CH 1.10

After finishing our dinner, Lia also helped me to wash the dishes. We huddled together in a narrow sink to wash the dishes. I don’t mind having 10 more times dirty dishes just for today.

[This please] (Toru)

[Yes~] (Lia)

I removed the stains with a sponge and detergent and Lia wash it with water. Lia’s dishes was all eaten cleanly, so was mine.

[It was really delicious, especially the dish called hamburger steak!] (Lia)

[I see, I’m glad to hear that] (Toru)

[Combination of egg yolk mixed with sauce is so.... amazing~] (Lia)

I'm really glad to made it from the bottom of my heart.

[By the way, are a hamburger steak, rice, and salad also artifacts that has special effects like cola from before?] (Lia)

Wh-What is this suddenly.... I think they are just an ordinary ingredients with ordinary recipe rather than some artifacts.

[Normally, I heard it’s just temporary though, but there are very precious Medicine Artifacts with such effects. I can feel my physical strength and magical power have risen somehow! Is Toru-sama’s dishes was that kinds of artifacts?] (Lia)

What was that? I don’t understand even you ask me.... but certainly, cooking inside the game can have such an effects.

[You couldn’t check the status inside here, was it?] (Toru)

I said so to Lia. --[I just understood, fufufu~]-- she looked at me faced-up and laughed.

Probably she still couldn’t see her status. Rather than understood she just felt it. When I laugh back ambiguously, she tells me the other things.

[Cooking is amazing but Toru-sama Living Artifacts is more amazing] (Lia)

[Eh? Living Artifacts?] (Toru)

[Yes, just as I said before but usually all artifacts are tools made for fighting] (Lia)

I see. If you think about it, warfare desires the best technology in any age. The budget poured onto it is also astronomical. I guess every world is like that.

[That’s why I love your Living Artifacts. Because Toru-sama lives deep inside a dungeon, I thought that Toru-sama was studying some fearful artifacts] (Lia)

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In addition, I was also listening about her life inside a dungeon, we continue chatting and chatting until the night got late. I’m still up since I have told my part-time job place that I would take a break for a while due to moving. I’d like to go to Don Quijote to buy a jersey for pajamas.

[Shall we go out for a moment?] (Toru)

[Eh?] (Lia)

Lia put a surprised face. That’s right.... if you think carefully, we are inside the dungeon right now.

[Just kidding, it’s a joke] (Toru)

[Toru-sama is often making jokes? Fufufu~] (Lia)

[That....? I wonder what is going on?] (Toru)

[Wh-What happen?] (Lia)

I look at Lia’s face. She was just like a child who would believe anything I said. Have you been in a Japanese-style room until now? In that case, there is a big windows enough for humans to get in and out. You can see Japan in full view over there. Though we are inside the dungeon, why she didn’t find it strange until now?

[Say, is this underground right? Can you see a stars on the night sky from here?] (Toru)

[Oh come on, Toru-sama. Are you teasing me? It’s obviously impossible right?] (Lia)

[Right~~!] (Toru)

I doubt that the night view in the world on dungeons side and Japans are different. So why is it? I wonder if she thought the urban landscape at the other side of the window as an extension of the dungeon. Certainly the building seems to be a little like a dungeon, but you really could see the night sky there. I invite Lia to the Japanese-style room.

[Wh-What is this suddenly?] (Lia)

[Just come here a little] (Toru)

[Ye-Yes] (Lia)

I brought Lia in front of the window where the outside sight is visible.

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In the end, I decide to go to Don Quijote alone and make Lia wait in the apartment. There was a thought to come together with her, but it’s better to go alone at the moment. Even so, it’s a good thing I could meet Lia. Inside that property, who knows what accidents could happen over there. That real estate agent.... I going to complain later.

First of all I buy a jersey. I buy food and drink just in case, also potato chips should not be forgotten. Do potato chips is really raised an 【Agility】 status?  I am going to do some experimenting later. It’s better to have two toothbrushes. Because I already own myself, I bought one for Lia.

There is no more goods I intend to buy today.... but I'd like go to see something in a certain corner. This is a security corner. There may be better to buy it through mail order but I’d like to see the goods that are sold here as a sample. Something to observing a dungeon through a PC is desirable.

[Isn't this front door type would be perfect?] (Toru)

I was thinking whether I could put a surveillance camera inside a dungeon. Then, while watching the image from the camera that connected to a personal computer in the safe room, I beat the monsters with just one click! Further I looking into pet department.

[I couldn’t keep Slime inside an iron cage as expected. Large acrylic aquarium would be better, I guess. But I’m not going to put it in the same room as me. I going to use it for various things inside a dungeon later] (Toru)

By the way, I was thinking about breeding a monsters in order to utilize 【No-Limits Growth】 skill. While securing a safety margin using tools I bought from Japan, I was thinking on how to defeat as many monsters

as possible.