Salamus Trading Company.

The gate of town.

The ox grass, a little farther.

One after another. Exactly where I aimed.

This is good.

Honestly stronger than All Abilities ×777, is it not.

No. That is not weak either. Different tool.

With this I can do a lot.

I thought about warp.

Merchant work. Reach a far city once, then haul between.

A rock a short way off.

Feather. Behind the rock.

In a fight, behind the other person?

Skill plus this. The list got longer.

Next day.

I used the feather on the oxen. Ten.

Double the old record in one go. Andreu was surprised.

「Is he running a mercenary company. This is a hundred-man job.」

That day I thought warp was the thing. The next day I knew I was wrong.

Warp is not the thing.

The tickets are.

Collect them. More lottery tickets.