[OBJECTIVE: Flash your panties!]
[REWARD: +5 ERO points]
[HIDDEN CONDITIONS: 1]
…
"I'm already regretting this…"
…
"Ugh… but I don't have a choice… I don't have any other clue for getting back to my world, and I don't even know if I can find a normal job that fast…"
Hiromi left the alley and started wandering through the city's streets.
According to the system's info, only she could see the holographic screen, but she had closed it anyway. She didn't have the energy to keep arguing with that computer, or whatever it was.
But she hadn't gone far before she crouched down and grabbed her head with both hands.
"How am I supposed to get two thousand ERO points like this?!... No... I need even more! I have to exchange some of those points for darios so I can buy food and pay for a place to stay…"
"Umu!"
At the unexpected exclamation, Hiromi opened her eyes and found herself face-to-face with a short, chubby little man wearing a full-body green spandex suit.
The little man, who looked more like a goblin than a person, was kneeling right in front of her, his eyes fixed on the inside of Hiromi's skirt.
!!
Hiromi jumped to her feet, red as a tomato.
"Mmm… yes!"
After nodding to himself, the strange little man stood up, turned around, and trotted off, leaving a bewildered Hiromi alone in the middle of the street.
…
"…Ah! The quest!" Hiromi blurted out. She couldn't wait to check. "System!"
…
Nothing happened.
"Ugh… ERO System!"
The moment she said the command, her cheeks burning, the pink holographic screen opened again; from there, she went straight to the category she needed.
[-------------STATUS-------------]
[NAME: --- Shirakiyo Hiromi]
[ALLURE: -------------------200]
[TRAITS: ------------------None]
[TITLES: ------------------None]
[ERO POINTS: ----------------5]
"Quest complete! I have five ERO points!... What?! Why hasn't the quest disappeared?"
On the screen, she could see the quest was still active.
Hiromi touched her delicate chin with her slender fingers.
"Does that mean it's five ERO points every time someone sees my panties?… I don't know whether to be happy or depressed…"
She closed her eyes for a few seconds.
"I've got it!" Hiromi exclaimed. "What if I show them to someone who wouldn't care... no, to something that wouldn't even notice?! It would be less embarrassing, of course!"
***
Hiromi peeked into several alleys until she finally found her target, a dog rummaging through the trash in search of food.
"I knew they had to exist in this world too!"
She approached at a slow but determined pace. This was so much better than showing them to a person.
Noticing Hiromi's presence, the dog started wagging its tail and walked over, thinking it might get a treat.
"Calm down, Hiromi, you've changed clothes in front of Pochi hundreds of times," she told herself as her parents' Maltese popped into her mind. "There's no difference here… It's all or nothing!"
With her eyes shut tight, Hiromi yanked up the front of her skirt for the confused animal.
"Tsk, tsk, tsk…"
!!
Hiromi dropped her skirt, her blood turning to ice.
She turned slowly and met a pair of deep, expressionless lilac eyes staring at her from the alley entrance.
They belonged to a beautiful young woman, a bit shorter than Hiromi, with delicate features and long legs that could have made her pass as a model with no effort.
But what stood out most was her brilliant golden hair, falling all the way to her knees, adorned with two side ponytails.
"It's not what it looks like! I can explain!" Hiromi tried to defend herself.
"Tsk, tsk, tsk," the girl repeated, shaking her head in disapproval before continuing on her way.
…
"The dog, realizing it wasn't getting a treat, turned around and also left."
…
"…Is there a hole around here I can crawl into and never come out?"
***
"Working up the courage is much harder than I imagined…" Hiromi sighed as she walked through what seemed to be the city's central market.
Besides the overwhelming embarrassment she'd just suffered, she checked the system and saw she hadn't received any extra points. She still had the same five.
"Whatever, I never want to do something like that again…" Hiromi let out another tired sigh. "But having to show them to people… Uuu…"
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"What's wrong, young lady? Why the sad face? Here, this one's on me!"
"Ah! Thank you…?"
Hiromi still didn't understand what had just happened, but a kind vendor had given her an apple.
