Dungeon ni Deai wo Motomeru no wa Machigatteiru Darou ka volume 1

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  “Stop it. Bate and Riveria. This way the wine would start to taste bad.”

  ——Gari Gari Gari

  “Aizu what do you think? That kind of garbage that could only tremble in front of your eyes. That rubbish could still claim to be Adventurer like us?”

  “……Under that circumstances, I believe it is normal”

  ——Gari Gari Gari , Gari Gari Gari

  “What, pretending to be a good person……Then I’ll change the question. Between that kid or me, if you have to select a partner, who would you chose?”

  “……Bate, are you drunk?”

  “What a pain. Hey, Aizu, choose quickly. Which side would you wag your tail to, which side do you want to be played with?”

  ——Gari Gari Gari Gari Gari Gari Gari Gari Gari.

  “……I, can only say that it is absolutely impossible with Bate.”

  “How shameless”

  “Shut up old hag……What about this, if that kid says I love you in front of you, would you accept it?”

  “……!”

  ——Gari Gari Gari Gari Gari Gari Gari Gari Gari Gari Gari Gari Gari Gari Gari Gari Gari Gari.

  “Ha, of course it’s not possible. Since he is weaker than you, a wimp and also incurable, as a garbage, he completely is not qualified to stand next to you. This is a point that you must admit.

  “As long as you’re garbage, you are not qualified to stand next to Aizu Wallenstein”

  I kicked my chair and suddenly stood up.

  Ignoring the gaze that immediately flew to me, I rushed out of the shop.

  “Bell-san! ?”

  Running past the people on the street and leaving the surrounding scenery, even the voice shouting my name was left behind

  I rushed through the night streets.

  × × ×

  “Bell-san! ?”

  A figure burst through and disappeared outside the shop, and there was only one female shop employee that chased after the figure.

  The majority of the people at the bar did not understand what had happen at that moment.

  A confused croak spread through the crowd.

  “Ah ah? Could it be a run and eat?”

  “Uwah, he actually dare to run and eat at Mia mama’s place……He really has guts.

  Looking sideways like the other surrounding individuals like Bate, Aizu stood up alone.

  Her trained dynamic vision accurately captured the figure that rushed through like a projectile.

  White hair, slim body.

  The drooping bangs that were bright, and the dark crimson,red eyes that were the same as the ones as yesterday.

  (At that time……)

  Walking to the entrance of the shop, she lifted her hand on the pillar and looked around.

  In the direction of her right hand, the female shop employee’s silhouette disappeared at the end of the main street.

  The boy’s trace had long disappeared.

  (Bell……)

  She placed the name that the female had shouted on her tiny tongue.

  Compared to the calling sounds of her companions, that boy’s name resounded more in her heart.

  “Hoi hoi, Aizuuuu. What are you doing ——?”

  “……”

  The female, who led the banquet just earlier, stood behind her, and placed her hands onto Aizu’s abdomen. Placing her body close to the point where even her breath could touch her, and pressed her pubis onto Aizu’s hips.

  If this supernatural being wasn’t ——’s goddess, no, if it wasn’t the same gender, she would have sent her flying, but in the end, she could not lay her hands on her.

  ——Although this kind of thought surged through her brain at that instant, but Aizu had a disturbed expression and pulled off the hands around her abdomen, then an elbow strike, after waiting for the other to retreat a few steps, she went and slapped her face.

  “Hey, didn’t you completely lay your hands on me……! ? Your expression and actions are completely not synchronized Aizu-tan……! ?”

  “Please don’t do such a strange thing”

  She pressed onto her cheek that had been imprinted by a red left hand, crying and trembling, then at a blink of an eye, she resurrected and shouted “The cold Aizu is so MOE!!”.

  This made Aizu want to turn her gaze away from “that”.

  “Well well, don’t give me such an expression. If you do not want to drink at the same space as Bate, I will request Mia mama to hang him outside.”

  Looks like she guessed wrong about the reason why Aizu walked towards the entrance.

  After a glance, a young beastman shouting “Guooooooooooo! ?”was tied up with a rope on the ground through everybody’s hands.

  His head was stepped on by the elf that had quarreled with him.

  The other customers seeing this created a large commotion.

  “Well, let’s go. Aizu-tan, help me pour some wine”

  “……”

  While in the process of being dragged away by her shoulder, Aizu once again looked outside.

  The Magic Stone Lamp lit up the end of the main street, you could no longer see the boy’s figure.

  “Damn, damn, damn!”

  Bell was running, he had to run. Tear droplets leaked from the obscure corners of his eyes and flowed down behind him.

  Passing through his head, was only the thing that had just happened.

  Towards the lowly me, I could only feel shame shame shame, it was the first time that I wanted to kill the weak me, that had become joke material and was laughed upon, and in the end was sheltered.

  “Idiot, I am an idiot! !”

  That young man’s every word and actions digged into my heart.

  Weak, Poor, Frail, Fragile, Delicate, Spineless, Flimsy, Powerless, Vulnerable, Lame.

