The Academy Dungeon
The exam begins today which means the ban on the Academy dungeon had been lifted. From today on it should be four days of academic test and one day of practical skills test a five-days exam in total. After that, it will be the scoring period of two days. Seven days in total. All that is left is the scoreboard which will be posted on the eighth day.
If I want to take first place, then I will have to capture the fortieth floor by the seventh day. I have until the morning of the eighth day to be exact. I confirmed with Marino-san beforehand that I can take the first place if I can do it.
By the way, in Magiero, when I dive into this dungeon solo using Iori, it would take me four in-game days to beat it while defeating some of the monsters on the way. But that was a first lap RTA Iori. Not Takioto Kousuke.
Based on this, my goal this time is to beat it within six days. I won’t be cutting it close on the seventh day but I will finish it on the sixth day with time to spare.
If I can do that then there’s no doubt that I will get the first place.
However, even if it exceeds seven days, I will not just give up and head to capture the fortieth floor anyway.
I can’t get the first place if I do that but it’s still better to prioritize the fortieth floor.
Of course, there are benefits of placing first in the first year as well.
Firstly, you will get Tsukuyomi points and special items
If it is the same as the game, when you perform great in the exam you will receive the item with an equivalently good item from the academy as well as a huge amount of Tsukuyomi points.
However, from my point of view, those items and points are just by-products compared to the things I can otherwise get.
Secondly, you can enter the three committees (Student Council, Public Moral Committee, Shkibukai). The fastest way to enter the three committees is to ace this first exam. Doing so, they will call out to you on their own…. They will right? They really will right?
It’s very important to enter the three committees. On top of being to progress through various events, I can also capture that dungeon and above all, I will get the chance to interact with the heroines of the three committees. I guess the events will keep progressing on their own but I planned to have Iori handle them. Well, if something bad happened, I am always willing to help…..if he relies on me, I….I want to halp him.
(TLN: It’s a JP meme I can’t explain it….Sorry.)
However, comparing joining the three committees and the bonus I will get for being the first one to solo capture that floor, the bonus easily overshadowed it.
Well, since it’s something with such a high rarity it can’t be helped. After all, it is not something you would normally aim for in your first playthrough anyway.
I punched the nearby Gyoblin and I kept heading deeper and deeper inside without bothering checking whether I defeated it or not.
The second floor is already in front of my eyes. Since It’s the floor that I visit only once, I don’t really remember its map but it is unexpectedly easy to navigate.
“I already made it to the next floor huh, this’s a good pace.”
I already talked with Marino-san so no one is gonna disturb me while I capturing this dungeon and the map so far is the same as I remembered. It is smooth sailing for me.
“The thing that I have to worry about…..is the next floor, huh.”
One of the reasons I can fail to capture the fortieth floor is the accuracy of the map. If the map I remembered is correct then using the shortest route would save me a lot of time to get to the next floor. On the contrary, if the map deviated from the game or if I remembered it wrong, I am ready to run around to map the place myself.
It has been the same as I remember it so far. However, the other worry I have was resolved the moment I went through the magic circle that leads to the next floor.
Passing through the magic circle, I found a brick room similar to the previous one. I started running right away. I ran through a wide hallway that is wide enough for seven to eight people to walk through side by side and found the thing I was looking for.
“Whoaaaaaaaaa! It’s a goblin, Aaaa, this is the best! I love you.”
“Go, Gobu?”
I don’t know whether because I suddenly confessed or because I suddenly jumped out but the goblin is very confused. I relentlessly punched its stomach and move forward, stepping on its body.
I was so happy, I ended up confessing to it. Apparently, the monsters that appear here also matched my memory.
The biggest concern I had about this was whether the monsters that appear here will be the same or not.
“So from floor one to ten will be just like a running course huh.”
Enemy, weak, experience points, bad, drop items, trash. I don’t know if there is any treasure chest here but even if there’s one, it would be unnecessary for me. Then what should I do with these floors?
Obviously, I will ignore all the monsters and run to the tenth-floor boss.
“At this pace, I should be able to capture the tenth floor by day one…….I will have plenty of time to sleep too. Rather, should I just push through the place?”
As I am thinking so, I ran through the floor and found a goblin looking at me.
It looked like it really wanted to have a go with me but since it is far away, I decided to ignore it and keep running.
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“That was tiring….. But, I made it to the tenth floor…..!”
The boss of the tenth floor is a monster that I had fought before, the brown wood golem. However, unlike a few weeks ago, this wood golem is just a wooden doll to me. Without exploiting its weakness using the fire magic stone, I defeated it one-sidedly.
Rather than the boss, I find the distance I have to travel a lot harsher. It might be because I have been running every day but I would never have thought that it would show its result here. I was just running to train my stamina enhancement after all.