She lowered her head in thanks, and the vendor waved it off, so Hiromi continued on her way, a little more encouraged than before.
"They have the same fruits we do… Wait! I've got another idea!" Hiromi exclaimed, studying the apple closely. "It's still really embarrassing, but if I do it this way, maybe it won't be so terrible…"
After opening a small ERO System holographic window so it wouldn't block her view too much, Hiromi took a few more steps through the market and glanced around nervously.
"Ei!"
With a small exclamation to steel herself, she let the apple go. It hit the ground and rolled just in front of her feet.
After a furtive look around, she pulled her skirt up a little, shortening it, and walked over to the apple.
Even her ears were red with embarrassment.
She could have knelt down, but she had a mission to complete (literally), so she bent over to pick it up without bending her knees.
"Uuuu…"
When her hand was just a few centimeters from the apple, she finally felt the skirt give a tiny bit, letting the white of the last barrier protecting her private parts peek out.
!!
The breeze against the exposed part of her butt was the cue; she grabbed the apple and straightened up at the speed of light.
[+15 ERO points]
"Ugh… three people saw me… yay… Uuu…"
The message on the holographic screen was clear. Her strategy had worked.
"How many points can I get like this? No, wait… how many do I want to get like this…?"
Hiromi let out a deep sigh, her gaze drifting to the apple in her hand.
"Is it three seconds per drop? Or do the drops stack? I'd better wash it really well afterward…"
***
"Hey, what's with that girl?"
Under the shade of a canvas awning, two men chatted at a market stall.
"Ah, she's been like that for a while. Looks like she can't walk more than a few steps before dropping her apple."
"Shouldn't we help her?"
"Leave her alone. The poor thing probably has some kind of mental problem."
"Isn't that even more of a reason to?"
"I get you, but it's also important for people like that to feel like they're self-sufficient members of society."
"I just hope she peels the apple before she eats it…"
[+5 ERO points]
"It feels like I'm losing something important every time they look at me…"
Hiromi let out a sigh after reading the notification.
"The last three times, it's been five points. Does that mean only one person is paying attention now?" Hiromi blushed again as soon as the thought crossed her mind. "I've collected a hundred points here… maybe it's time to change locations."
She looked at the bruised apple in her hand and sighed again, exhausted. At least she already had enough ERO points to exchange for money and survive for a while.
Still, she wasn't going to waste food. She decided she'd drop the apple one last time and then peel it. Now she had enough to buy something sturdier to toss on the ground.
Once again, the apple said goodbye to her hand and hit the ground. Hiromi walked over and bent down, but she didn't notice the crack running through the masonry.
!!
Stepping on the crack, Hiromi lost her balance and went down hard, though she managed to soften the fall with her arms.
The problem was, she crossed them in front of her instead of stretching them out, leaving her hips raised in an extremely embarrassing position. Especially since her shortened skirt had ridden up, leaving her butt completely exposed.
[Hidden condition
[Side quest unlocked!]
Hiromi got up as fast as she could. For the second time that day, even the tips of her ears were red with embarrassment.
"I can't believe this… Ah! My lunch… uuuu."
She'd hit the ground with one knee before the other, and what had softened the impact was the apple, which had burst apart on contact.
At last, the apple has received the rest it deserved…
I swear I heard it say "I'm tired, boss" a couple of times.
A moment of silence for the apple…
!!
Hearing the murmurs around her, Hiromi decided it was time to get away from the crowd, which she did with a little trot that looked like it was powered by the steam coming out of her ears.
***
Hiromi found another alley not far from the market.
"Looks like I'm destined to spend my life in alleys..."
...
"Better not think about that... More importantly, it seems I managed to fulfill that hidden condition I saw in the quest info. But what does it mean by "side quest"?"
[SIDE ERO QUEST: All or Nothing]
[OBJECTIVE: Find someone and show them your panties]
[REWARD: +500 ERO points]
"I wish I hadn't found out…" Hiromi sighed after reading the quest. "It gives me five times more points than everything I earned during all that time in the market… but it's a thousand times more embarrassing to find someone and show them face-to-face…"
…
"Still… it's five hundred points…"
[Danger. Your action may have consequences]
[Do you wish to continue anyway?]
