New Member Of The Gang (1)

Hey, Shun here!

I remember once playing a game called 'bingo' and when we played a 'blackout' a variation of the game where the first to have their cards entirely filled out before others does marks the winner.

There was that time when I was lucky enough to win but the game had to be restarted because two of the numbers are missing. What a bummer.

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(Shun's POV)

After our warm reunion at the entrance of Rabbit's Capsule Restspot, I waited for everybody to finish their shifts. I even hired a few female adventurers to fill in for the shifts of the girls who should be working tonight — since it's their shift — so that they could join our small party.

"How's your adventure outside of Tsia City, boss man? And did you bring any delicious food for us yet?" That was the first question that Ichika asked when she saw me for the first time after my adventure.

"It was really such a fun and eye opening experience. As for the food, I did bring plenty of them, enough for everyone except you to see."

"Oh come on, my dude boss man. You know that I badly need some good food in my life? What, do you want me to 'pay' for it with my body? I can—"

"Alright, alright. I was just messing with you." Geez, this girl. She's really a foodie to the extreme.

"Umm… C-Could you give me more of those sugars m-made from your world Master, desu?" This is Maichi speaking.

She's recently been around people like Seiko and Ichika so she's been making progress when it comes to her social anxiety. I'm really happy to see that she's been making l progress when it comes to that.

Regarding the sugar that she's talking about, it seems like she liked the mild or controlled sweetness of the refined sugar back from my world so she's asking for more of it after getting a taste of it once. I think she wanted to use it for some experiments.

It's good that she's working hard.

By the way, in case you're thinking that I'm such a bad boss who'd much rather break his employee's ass for taking a break, I give them two days of break from work each. I already made an abacus golem after much difficulty so it didn't require that much time for our employees to process payments.

For those of you who don't know, abacus is the olden day equivalent of calculators. You move the wooden ball-like things in a specific way to get your answers like a calculator.

That's all you need to know about it. I doubt modern people would use it often.

"Sure. I'll give it to you later. For now, let's eat the delicious food I brought from my travels!"

At my loud cheer, everybody followed after me and, while raising their arms up high, they shouted "Ou!" or "Ei!".

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Whilst we were eating, we talked about a whole lot of things as everyone bombarded me with a slew of questions. Things like, "What did you do while you were away?", "Was traveling all around the territory of the Laverio Empire fun?", "Have you seen a village with many delicious foods in your travels?" these were some of the many questions that the girls asked to me.

"Alright, alright, guys. Calm down a little." Dang, is this the reason why they say that women could talk on and on for lengths?

"To answer your question, Ichika, I haven't seen any village with any delicious local dishes. Some towns have a decent unique dish but nothing really stood out for me…"

"Oh, is that so. Like, nothing 'that' delicious for you to recommend them, eh?"

"Yup. As for the first two questions, well, I went around the Laverio Empire raiding dungeons that wasn't known by the public. It was quite fun, of course, since I got to stretch my body quite a bit."

""Ooohh…"" Ikumei and Zenko had the same reaction, their mouths wide open while looking at me with sparkling eyes.

Right after I said those words, Tsuka puffed up her chest in pride and, while thumping it using her paws, said.

"Squeak~! Tsuka there, too~!"

"Oh, right. You did say that you came along with Shun, Tsuka. How was it?" Rokuko asked curiously while looking at the prideful bunny. Resting on top of her right shoulder is her loyal bodyguard, Fenny, who's gazing at Tsuka with a look of admiration written all over her face.

"Squeak, squeak squeak~! Squeak~! You see, Tsuka hit ugly large lizard, with bang~! And then~!"

As Tsuka narrated the entire sequence of events from her perspective when we were fighting some dragons, the very weak variant who doesn't have any intelligence at all, all of the girls, including those who doesn't really have that much interest in fighting like Maichi, listened carefully. Their adorable narrator was even making some big gestures to emphasize how huge the dragons we fought were.

While they are all immersed, listening to Tsuka's story, I checked my quest progress.

✽✽[A World With Dungeons!]✽✽

Type: Chain Quest

Status: Incomplete

Participant(s): (1/1)

Participation: Mandatory(Voting)

Time Limit: None

Description:

Explore the wonderful world filled with fantasy creatures and dungeons. Complete all the quests in order to receive wonderful rewards!

