Translator: Manga0205
「……It's kinda, turned into something quite strange, hasn't it.」
「……That's, do you mean this situation? About how you kept the fact that you were the Dungeon Master a secret from me? Or could it be……」
「Ah……Um, don't mind me. G, go ahead and continue……pleas……Ah.」
Several minutes after that event. This was my room. The one sitting in my chair and fidgeting and rubbing her knees together was my childhood friend and currently a Temple Knight, Olivie. The one sitting on the bed, and sharing an awkward atmosphere together with Olivie was the Dungeon Master of this Man-Eating Dungeon, me. And then, the one that was straddling me, receiving my erected penis, and silently swinging her hips was Dahlia the maid.
「T, to begin with, why is it that you're embracing a girl when you're having a talk alone with another person!?」
「It is because, I am something like Master's tool…… Do not mind me, and please continue. If I don't do this, magical power will overflow from inside of Master's body after all……」
Dahlia wrapped both of her arms around my neck, and glued herself to me as if to say that she were my clothing. Since the skirt of her maid uniform was fairly long, it's not like the spot where my penis was sticking into Dahlia could be directly seen. Well, since I had shown such foolishness before, this might be pointless to worry about now though. Even so, since it seemed that she was extraordinarily bothered by how Dahlia's hips would sometimes move unable to endure it and leak out a small voice, Olivia was pretty much unable to look directly this way. ……If it's true that she is a virgin, well, that's understandable.
「Man, it's an embarrassing story, but I can't think properly if I don't have this done……Or rather, if I lose focus, I feel like I'd end up attacking you, Olivie.」
In front of Olivie, I probably behaved like a Human automatically. And it seemed that Olivie behaved as my old friend, and not as a Temple Knight.
「Eh, ah, erm, um……」
「Dahlia, I'm about to let it out……」
Dahlia quietly whispered that into my ear. Creampieing another woman (Dahlia) while being watched in front of Olivie, it had a quite immoral feeling overflowing from it, or rather, there was an unneeded nervousness in it. This might be obvious, but it was quite different from doing it in front of Sara and Shiro who were my women. Unable to endure it, my waist jumped. My veins pulsed, and a *dokun dokun* sound was made at the same time as my ejaculation. The bed made a remarkably loud creaking sound.
「So……warm……」
Receiving the creampie, Dahlia was worn out and entrusted herself to my body. Stabilizing her body with my right hand as if I were hugging her waist, I once again turned around to Olivie while still connected to Dahlia. Finally, my thinking faculty had returned.
「……A, are you……done?」
「Nn, yeah. Thanks to that, I'm feeling much better. Once again, how about we have a talk. ……About how we will be from now on as friends, yet as mutual enemies.」
「That's……right. Although various things happened, like you saving me. You, are the master of this Man Eating Dungeon, after all.」
「First, as the commanding officer of the expeditionary force……as the commander of the defeated army, I have a request for you as the enemy general.」
「Is it, the rescue of the remaining living soldiers?」
That's right. Since I didn't feel the need to unreasonably defeat them, there was no need to kill them. But, I wanted to snatch away their fighting strength as much as possible. In that meaning, the Officer of Arms' planted trap could be said to have been extraordinarily favorable.
「……Phew, thank you. That helps.」
「Nevertheless, I was watching the whole time, you see. Olivie, when you're the enemy, you really are an unpleasant opponent. You wouldn't be lured, you wouldn't be caught, and you wouldn't push through. Your progress in capturing the dungeon was slow, but since your numbers wouldn't decrease, I was wondering what I should do.」
「At the time my treasured Stone Golem was completely broken, I felt like I was going to cry, you know! How about I teach just how much time and money went into make that?」
Ah, this girl hasn't changed from when we were kids. Because she played with me who was a business child, she probably grew up while not being able to have the cost-ignoring thoughts that were usual amongst nobles.
Olivie's face clouded over from those words.
Uwah, so it's a two-layer strategy. It's dirty but, since it's hard to suspect him of participating whether this succeeded or failed, it's unexpectedly a good method.
「Ah……Sorry. So, from what I've heard from the story of the Assassin's Guild, it looks like the assassination of Count Abram's children is also that same wire puller. Olivie, whether it be through killing you or taking you in, just what kind of profit is there to be had?」
As if playing a game of chess, as if reading the flow of business from sales, we exchanged information and deductions.
「Fumu. I knew in my knowledge that that town was a town that the current Count Abram had build in his lifetime. Just a while ago, I had gone to Abram for the first time, but I was a complete country bumpkin. ……So, what about the Lanvelt House?」
「The Lanvelt House has a certain extent of manorialism, but is mainly in the money-exchange business……With the circulation of money as the principal part, they mainly do business with water transportation merchants. No, would "making them do business" with them be a better way of putting it? In terms of consanguinity, it looks like the Lanvelt House had a slightly higher rank, but the Blair House……Aah, that's my and Count Abram's house……made a turn-around when he became a Count. But, in terms of consanguinity, they are quite close. Because of that……If I, Count Abram's last biological child, and my granduncle who is sick and under medical care were to disappear, Count Abram's inheritance rights would be transferred to the Lanvelt House.」
I used an abacus inside of my head. Just who would the profit go to, and how would it move.
「……Wait, if the water transportation business-related rights are with the Lanvelt House, then the commerce rights of Abram, wouldn't Count Abram not have that much of it?」
Hearing Olivie's explanation, the questions did nothing but increase. In that case, isn't there no need to kill Olivie, nor a need to even take her as a wife?
Taking a small pause, she replied with an answer to my honest question.
「The current Baron Lanvelt isn't exactly on very good terms with Count Abram. Although I don't know what the next head of the family, Ruvelio-dono, thinks of him, but in terms of position, he believes that he himself should be the next Count Abram, and feels that the seat of Count Abram was stolen away by their relatives, the Blair House. However, the cause isn't just that……is, what I would like to think. And then, there is one more large concession.」
Just what in the world could that large concession be.
Olivia was a bit hesitant to respond to those words. I noticed that her gaze wasn't just on me, but also on Dahlia.
Unfortunately, as long as I am here, I am unable to know about that. Besides, even if I am in the trading business, anything other than magic tools and things concerning this dungeon is still outside of my area of experience. However, the word "iron" bothered me. This dungeon, originally it was……
「Over the past few months, the price of iron has steadily been increasing in the capital city. Although the war with the east becoming larger in scale is one of the causes, that isn't the only reason……I suppose it was one year ago, there seemed to be a large incident that happened in the northern mining zone which had been supplying an abundance of iron to this country up until now, so the mining facilities and technicians decreased, and the circulation of iron itself had become scarce. Of course, this isn't about the trends of today or tomorrow. But……」
Maybe because she had regained consciousness at some point, Dahlia reacted with a flinch within my arms. One year ago, the iron mine. ……I've got a bad feeling.
Slowly, the missing puzzle pieces filled in.
「With Count Abram himself sometimes becoming forgetful, he probably didn't think that his own rights as a mountain forest noble would suddenly take center stage here. But, now that it's come to this, for the sake of benefits for the entire town, as well as for the sake of benefits for the country, Grandol's mine now needs to undergo development once again.」
「However, that mine has been under the control of a wicked Dungeon Master since a year ago……huh. Then that would mean that the mercenary group that attacked the mining village a year ago had also came for the sake of usurping the mining rights to the mine. ……It really is unfortunate that I wasn't able to confirm the name of their client.」