Now then, there’s still time left today but there aren’t that many safe zones I can rest in. Should I keep going? No, let’s stop here.
In the first place, I already planned to have some leeway on the first day of my schedule. If I recklessly diving in deeper and make a mistake I might have to retreat and I would fail to capture the fortieth floor.
That’s something I want to avoid no matter what.
“I would push on if I can reset it like when I’m doing the RTA run on the game though.”
I muttered to myself and start preparing the place to sleep. Even if I said that all I have to do is just pulling out a sleeping bag though.
According to what I heard, even if there are people who camped inside the Academy (Tsukuyomi) dungeon for a day, there’s no one who camps inside for a week. Well, of course. Why would you deliberately staying inside the dungeon when there’s a return magic circle on the tenth floor. Going back home and sleeping in my bed while hugging Marianne is naturally better…… Recently I only found Nee-san or Nanami instead of Marianne when I woke up though, seriously, that was freaky.
If I spend six-seven days inside the dungeon will I be called a Lord? Nah, they wouldn’t call me that after six or seven days here.
Well, I made a simple bed. Now it’s time to eat. Since I skipped lunch today and keep running I’m already starving. Let’s just eat and go to sleep to preserve my tension.
I took out Bentos I got from Nanami and Nee-san. I was troubled to reply when Nanami gave it to me while saying [I made this for Goshujin-sama, it’s not a misunderstanding.] Nee-san only said [Nn] when she gave it to me though. It seems both of them woke up early to make these Bentos for me.
The two boxes I received both contained sandwiches. I planned to eat it at lunch. They even made me something that is easy to eat like a sandwich too. However, I wasn’t hungry at the time so I skip it and they ended up as my dinner instead.
I grabbed the box with the delicious-looking simple egg sandwich. This is the one I got from Nanami.
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She must time it precisely when she boiled these eggs. The bread with soft-boiled egg is cut into four pieces with egg salad spread inside along with fresh and juicy lettuces. What a gorgeous egg sandwich. Isn’t this look incredibly delicious!?
I open the one I got from Nee-san with a refreshing feeling.
And was taken aback by it.
Its look is….. well, it looked delicious.
It has a stinging crimson color sauce spread on fresh lettuce. simply put, it’s a sandwich with hot chili pepper sauce. That’s only as far as its appearance goes.
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I haven’t eaten it yet so it’s just a prediction but these don’t look like such an easy to digest sauce. I tremblingly put the sandwich up to my mouth.
……No, you are kidding, right? Why?
Why can I smell an energy drink from it? It’s not the sharp smell of something spicy but the pungent smell of an energy drink.
For now, I picked up Nanami’s egg sandwich.
“Un, delicious.”
Fluffy egg salad, exquisite salted soft-boiled eggs, and fresh vegetables mixed in my mouth and create a wonderful harmony. I eat it one after another an emptied the box.
Fuu, I took a deep breath and look at the mysterious sandwich that gives off a terrible odor of energy drink.
If there’s a choice floating in front of me then it would say Eat, Savour, and Yes. There’s no option not to eat it.
It’s the sandwich that Nee-san who is always weak in the morning woke up early like a miracle to make. Of course, I will eat it, I will but……..
I pick up the sandwich with trembling hands. The bread is oddly softer than Nanami’s egg sandwich.
Its appearance isn’t bad. Looking at it normally, the pepper sauce looks delicious. But it’s the energy drink smell. The thing that I am afraid of is the gap between its appearance and its smell.
Gap…… Gap. Why am I afraid of the gap?
If a Yankee-like Nee-chan turned out to be homely and quite a tsundere of if the always dignified and reliable Nee-san who turn soft like a marshmallow when she fell in love, I would normally get done in by such a gap right?
It’s the same as this sandwich.
I have no idea how they are the same but If I don’t think about it like that I can’t do it.
I bit into Nee-san’s sandwich filled with her feelings.
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What a wonderful morning. No sky, no window with the terrible atmosphere of the dungeon as a bonus but somehow I feel incredibly refreshed.
Looking at myself, my clothes are in disarrayed, it was like I was attacked by something. My clothes were bare and the chest area is fully open. I spin around and look at myself. My clothes looked like that of an IKEMEN actor on a magazine cover with the rough sexy look.
Did I made you doubt your masculinity? Why did I put this here? Because I can!!
I glance around while I put my clothes back in order and found two empty boxes.
Just what was in those boxes. There’s this smell of energy drink from one of them though.
What exactly happened yesterday?
One thing I can say for sure is that I was extremely tired but somehow my body is now filled with energy.
I can’t remember what happened though. Well, whatever.
Now, let’s go. Today’s target is the twentieth floor! Let’s go straight to that floor with this energy! There’s no better time to advance than this.
…..It will become more and more difficult after the twentieth floor after all.
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