Reincarnated as a Dungeon Master, I Became Unstoppable by Doting on My Monsters—My Gorgeous Monsters Have Started to Conquer the World on Their Own! - Chapter 36: The Tavern (Rosarosa's Side)

Nadinalezre has a lot of hills and alleys. That’s why this country is full of organized crime! There are plenty of grumblings, but there are days when humans don’t want the sun to shine on them.

Especially on days when I had to abandon my friends or when I had to ignore a request that put my life on the line for money.

In Rosarosa’s case, she’s always leaving most of the combat requests and corpses to Biondetta, so she’s got nothing to do with Hunter’s worries.

I guess it’s safe to say it’s the same as always. Rosarosa used to poison wells and invite hunters to taverns daily, just like she did in the forest. I think it’s about time she shut down the Hunters’ Guild.

Huh? Shouldn’t the sun be shining on you the most, Rosarosa?

Well, anyway, this was a bar full of ruffians like that. Rosarosa and the others had eighty percent mimicry of humans and about twenty percent interest in cooking in this country, so they came here after work.

“Please take three seats.”

Even though Biondetta-chan’s in the bar at the end of the day, she enters the store pretentiously smartly.

… Onii-chan always sits at the three-seat table for Onii-chan’s sake. He said it was so that he wouldn’t forget that he was always with her and could naturally escort her whenever she came.

(I’m sure he’s just causing trouble for the store.)

As we walked through the store, everyone kept glancing at us and lowering their voices. Well, that couldn’t be helped.

Rosarosa and the others are central to this country’s hunters’ conversation!

There have been many requests lately, so other than hunters, their names are becoming well-known.

There’s no retort for Rosarosa being in a bar when she looks about fifteen. Just like back on Earth, it’s a time when alcohol is safer as long as it’s not clean water. No one in this world tells children not to drink alcohol.

Rosarosa and the others sit at a table near the restaurant’s center. There are three chairs there, just as ordered.

“…Hey. Biondetta-chan reserves seats for three people every time, but no one comes, so Rosarosa and the others seem to think it’s a crazy party because they lost their friends.”

Rosarosa was still the type who could tell that Biondetta’s train of thought wasn’t human after spending a day with her.

That’s why there’s no way such a madman could be this beautiful! Is that what paralyzes your head? Many people come to that conclusion in complement to the fact that something painful must have happened in the past.

Well, the death of a comrade wasn’t unusual for hunters, and there were a lot of hunters who cared about jinxes like that, so the people at the tavern didn’t say anything.

“Oh? That’s convenient.”

The person in question, Biondetta, smiled happily as she said that. …Even if you’re okay with it, it’s hard for me to poison you!

In any case, Rosarosa got Biondetta to share her earnings that day.

I spread out the coins on the desk.

If this were a normal party, Trash’s actions would be good, but Biondetta-chan loves to go solo, so she’s happy to agree to this system.

There’s nowhere Rosarosa would be useful if we went with Biondetta’s hunt anyway. It’d be better if Rosarosa secretly sprinkled poison on her in that case.

“Man, I made a lot of money. Oh, I’ll have beer and red wine, please.”

Rosarosa was relieved to receive so much money, even though she had only been drinking all day. As the one who received the money, Rosarosa was the one in charge of the order.

Still, despite being able to climb up to D-Rank Hunter so well, Biondetta had a glum look on her face.

“What’s wrong, Biondetta-chan?”

She took out a hand mirror that looked expensive. It would have earned her scolding if she had taken it out at a girls’ gathering and started looking at her face from various angles.

“This nose is supposed to be popular, but… it doesn’t feel right. Maybe I should remake it from scratch.”

I’ve been fiddling with my nose the whole time and haven’t seen Rosarosa’s face. She’s been tinkering with her face like this every day since entering human society.

“…It might be a little late for that, but I don’t think Onii-chan cares about fashion, you know?”

“I’ve never doubted the eternity of your love, Wit-sama. But you can’t say you want to be loved by someone with this appearance. When walking around with a woman like me as an accessory, your popular face will convey your superiority to those around you.”

“… It’s warped.”

