“This place is suspicious.”
Yufilia focuses on the intersection in the first floor bas.e.m.e.nt.
“Ah, let"s go there first.”
I nodded, and move towards the location.
We split up check the four sides of the room
However, I couldn"t find the entrance.
“Is it really just a dead s.p.a.ce?”
Yufilia thinks with her hand touching her chin.
I use my evil eyes.
I freely search, checking every corner looking for strange places.
However, there was nothing.
“Should we just break the walls? If it"s just this, we can probably do it.”
Jamie proposes a violent method.
Because I stopped using my head, I’m free for the time everyone else is thinking.
“That’s fine. If you can break the wall with that ax, that is.”
Tiraiza teases Jamie.
“OKAY. I’ll try doing it. My ax has amazing destructive power!”
Jamie bites the provocation. She focuses, and gets fired up.
She fills her body with ninkijinki.
“Uoriyaaaaaaa!”
Jamie swings her ax at full power.
*Gakin!* The ax slams against the wall! With that sound, the blade is broken off of Jamie’s ax.
“Eeeeeeee!”
Jamie raises a miserable voice.
It seems that she hurt her arm, and it went numb.
“You underestimated the prehistoric magically strengthened walls didn’t you?”
The strength of the metal itself is much higher than Jamie’s ax.
The strengthening magic must have also have been casted by magicians much stronger than Tiraiza.
It was the natural result.
“Haa～”
Jamie and Tiraiza sigh at the same time.
Repairing the ax is Tiraiza’s job. However, she provoked her, so it’s her own fault.
“What should we do about this?”
Iris makes a troubled face.
“If we use Yufilia uses her divine sword, couldn’t she break it?”
I look at Yufilia.
Yufilia is a hero. Thus, she has a sword fit for heroes----the divine sword. Divine sword Ridiru.
However, when I look closely, I see that today she had brought a different sword.
“Ah, I didn’t bring it with me today. Rather, that belongs to the royal family, so I can’t bring it out without permission.”
Defeating the Maou. Or visiting the Dark Temple, which houses the Evil G.o.d, that’s supposedly much more terrifying than the Maou.
She was able to get it for these purposes, but it seems she couldn’t bring it just to explore a dungeon.
I checked the room adjacent to the wall for switches, but I couldn’t find any.
I checked all sides.
As long as nothing huge happens, I don’t plan on breaking the wall. If I did that, the room might collapse.
There is also the possibility that traps were hidden.
Of course, I can easily break the wall.
But should I go about it? I wonder.
That’s my last resort.
“What should we do?”
Yufilia is having trouble coming up with what to do.
There’s a possibility of a hidden switch in another room, but that’d be the same as having an exhaustive search.
N……adjacent?
“Ah, there was another one.”
Mumbling that, I run away.
“Wait, where are you going!?”
Yufilia quickly runs after me. The other 3 follow.
The place I led them to was on the second underground floor.
On the way, I take a large stepladder I found earlier, and climb it.
Then, I examine the ceiling.
“Found something!”
“Eh! What is it?”
An excited Yufilia asks me.
“There’s an opening. There must be some way to open it.”
There’s a slight trace that humans wouldn’t be able to see.
There’s an joint big enough that can easily let people through.
It seems that Yufilia couldn’t see it however.
I tried to find a way to get into the room, but couldn"t find anything.
“Another mystery…”
I feel despondent.
“We"ve moved another step forward, so we can"t give up now!”
Yufilia encourages me.
There"s no doubt that entering this joint is the right path.
Everyone splits up looking for clues to enter the room.
I examine the ceiling one more time.
Ah, it"s such a pain. I"ll just break it.
While realizing I couldn"t find anything, I get annoyed and lightly hit the ceiling.
When I did that, the square part of the ceiling easily floated off the ceiling, and went on to rotate 180 degrees and fall.
What?
Oh, I see. What I thought was a joint, was actually a cap.
No matter how strengthened it is, if you kick the door it"ll move. It isn"t like it"s fixed in place.
The last mystery was easy.
I was just thinking too much.
I call out to the 4.
“Yeah?”
“You did it!”
“Oh～”
“Wow……”
When they come, they each show their reactions.
Excited, Yufilia climbs over to the lid.
Yufilia is wearing a skirt. Of course, her panties were in plain sight.
