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Chapter 10

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I saw off the trio of women.

No, that is something nice to see, eye candy. Meeting beautiful women inside a dungeon… this is the best. Just moments ago, I had been struggling with a single goblin, but I had already forgotten about that. I felt like all my fatigue had vanished. Beautiful women really are wonderful. Just looking at them is the best. Not that I have the guts to talk to them myself!

I couldn’t really talk about others, but those girls were also dressed pretty lightly. They wore completely casual clothes that gave no sense of DEF and were only armed with knives.

Not that someone like me, on his first day in the dungeon, has any right to say it, but their outfits are so casual it actually makes me anxious. Will they be okay? It’s not my business, not my business, I keep telling myself and focus on what I needed to do.  After all, if I were going to explore the dungeon from now on, I’d definitely need companions. Those girls have also properly formed a group of three.

Next would be the ‘automatic translator,’ I guess. Japanese dungeons are always filled with foreigners, but the Toyota Dungeon especially has a lot. Well, it makes sense. Japan has officially accepted researchers and military forces from both the Netherlands and Germany. Ever since smartphones become common, there has been many translation apps and translation services.

What they had worn around their necks was most likely what you’d call an ‘automatic translator.’ It is a modern marvel, born from the spread of AI, often praised as one of the greatest recent inventions. It syncs with your smartphone and translated while reproducing your original voice tone. It’s an eye-catching item born in Germany and raised in Japan!

The app itself is created using Germany’s full AI capabilities, and Japan, staking its national pride, had built the hardware to match. It’s a masterpiece. The more you used it, the more this “master data” (?) learn and reproduce a voice closer to the user’s natural tone. The hardware, into which Japanese companies has poured their blood, sweat, and tears, reproduced it. Just by speaking, it translated for you. It was like a dream machine.

By the way, it is still quite expensive. And those girls had been wearing such things around their necks. I am not confident when it comes to judging the appearance or age of Westerners, but they still seem young.

Just what kind of relationship do those three have…?

By the way, some people also call them dumpling-shaped translators. There are people who use that term affectionately due to the shape, and others who use it with a bit of malice, like “Isn’t that thing kinda big?”. Personally, when this device was announced, I was deeply moved. I thought it was a glorious demonstration of the reputation of the country that had accepted the second most immigrants in the world. Though that was just something I’d parroted from my social studies teacher, Onoda-sensei.

For now, I just want to pray for their safe return.

What do Buddhists say when they pray…? Wait, aren’t we Buddhists…? Well, Japan has freedom of religion, so I guess anything is fine. Ramen, soumen, amen. What even is ‘amen’?

 

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