Chapter 50 - Howl (1) (1/2)

“Hello, Mikuma, can you hear me?”

“Hello? Yeah, no problem. Have you arrived at the stairs?”

After going through the entrance, we found the stairs after around 15 minutes.

How do you say this, but it was a man-made staircase on top of a natural-looking rock surface.

As for the first floor, no lights were needed.

A faint light was emitted by one’s feet at several places on the wall.

I asked Mikuma in advance.

This light should illuminate us until the fortieth floor.

“We just got home as well…”

“I want to speak. Yoo-hoo, are you okay?”

“You’re not injured, right?”

I heard Mikuma, Saeki, and Shouhei’s voices one after another from my hands-free earpiece in my right ear.

Because it is wireless, father was wearing the left earpiece, and the microphone was on my chest.

“Ah, we’re completely fine at the moment.”

My father also nodded next to me.

“Okay. Well then, based on the information from the Internet, a monster should appear on the next floor, so don’t fight it by any means. Your goal is to reach the top floor, so let’s give that our undivided attention. If you can’t run away, then don’t hesitate and defeat it. Even if they’re in the form of living things, monsters are not living things, so there’s no need to hold back.”

“Roger that.”

I briefly responded, and straightly grasped the dragon fang sword I borrowed from the rat.

I gulped, and took a step on the stairs.

“Father, let’s go.”

“Oh”

We steadily advanced up the stairway.

I-it’s scary.

Information and incidents about dungeons appeared quite frequently in the news.

Mainly reports about magic power in the dungeon, incidents of dungeons with weak floors collapsing, and fatal accidents.

I was never interested until now, so I don’t remember in detail.

Since the place I lived in didn’t have a dungeon.

My feeling of it is that it’s a dangerous place where precious minerals and treasures lie dormant.

That’s about it.

As for the treasure hunter occupation, I knew that it was some people’s livelihood, but that was about it.

It’s good to be ignorant.

“First of all, let’s investigate the disparity from the map we obtained. After going up to the second floor, try counting the number of steps until the first crossroad. Based on Kunpei-kun’s stride that was measured yesterday, it should take about 32 steps. If there’s not much discrepancy with the map, then the information is probably trustworthy.”

“I understand.”

After finally reaching the second floor, the faint light that illuminated our steps was still going strong.

“One, two, three…”

While being vigilant of the surroundings, I walked carefully so that there was no variation in my strides.

“Thirty-one, thirty-two,… it’s the first crossroad, a Y-shaped road.”

“That’s good, it’s in accordance with the map for now. With this, I can help navigate. Take the right, the stairs are on the left, but the transition trap is at the end of the right path. You have to walk a bit, but this way there’s a shortcut that helps skip five floors.”

That’s good.

With this, we wont get lost, nor do we have to take a transition trap to come back.

“Okay, best regards.”

“I leave it to you, Yuuno-chan.”

“Yes, leave it to me Kunpei-kun, father-in-law.”

Again, there’s a disturbing nuance.

Well, it’s all good. It’s not good, but it’s good.