The orange-colored rabbit flicked his ears from within the cage .
… He’s so fluffy…
Just then, Haku-san suddenly appeared in the room . Like a ninja… she probably used [Teleport]—wait, no, it was probably the menu’s [Placement] function . At the very least, the capital was within Haku-san’s territory .
“Sorry to keep you waiting . I see you’ve started?”
“Haku Ane-sama . ”
Rokuko walked over to Haku-san . “Haku… sama . Thankyuu for helping me for this…”
“For the Demon King Faction to set their eyes on you, you were in a tough spot, No . 629 . ”
“… Nkyuu . Seriously . ”
Orange settled onto his hind legs and stamped twice . It felt like it was the rabbit’s way of showing stress .
It was natural he’d be stressed, though whether that was due to the Demon King Faction or Haku-san, well . Well . Right, let’s ask him what’s been on my mind .
“Say, Orange, how’d you manage to contact Haku-san? It’s not like you hopped all the way to the capital, right? You’d definitely have gotten yourself hunted by someone . ”
“Nkyuu!? Don’t say something so scary! … But I wanna know kyuu! I was just holding my head from the stress and Haku—sama, just appeared kyuu . So I yielded to her!”
Yep . I get the feeling that a rabbit would just yield as the default but alright?
With that, I looked over to Haku-san, who gave her response while embracing Rokuko .
“I received a declaration of war from the Demon King Faction, saying [We will destroy your faction’s dungeon] . So then when I inspected the place they mentioned, I found you . ”
“C’mon nkyuu . They didn’t listen to me at all… uuu, they just found me when I was frolicking in the meadow…”
Orange stamped the ground again .
“By the way, is ‘Orange’ No . 629’s name?”
“Yeah, it was hard for me to keep using a number as his name . ”
“… Hmm . So, were you able to become his master as well?” “No?”
Looks like Haku-san caught on to me wanting to experiment . Orange himself didn’t seem to notice though . He didn’t, but he still tilted his head is puzzlement .
“Ohh, right! How should I improve my dungeon?”
“Hm? Right . First, I will be giving Kehma-san some DP . Please cooperate with him to somehow make it through the Demon King Faction’s assault . ” “… You’re skillfully delegating your work away, Haku-san . ”
“Rather than me giving the instructions, I believe that leaving it to Kehma-san will certainly produce more amusing—well-suited results . ” She definitely just said amusing there . Well, I guess Haku-san wants to see at least a little of what’s up my sleeve .
“Which is why I will be officially allowing you to join my faction, Orange . You are welcome . ”
“Hahaha~! My deepest thanks nkyuu!”
Orange bowed his head . His hind leg seemed to stamp the ground there for a sec, but let’s pretend I didn’t see it .
“… By the way, are there any other factions than yours, Haku-san?”
“Most of the dungeons in the Raverio Empire are mine . It’s not as absolute as in the Demon King Faction or the Dragon King Faction, though . ”
“… Which is why they mistook me for being in the Betrayer’s Faction nkyuu…”
Ah, he just said betrayer, there . Well, Orange was also in the Betrayer’s Faction, it’s just official now .
“Uuu, even I was basikyuuly in the Beast King Faction…”
“Right . I was wanting to ask about that, too . Who’s this Beast King person?”
“Core No . 8 . ”
I’d asked Orange the question, but Haku-san responded with an audible frankness .
“Although beast-type cores generally belong to his faction, they also follow the law of the jungle and push their children into bottomless pits and leave them there . ”
“… So what you’re saying is that they forsake the weak ones?”
“Kyuun…”
I started to feel like the orange rabbit was pitiable… Alright, I have to properly help him in this Dungeon Battle…!
“Alright then, it looks like our meeting is now at its end, so how about we go examine the area?”
Haku-san recited the incantation for [Teleport] . It would’ve been different if it was just Haku-san and Misha, but she couldn’t use dungeon deployment since were all going as well .
Wrapped in [Teleport]’s light, we appeared in the meadow .
… You could say it was a sea of grass for as far as the eye could see . This vast meadow was Orange’s dungeon? Or perhaps we’re underground and this just looks like a vast grassland?
“Nkyuu, my dungeon’s around a fifty meter circumference around here . Ummm, my hole’s somewhere around here, but… . o-ooh, here, here it is nkyuu~”
Orange was hopping through the grass and stopped at a spot with some exposed dirt .
So he put an illusion over it to make it so that enemies wouldn’t find it? I see…
“You could sprain your ankle if you didn’t see it and fell in . ”
“Fu fu fu! And then we’ll beat ’em up! Horned rabbits, armored rabbits, magic rabbits, soldier rabbits~, everyone, I’m baaack!”
After descending the stairs, I saw a big room . There were rabbits that looked like armadillos and others with a single horn sprouting from their heads . I guess they’re the horned rabbits and armored rabbits he was talking about .
They all twitched their noses . They seemed to be saying [Welcome back~]… I guess Translation Function-san doesn’t work with rabbit speech?
“Welcome back~”
“Any souvenirs~!?”
“Something stinks~”
Oh, there it goes . I could understand what the three horned rabbits were saying… This’ll make it feel weird next time I go to eat rabbit meat .
And Meat, I can see your tail wagging back and forth there, but you can’t hunt them, okay? Really .
“Nmu nmu . Oh, Kehma . This is my dungeon, nkyuu, and these guys stop people here . The magic rabbits and soldier rabbits run out from that room there and pincer them~ . Nokyuu intruder’s ever made it past! It’s the best strategy!”
“I see . But that Demon King Faction guy walked in and out?”
“… He stopped when he saw my core while the armored rabbits were holding him back . Nkyuuu, if he continued, he’d have killed everyone…”
Orange kicked the ground in frustration . He seemed to be aware of his own strength .
Well, up until then it was probably just beginner adventurers hunting rabbits . I mean, even D-Ranks were considered to have graduated from rabbit hunting back in Tsuia .
Still though, getting swarmed by monsters as soon as they entered would definitely do in a rookie .
You could even call their 0% return rate a splendid achievement for a dungeon, an existence that turned lives into DPNourishment . It also had a disadvantage, though .
At the very least, it was definitely much better of a dungeon than ours when I became its master .
“Did you think of that strategy yourself?”
“I was taught it by my rabbit-type core seniors nkyuu . We may be rabbits, but if we swarm them, we can win . ”
Oh, so there’s other rabbit-type cores . Heeh… come to think of it, wasn’t something said about Setsuna’s father being a rabbit-type core? Maybe it’s one of them .
As I thought about such irrelevant things, Haku-san wrapped her arms around Rokuko from behind and asked me a question .
“So, Kehma-san . Do you think you could frustrate the Demon King Faction with this dungeon?”
“… I’d like a little more information . Like who we’re up against . ”
“So you’re not saying you can’t?”
Just as Haku-san smiled, Rokuko rubbed her nose with a prideful humph .
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