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Rokujouma no Shinryakusha!? (Light Novel) - Volume 3, Chapter 6: Dungeon and Treasure
Volume 3, Chapter 6: Dungeon and Treasure
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Saturday, August 22nd
Ten days had passed since the events at the hot springs and the calendar had now reached the later half of August.
It was still summer vacation but Koutarou and Harumi had decided to use this day for club activities.
That said, they didn't go all the way to school, but instead they were using a self-study room in a library close to both of them.
As long as you booked ahead of time you could borrow an entire self-study room for yourself.
Because of that, the room wasn't particularly large, but it was enough for the knitting society.
“...And we were able to make up.”
“I see, that's great.”
“This is all thanks to your advice, Sakuraba-senpai.”
Koutarou finished explaining the events regarding him and Sanae and bowed deeply.
He had called Harumi as soon as he got back from the trip and let her know of the results, but he felt the need to thank her in person.
That said, Koutarou didn't touch on the part that Sanae was a ghost or that she had been kidnapped by ghost hunters.
It would only serve to confuse Harumi, and that wasn't the important part.
“Thank you.”
Sanae who was next to Koutarou bowed her head as well.
Aware that Harumi couldn't see or hear her, Sanae had still come along with Koutarou in order to express her gratitude.
“U-Uhm, please value your friends, okay?”
Embarrassed by Koutarou earnestly apologizing to her face, she stared down on her hands as she busily knitted away.
She had decided to try out a new knitting method today, but because of her embarrassment she had reverted to using her normal method without realizing.
“Yes, I will.”
Feeling satisfied that he'd achieved his goals for the day, Koutarou began moving his own knitting needles.
Koutarou had gotten quite decent at knitting and was now working on a muffler for the coming winter.
“She called us friends.”
However, Sanae slightly delayed his progress.
Instead of standing on her own she was clinging on to Koutarou's neck.
This position made it hard for Koutarou to move his knitting needles.
“It's not like we're like that, right?”
“...Then get off. It's hard to knit.”
Koutarou whispered his complaints so that Harumi wouldn't hear.
Fortunately, Harumi seemed quite busy knitting so she didn't notice.
“No way♪”
“...Be reasonable.”
“We're enemies, so I'll get in your way♪”
“Come on now.”
Sanae refused to listen to Koutarou's complaints as she smiled.
She had been acting like that for a while now and she would often make it hard for Koutarou.
Thanks to the events at the hot springs, Sanae understood that Koutarou wasn't just her enemy.
They were enemies when it came to room 106, but apart from that she realized that he didn't dislike her.
And Sanae had now completely returned to her old, energetic self.
Instead, she was now less reserved around Koutarou and was even more energetic.
Before, Sanae would often spend a lot of time with Koutarou, but ever since the hot springs she would now always be with Koutarou as long as there was no special reason not to.
And she would tease and trouble him from time to time.
Getting in the way of his knitting was one of those troubles.
But Sanae didn't go out of her way to trouble Koutarou, she held back when the situation called for it.
In the past she wasn't be able to realize when the situation called for it, which was quite a big change.
However, Koutarou didn’t realize this change had occurred since he was still being troubled, only the problems troubling him had changed.
Having finished their club activities, Koutarou and Sanae headed back home.
As they reached room 106 Theia jumped out from the room with a pale face.
“You picked a good time to come back, pleb!”
“What, did something happen?”
Koutarou began feeling worried as he saw Theia's serious expression.
“You say something to Yurika! She refuses to put down the controller!”
“W-What, it's just something like that...”
“What do you mean by something like that!? My Blue Knight is just about face the final decisive battle! But Yurika won't change with me!”
“Why is Yurika even playing games?”
“Who knows?”
“That doesn't matter, just hurry up and come! The final battle draws closer!”
“Okay, okay... You're all so selfish, geez...”
“I want to play too. Koutarou, let's fight.”
“No! I'm first!”
Theia impatiently stamped her feet on the floor as Koutarou took off his shoes.
“We'll finish this today no matter what! How dare the boss casually drink tea with his subordinates!? He's making a fool of me and Blue Knight!”
“I got it, just calm down, Tulip!”
“What kind of fool would calm down before the decisive battle!?”
“This illness is getting serious.”
Having finished taking off his shoes, Theia dragged Koutarou towards the inner room.
“Waaaah! Where are they~”
Entering the inner room, like it or not, Koutarou instantly noticed Yurika.
She was crying bitterly as she sat in front of the TV.
And she stared into the screen as she desperately twiddled with the controller.
“Go on, say something, pleb!”
“Y-Yeah.”
Slightly taken aback by the sight of Yurika crying whilst playing a game, Koutarou nodded at Theia and sat down next to Yurika.
“Hey Yurika, if it's so bad it makes you want to cry, you could just stop.”
“You're wrong, I'm not crying because it's bad~!”
Yurika paused the game and turned towards Koutarou while still crying.
“T-Then what is it?”
“I can't find them~”
Yurika pointed towards to the TV as tears streamed down her face.
On the screen was the status screen of the game Theia was always playing.
“Who can't you find?”
“Yurika, Yurika A and Yurika B~! Theia-chan just won't recover their bodies from the dungeon~!”
“I see...”
Koutarou let out a loud sigh as he finally understood the situation.
Theia named the characters after the residents of room 106, because thinking of names was too troublesome.
That alone would have been fine, but Theia had given up on rescuing some of the characters that had fallen and instead abandoned them.