[Yes] / [No]
…
"Maybe living in Alasta isn't so bad, we're creatures of habit after all…"
[IMAGES]
The ERO System produced a folder out of nowhere.
When she opened it, photos appeared: her parents holding Pochi, and the class photo from the last school reunion, where all her friends were smiling.
"Aaaaaaa! Yes, I know! I'm not going to ask how you got those images, but you win…"
[Do you wish to continue anyway?]
[Yes] / [No]
"Yes…"
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"Now I just have to find someone… and the harder part, work up the nerve…"
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"Woman!"
"Kyaaa! What?! What's going on?!"
Startled by a voice behind her, Hiromi spun around to see who it was, but there was no one there. Or at least, that's what it looked like.
!!
"Ah! You're…!"
Lowering her gaze, she found the same chubby little man in green, the one who looked more like a goblin than a human.
"The name of the great Pinti… is Pinti!"
***
[ERO SYSTEM NOTICE]
[Content censored by the Alasta Administration]
[Impact on the plot: None]
[Would you like to unlock the spicy scenes on Patreon to support the novel?]
***
"Enooough!" Hiromi exclaimed, backing away from Pinti and falling onto her back in the process.
"What's going on here?"
From the alley entrance, a tall woman approached. She seemed quite athletic, but still thick where it counted, especially in the chest department.
The newcomer wore rather revealing armor, and her scarlet hair was tied into a long ponytail.
As she drew closer, her emerald-green eyes took in the situation, and a weary sigh slipped from her lips.
"Pinti, are you causing trouble again? Don't you already have enough slaves?"
"Pinti will not accept slander! Pinti was only taking what was offered to him!"
"Is that true?" the newcomer asked Hiromi.
"Yes… although I think I ended up giving more than I'd offered…"
"Alright. If the woman wants to hold off on selling herself, Pinti can wait," the little man said, crossing his arms. "But the woman is a good woman. Sooner or later, she'll be mine."
Pinti turned around and proceeded to leave the alley.
"You should be careful getting involved with him," the woman said, offering Hiromi a hand. "Despite how he looks, he's one of the best merchants in the city. He always gets what he wants."
"Do you know him?" Hiromi asked, taking the offered hand.
"From time to time, I take a quest or two for him. This armor was part of the payment. Honestly, I'd prefer something less revealing, but its magical protection is excellent… Ah, right. My name is Ruby, I'm an adventurer. Nice to meet you!"
***
"Thanks!"
Hiromi lowered her head, said goodbye to the innkeeper, and went up to her room.
She had exchanged the first hundred ERO points she'd earned for darios at a one-to-one rate. In other words, one hundred darios, which, to her surprise, was a lot of money.
"Thank goodness I ran into Ruby, she's a good person," she said as she closed her bedroom door. "She didn't just guide me to her inn, she also showed me the most important places in the city…"
"ERO System…" With a tired sigh, the kind she was already getting used to, Hiromi summoned the holographic screen again.
[New trait acquired!]
[Exhibitionist Lv.1]
[Effect: +50 Allure points]
[Raise your trait to level 10 and acquire a title!]
The screen showed the messages that had appeared after she completed the quest.
"I don't think I want that title…"
[----------------STATUS--------------]
[NAME: ------ Shirakiyo Hiromi]
[ALLURE: ----------------------250]
[TRAITS: ----Exhibitionist Lv.1]
[TITLES: ----------------------None]
[ERO POINTS: ----------------500]
"At least I'm making progress… Uuuuu, why did I get stuck with such an erotic system?"
[CLARIFICATION: It was the user who entered Alasta through an adult store]
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"If I could do it over, I would've become an adventurer like Ruby and I wouldn't have to be doing… these kinds of quests. Maybe right now I'd be heading into a dungeon with her and her party."
Hiromi shook her head, arguing with herself.
"Who am I kidding, I wouldn't have dared anyway…"
[ERO Dungeon unlocked!]
[Risk of death: None]
"…What?"