The Saint's Trial: Can He Resist Their Charm!?

'So we need to open up this letter next,' thought Hiroto while looking at the pink envelope.

'Honestly speaking, this letter looks like a love letter wherever you look at it,' he thought. Looking at the pink envelope with a smell of a fragrant perfume wafting from it and a kiss mark right below the seal.

‹Yeah, according to the knowledge I got from your previous world, it is definitely a bonafide love letter,› Ariel said. She has studied the knowledge that was transferred to her when she was born and found out a lot of things. One of those was how it was when a human is courting someone. What she found interesting was the way human males court ladies in an archipelago called the Philippines.

'Maybe I would get to see it in person when Hiro starts courting Saeko,' she thought to herself.

While Ariel was lost in her own world, Hiroto, on the other hand, have his hands sweating due to nervousness. You never know what might be the message contained in this kind of letter. Opening the envelope, he took out the letter from it and started to read it.

«Dear Hiro-chan my cute angel,

Mommy didn't have the chance to raise you up until you grow up. You've grown up thrice now and I never had the chance to even talk to you. Mommy is sorry for that and wanted to make up to you, that's why I will be sending you a pet! I hope you take care of it! Although, it is right now located in a dungeon of that world near the town you are currently residing. If I'm not wrong, it was called Keele's Dungeon.

You have to be careful when going there ok? You will know the specifics when you get there! So please, before you go there, practice and level up more! I don't want my honey to get hurt! If not for these nosy God of Creation geezers, I would have come to you and brought you into my arms. One of these days, I'm gonna blast those nosy geezers to get rid of them once and for all!

(A/N: After adding some flowery words of love and telling him how much she missed him and love him. It finally ended after a long 100 pages of speech. Joke XD)

That would be all for now honey! Always remember that Mommy loves you! I love you Hiro-chan!

Love, Mommy»

When Hiroto read the first part, he thought that it was really a love letter. Then after reading the latter parts, he couldn't help but cry. Remembering the loving mother that was c.a.r.e.s.sing him when he was still a baby, he couldn't help but get emotional.

"So it was from Mommy. I love you too Mommy. Don't worry, I will take care of the pet that you gave me! And I will come to your side after I am strong enough to protect you," Hiroto said while looking at the letter. He tucked it in the envelope again and put it onto his c.h.e.s.t before hugging it lovingly. After a few minutes, he stored it in his inventory. Moments after, he heard a familiar voice ringing inside his head.

›[Quest Triggered: Give them Salvation!]

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Quest: Give them Salvation!

Description: Keele, the maker of the dungeon, turned himself into a lich in order to have enough power to take his beloved away from the kingdom. Although his beloved has passed away a long time ago, they never got baptized by a priest. Give them salvation and help him meet up with his beloved again in heaven!

Quest Time Limit: 4 months

Rewards:

•Dragon Slaying Sword Balmung(sealed)

•Amagiri Bright Dragon Style Sword Technique Manual

•+10 Medium Health Potions

•+10 Medium Mana Potions

•+10 Low Stamina Potion

•500,000 eris

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'Huh?! Amagiri?! Is that the Amagiri I know of?!' Hiroto thought.

‹Well, yes. The Amagiri you are thinking about and the Amagiri written in this Quest Reward are the same!› Ariel replied enthusiastically.

'So that Amagiri Bright Dragon Style really is from 'Asterisk War' anime! Even so, don't they use prana as a part of their swordsmanship Ariel-chan?' Hiroto asked.

‹Oh, that. Prana is mana too silly, just that people from that world have no mana, to begin with, but got exposed to mana suddenly, that's why they don't know how to utilize the mana properly. When they use the mana, they mainly use it for body augmenting types of spells and just a select few knew how to use it entirely,› Ariel-sensei replied.

'Really? I didn't know that. It's such a great help that you are here Ariel-chan! I don't need the help of Google-sensei anymore!' Hiroto thought.

‹Ehehehe, praise me more! When I get a physical body, I want you to pat me and spoil me every day!› Ariel said like a spoiled child.

'It can't be helped. If ever you gain a physical body, then I'm gonna spoil Ariel-chan rotten,' he replied with a smile on his face.

‹That's good to know! Anyway, I guess it's time to explain the functions of your Menu,› Ariel said. Hiroto waited patiently, as he hadn't fully known the functions of this thing.

‹At the User Interface, you can see the currently available functions on your Menu. They are Status Window, Inventory, Party, Map, and Log. I have already explained to you the functions of your Status Window but I'll repeat it. Your Status Window show 2 kinds of Status, your Dummy Status and you Hidden, Real Status Window. At the Dummy Status Window, you can choose what number of attributes you can show and what level. Though, it should not exceed your real status. Inventory show you your acc.u.mulated money of varying currencies, currently, you know have eris. It also shows you your Character Interface where you can equip or unequip a piece of equipment, directly from the inventory,› Ariel stopped for a moment and did a cute cough before continuing.

