Chapter 85

Before checking the princess's status, it was time for the four of us to have a meal.

Inside the PD, the sense of time gets distorted, so we strictly adhere to fixed times for breakfast, lunch, dinner, and bedtime.

"Do you not want curry?"

"Yeah, curry is..."

"Yeah, it's delicious, but..."

"I don't want to eat it today."

In this dungeon life, we ate curry about half the time.

The exquisite curry created by the magic water bottle (curry) was incredibly delicious. We ate it as curry rice, curry bread, and curry udon by mixing it with broth, among other ways.

The exquisite curry lived up to its name, being very delicious.

Moreover, the side of the water bottle had a dial that allowed us to adjust the spiciness from sweet to ten-spicy, making it a design that catered to every need.

So, why not eat curry?

We ate it every day.

We got tired of it.

Kuro often doesn't get tired of eating dog food every day. She looks like she's enjoying it today too.

As a result, the four of us ended up eating Cup Noodles.

I suggested having a luxurious dinner for the final day, but it was rejected as it felt like a last supper and was considered unlucky. Instead, we had a simple but deeply satisfying dinner for our tired bodies.

We waited for the hot water to be added.

And then—

"Let's eat!"

The three of us—me, Ayame, and Milk—opened the lids of our Cup Noodles and said this simultaneously.

This was around the time when two minutes had passed after adding the hot water.

"It's always the same, isn't it? People from Osaka really don't wait three minutes, do they?"

The princess seemed to be the type who waits exactly three minutes.

"After three minutes, the noodles get a bit soft at the end."

"Dad starts eating after one minute."

"Yeah, my dad and brother... and I can't wait either, so maybe one minute."

Today, I waited two minutes in front of everyone, but I really wanted to eat after one minute.

When it's just a little over one minute, the noodles are a bit crispy at first, but that's also delicious.

The best timing is just before finishing, so that's what I prefer.

After eating Cup Noodles, we each ate canned bread and freeze-dried salad to fill our stomachs to about eight-tenths full, and then took vitamin supplements to make up for any nutritional deficiencies.

The food we received from the minister included a lot of supplements.

The princess, who seemed to be used to taking supplements, taught us how to make up for any nutritional deficiencies.

However, I was starting to miss regular home-cooked meals.

After the meal, we moved on to the second half of the status check.

We all looked at the princess's status.

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Princess Oshino: Level 84

Cash Value: 777,777D (Ranking: 1015 [JPN])

HP: 998/998

MP: 0/0

Attack: 854

Defense: 776 (+7)

Skill: 869

Agility: 2101 (+520)

Luck: 78

Skills: Center of Attention, Swift, Doppelganger, Harmony

Basic Dagger Skills, Miss, Lightning Speed, Hare

Advanced Dagger Skills, Preemptive Strike, Golden Sandals

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As usual, her agility is ridiculously high.

"Miss" may sound like a miss, but it's actually a very useful skill that increases the evasion rate of ranged attacks.

"Lightning Speed" is a buff skill that temporarily increases agility.

"Hare" is a skill that increases agility when you show a movement to distance yourself from the enemy, and there are many skills related to agility.

Among them, "Preemptive Strike" increases the damage dealt to the enemy for the first 10 seconds of combat.

This skill is well-suited to the princess's fighting style.

Lastly, "Golden Sandals" is a skill that increases the growth rate of agility.

It's a skill she learned at level 80, and thinking about how her agility will continue to increase, it's quite daunting.

Also, her luck value is the highest among the three of us, which is a notable feature.

"Even with buffs, your agility surpasses Takeuchi, right?"

"Yes, but he probably has several buff skills and equipment, so it's still a long way before he can claim to be the best in Japan... Still, Golden Sandals... Taiyo, what do you think?"

"What do you mean?"

"Older wives say to search for golden sandals, but here we have an older wife with golden sandals, don't we?"

"It's just a one-month difference."

"Oh, you said such passionate words, saying you rely on me more than anyone else."

...Gah!

You, bringing up the words from when I confessed is unfair.

That was just the flow of the moment, or rather, my true feelings.

"Princess, until this battle ends—"

"No sneaking out, remember?"

"That's not sneaking out, right!?"

Milk and Ayame smiled and scolded the princess.

"Finally, it's my turn."

I showed my status to everyone.

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Ichino Taiyo: Level 84

Cash Value: 777,777D (Ranking: 1016 [JPN])

HP: 2989/2989

MP: 310/310

Attack: 1497 (+149)

Defense: 1387

Skill: 1256

Agility: 1299 (+129)

Luck: 2318

Skills: PD Generation II, Aura Detection, Basic Sword Skills, Simple Alchemy

Detailed Appraisal, Hellfire Magic, Inventory, Herculean Strength

Fire Magic, Rock Throwing, Heat Up, Basic Spear Skills

Magic Reflection, Shoulder Replacement, Treasure Up

Fairy Circle, Harmony, Water Magic, Advanced Sword Skills

Gale, Eternal Battlefield, Lucky Punch

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I have the fewest additional skills.

