Chapter 116

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We decided to begin our approach to the black wolf .

Although it looks like it woke up, it’s not doing much of anything other than swinging its black tail back and forth .

Somehow, from the looks of it it seems as though it’s protecting the dungeon core . Rather, it’d be great if it just kept doing that for real .

And so I had the messenger golem run there .

It would’ve been possible for me to bring it directly out of the dummy core, but I didn’t want to accidentally agitate the black wolf .

I took up position further away outside of the boss room with the string telephone golem in my hand .

… I plan on running away if the wolf attacks it through Rokuko retrieving me .

That might not actually happen, but there’s no reason to not be careful here .

[Our preparations are done! You can start anytime . ]

It was Rokuko’s voice . If I’m inside the dungeon, we can communicate through the menu even without using the string telephone golem .

“Well then, guess it’s time to give it a go . ”

While watching to see how things were going in the core room through the monitor, I moved the clay haniwa golem inside .

When the golem timidly peeped into the core room, the black wolf stood up abruptly .

… I gave up the thought of having the clay haniwa golem move further into the room and just decided to start talking .

“… Who are you . ”

The wolf’s ears twitched… It might be able to answer if it can talk, but can it really?

[Gurururu… strange golem . You, that one, what are you?]

Ooh! It talked! This wolf can talk like a person! Let’s introduce myself .

“I am this place’s master, Keima . Who are you? If you have a name, what do you call yourself?”

[A name, I have one! I, am Rin! This place, it’s your, house? Obediently, surrender it, to me . If you do, I will spare, your life . ]

It’s named Rin, huh . This guy uses a ton of commas . However, I still understand what this guy’s saying right now . He wants me to ‘surrender my house’… he wants to make it his base?

Is it that it came because it wants to hibernate or something?

[Hey Kehma, what was that a moment ago?]

“Nn?”

A transmission from Rokuko popped up… What, huh . So she can’t hear it? Rokuko should have been able to hear it too though…

Ah, nope, right . It’s Translation Function-san doing his job . I can’t even understand if it’s using slime speech or wolf speech yet he’s translating it properly, seriously awesome .

“And because of that, we can negotiate properly . ”

[… Got it . You said its name was Rin? If the wolf attacks, I’ll retrieve you . ]

I briefly told Rokuko about it and returned to negotiating with the wolf .

[What will, you choose . Want to, be eaten? Kehma . ]

“Let me think for a moment . ”

[I am, hungry, better, hurry . Ku, ku, ku, ku . ]

That laughter feels bad somehow, like it’s in monotone . Is it because it’s a wolf?

“… You want food then? What do you… Rin, what do you eat?”

[I eat, anything . Even, golems!]

It opened its pitch-black mouth, aiming at the messenger golem, threatening it with its darkly colored fangs .

… Ah, right, it thinks that I’m the golem huh?

Well, whatever . If it’s a living thing that gets hungry, I might be able to win it over with food .

“You eat golems huh . How much do you eat per day? I’ll feed you . ”

[… You’ll sell, your comrades?]

Rin spoke in deep voice, loaded with a gloomy feeling .

It feels like my reputation would go down if I actually agreed here .

“You might say that, but you said that you’re fine eating anything that moves . ”

[That, so? You, Kehma? A golem, right? Aren’t you, this cave’s, master?]

So it really does think I’m a golem . In other words, it thinks that I’m someone that’d sell my followers even if they’re the same race or something . Really, I’m suuuuper nice to my comrades ya’know!?

I started to correct it, but stopped for now . I want to avoid saying that I’m a dungeon master . It’s a secret that Haku-san told me to absolutely protect until they become a comrade .

If this guy has a human owner and that person shows up to take it back, it’d get leaked .

Even so, it’s probably a good thing to say that I’m not a golem . Seeing its reaction from a moment ago, it seems like it doesn’t like people that’d sell out their own race, so negotiations would be hindered .

And so because of that, I decided to tell it that I’m not a golem without saying too much .

“Don’t misunderstand . I am not a golem . ”

[Not, a golem…? True, you look, strange . You’re like, the strong one, in that last room, and the one, before that . Were those, your, parents?]

Our conversation didn’t move at all even though I said that I’m not a golem . Rather, a haniwa golem family huh, that’s a new setting .

“No, I made them . ”

[!? You are, the parent, then!?]

Why’s it so troublesome to correct it!? Well, the point that I made them isn’t wrong and I can’t think of a good way to say it… Yep, let’s leave it there!

“For now, if you want to eat golems, just say how much you want me to feed you . How’s that?”

[… I don’t like, golems, much . They aren’t, tasty . ]

“T-that so? Then what do you want to eat?”

[You!]

The talks went full throttle out of nowhere!?

Grah, I don’t get what it’s thinking! Isn’t this beyond the point of cultural differences!?

[… You talk, too much . I am, getting hungry . I’ll eat, Kehma!]

“H-hold up . It’s alright to eat me, but why’d you come here in the first place? I want to know . ”

[To eat, yoooou! Time, to eat!]

With a snap, the messenger golem was eaten by the wolf .

Simultaneously with that, I was retrieved into the master room . Looks like Rokuko pulled me back since the golem got eaten .

On the monitor, I saw the telephone golem get crunched up by the wolf like it was eating noodles .

“It ate the golem huuuh . So, what now Kehma? Was the conversation beneficial somehow?”

“… Hmmm, it’s like we connected and like we didn’t connect…”

Should I give it another shot? After giving it some time, that is .