Lazy Dungeon Master: Volume 12 (eBook)
319 Seiten
J-Novel Club (Verlag)
978-1-7183-2422-0 (ISBN)
I'm Keima Masuda, a Dungeon Master aiming for a life without work. I finally got back home from the imperial capital, only to find a whole new town on the other side of the mountain! Apparently they're copying our town and they have their own inn. In other words, less customers and work for me! Heck yeah! Or so I thought, but... Why am I getting more customers? There's even someone with a suspicious-sounding 'Artifical Dungeon'...
'You always see right through me, Keima... Perhaps this, too, is proof of our love.'
The crazy High Priestess from that crazy Holy Kingdom is here too?!
This is Volume 12 of my own kind of dungeon story, where I show everyone the difference between a fake and the real thing!
I'm Keima Masuda, a Dungeon Master aiming for a life without work. I finally got back home from the imperial capital, only to find a whole new town on the other side of the mountain! Apparently they're copying our town and they have their own inn. In other words, less customers and work for me! Heck yeah! Or so I thought, but... Why am I getting more customers? There's even someone with a suspicious-sounding "e;Artifical Dungeon"e;..."e;You always see right through me, Keima... Perhaps this, too, is proof of our love."e;The crazy High Priestess from that crazy Holy Kingdom is here too?! This is Volume 12 of my own kind of dungeon story, where I show everyone the difference between a fake and the real thing!
“...Uhhh, well, I guess it’s like a family garden?”
“That’s close enough, I think! You’re not wrong or anything!”
I feel like I can guess what’s going on here, but I’m going to pretend I didn’t notice anything. Sometimes it’s best to let sleeping dogs lie. Yep.
In any case, there weren’t any (big) problems with the church, so I decided to send some of my nuns over on rotating shifts. The Succubi went out of their way to build a nice church, and it would be a shame for it to not have any priests or nuns. And I’ve been letting them stealthily do their, uh, “actual jobs” for a bit, so they should be fine here.
...I wonder if hiring part-time nuns would be in the cards? Or maybe they could raise nuns in the orphanage... Though, uh, I dunno how I’d feel about having normal townsfolk train to be nuns under Succubi. Guess I’ll have to think about this later.
“Time for the eating competition. I think we should open the church as soon as it starts, probably. Can I count on you two to take care of that?”
“Perfect. You may leave it to us, your holiness.”
“Awww! I wanted to join the eating competition too!”
“Now, now, Michiru. You mustn’t be selfish.”
Suilla obeyed my orders obediently, and despite her protests Michiru ultimately agreed as well.
“...I’ll give you a bunch of Golem Beets later to make up for it.”
“Okie dokies then!”
Not long after, preparations for the Golem Beet eating competition began. All the Golem Beet stand owners in Goren came over, and they brought Kinue along as a helper because even then they predicted there wouldn’t be enough. Kinue let out a deep sigh when she saw that the roads were spotless and didn’t need any cleaning.
“...Sigh. I see that the town has already been cleaned up,” she said.
“What, so you did want to clean after all?”
“It’s a bit of a shame, but all’s well that ends clean. I shall make do with just baking Golem Beets today, Master.”
Incidentally, on top of preparing a mountain of ingredients, we could buy more with DP when we really needed to. With Kinue’s {Chef} skill on top of that, we could deliver more Golem Beets the second they were ordered.
And so, the eating competition began just before lunch. Anyone could participate and eat as much as they wanted for thirty minutes. You would earn one point for every Golem Beet you ate in that thirty minute period, with your number of points being put up in the rankings afterwards. The person in first place at the end of the day would be the winner. Simple stuff.
“Yooo, don’t say you didn’t think I’d be here, my dudes!”
Naturally, there was no way Ichika the Food Demon wouldn’t be participating. She had wisely taken the day off ahead of time so she could partake on her own time. It helped that I had modified her maid stone mask to not cover her mouth.
“I’m gonna join in the first round, then join again at a later round. That’ll get me more food than just going at it once!”
“...I mean, you’re not wrong.”
And so, Masked Maid Number 1 (Ichika) began eating with the first round of challengers, but... she tapped out in ten minutes after finishing her fifth one. She didn’t even make it into the rankings. Not gonna lie, that caught me entirely off guard.
“What can I say, I’m not actually a big eater, my man. All I care about is getting some good grub, then chilling.”
“Y’know, that makes a lot of sense. Good thinking.”
Incidentally, when the first round ended, Count Lodol had the most points at twenty-five beets eaten. Public consensus was that it was a pretty good score.
“Bwahaha! Burp... H-How was that?! I ate a lot of ’em...!” Count Lodol declared to much applause.
“As expected, milord. You did well.”
“Ngh, h-hmph! This is nothing for a man of my talents,” he said, but as far as I could tell he seemed to be in a lot of pain.
“Hey, man,” I said, “You can go rest in the Beddhist church if you want. There’s some comfy beds there.”
“...No, I plan to participate in a future round. I just need to walk this off a bit...”
