Chapter 5

"I've got two naked female knights! Thank you so much!"

On the first day of opening, when two burly old men came to investigate, I thought, "Are these old men going to take away the first use of my hot spring?!" I was pretty upset.

But they were seasoned adventurers, full of veteran charm. They were cautious of the toxicity and only took the water back with them, not entering the hot spring.

What a cool and accurate judgment! They are great! Truly veteran old men! You can go home now.

I was thinking about such trivial matters while watching the adventurers coming to the Master Room through the monitor.

And today! Finally, the female knights I had been hoping for came to investigate and even entered the hot spring! I couldn't be happier.

"Huh? This can show the real-time position of intruders? What is this? I don't understand... It's too convenient... What is this..."

For the people of this world, who have no concept of radar or surveillance cameras, the act of watching the adventurers in real-time from the Master Room is apparently incomprehensible.

Normally, the best you can get is a map of the dungeon with the number of adventurers currently inside and the types and numbers of monsters that can be moved. If you want to know the content of the intruders' conversations, you get a huge amount of books, which are honestly too much to read.

Wow, it must be tough for the dungeon managers in this world.

"Hey, Peta, is this enough for the early stages?"

"Well, the first dungeon is inevitably weak in terms of income. The main source of income is usually wild animals that wander in. Besides, it can be used as a training ground for novice adventurers, or if soldiers from a country manage it for some purpose, that's a huge stroke of luck. Also, dungeons have the property of absorbing any impurities from the outside and converting them into points, so if they are used as a place to dump garbage from the city, that's a huge stroke of luck."

Being treated as a garbage dump is something to be happy about...? What a strange sense of values.

By the way, Peta is a name I gave her.

When I asked her name, she said that dungeon cores don't have names, so I gave her one.

She has a flat chest, so I called her Peta!

When I first said the name, she said, "It sounds so unpleasant, I don't like it..." but...

In my world, Peta is a unit of capacity... meaning size! It goes Mega... Giga... Tera... and each is 1024 times larger than the previous one, with Peta coming after Tera. So, it means incredibly huge!

When I told her this, she replied cheerfully, "I am Peta, Master!"

So, she is Peta. She's cute.

"Still, as expected in a world where adventurers wear armor all the time... their skin is so dirty..."

While secretly watching the female knights bathe, it's extremely rude to say this, but the fact is, their skin is dirty.

Probably in this world, baths are not a daily thing, and they wear armor with the worst ventilation, walking around in the scorching sun all the time. From a modern Japanese perspective, their skin is not just rough but has been fundamentally altered by such a wild lifestyle. I've never seen such skin in my previous life.

However! People with such skin problems are the best monitors! They are the ideal customers for my beauty hot spring, and I want them to leave beautifully clean. This will be the best advertisement for my hot spring dungeon.

Still, they've been in there for hours, are they okay? ...Ah, as expected, they've fainted on the rocks, completely naked. Thank you.

I zoom in on their naked bodies and examine their skin in detail.

...This is to confirm the effectiveness of the beauty hot spring, and there is nothing lewd about it, okay?

I thought Peta might look at me with a white eye, but she just looks at me with a neutral expression, so it seems that peeping in the bath is not a problem for a dungeon core.

"Wow... amazing... The rough, dry skin is regaining moisture... They should be able to feel the effects..."

Well, they've been in there for hours, so they must have felt the effects by now.

With this, they should come back again and again... probably.

"The dungeon points increased by 230 from the investigation by the two old men and these two female knights. Considering the production points of the water, it's about break-even."

"Hey, Master... Don't you think you're using too many points on the water? The early dungeon is really just garbage, you know? After the initial investigation team, it's usually left alone. If the expenses are break-even at this stage, it's dangerous. If you can't create the second floor in the early stages, it's over. Do you understand!?"

"No... it's fine... With this, people will definitely come... again and again."

"Really? Just to enter the hot spring multiple times? I don't get it..."

Peta looks at me with a completely confused face, but in that confusion, there's a sense of expectation, as if she thinks I might do something. Maybe it's because of the convenient window display of the easy dungeon creation process.

"Just relax, they will definitely come..."

And the next day, it happened.

Nearly 100 female knights flooded into the dungeon.