Chapter 12: Gotta catch 'em all!Luna Pov

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  I have multiple beliefs I follow. One of them is that a big bust must be absolutely annoying. It can result in shoulder pain, limit your clothing options, and even cause annoyance while running. Furthermore, I can't even imagine having to constantly deal with oogles at your breasts. All these cons, just for an occasional feeling of superiority, seem like the worst trade-off ever. That is why I decided to stop my bust growth by any means possible. And that includes magic.

  Now I'm currently dealing with a woman who is seemingly comforting me for having small breasts. ME, AN EIGHT-YEAR-OLD! Talk about an inferiority complex. Is she trying to find one topic in which she is better? Or am I reading too much into the situation? Well, whatever.

  So what will I answer when somebody tells me: "They'll grow bigger." Well, "I don't want them to grow bigger. I see no reason to add dead weight to my body."

  The receptionist looks at me in surprise, before her face lights up with pity.

  "You don't have to lie to me. Don't worry, I won't tell anyone. Your secret is safe with me."

  I look at her as if looking at an idiot. "I'm only eight, you know. Get your fucking bearings. Think, receptionist, think!"

  This finally seems to have the desired effect. The receptionist is shocked for a few moments before her brain catches up with the information. Then I can see how her face slowly turns red from her chin to her forehead.

  "I'm very sorry!" she shouts before scrambling out of the room. Now alone, I change my clothes as well and leave for the guild.

  I enter and see the receptionist already standing there. When she looks at me, her face gets slightly red before she composes herself. I look at the board and notice that the wolf-hunting quest wasn't taken down, which is very weird, considering the number of wolves I killed should have been more than enough for twice the area. Well, maybe they forgot.

  Unfortunately, there aren't any other types of hunting quests. Another weird point. I mean, where do these guys get their food? The adventurers who explore the forest? No, that is far from a stable food source. In other words, either these wolves are vegetarians, or they are in that forest because of some special circumstances.

  Shrugging, I decide to enter the forest again to investigate. I mean, I could use Magic to scout the whole forest and probably even find out immediately what happened, but that would ruin the fun. Entering the forest, I'm attacked even more often than st time. Before, approximately two wolf packs attacked me per hour. Now it's three.

  And that isn't all that changed. The wolves have become more desperate. Also, from the 7 wolves on average yesterday, today, a wolf pack only contains five wolves on average.

  Well, that isn't stopping me from having fun, so I continue strolling through the forest as if I'm on a vacation while wearing shorts and a shirt. Then a wolf jumps at me from behind. Somehow, that's how all these wolves hunt. I turn around, using the momentum to do an upper cut. The wolf gets shot five meters into the air before heavily falling down.

  In that time, two other wolves attack from both sides. I duck down and smash them against each other above me. I jump up, dodging another wolf that attacks from behind, before nding on its back. Damn, riding them is fun! I grab the wolf's neck before squeezing it. After a second, its diameter decreases to five centimetres.

  I turn around, looking at the st wolf that is running away in the distance, and a sudden inspiration strikes me. I imagine a ball colored red and white. After several seconds, it appears in my hand, depleting a rge part of my Magic Power reserves, and I throw it at the wolf. It curves in the air before hitting the wolf.

  Then the wolf gets absorbed by the ball. The ball falls down and wiggles three times. Then it becomes still, before finally making a clicking sound. In my mind, I can almost hear the theme song.

  "I wanna be, the very best...!" I start humming.

  I pick up the ball before releasing the wolf. The wolf looks at me as if staring at a monster. I didn't include any mind control spells in the ball. Actually, the thing that depleted almost my entire Magic Power reserve was the inhabitable subdimension in the ball. Inhabitable means that there is not only oxygen and air in general, but the temperature must also be high enough, and there must be enough space to comfortably change positions. Also, there must be some kind of ground and lighting.

  Ensuring that all these conditions are met is challenging, and I'm not yet entirely satisfied with the final product. Still, now I have a new goal. I think I'll dedicate the next few days to making a good Poki Ball. I'm definitely not copying, understood? This is an entirely new product! Then, I look at the wolf that is still shivering in front of me. What am I going to do with this one? I guess it'll serve as a guinea pig. With that decision out of the way, I leave the forest three hours earlier than yesterday.

  While walking through the forest, I see two wolf packs duking it out. The scene reminds me of those poisonous gu insect pots. The ones where one puts 100 poisonous insects into a pot and closes it. Then, the most poisonous will survive.

  On my way to the gate, I don't forget to clean myself with magic. Don't want to repeat the st incident.

  The gatekeeper sees me and looks slightly surprised. "Already back? Did'cha hunt enough for today?"

  "Yes. I found another interesting thing to do."

  "Oh. What is it?"

  "That's a secret," I say while winking.

  "What a shame."

  I enter the city without getting asked to show my card. Whether that's because he is scared or because he knows me, I don't know. I did see sweat rolling down his face. Was my appearance really that scary?! It was just a bit of blood! The people of this world need to chill a bit. One falls unconscious due to some corpses, even tho she should be seeing corpses every day, and another one can't even recognise me due to a bit of blood.

  I enter the guild and go in the direction of the backdoor. On my way, I smile at the guild receptionist, who smiles back but avoids my eyes, something that she did this morning too, if I think about it. I internally groan slightly and enter the dismantling field. I go straight to the dismantler, who is currently dismantling some wolf corpses with his back turned to me.

  "Excuse me," I speak to him.

  "Haaaaaa!" He jumps up, as if he just saw a ghost. Seriously? How can the voice of a cute girl startle you so much?

  He turns and looks at me, while avoiding eye contact as well. Great. Another one!

  "I would like to submit fifty wolf corpses. Also, are you already done dismantling my other corpses?"

  "Y- Yes. I'm already done. They were in pretty bad shape, so you'll only get 1000 Mon."

  He hands me ten silver coins. In this world, one bronze coin is one Mon, a silver coin is one hundred Mon, and a gold coin is ten thousand Mon. It's an idiotic system in my opinion, causing everyone to always either round up or down.

  "Thank you. Where do I put the wolves?"

  "Th- There." He points to a free spot. I dump all the corpses there before entering the inn and teleporting to my usual training spot. On the way, I inform the receptionist that I have a project and therefore can't come for the next few days.

  "Now, let's get this party started." I rub my hands together after arriving.

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