Chapter 326

Visiting Rabbit Paradise

“Kyuu can help right? I hope kyuu can!”

The orange-colored rabbit flicked his ears from within the cage .

… He’s so fluffy…

Just then, Haku-san suddenly appeared in the room . Like a ninja… she probably used [Teleport]—wait, no, it was probably the menu’s [Placement] function . At the very least, the capital was within Haku-san’s territory .

“Sorry to keep you waiting . I see you’ve started?”

“Haku Ane-sama . ”

Rokuko walked over to Haku-san .

“Haku… sama . Thankyuu for helping me for this…”

“For the Demon King Faction to set their eyes on you, you were in a tough spot, No . 629 . ”

“… Nkyuu . Seriously . ”

Orange settled onto his hind legs and stamped twice . It felt like it was the rabbit’s way of showing stress .

It was natural he’d be stressed, though whether that was due to the Demon King Faction or Haku-san, well . Well .

Right, let’s ask him what’s been on my mind .

“Say, Orange, how’d you manage to contact Haku-san? It’s not like you hopped all the way to the capital, right? You’d definitely have gotten yourself hunted by someone . ”

“Nkyuu!? Don’t say something so scary! … But I wanna know kyuu! I was just holding my head from the stress and Haku—sama, just appeared kyuu . So I yielded to her!”

Yep . I get the feeling that a rabbit would just yield as the default but alright?

With that, I looked over to Haku-san, who gave her response while embracing Rokuko .

“I received a declaration of war from the Demon King Faction, saying [We will destroy your faction’s dungeon] . So then when I inspected the place they mentioned, I found you . ”

“C’mon nkyuu . They didn’t listen to me at all… uuu, they just found me when I was frolicking in the meadow…”

Orange stamped the ground again .

“By the way, is ‘Orange’ No . 629’s name?”

“Yeah, it was hard for me to keep using a number as his name . ”

“… Hmm . So, were you able to become his master as well?”

“No?”

Looks like Haku-san caught on to me wanting to experiment . Orange himself didn’t seem to notice though . He didn’t, but he still tilted his head is puzzlement .

“Ohh, right! How should I improve my dungeon?”

“Hm? Right . First, I will be giving Kehma-san some DP . Please cooperate with him to somehow make it through the Demon King Faction’s assault . ”

“… You’re skillfully delegating your work away, Haku-san . ”

“Rather than me giving the instructions, I believe that leaving it to Kehma-san will certainly produce more amusing—well-suited results . ”

She definitely just said amusing there . Well, I guess Haku-san wants to see at least a little of what’s up my sleeve .

“Which is why I will be officially allowing you to join my faction, Orange . You are welcome . ”

“Hahaha~! My deepest thanks nkyuu!”

Orange bowed his head . His hind leg seemed to stamp the ground there for a sec, but let’s pretend I didn’t see it .

“… By the way, are there any other factions than yours, Haku-san?”

“Most of the dungeons in the Raverio Empire are mine . It’s not as absolute as in the Demon King Faction or the Dragon King Faction, though . ”

“… Which is why they mistook me for being in the Betrayer’s Faction nkyuu…”

Ah, he just said betrayer, there . Well, Orange was also in the Betrayer’s Faction, it’s just official now .

“Uuu, even I was basikyuuly in the Beast King Faction…”

“Right . I was wanting to ask about that, too . Who’s this Beast King person?”

“Core No . 8 . ”

I’d asked Orange the question, but Haku-san responded with an audible frankness .

“Although beast-type cores generally belong to his faction, they also follow the law of the jungle and push their children into bottomless pits and leave them there . ”

“… So what you’re saying is that they forsake the weak ones?”

“Kyuun…”

I started to feel like the orange rabbit was pitiable… Alright, I have to properly help him in this Dungeon Battle…!

“Alright then, it looks like our meeting is now at its end, so how about we go examine the area?”

Haku-san recited the incantation for [Teleport] . It would’ve been different if it was just Haku-san and Misha, but she couldn’t use dungeon deployment since were all going as well .

Wrapped in [Teleport]’s light, we appeared in the meadow .

… You could say it was a sea of grass for as far as the eye could see . This vast meadow was Orange’s dungeon? Or perhaps we’re underground and this just looks like a vast grassland?

“Nkyuu, my dungeon’s around a fifty meter circumference around here . Ummm, my hole’s somewhere around here, but… . o-ooh, here, here it is nkyuu~”

Orange was hopping through the grass and stopped at a spot with some exposed dirt .

So he put an illusion over it to make it so that enemies wouldn’t find it? I see…

“You could sprain your ankle if you didn’t see it and fell in . ”

“Fu fu fu! And then we’ll beat ’em up! Horned rabbits, armored rabbits, magic rabbits, soldier rabbits~, everyone, I’m baaack!”

After descending the stairs, I saw a big room . There were rabbits that looked like armadillos and others with a single horn sprouting from their heads . I guess they’re the horned rabbits and armored rabbits he was talking about .

They all twitched their noses . They seemed to be saying [Welcome back~]… I guess Translation Function-san doesn’t work with rabbit speech?

“Welcome back~”

“Any souvenirs~!?”

“Something stinks~”

Oh, there it goes . I could understand what the three horned rabbits were saying… This’ll make it feel weird next time I go to eat rabbit meat .

And Meat, I can see your tail wagging back and forth there, but you can’t hunt them, okay? Really .

“Nmu nmu . Oh, Kehma . This is my dungeon, nkyuu, and these guys stop people here . The magic rabbits and soldier rabbits run out from that room there and pincer them~ . Nokyuu intruder’s ever made it past! It’s the best strategy!”

“I see . But that Demon King Faction guy walked in and out?”

“… He stopped when he saw my core while the armored rabbits were holding him back . Nkyuuu, if he continued, he’d have killed everyone…”

Orange kicked the ground in frustration . He seemed to be aware of his own strength .

Well, up until then it was probably just beginner adventurers hunting rabbits . I mean, even D-Ranks were considered to have graduated from rabbit hunting back in Tsuia .

Still though, getting swarmed by monsters as soon as they entered would definitely do in a rookie .

You could even call their 0% return rate a splendid achievement for a dungeon, an existence that turned lives into DPNourishment . It also had a disadvantage, though .

At the very least, it was definitely much better of a dungeon than ours when I became its master .

“Did you think of that strategy yourself?”

“I was taught it by my rabbit-type core seniors nkyuu . We may be rabbits, but if we swarm them, we can win . ”

Oh, so there’s other rabbit-type cores . Heeh… come to think of it, wasn’t something said about Setsuna’s father being a rabbit-type core? Maybe it’s one of them .

As I thought about such irrelevant things, Haku-san wrapped her arms around Rokuko from behind and asked me a question .

“So, Kehma-san . Do you think you could frustrate the Demon King Faction with this dungeon?”

“… I’d like a little more information . Like who we’re up against . ”

“So you’re not saying you can’t?”

Just as Haku-san smiled, Rokuko rubbed her nose with a prideful humph .

Err, she was praising me there though?