Suddenly, he heard a small, grinding noise.

“Ah, Bocchan, there’s a large centipede in your hair.”

Large centipedes. They were Rank 1 monsters, centipedes around the size of medium-sized snakes. Their diets consisted mainly of small animals such as mice and insects, and they didn’t harm produce. As such, they were often considered to be useful creatures. However, sometimes they climbed into trees and grabbed onto animals that passed beneath them in order to transport themselves around.

“Come to think of it, you said you underwent a Job-change to Insect User, didn’t you? Have you already tamed this one?” Saria asked.

“Huh, looks like I did, without even knowing about it,” said Vandalieu.
After crawling around the surprised Vandalieu’s head, the giant centipede disappeared beneath his hair again.

“I wonder just what it’s like in my hair? Well, it seems to be harmless so I don’t really mind,” he said.

“Is it really harmless?!” Eleanora was frantically searching for the centipede inside Vandalieu’s hair, but she seemed to be unable to find it.

“It’s fine,” Vandalieu told her. “It doesn’t hurt, anyway.” He did feel a ticklish sensation that felt like an insect was crawling beneath his skin, however. “I’ll call him Pete,” he decided.