Year 7442, Month 6, Day 4
After ending lunch with Zulu, I thought about going for an after meal walk, but before that I felt like getting some tea. Since I still haven't done my daily training for today rather than a walk I'll take a short break. After that it should be fine if I do some running. Since my throat is dry I'll have some bean tea. I'm already used to bean tea, or rather I actually like it quite a bit.
After walking for a few minutes I entered a random restaurant and ordered some bean tea and tea-cakes, after paying the 13 Z in Dai Shizu and Shizu coins I lean back in the chair and stretch my legs out. I sip away at my bean tea that's hot enough to give off steam and throw two or three roasted beans into my mouth crunching away at them. The scent of the roasted beans spreads through my mouth. The roasted beans have just the right amount of salt so while I was thinking I would come to this place for tea again I sip away at my bean tea.
I wonder if it's this crowded here even though it's past noon because of the reputation of this bean tea? It's a good thing I was able to get a seat. The conflict between goblins. Scavenger Crawler. The various items we found. If I just look at the results then I'm completely satisfied. However, what about the facts? Even though I felt like we walked around quite a bit according to what I've heard that's only a small portion of the dungeons 1st floor it seems. I wonder how many % of the 1st floor we were able to explore?
If it was only a few % then in order to explore enough of the 1st floor to make it to the 2nd floor then we would have to enter every day for a month I guess? If the place we end up being teleported to ends up overlapping then it's probably best to think it would take even longer. In the first place, even though we were only in the dungeon for a few hours it wore away at our nerves that much. Isn't it a bit unreasonable to try and challenge the dungeon every day without rest? If we don't rest for at least two days a week to relax our nerves a bit then we might end up making a fatal mistake. Since there's 6 days in a week for the time being I guess we should do 2 days of work and 1 day off. If we're going to go to the 3rd or 4th floors after this then I'm sure we'll have to camp in the dungeon as well, if it comes to that then I'm sure it'll be difficult we don't have several days for rest after we return.
What was it again? Remember, those five parties that are called the top teams, it seems that they even have tons of members of over 10 years but they still haven't broken through the 5th floor. The only ones I've seen are the {Verdure Brotherhood} but the age of the elf that seemed to be the leader of that party was 39. His level was stupidly high at 19 as well. Just thinking in terms of abilities and I can earn experience three times more efficiently, and my growth per level up is three times as well. Therefore what it took them 10 years to do I should be able to catch up with in around 1 year. Although, it would require another 7 of me for that sake.
No, even if there was another 7 of me it still would probably be impossible to catch up to them in a year. There's a conclusive difference in experience between them and I. I can't imagine that the number of times I enter the 1st floor would become 1/9th of them. I'm sure there's a lot of things you can only learn through experience like the location of traps of which is the correct path as well. I wonder if it would be a good idea to buy a map after all. Since it's only about 1 gold coin I guess I should go all out and buy one. It might fine to buy one with just the earnings from today. If we at least know the locations of traps and we don't have to be on guard as much as that then it would be a cheap purchase. However, I'm sure there's no such thing as a perfect map. I guess even if that was the case we couldn't relax.
It might be thought that if you have the money, you should just buy it but just for the map of the 1st floor that has traps added is 800,000 Z. It's 800,000 yen. I can't buy it so easily. In Bakuddo it's an amount which a family of 6-7 people can live for a year and still have change. If it's a family of serfs then I don't even know how many families could live on it. Including the equipment I just paid an amount that can buy a war horse for Zulu. And the earnings from the dungeon this time have too much of a bonus feel to them. I'm sure there's no way we could earn this amount every time. If that was the case then just putting some effort into it on the 1st floor I could earn plenty of money in 5 - 6 years. Since there's no traps on the 1st floor that will kill you instantly if you could safely earn money then who would go to the 2nd floor and beyond? It would even be a waste to even just buy slaves.
I'm thinking about things like that while sipping bean tea.
"..ra..not at all..and..long sword.."
"..and..other..and..joking..there."
【Beilett.Deredonola/18/3/7434 Beilett.Deredonola/11/1/7434】
【Status:Normal】
【Level: 4】
【Strength: 10】
【Dexterity: 9】
【Special Ability: Small Magic】
【Unique Ability: Highly Efficient Digestive System (Lv. Max)】
This is probably the lowest ridge. The highest ridge in the Northwestern area is 1.5 Km or so away from the road. I wonder Zulu and Ralpha have already arrived? It's too far and since the outer area of the ridge is covered in a 5 m or so forest, I wonder if it's around there? Though all I can do is guess their location since I can't see them.
There were several rocks there that seemed perfect for meeting up. After Zenom and I discussed we decided to hide about 3 m behind the rocks. Since it doesn't seem like anyone will pass by for the time being so I went a bit further into the forest and gathered some dead leaves to hide under before waiting. It might be good to sleep in shifts while keeping watch as well.
We tried sitting down on the rock as well and pretending to be Semayousuke. I think with this we probably won't be found so easily. Bunny-man have superior hearing capability but as long as they're not using their special skill then it's just a bit better than a humans so as long as we don't move around excessively then it shouldn't be a problem.
Even when Zenom sits on the rock and talks to himself I can hear it well. When I did it Zenom said he could hear it good as well. Yeah. It's the ideal position to hide. Then, let's sleep in shifts. I'll sleep first.
I was woken up when it was close to sunset. The sun has completely started to set in the west, the western part of the town of Baldukk which is in the shadow of the ridge is probably dark already. Since the area we're hiding is on the outer areas of the town between ridges it's still bright over here.