Because that was also too troublesome.
Noticing that situation, Yurika was trying to save the characters named after herself.
“Well, I guess you can't sit still with characters named after you, lying dead in a cave.”
“This is your fault, Tulip.”
“R-Ruth, please refill my tea. And get some for the pleb and the others as well.”
Theia diverted her eyes as the topic turned unfavorable for her.
“Yes, I'll prepare it right away.”
“Hey, Tulip.”
“K-Kiriha, these snacks are delicious. What do you call them?”
“They're called rice crackers.”
“I see. T-They have quite a mysterious texture.”
Theia pretended like she couldn't hear Koutarou and began eating the tea snack Kiriha had prepared.
“What are you, a kid?”
“I-It can't be helped. They were a necessary sacrifice for the greater good.”
Koutarou looked on in amazement as Theia desperately made excuses whilst gnawing on a rice cracker.
“Admit it, you just think it's a pain to go looking for Yurika.”
“Yes... No, wait, that's wrong! That's not what I was thinking at all!”
“Waaaaah! You're terrible!”
“Don't make this more complicated than it already is, Sanae...”
“Why, what does it matter?”
Sanae smiled as she troubled Koutarou some more.
“More importantly, you hurry up and eat some snacks too, Koutarou! If you don't eat, I can't taste the rice crackers either!”
Sanae, still hanging onto Koutarou's back, reached out towards the tea table, grabbed a snack and pushed it against Koutarou's mouth.
“...Alright, I got it.”
Koutarou reluctantly opened his mouth as Sanae threw the snack in.
“Satomi-sama and Sanae-sama sure do get along.”
Ruth came back to refill the tea, she smiled as she looked at Sanae clinging onto Koutarou's back.
“We don't.”
Koutarou made an offended expression; he had been the one who had been carrying around Sanae all this time.
“Is that so?”
“Now now, we all know you're actually happy~”
Sanae hugged Koutarou's back and poked his cheeks.
“Geez, you're not being honest at all~, Koutarou-chan. Your secrets are out you know~”
Despite Koutarou's unpleasant expression, Sanae kept smiling.
She was convinced that Koutarou was just hiding his embarrassment.
“Hmm~~, Fufufu~~”
Sanae cheerfully clung to Koutarou's back and she would sometimes gaze down on her own hand, in it she held a charm embroidered with the words 'Family Safety'.
This isn't exploding, so I already know how you really feel. I won't believe you no matter how many times you say you don't like it!
“If you don't stop it I'll get angry.”
“Hmm hmm, that kind of threat won't work on me~♪”
Sanae stubbornly pressed her body against Koutarou, believing that would make him happy too.
“...It seems you won't learn unless you get hurt, Sanae.”
Having gotten a little angry, Koutarou reached into his pocket and pulled out a charm and showed it to Sanae.
“Do it if you can. That thing won't work on me anymore.”
Despite seeing the new charm, Sanae didn't flinch.
The charm in her hand didn't explode, so neither would this new one.
She no longer had a reason to fear the charms.
“...Take that.”
So even though Koutarou pressed the charm onto her face, Sanae kept smiling.
A loud boom rang out.
“Gyafu!?”
As a result Sanae was blown back while still smiling.
“Fufufu, have you learned your lesson now, Sanae?”
“W-Why!? Weren't the charms not supposed to work anymore!?”
Sanae sprang up onto her feet as smoke rose from her face.
She then compared the charm she was holding with the one Koutarou was holding.
“Justice always wins! Let this be a learning experience to you, Sanae!”
She was holding the 'Family Safety' charm in her hand while Koutarou was holding the 'Be gone evil spirits' charm in his.
“I-It couldn't be...!?”
Seeing that, a theory popped into Sanae's head.
Koutarou accepts me into the room, but he still thinks of me as an evil spirit!? That's why 'Family Safety' won't explode but 'Be gone evil spirits' will!?
She felt her theory seemed to be correct.
“Aaaarrghhhhh!! Why are you always like that!?”
“Woah!?”
Sanae pounced on Koutarou.
“My, my.”
“It's good that you get along so well.”
As Ruth and Kiriha watched over, Sanae began choking Koutarou for the first time in ten days.
“Now I'm angry! I'll make sure you regret that!”
“C-Curse you, S-Sanaeeeee!!”
And like that, the Koutarou's and Sanae's relationship reverted back to normal.
Sometimes laughing together, other times getting angry at each other and sometimes fighting it out.
That was how the two of them acted together.
“D-Don't think things will always go your way!!”
“Why can't you just say 'Sanae-chan, you sure are cute'!? You sourpuss!”
Only one thing had really changed.
That was the small charm hanging off of Sanae's neck.
It had 'Family Safety' embroidered onto it and it was now owned by Sanae.
As the commotion ensued as always in room 106, an irregularity occurred on the bridge of the Blue Knight.
An alarm suddenly began ringing out.
The sound echoed in the wide bridge and the once quiet bridge was now filled with noise.
It was the emergency alarm that had rung out for the first time during these few months.
“Detected a medium-sized rift in space-time. A 95% chance of being a warp out point.”
The monitors immediately powered up and displaying the related information, such as the relative position of Earth, the moon and the sun and the precise location of the Blue Knight.
It also showed a number of graphs and tables.
“Calculated the mass of the space distortion. Warning. There is a 90% chance of being a royal class battleship. This is an emergency, my princess.”
The Blue Knight used these tables, graphs and numbers and derived that a new spaceship had entered the region.