Reward(s): 10,000 d-coins, 2x Random D-coins Chest, and 1x Random Reward Coupon to everyone. Extra rewards for the participant.

Invite one girl: Ongoing

Become a Dungeon Master: Completed

Upgrade an Ultimate Skill to Level 5: Completed

Reach a total accumulation of 5M Dungeon Points(DP): Ongoing

Earn 1,000 Gold coins: Completed

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I finished the sub quests regarding upgrading my Ultimate Skill to Level 5, and reaching 1,000 gold coins one. As for the Dungeon Points accumulation sub quest, we're yet to convert the corpses I and Tsuka stored in our [Storage].

I assume it will be marked as complete when we cash those in. Those are the corpses of many strong monsters after all.

Well, to be honest, even if I didn't cash those in monster corpses in, the quest will be completed anyway after only a few months of wait due to how strong Ichika, Zenko, Ikumei, Seiko, and Koharu is becoming. They are still marked as intruders by the dungeon so we're getting a whole lot of Dungeon Points just by having them around.

As for me and Tsuka, we're labeled as friendly units by the dungeon. It's because I'm the Dungeon Master, while Tsuka is my spirit bonded familiar. If Tsuka was labeled as an intruder by the dungeon, this quest would've been completed a long time ago.

Of course, I didn't really think too much about it after that and enjoyed my time with my friends here in this world.

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We all ate good food and chatted for a few hours before we all called it a day and take a rest. However, going to take a rest, I caught up to Rokuko who was already walking towards her own bedroom to talk to her.

I mean, really, I'm just going to talk to her.

"Hey, Rokuko. I have a very important topic to discuss with you right now so could you bring us to the Master Room. This kind of includes the future of our dungeon so it's really important that we discuss about it."

Rokuko wasn't taken aback by what I said and just casually said, "Oh, we're having another strategy meeting? Wait, I'll bring us to the Master Room in a sec…"

Way to go Rokuko. Your way of thinking is slowly becoming more and more mature as time goes by.

A few moments later, after some bit of glow covered our body, we were then transported to the familiar white space known as the Master Room.

"So what are we going to talk about, Shun? Is it about the new traps? Or, is it about the new spawners we could buy again!?"

"Nah, we're not gonna talk about that."

"Oh, really? Then what are we going to talk about?"

"Actually, wait a bit. Absorb the corpses I'm going to take out from my storage so that we could get more DP that we could spend to upgrade our dungeon."

To complete my DP accumulation quest, I actually only needed around 2.8 million DP or so to complete the entire quest. Over the past few weeks that I was away, Haku would visit the Rabbit's Capsule Restspot…

Scratch that, who am I kidding?

Every week, Haku would visit Rokuko twice, along with her maid/right-hand woman/butler who goes by the name of Chloe so we got plenty of gold coins and DP from her. She's been giving Rokuko some tips everytime she was the one to do the room service — which she doesn't fail to do all the time — so we got a hefty sum from her visits alone.

Honestly, if someone were to come up and tell me that Haku is the Goddess of Wealth and Luck, I would believe them a hundred percent of the time. Well, for me and Rokuko, she is our Lady Luck.

The DP she's given us alone was enough for us to make three fully functioning upper floors, seven fully functioning basement floors, and four floors that are undergoing construction. All of these floors have some labyrinthine theme in it, along with a good dose of treasures to lure in adventurers before dealing with them with a trap that would spring out of nowhere.

Honestly, I myself wouldn't want to be in the adventurer's shoes since I would definitely come to love and hate this dungeon of ours at the same time. Hate because of how complex, dangerous, but at the same time compelling it is, and love because of how many goodies there is in this dungeon.

Anyway, enough about our dungeon, let's get one with the DP earning marathon… It wasn't fun.

And so, a boring and tedious job of taking out items from my storage and getting Rokuko to absorb it began. We only stopped when we reached a total DP count of 3,790,000.

We had a total of 1.1 million DP before we started absorbing many corpses like a madman. In short, we got a little too carried away with absorbing monster corpses.

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※~To be continued~※

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Author's Remarks:

※ I wanted to start the inviting part in this but… Welp.