The Fallen Prince’s Pleasure Dungeon: I Won’t Let the Female Adventurers Leave ~ I Was Reincarnated as the Villain in an Eroge, and Even Though I Just Want to Live a Quiet Slow Life, Beautiful Girls Keep Gathering Around Me!?~ - 32

Chapter 32: An Existence Summoned Only When Convenient To Offer up This Feminine Body

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“President Alto, I am so sorry!”

I had come to the construction site after receiving a report from Mine.

“We… we just got a little too carried away…!”

Mine was the embodiment of energy, characterized by her sharp eyebrows and drooping eyes, but today her face was twisted with regret.

“So, this is it—”

Mine and her team’s failure. It was an accident where they had dug too far trying to expand the site and ended up punching a hole straight through to the outside of the dungeon. Fortunately, the location was deep in the mountains where no one would ever walk by, so it didn’t seem like there were any witnesses. The hole, just large enough for a person to pass through, had been given emergency treatment using some nearby sediment.

“I am terribly sorry… I will accept any punishment…”

Mine bowed her head low in humble apology.

“No, I don’t mind. More importantly, thanks for reporting it properly.”

“Huh?”

It would have been more of a pain if they had tried to hide it without telling me. If they had just plugged it haphazardly, someone might have noticed the unnaturalness and discovered the dungeon’s existence. It would be too late if this became a literal “loophole” that increased the number of unwanted intruders.

Even though she thought she’d be scolded, the fact that she contacted me immediately was a nice recovery.

“《Create》.”

I restored it thoroughly so that it looked perfectly original, even from the outside.

“O-oh! So easily, and so beautifully…! This is the President’s power of construction…!”

“You could say the same for you and your team, Mine. I can’t believe you’ve already built this much.”

I looked around after sealing the hole. Aside from this accident, the Gnomes’ city-building was progressing more than smoothly. In about three days, the land-leveling was completely finished, and several buildings were already taking shape. There were even prototypes of what looked like roads.

“Impressive. To get this far without using skills like mine. Especially since you Gnomes are so small.”

While I was genuinely impressed, my mind was also turning over another matter. It was about the Nyu anti-intruder measures I had been considering the other day.

(A hole… a hole leading outside. And this construction site…)

An idea solidified in my head, but—

“Wait, what’s wrong!?”

I looked down to see Mine weeping profusely.

“No! It’s just that you forgave our failure, and then gave us such kind words of praise… Ugh, hic, waaaah!”

“You’re crying too much. You’re going to get dehydrated. Here, drink this energy drink.”

I handed her a small vial, and Mine gulped it down while still sobbing. In the meantime, Medi and the others caught up to me. I had invited them to join me for an inspection today. Seeing the crying Mine and me rubbing her back, Nyu spoke up.

“Wow, Alto-sama is quite the heartbreaker~”

“Hmph!? You little brat with the bun-head, you’re too close. Move back a bit.”

In contrast to the two who were missing the point, Medi leaned in close to Mine and helped me rub her back. What a good girl.

“Oboro, it’s fine until Mine calms down.”

“No, Master! The hierarchy must be made clear!”

“She’s right… President, thank you very much.”

Mine wiped her cheeks with a firm swipe.

“I’ve recovered now! I’ll refocus myself and work with all my heart and soul to meet your expectations, President!!”

This girl was a bit excessive in her own way, but I was relieved to see her return to her usual high tension.

“Now then, Silver-rank Gnome. Step away from Master.”

“Understood. It sets a poor example for a rank-and-file employee to be so familiar with the President!”

“Exactly! …Hmm, you’re surprisingly sensible.”

“Maintaining a strict chain of command… As expected of the President’s Wife!”

“…Huh?”

Oboro froze. Mine asked with a blank look on her face.

“Was I wrong?”

She looked back and forth between us.

“I assumed for certain that you were the President’s lady.”

“!!! Gnome… What an excellent monster you are! You have potential, so much potential!?”

(Don’t start trembling on me. Why are you so moved?)

Glancing to the side, Medi looked like she didn’t quite follow(understandably so), while Nyu was staring at Oboro with eyes full of murderous intent. Oboro, getting carried away, continued.

“However! Bun-head girl, Master’s number one is Medi-dono! She is Mythical Grade, an existence far beyond the likes of us!”

“!? My apologies, so you were the wife.”

“Indeed. As for me… I suppose I am something of a second wife? An existence summoned only when convenient to offer up this feminine body!”

“Hey, stop tanking my reputation.”

And why did she sound so proud of it? Then, Nyu clung tightly to my arm.

“Then I’m the mistress~ The favorite woman who gets called more often than the second wife~ ♡”

“Gunuuu, that black-haired girl is truly…!”

Oboro gripped her fists and trembled, but she immediately regained her composure.

“Fine, then. I shall ignore the words of a Copper-rank… Listen, bun-head girl with potential. I, the second wife, shall personally provide you with an education!”

“Really!? I would be delighted to receive guidance from the President’s wife!”

“A straight answer, good! I shall put in a word for you so that you may be appointed to an important post.”

(She’s definitely the type you should never give power to.)

At any rate, the two of them, who were almost total opposites but somehow hit it off, went back to the city-building.

“Now then. Medi, Nyu. There’s somewhere I want to go. Care to join me?”

“Eh, a date? I’m coming ♡”

“A walk with Alto-sama! ♡”

A flower in each hand. I began my stroll, holding hands with Medi in her voluptuous adventurer style on one side and Nyu in her miniskirt maid outfit on the other.

Originally, I had intended to ask Medi and Nyu for their requests regarding the city-building and construct things together, but I wanted to immediately test the idea that had occurred to me at the accident site.

“Where are we going, Alto-sama?”

“This dungeon is inside the mountain range.”

I dug a tunnel in a different direction, away from the Gnome city. I gouged out the rock face with 《Create》, clearing away the debris as I went.

“There’s only one entrance. That usual spot. …It would be best if I could just seal it off.”

The dungeon existed to lure in humans, female humans, to be precise. It seemed impossible even for me, the Dungeon Master, to negate its very existence.

“Humans aren’t exactly a threat, right? You can just take them out like those bandits the other day.”

“Only the women. But it would be a hassle if men found the entrance and started making a fuss.”

Even if Imelda kept the bandit groups in check, there was no guarantee another group wouldn’t sniff us out.

“That’s why, if I can’t get rid of the entrance… I’ll just increase the number of them.”

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