13. The Empire of the Glans.

13. Dickhead’s Empire.

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“…You can’t enter yet.”

Before leaving, my wish to enter the dungeon one last time was blocked at the entrance.

As it was a dungeon, soldiers were standing guard, and strangely, one side was the Japanese Ground Self-Defense Force, and the other was the 7th Mobile Corps dispatched from Korea.

Hmm… are they planning to settle down in Japan?

“Why can’t I?”

“No one can enter yet because the administrative processing is not complete.”

A soldier with three stripes answers like that.

Hmm.

That’s right. Administrative processing….

Originally, to enter the dungeon, you had to scan your adventurer’s card at the turnstile at the entrance, but there’s no turnstile, just a desolate plain in this place that hasn’t even been around for a few days, and only military barracks and various tent villages.

“When will it be ready?”

“I can’t say yet. It’s not under military jurisdiction….”

Well, there’s no way a regular soldier would know that.

“What are you going to do? They say it’s not ready.”

“Hmm… I wanted to go in at least once before leaving….”

Sora-nuna pouted her lips, looking disappointed.

The soldier glanced at her, perhaps finding her appearance beautiful.

Hehe. As a soldier, he must have been starved for women for a while, right? Too bad. To be assigned to dungeon duty in that situation. So many pretty girls will be coming and going. How will he handle it every time?

“…I forgot…damn administration…”

Yuna-ssi clicked her tongue with a *tch*.

She really looks annoyed.

It seems even worse because of the hot weather.

“I thought things were faster in Asia… Even if they can’t set up a turnstile, they should be able to temporarily dispatch staff to handle entry, but what the hell is the Japanese branch doing?”

“Ah!”

That Japanese branch… I destroyed it….

“….”

She’s glaring at me with intense eyes.

“…Was that something the Japanese branch was doing?”

“No… You destroyed the Japanese branch? What are you talking about??”

Yuna-ssi asks with a face as if she’s never heard of it before.

Sora-nuna, and the rest of the guild members and soldiers, are also looking at me.

Come to think of it, I didn’t mention it. I was busy using the item I got (pet certificate) and just glossed over it….

“I brought Kirara from there.”

“I was roughly expecting that… Are you saying you brought her by force?”

“Surely not. Do I look like such a hooligan?”

“….”

She stares intently…

Is that how you see me?

Yeah.

Even I think I’m a hooligan.

“Anyway, I didn’t bring Kirara by force. Rather, the Japanese branch was exploiting her. I rescued her, okay?”

“Hmph….”

Yuna-ssi shakes her head as if she’s dumbfounded, and Sora-nuna quietly admired.

“Wow. The Japanese branch is basically the Asian branch, so does that mean you blew up the entire Asian association??”

“It’s a bit different. It’s called the Asian branch, but… the major powers in Asia are really Korea, China, and Japan… China goes without saying, and Korea also mostly does its own thing, so it’s just a name.”

“Asia is wide, even besides Korea, China, and Japan, right? There’s India too.”

“India is also difficult to deal with because the branch is just emerging… The remaining countries can’t even properly manage their dungeons, so they’ve even lost territory. They do provide support to those countries, but… in dungeon studies, it’s meaningless if you exclude Korea and China from Asia. Excluding two countries out of the D10 countries… So it’s nominal, and you can just think of it as the Japanese branch + a little extra.”

“Hmm… I see. Anyway, the Japanese branch must be quite big… Wouldn’t the repercussions be huge?”

Yuna-ssi stared straight at me. Her expression is full of questions like, ‘Why the hell is this person doing this????’

“That’s right. It’s amazing that it’s been quiet until now. Why did you do that?”

“They poisoned me. So I rescued Kirara and destroyed it.”

“They poisoned you?”

“They poisoned you?”

The two women are surprised at the same time.

Hehe. They’re worried about m-.

“Wow. They’re crazy. There are many ways to commit suicide, but why did they choose the worst one….”

“Even bad people have human rights, but they chose the worst death. If I were on the Human Rights Commission, I would have actively stopped them.”

Hey.

“Still, how did you survive? I guess that kind of thing doesn’t work on you?”

“Yeah. Suddenly, a passive skill appeared. Something like resistance to all status ailments.”

“Wow… as expected of an overpowered character….”

“I’m a bit… haha.”

