The girl in front of me said her name with an air of arrogance, yet somehow humanity.

”Is that the same name as Aulum …… this dungeon?”

You know what? This is me. This is me.

…… dungeon genie, you mean?

That’s what it looks like.

Ah Lum smiling at me.

His beauty and mysterious air.

The spirit of the dungeon, I could easily believe it even if I called myself a dungeon spirit.

It’s not painful, it’s like a cheap tweak.

I’m not going to be able to say that I’m not going to be able to do anything about it. Do you want to go beat it?If you beat me, you’ll get a hell of a lot of gold.

Aurum says with a grin, and a prankish smile.

If it’s a monster, I’d take it down, but there’s no option but to take down someone who’s cute like this, and most importantly, with whom I can communicate normally.

‘I won’t,’

I shrugged and replied with a slightly over-reaction.

“Huh. Hey, what’s your name?

Ryota Sato.

Sato?Ryota?Strange name.

Well, it’s a unique name.

But it’s been hundreds of years since a human came to my place. You have a 0.000000001 chance of opening this door after conquering the dungeon and defeating the lowest level monster. It can’t be helped.

‘Hundreds of years.Isn’t Aulum a newborn dungeon?

‘Huh?You don’t know anything about it?

Aulum is wide-eyed.

‘We’ll always be here, we’ll be in dungeons and not dungeons, just moving from one place to another.

‘Really?Us?

Yes.

Aulum nodded with a straight face.

Aulum…… Tellurium…… Nihonium…… us.

”Could it be that there are 118 people in all?”

You know what?

You know what I mean? I mean, I’m a sailor, Levee.

What is that?

No, I’m just saying.

Hmmm, whatever. I haven’t seen anyone in 300 years, so if you’re free, come and join me for a bit of chitchat. Of course, I don’t want to say that it’s free. I’m happy to oblige.

Aulum raised his hand with a swoosh.

After snapping his white fingers out of the end of his lace-filled bell sleeve, a mountain of gold appeared in space.

Literally, a mountain of them.

The gold nuggets were piled up in a flurry like cardboard boxes piled up in a warehouse.

The golden color that reflected the light and the roughly trillions of gold bars were dazzling in a double sense.

I want gold, and the more gold I have, the happier I am supposed to be – but this is indeed a pullback.

‘Okay, that’s fine,’

What?Is that not enough?Well, then–

More importantly, are you okay?

What?

Aulum, struck by the emptiness of the situation, froze with his eyes wide open.

”I’m fine?”

Yeah.

What do you mean, it’s going to be okay? What do you mean? I’m supposed to be okay. I’m supposed to be okay.

……

Auld Lang Syne, after all, said with a somewhat arrogant expression.

At the same time, he was still very friendly.

I’m even more convinced that what I saw and felt in her was not my imagination.

I’m convinced that what I saw and felt in her was not my imagination.

Emily.

Celeste.

Alice.

Margaret.

The villagers of Indor.

The expressions on those people’s faces, the air they wore when they met.

One after another, they ran through my head like a running lamp.

It was the same one I once had.

The same as I had been a cattleman in my former world.

This is the air given by people who are unfortunate, people who are forced to do something without being blessed.

Ahrum wore that air.

It’s very difficult to understand, but I was definitely wearing that air.

“Wha-what’s that look?

What do you want?

What?

……

…… is not quite there yet. I’m sure I’ve missed people for the first time in 300 years.

Aulum let out a sigh and looked at me, a thin smile sticking to his mouth.

‘I need to look out.

“Outside.

‘Yeah, outside the dungeon. I don’t even remember it anymore, but it’s like I’ve been in the dungeon since I was born.

Always?

‘You said this body is like a monster, right?I can’t get out of the dungeon, and I can’t even get out of this room in the first place.

…… I see.

I knew clearly, what she wanted.

It was a very obvious and straightforward desire.

She had never been outside since she was born, so she wanted to go outside just once.

It’s not often that a desire is so obvious.

Well, it’s a dream that never comes true. ‘Well, it’s a dream come true, but I want you to stay here for a few days. You can tell me all about the outside world and I’ll give you all the gold you want.

Aulum winked at him as he said this.

The pompousness was hidden and more of a humanity came out.

At the same time, another one leaked out.

Resignation.

It’s not a lie to say, “Give me a few days because I’m going to give you a break. I know that I’d rather stay a while because I can’t go outside.

That’s a product of giving up though.

I can’t get out, so at least let me talk to you.

That was sad to see.

So I.

“Wait, what–

He put the muzzle to her brow and silently pulled the trigger.

Infinite lightning bullets, even the masochistic enhanced bullets worked, and with one shot, the gothic girl’s body was charred to black.

The body of the girl who collapses while charged, immediately afterwards, poof, it turns into a gold nugget.

It’s a regular hexahedron gold nugget with all sides roughly one meter – about one cubic meter.

”Indeed, this is an amazing gold nugget.

As I said this, I picked up the gold nugget (her).

It was chunky and heavy. It was even heavier than Emily’s hammer, so heavy that even a force S would feel a bit heavy.

With that gold nugget in my arms, I left the hidden room covered in gold nuggets.

Aurum dungeon, fourth floor underground.

I turn back the way I came – I check the stairs before, the stairs leading to the hidden room are still there, and they don’t seem to disappear for a while.

