D-Genesis: Three Years after the Dungeons Appeared Volume 7 by KONO Tsuranori

Author:KONO Tsuranori [KONO TSURANORI]
Language: eng
Format: epub, pdf
Publisher: J-Novel Club
Published: 2024-10-24T00:00:00+00:00

January 24, 2019 (Thursday)

Yoyogi-Hachiman, Office

“Good mooorning! Guess who got vacation!” Komugi Rokujo trilled from our entryway.

Someone obviously had energy to spare. If we were going to travel to and from floors lower than the twenty-first, we would need at least four days for the round trip. We planned to return on Sunday, so she had to take Thursday and Friday off from work.

Lately Rokujo had apparently been so invested in her training and upcoming mission she’d found it hard to focus at work. Naruse had received complaints—just informal so far—from the GIJ.

And now a sudden request for two days of PTO on top of that. She must have torn those days from her boss’s hands.

“You’re here early” was all I said.

“Yep! I’m ready to go! Recently I haven’t even been able to sleep, I’m so excited! Although I have been napping at work.”

Napping at work on top of being distracted?! I was beginning to understand the GIJ’s complaints all too well.

She tossed herself onto the sofa with the energy of a grade-schooler waiting for the bus to set out on a field trip.

“We have a little time until we depart,” Miyoshi said politely. “Should I fix some tea?”

“Yeah!” I responded. “That’d be great.”

Miyoshi went to the kitchen, put the kettle on, and started rummaging through my Japanese tea collection.

“Ah, Rokujo,” I said to her. “Since we have the time, there’s something I want you to look at.”

I pretended to reach into my pocket, taking some of the leftover diamonds from Yokohama out of Storage. The diamonds were wrapped in a small bit of the same velvet we used to line the orb cases.

I unwrapped the velvet, and there shone one large blue-tinged diamond and one smaller clear one.

“Whoooa,” Rokujo crooned. “Those are really something.”

Her expression had changed entirely. In a snap she’d taken out a jeweler’s loupe—a magnifying eyepiece used for appraisal—and a pair of tweezers, holding the blue diamond aloft in front of the loupe. As she angled the diamond this way and that in front of her eyepiece, her brow furrowed in concentration, she seemed like a pro. Oh, wait. She really is a pro.

“I can’t determine the exact color without my equipment, but this looks to be exactly between fancy vivid and intense(11).”

I had at least some idea why the first drop had been a blue diamond. The embarrassing truth was that I’d been thinking about a certain tokusatsu hero who was supposed to be a spirit residing in one.

“The quality is...VVS2. Carats...around two. I’d grade the cut Excellent, no question. It’s a rather remarkable round brilliant.”

At length, Rokujo pulled herself away from the diamond. She set it down gingerly, then plucked the other one with her tweezers and brought it up to the light.

“This one’s good too. VVS1, color grade...E. About one carat, also Excellent. It looks like it was cut by the same person.”

“You can tell that much?”

“Even with two brilliant round cuts, the idiosyncrasies and preferences of the cutter will come through.”

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