I left my house early this morning to explore the thirteenth floor of the dungeon, but somehow, I ended up in an expensive foreign car.
Ai Honda is sitting in front of me. Yes, the vice-president of the Honto Corporation.
I noticed the awesome car in front of my apartment, but I didn’t expect it to be waiting for me.
It’s like something a famous actor would have. Where’s the red carpet? Tell me what’s your most famous movie.
Jokes aside, why did Ai take such a forceful action? All she says is that there’s no time. And that’s enough.
She has ten million yen as a reward for me.
My eyes almost escape their sockets. And another ten million if I’m successful.
Blood escapes my nose.
What should I do, my lady?
I curl up my big body, and lower my head after taking a knee.
I will do anything. Lick your feet? Rub your shoulders?
She looks at me like I’m trash when I say that, and tells me to sit down.
The car runs along for a while, until it enters a high-end residential area and stops in front of a house.
Maybe it’s because they all look expensive, but the one in front of me doesn’t look particularly special. But once I go inside, it’s a completely different story.
Things here aren’t gaudy, but I can tell the place is decorated with expensive stuff. And it’s all made to fit the overall environment of the house.
As I follow Ai in, I see a girl that looks to be a grade schooler.
She approaches Ai and calls her mommy, and she’s clearly wary of me.
Do I look that suspicious? That’s depressing.
Leaving my feelings aside, Ai takes her daughter and keeps going, so I follow her until she stops in front of a room.
She says it’s here, opens the door, and tells me to go inside. I see an old man doing sit ups on a bed.
…?
Did she get the wrong room? I leave the room and tell her it’s not here.
No, it’s here, she says, but that’s definitely not a dying old man. That’s an old man that really likes his muscles.
Ai enters the room, and angrily scolds the old man.
Her daughter is probably used to this, because she says nothing.
I go inside again, and see the old man is now lying down with an IV drip. Even though he’s under a blanket, I can tell he’s very muscular, and I just know he’s earning for lactic acid.
I ask how is this man sick, and I’m told he’s dying from both heart disease and leukemia.
Come on, don’t lie to me. I feel like even diseases would run away from this guy. But he gets really angry, saying he doesn’t like lies.
Fine then. I pull the blanket off and touch his body. His face turns red when I do so, but please don’t.
I slowly increase the output of Healing Magic and I can feel it passing to the old man’s body.
I feel like it gets hung up on something, like something’s in the way and the healing isn’t going through.
I increase the output more, but I still can’t get it to work well.
Let’s stop for a moment and try something else.
I use Trace, and look into the abnormality. I can feel something’s not right in his blood, and part of the cells in his heart are swollen.
I don’t know what to do, so I look into my own body.
If I don’t know what a regular body is like, I won’t know how to fix it. Not that I’d call my current body regular.
But what I’ve learned from looking into this old man’s body is that he really is terminal. He’s so bad in fact, that I don’t know how he can do sit ups.
If he’s not treated fast, he might go to the afterlife in a matter of hours.
And so, I execute Healing Magic at full power.
Mooooore! The man yells in ecstasy.
Hey, stop struggling, I’m healing!
Eliminate everything that’s unneeded, and fix the irregularities.
I’m using my own heart as a model, so I don’t know how well it’s working, but it’s better than nothing.
Then I use magic to help him recover his stamina, and the treatment is done.
An ominous dark mist rises from his body, and seems like it’s sticking to something, so I use Physical Strengthening and punch it to make it disappear.
The healing is done… I think.
The old man has his eyes wide open as he stares at the ceiling.
Yes…
I tell Ai it’s done, and the healing was a success.
She looks surprised, and angrily asks how it can be a success when her father is looking like that.
She didn’t buy it, uh?
But in all honesty, that’s all I can do, so if he isn’t healed, then that’s it for me.
If she wants to get a more precise read on his condition, she needs to have him examined in a hospital.
I leave her house, and head to the dungeon.
I guess I’m just leaving on my own.
It takes me three times more than usual to get to the dungeon.
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Don’t get in my way!!
I cut down a rock wolf as I pass by it. Its body is a little hard, but it’s no match for my greatsword.
Acting all high and mighty when you’re not even giving me money!
The rock wolves are coordinating, but I eliminate two with my earth thorns when they move.
Damn company, go out of business!!
I raise sand above my head with magic, and stick it on the rock wolves’ legs to hinder their movements. Rock wolves aren’t scary when they’re slow, so I slowly approach them and finish them off with my greatsword.
Rock wolves make their first appearance on the thirteenth floor, and they use their tough bodies, fangs, and claws as weapons. But what’s most dangerous about them is how they coordinate.
I don’t know what signals they use, but they move in all directions with perfect timing to attack. It’s hard for someone to deal with it alone.
I’d be in danger too, if I didn’t use magic and a sword.
With that in mind, I deem them a nuisance.
I can harvest fangs and claws from them for five hundred yen a piece. I already have thirty, so that’s fifteen thousand guaranteed.
I keep exploring, feeling pleased with myself, and see that harem party again.
But this time, they’re facing monsters in a tense situation.
There are a guy and a girl in front, a mage girl and an archer girl in the back, and a girl doing nothing.
And they’re facing five rock wolves and three goblins.
I stop to see how they fight, and they end up easily overpowering the monsters with good coordination.
I think I could learn from that… Then again, I’ve never coordinated like that or seen anyone else do it.
But then, the girl that was doing nothing uses magic. I don’t know what it is, but at least she’s not useless.
After seeing the harem party in battle, I exit the dungeon and head home.
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I check my bank account on the way back, and see twenty million yen were deposited on it.
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Haruto Tanaka (24)
Level: 11
Skills: Earth Magic, Trace, Healing Magic, Spatial Grasp, Toughness, Magic Energy Control, Physical Strengthening, Poison Resistance, Storage Space, See Through
Equipment: Agility bracelet, greatsword of fortitude
Status: Fat (All abilities boosted)
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