Apparently, the count was planning to return for round two just like Ichika was. He walked off with his wavering steward (who came in second place) in tow.
Future rounds involved Dragg townsfolk, passing adventurers, merchants, some people from Pavella’s slums who heard there was free food, and overall just a bunch of people who turned it into a big thing. At the end of the day, Count Lodol’s score had dropped to fifth place, and he declared that he would be participating in the final round no matter what.
Incidentally, Ichika had eaten over fifty in total, but due to her spreading it out over multiple rounds, she didn’t make it into the rankings.
And so, it was finally time for the last round. Count Lodol, a bunch of people deciding they might as well join in, and hardcore challengers viewing the last round as the true competition all took their seats.
“Hey, Uncle! I heard we get to eat as many Golem Beets as we want here!”
“Keima! I came too! GIVE ME ALL YOU GOT!”
Igni and Redra had arrived. They were the mother and daughter Dragons that lived in Tsia Mountain’s [Flame Caverns]. Though naturally, they were in human form and had magic tools on to contain their power.
...Maybe it’s actually, like, normal and good for Dragons to join Dragg festivities? Maaaybe?
“Where’d you hear about this...? Wait, oh yeah, we were marketing it to everyone. Well... Go easy?”
“Yeah! I’m gonna eat as MUCH AS I CAN!” Redra roared.
“Mooom, leave some for me, okay?!”
Incidentally, Ittetsu had been left behind to keep an eye on the dungeon. Poor guy.
I was a bit curious about how eating would work in their human forms, but suffice to say, they were chewing their way through Golem Beets bite by bite. And to be clear, by that I meant they were eating an entire Golem Beet per single bite. The other challengers could do nothing but watch in a daze as they waited for the round to end.
Ultimately, the store of beets didn’t last long, and we had to buy more ingredients with DP. Kinue pushed her {Chef} skill to its absolute limit, serving piping hot Golem Beet after Golem Beet right after finishing them, but both the Dragons were of the fire element so the heat just made them like ice cold refreshments.
Then, after thirty minutes straight of eating without any breaks...
“O-One thousand! They both hit one thousand! Altogether they ate two thousaaaand! This is an absolutely incredible resuuuult!”
“HOORAAAAAAAAAAAH!” cheered the crowd.
So yeah, it was actually hard for the counter to keep track of it all, but even so Igni and Redra each shoveled one thousand Golem Beets down their throats. The crowd couldn’t stop cheering. Everyone else did two digits at best, but these two both got four digits—nobody could believe it.
“Alright, that should do for today! Keima! Thanks for the food!” Redra declared.
“Thanks, Uncle!”
“Didn’t I ask you two to go easy...?”
...Yeah, I think at this point, it would be totally fair for me to ask Ittetsu to fork over some DP to cover that.
“Hm? Did we eat too much?! My bad! We’ll make it up to you later somehow!”
“Er, well, don’t worry about it. Congratulations on your stunning victory.”
We went straight to the award ceremony. At the time, we hadn’t had any rewards planned, but, well...
“I want a hundred Flame Dragon Beets for dessert! And some beer!”
“Me too! Uncle, you know what to do!”
Yeaaah... Figures.
“Alright, I’ll deliver them later! Just take it slow and savor the flavor, okay?!”
“Hahaha! I knew we could count on you, Keima!”
“Yaaay! I love you, Uncle! You’re my number two, behind Wataru!”
Thus the Golem Beet eating competition came to a close after a day of crazy, heated competition. The Beddhist Church saw a lot of traffic from people taking breaks, so everything went according to plan.
Also, not long after Ittetsu sent over a mountain of Salamander scales as an apology. Did these fall off you from all the stress you’re feeling? Oh, you shed them in the past?
# Count Lodol’s Perspective
“I don’t think I’ll be needing any Golem Beets for some time... Burp.”
“Truly, I did not expect challengers capable of eating a thousand Golem Beets each to appear. Burp.”
Count Lodol was very satisfied after eating Golem Beets to his heart’s content.
“Two thousand beets were eaten in total... Or I suppose around four thousand, considering the other challengers? I have to say, I’m surprised they managed to prepare that many ahead of time,” Count Lodol observed.
“Very surprising indeed, milord.”
“Quite. That fraudster might have a talent for hosting festivities, of all things,” Count Lodol said, then remembered the uncomfortable smile on Keima’s face after the winners were announced. “That expression of his...
| Erscheint lt. Verlag | 21.9.2020 |
|---|---|
| Reihe/Serie | Lazy Dungeon Master | Lazy Dungeon Master |
| Illustrationen | Youta |
| Übersetzer | Quof |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Themenwelt | Literatur ► Fantasy / Science Fiction ► Fantasy |
| Schlagworte | Comedy • Fantasy • Harem • Isekai • Light Novel • MOE • op power |
| ISBN-10 | 1-7183-2422-7 / 1718324227 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-1-7183-2422-0 / 9781718324220 |
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