  This is already not even a situation of trying to become closer to her, but anymore.

  , I do not even have the qualification to stand in front of a girl.

  The killing intent that emerged was not towards the young man, and it was not to the surrounding people that treated me as an idiot.

  But towards the idiotic me that has not done anything, but yet still wished to obtain a reward.

  × × ×

  (Mortifying, Mortifying, Mortifying! !)

  I was mortified about the weak me, who had to accept that young man’s words.

  I was mortified that I could say nothing about the powerless me.

  I was mortified that to her, I was only a pebble along the side of the street.

  What I was most mortified about, was that I did not even have even the slightest qualification to stand beside her.

  “……!”

  My crimson eyes glared far ahead.

  The skyscraper facility that was built on top of the dungeon, opened the underground entrance, awaiting Bell. His goal was the dungeon, the highest point.

  Allowing the tears to accumulate within his eyes, Bell hurriedly rushed towards the standing tower in the darkness.

  Chapter 3: Night before Awakening

  The water droplets that fell from the sky constantly hit the window.

  Eina laid on the table and lifted her head to look at the outside scenery.

  (It started to rain……)

  The golden moon, that was here earlier, was covered by thick and heavy clouds, and a downpour of rain came down. The people on the outside were trying to seek for shelter, and soon, the people on the streets disappeared.

  Inside the guild headquarters, Eina, who was undergoing this and that kind of work, stopped working, listened to the continuous raining sounds, and looked blankly outside the window.

  “Ugggh~, overtime and also heavy rain, I’m really unlucky~ah”

  “……It should only be a rain shower, it should stop when we leave”

  Eina’s colleague approached the table that was filled with a mountain-like amount of papers, watching this heavy rain with a sigh.
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  It was currently 9 o’ clock in the evening. Inside the office facing the main hall, the employees were currently fighting hard against the overtime. The superiors were wearing an expression as if they were forced in a corner, while dealing with the documents, Eina’s friend and colleague, a human girl, said that it was enough, and leaned on Eina’s back.

  “I know that currently we are busy managing the festival period, but I really hoped that the boss would be sympathetic to us on this side~. Not everyone is as capable as Eina”

  “Get off me Misha, you’re heavy. Don’t hinder my work!”

  “Huh, ara? Could it be that Eina has already finished with the matters of the festival?”

  The colleague, ignoring Eina’s light protest, looked at the documents placed on the table, her eyes widened.

  She stretched out her hand into the thick pile of documents and, before Eina said anything, secretly pulled out a piece of paper.

  “Introduction information about becoming an adventurer……Ah ah, Eina recently accepted that, that rookie-kun!”

  “……I heard that I have to hand this over to team leader, so I summed up the detailed contents.”

  Feeling that nothing she said would help her, Eina sighed and honestly replied.

  The paper that her colleague took recorded simple information about that person. Their race, birthplace, experience, which they belong to, you could say that it recorded all the basic information that is required to live in the Labyrinth City,

  The name recorded on the top of the paper was

  “Uwaah~! ? He is only a solo, but he reached the fifth floor in half a month! This kid is really amazing!”

  “That isn’t the case. He did not carefully raid each floor. He only recklessly dived down, and luckily reached the fifth floor. And he almost died there”

  He did not comply to the things that this side had repeatedly warned him about, said Eina, while lifting up her beautiful eyelashes.

  She was sincerely worried about the state of the youth, so her own words seemed somewhat unnatural, looking at her own expression, her human colleague seemed to have suddenly understood, then gave off a wry smile.

  “But, isn’t it caused by the Minotaur that the carelessly allowed to escape? If you meet this monster, even if you’re not a rookie, you would still be killed”

  “That’s true, the Minotaur was abnormal……but for that kid, exploring the fifth floor is still too reckless now”

  Eina took back the information about Bell from her colleague and looked at the data reference about that boy.

  “From the fifth floor onwards, the monsters will begin to change, and the dungeon’s structure will also become extremely complex. For the current Bell, if he wants to pass through it……He will definitely die.”

  The current bad equipment he had. Not even with a single companion, and exploring the dungeon alone.

  Compared to these, he still had not left the immature of a rookie.

  You think that an adventurer that only experienced half a month worth of time, could easily raid it? Then you’ve underestimated the dungeon. After considering all the elements, it was still too early for Bell to raid the fifth floor, this was the conclusion Eina had reached.

  “Anyways. As long as I am still looking after him, I will absolutely not let him continue onwards”

  “Overprotective eh—. Could it be Eina is concerned about that child?”

  “——What”

  While saying this, it felt like everything was empty in general.

  Her friend’s casual remark startled Eina’s unprepared heart.

  Suddenly what flashed through her head was, two days ago, the “I love you” phrase that the youth had said to her before leaving. With that half-jokingly confession and the innocent smile, thinking about this, Eina reflexively blushed.

