「You really took on another troublesome request. And without pay, no less.」
That was Hime’s first comment the moment she rejoined us.
The request: eliminate the monsters on the 35th floor of this dungeon.
Apparently, taking out about fifty of them should resolve the issue—for now.
「I already got paid in advance, actually」
「Eh? Seriously? What kind of reward does a god even give out?」
Hime’s mood immediately improved.
We’d already planned to dive deep into the dungeon today.
Thirty-five floors or so wasn’t beyond our expectations, and with the monsters overflowing, it actually worked in our favor.
Hime knew that too, so if there was a reward involved, all the better.
And this time, it came from a god.
「It’s a protective stone infused with the power of bountiful harvests. Supposedly, placing it will help crops grow well in a several-dozen-meter radius.」
I’d appraised it myself—it was the real deal.
Crops would grow more easily and be more resistant to disease.
A dream item for any farmer.
「Huh, that is kind of amazing… I guess」
She looked slightly disappointed.
Well, it’s not like it would help us in battle or anything.
「Want to use it, Hime? Don’t you have that field growing branded vegetables under the Oshino Group?」
「We do, but it’s managed by a subsidiary, so I’m not about to hand them something that valuable. What about you two—Milk, Ayame?」
「I’m good. I don’t have a field or anything, and my garden’s just got flowers I buy from the store」
「Same here. My mom’s growing cherry tomatoes in a pot, but that’s it」
Then maybe I’ll give it to Mizuno-san.
She’s got a proper home garden.
No point in letting the reward just rot in my inventory—might as well put it to use growing some vegetables.
「We’re doing a dungeon stream again today, right?」
Apparently, even the National Honor Award ceremony had a stream slot, but that wasn’t a dungeon stream.
「First full-party stream since we got the award, huh」
「The slot is booked from noon for five hours. My little sister said she’s planning to watch the archived version later with her school friends」
Not watching it live, huh…
Turns out she has a shift at the Dungeon Streaming Bureau.
What she does there is a secret, even to Ayame—confidentiality reasons, supposedly.
I’ll try asking Sonohara-san about it later, see if he’ll spill.
After a light lunch, we started the dungeon exploration.
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It was currently 11:30 AM.
I’d hoped we could reach the 21st floor by the time the stream started at noon, but yeah… that might be a stretch.
For now, we used [Dungeon Warp] to jump to the last point we’d reached, then dashed forward from there.
「Last time, we only made it down to the seventh floor? When you think about it like that, we’ve really grown, huh?」
Our levels shot up after we revealed the truth about PD at the Ikomasanjo Amusement Park. Before that, the girls couldn’t even use PD, so it made sense their levels were low.
「It hasn’t even been half a year since then, right?」
We passed by a cat-shaped doll that looked just like a lucky cat, and while feeling a bit nostalgic, we kept running toward the lower floors.
We reached the fifteenth floor just as it was time for the stream to begin.
The streaming crystal Hime was holding activated automatically, and the comments started to appear.
〔Nice to see the stream up〕
〔Hello〕
〔Congrats on the KES award〕
〔Kyoto Dungeon today, huh? I’m local, so this makes me happy〕
〔…I feel sick〕
〔It turned into a roller coaster ride the moment it started… ugh〕
〔Bleeeergh〕
Everyone was puking in the comments.
We were currently running.
Not at full speed, of course.
Even Ayame, the slowest among us, had an Agility stat over 700.
At Level 1, that stat was in the single digits.
It’s not like we were moving exactly a hundred times faster, but we were still going around 300 kilometers an hour. On top of that, we were taking sharp turns constantly.
The video was automatically tracking our movements.
「Thanks for tuning in again, everyone. Right now, we’re just taking a relaxing run toward the twenty-first floor」
Hime said that with a bright smile while running.
It was a perfect business smile.
That smile was probably being reflected on her avatar too, but sadly, the viewers likely didn’t have the composure to appreciate it.
〔That is not “relaxing”! How are you running that fast and still talking so clearly!?〕
〔Because Alpha-sama is a sharp abnormal when it comes to Agility〕
〔Even the other three are keeping up without breaking a sweat〕
〔The monsters in your path are getting diced in an instant〕
〔I can’t anymore… my inner ear is screaming. Gonna grab a bucket〕
This dungeon stream would go down in history as a legendary nausea-inducing video—but that’s another story.
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