Sparkling Street Poison Swamp. It is a street located in the noble district of the capital. A commercial zone unexpectedly appears where the nobles’ residences are concentrated. It is a boss rush-like street where all kinds of sparkling stores are gathered. They are all high-end shops targeting the nobility.
The sparkling dress shop. The pink dress in the window will reduce your maximum HP by 10%.
The sparkling coffee shop. If you enter the store in tacky clothes, 10% of your maximum HP will be reduced by the atmosphere in which the staff and customers might laugh at you.
The sparkling jewelry shop. You will be pierced by the luminosity of the gemstones more than the radiance, and another ten percent.
The Sparkling Perfume Shop. The mere sight of the store’s exterior is enough to make your breath catch in your throat—proportional damage.
The sparkling specialty tea shop. I like tea so much I can’t stand it… ah! From inside, there came out a fashionable person who can only be assumed to have visited the four aforementioned stores. Ten percent of the maximum HP disappears.
Ugh…. Due to the high concentration of sparkling miasma, my HP is slowly being chipped away by walking. The poison’s unique proportional damage has accumulated, and I have only half of my HP left. It’s a yellow bar.
“Coming here makes me miss the capital.”
“It’s Sparkling Street Poison Swamp, you know?”
“Eh? What’s that?”
No wonder the street’s name doesn’t ring a bell with Eleanora. Because I named the Sparkling Street Poison Swamp on my own, there is no way there is a street named Poison Swamp.
I hadn’t been here since the first time I wandered in and escaped with my body flashing red. Unfortunately, it seems to have remained undisturbed.
There are cases of such places being cleaned up. In my previous life, a fashionable fashion building in my city was transformed into an otaku building over the years. It had several anime shops, bookstores specializing in manga and light novels, card shops, computer shops, and model shops… This was a bonus-stage situation.
Like the building mentioned above, is the Sparking Street Poison Swamp more of an erosion than a cleanup? It should have been, but it still looks like a fashionable space. Eleanora is happily looking at the shops lined up, but my life force is being depleted.
I have to get out of here. If this continues, my nerves will go haywire, my organs will malfunction, and eventually my body will dissolve, leaving only my bones. That’s how unbefitting this space is for me. I know, I know, that I’m suffering from my weakness and taking damage on my own.
Eleanora is walking without sustaining damage. With a smile as radiant as this street, she said.
“It’s been a long time since I’ve been anywhere, and I’m looking forward to tomorrow.”
“Tomorrow?”
“Patrick and I had planned to take the measurements for the wedding dress today, and after tomorrow, we can go around to any place we like. Yumiela is going to make her equipment, right?”
They didn’t tell me about it. Patrick and the others made the right choice, since I would have refused to go the whole way once I knew what was scheduled for the first day.
Tomorrow, we’re going separately. Even before she found the Archiam estate, I declined to go shopping with her because it’s long, and I’m not interested. Eleanora must also know my nature, as she plans to go separately during the meeting. Still, she said she wanted to go around with me….
“I’m strong.”
“…You are?”
Eleanora agreed to my abrupt declaration, even though she was puzzled.
I’m strong. After level 99, my level is unmeasurable; even if I take percentage damage that has nothing to do with total HP, I can use recovery magic to convert MP into HP.
“I’m strong, so… well, I mean, poison doesn’t work on me. Even in Poison Swamp, I can carry on just fine.”
The poison here is dazzling, but I’m the strongest, so no worries.
Stopping the curved expression that was too much to ask her to part with, I told her straight out.
“Would you like to go shopping with me now?”
“……Eh! Really?!”
The look on Eleanora’s face in that moment was so ferocious that this glittering poison swamp was nothing compared to it. Before I collapse in the trendy space, her smile will hit me.
“Yay! Which order should we go around in? Hmm… I can’t decide.”
“…How about just one?”
Self damage xD