After taking his place Zenom starts to doze off. It's not easy just watching a road secretly which no~ one walks by. I guess I'll organize the information while laying down. First, they're meeting on a ridge in the North. This is fine. After that is the most, the location of the most is unknown. I'm guessing that it's in terms of height but if it were the place with the most excellent view or the most comfortable rock to sit on then it's not impossible but that feels so momentarily and as a place to meet up it seems too vague. It would be different if the people meeting up are extremely close and have gone there countless times though.
That's why I think it's more likely to be height which is unchanging. After that is the problem of which one but I thought it would be easier to come to one at a lower height than higher so I think this one should be more likely but after thinking more carefully about it there's eight roads that continue to ridges from the town. I chose the closest path to arrive at a ridge in the Northwest but it's not decided they would take this path to get there. It wouldn't be strange for them to go up a different road then walk along the path from one ridge to the next. Obviously about 1% of the reason I decided not to watch the path up the hill was for that reason. The other 99% is because I wanted to hear the content of their conversation, if possible I want to gather information from that conversation that let's me make some reincarnated Japanese into my subordinates, or at least that's my ideal goal.
Well, either way is fine but I want a reincarnated subordinate. No matter what can be said even though Ralpha went to a low-level school in Japanese she still has plenty of education and the level of basics she knows aren't even a comparison with the people of Orth. In addition to that the three times faster growth rate is too huge.
The sky is starting to get dark soon. The sun setting in the west slowly falls below sea level. I think the sun will have set in another 30 minutes or so.
I'm bored.
Around the time the sun had halfway set I saw Ralpha and Zulu running along the hill over here. It seems that they're in a hurry. I wake up Zenom and stand up. I tell Zenom, "it seems that something happened on their end" and after rubbing his tired eyes he suddenly opens his eyes and stands up. As expected it seems he was worried about his daughter.
"That's Ralpha and Zulu running along the path over there right? Let's go."
After I say that even though there's still a couple hundred meters away Zenom runs off. It seems that they're in a hurry but it doesn't feel like they're being chased by something. However, judging by how they look something definitely happened. It seems that their end was the correct choice. I take off running after Zenom as well. I quickly caught up and passed him.
"Al, we saw it! We heard it! It's no good if we don't hurry."
"Calm down, what in the world happened?"
"That's why I said hurry up and come with us!"
The conversation is going nowhere. I look to Zulu but,
"Master, just as Ralpha says we should probably hurry. It should be fine to talk while on the way."
Eh? You too? By the way, it seems that you're calling Ralpha without honorifics. Is it because she's not your master?
"Putting it simply and there was a meeting between two Bunny-man people. One of them was a woman. The woman seemed to have come in a hurry running to the place to meet."
"Yeah, and?"
"The woman was yelling You-chan. The man had come earlier and was calmly waiting. When the woman yelled he was a bit surprised it seems."
"I see."
"The majority of their conversation was in Japanese. However the woman kept talking at a really fast pace going on and on so it was hard to call it a conversation. It seems like the woman knew the man. She said that the man's face had changed a bit. Also, the name of the woman is Asuka. She said it herself. Since the woman seemed tired after coming running it seems the man calmly gave her something to drink. I thought it was water or something but it seems to have been poison. A short while after drinking it the woman fell over."
"Eh?"
"It's fine so come already! After the woman fell over he used Status Open on her."
"Huh?"
"After that the man was laughing while saying "as expected she couldn't use magic" and carried the woman into the forest outside of the town!"
"Why would he do that?"
"Like I would know!"
I don't get what she's saying. Zulu added to it.
"I couldn't tell what they were talking about but it seems that the woman wanted to meet the man and it seems she was considerably excited and happy about meeting him. The man was calm other than the first time the woman yelled in a loud voice. However, I'm sure he intended to kidnap the woman from the start. It seems that the poison he was skillfully able to get her to drink worked, that was the first time the man started laughing."
"Kidnap?"
"Yes, that's right. I'm sure he deceived the woman and called her out in order to get her to drink the poison."
I don't get it. Did he have some sort of grudge against her? Or some other objective..other than resentment what is there? specifically going for another Japanese..hunting reincarnated people!? However, even if that's the case there's too much doesn't add up.
"That doesn't matter so let's hurry already! We might end up not making it in time!"
"What won't we make it in time for?"
"Huh? What other reason could there be for a man to serve poison to a woman and kidnap her! What else is there other than raping her or selling her!? Didn't you want to save her from that!?"
Since I didn't know the other party was a woman I didn't think of that at all. But, it's strange. How was I not able to follow Ralpha's train of thought? Is my head worse than hers? Or else was I trying not to think about things like rape? What kind of virgin brat am is that?
"I understand. I guess that's true. The woman was talking in "Japanese" as well right!? She's definitely a reincarnated person right!?"
"Of-the-course!"*
You, how old are you? Are you just lying about being a high-school girl?
There's no other choice than to follow after Ralpha and Zulu's lead for now. It doesn't particularly concern me if a woman gets raped or sold but if you were to say it doesn't matter to me in a place I don't know about it then that's also true. But, after all it would make it harder for me to sleep peacefully. And since I've already found out I can't just pretend to look the other way. Even more so if it's someone who's face I know from our previous world. I guess he intended to make use of that to satisfy his desires. Does that bastard still think of himself as a man of Japan! Those sorts of things you're supposed to do with consent.
I've started to get irritated at Ralpha and Zenom's speed. I guess this is the difference between the values of Speed and Endurance. It seems that Zulu still has room to spare.
"Ralpha, Zulu and I will go ahead first. You come along with Zenom afterwards. Make sure to be as quiet as possible!"
After I say that I hit Zulu's back and raised the speed I was running.
"Zulu! Run as fast as you can to as far as you know where they were!"
If I hadn't continued running I wonder if I would have been able to overtake Zulu?
A Laios that's taken off at full is like a marathon runner nearing the finish line.
..At this speed shouldn't we be able to cover 1Km in about three minutes?