Dungeon's Final Boss: Banished by My Boss, the Goddess, to Earth—So I'll Continue My Past Life - 81

Chapter 81: Continuation of Global Expansion

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『Hello everyone, it’s time for Ururun’s D-Tuber News!』

『Today’s topic is about Piroane Saito, who became world-famous as “The Woman Who Was Scammed Out of One Trillion Yen.”』

『Piroane-san made a dazzling D-Tuber debut as an S-Class Awakened, but it was recently revealed that she was the one who acquired the world’s strongest sword that had been trending a while back. However, it turns out that the very sword brought her trouble—because the one trillion yen she supposedly earned from selling it was actually scammed from her.』

『The details of the scam are unclear, but there has been talk of a startup company whose upper management and tech team recently vanished without a trace. It’s possible she had invested in them. I mean, it’s hard to imagine a single con artist capable of stealing a trillion yen on their own, so wouldn’t it be more natural to assume it vanished into the dark underbelly of the investment world?』

『Well, that’s just Ururun’s speculation, so don’t take it too seriously!』

『Now then, a new video from the ever-popular Piroane-san has just been uploaded. The title? “The One Trillion Yen Woman.” What a bold move!』

『The video was a casual chat with her good friend Mimimi Amanokawa, but they did touch on the scam incident. She didn’t go into the details of how exactly she was deceived, but by speaking on it herself, it’s now confirmed that she acknowledges being the victim of a scam.』

『She had been down for a while, understandably so, but now she’s back on her feet. With bold declarations like “I’ll earn another trillion yen,” Piroane-san seems more determined than ever. We’re definitely keeping an eye on her future moves!』

『That’s all for today’s news. See you again next time! Ururun signing off!』

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Now that Piroane was finally moving again, the musty air in the apartment would probably start to clear up too. If she kept herself busy, she’d eventually forget about the money she got scammed out of. Given that her memory and capacity for remorse being about on par with a bird’s, her trauma was bound to vanish after three steps.

More importantly, I was busy with the global rollout of Dungeon Convenience stores. As long as there was at least one store, I could distribute DC Rings to the awakener in that region. Even though there were stores in every prefecture of Japan, there was only one in each foreign country—that might seem like favoritism or discrimination, but I was running this as an individual, and there were limits I could do. They’d have to accept that limitation as it was.

The real issue was the product lineup inside the Dungeon Convenience stores. I’d thought about giving each country its own local food specialties, but I quickly hit the limits of my imagination.

Sure, I could come up with stuff for famous countries like China or ones in Europe, but when it came to Southeast Asia, South America, or Africa—I had no clue what I had to do with them. To use the item box’s generation function, it needed some degree of input from my imagination.

But if I couldn’t imagine it, there was nothing to be done. So I just made everything based on bread.

Garlic French Bread (Stamina Buff)

Twisted Bread (Strength Buff)

Chocolate Bread (Speed Buff)

Cream Bread (Magic Power Buff)

Jam Bread (Endurance Buff)

For now, something like that should do. I might revise it later, but since the main goal was the global expansion of Dungeon Convenience stores, I’d just stick with this lineup for now. By the time I finished installing Dungeon Convenience stores in the long-lasting dungeons of all major countries, six months had passed.

During that time, I had dived dungeons to clear them at the request of the D Ministry, and helped Mio with her streams, but I hardly did any dungeon exploration for personal reasons. After all, with all the magic stones I had from the Dungeon Convenience sales, there wasn’t even a need for me to dive into dungeons solo anymore.

That one-trillion-yen sword? I could generate as many as I wanted with magic stones. Though… I didn’t see any point in doing that. Maybe I could rent weapons and armor? But the main question was, how strong should they be? Matching the level of that sword would be incredulous. Even golems might be considered overkill at this point.

Maybe I should just scrap that idea. If I went too far, not only will the drop quality from dungeons become meaningless, but production-type Awakened could lose their livelihoods, which could hinder technological development of this world. Since my goal was to raise the overall level of Awakened in line with dungeon evolution, I shouldn’t overstep unless necessary. 

For now, I decided to sit back and watch how things unfold. I didn’t even mind even if Dungeon Convenience stores were deemed as useless in the near future. Anyway, with this, DC Rings could now be obtained in most parts of the world. I should go ahead and add a status display function to the ring.

Now then, how will the world’s Awakened react once they notice this additional feature? I hope they’ll focus on the skills and start trying to acquire them on their own through trial and error.

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