Day 61 Morning, White Weirdo Inn.
The princess seems to have left for the capital, taking the maid with her. She disappeared from the lords mansion under the cover of the night, or so they say.
The letter she left behind contained onlyThank you for everything. As one belonging to the Royal family, I swear on my na, I will definitely protect the kingdom and the frontier. Shariceres di Diorer, and thats all she had to say before leaving to stop the war with only two people.
anwhile, back at the mansion, they quickly assembled troops, sent out a search party on fast horses, and also made Murimuri castle deploy personnel to watch the Fake Dungeon. Everyone is in an uproar, trying to bring them back, worried about their safety.
Did they leave?
They did, huh?
Well, no surprise, huh.
Thats so like them.
But we are worried.
It will be a tragedy?
Possibly even a grueso one?
But certainly a tragedy?
Im more worried about it becoming a cody.
How many tis, it keeps repeating, and we have the sa worry every ti.
When we woke up in the morning the self-proclaid weakest one, who is under pretense of being a human, disappeared, taking his servants, the strongest dungeon emperor and the powerful dungeon master, with him.
He mustve left to escort the princess.
The absolutely unsuitable for the role, the worst man-eating fiend, that should be the last person in this world to be escorting anyone has assud the position of her escort.
The trio with ultra-excessive firepower, who might destroy the world in an attempt to protect soone, went as the guards.
Destroying the world is not unlikely if its about those three, I honestly pity the unfortunate would-be attackers.
Well, while I say this, everyone is in full combat equipnt already. Turns out, Kakizaki-kuns group got five giant swords from Haruka-kun. He left, entrusting them to the Poster Girl.
Who handed them to Kakizaki-kun and the others first thing in the morning. Give them to the group of five idiots with really dumb mugs.is what he apparently said, and she gave them to Kakizaki-kun and others without even a hint of hesitation.
The Poster Girl probably thinks that Idiotsis how they are actually called.
Volleyball club girls also were given a package. The bag sent to them hadFreshwritten on it. Well, its obvious whats inside. Looks like he left after diligently finishing his nightti work.
And unlike the latter overflowing with resolution and determination that was left by the princess, the one he left made no sense at all, as usual.
I an, I bet souvenirs will sell like crazy? Its a chance for profit! Its magnate ti! Sort of?is all it said.
He departed leaving a letter overflowing with greed and a determination to make a quick buck, or rather, since nothing can be understood by reading it, thats not even a letter anymore but a cryptic note. But this is not a dying ssage, its a deathing (killing?) ssage, brimming with desire to solve the problem with a bit of slaughter, thats basically a cri notice.
Haaah, well, we are curious too, so lets go?
Yup~.
Well, that was bound to happen, with two girls putting their lives on the line to stop the war, there is no way he wouldnt go along. They certainly went with them. I have a whole lot of issues with this, but at the sa ti, I also wouldve hated it if Haruka-kun didnt go with them. Then, if we cant stop them, we should just go ourselves, thats what we fought to get level 100 for. And we also had excessively great equipnt prepared, as if waiting for this mont.
At the very least, there is no doubt that they went to the Fake Dungeon. That is the only existing passage, and the princess wont be able to get through with just her and the maid.
And then there is evidence left in Haruka-kuns room, a packaged Frontiers Specialty, Dungeon Manju, Kind of?. They were delicious, so he finally made red bean paste.
The fact that there was a share for everyone points to it definitely being a preditated cri. There was also tea and the matching number of cups.
We involuntarily sat down for a tea with manju, which delayed our departure. But was it necessary to writeKind of??
With those three coming along, there might be no reason for rushing. We just have to catch up to them before the war beginsandThe biggest threats to Haruka-kun are wars, man-made traps, sches, and unique skills.
Is what everyone was saying, hurriedly preparing for the departure, but upon entering the dining hall we were t with oyakodon and mushroom soup.
Looks like Haruka-kun prepared this for our breakfast before leaving. Lets dig in?
Alright, now we are definitely going, destination the Fake Dungeon.
The high-speed 8-person group is going to leave first, which then will be followed by the remaining group of 21 people.
With Lv100s movent speed it wouldnt take even an hour to reach the Fake Dungeon, but traveling with no caution is dangerous, and usually, traveling at high speed ans that Detection and Search wont be able to pick up threats in ti. The speed is so high, that we would bump into the enemy by the ti we detect them. Thats why we are going to travel while having plenty of safety margin.
Nowhere to be found~.
Yeah, they mightve already stepped into the Fake Dungeon.
If they left during the night, then it wouldnt be strange for them to enter the Fake Dungeon by now, even if they are traveling together with the princess. That princess should have a considerably high level too.
Slow down! Be on your guard and halt!
Aye.
Soldiers, its probably the local troops, but we still should be vigilant.
Decelerating, we slowly approach them, making sure we will be noticed.
Since the wagons have OMUIwritten on their sides in a huge, HUGE letters, they should belong to the local lord. After all, usually, one wouldnt use such large and flashy letters. Even though Haruka-kun wouldnt rember the na no matter where and how it was written, the lord is still trying his hardest, but if that was all it took, then even we wouldve been walking around with placards. Its simply not possible.
A single horseman is coming our way, raising one hand, aah~, its the lord riding off on his own again. His aide is desperately trying to catch up.