Well, I think it’s up to the individual to do the plastic surgery, Rosarosa, and sometimes I use the divine protection power to change Nanaya’s face to match her image and fiddle with this one a little while looking in the mirror, wondering if it’s cute.

But Biondetta says, “The trends of the world change all the time,” and changes her face every day. Maybe she’s her type, but it doesn’t seem like she’ll change the fact that she’s a bespectacled beauty with long, mature white-green hair… I’m surprised her sense of self doesn’t crumble.

There is a reason for her crazy way of thinking.

…………The world’s most beloved onii-chan loved Rosarosalosa and the others.

Even though I’m a monster, I think I’m happy, but I’m not in charge of bu-chi-ke-so-no-a-ai-ni- appearance-ha-a-n-ma-ri-seki-n-i-n.

…When I poisoned Onii-chan daily with the vines, there was no difference in how I treated Rosarosa in her current human state.

I wonder if that’s possible, but that’s the Onii-chan we love, so it can’t be helped.

I think Rosarosa and the others are so full of beautiful women right now because they’ve been exposed to infinite love during the Monster Era. They’ve been heightened to an impossibly high level of self-affirmation, and I’m sure that’s not wrong.

But even though the beauty of their looks is meant for the person they love to look at them, Onii-chan doesn’t care about their appearance, so Nanaya’s shrine maidens have no choice but to dress up for themselves. It’s a luxury worry, though.

In that case, she’s free to do whatever she wants with her looks, so Rosarosa thinks she’s the cutest and takes on a job she can do to poison.

…But Biondetta doesn’t seem to think so.

“You there, what do you think of my face? Is there anything you need to fix?”

Biondetta asked the girl who had just arrived at the store a question like that. Wait, are you an urban legend?

In her case, for Onii-chan’s public image… she’s aiming to be the beautiful woman everyone thinks is gorgeous because she wants Onii-chan to believe she’s no ordinary person with peerless beauty!

Of course, Onii-chan doesn’t want that to happen, but… Well, that’s part of Biondetta’s fetish.

“Huh? What is it? Are you bragging?”

The girl who called out to me replied like that.

That’s the right answer. Even if Biondetta-chan, who has perfect plastic surgery every day without a trace, asks something like that, it’ll only make her sarcastic. There are no flaws in your face anymore! I think.

“You’re bragging? What’s wrong with that? Come on, that guy.”

However, Biondetta-chan blames her opponent without a hint of mischief. It’s a standard pattern in all the fights she’s been having at the tavern daily.

“Huh? Looks like you guys are getting carried away. I heard that little girl played with Cain the other day…”

For some reason, the girl turned to face me. Seriously, why Rosarosa?! She hated Rosarosa from the start!

I’ve been trying to poison men and women equally, but I need to go out to eat personally for cool boys who don’t participate in multiple drinking parties. That’s why I often end up hating love affairs like this.

But I had no intention of fighting like that right now, and I had no intention of ever talking to this Cain again.

“Wait a minute. Sorry! I’ll treat you to a drink! Onee-san, have a beer for this girl.”

“…Tch.”

A female hunter clicks her tongue and goes home. Ah, human society is so dull.

Oh! That’s right! I must poison her, too, so I’ll set up a drinking party with Cain. I wanted to try the Cupid of Love!

“……………So, it’s about time for all the information we can get in this country.”

Despite the fight she’d picked herself, Biondetta said listlessly, as if to say, “I wonder if it’s finally over.”

I couldn’t just charge in at the speed of her transformation.

“In the end, the three new and unusual guild masters are almost always the masterminds, right?”

Rosarosa and the others’ current goal is to help Jacqueline conquer the Great Tower of Nadine. However, the mission directly connected to Onii-chan’s peace is to “defeat the one who blends into human society despite being a Dungeon Master and controls society.”

That’s why Rosarosa and the others had set up a background check on high-ranking people in advance.

The Great Tower of Nadinalezre is a dungeon that’s been around for three hundred years, so it’s not an enemy of Rosarosa and the others. In other words, the giant tower is a place with no reason to attack other than because they lost to Jacqueline and made a contract with her.

