Ch.171 Dungeon with a Different System

Whoosh...whoosh.

A sticky substance of various colors bursts and splatters.

"...They're all weak...no, slugs...no, just slimes from the shallow layers. Their size and strength are all over the place, though."

[lol]

[Calling them a slug lol]

[Ah, but now that she mentioned it, I guess she's right...]

[They're not jiggly, are they?]

[They look exactly alike, but maybe they're a little different?]

[I want to be told, "Onii-chan is a worthless slug."]

[I want to be insulted with "You can't even do this? You're such a slug."]

[I want to be told, "lo-ser. A pathetic slug-."]

[I want to hear it said in a low mumbled voice...]

[You guys... I understand.]

This has been several room since then.

...I'm getting pretty tired, and it's probably evening by now.

My phone was completely dead, so I had to recharge it, and I'm not even sure if this time is correct.

Since then, I've been following the 24-hour schedule on my smartphone, but there's no sunlight outside.

[But Haru-chan is tough, isn't she?]

[She just keeps going on and on]

[Well, it looks like there's nothing but slimes here]

[At most, it'll take two shots per monster]

[However, they seem to be sticky, so the stone cannot be reused.]

[Smells bad]

[Looks sticky]

[And since there are no drops, she can't get arrows either.]

[And of course, even the gun]

[...Isn't this a dead end?]

[It's a dead end]

[Dead end is the only way to describe it]

[I'm really glad she had dirty bag with her...]

[Well... At least she can survive for a few months]

[Haru-chan's books also need to be charged with a generator from time to time, you know.]

Slimes are popping and flying around in the dimly lit room.

I'm probably pretty low level... I'm using a high-quality slingshot and some stones I found lying around, and my own level and skill are probably low too, so all I can say is "somewhere between beginner and intermediate."

3 weeks... or 1 month if you include the time I was sleeping before that.

I'm really glad I stayed still during that time.

"...I'd like to rest now, so I'll go to the next room or the one after that. There will probably only be a few of them, and it looks like it'll be a spacious room."

['Kay]

[But scouting skills are really useful, huh]

[※Normally, you wouldn't get this far after just one week of training]

[※Even explorers with 5 years of experience don't reach this level]

[※Even explorer with 10 years of experience from the very beginning will find this difficult]

[I know]

[It's okay, Haru-chan is in a special category.]

I continued on, rolling the candy in my mouth, which was in dirty bag, along the way.

"................................................"

An empty room.

An empty corridor.

—The abnormality of "not even having traps."

This makes it seem like this dungeon isn't like the game systems we know—it's more like "a real dungeon from before the world became like this, just a space inhabited by monsters."

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"...It's quite spacious here."

Then, 10 or 20 minutes later.

Now that I know nothing will suddenly pop out into the hallway, I walk with a light, tottering gait, which is much easier on my body.

It's a bit of an adventure, isn't it?

My detection skill is... much weaker than before, but at this distance... even though they're much blurrier than before, I know I can still roughly tell how many there are.

At the very least, I'll know whether they're there or not.

It's a surprisingly valuable skill, isn't it?

So, I slept a lot, and although I didn't have much, I used the little bit of magic I had recovered to strengthen my legs... and since I was reading and occasionally muttering to myself, it was a relaxed exploration.

I feel like a kid again.

I've actually become a child, though.

[So wide]

[That's partly because it's from Haru-chan's perspective, though.]

[It's not as big as the first place, but it's still spacious.]

[Mid-boss room... no, maybe even more]

[Well, there were just the usual slime, though.]

[The highest level would probably be around 5.]

[Well, safety is a good thing.]

[There were slimes in the small room nearby though]

[It's peaceful here.]

"................................................"

No reaction from the detection skill.

Well, I guess it's probably okay, but.

Whoosh.

Whoosh.

[But she's still being cautious.]

[She said her trap detector was also down, and getting injured in a place like this would be no joke]

[Yeah, there's no healer and no wristbands after all]

[That's right, since the basic strategy is sniping from a distance, it's fine, but that's precisely why traps and such can be fatal for the rear guard.]

The stones fall with a thud, thud.

...Yes, there are definitely no traps.

"It looks similar to the first room. There doesn't seem to be any traps on the ground either... It's probably a safe zone. It's close to the small room I was just in."

My skills and level have both declined, so there's no basis for that claim though.

"So, I'll find a good hollow here and make it mine."

[lol]

[lol]

["Mine"]

[Cute]

[Oh yeah, Haru-chan was supposedly a "bokukko".]

[Do more of this kind of calculated appeal.]

[But Haru-chan was more active than ever today.]

[For the past month, she's either been sleeping in that big room or doing incredibly mundane skill grinding.]

[Oh, and don't forget her evening drink!]

[Yeah……]

[Because of that, the Dungeon Association went out of their way to announce, "Haru-chan is treated as an adult inside the dungeon," which is hilarious.]

[lol]

[It seems like there were a lot of complaints from other countries.]

[Someone's complaining, "Does your country encourage underage drinking?!" lol]

[Of course (for the nth time)]

[Thanks to Haru-chan, TV commercials are constantly airing the message, "Underage drinking is absolutely forbidden," lol]

[She used to look somewhere between RuruEmi, but now she's completely a little girl...]

"................................................"

I threw stones randomly, picking them up as I went, making sure there are no traps, and headed towards the center of the room.

...More walking, huh... I'm already tired, but just a little further.

If there really are no traps here, this could become another base for recovering health, and one of the places to return to when I get tired.

The corridor extended in the opposite direction from the first room.

I need to explore this place thoroughly over the long term.

"Oh, that reminds me, this dungeon is incredibly huge, isn't it?"

[Yeah, that's right.]

[I completely forgot about that]

[Yeah, I guess so. Even if Haru-chan is a little girl, normally she'd reach the top or bottom stairs after several hours.]

"My soles are exhausted... so it's a really deep dungeon. I don't know if it's around the 500th floor or not... because I was flying around on that chair at the time."

Ahh.

That chair-like thing was really comfortable.

[Oh, that chair...]

[At least call it a flying motorcycle or something...]

[Poor chair]

[No, no matter how you look at it, I think the design is just bad.]

"Perhaps there's a staircase in the next room... and the corridor was unusually long with lots of curves to the left and right, so maybe this dungeon itself is just one big floor. ...I don't know of any dungeons like that, though."

[Haru-chan is talking really fast lol]

[Cute]

[When it comes to something you love, you suddenly become much faster, don't you?]

[I guess so]

[If dozens or hundreds of floors were all on one floor... that would be incredibly spacious!]

[Luckily, it's pretty much a straight road. I'm sure she can manage]

[Let's just watch Haru-chan's advance]

[Yeah]

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