Day 20
The knights didn't really do much after that. They quietly made camp,
checked that the corpses had all burned by noon, and then left. Yeah, I think
it's pretty impressive that they managed to cook meat and eat it while corpses
were burning like thirty feet away from them. Like honestly. Wow.
We got a lot of DP thanks to all the dead bandits and how the band of
thirty-some knights stayed within the dungeon radius for almost an entire
day. We didn't even have any problems absorbing the thoroughly burnt
corpses. Suffice to say, we made bank. Adding it all up to what we had
before... our DP stock had shot up to 14,504 in one fell swoop.
"Wow... I've never seen this much DP before in my life." Compared to
how little DP we were earning before, we had basically gotten rich overnight.
But since the bandits were gone, our daily DP gain was less than before. We
didn't have to worry about Gobsuke anymore... but in his place, we had the
dog-eared slave. We had to feed her too. Three meals a day with food and
drink... We'll be losing about 10 DP every day.
But our natural DP gain was only 10 a day. Maybe due to how we had
withdrawn her as an item, the slave girl wasn't earning us any DP. Though it
was also possible that she just wasn't strong enough to be worth any DP in
the first place. Thanks to that, our DP earnings a day totaled to a spectacular
zero... Wait, no. We were technically in the negatives since we would need to
summon goblins whenever adventurers came just to avoid suspicion. Could I
sleep well in a situation like that? No, I couldn't. I was a cautious, cautious
man. I couldn't bear to sit and watch as my savings slowly dwindled. So,
unable to bear the weight of losing DP, I decided to fundamentally change
this [Ordinary Cave].
...Haaah. I don't wanna wooork.
# Rokuko's Thoughts
It's weird. Why'd things turn out like this? All I did was save up 1000 DP
and roll the gacha with it, betting everything on a massive turnabout, but all I
got was a weak-looking human named Keima. Somehow, he even turned into
my Dungeon Master and now I have to obey everything he says!
What the heck happened? I don't understand any of this. All I wanted to
do was murder all those nasty bandits that put their gross feet on my Core. I
definitely should've just used that DP to summon a mountain of goblins.
Aaah, geez! He ordered me to stay quiet while he's sleeping, so I can't even
say anything. There's a lot I want to talk to you about, buster!
So, I summoned a goblin when he woke up and got yelled at. Not only
that, but he didn't do anything even when there was only one bandit still in
the cave! It was the perfect opportunity for revenge! What's with him?! All I
want to do is attack the invaders with goblins just like Number 89 told me to!
Number 89 is amazing, you know?! She runs a dungeon in the middle of a
capital city! You're not even fit to lick her feet, Keima! She earns tons and
tons of DP too! Anyway, he ordered me not to use DP without permission. It
sucks, he's using all the DP he wants on himself. I could understand food,
whatever, but he bought a [Futon] for himself too. Grrr... That's my DP!
And doesn't this guy sleep way too much? I'm a Dungeon Core, so I don't
sleep at all. I wonder if sleeping really feels that nice.
Believe it or not, Keima actually used most of our saved up DP to give a
gift to the bandits. He even made me write a letter thanking them for killing
my goblins even though I don't feel that way at all.
AAAAH! GEEEEEZ! This guy is definitely sucking up to the bandits so
they spare his life later! Or so I thought, but...
"Calm down. That gift just bought us some valuable time. I'll kill them all
soon enough, trust me."
...That's what he told me. With a deadly serious expression, too. Though,
he said he's doing it to make the place where he sleeps safer or something? I
don't know what's going on in this guy's head. I don't understand him at all.
And then he went back to sleep again. Explain things properly, geez!
So then, adventurers came while he was sleeping. The bandits fought and
beat them. It was the first time in my life that something other than goblins
died inside my dungeon. Maybe these bandits aren't so bad after all? But I
still won't forgive them for stepping on my Core!
So, I made Keima explain things after he woke up, and apparently that
was all part of his plan. He knew that this would happen and steered things in
this direction to earn us a bunch of DP. It is true that we earned way more DP
from this than how much we used on the bandits. He actually knows what
he's doing. Wow.
Or so I thought, but then he used DP on the bandits again. He increased
the number of rooms in my dungeon. But summoning a bunch of monsters in
a single room is the best strategy! Or at least I thought it was, until Keima
explained why it wasn't. Being able to put a lot more goblins in the dungeon
is really nice! But he wouldn't let me summon any goblins. I just don't get it.
I complained to him about how much DP he's spending on the bandits,
but he told me I was wrong. They can't take the rooms to town and sell them,
so they really belong to us. Mmm, that definitely seems right. Keima's
surprisingly smart, and it looks like he's better at earning DP than I am.
But he really does sleep a lot... Hmph, hmph.
Oh, Gobsuke. Here, let me cast {Purification}. You knooow, Keima got
really clean even though he used {Purification} on himself once. Normally
you have to cast {Purification} on yourself a lot, like splashing yourself with
water repeatedly. I wonder if he's doing anything special? After that, the
bandits went out of their way to bring corpses back to the dungeon, or kidnap
adventurers to kill inside of the dungeon. Just like Keima said, our DP is
going way up.
Also, [Melon Rolls]. Keima summoned some kind of bread I've never
seen before in my life, called [Melon Rolls]. They're so sweet and tasty I can
hardly believe it... I guess eating food is actually pretty nice. Especially
[Melon Rolls]. They're amazing. I like [Red Bean Paste Rolls] too, but
[Melon Rolls] are the absolute best. Eh?! I have to share them with Gobsuke?
O-Okay... but I won't give him any of my [Melon Rolls], got it?!
When I sensed some adventurers coming and told Keima about them, he
told me that he actually had a plan for the goblin room he made a while ago.
Keima's been taking his job as Dungeon Master really seriously. I thought
he's just been sleeping while making me write letters and withdraw things,
but... That's not true. He actually has a lot going on inside his head. You
know, I guess in my case I would just summon a bunch of goblins without
thinking whenever adventurers came... Mmm. Maybe I should start thinking
harder about things?
...And so, before I knew it, all the bandits were completely gone. I thought
I was going to die when that knight swung at my Core, but everything ended
up okay.
Except... Gobsuke died to save me...
I had just recently started to understand him without words, but now he's
dead. That... That makes me a little sad.
The bandits... Keima had killed them all, just like he said. They turned
into a ton of DP for us.
...Keima's really amazing. I can't believe he actually managed to kill all
the bandits. I definitely couldn't have done that on my own, with just goblins.
No way.
...Maybe Keima could have done it with just goblins, though. After all, he
killed all the bandits without using a single monster or trap.
Also, he withdrew a tiny slave into the Master Room for some reason. I
don't really understand why, but the Menu is treating her like an item even
though I thought she was an invader. I didn't know that you could withdraw
slaves as an item after their owners died. But I guess it makes sense that I
wouldn't know about that, since no slave owners had ever died in mydungeon before.
...What are we even going to do with this slave? Are we really going to
use her as a dakimakura? No way, nooo way. This is Keima we're talking
about. He definitely has a really smart plan with what to do with her.
But her name is "Niku," huh...? That's definitely slang for something. I
don't think it means anything nice, but... if Keima says it's okay, I won't
worry about it.
I wonder what's going to happen now? My dungeon is a lot different from
what it used to be, but... That's okay. I'll leave it all to the Dungeon Master.
With Keima handling things, I might grow up to be more like Number 89!
Ah, but I need to try hard too. I want to be useful, even if it's just a little!