After-School Dungeon Diver: Level Grinding in Another World Volume 1 [Parts 1 to 9] by Hitsuji Gamei

Author:Hitsuji Gamei
Language: eng
Format: epub

Floor Seven: Can I Make Potions? No... Okay, I Lied; Yes, I Can

One day, I was at the receptionist’s window before going on a dive, and Ashley began speaking to me in a wheedling tone. I immediately recognized that she wanted something from me again. I didn’t really want to deal with her right now, so I put my poker face on.

“Hey, Kudo,” she said.

“What is it, Ashley? If you want a brand-name bag, please ask someone else.”

“No, that’s not―”

“Some expensive clothes, then? Why don’t you get a boyfriend and ask him? I’m sure it’d be easy for you to get a boyfriend or two. Or three. Or four.”

“No, I―”

“No? Hmm, what else could you want... Some sort of accessory with a giant jewel on it?”

“Just listen to me, will you—wait...do I really seem that greedy to you?” she asked.

“I mean, yeah. You’re pretty famous as the Mooching Witch of the receptionists. I don’t think ‘Mooching’ rolls off the tongue very well, so I personally prefer ‘Heartless.’ It sounds cooler too―”

“Who the hell started calling me that, huh?! Come out! Come out right now! Dammit!” she roared.

Her pleasant tone from just a moment ago had completely flipped, and her face right now could probably send an Orc fleeing in terror. Even the receptionists on both sides of her counter—the one who loved talking about romance and the one who always looked sleepy—conspicuously averted their eyes. It seemed Ashley’s colleagues had started it, and I honestly couldn’t blame them.

I waited for her to calm down and asked, “So, what did you want to ask me?”

“Anyway,” said Ashley, “you can make potions, can’t you?”

“No, why?”

“Don’t give me that.”

“Oh, come on. What makes you think I can make potions? I don’t even know what’s in those things,” I said, but my acting skills weren’t cutting it.

Immediately, a creepy smile spread across her face.

“Kudo? I’d love it if you’d answer my questions truthfully.”

“Yes, yes, I can make potions. Are you happy?”

“Why did you try to hide it?” she asked.

“Because I knew you’d ask me to make some if I confessed.”

“Well, I can see why you’d think that.”

I wasn’t sure what that was supposed to mean. Maybe she wasn’t going to ask me to make potions after all.

Potions were quite valuable in this world for a good reason: their ability to recover energy and heal wounds was so incredible that there was basically no need for surgeons. These mysterious drinks were just like those in video games.

According to my instructor, who’d taught me about all the strange things in Do-Melta, potions were the same as magic, and they “acted as a bridge between a wounded and a healed person.” If you went by that logic, you could pretty much use it to explain anything, but I’d accepted that weird things happen in this world and tried not to think too deeply about it.

Of course everyone would want items like that. Divers, especially, got hurt all the time, so there was no such thing as having too many potions.

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