Chapter 241

The Beach

And so Leona jumped forward with her eyes closed, falling down and eventually rolling across sand .

When she opened her eyes, what she saw was a beach .

“… Oh? I really am outside, huh . ”

She looked around . It wasn’t just a [room that looked like one] like that floor that was the Succubus Village, it was a true ocean, a beach .

A rucksack fell down . This was the travelling set . When she looked inside, she saw preserved food, a cup magic tool that could produce water, and a portable Othello game .

By the way, there was rice in the preserved food . Seeing that, she grinned .

“I see . So that’s all for this place, huh… now then, I wound up getting found by those girls too, so maybe it’s time I go for another journey~ . Travelling wherever I want by myself for a while doesn’t sound so bad… but really, where am I?”

This place was definitely a beach . A place that had to be very far from the dungeon that dwelled within Tsuia Mountain . She had been moving a bit each time she broke through a trial, but if pushed she’d say that it was only like they were going in circles .

It had maybe four, no, nine rooms in a 3×3 grid, maybe? She felt like she was coming and going through the same rooms multiple times, just with their contents switched out .

“… Still though, for it to end there, kind of leaves a sour taste… nnn?”

With that, a piece of paper fell out of the rucksack . When she picked it up, it read, in Japanese: [Sorry! The correct answer was [Cave of Desires]!]… It felt like it was the first time she read Japanese in a long time .

“Oooh, come to think of it, that was the name . —Burn the paper, [Fireball] . ”

Giggling, Leona burned the page with magic .

“Now then, how about I go on a proper journey… I wonder where I’ll end up?”

Putting the rucksack away into her [Storage], she set out in a random direction .

“It’s been so long since I had that much fun…”

Leona muttered to herself .

Her expression looked somewhat lonely, but she was smiling gently .

*

Leona left .

“… Haah . That was tiring . ”

“Good job, Kehma . ”

What made me tired was that I was talking through the Golem that whole time, so I’m seriously tired . Not in the usual way .

… I might be tooting my own horn here, but I was a pretty good host . Didn’t expect that…

But still, with this, Leona has now been left at the Imperial Capital’s beach .

Even if she wants to come back, it should take her a while… well, it didn’t seem like she wanted to though .

[Oooi, Kehma . ]

“Hmm? Oh, Ontentoo? Sorry, you helped me out here a lot . ”

[No, it’s alright . So this one’s my win , yeah?]

“Oh? It should be one win, one loss now though?”

By the way, behind the scenes of our anti-Leona strategy, I held a Dungeon Battle between my sub-dungeon [White Beach] and Ontentoo’s .

… To be exact, it was only a Dungeon Battle in the formal sense in that I had its gate left open to let Leona through and closed it by surrendering when she jumped through the gate .

I had Rei and Kinue manage the Dungeon Battle at [White Beach] while Nerune acted over here as a scene shifter . Rokuko and I were in the Master Room . Ichika and Meat were working at the inn .

[Still though, now I’ve won once yeah? Kukuku . ]

“Yeah . I knew you were going to say that . But well, thanks?”

[What, it’s fine . We even got one of those Philosopher’s Stones, it has a great redness that even Redra’s loving . ]

As a reward for his help, I gave one of the Philosopher’s Stones I got from Leona to Ontentoo . It feels like I just laundered something I got illegally, but let’s just call it a Win-Win .

Ah, but as change for it, Ontentoo gave us a pretty big chunk of territory near our dungeon . Practically all of Tsuia Mountain is Ontentoo’s territory, so we’d already expanded as close to them as we could . Getting some area we can expand the dungeon into in the future and store those props in helps a lot .

[Rather, what’s up with that , Kehma?]

“ That ?”

[Having a Dungeon Battle just for driving that so far away . You were wanting to have the Dungeon Battle for that, but when it entered our dungeon for just that instant, we saw that that seemed pretty crazy?]

“… Ah, Leona? She’s something like a Dungeon Core and Dungeon Master combined? I don’t know what core number she is though, I didn’t ask . ”

[Eh? The heck . ]

In the monitor, Ontentoo tilted his head . Yeah… even I had thought that .

[Alright then . Let’s have a proper Dungeon Battle next time, yeah?]

“If I feel like it~”

“Ah, hold up, Kehma . There’s something I want to ask 112 (Ontentoo) . ”

Rokuko interrupted as I tried to round up the conversation .

“112 (Ontentoo), do you have kids?”

[Eh? Kids?]

“Kids with Redra, you know, kids . Leona has grandkids, so I was wondering if anyone else did . ”

[Ooh, I do . The eldest is just about three hundred . I have grandkids too . ]

Ah, so he does have kids and grandkids . First time I’ve heard about that .

It’s no wonder after seeing how love-love Redra and Ontentoo are… rather, maybe it is strange seeing as they react like newlyweds?

Is it that [Fire Cavern]’s lovers are perpetually heatedly passionate with each other?

[Dragons live forever after all . They generally live until they’re killed . There is that one guy that’s still alive after dying though . ]

“An Undead Dragon! I hadn’t even thought of that!”

[Yeah . Well, there’s even precedent of some living into the tens of thousands of years . I don’t know how long cores can live, so maybe I’ll die first? Ah, but we’ll leave together when the time comes . Hahaha . ]

“Otou-sama said we’re immortal, but isn’t even Core 1 just around six hundred?”

That scale’s huge . Humans would be doing well to hit even one hundred .

[So, was that all you wanted to ask?] “No . Please tell me how Dungeon Cores can have children with other species . ”

[” Bufuu!? “]

Ontentoo and I both felt like something punched us in the gut .

[W-wha, what’re you asking me!? Ask Redra that!]

“Ah, right . I’ll bring Feni with me to go play again then . ”

[Wait, why’d you ask me!? Don’t you have a reliable Nee-chan!? It’d obviously be better to ask another female human-type core!]

“But I can’t since Keima said that I absolutely couldn’t ask Haku Ane-sama about it . ”

So that’s why she asked Ontentoo…? Who is she getting that unpredictable behavior from? Me? No way, I shouldn’t be that bad .

“H-hold on, Rokuko… You wanting that information, could you be intending to have kids with me?”

When I asked that, Rokuko’s face turned red as she looked up at me with upturned eyes .

“Changing the question, is there anyone else I could have them with?”

“That’s not the problem though . ”

“… It’s not like I’m wanting to have them right away or anything . But wouldn’t it be troublesome if I didn’t know how when the time came? Well, 112 (Ontentoo), cya later . ”

Rokuko turned away, her cheeks puffed out a little in anger .

[Y-yeah . Kehma, uhh, hmm . Be strong?]

“Yeah… well, uh… yeah . ”

I closed the communication with Ontentoo .

… Well, is it alright since she’s not thinking about doing it right now? No, too much knowledge might incur Haku-san’s wrath, I should stop there .

Eh? Before that, were Rokuko and I married?