Well, Jacqueline’s my brother’s benefactor, and she’s like a second family member, so I will help her even without a contract!

“Those three guild masters disrespectfully rose to power about ten years ago, just like Wit-sama. They’re recklessly strong and sound-blocking rooms. They’re not the culprits, no matter how you look at it.”

… It’s probably a countermeasure against people who can use auditory enhancement magic. Still, it’s too suspicious for the guild master to set up soundproofing equipment, even if it’s a national VIP.

If you hit these guys, there’s no doubt that the dust will come out.

“The question is whether all three of them are Dungeon Masters from the same faction; two of them are monsters in human form like us, and one Dungeon Master seduced two humans.”

If Biondetta-chan is serious every day, asking all the clubs about their feelings and reports. She must only have important conversations in that soundproof room if that doesn’t tell her.

“It doesn’t look like there’s much of a line between monsters that take human form, though. It’s not like they’re properly changing their appearances under Nanaya-chan’s protection, like Rosarosa-chan and the others. I don’t think the guild master of this country is in an important post and can be fooled with just a disguise.”

Monsters in human form were especially common among undead and demonkind, but countermeasures to prevent them from invading human settlements like that were commonplace in every land.

“You can send my child to the soundproof room, but it’s too risky.”

She said that boldly. Incidentally, Rosarosa and the others were talking about such top-secret stuff in the tavern because they’d find out who we were anyway if there were an enemy with such a high-performance sensory enhancement skill.

Thanks to Nanaya’s divine protection, Rosarosa and the others’ bodies were human, from head to toe, including their organs. Still, bees were parasitizing Biondetta’s body, and Rosarosa spread poison through the well daily.

There’s no point in trying to smooth things with a guy like that. At the very least, we’re keeping our voices down as a countermeasure against spies.

Well, I don’t think there’s a girl who’s as good at hearing enhancement as Biondetta.

Besides, other than Nanaya’s Priestess, few monsters train their skills in the first place. Normally, killing an enemy and getting new skills with DP is faster.

The advantage of acquiring it so easily is easily overturned again. I feel sorry for the other dungeon monsters who didn’t even learn that from Onii-chan.

“Hmm, they’ll find out we’re infiltrating, so we don’t have to do it. Let’s dive into the giant tower of Nadine’s one last time and go home.”

… We’ve made enough money to use in the human lands, gathered enough information, and prepared some poison. If we look at the Great Tower of Nadinalezre at the end, Rosarosa and the others should be able to complete their mission.

That was when I heard a clanging sound and a voice asking, “How many people are there?” mixed in with the indecent conversations of the people in the tavern.

I don’t check my face every time, but of all the boys who came in, Biondetta was sitting in the seat reserved for Onii-chan.

It was Alan, who had been with us during the Hunter’s request before. He must have been happy to find us acquaintances because he smiled and took an empty seat.

…But I definitely shouldn’t have sat in that seat.

“Hyah!!! Wh-What the hell!? Wh-What are you doing?”

The moment Alan touched his butt, Biondetta kicked him in the face. He must have matured since it wasn’t his throat. He was holding back a lot.

Alan… I know you’re not a bad boy, but Biondetta tends to separate people by whether they’re good or bad, but by whether they’re useful or useless.

For someone like her, who thought like that, even though they were fellow D-Rank hunters, he, who had a second name that seemed to be written on a common card like “Allan the Returner,” couldn’t be thoroughly curved.

But I’m glad. Alan didn’t seem angry when I kicked him. He’s smiling. …Maybe he’s a pervert?

“That seat is reserved for someone important to me. Please bring a chair from around there if you want to sit down.”

Biondetta sounded so sharp that it was hard to believe she was the person who had kicked him earlier. Alan was Alan, and he looked apologetic when he heard that.

“That’s rude. To the person who saved my life…”

With that, he obediently brought the chair over and sat down. He had no intention of giving up on joining the conversation.

“You saved my life, of course! We’re friends, after all! So, what do you want?”

Their conversation wouldn’t start at this rate, so Rosarosa followed up.

Alan was so attached to Rosarosa and the others despite being subjected to such violence that Biondetta had defeated the enemy in charge of him when they’d been together during the request five days ago.

