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“…..Hmm. I’m a little hungry.”
“Asuka sama. Your hair is shaggy. How much sleep have you had?”
“Well, I’ve slept quite a bit.”
“The world of adventurers might burst into a bubble if they found out that this is the reality of a person who is capable of defeating a monster in the 75th tier with a single blow.”
“I feel like I hear this on a regular basis.”
“I say it all the time.”
“You’re awful.”
First of all, without a doubt, Asuka is an overwhelmingly talented person.
His means of combat, which is referred to by some in the red group as [Odin-like power] is said to be the power to bury the dungeon’s last boss.
At the same time, however, he is also considered a somewhat easy person to rely on.
“Haa, there are many people who consider this house with Asuka sama as a [run-in temple] so I wonder if you could do a little more about your lifestyle.”
While being careful, she is fixing Asuka’s hair with a comb.
Asuka’s face is quite blurry because he is tremendously sleepy, but Yae is used to it and does not mention it.
“Run-in temple…..I still have some dignity when someone stays at my house.”
“When Arisu san stayed over for about a week, you often said that even though you just bought a new body pillow and didn’t get off the bed.”
“Oh, did I ever do that?”
“Well, I saw Asuka sama’s back, who wasn’t moving much, so I thought that was enough, so I left him alone.”
“I see…..”
Well, it seems that a lot of things happened.
Asuka’s memory is questionable, but Yae seems to remember it better.
“Hm?”
At that time, the intercom rang.
“Oh? I thought there were no visitors scheduled for today……”
Yae walked to the front door.
“……Haa.”
Asuka sighed, feeling something at this point.
Soon, Yae returns.
“Asuka sama. The person who suggested back then about reporting Tanaka’s theft is here.”
“Please let him through to the living room.”
‘Yes, sir.”
So Asuka washed his face lightly and waited in the living room, when a man from the Ministry of Magic came in.
“Long time no see. Asuka san.”
“Um, you must be Matsugaki Atsuya san.”
“Yes, thank you for taking the time to see me.”
So they both took a seat…….
“My apologies, Asuka san. May I start from the beginning and get down to business?”
“I don’t mind. If I may add, I know [Labyrinth Aristocrat].”
“!”
Atsuya and Yae were surprised by Asuka’s words.
“…I see, as expected, you know about it.”
“I’m sure if you looked it up, you’d think it’s being deliberately avoided.”
“……Haa, I see, this is formidable.”
“I understand that it’s well regarded. I’ve been looking up [Matsugaki] since then and it’s five-star. I’m still a little surprised to see the second from the top.”
Atsuya’s eyes narrowed.
“……This is the first time I’ve been told that, even though I know what’s going on behind the scenes.”
“Sure. So, what’s the ‘main issue’?”
Atsuya may have had his own way of getting to the main issue.
But that’s it.
“Well……there are some children who need to be trained at a certain training facility.”
“Does that exist ‘now’? You’re presenting something that’s ‘in the conceptual stage’ in consideration of the possibility of being crushed by me who did an internal investigation after this negotiation is over.”
“…Aren’t you said to have a bad personality?”
“I’m aware of the prejudice and favoritism.”
“I see.”
Atsuya looks troubled.
“My superiors have told me to secure Sakuragi Arisu or…..Saotome Yae.”
Atsuya glanced at Yae, but she did not even flinch.
In the first place, there was no talk of Yae doing anything unless she could do something about Asuka, who was right in front of him.
“Both are dismissed. Even among the Labyrinth Aristocrats’ behind-the-scenes activities, it would be a shame to say that to you, who is only in charge of the clean parts, but I’m intentionally avoiding the Labyrinth Aristocrats.”
The more powerful a person is, the more eyes they have to see through something.
If any of the negotiators know too much about what is going on behind the scenes, they will not be willing to shake their heads when they are caught in the eye of the negotiator.
From Asuka’s point of view, Atsuya is still ‘the clean one,’ but a Labyrinthine Aristocrat is an object to be avoided overall.
