Chapter 2

I’ve become a toolmaker.

When you only hear it through speech, you’d probably say “Ah, is that so?”, but I don’t think it’d make any sense until you actually see it…

“…”

Let’s think about this calmly.

First of all, my name.

“I’m Seiichi Maruyama! I’m 20 years old, born in Japan! I worked as a supermarket’s staff 1 ! I died from a virus brought in by some asshole of a god! And then, somehow, I got reincarnated as a tool shop (building) instead of a toolmaker!”

Was what I shouted. But… Was there really a voice coming out of the building or not? Because the little bird with pink antlers (a very otherworldly bird) perched on my roof doesn’t seem to move a muscle at all. Could it be… nobody could hear my voice as I’ve become a tattered house (a shack, no matter how you look at it)?

“Haaahhh…. That fucking, obese, bald god! I told him to make me a toolmaker, why did I become a building instead?! What the fuck am I supposed to do now that I’ve become a building?!”

I shrieked, but the bird on the roof just gave me a big yawn.

This is really awful. I’m going to die like this… Wait a minute? Die? Can a house even die?

Let’s calm down a bit.

“A-anyway… Let’s just try to figure out what’s going on right now and about this body.”

First, the current situation.

All I saw in front of me was a row of trees with black trunks. There were some grasses and bushes as well, but they’re nothing like the ones I know.

There were no signs of people and almost no signs of animals there. Only an otherworldly bird that I don’t know has been perching on my roof a couple of times already.

The location sucks… The lack of people is even worse.

“Ah, right, he said it was a level system. Status screen… “

Status screen. After I thought of it, I saw a screen appear in front of me.

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Toolmaker Level 1

Employee 0

Products —

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This is terrible… Zero products, zero employees. This isn’t a tool shop in the least, but it’s more appropriate to call it a regular mountain hut.

In order to raise the level of this shop, I need to hire employees and purchase products from suppliers… Though, I don’t think I could do anything about the suppliers. I mean, what can I do in this situation? To begin with, ‘I’ am a tool shop (building), all right? Can I even communicate with them? Yes, I can speak, but will I be able to communicate with other people? In the first place, would people even come to this talking hut? They’re going to be weirded out and torn down… Wow, I’m going to die, aren’t I?

“… This is really bad.”

Anyway, let’s do whatever we can do now.

“Are there really no useful skills available…”

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《Skills》

〇 Divine Avatar Possession Level 1

〇 Emergency Production Level 1

〇 Bouncer Level 1

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“Eh?”

A seemingly new screen I’ve never seen appeared.

Avatar? Could it be… No way!

I, then, shouted.

“Skill, use ‘Divine Avatar Possession’!”

And then, the hut glowed faintly for a moment, and my perspective changed.

The perspective was inside the hut. And…

“Ah, aaahhhh! Arms, legs, hands… Ah, ahhhhhh!”

Tears welled up in my eyes.

I’m inside the hut.

I have limbs, I have a body… I can shed tears.

I’ve got a human body.

The skill “Divine Avatar Possession” allowed one to create a human body.

“Yes!!!!”

I bounced around inside the hut and opened the door to go outside.

“Uoohh-gyaaaa-buhe!”

But when I tried to get out, I got bounced.

I could open the door, but I couldn’t get out. There was an invisible wall. No way, I can’t get out of the hut?

“What the hell… Damn it. Huh?”

Suddenly, I noticed that my body was heavy.

I was too happy to notice, but there was a watch wrapped around my left wrist.

There, the time was displayed.

If it was just the time, I could understand it… But there was also another thing displayed on it.

[Remaining manifestation time 2 minutes, remaining magic power 20.]

“Huh? What is this… Magic power?”

At level 1, my magic power is 30, and it decreases by 10 for every minute I use Possession. In other words, I can only maintain this body for three minutes.

O-only three minutes? You’re lying… What am I supposed to do?

“Uh, oh… C-cancel.”

The time limit was now down to one minute, so I immediately canceled the skill. With the skill canceled, the human body I possessed disappeared and I went back to being a hut.

I was disappointed, but… At least I was able to harvest something.

“20 EXP obtained, 80 more to level up.”

If I consume my magic power, my level will increase.

The higher the level is, the more magic power I will get. In other words, I can remain human for a longer period of time.

And that’s not all. I may gain new skills, and my skill level may also increase.

Finally, there’s hope.

“All right! I’ll have to level up first! … But, seriously, this tattered shack really doesn’t look like a tool shop at all.”

I got myself together and decided to raise my level up in the meantime.

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Footnotes

Specifically, the staff in charge of arranging the merchandise on the shelves.