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Chapter 81

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“Yo, Kouta! Long time no see!” (Haruka)

“Mutou-kun, everyone too! Are you just coming back from the dungeon?” (Kouta)

“Yeah! Though, there were too many people, so we could not hunt much at all.” (Mutou)

“I see…” (Kouta)

At this rate, it would be obvious that it was only the first floor. There was no way I could say we had gone to the third floor. I searched for words for a moment.

“…Did you go to the shop to look at something?” (Kouta)

“Haruka said he saw ‘Kokimaru the Little Ogre’ the day before yesterday, so we thought, since it was a good chance, we might as well see it once. But when we got there, it was already sold out.” (Mutou)

“It really was there the day before yesterday. The shop Onee-san also said so, right? Kouta, you saw it too, did you not?” (Haruka)

“Yeah! That was amazing!” (Kouta)

Wait, sold out? It had only been two days, right? It was priced somewhere between 2,000,000 and 4,000,000 yen. All of them were gone?

“Well, it is not that I doubt Haruka, but it is the kind of item you want to see at least once, so it is disappointing.” (Mutou)

I understand. I understand, Mutou-kun.

Everyone else was nodding in agreement. Even Emilia and Sofia. And surprisingly, Mira looked utterly crushed. That was completely unexpected.

“Ah, sorry for holding you up. Emilia-san, see you at school again.” (Mutou)

“Ah, see you at school.” (Emilia)

Mutou-kun left, still looking dejected.

“Mira, cheer up.” (Kouta)

“That is right, Mira, we still have rings waiting for us.” (Sofia)

Sofia… those are apparently sold out too, you know?

“Hahaha… Hey, Kouta, am I unlucky?” (Mira)

You are asking me that? Honestly, I am bad with anything related to luck.

“Well, I heard a stable supply is just around the corner, so next time you can see it then.” (Kouta)

In this world, you never know what will happen, so just in case, I said “just around the corner”. Sudden surges in the cost of raw materials are hard to predict, after all. Since I was literally in the position of having made a profit today due to something unpredictable, I wanted to avoid making any clear statements. Just imagining Mira in this state if ‘Kokimaru the Little Ogre’ did not come in… yes, that would be troublesome.

Sofia and Emilia were thoroughly looking through the display cases.

“Ah? It is not here!?” (Sofia)

“Sofia, there is no ‘Silver Ring’ anywhere?” (Emilia)

“But it was definitely here until the other day!” (Sofia)

“Um, customers? Products are always being rotated, so…” (Shop Clerk)

A shop Onee-san with beautiful, long, black hair mustered her courage to speak to the two.

Onee-san… hang in there.

Mira and I both averted our eyes. We felt sorry for the Onee-san who was being stared at and intimidated, but we could not help her. That was because our own safety was important. The one who broke this tense atmosphere was a voice I was very familiar with.

“Oh? Is that not Kouta-kun? Could it be you came to buy this?” (Suzuki)

It was the Guild’s Onee-san, Suzuki-san. Without caring in the slightest about the atmosphere of the room, she approached.

“That is right, I heard you challenged the third floor, Kouta-kun. You must not do reckless things like that.” (Suzuki)

Amazing.

An overwhelming aura of a strong person who did not even flinch at the killing intent of Sofia and Emilia. It was as if she were completely unaware of the atmosphere, acting with total self-confidence and at her own pace. This was truly a way of life allowed only to the strong.

Hats off to you, Onee-san.

“I heard you fought with a ‘Goblin Shaman’ on the third floor. You must have had a hard time with their magic, correct? But you must not falter. The creature itself is not actually that strong. Staying calm while defeating it and regaining your footing is the key.” (Suzuki)

I looked around at everyone to check. No one understood.

“Um, Onee-san, what is a ‘Goblin Shaman’?” (Kouta)

“It is a kind of goblin that uses what you would call sorcery, such as magic arts like debuffs. You saw one, did you not?” (Suzuki)

I looked around at everyone again, confirming that no one had any memory of such a thing.

Was there one like that?

“But in the Toyoda Dungeon, only the ‘Goblin Shaman’ drops the ‘Cursed Fingertip’, correct?” (Suzuki)

For the third time, I looked around at everyone.

“…” (Mira)

“Did you not get debuffed by a goblin wearing a ‘Cursed Fingertip’? That is actually quite nasty.” (Suzuki)

No good. No one in our party had any such information on an individual like that.

“That is strange… Unless your MDEF is quite high, it should affect you and be rather troublesome.” (Suzuki)

Ah, if it is that, then I do have an idea. Sofia’s MDEF is 14, and mine is 19. On top of that, I have debuff resistance. If it had targeted our two vanguards, it is only natural it would not have affected them easily. Really, compatibility is important.

 

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