'Kyaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa!

First battle.

Prine must have seen monsters for the first time. She turns on my back and panics.

She's like, 'Whoa! Oh my God, oh my God, Ra! What do we do? Run away? Running away? I'm going to run away! Run! Don't worry about me, just run away.

'ei'.

The main deck.

I moved forward with the prine that clung tightly to the left side of my body and smashed it with the dagger in my right hand. The slime was cut in half and squirming, and then disappeared with a squeal.

Victory.

Yeah. I did it!
'Amazing! Amazing, amazing, amazing Ra-kun! That's amazing!''
'No, it's just slime. ......'

But I am nervous inside. It was my first time to deal with a monster. I loosened the fingers of my stiffened right hand little by little, so that Prine would not notice.

Amazing! You're still amazing, Ra! Amazing!

Ms. Prine excitedly moves up and down with her body close to mine. Her large breasts are soft and very poisonous to her body. They are so soft that they make me squishy.

Oh dear.

At least I killed a slime. I should have gained some experience. If you accumulate a lot of experience, you level up. As your level goes up, your status goes up and your skills increase.

Raising your level is a prerequisite for becoming strong.

However, defeating monsters is not the only way to gain experience. Using skills and techniques, and completing requests from the dungeon guilds also count as experience.

If you go back to the guild and get a status sheet, you will know how much your level has increased or not at all. You can also get a feeling of 'Oh, I'm getting stronger now ......? Sometimes, they say, you notice it.

Well, one slime is a small step, but the first step is a big one.

Let's keep going and going and going!
'Oh!
'You're next, okay?'
'Whew!

The little mage cried out with tears in her eyes.





'Look, Prine, there she is!
Yes, yes! Firelight!

A small fireball the size of a knob flew out and hit a slime crawling on the ground.

Bohu.

Sizzle.

The slime disappears, leaving a stain on the dungeon floor.

Victory.

Prine looks back at me and jumps.

We did it! Did you see that, Ra? I saw that, Rah-kun, look, look!
'Oh, wow. Nice work, nice work.'

Prine is stabbing the stained floor with her cane. I pat her head.

'Good, good, good, that's Prine.
'Hehehe!

I mean, Prine's skills should be better than mine.

Her skill [Blessing of a Witch] is something that mages are dying to have. It makes it easier to learn magic, more powerful, and more resistant to magic.

The skill is probably a boon for a level 1 mage to have 20 MP from the beginning, while her MP is only 10.

Eventually, they may end up as advanced mages, such as the "Sorcerer King". I can't lose either.

Prine murmured happily.

I can defeat monsters with Ra-kun, I .......
''You can't do it alone?''
'Huh, all by myself? I can't do it, I can't do it, I can't do it!

He doesn't have enough confidence at the moment, though.
Well, maybe in time.





After that, Prine and I continued to hunt slime and circled the first layer.

We went around, but not so much as to go round and round endlessly.

After entering the entrance, there are two paths.

To the right is a straight path leading to the stairs to the second level.

To the left, there are two more paths, one of which dead-ends. The other leads to a slightly larger space, also a dead end.

Monsters - or rather, only slimes have appeared yet - are formed by the fog that forms on the walls and in the corners, forming them into monsters. Permanent reproduction.

We were repeatedly killing slimes in the large space, going to the other side of the path, killing them again, going up to the stairs to the second level, and going back down.

When we got hungry, we took a break and ate sandwiches brought by Prine.

On the way, we were greeted by veteran adventurers, who encouraged us to do our best and gave us precious potions. Thank you very much.

Looking at the guild-provided simple clock, Prine asked me about it.
It's been almost half a day, Ra-kun. Are you sure you don't want to go back?
'Yes. Then let's go to the 'wide open space' for the last time and defeat the slime, then let's go back to the guild and have dinner.
'Yes!
'I wonder if I'm getting up to the next level...'
'All I saw were slimes, right?


'Speaking of which, do you still have your magic power?

Prine puts her finger to her mouth and thinks, "Hmmm...

'I think I can shoot three more small firelights,...... maybe,......'.

I can't help but laugh.

'Look at the status.
'Oh, yes! Ehehe!'

Prine closed her eyes and muttered something about status, status, status-saaaan, and looked at me with her eyes closed, nodding her head in some surprise.

I have 8 MP left, so I could shoot four more times!
''Yes, sir. We'll have to count that tomorrow. I'll count them too.
'Yes! That's great, Mr. Ra!
It's normal.

Today is the first day, so we are taking it easy, but if we keep going around at this pace, it will be impossible to reach the bottom level within the time limit of one year.

Maybe we should hurry up a little from tomorrow. I'd like to reach the second or even the third level. The guild's recommended level is 3, and we've probably raised a few levels today, so we should be able to make it.

I pull out a sparkling palm-sized crystal from my bag of items. It's the "transfer crystal," a high-end item that the guild gives you urgently "only once" in the first place. It is a useful item that transfers all the members of the party registered with the guild to the entrance of the dungeon.
In the worst case, you can use it to get back to the outside of the dungeon.

When you reach a higher level, you should consider joining a party somewhere. I don't think there are many high level adventurers in a party with only two members.

And so on.

I was a fool for thinking so optimistically about the future.

Hey, big brother!

I turned to look at the voice, and my vision was tinged with a purple mist. Without even realizing that I had inhaled, my consciousness drifted off to sleep. As my body automatically collapses, I catch a glimpse of the voice's face.

--The self-proclaimed "Level 5 Warrior" from earlier: ......!

Just before we fell into darkness, we heard the sound of something like a tree branch falling. Before I could realize that it was Prine's walking stick, I lost consciousness.