03. Another Dungeon.

“…We’ve gone as far as we can go… I can think that way, right?”

“Ah… yes.”

 

 

Huh? She’s surprisingly calm.

 

 

“How long have you two been seeing each other?”

“…5 days… maybe.”

“….”

 

 

Ah. She’s frozen up here. Her already cold face has frozen even more severely….

 

 

“Only 5 days and you’ve gone that far… is dating that fast-paced these days?”

“No. It’s just… there are various circumstances.”

“?”

 

Soya-ssi tilted her head and called Yuna over to her.

Ack. I have a bad feeling about this.

 

 

“You’re dating this person, right?”

“N-NANI??!”

 

Just as I thought.

She stands up, telling her not to say ridiculous things.

All eyes are on us in an instant.

But Yuna-ssi has no time to care about that.

 

 

“Wh-wh-what are you talking about!”

“Aren’t you? This person said they’re your boyfriend.”

“To be exact, a similar existence. Omonim.”

“What on earth does that mean?”

“It’s a bit of a long story to tell.”

“Don’t tell me it was a one-night stand or something?”

“A one-night stand! Do I look like the kind of person who would do something so shameless?”

“You said you had sex.”

“Pfft!”

 

Oh, she’s incredibly direct.

 

 

“Th-that’s….”

“You didn’t? Did this person lie all by themselves?”

“That’s… not exactly… but….”

“So you went that far without even dating?”

 

Eh… her eyes are scary. It’s that look she had when I first saw her.

 

 

“No, I mean… how should I put it….”

 

 

Yuna-ssi lowered her head and fidgeted with her hands.

 

 

“…I think I might like him.”

“N-no way! There’s no way I’d like this kind of Han Nam!”

“You shouldn’t say things like that with the person right next to you. How embarrassed do you think he is?”

“No, I mean… ugh….”

 

 

She’s frustrated and her face is turning red.

 

Well, our relationship is a bit ambiguous.

It’s hard to say we’re dating, but it’s also hard to say we’re not, since we’re connected by the system. It’s a headache in many ways.

 

 

Well. It’s certain that she’s part of my harem, though.

 

 

“If you have someone you’re dating, the story is even simpler. Why are you in a guild like that?”

“I-it’s not like that.”

“What isn’t?”

“Haaah!! Mom, you don’t know anything!”

“I’m asking because I don’t know.”

 

 

She can’t win with words.

 

 

“Anyway, it seems like you two have a special relationship.”

“….”

 

 

Yuna-ssi remains silent, as if she doesn’t intend to deny that much.

 

 

“I’m sorry that my daughter is involved in such a strange group. Please understand. And if possible, please get her out of it.”

“Mom!”

“I’m trying my best.”

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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After the storm-like meeting with Soya-ssi ended, Yuna-ssi let out a huge sigh. And then she came up to meㅡ.

 

 

“What were you thinking when you said that?!”

 

She demanded to know.

Hmm… If you ask me what I was thinking, I’d answer that I wasn’t thinking anything at all.

 

 

“My mom is a really strict person… Now that I’ve said I did *that* with you, she’s going to tell me to get married right away.”

“Huh? She seemed pretty open-minded. She didn’t say anything about having sex after 5 days.”

“Hmph. That’s because you don’t know my mom. She’s probably telling my dad that she met her son-in-law right now.”

“Son-in-law… well, it’s not so badㅡ.”

“And then when she finds out you have other women, she’ll come after you with a kitchen knife.”

“Yikes.”

 

 

Is this a Nice Boat situation? I don’t want that.

 

 

“Anyway, I’m completely screwed.”

 

 

She lowers her head gloomily.

 

“Hey. She seemed like a pretty good person. She even acknowledged that her daughter is an adventurer. Isn’t that rare?”

“She’s just being indifferent. She’s indifferent, but she interferes in unnecessary things.”

“Tsk tsk tsk. You’re too twisted, Yuna.”

“Hmph.”

 

Yuna-ssi snorted loudly and walked ahead a few steps.

 

 

“That’s too bad. To spend her 20s in such a twisted state.”

“Won’t she get better eventually?”

“Hmm~ I wonder~”

 

Nuna looks at me and smiles bitterly.

 

 

“Isn’t the kind of guy that women who are so-called ‘Kkolpemi’ hate exactly like our little brother?”

“Huh? Surely notㅡ.”

“Chasing after women, thinking about sex every chance he gets, wondering how to get a pretty woman into bed… right?”

“Ugh….”

 

 

Bullseye.

 

 

“Be honest with this Nuna~ You were excited earlier, weren’t you? When you met Yuna’s mother.”

“Ugh… I can’t exactly… deny it.”

“See? You sly devil~.”

