Chapter 7

### Mission: [First Dungeon]

Prepare your equipment and head to the dungeon.

Reward: 6 units of the 42-type unmanned reconnaissance aircraft system

Client: Minister of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism, Ishiba Hitoshi

Comment: Please be extremely cautious; just going in and coming back is enough.

So, here I am!

In front of me is a door that likely leads to the dungeon.

The location is at the center of the living space, where a crossroads forms.

From the comment in the mission, it seems the government is not yet ready for a full-scale dungeon exploration.

Considering the reward is unmanned aircraft, they probably want to conduct the exploration with drones rather than doing it themselves.

This time, it seems I just need to go in and come back for the reward.

As expected, based on their previous responses, the government probably wants to avoid putting me in any dangerous situations.

Now, about the dungeon door—there are four of them, and that’s a problem.

Each door has a distinctive design.

A door with a scary-looking monster or humanoid creature.

A door with a sophisticated, armed humanoid race.

A door with a decrepit-looking angel and deity.

A door with a cool robot.

Each one exudes an intimidating presence that discourages easy entry.

Especially the robot, it’s completely different from the others!

For now, I’ll rule out the robot and have to choose one of the other three to enter first.

Which one would be the safest?

At that moment, I was foolishly thinking about trivial matters.

I had assumed that I would be the one to open the door.

"Well, which one should I choose?"

The moment those carefree words left my mouth—

Bang!

The door with the monster and humanoid creature suddenly opened.

...It opened.

"Wha!?"

"Wha!?"

Caught off guard by the sudden ambush, I could only let out a foolish sound.

Until yesterday, I was a top-notch university student, and I couldn’t even draw my gun or run away.

However, fortunately, the entity that opened the door just stared at me, doing nothing.

Red.

The only way to describe it is red.

I couldn’t tell what color it originally was.

It was drenched in red.

No matter how poor my sense of smell, the stench of iron invaded my mind.

The smell of life.

The smell of death.

Amidst the red, only its eyes glowed fiercely.

Those eyes, radiating a terrifying madness, reflected only me.

Ah, I’m dead, this is it.

The Great Adventure of Ueno Gunma, Complete!

"--- Hello!"

The Heroic Tale of Ueno Gunma, Complete!!

"Huh? ... Hello!!"

The Legend of Ueno Gunma, Complete!!!

"Helloooooo!!"

The intensely iron-scented entity leaned in close to my ear and let out a ridiculously loud voice.

"Hello"

If I ignored it any longer, my eardrums might actually rupture.

I reluctantly returned the greeting, and the entity seemed pleased with the response, grinning widely.

Scary.

"Finally, you reacted!

First, nice to meet you, my name is Takane Hana, a fresh and vibrant college student!

I’m so excited to tear apart those monsters with you!

Nice to meet you!"

She smiled, and the image was undoubtedly a gore picture... no, a gory image, but it seems she is a human like me.

Still, "tear apart those monsters," I thought the exploration would be the main focus, but it looks like it’s going to be a full-on battle.

Judging by her appearance, it seems she’s going to make a big, messy mess, but I’ll worry about that later.

"Nice to meet you, Takane.

My name is Ueno Gunma, and I’m a college student like you.

Unfortunately, I’m not very good at fighting, but please take it easy on me."

I tried to keep my voice from trembling by tensing my stomach.

However, Takane laughed at my introduction.

"Hehehe, you’re quite modest.

But with that killing intent, you’re not very convincing!"

Holding a drawn sword in one hand, she elegantly laughed, covering her mouth with the other.

All I felt was terror.

She’s shorter than me, and her facial features are refined, but I had no room to find them attractive.

Seeing the pool of blood at her feet, I was only relieved that there was no carpet in the hallway.

"Since we’ve met, why don’t we go on a hunt together?

No, let’s definitely go!"

Without waiting for my answer, she grabbed my hand with her free hand.

Squish.

The brand new combat gloves provided by the National Defense Force turned red.

"Actually, I was feeling a bit gross from the sweat.

Let’s take a shower together!"

With those seemingly charming words, my first dungeon exploration began, forced upon me.