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âA monster appeared!â
âSurround and strike it! Stay calm and weâll be fine!â
ăAdvancing through a dungeon naturally meant encountering monsters.
ăSince Hoshino, Yuki-san, and I were walking at the very rear, the ones fighting them were inevitably the guild explorers marching up front.
ăThe famous major guild, âGold Leo.â
ăThe mid-tier guild, âObsidian Bear.â
ăAnd the up-and-coming guild riding momentum, âIron Stag.â
ăThe three guilds each formed teams of about ten people to handle the monsters.
ăSince this was still the upper level, the monsters that appeared werenât very strong. Neither Yuki-san nor I stepped in, simply watching over them.
âHow does it look, Tanaka-chan? Their fighting, I mean.â
ăAs I watched the explorers fight, Yuki-san spoke to me.
ăEven if you ask me how it looks⌠How should I answer? Well, giving my honest impressions as I see it should be fine.
âArenât they doing well? I think every guild has good coordination. HoweverâŚâ
ăI looked at the guild fighting the pure-white furred wolves, âSnow Fangs.â
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ăWe continued down the path, which was steadily growing colder.
ăNormally, Iâd sprint through the shallow sections, so taking it slow like this felt kind of fresh.
ăEspecially back when I was at the Black Dog Guild, my quotas were so brutal that I dove at breakneck speed. There wasnât even time to disarm dungeon traps; when I couldnât dodge them, I just triggered them underfoot and pushed forward by force.
ăEven Iâm impressed with myself that I survived being that reckless.
âHey! Isnât thatâŚ!â
âAlright! Itâs ore!â
ăThe front was getting noisy, so looking over, I saw the delighted faces of the explorers.
ăApparently, they had found dungeon-produced ore. The explorers took out pickaxes and scrambled to start mining.
âScore! Thereâs a ton!â
âThis is why a First Attack is the best!â
ăThe explorers mined in excitement.
ăOre harvested inside dungeons is rare and trades at high prices across the board.
ăMagic essence crystals become high-grade energy when broken down, and dungeon-produced metals are harder than any substance on Earth while being easy to process. They can be repurposed into weapons and armor, so countless companies want them.
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âHello everyone. Iâm Makoto Tanaka. Well then, Iâd like to begin our dungeon stream now.â
ăIâve been waiting!ă
ăSheâs here!ă
ăMy reason to liveă
ăItâs cold, so hurry upă
ăStanding by naked as wellă
ăWhen the stream started, a cascade of comments poured in like a waterfall.
ăPerhaps thanks to yesterdayâs announcement stream, the viewer count was growing faster than usual.
âAs I mentioned beforehand, today will be a joint exploration with other guilds. Therefore, rather than advancing alone as usual, we will be pacing our exploration alongside everyone else. I appreciate your understanding.â
ăOkaaayă
ăUnderstoodă
ăWell, canât be helpedă
ăWait, can Shachiken actually match pace with other people? lolă
ăTrue thată
ăHmm, impossible lolă
ăLess that Tanaka canât match pace, and more that others wonât be able to keep upâŚă
ăHm, what rude comments.
ăEven I can match pace with people. Itâs just that I havenât done it much up until now.
ăIf I try, I should be able to do it⌠probably.
ăWhile I was thinking about that, the doors blocking the dungeon opened. Apparently, it was time for the exploration to begin.
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ăThe next day.
ăHaving rested at the hotel, we made our way to the dungeon entrance.
ăThe dungeon attack was scheduled to begin at 10:00 AM.
ăApparently, ordinary dungeon attacks usually started around this time. Back when I was a corporate slave, I was forced to dive starting from around 5:00 AM. From then on, I was bogged down in work until midnight with no breaks⌠even Iâm impressed with myself that I didnât end up dead.
âThere are so many people.â
âYeah.â
ăA large crowd of explorers had already gathered in front of the entrance.
ăNumbering around thirty to forty people, it was quite a sizable group. At a glance, there didnât seem to be any obvious beginners. The guilds probably wanted to send their most capable people to make a name for themselves.
âGood morning, Tanaka-chan.â
âGah!?â
ăStartled, I heard a sultry voice whisper right in my ear.
ăPutting some distance between us and looking over, Yuki-san was standing there. Approaching without making a sound despite having such a massive frame is way too terrifying.
âGood morning, Yuki-san. That dress looks great on you.â
âMy, that makes me happy. Itâs a prized piece I had made just for today.â
ăYuki-san struck a pose in a magnificent dress with a slit.
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ăSeriously, Yuki-san is going too!?ă
ăShachiken alone is already overkill lolă
ăIncredible muscles⌠I admire thată
ăFor real, two Returnees from the Imperial Palace Dungeon are going?ă
ăItâs at the level where I almost feel sorry for the monstersă
ăThe comment section erupted at Yuki-sanâs sudden appearance.
ăWell, it couldnât be helped. Although Yuki-san hadnât been actively doing explorer work recently, they were a super-celebrity.
ăA former Returnee, president of the guild âBeauty Rose,â and while being a famous fashion designer, they also worked as a model, an incredible person in so many ways.
âUm, Tanaka-san. This person isâŚâ
âAh, this is your first time meeting them, right, Hoshino? This is Yuki-san.â
âH-Hello! Iâm Yui Hoshino! Nice to meet you. Umm⌠Busujima-san.â
ăYuki-san had been listening to Hoshinoâs greeting with a smile, but the moment the last word was uttered, their expression became completely âblank.â Their eyes turned hollow and unfocused, their face freezing into a plastered mask without a single twitch of the cheeks.
ăStartled by that sudden look of an empty shell, Hoshino was shaken with an âEh, eh?â
âAh⌠Hoshino. Yuki-san hates being called by their surname or full first name. They say it isnât cute. So call them âYuki-sanâ just like I do.â
âEh, is that so? Iâm sorry, I didnât know. Umm⌠Yuki⌠san.â
