My Gift Is “Beauty”. I Think It’s Useless, but It Seems to Be an S-Rank Gift With the Strongest Buff Effect for Beautiful Girls - Chapter 31.1: Dungeon Tour (3)

Chapter 31.1: Dungeon Tour (3)

“What!?” the silver-haired girl gasped suddenly.

In a family restaurant in a bustling shopping district, the silver-haired girl sat quietly.

“What’s wrong? You look so surprised,” one friend asked curiously.

“Even with that face, you’re unfairly cute!” another friend teased playfully.

The silver-haired girl, adored by her two friends, changed her expression to shock abruptly during their conversation.

“I… I have to go,” she stammered urgently.

“Go where?” one friend questioned confusedly.

“To my seniors’ place!” she answered frantically.

The silver-haired girl stood from her seat, clenched her fists tightly, and solidified her resolve firmly. Spending time with her classmates was important, but an emergency arose unexpectedly.

“What’s that mean?” one friend asked puzzledly.

“I’m so sorry! Sorry, sorry, sorry!” the silver-haired girl apologized repeatedly.

“Why are you apologizing so much!?” her friend exclaimed in surprise.

“I’m so sorry!” she shouted desperately.

The silver-haired girl, short on words, placed extra money on the table hastily and left the scene quickly. She rushed to the restroom immediately.

“Senior, senior, senior… where, where!?” she muttered nervously. “Ah—I found them!”

The silver-haired girl, flustered in a restroom stall, searched her thoughts anxiously and reacted with realization suddenly.

And then—

“Transfer!” she whispered softly.

The silver-haired girl’s body, along with her belongings, vanished from the restroom stall instantly.

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“That was an easy job,” the black-haired man remarked casually.

The black-haired man, who dropped the dungeon tour participants and adventurers to the lake’s bottom, began his return journey slowly.

He descended the hill’s side using two knives to carve holes, climbing down carefully like a rock climber, and crossed the unbroken part of the lake’s ice cautiously. He bypassed the snow-piled path from the avalanche and returned to the original route successfully.

“Switching with Kirihara, replacing the gate staff, a ring-shaped relic with powerful interference magic, a scroll causing a gust, and bombs set on the snow mountain and lake…” he listed methodically.

None were tasks one person could achieve alone. Replacing gate staff, assigned by the Adventurers’ Guild on rotating shifts, was particularly difficult. Without meticulous planning, including attacking and abducting staff with accomplices, it was nearly impossible.

“Now to report to the boss—” he began thoughtfully.

He approached the gate’s exit steadily.

The man planned to exit and claim an accident occurred, saying participants fell to the lake’s bottom tragically. He would assert the dungeon, supposedly mid-tier C-rank, was an upper-tier A-rank due to someone’s scheme cunningly.

As he thought this, he saw a figure—initially mistaken for a monster—walking toward him clearly.

He had instructed the replaced staff to allow no one inside. Only those with official Adventurers’ Guild permission in emergencies could enter the dungeon.

Yet—

“Hey, who the hell are you?” he demanded aggressively.

The figure wore a sinister black goat headpiece, but below the neck, a cute white dress adorned her oddly. She held nothing in her hands visibly.

The man couldn’t understand her purpose or presence in this place completely.

“Ah…” she mumbled softly.

“What?” he snapped irritably.

“Where are my seniors… where is everyone?” she asked faintly.

Her voice, muffled by the black goat headpiece, obscured her true tone completely. Her appearance suggested she was female clearly.

“How did you get in here?” he questioned suspiciously.

“Where…?” she repeated vaguely.

Their conversation failed to connect meaningfully.

The man grew irritated quickly, but his eyes widened in shock suddenly.

“Storage!” she whispered abruptly.

A large axe appeared in the black goat girl’s hand instantly. It matched the size of the heavy warrior Maki’s axe from the Black Wolf Guild, and she held the heavy-looking weapon effortlessly with one hand.

“You… a space-type gift holder? That’s damn rare,” he realized aloud. “That’s how you got in, huh?”

“Where…?” she asked again.

“But—” he continued dismissively.

The black-haired man ignored her words and thrust his right hand forward boldly. A gold ring with a red gem on his middle finger glowed redly.

“Interference Magic!” he chanted powerfully.

The spell drained his magic heavily but could negate gift effects within a certain range and time temporarily. Such relics, items with special abilities from dungeons, held significant power. It had blocked the return scroll earlier—or so he thought.

“I’m done—Transfer!” she whispered calmly.

“What!?” he gasped in shock.

The black goat girl vanished from his sight and reappeared behind him instantly. Her axe swung in a circular arc, slicing his side brutally.

The man flew across the snowy ground, spraying blood, and crashed face-first painfully.

“Sense—target… Senior Takanashi… not here… below?” she murmured thoughtfully.

The black goat girl shook blood from her axe and approached the fallen man slowly.

“Ugh…” he groaned weakly.

“You’re still alive, right? I held back,” she said coldly. “Tell me where they fell, and I’ll spare your life.”

The black goat girl displayed overwhelming power and glared at the gravely injured man intimidatingly. His blood loss was severe enough to be fatal.

“Heh, you think I’ll talk, idiot?” he sneered defiantly.

Lying on the ground, he threw a knife from his waist at her swiftly. The knife, coated with paralyzing poison used on the real Kirihara, hit her stomach directly, but—

“Why…?” he gasped in disbelief.

“No! My dress, chosen by my friends! Don’t ruin it!” she shouted angrily.

She struck his stomach with the axe’s handle forcefully. He vomited blood and passed out, eyes rolling back instantly.

The black goat girl picked up his knife carefully.

“Appraisal—paralyzing poison… and Face-Voice Changer,” she noted quietly.

She stabbed the knife into his stomach decisively. His unconscious body twitched from the shock instantly.

After confirming this, she acted swiftly.

“High Heal!” she cast gently.

She applied healing magic to the man with a raised hand, stopping his bleeding and healing his wounds visibly. She tied him with rope she produced from somewhere clumsily, wrapping it haphazardly.

She moved the bound man to a tree’s shade and began walking purposefully.

“The lake…” she said softly.

The black goat girl stood before the frozen lake confidently. She swung her axe downward, cracking the ice and creating a massive hole instantly.

“Wait for me—” she called determinedly.

She jumped into the hole and disappeared swiftly.

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“Ugh…” someone groaned faintly.

The participants fell to the deep hole’s bottom but survived miraculously. Some lost consciousness initially or during the fall, leaving about ten still awake.

They looked around and saw a vast cave-like space clearly. Whether due to the deep fall or the dungeon’s design, no sky was visible above. Yet, the cave glowed faintly somehow.

Before the participants stood a giant U-shaped snow structure, resembling a snowboard halfpipe course distinctly.

“Phew, I made it just in time,” Kirino sighed tiredly.