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

Author:Hitsuji Gamei
Language: eng
Format: epub

Floor Twenty-Five: Sweetener Is a Groundbreaking Innovation

I was at the Divers Guild receptionist’s window one afternoon telling Ashley I’d be off to the dungeon to hang out on route one and that I wouldn’t be bringing her any gifts back when she told me about a potion exhibit out of the blue. That was strange since it had absolutely nothing to do with me in any way whatsoever.

“A potion exhibit?” I repeated.

“Yeah, they need more people,” she said.

“That must be rough,” I said. “You’re already so busy as a receptionist. They’re giving you way too much work, don’t you think? I wouldn’t do it if I were you. I’d wanna make a living doing something easier like dungeon diving.”

“No, I’m not participating.”

“Oh, so it’s an acquaintance of yours?” I asked.

“Yeah, you could say that,” she said.

I had a bad feeling about this, so I said, “Well, I suddenly remembered I have something to do, so I’ll be going now,” and I turned on my heel.

Ashley leaned out the window, grabbed me, and said, “Wait, wait. Don’t go!”

“Nope, nope. I’m not waiting. Please let me go. Goodbye,” I said quickly.

“Kudo, this won’t get anywhere if you don’t stop kidding around.”

“I don’t want this conversation to go anywhere! I hope it stops here and rots if I’m being honest!”

I already knew where this was going: she was gonna ask me to participate or something like that. She’d made me a potion-meister a while back. I’d had to make a deal with the shop to wholesale gold potions, and I’d gotten heavily involved in the world of potions. It was obvious where she’d been trying to steer the topic.

“So...yeah. You’re gonna enter the exhibit,” said Ashley.

“Ah! You went right to it because I wasn’t gonna listen!”

“What else am I supposed to do?

“Man, I knew you were trying to go there. Honestly, it sounds like a pain to deal with, so I’d like to pass,” I said.

“Don’t be like that. Potion-meisters have an obligation to present their deliverables once every few years.”

“That’s not my problem. Besides, it’s only been a little more than a month since I became a meister.”

“Unfortunately, the presentation date is predetermined, so you can’t avoid it.”

“But why?” I asked. “Normally, wouldn’t new meisters not enter these presentations?”

“Well, the qualifying exam for potion-meisters only happens once every three years,” explained Ashley.

“Uh-huh.”

“And it’s already been two years since the last one.”

“Right.”

“So any meister who’s passed the exam has already been one for at least two years. Get it?”

“Wait, but I don’t recall taking any exam,” I said.

“Yes, that’s because you were forced to become one without an exam by the guild master’s authority.”

“So I don’t get a two-year buffer?”

“I guess not,” she said.

“Oh, okay, I guess that’s how it is—not! You’ve gotta be kidding me!”

“So you won’t do it?”

“No, I won’t! Come on, Ashley, I only became a meister because it suited the guild master. Can’t I be exempt from this?” I asked.

“I tried telling him that too, but he really wanted you to enter because it’d be your first potion exhibit since becoming a meister.

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