Well, I don"t really care since I don"t have any libido.
“Ha!”
When I feel a gaze on me, I saw Tiraiza looking at me with her eyes.
However, she isn"t saying anything.
She just grabbed the Hem of my robe.
Her eyes were saying, “Perverts should climb at the top.”
In the dead s.p.a.ce, there were gold and silver treasures.
“Oooooo!”
Yufilia trembles in excitement.
I watched that curiously.
“Is it surprising for you to see Yufi like this?”
Tiraiza was cool, as usual.
“Well, she is the princess of one of the great three major powers, the Briton Kingdom. You wouldn’t think she’d get that moved by treasure.”
When I tell her my honest impressions, Tiraiza’s face gets a little clouded.
In order to not be noticed by the delighted trio, we descend to the lower floor, and Tiraiza began to talk.
“Do you the financial situation of the Briton Kingdom?”
“Ah, is it bad?”
About half a century ago, during the sixth demonic calamity, the Briton Kingdom had it’s land stolen by the demons.
The country that stood there was of course, destroyed.
The Briton Kingdom was the country that formed after.
It can’t be said that the start was smooth.
Although the country was destroyed, many people safely escaped to the north.
However, their cities were thoroughly destroyed.
In order to rebuild them, money was needed.
At that time, there was only one country in the world with that kind of money.
The only country that didn’t take any damage from the demonic calamity---the Scottyard Kingdom.
“That’s why, this Kingdom doesn’t raise it’s head against the Scottyard Kingdom.”
“But that’s from half a century ago, is there still that much debt?”
“There’s no debt from then, but we’ve been borrowing more and more since then.”
Money was needed to restore the country.
However, the Briton Kingdom has a temperate climate and is suitable for agriculture.
If they had a steady and frugal national management, they wouldn’t have acc.u.mulated so much debt.
“After all, we can’t be negligent while preparing to fight the Maou. Also, the war costs are enormous. And recently, it’s cost us about double.”
A year ago there was demon war, and Yufilia killed the Maou, Marcuk.
Four years ago, the Maou before Marcuk, Lamelept was killed.
If there are two wars in such a short time span, the national finances will naturally be low.
“N, but that’s a story of the national finances right? Is Yufilia really bothered by that?”
“She was originally somewhat concerned about it, but now it’s become more of an individual problem.”
“Individual?”
“There have been proposals from the Scottyard Kingdom.”
“Oh.”
There was that. I also got involved.
The first prince of the Scottyard Kingdom, Vincent Everton.
Is his composed att.i.tude there because he has support for it?
“The person herself has denied them, but I wonder how for long she can.”
“Why are you telling me about this?”
I got a little curious and asked.
“You’re a member of our club, so I thought you should know. Because I can’t do anything about it.”
“I can’t do anything about it either.”
Hearing my words, Tiraiza stares at me in my dark, brown eyes.
“Really?”
Unable to look her in the eyes, I averted my gaze.
After I calmed down, we began to talk about distribution.
“Should we evenly distribute it? We always do that so……”
Timidly, with upturned eyes, Yufilia asks that.
“Yeah, if you always do that isn’t it fine?”
I immediately answered.
“Since Ashtal did most of the work alone, I was wondering if it was okay with you.”
“Rather, you should’ve asked him first. I didn’t expect to get so much.”
Jamie relaxes, and laughs
“I’m not really interested in treasure, so it’s fine even if I don’t get any.”
“That’s really too much……”
Yufilia gently declines my offer.
Being declined like this is awkward.
It’ll make working together from here on harder.
“Then, this time let’s go with even distribution. But you know, you don’t have to be so considerate of me, I have my own purpose.”
At my words, Yufilia calls out to me, as if she remembered something.
“Purpose? Are you talking about getting better with women?”
“You’re using that pretense to make pa.s.ses on women, right? You philanderer.”
Tiraiza jeers at me.
I casually ignore it.
“If it was just that, you wouldn’t need to come to dungeons would you?”
It seems Iris doesn’t understand.
“I was interested in dungeons. I got experience something nice today. I’m content with that. I got something you can’t buy with money.”
Yep, today I got to see lots of beautiful girls.
I let them imagine what I meant.
We carried away the treasure and finished exploring the dungeon for the day.
We decided to capture the rest of it tomorrow.