Lazy Dungeon Master - Chapter 335

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Chapter 335

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Rokuko’s Return

Later, Aidi’s participation was both quickly and easily decided on . —By that, I mean that Rokuko returned and told me she’d be participating .

“Which is why we’re going to have a strong helper . ”

“Uh huh . ”

Well . I definitely didn’t expect a Demon King Faction core like Aidi to come to our aid .

There’s many things I can’t show her… actually, no, I was already intending to hide all of my trump cards from Haku-san anyway, so nothing’s really changed .

Rather, the heck’s going on with her helping out? I thought this was turning into some freak proxy war between Haku-san’s faction and the Demon King Faction .

“You know, that’s not even the most surprising part . I mean, Core No . 8-sama—oh, that’s the leader of the Beast King Faction, the DP Ranking’s 10th position, the Beast King, okay? That Beast King bowed his head and told Haku Ane-sama [Please take care of No . 629], it caused such an uproar . ”

“Heeh . Beast King Faction, so the leader of the faction that Orange belonged to?”

“Exactly, nkyuu~ . For Core No . 8-sama to lower himself for my sake, nkyuuu…!”

Orange’s orange bunny tail was flapping up and down in glee . So fluffy .

I see, so the faction’s leader publicly lowered his head for the sake of an estranged underling . If doing that would be enough to earn himself that much loyalty, it doesn’t seem like it’d be that bad of a hand to play at all . Even without listening to the praising part of the story, I could tell it was about him demonstrating how open-minded he was .

Moreover, he even managed to raise a flag for Orange—who by all rights should have been alienated—to return… which meant that, by returning with intelligence about Haku-san, he’d effectively be a spy for them .

I couldn’t be sure if I was just overthinking it or if the Beast King was acting out some master plan, but in either case, I felt as though he was an opponent I couldn’t afford to let my guard down against .

Let’s try and not antagonize him . Well, I doubt I’d actually be able to antagonize someone in the top 10 in the first place .

“… But I get the feeling there’s something else going on with Aidi being our ally… Kehma, what do you think?”

“Huh? Oh, well, I definitely wasn’t expecting her help, but I have no problem with it . It actually settles our offensive strategy . ”

“Eh, really?”

I was originally wanting to learn more about Core No . 564—our opponent—before deciding on our strategy, but now we can just leave that to Aidi .

It’d be better if we provided a bit extra for it as well, but keeping it to a modest level would be best .

“Yep, there won’t be an issue unless Aidi betrays us and attacks us . ”

“I see… So you’re saying that it’s better to let Aidi go fully on the offense so that she has no part in our defense . I don’t think she would since she pledged to Father-sama, but she could keep the momentum going and turn on us after everything’s decided… Taking that into account, there’s no choice but to have her attack . ”

Rokuko smoothly figured out my reasoning on how to make use of Aidi .

Yeah . She’s gotten pretty smart, seriously .

“I was originally thinking about somehow instigating Wataru into it, but now that it’s come to this, it’d probably be better to just have him focus on defense . ”

“Thinking about that, Aidi’s participation is actually a good thing, isn’t it . ”

“All that’s left is using Meat and Ichika, though it might be better to just leave all that to Aidi…?”

“… Kehma, Kehma . What should I do?”

“Orange, butter up all the adventurers coming to the dungeon . ”

I left the customer service portion to Orange, who had been listening in silently the whole time .

As for the dungeon, after Rokuko and he had gone to the assembly, I’d gone back to disseminate the acknowledgement that this dungeon was for the sake of loving on rabbits . There were a few uncertain issues, but the dungeon didn’t seem to be in danger for the time being .

Strawberry, the rabbits, as well as Meat and Ichika were all controlling the white rabbits at the moment, doing their best to charm the second search team . (It seemed like Misha had put some word out about it)

“Got it, nkyuu . I’ll show kyuu I could even charm a succubus!”

“And now I’ll be moving on to doing what I couldn’t do while you were absent . ”

“Y-Yeah . I should’ve told kyuu about it sooner, but I thought Rokuko told kyuu already . ”

Well, normally that’s the sort of thing a Master and Core would discuss with each other, after all . There’s no helping that Orange thought it was something he didn’t need to tell me .

“Please tell me around a week before the time comes next year, alright?”

“Oh, sure, I’ll try to say something if I don’t forget . ”

Looks like she won’t tell me next year, either .

I sighed .

“By the way, did anything else happen at the assembly?”

“Oh yeah, I got a lot of attention from having that Dungeon Battle with Haku Ane-sama last year . Oh, my rank went up too! I’m 182nd! Aidi was 175th, so I think I might catch up to her next year . I could even outpace her! We’ve really done great, Kehma . Hohoh~”

Rokuko rubbed her finger across the bottom of her nose in boastful pride .

I couldn’t really tell how good of a thing it was to raise in rank, but it’s probably better than I thought it was .

“That so? That’s good, then… How about you, Orange?”

“I was 290th, nkyuu . Went up ten ranks since last year~”

So Orange was overtaken by Rokuko and I in that one year… Well, our earnings still have a huge way to go to get to where Ontentoo and Haku-san are .

“By the way, what’s Core No . 564’s rank?”

“167th . They had a few million DP . ”

“That’s a pretty strong opponent…”

“About what we’d expect of a 500 series Demon King Faction core . But he’s basically sentenced to death by Core No . 6 . And you know what happened then? Aidi riled him up and he undid his humanization and returned into this baphomet…? Thing . ”

“Hoh, baphomet?”

That’s some important information . If we can figure out our opponents true form, we should be able to form a meta (that is, take special measures) . Still though, the heck was a baphomet, again? Some kind of goat-headed demon, I think… what kind of weak points would it have?

Maybe I should ask Haku-san or Aidi—if I have to…

“Are there any special victory conditions for the Dungeon Battle?”

“None . It’s the usual win by touching the Dungeon Core . Aidi said that she might just go and destroy it though . ”

“I don’t doubt that . ”

“… But isn’t this basically a three on one? I’m starting to feel sorry for No . 564 . Even if it’s three of us 600 series cores against a single 500 series, I can’t see this as balanced . ”

Hmm . It I recall, there’s around a hundred year gap between every hundred cores .

Taking that into account, it’s hard to tell if even this three-against-one is even… and even then that doesn’t factor in whether they have a master or not .

Case in point, that trivial trio—all also 600 series cores—had no masters and were treated as a single team .