The next day. Tsutomu woke up, biting down on his missing muscles. Even in his sleep, rubbing his eyes as thin as normal, Tsutomu shook off the temptation of the bed as his body sank into his still-unawake consciousness.

　With a sleep-deprived face, Tsutomu headed for the sink. A faucet with a magic stone of water built into a transparent container. Tsutomu throws in the colorless rubbish magic stone that is inside the container. The light-blue magical stone glows faintly, and cold water comes out when he turns on the tap.

　I'm sure you'll be able to find the best way to make sure that you're able to get the most out of your time.

　It's time to go to the barber, Tsutomu said to himself, picking up his black hair, which had grown a little long, and he thought it was time to go to the barber, and he stuffed the documents scattered on his desk into a magic bag. The document contains a detailed description of the terrain and characteristics of the monsters that he had seen on the live broadcast.

　Tsutomu feels a little drowsy as he changes from his loungewear to his normal clothes, feeling a little sleepy, since he stayed up late making those documents yesterday.

　After putting on his magic bag, Tsutomu left the room and after locking up the door, he headed to the dining room of the inn. I can hear some of the sounds of life as those around me are already starting to wake up. The sound of well water being drawn up can be heard from outside, and there are footsteps that sound like a flurry of panicked footsteps coming from the room Tsutomu has passed.

　Arriving at the inn's dining room, Tsutomu sits in a chair and looks around. The customers around him are relatively more elves and beastmen, and not many humans are seen. Tsutomu raises his hand to the young girl, who has been busily taking orders since the morning, despite his admiration for her.


''Excuse me. Breakfast over here too, please.''
'Yes!　Do you have any additional orders?
No, sir.


　If you are a guest, the basic breakfast is free if the menu is left up to you. Tsutomu, who has nothing to dislike in particular, observes the people around him with his cheekbones after taking his order.

　The inn is used by half and half explorers and half workers. The cost of accommodation is 10,000G per night, which is quite high, so many of them are earning well. If you are an explorer, you are in the middle of the pack. Most of the ordinary workers are also employed in jobs that utilize their knowledge and experience.

　The searchers are also less human, elves and dwarves. Many of them are beastmen and dragonmen. They are probably having a strategy meeting in the morning, or they are huddled together eating a meal, and the beastmen are gobbling down meat as if they were swallowing it.

　The workers are variously reading newspapers and chatting with each other over a cup of tea in an elegant manner. Of course, there are newspapers they read that carry general affairs and information, but the majority of them read newspapers with information related to dungeons.

　The searcher hides in a dungeon managed by a god. And anyone can watch the explorers fighting monsters and exploring the dungeon on the monitors in the square without a care in the world of Tsutomu. In Tsutomu's world, the monitor that God projects is a television. In Tsutomu's world, the monitor of the God is the TV, and the searchers on the monitor are the celebrities, athletes, and idols on the TV, which is easy to understand.

　The Dungeon Newspaper is a newspaper that compiles information on these searchers and publishes it. There are several newspapers, but the one that is selling exceptionally well is Sollit newspaper. Since it was the first newspaper to be published, it has a large number of purchasers and is very influential.

　It was also Sollit newspaper that took up Tsutomu's fiasco as an interesting story. However, Tsutomu felt uncomfortable with the fact that his photo was taken without his permission.

　The bacon and eggs and salad that were brought in. That, and four slices of bread with butter and jam on top of a webbed grill. Corn soup and icy barley tea. Even as he slices a well-baked fried egg inside and pours it into his mouth with a knife, Tsutomu flushes his eyes across the major clan that's being featured with his mug shot.


(Doesn't look like they're active yet.)


　The clan that updated the highest tier hasn't dived into the dungeon yet due to newspaper interviews and equipment repairs. Two weeks after updating the highest tier, which hadn't been updated for six months, the fever is still going strong.

　The calls that Alma-san is awesome and the Red Mage is cool still enter Tsutomu's ears. The clan that the two of them belong to, the Red Demon Clan, is a clan that has been updated to the highest tier.


(You should be happy as best you can while you're at it. We'll break through soon.)


　After biting into a crunchy piece of bread soaked in melted butter, Tsutomu took his gaze off the Red Demon that adorned the front page of the newspaper while sipping hot corn soup.

　After finishing his breakfast, Tsutomu returned the dishes to the counter and returned the key to the receptionist before leaving the inn.

　Next, he went to the cleaners who made a living removing dirt from explorers' equipment. Every time Tsutomu leaves his white robe and trousers dirty, he leaves them here to be cleaned.

　When you enter a dungeon, your equipment gets dirty. The blood of a monster will not get dirty because it will disappear as particles if you defeat it, but the blood spat out by the monster, for example. For example, many of these are recognized as coming from a treasure chest or are not erased.

　There are also dirt and mud in the dungeon. Smells and other odors also do not disappear, unlike monsters. Most explorers don't care much about dirt, but Tsutomu was quite concerned about it, even if he wasn't a fastidious person.

　The dry cleaners, which were open early in the morning, were larger in size than the other buildings. The white stone building is divided into two halves on either side. In the building on the right, steam was coming out of the exhaust fan to see if they were washing and drying clothes. The building on the left is used as a reception area for customers, where equipment is kept and received.

　Tsutomu opened the door to the side of the dry cleaners, which had opened for business early in the morning. A friendly looking monk greeted Tsutomu at the reception desk, where no one was visiting.


