Chapter 2.1
*School Intensifies*
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[The Trial Dungeon]
The Rookie dungeon’s entrance was located at the middle of the city, at the end of the end of the Dungeon transfer facility. It was created about fifteen years ago, and is the third oldest dungeon in Labyrinth city. The Labyrinth Scout… It is a gateway for the adventurers in the Labyrinth city to begin their work in earnest, and it is not possible to challenge another labyrinth if it someone cheated their way through this labyrinth. All five levels have: fixed-type maps, no traps, and the small-fries are weaker than other dungeons. And also, there is no penalty or item dropped on death. If you were an adventurer who made their debut here 15 years ago, everyone has experience and cheats, there is also a large number of people who challenged the dungeon in some way. Just to make this clear, even the adventurers who have already made their debut, in the rookies is also to challenge the test, also, because it is used in some cla.s.ses of the adventurer’s academy, there are many people who use this dungeon, it seems…
The dungeon was introduced to me in the brochure distributed in the rookie’s lecture had that kind of impression. Not to mention, The brochure was in full color, not unlike the tourist guides in the other world. I could really feel the technological gap between the Labyrinth city and the outside. It had pictures of monsters inside the dungeons and careful ill.u.s.trations of its interior. I wonder if this was a kind of joke that the Goblin’s speech balloon inside the brochure said, “Come on, go ahead and defeat me”. I wonder if I should laugh at this.
According to the brochure, even people who aren’t adventurers use this dungeon to challenge themselves and some people take their entrance exam here. I was talking about the short training, of course. Even though it is a entrance exam, some people seem to break through it anyways, so there might be a grocer or fisherman stronger than adventurers in the city. This truly is a scary town. You can’t just go on a rampage in this city on accident.
“There are a lot of kids in the line.”
We were stuck in the front of the Rookie’s dungeon’s line. Most of the partiac.i.p.ants are children. No, Me and Yuki were minors in our old lives, but the kids are even smaller than that, it’s like the upper grades of a grade school. Those kids were also equipped with a weapon, wearing armor, or a uniform, and lined up with their cloaks on. Apparently, there seems to be a foster school for adventurers, and is rumored that there are students here.
According to Chitta-san, He comes here regularly to train for dungeon raids. It is said that if you challenge the place a lot while studying, you could complete your requirements to debut as it is.
“I’m one of the kids born in the labyrinth city, nya. They came from outside, so I don’t know where they came from, so I’m not a student from their school because I don’t know[E/D help]
Chitta, the Cat Beastman leading us, said. Almost everyone here is a child, and there are lots of small children here. A school that brings kids to fight monsters would be a big problem if it was in j.a.pan, but this isn’t in such a world. It’s normal for even kids to fight a bit outside the Labyrinth city, but even as an adult, it is normal to work. It would be simply pointless to stop the kids who live in the place [Labyrinth City], go in just because they are kids.
As long as you don’t think about it, you will feel like you are out of place. So obviously, we were out of place.
“It’s seems like we came while the school came to practice, nya. let’s wait ’till they’re all inside, nya. it’s a weekday, so the other rookies’ won’t bother to go inside today eit
her, nya.”
There’s a concept of weekday holiday, huh? I’ve heard like about weekdays for a long time.
“The normal adventurer doesn’t have much of a distinction between weekdays and holidays. What would have such an influence on that?”
“Rookies, Intermediates, Advanced senior’s, and even idols all have varying concepts of holidays, nya~. When you are a Rookie , because of being tired from raiding the dungeon every day, and because of that, we have a lot of holidays to prevent making a depressing atmosphere around the city, nya. There are also a lot of lower cla.s.s people who smoke here, so no matter what, you’ll get used to this first, nya.”
I have a bad feeling about this job…
“Because our seniors captured this dungeon in world-breaking time first, there are lots of training areas closed the complete holiday.”
That’s right, because labor is one of the toughest professions out there. Even though the job has made a comeback, the job’s requirements wouldn’t change, making you want to take a break once in a while. Days off, huh… When I worked in the Royal Capital, I never got a break. Not even if it was raining, and at most I would work 20 hours a day, without overtime pay. It’s the kind of working environment that black companies would do without a second thought. I worked in a tavern, but now I have to go somewhere where that doesn’t matter at all.
“Um… What makes us different from popular idols?”
“Idols, or rather, popular adventurers often has a lot of work outside of the dungeon. on their days off there are things held, like events. I went to Roland-sama- he’s an A-rank Adventurer’s event last weekend. I was so excited at the handshake meeting I got a nosebleed.”
That seriously is an idol. In my case, the organizers and partic.i.p.ants seem to be too edgy. If I were to have an relationship with anyone, it would be with the guy next to me.
“That’s excessive. And what are we aiming for in the dungeon?”
“Where? I like shotas or a man’s daughter within my strike zone.” [E/D: Shotas=Little boys]
She has high attack power, but she has very strange tastes. don’t think that Yuki would agree to that unless he has some weird attribute.
“That was depressing…”
“Rather than that, don’t you want to go get a gender change? like, ‘Hey! it Yukiko-chan!’ or something.”
If Yuki was originally a woman, then he would be good at acting like a woman. So far, he hasn’t had a very manly tone up till now, and it is difficult to tell from his behavior. I don’t need to say it. I mean, I don’t know what to say.
“It’s like a gay. And my original name is ‘雪"[Yuki], so I don’t have children. Snow.”
So he was originally snow-san.
元々は雪さんなのね。
“Or should I say, other than the guild card, there is no way to discern you partner’s gender, nya. though nyane would usually be able to tell. Still, Yuki was a woman in another life. If I weren’t in this situation, it would be a pity, nya. Oh, but if you put out a photo alb.u.m, you would outsell the [Muscle Brothers], if you were lucky, nya!” [nyan=sounds like one]
“That’s my only consolation?”
At the moment, n.o.body knows who Yuki is. Some people would just buy the alb.u.m just by looking at the cover. There would be no demand from the material, like the [Tanned Muscle Brothers]. If I were to buy one of the two, I would buy Yuki’s. It’s practical, as long as you hide it well. You can paint over the worst parts with a pen. Some people might say that it is better to stick with them. It is possible to do so and it is fitted to the marsh of a special attribute.
[Raw:現時点で顔の知られていないユキだったら、表紙見ただけで買ってしまう人もいるだろうが、< 赤銅色のマッスル・ブラザーズ="">はネタ枠しか需要がないだろう。
アレな人達の中には付いてたほうが良いという人もいるだろう。そうやって特殊な属性の沼に嵌っていくのだ。]
「えーと、僕の写真集とかはどうでもいいんで……」