Chapter 431 – The Holy Sword and the Arena (3)

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“Don’t you think it’s strange?”

Ariel, who was walking down the dungeon, suddenly opened her mouth.

“Yes? What?”

Ariel closed her mouth for a moment, frowning as if trying to organize his words her.

“…The guild said that the arena caused an artificial wave by being instigated by the administration. If that’s the case, it’s safe to say that the arena is on par with the Administration Bureau.”

“Right.”

“But don’t you think it’s too incoherent for something like that?”

I see what you’re talking about.

I nodded.

If the two of you are a gang, you shouldn’t interfere with each other. However, the guards controlling the dungeon were quite uncooperative. It was quite a tick-tack, knowing we were doing the arena quests.

“Well, it’s common for hands and feet not to match at the lower end. Didn’t that guard also look like he didn’t know why he was doing this here? They say that the arena and the guards are all in one, but they won’t tell the lower end in detail. To put it bluntly, it’s a decision made only by the top heads.”

“Hehe…”

Lenny exclaimed and looked up at me.

“Yujin is also amazing. I never thought of that. I just… “

“Just what?”

“Oh, nothing.”

Lenny stopped talking in a somewhat embarrassed tone. Bland.

Well, the attitude was too bad to say it was because I didn’t know.

Where are you going, are they all colleagues? It looks like there are only women. Do you have enough equipment? Can you really do it?

He hardly even looked this way when he asked me that question. Just glancing at our kids. Yes, they are beauties that you can’t take your eyes off of, but shouldn’t you work anyway?

Although Rize showed up just as he was about to become displeased and somehow managed to cover it up.

“Why was he arguing so much?”

“Are you asking because you really don’t know? “

Yuri looked like how could she not know that, but I wasn’t interested.

“It’s not my part-time job why the low-end henchmen act like that.”

“…I don’t know if I’m really aware or not.”

Yuri narrowed her eyes and looked at me, then looked at Lenny and Ariel once, then looked at me again. I don’t know what your gesture means.

“It’s not like that.”

“No?”

But Ariel shook her head.

“I am not talking about such trivial matters.”

“?”

Ariel frowned again. She’s felt it before, but this elf seems to have a habit of crouching like this when she’s organizing her words her.

“Looking at the nuances that have been revealed so far, aren’t the guards acting as if they were going to close the dungeon altogether?”

“Right?”

“However, entering and exiting the dungeon is indispensable for maintaining the arena. The arena is constantly demanding consumables. You should know, because you saw it last time.”

“Hmm…”

It was.

When I visited before, the arena was literally consuming monsters. Of course, even if it pretended to be a huge wyvern, it seemed that the great monsters were not killed and kept alive, but before that, the trivial monsters to enhance the atmosphere were literally being ground.

Ariel continued.

“Besides, they said that the tamers disappeared in groups. Because of that, even ordinary adventurers like us were assigned quests. Looking at what happened, the arena must be in a position to gather the resources of the dungeon somehow. In such a position, to cause an incident that could close the dungeon. It doesn’t make sense to me.”

She asked Yuri, who was listening attentively next to her, as if wondering.

“Eh, but isn’t it like that?”

“Is it like that?”

“We brought you eggs before. That’s why I gathered the monsters, um, females and males in it, and that…”

Yuri stopped talking to her and blushed at her. This guy likes anal, but he hides himself in strange places.

I spoke instead.

“You mean breeding by crossing?”

“That, yes. It.”

Yes, I am curious as well.

“Come to think of it, there is that too. Didn’t you say that weak slime could call sheep on its own?”

At that, Ariel shook her head.

“It took so long to make even a monster with a simple structure like slime reproduce outside the dungeon. And in fact, even that is not perfect. Strictly speaking, it is more like cloning than breeding.”

“What is the difference?”

Yuri asked right away. Lenny was just tilting his head as if he didn’t understand at all.

“…”

Ariel frowned again, perhaps trying to organize his thoughts of her. I don’t know if that’s why I’m getting wrinkles on my forehead.

“… I don’t know how to express it. Let’s assume you cut off a leg from a live chicken and ate it.”

“Yes, yes?”

“It is a home after all. Anyway, you can think of regenerating a leg from a legless chicken and then cutting it off again. If you look at it over and over again, it will be roughly similar.”

“Kek”.

“Is that what you were doing?!”

Lenny shouted in shock, but Ariel had a calm face.

“Does not matter. Slimes are not high enough creatures to feel pain. Anyway, it is said that you can never produce monsters in the arena on its own. Besides, there is also the problem of feeding the monsters you already have. The monsters in the dungeon cannot maintain their bodies unless they eat monsters from the same dungeon.”

