Otoko Nara Ikkokuichijou no Aruji o Mezasa Nakya, ne?

Year 7443, Month 8, Day 22

Just now we teleported from the 2nd floor of the dungeon in Baldukk to the 3rd floor.

We just finished eating lunch and taking a break for about an hour in the teleport crystal room of the 2nd floor. Since it's summer right now, we've been exploring since a bit before 6 am. The time has just passed noon or so. I'd say 12:15. I guess I'll get to checking the number on the crystal rod right away. 84 huh? Since it's an early number I'm sure we've come before.

I tried confirming with Gwine and "It's true we've come before. I can remember this place." is what she said. Just from a glance it feels like being in the center of a passage made of stone and you can't tell it apart from other places on the 3rd floor. However, I guess her Unique Ability can tell the vague differences in the width of the passage, the unevenness of the walls, floor, and the ceiling. If while using her Unique Ability she says "We've come here before" then that's a place we've visited before. She hasn't been mistaken about it even once up to now.

It's a frightening level of memorization in regards to terrain. And her ability to call up those memories and create an accurate map, has in some ways become an staggering force in battle. She doesn't things like the direction or where each area of the dungeon connects together but at the very least Ralpha can accurately determine the direction. By combining their two abilities together up until now our party has reached the point where when exploring a new area we only have to be careful of the traps.

Today we had already referenced our map and after determining that there was roughly five hours to the teleport crystal room on the 3rd floor, we started walking. It's necessary to pass through five rooms to get to the small room with the teleport crystal. I want to quickly pass through and secure our rest spot on the 3rd floor before evening.

It's already mostly become an operation, I freeze the lower bodies of monsters we meet on the way and then we kill them. If it's on the level of gnolls then for the sake of practicing our coordination we try fighting normally as well. In regards to the powerful monsters in the rooms we use magic to kill them all at once without pushing ourselves. We gather the magic stones almost like a machine and after double-checking the map we continue further into the dungeon. When killing monsters if we have some leeway then Bel and Ralpha will use attack magic to damage them as well.

We're winning easily and aren't struggling either. It's still the 3rd floor and the monsters have only increased in type by a few from the monsters on the 1st and 2nd floors. It's fine as long as I use magic to create ice, observe the battle(massacre), and remember to be cautious of our surroundings. Honestly speaking, as long as I don't let my guard down we can manage just about anything. Of course, there's not a single fool who would openly let their guard down in the dungeon.

Just as planned we arrived at the small room with the teleport crystal rod by evening. It's open today. Other than us there's two parties, a total of 17 people here before us. I'm already acquaintances with them. I create some dirt in the Northeast corner of the room that's gradually become our fixed place and after evening out the surface we start preparing to camp. In order to quickly get some rest and prepare for the 4th floor tomorrow, everyone moves quickly.

I put some hot water into the portable stove magic tool and while I was at it put some hot water in the 40 cm diameter bucket that Zulu was carrying as well. I took my shoes and shocks off before putting my feet in that bucket and start massaging them. Zulu is a master of the foot massage. Angela isn't bad at it but there's no one who exceeds Zulu in in putting in just the right amount of power. After washing my feet and having him massage them for about 10 minutes, I exchange the water in the bucket. We all feel like we're going to melt from Zulu's massage but it's heavy labor for Zulu.

During that time Angela puts vegetables or dried meat into a pot with hot water and stirs them up. At the same time she thinly cuts some bread and puts ham and mayonnaise on them to prepare simple sandwiches. We eat in the order after we've had our feet massages and finally Zulu and Angela eat until they're full. I put some dirt into the empty bucket. If you have to go to the bathroom you take this bucket to an appropriate place outside of the room and after taking care of your business you cover it with dirt. Since monsters won't come within 100 m of the room as long as you don't go too far away you can relax and take care of your business.

Excretions are absorbed by the dungeon in a period of about one month as far as I can tell. Corpses as well other than the bones and magic stone feel like they're decomposed and absorbed in about a month. Even leather armor at most lasts around two to three months. Dirt and water that's been create with magic and lasts permanently (water evaporates), equipment, and things which have a lot of metal will remain there until someone cleans them up. Also, cotton, hemp, and articles of clothing remain over quite a long period of time as well.

It seems that lumber remains for a number of years but it's hard to determine if this is just because the amount of time it takes for it to rot is too long and it's being absorbed or just rotting away. Since there's not much moisture on the 1st and 3rd floors it seems a lot of it maintains it's original form for quite a while.

I've talked with Bel and Ralpha about this a number of times in the past. Since it seems Toris and Gwine are interested as well they asked various questions but Zenom, Zulu, and Angela don't have much interest at all and if I try to point the conversation in their direction it's, "I don't know" if I keep asking then it finally reaches "is there some kind of meaning in knowing that?". I think this is probably the normal way of thinking for the average person on Orth.

If it's not something that has direct relation to yourself then it's quickly removed as a target of interest. Well it's true that in the dungeon there's a lot more things than that you should be paying attention to and those things directly have relation to your safety and life so it's not unreasonable. In our past lives we may have thought about the mysteries of the universe at some point but rather than something like that the weight of interest ends up leaning towards worries about our job tomorrow and reviewing for the next test at school.

Things like whether or not Pluto is a planet of the solar system or about a new type of deep-sea fish that's been discovered were unrelated to our lives. Even when it comes to how many people are dying in a war on the other side of the planet, or how many tens of thousands of children are starving it just ends up as fund-raiser, and just being satisfied or basking in that for a short while is plenty to erase it from your memory a short while afterwards. Even if a new insulation material has been developed and it comes to putting it in the walls of your house, if your wallet doesn't seem like it can manage it then you'll just remain satisfied with your current living environment and almost no one will try to gather more information than that. Things like the new carbon shaft of a new model of driver that sends the ball flying, without having your heart pulled towards that, unless it's a person with a certain amount of interest in golf they would overlook that news. In essence it's the same thing as that.

If it has no direct relation to your body recently then it won't arouse your interest. The moment you think "it has no relation me right now" your interest in it will largely be reduced. I'm sure that since reincarnated people have a high standard of education the degree at which interest is reduced is just smaller. I guess even more than that since they have a large combat potential like myself here it's lowered their sense of crisis enough that they have the composure to hold interest in trivial things? It's hard to decide if this composure is a good thing or a bad thing.

I was thinking about unstoppable things like that with my eyes closed wrapped up in my qiviut blanket as I fell asleep. However, all of the small teleport crystal rooms in the dungeon have a temperature which feels like it's in the early 10 degrees C all year around. It's nice in the summer because it's not hot but it's painful that you can't let go of your blanket.

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