“Then what happened there? How destroyed is ‘destroyed’?”

“Um… the headquarters seemed to have already collapsed, so they were in a temporary building, and I destroyed that building. I guess they probably didn’t survive.”

“….”

Yuna-ssi lost her words and shook her head from side to side.

“There must have been at least hundreds of people there….”

“Yuna-ssi, you’re so kind.”

“It’s just natural as a human being….”

“Still, they poisoned me, so I wouldn’t care about that.”

“…Not ‘if I were you’… you already did it. You were the one involved.”

“Yep.”

“….”

She rolls her eyes as if to say, ‘What’s the point of talking?’

Hmm…

Yuna-ssi isn’t cut out to be a Megal.

She’s fundamentally a good person, so she can’t do that kind of thing. There must be something to it.

“What are we going to do? Should we go back?”

Sora-nuna asks with wide eyes.

Hmm… Honestly, I don’t really care….

But we came all the way to Japan, so it’s a bit much to just leave, right? I should explore the dungeon at least once….

“Come here for a second.”

I quietly called Sora-nuna and Yuna-ssi.

The soldiers, perhaps nervous at the sight, are staring at me intently.

“What’s up?”

“This is just my idea… But the military can’t enter inside anyway, right?”

“To be exact, they’ll die if they enter. Because of the monsters.”

“That’s the same thing.”

Knowing that they can’t even touch a single monster and will die, they can’t just enter recklessly. Especially not in a B-class dungeon.

“So… shouldn’t we just push our way inside?”

“….”

“….”

The two of them are silent.

It must be a bit absurd.

“No, I mean… we can just ride Ah-heuk and push through. What guts do they have to stop us?”

“That’s true, but… wouldn’t that make things too big?”

“I already did something huge when I destroyed the Japanese branch.”

“…You’re really something… How can you be so consistent?”

Sora-nuna sighed deeply and gave me a compliment-like nagging.

“Haa… You’re going to force us to go anyway, even if we say no, right?”

“Surely not. If you two say no, I’ll just return to Korea.”

“What if only one of us says no?”

“Then we’ll enter the dungeon. Because there will be two in favor.”

“Hmm….”

The two of them made eye contact as if they were sharing telepathy.

And they exchanged words with their eyes for a while, about several tens of seconds, before turning their heads towards me.

“Let’s go in.”

“Let’s go in.”

“Okay!”

That’s the decision.

First, we retreated.

Then, we split into 4 teams and boarded Ah-heuk.

Even though it’s a mini-tank (Black Panther), it doesn’t have any shells or anything, so the inside is quite spacious.

If we squeeze in, we can fit up to 4 people in one? Since we only need to ride it when entering, this is enough.

[I really don’t know why such a person is my master.]

“Shut up, Ah-heuk.”

[You even gave me a weird name….]

“Complaining is the root of all evil.”

[Bbaeeeaeck!!]

“Hey. Be quiet. Don’t make weird noises.”

Where did this one learn this from?

[Tch…]

“If they start shooting, just ignore it and go.”

[What if someone blocks us with their body?]

“Surely they wouldn’t. What’s so special about this.”

[But what if they do?]

“Just push them. Why aren’t they moving when we’re telling them to move… It’s not like we’re going to kill anyone.”

[…I think you’re really a son of a bitch, Master.]

“Shut up, you monster.”

[I’m not a monster. I’m a pet. Hmph hmph.]

“You’re not even a woman, why are you saying ‘hmph hmph’?”

[Are you a pervert? Why are you trying to have sexual desires for metal? That’s why you get called a Korean man.]

“Where the hell did you learn that?????”

[The internet. Isn’t that obvious?]

“….”

Oh yeah. A mechanical life form, huh. And you can’t even shoot cannons….

“Okay… Let’s go.”

[Yes.]

Deureung!

Kururureureung.

The engine started,

And we set off.

Inside Ah-heuk are me and 3 guild members.

In case something happens, I put Sora-nuna and Yuna-ssi in separate tanks, and Eun-ju was sent back to the tent village altogether.

What if the military gets pissed and attacks… So Eun-ju is in the tent….

Ah. There’s also Lucrecia… Even if we can’t communicate, she’s already my maid, so she’ll protect them. With Eun-ju and Lucrecia, that’s the end of it. What can the military do? The rest of the guild members can take down rankers.