Chapter 46

The Inn’s Program

… The story about the slum’s dark slave trader is horrible .

Well, I’ll just bust apart the slums then! Free all of the beastkin slaves! I have no intention of doing any of that . I don’t feel like taking responsibility .

If I can do away with all danger I’ll do so, though to start with I don’t think I can do that . Hero, I beg you, be an unparalleled soft-heart .

Meat was doing her best to liberate herself from Ichika’s chest . She was starting to suffocate .

“Oops! Sorry, Meat-senpai . Ya alright?”

“Y-yesh…”

She seems a bit dizzy, but it looks like she’s fine .

“Ah, Kehma . Our conversation wandered a bit, but please give me more details on that [Setting] thing from a bit ago . ”

“Hmm? I was just saying I’d put Rokuko in charge of the slaves to deal with adventurers . I would…”

I decided to talk about the inn’s program .

Though the reason I wanted to build an inn in the first place was to secure a place to sleep, the Ordinary Cave suddenly turned into a better dungeon than the average one . What now?

Answer: Something that isn’t suspicious .

That being the case, I decided to explain it to them in order to get us on the same page .

First of all, the matter of Haku-san actually being a cooperator .

“The owner of this inn is Rokuko-san, the younger sister of the A-Rank adventurer, Haku-san . It was made so quickly because we had the help of Haku-san’s adventurer acquaintances . So far so good?”

“Certainly, if Haku Ane-sama’s acquaintances helped out an inn could be built in a day . Like it was brought from somewhere . Though it was actually Kehma . ”

“Right . Well, even though me building it is a secret, it’s a hassle . ”

I got her agreement . Haku-san gave me the conditions for the situation of Rokuko being the [A-Rank Adventurer Haku]’s [Younger Sister] .

I had to pledge that Rokuko wouldn’t be against her social position . Though there may be people who would attack Rokuko due to a grudge against Haku-san, this is a dungeon . We could just retreat to to the master room if it gets dangerous . We could even be there however long we need .

“And since I just happened to be nearby and ran into Haku-san, I decided to lend Rokuko, who was Haku-san’s younger sister, some slaves to work for her . Then, I became a good-for-nothing adventurer that just sleeps all day after renting out one of the inn’s rooms . That’s the [Setting] . ”

“Kehma just wants to sleep… that [Setting] is really just…”

“What’re you talking about Rokuko, in reality I would be the dungeon master . ”

“Ah, that’s right!”

Well, I didn’t lie since I didn’t say that I won’t be the dungeon master!

Besides, slaves work to comfort their owner . In a sense it’s how it should be .

Though it looks like things such as inn repair and dungeon administering are things that only I can do…

“Hmm? If that’s how the [Setting] will be, how’s Kehma gonna do anythin’?”

“I made the room to be easy to sneak in and out of . Could I do my work as a dungeon master in front of other people?”

“That’s true…”

Well, there might be some various other things that stand out .

However, they’ll just let small inconsistencies slide with [Well, it’s because he’s an A-Rank adventurer]!

“It’s perfect!”

“Right? I can sleep soundly then~”

“Hey… Goshujin-sama and Rokuko-sama, the A-rank adventurer… do you really know Haku, the [White-Winged Goddess]?”

“That? Yeah, there’s no problem since we’ve gotten permission from her . She said we could use her name as much as we liked if it’s for Rokuko . ”

“S-seriously? If so… well, un, there’s a tsukkomi to toss in there but it’s ‘kay . The [White-Winged Goddess] is an A-Rank that’s friends with the higher ups in the imperial capital . Her partner, the [Black-Winged Devil] Chloe, and the other four of her party members, the [Four Kings], make up the S-Rank party known as the [Dungeon Busters] when they are all present . They have so much power that ya have no choice but to accept it no matter what . ”

Ichika was saying that it would probably be alright .

Incidentally, the reason the inn was set up at the dungeon here was Haku-san’s whim . She transferred ownership to Rokuko, a relative that she trusted . That was the setting I asked Haku-san for in advance .

It was a setting where she could drop by and visit the inn on the pretext that she was coming to see her younger sister .

Most of all, Haku-san oversaw the making of this setting… you could even say it was more or less Haku-san’s idea .

After the dungeon battle, Haku-san asked, “What will you do from now on?”

I answered, “Make an inn . ”

But then, “Ah, then how about making Rokuko its owner…? That way, it’ll be fine to give my cooperation . You can use my name as an adventurer, but in return, do it properly alright?”

She’d given me the green light .

I didn’t think that far ahead though .

Though I wanted a hot-spring hotel, it wouldn’t have just been at the level of suspicious or out of place if an inn just suddenly sprung up next to a dungeon . When I was wondering what to do, I got an excuse by using an A-Rank adventurer to bulldoze the problem .

Or rather, Haku-san even went past my expectations as an adventurer… even their nickname was awesome, the [Dungeon Busters] . Did they destroy dungeons? Well, other than her own [White Labyrinth] I guess .

“But since Rokuko-sama is her sister, the [Dungeon Busters]’ leader is a dungeon core . The irony is hilarious y’know . ”

Hahaha . That’s right huh? Just the fact that the leader is a dungeon core is enough .

Ah, Ichika still doesn’t know about Haku-san’s identity . Even if she’s a slave, I don’t think it’s something to just lightly say to her though .

… What? It’s fine yeah? It’s alright like this you know?

Really, I’m just taking Ichika’s detailed common sense from this world and condensing it down to the finer points, I think it’s fine…?

To say it myself, I think my persuasiveness is flawed~ .

I don’t need to think about being something like Haku-san’s mysterious earth mage upstart acquaintance right? Doesn’t seem necessary…

… I don’t actually need to go and make a secret disguise right?