Jobless Reincarnation: Sword, Magic Hat and Romance System

Chapter 22: Detoxification Magic Can Be Used Like This Too? Speculation on Points Acquisition

Late at night.

With a faint creaking sound, Allen opened his eyes.

Moonlight streamed through the window, bathing the floor in white light.

He found himself lying on the bedroom floor.

Allen rubbed the back of his neck and straightened up from the ground. Fortunately, the Pauls were considerate enough to put a mattress under him.

Allen sniffed the smell on his clothes and muttered to himself helplessly.

"You smell strongly of blood. I killed a wild boar today, and I got blood on myself. I was afraid of getting the bedding dirty, so I just put it on the ground. That's pretty direct, isn't it? But Paul, you really went too far. Was it really necessary? In the end, you should thank me. Without me, you wouldn't have any clinic play to do."

creak creak.

Allen was taken aback. There were other unusual noises in the air besides his muttering.

Faint murmurs came from the master bedroom next door.

"Honey, I can't take it anymore."

"Oh? This is just the beginning!"

".No."

".want."

".ah."

Allen slapped himself in the face.

"Damn it! I shouldn't have woken up at this time!"

Allen lay back down, but the increasingly loud noises from next door made him feel like he was being pricked by thorns.

He forced himself to calm down and focused his attention on the Dragon Saint Battle Qi embryonic core in his abdomen.

Beside the tree-shaped healing rune, a water-like rune shimmering with brown light was quietly embedded in the detoxification magic groove.

In the original work, there's relatively little description of detoxification magic—no, quite a lot, just less use for normal purposes. It's mostly used for things like food poisoning or hangovers. Detoxification magic...it seems that at higher levels, it can remove negative status effects, like mercury-based debuff removal?

I won't try it; the magic recovery speed is too slow, and it's not worth the risk.

"Honey"

I need to think of something else to distract myself. Sylphie's hair hasn't been cut short yet, great, I've caught it just in time. She's so delicate, like a miniature SD doll.

"Oh no, I really can't take it anymore."

Yes. That's Senis's voice.

"Use healing and detoxification spells."

Hmm. That's Paul's voice! What the heck are healing and detoxification spells? Wait, can this kind of negative status effect be removed with detoxification?

Allen suddenly opened his eyes and sprang to his feet from the floor with a somersault.

"We're an old married couple, why the hell are you still playing basketball every day? Paul is... I think... 24?! Then Senis is 22? Oh, that means Senis was 17 when she gave birth, and she got pregnant at 16. Paul, you're inhuman! Thinking about it that way, she's definitely still at an age full of energy. No wonder. Sigh. I can't sleep. I'll go take a shower. The bathroom is far from Paul and Senis's bedroom, so they shouldn't hear me. But wait, if they hear me, they'll just get even more aroused."

Allen shook his head, tiptoed to open the door, and peeked out, then his neck stiffened.

In the dimly lit corridor, Lilia sat slumped in front of Paul Senis's bedroom door. Faint light filtered through the crack in the door, casting a straight patch of light on her face. She was wearing only a shirt, and her hand was tucked under her body.

Allen silently withdrew his head, then covered his face in great pain.

Is this a family habit of yours?! You have to peep at anyone who comes over from the master bedroom door, right? It must be so attractive that it's making me curious too!

He sighed silently, walked to the floor where he had just fallen asleep, and was about to lie down again when he noticed the pelt he had skinned from the wild boar during the day shimmering softly in the night.

Allen blinked, fully awake.

Since I'm not going to sleep anyway, I might as well go out and finish what I promised to do yesterday, then come back early tomorrow morning to take a shower. If I'm lucky, I might even get something out of it.

Allen nodded, got up and opened the window, and the moonlight instantly flowed across the back of his hand like water.

Outside the window, the village of Buena was utterly silent at night. A breeze swept in from afar, rippled with the waves of grass, and lapped against Allen's face.

He flipped over the window and landed silently in the courtyard outside, disappearing into the darkness.

-

The next morning, the chirping of birds outside the window woke Rudy. He opened his eyes in a daze, then his gaze sharpened and he froze.

Before his bed stood an exquisite shrine.

The shrine was very small, only about the size of Rudy's face. It had a smooth surface, clear texture, and a woody scent with a damp feel, like the smell of a forest after rain.

He blinked and slowly turned his head to look to the side.

On the chair beside the bed, Allen was resting his chin on his hand, looking at him with his eyes narrowed as usual.

"Good morning, Rudy."

Rudy blinked, then realized that he had fainted after being poisoned yesterday. He had been holding a grudge against Allen before he fainted, but when he saw the shrine, his resentment vanished instantly.

"Good morning, Allen."

"We agreed yesterday that the three of us should make this shrine together this afternoon, but some unexpected things happened. Well, it's my fault too. I didn't expect that your bodies couldn't handle eating too much Battier flower seed powder at once."

Allen rubbed his sleepy eyes and pulled out a black leather pouch from behind him.

Rudy couldn't help but shift his gaze from Allen's face to the leather pouch, and discovered that it was the piece of boar skin that Allen had specially cut off yesterday to end the fight.

"It's shaped like a bucket bag a girl used to carry in my past life. It even has hidden snaps made from dried plant seeds. Quite meticulous, Allen. But what's it for?"

Lost in thought, Allen reached out and took the shrine from Rudy's hand, then neatly stuffed it into his leather pocket.

"Here you go. This way it's easy to carry and hide. Put it under the bed, and even if someone sees it, no one can just open it to see what's inside, right?"

Rudy's lips twitched.

"Don't you know everyone has a voyeuristic streak? This actually makes you more likely to be discovered!"

However, he still solemnly accepted Allen's gift with both hands.

Allen immediately stood up.

"Alright, Master and Madam seem to be... well, tired today, and haven't gotten up yet. Lilia hasn't gotten up either. Anyway, you can stay in bed a little longer."

The morning sunlight was very gentle, shining on Allen's face, and he yawned lazily.

"I'm going to take a shower. I slaughtered a pig yesterday, and I still smell of blood on me."

Looking at his face, Rudy felt that Allen, who usually looked like a bully, was not scary at all today.

"Thank you, Allen."

Allen stood up and was about to turn around and leave the room when he glanced at Rudy's desk and saw Loki's earth magic figurine.

He blinked, pointed at the figurine, and turned to look at Rudy.

"By the way, can I have this? It's a Rocky made with earth magic, it's so exquisite."

Rudy's attention was entirely on the shrine, but upon hearing this, he looked up and glanced at the spot Allen was pointing to.

"Sure, I've made a lot of character models for Ms. Luo Qixi. You can take this one if you want."

"Alan is surprisingly good at aesthetics."

Allen smiled, picked up the Lokishi figurine without ceremony, and walked out of the house.

Compared to one-sided giving, mutual gifts are a more effective way to maintain intimacy between people.

[Further gain Rudyus's favor, increasing participation during childhood.]

[Current stage: Early childhood; Cumulative participation score: 52 points.]

[Rating: 2 points is still points.]

Allen twisted his stiff neck and looked at the system panel that had disappeared in front of him.

After multiple rounds of system feedback, he has found that the simplest and most effective way to improve participation in early childhood is to generate positive feedback directly in interactions with the main characters, which manifests as gaining their favorability.

Is the main way to gain points to deepen the "connection" with the main characters? It cannot be completely confirmed. More samples are needed to analyze the underlying logic of point acquisition. Previously, when I directly asked the system, it either played dead or gave vague answers. The riddle-maker deserves to die. This time, I only got 2 points, less than expected, but it's better than nothing.

He yawned again and walked down the corridor toward the bathroom.

(End of this chapter)