  She, as a half-elf, recognized that her own pointy ears were boiling, Eina slowly and calmly took a deep breath then seriously looked and said to her colleague.

  “……Misha~?”

  “Uwahh—Scca—rry!”

  Watching the silhouette of her colleague leaving the table and going far away, Eina relaxed the corners of her eyes and sat on the chair.

  (I got toyed around with, really……)

  In her heart, Eina reprimanded the boy that caused all this.

  After all, it was just a cute boy that was like a brother to her, in her mind, she accepted this conclusion and desperately apologized. Against her overly realistic imagination, Eina’s smile almost leaked out her saliva.

  (……What are you doing now, Bell-kun)

  Looking outside the window, the rain became heavier once again.

  The endless crying sounds from the dark sky, like her own explosive feelings, violently continued to rain.

  × × ×

  A single step.

  Kicking off from the ground.

  “Ahhhhhh! ?”

  The staggering blade strike past there.

  The monster behind fell down with a short hum, and the resounding sound echoed as it scattered on the ground.

  Turning around, a frog monster with a single large eye, had died due to the dark red liquid leaking out from the sliced off part.

  The frog monster that uses its long tongue to attack adventurers, .

  I looked at the monster that had its eyes sunk in without any expression, turned around and walked around.

  Ignoring the fatigue from my limbs, only concentrating my gaze at things that were moving, I entered the complex dungeon.

  The flat floor and walls, from the ceiling, began to construct an organized maze.

  No matter where I walked to, it was the same boring empty space, so I continued to walk on this endless path.

  It was different than the morning explorations, the dungeon had a trace of cold air, and was quiet. The breathing from the monsters could not be felt at all by the adventurers.

  Listening to the sound of my own footsteps, that headed towards the path in front.

  “……”

  As if I was possessed by a ghost, I continued to head straight ahead.

  I did not bring any personal armor. My entire body was riddled with traces of monster claws, teeth or from being grabbed. The shredded clothing made it seem as if I had been robbed. My right hand or perhaps, the dagger that I use for emergencies, had already been offered countless monster’s dripping blood.

  (It is already tattered……)

  My equipment was basically not adjusted, it feels that the me, with all these scars, was a completely different person, never stopping, and quietly closed my eyes.

  Running, running, running, running.

  Running from the bar and past the streets, and flying into the dungeon.

  Only pursuing monsters, and running around the dungeon.

  Swinging, swinging, swinging, swinging.

  I admitted my own powerlessness, abandoning myself to despair.

  Using the regret that gushed out from my heart as fuel, I swung the only weapon I had in my hands.

  If I wanted to chase after that person that was far far away, how much troublesome hardship would I have to pass through.

  The idiotic passion lit up and became my heart’s will, allowing myself to take rash actions.

  (……Here, where am I)

  Then, right now.

  After a period of time where I abandoned my own reasoning, the fire in my heart had gradually receded.

  Constantly dealing with the monsters I encountered, my head had finally started to deal with my own situation, my confusion had begun to clear up.

  The dungeon walls that I was currently leaning on had changed from light blue to light green. The width of the path has begun to become very small, the structure of the dungeon has also become extremely complicated.

  The monsters that I had met earlier also became different from the low level monsters from before.

  (5th Floor……No, it’s the 6th flo
or)

  Using my vague memory, I calculated how many floors I had descended.

  Looks like I had reached a floor that I not achieved yet.

  The me, who had completely no sensibility, continued to linger around the never yet achieved 6th floor. Heading back, this option had never been considered to me, whose feelings were paralyzed.

  My awareness became thin again, as if I was stimulated and was constantly searching for the next prey.

  “Ha, haaa……”

  My breathing had started to become ragged. Looks like I accumulated more fatigue than I had expected.

  How long ago did I enter the dungeon, even I did not know.

  The phosphorescent ceiling in the dungeon allowed me to ignore lighting issues, rather, the brightness was just like when the sun was about to rise or when it was about to set. For me, who didn’t carry a watch, there was no way to determine the time.

  (……Here is)

  Constantly walking. I went inside a wide room.

  The room was square-shaped, and there was nothing to block my sight. There was only the light green walls that acted as the scenery there.

  I headed to the center of the room. Then I looked around and could not see any paths at all. Looks like the path that I walked in from was the only exit.

  Then, I finally understood that this place was a dead end, and prepared to turn back——At that time.

  Bikiri,

  “——“

  Bikiri, Bikiri.

  From the inside of this quiet space, there was a sound of something breaking, but I completely did not know where the sound came from.

  My legs were frozen stiff, I instantly lifted my head and looked around.

  Within the wide space that had no objects covering it, I could not see any monster’s body. Only the sound of something constantly knocking entered my ears.

  It was the first time that I had encountered this situation, so my brain could only think of one possibility.

  I used my five senses that were enhanced by the ——Relying on my sense of hearing, I searched for the source of the sound and walked towards it.

  The light green walls of the dungeon.

  The dungeon wall in front of me was emitting the sound, which was gradually becoming louder.