“Ugh! Why don’t you try being tormented by that sly devil??”

 

 

I grabbed my spiteful Nuna’s butt.

Kyaahang~ She pretends to be surprised and hugs me.

 

 

“Kuh…! What are you doing on the street!”

 

 

Yuna-ssi comes over and separates us.

 

 

“Oh my. Why are you like this? Are you really jealous?”

“J-jealous? I’m just saying we should keep basic etiquette.”

“Oho~ Okay, okay. We have to keep etiquette. Hehe.”

 

Sora Nuna smirked.

It’s a devilish smile.

 

 

“Then let’s have an after-party later~.”

She pokes my cheek as she says it, and my heart flutters just from that.

 

“Does that include a surprise attack from behind…?”

“If you want.”

“Yay!”

 

Sora Nuna and I are united as one through sex.

Yuna-ssi is looking at us with a rotten expression on her face.

 

 

“We have a lot to do, so stop doing useless things and hurry up and follow us.”

“Ahat.”

 

 

Sora Nuna cheerfully follows Yuna-ssi, who is stomping away.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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“Uhm.”

 

 

Soya, who had returned to the office, sighed with a complicated expression.

 

She had been expressionless when she met her daughter and her companions, but as a person and a mother, she couldn’t help but be surprised by a few things.

 

 

“Why are you sighing like that?”

 

 

Her husband, reading her worried expression, handed her a coffee and sat on the sofa across from her.

 

 

“Well….”

 

 

She hesitated for a moment before opening her mouth.

 

 

“Yuna has a boyfriend.”

“WHAT!!!”

 

 

He slammed the table with his fist in an instant.

Soya glared at him slightly, and he cleared his throat awkwardly.

 

“S-suddenly a boyfriend… what are you talking about?”

“Yuna is 25 now, it’s not sudden. It’s actually late.”

“S-still.”

“The problem is… she’s still in that strange group even though she has a boyfriend. Well, it’s only been 5 days, so we’ll have to watch and see.”

“5 days… phew. That’s a relief.”

“What’s a relief?”

“Hmph hmph… N-nothing.”

 

 

Soya smiled faintly. It was obvious why he was acting like that.

 

 

“It seems like they’ve already gone all the way.”

“Wh-what do you mean? You said it’s only been 5 days!!”

“I guess that’s how it is these days.”

“Ugh ugh ugh… my Yuna… my Yunaaa….”

 

The man, feeling a deep sense of loss, pressed his face against the table.

 

 

“…What are you doing, acting so clumsy.”

“But….”

 

It’s a common thought for a father to feel a sense of loss when his daughter, whom he has raised with all his heart and soul, marries a man.

He was like that too.

It was hard for him to accept that his daughter would become someone else’s woman.

 

 

“I hope that person will guide Yuna well….”

“Wh-what kind of job does that g-guy… I mean, that man have?”

“He’s an adventurer.”

“Such a rough jobㅡ.”

“Yuna’s job is also an adventurer, though?”

“Ugh….”

 

The man groaned.

He didn’t want to admit it no matter what.

 

 

“Oh, right, putting that aside. When is the spicy braised short ribs representative coming?”

“Ah. They’re coming after lunch tomorrow.”

“Hmm.”

“But… I think you know better than I do, Lawyer-nim… but there’s no grounds for a case here.”

“That’s right. To call posting a selfie defamation is nonsense.”

“But why….”

“There’s a reason.”

 

Soya smiled coldly.

 

 

 

 

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“5,000 dollars for an additional inventory purchase. 10,000 dollars for a portable grinder purchase. We spent 15,000 dollars today alone. Did the three of us spend 5,000 dollars each?”

 

It’s a lot of money for me, who hasn’t been an adventurer for very long.

My assets, including the items I put up on the exchange, probably don’t even amount to 40,000 dollars.

 

 

“But if you think about what we’ll be earning in the future, this level of spending is nothing. We can even throw a party since we’re making money so smoothly, right?”

“I guess so?”

 

Yeah. Let’s think positively.

If we bring back bones from the dungeon and Eun-ju grinds them up and sells them as Mana Powder, we can make a huge income.

 

 

“If we fill two inventories a day and process and sell them… hehe. How much is that?”

“It’s about 16,000 dollars. The current exchange rate is about 1200 won, so it’s almost 20 million won.”

“20 million won a day! If we split it into fourths, that’s 5 million won!!”

 

Nuna’s eyes were painted with the shape of money.

 

 

“Hoo… but that’s difficult. One might be possible, but filling two is… and with that much volume, the processing speed won’t be able to keep up.”

 

Well… even if Eun-ju processes it all day, it would be difficult.

Hmm… should we get more people? It would be nice if they were people we could exploit like Eun-ju… should I wander around the streets at night?