Chapter 31 - Magic Random Box
Men naturally can’t help but like secrets.
As a child, hiding in a large wardrobe.
Lying on a fluffy blanket and imagining it’s a secret base.
Activating incognito mode when searching for ahem-ahem on the family computer.
Secretly hiding naughty things in the forbidden path of ‘Download/New Folder/Owl/Sparrow’.
In RPG games, hidden classes.
In novels, hidden pieces!
It’s nice, isn’t it?
Or is it just me?
Anyway.
The name ‘Secret Workshop’, an element that couldn’t be checked in-game, was enough to make my heart flutter.
Thump thump! Ba-dump!
……
“But it’s a bit expensive.”
2,000 points is an amount that would take nearly a week of diligent labor just from daily shop quests to earn.
Moreover, upgrading the shop to level 3 also cost 2,000 points.
If not for discovering the hidden quest thanks to Lumi.
I probably would have been crying while sucking my thumb for a while.
It’s a reward.
I should grill some herb-seasoned beef steak today.
“Ark? It’s time to wake up.”
Dawn.
A voice waking me from my sweet sleep.
……
Thinking it must be an auditory hallucination, I pulled the slightly disheveled blanket back over my head, but.
Fwooosh!
An irresistible force completely stripped away the blanket enveloping me.
“Ugh…?”
When I opened my eyes.
Just before twilight arrived, in front of the window showing the pre-dawn sky with more blue tones than darkness,
Today’s person on duty.
Yohena was sitting leaning against the desk with a pouty expression.
“You’re the one who asked to be woken up at 5 AM, Ark. Even though it’s my day off, I got up early for this, you know?”
At the realistic yet surreal sight,
I was slightly dumbfounded.
Usually Yohena always wakes up before me, a devout saint who pops her face into the sanctuary like the wind.
And even after returning home, she always maintains her saintly elegant attire without particularly disheveled appearance–
“Um… hmm…”
Pajamas, perhaps. Or maybe casual clothes.
Is it because I’m still half-asleep, but somehow her skin seems to peek through a bit along the line of her tightly-clinging stomach, and her soft-looking belly button seems visible…
“Oof.”
Did she sense my gaze?
Yohena hurriedly covered her stomach while bonking my head with that adorable fist of hers.
“Your gaze is disrespectful…!”
I think the saint’s outfit is the disrespectful one here…
In the end, a bright light enveloped Yohena’s body, and she returned to her familiar and modest attire.
Tsk.
“That’s a shame.”
“What is?”
“You looked pretty.”
Bonk!
“No, why even when I give you a compliment…”
“Just hurry up and get ready…!”
With those words, Yohena fled the room as if escaping.
The saint’s weakness. Weak to compliments.
Memo complete.
So today I went on a dawn run together with Yohena.
Though she had a delicate body that seemed to have no connection to physical labor at all.
Still, a hero is a hero.
She ran with me, maintaining a completely serene expression throughout with stamina on a different level from an ordinary person like me.
On the way back.
We walked slowly and leisurely, watching the twilight clear and the sun decorate the morning.
Taking advantage of this rare moment of leisure,
I revived the memory of seeing Yohena (in pajamas) and asked a question.
“Um, how should I put this? Uniform? Transformation? Is Yohena still sturdy even when not wearing her saint outfit?”
“Sturdy… hmm, while I can’t use skills like healing or blessings, my physical abilities are still pretty much the same.”
I see.
So the human itself is strong.
That’s how it was.
No wonder her punches are still as fierce as ever.
“Looking earlier, you didn’t have any equipment items on.”
“I left them in my room. They’re uncomfortable.”
“Isn’t it uncomfortable to be transformed all day?”
“Transformed? Hmm. I suppose it could be interpreted that way. I’m used to it so it’s fine. …Earlier I was still half-asleep too…”
Yohena blushed as she added an unnecessary excuse.
I wanted to tease her with one more comment.
But I refrained, fearing the lump on my head would grow bigger.
It was a refreshing morning.
Today, to conquer the tower more smoothly, I tormented Harong-ssi from the morning to create a new invention.
Though calling it a new invention is just making something that already existed bigger.
Behold.
Ultra-large Special Power Spider Web Slicing Scissors!
…Tinya named it.
As the name implies, if we can easily cut through spider webs, we can greatly increase our breakthrough speed.
So I planned to make huge and beautiful scissors for the heroes to snip-snip with their mighty strength.
But.
“They’re gone woof…”
“What, that’s cheap, the tower is a coward!”
