Now then, guess I’ll try asking Setsuna what her goal is directly.
“Let me ask this first. What’s your goal? I don’t want you to do something violent here, could you pardon me if I’m your enemy?”
I said it at the start, but this is practically all of what I want to know left.
[I don’t want to be hostile either. There’s something I’m looking for, so I’m gathering information, I guess? Well, as an adventurer, I’m going to be hunting a few monsters, so… sorry?]
Setsuna apologized and clapped her hands together. Her breasts shook a bit.
It’s natural for adventurers to hunt monsters, so there’s no problems with her hunting monsters as an adventurer… ah, the Goblins? Is it because she’d be hunting Goblins? Seriously, Rokuko’s hopeless when it comes to her Goblin fetish. She can endure somewhat, but I’d like it if she could keep her Goblin preferences under check even with them being hunted.
Still though, information, is it? She’s still being a bit vague. The contents of that information might a hostility.
“… I don’t mind, I assumed that… So, you want information? Sure, if I know it and you pay, I’ll answer.”
“What’re you saying to a Golem? Or were you meaning working as a boss at this dungeon?”
“Ah, don’t worry about that. Money’s fine, so are items. I’m even good with information.”
“Isn’t it better for negotiations to go normally? Now then, your feet—”
[Maaan~, normal is good~, that’s great~, normal!]
Setsuna hurriedly agreed to negotiation. And I got pinched by Rokuko.
What? I just want to see her feet, nothing else!
[… Not as hostages, right?]
“Who knows? I’ll answer that question for a copper coin as payment. I don’t mind if you suggest a payment yourself either.”
Setsuna presented the copper coin.
“They’re not really hostages. That room’s a safety zone to start with so there’s nothing I could do to them anyway.”
“Now that the tutorial’s out of the way, let’s move on with it.”
Setsuna nodded. Well then, let’s hear her questions.
[The first thing I want to know is about the black wolf. Could you tell me if you know anything about it?]
[Nnn, then… the black wolf that was staying in this dungeon for a while—do you know about it?]
“I do. For that information, hmm…”
I’m also wanting to collect information for the payment, but I can’t really think of anything I want to ask.
“… If you tell me [where Core 410 is], I’ll tell you some of what I know.”
[Where papa is? … Nnn, alright. You know the ship that leaves for Wakoku from Pavuera? There’s an island on the way there. I think it was called Bania Island?]
Bania Island. Let’s remember that.
“I’ll tell you what I know then. That thing was named [Rin]. He spent the whole winter snug in this dungeon. That spot you guys were at used to be a riddle area, but it got destroyed by it. I left it alone because fixing it was troublesome… It left once spring came.”
“If you want to hear a more detailed account, could you tell me why you’re chasing Rin?”
[Hmm. It’s grandma’s pet. It ran away, so we’re chasing after it…?]
Dungeon Cores don’t have grandmas though… if there were something, it’d be a grandpa, [Father]… Ah, she could be like an old neighborhood lady couldn’t she? Let’s confirm.
“That grandma you mentioned, who is she? Your actual grandmother?”
“… So in other words, it’s alright to send you the bill for the damages to the dungeon?”
“Then where is this grandma of yours? I’d like to send her the bill.”
[If I knew that, one of our journey’s goals would be done with. Haah…]
Setsuna sighed. Now I want to know just who that grandma is.
[So, the rest of the information about Rin?][W-woah… that info was more intense than expected. It was raised by grandma after all…]
[… Nnn~, it’s a secret. I’d have to exchange it with some pretty huge information to tell you.]
Ah, so it finally happened. She gets how this works now eh?
“Tha so? Well then, ask your next question.”
“Rice? Yeah, I’ll tell you if you tell me about your grandma.”
[Ah, pass. I don’t care that much about the rice.]
Oh? Unfortunate. Even though I was thinking about giving her a seed. Just one though.
“Anything else?”
[Nnn, ah. That black haired dog ear girl living outside the dungeon, you know her?]
Meat huh. She said she was Toy-like.
“I know of her. What about her?”
“You’ll have to pay five copper coins for my response.”
Setsuna quickly held out five copper coins, so I accepted them.
“… Hmm. I can’t answer that.”
“That was the price for the knowledge that I couldn’t answer. That’s why it was so cheap, no need to shout. I mean, what kind of connection are you talking about to start with? You could even say that adventurers hunting monsters is a kind of connection.”
“Ah, that’s included in the stuff that I can’t answer. If there’s some circumstances, maybe try asking another way?”
“It’s not like I could tell you something without knowing that you want it. Right, if it’s about that dog eared girl, she likes that man that’s always near her a lot. Is that information what you wanted? It’s inconsequential right?”
[… Ooh.]
Why’d she bite at that? Does she like romance stories?
Even Rokuko sunk her teeth into it.
“Wh—… at? Meat… likes Kehma?”
“… Kehma likes me the most though, right?”
“It’s all good then!”
I don’t really get it, but I guess it’s alright.