DUNGEON DIVE: Aim for the Deepest Level Volume 7 [Parts 1 to 3] by Tarisa Warinai

Author:Tarisa Warinai
Language: eng
Format: epub

Chapter 2: Party Growth

Day two of the voyage.

Hearing myself moan in my sleep, I jumped out of bed. I didn’t remember what had happened in the dream, but the night sweats that covered my body told me it hadn’t been a pleasant one. It felt like I was chasing something... or was I running away from something? Also, I got the feeling I’d been talking to someone, and someone had been taking me to task...

I shook my head to clear my thoughts. It was only a dream, after all. It had nothing to do with reality. I opened the curtains in my cabin and basked in the morning sun. That was when I noticed something unusual. My Responsiveness skill detected danger and made me take the optimal course of action—I deployed Dimension to ferret out the source of the danger and found something I wished I hadn’t.

I exited the room with a furrowed brow and a frown on my face. A short distance away, there she was. Snow, smiling with a gloomy look on her face.

“Heh heh. Heh heh heh heh heh...”

That stiff rictus was painful to look at. I could infer everything from her palpable depression.

“Uh, so...you overheard everything yesterday, huh?”

“Yeah...I was a bit concerned, so I overheard using my vibration magic...”

It seemed that even if Snow’s magic energy was lurking close by, I wouldn’t be able to detect it unless I had Dimension up. Good to know.

“Well, if you heard the whole conversation, you’ll know we got all psyched up over nothing,” I told her (and myself), my voice strained.

“But... But at the very least, Lady Lastiara’s a step ahead of me, right?”

She was quite a bit more than a step ahead, in point of fact, but Snow didn’t need to know that.

“Nothing’s really changed. We’re still just friends. Yesterday happened because of the situation we found ourselves in, not because I feel one way or the other about Lastiara.”

If I was allowed to feel that way about Lastiara, I wouldn’t be having so much trouble. In that sense, it wasn’t a lie.

After giving me a look that was equal parts sad and chagrined, her expression turned a tad sulky.

“If, hypothetically, you do like Lady Lastiara that way, it won’t change how I feel about you, I hope you know,” she said, pouting a little. “I won’t give up.”

Snow, Snow, Snow. That reply was more childish than the youngest member of our crew. On the other hand, her saying she wouldn’t give up was a sign of personal growth. At long last, time was starting to move for her again, and she could move forward again. That was the sense I got.

“Right...thanks.”

Grateful, I put my hand on her head with a pat. My body had moved on its own, perhaps because she was acting like such a little kid. She looked puzzled for a moment, then smiled. It seemed that while she didn’t really know what was happening, she was happy that I was caressing her, and it was nothing more complicated than that.

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