‹For the Party section, you can see there those who you have asked and agreed to be your companion. They would be given s title like Saeko's if they do agree to travel with you. The map is an interface where you can open and close it at will. When you open it, the Map will be shown on the periphery of your vision. You can also use it to mark someone and track them without being noticed. And lastly, the Log section is where you see your recent attainments in battle or if you learned a new skill. There is also the Quest tab that is under it! You can see your completed quests and ongoing quests there, in case you forgot. I forgot to mention that your inventory has an auto-loot function, a radius of 5m around you. I just didn't loot that frog since a lot of its meat was cut into meat chunks and got holes in it, making it basically useless,› Ariel said her latter words with a bit of anger in it.

'That, I'm sorry. I was just a bit frustrated and confused at the sudden happenings around me so...' Hiroto replied meekly.

‹It's fine Hiro, just don't go on a rampage like that. We are here for you and you have to remember that got it?!› Ariel said, suddenly having a change of character. Shocked by her sudden change of attitude could only nod.

After a few minutes of silence, Hiroto remembered that he has to check out his skills and level it up. He leveled up the Swordsmanship skill, Appraise, and Identify to level 10 and let the slash skill be, he doesn't want to waste skill points. Looking at the newly upgraded skill, Hiroto couldn't help but sigh in amazement at his title. It's supposed to cost 50+ skill points and up but he only needs 10 skill points to max up one skill.*

(A/N: You might be wondering why it costs 9 skill points instead of 10. If you have read the Web Novel or Light Novel of Death March, he still needs 1 skill point to activate the skill since it is grayed out when he first learn it.)

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Swordsmanship Lvl. 10(Max)

Description: Allows the user to practice the way of the sword. The higher the level, the better you are at handling your sword.

•150% increase in attack speed

•150% learning speed on learning sword related skills

•165% increase in attack damage

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Appraise Lvl. 10(Max)

Description: Shows the user the status window of equipment and items. Gives more information as it levels up.

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Identify Lvl. 10(Max)

Description: Shows the user the status window of humans and monsters. Gives more information as it levels up.

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'Isn't this too broken?' Hiroto thought.

‹That's only normal. There is essentially no one who reached the skill level of 10 in this world. Part of the reason is that they lack knowledge about this world. And the other reason is that it is just to hard to reach this level of mastery in a skill, so you should be thankful that you got such a cheat right off the bat,› Ariel-sensei lectured.

'Is that so? So even if I can do it, it doesn't mean that everyone can. There is a saying, one man's ceiling is another man's floor. So I guess there would be quite the shortcomings in getting this kind of cheat,' Hiroto thought as he nodded from time to time sagely.

‹You are correct about the part where there is an exchange. It is just battling opponents with a certain handicap, specified by me! It is to avoid you getting overly reliant on your skills,› Ariel sensei said.

'I would be grateful for that nerf as I really am getting anxious that I'm gonna be overly reliant on my skills. It's really hard to not get spoiled by the special treatment I'm getting!' Hiroto replied.

‹It's good that you are aware yourself of what will happen if you get spoiled and such. Anyway, why don't you distribute your points and after that, you can wake up Saeko for some dinner? You need to register in the Adventurer's Guild tomorrow so you have to sleep early,› Ariel-chan berated him like she was his mother.

'Yes, Ariel-chan. Thank you for reminding me,' Hiroto replied while he opens up the Status Window and distributed his points all on Agility(AGI). He thought that he has too much of a high stat right now so he thinks that he needs the speed to stay safe and save Saeko and other people if ever something goes awry.

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Status Window

Name: Ariyoshi Hiroto

Race: Seraphim(1%)

Age: 14

Gender: Male

Level: 5 (69/90)

State: Healthy

Attributes:

• HP: 14, 700

• MP: 15, 100

• STR: 510

• END: 510

• AGI: 460

• DEX: 410

• MAG: 450

• INT: 740

• LUC: 810

Status Points: 0

Skill Points: 320

Affiliation: None

Job: Civilian

Rank: None

Title: Cute Angel| Absolute Genius| Geniuses Have It Easy

Skills: Level Master| Identify Lvl. 10(Max)| Appraise Lvl. 10(Max)| One-Handed Sword| Swordsmanship Lvl. 10(Max)| Slash Lvl. 1

Spells: None

Rewards and Punishments: None

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Looking at the status he has right now, he decided that he still needs to train more. Harder than anyone, because it is hard to catch his fighting style up with his skill level. He doesn't have that battle instinct so he needs to train in order to control his newfound strength.

Thinking about all this, he proceeded to tap the marshmallow-like cheeks of Saeko to wake her up.

(Alternative Titles: 'Isn't His Title Too Much Of A Cheat?!', 'Future Plans', 'A bit of an info dump')