“I see……you think that whatever we do behind the scenes, you can protect us from it?
“I say ‘behind the scenes’, but if they sneak around here, I can tell because the smell of decay is strong before my sense of smell.”
“……”
“And whether it’s a request to train the kids or a request to have Yae or Arisu, it’s the same thing as where you’re going. You want people with skills that enhance the performance of their equipment.”
“……!”
“I know Yae and Arisu’s skills well, and you guys know that too, since you’ve been locked up in the labs you’ve been building deep in the mountains here and there.”
“…..I see, you’re the one who destroyed those laboratories.”
“You can consider me responsible for most of this area.”
Asuka picked up the skittles and drank a little wine.
“Then I can see the rules that the Labyrinth Aristocrats have.”
“Huh?”
Atsuya’s voice trailed off at Asuka’s words.
“The six-star aristocrats…..‘Gosanke’ have items that can be called ‘dungeon illustrated books’, but the magic power of the owners is not enough at all. The way to get the huge amount of magic power is to get a special drop item when you defeat a specific monster with a specific equipment.”
“……”
“Arisu and Yae have the skill to enhance their equipment. The fact that you want that means that the equipment you have isn’t capable of defeating that monster. While strengthening them, you also want to have strong people.”
“S-stop…..”
“What do you mean ‘stop’? I think you’re mistaken. What you want to train are the [children], and Arisu and Yae are also minors. There’s an age limit for using that equipment.”
“……”
Atsuya’s expression visibly changed.
“When I looked into the history of magic laws, I thought that since the Labyrinthine Aristocrats began to act behind the scenes, even in political circles, the laws were changed to make it easier to get more handouts for those old enough to safely have children.”
“If there were no age limit on equipment, there would be plenty of ‘candidates.’
But there is an age limit, and also because we didn’t have the training expertise back then. There are many children now, but back then, as I recall, there was a low birthrate and aging population, so there were very few children and a very large number of elderly people who could not consistently dive in dungeons.”
“There’s also a lot of press coverage of marriages among adventurers. They say that the qualities of an adventurer are more likely to be inherited, and they are encouraging it in the media to make it easier for them to have children voluntarily. I never understood the motivation for that rule before, but it kind of makes a lot of sense.”
If it’s a technical restriction, just spend the money.
However, no amount of Labyrinthine Aristocrats can tamper with the “time” of age limits.
With that in mind, if you look at Japan at the dawn of the dungeon generation, you will be surprised to find that there are no children at all.
YOu don’t even know if the skill is manifested, and if it is, you won’t know if it is a skill that enhances the equipment.
This is why you need to have so many children.
That is what makes the ‘dungeon society’ what it is today.
“Why……”
“I’ve always been looking into it, and I just had some questions. When I heard your request, the pieces just fell into place. That’s all.”
Incidentally, Asuka’s impression of Atsuya is that he is only in charge of the clean part of the dark side of the Labyrinthine Aristocrats.
To put it simply, this is mainly about adventurer activities behind the scenes to increase the take-home pay of young people.
Aside from the purpose behind the scenes, there is nothing wrong with this.
However, it is certain that there are ‘many’ parts of the Labyrinthine aristocrats that do things that are clearly only criminal acts, such as kidnapping and imprisoning gifted children.
“……My apologies, but I must leave you for today.”
“Yes, you’re right. Come back anytime soon.”
“~~~!”
Atsuya had a blue streak appear between his eyebrows, but that didn’t mean he couldn’t do anything about Asuka.
He left the house as it was.
“……Well, he’s an interesting person.”
“Which part?”
“Well, um……maybe that person is someone who ‘really doesn’t know much’ about the bad part of the Labyrinthine Aristocrats.”
“That’s what it looked like to me.
“….That means.”
“‘That means’?”
“It’s this neighborhood where after someone with a serious heart fails, you get someone who doesn’t know what the hell they are talking about. Regardless of me, I think we should raise the school’s alert level.”
“Indeed. I’ll let the principal know.”
“Thanks.”
Asuka walked towards the refrigerator, sipping his wine.
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