''Good morning, sir. I'm here to pick up your equipment.''
'Yes. Master Tsutomu. This way, please.


　Tsutomu, who has become a familiar face, hands over a stone slab and the uncle takes it with a smile, then retreats to the back of the room and returns in a few seconds. He hands me a set of carefully folded equipment and a staff. They are covered with what looks like a transparent membrane, perhaps to prevent dust from sticking to them.

　This transparent membrane is a thin layer of transparent slime carcasses that appear near the forest lake. They are used to wrap things and prevent food from drying out.

　However, when a monster dies in a dungeon, it disappears as a particle of light and turns into a magical stone. Then how do you collect slime corpses? There are two ways to collect it.

　One is to get it from the treasure chests that are randomly found in the dungeon. There are two main conditions for the appearance of treasure chests. Either they appear with a magical stone when you defeat a monster, or they appear indiscriminately in a dungeon.

　There are various items in the treasure chest. Monsters' materials. Equipment of a seeker. There are also unique items that can only be found in the dungeon. Although the items that come out of treasure chests are different depending on the grade of the chest, the rate of appearance of the chests is so low that you are said to be lucky if you can find them in the first place.

　Even the lowest-grade wooden treasure chest is said to be so low that you'll be lucky to find one after attacking five levels. The rate of appearance of these chests is higher at the lower levels, but even so, if you find the treasure chest, you can often get enough G to live freely for a month.

　Incidentally, the gold treasure chest that Tsutomu is said to have found was only once confirmed in the past, and there was an incident where people rushed to the registration desk to register as searchers, dreaming of finding it. As a result, Garum lamented that the number of new searchers who are exploited by insect seekers without good information has increased.

　The other way was not to go to the dungeons in this labyrinth city, but to kill monsters and strip them of their materials in the dungeons outside.

　If it was a dungeon that wasn't under the jurisdiction of a god, the monsters wouldn't be particulate and would remain as corpses, no different from other creatures. You have to learn how to dismantle monsters and other things, but you can get materials more consistently than the uncertainty of a treasure chest.

　But in dungeons that are not under the jurisdiction of a god, of course, there are no divine gifts or rules. There are no black gates or monitors. In other words, if you die in a dungeon, you will not be able to come back to life and die. So naturally, white mages and potions are essential, and you have to be very careful about how you get around the dungeon.

　Because of this, the demand is great and the profits are expected to be high since you can bring back whole monsters' ingredients. You can expect to get rich if you can bring back powerful monsters' ingredients. However, there are few people who do this because of the danger to their lives.

　Most of the people who go to the outer dungeons are looking for materials for the lowest level monsters, or are asked by the guild to take out expeditions that guarantee high rewards.

　If the outer dungeon is left unattended for a period of time, monsters can flood out of it and invade the nearby villages and labyrinth cities. In order to prevent this from happening, the guild may send out expedition defeat requests to such abandoned dungeons.

　When not many requests are received, the labyrinth city is attacked by monsters once every six months or so. Although no high-level monsters have been identified so far, damage still occurs, and so the guild is at a loss for how to handle expedition requests.

　However, searchers find it safer to attack monsters in a well-equipped labyrinth city than to go on an expedition to defeat them, and the people are grateful to them. As a result of this, their popularity increases and they are recruited by the nobility as private armies, so there are few who are asked to fight against the expedition.

　The monsters that attack the city are not of such a high level, so the labyrinth city does not suffer that much damage. However, villages and towns in the path of the monsters will suffer miserably, so the people of those villages and towns tend to neglect the explorers of the labyrinth city.

　There is a famous clan, the Maze Hegemony, which is extremely popular among such villages and towns, but this clan is an exception. The mortality rate is as high as 30 percent, and it is said that there is a 50 percent chance for a newcomer to survive. The only people who enter are those who are daredevil or feel indebted to the village and town.

　This is the reason for the transparent membrane that surrounds Tsutomu's equipment. After confirming that the fee is paid in advance, Tsutomu bowed his head and left the dry cleaners and headed for the guild.

　When he entered the guild, a group of energetic insects started chatting with Tsutomu in the morning. When Tsutomu ignores them, they are blatantly tongue-tied but don't get deeply involved. This is because their position is in jeopardy when Garum, who is famous among the searchers, comes out.

　After giving such explorers an inorganic look, Tsutomu heads to the usual meeting place. Garum is there, getting his equipment ready. And what a surprise, that Amy was sitting there even while playing with her bangs.


''........Could it be Amy's twin sister?''
Isn't it bad?
Just kidding.


　Amy stood up vigorously from the bench and came at her, and Tsutomu held his hands out in front of him to keep the rampaging horse at bay. Garum held his mouth in a crooked smile.


'Good morning. Today, after leveling myself on the beach, I'm going to practice my fly for the canyon attack. Are you okay?
No problem.
Whoa!


　Amy gave a thumbs up to Garum who nodded and returned the thumbs up to her. Tsutomu smiled and nodded and lined up at the reception desk. The usual unpopular skinhead looked at Tsutomu and the others and raised his hand.


Oh, you guys. We have a request for an interview.
Interviews?
Yeah. Yeah, we're here for you from Solitte. Anyway, they're already here, so get over here.


　The receptionist walked around from the wooden counter towards Tsutomu and his friends and told them a word about this way and walked out to guide the three of them.

　When Tsutomu looked at Garum, he gave him a curious look and then followed the receptionist. Tsutomu followed Garum.