I head out with the gold in my arms in relief.

Third basement, second floor, first floor.

We went outside without meeting anyone on the way. There were a few people in the village square, but I took advantage of the gap and went outside to avoid detection.

Then I took the gold at the top of the mountain, away from the village.

I put the gold there, and put a grain of gold sand on it as well, and kept my distance.

A distance away from people – a distance to hatch into hagremonts.

I waited. I waited for the moment.

Eventually, she hatched from the gold.

She’s exactly the same as when we met, not only intact, but in her original form without a single loose piece of gothic clothing.

…… Huh?

The first voice was a surprise. Aulum looked around and made a face, not knowing what had happened.

‘What is this place?’

We’re out of the dungeon.

Outside?

Yeah, when I heard it was a monster, I thought, “Yeah. I thought if I made him a haggler, I could bring him outside.

Of course you can, but that’s not a good idea.

Yeah?

If he becomes a monster, he can come outside, but it’s the other way around. I’m the only one who stays on that floor. If I try to go back, I’ll disappear in the middle of the floor, and when I’m gone, there will be no more drops.

That’s okay too.

What?

Here.

I pointed to her feet.

The sand gold I put with the gold nugget (her) hatched into a haglemono in the same way as when I put it down.

A little devil much like the gold hagremonos and bonbons.

”This is–hyun!

The little devil shot out instantly as I was quicker to actually show it than to explain it.

An infinite number of lightning bullets instantly charred the little devil to black.

And then it dropped.

It dropped into a thunderbolt instead of sand and gold.

”Huh?What does this mean?

‘We can drop him again like this and bring him back to that room.

Can we go back?

Yeah.

……

Aulum’s eyes widen, stunned.

‘So, you can enjoy the outside in peace.

“Outside ……, oh ……

That’s when it finally entered her consciousness that she was out there – that she was out there.

She turned around and saw Aulum. The view was wide open.

A view from the mountaintop, the vast land, this world.

A vast expanse of land where every thing is dropped in the dungeon and therefore there is nothing, on the contrary it is beautiful.

‘This is …… outside ……’

Aurum was overcome with emotion.

The gloom that had been there earlier, pushing away underneath the resignation, was gone from his impressed profile.

The sight of him made me glad I could take the caged bird out.

‘Thank you ……,’

After a while, she said to me, staring at the view.

“Thank you for taking me out.

If you like it, it’s worth it.

But that’s the last of them… well, it’s a shame to go back.

Last?Why?

Because there’s a 0.000000001% chance of that exit opening up, maybe once every hundred years or so.

That’s okay. I drop 100% of everything. Maybe even the stairs to get there can be 100% for the appropriate monster.

…… eeeeeeee!

Aulum sounds bareheaded.

‘Nah, why?’

It’s that kind of ability. Didn’t you have them drop in from Hagremonos in the first place?

Speaking of which: ……

So I’ll come by every now and then and take you out.

Yes!

Aulum smiled a girlish smile that was appropriate for her age and hugged me.

‘Thank you!’

I couldn’t help but thrill at the feel of it, soft and light, the exact opposite of the gold nugget.

Stars

I tried to turn Aulum into a gold nugget and bring her back to the dungeon.

But after shooting her with a lightning bullet, it was twice as much gold as I dropped earlier.

If you make it into a haggler and drop it, things change, and most of the time it’s better.

Aurum himself was no exception, he became twice as much gold.

Carrying it back to the dungeon – but it was indeed too heavy.

It was heavy to begin with, but it’s even double that.

It’s so heavy that even with strength S, my muscles start to pull and shake.

I was grabbed because it was too heavy, so I put the gold down and took a little rest.

It’s heavy, Aulum……, and that’s the kind of impression that would make me angry if I told a girl.

It’s a good thing that you’re able to make her smile after she was trapped in a dungeon for hundreds of years – or even more than a thousand years if you’re bad at it.

More importantly, it’s another dungeon.

”I knew there were 118 people in there. …… So that means there are 117 more to go.

The tellurium in the cyclo, the nihonium, the silicon and the arsenics.

It means that every dungeon in this world has a child like Aulum – a dungeon spirit.

Let’s meet them.

It was time to get used to the dungeon, and I had a new goal in mind.

‘Ah, there they are!

Alice, what do you want?

You know what, Lyota– What is that?

Alice, running from the village, was surprised to see the gold.

”Go through this. More importantly, you seem to be in a hurry to find me, what’s going on?’

Oh, yeah. It’s a big deal, Lyota.

So what?

The dungeon drops, they’ve just doubled in size.

What?

‘We’ve all doubled in size, what does this mean?I know it’s out of the blue and some people are worried about it, but is it okay?

Double the drop: ……

With a gasp, I looked at the gold nugget (Aurum) at my feet.

The gold nugget that had doubled in size, and Aurum was impressed with the world outside.

I wonder which one it is …….

What?

Oh, no, I’m talking to you.

I don’t know which one it is, but I’ve decided to think it’s the latter.

It’ll be worth it.

Alice.

Yes.

‘It’s okay that the drop is doubled, go tell everyone that it’s doubled from now on.

Really?!

Yeah.

Yeah, okay!

Alice nodded widely and ran off to communicate.

I looked away from her back and looked at the doubled up Aulum ().

I was getting more and more eager to see Telle and the rest of them, I thought.

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