After-School Dungeon Diver: Level Grinding in Another World Volume 1 [Parts 1 to 3] by Hitsuji Gamei

Author:Hitsuji Gamei
Language: eng
Format: epub

Floor Three: Black Pepper, Grated Garlic, and Soy Sauce on Steak

Today, I ran into Scrael. The Long-Ears girl who’d been making a name for herself in the Gandakia Dungeon lately had been wearing tattered and...revealing clothing when I’d first met her as a slave, but she was well put together now. Wearing a rather flattering lightweight blue tribal outfit with a wide sash that reminded me of traditional Japanese clothing, she had rugged bracers around each of her arms. It’d likely hurt if she hit someone with them—well, they’d probably crush the victim’s skull and kill them. Her silver hair was well kept, and its tip curled up like a squirrel’s tail. Her cheeks looked soft and supple, and she had cute little lips. Meanwhile, her trademark long ears were twitching like they had a life of their own. Despite her eyelids that were heavy as if she was perpetually sleepy, there was a quiet strength deep within her gaze.

“Akira,” she said.

“Hey, Scrael. Been a while.

“Yeah. How have you been?”

“Same as usual. No complaints, really.”

“That’s good.”

“So, how’s life in Freida?” I asked.

“It’s going fine. I eat, learn, and sleep. There’s nothing to grow here unlike in the village, so I just hunt more and earn a living instead.”

“Huh, you lived a similar lifestyle before coming here, then?”

“Yeah.” Scrael nodded.

Long-Ears lived far from human civilization, so they were all about self-sufficiency. They’d work on their farms, hunt animals, forage for food, and raise livestock. But all of that had now been replaced with dungeon exploration for Scrael.

“Don’t you want to go back to your village?” I asked. “It’s not like you have to live here just because you’re a registered Diver now.”

“It’s fine. I have a reason to be here.”

“What reason?”

“Nothing...” she said, then turned her nose away.

I wasn’t sure why my question made her look away, but she’d always had a bit of a difficult personality. It wasn’t as if she hated me though—at least I didn’t think she did.

“Have you made any close friends yet?” I asked.

“Not really. I don’t care about that kind of thing,” she replied.

“But wouldn’t it be nice to have someone you can talk to?” I pressed, thinking it’d be good for her in the long term to have some friends and acquaintances here.

“It’s fine. I don’t trust humans for the most part anyway.”

“That’s kind of concerning too.”

Her distrust for humans seemed to run deep. Long-Ears’s hatred for humans was pretty well known. It went without saying that the slavery issue was the root of their antipathy, and Scrael was no exception. I mean, she did get enslaved before, so it was far from surprising that she hated humans.

“I can get by in Freida as long as I listen to the guild staff,” said Scrael. “Well, I only interact with other Divers in Freida for the most part.”

“That’s true. I guess a lot of the humans you run into are pretty shady.”

“Yes. Especially the solicitors.”

“Right. I’ve seen mages getting harassed to join teams. I sure wouldn’t want to deal with that.

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