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 66: The Dungeon That Doesn’t Kill

On the table in the ‘Master Room,’ snacks and drinks brought from Hiroyo’s house were spread out.

Everyone ate them while continuing the dungeon meeting.

Regarding Himari and Kairi, who collapsed in the treatment room, the women wiped their bodies, and now they slept on the treatment tables. For their remaining dignity, Hiroyo covered them with blankets from his room.

“For the entrance fee, we could start with a low amount and raise it if too many people come.”

“Yeah… they say the lower the price, the worse the customer quality…”

“Are there people who want to solve their problems but don’t have money?”

“Even if it’s high, a thousand yen should be affordable… maybe start with a five-hundred-yen coin?”

Saori Fuyutsuki planned to run this ‘Beauty Dungeon’ with an entrance fee from the start.

Of course, she didn’t take the money herself but aimed to profit Hiroyo. This was a ‘non-disappearing dungeon’ even after defeating the final boss.

Since people could enter repeatedly, it allowed things impossible in other dungeons.

“Adventurers are sixteen or older. High schoolers can work part-time, so five hundred yen should be fine, right?”

“Yeah. Like Saori said, we can adjust the price later, so let’s start with five hundred yen.”

“Let’s do it!”

“Abah.”

Everyone agreed unanimously to set the initial entrance fee at five hundred yen.

They didn’t know how many would come, but even if one person visited repeatedly, the money would multiply.

“Ah!”

“What’s up, Hiroyo?”

Hiroyo made a startled sound right after setting the entrance fee.

“I don’t want adventurers to die if possible… is that doable…?”

Hiroyo spoke about adventurers’ lives and deaths.

Adventurers entering dungeons faced some risk to their lives.

Many adventurers lost their lives because of this.

Some had families. Some challenged with parties, chasing dreams.

Of course, some had evil intentions—

“I don’t want to see people die in my dungeon…”

“Hiroyo…”

“Hiroyo-kun…”

Hiroyo’s words created a somber mood.

“Oh, no… dungeons are like that, so it can’t be helped. So it’s not poss—”

“It’s possible.”

“Huh?”

“It’s possible.”

Ecoa, dressed as a maid, stood behind Hiroyo quietly.

She said she could keep adventurers from dying.

“This involves a ‘contract’ with adventurers entering the dungeon. When a set amount of damage is taken, we transfer them to the entrance and use healing magic—this ensures safety.”

“Wow…”

Hiroyo was speechless at Ecoa’s explanation.

It was a more perfect solution to adventurer deaths than he imagined.

“But in that case, it requires a massive amount of magic power. Asami’s magic is more than enough, but consuming so much could harm dungeon maintenance.”

“What does that mean?”

“Dungeons need magic power to stay intact. If that magic runs out, the dungeon collapses.”

“What!?”

The shocking news left them speechless.

The ‘Dungeon Core’ could become useless depending on how it was used.

“Dungeons generally depend on the master’s magic power. With Asami’s vast magic, collapse is unlikely, but maintenance magic is usually collected from visitors.”

“So, we maintain it with adventurers’ magic?”

“Yes. If adventurers don’t visit, the dungeon could collapse.”

Raising the entrance fee too high to deter adventurers wasn’t an option.

They’d need to cap the fee at a reasonable amount.

For now, it was five hundred yen, but the future was uncertain.

“We understand the collapse risk. But thanks to Asami, it seems fine for now.”

“Abah.”

“That’s correct.”

Ecoa drank water from a ceramic cup she created and moved to the next topic.

“Next, for dungeon entry conditions, we said before we want to help various people with their problems, so non-adventurers can enter too.”

This was Hiroyo’s wish.

Limiting it to adventurers was too narrow.

“So, it’s okay to hire adventurers to enter together.”

“Yeah. It’s close to ‘Dungeon Tour.’”

‘Dungeon Tour’ let non-adventurers visit low-rank dungeons with adventurers as bodyguards.

This made the ‘Beauty Dungeon’ similar to ‘Dungeon Tour’ conditions.

“With no deaths, one adventurer accompanying should be fine, right?”

“Yeah, that’s good. But what if rich people hire strong adventurers, pushing out weaker ones to conquer the dungeon?”

Koharu voiced her opinion.

Her only dungeon experience was the ‘Dungeon Tour,’ but she researched afterward.

Koharu’s Gift ‘Reduction’ qualified her as a support magic user for adventuring. Though she didn’t plan to become an adventurer, she couldn’t rule out being caught in ‘Dungeon Tour’ troubles.

She studied dungeons since then.

“That happens often in regular dungeons. High-rank adventurers disregard low-rank ones, stealing treasures or monsters.”

Saori, knowledgeable about dungeons, added.

“Hmm. The goal is to help people with real problems. To spread the word, we could add treasure chests besides treatments.”

“Let’s try these conditions first and adjust later. If low-rank adventurers are mistreated by high-rank ones, Ecoa or Asami could intervene.”

“That’s a good idea. It might trouble Asami a bit… but is Ecoa strong?”

Like a dungeon mediator or arbiter.

Instead of ignoring trouble, they’d handle and resolve it.

Murders sometimes happened in dungeons.

They didn’t want that in the ‘Beauty Dungeon.’

“Well, I’d say I’m second to Asami.”

“What!?”