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  Chapter 014?

  "Is this it? Did I get the [Female Body] skill just so I could use this?"

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  The status s showed something way beyond what anyone would expect. First, my name had ged. I had been renamed from Takimoto Yu to Tamamo.

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  "My race is fox spirit, so Tamamo is a surefire name."

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  I hought I'd bee a fox spirit and have to use that name. You never know what's going to happen in life.

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  Then the problem is the skills. There are three skills listed, all of which are different. The first skill, [Fox Fire] is fi's a standard skill for fox spirits, and it seems easy to use because you specify what you want to burn.

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  The sed skill, [Sky Walk] is also a on skill in skill stories. It allows you to walk in the air, so you could bi with Fox Fire to burn as much as you want from the safety of the air.

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  The problem is the third skill [Lost House]*. It's a broken skill that allows you to freely enter a the lost house in located a subspace, and bring in anyone you specify.

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  There are two reasons why dungeon exploration in this world does nress. You food and drinks with you to go deep, and there are no safe areas, so you 't take a proper rest.

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  However, the [Lost House] pletely overes this. Food be stockpiled in the Lost House, and there is no problem with drinking water as there is a running water supply.

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  You ot only rest, but you even stay ht, so you sleep soundly without fear of being attacked. You don't have to worry about your stamina on the way back, and you take all your loot home with you by leaving it at the Lost House.

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  If I use this skill, my dungeon exploration will progress dramatically. Since I don't have to worry about getting back, I simply desd to the lowest yer where I barely win against a monster.

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  However, if I make this skill public without thinking it through, it will bee a massive battle for it. If anyone forms a party with me, it's almost certain that they break the world's deepest record. People will want it everywhere.

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  When that happens, I get through it somehow. I have the pot from the Hercules Syndrome, and if push es to shove, I run to the lost house and no one will be able to touch me.

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  However, if I run away, there is a high possibility that my family will be taken hostage. A nation's power is now expressed by the power of its explorers. The number of reinated people are the most used measure.

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  To secure a single reinated person, eaation will use any means necessary. To obtain me, who has unpreted abilities, they will use even the most despicable means.

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  "At the very least, it would be better to make Tamamo and Takimoto Yu different people."

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  If I were only thinking about living a peaceful life, the best solution would be to seal Tamamo away aer the dungeon as Takimoto Yu alone. But I made a promise to the goddess.

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  I don't want to do something that would half-break that promise. There is no doubt that using Tamamo's skills would help advahrough the dungeon.

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  So the only thing I do is to make Tamamo and Takimoto Yu different people and separate the Takimoto family from the battle for Tamamo. If we assume that she is a mysterious person, all alone in the world, then the only optio would be to tact Tamamo directly.

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  *TN: Lost House(迷い家) is a Japanese Folklhost story about a house in middle of nowhere, in some versions the house itself is a yokai/ghost, in others it's just a pce where strahings happens, normally the person is lost when they find it, or they find it and bee lost/missing after entering the house.