The water magic is new, but it doesn't go well with fire magic, and I don't understand why it appeared.

However, it works well with Ayame's lightning magic, and I feel that the power of her lightning magic increases when the enemy is wet from water.

"Gale" is a skill that increases agility by 10%. When I got this skill, the princess envied me.

"Eternal Battlefield" is a skill that applies a buff to my stats the longer the battle goes on. It increases by 1% per minute, up to a maximum of 60% after one hour.

However, it resets when the battle is deemed to be over.

Lastly, "Lucky Punch" is a skill that has a chance to apply a critical hit based on luck. The probability is luck value × 0.05%, so with my current luck, I have a 100% chance of a critical hit. Even if it exceeds 100%, it doesn't have any special meaning, and during a critical hit, the damage is doubled, and 10% of the damage that penetrates the enemy's defense is dealt as piercing damage.

Well, that's the extent of it—

"It's not much."

"That's not true!"

"What are you saying!"

"That's amazing!"

I was scolded.

"Your luck value has become incredible again while I wasn't looking."

"Recently, it's been growing even more."

"Wait... and your stats are about twice mine, right?"

The princess compared her stats with mine.

It feels like the upward trend due to luck has increased even more.

"Still, even with this, I can't beat Takeuchi."

"The opponent is a master who has been exploring dungeons for ten years and was already a martial arts expert before the dungeons existed. Even with the PD, our time is less than a year. It's impossible to catch up easily."

The princess sighed.

"Still, breaking through 20 floors in such a short time is a great achievement. It's said that it usually takes at least five years to break through 20 floors."

Well, thanks to the five times higher monster spawn rate and the PD's magic recovery service, we had minimal time loss.

We also accumulated a lot of D-coins.

For good luck, and due to the strange mood from the PD training, we set everyone's cash value to 777,777D, but we still have a mountain of D-coins that haven't been cashed out.

If we cashed out all of these, we would definitely enter the top 100 in the rankings.

And if we sold the dropped items, we would become billionaires.

...Ah, our savings have already exceeded a billion, and we will receive 3 billion yen for completing this mission.

"Training ends today. After resting here, it's time to return to the surface."

I looked at the pocket watch.

The current time was 12:25 PM on Sunday.

We had 5 minutes until the appointed time with Minister Uematsu, which is 8 hours and 20 minutes in the PD.

We had plenty of time to rest.

Just as I was about to lie down—

"Okay, okay, let's take a bath and brush our teeth before sleeping. The shampoo is running low, so bring it."

Milk pulled back the blanket.

The daily necessities, including toothbrushes, were in the bag from Minister Uematsu, and we needed them because we had the magic water bottle.

I opened the cardboard box containing the daily necessities.

Inside, there were rubber products, as if it was a matter of course.

He's really overthinking things, that guy.

I turned around with the shampoo, and the three of them were already starting to undress.

"What are you all doing?"

"There's no changing room, so we're undressing here."

"The bathroom is in the next room."

"It gets damp and uncomfortable if we undress in there."

The three of them explained why they were undressing here.

Yeah, it does get damp and uncomfortable if you undress in the bathroom.

"No, that's not what I mean... Today, I was supposed to go first, right?"

Wasn't that the flow?

But Milk said,

"Let's all take a bath together for the last day."

"It's not like it's the first time, and it's not embarrassing to be seen naked anymore."

"Well, we are married, after all."

"Yeah, but it's the day before the final battle. I'd like to go to bed with a calm mind. Can you understand that?"

I asked everyone for help.

"I don't understand."

"I don't understand."

"I don't understand either."

The three of them said this with smiles.

In the real world, it was 12:29 PM.

We exited the PD and opened the door of the prefab hut.

Minister Uematsu was waiting.

"Did you rest well yesterday?"

"Thanks to you, we did."

"Yeah, I did."

We slept for six hours. I'm fine, I'm energetic.

We returned to the Nara Kōgen Park with Minister Uematsu.

During the move, we heard that the information about the simultaneous black dungeon conquest was leaked to the media by Dampur.

Our personal information hasn't been leaked, but I don't understand what Dampur is thinking.

"Also, I have prepared your equipment. I'll explain it now."

The strongest equipment the Japanese government can provide.

I had forgotten about this.

The difficulty of conquering the black dungeon will change significantly depending on the equipment we receive.

While writing this, I couldn't get the word "umapyoi" out of my head. I'll write more seriously from now on.

Next time, new equipment.

If this ever gets published, I'll have the illustrator redraw the equipment.