Teach Ontentoo-senpai
I can’t investigate anymore on my own.
It’s not exactly like I could ask Setsuna why she’s not worth any DP either.
So what should I do?
“Haah, so soone like that ca eh?”
“Yeah. You don’t find it strange, Ontentoo?”
Answer: Ask a guide.
That’s why I decided to ask the Stupimander (Stupid Salamander), Ontentoo. It’d be easy to pay him back even if I owed him a favor. Neighbors are supposed to help each other out. It feels like it’s been a one-sided relationship so far though.
“There’s nothin’ strange about it. Kehma, you’re 0 DP too yeah?”
“No no, this person’s an adventurer you know?”
“Haaah? Kehma, you’re a human adventurer too aren’t ye?”
“I’m a Dungeon Master, it’s different.”
“Then isn’t that girl a Dungeon Master too?”
Hmm, that’s a good idea.
There’s a possibility that’s the case, but there’s other things I want to check first.
“Have you ever seen soone other than a Dungeon Master or a Dungeon Core being worth 0 DP? I thought you might know sothing since you’ve been doing this for a while.”
“Ah.. sorry, this is the first ti I’ve seen this daily DP thing. Between you and , most of our stuff cos from Tsuia Mountain’s Earth Vein. I don’t care much about intruder DP. I can tell about how strong they are though.”
Woah. knowing more than Ontentoo was outside of my expectations.
“Well, there’s a good chance that girl’s soone related to a dungeon. That said, there shouldn’t be so dog rabbit beastkin mix in the Dungeon Cores, maybe it’s she’s a Master…? Ah.”
Ontentoo stopped like he just rembered sothing and scratched his face with his foreleg.
“What? Don’t worry, just say it.”
“Nah, it’s just sothing 5-sama said a while back. Ye know about Core 4?”
“I saw Core 5 and Core 6 the other day, but I haven’t seen Core 4.”
“The heck’ve ye been doing? Ah, right. 695 got into so dispute. We even got so family na… did ye win?”
So that got conveyed to the Dungeon Cores that were unrelated to the Dungeon Battle as well, huh…? I took a second thinking about how to answer him, but decided to just say it since it’s not like I really need to hide it.
“Yeah, we won.”
“Kukuku, that so? As expected of soone who beat . Setting aside the brats under 5-sama’s command, ye even beat Core 6 and 666 eh? Good, good.”
Ontentoo’s lizard face warped into a smile.
So Ontentoo calls the trivial trio brats?
“By the way, the family na was my suggestion.”
“Ye did eh? With that, it makes my na Ontentoo Labriheart? Cool yeah?”
His fire-clad lizard tail struck the ground in what looked like delight.
… Sorry, I should’ve thought up a better last na. Right now it’s just giving off a ‘lovely’ feeling when added to Ontentoo. [1]
“More importantly, what’s this about Core 4?”
“Ah, Core 4 is… well, that guy’s called ‘Chaos’.”
“Chaos… why’s that?”
“Who knows? However, doesn’t being a mix breed match chaos?”
“Ontentoo, have you seen Core 4?”
“No… never have. That one doesn’t go to the Dungeon Core Assembly… at least not since I’ve been born and that’s been what, four, five hundred years?”
Ontentoo, you’re so unsure of your age that you don’t even rember if you’re in your four hundreds or five hundreds? The Salamander’s paired up with a Dragon, so maybe his sense of ti’s already gone fuzzy?
“Core 4’s rank is low for one with a single digit, rather, it’s beyond low considering the other single digits. Brats’ll ask about him when they pop up but no one pays much attention him at this point, sa with .”
“I see. By the way, do you happen to know what a thing called a ‘Toy’ is?”
“Toy? No clue.”
This guy’s useless. Well, setting that aside, I beckoned Ontentoo over.
Ontentoo bent forward and brought his ear—well, the part of his head he hear’s from—and leaned over the table.
I didn’t really need to do it like this since we’re the only two in the room, but it sets up the mood just right.
“… Would you like to help with a bit of an experint?”
“Sounds interesting? I don’t mind, but ye’ve gotta share the results yeah?”
“Obviously. You’re a big help, Neighbor-san.”
“If you’re lying, I’ll have you—eh, what’s the thing for tis like that—eat a thousand needles?”
“The punishnt that was introduced by God’s Vanguards was [Eat A Thousand Needles]. It might be different for Salamanders and Dragons since you guys can eat swords and iron, but normal humans would just die. In other words, it ans they’re putting their life on the line.”
“Seriously? Humans are hardcore.”
“But there’s a loophole for that punishnt. For example, there’s a fish called ‘porcupinefish’ that—” [2]
While having a brief chat about God’s Vanguards and deepening our relationship, we perford an experint. I don’t want to bite into a porcupinefish either and it’s not like I want to hide the results, so I’ll just tell them to him.
As a result of the experint in the Rokuko-made Feni garden area that had a door to [Fire Cavern], normal dungeon monsters were found to be worth a very small amount of DP.
For monsters with the authority to use the nu, it beca 0 DP.
So I guess that’s why Chloe was 0 DP?
“Heeh. So that happens when ye make them able to use the nu eh? That’s enough, [Burning Fire].”
When Ontentoo said that, the fire spirit exhaled a puff of fire and returned.
By the way, it’s na, [Burning Fire], appears to an ‘burning fire’ in Draconic. I’m hearing it like that because of Translation Function-san, so Redra’s probably the one that nad it. It really does give the feeling of a plu of fire soaring into the sky though… Does that an there kinds of fire that don’t burn for Dragons?
“That guy’s a cheap and easy-to-use guy for our dungeon.”
“Really… it’s a bit hot for our dungeon. Might be good to put in Feni’s area though.”
When I looked at the catalog, I saw [Fire Spirit: 400,000 DP]. Expensive.
“Aah? Ah, it’s about 200,000 for us. I’m a Salamander after all.”
“Now that you ntion it, there was that, huh.”
… Or maybe it has sothing to do with them owning the majority of Tsuia Mountain?
Either way, the core, Ontentoo, is a Salamander, and his master, Redra, is a Red Dragon. Moreover, their dungeon’s located in a volcano, so it’s obvious that they’d be extrely specialized in fire. It’s natural that a Fire Spirit would be cheaper for them.
“Couldn’t you change your monsters to not have nu access to earn DP?”
“… That’d be no good. Even if that Fire Spirit from a bit ago didn’t have nu access, it’d just be 20 DP a day yeah? The efficiency loss isn’t worth it.”
“Yeah. Another thing I was thinking about was sending monsters to other places.”
With this, that’s one thing figured out.
It’s easy for monsters sent from one dungeon to another to be exposed. All the more if they have access to the nu since they’ll be worth 0 DP.
… Setsuna’s true identity is so dungeon’s monster that has access to the nu, huh?
At any rate, I now know the conditions for being worth 0 DP without being a core or master.
Should I try out getting them to a place with a Dummy Core using a pitfall trap or sothing?
Footnotes:
Lovely is a pun on the beginning of Labriheart. Laburi -> Lovely. Return
Note that porcupinefish = thousand needles in Japanese. Return
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