Dungeon's Final Boss: Banished by My Boss, the Goddess, to Earth—So I'll Continue My Past Life - 80

Chapter 80: Emotionally Bankrupt Piroane

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“Welcome back.”

When I returned to the apartment, Mio came out of her room as if on cue.

“I’m home.”

“I’m glad you’re safe.”

“I wouldn’t get injured that easily, you know.”

“Still, I’m happy you’re okay.”

Even though she knew my true identity, Mio still worried about me like this. Her concern felt oddly ticklish. I took out the other bento I had bought, separate from the beef tongue bento I had eaten in the helicopter, from my item box. There was another beef tongue bento, of course, but I also had a beef rice bento packed full of beef along with sushi roll made with a local specialty called kinka-saba, an oyster rice dish loaded with oysters, and a harako-meshi with grilled salmon and plenty of salmon roe. Sendai Station had all kinds of ekiben(station bento).

“Wow, it all looks delicious.”

“Let’s eat together.”

“Yes! Ah, I need to call out to Piroane-san too.”

“Good idea.”

That girl, huh.

“She still hasn’t come out yet?”

“No. She hasn’t left her room.”

In response to my question, Mio answered with a troubled look.

“Good grief.”

I opened the door to Piroane’s room without asking first. A lock? Something like that was practically useless against me.

When I entered the room, Piroane was sitting on the bed with her knees hugged to her chest, staring blankly at a looping video on a tablet. No, her eyes weren’t even focused. The cheerful voices of a video streamer team with over a million subscribers echoed aimlessly through the dim room.

“I brought food. Let’s eat together.”

I turned on the lights and spoke up. Mio quickly moved to tidy the table, and I stacked the ekiben on it and lined up bottles of tea.

“It’s not like you’ve become completely penniless, right? How long are you going to mope around?”

“…Do you even know?”

“Know what?”

“Have you ever lost one trillion yen, Jiro!?”

“I’ve never done something as foolish as losing that kind of money.”

Not that I’ve ever had a trillion yen to begin with.

“Then you can’t possibly understand my pain!”

Piroane snapped and glared at me, then grabbed the beef rice bento and started eating with gusto.

So she is going to eat after all.

“I lost a trillion yen! A trillion yen!”

“Right.”

Sure, out of all humanity involved in the global economy, the number of people who’ve held a trillion yen must be tiny… And even fewer have been scammed out of it.

“I lost it, okay?! Do you understand this agony? This sorrow?”

“I don’t. As expected of a former goddess—your level of downfall is in a class of its own.”

“Don’t call it downfall!”

Don’t fling rice grains at me.

Still, the ekiben was delicious. Having Mio eating beside me with a smile while she was worrying about Piroane was comforting. Just as I expected, the situation in which you ate a meal was just as important as the food itself. Though having a former useless goddess venting her stress while chomping down her food was definitely a minus.

“I have to find a way to get it back…”

“You’re an S-Class awakened, so why not just go dig for magic stones like people normally do?”

That alone would still bring in a lot of income. Even B-Class Awakened who focused on video streaming had a decent annual earnings from dungeon exploring. If Piroane seriously focused on exploring the dungeon, she’d definitely make a lot more than Mio. After all, Piroane was still considered an S-Class awakened in this world. 

“Listen, Jiro. Even if I make 100 million yen a year, it would take ten thousand years to reach a trillion, you know?”

“…That face of yours is really irritating.”

Why is she looking at me like she’s trying to teach a child?

“But you should get back to your activities soon. Your fans are waiting, right?”

Mio was worried about her video streaming career. Piroane had her own channel where she uploaded videos, but after losing her money, she’d been in shock and hadn’t uploaded anything. Even though she had just signed a contract with a video editing company, it was all going to waste because of her mopping.

She lost a trillion yen, yes, but since she still responded to calls for emergency dungeon raids, she wasn’t exactly in trouble with living expenses. Still, if she didn’t pull herself together and resume her normal activity soon, the apartment might start smelling moldy.

“I never really understood the value of money, but now that I’ve lost it, I get it. The weight of all those zeros on a bank statement…”

“Normal people usually figure that out a lot sooner than you. As expected of a goddess—you really don’t have your feet on the ground.”

“Jiro, you should be kinder to me!”

“And why should I do that?”

“Ah, I know! Jiro, make another sword like that one! Then we can sell it again, right?”

Oh boy. She’s bounced back already. 

And… She was right on the money.

“You can make it, right?”

“I can.”

“Then—!”

“Alright. Then I’ll sell it to you for one trillion yen. So please prepare the money first.”

“…Huh?”

“It’s been proven to be worth a trillion yen, so if I sell it again, that would be the price, right?”

“No, I meant give it to me?”

“Rather than giving it to you, I’d just sell it myself.”

Still, I didn’t need a trillion yen. Even now, I was already getting constantly hit up on social media with donation requests and suspicious investment offers. If word got out that I had a trillion yen, I couldn’t imagine how disastrous my life would be.

Oh, and by the way, the fact that Piroane lost a trillion yen had already made the news. Apparently, once she filed a report with the police, the media caught wind of it. Thanks to that, Piroane had become the talk of the town.

Now she had two conflicting reputations: one as a powerhouse who could drop and sell the world’s greatest sword and the other as a complete idiot who got swindled out of a trillion yen. Depending on how the scales tipped between those, who knew what kind of public image she’d end up with? For now, the buzz leaned heavily toward her being an idiot.

Well, she is definitely an idiot.

“Then just go sell it and give me a trillion yen.”

“Just go get a job already, you damn useless goddess.”

“Ugaaaah!”

After finishing her ekiben completely, Piroane flopped back onto the bed.

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