Wearing my new armband on my uniform, I bowed politely and left the room. When I got back to class, Onee - chan saw the new armband on my arm and nodded.
I sat in my seat as my classmates looked at me and whispered before paying attention to class again.
"Ne, ne, how did you get into the disciplinary committee during your trip to the bathroom?"
"Huh, oh Futaba-san requested that I join, I met an acquaintance who brought me to the said room and came out with this armband."
"I see."
Lumiere then paid attention to class just as the other students had done so.
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Disciplinary Committee POV-
"President, that was really frightening."
"It seems we bought a monster upon ourselves. I've never felt such fear in my entire lifetime."
"A monster? You are right, only a monster could fight against a monster."
"Ah, you must be referring to that man aren't you?"
"Yes President, I am referring to him."
"Rei - chan, I heard that the two of you are friends? You didn't tell us about him."
"Well, I didn't know either…"
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After classes ended for the day, I headed home to train. Since I'm planning to enter the dungeon on the weekends, I should prepare the most I can.
Moving the timeline forward to the next day, I packed all the things I needed and jumped out my window at four am in the morning. Naturally, I didn't forget to brush my teeth and wash my face.
For breakfast, I bought a piece of beef jerky, now this beef jerky is massive. The size of an entire frying pan. Not only does it taste good, it's dried so it can be kept for long while also being quite filling since it's all meat.
With a piece of the beef jerky in my mouth, I dashed towards the Amaterasu academy dungeon.
Now, where is it you may ask? Well, it's actually pretty close, contrary to what you might think.
If my house is a ten-minute walk to the academy, then the dungeon is a ten-minute ride from the academy. Now, what ride am I talking about here? Well, a hot air balloon actually.
In this world, every dungeon is on a floating island in the sky. For most people, they would require to get on a hot air balloon to get up there. For those who can fly whether they have wings or can use wind magic, it's pretty easy to get to.
The dungeons aren't that high in the sky either, roughly one hundred meters in the air. I think that If I jump onto something then leap up there, I should be able to make it. If not I'll just use this gadget I bought the other day after school.
Slish! Slish!
When I arrived underneath the dungeon, I looked up in awe. Even though I have seen it many times, the dungeons still amaze me, since I'm looking at it in person rather than through a computer screen, of course, it's an even greater experience.
Now I won't describe what the dungeon looks like since I'm too lazy for that, just a brief explanation of the inside is enough alright?
Looking around, I noticed a hot air balloon in one of the hangars just below the dungeon. I carefully sneaked around and wore my mask just in case I get spotted. Once I got on top of the hot air balloon, I channeled my magic to its fullest capacity and jumped with all my might.
Whoosh!
I flew through the air like an eagle swooping down on its prey. I managed to jump quite high and was about to crash into one of the floating rocks under the dungeon.
Erm, now how will I avoid crashing…
Well f*ck, it looks like I can't.
Boom!
My entire body crashed face-first into the large rock that was floating in the air. God da*n that hurt.
Luckily my mask didn't break, now I should be safe so I'll take it off.
Moving my body out of the human-shaped crater, I slowly moved my limbs and climbed to the top of the rock. Luckily for me, the rock was hard enough so that I wouldn't just fly straight through it.
Standing firmly on the rock, I jumped with all my might again and landed on another rock. I quickly jumped again every time I landed as if I were a ninja.
After a bit, I finally managed to land directly in front of the dungeon. Looking around, I noticed that no one besides me was around.
I walked forward and scanned my student handbook into the system as I walked by. I could see my name and photo being displayed on the screen as I passed through the gates.
Standing in front of the actual dungeon itself, I prepared myself to enter through the front door.
As I stepped foot into the dungeon for the first time in my life, I walked up to the large door and pushed it open. The slow wooden creaking sounds of the door were familiar.
I was surrounded in a meadow filled with greenery and luscious grass. Various kinds of flowers and birds could be seen as well.
Looking around, I heard a faint 'clump clump' sound.
Hmm that sound, a slime?
Suddenly, the sounds were becoming closer and closer. I turned to face the sound and saw a small blue-colored slime jumping about.
Da*n it's pretty cute.
It had no mouth but had two lines for eyes. I walked up to it and bobbed down. A Blue Slime is a monster found on the first few floors of beginner level dungeons such as this one. There are also different colored ones such as red, green, yellow, metal, etc.
When you think of slimes, you might be thinking about king slimes too right?
Anyway, the slimes are incredibly weak and don't even require any abilities to be used in order to kill one.
I reached my hand out slowly towards the little slime which was smaller than the average slime. I have no idea why I thought that baby slimes were the same size as any other slimes.
I slowly emitted a minuscule amount of magic from my index finger as if I were feeding it. The slime looked at me and made 'pii pii' sounds while a literal question mark appeared in the air above it.
The slime came closer to my hand as if it were drawn to me and started rubbing itself against my hand.
Hehe, this is quite a strange feeling. It feels kind of like touching goo, while its body is also slightly cold. It felt quite good touching the slime's body.
As I slowly fed it my magic, its body started changing colors slowly.
From red, orange, yellow, green, blue, purple, brown, white, black, silver and then finally dark gold. It then changed back into its original blue form, while its size didn't change.
Though I did notice a change in it. On the inside of the slime, what appears to be a small golden bead could be seen in the very center of its entire body. It seems some kind of nucleus formed inside its body when we made contact.
Hmm, could this be a form of monster taming?
Monster taming, it is exactly as it sounds like. A job in a typical RPG game where the player can tame monsters and use them to fight for them, while also being their friend.
What's an RPG without a monster tamer right?
Well, none of the heroines in the game is a monster tamer, in fact, monster tamers are incredibly rare.
I don't know the odds of being one, but there's no measure for it either so you would never know if you were one in your entire life without trying it out.
It seems I had succeeded in taming this slime while also making it stronger?
"Hey little guy, wanna come with me?"
'Pii?'
'Pii Pii!'
Seems like it agrees, the little blue slime that was just a little bigger than a baseball jumped onto my shoulder while making 'pii pii' sounds.
"Hahaha, since you agree then let's go, first let's give you a name. Hmm, slime in japanese is suraimu… then how about Raimu?"
"What do you think little guy?"
'Pii, pii!'
Seems like it agrees, "Okay from now on you will be Raimu."
Standing up, I officially began my journey through the Amaterasu academy dungeon.