As soon as we entered the tower.
The large scissors the heroes were carrying on their backs disappeared.
Fortunately, the detoxification rings on my hands, including the one I was wearing, were judged as ‘equipment items’ so they remained.
Still, even this is plenty reassuring.
[Tower of Wishes 11th Floor – Great Labyrinth Labyrinth Entrance Zone 6 Hidden Clear!]
[★★★★ : Destroy Arachne’s storage.]
Hidden Quest ▶ Arachne’s Storage
※ Destroy all of Arachne’s storage. (2/3)
There was a storage in Zone 6 too, so we worked hard smashing and crushing like before to solve one more.
Just in case, when we went back outside the tower.
The large scissors were still sprawled at the tower entrance.
“How about taking them back to the blacksmith and starting over?”
It was Saha’s suggestion, worried about losing them.
“No, I’ll just take care of them.”
That would break the flow.
Originally, grinding is best done by emptying your mind and pushing straight through to the end without getting tired.
So I neatly stored them in my inventory.
Then entered Zone 7 again.
“Woof! I don’t feel anything woof!”
Guess there’s nothing in Zone 7.
“Then let’s breakthrough by the shortest route. Tinya?”
I turned to look at our prophet.
Tinya had a thoughtful expression like a puppy that needs to poop.
“What’s wrong? Did you get smarter?”
“Eek…!”
Tinya stamped her feet, accurately grasping the intention of my taichi.
Eventually.
“Master. You usually store everything in that tablet, right?”
“That’s right?”
“You just shove everything from this tower into the tablet too.”
“Right?”
“Then couldn’t we take things out here too?”
…!
I hurriedly took out my smartphone and tapped the scissors icon I had put in my inventory earlier.
Clang.
With a very welcome metallic collision sound, the stored scissors popped out.
“…Tinya? Did you actually get smart…?”
“Heh, Tinya was always smart nya!”
Tinya proudly thrust out her chest.
Afterwards.
Our labyrinth breakthrough speed increased about 5 times.
Even Yohena (basic), who was a non-combat personnel, transformed into Yohena (scissors) and went yap yap, chop chop, snip snip!
Especially spectacular was Saha’s scissors.
As they say a master doesn’t choose their tools.
She wrapped her scissors in blazing flames and carved a path almost like an excavator.
[Tower of Wishes 11th Floor – Great Labyrinth Labyrinth Entrance Zone 7 Clear!]
[Tower of Wishes 11th Floor – Great Labyrinth Labyrinth Entrance Zone 8 Clear!]
[Tower of Wishes 11th Floor – Great Labyrinth Labyrinth Entrance Zone 9 Hidden Clear!]
Complex paths, powerful poisons, annoying monsters, sticky spider webs.
None of them could block our way.
Hidden Quest ▶ Arachne’s Storage (Completed)
※ You will receive a reward!
The intangible reward.
Points were deposited into my smartphone with a whoosh.
Sweet, so sweet!
And the tangible reward.
“It looks weird woof!”
“I don’t sense any evil energy. I think it’s safe to open.”
“That’s right! Even to Tinya it doesn’t seem like an item from the demon realm!”
Lumi’s intuition.
Yohena’s holy power.
And even Tinya’s judgment combined to deem it safe.
We received a Magic Random Box.
Everyone was watching with sparkling eyes, so.
I had to live up to their expectations.
I opened the first box.
[10 Gold Coin Random Boxes]
[Receive a random reward between 500 gold and 50,000 gold.]
…?
Is this a matryoshka doll?
Why is there a random box inside a random box!
Next, the second box.
[5★ Hero Limited Skin Exchange Ticket]
[A ticket that can be exchanged for one of the 5★ hero’s revealing skins.]
“Uahahahahaha…!”
I couldn’t hold back my vulgar laughter as soon as I saw it.
“Revealing skin? What does that mean?”
“I’m happy that the master is happy woof!”
“…Ark? Your gaze has become a bit rude.”
Armor.
It was very heavy, wasn’t it?
Let’s live in comfortable clothes from today, Saha?
Hehehe.
Hehehe…!
Completely washing away my annoyance at the matryoshka gold box.
I opened the last box while giving a deep bow to the hidden quest.
“Hmm…?”
[Blueprint for Mammonite Revolver (RANK β)]
[[BETA / REVELATOR ONLY / CLASS MERCHANT] No tooltip exists. Please enter a tooltip.]
What’s this bugged item?
Is it a dud?
Still, it’s fine.
Saha in a suit, Saha in a suit is coming!