Chapter 116 - Tower of Wisdom
“This is the second dungeon, “The Tower of Wisdom”, isn’t it?”
In front of us was a gigantic tower reaching high into the sky.
“Wisdom…… It’s no exaggeration to say that that’s my strong point.”
“……Ehm, even if you say that with that extremely stupid look….”
Megumi’s comments are as harsh as ever.
“But, how do we get into that thing?”
“Really–? There’s no entrance!”
As Kyouko said, we wandered around the tower but we couldn’t find anything that seemed like an entrance. It was just walls all around the tower.
“I see. Looks like the trail starts with finding a way inside.”
The only strange thing was a stone statue standing close to the tower.
It had the appearance of a 7 to 8-year-old boy.
“……P, please look at this. Here are some words that look like a hint……”
As Megumi said that, I turned my attention to the pedestal the statue was standing on. On it was written something like this.
『I will show you the way of wisdom, covered by the trial of darkness』
“……What does that mean……?”
“I have no idea at all~”
“Darkness, does that mean we have to wait until it’s night perhaps?”
The three highschool girls tilt their heads, but they didn’t seem like they could think of an answer.
“Hah, it’s pretty easy”
“Eh? Did you get what that means?”
“Well, take a look”
“Amazing!”
“……Even though you look like this……”
Basking in their admiration I turned my butt to them and approached the tower.
“Wai, I told you not to stand in front of us……”
Then I clenched my fist tightly and
ーーBaaaaaaaaaaaaaaam!!
Punched a hole into the wall.
“““Eeeeeeeeeeeh?!”””
“How is it? The entrance appeared”
“Didn’t you just make one with brute force?! The riddle!? You didn’t even try to solve the riddle just now?!”
“I never said that I solved the riddle though”
“Rather, can a wall be destroyed with just a punch……?”
We entered the tower through the hole I opened up.
『By the way, when the statue of the boy was covered by the shadow of the tower, there seemed to be a mechanism where the boy would point out the location of the switch to open the outer wall’s entrance』
I mean, I knew that you know?
Come on, it’s too much of a pain to wait until then, don’t you think?
“Now then. Which mascot will come out this time?”
When I mumbled something like that without expecting anything.
“There’s only one truth!”
Tha, that phrase……!
Could it be?!
“Detective CoXan!?”
Then, what appeared before us was a bow tie and shorts wearing ーーー old man.
He was fat, greasy and looked like someone that would go buhi, buhi.
He was also bald.
“How is that CoXan-kun?!”
“Could it be the future CoXan-kun?”
“He wouldn’t look like that though, right?!”
“……No matter how one looks at it, rather than solving cases…… He looks like the type to break the law……..”
Hey, Megumi.
That’s prejudicial.
……Probably.
“I am not the one called CoXan! I have the brain of an adult and my lower half is that of an adult as well! The name is Erogawa Kokan!”
So does that mean you’re not completely an adult?
Also, that last name sounds pretty Japanese.
And what’s with that weird way of talking. (Tn: he says de gozaru at the end of his sentences, also he uses wagahai as a pronoun)
There are so many things I want to comment about that I missed the timing to say them.
“Reason and desire are constantly at odds on a high level! Tis what I represent!”
“Hey, why is it always weird guys? Ananman was like that too……”
“……The guy who made these trails, wasn’t all there in their head…….”
Looks like they said a lot of things, but Kokan-kun didn’t seem to care about that.
He might be used to getting bashed like that after all.
“Anyway, you did well entering this tower. To forcefully make an entrance. Umu, that is also a respectable answer. There’s only one truth, but answers aren’t limited to one!”
Oh, he said something surprisingly decent.
“As you know, this is the “Tower of Wisdom”! Tis a place to temper your intellect! Wisdom is indispensable to defeat the mighty Demon King!”
Hearing this, Akane out her tongue out and went “Uweeh…”.
“I’m weak at that~ But Megucchi is hella good at stuff like this, right?”
“Right, right. Megumi is always first place in our school’s exams”
“I, I think this is different from studying though……”
Tests, how nostalgic~
“By the way, I was always in the single digits in my highschool days as well, you know?”
“You’re lying right? You?”
“My test score, that is!”
“……You did well graduating with that……”
“There’s more than one way to earn credits”
Right, there’s only one truth, but answers aren’t limited to just one.
“Well then, let us post-haste to proceed with the first trial! Please go through this door!”
Kokan-kun shouted while his nether region (Kokan) was bulging. I opened the door, thinking that his way of talking was really annoying.
Beyond that door were two more doors but on each of them was either an X or an O.
“Tis the so called OX game! I shall give you questions and if you think you have the answer enter through the corresponding door”
I see.
That’s kind of a trial of wisdom.
“Well then, tis the first question. 『The three boys, A-kun, B-kun and C-kun were comparing the size of their lower parts』”
“What’s with that situation?!”
“I mean, it happens, you know? It’s like when women compare their breasts”
“W, we don’t do things like that!”
A-kun: “Mine is the biggest”
B-kun: “Mine is the smallest”
C-kun: “Mine is bigger than A-kun’s, but it’s smaller than B-kun’s”
“『Two of them are telling the truth, alas one of them is lying. And it’s C-kun』…… Now then, Is it O or is it X?”
That means, if we think that C-kun is lying we should go through the O door and when we think the other two are lying we should go through the X door.
“Hmpf, again an easy riddle”
I told them my answer by putting on high airs.
“Mine is the biggest!”
“No one asked for that!?”
“Do you want to check?”
“I don’t! Besides there’s nothing to compare it to?! So don’t put down your traaaaaaaaaaay!”
After sighing, Kyouko spoke with some confidence.
“I’m suspicious of A who proudly proclaimed to have the biggest”
“….Kyouko-chan, this isn’t a psychological problem, but a logical riddle……”
“If it’s O or X we could just go with intuition!”
“Ah, wai, Akane!?”
Akane opened the X door on her own.
『The solution is O. The order of their size is A, C, B. Meaning C-kun lied』
Right.
I knew that of course.
Rather, what happens if we get it wrong?
“Wah, there’s something big in here!?”
Behind the door was a gigantic turtle-like monster.
“Wai, what on earth is that?!”
“Taraks, is it? It’s a kind of sub dragon. Meaning, that when we answer incorrectly we’ll end up having to fight strong monsters like this”
“Tis as such! You can’t move on the next question if you don’t defeat it!”
Kyouko and Megumi glare at Akane.
However, Akane who was rather carefree didn’t mind that at all.
“So, we just have to beat that, right?”
That’s right.
There isn’t just one way to reach the goal.
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