Omui-sama, excuse , but we need a mont of your ti. The thing is
When we explained the situation, Omui-sama first gave a broad smile, and then began convulsing with laughter. Looks like he understood the way things are about to go for the royal army.
My, Im sorry. I feel guilty for once again having dragged you into the squabbles of the frontiers army. Having concerns about the Princess safety, we already sent out the ssage with our fastest horsen But, I see, so Haruka-kun is accompanying them, and even took the monsters under his control with him. Then the Princess is completely safe, however, we cannot afford to inconvenience Haruka-kun any further, putting an even larger burden upon his shoulders. We have to make haste, I notified our troops, so you will have free passage into Murimuri Castle as well. Excuse , but I will be going ahead.
Having said that he rode off, his aide also made a short bow and imdiately rushed after him. He seems to be having it tough.
What do we do now? Follow after them? Overtake and hurry ahead?
Hmmm, how about we follow them while we wait for the main group?
No objections.
The main force of the kingdoms army is likely yet to arrive. It should take them another week to get here.
Are they planning to intercept them in those wastelands ravaged by sandstorms with just five people? Or do they want to pull them to Murimuri Castle? Or perhaps destroying all of them in the Fake Dungeon, going out to et them on our own should be nothing but a disadvantage. And just where is he trying to put up that souvenir stall of his? How much for manju? How many is one person allowed to buy? They were super delicious.
Rejoining with the rest we arrived to Murimuri Castle without any issues. And now we are making preparations for reconnaissance in force with our group spearheading it.
Well, preparations are pretty much limited to getting ID cards in order. Passing around special ID cards for passing through the Fake Dungeon.
Those ID cards are made out of magic stones, if you have one, master golem will guide you through the place. The Stalker Girls clansn are also provided with them. ButFake Dungeon Co. Ltd? Their shares are not available for trade and they arent listed anywhere, what an utterly suspicious ID. He apparently was really against making it aPass, but what is the difference?
Forming a file we enter the Fake Dungeon. While we can safely pass through, it still doesnt an that there are no hostile adventurers or soldiers inside, so we are advancing while maintaining a level of caution, constantly probing the area around us with Search and Detection.
For so reason, there are even more unfamiliar paths and new traps. Looks like he regularly cos for remodeling.
Lets use the slide to go all the way to the entrance?
No, we might miss them if we do that. This thing is a one-way trip.
On the frontiers side the Fake Dungeon has a pitfall signed Back to the Entrancewith the slide that will take you all the way to the kingdoms side, but since it passes underground, there is a chance that we might pass them without noticing. By the way, Sli-san seems to really like it. A few girls also seem very eager to slide down, you understand that it is sort of a trap, right?
Be careful from here on~, we wont trigger traps, but oiled places are still going to be slippery~, one wrong step and you are stark naked~.
Oh~, no~.
Even without active traps, this place has plenty of evil devices, and falling for one, ans losing equipnt and clothes.
I cant help but admire the courage of the kingdoms troops willing to storm this place. Beating a normal dungeon is definitely safer than passing through here. After all, Dungeon Masters are more honest and sensible than Haruka-kun. Their places have a much kinder and considerate layout than the dungeon designed by this villainously crafty and morally-challenged person.
Do you think they mightve reached the neighboring Narrogi by now?
Hmm, I wonder, if it was Haruka-kun and co alone they would be there a long ti ago.
Gosh, the Fake Dungeon now even has contraptions that screw with Detection, so passing it becos even more of a drag, Id like to just get through in one go, but one misstep and it will be a disaster.
Most likely, items on the level of our equipnt wont be destroyed by Weapons and Armor Destruction, but if by so chance they did get destroyed it would be a huge loss. The sa goes for clothes, they have resistances, so they should be fine, but if they do lt it would be a tragedy for us as maidens. Lets proceed with care.
Whooa, it looks so real, anyone would attack it.
A picture on the ceiling, depicting nurous spider monsters, the ceiling would collapse if soone was to attack it. One pointless attack leads to a catastrophe, and since youd have no one to bla but yourself for making that self-destructing attack it will also break ones spirit, how malicious!
Since they went with such a small group, they must be planning to bait the kingdoms forces, so we cant simply catch up to them with no consideration, but if we take things too slowly the battle might begin without us.
However, he did everything he could in the town. Remodeling the inn, restocking the weapon store leaving tons of items, establishing new workshops and stalls here and there, and even secretly reinforcing the town walls. As if trying to get done with everything he could do in the frontier town. As if trying to settle everything.
Thats why we are anxiously chasing after them. Just how far is he intending to go? Even if he was sure to co straight back after this we still wouldve followed, and he probably doesnt have anything in particular on his mind anyway, but we are still too worried not to chase after him. I an, Haruka-kun also has no idea of what the kingdom is up to. He is rushing into the war without a proper read of the situation. But future predictions, results, victory and defeat, are all irrelevant, we are simply going to protect Haruka-kun. Even if he doesnt need our protection, we still have to be at his side, so that if the ti when he needs the protection cos, we can help him! Even if we are yet to catch up to him, we got strong enough to stand proudly beside him, thats what we were striving for all this ti! And thats why this ti, we are all going to where he is.
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