An Old Man Restaurant Owner Is Unparalleled by Relying on His Old Tricks. It Turns Out, He’s the Legendary Dungeon Conqueror. - 73

Chapter 73: Maybe They Got Married?

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We were advancing through the thick fog of the 13th floor of the Kabukicho Dungeon. It didn’t take us long to find the next teleportation trap and we moved straight to the 18th floor. We continued searching for the next trap while multiple drones followed us closely, despite the poor visibility. 

〈It’s really Nishida after all.〉

〈Why is Nishida here? This isn’t Ken-Channel though?〉

〈Hey~ Nishida, can you hear us?〉

〈I don’t think they’re aware they’re being livestreamed.〉

〈Isn’t this illegal?〉

〈Most probably.〉

〈Don’t report it, okay? We won’t be able to watch anymore.〉

〈Yeah, that’s true〉

〈What a dilemma.〉

〈Don’t be uptight. There aren’t even 30 viewers. It will take a while before they noticed us.〉

〈But the numbers are slowly increasing though?〉

〈Well, let’s keep watching until this video gets taken down.〉

〈You guys. Don’t go spreading this around, okay?〉

〈But why is the video quality so bad?〉

〈It’s the fog. I heard some dungeons have foggy areas like this.〉

“Watch out ahead. There’s a pitfall.”

“Huh?! Tha-Thank you…”

I pointed it out and Anna Ninomiya, the sub-leader of Mercys, hurriedly dodged the pitfall. 

“You noticed the pitfall before me even though I’m the one with detection skill! I’m a disgrace to detection skill users!!”

Satsuki Gojou looked clearly distraught. 

“Nishida-san, do you have detection related skills?”

Shinnosuke Ichinose, the leader of Mercys, asked me that question. 

“I do have them, but I don’t use them much. I’m not using any detection skills right now. It’s not very efficient, so it’s a waste of stamina.”

“So you’re tracking all these traps purely on your own without any skill? Not to mention this horrible visibility… Just how?!”

“Actually, relying on your sight alone is what messes you up. Instead of trying to see with your eyes, you need to sense the presence with your whole body.”

“Sensing presence with my whole body… Umm, I kind of get it, but also kind of don’t.”

Well, of course. Sensing traps was harder to do than sensing monsters after all. 

〈Anyone understand what he means?〉

〈Nope.〉

〈No.〉

〈Absolutely not.〉

〈Yeah, I don’t get it either. LOL〉

〈Who are these people Nishida exploring with? It’s a pretty big group.〉

〈There’s even a foreign-looking woman with them.〉

“Haa… Haa… Th-the fog is getting even thicker…”

“Yeah, it is.”

“…That said… Nishida-sama, don’t you think you’re moving a bit too quickly?”

Noticing Iijima-san’s heavy breathing, I turned around to see that the rest of the members of Mercys were nodding in agreement to Iijima-san with tired expressions on their faces. It seemed I had been pushing them a bit too much with how fast I moved. Of course, Nana Tendou and Else looked perfectly fine. They were S-rank explorers after all. 

“Sorry. I thought you guys would be fine since I was just doing a light jog.”

“What part of this was light?! Nishida-sama, you were easily going at around 50 km/h this whole time!!!”

〈LMAOOO Nishida’s getting scolded!〉

〈Where are they now though? Which dungeon?〉

〈Probably the Shinjuku Kabukicho Dungeon, right?〉

〈Oh yeah. DungeonPedia here says the lower levels of this dungeon have poor visibility due to the fog.〉

〈Kabukicho Dungeon? Isn’t that where Kadoyama Aoi went missing?〉

〈Exactly. Maybe they’re on a rescue mission?〉

〈Most probably.〉

〈Wait, is that Nana Tendou with him? Are they on good terms now?〉

〈Maybe they got married?〉

〈The heck. Things are moving so fast! LOLOL〉

“Achooo! Tch… Is someone talking about me behind my back?”

Nana Tendou suddenly sneezed.

“Talking about you?”

“Well, we have this superstition in Japan. If someone is talking about you behind your back, you will sneeze.”

Right. Now that she mentions it, my nose has been feeling a bit itchy since earlier too.

Left with no other options, we had to slow down our pace a bit as we moved forward. Eventually, we found another teleportation trap. This trap allowed us to reach the dungeon’s deep level. We must be around the 24th floor. The dense fog that had surrounded us before was gone, giving way to a cave setup similar to the upper levels. However, the size of this cave was incomparable to those in the upper level. 

〈Finally. We have better visuals now.〉

〈That’s definitely Nana Tendou with him.〉

〈The foreign beauty looks familiar for some reason…〉

〈Isn’t she the one who falsely accused Nishida?〉

〈You’re right! Why are they together now? Did they reconcile too?〉

〈Maybe they got married.〉

〈Nishida’s been “married” way too many times. LOL〉

Furthermore, this dungeon’s deep levels have one notable characteristic.

“The walls and floors are so shiny, huh?”

“Those are crystals. The deep levels of the Shinjuku Kabukicho Dungeon are practically crystal mine. You can mine these crystals endlessly. This place is filled with nothing but crystals.”

“I-I WASN’T ASKING YOU!’

While enduring Elsa’s unreasonable irritation toward me, we discovered another teleportation trap and descended down to the 30th floor. 

“….Impressive exploration speed. It’s only been an hour and a half and yet, you’ve already reached this point. Even the record time for the party led by Aoi Kadoyama was at least eight hours to reach this point.”

〈As expected of Nishida.〉

〈Looks like this is really a rescue team for Aoi Kadoyama.〉

〈I wonder whose voice is coming from the drone?〉

“Good thing we managed to reach the 30th floor with that last teleportation trap. We can’t use the teleportation trap method from here on. We will need to descend down via the stairs now.”

“Is that so?”

Shinnosuke Ichinose tilted his head to the side, prompting me to explain a specific rule unique to the Shinjuku Kabukicho Dungeon.

“There’s actually a mid-boss on the 30th floor. You can’t proceed without defeating it first and the teleportation trap method won’t let you bypass it.”

It was a bit troublesome, but we had no other choice. We had to follow the dungeon’s rules. 

“Alright. As for the boss’s location… It should be this way.”

“Correct… It seems navigation isn’t necessary.”

It didn’t take us long before we saw a massive crystal embedded in the wall. We passed through the double doors at its base and we were greeted by the sight of…

“BAAAAAAAHHHH!!”

CRACKLE CRACKLE CRACKLE CRACKLE CRACKLE CRACKLE!

An enormous sheep with its white fur charged full of electricity.

“This tasty-looking mutton is the mid-boss of this dungeon, the Lightning Sheep.”

〈Mutton LOLOLOL〉

〈It’s grilled mutton time!〉

〈FOUND ANOTHER INGREDIENTTTT!〉

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