Naturally, Biondetta didn’t want to save him. She took him down herself to shorten the completion time of the request.

Unaware of this, Alan looked at me with sparkling eyes.

“What do you want? You’re acting like a stranger… But this time, I brought you some information as a gift. Did you know? The attack to conquer the giant tower’s Dungeon is about to begin.”

Alan whispered to me as if this was special information he’d been saving.

“I know.”

But of course, Biondetta had heard enough information to get Alan. Her ability to gather information was the real deal.

Dungeon conquering attacks… The act of the guild seriously summoning hunters from other countries to conquer the Dungeon one floor at a time

…All monster pops come from the core. That’s why it’s possible to conquer all floors of the Dungeon, even if it takes time if you take your time attacking in groups.

But…

“The Great Tower of Nadine’s Dungeon Battle Attack took a whole year, didn’t it?”

Rosarosa cocked her head to the side, trying to look simple.

“So! There were terrible dungeons, too. Of course, they’d ignore us.”

Alan nodded.

Dungeon-conquering attacks are certainly a useful dungeon strategy. But it takes an incredible amount of time. After all, we must set up camp inside the Dungeon, enemy territory, and summon noncombatants there.

In addition, the Great Tower of Nadinalezre and Dungeon Battle Attacks are very incompatible.

That’s because the Great Tower of Nadinalezre is a dungeon with 150 floors, which is rare even in B-Rank dungeons. That’s the origin of the name “giant tower.”

…… I’ve heard from Jacqueline that it’s a dungeon that reflects the Dungeon Master, Ryuujou-san.

“Continue to do the most efficient things for the sake of their goals …It seems that Ryuujou-san’s Dungeon, with its personality like that, has a similar floor, changing only the layout of traps and monsters to form a series of 150 levels.”

I think it’s a boring dungeon, but that’s probably why she’s been able to live. I believe her daughter, Jacqueline, has a similar tendency.

Rosarosa and the others had planned to dive into the Dungeon at least once before the festival’s formalities, and Eve started a troublesome dungeon-slaying attack, but…

Rosarosa could more or less guess what he was trying to say by looking at his face.

As I waited for his next words, Alan cut through the silence with a determined expression.

“Umm, I’ve been told about Dungeon conquering attacks too… If I go along with this, I think I’ll be able to reach C-Rank. But I’m worried. I thought I’d be able to relax if I was with you guys, who saved my life. I-I’ll do my best too, of course.”

He blushed and hung his head as he spoke, either because he hated relying on girls or because he was embarrassed to be found out about his lack of strength.

…Seeing his pathetic face, I think. But that’s right. This story might not be bad.

I almost let out a grin without thinking.

“Okay! I get it. Let’s participate together! Don’t worry about saving your life or anything anymore, okay?”

Rosarosa winked at me, and Alan bowed his head in awe. Well, Rosarosa barely fought five days ago.

“Thank you! But the person who saved my life saved my life! I’ll at least take this seat!”

“What?! Wow! Thanks!”

Even though Alan made less money than Rosarosa and the others, he stood up with his wallet. Rosarosa, technically in charge of communication in this country, applauded from the bottom of her heart.

Rosarosa didn’t miss that he was grinning uncontrollably after hearing Rosarosa’s praise.

… He’s already been poisoned by Rosarosa during the launch five days ago. But the thought of her thanking him like this is getting interesting.

Oh no. I tried not to laugh, but I couldn’t stop the laughter from coming out of my stomach. As a result, Rosarosa let out a “hic” and a twitching laugh as if her lungs were twitching. But thank goodness! It seemed Alan hadn’t found out.

And seeing him be honest like that made me think of something interesting.

“That’s right! If we invite Tot-kun too, we can form a four-person party. Let’s invite him once!”

When Rosarosa said that, Alan looked disgusted.

Had he thought it was a harem with two women? When he’d invited the nose-picking Merxedes Tot, he’d been visibly lifeless from his eyes.

(Aha! A useless dungeon-slaying attack with someone I hate! This is going to be fun!)

Rosarosa poured in the beer and ordered two expensive drinks to show off to Alan.