Editing Skill Tree Goddess:Volume1 Bonus1

==Bonus Story 1: How Can I Lose Now That the Goddess Has Equipped a Swimsuit?==

The kingdom covered the entire continent, which meant it contained a wide variety of areas and fields. Gilbezos and Goddess Seliphenia had come to one of those.

A tropical ocean.

Specifically, the Valianay Ocean Islands

“I know it’s because the abnormal number of those giant Sea Mine Urchins is enough of a threat for the combat guild to issue a hunting job, but the lack of people is nice really. Look, Gilbezos, look at this shaking and jiggling☆ You have a goddess in her new swimsuit all to yourself.”

“Why would you go for a swimsuit in a section that won’t have any illustrations!? It doesn’t matter to me, but aren’t you going to get a lot of complaints for that one!?”

“You have a lot to learn if you let the immediate problem get you down, boy. If there are no illustrations, you need to take advantage of that fact. For example, I am currently untying my bikini strap right here on the sunny beach.”

“Why would you lie like that?”

“The bikini part is true, though. Besides, you have no way of proving what command I’ve chosen. And now the goddess has removed the bikini bottom first☆”

“She’s lying. That isn’t true.”

“That’s right. I started with the bottom! Got a problem with that!?”

“And the liar isn’t even listening to me.”

Exasperated with the lying goddess who still had the top and bottom of her bikini equipped, the short boy (who was wearing swim trunks) stopped to think.

Which came first: the chicken or the egg? The Sea Mine Urchin had been given that name because it resembled a sea trap which in turn had been invented based on the giant sea urchins that would burst and scatter thick stake-like spines when stimulated. Yes, this monster was confusing. Gilbezos’s job from the guild this time was to defeat the spiky two-metora Sea Urchin Mines that were washing up onto the beach so that the popular beach would be safe once more. Those things were extremely dangerous because they would attack people in groups.

“You don’t have to wrinkle your brow and think so hard.”

“What, do you have a plan, Lady Seliphenia?”

“What do you need a plan for? Unlike a lot of bikini-style gear, this one doesn’t use any kind of complex knots☆ You won’t have any trouble once we’re back in the cottage bed, but even if you do, I will give you a very hands-on lecture. So there’s nothing at all to worry about.”

“I see now that my first mistake was asking you. I don’t care about your swimsuit.”

Gilbezos visually scanned the beach and estimated the number of Sea Mine Urchins to be between 500…and 1000. But their numbers were definitely increasing rapidly enough to take over the swimming area. If he tried to blast one at a time with magic, he would run out of MP. And if he was caught in their blasts, his HP wouldn’t last.

“Any kind of stimulus and their spines start flying, huh? Would a single long-range magic blast be enough to start a chain reaction?”

“Didn’t the local armor seller say he would be most appreciative if you could defeat them without setting them off so you could collect their tough spiny shells? Those are super rare materials☆”

“I’m not throwing out my one and only life over an ‘if possible’ extra reward. Safety first. Okay, open the Skill Tree.”

''Blam, blam, kaboom, kaboom.

Gilbezos was not an ally of humans or on the side of the monsters. He wouldn’t head out on a monster slaughtering tour for no reason, but he wouldn’t hold back if they were causing trouble.

And once he went for it, things got rather busy out on the horizon. A giant white wave parted the ocean and something enormous pushed in from the distance.

…''Eh? What’s that? The scale is hard to judge at this distance, but is that humongous sea urchin…the size of a small island!?

The bikini goddess held a hand over her eyes to shield them from the sun as she stared into the distance.

“Your chain reaction detonated so many of them that the Spike Leviathan is coming to check it out☆ Even a major boss must find that much of a chain reaction to be unusual.”

“Spike…Leviathan? Oh, god, the islanders who posted the job must have known this would happen! They wanted to eliminate the ultra powerful Spike Leviathan for the mid boss price of a Sea Mine Urchin hunting job, didn’t they!?”

Gilbezos had a very bad feeling about this. If the locals were hiding the true hunting target to lure in an unsuspecting outsider, could it be there was even more to this story? Like it was the humans who had violated the monsters’ territory and started the trouble in the first place?

…But why was it a “Spike” Leviathan?

Gilbezos’s question was answered when the Spike Leviathan, which was essentially a sea urchin large enough to tackle its way through a low embankment, suddenly exploded. More accurately, it seemed to stick out a long, long tongue which suddenly shattered like a dropped glass and sent shards scattering everywhere.

Hundreds, thousands, tens of thousands.

He couldn’t relax just because it was so far away. Each shard was sharper and heavier than a guillotine and they were rushing this way like a solid wall.

“That must be like a serpent lizard’s tail.”

“It can explode like that!? Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!?”

Gilbezos didn’t have time to alter the Skill Tree to put together some magical skills. He had to keep low and dodge the incoming “wall”. At times like this, he was thankful for the small body he usually despised. …He would end up punching his pillow back at the inn, though.

That AoE attack was frightening enough, but its shattered tongue instantly regenerated and its HP auto-regen skill sounded like bad news too. He didn’t want to end up in a lengthy battle here.

Also, the swimsuit goddess flexibly twisted her body around in quite a risque way. No, a risky way.

The sunshine was awfully bright.

The wind blew and a triangle of cloth fluttered past the boy’s eyes.

Gilbezos’s mouth formed a small triangle.

“How did that destroy only your swimsuit while your skin remains entirely untouched!?”

“It’s a form of reactive armor available only to the busty☆”

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