Lazy Dungeon Master Chapter 325

The Dungeon Battle Meeting
​ Alright, now that we’d decided where to stay, time for the Dungeon Battle meeting.
​ It was a secret, so we were summoned over to the capital’s central adventurer guild.
​ We were using me being given a nominated commission after having become a B-Rank as the reason, so it wasn’t unnatural at all for me to go there.
​ I had a duty to keep commissions confidential, so that’d also be a reason to not tell anyone about it.
​ In other words, using me accepting the commission to disguise the Dungeon Battle preparation was optimal. Everyone in my party, [The Dancing Dolls Pavilion Group (Temp Name)], entered the adventurer guild’s doors. We headed straight into the meeting room.
​ “Yo, Kehma-san! It’s been a while!”
​ And since I was summoned by the adventurer guild, that effectively meant Misha had summoned me.
​ “Yo, Misha. No sleep today for you?”
​ “I just woke up, tahahahanya~”
​ “And that’s how it should be, Misha.”
​ I gave Misha a high five and shook her hand. She and I greeted each other like we were best friends. Kindred spirits~
​ “Where’s Haku-san?”
​ “Oh, pretty sure she’s gonna be a bit~. The client’s already here though, so wanna start nyow?”
​ “… By the client, you mean the rabbit-type core?”
​ “Yeah, what about it?”
​ “Did they use humanization?”
​ “They can’t…”
​ “So what you’re saying is that they’re a rabbit?”
​ “So tasty looking nya…”
​ “No, you can’t eat my client… can it talk?”
​ “Oh, don’t worry. It’s a talking rabbit, after all~”
​ A talking rabbit, huh. Oh, but I’ve already talked with a snake, frog, and a slug, so I guess I shouldn’t sweat the details?
​ Still though, I can’t help but wonder how the rabbit was able to ask Haku-san for help.
​ “Alright, guess I’ll go get your client~”
​ Saying that, Misha left the room for a moment before returning. She was carrying an orange rabbit inside a birdcage… It was an ordinary-sized rabbit, yep.
​ As soon as the rabbit saw Rokuko, he oh-so-cutely raised his front leg to greet her.
​ “Nkyuu! If it isn’t you No. 695, Rokuko! It’s been nkuuite a while~”
​ “It has, No. 629. Why’d you come in that?”
​ “Nkyuu. Becaaause this pink cat beastkin kept coming and looking like she was gonna eat me but doesn’t when I’m in this nkyuu… oooh, the blood lust…”
​ When I glanced over to Misha, she was drooling.
​ I took the time to check out Meat and she was staring at the rabbit like she was going to hunt it.
​ As for Ichika, well… you can imagine. He was already cooked in her eyes.
​ “Come on you guys, that’s our client… don’t try to eat him.”
​ “I’m ashamed nya, but it’s instincts! I can’t suppress my appetite…!”
​ “This is the only time I’ll share an opinion with her…”
​ “I-I have to deny myself? But it’s so rare I bet it’d taste outa this world!”
​ Is this even going to be possible? We’ll have to frustrate the Demon King faction before eat him out of deliciousness.
​ “Kyuaaah… save me, Rokukooo! I don’t wanna get eaten!”
​ “Alright, everyone. Come back to your senses.”
​ Rokuko clapped her hands and everyone stopped.
​ “Phewww. Kyuu saved me, Rokuko. I thought my heart was gonna stop there nkyu.”
​ “Come to think of it, I heard rabbits could die out of loneliness. That was true?”
​ “Dying huh~, dunno about that nkyuu… So, kyuu are Rokuko’s master?”
​ The rabbit did a thing with his mouth inside the cage and turned toward me.
​ “No. 629, right? I’m Kehma. Nice to meet you.”
​ “Yeah, I heard kyuu would be coming to help from Haku… sama. I’m lookin forward to it!”
​ Looks like Core No. 629 still wasn’t used to adding -sama to Haku-san’s name.
​ Well, I guess that’s to be expected since he just fell under her umbrella. Unwillingly, at that.
​ “By the way, it’s hard to say 629 all the time, can I call you something else?”
​ “Nkyuu? I don’t mind. Give me a cool name!”
​ With that, I glanced over to Ichika.
​ “Ichika, got any good ideas?”
​ “Hm? Ya want me to decide? Right… then how ’bout Orange?”
​ This world’s oranges were also the color orange. His orange fur definitely made you think of them.
​ Giving a rabbit a food-based name feels a bit like thinking of him as emergency rations, but eh, guess it’ll be fine?
​ “So that’s why that’s what we’ll call you, you good with that?”
​ “Nkyuu. Good with me, so kyuu can call me Orange.”
​ “… …”
​ “Nn? What’s wrong?”
​ “No, it’s nothing.”
​ It looks like Ichika didn’t become his master.
​ “Now that I think about it, Orange, do you have a master?”
​ “Nkyuu? Nope.”
​ And he doesn’t have one yet… I decided to give it a shot in the small chance it worked out, but I guess there’s some other requirement I don’t know about? Guess it’s not just all about the name.
​ Well, it’s not like this is really the time to talk and find out though.
​ “… Alright, guess it’s time we start talking about the Dungeon Battle. Orange, what sort of place is your dungeon at?”
​ “Ooh, yeah. My dungeon’s in a meadow.”
​ “Hoh, a meadow. Is there anything else?”
​ “There’s rabbits and nothin’ else really~”
​ So we have a rabbit-type Dungeon Core in a meadow with nothing but rabbits… uh-huh. No, no, I won’t have the full picture until I ask for more details.
​ “Where is your Dungeon Core?”
​ “Fu fu fu…! It’s a secret, but it’s in a spot underground… kyuu, I dug up a hole to hide it from hawks wanting to attack it!”
​ “What sort of non-rabbit monsters can you summon? Any traps?”
​ I decided to just exchange information about simple stuff like that until Haku-san arrives.
​ “… So you only have rabbits?”
​ “Nkyuu, I’m going with the strategy of surrounding people that trip and ganging up on them! Even if a single strike’s weak, we can beat ’em up till they die! With that, we can win!”
​ “I understand what you’re saying, but you can’t rely on that for Dungeon Battles.”
​ … I think I understand why Haku-san was saying [Frustrate Them] and not [Win].
​ At any rate, Orange’s [Rabbit Paradise] was a simple dungeon with an above-ground meadow and a single underground floor—simple enough to bring [Ordinary Cave] to mind.