Prologue 2
「My bad, little brother.」
「…」
「But you’re also at fault. Why did you crawl in here while I was still inside?」
「That’s because you weren’t responding at all!」
「My bad, my bad. I was just captivated by the skill orb for a moment.」
We got out of the raccoon hole and headed down the tunnel towards the exit.
Walking next to me was Lark. She was a few centimetres taller than me. Her long, blonde hair was casually tied behind her back, and her mischievous eyes shone violet. Under her pointy nose was a mouth with thin lips, which never stops talking.
Sometimes when we encounter adventurers, they go “Whoa!” when they see Lark. Maybe she’s the type of girl who will grow into a beauty in the future. Though, I am not so sure about that because mining slaves like us have been “castrated”, in a magical sense, by contract magic to suppress our desires.
…Hey, little brother. You kinda know a lot of sophisticated words for your age, don’t you? Where did you learn them from?, Lark once asked me that, but I could only answer that I didn’t know. I am not really lying about my age or anything. I am a genuine 10-year-old.