My Room Has Become a Dungeon's Rest Area (LN)

Book 1: Chapter 3: (4)

PhewI feel so refreshed. I guess the long T-shirts fine but it would probably be pretty uncomfortable to sleep in slacks. Ill go buy a jersey later.

As I entered the Japanese-style room, the cups that were set in front of RIa had been pretty much emptied out. But just as expected, above half of the cola was still left in the glass cup.

As our eyes met, Ria spoke.

Oops

It seemed that she was embarrassed that she was staring straight at the cup of cola, struggling.

Her face turned a bit red.

Hahaha. Its alright to leave some behind. Its a matter of whether it suits your tastes. But it tastes quite good once you get used to it.

No. Im not some child who cant drink her medicine so Ill drink all of it.

Hm? Sure, cola does have a bit of a medicine-like taste but

It seemed that she thought that the cola was some sort of medicine.

My paralysis was cured the moment I drank it, so Ill drink all of it!

W-what did you say?

What? The little bit of paralysis left in my hands and legs recovered immediately when I drank a bit of this so this is medicine right?

Could it be? Was it possible? In the dungeon world, cola was

What might be wrong?

Ah, its nothing. Nothing at all. Youre right. Cola is medicine. You dont need to force yourself to drink it but its good for your body.

Nevertheless, your artifacts really are amazing, wise sage. Even intermediate-level poison neutralisation magic barely worked on this paralysis poison.

Is that so?

There was a possibility that cola was able to neutralise poison. And it seemed that it was pretty strong too.

I took out the memo pad which I recorded my stats on from my pocket and wrote there is a possibility that cola can neutralise poison

Well then, should we have our meal soon?

What should I make? I bought some ingredients from the ingredients section at Tons Quijote just now.

It might be good to ask RIa what she likes to eat.

I was pretty good at cooking. I mean, I worked in the kitchen at a family restaurant as my part-time job.

Alright, so that I can continue to talk to her while I cooked, Ill have Ria sit in the living room.

Ria, please come here

Yes?

I made Ria sit down on a chair in the living room.

I then asked her while I looked at the refrigerator.

What do you usually eat in the dungeon, Ria?

Probably the same as what any normal adventurer does

No, um, likeyou dont really know what a normal adventurers like when you become a wise sage so.

Ah, Im sorry. An example would be bread as dry as rocks or some dry salted white fish.

It seemed that the meals they had were kind of gloomy, or more accurately, not good.

Do those taste good?

Im thankful as long as theres food to eat butit doesnt really taste that good. Thats why I usually boil them in hot water to make them softer. If I do that, it becomes soft and actually quite edible!

Ria said with a wide smile on her face.

I-is that so

But for a certain reason, I lost all of my foodand fainted in the dungeon so

What a poor thingI could feel the tears well up in my eyes.

I put back the cheap yakisoba noodles that I was about to take out back into the fridge. Instead, I grabbed the premium hamburg steak I bought at the convenience store.

Of course, it would taste better if I made the hamburg steak from scratch myself, but if I just heat this up in the microwave, itll be done faster. Shes probably already starving.

And there was this. Having thought of a way to make it taste even better, I took out an egg too.

For now, I just put the hamburg steak and pre-packaged rice in the microwave to heat it up.

As I heated up a large amount of oil in the fry pan, I made a salad with lettuce and cherry tomatoes.

Caesar dressing is a really delicious dressing. Is the olive oil all heated up?

RIa then came to ask some questions.

It smells so good. What are you making?

Im making dinner. Youre going to eat too right, Ria?

I-is that alright? Ingredients in a dungeon must be really valuable right? Even the drinks you gave me just now were

Dont hold back. You wont regain your strength if you dont eat, you know?

But

I already started making enough food for two people, so if you dont eat itll all just go to waste. Whats more, I couldnt possibly eat alone when Im sitting in front of someone else whos starving.

That was the truth. Moreover, I was making this hoping that it would make Ria happy.

As I insisted strongly, Ria stood up all of a sudden.

I just remembered. Please wait a moment.

Ria headed towards the dressing room.

As I was left there wondering what happened, she came back holding a small cloth bag.

With one hand, she flipped the cloth bag inside out. And on the palm of her other hand lay the contents of the bag

There were a few coins.

And the coins were shiny gold and silver.

Are those gold and silver coins!?

Whats more, they were pretty big. And they looked pretty heavy too.

2 pieces of gold coins and 3 pieces of silver coins from Gadheus. Embarrassingly, this is all I have. I do think it probably isnt enough at all but

It seemed that they really were gold and silver coins. I was surprised.

No, its fine, its fine. Im doing this for free.

I cannot allow that!!

I-I surrender. She probably wouldnt listen no matter what I said.

Should I just take it? I dont know about silver, but Ive seen signboards around town that said that they would buy gold off of you.

No, I cant. Your grandmothers going to be so disappointed in you Tooru. Taking money from a girl in trouble youre trying to help.

Quick, think of some reason to turn oher down. Ah, got it.

Ms. Ria. Im not short on money at all, being a wise sage who sells his artifacts at a high value. Rather, Im quite interested in whats happening above ground so could you tell me about that instead? Since Ive been shut in this here dungeon for so long

In reality, I was thinking that I could probably just make a fortune out of selling cola to adventurers in the dungeon.

I mean I was interested in stories from the dungeon world. I wanted to learn more about statuses and skills, and about monsters.

Of course I wouldnt mind doing so but it really doesnt match up to your kindness, as well as the valuable resources that you have shared with me

It seemed that I convinced her slightly by asking her to share with me things that happened above the dungeon. But that didnt seem to be enough. Oh yeah!

Then could you please help me to make my artifacts?

But of course, I wasnt going to make her help me to make artifacts.

Recently, a lot of cheap furniture required you to assemble everything by yourself.

I had bought a bed frame when I moved here, but I was expecting that I would struggle assembling the entire frame myself.

To be fair, it was written on the box to assemble it with 2 people.

Ill get Ria to help me with making the bed.

Are you really OK with something like that! I apologise for not being able to do more, but I shall help. Actually Ive been struggling a bit with money so

Mhm mhm

Ria spoke with her face turning slightly red.

Since she was a knight, it meant that she was probably a noble, even if she was a lower class one. Well, its not like I havent heard of nobles having trouble with money.

In the first place, there was probably a reason she came underground into a dungeon.

Thinking about it, I was all the more glad I didnt take her money.

Well then, I can make food for 2 people without any worries now

Thank you! Please do!

That was good. I thought, as I poured the egg into the heated olive oil. I made a fried egg.

I measured the amount of time taken so that only the white parts would harden up, before I placed it over the premium hamburg steak. There, it was done!

On the table, I laid out two of each thing. There was the hamburg steak with egg on top, the lettuce and cherry tomato salad and the pre-packaged rice on a plate.

I had instant miso soup too, but I decided against it, seeing that Ria looked more like someone who came from an occidental area.