Chapter 122 (2/2)

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“I’m glad you agree, preparation is important if you wish to succeed in exploring Doran’s dungeon . ” She handed my Guild card back to me . ​​Fer and Dora-chan objected telepathically to my decision, of course .

“What?!”

“Well, we’ve come all this way and we’re not going into the dungeon?! Meanie-!”

“You both heard what the receptionist said, didn’t you, Fer, Dora-chan? We need to prepare properly or we’ll not have enough to eat when we’re in the dungeon . ”

“What are you talking about?” Fer complained .

“Yeah,” Dora-chan interrupted . “The big guy told me we eat food from another world that you can just order when you want . Right?”

“Ah-” Fer looked down guiltily . Blabbermouth, I thought at him .

“Hmm?” Dora-chan looked between us . “Oh, is it that square box thing that always appears before you? I thought that was part of your magic . ”

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“Right, I haven’t explained things to you yet, Dora-chan . You see, I was Summoned from another world . As for the box thing, Net Super, it’s a Unique Skill I have, I can buy things from the world I came from and have them delivered here . I use a lot of condiments, spices and sauces from that other world to make the food you like so much . They’re the reason the meals are so delicious . However-” I raised a warning finger, “what do you think would happen if I used my Net Super skill in front of others in this world, people like Adventurers?”

Dora-chan thought for a moment . “Greedy humans, they would threaten you to get their hands on other-world things you could get for them, I suppose . ” I was surprised, Dora-chan seemed to have a better grasp of human beings and their habits than I had expected from a creature that mostly stayed out of sight . He brightened up, continuing “Just don’t let them threaten you then!”

If Fer was around all the time it wouldn’t be a problem but in the dungeon I couldn’t be absolutely sure he’d be able to protect me all the time . There could be blind spots, we might get separated or Fer might be busy fighting while I was being targeted . I explained all this to Dora-chan .

“I don’t even know how many Adventurers are in the dungeon so I don’t want to use the Net Super skill down there unless I absolutely have to . ” I decided to appeal to his stomach, and Fer’s stomach too . “We can buy lots of the food they sell here in the market and enter the dungeon right now but it’s things like preserved salted meat, raw vegetables, powdered soup, hard bread and the like . Are you OK with eating that sort of food for the next few weeks? If so-”

That ‘offer’ convinced Fer and Dora-chan . They’d wait and let me cook lots of food for the dungeon exploration so they could eat delicious meals rather than having us subsisting on basic travel rations .

“So just wait a little . I’d say it’ll take me about three days to do a good job of the preparations and then we can go into the dungeon . How does that sound?”

“Isn’t waiting three days too much?” Fer complained . He wanted to go to the beach- the dungeon right away! It wasn’t fair! Waah!

“I think so, too . ” Dora-chan chimed in . “Surely one day’s cooking will be enough? We can come back here tomorrow . ” C’mon Dad, why wait? Let’s hurry!

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“Eeh-,” I tried to explain to the two kindergarteners . “Look, I don’t know when we’re going to be coming back out when we enter the dungeon . I want to look around Doran and do some sight-seeing before we go in . Besides we’re going to need a lot of food and I absolutely need three days to cook it all and get it ready . ”

“Nu, making meals is fine I suppose but what is this ‘sight-seeing’ you’re talking about?” Fer was still annoyed .

“Fer, I noticed how you reacted when you heard there was a Behemoth in the dungeon . You’re planning to go all the way to the bottom of the dungeon, to the 30th level and fight that Last Boss, aren’t you?”

“Of course . ” Fer’s simple agreement was tinged with excitement and bloodlust, more than I’d ever felt him express before . Never mind, I’d deal with that situation when it happened .

“The Guild receptionist said it could take a month to get there . I don’t know when we’ll be able to return to the surface in that case . ” I suspected it might not take Fer that long to clear the dungeon but it was still going to take a week at least, maybe two . “I want to look around before we enter the dungeon . I was really looking forward to exploring this place all the way here, it’s such a big city . ” I wasn’t planning to cook for three days morning and night and then enter the dungeon immediately afterwards while I was tired out after all that effort . I intended to take it easy instead, wandering around the city streets and seeing the sights between bouts of cooking .

“You can wait for three days, can’t you Fer, Dora-chan? That way we can all eat delicious food even when we’re in the dungeon . ”

“Nuuuu, It can’t be helped,” Fer moped, finally giving in . “But only three days though . ”

“We can’t say no when you promise us delicious food, boss . ” Dora-chan finally agreed . “It can’t be helped like the big guy said but just three days, right?”

“Now that’s decided, I’m going to explore the city of Doran today . ” I declared . I started on the way back to the city gate and the streets of Doran . Fer cast a single long glance back at the gate to the dungeon and turned to follow me with Dora-chan buzzing along beside him . I caught a faint telepathic thought from him as he caught up . . . “Behemoth” .