“Hehe…”

“So, if the arena were sane, it wouldn’t have done anything that would cause problems with the supply of materials.”

“…”

I felt a strange strange feeling again.

If you think about it, it is full of doubts in many ways.

Let’s assume that it’s possible that the hands and feet don’t fit at the end. The problem is that the condition of the limbs is below average.

‘Why did we do this here…Dealing with monsters…’

‘Will they give me extra pay if I’m doing this here?’

‘Vacation was cut…’

The guards who were muttering in a corner of the dungeon entrance could not be said to have high morale even with empty words.

To stop a large-scale wave of monsters with such people? Aren’t the guards at the top not even properly grasping the status of their subordinates?

Well, there were really not one or two strange things in this case.

How could he understand why the arena ordered the quest without sacrificing himself. The problem is its content.

“Aphids. Why do you need that?”

“I know…”

The quest that came down to us was a request that didn’t even sound like a word to secure aphids.

According to Rize, it’s the first time she’s seen anything like this.

The good news is, how did they find out about the location before we arrived?

But aphids, what the hell are you going to use them for?

As I was about to fall into trouble again, Yuri suddenly pulled my arm.

“Yes? What’s the matter?”

“Brother. Do you have anything in mind?”

“…Well? Anything else to say? I think this is the limit with the information we have right now. We’ll have to check the rest after infiltrating the arena…”

“No no, not that. Have you really forgotten anything?”

Yuri looked at me with a serious face. Other than that, did I miss something?

I looked at Yuri again, but the fact that she kept her mouth shut doesn’t seem to give me any hints. When she turned her eyes to the side, Ariel tilted as well.

But, what should I say about Lenny? She seemed to be expecting something.

What is it really?

“Ugh. What kind of anniversary is today by any chance? I’m sorry, but I don’t know much about customs here…”

“Whoa, what is that? Well, it’s fine if you don’t remember.”

Yuri just calmly backed away as if it wasn’t a big deal. So what about Lenny?

Lenny was rolling her eyes back and forth.

I know that expression Miss Lenny, it seems that something is bothering you. Did Yuri blow in the wind to plot something else?

Lenny, who met her eyes her with mine, took a step in front of her as if she had made up her mind her before long.

“Yu, Yujin,” “But you know.”

Lenny looked like he had something to say, but before he did, Yuri quickly cut in front of him.

“But it’s an anniversary. What are you talking about?”

“Ugh.”

You’re asking what’s wrong with this guy. I have never had the experience of taking care of an anniversary! It’s unimaginable now that I live a life like a prostitute, but in modern times I was a fool!

“Yes? Won’t you tell me?”

“Ugh, uhm. Just what…”

At Yuri’s urging, I eventually gave only a few representative ones. Only roughly for things like Valentine’s Day or White Day. I know there are many ‘days’ like this, but at the time I thought it was meaningless!

However, the more he explained, the colder he felt in Yuri’s eyes her.

“Huh… Then oppa exchanged things like that too? With your girls?”

It wasn’t just glass. Lenny and Ariel were all staring at my face. Ariel is like that, Miss Lenny. Didn’t you just act like you had something to say? Why are you looking at me with those burning eyes?

“Ah, no, I’ve said it before, but I’m saying you guys are the first? Lenny, I already told you.”

“Ha, but Yujin-san said that, three, three, sex was the first time… !”

Lenny stuttered as if he was going to die of shame, but he still managed to speak to the end. If it was like before, I wouldn’t have been able to talk about sex properly, but you’ve grown.

Still, the eyes look like they’ve been tricked. Anyone who sees it will know I’m cheating!

“As I said before, you guys are the first for me not only in sex, but in all other sexual relationships.”

“… Really?”

“Yeah, yes.”

“Really? Stuttering is suspicious.”

“…Don’t look at me like that. It would be miserable to say with my own mouth that I never had a relationship with the opposite sex before!”

“…”

Eventually, these words came out.

Kut. I feel like I want to dig a mouse hole out of shame. Why do these guys keep trying to pry into other people’s embarrassing past?!

“Hmph, what’s so hard about saying there’s no existence without it?”

Yuri shook her head, as if offended by her yelling at her, but then she burst out laughing.

“Puhh. Anyway, no, that’s it.”

“…”

The other two seemed to blink their eyes for some reason.

No, so what were you trying to say?

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Paper Nymph…. You drew such a wonderful fan art….. Thank you always… Thank you so much heuk heuk…